The households of the Phoenix Post heard the sound of fire on this side, and reported to the town guard hundreds, and the town guards hurriedly gathered sixty soldiers to hurry over, and saw the tired dead bodies outside the Yaowang Temple at the northern foot of the Phoenix Mountain, the town guards were so shocked that their faces were colorless, fortunately, in addition to the injury of Zhen Zidan, the deputy of the Jinyi Guard, the Ming Dynasty and other officials of the North Korean Mission were safe and sound, otherwise he could not bear the responsibility of the hundred households, because this area was the boundary he was responsible for guarding.

Two Jinyi guards entered the temple to report to Zhang Yuan the number of captured Jiannu horses and related utensils, the corpses of Jiannu were twelve and one prisoner, there should have been thirteen horses, but only ten of them were found, five of them were wounded by muskets, and the three horses that could not be found must have run away with the retreating Jiannu—

Several packages were also found on the captured horses, except for a small amount of dry food and wine, the packages were full of gold and silver property, including six hundred taels of gold, more than three thousand taels of silver, and a lot of gold and silver jewelry, Zhang Yuan saw that one of the gold earrings was also implicated in a piece of meat, apparently ripped from the woman's ear, and a silver gossip lock, which was hung by the child around his neck to keep safe, and the gossip lock was also stained red with blood—

Zhang Yuan's expression was grim, and he said to Ruan Dacheng and the others: "This team of construction thieves also robbed other Han people before attacking us, and they robbed women and children, I don't know how many lives they killed, hateful!" ”

Several Jinyi guard captains stepped forward to punch and kick the captured Jiannu cavalry, forcing them to ask where the captive had robbed the Han people, and the prisoner gritted his teeth and didn't say anything, and the Jinyi guards beat him so hard that the captive vomited blood—

This time, together with Zhen Zidan, there were sixty-one Jinyi guards who sent an envoy to North Korea from Zhang Yuan, and twelve people were killed and twenty-one were injured in the first battle, and the leader Zhen Zidan was not lightly injured. The hatred of these Jinyi guards towards Jiannu can be imagined. Zhang Yuan watched as the Jinyi guard tortured the prisoners. didn't stop it, just said: "Don't kill him, leave him a dog for the time being, and it's not too late to cut him with a thousand knives after the interrogation is clear." ”

Phoenix Wei Baihu only thought that the envoy would quickly leave the boundary under his jurisdiction, and arched his hand to Zhang Yuan: "Lord Zhang, I see that there are many seriously injured people in the Jinyi Guard, and I must rush to Lianshan Pass for treatment as soon as possible, and all the military doctors of Lianshan Pass Guard. Specializes in the treatment of knife and arrow wounds. ”

Yaowang Temple should not stay for a long time, the sergeants of the Phoenix Hundred Households are all foot soldiers, and they are not capable of chasing the nineteen Jiannu cavalry, Zhang Yuan left more than ten injured horses in the Phoenix Station, and requisitioned ten carriages from the Phoenix Station to help transport the dead and wounded, and the lightly injured ones can be treated with hemostasis and bandaged, and then take a kind of Jinyi Guard's secret wound medicine, and those who are seriously injured can only be sent to Lianshan Pass quickly.

Before noon, the chariots and horses of the mission left Phoenix Mountain and marched towards Lianshan Pass, Jinyi guards and musketeers sentry along the way, and the Jiannu cavalry came and went like the wind. Be on guard—

Those who had slandered Zhang Yuan for his cowardice in their hearts before were now in awe of Zhang Yuan, if it weren't for Zhang Yuan's prudence. A hundred musketeers were transferred from Lianshan Pass, and the whole mission was afraid that they would all become the swords of the thieves, and the sixty Jinyi guards could not resist the Jiannu cavalry at all.

