On the morning of April 4, after a round of messengers returned and the reception specifications and number of people were determined, the south gate of the Santun camp was opened, and Cao Zongbing, dressed in a red official robe, greeted the suspension bridge with his entourage.

In front of General Cao's troops, two teams of men and horses were slowly driving along the two sidelines of the triangle, and when they were about to come to the front, they would form a team.

The total number of these two teams was 200 people, including most of the generals under Lao Sun Tou and Lao Ma, as well as some pro-soldiers. Therefore, these two hundred people can fully deserve a resounding name: Daming Guangfu receives a delegation of adults.

Seeing the two bigwigs walk in, Cao did not dismount at this time, but laughed, bent down and hugged his fists, sat on the horse and bowed and saluted: "Cao Chuan see the university scholar, see Ma Jingluo!" ”

Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong were also smiling at the moment, clasping their fists, as if they didn't feel the other party's small rudeness: "Lord Cao is exempt." ”

After saluting each other, Old Man Sun sat on the horse, looked up and down, and then said with a smile: "It is worthy of being a strong general who can defeat the golden soldiers and horses, and he is really a talent!" ”

"Hehe, the boss has won the prize, please come into the city."

The first greeting between the two sides ended in a very harmonious situation. Then, under the guidance of Cao Zongbing, Sun Ma took his subordinates and entered the south gate of Santun camp in turn.

After a few days of rough cleaning up in the city, the blood stains and bits and pieces of debris on the streets are gone, and they look much cleaner and tidy. The only drawback is that it is completely unpopular, and it is empty like a ghost town.

The three teams entered the gate of the General Soldier's Mansion and dismounted in the school yard, and then the outsiders saw the basket of human heads randomly placed on the side.

After the efforts of hundreds of laborers, plus the night battle, the total number of 1,500 Shuotuo military heads has now been all pickled, waiting to be packed and shipped to the capital.

However, what has become commonplace in the traversal has a strong visual shock to Sun Chengzong and his party.

Since the thirteen pairs of armor of the old slave started the army, how could Daming have had such brilliant results? Don't say it's 1500, that is, there are 150 real Tartar heads at one time, which is a remarkable record.

And everyone in the receiving group now knows that this surnamed Cao also won no less than 2,000 heads in Yongping Three Cities, among which there is a high probability that there is a gold medal VIP Amin's head!

At this time, Sun Chengzong couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

I saw him stride to the basket, pick up a few people's heads and look at them, then turn to someone and say emotionally: "It's all true, good, good, this is an immortal achievement!" Cao Chuan, you came to the sea, you can do such a meritorious service in the borderland, and you should be the first general of my dynasty! ”

Since what people said was pertinent, Zhang Dongdong naturally had to be a little modest: "I still rely on my brothers who are willing to work hard, and the last general is here to thank the boss for his false praise." ”

"Cao Chuan, you don't need to be too humble." At this time, Ma Shilong, who was inspecting the head on the side, also said with a face full of approval: "My generation of generals can make such great achievements, and when they have the capital to boast about their achievements and become famous in the world, why do you need to be that little child." ”

"Yes, yes, Cao Chuan was taught by the scriptures!"

This scene on the school field made several of the traversers present a little surprised - it seems that the two bigwigs have a very good attitude today, and they are not as difficult and harsh as they imagined, and they also clearly recognize General Cao's military exploits...... This is unexpected? Shouldn't it be so smooth? Shouldn't you run to grab points?

In fact, the traversal crowd misjudged the position of the two bigwigs: when they came today, they didn't plan to find trouble, but came on a case-by-case basis.

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As the saying goes, once a son of heaven is a courtier.

The reason why Sun Chengzong was able to transform from a scholar of the Hanlin Academy overnight to a bigwig with the rank of squire of the military department and supervising the defense of Liaodong was not because he was eloquent and skeletal Qingqi, but because he was the Japanese lecturer (private teacher) of Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Later, when Sun Chengzong was the governor of Liaodong, he not only launched the great strategy of training troops and repairing the city, step by step, but also presided over the construction of the national fortress defense system with Ningyuan as the core and the western Liaoning corridor.

Regardless of whether this set worked for the strategic system of the Later Jin Dynasty, in short, the Ningjin Defense Line and the Guanning Warlord Group, which devoured the huge finances of the Ming Empire, developed and grew in the hands of Sun Chengzong.

In charge of such a huge amount of national resource dispatching power, Lao Sun Tou's power at that time was quite large, and at his peak, even nine thousand years old had to retreat, not daring to trace his edge.

By the time Lao Sun Tou was finally ousted by the nine thousand years old and driven back to his hometown, it was already a few years later in 1625. That's it, before being forced to leave, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered to add officials to the knighthood, and gave python clothes silver coins, and the old grandson can be said to be honored to return to his hometown, the standard big man's retirement mode.

Two years later, Lao Sun's good student/general backstage/carpenter emperor fell into the water, Chongzhen came to power, and then Lao Sun was completely relieved...... Note that normally, the new emperor will not use the former courtiers.

As a result, no one expected that Houjin would enter the customs.

The Ming Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, and the psychological shock brought to the emperor and the common people is incomparable. So Chongzhen, who was completely panicked, could no longer care about taboos, and temporarily signaled that the 67-year-old old grandson came out to reinstate his post and was the commander-in-chief.

Lao Suntou's friend Ma Hui also made a comeback at the same time.

The above is the reason why Sun Ma and the others can stand in the Santun Camp General Military Mansion today.

And the misjudgment of the traversal is that in fact, Lao Sun and Lao Ma have been laid off to a certain extent.

