"Your Majesty, great joy...... Uh, Your Majesty, the minister said that the front line of Shanhaiguan finally sent back some surprises today...... Good news. ”

After thinking about how to shirk the last part of the blame for the defeat of Songjin and understanding Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong's military exploits, Chen Xinjia, an old fritter in officialdom who reports good news but not bad news, of course, entered the palace overnight to ask for a meeting and wanted to share it with Chongzhen.

When the bad news of the fiasco came back the day before yesterday, I didn't see him so active, and he had to "verify and confirm first" for a day and a half before reporting it. And the treatment of good news is completely different.

Maybe it was because he was too excited, Rao was already thinking about what to say before he met him, but when it came to the end, he almost couldn't hold back, and almost pouted several times.

In the end, it can be regarded as forcibly holding back the "great joy", changing the words to "unexpected joy", and then changing the words to "unexpected good news".

There is no way, the miserable and tragic main tone of Songjin's defeat is there.

It was obviously a big defeat and retreat, could it be that if the retreat was relatively orderly, a little more troops were saved, and a small group of enemies who rushed into pursuit were killed, how could it be regarded as a joy?

Chongzhen was already a little nervous, and he was irritable when he heard Chen Xinjia appear in the past few days, just like a poor parent who went to a parent-teacher conference, and every time he got the report card, he couldn't help but be frightened for a few seconds.

Faced with Chen Xinjia's babbling appearance, Chongzhen was of course angry: "If you have something to say, what is the news!" ”

Chen Xinjia replied with a straight face: "Back to Your Majesty, I got a report just this afternoon, the battle of Tower and Xing finally saved some defeats for the Battle of Songjin, and then rescued some soldiers and horses, and annihilated the pursuing enemy." ”

Chen Xinjia had an idea and temporarily created a special phrase "Taxing Battle", which seemed to separate the battle between Tashan and Xingshan from the Battle of Songjin, so that it could be a new victorious battle on its own.

It was the previous battle that was lost! But the latter battle has recovered a little!

Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, and the hint expectations of the psychological account also changed, as if he felt that "the Songjin War has indeed been concluded, the loss of the Songjin War is already a sunk cost, and the follow-up reversals are all newly earned", and the feeling is different all of a sudden.

Chen Xinjia is good at observing words and colors, and looking at the emperor's expression, he knew that this time he was temporarily confused, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and detailed the results of the battle:

"Your Majesty, the details are as follows: Last month, Shen Tingyang, a chamberlain of the household department of Nanjing, played a performance, saying that it had reached the third year of the sea because of the Cao Yun reform, and that it had carried Liaodong military rations, so that it was gradually coveted by the Japanese pirates, Tartar pirates, and sailors.

Zhou Ge Lao held a meeting at that time and allowed the establishment of four battalions of sea route protection according to the example of the former governor of Caoyun, temporarily led by Zhang Mingzhen, who had served as Ningshao Haiphong and Huang Sui guerrillas, and Zheng Chenggong, who had been promoted by sea, was responsible for the coordination.

I don't want Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong to transport grain to Shanhaiguan this time, when they returned, they suddenly encountered wind and waves, and had to change the channel, stick to the shore and detour, and gradually approached the coast of Tashan.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong didn't have time to ask for instructions, and they landed on their own to recapture the Beacon Mountain Water Village occupied by Jiannu, and responded to the two people. In the end, he won three battles in a row in Tower Hill, Beacon Hill, and the nearby sea!

Annihilated a Jiala of Jiannu in Tashan and killed Erqiu, a counselor under the command of Azig, and annihilated a Jiala of Jiannu in Bijia Mountain, killing Yonggui, a leader under the command of Azig.

In the Beacon Hill blockade, he repelled the attacks of Azig, Abatai and Zilharang several times, killing more than 1,000 enemies and wounding the enemy.

And broke the Jiannu Naval Division led by the traitor General Kong Youde, and attacked the Jiannu Naval Division on Beacon Mountain in a roundabout way, killing thousands of enemies and capturing thousands of enemies, destroying the Jiannu Han Army Banner and Red Flag, and capturing dozens of warships.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong held on to Beacon Mountain for four days and three nights, won five battles and five victories, killed and injured more than 5,000 Jiannu Zhentars, and beheaded more than 2,300 people. Wounded one of Meler's Ezhen, killed two of the staff leaders, and killed and wounded eleven of the assistant leaders.

More than 10,000 Han and Mongolian traitors were killed, more than 2,000 people were beheaded, more than 2,000 people were taken prisoner, one Han army flag leader was killed, and one person was injured. It was only because most of the results achieved by repelling Kong Youdebu in naval battles that the enemy ships at sea sank and were difficult to behead.

