Kyoshi was shocked!

Since the rebellion of Jiannu in Liaodong, how can there be a case of destroying thousands of enemies in a war? How could there ever be a war to eliminate the units above Jiannu Niulu? How could he have ever killed Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia Lazhangjing?

At first, the people of Jingshi still thought that the results of the battle were deceived and exploited by the officers who led the troops and the senior officials of the court, but when the thousands of people defending Han slowly marched along the canal towards Jingshi, the good news was further verified.

The cavalry of the Southern Central Army, very one man and two horses, opened the way in front of the team.

At the head were four groups of sixteen riders. Each group has a different handwriting on the flag.

King Qin! Tribute! Victory! Prisoners!

The eight characters clearly explain the intentions and merits of Shouhan to the people of the Gyeonggi area.

Behind the sixteen horsemen was a cavalry platoon composed of a hundred elite cavalrymen, each platoon of ten men for a total of ten platoons. The riders on the horse, all dressed in armor made of nine-turn steel, were carefully polished and oiled before setting off, and sparkled in the sun as they went. The riders controlled the pace of the horses so well that the whole phalanx looked like a huge mountain of silver.

Behind the horse team is the most eye-catching.

More than a dozen huge wooden shelves, rows of wooden strips nailed to them, each wooden strip, are tightly tied with ropes more than a dozen Jiannu heads, the heads of the people in the August autumn wind back and forth, grinning hideous faces, so that the onlookers are both nervous and excited.

Later, the vehicles were filled with large and small baskets. It was placed on the carriage like that, so that everyone could watch it at will.

After the head of the vehicle, several large carts were erected high on the huge wooden frame, the body of the red flag Mongolian armor Labuhe, the corpses of a dozen Niu Lu Zhangjing and Fen De Paishku were still wearing the armor they had when they were killed, tied to the wooden frame by ropes, and the wounds on their bodies were very obvious. The corpses that had been treated with salt and lime have been well documented in detail of their deaths.

"Look! Then the Tartar Boss! Sure enough, it looks different from our Han people! ”

The people who survived the catastrophe happily pointed to the corpses.

The head made the people happy, and the capture behind the head made the soldiers and horses of the towns who followed the march far away.

The empty baggage cart was piled with all kinds of armor. Cotton armor, iron-inlaid cotton armor, chain mail, iron helmets. As many as seven or eight thousand pieces of armor were piled up on the baggage carts, and like those captured weapons, the military horses of the towns drooled, but they were helpless.

Destroy 6,000 enemies in a battle. The officers and men of the towns were initially skeptical of this achievement. But see those heads and armor, swords, guns, mules, horses. The men all bowed their heads. It is said that it is a bull record to eliminate the white flag of Jiannu, a Jiala with a red flag, and a Jiala with a red flag in Mongolia. There are more than 3,000 soldiers in total, and Baoyi Aha and auxiliary soldiers are not among them, even if they eliminate 3,000 Baoyi Ahba, it is also an unprecedented victory, which is enough to make Qingyun, the general who led the troops, raise his eyebrows.

Behind the wagons transporting the captured cane weapons, more than 100 captured Baoyi Ahha, Mongol soldiers, and Jiannu soldiers were tied to the wheels with long ropes, and moved with the movement of the carts, and when the carts were stuck in mud pits, they became the same kind of cattle and horses, and they had to pull the carts out with force under the whips.

"Yes, he killed 3,000 Jiannu Youqi, including four Niu Lu Zhangjing, 211 white armor soldiers, more than 1,200 heavy armor soldiers, more than 1,400 armored light soldiers, more than 300 Baoyi Aha, more than 30 prisoners of Jiannu, and more than 40 people of Baoyi Ahha. More than 3,000 people in Mongolia were killed with false red flags, including a member of Jialazhang Jingbuhe, four people from Niu Lu Zhangjing, more than 500 heavy armor soldiers, more than 1,800 light armor soldiers, more than 700 people in Baoyi Ahha, more than 20 Mongolian rebel thieves and slaves, more than 20 people in Baoyi Aha, countless armor staffs, and more than 10,000 mules and horses! Rescued more than 10,000 captives......"