Ruan Dacheng and Zhang Yuan have been friends for several years, Zhang Yuan's craftsmanship in the past made him admire, and Zhang Yuan's adventurous adaptability this time made him even more impressed with Zhang Yuan, thinking that he was panicked in the face of the attack of the thief, compared to Zhang Yuan's command, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but feel ashamed, and said in his heart: "Zhang Jiezi is a master, not Ruan can match." ”

Zhang Yuan was not complacent, after the killing of one of the five ministers of the Jin Dynasty, Huer Khan only gave Zhang Yuan a short surprise, the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry made him worried, the battle was very dangerous, if it was not for Mu Jingyan to take the lead in killing Huerhan, if the Jiannu cavalry did not retreat in fear because of the death of Huerhan but resolutely rushed to kill, and if Huerhan led more than twenty Changjia troops to come, then the mission here must be more auspicious, fortunately, at this time, the Jiannu cavalry has not yet had a strong confidence in the face of the Ming army, Fortunately, Hulkhan only came for robbery, so he only brought thirty-one horsemen......

This is not hindsight, but a necessary summary, and when it comes to Guangningwei, Zhang Yuan will also work with the governor of Liaodong, the general army, and the capital division to comprehensively summarize Huerhan's raid, because after this incident, Nurhachi's invasion of Liaodong is very likely to be advanced-

As the sun set, the mission traveled to the southeast of Lianshan Pass for more than ten miles, and Chen Qianhu, the guard of Lianshan Pass, had received the news and led people to greet him, and learned that Jinyiwei and the musketeers he sent had suffered such heavy casualties, Chen Qianhu was also alarmed, and immediately sent an envoy to report to Guangningwei.

That night, Chen Qianhu obeyed Zhang Yuan's order to cut off the heads of the twelve Jiannu corpses and put them in lime boxes, and these heads were to be brought to Quang Ninh City, where they had to be embalmed, and the bodies were cremated on the spot.

The four deceased musketeers were all local military households, and the family members would take the corpses back for burial, in addition to the pension silver normally distributed by the guard, Zhang Yuan ordered Zhang Rushen to give each of the four households one hundred taels of silver in the name of the eunuch Lu, and the nine wounded musketeers each with twenty taels of silver, and the rest of the musketeers each with one tael of silver——

Zhang Rushen thought that Zhang Yuan gave too much silver to the casualties, this was generous to others, didn't he get a lot of gold and silver from Jiannu, why didn't the pension silver come out of there, Zhang Rushen was unhappy, and said with a smile on his face: "Lord Zhang, this silver is not a small amount, how should the villain explain it to Gonggong Lu?" ”

Zhang Yuan said: "When I arrive in Guangning, I will tell Lu Gonggong."

The bodies of the 12 Jinyi guards could not be transported back to Beijing for the time being because of the long distance, so they could only be buried in coffins and placed in Puci Temple, where the original presiding officer had been punished with hard labor, and the new presiding officer was from Guangning.

In Lianshan Pass, Zhang Yuan, Mu Jingyan and Chen Qianhu carefully inspected the relics of those Jiannu, the leader Huerhan is a chain of chain mail, the helmet is silk cloth and cotton, wrapped in iron sheets, through copper nails, extremely tough, if not vigorously pierced, ordinary swords are difficult to hurt-

Kim Chung-cheong, a North Korean scribe who is familiar with the story of the founding of the state, said: "In the middle of summer, this team of Jianzhou governors only wore one layer of armor, and as far as I know, when Nurhachi officially conquered the war, the cavalry under his command often wore triple armor, weighing up to 80 catties, and was not afraid of arrows and firearms. ”

The guest Guang on the side nodded again and again, but Chen Qianhu didn't think so, Zhang Yuan didn't say much, only asked Chen Qianhu to record the armor, ordnance and injuries of the thirteen Jiannu cavalry in detail, and he wanted to take them to Guangning.

Early in the morning of June 18, the delegation left Lianshan Pass under the escort of Chen Qianhu's 100 musketeers and 100 foot archers, and arrived at Guangning City six days later.

