Cheng Yuan sat on the stone pier to clean up the bloodstains, looked at the captured southern army, and said to Zhu Gaochi and Xu: "There are not many soldiers in the elite, if you leave these prisoners behind, I am afraid that the grain and grass in Beiping Mansion will not be enough for a few months, and this problem should be solved immediately." ”

Zhu Gaochi thought about it for a long time, and Zhu Di once told him that at first, Jingjing needed a lot of soldiers, but after many wars, the soldiers were in the elite and not in the many.

"You can't kill them, but if you stay, Beiping City can't afford to raise them, so it's better for us to give them a full meal, let them go, and relax the determination of the court and the Yan army to fight to the death."

Qiu Fu and Zhu Quan nodded and praised: "Mr. Cheng's idea is good, now that King Yan is in Zhengcunba, more than 20 miles outside the city, the matter in the city will be decided by Mr. Shizi He." ”

Da Yuer looked at it appreciatively, but she didn't expect Cheng Yuan to still be a man, and then said that she should let the Southern Army go home.

Although the southern army is willing to surrender, the soldiers who have been in the south all the year round and their families are also in the south, and the soldiers who have been away from home for too long are prone to unstable morale, and it is still a hidden danger in Beiping.

The Yan army and the border army have always adapted to the environment in the north, and it is better for Zhu Di to use it.

Today, it is a great thing to desperately defend Zhangye Gate, the nine door holes have been poured into ice walls with bricks and ice, and there will be people who will take turns to continue to water them tonight.

The bricks and tiles of the house were used to enclose the walls, and many of the wood from the roofs were chopped into firewood and placed at the bottom of the pot to make a fire for cooking.

Cheng Yuan arranged for the cook to cook the food for the captives to distribute, and ordered them all to be sent out of the city later, so that they could each go home.

The soldiers of the Southern Army were excited and worried, excited that the Yan Army did not kill them, and the thing they were worried about was whether they would be treated as deserters when they returned home in the future.

In the middle of the night, the heavy snow fluttered on the land of Beiping Province, the sky was snow-white, and the lanterns were whistling in the cold wind.

Dozens of cauldrons were boiling white, the meat in the porridge pot was also churning, and the soldiers of the Southern Army were drinking the broth and gnawing on the meat.

At this moment, Li Jinglong, who fled in a hurry with a few troops and horses, was miserable, they were attacked by the Yan army on Zhengcunba, and they didn't even have time to bring a tent, and they lost their armor.

During the day, I was busy running away and hurrying, and I didn't feel hot in my body, but now that the marching speed slowed down, I felt chills all over my body.

Li Jinglong fled along the way, many soldiers also secretly left the team, and the rebellious generals of the imperial court fled for their lives.

What made the soldiers most dissatisfied was that they were now about to flee for their lives, but Li Jinglong did not forget to take the woman with him.

The woman pretending to be a soldier was huddled in Li Jinglong's arms, and the two rode on the same horse, regardless of whether the soldiers were dead or alive.

The soldiers who had been transferred from all over the country were not satisfied at the moment, and when it was just dark, Li Jinglong quietly left with the soldiers, and the soldiers around Beiping City did not care.

These soldiers and horses were specially brought by Li Jinglong as protection in order to protect himself from being intercepted by Zhu Di.

Leaving the surrounding soldiers and horses to flee, the soldiers were very dissatisfied with this, and the generals all fled, where did they still have any military heart.

Zhu Di heard about Li Jinglong's escape in the camp, and did not order to chase him, but ordered everyone to dismiss all the prisoners, leaving only the elite soldiers.

But Zhu Di pulled off all the armor and hats of the Southern Army, but there was a very strange request, that is, Zhu Di ordered everyone to copy the information in the civil newspaper about how Zhu Yunwen persecuted his uncle on paper.

Those who are illiterate let others copy it, and those who are literate read a few articles, and brought the crusade letter from Zhu Dijing to various places.

Of course, this was Cheng Yuan's idea, the captives in the inner city of Beiping Mansion were well fed and drunk, and they had to do one last thing, take off their armor, and copy the civil newspaper before they could leave.

Da Yu looked at Cheng Yuan puzzled: "Why do you want to take this kind of article out." ”

"Use the captives to spread the voices of these martyrs to the Jiang area, do you think, if these defeated soldiers return to their hometown with the people's newspaper in their arms, or return to Li Jinglong's banner, what a shock this will have on their military morale!"