Reading the documents of the Nanzhong Army's success, from the Ministry of War to the Cabinet, the Master of Ceremonies, and all the way to Emperor Chongzhen himself, they were all dumbfounded. Was this achieved with the assistance of more than 3,000 soldiers (Shouhan elevated the role of those people to the role of the brave Cheng Dù) with the assistance of 3,000 or 5,000 brave soldiers?

However, in the process of showing off the achievements of the Nanzhong Army, the officials of the prefectures and counties along the way, the generals of the Beijing battalion, submitted countless inscriptions to the various upper peaks of the management, proving this victory from different angles, and there is solid circumstantial evidence.

"Message! Mingfa Di newspaper! Our army won a great victory in the canal! ”

"This battle is a great victory! Kill 100,000 people under the slave chieftain and behead Beyler Abatai, and behead 6,000. The corpses are hidden in the wilderness, the birds cannot fall, the bones are filled in the ravines, and the rivers are red! Azig, the king of the puppet Wuying County, was seriously injured by a cannon, and was robbed by the Bayala soldiers around him, and died that night after returning to the camp. In order to stabilize the morale of the thieves and slaves, the thieves and pseudo-banner owners made an appointment to keep the mourning secret, wrapped the corpses in red silk, and worshiped pigs and sheep with three animals. The enemy chief Hongtai vomited several liters of blood when he heard the news of the defeat in the lair, and he couldn't afford to be sick, and the disciples and nephews competed for the big position, and the soldiers were disturbing and fighting endlessly, and at this moment the Liao thieves had fallen into internal strife. ”

After listening to the recitation of this newspaper, Abatai waved his horsewhip and whipped it on the ground with disdain, "Damn! said that Lao Tzu is dead, but Lao Tzu is still alive and strong! A meal with a pig's leg, two barbarian women serve in one night! ”

However, the generals of the Eight Banners in the tent couldn't laugh.

A Jiannu Jiala and another Niulu, and a Mongolian Jiala were completely annihilated, with thousands of casualties, which is a major event that has never been seen since the old slave started the army, and the blow to the morale of the army can be described as extremely heavy. Even when they returned to Shenyang, they didn't know how to explain to Yellow Wolf, Dai Shan and others.

After pondering for a while, Azig, as the commander of the first army, spoke.

"Order, let Niu Lu Zhangjing Ashan, who went to the vicinity of the capital of the Ming Kingdom to inquire about the military situation, as the vanguard of the whole army, go to Zunhua and other places to explore the way for the whole army to get out of the customs."

He saw very clearly that this battle greatly damaged the morale of the Eight Banners, and if it continued, the Jiannu Eight Banners, as the core backbone force, would definitely not be able to lose lightly, but. Can the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Domain Mongolia fight to the death with such an army?

Once a large number of Ming troops surrounded it, the tens of thousands of people who entered the pass and looted, carrying a large number of looted wealth, people, cattle and horses, how to fight, and how to go?

It can only be done quickly before the Ming army can react, in that case, the loss of these two Jiala and another Niu Lu can be regarded as not discarded in vain. Otherwise, the whole army will die in the pass, and the horses will not be able to return to their hometowns!

"That's it. My army will be able to take it easy. After leaving the customs from Gubeikou, Xifengkou and other places, and returning to Shengjing, the emperor will definitely distribute the captured wealth to all banners to replenish the losses for everyone! ”

The people heard it. I couldn't help but applaud loudly.

Only Abatai. Silent.

"Seventh brother. Don't worry, the loss of your Niu Lu, I will report to the emperor when I go back. Ideas make it up for you. ”

Seeing this seventh brother, who usually prides himself on being brave and has no one in his eyes, was deflated, and Azig secretly felt a burst of happiness in his heart. In his mouth, he still comforted Brother Qi very sincerely.

After calming down from the earliest jubilation, Chongzhen Junchen fell into a dilemma again.

"The staff of the Ministry of War are all rice buckets!"

The palm print eunuch Wang Dehua jumped to his feet and scolded. Pointing to the nose of the squire of the military department, he greeted the whole family of the military department and the others with countless extremely vicious and vicious words.

Such a strong army, thousands of miles away, prepared their own food and salary and beheaded thousands, and made such a huge war feats for the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the military department did not know where they came from and where they belonged to, no matter how they scolded the military department, the people of the military department had no room to reply.

