In the first battle, he won a small victory, repelled the tentative attack of the enemy, and annihilated more than 1,000 people.

Such a record, in the eyes of Shen Shuren and Zuo Zixiong, is no longer so worthy of showing off. What they value more is the effect of stabilizing morale in this battle.

I believe that the Ming army will be inspired by this, and it should be no problem to hold on for another ten days and half a month and wait for the transfer.

Back in the big tent in the camp, Shen Shuren immediately spread out the map with Zuo Zixiong and planned the follow-up actions.

Even Mr. Qian, who was a veteran of Shen Fu and Lu Datou, also participated in this kind of temporary and informal military meeting, listened very carefully, and provided some current military information from time to time for the reference of the military garrison and the Lord Dusi.

However, this kind of determination can only be done by those who have been with Shen Shuren for more than a year.

On the other side, Zhang Mingzhen, Yang Jinjue and other newly recruited generals were overjoyed after collecting their troops, and they found a few jars of good wine that they had finally treasured, and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army with the soldiers.

Before Zhang Mingzhen lifted the curtain, he hugged the wine jar and shouted as he walked: "Lord Bingbei!" You are really strategizing and commanding, and you can still be so calm in the face of five or six times the enemy today! In today's battle, the adults can make the whole army from beginning to end without any chaos and calmly break the enemy! The last general is really convinced! ”

Yang Jinjue on the side was also so excited that he was incoherent: "I'm ashamed, until now, the last general doesn't dare to deceive, when he was first transferred, the last general was still a little unconvinced, but now that I think about it, it's really lard!"

Adults are really strict in governing the army! Especially those firearms soldiers, they can be smashed by the enemy and still do not retreat, and dare to use their swords to assassinate and resist the enemy, it is really unprecedented!

The last general has been fighting against the Haikou for seven or eight years, and I have never seen my Ming firearms soldiers dare to fight so close and never retreat! The original sword was simply an ornament! The Japanese and the pirates rushed in front of them, and they had already abandoned them as deserters! The last general actually doubted the usefulness of the adult's practice of the sword before, and he was really ashamed! ”

The two of them spat with emotion, and shook the wine bowl and toasted in front of Shen Shuren, who had to drink it first to save face, and then ordered the others to drink it together.

Only then did Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue realize that Zuo Zixiong and the other old men were not excited at all after the battle, and they were already thinking very calmly about the deployment of the next battle.

Zhang Mingzhen and the others were stunned for a long time, and finally realized the gap: it turned out that under the hands of Shen Shuren, there were almost no losses and more than 1,000 enemies, and it was not worth celebrating with great fanfare at all......

What a gap!

Zhang Mingzhen touched his head: "My lord and my colleagues are really heroic and heroic, but they will make a big fuss in the end. Now this Ming Dynasty, no matter where it is, the annihilation of more than 1,000 enemies is not worth celebrating, what a magnanimity this is......"

Shen Shuren smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, you will get used to it in the future, I was indeed negligent today, I should have taken care of the emotions of you newcomers, so let's have a good drink, and discuss the military plane tomorrow morning."

The soldiers were also fed, one tilapia for every four and a chicken for every eight. Then send a fast horse back to the county seat to report the victory, and find the Yan County Order, let's sum up the follow-up together.

But remember! Firearms are not allowed to drink tonight! Be on duty at night to prevent camp hijacking! However, two days after tomorrow, the firearms soldiers can be given two meals of wine to compensate for their achievements. It's the turn of the soldiers of the other departments to take turns to be on duty at night! ”

Even when it was a celebration, the Shenshu people were still very careful, and the basic operations of the night anti-robbery camp must not be relaxed.

Only then did all the soldiers cheer, and they went to prepare materials and shouted without mentioning them.

Shen Shuren watched the generals disperse, and his heart was still a little unsteady, and after thinking for a long time, he wrote a note for Shen Fu to deal with, so that the artillery team that is still on the road now will also speed up, and strive to be in place tomorrow-

The Shen family's army has only arrived for a day, and the artillery coming from the Zheng family, because it is heavier, the marching speed must be much slower than that of the infantry, so it is still changing boats at the mouth of the Hanshui River, and there is no chance to play in this battle today, but it should be there tomorrow.

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If you want to hurry, you really need to rest for the night after the battle, and then have some wine and meat to relax.

The next day, when the generals came to the big tent of the Chinese army again and asked for instructions from the Shen Shu people, they found that the Shen Shu people got up earlier than them, and only one civil official Yan Yingyuan was already waiting beside them, and the generals were all later.

It's not that Shen Shuren isn't sleepy, it's just that he is more restrained when he drinks, unlike those generals, who will drink openly when he is happy.

The generals hurriedly shouted ashamed, and said some clichés, praising the soldiers for their diligence.

Shen Shuren just smiled slightly, took a document from Yan Yingyuan's hand, and motioned for the generals to circulate it. When the generals took a look, it turned out that they were copied to Yang Gelao and Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhi respectively, and the content was nothing more than a success.

Yesterday's victories and exploits were written down in detail, and they were all distributed to each guard and battalion, and the calculation of merits was very fair, and they were all equivalent to the number of heads counted by each battalion yesterday.

The heads of those who were harvested by Zuo Zixiong's cavalry who followed up to clean up the battlefield, and those who were found to have gun holes and were dead at that time, were also counted on the corresponding battalion heads of the fire team.

Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue couldn't help but admire the new boss who had just been with him for more than a month, and secretly said that they must follow the soldiers to serve the death and fight for a wife.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was common for civil officials to withhold the merits of military generals and accept benefits, resulting in uneven distribution. It is extremely rare that Shen Shuren can do it without being greedy for merit, giving all the money to his subordinates, and not wanting silver.

