When Li Xianzhong and Yan Mingtai came to the military department, Yang Hao, the general soldier of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and Ma Lin, the general soldier of Kaiyuan, had also arrived, but in fact, the military department recruited the four of them.

Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, only came to give circumstantial evidence at the request of the first assistant Fang Congzhe.

Wanli sent a decree to let Fang Congzhe, the first assistant of the cabinet, Huang Jiashan, the secretary of the military department, and Liu Yijing, the servant of the ministry, jointly find out the beginning and end of the battle of Liaodong, as well as the merits and demerits of the generals of Liaodong.

Although there is only one seat in the Donglin Party, this time Yuan Yingtai, the right attendant of the Ministry of War, is in charge of inquiring.

The first to be questioned was the commander of the Northern Route Army, Kaiyuan General Soldier Ma Lin.

The Northern Route Army led by Ma Lin had 15,000 Ming troops, and in just one day, the three camps that Ma Lin had set up near Shangjian Cliff were all captured by Jianqing, and the Northern Route Army was defeated, and Ma Lin himself only led a few horsemen to escape.

This kind of defeat Marin can't argue at all, so he is sure to be dealt with.

The reason why he was brought in was mainly to confirm the casualties of Jianyu, because Yang Hao said in the report that the Northwest Two Route Army annihilated about 10,000 Eight Banners.

Now that Juniper is dead, naturally he has to find Marin to find out the situation.

But to everyone's surprise, Marin actually began to dump the pot on Juniper.

Ma Lin said: "In accordance with Yang Jinglue's request, our troops marched into the three-way crossing to join the Western Route Army Juniper, but Juniper advanced lightly and did not enter the army at the agreed time, but entered the Salhu area in advance. ”

"The Juniper Department is the unit with the largest number of troops and the strongest combat power in our Fourth Route Ming Army this time, and he was wiped out by Jianyu at once, causing my Northern Route Army to become a lone army."

"The last general received the news of the annihilation of Juniper's army in Salhu late at night in early March, so he immediately set up camp to defend against the surprise attack of the captives, and placed the accompanying vehicles outside the camp to form fortifications, and equipped them with firearms for defense."

"I thought that Juniper's Western Route Army had 30,000 people, and even if it was defeated by Jianyu, it would always be able to recreate the captivity. As a result, I encountered at least 50,000 main forces of Jianyu here, and the enemy chieftains Nurhachi, Daishan, Mang Gurtai and others took turns to attack, and our northern route army could not resist it. ”

Then Ma Lin choked up and said, "The Yehebu people who originally belonged to the command of the Northern General did not arrive either. Our Northern Route Army fought alone, the two sons of the last general, Ma Ran and Ma Yi, were all killed in the army, most of the soldiers of the North Route Army were killed, and the last general was lucky to break through after hard work, and gathered the rout in Kaiyuan. ”

"My Ma family has a clear conscience about Daming, and the last general has done his best."

I have to say that Marin's tearful shake does sound a little reasonable.

His Northern Route Army was pitted by Juniper, and he did not flee from the battle, but led his troops to resist desperately, but was outnumbered and broke through at the last moment.

However, for Yuan Yingtai, whether Marin is guilty or not is not the point, the point is that he wants to find Yang Hao's fault.

So he said: "General Ma, according to what you said, the Juniper Department has not effectively killed Jianyu at all, and the fiasco of the Northern Route Army is mainly caused by this division of troops?" ”

Li Xianzhong secretly scolded: Damn, Yuan Yingtai is a typical inducement.

However, Marin is not stupid, he can dump the dead Juniper, but he doesn't want to offend Yang Hao and Fang Shoufu behind him, otherwise he will only die faster.

So he said: "I haven't seen how many enemies Juniper has annihilated, anyway, the 50,000 main forces of Jianyu are besieging the Northern Route Army, and our army is really unable to parry." ”

"As for the siege of our army, it was the result of Juniper's rash advance, and there is no inevitable connection with the strategy of dividing the troops."

Hearing Ma Lin say this, Yang Hao below finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that Ma Lin is still very good and did not drag himself into the water.

Seeing that Ma Lin didn't answer his words, Yuan Yingtai fortunately stopped asking.

Originally, I wanted to find out through Ma Lin that Yang Hao falsely reported the number of enemies killed by the Northwest Route Army and Yang Hao's mistake of dividing the troops into four routes, but it turned out that Ma Lin, the old dog, was just trying to wash himself and did not answer sensitive questions.

I didn't expect that Ma Lin, a general, would have so many twists and turns, and his words would not leak.

Where could he have imagined that Marin was originally a man of letters.

