On the same day, Wu Zimian sent his family Ding, and Zhu Guobin and Cao Wenzhao chased and killed the Houjin soldiers all the way, the two sides chased and fought on the way, Amin and other commanders only cared about their own looted property, and fled first with the headquarters of the blue flag, and the Houjin soldiers retreated on the way to the organization was chaotic, completely lost the system, more than 100 people in the large share, 30 or 40 people in the small unit, at the beginning or retreated, and then completely became a rout, all the ox carts and carriages were left behind, and many women and gold and silver were also thrown down, so that the Ming army also lost part of the establishment. After entering the mountain range, the road slowly narrowed, and Zhu Guobin and the others were worried about the ambush, so they could only slow down.

Two days later, Amin took the Houjin army of Qian'an and Yongping out of Lengkou through Lengkou, and in the end, only Wendeng Ying and Cao Wenzhao chased Lengkou with a small number of men and horses. In this pursuit, a total of more than 230 people were beheaded, and a lot of Houjin soldiers and property were captured, and the three families were equally divided into heads and returned to Yongping to restore their lives. At this time, the Wendeng battalion had arrived in Yongping and was burying the corpses of the people outside the west gate.

It rained on the 12th, and in previous years it was a celebration for the whole people, but this year no one has the heart to celebrate.

An open space outside the west gate was full of the corpses of the people of Yongping, after the rain stopped in the afternoon, the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion continued to dig a pit and bury it, and many people near Yongping also came to help, and also looked for their relatives and friends in the city by the way, and there were cries everywhere.

Chen Ying and Zhou Shao'er held knives and guns on the south side, and looked coldly at a group of Guan Ning troops opposite, preventing them from coming over to cut off the heads of those people's corpses.

Chen Ying and Zhou Shao'er's combat group was temporarily adjusted, Zhou Shao'er is now the leader of this combat group, their original killer team suffered heavy casualties in the North Gate Blockade, and there are only three who can still fight, Chen Ying, he and the knife and stick hand who killed the horse, even Zhong Laosi was not lightly injured, and he is still recuperating in Luanzhou.

The other people next to him are the first thousand headquarters to be transferred to supplement, under the guidance of the instructor, they are also very disdainful of the Guan Ning army that does not act outside the city, and they are even more disgusted by the Guan Ning army to cut off the heads of the people, Chen Xin asked all the soldiers in the Wendeng camp to collect the bones, the corpses all over the city made the soldiers of the Wendeng camp indignant, after this time King Qin, the invincible image of Jiannu has been completely broken, and the impression they left on the soldiers of the Wendeng camp is only ferocious and barbaric, but they can't find Jiannu to kill now, Even with two feet, he couldn't catch up with the fleeing Jiannu cavalry.

Zhou Shao'er looked at the group of Guan Ningjun and said to Chen Ying: "These dogs are thieves, and they don't care about killing Tartars, but they are eager to fight for merit." ”

Chen Ying is a character who doesn't talk much, but Zhou Shao'er was born and died with him, he is already an old comrade-in-arms, and there are only a few familiar people around him, he gradually talked more in front of Zhou Shao'er, and listened to a deep voice: "Liaozhen is like this, I only know after Queen Qin this time, there is no hope of relying on them to fight the Tartars, if we let Lord Chen be the supervisor, we believe that we can calm Liao in five years." ”

Zhou Shao'er said: "I don't think it's five years yet." ”

Chen Ying also nodded and scolded: "Lord Chen is a military attache and can't be a supervisor, but I think Lord Chen understands everything and speaks of truth, anyway, if I listen to him, he will let me fight Guan Ningjun and Lao Tzu." ”

Zhou Shao'er snorted and said: "The Tartars are all deflated in our hands, just because Guan Ningjun is like this, they don't dare to provoke our Wendeng camp with their courage." I heard that the Tartars are out of the customs, I'm afraid there is nothing to fight this year, this time I went back to Wendeng, Lao Tzu first found a daughter-in-law, the last time the instructor came to write a suicide note, I don't know who the suicide note is for, we have only one left in our family, or after leaving one earlier, what are your plans. ”

Chen Ying didn't speak, and Zhou Shao'er then persuaded him: "You have killed eight Tartars, and your revenge has been avenged, so you should leave a queen for your family." ”

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Yes, but I don't know the people in the bunker, and I don't know who to talk to about the matchmaker......