"I tell you, if you can't figure out the situation of the Nanzhong Army to our family tomorrow morning, you don't have to do it, Dongchang Gonggong Cao, I will let him take care of you!"

Dropping a vicious word, Wang Dehua led a few little eunuchs away.

"I tell you, if you don't find out the origin of the Nanzhong Army at the third watch tonight, you don't want to be here! If you want my head, I'll kill your whole family first!" ”

The squire sent the prince away, turned his head and put a fierce face in front of his subordinates.

Therefore, the directors of Langzhong had to summon their secretaries and send them again.

However, the bookstore is different from the Langzhong, they are the series of officials and officials, and they have been passed down from father to son and taught by master and apprentice for many years, and it is no longer something that can be described by words like old fritters. He also has a lot of experience on how to deal with these officials and how to seek benefits for himself.

As the saying goes, the official is as clear as water, and it is difficult to make the officials smooth as oil.

A clerk glanced at the principal, "My lord, since the meritorious soldiers claim to be the Nanzhong Army, and the military is the guard system, we might as well check the documents and archives of the previous dynasties of the guard to see where the Nanzhong Army came from." ”

"Hmmm! Good! Good! You wait and do it! How long will it take? ”

"This is not good, the documents and files accumulated by the ministry and the department over the years have accumulated more than a dozen rooms, if you check it like this, there should be results in three or five months."

Three or five months? Isn't that Lao Tzu about to be sent to Qiongzhou?!

"This must not be! What else can be done?! ”

"If you're in a hurry, my lord, you have to ask for more money and food, and give out more food and food, and let's hire more apprentices and calligraphers, and work overnight."

"If that's the case, how long will it take to ?!!?"

"This? It's hard to say, it depends on how much you're willing to spend. ”

When the words reached such a point, the principal and Lang Zhong were angry, and they could understand the meaning of this group of silverfish, "You say, before the second watch tonight, how much silver will be rewarded for figuring out the origin of this Nanzhong army?" ”

"One hundred silver dollars per person, plus ten stones of japonica rice for food."

"Good! It's up to you! ”

Lang Zhong gritted his teeth and agreed to the request of the book office.

"Dude, you are blowing out these big words, but how did it end?" Colleagues in the bookstore were worried.

"What's the panic?!"

The clerk glanced at his colleague disapprenorantly, "I remember that the reward has come down, and I was invited to listen to the tune." ”

"Naturally, tell me, how to do it?"

The clerk Erlang put his legs together, drank a few sips of tea, closed his eyes and recuperated for a while, "It's very simple!" ”

His eyes were still closed.

"You go, look for the inscription of the governor of Guangxi on the suppression of bandits in recent years. You, go and look through the documents of the Governor of Liangguang on the arrest of pirates at sea. ”

"You guys! Go and check the background of the documents left by the old gentlemen of the past dynasties, the register of official documents, and the text about the situation of the garrison in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sanxuan and Liuwei and other places, and don't miss a piece of paper! ”

Dozens of bookstores and their respective apprentices were busy, but the bookstore with the nickname "Ghost Seeing Sorrow" was sitting behind the table and enjoying tea, humming a little song in his mouth.

"Sir, can you find out?" His students served him tea while asking with concern.

"Boy, learn a little. This is all because I pay more attention on weekdays. "The ghost looked around." To tell you the truth, the origin of this Nanzhong Army is almost already in your master's belly! It's just that I need to find some circumstantial evidence! ”

It's easy to get things done with money. There are many people who can work.

With the efforts of this group of cunning officials who have mastered the database of the Ming Army. At dinner time. A copy of the origin of the Nanzhong Army has been copied in neat small blocks and placed in front of the director and Langzhong.

"It turned out to be the descendants of my Ming officials and soldiers who were scattered there when Master Shi sent Master Mao Bowen to conquer Annam! It's just a thousand fame! What to talk about in the South China Army! ”

"What the South Central Army! Then Li is just a hereditary garrison with a thousand households! In the military department. But it's not as good as a dog! ”

"Xiaguan was under the command of Lord Liang in the same year, and the day before yesterday I wrote to talk about this Li's arrogance, and the resentment was overflowing."

