Zhengyang Gate, the scene of the ceremony of the army entering the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Yanling listened to Shen Xi's explanation and sneered: "Shen Zhongcheng, you really know how to train soldiers, change the time another day, please help train other soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp?" ”

Shen Xi smiled at Zhang Yanling and said, "The Marquis of Jianchang has an overreputation, and he just brought a group of people and walked a few times before the ghost gate was closed!" ”

Zhang Yanling was silent at first, he carefully considered Shen Xi's words, and felt that there was no problem, Shen Xi did take his soldiers and horses all the way from Tumu Fort to the capital to kill all the way.

There is really no need to compare the spirit with this group of people who are always on the verge of life and death!

Zhang Yanling snorted coldly: "If you change to other soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp, your performance may not be much worse!" ”

At this time, Zhang Yanling wanted to save face and refused to admit Shen Xi's ability. But Zhang Yanling also had to admit that he had never seen such a neat army, and he was deeply shocked.

Just when Zhang Yanling and the others thought that Shen Xi's performance was basically over, suddenly the high-pitched voice of the herald came again: "The Chinese army has 2,600 soldiers, escorted 2,562 Tatar prisoners, and entered the city to offer prisoners!" ”

When the number came out, there was a dead silence at the gates.

It was only after listening to the voices of the heralds several times that they were convinced that they had heard correctly, that it was indeed two thousand six hundred soldiers, escorting nearly two thousand six hundred Tatar prisoners into the city.

Xiao Jing couldn't control his emotions anymore, and hurriedly came over to ask Shen Xi: "Lord Shen, this number, can't be wrong?" ”

Obviously, the number of captives is much beyond the imagination of the imperial court!

In order to make Shen Xi mediocre and peaceful, Xie Qian tried to keep a low profile in the court, and deliberately lowered the credit in the merit book, and even more so on the issue of prisoners, but at this time, the emperor had the ingenuity to arrange such a ceremony to enter the city, and according to the usual practice, there was an agenda for sacrificing prisoners at noon, and the cabinet had not yet taken over the issue of prisoners, Xie Qian didn't have time to make any cover-up, so he was escorted into the city by Shen Xi's subordinates.

The number is so large that Ma Wensheng, Zhang Mao, Xiao Jing and others who know the war between the Ming and Tatars feel very incredible.

Xiao Jing came over to inquire, because he was afraid that Shen Xi's soldiers and horses would falsely report and overreport the figures.

Shen Xi glanced at the city gate, the captives were not escorted for the time being, but they should be almost there, he explained casually:

"The specific inventory should be completed by the army itself, and the official has entered the city first in the past two days, and the specific matters are ...... It's not very clear! ”

Shen Xi himself also knew that the number of prisoners sacrificed this time would probably not match the reported figures.

In the past, when encountering this kind of thing, the soldiers below basically falsely reported and overreported the figures, and when they really offered prisoners, they found some Yidi civilians to pretend to be Yikou soldiers, but this time Shen Xi took the initiative to underreport when he reported before, but exposed the truth when he offered prisoners.

Xiao Jing's eyes widened, and he said nervously: "Lord Shen, if you falsely report the number of prisoners, the guilt is not small!" ”

Shen Xi knew that what Xiao Jing was afraid of was that the number of prisoners in the end was not enough, not the problem of underreporting before, so he nodded at the moment: "Gonggong Xiao will count it by himself later, and the number should not be wrong!" ”

Xiao Jing didn't want to spend that effort, but after listening to the figures reported by the heralds, he was already restless.

Nearly 2,600 captives, what a living man!

The battle report from the border pass before, many battles have accumulated, and the number of Tatars killed is only this number, and it was not until the defense of Beijing that thousands of Tatar heads were harvested!

But this time, Shen Xi actually directly surrendered more than 2,600 prisoners, on the battlefield, it was not easy to kill a Tatar, and now he was actually captured alive, or such a large number, which made Xiao Jing's heart beat the drum.

