On September 28 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin Khan had no choice but to lead all his troops to retreat, and the battle of Daling River also ended in a complete victory for the Ming army.

It was day and night, Zu Dashou left some soldiers to stand guard, and all the rest of the officers and soldiers opened their bellies, ate and drank, and enjoyed themselves.

A banquet was also held in Zu Dashou's big tent, and except for Liu Renyu, who was a special case, all the senior officers above the deputy general level among the rest of the troops were listed.

The core purpose of having dinner tonight is naturally to celebrate the victory in the Battle of Daling River, and the other more important purpose is to discuss how to divide the profits of this military achievement.

Zhang Chun, Wu Xiang, Song Wei's troops and Zu Dashou and Liu Renyu's troops fought independently before the meeting, and there was only one place where there was an intersection between the two major parts of the Ming army, that is, the air force of the Jingbianbao Army destroyed the artillery position of the Houjin army, and after the rendezvous, the Houjin soldiers had retreated, and there was no common battle merit when the two armies cooperated.

Regarding the battle merit of his own air force unit destroying the Houjin artillery position, Liu Renyu very generously conceded to Zhang Chun, Song Wei and Wu Xiang's subordinates to let them divide.

Zhang Chun, Song Wei and Wu Xiang naturally thanked Liu Renyu first, and then Zhang Chun and Song Wei felt that Wu Xiang played extraordinarily and bravely in the battle with the Houjin, and did not collapse under the shelling of the Houjin artillery, which was really admirable, so the two generals decided to give Wu Xiang the credit for destroying the Houjin artillery.

Wu Xiang pretended to shirk it, and then gladly accepted it.

As for the 300 Jiannu captured, according to the contribution, Wu Xiang's department was given one hundred and fifty grades, and the remaining one hundred and fifty levels Zhang Chun and Song Wei were equally divided.

Zhang Chun and Song Wei divided the results in this way, which made Wu Xiang very satisfied, and he was extremely glad that he could achieve such results despite his helpless persistence.

Zhang Chun, Song Wei, and Wu Xiang have fewer military exploits and are relatively easy to divide, while the military exploits of Zu Dashou's subordinate and Liu Renyu's subordinate need to be carefully calculated.

It stands to reason that since the siege of Daling River by the Houjin, all the food used by the defenders in the city was provided by the Jingbian Fort Army, and when meeting with the reinforcements, the hot air balloons and chariots of the Jingbian Fort Army, as well as the tunnels they dug have played a vital role, so Zu Dashou will naturally consider leaning towards Liu Renyu's Jingbian Fort Army when dividing the war achievements.

"General Liu, your men and horses are fighting against the Zhenglan Banner, and the first rank obtained is naturally exclusive to your people. Subsequently, our army captured more than 8,000 white flag war horses, in fact, relying on the attack of your hot air balloon air force, so that Jiannu had to build the horse shed far away from the camp, and the tunnels dug by your men and horses allowed our soldiers and horses to attack unconsciously, so the town allocated all these war horses to your department. ”

As soon as Zu Dashou's words came out, Zu Dabi, who had been happy before, suddenly changed his complexion, his face was cloudy, and he looked extremely unhappy.

"Didn't Han Dong contribute?" This is the voice of the acute ancestor Dabi.

Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren and other deputy generals also have a lot of impatience.

Zu Dabi, Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren and other Liao army generals saw the resentment on their faces, Liu Renyu saw it in his eyes, and he also had a plan in his heart.

His philosophy has always been to take advantage of small losses, if you are careful when sharing the profits, you can get a small profit, but it will inevitably offend your colleagues, so it is better to get rain and dew evenly, so that everyone has benefits, so that you can get the big benefit of unity by giving up some small profits in kind.

You must know that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many things in the Ming Dynasty were bad because of the disunity among officials.

So Liu Renyu smiled and said: "It is true that our department has a merit in capturing the Jiannu war horse, but if there is no army of the commander in the south of the city, so many horses will not be able to be brought back to Dalinghe City, and General Han Dong Han also attacked together with Sun Wuxi, the commander of the last general, so the last general thinks that the captured war horse might as well be added to the two, and we will divide it equally, I don't know what the commander wants?" ”

As soon as Liu Renyu said this, the faces of Zu Dabi and other Liao army generals immediately changed from dark clouds to clear skies, and they all felt that Liu Renyu was very generous, so they smiled at the latter and nodded.

Liu Renyu also smiled in return.

Zu Dabi and several other generals saw the small exchanges between the master and Liu Renyu, and Zu Dashou saw them all.

