After attending the morning briefing on the military situation of the civil and military officials in the fort, Chen Zhenhui returned to her official office. It is said that it is an office director, but in fact there is nothing to do at all. He is the patrol of Lushun Town, originally low in weight, but now in wartime, people are under the city of Shenyang, and Liu Jun has a very strict control over the soldiers and horses of the towns under his command, and he can't actually meddle in the army.

When he entered the courtyard of the official hall, his subordinates had already boiled boiling water for him, the tea had just been brewed, the house was cleaned very clean, and the kang was burned.

Chen Zhenhui nodded with satisfaction, closed the thick curtain, and then took off her shoes directly and went to the kang. He is a southerner, and Zhou Yanru, the head of the dynasty, is his fellow countryman, and he is most afraid of the cold of northern Liao. Fortunately, there is this warm kang, and now I am used to it, and I don't care about the surface image, so I spend most of my time on the kang every day.

Anyway, there is a kang table on the kang, and you can solve it on it if you want to read and write.

Sitting cross-legged, feeling warm and comfortable, Chen Zhenhui sighed with satisfaction, who would have thought that this northern country could be so warm. After sitting down, he looked through the letters and documents that his scribes had arranged for him and placed on the kang table.

Originally, the inspector was only a temporary assignment, but later it became a permanent one, and basically there was a governor and a patrol. Although most of the governors are squires or servants, they are second-class officials. The patrol press is a seven-grade official, and the two grades are far away, but the patrol press has its own piece of business, and the governor cannot interfere.

Even the governor is actually an object of inspection and evaluation, so the status of the inspector is transcendent.

Originally, there were only a dozen patrols in the imperial court, but now after a new round of adjustment in the imperial court, the northern border army has set up five military regions and fifteen military towns, so there are five governors and fifteen governors and fifteen general military officers, and naturally fifteen patrols have been set up accordingly. A military town has a governor, a general army, a patrol, a minister, a military officer, and a civil minister to supervise the army.

The duties of the patrol are also clear, patrolling on behalf of the Son of Heaven, a civil and military official within a town. From the governor and the general army, down to the prefect and county, the sub-guard of the road and the preparation of the army, the deputy general and the general, the guerrilla garrison, etc., are all the objects of his inspection and supervision. The emperor will be asked to rule on major matters, and small matters will be dealt with immediately, and the power is great.

The governor is the one who manages the local civil affairs, controls the chief military officer, and supervises the food and salary. The chief military officer is responsible for the military affairs of a town, training and commanding troops. And the patrol press. It is staring at the two sets of civil and military teams in one town headed by the governor and the general army. In particular, there is a very important right in the hands of the patrol press, that is, the soldiers of the military town have made meritorious deeds, and they must be personally verified by him before they can report for meritorious service.

Originally, if it was in the past, the patrol could even be above the general soldier, and the chief soldier had to kneel and kowtow when he saw the patrol. However, in the Liaodong Army, the governor did not enjoy this kind of treatment, in fact, the governor and the governor. The Director General of the Interior also does not enjoy this kind of kowtow treatment.

Not to mention that the general soldiers will not kowtow to their civilian officials, even the small soldiers will not kowtow when they see them.

Liu Jun commanded the army, and many places were different from the old system of the imperial court. Salutes between all levels are just military salutes. Standing tall with his chest upright, his right hand clenched into a fist and striking his left chest, no matter how big an official he sees, this is the case. Even the chief had to return the favor. The same kind of military salute.

Chen Zhenhui opened an official document, which was a document asking for merit.

What is written on the official document is the record of the Liaoyang defenders, breaking the Wuzhenchao artillery battalion of Dolgon's army. Thousands of large and small artillery pieces were destroyed, and more than 3,000 Tartar artillery pieces were annihilated.

Looking at an official document again, it is still a request for merit.

More than 500 soldiers of the two companies of the defenders of Puhe City defeated the Qing army again yesterday, and after repelling the siege of 3,000 Tartars and killing and wounding more than 1,000 Tartars, the 500 defenders of Puhe City, under the leadership of Acting Battalion Commander Nicholas Liu Jinzhong, once again failed the siege of 20,000 Tartars personally led by the Tartar Ying Prince Azig, and killed more than 800 Tartars with artillery and more than 30 casualties themselves.

Chen Zhenhui was not too surprised, this Nicholas Liu Jinzhong really has some skills, in fact, he has also seen this person, a mouthful of Macheng dialect is extremely six, if it weren't for the red hair and red beard, I really thought this was a native of the Ming Dynasty. Who would have thought that the head of this nine-headed bird company, now acting as the battalion owner, could achieve such great results with a nine-headed bird company and a black flag army company?

Even Prince Azig couldn't do anything about him, and 20,000 people couldn't do anything about a small castle guarded by 500 people. At that time, like many people, he thought that although the Chu army could fight and Liu Jun could fight, there must be some water in this record.

But since he came to Liaodong, he has served, really served. He had seen with his own eyes how the Chu army fought, which was completely different from the wars he had known in the past.

This Nicholas Liu Jinzhong, he has personally written a merit request for him. After this war, this red-haired man will definitely be able to jump to the battalion general of the Chu army, and he is fully qualified.

opened another official document, but it was still a request for merit. This time, it was the Black Flag Army's merit sheet, looking at the large list sprinkled on it, Chen Zhenhui frowned, he didn't have a good impression of this Black Flag Army.

Just as he didn't have a liking for the black skull flag, he hated the rebels.

