After all, Jiannu still failed to catch up with the Ming army.

Three days later, the Ming army successfully returned to Xia Town.

The first thing I did when I came back was to pay my work.

After reading the account book, Chongzhen inevitably had some flesh pain.

This wave alone will cost nearly 200,000 taels.

Among them, 23,000 taels are rewards, 24,000 taels are the salaries of Huang Shi'an Town, 90,000 taels are the salaries of the remaining nine towns, and there are more than 500 pensions for the fallen soldiers.

Each soldier who died in battle was paid a lump sum of 50 taels of silver.

It's a bit small, but it's not a good idea.

Who made the Ming Dynasty scarce now? You can only lower the standard.

Therefore, this silver is really not enough to spend, and this has already gone out 160,000 taels.

If you add the salaries of Yiding and the five military camps, you will have to pay an extra 30,000 taels.

Because the standard of Yiding and the five military camps is double, it adds up to 200,000 taels.

But the effect of sufficient food and pay is also leveraged, the morale of the Ming army has been significantly improved, and the victory of Ansan Town has given the Ming army a lot of fantasy space, and it turns out that Jiannu can also be defeated in the field?

After receiving the military order, the Ming army of the Ten Towns, together with more than 2,600 Ding of Qianyi Ding and Jin Xuan, gathered at the central Da Gongtai and waited for the pay.

The salary was supposed to be paid on the 15th of each month.

Because Chongzhen went out, it was delayed until the 21st.

This time, it was no longer a thousand Yiding at the top of the line.

It was the border soldiers of Huang Shi'an's town, which was specially arranged by Chongzhen.

I saw that more than 4,000 people were all with protruding chests and bellies, and they were so angry that they couldn't do it.

"Ma Laoqi, I heard that your kid killed a real slave?"

"Little meaning, if the spearhead hadn't been broken at that time, I could have stabbed the two to death."

"Leper dog, this time you are going to make a fortune, the war salary and reward, 56 taels of silver, you can buy a few acres of land and marry a daughter-in-law when you go home, you kid just wait to be a father."

"Marry a daughter-in-law? Who do you look down on? I'm going to marry both! ”

"Look at what you can, but you still want to marry like this? Are you busy at night? ”

"I don't have to worry about you, anyway, the widow of our village king is quite rare, and I am as strong as a calf."

The big-headed soldiers around laughed loudly, all of them were so happy, they all liked such meat jokes when they were soldiers, otherwise this day would not be too bitter and too difficult.

Under the envious gaze of everyone, the first outpost frontier army stood in front of the Xingyuan Gate.

Yang Lepi, who was the first in line, was about to raise his entire chin to the sky, and I have to say that this feeling of being in the spotlight is really cool, even cooler than lying on the widow Wang.

"Whose soldier was it?" As usual, a eunuch asked.

This time, Yang Lepin's skin is ripe: "When the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Whose food did you eat?" The eunuch asked again.

"Banzai Lord's food." Yang Lepi replied violently.

Yang's voice was full of pride and honor.

"Yang Leprosy, kill a real slave and reward 50 taels of silver, 6 taels of war salary, a total of 56 taels."

Chongzhen personally handed a silver ingot of 50 taels and two silver ingots to Yang Lepin.

"Villain Yang Leprosy, long live the reward!" Yang Lepi first knelt down and kowtowed three times, then stood up and was flattered to take the silver, put it in the pocket of his underwear and hide it carefully.

"Yang Lepi, who gave you this name?"

"My mother gave it up, saying that the name is cheap and easy to support."

"But now that you have grown up, you don't care about this, I will give you a big one, from now on you will change your name to Yang Ponu, I hope you can kill a few more Jiannu on the battlefield in the future."

"Long live the name, the villain Yang Ponu is long live the name!"

When he walked out, Yang Ponu was really red and proud.

Today, not only did he receive a huge sum of 56 taels of silver, but the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law has been settled.

And Long Live Lord also gave him the tuba of "Yang Ponu", which is a great grace!

Looking up and seeing the old acquaintance who teased him just now, Yang Ponu snorted coldly and said: "Old Niu, long live the Lord just gave me a tuba, and in the future, I will be called Yang Ponu, don't bark like a leper dog and a leper dog again." ”

The soldier nicknamed Lao Niu was immediately stunned there, long live the name? Really?

However, the payment stopped halfway through, because there were scattered warnings at night.

First, three trumpets sounded in a row, and then the sound of the swan sounded through the barracks, and the border troops who were waiting in line to receive the salary did not hesitate to rush back to the Western Gun Station where the outpost was located.

The general soldiers and deputy general soldiers of each town were the first to come to Huang Degong's line.

More than a dozen general soldiers and deputy general soldiers entered the line one after another, and found that a screen had already been erected in the hall, but what was displayed on the screen was not a landscape painting, but a map of Xia Town.

"All here? Jing Nanbo, let's get started. ”

Chongzhen did not take the lead, but gave up the position of command to Huang Degong.

Huang Degong stepped forward and stood in front of the screen, and said: "Yiding's night is not collected and just sent to return with flying horses, a group of about 10,000 Jiannu has crossed the Nanliang River and is rapidly approaching Xia Town along the east bank of the canal, if nothing else, Jiannu will arrive in Xia Town after noon today." ”

"Time is pressing, so I won't say more."

