Sun Chengzong's banner appeared in the South Gate Gatehouse, and Luanzhou was officially recovered.

Luanzhou under the cover of the night is full of fires, countless Ming soldiers and people with torches, in groups to search for Jiannu everywhere, once on the battlefield of the invincible Jiannu hiding in Tibet, like a lost dog, many are brought by their own food with sticks and hoes to kill.

At night, Liu Minyou lived in the tent under the Kuixing Tower, and the Confucian Mansion and Minglun Hall behind were the wounded soldiers, except for the Dacheng Palace, there were soldiers in other places, and some small barricades were built on the street with door panels and grain bags, and bonfires or lanterns were hung at the alleys on the outside side to prevent the scattered slaves from sneaking up.

The shouting and crying outside kept stopping, the snoring of other tents around was like thunder, Liu Min couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, heard the sound of horses' hooves coming in in a daze, vaguely heard the sound of Chen Xin talking, and simply got up and walked to the Chinese army.

Hai Gouzi stood at the door of the big tent and yawned, and when he saw Liu Minyou coming, he said happily: "Brother Liu, Lord Chen has just come back, do you want me to report." 、，

Chen Xin's voice came from inside: "Let Mr. Liu come in." ”

When Liu Minyou entered, there were several lanterns lit inside, and it was quite bright, and several thousand generals and chief officials were there, and they all came to meet Liu Minyou, in addition to knowing that Liu Minyou was Chen Xin's cousin, they also respected this kind-hearted civil affairs supervisor.

Chen Xin beckoned Liu Minyou to sit down, and said to several officers: "We have more than 200 killed and wounded today, and the killer team accounts for seventy percent, plus the loss of Gu'an, only 1,56 can fight, and the establishment is not uniform. Lu Chuanzong handed over the integrated team to the deputy general manager and stayed in Luanzhou to lead all the remaining personnel. The crowd didn't ask much, and left the big tent after a little discussion, Chen Xin asked them to rest early after arranging the defense, and the officers who could rest in any environment were good officers.

When they went out, Chen Xincai said to Liu Minyou: "The day after tomorrow, we will escort thirty Guangdong Hongyi cannons to Yongping."

Liu Min was a little puzzled: "Let's attack today, why don't you let us rest." Chen Xin said with a smile: "In the evening, Lord Sun convened a meeting in Nancheng Tower, Ma Shilong and Zu Dashou quarreled, Zu Dashou said that I would not open the door to Guan Ningjun, and insinuated that I robbed money and food.

Cao Wenzhao said a word for me, and I was well criticized by Zu Dashou, and I immediately quarreled with Zu Dashou in the lobby of Lord Sun. ”

"You dare to quarrel with Shangguan? Did you win the quarrel? ”

"Of course I dare, our Daming is a civilian leader, he and I are not a military town, what am I afraid of him, this ancestor Dashou is now relying on his strength, the emperor doesn't buy it, the civil officials don't dare to offend him, and Sun Chengzong can barely hold on. Sun Chengzong didn't dare to manage it too much, and he was afraid that he wouldn't see him for a long time. Just by virtue of Zu Dashou's appearance, he can definitely beat me a few times in a fight, but if you want to quarrel, you can't quarrel with him if you borrow three mouths, I will give him a deflated, and a lot of people in the civil officials and Qin Wangjun are happy. Zu Dashou was so forced that he put on an official show to press me. "And then Ma Shilong helped you out?"

Chen Xin said proudly: "Naturally, he was released from Ma Shilong's prison, and there were no cronies in King Qin's army, so Lou went to him as soon as it was dark and gave him thirty heads and three hundred taels of gold." Naturally, he wants to pull me as a cronie, can he give me a head? And Zu Dashou asked him to let the state government out to Guan Ningjun, if Ma Shilong let it, who would still listen to him in this group of Qin Wangjun, the two of them began to quarrel from the lobby, and after the meeting, the city wall began to scold again, and scolded until the intersection of the street. ”

Liu Min opened his mouth, Ma Shilong looked at the combat power of the Wendeng battalion, no matter what, he wanted to win over Chen Xin, not to mention that Chen Xin was so knowledgeable and interesting, giving him enough face, this time with Luanzhou's military exploits, Ma Shilong also had the confidence to speak, so he could not give an inch to Guan Ning.

"Then what did Master Sun say?"

