"You don't seem to be happy? Zhu Guobin has just occupied Fuzhou, and Zhong Laosi has killed Mang Gurtai here, which should be a happy thing. After coming down, Liu Minyou came to Chen Xin's official room and asked Chen Xin a little curiously.

Chen Xin tilted his head and frowned, and after reading the secret letter in his hand, he raised his head and said, "It's not to say that I'm unhappy, after all, it's a big Baylor, and it can improve the morale of the army, and it can also hit the confidence of the Houjin army, but Mang Gurtai has always been against Huang Taiji, and now that there is such a person, Huang Taiji's hands and feet can be released, and in the middle, it is not clear what the pros and cons are." ”

Liu Minyou said with a smile: "Zhong Laosi was not promoted by you, so how can you deal with the aftermath of this Mang Gurtai incident?" ”

Chen Xin raised the letter in his hand, "Zhong Laosi captured two Han guides when he eliminated the Zhenglan Banner, and there seems to be the shadow of Zhangjiakou merchants behind him, Song Wenxian plans to follow the investigation, this matter can't be ignored like this, I can't control them selling things, now they are traitors, since the dragoons have arrived at Xuanda, they must always teach them a lesson, there is no king to punish them." ”

Liu Minyou stood up and said, "You're not saying that soldiers can't do this kind of thing. ”

"This is not a robbery, we are catching a spy." Chen Xin patted the table, "The last news sent by Zhang Dong is that there are merchants in Zhangjiakou who are buying grain and preparing to sell it to Houjin, the court doesn't care about this matter, we can't just watch it, I already plan to authorize Wang Changfu and let him give an order to Zhong Laosi to crack down on Zhangjiakou merchants at the right time." ”

Liu Minyou lowered his head and thought about it: "Is it appropriate for you to go to Xuanfu to arrest people?" ”

Chen Xin leaned back on the chair and squinted his eyes, "Zhong Laosi, this daredevil, let him go into trouble, he has miraculous achievements, and the court can't help him." But this dog thing can't be left out on its own. When the battle is over, he will be transferred back to Dengzhou. ”

Liu Minyou said a little funny: "You want to clean him up?" People are not your head, how can a soldier think so much on the battlefield. ”

Chen Xin shook his head, "This person is the same as Zhu Guobin, he is a natural soldier, and his talent is still above Zhu Guobin, but his temper is much more jumpy than Zhu Guobin. The two divisions are about to punish him, he is a repeated, and his temperament still has to be sharpened, but he can't be sharpened too hard, otherwise the aura will be gone. First go to the martial arts school to teach for a few months. Perfect the drills of dragoons and pure musket troops, and then ...... Lao Tzu arranged a place for him to go most suitable for him, and there was indeed a need for an officer like him. ”

Liu Minyou didn't ask what position it was, he said a little distractedly: "Many of these dragoons were recruited last year, I didn't expect it to become a strong army so quickly, I don't know how those Jiannu feel now." ”……

Haoge immediately stood at the mountain pass on the west side of Taihang Mountain, with undulating mountains in front of him. Behind him stood Derge, Azig, Abatai, Ahsan, Unag and others, and this mountain pass led to the bamboo silk pass, and Haug looked at the deep canyon a little weak.

Derge pointed to the mountain pass in a low voice and said, "Those Ming troops all went here in the end, and then we blocked the mountain pass." There was a group of Dengzhou soldiers who fled to Daizhou, and the Dengzhou soldiers in the direction of Zhubokou were very cunning, and they never came out again, and there were not many of them left outside the mountain. But how many people are there in the mountains...... No one knows. ”

Haug nodded, and a group of whistle horses ran out of the mountain pass. They are all elite white armor of Zhenghuang Banner, and the leader is the recent excellent Ao Bai, he went straight to Hauge, dismounted and said loudly to Hauge: "Sanbeile's head was cut off by them, and his body was still hanging on the north tower of Zhubokou Guancheng, as well as Tobo Hui and Darha. ”

The people of the blue flag were restless for a while, and they all clamored to break through the bamboo silk mouth together and snatch back the corpse of Mang Gurtai, Haoge knew that it was the Ming army's method of luring the Houjin soldiers, and in front of the canyon terrain, the Ming army did not have to stick to the bamboo silk pass, just set up two cannons between the cliffs in front, and took turns to put them up, and now these thousands of people could not attack it.

But if you turn around like this, you need to look bad on your face, because Mang Gurtai's body is still hanging there, and now it is seen by the sentry horse, and it is not easy to explain to the people who are in the blue flag.

In addition, Zhong Laosi's suspicious soldiers did make the Eastern Route Army all soldiers, Abatai and Ah Shan fled back to Lingqiu from Guangchang quickly, and joined forces with Lingqiu's Azig and Dege, the whole army shrank near Lingqiu, and the sentinel horses sent saw the Dengzhou cavalry in many places. Abatai only saw infantry at Matou Pass, and the scattered armored soldiers who fled back from the Blue Banner also said that there were only infantry, and now they deduced from the number of sentry horses that there were at least 5,000 Dengzhou soldiers, and they were probably hiding in the mountains.

