"Congratulations to the two eldest brothers for their promotion and fortune, I hope the two eldest brothers will make new contributions, and the marquis is just around the corner!" On the side of the mountain road, Chen Yue smiled and said to Tang Tongbai Guangen. The decree of the imperial court has arrived, and the two of them are now going to take office.

"Good brother!" Tang Tong looked at Chen Yue and his mood was agitated, he knew that if there was no Chen Yue, he would not be able to make military merits without him, and he would be promoted to the rank of general of the Governor Tongzhi, which was almost the peak of a military general! "Good brother, you will definitely be entrusted with an important task by His Majesty when you return to Beijing this time, and when you come out again, you may become your brother's top boss, and then our brothers will work together to kill the Tartars together!"

"What Brother Chen didn't say, from now on you are my own brother, if you are useful to my old white place in the future, as long as you say a word, come in the water, go in the fire!" Bai Guangen patted his chest with a big grin.

The two armies went their separate ways, slowly disappearing between the mountain roads. Looking at the backs of the two teams, Chen Yue sighed slightly, through this victory, it is obvious that the morale of the two armies of Tang Tong and Bai Guangen has risen, I hope these two people can be loyal to Da Ming and no longer be like in history!

The camp was raised, and the Xishan Army was also preparing to return south. The imperial court has already sent officials to organize these rescued people to return to their hometowns, and Chen Yue no longer needs to worry about it.

A large crowd of people gathered on both sides of the road, silently watching the march of the Xishan army.

"Thank you for your great kindness!" Suddenly, an old man fell to his knees and shouted and kowtowed.

"Thank you for your great kindness!" Countless people knelt down and kowtowed to their saviors. If there is no Chen Yue and no Xishan Army, these people will be abducted to the border as slaves, and they will never be able to return to their hometown!

Listening to the deafening shouts and looking at the undulating heads all over the ground, Chen Yue's eyes were slightly moist. These are the most ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, they know that they are grateful and know what is good, all they want is to be able to eat, clothe, warm and calm life. But in those days, all this was an extravagant hope, natural disasters reduced the yields of the fields, heavy taxes bent their backs, and the hateful Manchu Tartars destroyed their homes, killed their relatives, and took them into slavery. He just did his duty as an official of the imperial court, and fought with the Mantars to rescue them casually, but this made them grateful to Dade and completely forgot that all this was the suffering caused to them by the imperial court!

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More than 100 miles away, the Xishan army returned to Beijing in two days. When he saw the towering city wall of Beijing again, Chen Yue couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Beijing City is his home, and there are his own father and his relatives in it! Thinking about the upcoming meeting with his family, Chen Yue's heart couldn't help but get excited.

Outside the gate of the capital division, an official from the military department came to greet him and told him that only Chen Yue was allowed to enter the city with a small number of personal guards through the Desheng gate, and the other troops could only stay outside the capital city. Chen Yue simply settled, and asked Yang Zhengping to take the whole army to still camp in the coal yard outside Xibianmen, and he took Chen Yan and five or six other guards to enter the city from Deshengmen.

Chen Yue was just a small seven-rank soldier, although he had made military achievements, it was not enough to alarm the imperial court, not to mention that the ministers came to greet him, he just quietly entered the city under the leadership of a junior officer of the military department, and then headed towards the palace. Emperor Chongzhen must be seen before he can go home. I entered the palace along the road last time, and then under the leadership of a eunuch, I walked towards the emperor's bedroom, Qianqing Palace, without squinting, and then searched and changed clothes in the side hall, everything was the same as before.

However, this time he did not wait for a long time, and Chongzhen soon announced Chen Yue's visit.

"Your Majesty, you've lost weight!" After kneeling and knocking three times, he raised his head to look at Chongzhen's increasingly thin figure and gray hair on his temples, Chen Yue couldn't help but say.

"Huh?" Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and a trace of warmth suddenly rose in his heart, he has been the emperor for so long, and he has summoned countless officials here, and no one has ever said so, those officials only know how to compete for power and profit, who has ever cared about the king's body?

"Hugh is talking nonsense, I ask you, why didn't you listen to Inspector Zhou's orders and change the location of the battle without authorization?" Chongzhen's face warmed and quickly became serious, and he asked coldly.

Looking at Chongzhen's pretended serious face, Chen Yue was extremely relaxed in his heart, he already knew that Zhou Yanru had fallen, since Chongzhen had won Zhou Yanru, he recognized himself, and now he was just giving himself a dismount, so that he could not get carried away.

"Your Majesty, the minister has been wronged!" Chen Yue shouted loudly.

"Less ......" Looking at Chen Yue's pretentious appearance, Chongzhen was so funny in his heart that he almost burst into a foul mouth.

"Stop talking nonsense, what do you have to be wronged?"

"Your Majesty, Wechen is really wronged, Wechen heard that many people impeached Wechen, saying that Wechen did not listen to the command and was arrogant. In fact, this is not the case, Weichen is an honest and responsible person, where can he have so much courage! Chen Yue shouted.

"Poof" Listening to Chen Yue's self-proclaimed honest man, Chongzhen almost laughed out loud, an honest man dared to pull out Shang Fang's sword to kill people without saying a word, and an honest man dared to wantonly raid all the coal mines in Xishan?

"Really, it's not that the minister doesn't listen to the orders of the Governor, it's really that he doesn't know how to pretend to understand, and he commands blindly, if he follows his orders, let alone win, I'm afraid there will only be one result: the whole army will be annihilated." Chen Yue said aggrievedly.

"How so? Attacking halfway is what the art of war says, where did Zhou Yanru command blindly? Chongzhen asked, Zhou Yanru issued a copy of the order to attack the Manchu Tartars, Chongzhen has seen it, so he sent Chen Yue, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and three people to attack the Manchu Tartars in Bandu, there is no problem at all!

"Half crossing and attacking, it sounds good, full of 100,000 cavalry, Lugou River is not the Yellow River, the width is limited, Manchu Tartar erected dozens of pontoon bridges, while crossing the river, both sides of the Lugou River are a horse flat river, the most suitable for cavalry galloping. There are only more than 4,000 recruits under the subordinates, plus the two total soldiers of Tang Bai and more than 20,000 troops, where can they beat the full Tartar cavalry on the wide and flat riverbank! Governor Zhou sent his ministers to attack half-crossing, not to destroy the Manchu Tartars, but to eradicate the Weichen after the Manchu Tartars, so as to repay the revenge of Baihutang for cutting his face! Chen Yue said.

After listening to Chen Yue's explanation, Chongzhen nodded, this explanation can also make sense.

"But you shouldn't disobey the command of the official, what is this not disobeying the order and being arrogant?" Chongzhen knocked and said, "However, for the sake of your military exploits, I will spare you this time, and if there is a next time, it will be dealt with by national law!" ”

"Yes, yes, Weichen doesn't dare!" Chen Yue hurriedly said, but looking at his casual face, where is the sincere admission of mistakes, Chongzhen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, shook his head, and was very helpless about Chen Yue's reluctance.

"Let's talk about it, and listen carefully to me about the process of fighting in Panshan and Mantar!" Chongzhen ordered.