After Yang He moved the Chinese army to the army surrounding the thieves, it can be said that he was in the battle formation, risking his life, although Qian and Lu exchanged documents resolutely opposed, but still could not resist Yang He.

The big tent of the Chinese army stood on another hill opposite the small hill of the old camp of the thieves, with a wide view and an overview of the whole situation, which was a good place for command.

When the tent was set up there, Yang He took the 500 standard battalion guards, accompanied by Qian Tong and Lu Changwen and other ordinary military generals, and worked tirelessly to inspect the officers and soldiers in the encirclement with all the honor guards, so that all the officers and soldiers knew that he, the governor, was with them.

Originally, the imaginary cheers of the sandwich road were not obtained, and all he saw were groups of numb and miserable faces, which made Yang He very unhappy, but he couldn't blame it on the occasion of the war, and he inspected for a week, and went to the foot of the hill where the thieves were besieged for a long time, and was full of confidence that he would capture and kill the thieves tonight.

According to his judgment, after today's two major battles, the thieves will not have more than 2,000 elites left, and they no longer have the ability to break through. But looking at the signing soldiers behind him, he has been exhausted for a long time and has no will to fight, if it weren't for the dozens of cowardly escapees cut down by the supervising team, he would have dispersed.

At the beginning, I also wanted to rectify the lower guards, more than 200 years ago, the implementation of military cantonments around Xi'an, the supply of sufficient food in various places, abundant food and salary, but also to provide temporary needs for the border army, but I don't know when most of the tuntian was occupied by the powerful, and there were also those who were bullied, and there was no way to check it. When the country is in need, it wants to be paid without pay and soldiers without soldiers, which makes the poles in various places surge, which is why he advocates appeasement, what do you do without soldiers? Rely on the border army in your hands? The Mongolian Tartars have been whistling back and forth year after year, and the entire border army has been exhausted, and it is not easy to survive until summer, and the exhausted border army can only hurry up and recuperate, so as to cope with the autumn Tartars to buckle the border again, where can they still spare their strength?

But how easy is it to rectify the Metropolitan Guard? The original embezzlement has no way to investigate, and the others have also entered the Huangzhuang Wangtian, and it is even more perfunctory with themselves, making it difficult for them to stand alone, so they have to give up, and the soldiers will only know less when they are used.

However, this time with the help of money and help to plan and run, it is also the full support of the civil officials from all over the country who are forced by the situation, and this time it is also a great advantage to finally surround this group of thieves who may threaten Shaanxi in the future under the condition that the soldiers are well fed.

Look at the thieves on the mountain and have no intention of breaking through again, and the smoke is rising, I think those thieves are reorganizing their food to recover their strength, preparing to fight again, and they also need to rest here, and reorganize the thousands of households and signatories from all over the country again, and then fight again with enough food and drink.

At the moment, he ordered to go down and give the officers and soldiers from all over the country time to rest and have dinner, and for a while, there were bursts of cheers from the originally depressed and panicked camp.

Just cheering for a meal, but not celebrating the capture of the flag by the general, people's hearts are like this, but what can they do?

"Let's go back." Yang He waved his hand meaningfully.

So a group of honor guard battalions protected him and returned to the Chinese army.

When Yang He returned to the old camp, a large group of staff and generals were waiting outside the tent. He nodded slightly to his subordinates, and even more praised the thousands of households introduced by some of them, and then steadily entered the big tent.

As soon as he sat down, this large crowd had followed, and praised him with all sorts of sycophantic words, and praised him for his ingenuity, "commanding like certainty", which really put the thief in a desperate situation, and praised him for how he leaped on the battlefield and swallowed rivers and mountains; Everywhere the banner is pointed, and the "thief" is invincible. After this flattery, Yang He put down the unhappiness of the parade just now, became happy again, and asked several high-ranking staff: "According to everyone, can the thief escape from my palm tonight?" "Of course not, of course not." Several voices answered at the same time. This time it's not flattery, it's honest.

A soldier stepped forward and said excitedly: "After the hard work of my husband and ancestor, after nearly a day of fighting, the thieves have suffered heavy losses, and there are many corpses on the battlefield, and now they are trapped on the hill by the army, and the day of food shortage is not far away, and victory is already within reach." The time to pay tribute to the saint is in this day. ”

The tent Chinese Wu immediately spoke out in agreement, and once again ass the tide.

