After talking about the silver, the rest of the spoils became very harmonious, and everything could basically be led by the Shen Shuren.

This battle is very beautiful, but strictly speaking, he is also a "financing entrepreneur". After a big victory, it is also necessary to share the benefits of profits for "investors".

There are so many allies he pulls, and each of them has to maintain a good relationship. So that the next time something happens, others will come back to help you.

Of the more than 20,000 prisoners of war, in the end, Shen Shuren did not choose to swallow them all personally, but divided 5,000 people to Liu Guoneng - which is equivalent to doubling the number of casualties on Liu Guoneng's side and returning them to Liu Guoneng.

Before the war, all the troops of Liu Guoneng's department were about 15,000, but now they have lost one or two thousand, and returned 5,000, and after the battle, the total strength has increased to 18,000.

Shen Shuren also allocated the most difficult Shaanxi people in the army to Liu Guoneng to ensure that both sides had their own place and security.

He also promised that in the future, if he cracked down on the thieves, and if he caught the old thieves in Shaanxi, he would hand them over to Liu Guoneng to transform them first. But in exchange, Liu Guoneng will also have to help him fight some tough battles and resist damage in front within the scope of his authority in the future.

In this way, not only can those proud veterans who have been thieves for more than ten years be fully utilized, but they will not be backfired. At the same time, the most tragic tough battles were handed over to them to fight, and they were consumed from time to time, and Liu Guoneng would not sit on the new Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

On the other side, when Shen Shuren asked for help, the governor of Q Fang pulled 2,000 people, and promised to return all of them after the battle, and send another 2,000 people back to garrison Jiangling.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren decided to take 2,000 descendants to temporarily top the top, and after a while, the prisoners here will be almost reorganized and transformed, and after a little training, they will use the 2,000 captives to exchange the descendants for the troops.

In the end, the battle of the Shenshu people was fought one after another, and their own losses were also thousands. So after all the deductions, his total strength actually increased by about 12,000 people - from 8,000 before the war to 20,000 people.

Of course, in the counties of Suizhou that surrendered before, such as Suizhou and Anlu, there were also one or two thousand thief troops who surrendered, counting those who were successively recruited, and in the end, the total strength of the Shenshu people could be twenty-three or four thousand.

After the troop strength was suddenly expanded to nearly three times that of the pre-war period, it will definitely take a considerable period of time to train the troops, rectify discipline, boost morale, and support ideological education.

Even in the modern armed forces of the 20 th century, when mobilized in wartime, they generally dared to expand the number of reservists according to the three-three system.

That is, the regular army of one battalion in peacetime, in wartime mobilization and expansion into one regiment, and two reserve recruit battalions. This is historically proven, as was the case with the massive military build-up during World War II. No matter how much you say, you will definitely be greedy and chew too much, and even cause the troops to shake and mutiny.

From this point of view, Shen Shuren's distribution of the indigestible surplus prisoners of war to his allies and help him digest them together is definitely not a loss, but it is beneficial to him.

Anyway, this time he made such a bold move, next time Fang Kongzhi Liu Guoneng will come to help, why do you have to put it in your pocket.

What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine.

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It took seven or eight days for Shen Shuren to share the spoils with Liu Guoneng at Pingjing Pass, deal with the reorganization of prisoners, and sort the weapons and equipment seized.

The disposal involving tens of thousands of people has never been a trivial matter. A person who is negligent in supervision and education is not lawful, may cause thousands of bandits and bandits to emerge in the future.

Not to mention far away, just say that after He Yilong was killed before, the thousands of people who escaped over the mountains or hid in the forest were not handled well, which was a huge disaster.

The troops of the Sinking Tree People are stationed for one more day, so that those thieves who hide in the mountains and watch can see a little less hope, and they can transform one more person.

Many people who choose to flee do not necessarily want to continue to fight with the official army as thieves, but simply because they are afraid of death, and they want to be ordinary people incognito from now on and go back to farming.

And for the kind of former thief soldiers who were frightened by the bloody battle, Shen Shuren would not blindly rush.

So since five days after the end of the fighting, he had people announce that the search for deserters was temporarily over. After that, in the vicinity of the battlefield in this Tongbai Mountain Area, if it is found that there are scattered people and no identity and household registration, the government must allow them to re-register their household registration, but they must be incorporated into the military tun where the government holds land.

This is tantamount to turning a blind eye and giving those who fled because they were afraid of becoming soldiers a way out, as long as they farm well in the future and pay high taxes according to the standards of the military camp to atone for their crimes, the government will pretend not to know anything and will not blame the past.

After finishing these compilation work, Shen Shuren's reporting documents were almost finished.

The results of the battle were counted clearly, and the distribution was carefully considered to ensure that those who came to help had meat to eat and soup to drink.

After writing it, Shen Shuren also invited Liu Guoneng to consult with him.

Liu Guoneng has been Zhao'an for four years, and now he can recognize a few words, but he still can't understand Wen Crepe's report and turns, so Shen Shuren personally explained it again in oral language.

After learning that Shen Shuren was very fair and did not have the credit of any of the black parties, he was also very satisfied, and he sincerely invited Shen Shuren to drink a big meal.

said that everything to deal with the court in the future will be up to Shen Daotai, but he doesn't ask, he believes in Shen Daotai's character, and he will not lose anyone who contributes.

Shen Shuren sealed the report documents, and asked people to take the Hanshui waterway to send it to Yang Ge Lao first, and then write a private letter with the same content, and go to Fang Kongzhi to say hello and prepare a eucalyptus.

As for the final summary report, it was sent to the emperor by Yang Sichang, and it also seemed that Shen Shuren would be a man and would not report to the higher levels.

