"Dilemma?"

"So, Prince Yu really suffered a defeat in Huai'an Mansion?"

"How is that possible? Prince Yu has two white flags and more than 30,000 Manchurian elites under the command of the blue flag, plus almost the same amount of coatings, which is also worthy of a battle, not to mention that there are twenty red-coated cannons! ”

Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou all felt hard to believe.

Huai'an Mansion is not the Western Liaoning Corridor, and Shanyang City is not Ningyuan City.

The Xiangyong of the Ming Dynasty was not the Liao army, how could it be possible to defeat the army of Prince Yu?

"See for yourselves." Dolgon was too lazy to say, and handed the secret letter to me directly.

After reading the secret letter, the three hardcore traitors finally believed it, and Nuan Ge immediately fell into a long silence.

Obviously, whether it is Dolgon, Ning Wanme, Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou, it will take some time to digest this shocking and even shocking news.

Ning Wan and the three of us were really shocked.

They didn't expect at all that Duoduo not only suffered a defeat under Shanyang City, but also suffered a fiasco!

Duoduo actually buried nearly 10,000 troops under Shanyang City, of which the Eight Banners of Manchuria alone were severely damaged by nineteen Niu Lu, although most of them Niu Lu was not compiled, but there were nearly 4,000 Qi Ding in total!

[Note: Most of these cattle records lost in Shanyang have been damaged in the Battle of Xuzhou]

In the first battle, nearly 4,000 bannermen were buried, and if such a fiasco came again, the Manchurians would directly have no Ding to recruit, let alone retreat outside the pass, and it would not be possible to retreat to Hetuala.

Seriously, they were really shocked.

Although the two white flags also suffered a lot of losses, they were basically a few cattle records from the yellow flags last year, so the loss of the two white flags, especially the white flags, was not large.

The inlaid white flag is the legacy left by the old slave to Duoduo, and it is the real elite, stronger than the inlaid yellow flag.

But even so, more than 4,000 bannermen were buried in one battle, which can definitely be regarded as a nerve-wracking.

Such a result was completely unexpected.

……

At this time, in the city of Shanyang, Huai'an Prefecture.

"Your Excellency!" Wu Erdan rushed all the way into the county government and shouted, "Retreat, Jiannu really retreated, the Jiannu army has retreated through Sanyi Town, and will soon arrive in Taoyuan County!" ”

Two days ago, the army of Jiannu suddenly retreated.

Yan Yingyuan and Fan Zhongjie were worried that there would be fraud, but they still insisted on it.

Until yesterday, Yan Yingyuan sent a small group of villagers to go out to spy on them.

Today, Xiang Yong's spying range has increased to more than 100 miles.

This will receive a report that Jiannu has passed Sanyi Town, Yan Yingyuan, Fan Zhongjie and Zhi Tingzhi are finally relieved, this time Jiannu is really retreating, and it is absolutely impossible to kill another one.

Because this time, Jiannu dragged away the cumbersome Hongyi cannons.

"Fuzun! Virtuous brother! Zhi Tingzhi was so excited that his voice was out of tune, "Jiannu really retreated!" ”

Zhi Tingji's excitement is also understandable, the time is rewind two months, when the Jiannu army just came to Shanyang City, Zhi Tingjian didn't dare to think that there would be today's result.

In contrast, Fan Zhongjie is relatively calm.

"Well, Jiannu really retired, and we finally lived up to our mission."

After speaking, Fan Zhongjie raised his legs and walked out, but he fell on the flat ground.

Obviously, Fan Zhongjie's heart is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

In fact, Fan Zhongjie's heart cannot be without waves, because this time he withstood Duoduo's army of 60,000 or 70,000, held the city of Huai'an, and defended the northern barrier of the Ming Dynasty, which is definitely a great achievement.

If nothing else, he will soon move to Nanjing to become an official.

Moreover, this time he moved to Nanjing, and it was absolutely impossible to give him only a four-rank Beijing official.

With the heavy merit of guarding Huai'an, a hall official with three grades can't run away, and the only suspense is which ministry to go to be a waiter or which temple to be a seal official.

This step out means that it has truly entered the power center of the Ming Dynasty, who can really be calm?

Yan Yingyuan's face really didn't have much joy, and his mood was a little inexplicably heavy, because Zhi Tingji and Fan Zhongjie first thought of the great merit of guarding Huai'an, and Yan Yingyuan thought of the village warrior who sacrificed to defend Huai'an.

The county seat of Shanyang did hold on.

Huai'an Mansion did hold on.

However, in order to defend Huai'an Mansion, more than 5,000 villagers sacrificed their lives, and more than 3,000 villagers were disabled, and they could not return to their original appearance in this life.

The township Yong of Shanyang County had 30,000 people when he was recruited.

After Yan Yingyuan's training, there were only 20,000 left.

So far, there are only 12,000 people left.

Yan Yingyuan's heart felt inexplicably heavy at the thought of facing more than 8,000 families who had lost their breadwinners since then, thousands of widows, and more than 10,000 orphans who were waiting to be fed.

Before defending the city, he had promised Xiang Yong that if he died for the Ming Dynasty, not only would he have a pension of fifty taels of silver, but each family could also get ten acres of land, but could he really honor it?

That's more than 8,000 people, what a huge expense.

Thinking of this, Yan Yingyuan's mood became heavier and heavier, and he frowned.

……

At the same time, another Tang newspaper was delivered to Nanjing in an expedited manner of 200 miles.