Yang He smiled, also proud, waved his hand to stop everyone's flattery, and couldn't help but be proud, and shouted at the moment: "Listed as hard, I am just transferred in the middle, and I am still the generals who go into battle to fight. ”

Immediately, one of the staff members presented him with a draft that had already been prepared. In front of this recital, it was said that the emperor was victorious, and the soldiers were able to annihilate the "thieves" one after another, but after thinking about it, they changed the thieves to make the "thieves" run around and fall into a desperate situation. followed by a big exaggeration of the achievements of the past day, and exaggerated the number of dead and wounded on the side of the thieves to "no less than tens of thousands". The last paragraph has a few empty sentences, ready to be filled in by tomorrow morning before the transcription of who was captured, who was beheaded, and who surrendered. At the end of the recital, he was: "All the meritorious generals and the personnel who contributed to the recital will be found out later", he was quite satisfied with the recital, and only took up the pen to change the sentence "The first battle obtained is not counted" to "The thief ambushes the corpses all over the field, abandons the first battle and accumulates the mountain, and is honest and has not won a great victory for many years", and then he threw the pen on the case, and said with a smile: "Mr. Qian, please read it to everyone, is there anything wrong?" ”

Qian Tong turned around and took the reading, everyone listened to it, they were all happy in their hearts, this governor is sympathetic to his subordinates, he didn't mention a few words in the whole newspaper, and pushed the credit to his subordinates, it's really everyone's parents, in this way, why don't you let everyone be grateful? All the generals are even more determined to capture the flag and make meritorious contributions in tomorrow's battle.

If you don't show your credit, you can't run away from Yang He's credit, but in this way, he not only bought a lot of subordinates, but also saw the re-rising fighting spirit from the eyes of the generals, which is what Yang He wants to achieve.

"The generals have worked hard, the thieves will not give up their strategy, we must strictly rectify it, and all the generals will return to their own teams, ready to fight again and make meritorious contributions."

All the civil and military officers bowed down together, and after expressing their determination, they retreated in turn, and for a while, Yang He, Lu Changwen, and Qian were left in the big tent.

Yang He didn't speak, and the other two didn't dare to make a mistake, and they all kept silent, and the needle drop in the big tent could be heard.

Suddenly, a piece of raw carbon burst in the brazier in the middle of the big tent, and a spark burst out with a snap, waking up Yang He who was in deep thought.

Yang He suddenly smiled and asked Lu Changwen: "Lu Dusi, what do you think the thieves are planning now?" ”

Lu Changwen, who was standing in the first place, hurriedly saluted and replied respectfully: "According to the protégé, the thieves have suffered a lot of casualties after today's battle——"

"Don't kid yourself, be honest." Yang He suddenly put his face down, and the governor's majesty was immediately revealed, and the air in the big tent suddenly became cold, and it seemed that the brazier in the big tent had lost its temperature.

Lu Changwen hurriedly bowed down again, lowered his body, and said tremblingly: "In today's battle, less than 1,000 thieves were left on the battlefield, and the officers and soldiers plus the signing soldiers fled with more than 11,000 dead and wounded. ”

This is a real battle report, there is no falsehood, hearing this statistics, Yang He couldn't help but sit there for a long time without speaking, after a long time, he tiredly pointed to the chair below, and said softly: "Sit, sit down." ”

Lu Changwen and Qian Tong thanked each other, and then sat down gloomily. But the two of them were also grateful, and by repelling them and leaving them alone, they saw that the Governor had regarded himself as a confidant, which was more important than any great victory.

Yang He heard this result, but he was shocked, this result was beyond everyone's expectations, he didn't expect the thieves to run thousands of miles, dragging their families with their mouths, facing their own army of nearly 30,000, or an unexpected ambush, but killing themselves and waiting for a big defeat, how can such combat power not be shocking?

Seeing Yang He's gloomy face, Lu Changwen hurriedly reported to him: "Even so, there are not many thieves left, many of them are women, children and wounded, and there are only three or four thousand people who can fight, and they are all very tired. Now they are surrounded by our army, there is no water source, and there is not enough food and grass, they are already flying away, just like fish swimming at the bottom of a kettle, or they will fall or die, there is no other way. Qian Tong rubbed his beard and said worriedly: "General Lu, you can't help but see the situation too easily. Lu Changwen was not surprised, and hurriedly whispered: "The end will be easy to see? …… Please explain. Qian Tongdao: "The trapped beasts are still fighting, and tonight is the third watch, they will inevitably break through and run away." If it can't be stopped, won't it be a failure, and the legacy will be endless? "The thieves are at the end of the road, and it is even more difficult to break through again, and besides, the thieves are old and weak, even if they break through, they must move slowly, and we still have a chance to exterminate them."

Yang He closed his eyes and listened to the two of them arguing, but he didn't say anything, just thinking about it in his heart.

At this time, the meaning of appeasement came to mind again.

Now that the thieves are at the end of their rope, is it possible to recruit An? If Zhao'an succeeds, will his own appeasement policy once again occupy the top spot in the court, blocking the mouths of those officials who speak clearly? There is also a faint extravagant hope, such a strong army, if it is attributed to the imperial court, then their border army will grow a lot, their combat effectiveness is indeed too strong, if you can train Lu Shi who has trained such a strong army in a short period of time, if you take him under your account, it will definitely be your own right-hand man? What conditions should I offer to appease them? But in any case, the premise is that they must go to the banner of the king, but the banner of the king is out, and the world knows it, but this is difficult to do.

"Okay, then find a substitute ghost to replace him, after all, talent is rare."

Thinking of this, Yang He opened his eyes, and Lu Changwen and Qian Tong immediately stopped arguing. Wait for the Governor's instructions.

"Is it possible to appease them and use them for the court?"

As soon as these words came out, Lu Changwen and Qian Tong were taken aback at the time.

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