Chen Xin shook his head and smiled: "Master Sun has long been cultivating without immersion, and it is clear that there are two big forces of people, Guan Ning is stronger and more domineering, he must have supported Ma Shilong as a containment, and did not let Ma Shilong let the state government out." But I didn't offend Zu Dashou too much, everyone knew that I went to the government office first, and most of them grabbed the most, and I didn't open the door to Guan Ningjun, so well, it must be the focus of contradictions, and Lord Sun transferred me and Cao Wenzhao away in the name of escorting Hongyi cannons. ”

"You just take three divisions, only more than 1,000 people to Yongping?" "Enough, there is also Wu Zimian's Yansui Town, before the meeting, Wu Zimian and Guan Ningjun fought for the property of a slave lair in the southeast of the city, and the two sides fought, Sun Chengzong pressed Wu Zimian and asked Wu Zimian to go to Yongping with us, he has thousands of people there. ，…

Liu Min said: "Then it's still on Ma Shilong's side." ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "Why don't you look like this, but with our Wendeng camp here, Wu Zimian and Cao Wenzhao may follow the meritorious service, and then get closer to Ma Shilong's side, so even if it is taken care of, now Cao Wenzhao is a little different in Guanning, it seems that Lord Sun intends to promote him, install a nail in Liaozhen, and set an example, that is to say, Lord Sun may supervise Liaodong again, and now he is mixing sand." Liu Minyou rubbed his forehead and said, "Can you analyze these many things in a meeting?" Are you tired or not, or Lord Sun is just a random arrangement, you are just amorous. Chen Xin smiled, called into the sea dog, and helped take off the mountain armor, the whole body was relaxed, it was really uncomfortable to wear this body in the May weather, and the inner lining could squeeze out sweat.

Chen Xin no longer explained to Liu Min, he deliberately targeted Guan Ningjun this time, not on a whim, Zu Dashou's gang has territory and horses. There are also Liao salaries, and now even the imperial court has to get used to them, and Wendeng Camp is self-reliant,

If you can't even get a military salary, but you kill so many shoes, someone will definitely be transferred to Liaozhen to guard against Jiannu, just like the Zhejiang soldiers and Shizhu soldiers back then.

Chen Xin never wants to mix with this group of unreliable people, Guanning has an army of seventy or eighty thousand people, and thousands of his own people have entered this big dye vat, usually with their ears and eyes, and their combat effectiveness is not sure what it will become, it is very simple to join them in the same stream, but it is not helpful to Chen Xin, the terrain of western Liaoning is narrow and the army gathers, which is not conducive to his quiet development. So he deliberately deteriorated the relationship with Guan Ningjun, and Wen Tiren and others found a reason to let Chen Xin stay in Wendeng in the future.

Liu Minyou got up and said, "Then you go to bed early, and I'll go back too." ”

Chen Xin rubbed his red eyes, "What are you sleeping, you have to go to inspect the wounded soldiers again, and then go to the barricade to check the sentry, do you want to go and see the wounded soldiers." Liu Min said in a low voice: "I stayed with the wounded soldiers for an afternoon, I don't want to see it, the whole army has died in more than two hundred, there are dozens of serious injuries, hundreds of minor injuries, many people I still recognize, there is a Dongjiang River, when he arrived at Mazidun was dying, he was rescued by his companions who poured rice soup for three days, he was seriously injured today, let me tell you before he died, he believes that Lord Chen will one day be able to recover Liaodong." ”…………………………………………………………………………

On the second day, the Wendeng camp rested for a day, and more than a dozen seriously wounded died, and Sun Chengzong's headquarters moved to the state office, where Ma Shilong had already moved all in one night. Chen Xin went to a meeting, and when he came back, he was busy reorganizing the team.

Early in the morning of the third day, Chen Xin, who had not slept well, struggled to get up, and the sea dog called cold water to wash his face, and his spirit was much better.

Wu Zimian fought with Guan Ningjun in the east of the city the day before yesterday, more than 10 people were injured in Yansui Town, and he was pressed by Sun Chengzong when he went to a meeting at night, and he was transferred out of the city yesterday, and lost the opportunity to fish for oil and water, and his face was sullen at this time. Chen Xin's siege of the city the day before yesterday was the first achievement, and the Guangdong Hongyi artillery team was ranked second, so Chen Xin's future was immeasurable.

Cao Wenzhao's troops were mainly cavalry, because he was a bit of an anomaly, he was left outside the city the day before yesterday, and he didn't get any oil and water, he helped Chen Xin say a word, and was reprimanded by Zu Dashou, and was also sent to Yongping. Of course, I am also a little unhappy to be excluded.

The two of them still squeezed out a smile after seeing Chen Xin, Chen Xin first knelt down to salute Wu Zimian, and then said with a smile: "It is really an honor for the lower officials to fight side by side with Wu Junmen and General Cao, and they should have gone to see the two of them, but it was too late to patrol the night last night, and I got up late, which was rude." Wu Zimian saw that Chen Xin was not putting on a show, put his mind at ease, and said with a smile: "General Chen fought that day, and greatly increased my Ming prestige, and today is to go to Yongping, and the three of us brothers will return to the city together."