"Zhong Laosi knows a lot, now he says that the media are all found by people, our Wendeng camp is more popular, I inquired when the quartermaster came just now, the reward for this battle is at least ten taels or more, and there is cotton cloth, I really like it, find the new trainer Zhao Xuan to say, he can speak well, he will be able to do it." Chen Ying agreed, after he killed enough seven, it seemed that he suddenly lost his purpose, and he didn't even know what to do in the future.

Guan Ningjun over there watched for a while, and saw that Wendeng Camp had a tough attitude and retreated stupidly, Zhou Shao'er lifted his guard, the firearms team extinguished the fire rope, and the soldiers put their backpacks on the ground and sat down to rest.

Zhou Shao'er took out a cake, took a bite, and remembered that it was distributed by the stupid Guandi Temple on weekdays, but now the Guandi Temple has turned into a pile of ashes, packed in an iron box, and choked in his throat, put the cake away again, and turned around boringly next to the battle group. When he looked at the buried place over there, he saw Liu Minyou standing in front of a new pit a few days ago.

Zhou Shao'er pushed Chen Ying, who was still standing next to him, and said, "Mr. Liu is here again." ”

Chen Ying said vaguely while nibbling on the cake: "Come and see the mother and son again, Mr. Chen and Mr. Liu are all good people, and when the sentry comes, I will also buy some incense wax paper candles and incense these people." ”

Zhou Shao'er cut and said: "Where to buy it, all the people in the city are dead." ”

Chen Ying pointed to the other side, Zhou Shao'er turned his head to look, a group of vendors were already selling incense wax paper candles over there, and some residents near Yongping were buying them, lighting them on the edge of some big pits, and paying tribute.

Zhou Shao'er stayed for a while before saying, "Your mother is really good at business, hey, I'll buy some later." ”

Because of the withdrawal of the main force of the Houjin army, Qian'an and Zunhua have been recovered, before Amin fled from Yongping, he sent a herald to inform Zunhua to retreat, and Li Sizhong and others in Zunhua received the order when the Ming army was attacking the city.

The battle of the four cities in Chongzhen's three years came to an end, and the news of the recovery of the four cities reached the Jingshi, and the entire Jingshi was boiling, celebrating everywhere, and the dark clouds hanging over their heads were finally driven away.

Houjin's clumsy layout in the pass made them at an absolute disadvantage at the beginning, they were divided into cities to defend, weak everywhere, and there were big nail households such as Santun camp in the interior of the salient, and the intelligence was almost blind, until the Ming army began to attack Luanzhou, Amin also thought it was harassment, and only sent 300 people to rescue Luanzhou, and encountered the Ming army on the road, and immediately fled. If it weren't for the organization of the Ming army, they would most likely be surrounded and annihilated in the pass.

Amin also slaughtered the city when he withdrew from Qian'an, because the time was urgent, and it was not time to search carefully, nearly thirty percent of the Han people survived, after he arrived in Yongping, the number of Houjin troops was more, plus Baoyi also participated in the Yongping massacre, only about one percent of the Yongping Han people survived, and even the prefect Bai Yangcui and other magistrates appointed by Huang Taiji were killed by Amin.

Luanzhou more than 1,400 Houjin soldiers, more than 1,000 people, only escaped more than 200, Wendeng camp was the first to enter the city, the most heavy losses, the largest gain, a total of 720 beheaded Zhenyi, more than 200 Baoyi, but also captured 23 Zhenyi, more than 100 people. The other Houjin soldiers were scattered in the city and were killed by other Ming troops, and even the righteous people of Luanzhou got more than 100 heads.

The losses of the Jiannu in the other three cities were very small, and with the pursuit of Zhu Guobin and others, the three cities only lost more than 400 people in total.

He Kegang didn't get the beheading in Yongping, so he thought about the corpses of the Han people after the slaughter of the city, those were all shaved heads, there was a fake hope, and he sent someone to come over to Chen Xin to discuss the purchase, although Chen Xin couldn't stop the killing of good and risky merit, but he deliberately created a conflict with Guan Ningjun, no matter what He Kegang said, how much silver he gave, he was perfunctory, and his attitude was very polite, but he never handed over the corpses of the people he collected to Guan Ningjun to cut off people's heads, nor did he sell Zhenyi's head to He Kegang.

