Chen Xin rode into the arch gate in the north of Gu'an, surrounded by the Chinese army guards, in front of the 2,000 headquarters, the Chinese army followed the baggage team to collect the carts, there are various styles, there are twenty cars used to carry dozens of seriously wounded, the last few are piled with more than 600 heads, and there are more than 100 captured war horses behind.

Although the county lord agreed to let him enter the city, he still put up a stand and did not greet him at the city gate, and he heard that Chen Xin was just a sentry, so he sent a master book to receive him, meaning to let Chen Xin go to the county government to meet him.

Chen Xin didn't have the energy to pay attention to him for the time being, so he first focused on military affairs, first arranging defense, and then finding doctors and arranging accommodation. He felt that this magistrate inevitably exaggerated the status of civil officials, and he would not be able to act like this in extraordinary times, and the two magistrates of Laiyang and Zhaoyuan were not like this, and now he had military merits in hand, coupled with his rough and thoughtful operation methods, this petty official was really not qualified to put up a shelf in front of him, as long as he entered the city, Chen Xin had his own team, and the organizational ability of the training team and the training team far exceeded these civilian officials.

The people of Gu'an who were watching were all shocked by this murderous army, many people hid back in the house, and some of the remaining bold ones pointed at them, Chen Xin didn't pay attention to them for the time being, now that the battle has just ended, all the soldiers have a murderous face, and it is normal for those people to be afraid.

They walked all the way along the north-south cross street, and when the 1,000th headquarters of the rear team entered the city, the Chinese army changed its cannon, followed by a gong, and all the soldiers sat down.

After the suona blows, all the chief officers have arrived at the Chinese army to assemble, Zhu Guobin of the advanced city and Chen Xin roughly reported the layout of the city, and the county Cheng who received them also explained on the side, which is roughly similar to other cities, all of them are cross street layouts, three hundred and eighty steps long from east to west, and seven hundred and eight steps from north to south, so the city walls on the east and west sides need to deploy more troops.

Chen Xin had already discussed with several chief officials before entering the city, and after confirming it at this time, he quickly decided on the deployment of defense, the Chinese army was stationed at the north gate, and the second and third thousand headquarters with smaller losses were deployed on the east and west city walls, and Lu Chuanzong's first thousand headquarters were deployed to the north, and then each of the three divisions dispatched a killer flag team to the relatively safe south city wall to deploy defense. Fifty firearms detachments were assigned on each side, temporarily under the commander-in-chief of each thousand, and the cavalry and baggage teams remained at the intersection to support the various gates according to the banner of the Chinese army.

After setting the position, the various departments went back and assigned the manpower, sent the Tang horse to report the sequence, and then drove into different streets of the cross street to prepare camps, since they entered the city, Chen Xin planned to let them live in the homes of the citizens, so that they could have a better rest.

There are also regulations for the accommodation of private households in Wendeng Camp, in principle, a team is in one household, and if they can't live in it, they will be placed next to each other, and if there is a yamen official and gentry's house, they will skip and not enter. Dong Yu arranged for the quartermaster and those instructors to go to the streets first, these people basically had read books, more or less than the soldiers, they knocked on the door of the door from house to house, and discussed with each family softly, and gave money for accommodation according to the head.

When the people opened the door, they were a little afraid, but when the people came with knives, they didn't dare not open it, and when they heard that the money was returned, they hurriedly agreed, and the quartermaster paid the silver first, and the people were relieved to see it, and provided a kitchen for them to cook.

Only the wounded soldiers they were unwilling to settle, saying that it was to bring a bloody disaster, ordinary people were unwilling, and finally Dong Yu had to find the Wudao Temple in the north of the city, the host was very good-hearted, agreed to let them go in for treatment, and also arranged some monks to help, Dong Yu sent people to follow the master book to the whole city to ask for doctors, and found more than ten doctors to treat the wounded soldiers.