Liu Shizhen, the general political envoy, read the Tang Bao and hurriedly brought the Tang Bao to the cabinet in person.

Shi Kefa had a cursory look at the Tang newspaper, and hurriedly summoned Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and Xie Xuelong to his duty room to discuss the follow-up defense adjustments and rewards.

After reading the Tang newspaper, there was no sound in the room for a long time.

Dolgon: They need to digest this shocking news, and the four ministers of Scofa's cabinet also need time to digest this shocking news.

The Tang newspaper sent by the Huai'an government last time only stated the results of Jiannu's withdrawal from the army, and there were no details.

But this time, the Tang newspaper not only stated the detailed process of Jiannu's killing and being repulsed, but also attached a large number of details and data.

For example, more than 5,000 villagers were killed in this battle, and more than 3,000 were disabled.

For example, consumption, a total of 500,000 silver was lost in various equipment and materials in this campaign.

For example, the damaged fields and houses, the entire Shanyang West City has been burned, thousands of hectares of fertile land outside the city have been seriously damaged, and the city wall of the East City of Shanyang has also been seriously damaged.

However, what shocked the four elders the most was the results.

Although they have not yet sent the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to verify it, the four pavilion elders think that even if Fan Zhongjie and Yan Yingyuan exaggerate the number of enemies killed, they will definitely not be fabricated out of thin air.

In other words, the number is still largely credible.

Even halving it would be an unprecedented victory.

Because after the battle, when the villagers of Shanyang City cleaned up the battlefields, they cleaned up nearly 5,000 corpses of Jiannu, and more than 4,000 corpses were fished out from under the ice of the canal.

In other words, the Battle of Shanyang killed a total of nearly 10,000 Jiannu!

Nearly 10,000 slaves! Nearly 10,000 people! Shi Kefa's hand holding Tang Bao was shaking, too excited.

After a long time, Gao Hongtu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Okay, my Ming Dynasty finally won an unprecedented victory, I believe that after this battle, the nest of the nearly fifty years accumulated in the face of Jiannu can be swept away, and if Jiannu wants to invade the south again, he has to weigh whether he can afford another fiasco." ”

After Gao Hongtu broke the silence, the thoughts of Shi Kefa and the three of them also returned to reality.

Shi Kefa said excitedly: "This Northern Expedition is promising, and the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty is promising." ”

Is the Northern Expedition promising? Xie Xuelong raised his head and glanced at Shi Kefa, and said in his heart that this is a true scholar's opinion, defending the city and fighting a victory, so he dares to call for the Northern Expedition? I'm afraid you haven't learned the power of Jiannu's field warfare.

Xie Xuelong's mentality is also the general mentality of Jiangnan Jingentry.

Conservative places, Jiangnan gentry are still willing to do their best.

But forget about the Northern Expedition, they will never make a contribution.

Is it necessary to fight a war to kill people, but to die a lot of people, and to spend a lot of money? Just take the Yellow River as the boundary, negotiate peace with Jiannu and then live your own peaceful life?

However, Xie Xuelong didn't say this, and he didn't want to sweep away Shi Kefa's interest.

Xie Xuelong said: "This time to be able to hold Shanyang, Huai'an prefect Fan Zhongjie and Shanyang County Lingzhi Ting have made great contributions, especially Fan Zhongjie, who did not hesitate to use his body as a bait to carry out a plan to die, if it were not for Gongsheng to take the risk of replacing him, at this time Fan Zhongjie had already sacrificed his life for the Ming Dynasty, and such loyal and virtuous ministers should be reused." ”

As for Mao Xiang and Yan Yingyuan, they were directly ignored by Xie Xuelong.

The reason is also very simple, these two people are scholars from the Shizi camp.

The scholars of the Shizi Battalion are holy people and belong to the camp of the Imperial Party.

The people in the imperial party did not belong to the civilian clique, so they did not care.

This can be regarded as a tacit understanding between Chongzhen and the civilian clique, Chongzhen basically does not interfere in the specific government affairs of the six cabinet departments, and the six cabinet departments also do not care about the imperial party, the internal affairs government and the scholar camp.

Therefore, Xie Xuelong only proposed to promote and reuse Fan Zhongjie and Zhi Tingjiao.

"The servant seconded the proposal." Jiang Yueguang thought so, "Fan Zhi and the two should be reused. ”

Shi Kefa said: "In this case, we will discuss a general opinion first, and then push it." ”

Gao Hongtu said: "In my opinion, just let Fan Zhongjie go to the Ministry of Officials, and move to the left of the Ministry of Officials, as for Meng Zhaoxiang, it is time to move to the left of the Great Uncle." ”

Shi Kefa's brows furrowed slightly.

Because Gao Hongtu is less and less concerned about him, the first assistant, even the appointment and dismissal of officials like Zuo Shilang in the Ministry of Officials is all up to you? What else do you want me to do?

When the first assistant gets to this point, he is really aggrieved.

But Shi Kefa must admit that Gao Hongtu's proposal is not selfish and very appropriate.

First of all, Fan Zhongjie can also be regarded as a member of the Donglin Party, because his mentor Dong Qichang is a member of the Donglin Party.

The Ming Dynasty paid great attention to the inheritance of teachers, and it is not to say that one day is a teacher and a father for life, whether it is a teacher, a teacher or a teacher, for the civil official group, it is necessary to spend a lifetime to honor and repay the favor.