Wu Zimian chased and killed Jiannu There are dozens of Zhenyi heads, plus Chen Xin's, there are more than one hundred and twenty in total, and he also quietly cut off some corpses, but he doesn't want to see Guan Ningjun, and now he sees Chen Xin like this, but he is also simply, he doesn't ask Chen Xin to ask for those corpses, and threatens that if the military department recognizes Guan Ning's head, he will go to sue the imperial court, and ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Military Department to review the matter, which makes the relationship between the two sides very tense, and the two sides have confronted each other in the city many times, and the Guan Ning army is quite scruples about the Wendeng camp and does not dare to go up to pk, can only hate Chen Xin and Wu Zimian behind his back.

Guan Ningjun not only did not cut the head of Zhenyi, but also entered the city slowly, Wu Zimian entered the city first and erected the red flag of the general army at the west gate, both of them claimed that their side advanced to the city, and each reported to his superiors, this lawsuit went all the way up, and became a conflict between the Qinwang army and Liaozhen, represented by Ma Shilong and Zu Dashou on both sides, until Sun Chengzong was fought. Chen Xin also wrote a Tang newspaper to prove that Wu Zimian entered the city first, and protected the first people he encountered outside the West Gate as witnesses, and his relationship with Guan Ningjun deteriorated even more.

But the biggest headache is Cao Wenzhao, he is a person from Guanning, and he is with Qin Wangjun in battle, he had to shirk and say that he went directly to chase and kill Jiannu, and he didn't see who entered the city first, but both ends did not fall well, Qin Wangjun regarded him as an outsider, and he was further isolated in the Guanning army.

Hu Fuhong is the supervisor of the Qinwang Army, standing on Ma Shilong's side, Zhang Fengyi is the governor of Jiliao, Guan Ning's military exploits also have his share of profits, firmly support Zu Dashou, Sun Chengzong can't persuade him, and then the lawsuit continues to go up, and when he arrives at the Ministry of War, Liang Tingdong has no choice, he personally went to Luanzhou to inspect and prepare a handful of mud.

When Chongzhen heard that the four cities had been recovered, he sent Wen Tiren to comfort him, bringing 30,000 taels of silver, and at the end of May, the two came to Yongping together.

As soon as Liang Tingdong arrived in Luanzhou, he found Ma Shilong and Zu Dashou to talk, Wen Tiren stopped for a while, walked through the official scene, and went straight to Yongping, Chen Xin, who learned the news, took the cavalry to receive it halfway and escorted him to the Yongping Mansion.

After arriving at the mansion, Wen Tiren took a little rest, and then found Chen Xin to speak, he said with a relieved face: "Chen Xin, you live up to the long live re-send, and have made such a great contribution in Luanzhou, the line of the military department, the emperor is so happy that the teacup is dropped, this soldier Lord Liang and the old man of the Shufu Sun Pavilion are the first to take you as the first credit, this time, the emperor also asked Lord Liang to ask the details of the Wendeng camp to defend the battle, and return as soon as possible." ”

Chen Xin looked at Wen Tiren's red face, knowing that he had been very popular with the emperor recently, and said modestly: "It's all the emperor's blessings, the adults are instructing, and the lower officials are just doing some duty." ”

Wen Tiren regarded him as a confidant, and he didn't say too much to him, and asked with a smile: "According to Lord Benbing, you and Zu Dashou have a lot of dislikes, and if you are a person, it will not be a battle of will, what is the point?" ”

Chen Xin didn't intend to hide it from Wen Tiren, Wen Tiren is not an old bird of officialdom who can be deceived by a few empty words, and said straight at the moment: "Xiaguan is indeed deliberate, I heard that someone in Beijing wants to transfer Xiaguan to Liao Town or Jizhen, but Yu Xiaguan has several difficulties, and now the household department is struggling, and when he arrives in Jiliao and Liao Towns, the land, money and grain have to be moved, and it is inconvenient to be a guest army. There are also Zu Dashou and others who are squeezed out, and besides, renting Dashou is a reckless person, although the lower officials are also martial artists, they don't bother to be with them. It is to deliberately draw a line with the people of Liaozhen. ”