Yes, after yesterday's communication, these two discovered that all the enemy-occupied cities in the Ming Kingdom had been recovered in the past two days. Therefore, theoretically speaking, their core official position of temporary "prime minister and soldiers" has lost most of its meaning, a bit like the "lame predecessor" who is still in the post for the last few days after the next president is elected.

As for what happens next, it depends on Chongzhen's own attitude, no one can say for sure. Chongzhen can let the old grandson immediately step down and return to his hometown, or he can rearrange his position after disbanding the Qin Wang army.

Although Chongzhen, who was far away in Beijing, did not know the current situation, Sun Ma and the generals present all knew about it. The two of them, who have grown old in the officialdom, now know in their hearts that it is inconvenient for them to use this identity to make any important decisions, especially about the decision of this Cao Zongbing.

If you come hard, the person surnamed Cao is about to meet the emperor, and everything he is doing now is not conducive to the other party's decision, not only will it have no effect, but he will also be coerced by the surname Cao to order eye drops in front of the emperor, as many as an eight-pound pot.

In addition, there is the most important point: there is no need for Sun Ma and Cao Zongbing to tear apart for nodding.

You must know that the positions of the two have reached the level of chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the theater. Since the nature of Cao Chuan's side is Qinwangbing, then he is a natural subordinate of others. No matter how many Tartar heads are cut off, the credit of the two commanders for commanding the strategy will not be less, and the more heads they cut, the happier Sun Ma is.

Therefore, in fact, in the overall situation, the interests of Sun Ma and Cao Zongbing are unified at present.

Of course, the reason why the two of them praised Cao Zongbing vigorously just now is that in addition to the issue of interests, the heartfelt emotion is also indispensable - Sun Ma is a person who has dealt with Tartars all year round, and they know too well the difficulty of thousands of heads.

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After the scene on the school field ended, the atmosphere between the two parties eased a lot in vain, and then everyone went to the lobby of the General Soldier's Mansion first, leaving the rest of the irrelevant people to wait in the lobby, Cao Zongbing and Sun Ma Erwei went straight to the second hall for a secret talk.

This action is reasonable: the department manager who goes out to do business will report back to the company, and he must meet the general manager alone for the first time, and then after the two sides have finished talking, there will be a good communication report on the chairman's desk.

Now, the time has come for Manager Cao to report to the two managers in the region.

After the three of them sat down in the second hall, after they were seated, the guards in green jackets brought tea to the adults.

The old grandson picked up the tea here, and didn't get down to business at first, but asked curiously about the outfits of these green-jacketed soldiers and flower-clothed soldiers.

Mr. Cao's side has already prepared. Regarding the hairstyle, he still used the old routine of "monk soldier" to fool the past.

Regarding those flower-clothed soldiers, Zhang Dongdong clearly told Lao Sun that these were his personal guards and troops' "night non-collection", and the reason for wearing flower-clothed clothes was to hide in the environment. As for the effect, if the boss is interested, you can personally test it afterwards.

Sun Chengzong, a civil official, was not interested in this answer, but Ma Shilong, who was a military attaché, was interested in taking a look at the effect of Huayi afterwards.

After talking about it and drinking some tea, Sun Chengzong began to get down to business.

First of all, he asked Cao Zongbing to state the whole process of destroying the Tartars.

This requirement will definitely be there, so General Cao, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately began to make a report, telling all the details of the process, the battle plan, and the campaign process since the crossing of the troops from Tianjin, including the 5,000 enemy annihilated and the 4,000 heads of the "actual receipt" of the head.

Most of the process is real, and there is nothing to hide here, it is all described.

Among them, there are two places where "artistic processing" is done.

The first is to add the bridge section where the general Li Jichun should cooperate with the outside to eliminate the Tartars in Yongping and kill Shuotuo alone in the Nameless Valley.

The two commanders didn't pay attention to this section, the matter was too small, and it was not worth the trouble of the big guy at all.

The focus is on the next one.

Because of the goodwill he had just gained on the school ground, General Cao chose a more "harmonious" plan to express the battle: this battle was agreed by the two commanders in advance. As for the evidence...... At the beginning, there was a letter between Lao Sun Tou and Cao someone, which is a reasonable reason.

After Mr. Cao's debriefing, he picked up the tea bowl and drank it with his head down.

Now that the friendship has been released, it depends on whether the two commanders will accept the offer.

After Sun Chengzong and Ma Hui glanced at each other, they tapped their fingers on the table and pondered silently, and the hall was silent.

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The key sentence of General Cao just now has filled up the big loophole that the two commanders did not participate in the campaign in advance, which is equivalent to Cao's betrayal of Sun Ma and his meritorious service to the command of the campaign and his participation in the plan in advance.

This statement actually doesn't cost much for the traversal. Because as mentioned above, no matter what, the Cao family belongs to the soldiers and horses of King Qin, and the strategic work of Sun and Ma cannot be taken away.

So now is the best situation: the two sides did not turn their faces because of any bullshit, and they didn't have to be thankless to cross the crowd, exposing Sun Ma's old bottom to the emperor, saying that the two were wine bags and rice bags, and had nothing to do with the results of the war.

In this way, it is tantamount to the confession of the area manager and the general manager, and the possible contradictions are digested privately. In the future, everyone will submit their own reports to Chairman Daming, and there will be no scenes of mutual criticism in terms of content.

However, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

If Sun Ma and the others receive this huge and incomparable result, then everyone will be bound in this matter. In the future, any straw trouble about Cao someone, especially the pressure of the Donglin Party in the court, as a veteran of Donglin, Lao Sun Tou will be responsible for settling it!

So the old grandson pondered wordlessly.

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