Dusk is approaching.

All the warships and transport ships that had not yet left would dock at the northern wharf of Dengzhou tonight, and overnight they would load a large amount of seized shipbuilding timber, copper and iron in stock, more than 800 sets of high-quality armor, a large number of bows, crossbows, guns, and cloth, 63 bronze cannons and more than 100 baskets of antique calligraphy and paintings that had been brought down from Dengzhou City, and set sail early tomorrow morning to return to Jiangnan.

Seventeen warships successfully berthed at the north pier of Dengzhou City before dark.

Not long after Zhu Daolin's abandonment of the more than 2,500 rebel soldiers in Dongjiang Town was escorted off the ship again, and not long after they reached the west of the city, the more than 2,500 rebel soldiers suddenly realized that they would be sent to Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, and quickly stopped advancing, kneeling on the ground and pleading, many of whom were so frightened that they sat on the ground and wept.

The 3,000 marines who escorted the captives were quite unbearable, knowing that these prisoners would either be beheaded or buried alive when they were sent to the Chinese army camp, but no one dared to intercede for this group of rebel soldiers.

The generals of the Shandong guards, who had not received any credit in the battle of breaking the city, were overjoyed when they received the news, and immediately brought all the cavalry to receive it.

Although the more than 2,500 rebel heads were not as valuable as the heads of the Manchu Tartars, before the war, the governor generously issued a new reward in order to motivate the officers and men of the various armies, and each rebel head could be exchanged for a minimum of 3 taels and 5 taels of silver, and if the heads of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others were cut off, it would be a heavy reward of thousands of taels of silver!

In order to express their heartfelt gratitude, several guards put together 32 war horses as a thank you gift and gave them to two battalion commanders and 30 captains of the Marine Corps.

The two chief and deputy battalion commanders of the Marine Corps smiled happily and led their horses. led his brothers back to the north of the city, and said distressed as he walked, but didn't the general know that the rebels' heads were also valuable?

Of course, Zhu Daolin knew, but he couldn't do anything about the killing, not to mention that there were so many of them, and he took away more than 6,460 shipbuilders and smelting and casting craftsmen. All of them were sent to Yingzhou Island to build shipyards, gun factories and foundries, and the looted more than 140 large and small ships and more than 3,800 soldiers met Weihaiwei's needs.

The more than 3 million taels of silver and millions of taels worth of silver and the gold and silver utensils and jewels that had been looted from the city nests of Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other rebel generals and a large number of rebels and had already been sent to the Hekou camp have not been known to many outsiders, even if the generals and colonels of the various armies guessed it, no one dared to mention this matter in front of him Zhu Daolin.

At night, the bonfire in Dengzhou City is blazing and heavily guarded.

Located on the east side of the drum tower, the governor's yamen was brightly lit, and the generals gathered, and Zhu Daolin was invited to celebrate as soon as he returned to the estuary camp. Entering the main hall, he humbly saluted Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong, Chen Yingyuan, the governor of Denglai, and the main generals of the various armies, and politely declined Zhu Dadian's favor of letting him sit in a prominent position under him, and walked to the position of Zhang Gongwei, the Marquis of Longping, and sat side by side with Zhang Dezhong.

The grand celebration banquet soon began.

Zhu Dadian, who was on the main seat, raised his glass and made a generous statement, as expected, he gave the first credit to the well-deserved Jiangnan Naval Division, but divided the merit of breaking the city into five parts, Zhang Gongwei and his son's Jiangnan Land Division stayed behind in the guard and Zhu Daolin's new army each one. Wang Laicheng, the deputy chief soldier of the Beijing camp, received a copy of the soldiers of the Beijing camp, the Guan Ning army of Wu Xiang and his son, and the general Ding Sihou under Zhu Dadian. Even Chen Yingyuan, the governor of Denglai, should have made a meritorious service for supplying grain and grass to supply gunpowder, and God knows to whom his grain, grass and gunpowder were given.

Zhu Daolin was disdainful of this, but his face was calm.

