At the beginning of April, the original command and envoy office of Zhenshuo Wei in Jizhou City is now the place where Ma Shilong, the prime minister's chief military officer, is stationed.

Sun Chengzong is now in Shanhaiguan, there is no civilian leader here in Jizhou, Ma Shilong is basically equivalent to Wu Jingluo, he was originally locked in prison, and after the Jin entered the court, there were no generals available in the imperial court, Sun Chengzong remembered this old subordinate, and pleaded with Chongzhen to release him, and in a blink of an eye, he changed from a prisoner to a party member.

There was a sparse imperial history, saying that most of the Qin Wang army was led by the general army, Ma Shilong was afraid that he couldn't hold it down, so he let Liang Tingdong lead the Jizhou army, but Chongzhen was very important to this upstart, so he let him stay in Beijing and listen to it, and only sent a prison army over.

Chongzhen was very disgusted with the Houjin army on the side of the couch, and the household department was also very disgusted, because there were many Qinwang troops, and everything they needed to eat had to be taken out by the household department. After Ma Shilong received the order, he convened a meeting of the leaders of Qin Wangjun.

The officers in the lobby were some of the generals and guerrillas of Guan Ning, and the general soldiers of the towns of King Qin, and behind them were the officers of the towns, and Chen Xin was also standing among them.

At the end of March, the Wendeng battalion was transferred to Jizhou, under the command of Ma Shilong, the prime minister's chief military officer, which was already close to the front line, and it was only a day's journey to Zunhua by fast horses.

Chen Xin was supposed to stand behind the general soldiers of the town, but Zhang Keda of Denglai did not come, and Zhou Hongmo was also sent by Chen Xin to Beijing to wait for the news, Dengzhou Town was the only one, and the official was also small, and he was a little lonely standing in the back row on the left, and he was a strong man next to him, wearing an iron armor, he couldn't see the official uniform, he looked ruthless, and he didn't care about people coldly, Chen Xin looked at him a few times, he didn't even turn his head, and Chen Xin didn't bother to pay attention to him.

Ma Shilong's voice sounded, and he said in a big grinning tone, "Since all the generals are here, let's Lao Ma first tell everyone that this Tartar, there are still a lot of Tartar soldiers, and the Nu Chief is gone, but he sent his brother here, and he is still a big Belle, our Guan Ning's brother knows that the blue flag kills Amin." ”

There was a buzzing sound below, some of the general soldiers had never heard it, and when they asked the people around them, the big man next to Chen Xin snorted lightly, as if he was not afraid of this Amin at all.

The prison army smiled and didn't interject, Ma Shilong continued: "This killing brought some people again, the son of a bitch doesn't want to leave if she doesn't finish moving things, Lao Tzu sees Amin is also a birdless, and Santun Camp doesn't dare to move under his nose, but General Yang can't last long, the grain always has to be eaten, and the emperor is also asking every day, let's be soldiers, this time is the time to repay the emperor." How do we fight, all the adults will talk about it. ”

"Prime Minister Ma said for a long time, how many people in this Tartar have figured out, let's hit it head-on, in case tens of thousands of Tartars are waiting, who will save us."

Chen Xin took a look, it was Wu Zimian, the chief officer of Yansui, who was stationed next to Chen Xin, Chen Xin was a celebrity these days, and he also loved to make friends with these people, a group of officers often got together to drink and gamble, Chen Xin had lost more than 1,000 taels of silver, and he was very popular with them.

Ma Shilong listened and said simply: "I don't know, I am afraid that there are seven or eight thousand, and ten thousand may also have it." ”

Wu Zi stood up reluctantly and said: "People don't know how much, then they still play a ball, Lao Tzu didn't come from Yansui to die." It's still what I said last time, just let that Zu Dashou come to Santun camp, he is not in a hurry in Liaozhen, and Lao Tzu is in a hurry. ”

Ma Shilong smiled, not angry, but the prison army next to him persuaded: "General Wu doesn't need to be anxious, Jiannu comes and goes, comes and goes, according to Duoyan's people, there are people entering and leaving the side wall every day, and the number is really unknown, but if the number is not clear, it doesn't mean that you can't fight." ”

Wu Zimian didn't argue with the prison guard, looked at Ma Shilong fiercely and sat down.