"Where to find Shangguan like this, we are really lucky. If Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's bosses could be so bright and even, it is estimated that they would not be warlords, alas. Thinking about it, Zhang Mingzhen's eyes were a little moist.

After they hurriedly wiped their eyes secretly, they remembered something, and while returning the paperwork, they asked for instructions:

"My lord, at the end of the document you sent to Elder Yang Ge and Governor Fang, you also reported the effect of the Jiangkou Pass after the opening of the levy in the middle of the month, and said that you would send the first batch of silver. The last general pondered for a moment, is this to ask Elder Yang Ge or Governor Fang for reinforcements? ”

It turned out that there was still a lot of content in Shen Shuren's letter, and when he rushed here for reinforcements, Zheng Chenggong had just received three or five days of gold.

However, counting the Shen Shuren's march dispatch and holding each other so far, it has been six or seven days before and after, and it always adds up to more than ten days. And Shen Shuren counted the time of his messenger's transit, and directly made some false accounts, and sent all the income of the first half month of the levy.

According to the five or six fleets that go south to Jiangxi and Nanzhili every day, and the same number of fleets go north against the current, Zheng Cheng of each fleet collects tens of taels to more than 100 taels of gold.

The provincial boundary waterways between Huangzhou and Jiangxi and Nanzhili, the total income of half a month is estimated to be more than 10,000 taels, and there can be more than 200,000 taels a year——

This figure is also in line with expectations, because Shen Tingyang originally calculated the account for Chongzhen, and he thought that the three southern provinces would receive about two or three million taels a year for the staggered pilot. In Huguang, Nanzhili, and Fujian, one province with a small number can collect 500,000 yuan, and a province with more than one million can collect nearly one million.

Huguang is considered a mediocre here, there must be seven or eight hundred thousand a year, and what Shen Shuren has in his hands is only the tax customs adjacent to Huguang and Jiangxi and Nanzhili, as well as the tax customs in Henan, Sichuan, Liangguang and other places are in the hands of people from other prefectures and salt laws, so the silver handled by Shen Shuren is equivalent to slightly more than one-third of the gold in Huguang Province.

Zhang Mingzhen and the others are not young children who have no experience in officialdom, they know that as soon as the military master receives the silver, he is in a hurry to report the results and send the silver in full, so he must be asking for reinforcements.

Shen Shuren didn't hide it from his own people, and directly said the layout he thought about last night: "You guessed right, this official thinks that after the defeat and retreat at the beginning of yesterday, Erhe should not immediately launch another offensive."

The enemy we saw yesterday was indeed only 20,000 or 30,000 people, which did not match the strength of Erhe that we had learned from the previous military situation, and if the two of them were all dispatched, the total strength of 50,000 or 60,000 people would be able to make up, even if they didn't come all, there would definitely be reinforcements from the rear army in the future.

Thinkers

They knew that our army was sharp and could not be taken by attacking the heart, so they would slowly wait for the rear army, and build the attacking equipment, and even prepare more formation houses, thick wooden shields, shield carts, etc., and it was possible to prepare for three to five days.

Our army can transport a batch of Hongyi cannons today, I asked Zheng Xiandi's family before, I have a total of ten, two of them are left at Zheng Xiandi's place to guard the Jiangfang checkpoint, I will take two of them away, and the remaining six will be left in your camp.

Zuo Zixiong, after I leave, you will coordinate the whole army. Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue were each responsible for the defense of the left and right camps, and each of them was divided into three Hongyi cannons, each of which strictly guarded the left and right sides of the camp gate.

If the follow-up enemy offensive is very strong, it is necessary to retreat to the county seat and deploy defenses, be sure to ensure that all the Hongyi cannons are transported back to the ship in advance, and take the Lishui waterway back to Xiaogan County. The thief is from? It is coming from the water, so there are no big ships, and it is absolutely impossible for the big ships of our army to be intercepted on the water. ”

The generals were encouraged by yesterday's small victory, and now they are very confident, listening to Shen Shuren's arrangement so clearly, they all said that they must hold on for a period of time, and first completely consume the thief's sharpness!

Among the people, only Yan Yingyuan was a civil official, relatively careful, he heard Shen Shuren say "I want to take away two cannons", and hurriedly asked to confirm:

"My lord, are you going to go to Gangneung in person to find Governor Fang for help? To go to Jiangling, even if you take the Han River and the Xia River, it will take more than 500 miles, and it will take four days to get there even if you travel day and night.

If you go to the Yangtze River, you will go farther, you have to go south through Wuchang and Yueyang, more than 800 miles. In this way, do adults need us to stick to it alone for at least half a month? ”

Shen Shuren nodded: "I believe in you, I am a civilian official after all, I have also explained the points that should be paid attention to in these tough battles, and the first battle has also been won, and now the morale is available, and you can handle the follow-up daily military affairs yourself."

Although I don't know if Governor Fang and Yang Ge Lao have any difficulties, but this time Erhe can go all out to deal with me Huangzhou, and he is not worried about other officers and soldiers 'encircling Wei to save Zhao', I always have a bad premonition in my heart, I am afraid that there will be some enemies in other directions who will rise and contain our friendly forces?

In this case, casually send a little minion to send a letter for help, others may not be willing, only I personally go out, and the face may be enough. ”

The general listened to his analysis and immediately expressed their support. Guarding the city on a daily basis here was originally the duty of these warriors.

"Don't worry, Lord Bingbei, go and ask for help, we must guard here, with the Hongyi cannon, even if Erga's strength is doubled, we are not afraid!" Led by Zuo Zixiong, everyone expressed their determination.