The news of the coup d'état in Korea reached Quang Ninh three days earlier than Chen Qianhu's urgent report, and the governor Li Weihan was very angry, and said to Lu Huai, the eunuch guarding the town: "The abolition of the establishment, unprecedented in two hundred years, once it is rumored, isn't it shocking!" ”

Eunuch Lu said: "Zhang Zhuangyuan is on the North Korean side, and the governor has learned about it, and he will make a decision when Zhang Zhuangyuan comes back." ”

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Yuan arrived in Guangning, he immediately reported to Li Weihan the matter of bringing order to North Korea together with Yu Yan, who heard that the princess of Renmu had a chapter for Emperor Wanli, and he pondered for a long time and asked Yu Yan: "Is North Korea still stable?" ”

Yu Yan said: "Anyway, the day is not easy to be unbridled, the government and the opposition are Yanran, this is the two angels of Zhang and Ruan. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Gwanghaejun and Jianzhou slave chieftain traffic, ungrateful, and set things in order are the same as the subjects of North Korea, and the princess of Renmu ordered the Ayayang monarch to be canonized after the emperor. ”

Li Weihan read the Shen Wen presented by Yu Yan, and heard Zhang Yuan say this, so he said: "Then Zhang Xiu will go back to Beijing to explain to the emperor and the Ministry of Rites, as long as the Korean country is not chaotic." ”

Zhang Yuan told Li Weihan in detail about the attack on Phoenix Mountain, and presented Chen Qianhu's detailed statement-

The stakes were very high, and Li Weihan invited Han Yuanshan, the commander of the capital, Zhang Chengyin, the chief soldier, and Lu Huai, the eunuch of the town guard, to the governor's yamen to listen to Zhang Yuan's report, and told Zhang Yuan that the day before yesterday, there was a military document sent to Guangning, and it was reported that a group of Shandong merchants had been sacked in Sanyangwei, and more than ten people were killed and wounded.

Zhang Yuan handed over a list of the gold and silver property seized from the Jiannu package to the governor's yamen, and asked the governor yamen to return the property to the caravan that had been robbed.

Fan Tongshi found out about the complaints of the accompanying Jinyiwei, so he reported to Zhang Yuan, the next morning Zhang Yuan and the deputy Qianhu Zhen Zidan talked for more than half an hour, Jinyiwei and the others were explained by Zhen Zidan, is the Ming Jinyiwei and Jiannu like a robber habit, this is the property of the people of the Ming Dynasty, not the property of Jiannu, of course it should be returned to the group of Shandong businessmen, anyway, the truth that should be said has been said, if there are still people who are not convinced, then they are not convinced, just forcibly suppress it, Zhang Yuan knows that it is impossible to convince everyone.

In the evening of this day, the eunuch Lu Huai specially invited Zhang Yuan to the banquet, the eunuch Lu was more snobbish, only looked at Zhang Yuan, and even the deputy envoy Ruan Dacheng was not invited, as soon as they met, the eunuch Lu asked people to carry two boxes of silver, and he smiled without a smile: "Mr. Zhang, the miscellaneous family said last time that the gift given to Mr. Zhang by the miscellaneous family was temporarily stored here, and when Mr. Zhang returned, he would bring it back to Beijing - this is a thousand taels of silver, and Mr. Zhang smiled." ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Zhang Yuan has already advanced the gift of Father-in-law Lu in Lianshan Pass, how dare he accept a generous gift from his father-in-law." Then he told him about the pension for the soldiers.

Eunuch Lu had already learned the details from Zhang Rushen, but he didn't expect Zhang Yuan to say that it was an advance gift, and hurriedly said: "The miscellaneous family knows about this, Mr. Zhang is compensating those dead and wounded military families in the name of the miscellaneous family, even if the silver is from the miscellaneous family, Mr. Zhang must accept this thousand taels of silver." ”

Zhang Yuan couldn't refuse, so he said: "Zhang Yuan will reward the family members of those Jinyi Guards who died in the battle, Xie Lu's father-in-law." ”

Eunuch Lu saw that Zhang Yuan was not greedy or stingy, and his speech was also pleasant, so he ordered someone to take another 300 taels of silver as a compensation for the casualties of the Jinyi guard.

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