At this time, in addition to the literati and public opinion, this thing is not very popular among the common people.

Nowadays, the Minbao is what he uses to grasp the public opinion of the people, and the articles in the Minbao are reasonable and well-founded, and readers will feel convinced when they read it.

Although the well-known Mr. Fang Xiaoru has talented articles, compared with the essays written by Zhu Quan and Zhu Di, the articles are too obscure and difficult to understand, and they are all the flavor of Baguwen.

This kind of communication is only suitable for literati, but Zhu Di's was made into saliva by Cheng Yuan, and even like a slip of mouth.

At this moment, there are more than a dozen soldiers dressed in ordinary clothes on the top of the city tower, of course they are not prisoners of the Southern Army, but Cheng Yuan's shadows who were scattered into Li Jinglong's army through captives.

These were all people selected from Yan San's guards, and they kept stirring up trouble on the battlefield behind enemy lines after they went south.

Cheng Yuan's apprentices, the Axe Gang, and those scattered in Jiangnan are the best intelligence gatherers.

"Today you go to Jiangnan for Jingnan, tomorrow you will be a high-ranking official, brothers, I will pay you a cup for King Yan."

After that, he picked up the wine, raised it to a few people, and drank it all.

There were several feet of snow outside the city of Beiping, but some of them had turned into clear ice by the blood and the southern army, and there were traces of the battle between the two armies at a glance.

Outside the city, in addition to the captives who surrendered, there were also some southern troops who were stubbornly defending the battlefield, and these soldiers were still holding on, and they didn't know that Li Jinglong had run away.

They froze all night last night, and when they were afraid of the cold, they could only jump around in the snow and snuggle up to each other to keep warm.

For them, the mentality is different from that of the captured Southern Army, they have to be stationed, stationed for the imperial court to the end, and obey Li Jinglong's dispatch.

In the afternoon, the repaired Yan army outside the city began to attack the remnants outside the city, and the physical strength of the southern army, which was still hungry after freezing all night, was definitely inferior to the Yan army that was well fed and rested.

There is no doubt that it has fallen behind.

When the southern army who stayed outside the Nine Gates to fight to the death saw the Yan army attacking again, they stupidly waited for Li Jinglong, the god of war, to come and save them.

But they didn't know that the rebellious general Li Jinglong had already lost his armor and fled back to Shandong with his own pro-army.

The Southern Army did not surrender to the death, the backbone and courage were commendable, they struggled to the death and the Yan Army resisted, but three days later, all of them were settled outside the city of Beiping Mansion.

They didn't wait until they died to come to the rescue of the rebellious general Li Jinglong.

In this way, Li Jinglong took some of the hundreds of thousands of southern troops in the imperial court, some escaped, one died, and some were captured, and less than 350,000 of the 500,000 army remained.

And Zhu Di's collection of elite soldiers of the Daning Guard, plus his own elite Yan army, has at least 100,000.

Twilight.

Cheng Yuan still asked several county lords to help copy the content of the civil newspaper, and after a while, Zhu Di would capture the captives outside the city, and let them spread these civil newspapers to Jiangnan.

Zhu Di returned to Beiping City with a large army, and ordered people to immediately repair the nine gates and strengthen the high walls of Beiping Mansion.

"Mr. Cheng!" Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng laughed.

Zhu Bai said: "Haha, I can finally rest assured for a few days." ”

Xu Zengshou nodded to Cheng Yuan and turned around to find his eldest sister and younger sister.

Qiu Fu had already prepared wine and food for Zhu Di and everyone to wash the dust.

The county lord of Yong'an went to see his husband Yuan Rong, and Yuan Rong arched his hand to Cheng Yuan, which was regarded as a greeting.

Li Rang brought the county lord of Yongping to talk to Cheng Yuan, and Princess Yan Xu told everyone that Mr. Cheng had a great contribution to guarding Zhangye Gate this time.

Zhu Di said with a smile: "Cheng Yuan, you are the first to defend the city this time." ”

Xianning coquettishly hugged Zhu Di's arm and said sweetly: "Father, do you just use your mouth to say?" ”

Zhu Di looked at his beloved daughter, he liked Xianning's daughter the most, saw her coquettish, scratched her nose and said, "Father remembers!" ”