Let the elder brother also get a merit. Chen Xin said in surprise: "The two of them should have the first merit, the brothers are here for the time being, General Wu has beheaded thirty, General Cao has twenty, how can the two forget." ，…

As soon as the two of them heard it, they understood that Chen Xin wanted to divide their heads, and his face was happy, although Cao Wenzhao was different from the ordinary Guan Ning army, he liked to do it with shoes and real guns, but he was not brainless, and he also had to do things such as killing good people and robbing businessmen, otherwise the people below him would rise up and make trouble.

Several people discussed the assembly place, and agreed to set off at noon, Wu Zimian and the two went back separately, and Chen Xin used his head to deal with the two of them, lest they worry that they would go to Yongping to swallow the military merits alone, and if they refused to contribute, it would be useless to rely on more than 1,000 people in the Wendeng camp alone.

Just arrived at noon, Wendeng camp from the north gate of the urn city out of the city, in the city outside the city to meet Cao Wenzhao and Wu Zimian, because Yongping is not far away, Cao Wenzhao only brought more than 500 cavalry, no auxiliaries, Wu Zimian infantry cavalry originally totaled more than 3,000, this time to Yongping only brought 1,005, the family and cavalry have more than 700, the other more than 800 infantry is not the kind of beggar soldiers, it seems that they are planning to fight seriously.

The three thousand headquarters of the Wendeng battalion were dispatched, but the number of sorties was only half of the establishment, and there were also all the cavalry and a detachment of turtledoves, a total of more than 1,300 people, and more than 100 Houjin horses were captured yesterday, and each killer team was assigned two horses to help transport the iron armor.

Thirty Hongyi cannons from Guangdong walked in the middle of the Wendeng camp, and the cannons were all pulled by oxen, causing them to march extremely slowly. Huang Side continued to be close to the cannon gloves, and has now found a Macao Han man, and a Franco man, and gave ten taels of silver for one month, both of whom can make cannons and watch sights, and belong to rare talents, and they will go to Wendeng after the battle this time.

Thousands of men and horses first crossed the Luanhe River from several pontoon bridges built by the Guanning army a few days ago, and then went on the official road to Yongping, Qian'an, Yongping, and Luanzhou are all on the bank of the Luanhe River, and the official road is basically near the river, Luanzhou is only forty or fifty miles away from Yongping, as long as the Guanning army under He Kegang is to contain Jianjianu, and when this army arrives, it may be another Luanzhou-like victory.

A big man with dirty clothes followed Chen Xin, gnawing on a chicken skeleton as he walked, and his face and beard were greasy with chicken.

He said to Chen Xin in Nanjing's official dialect: "General Chen, the villain is called Chen Tingdong, and the adults are our own family, we admire you Qiu Ba of Denglai, the light of Liaozhen knows how to grab things, and you can always kill shoes when you rob things." Chen Xin heard a little crying and laughing, this Chen Tingdong from Nantong Prefecture is angry, I heard that the shoes entered the customs, turned into a sale of wealth, ran to Beitongzhou to recruit troops by himself, I sent thousands of refugees from Beitongzhou, he paid for the food, and rushed to Yongping with them. As a result, there were more than two hundred left on the road. This time, he was sent to help this army carry food and push artillery.

This Chen Tingdong is not a person in the officialdom, Chen Xin didn't explain to him, smiled silently, Chen Tingdong finished eating the chicken skeleton after a while, threw it on the road, licked his fingers next to each other, called his flag bearer, wiped his oily hand on the black red flag, and wiped his mouth a few times with the flag cloth, Chen Xin faintly smelled the smell of meat on the big flag.

Then this person went to the back to greet his Tongzhou refugees, Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief, this person is full of enthusiasm, it is said that he has also been lifted by people, so raunchy, it is really an outlier, but at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was indeed anyone, and he was no longer surprised at the moment.

They only walked more than ten miles that day, and the next day before they set off, they met the Tang Ma sent by He Kegang to report the news, the Tang Ma eagerly told a few people, the night before yesterday Yongping learned that Luanzhou was conquered, Amin also moved from Qian'an to Yongping yesterday afternoon, he just arrived, the sound of killing in the city shook the sky, He Kegang thought that Jiannu might be slaughtering the city.