Then there were a few more general soldiers who asked about the soldiers' salaries in a weird way, Ma Shilong was perfunctory, and the atmosphere in the lobby was even more dull, and then everyone didn't speak, and Chen Xin didn't take the lead, in fact, Houjin had a maximum of a few thousand people, and they had to be stationed in the four cities to defend, and the soldiers of Daming Qin Wang and Guan Ning added up to more than 100,000, and the fight was directly encircled on all sides.

Seeing that it was another unhappy breakup, such a meeting has been held three times, each time there are more people than the other, Ma Shilong let everyone say it like this every time, and then there is no conclusion to drag it down.

At this time, a heroic officer stood out on the side of Guan Ningjun, Chen Xin had not seen it, I am afraid that he came from Yutian, he said loudly: "At this time, he also said that the military salary, everyone has to eat, and if he hits the Tartar and robs his mother's silver, there will be no military salary, staying here in the sky can drop the silver down, Ma Shuai, now the Shimen Station is still there, only half a day's journey from Zunhua, at most two or three thousand Tartars in the city, tens of thousands of people here are afraid of his fart, as long as the march is faster, he can stop it with Hongyi artillery to attack the city?" Cut off the return road west of Jiannu Xifengkou, and then join forces with Zu Taibao to attack Qian'an, Yongping Luanzhou will be killed, and we will slowly clean up Amin. The last general is willing to be the vanguard of the whole army. ”

The military general beside Chen Xin also said loudly: "The last general is willing to be the same pioneer as General Cao Shen." ”

Ma Shilong praised: "General Cao and Zuo Dusi are brave, this striker has done it." What do you think of the strategy that General Cao said? ”

Those general soldiers all tilted their heads to the side, only Wu Zimian said: "The two generals are very courageous, but have you forgotten that the four roads of the army were all collapsed, Ma Shuai also went to attack Zunhua in the first month, Zunhua City has thick walls, and what if you don't stop the army to fortify the city for a while, as the saying goes, if you divide the weak and join the strong, let's see, or wait for the Lord Shufu to set a day, and gather the troops in one place." Besides, being a soldier eats food, and asking for a soldier's salary is not a shameless thing, so why can't you say it. ”

There was a buzzing sound in the lobby again, since the old slave started the army, more than ten general soldiers have died in Liaodong, and a few more have died in this colony, and two have been arrested alive.

That General Cao didn't sell the accounts of the general soldiers in this foreign town, and said with some disdain: "This is the time to pay the soldiers?" The emperor is looking forward to driving Jiannu out of the pass day and night, Wu Junmen does not think about sharing worries for the emperor first, but only thinks about military salaries, what is this thought? ”

Wu Zimian stood up and pointed at the general and scolded: "Cao Wenzhao! Lao Tzu is the chief soldier of a town, how can you be offended by a general. As he spoke, he said to Hu Fuhong, the supervising army: "Lord Hu, we and other guest troops have come from thousands of miles, and we don't think about any benefits for ourselves, and we are bent on serving the emperor, but how can these soldiers understand these truths, what are the plans of the soldiers, and they must not be silver, and they can't just rely on a few of our general soldiers to fight." ”

Chen Xin heard Cao Wenzhao's three words, and couldn't help but look carefully at this master of killing the homeless, he was tall and handsome, and he was a handsome guy. Cao Wenzhao is a general in the late Ming Dynasty known to Chen Xin, and he has heard many times recently that he was still a guerrilla last year, and he did not have any credit after Jiannu entered the Kou, and when Jiannu ran back to the vicinity of Yongping, Cao Wenzhao was stationed in the Yutian area.

In February and March, Jiannu tried to loot Fengrun and Yutian, Cao Wenzhao and Jiannu clashed twice near Luanzhou, both were field battles, although they did not win a big victory, they did not lose to Jiannu, and forced Jiannu to withdraw to Luanzhou, maintaining the stability of the Ming army's battle line, and was one of the few people in the Guanning army who dared to fight with Jiannu in the field, and Qinwangjun had heard of his reputation. Because of these two battles, he has just been promoted from guerrilla to general, and he is also in the line of fire.

The guerrillas of Yansui Town, who was behind Wu Zimian, also stood up and scolded, and Cao Wenzhao stood tall and looked coldly at the officers of Yansui Town.

After listening to Wu Zimian's words, the other general soldiers present began to complain, and the object of complaint was changed to Hu Fuhong, and there was a lot of trouble in the hall, and Ma Shilong sat in a high position, looking as peaceful as listening to a play.

Cao Wenzhao easily put forward a combat opinion, but he was thrown aside again, and he sat down indignantly, looking unwilling.