After Haoge arrived, the East Route Army was a little relieved, and according to Haoge's request, they sent powerful men and horses to the direction of Zhubokou to investigate.

Finally yesterday, the white armor soldiers of the white flag captured a Dengzhou sentry horse, forced out the strength of Dengzhou, they only raised troops to come, but did not dare to enter the mountain in a big way, Haoge at this time has already taken out the courage, let the yellow flag white armor into the mountain to investigate, carefully walked to the bamboo silk mouth, the result was his surprise, Mang Gurtai is still hanging in the bamboo silk mouth.

Derge said loudly: "Haugbele, it's just that Sanbeile died in battle, and now he is still insulted by the Dengzhou soldiers hanging on the head of the city, we must take it back and put all those Dengzhou soldiers to death." ”

The generals of the blue flag clamored one after another, and Hauge waved them to stop, feeling very embarrassed. felt that the Dengzhou sentry horses had been dispersed, and its main force could not come out of the bamboo silk, and the Houjin army had somewhat recovered some face. He was reluctant to enter the mountain, and for a while he couldn't find a suitable reason to convince the people of the Blue Flag, so he turned his eyes to the seventh uncle, Dorobelle Abatai.

Abatai at this time drooping his head in the back, he fled by himself at Matou Pass, causing the whole army of Abatai to immediately disperse, after returning to Lingqiu, some of the Darha's men who fled back found Abatai to fight, and the Derge class of the blue flag also thought that Abatai caused the collapse of the back road, which made Mang Gurtai suffer from the enemy before and after, and directly besieged Abatai's camp, if it were not for the threat of Dengzhou still in front of him, I am afraid that Abatai would have been arrested long ago, and he would not have been relieved until Hauge arrived.

So Hauge thought about it, and felt that it was inappropriate to let Abatai speak, and turned to the twelfth uncle, Azig. Azig saw Haug's gaze and knew what Haug meant, but he didn't have any haste and couldn't say anything for a while.

A voice next to him suddenly asked Aobai: "The slave dares to ask, can you see clearly that it is Sanbeile when you are sentry?" ”

Hauge looked. It is the pen post style Fan Cheng of the museum, this person was originally a show talent, as early as the forty-sixth year of Wanli took refuge in Nuer Hachi, at the beginning it was also very general, and then slowly showed some talents, after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he was first a study show talent, and then the study was changed to a museum, and he became an official of the museum. During the Battle of the Daling River, he persuaded a fort to surrender alone, and Huang Taiji rewarded him with hundreds of people, and he officially became a member of the Houjin slave owners, but his status was still very low.

"Yes. See. Ao Bai didn't see Hauge's hint and said loudly.

Hauge asked coldly, "Have you seen your eyebrows and eyes clearly?" ”

"This ...... No, what I saw from afar was the armor of the Three Baylors. ”

"It must be a trick of the Dengzhou soldiers." Fan Cheng lowered his head and thought about the wording and said calmly, "Masters, just imagine, what a great achievement Nikan has done to kill Sanbeile this time. They will definitely transport the corpse to the Ming Kingdom Jingshi to celebrate the merit, and all that is left here is a pair of armor, just find a corpse and hang it, deliberately let our white armor see it from a distance. Then lead our army to rob, and its ambush will rise again to severely damage our Eastern Route Army. Don't think that if the sentry horse can get in and out, the army will get in and out. The mountains in this mountain are high and densely forested, and tens of thousands of people can't find them everywhere. As soon as a few thousand people on our East Road enter, if they are besieged by Dengzhou Town, who will rescue them at that time. ”

Azig, Ahsan and others nodded one after another, and the Derge class and others who were in the blue flag looked at each other, Fan Cheng's words were very reasonable, such a big credit, there was indeed no Ming general who would understand such two, and he also left Mang Gurtai's corpse on the front line, in case he lost it, he lost a miracle feat.

Haoge nodded to Fan Cheng and encouraged, it is indeed much better to be able to persuade everyone in the Zhenglan Banner with some reasoning than to force it.

Haoge didn't give Derge and others time to scold Fan Cheng, and immediately said to them: "What Fan Cheng said is reasonable, I will wait here for a few days, Dengzhou Town will not be able to shrink, it must be to lead me into the mountain, and then follow the trick to block the mountain pass, my Dajin is long in the field to kill, it is difficult to play in this kind of canyon, since Dengzhou Town does not dare to go out of the mountain, we should not enter the mountain, first return to the army Datong, besiege the city of Datong, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom is anxious, he will definitely send the Dengzhou army to rescue Datong, then my army will wait for work, and gather Dengzhou and Guanning soldiers and horses in one fell swoop, Avenge this blood vengeance for the Three Baylors. ”……

In the Xinuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, Chongzhen was eating snacks easily, and Liang Tingdong below also shared a snack.