"This person supports his family without authorization, changes the military system privately, builds big ships without authorization, privately casts artillery, indiscriminately distributes military salaries, privately manufactures armor and firearms, and the terms and conditions are all crimes that are enough to kill his head and rob his family!"

"That is, a thousand households, according to the ancestral system, are only 1,120 people, how can he have more than 3,000 warriors who dare to fight as soon as he is dispatched?! Where is the ancestral system?! ”

"In the Ministry of Rites, I have also heard many vassals in the south crying and complaining, saying that Li is good at opening border provocations and destroying countless countries, and the three propaganda and six consolations left by the ancestors are now left in Myanmar!"

Similar information and discussions spread like the wind throughout the officialdom of Beijing overnight.

"Tomorrow, His Majesty will discuss how to reward Li in the early dynasty of the Huagai Palace, fellow seniors, students think that for a chaotic minister and thief like Li, and a person who destroys the ancestral system, it is not enough to correct people's hearts without killing!"

"Not bad! Follow the example of the Holy Master and kill the young man! ”

August 23, the ninth year of Chongzhen. Morning.

According to the Ming Dynasty etiquette system, the emperor built the palace, and the civil and military officials stood outside the deer top, sounded the whip, and saluted. At the end of the salute, the officials above the fourth rank enter the hall, and the officials below the fifth rank stand in the north of the original ground. If you have something to play, go out of class, and stand back after playing. After the whip is sounded, exit in turn.

In fact, the topic of today's early dynasty was already known to everyone as early as last night, and it was discussed how to reward Li Shouhan for his military exploits.

For such a monster and four dissimilarities as the Nanzhong Army, the Ming court is very troublesome.

The guard is not the guard, and the toast is not the toast; A feudal town is not a feudal town, and a subject country is not a subject country!

When the identity is uncertain, many ceremonies such as sacrificing prisoners and wishing victory cannot be carried out. You can't let the emperor untie the robe of a fifth-rank garrison, right?!

When Emperor Chongzhen just said this issue, some people in the imperial history couldn't hold back.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that not only can he not reward Li, but he should follow the law of dealing with the thieves and ministers of Liaodong when he changes, and kill him! Behead it, take its army, use its land, seal its treasury! ”

"Raven!"

Chongzhen, Wen Tiren and the others looked at this imperial history and talked sternly, and they all came to this conclusion in their hearts. In their mouths, as long as a qiē is done in accordance with their principles, it is not a problem, the rule of three generations, the prosperity of five generations, at your fingertips. If you don't follow their guidelines, you're stupid. As for saying that there are problems in the implementation process, I'm sorry, because you don't have a good understanding of our theory, and the implementation is not effective, or it is simply a system problem.

For these people, officialdom calls them crows, which means that they often speak words without restraint, and they are often good spirits.

"The minister seconded the proposal! Li, with the position of a hereditary thousand, trained troops without authorization, opened border provocations without authorization, destroyed the three propaganda and six consolations of our Ming vassal country, privately cast artillery, privately made armor, indiscriminately distributed food and wages, privately built big ships, and the terms and conditions are all murderable crimes! ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

Time. Many people stood up in the shifts of the Imperial History and the Ministry of Rites, asking Chongzhen to immediately correct the law of Li Mou, and correct the heart of the army!

"Ignorant scholars! I only know that the clear talk is misleading the country! ”

Wen Tiren scolded in his heart, and was about to go out of class to respond to this group of crows, but unexpectedly, someone came out of class before him and knelt down to play the book.

"Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, I have a few words I want to ask a few adults in person."

"Ladies and gentlemen, may I ask, with your lordship's high opinion, capture Li. Correct it. Sure enough, it's good, I don't know which adult is proud and brave enough to get rid of this fang for the country? ”

"Just send a competent officer to his camp to proclaim the decree, and an edict will be issued. Just let the Jinyi Banner School take it down! ”

"I see! If his subordinates are not satisfied. What should I do? ”

"Alas! I have holy purposes in hand. The righteousness is in me, and I am ordered to commit adultery, only to punish the head and threaten and never ask. Who dares to make a mistake?! ”

"Hey! I knew that the adults had such great talents, and when His Majesty killed Wei Eunuch and Liaodong thieves, why bother so much, and leave it to the adults to deal with it! ”

The Imperial Historians were led all the way by this man, fell into the pit they had dug, and then buried themselves themselves.