Hu Fuhong couldn't think about the opinions of those general soldiers, so he had to persuade him with good words, and now he was reaching out everywhere to ask for silver, and although the household department received some, it still couldn't guarantee that all the Qin Wang troops could get the full amount. It was easy to persuade him, and no one in the lobby spoke again.

Hu Fuhong saw Chen Xin in a daze at the end, remembered that this person had killed a lot of Tartars, and hurriedly said: "General Chen, you have made great contributions to the victory of Gu'an, what do you think about killing slaves?" The surrounding generals all looked over in a blink of an eye, with envy, jealousy and appreciation, and most of them won Chen Xinyin.

Chen Xin took a step forward and said: "Xiaguan listens to all the adults and the military gate, all of you are the generals who have survived a hundred battles, how can there be a place for villains to speak." ”

All the general soldiers smiled when they heard it, which was much more pleasing to the eye than that Cao Wenzhao, and Chen Xin continued: "If you adults set a strategy, the villain is also willing to be a pioneer with Lord Cao." ”

Cao Wenzhao looked at it and nodded kindly to Chen Xin.

Ma Shilong knew that Chen Xin was a red man, he originally asked the Ministry of War for a few times and didn't come, but the emperor personally arranged it, and the Ministry of War was transferred to Jizhou, and it was not bad to see a few people, so he stood up and praised: "General Chen is really a person valued by the emperor, and the Tang newspaper you wrote last time is also a good plan, if the Ministry of War replies to permission, General Chen and General Cao will be the same forward." ”

Chen Xin heard him mention the Tang Newspaper, and scolded in his heart, he had already given Ma Shilong and the Ministry of War a Tang Bao, his opinion was almost the same as Cao Wenzhao, and now under the shape, the best line to attack the salient is from both sides of the bottom, Ma Shilong and Zu Dashou's assembly position was originally excellent, directly attacking Zunhua and Qian'an from both sides, closing the main retreat route from Yongping and Luanzhou to the north, and at least half of the Jiannu in the Guannai will be left. Maybe it's the first major achievement since the East Incident. But Ma Shilong and the military department did not reply at all.

In fact, Jiannu's deployment is completely undetermined, both want to retain the enclave, but also to withdraw troops, Santun camp they don't go to occupy first, as a result, Shandong general Yang Zhaoji took Ma Shilong to fight Zunhua when to occupy, there became a stubborn nail household, Jiannu fought once can't fight, and will not continue to attack, just between Qian'an and Zunhua, Shimenyi is not far southwest of Zunhua, controlling the official road to Jizhou, after Ma Shilong occupied, Jiannu did not dare to fight, the east and west are forced at both ends, and the shape of Zunhua Jiannu is really strangeIn any case, I can't understand what their strategy is, there is neither determination nor plan, Chen Xin himself estimates that it was Huang Taiji who compromised with the banners to come up with such a lame strategy, and the basis of the decision was their great contempt for the Ming army, and regarded the Houjin soldiers as fierce men with one enemy and one hundred, and then the people who implemented it were not effective, so they made it into this shape. It's just that I don't know if the power left by Huang Taiji has strengthened after he appeared.

Ma Shilong is old in the military, Chen Xin can see it, he has already seen it, Ma Shilong has just been released from prison in the first month, busy earning watches, taking the emperor Taiji to attack Yongping and Shanhaiguan, he went to fight Zunhua once, but he didn't fight down, and now the strength of Zunhua Jiannu is stronger than January, and he is very hesitant. Ma Shilong was originally killed by Jiannu in western Liaoning, and Chen Xin estimated that he also had a psychological shadow, and he was afraid that he would be imprisoned again, so he would rather drag it out like this, and wait until the adults of the military department decided to attack or wait until Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Jiliao, came, so that even if he was defeated, there would be an excuse. Of course, it is best for Zu Dashou to call Qian'an first, so that he will have much less pressure.

After Chen Xin retreated, several general soldiers began to ask for other supplies again, and the topic was pulled to the side again, and Chen Xin sighed softly when he heard the Zuo Dusi beside him.

Chen Xin paid attention to it, it seems that this person is still a little aggressive.

Zuo Dusi already knew Chen Xin's identity at this time, and took the initiative to turn his head over and whispered: "It turned out to be General Chen of Gu'an's Great Destruction of Jiannu, disrespectful. ”

Chen Xin said politely: "It's not enough to worry about it, I don't know the name of the adult." ”

"Xiaguan Zuo Liangyu."