After leaving the Forbidden City, Pang Gang's mind still echoed the old words spoken by the childish voice of Princess Zhu Nenni of Kunxing, and then thought of the tragic fate of the last royal princess of the Ming Dynasty in history, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

Although it has been a year since he came to this era, every time he sees the characters who should have appeared in the history books appear in front of him alive, his heart still can't help but ripple, is it because he has not completely integrated into this era?

As soon as Pang left the Forbidden City, he was stopped by a member of the military department, he didn't speak, and handed over a small box to Pang Gang with a foul face and left without saying a word.

Pang Gang opened it and saw that it turned out to be his newly replaced military status, the official documents and seals of the generals of the three states, and the commanders of Qingzhou.

Looking at the small box of things, Pang Gang couldn't help laughing, it seems that those people in the military department don't treat themselves very well, in order not to see themselves, they even automatically completed the procedures for themselves, but this is also good, and it also saves them another trip.

Carefully took the box, looked around, and found that Da Zhuang, Wang Zhi, Li Yuan and several personal soldiers in front of him were waiting for him with horses, Pang Gang walked over and led his big red horse and asked casually: "Liu Zongbing, have they gone back?"

Da Zhuang replied respectfully, "Back to the adults, Mr. Liu and they all went back to the barracks outside the city first, before leaving, Mr. Liu instructed him to be humble, please return to the camp immediately after the adults come out, and don't stay in the capital for a long time." ”

Pang Gang nodded in agreement and said, "The capital is indeed not a place to stay for a long time, and if we stay in the capital for a long time, maybe something will happen." After speaking, Pang Gang turned his head and asked, "Have you changed your military status?" ”

"It's changed, and an official of the Appropriate Talent Military Department has already sent all the new military registrations of the lowly ranks."

"Now that we're done, let's go back." After Pang Gang finished speaking, he jumped on horseback, and six or seven horsemen flew towards the outside of the city.

Soon in the afternoon, they arrived at the barracks, when he entered the barracks, he immediately went straight to Lu Xiangsheng's tent, he just entered the tent and saw the generals gathered in the tent, but everyone's faces were not very good, seeing Pang Gang arrived, everyone reluctantly smiled and greeted him.

After Pang Gang met Lu Xiangsheng and the generals, he couldn't help but ask a little strangely: "Inspector Lu, my lords, what's wrong?" Why are they all so ugly? ”

Li Chongzhen snorted coldly and said: "It's not the grandsons and sons of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Soldiers has come with an official document, saying that the emperor has decreed that since the Qing soldiers have retreated, it is useless for the army to spend money and silver and food on the country here, so he ordered us to return to the country within three days." Isn't that? As soon as the Tartars left, those grandsons of the military department began to drive people away, after all, they were not afraid that the army would be unfavorable to them here, what should they do, the three who came and went as soon as they were called? ”

"That's it!" Liu Zetao on the side also spoke, "Actually, we are still secondary, in the final analysis, it is not that Yang Shangshu is afraid that Inspector Lu will take his position because of his great credit, so he blows the wind in front of the emperor to make our mm factory "Shut up!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng was angry, and he shouted to Liu Zeqing: "General Liu, you don't talk too much about the affairs of the court, you must know that the laws of the court are decided by the emperor and the adults, and it is enough for you to take care of your own affairs as a Ming soldier, and the affairs of Lord Yang are also what you can talk about as a subordinate?" Forget it this time, and if the Governor is allowed to hear such words again, he will not be spared. ”

"Yes!" Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng was angry, the generals had no choice but to bow down helplessly and agree.

"And you!" Unexpectedly, after Lu Xiangsheng finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Pang Gang's body, and said with an unhappy face: "Chaodong, originally I thought that although I was young, I was also old. And you are now a general of Dingyuan, the commander of the three products, and the general in charge of the defense of the three states, but I didn't expect you to do such a foolish thing! ”

Pang Gang smiled a little embarrassedly: "Inspector Lu, do you also know about the last general?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng snorted coldly: "Who doesn't know about your in the capital now." Blatantly twisted off the fingers of Wai Lang, a member of the Wu Xuan Qing Division, in the Ministry of War, not to mention, you forcibly dragged people to beat the drum, and finally cut Chen Shilang's face in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, Chao Dong, Chao Dong, you can really do it! Don't you know how much this will affect your future future? ”

In the face of Lu Xiangsheng's scolding that he hated iron and steel, he could only bow his head and be speechless to show that he was taught, but in his heart he was a little disapproving, he was too clear about the speed of decline of the Ming Dynasty, even if there were some Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Shi Kefa and a group of loyal generals and officials to the Ming Dynasty The unremitting efforts, but in the case of the overall decline of the Ming Dynasty, the empire that has existed for more than 200 years, is still falling rapidly into the abyss. Moreover, Pang Gang also knew that although he knew something about to happen in advance, he also knew very well that as long as there was a big and greedy interest group like the Donglin Party, no matter how hard he worked and no matter what he did, it would eventually become a useless work, so although he was very moved by Lu Xiangsheng's concern, he did not agree with some of Lu Xiangsheng's ideas.