"Liang Aiqing, I heard that the bell ...... Zhong ......"

"Zhong Caisheng."

"Yes, I heard that it is a Dengzhou guerrilla, and the official position is not very big, what kind of fierce general is this, he can actually kill Mang Gurtai who has been evil for many years."

Liang Tingdong said respectfully: "Back to the emperor, the old minister went to check the book of the military department, this Zhong Caisheng was promoted to guerrilla because of the battle of Fuzhou to seize the ferry, but it is not an ordinary guerrilla battalion, but the regimental training general soldier Liu Min has a battalion under the barracks to sit in the guerrilla, at that time he had fought Mang Gurtai and Dolgon and fled, this time it happened to be in Henan to suppress the Kou, the leader of the army was Dengzhou deputy general soldier plus the general rank Zhu Daichun, but at that time the military department did not arrive, he did not dare to return to the whole army to help, so he had to order Zhong Caisheng to return to the north Zhili Qinwang alone, and his troops were mostly cavalry, Hurriedly drove thousands of miles to the inverted horse pass, the passage in the Taihang Mountains is narrow, Mang Gurtai is also full of evil, Jiannu was hit hard, I have a fierce general, and the old minister congratulates the emperor. ”

Chongzhen waved his hand with satisfaction and said, "Then how should Zhong Caisheng be rewarded?" Tell me about the customization of the ceremony. ”

This is Chongzhen's rare personal reward, Liang Tingdong thought about the ceremony and said, "According to the ancestral system, the military merit is headed by the northern captives, followed by the Liaodong women, the self-built slaves are in chaos, the Liaodong women's direct military merits are the first, where the battalion soldiers behead one person to be promoted to one level, where the general leader kills five hundred people, then the total is promoted to one level, and so on, Zhong Caisheng is a guerrilla camp, and the number of soldiers he leads is uncertain, so he can only calculate according to the ordinary guerrilla camp of 1,000 people, kill ten people to promote one level, three levels are limited, of which two levels are actually awarded, and one level is acting, but Zhong Caisheng is a military member, According to the 14th year of Chenghua, the actual award of the capital is not promoted, but only promoted to two levels, which should be the governor of the left army. However, Zhong Caisheng has this miraculous feat of killing the chief of the slave, the old minister thought about it many times, and the ministry actually awarded Zhong Caisheng as the deputy chief soldier of the Dengzhou regiment, plus the general rank of the leader, and the governor of the left army and the governor of the palace are the same knowledge, and the Wu Sanjie is waiting for the declaration of the war to add. ”

Chongzhen nodded and smiled, "Very good, Liang Aiqing, you can't treat such a loyal and brave person lightly, in fact, this person is so brave, the military department can transfer him to Jizhen or Xuanda, with him guarding the gate, how dare Jiannu enter the side lightly in the future." ”

As soon as Liang Tingdong heard that Chongzhen wanted to transfer people, he immediately knew what Chongzhen was thinking in his heart, Dengzhou Town was full of fierce generals, and the emperor also muttered a little in his heart, hoping to disperse these fierce generals to various places and carry out a certain differentiation, but Liang Tingdong didn't know what Chen Xin would think.

Liang Tingdong thought about it and said: "The emperor is wise, such a fierce general can indeed deter Jiannu, but the head of Mang Gurtai has not yet been verified......

Chongzhen asked in surprise: "I have already ordered the Ministry of War and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to cooperate with the military preparation and the governor to verify the facts, why have they not been verified?" ”

"Kong Wenshi, the deputy envoy of Jingcheng Armament, went to Zhubokou to see it, and the heads were all true, and the captured soldiers also said that it was indeed Mang Gurtai, but ...... That Zhong Caisheng, he said that he wanted to use the corpse of Mang Gurtai to lure Jiannu to attack the bamboo silk mouth, in order to kill Jiannu more, this, the rhetoric is quite arrogant, Kong Wenshi was also scolded by him, and has not sent the head to the inverted horse pass, Zhili Patrol, several imperial historians and military departments of the Imperial Procuratorate are also unwilling to go to the bamboo silk mouth, it is impossible to identify it with official military merits, but the impeachment of Zhong Caisheng has reached the cabinet. ”

Chongzhen stood up and walked two steps, stopped and said to Liang Tingdong: "This matter of Zhong Caisheng's promotion, let's wait for a while, and wait for the declaration of the war...... Discuss again. You issued another order, urging Wu Xiang and You Shiwei to rescue Datong as soon as possible, as well as Wang Changfu's department from Dengzhou, so that they don't have to enter the Beijing Division, and go to the Bauhinia Pass and the Reverse Horse Pass to rescue Datong. ”