If there were not so many prisoners, it would be equivalent to being embarrassed in front of the onlookers, and the face of the court would be gone.

If it weren't for the fact that the prisoner sacrifice ceremony had already begun, Xiao Jing would even be ready to suspend the entire process and find someone to report to the emperor first, and then the emperor would decide whether to continue the prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

Xiao Jing looked embarrassed: "Lord Shen, you can't be honest about such issues!" ”

Shen Xi protested with some dissatisfaction: "Gonggong Xiao, the matter of sacrificing prisoners is led by the imperial court, and the official has been staying in the city, and the things are arranged by the people from the military department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. ”

Xiao Jing thought to himself, hey, you kid actually refuses to admit it, if the number of prisoners is not enough by then, you won't let me go down and put on Tartar clothes and pretend to be prisoners, right?

Xiao Jing was about to get angry with Shen Xi, but soon he couldn't take care of it, because the captives had already begun to enter the city at this time.

This time, it was still the infantry under Shen Xi's command who were responsible for escorting the prisoners, but they were no longer entering the city in a straight way, and the team was a little scattered, mainly because they had to escort almost the same number of Tatar prisoners while entering the city.

At the front of the captive team is a Tatar female general, this person is the fire silk captured by Shen Xi in the first battle of Tumu Fort, she is tied by a thick hemp rope at this time, and she limps when walking, obviously the journey is hard, and she has just come from Juyong Pass, and before she can rest well, she has to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony of the Ming army, which makes her feel extremely humiliated, at this time she can't even raise her proud head, and the spirit of the whole person is extremely poor.

Xiao Jing pointed to the fire silk below and said, "Lord Shen, who is this woman?" Why is it in the first place? ”

The official of the Ministry of Rites next to him replied in surprise: "Gonggong Xiao, isn't this a member of the envoy group sent to Daming in Tatar?" She followed the Tatar teacher Yisi Ma Yin to visit Jingshi several times, and at that time she was so arrogant that she refused to kneel even when she saw His Majesty! ”

Xiao Jing remembered it at this time, and nodded again and again: "That's right, that's right, it's her, I know everything that turned into ashes!" ”

As soon as the fire silk passed, he was followed by some captured Tatar generals, including the general Ulica under the command of Yismayin, who were originally arrogant, but at this moment they were driven into the city by the Ming army like cattle, and they suffered a huge blow both physically and mentally.

But these Tatar generals were all unruly, especially when they saw Shen Xi, the enemy, they couldn't go up and eat Shen Xi alive, even Hu Songyue felt a little nervous, and hurriedly took more than a dozen guards to protect the high platform tightly, for fear that a Tatar captive would break free from the rope and endanger the safety of Shen Xi and the adults on the high platform.

At first, Xiao Jing was afraid that Shen Xi would falsely report his military exploits, and he was worried that the number of prisoners would not be enough, but when he looked outside the city gate, he found that the line of prisoners was very long, and he couldn't see the end at a glance.

In this way, his heart finally calmed down a little, but then he began to beat the drum in his heart again: "But don't let Yiliang take prisoners, otherwise you won't be able to explain to the emperor!" I just hope that these ignorant people can be deceived from the past! ”

After the Tatar generals were escorted over, the subsequent Tatars looked like ordinary Tatar soldiers, all of them were burly, and they were fierce and vicious, Xiao Jing was afraid that there were many Tatar ordinary people behind the team, or the Ming people, who were dressed up as Tatar prisoners and sacrificed into the city together.

But Xiao Jing's worries were obviously superfluous, when Shen Xi's subordinates were offering prisoners, let alone looking for someone to pretend, even those injured Tatar prisoners, whose legs and feet were not dexterous, were not counted in the final list of prisoners.

All the Tatar captives who were sacrificed this time were alive and kicking, and if the ropes were released, these captives might be able to resist and snatch the weapons of the surrounding generals and soldiers to decisively kill and set fire.