(My cousin has been an official in the capital for several years and returned home to visit relatives, and today I accompanied Pan Huan for a whole day, and the update is late, and I hope the brothers will forgive me.) Chapter 284

The valley pass under the sunset was blood-colored, full of broken limbs and blood stains, blood slowly seeped into the grass stems, the ground of the whole valley was flooded with a faint red light, the smell of fishy rot filled the nose, and the middle man wanted to vomit.

The soldiers silently cleaned up the battlefield, carried away the dead bodies, collected the scattered blades and armor materials, and Jiang Bin and Song Nan also joined them; The corpses of the enemy and me were separated, the corpses of the Tartars were piled up together and poured with fire oil and burned, and the corpses of the Ming army were placed on the side of the valley one by one, and more than a dozen rows of corpses stretched for several miles, most of them were soldiers of Ulzhou Wei, and six thousand horse infantry of Ulzhou Wei came to the rescue, and less than four hundred survived at this moment, and almost all the troops were wiped out.

Jiang Bin stood dumbfounded beside the dense corpse with a big knife, the muscles on his face twisted and tangled, and he was in pain, and there were more than 300 surviving officers and soldiers of the Ulzhou Wei standing beside him, all with painful and dull expressions.

Song Nan walked slowly in the gap between the corpses with a cloth towel, wiped the blood stains on the faces of the dead soldiers with the cloth towels from time to time, and closed the eyelids for the unblinded soldiers, the grief and guilt in his heart were indescribable.

After sorting out the corpse, Song Nan came to Jiang Bin and more than 300 other Ulzhou soldiers, and suddenly knelt down in front of everyone, tears flowed in his eyes, Jiang Bin hurriedly said: "Brother, what are you doing?" ”

Song Nan said: "Please Lord Jiang and all the soldiers to accept my Song Nan's worship, in order to win this battle, I had to build yì Ulzhou guards and horses as the front army to block the Tartars, but this move made the Ulzhou guards and horses almost all wiped out, I feel guilty, I can't stand you." ”

Jiang Bin's eyes were red, and he stepped forward to help Song Nan up and said: "Brother, I will be ready to have such a day as soon as I join the army, your construction is not wrong, if not, how can you have today's big victory?" Get up. ”

All the Ulzhou soldiers also cried and shouted: "Nan Ye, hurry up, this matter has nothing to do with you, Nan Ye is the pride of my Ulzhou Wei, and Nan Ye is also thinking about the overall situation." ”

Song Nan wiped away her tears and said: "I am not the pride of Ulzhou Wei, you are, the dead brothers are, I want to ask the emperor to give the dead brothers a grand funeral, erect a monument and engrave their names here, and their families must also be properly settled; Rest assured, they will not die in vain, and you will not shed blood in vain. ”

Under the leadership of Jiang Bin and Song Nan, everyone knelt down and kowtowed to the corpses of the fallen soldiers of the Ulzhou Guard, and everyone replaced the wine with water and sprinkled it on the ground to pay tribute to the heroic souls of the warriors.

Zhang Lun led his army to watch this qiē from a distance, and suddenly he threw his stirrup and dismounted his horse and fell to the ground, and the tens of thousands of troops behind him also knelt on the ground to salute the fallen warriors.

In the early hours of the morning, the city gate at the north gate of Ulju City was wide open, the torches and lanterns shone like day, and the people in the city all stood by the roadside, stretching for ten miles to meet the triumphant soldiers.

There were no cheers, no laughter, when a corpse wrapped in a white cloth was pulled into the city by horses, the people beside the road let out a suppressed cry, and then it evolved into a whole city crying momentum, the earth-shattering cry resounded inside and outside Ulzhou, no one did not cry, no one was moved.

Zhengde stood at the gate of the city with tears in his eyes, behind him were dozens of ministers of the outer court of the cabinet who rushed from the capital to Ulzhou to take over and the prison bosses of the inner court, Zhang Lun, Song Nan, Jiangbin and the three rode into the city gate, and after seeing Zhengde, the three of them threw their stirrups and immediately bowed.

"Minister Zhang Lun (Song Nanjiang Bin) knocks on the emperor!" The three of them said in unison.

"Flat body, the three of you have worked hard." Zhengde hurriedly stepped forward to personally help the three of them.

"In this battle, our army annihilated more than 12,000 Tartar cavalry, captured 2,000 people, captured 3,000 war horses, and countless weapons and armor, which the emperor knew." Zhang Lun said loudly.

Zhengde and the ministers had already known the situation of this battle, but listening to Zhang Lun's personal report at this moment still made people feel uplifted.

"Our army lost 6,300 people, of which the Ulju army lost more than 5,700 people, almost ...... Annihilated. Zhang Lun's voice dimmed, and the last few words were spit out with difficulty.

Zhengde sighed and said: "I know, this time the Ulzhou Wei rescued the fastest, and made a great contribution, the Ulzhou Wei Tong knew that Jiang Bin led the troops well, and the Ulzhou Wei soldiers are all loyal to the country, I will not forget them." Where is Liu Daxia? ”

Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, responded and said: "The minister is here." ”

Zhengde said: "You immediately send someone to give generous mercy to the fallen soldiers in this battle, so that the families of the fallen soldiers can be properly settled; In addition, Wei Jiangbin's position in Ulzhou should be adjusted, and meritorious personnel should be adjusted and promoted, and rewards should be given, and this matter should be handled quickly. ”

Liu Daxia said: "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will do it immediately." ”

Zhengde nodded, looked at Jiang Bin and said, "Jiang Bin, I will give you an explanation, you are very good." ”

Jiang Bin shouted long live and kowtowed and retreated.