"Return to your respective districts and get ready."

"My bottom line for you is that the first heavy platform must last more than an hour! The second platform must last more than two hours, and the third platform is four hours! The fourth is the bottom line! ”

"At most, I can only let Jiannu break through to the fourth round of the platform."

Here, Huang Degong has actually doubled Chongzhen's requirements.

Chongzhen's request was to hold on to the first line of defense for half an hour, and at most let Jiannu advance to the eighth layer.

Although a lot of work has been done and sufficient food and wages have been basically achieved, the Ming army's fear of Jiannu is not so easy to overcome, and Jiannu's combat effectiveness is indeed better than that of the Ming army.

So, don't have any unrealistic expectations for the Ming army.

This is not a skirmish, but a general battle of tens of thousands of people.

It's just that Chongzhen will not demolish Huang Gonggong in front of so many people.

patted the picture on the screen, Huang Degong said again: "If anyone can't do it, just come and see you!" I, Huang Degong, will also cut off my own head to ask the Holy God for my sin. ”

The chief soldier and deputy chief soldier present looked awe-inspiring.

They naturally heard that Huang Degong was not joking.

Huang Degong asked Chongzhen again: "Holy Lord, do you have anything else to say?" ”

"I'll just say one word." Chongzhen nodded and said, "We must strictly follow the map to evenly distribute the troops and firearms, and stipulate that one gun and 2 tiger squat cannons are 2." ”

"If you stipulate that there are 20 bird guns in one platform, you have to have 20 birds."

"It is absolutely not allowed to concentrate the bird guns and tiger squat cannons on the periphery of the platform, otherwise even if they are defended, I will never give you credit, and they will be severely punished!"

The general soldiers of the ten towns and the deputy general soldiers looked embarrassed.

Chongzhen originally wanted to equip each gun with 3 tiger squat cannons and 30 bird guns.

But in the end, Liu Zongzhou only brought him more than 8,000 bird guns and more than 600 tiger squat cannons, so Chongzhen could only weaken the firepower.

Fortunately, this wave is just a partial division of Jiannu, so it is not a big problem.

Huang Degong said: "Have you written down all the words of the saint?" Make a note of it and go back quickly. ”

The general soldiers and deputy general soldiers of the ten towns left one after another, and Huang Degong advised Chongzhen again: "Holy Lord, the battle of Xia Zhen is imminent, you should hurry up and leave here on the naval warship." ”

"I'm not leaving." Chongzhen refused without hesitation.

"In this battle, I have to watch you defeat Jiannu with my own eyes!"

Huang Degong was embarrassed: "Holy Lord, you can't show it in this minister." ”

"Then you're not here." Chongzhen said, "I won't interfere with your command. ”

After speaking, Chongzhen took Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, Yi Ding, and the eunuch out, and Huang Degong didn't care about the emperor, so he walked out with his relatives.

……

"Bang!"

With a dull sound of string vibrating, a three-edged heavy arrow with a length of more than three feet like a short spear had already broken out of the string with a violent tremor, and then turned into a vague shadow and shot at Yiding Ye fifty paces ahead.

Yi Ding Ye didn't accept it and sensed the danger, so he instinctively hid his body on the other side of the horse's neck and hid in the stirrups.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Yablan's mouth bloomed with a hideous smile, because he had predicted it this time.

It was too late to say that it was too late, and only a pop sound, and the three-edged heavy arrow that was enough to shoot through the iron armor had already pierced the horse's neck, and then it hit Yiding, who was hiding on the right side of the horse's neck.

The war horse neighed and fell to the ground, and Yiding fell from the horse at night without collecting it.

When Yabran chased after him, the other two horsemen Jiannu also outflanked him at night, only to see that Yiding, who had fallen off the horse, was shot through the heart, lying on the ground with only slight convulsions, and blood spilled from his mouth.

"It's really tough, but I've finally killed one."

Jabran turned over, dismounted, cut off the head of Yidin, and hung it in front of the saddle.

A Jiannu didn't accept it at night and asked, "There are two more in front, are you still chasing?" ”

"Don't chase it, there's no need." Yabran waved his hand and said, "Go back and report Gushan Ezhen." ”

At that moment, the three of them turned back to the north, and after walking less than five miles, they met Jiannu's brigade.

Bai Yintu brought all his partial divisions all the way, 9 Niu Lu (originally 10) with yellow flags, 8 and a half Niu Lu (originally 10) of the Han Army with the Yellow Banner, more than 3,000 clothed minions plus more than 2,400 troops from Gao Di, all adding up to more than 10,600 people, in fact, they didn't lose much troops.

However, the loss of equipment was still quite serious, with only 1,500 bird guns left, only 15 Franc cannons left, and a lot of long wooden cards, spears and waist knives were also lost.

"Found out that Yiding didn't collect it at night?" Bai Yintu smiled cruelly, "It seems that the Ming army is not far ahead." ”

After a pause, he said: "Pass the order, the whole army will speed up, we must catch up with this group of Ming troops before today's Shen Shi, and we must not let them run away again!" ”

Baiyintu's worries are completely unnecessary.

Because the Ming army didn't plan to run at all.

Towards the beginning of the Shen Dynasty, the Jiannu army finally reached the outskirts of Xia Town.