He smiled knowingly, and admired Liu Renyu's high style and brightness.

"In this case, according to General Liu's words, the two white flag war horses captured by our army will be divided into two halves, and our department and the Jingbianbao army will each get half of them. Next, it is the biggest military feat, the biggest military feat, the battle of 4,000, the capture of 1,000, how to divide this feat, General Liu, what do you think? "Zu Dashou now wants to hear how Liu Renyu divides this battle first.

According to the usual practice, Liu Renyu naturally wants to suffer a small loss and take advantage of the big advantage.

"Marshal, in this battle, there are two thousand Jiannu Zhenyi who have been killed, and the last general has already obtained nearly a thousand Jiannu Zhenyi's heads, so the first rank of Jiannu Zhenyi is only five hundred, and the rest of the Jiannu miscellaneous soldiers, please give the 1,000 captives to the last general to sacrifice the prisoners, and the remaining 2,000 heads will be handed over to the marshal, I don't know what the marshal wants?" Liu Renyu said with a smile.

This arrangement couldn't be better.

Zu Dabi, He Kegang, Liu Tianlu, Zhang Cunren and other generals of the Liao Army were all impressed by Liu Renyu's heroic spirit, and their perception of Liu Renyu became better and better.

"Okay, according to General Liu's words, the head of Jiannu Zhenyi will be divided into 500 levels to the Jingbian Fort Army, and the 1,000 prisoners will also be distributed to the Jingbian Fort Army." Zu Dashou smiled.

In this way, after a less intense discussion, the merits of the Battle of Daling River were divided.

In general, Liu Renyu's Jingbianbao army contributed a lot in this war, but it suffered a lot of losses when it was time to share the results, but what he gained was the favor of Zhang Chun, Song Wei, Wu Xiang, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zu Dabi, Zhang Cunren, Liu Tianlu and others.

If there is a large army fighting in the future, at least these generals will definitely cooperate with Liu Renyu, all for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and it is nothing to suffer a small loss.

After the general direction of the distribution of merit was decided, Zu Dashou said to the generals present: "How to divide the profits of the various departments of the military merit of the Great Linghe Victory, we already have the charter, and then the generals will go back first, and count the merits of your own subordinates clearly, and when we have everything clear, the town will write a merit excerpt with Zhang Bingbei." ”

As soon as Zu Dashou said this, he immediately received a response from the generals.

So all the generals returned to their own camps and went to implement the battle exploits on the heads of every officer and soldier.

When Liu Renyu returned to his camp, he immediately summoned all the generals under him and told him about the distribution of credit.

Next, when the specific profit was divided, everyone said that they all listened to Liu Renyu's arrangement, so Liu Renyu assigned the war merits according to his own wishes, and saw if everyone had any opinions.

The military attachés had no objections, so Liu Renyu typed the manuscript and quickly sent it to Zu Dashou for reference when he wrote the excerpts.

Speaking of which, this battle of the Great Ling River is a real victory, unlike the Ningyuan victory and the Ningjin victory, these two great victories did not actually win many heads, but only repelled the Houjin army, but this victory has more than 5,300 heads, and 1,000 prisoners as evidence, as for the blades and ordnance, the banners and armor are countless, and the cannons cast by the Houjin have all been wiped out.

With such a real victory, Zhang Chun and Zu Dashou are naturally handy when they write excerpts.

These two generals described the battle from their own perspectives, but the style of description is the same, nothing more than the great soldiers are extremely brave, loyal to the monarch and serve the country, killing the enemy is not counted, and Houjin was killed and defeated.

After the two generals finished writing the memo overnight, they planned to send a messenger early the next morning to send the good news to Jingshi.

In addition to these two messengers, Zu Dashou also planned to send another messenger to Jinzhou to report to Qiu Hejia and inform the governor of Ningyuan of the news of the complete victory in the Battle of Dalinghe.

Although Zu Dashou and Qiu Hejia don't like each other, a battle report always has to be sent, but Zu Dashou kept a careful eye when he sent the war report.

The next morning, after the messenger to Jingshi to report the victory had traveled for two hours, the messenger to Jinzhou set off, so that Qiu Hejia could not be one step ahead of Zu Dashou and Zhang Chun and send the good news to Jingshi to invite pets.

The two messengers who went to Beijing were equipped with three horses and sufficient dry food, and Zu Dashou and Zhang Chun specially told them not to stop in the city along the way, and not to leak half a word of the news of the great victory, so as not to be reported by the generals along the way to report the news of the great victory.

The two messengers gave the order, and then rode their horses and galloped straight to the capital.