Ma Lin originally wanted to enter the official career through the imperial examination, but he failed to be admitted several times, but fortunately, he directly became the chief soldier by virtue of his father Ma Fang's relationship.

Don't look at Ma Lin has been in the army for so many years, he has never fought a big battle, this time he directly commanded the army all the way to fight with Jianyu, and he was also a big girl on a sedan chair (the first time).

It was already good that he was able to camp on the spot and resist in the face of danger, at least he didn't slip away directly.

It's just that he lacked actual combat experience, miscalculated the power of the firecracker, and encountered the main force of Jianyu, so he was directly beaten by others.

Yuan Yingtai thought about it, after all, Ma Lin was also an old man, and it was really difficult to deal with.

Since the old ones can't do it, let's break through the small ones next.

Among the four, only Li Xianzhong is the youngest, and he should have little experience.

So he began to ask Li Xianzhong.

The Donglin Party did not do less homework this time, and Li Xianzhong's record was too incredible, so they believed from the beginning that the Li family had colluded with Yang Hao to falsely report his military exploits.

However, the more they investigated, the more disappointed they became, and almost all of Li Xianzhong's reported records were corroborated by the first rank, and the several enemy chieftains captured and killed were also the best proof.

Only those two ambushes on Qinghe Road he couldn't provide the first rank, but this couldn't shake his record at all.

It was Li Xianzhong's outstanding contribution that gave Yang Hao the confidence to turn defeat into victory.

However, the hard work paid off, and through the investigation, they still found some clues.

So he said: "General Li Shen went deep behind the enemy twice, rebuilt the captives, and won a lot, it can be said that this Liaodong War was all fought by General Li Shen to turn the tide, and my Ming Dynasty will not be defeated, Yuan admires it to the fullest." ”

Yuan Yingtai's words made Li Xianzhong alert, shouldn't this thing be looking for trouble for himself, why did he praise himself for coming?

The so-called abnormal things must have demons.

So Li Xianzhong said: "This time, my Ming Dynasty won a great victory in Liaodong, and it was all thanks to His Majesty's wisdom and martial arts, and he ruled the overall situation; Fang Shoufu, Huang Benbing and others raised soldiers, horses, money and food to support the battle of Liaodong; Yang Jingluo and Governor Wang and others strategized and set a strategy for marching into the army; Coach Li Rubai made a decisive decision and resolutely marched into the army; and his soldiers forgot to die and fought the Tartars in blood. ”

"The last general is just executing the general's order, he won by luck, and he didn't dare to take the credit of greed for himself as his own, Yuan Shilang praised it falsely!"

Li Xianzhong's words made everyone stunned, this kid is not simple, he directly slapped everyone's sycophants, you can't say what he is.

It can be said that several court dignitaries present are overjoyed.

Originally, it was a good victory, everyone had merit, and no one was left behind.

It's all these Donglin parties who have nothing to do here, and at this moment, Fang Congzhe and the others looked at Liu Yijing with a hint of resentment.

Originally, Yuan Yingtai praised Li Xianzhong to induce him to compete with Yang Hao, but since this kid "toasts and doesn't eat and punishes wine", then he is not polite.

So his tone changed and he said: "Since General Li is not greedy for merit, then why did he lie about beheading? Let me ask you, what is the matter with you, the 4,000 Jianzhou auxiliaries who swept away Hetuala's Jianzhou and killed them in good battles? ”

Li Xianzhong thought to himself, he still had to come after all, but fortunately, Yan Mingtai reminded him just now.

So he said: "I led my troops deep into Hetuala, swept the Jianzhou walled city and beheaded 4,000 people, I don't know what the problem is with the head as proof?" ”

Yuan Yingtai snorted coldly and said: "These heads are all old and weak, where are the auxiliaries, this is clearly a false report of military exploits, can you be guilty?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "All the people in Jianyu are soldiers, and everyone is armed with weapons to fight with our army. It is precisely because they are old and weak that the auxiliary soldiers who are reported by the last general, if they are young and strong, they will be reported to the soldiers, is there anything wrong with this? ”

Yuan Yingtai said: "Didn't General Li say that night in the camp of Qinghe Fort? ”

Soon he took out a confession and said: "General Li's original words are to say, how can these old and weak be regarded as military merits? ”

"Then you went under the hint of Yang Hao, who was in Liaodong Jingluo, and counted it as a military merit report, but is there such a thing?"

After Yuan Yingtai came up with this killer idea, Yang Hao began to panic, it was indeed he who instructed Li Xianzhong to make a false report, but he didn't expect that now he was directly obtained by these Donglin Party members.

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