In addition, more than 5,000 people from Li Fuming's department and nearly 10,000 people from Cao Bianjiao's department were rescued, all of which have been escorted back to Shanhaiguan by sea! ”

Chen Xinjia was full of emotion, his tone was passionate, and he spoke in a neutral manner.

If it weren't for the main force of the 130,000 Ming Army in the Songjin War, in the end, except for the small 20,000 people who came back, the 110,000 would have died or surrendered. Then this victory is really worthy of the celebration of the whole country.

Moreover, Chen Xinjia obviously made false accounts again, if Zheng Chenggong or Li Fuming were present and listened to his whitewashed data, they would definitely be dumbfounded-

In the figures just reported, Chen Xinjia didn't dare to fake the number of kills and injuries of the Jiannu True Tartar, because the Tartars were all killed in land battles, and they were still guarding the water village, and most of the heads could be cut off.

But for the results of killing the traitors and traitors, Chen Xinjia has already poured several percent of the water into the numbers reported back from the front, in order to look better.

As for the number of Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming's troops who were rescued, they were even more crazy - Zheng Chenggong sent back to the old department of Cao Li's second general, and the first batch was only 5,000 people.

After several days of fierce fighting, a new batch of wounded were produced, and Zheng Chenggong sent another 1,000 people, plus the 30 Korean warships that could not cross the sea, and these 1,000 people drove the ship back, and there was no need to return home.

Therefore, Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming only recovered 6,000 old troops, plus 30 relatively strong warships.

The rest of Zheng Chenggong said that he had fought bloody battles with Tartar and Kong Youde and lost them, and the two of them didn't doubt it. Or even if they are a little suspicious, but thinking of Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong's life-saving grace of risking their lives to help, they don't care.

Without reinforcements, they wouldn't have been able to bring back 6,000 men.

However, when Cao and Li reported to the top, they added a little bit of an add-on, and they felt that it sounded too miserable to only a few thousand people who had escaped back, so they reported according to the "11,000 people who broke through", which directly doubled, and finally reached five figures.

And the reason why Cao Li dared to make a false report is also obvious - the army of the Ming Dynasty has been eating empty salaries for almost 200 years, can the emperor and the military department still be able to actually verify it? Even if it is a number, more people can only get more if they continue to receive military salaries in the coming year.

It's just that after Cao Li made a false report, he made another false report when he came to Chen Xinjia, and when he told Chongzhen, 11,000 people became more than 15,000.

Anyway, I eat empty salaries layer by layer, and I don't have to worry about lice if I have a lot of debts.

This official army in the whole world, it is estimated that the troops of top wealthy businessmen such as Shen Shuren and Zheng Zhilong have not eaten empty salaries.

They wish that the imperial court would give more recruitment quotas, and that they would fill as many people as they wanted, and there was no problem that the military salary could be raised by themselves.

Chongzhen listened to Chen Xinjia's detailed account, and his face finally gradually returned to blood.

What a blessing in misfortune!

"Good! Good! Good! I still have loyal and brave people in the Ming Dynasty, and I can take the initiative to rescue friendly troops and fight slaves because of fate! It can be said that he sacrificed his life to go to the country, and he looked at death as if he were going home! How can such a loyal and righteous person not be rewarded! Chen Qing, how should this matter be handled? Does the Ministry of War have a draft reward? ”

Chen Xinjia breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Based on my Ming military law system, the staff department has assessed that in the past, those who had deputy generals and staff generals who fought to kill Jiannu and annihilate their subordinates could be promoted to general soldiers as appropriate.

It's just that this Zhang Mingzhen was originally promoted to deputy general, which was already a temporary exception, just because of the lack of officers in the various battalions of Caocao, and he was temporarily replaced, and now if he is being promoted, he is ......"

Chongzhen didn't think about it, and directly clapped the decision: "Such a loyal and brave general, of course he should be promoted to the general army!" There is no need to be suspicious, just take Zhang Mingzhen as the chief soldier of Cao, and lead the battalions of my Ming Caoshui Division! ”

The rewards and punishments of the Ming Dynasty's military merits are still very orderly, and it is not too much to kill a Jiannu Jiala, kill its leaders, and promote the general army.

Don't look at the fact that a staff leader only receives 1,500 real Tatar soldiers, but there are a total of 40 Jiala in the Manchurian Eight Banners, and there are 40 staff leaders.

If Da Ming can produce the official position of forty general soldiers, he will kill the entire army of Jiannu, I am afraid that Chongzhen will wake up with a smile in his dreams, this deal is too cost-effective.

So with a stroke of the pen, not only Zhang Mingzhen was promoted to the general army, but also the middle-level officers under his command who had previously been in charge of the garrison positions of various battalions were also promoted again.