Only then did Zhengde look at Song Nan, Song Nan was in tatters all over his body, his face was black and dirty, and he stood aside with his hands down and didn't know what he was thinking.

"Song Nan." Zhengde shouted.

"The minister is here." Song Nan replied in a deep voice.

"Come, go into the city with me, it's great that you can come back alive." Zhengde didn't intend to hide his feelings at all, he didn't hide his gratitude to Song Nan in front of the ministers and the army and civilians, and reached out to hold Song Nan's arm.

Everyone looked sideways, and Song Nan hurriedly said: "The emperor will invite first, and the minister will follow." ”

Zhengde smiled: "It's okay, I will open the way for the victorious soldiers, this is the only thing I can do for you." ”

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A few days later, the city of Ulju held a funeral of the fallen soldiers, and Zhengde personally led the ministers to pay homage to the heroic souls of the soldiers, and accepted Song Nan's Jianyì order to erect the lives of the fallen soldiers on the monument to stand in the city of Ulzhou; The special personnel of the military department stayed in Ulzhou to deal with the aftermath of the bereavement and the establishment of a book of promotions and awards, while Zhengde and the civil and military ministers set off for Beijing under the escort of the Fenwu Battalion and the Shenji Battalion.

This gentleman went out of Beijing without permission and was almost captured by the Tartars, and caused a great battle of tens of thousands of people in Xinping Fort, with more than 20,000 dead and wounded, and I don't know if he has remorse.

The ministers remained silent, but they could clearly feel their suppressed feelings, Zhengde slipped out of the capital without saying hello, and three days later, a eunuch from the inner court went to the cabinet office to read out the holy decree, and the patrol route on the holy decree was completely different from the actual patrol route, and then he was almost captured by the Tartars, poking out a big leak; Although the result is still satisfactory, this kind of behavior has exceeded the bottom line of the ministers.

The emperor's move crossed the line too much, which was completely an irresponsible attitude towards the society, and what was even more infuriating was that he didn't take the ministers of the foreign court into account at all, just leave, and deceived the ministers to deliberately give the wrong route for the patrol, which is intolerable; But the emperor has not returned to the capital, the ministers have maintained restraint, and after returning to Beijing, a persuasion and a letter of reproach are inevitable.

Song Nan felt this, but he could understand the anger of the ministers, Zhengde was Liu Jin's suggestion, and he didn't stop it at the time, and he didn't expect it to happen later, which caused the Yan zhòng consequences of the annihilation of the entire army of the Ulzhou guards and horses, and Song Nan's mood has been depressed.

On the way back to Beijing, Song Nan has been hiding in the car to recuperate, except for often visiting Wan Zhi and Wang Yong, who are recovering from their injuries. Wang Yong's injuries recovered quickly, but Wan Zhi was seriously injured this time, he was hit by several arrows, and when he turned over and fell off the horse that day, his ribs were broken and almost couldn't survive, fortunately, the doctor of the Tai Hospital came to Ulzhou with the ministers, so he picked up his life, and it took at least half a year to fully recover, which is also a great luck in misfortune.

The officials who came with the car also came to visit Song Nan, Song Nan understood their intentions, this is the meaning of coming to worship the mountain in advance, although the emperor's trip this time was earth-shattering, but the result was quite satisfying, the Tartar was greatly injured, at least in a few years, don't want to talk to the Ming again, for Song Nan, there must be a lot of benefits, Zhengde's attitude shows a qiē, if it weren't for Song Nan's improvisation and precautions, Zhengde may have been tortured by the bald man in the big tent of the Tartar.

The Ming court, the court and the opposition around the public opinion are boiling, under the siege of tens of thousands of Tartars, he led more than 30 guards to protect the emperor and the princess from danger, this credit can not be described in a big word; No one can imagine how this can be done, and unless someone who has experienced it himself, someone else will think it is nonsense; Even with the description of those who have experienced it, most people still think that this is not something that Song Nan can do, and can only attribute this qiē to the word heaven's will; God bless the Ming, God bless the emperor, this is the mystery of this matter.

It is certain that the occurrence of this patrol will make many people unlucky, such as the soldiers and horses in the two places of Datong Xuanfu, two days after the first battle of Xinpingbao, the army of the two places came to the rescue belatedly, their fate is worrying, but there must be many people who have benefited; As the saying goes, if you don't go bankrupt, you don't make a fortune, how can you make a fortune if you don't lose others?

In the first few days, everyone was busy with the aftermath and naturally didn't think about these, as the shape of the city gradually stabilized, as the capital got closer and closer, the undercurrent in people's hearts began to surge and accelerate, and it was time to line up to reward the board and eat the fruit, who ate the sour, who ate the sweet, who got the big, who got the small, who was whipped, who was rewarded, these became a thing that lingered in everyone's hearts, and it was soon clear.

At noon on June 27 in the first year of Zhengde, Emperor Zhengde went out on patrol for two months, and finally returned to the capital after turning the world upside down.

After a tiring journey, Zhengde sent a decree to suspend the court for three days, and discussed the matter of the tour at the time of the morning court on the first day of the seventh month of the seventh month three days later; The officials didn't make a fuss this time, and they were choked enough to toss on the way to the car, and they also needed to recharge their energy to meet the early dynasty in three days.

Song Nan had already sent someone to Zhengde to take leave when he entered the city, and was greeted back by a group of people from the Song family who were greeted outside the west gate.