Seeing Pang Gang, who bowed his head and was speechless, Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said: "Forget it, since the incident has happened, it is not beneficial to blame you more, since the military department has issued the emperor's will, we can only obey the order." ”

"But what about the people who have been taken captive by the Tartars? What about the money and food that was robbed? Just give it to the Tartars for nothing, so that they can eat enough and continue to fight us next year? After hearing Lu Xiangsheng say this, Pang Gang became anxious.

"So what else?" Lu Xiangsheng said with a calm face: "The emperor has ordered the governor to lead the Tianxiong army to continue to Shaanxi and other places to continue to suppress bandits, and the matter of the Tartars can only be put aside for the time being." ”

"Hey, these are sour people who only talk about misleading the country!" Pang Gang angrily punched the wooden pillar beside him with his fist, shaking the dust in the tent to the bottom.

Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to continue on this topic, looked at Pang Gang and said earnestly: "Chaodong, the emperor and the governor are very important to you, you have been promoted to the general of the three-way defense this time, and you have a great responsibility, so you must not slack off."

The governor will go to Qingzhou next year to inspect, and if you don't do well, the governor will scold your mother. ”

Looking at Lu Xiangsheng, who was full of enthusiasm and heartbroken for the sake of the country's court, what else could Pang Gang say, he could only agree without a mouth.

That night, Pang Gang cashed out thousands of Lu Mi guns from the "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons" and exchanged more than 1,000 war horses and tens of thousands of taels of silver for Zu Dashou, Wang Pu and others that he had agreed in advance, when Zu Dashou asked why these Lu Mi guns were still arquebuses instead of flintlock pistols, Pang Gang's answer was that these Lu Mi guns were bought from the country of Franc Ji like this, and let them find their own craftsmen to modify them after they went back, and Zu Dashou and others had to pinch their noses and admit it. Anyway, the most difficult thing to make these reluctance guns is the barrels, and the flintlock devices are much simpler, just a firing device and pressing a flint, which can be solved by any craftsman.

Through this transaction, Pang Gang got 1,100 war horses and more than 30,000 taels of silver, and some generals saw that their eyes were red, and they sighed that it was still the most valuable thing to buy and sell weapons. However, Pang Gang is also very good at being a man, although some generals are limited to being shy and unable to buy, but Pang Gang still took out a part of Lu Mi Gong to them, or hundreds or dozens, and for the top boss here, Lu Xiangsheng, Pang Gang naturally did not forget. Although Lu Xiangsheng didn't ask for it, Pang Gang still consciously took out 500 Lu Mi guns and gave them to him, Lu Xiangsheng, who was surnamed Geng, didn't want to take advantage of his subordinates, but thinking of the Qianjing scene when Pang Gang's department used a bird salvo to shoot a salvo of birds, he thought that he might still be able to use it to suppress the bandits, so he acquiesced.

The next day, Pang Gang, Lu Xiangsheng and their special officials said goodbye, and then took more than 3,500 soldiers who had survived the battle, as well as more than 100,000 taels of silver and more than 1,000 war horses.

On the second day of the fifth month of Chongzhen, after more than ten days of hurrying, Pang Gang and they finally returned to the Lingshanwei that they thought about in the twilight, when Pang Gang and they returned to Lingshanwei, they had already received the Lingshanwei who did not receive the report of the fast horse at night, and the Lingshan Guard was as lively as the New Year, and thousands of Lingshan Guards flocked to the Lingshan Guard outside the Lingshan Guard to welcome the triumphant return of the army. Some of them came to see the excitement, but most of them were looking for their relatives who had accompanied the Thousand Households on the expedition.

Some people stood on the side of the road and saw their relatives immediately rushed over and hugged their husbands or sons and cried, what they didn't see was that they continued to look at it with their eyes blank, and some heard the bad news that their relatives had died in the war also caused a burst of crying, this time Pang Gang went on an expedition that lasted nearly two months, and a total of more than 600 soldiers were killed, which means that nearly 600 families lost their relatives, as time went by, more and more people cried, and soon the cry spread to all corners of Lingshanwei.

Pang Gang sat on horseback and looked at the people who were crying one after another along the way, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, he was about to succeed in ten thousand bones, he was indeed promoted to knighthood when he came back from the capital this time, but will anyone remember these soldiers who have sacrificed in the future?

"My lord, Madame has already greeted us at the gate of the mansion." When Pang Gang was pondering, Da Zhuang on the side reminded him.

"Really?"

When Pang Gang looked up, he found a graceful figure standing at the door of the Thousand Households Mansion looking at him with tears in his eyes.

(To be continued)