He had already made up his mind, and when he went back, he would write a chapter to Emperor Chongzhen, stating in detail the course of the battle, and send his generals Wu Jicheng, Tang Zhenglin, Jiang Yulong, Zhang Dezhong, Zhang Deyi, and Xu Wenjue to others early tomorrow. Escorted Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's two heads and more than 20 rebel generals to the capital, and then took more than 800 war horses, more than 1,300 pack horses, mules and horses, and thousands of carts captured in this battle, as well as 680 war horses and more than 1,120 horses purchased from the generals of various armies, and led the soldiers under his command to Weihaiwei with all the supplies, and no longer cared about anything on the Dengzhou side.

The atmosphere of the celebration banquet was warm. A group of harmony, due to the presence of Zhu Dadian, a feudal official, and a large number of civilian officials, and the dining table is a low coffee table-style long table, two or three people at a table is almost equivalent to a meal system, the generals and colonels of the army do not dare to make too many times, and want to go forward to toast to Zhu Daolin By the way, there is no way to buy guns and muskets, so they can only raise their glasses frequently and respect each other from afar.

At the beginning, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei were still worried about being taken away from Zhu Daolin was annoyed in his heart, and he didn't give anyone a good look, but he didn't expect Zhu Daolin to be very calm, polite and decent, and every civil and military general who showed favor to him raised a glass from afar, sincerely blessed, and stood up twice during the banquet, toasted Zhu Dadian and Chen Yingyuan respectively, and thanked the two governors for their strong support and meticulous care for the soldiers of the new army, which made Zhu Dadian and Chen Yingyuan smile happily, and made an exception and drank two more glasses with Zhu Daolin. They all feel that Zhu Daolin is not as domineering as the legend, but he is still very cultivated and takes into account the overall situation.

Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei were stunned, and couldn't help but slander, guessing that Zhu Daolin must have received enough benefits, otherwise he would have made up his mind never to return the more than 100 captured warships.

At the end of the banquet, Xu Hongji and Zhang Gongwei took the lead in saying goodbye on the grounds that the war was over to appease the soldiers, and Zhu Daolin was unwilling to deal with the generals of various armies, so he took the opportunity to follow the two lords closely, successfully got rid of the trouble, and returned to the Hekou camp with the two lords against the cold wind.

As soon as he sat down in the wooden warehouse that served as a temporary headquarters, Wang Laicheng, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp with a red face, hurriedly came, and Zhu Daolin strode out of the door and invited Wang Laicheng, a big man with a strong smell of wine, to the house to roast and drink tea.

Wang Laicheng sat down, took the hot tea handed by Zhu Daolin, and asked why Wei Guogong and Marquis Longping didn't see anyone?

Hearing Zhu Daolin say that the two lords really went to visit the soldiers under his command, Wang Laicheng couldn't help but be in awe, and sighed a few words and immediately got to the point:

"Brother Zhu, no matter what, I have to sell dozens of field cannons and thousands of flintlock pistols to my younger brother, you can tell me how much silver you can count, my little brother has gained a lot of blessings from his brother today, haha! The guns equipped by the new army are so easy to use, they are a hundred times stronger than the guns built by the War Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry! ”

Zhu Daolin said with a smile: "The field artillery can't be given to you, if you want to buy it, you have to find the Franc machine person in advance to book, the three guards under my command are counting on the dozens of artillery, the flintlock pistol can evenly produce two thousand, the baggage battalion and thousands of recruits of our army to transport supplies have arrived in Huangxian County in the west at noon, because I didn't let them come over because of the war, I will arrive before noon tomorrow, and then give you two thousand flintlock pistols and supporting ammunition, but I don't want your silver, take the horse in exchange." ”

"Didn't you seize more than a thousand horses during the day? In the past few days, I have bought back more than 600 first-class horses one after another, why do you need so many horses? Wang Laicheng asked puzzled.

Zhu Daolin replied truthfully: "Most of the horses seized today are pack horses and mules, and the war horses that have been bought back in the past few days are bought for the Jiangnan Land Division of the Marquis of Longping, and most of the three guards and four cavalry battalions under my command have no war horses. ”

Wang Laicheng understood, and agreed happily with a smile. (To be continued.) )