Now the gates of Gu'an are in charge of some low-level officials, they don't know how to fight at all, and they don't know how to defend, seeing the soldiers coming, they can't wait to hand it over to them, and the chief officers of each gate quickly take over the city defense, according to Chen Xin's requirements, each city wall is kept on the city wall at any time, and there is at least one killer team in the city gate hole.

Before dinner, they went to the north gate where the Chinese army was located to give orders, and together with the staff officers, marked the location of their respective camps on a newly drawn rough map and received the night number for tonight.

Liu Pojun took the sorted information and began to report to the surrounding officers, his voice trembled slightly: "In the first battle before noon today, my Wendeng battalion killed a total of 672 Jiannu headquarters, including one person from Jiala Ezhen, one person from Niu Lu Ezhen, 83 people from Jiannu Bayala, and 29 Mongolian tribesmen at the 29th level, no prisoners, one Jiala banner and one Niulu banner were captured, and one hundred and seventy people were killed in my Wendeng battalion, one hundred and sixty-two people were wounded, and more than fifty were seriously injured, nearly half of them came from the 1,000 headquarters, Among them, the third killer flag team encountered Jiannu Baijia rushing into battle, and there were only eleven injured left, and the losses of the second and fourth killer flag teams were not small. ”

Lu Chuanzong scolded twice in a low voice, as far as his thousand headquarters suffered the heaviest casualties, and the adjustment of personnel was a troublesome matter, after all, the newly transferred people were not as skilled as the original team, and their combat strength would definitely be affected.

Chen Xin was a little helpless when he heard that there were no prisoners, it was best to have prisoners, but this group of soldiers was red-eyed, and after the standing ones were killed, they killed all the people who could still move on the ground, so that there were no prisoners, and he said directly: "The killer team with large losses will be combined into a complete squad within the division, and the redundant personnel of each division will be temporarily organized into the general personal soldiers." The following is Dong Yu, who will report to the chief officers on the seizure and the aftermath. ”

Dong Yu still looked cautious, stood up and bowed slightly to these adults, and then opened his account book and reported: "The seized proceeds are collected from the killed Jiannu, and second, the ownerless war horses that they did not have time to take away, which have been counted, two thousand two hundred taels of gold, thirteen thousand taels of silver, and one hundred and ten war horses. There are 83 pairs of Bayala armor, more than 300 pairs of scale armor and chain mail, and more than 500 pieces of cotton armor. Knives and guns and other weapons have not been counted, roughly nearly 1,000 pieces, 300 pairs of bows and arrows. There are also a lot of jewelry and the like, and they haven't been counted yet. The loss of weapons of our army is also in the statistics. If our fallen soldiers ask for burial in their suicide note, they will be buried outside Gu'an, and if they are cremated, they will be brought with the army. The wounded soldiers were all placed in Wudao Temple, and in addition to the medical soldiers, more than a dozen doctors and some people were invited to help. ”

Hearing the harvest, everyone was happy again, but the battle array could only be regarded as a small part, the Tartars didn't know how many good things they had looted, but unfortunately they couldn't find their station, the more gold and silver, Lord Chen might increase the combat allowance by one level. Chen Xin mentally calculated how much pension he needed to spend, as well as the cost of resettlement of disabled soldiers.

After a while, Chen Xin continued to arrange: "Dong Yu will make a book after ordering, seize the weapons and send them to the city tower, and tomorrow they will start to organize the people by the training team, and those ordinary Jiannu weapons and ordinary cotton armor will be issued to them, and the training team must let them know that Jiannu may still come, and they must make up their minds to fight to the death." In terms of weapons, our own blacksmiths can repair some of them, and those Bayala iron armors should not be distributed. If you are strong and courageous, you will be given cotton armor or iron armor, and you are responsible for the soldiers living in the households, and you will be kind to those households. ”

Then Zhou Shifa reported on the implementation of military law, it was Huang Side's turn, he was about to shoot a few words of sycophancy, there was a sound of horses' hooves under the city tower, two people who did not collect the corpse of the ** Jiannu under the city at night, and rushed to the city, everyone in the house knew that there was a military situation, Huang Side stopped first, and the guard on the city tower put down the hanging basket and pulled up the two waist cards, and after he checked his identity, he opened the door and let him go.