Chongzhen, who was sitting on the throne, was overjoyed in his heart, and looked at it fixedly, it was the person recommended by Wen Tiren to him, and he was now employed as Xue Guoguan, who was the imperial history of Zuo Du.

Seeing that Xue Guoguan, who had the name of hating Donglin, was speechless to refute several imperial histories from Donglin, and Wen Tiren was also smiling.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that some of the actions of Li Shouhan outside the desperate domain, such as starting a war with foreign domains, training troops without authorization, and privately casting artillery, armor, swords, and guns, are all in order to survive in the tiger and wolf ring and have to do it, such as the moon and the constant people can see it. But he was loyal, and when he heard the danger of his father thousands of miles away, he led a brigade of troops to come to King Qin in danger. If it is as the words of the lords, it will be beheaded under His Majesty, and in the future, His Majesty will issue an edict to all the people such as Qin Liangyu to enter the capital and guard, who dares to come? ”

"What's more, as soon as Li Mou arrived in Gyeonggi, he won this great victory, which was caused by His Majesty's good fortune, and the ancestors were blessed by the spirit of heaven! Li prepared his own food and salary to the king of Qin, and killed thousands of heads in a war, which is the harbinger of my Ming Dynasty's rebellion in Liaodong, and it is the hope of my Ming Dynasty's reign! The Ming Dynasty has such loyal ministers and good generals thousands of miles away, why worry about Zhongxing?! ”

"If according to what your lords say, you only see some expedient practices of Li, and arbitrarily pursue them, firstly, it will chill the hearts of King Qin's soldiers, and secondly, once a mutiny is provoked, the soldiers of Li's department are strong, and they do not listen to the moderation of the imperial court, in case of noise, who will go to suppress it?! Is it you, is it you or is it you? ”

Xue Guoguan unceremoniously pointed at several imperial historians with his fingers, he was the boss of these people, and he was naturally handy when he reprimanded.

"The lower officials and others are scholars, and these things are naturally done by the rude martial artists of the military department."

A few imperial historians said such words, but unexpectedly, they angered everyone in the military department.

As a result, the early dynasty became the morning market. The noise is comparable to that of a wet market.

"It is true that Xia Guan is serving in the military department, but Xia Guan is a two-rank jinshi and ranks second! What kind of background are you?! What is the fame? Dare to speak like that!? ”

"As a speech official, I should distinguish loyalty and traitors for the country! You don't distinguish between loyalty and treachery, you only talk about interests and disadvantages, and you happen to be in the same party as Wei Eunuch and Liaodong thieves! ”

"This fang attacks others, trains soldiers to cast cannons, and accumulates grain and grass, won't it be the second old slave? It must be known that the old slave also paid tribute many times back then! ”

"That's it! Once this generation is full-fledged, it can't be said that it will be the second Yang Yinglong and extravagant Chongming! ”

"The old slave paid tribute, just to send some local products, but there was a soldier who contributed to the court? Yang Yinglong attacked Zhou County, have you ever heard that Li Shouhan attacked Zhou County? Slaughter my good people?! ”

In line with the principle that I will oppose whatever you support, the court is divided into two factions, quarreling endlessly, and at the climax, it is almost about to start. In the end, it was Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's classmates who stopped this unseemly move, and ordered the Jinyi wrestlers to jump out and impeach Li Shouhan for falsely accusing the heroes and framing the king for the crime of injustice.

"Ministers, the matter of Li's reward will be presided over by the cabinet and the celebrant supervisor, and will be handled jointly with the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites."

When the early dynasty reached this kind of process, there was no need to continue, but just as it was about to announce the end, several more imperial historians jumped out and asked the military department and the imperial history to go to the inspection point of the Nanzhong Army to check whether those military merit leaders were suspected of killing good and risking merit!

At the same time, one more thing was announced.

Lu Xiangsheng, the prime minister who led the army north to Qinwang, took over as the governor of Xuanda, and went to Tianjin to cower and behead Liang Tingdong, the former governor who was afraid of the enemy like a tiger, in front of the army!

Let Li Shouhan and Lu Xiangsheng go together after confluence! (To be continued......)