After all, Wu Zimian is an old Qiu Ba, who has been fighting in Yansui and Taokou for a long time, and immediately judged that Amin was going to escape, and found Cao Wenzhao and Chen Xinyi to discuss, and the three of them agreed with this inference, if Amin wanted to escape, then the Hongyi cannon would have no use, and Wu Zimian immediately left the infantry to camp on the spot to protect the Guangdong artillery team. All the cavalry set off in advance, and Chen Xin took out the horses of the killer team, and gave one hundred and fifty cavalry with one man and two horses, and followed Wu Zimian with the Chinese army guards.

Amin was about to flee so quickly, completely to the surprise of the Hua, the cavalry moved quickly, especially the cavalry of the Wendeng camp was one man and two horses, and they were the first to rush to the city of Yongping in the afternoon. There was some faint smoke floating over the city, the south gate of Yongping was closed, but the west gate had been opened, and there was no Jiannu banner on the city wall, and the Guanning army He Kegang was camped five miles away from the east gate, and Chen Xin only saw a small number of Ming army rangers near the south gate. Some scattered people ran out of the west gate, Chen Xin hurriedly rode over, many of those people were injured and covered with bloodstains, and when they saw that it was the Ming army, they all cried loudly.

Liu Pojun went up to inquire about them and learned that as soon as Amin arrived in Yongping, he began to slaughter the city, killing him for nearly a day, and the corpses in the city were already piled up, and the Houjin army left about half an hour ago.

Chen Xin immediately said to Zhu Guobin: "You immediately lead all the cavalry to pursue, in case of a large number of Jiannu, mainly harassment, how many shoes can be killed, if there are small shares, resolutely attack." Zhu Guobin looked sad and indignant, and after receiving the order loudly, he led the cavalry to the north and roared away.

Chen Xin and Liu Minyou took the Chinese army guards, rode horses to the west gate, and gasped when they looked inside, on the wide east and west gate road, several shops along the street were burning, spitting black smoke into the sky, and the ground was full of layers of corpses, from the west gate to the east gate without interruption."

The horses couldn't get across, everyone jumped off the horses, carefully advanced in the pile of corpses, many of the corpses were still stuck with knives and guns, some of the women's corpses were all over the body, the streets were full of blood, and the ditches on both sides of the road were rippling with red liquid.

The corpses in the middle of the road were dense, Liu Min could barely get to his feet, and occasionally there was a person who was still squirming, and immediately someone from the Chinese army guard went up to check, but basically they couldn't save them, and these soldiers could only ruthlessly help them make up for it.

Liu Min was in a trance at noon, as if the corpse in front of him had turned into some ordinary objects, like stones and rotting wood on the mountain.

At this time, a corpse on the right seemed to move, Liu Minyou turned his head in a daze, and found a woman half-sitting against the wall, ** leaning over, covering her stomach with one right hand, her hand had been dyed red, and she was shaking her head gently.

Liu Minyou's scattered eyes regathered, and when he reacted that it was a living person, he hurriedly ran over, and fell twice on other corpses in the middle, and when he got up and arrived, Chen Xin was already there first, he untied his armor and embroidered shirt, first covered the woman, and then took out the cotton cloth in his first aid kit, ready to stop the bleeding for the woman, Chen Xin gently pulled away the woman's hand, and saw that it was a short knife that was not up to the handle, it was impossible to save it, and he stopped in his hand, and looked at the woman with a sigh.

The woman's lips moved slightly, she couldn't speak, her eyes were staring at a pile of firewood and grass next to her, Liu Min suddenly realized that when she went to the pile of firewood and grass, it turned out to be a swaddling cloth wrapped in a baby, and it must have been that the woman was hiding here when she had nowhere to escape. Liu Minyou took a closer look, and there was a bullet hole on the baby's body, which had been dead for a long time.

Liu Minyou came to Chen Xin's side with the baby in his arms, and didn't know how to talk to the woman, Chen Xin stood up and glanced at the baby, took it himself, covered the gun hole with his hand, and then squatted down and said to the woman: "Your child is very good, living well, and now he is asleep." The woman's trance eyes slowly looked at the red swaddling clothes, and a trace of red appeared on her face, both of them knew that she was returning to the light, Chen Xin saw that the woman's hand moved slightly, and quickly helped her raise her hand, next to the baby's face, the woman had already lost consciousness, and did not notice the slightest abnormality. His lips moved twice, his eyes suddenly looked at the swaddling clothes with longing, and then slowly looked at Chen Xin.

Liu Minyou stood behind Chen Xin, and couldn't see Chen Xin's expression, only to see him holding the woman's hand and saying softly: "Don't worry, he will grow up and will definitely live a peaceful life." The woman's face tilted for a moment, but finally she didn't say anything, and slowly closed her eyes.