Li Xinye Ye Mao two people, with two people from Zhichong Mansion, back and forth in the vicinity of Jizhou City for three days, one to find the scattered remnants of the Zhenbei Army, and the other to bring the wounded soldiers scattered all over the place back to Yancheng, two days down, the wounded soldiers alone found more than 3,000 people, Yancheng side of the doctor is completely insufficient, fortunately, the four Zhichong Mansion escorted a lot of spirits from the capital, the disinfection of alcohol is not lacking, the wounded will not die on a large scale.

On the third day, Ye Mao, who had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, finally couldn't hold on, almost fell to the ground from his horse, and returned to Yancheng with the support of the general, Li Xin helped Ye Mao to the state pastor's mansion in Yancheng to rest.

Ye Mao only slept on the bed for two hours, then suddenly woke up, he lifted the quilt, stumbled out of the door, there was a family member of the Ye family guarding the door, after seeing Ye Mao come out, he hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and then asked people to inform Li Xin, not long after, Mrs. Li, who had already removed his armor, carried a food box, walked into Ye Mao's yard, and saw the unkempt Ye Guogong, Li Xin shook his head and sighed, and said: "Let the people in this house boil some porridge for you, you drink a little." ”

Ye Mao sat on a stool in the courtyard, and his whole body was depressed.

He was a little confused now, and even wondered if the tragic situation he had seen in the past two days was just a nightmare of his own.

After opening the food box and drinking a few large mouthfuls of porridge, he looked up at Li Xin, and his voice was hoarse: "Uncle Shi, the ...... of the Zhenbei Army"

Li Xin shook his head and sighed.

"The remnants that should have been gathered in the past two days have also gathered, and I have made a rough count, there are about 12,000 people who fled back to Yancheng from the Zhenbei Army, of which more than 1,000 were seriously injured and almost 5,000 were lightly injured."

In this case, once seriously injured, it is basically difficult to escape back from the front line, and most of the 1,000 surviving people of the Zhenbei Army are from Jizhou to Yancheng by their comrades.

Hearing Li Xin's words, Ye Mao's face was a little discouraged.

The Zhenbei Army is the foundation of the Ye family, but for Ye Mao, the Zhenbei Army is not just a simple political capital, this is a border army created by three generations of the Ye family with decades of painstaking efforts, Ye Sheng laid the foundation for the Zhenbei Army, Ye Ming spent most of his life in the Zhenbei Army, and Ye Mao himself has been staying in the Zhenbei Army since the eighth year of Taikang, for six or seven years.

In the Zhenbei Army, there are his comrades, subordinates, and friends.

Now, there is almost no one in the 100,000 Zhenbei Army, and only a few remnants of the defeated army remain, which makes it very difficult for this big man to accept for a while.

He kept his head down and was silent for a long time, finally gritting his teeth.

"I knew it earlier...... If I knew that I was in Ningling, I should have listened to my uncle! ”

At the beginning, Li Xin went to Ningling to mourn Ye Ming, and once explained this matter to Ye Mao, if the Jimen could not be guarded, he would let the Zhenbei Army try to preserve its strength and temporarily retreat, which would attract enough attention from the imperial court, and secondly, the Zhenbei Army could also have most of it left, but Ye Lan refused indignantly.

At that time, the Ye family's decision was, no matter what, to stick to Jizhou.

Later, the uncle and nephew of the Ye family were trapped in the capital, and when they corresponded with Wang Dun, the deputy general of the Zhenbei Army, they also instructed Wang Dun to guard the Jimen Pass no matter what, and because of this, the Zhenbei Army has been holding on to the present and being beaten like this.

Seeing such a tragic situation in the Zhenbei Army at this time, as the decision-maker at that time, Ye Mao felt deeply remorseful.

Li Xin got up silently, stretched out his hand and patted Ye Mao's shoulder, shook his head and said: "If one more person dies in the Zhenbei Army, the people in Northern Xinjiang will die ten less, Jimen Pass has been held for so long, and most of the people in Northern Xinjiang have moved hundreds of miles to the south, and their merits are immeasurable." ”

At this time, naturally Ye Mao could no longer be stimulated, his temperament, if he was in a hurry, he might directly ride into the Xianbei camp.