The emperor had a clear decree that Kong Youde and other captured rebels should be escorted to Beijing for trial and disposal, and those rebels should also be sent to Taiwan. But later this will was suppressed by Liu Jun, Liu Jun not only did not dispose of Kong Youde and other rebel generals on the grounds of the needs of Liaodong during the war, but also made Kong Youde and other rebel generals become advisers to the Governor's Mansion, and those rebels were also organized into four associations after a simple reorganization, so that they could continue to wear armor and hold weapons.

Liu Jun even reequipped them with equipment, gave them sharper firearms, better cotton armor, and even a lot of cannons.

These are all resolutely opposed by Chen Zhenhui and others, but they are completely useless just like many other military objections by these civilian officials.

From this point of view, in fact, Chen Zhenhui is not very satisfied with Liu Jun, this Duke of Chu, as a commander, is really powerful in war, but many times, he can't control him at all.

Liu Jun reused this army, Chen Zhenhui and others finally reluctantly accepted, he said to himself that this was for military needs, after all, Liaoxi was defeated, and Liaodong became a lone army.

But Liu Jun then scattered this army alone, which made Chen Zhenhui and others frightened, these are all rebels. Although Liu Jun also sent many non-commissioned officers and officers over, 20,000 people were surrendered. How many officers and non-commissioned officers were sent?

What if this army was sent out and fell to the Qing army?

But the confidence Liu Jun showed made them very angry.

And Liu Jun not only sent this army of soldiers and horses out, but also let them plunder everywhere, and even connived at their rape, plunder, and even slaughter, which made Chen Zhenhui unacceptable.

Although the Qing prisoner is an enemy, it can't be like this.

But Liu Jun only answered him in one sentence, kindness to the enemy is cruelty to himself.

War is a means, so sometimes for the sake of results. It doesn't matter if the means are despicable or noble, as long as the means achieve the goal.

Since the Black Flag Army was scattered, Liaoshen has been burned, killed and looted by this group of rebels everywhere. In fact, now Chen Zhenhui has no choice but to secretly admit in her heart that Liu Jun is very bold with these rebels, but this move is also very good. At least until now, these rebels have swept around, not only collecting a large amount of grain and grass for the Liaodong army, but also weakening the power of the Tartars a lot in a very simple and crude way.

Between Liao and Shen. Many castles, villages and towns were scorched, those food and materials were put into the castles controlled by the Chu army, and many young and strong people in Manchu were also captured and sent to the castles of the Ming army to become prisoners of war laborers.

The Black Flag Army even mobilized many Han soldiers and Baoyi who had the same identity as them. According to some information disclosed to him by Liu Jun, the Black Flag Army has been operating outside for so long, continuously sweeping and fighting. But instead of decreasing, their forces are expanding.

And the expansion is very scary, when it was first scattered, it was 20,000 people. Now it is said that there are as many as 70,000 or 80,000 people. Originally, there were only four associations, but now there are eighteen associations under the black flag, and this force can be organized into three integrated towns.

Although Liu Jun only gave the equipment of the four associations, many of the newly recruited soldiers and horses of the Black Flag Army just followed them to help carry things and grab things, and they were often their own war horses, bows and arrows, knives and guns, but even so, it was very scary.

I heard that not only did many of the Han army and Han people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty join the Black Flag Army, but even many Jurchens also joined the Black Skull Army, many of whom were not Jianzhou Jurchens, and there were also many Haixi Jurchens and northeastern tribes known as Jiangyi among the Jurchens.

Many of these Jurchen tribes were not conquered by the Manchus until these years. Therefore, when the Black Flag Army burned and looted everywhere, many Jurchens from other departments simply rebelled and joined the Black Flag Army.

"Capture the Boundary Castle and the Sarhu Castle"

Chen Zhenhui shook her head, these Black Flag troops broke a fort in three days, a town in five days, and a city in ten days.

After spending a while and reading all the work invitations, Chen Zhenhui threw them aside. For these official documents, he basically won't check them carefully, there is no need. He would have checked carefully, and then found that the Chu army would not falsely report military exploits.

Because it's not necessary.

No matter how many military exploits the Chu army reported, the imperial court would not have any real rewards, at most they would be rewarded with false titles. The Chu army doesn't care about these at all, and even the merit request form they sent is actually just a formality, the Chu army has its own set of military merit evaluation, and its own internal officers are responsible for this system, for the evaluation of meritorious soldiers, they take money and reward themselves, and they give the soldiers promotions and promotions, anyway, the court will never deny these promotions and promotions reported by the Chu army.

Being a patrol in the Chu army is really very idle and boring.

Chen Zhenhui put aside all the official documents asking for merit, indicating that he had checked and agreed to pass.

After taking a sip of tea, Chen Zhenhui took out a book and looked at it seriously. It was snowing heavily, so I had to read books in the house to survive. Anyway, he can't interfere in military matters.

Come to think of it, this official is really a little boring, and the excitement when he first came to take up his post has disappeared without a trace.

"What kind of book are you reading early in the morning?"

The curtain of the door was opened, and the voice of an old friend was heard, and the other three of the four sons of the Restoration Society came to visit together.

"What else can you read, idle and bored, look at Song Shu!" Chen Zhenhui lit up the book.

Mao Xiang smiled, "Look at how Liu Jinu created the Southern Dynasty Liu Song Jiangshan?" In fact, you don't have to read this book, don't we have a living Liu Jinu, you can't read enough every day? ”

As soon as these words came out, the room fell silent for a moment.

After a long time, Chen Zhenhui sighed, "Liu Jinu was also a meritorious general of the Jin State back then, and in the end he usurped the throne and stood on his own. ”

There was silence again in the room. (To be continued.) )