And in doing so, there is another layer of deep meaning - Shen Shuren can count on relying on this great victory to turn out Zuo Liangyu's previous sin of "seeing death and not saving" and say it.

If he played directly to the emperor, he would inevitably be suspected of framing his colleagues. After arriving in the capital, Shen Shuren didn't have many friends in Beijing to help him, so it would be bad if someone provoked more trouble.

When Yang Sichang came forward, it seemed that a bowl of water was flat, praising Liu Guoneng and degrading Zuo Liangyu were all from Yang Ge's old discernment, and it had nothing to do with Shen Shuren. Moreover, Yang Sichang's protégé in the capital will also help to speak and promote the implementation of Yang Gelao's meritorious opinions.

In officialdom, you must learn to borrow strength at all times, and if you can use other people's connections to help advance things, you can borrow as much as possible.

Estimated that with Yang Sichang's lifespan, in fact, he couldn't help Shen Shuren pass on a few good news.

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When Shen Shuren's good news arrived in Xiangyang, Yang Sichang was a little anxious.

It turned out that in the two months that Shen Shuren had lured Liu Guoneng and attacked together in the Tongbai Mountains, there had been more deterioration in other directions of the Huguang and Henan battlefields.

After all, the invasion of Huang Taiji in March allowed the Ming court to withdraw so many troops from the hinterland of the Central Plains to go to the border to fill in the pits and plug the mouths.

In the southern theater of Huguang, because Fang Kongzhi is still diligent, and Zuo Liangyu's tens of thousands of people (known as 100,000) are not able to work, even if they are idle, they are quite deterrent just in Wuchang. So the deterioration of the war situation is not obvious.

In the Northern Theater, in May, after learning that Liu Guoneng was transferred, Li Zicheng, who had been dormant in the Shangluo Mountains before, finally abandoned his previous suspicions with Luo Rucai, who was also not very successful last year, and decided to join forces again.

Li Zicheng carried out a large-scale strategic transfer in the Shangluo Mountains, crossing mountains and mountains in the midst of mountains and rivers, and running from the Danshui River Valley to the Luoshui River Valley.

Danshui and Luoshui are two rivers that originate in the Shangluo Mountains, both in the Wuguandao Mountains between the Guanzhong and Nanyang Basins.

However, Danshui is more southerly, on the south side of the main ridge of Funiu Mountain, it can flow out of Wuguan along the river, enter the Nanyang Basin, and finally join the Han River.

Luoshui is more northerly, on the north side of the main ridge of Funiu Mountain, and will eventually join Yinshui in the Luoyang Basin and flow into the Yellow River.

Li Zicheng's strategic transfer was not easy, and it is estimated that many people fell to death on the way, and he also gave up a lot of grain and grass baggage, so that he could come and go freely in the mountains of the Qinling Mountains.

But after the transfer was successful, he joined forces with Luo Rucai, and the effect was also very obvious - he could no longer be obsessed with Shundanshui out of Wuguan, and stumble with Yang Sichang in Yunyang and Xiangyang, but directly follow Luoshui and pounce on the Luoyang Basin.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Li Zicheng entered the mountains at the source of Luoshui, and on May 15, he broke through Luonan County in the mountainous area.

After that, it was unstoppable and unstoppable along the Luoshui River, and the army arrived in Lushi County on May 20, and only two days later it was forced to land and occupy the county seat. Five days later, they arrived in Yongning County (now Luoning) and broke through the city at the end of May.

In early June, Li Zicheng broke Yiyang and Xin'an counties again.

Among them, Yiyang County is the last county on the shore of Luoshui and located in the upper reaches of Luoyang.

And Xin'an County has bypassed Luoyang and stuck the three passes of Funiu Mountain on the south side of the famous "Luoyang Eight Passes".

In other words, by this time, Li Zicheng had not only approached Luoyang, but also surrounded Luoyang from the south side, and prevented the official army from reinforcing Luoyang from the direction of the Nanyang Basin.

Yang Sichang in the Nanyang Basin, even if he wanted to send reinforcements, he had to first break through the three valley arteries on Funiu Mountain that had been blocked by Li Zicheng.

Otherwise, we will have to make a detour to the east and strive to support Luoyang from Kaifeng and Zhengzhou to Bishui Pass (Guhu Prison Pass).

In other words, the final stage of Shen Shuren's elimination of He Yilong on the Hubei-Henan border happened to be about the same time as Li Zicheng's fight out of the Luohe River valley and into the southern part of the Luoyang Basin.

If it weren't for the sturdiness of Luoyang City, Yang Sichang would have to worry that this ancient capital would not be quickly breached.

Now, he has finally received the good news from Shen Shuren's side, and Yang Sichang has finally seized a credit, at least to calm the emperor's possible anger.

Regardless of whether the cities in other regions are lost or not, whether the two thieves were completely wiped out here, or the kind where the leader was directly beheaded and sent to the Beijing Division, it is not the same as the gold content of the "Zhao'an forced landing" in previous years.

Therefore, Yang Sichang of course fully supported Shen Shuren's performance, but at the same time, he gave Liu Guoneng an order and replied to Shen Shuren, asking him to help persuade Liu Guoneng to return to the Henan battlefield as soon as possible.

The Henan battlefield is not without official and military defenses, but they are all local guards with civilian moderation, and their combat effectiveness is very worrying.

The civilian officials who presided over the defense mainly included Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and Wang Yinchang, a political officer in Luoyang. The generals under their command included Wang Shaoyu, the general soldier of Henan, and Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, deputy generals.

Yang Sichang knew that these people would never have Liu Guoneng's fierce fighting, so he must be reinforced by Liu Guoneng.