Wen Tiren knew that Chen Xin had land and financial resources in Wendeng, otherwise where would he get the silver to send him Yi Jin, Chen Xin had made great contributions this time, and the future was immeasurable, and more importantly, the Wendeng camp showed great strength, Wen Tiren was extremely political, and with the current shape of the Ming Dynasty, the threat of Jiannu was getting bigger and bigger, and now Chen Xin really had a little taste of Qi Jiguang, if Wen Tiren could enter the cabinet, Bian Gong would make his position more stable.

And if the Wendeng battalion is transferred to Guanning, it is likely to be beyond his grasp, the Guanning army involves Liao, which is the largest expenditure of the imperial court, and the Guanning army has filial piety in all departments of the Beijing division every year, and each official has a share of the profit in it, and the relationship is intertwined, once he enters it, Wen Tiren is worried that the Wendeng camp will eventually be annexed, and he will have one less foreign aid, and it is also possible that he will be co-opted by Zu Dashou and become a part of the Guanning warlords, neither of which is good for him.

Wen Tiren nodded slightly at the moment and said: "This official also thinks that Liaozhen is like splashing ink and dyeing vat, and this official has its own reason for this, and the emperor will say it in front of him." Since you are doing it deliberately, you will continue to fight for the merit of eternal peace and restoration, and you don't need to pay attention to Lord Liang's mediation, you can encourage Wu Zimian again and make trouble until it is in front of the emperor, so that without me to say, the emperor will know that you and Guan Ning are not in harmony. In addition, you should calculate for yourself how much money, food, boats, chariots and horses are needed to relocate the entire camp of Wendeng Camp and their families to Jiliao, and how many houses and fields are needed for resettlement. If anyone dares to propose that you go to Jiliao, you will let him raise it. ”

Chen Xin understood what Wen Tiren meant, the matter was in front of the emperor, and the military department was uneven, Wen Tiren came out to mediate when the time came, and he seemed more capable, and after agreeing, he said: "My lord, the lower officials still have one more matter, and they want to build a water camp in Weihai." ”

"Oh, what's the point?"

"Jiannu sits big, after Hudun Rabbit fled westward, Xuanda Ji Town thousands of miles of side walls can be entered everywhere, these two towns are the key places of the Beijing Division, once Jiannu enters again, my Wendeng camp can be carried by the water operation, quickly arrive at Tianjin ashore. You don't have to rely on the Denlai Mariner as you did this time.

Wen Tiren smiled silently, Chen Xin knew that these official reasons could not move him, and continued: "There is also the sea boat, which has a lot of entrainment, and the guards from all over the country collude in private......

Wen Tiren waved his hand and said: "As early as when I was a lecturer, I knew you and Dao Shi, and you don't need to go around in circles, whether you want to make a living in Jiangnan." ”

"My lord Mingjian, it is true that the imperial court does not allocate money, if it were not for this, these soldiers would not even have food, let alone fight. When I go back this time, there must still be soldiers, and the lower officials also want to raise enough soldiers for the emperor and my lord's dispatch. ”

Wen Tiren didn't ask him what specific business he did, and said calmly: "For the matter of military salary, this official and Lord Liang will fight for you, and it is best to divide a share from the salary, so that it will be much easier for you to raise soldiers." You want to build a water division, but it's more troublesome. Nowadays, Liaozhen, Denglai, Tianjin, and Dongjiang all have water camps, and if Wendeng still builds one, it seems to be repeated again, and the cabinet will have a dispute. ”

Chen Xin immediately said: "This matter is not easy to do, but if you don't do it, you can't buy cheap entrained grain, and you have to have an extra amount of silver." ”

Wen Tiren frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly said with an unpredictable smile: "When you are older, your memory is not as good as before, and this official just remembered a Tang newspaper that Lord Liang received yesterday. With the arrangements mentioned at the beginning, plus the reason in the Tang newspaper, it is all easy to do. You can not go to Jiliao, but you can also build a water camp. ”

Chen Xin was surprised: "What is so important?" ”

Wen Tiren said lightly: "Something big happened in Dongjiang. ”