A night bully hurriedly went up to the city tower, saluted and said loudly: "My lord, find the camp of Jiannu." ”

Chen Xin estimated that Jiannu would run away soon, and he didn't plan to chase after him, so he said lightly: "Where is it?" ”

"In the north of the Lugou River, in a place called Beizhuang, we found them soon after they returned to the camp, and fought their sentry several times, and they promised to run north soon, and before evacuating, they killed more than 2,000 captured people, and the camp was littered with corpses."

All the chief officials stood up with a sigh, Zhu Guobin gasped for breath with anger, and Dai Zhenggang scolded loudly: "The Jiannu, you can't beat my Wendeng camp, and you will spread your anger on the people." ”

Chen Xin sat in his position and didn't move, and said for a long time: "Huang Side, all of your training teams will go to Beizhuang, and each flag team will choose a soldier representative to go with you, and if there are survivors, they will be brought back to Gu'an." ”

Huang Side agreed loudly, and then asked, "My lord, do you want to bring some gentry from Gu'an with you?" ”

"Yes, the people and the gentry have mobilized some to visit, and if they are afraid, remember to tell them that they have cavalry to protect them all the way."

"What about the magistrate?"

"I'll see him right away"

Lu Chuanzong said with a little hatred: "My lord, why should we pay attention to this kind of dog official, see what he is doing." ”

"After all, he is a magistrate, please also go to visit the atrocities of Jiannu, and when he comes back, he should cooperate with him, Dong Yu, and prepare some cash."

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On the fifth day of the first month of December, countless Eight Banner flags fluttered in the Liangxiang city in the southwest of Beijing, the banner of Houjin Khan stood at the entrance of the county government, several stoves were raised in the original county government hall, and there was a circle of smooth heads around, and there were three chairs covered with bearskins on the head, one of which was empty at this time.

The sound of crackling echoed in the hall, and a majestic man in the open space in the middle roared angrily, waving a thick cowhide whip, and violently whipped a person kneeling on the ground, the person on the ground was in tatters, and his body was stained with blood, and he only trembled slightly every time he was hit by a whip, and several Mongolian Jia Lama kneeling behind him were really silent, and his head was lying on the ground, and none of the onlookers around dared to dissuade him, but only occasionally looked up.

Huang Taiji, who was sitting in the middle of the head, looked down at the ground with a calm face, and the two big Belle Daishan next to him kept turning the wrench in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

It was Unag who knelt on the ground, he lost troops in Gu'an and fled back, he brought two thousand Jianzhou headquarters soldiers with heavy losses, and there were more than 600 corpses left, after returning to the camp, the other side's sentry cavalry quickly found their camp, and the panicked Jiannu was worried that the other party's brigade was behind, and he hurried on the road before he could treat the wounded soldiers, and some of them died dozens of wounded soldiers on the way to retreat, and now there are nearly 100 wounded soldiers who have returned to Liangxiang, among which there will definitely be people who can't hold on.

The total loss may be close to eight hundred, including one Jia La, the most regrettable of which is more than eighty Ba Yala, these people are not casually recruited, they are all years of battle formation training to select such a few people, the Zhenglan Banner has lost nearly forty in one flag, and there are a few in each of the other flags, they have not encountered such a heavy defeat for many years, and it is no wonder that the three major Baylors are so angry.