Ye Mao was bored and didn't say a word.

Li Xin continued: "Although the Zhenbei Army has been disabled, the establishment of the Zhenbei Army is still there, and when the matter here is over, you will re-recruit some soldiers and reorganize the Zhenbei Army." ”

Ye Mao lowered his head and his voice was hoarse.

"I'm afraid the imperial court won't give me another chance to recruit the Zhenbei army."

Li Xin did not respond to this sentence.

Ye Mao is right, even in Ye Sheng's era, the imperial court is sparing no effort to suppress the Ye family, and several generations of the imperial court have tried every means to weaken the power of the Ye family, not to mention that the Ye family and Li Xin are so close now.

If the Zhenbei Army only loses half of the troops and then recruits again, the imperial court has no reason to interfere with the Zhenbei Army, but now the Zhenbei Army does not have one out of ten, and it is almost starting from scratch, even if the Zhenbei Army recruits again, the imperial court will directly take over the past.

When Li Xin said that, he was just comforting and comforting Ye Mao, he knew better than anyone what would happen in Northern Xinjiang next.

Ye Mao sat on a chair in the courtyard, suddenly picked up the porcelain bowl on the table, drank the white porridge in the bowl, and then he stood up, looked up at Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Shi...... I'm going to make the Xianbei tribe pay! ”

He gritted his teeth.

"You give the order, when will you attack, I will let those northern barbarians pay for their blood debts!"

Li Xin smiled bitterly: "You think too highly of me, at this time there are not enough troops, it is not easy for us to hold Yancheng and prevent the Yuwen Department from going south, can't we go to Jizhou to die?" ”

"Uncle Shi, you must have a way."

Ye Mao looked at Li Xin and said slowly: "In the past ten years, I haven't seen anything that can be difficult to stop you. ”

"I do have a solution."

At this time, the summer has passed, and there is already a little chill in the north, Li Xin habitually inserted his two hands in the wide sleeves, and said lightly: "But you have to prepare for a while." ”

Ye Mao's eyes flashed, and he understood what Li Xin meant by preparation, and he asked, "How long will it take?" ”

"At least half a month."

Ye Mao lowered his head and asked, "Uncle Shi has a plan?" ”

Li Xin said slowly: "Since the third year of Taikang, I have followed Master Ye and asked a lot of things about Northern Xinjiang, Master Ye said, after Jimen Pass, the only road between the north and the south will no longer exist, and the Xianbei Department can have many roads to the south, so we will stay in Yancheng, and it will be useless." ”

"Be proactive."

Li Xin looked at Ye Mao and said, "Of course, near Jizhou City, Yuwen Zhao still has at least 100,000 troops, let's attack Jizhou City now, we are seeking our own death." ”

"I've thought of another way."

Speaking of this, Li Xin looked at Ye Mao, with a solemn face: "Yuwen Zhao has just occupied Jizhou, and he himself is also very injured, it is estimated that it will take a few months to repair and even wait until the spring of next year before there will be the next move, we have a lot of time to prepare, I will give you a month, in this month, I will hand over all the four Zhechong Mansions to you, I have only one request, try to let all of them learn to ride horses." ”

"If it can be done, I will take you to avenge the Xianbei people."

The Great Jin Dynasty lacked horses, so even if it was the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, not everyone could ride a horse, and even among the Yulin Guards who Li Xin had made his career back then, only one or two of the ten people had ridden a horse.

Ye Mao got up and respectfully clenched his fists at Li Xin: "I must live up to my uncle's trust!" ”

Li Xin patted Ye Mao's shoulder again and sighed.

"Okay, you've been overtired these days, take a good rest, you're not the twenties-year-old you were anymore."

Ye Mao is a few years older than Li Xin, and he is already thirty-five or sixteen years old this year.

And Li Xin himself has already passed the year of establishment.

Ye Mao got up, shook his head and said, "I'm not in the way." ”

With that, he walked out of the courtyard and walked towards the outside of the governor's mansion.

Li Xin shook his head and didn't say anything more.

There is no need to guess, Ye Mao must have gone to train those Gyeonggi forbidden troops.