The Tartar scout was tightly tied, but his mouth was still cursing.

Wu Fan frowned, and glanced at Fang Xiaochun.

Fang Xiaochun walked to the side of the tartar and half-squatted down, and asked in Mongolian: "Who sent you, how many of you are there, what are you doing in Shunde Mansion?" ”

It turned out that Fang Xiaochun had gone to the northern grassland to sell salt and learned some Mongolian language before joining Gao Jie's command.

And the Ming army knew that the relationship between the Manchus and the Mongolians was very good, and many Mongolians could speak Manchu, and the Manchus could also speak Mongolian.

Although none of the three of them could speak Manchu, Fang Xiaochun could speak Mongolian, so he gave it a try.

The tartar seemed to understand it at all, and still cursed himself.

"Damn, it's a fool!"

Wu Fan was disappointed, he originally thought of taking words out of this guy's mouth and killing him with another knife. So that they can return with intelligence.

But now it seems that this guy is a barbarian who can't speak Mongolian, so he can only be brought back to the camp for inquiry.

Fang Xiaochun spread his hands and said, "This is really not a coincidence, Brother Wu, what should we do now?" ”

Wu Fan waved his hand impatiently and said, "What else can I do, tie up this guy and bring it back and hand it over to the marshal to decide." ”

Fang Xiaochun smiled and said: "It's better to live than to die, but to be a little tired on the road." ”

"Phew, bring this tartar back, you'll have to waste rations along the way."

Although Wu Fan said this, he still walked up to the tartar, put him on the horse's back with Fang Xiaochun, and then tied him with a rope.

"Such a heavy person, don't tire the horse out again."

Wu Fan glanced at Fang Xiaochun and said, "Why don't you lead the horse Xiaochunzi?" ”

"Ahh Brother Wu, aren't you kidding? ”

Fang Xiaochun took a step back and complained: "This way back is at least a hundred miles, let the horses carry the tartars, but I walk on a pair of feet, how can this make sense." ”

"Haha, I'm just teasing you, you're still fried. Isn't that horse still there? ”

Wu Fan pointed not far away, Fang Xiaochun glanced over, and sure enough, the red Mongolian horse was still there. The other two horses had already fled in fright, but the one was still waiting with a snort.

"Hey, why doesn't this beast run?"

"I guess I've been following that tartar for a long time. I've heard that horses spend a lot of time with people, and they become human. You don't have to worry about that, just ride it, it's cheap you kid. ”

The jujube red Mongolian horse was only hit by an arrow, and the injury was not too serious, and it could have returned to the camp a hundred miles away.

"Hehe, it seems that this trip is not a loss, and it has earned a horse for nothing."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, so unhappy.

......

......

On the ninth day of November in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Nanjing was very lively on this day.

Huang Degong, Jin Shenghuan, and Ma Jinzhong joined forces to break Zuo Liangyu's rebels, and sent the heads of Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng to Nanjing with the captured Li Guoying and other generals of the Left Army.

After the rebels were escorted into the city, the onlookers threw rotten vegetable leaves and scolded the rebels and thieves.

Li Guoying closed his eyes and didn't dare to look at all this.

It all felt like a dream for him.

The former benefactor Zuo Liangyu turned out to be in a different place, and the left army also fell apart.

His efforts after dying in the temple were in vain, and people really didn't know what to say.

Li Guoying was a little unwilling, why did they lose in a daze?

After a "parade in the streets", Li Guoying and others were escorted to the prison of the Criminal Department.

After some simple processing, they will be escorted out again and taken outside the Forbidden City for a prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

As for Huang Degong, Ma Jinzhong, Jin Shenghuan and other generals, they made an exception and were summoned to the palace to see His Majesty today.

His Majesty saw that it lasted for a whole hour, and it is said that the Son of Heaven also gave a banquet, leaving the three of them to eat in the palace.

This naturally made the military generals in Nanjing envious. The military generals can be treated like this, it is really the emperor's grace.

In addition to summoning Huang Degong, Ma Jinzhong, and Jin Shenghuan, the Son of Heaven also summoned Gu Yinxi and Yuan Jixian.

Although these two did not lead their troops to rush to the forefront in the process of counterinsurgency, they played no less role than the three generals Huang, Ma, and Jin.

If Yinxi had not been blocked, Jin Shenghuan and Ma Jinzhong would not have been rebelled, so they suddenly made it difficult to cut off Zuo Liangyu's "arms", forcing him to flee along the river in a hurry.

If there was no Yuan Jixian's sailor to contain him, Zuo Liangyu would have a chance to escape, and Huang Degong's encirclement and interception would probably be in vain.

Maybe outsiders don't know, but Zhu Cihong is very aware of the important role of the two, because from the very beginning when he laid out, Du Yinxi and Yuan Jixian were the two most important chess pieces.

Yuan and Du are both capable ministers who are absolutely loyal to the Ming family, and they are civil officials, and there are some things that can't be said to Jin, Ma, and Huang, and Zhu Cihong can say them to the two of them.

In the case of quelling the Zuo Liangyu rebellion and incorporating a large number of soldiers of the Left Army, how to deal with these troops was the first problem that Zhu Cihong had to solve.

These armies numbered more than 100,000 people, and if they still retained their original strengths, it would be a great burden on the imperial court every year.

But if all of them are dismissed, Zhu Cihong is worried that it will cause unrest.

The best way is to break up the original structure of the Left Army and reorganize it into battalions.

Of course, there was filth and dirt in the left army, and there were many ruffians.

These people Zhu Cihong are absolutely not allowed to stay.

Although the selection of the Left Army could not be as strict as that of the Shence Army's selection of soldiers, it must not be fooled.

Zhu Cihong's bottom line is that there can be no soldiers.

The scale of more than 100,000 people was too large, and Zhu Cihong's goal was to slim down the left army, and the number of soldiers was reduced to about 80,000.

In this way, according to the establishment of the Shence Army, there are forty battalions, divided into infantry, cavalry, artillery, and sailor battalions.

Zhu Cihong planned to increase the number of sailor battalions, at least ten sailor battalions, about 20,000 people.

As for the number of cavalry battalions, it can be relatively reduced, because the lake is wide and the water network is dense, and the cavalry cannot play a role.

As for the infantry battalion and artillery battalion, it should still be appropriately increased.

Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already gone south, Li Zicheng took Jiugong Mountain.

Who knows if Li Zicheng will die in Jiugong Mountain like he originally did. If this is the case, then the Shun army will be scattered in one fell swoop. The Manchu Eight Banners will immediately turn around and attack Huguang.

Originally, in history, because Zuo Liangyu went down the east of the river to the "Qing Jun side", the entire Huguang was ceded to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But in this time and space, Zhu Cihong naturally couldn't let the Manchus seize Huguang.

Fortunately, at this time, the attention of the Manchu Qing was still attracted by Li Zicheng, and what Zhu Cihong had to do was to immediately stabilize the situation in Huguang, at least to hold Wuchang.

Of course, it is not enough to rely only on the original 'left army', Zhu Cihong is ready to transfer Huang Degong into Huguang to resist the strong enemy with Jin and Ma.

......

......