The big man finally stopped, he gasped twice, looked at the dying Unag on the ground and scolded: "Dog slave, the master doesn't want it, he ran back by himself, and you can't be left." ”

He turned his head to Huang Taiji and said: "Eighth brother, what I mean, the Mongolian cattle that came back are all cut down, and then let's raise the army and kill Nagu'an without leaving a chicken and dog, and we will definitely arrest the general of the Ming army and break the corpse into thousands of pieces." ”

Huang Taiji stood up, personally pulled the big man back to the top, invited him to sit down, and persuaded: "Fifth brother first dissipate his anger, march to fight, there are many unpredictable things, let's ask the situation first, and then make a strategy." ”

Mang Gurtai nodded angrily, and Huang Taiji looked at Dai Shan and asked, "What does the second brother think of this Ming army?" ”

Dai Shan rubbed the wrench on his hand, and said with half-squinted eyes: "According to what Unage said, it seems that the Zhejiang soldiers and the Sichuan soldiers on the Hunhe River are mixed together, and there are too many things, and the general also has some tricks, if this is the case, I don't think I should go to attack Nagu'an, and when they continue to come north, it is not too late to clean them up." ”

Mang Gurtai hurriedly said: "What if they don't come? ”

At this time, a young man below replied: "Since there is such a strong Ming army, even if it does not come this time, it will be transferred to Liaoxi one day, and Sanbeile has a chance to take revenge, so there is no need to rush for a while." ”

A few other people next to him also agreed a few words, they listened to the description of Unag and others, in fact, they were a little worried about storming the city, if they just went to avenge the Zhenglan Banner, many lives were not worth it if the flags were put in, and the harvest was quite rich at the moment, and everyone did not have the heart to work hard.

Huang Taiji was also reluctant to go more than a hundred miles south to attack Jiancheng, his plan was still to loot the Beijing division and establish the political advantage, and listened to the praise: "What Morgan Daiqing said is reasonable, although this Ming army is hateful, we are not in a hurry, at this time we are in the enemy territory, it is not suitable to attack a strong city, if they take the initiative to come north, it is another matter." ”

Mang Gurtai looked dissatisfied, but two of the three major Baylors present objected, and the four little Baylors also showed that they were unwilling to go, Huang Taiji persuaded: "Fifth brother doesn't have to be like this, the generals of the Ming army have military merits, they must be busy repaying their merits, I am afraid that they will soon be transferred to the Beijing division by their emperor, and those Ming court officials will definitely urge them to fight, and maybe they will soon be able to take revenge on the fifth brother." ”

Mang Gurtai didn't say anything, he stood up and strode out of the lobby, and when he passed by Unag's side, he kicked Unag over, and Unag rolled over on his side, and immediately got up and knelt down again.

After Mang Gurtai left, there was some embarrassment in the hall, Huang Taiji stood up calmly, helped Unag up with his own hands, looked around the Jiannu Eight Banners Banner Lord and Gushan Ezhen, and said: "Unag Chief Soldier lost his troops this time, and he should have been beheaded, but he defected to me in the early years of his destiny, and he has been brave and good at fighting for many years, and he has led the army to break through Juehua Island, I mean, he was demoted to a third-class general, he took Niu Luzhong, punished two, and handed over to the flag owner." What do you think of the meritorious service? ”

Mang Gurtai was not there, and the other flags did not suffer much loss, since Huang Taiji had opened their mouths, they didn't say anything, and the council was regarded as a punishment for Unag, who originally thought that he would die, knelt at the feet of Huang Taiji, and wept profusely.

Huang Taiji sighed and said: "This incident in Gu'an, remind me and others, the Ming Kingdom is not without warless soldiers, when the troops are divided in the future, you must not rashly attack the strong camps and cities, you must remember." ”

Everyone sitting nodded in agreement, and Huang Taiji continued: "But we can't completely leave him alone, Morgen Daiqing, you take two people from each Niu Lu Bayala and two soldiers to Gu'an Sentinel, if he is still in the city, you will make him dare not go out of the city!" Circumvent the city to provoke and rob its morale, so that this Ming army knows the prestige of our Dajin army. But don't forget to storm the city. ”