For example, Shen Lian, who was originally just a family member by Shen Shuren's side two years ago, was already one of the three garrisons under Zhang Mingzhen this time, and after this battle, he was directly promoted to guerrilla and could command two battalions.

In the middle, he also skipped the level of "Du Si" and directly skipped to be promoted.

It only took two years from the family to the guerrilla, which will naturally make these family members more and more loyal to the young master, and this army of the Ming Dynasty is actually Shen Shuren's private soldiers.

And after being promoted, a more significant benefit is that the Shen family can justifiably expand the scale of the "Protector" force.

In the Ming system, the governor of Caoyun has always been able to have six battalions of Cao soldiers, and the full establishment is more than 20,000 people.

At the beginning of Shen Shuren's crossing, when the governor of Caoyun was still Zhu Dadian, these establishments were already occupied. Later, at the end of last year, after the governor of Caoyun was changed to Shi Kefa, he also occupied this establishment.

The Shen family originally relied on the help of Zhou Yanru, but only set up three dissatisfied battalions, but in fact there were only 5,000 soldiers on the books, all of which were drawn from the Shen family's family and the Huangzhou army.

Of the 10,000 people dispatched this time, in fact, 5,000 were Shen family's seafarers, who were not considered soldiers in law, and the imperial court did not have to pay military salaries, and the wages were all paid by the Shen family.

Zhou Yanru didn't want to help the Shen family fight for more, but there was resistance in the court, and the finances were unbearable, and the opposition had good reasons:

Didn't the imperial court say that it would take five years to completely realize the transformation of Cao Yun into the sea? It's only our third year! Today, sea transport theoretically accounts for only 60% of the capacity, and 40% needs to be transported by land through the canal.

Therefore, of course, the shipping side is not fully equipped with six escort battalions, and it would be good to give three. Shi Kefa still has to leave three battalions and money and food on his side, after all, the thieves and bandits along the canal still have to continue to suppress.

Now that this battle is over, it can be regarded as helping the Shen family's naval establishment to complete the two-year road ahead of schedule, and directly grow into a complete body in one step.

And the source of troops needed to expand the army actually doesn't have to worry about the imperial court - Zhang Mingzhen got back more than 10,000 soldiers from Cao Bianjiao's department to break through the siege, and Li Fuming's department actually had 7,000 people.

In addition, in the following days, more than 4,000 people from Hong Chengchou's department who fled sporadically, and more than 1,000 prisoners of war from Kong Youde's Dongjiang River who were captured, a total of more than 23,000 veterans of the Han border army.

Of the 6,000 people who had to be cut out and returned to Cao and Li, there were about 17,000 left, and another 1,500 Korean soldiers surrendered in formation.

In addition, in the past few days of the camp battle, hundreds of Zhang Mingzhen's men and horses were killed and thousands were injured (when the initial attack on the Beacon Mountain Fortress, the dead and wounded were the elite of the Shen family's army, but in the next few days of defending the camp, the Shen family's army died very little, because they all let Li Fuming Cao Bianjiao's soldiers carry the line and suffer damage in close combat, and the Shen family's army mainly hides in the fortifications and outputs it remotely), as well as Zheng Chenggong's losses in naval battles.

All the additions and subtractions offset each other, and in the end, the actual net increase of the Shen family army was 17,000 people.

When he set out, he had 5,000 soldiers and 5,000 sailors, and when he returned, he had 22,000 soldiers and 5,000 sailors.

The 22,000 soldiers nominally just filled the six battalions of the Protector Army, which matched the name and reality. Shen Tingyang turned around and justifiably obeyed the centijin received by Nan Zhili this year, and fully drew out the military salaries of 22,000 soldiers and distributed them to these troops.

In this way, the Shen family's private property can no longer be used to support the army, and the daily basic expenses can be borne by the local commercial tax, which not only ensures the army's determination and morale to defend the place, but also does not make the Shen family burdened, and the Shen family only needs to bear the temporary rewards and incentives in the future at most.

Chongzhen was in a good mood, and after roughly finalizing the reward for the generals, he looked at the list that Chen Xinjia had just listed, and suddenly thought of a question: "Why didn't Zheng Chenggong get a reward?" There is also Shen Tingyang, who originally made a decision to recommend protection, which is the biggest decision. ”

Chen Xinjia hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you forgot, this Zheng Chenggong is a civil official, and the promotion should also be under the management of the Ministry of Officials, and the Department of the Ministry of Military Affairs is only in charge of military generals." As for Shen Shilang, naturally he is not under the control of the Ministry of War. ”

Chongzhen patted his head, realizing that he was dizzy, and hurriedly ordered the eunuchs around him: "Pass on Zhou Yanru!" ”

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