The sky soon darkened, but on the battlefield near Lintong County, the shouts and guns did not stop. The sporadic exchange of fire and the rumbling of artillery still rang out in the night, and the wilderness was full of Ming soldiers with torches searching for the rout of the Jin army.

When it was dark, Wang Yan entered Lintong City, and set up a festival hall here, dispatched the army, and arranged post-war affairs.

After this battle, there was no obstacle for the Ming army to enter Chang'an, and Wang Yan was ready to quickly clear the battlefield and then advance to Chang'an. Chang'an, as the capital of the Jin Kingdom, will have great political significance to take Chang'an.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the surrender of various parts of the Jin State was not ideal, a big reason was that the people of Guanzhong, as well as the local officials of the Jin State, still had hope for the Jin State, and felt that the Ming army was difficult to destroy the Jin, but once the Ming army occupied Chang'an and captured the capital of the Jin State, it would give the Jin State a great shock, and it would be easy to surrender again.

Clean up the battlefield, arrange the troops, the affairs are complicated, and at the moment of the time, the inside and outside of the linemen are still brightly lit, and people are coming in and out.

At this time, it was already the middle of the night, the guards outside the line, still holding the torch on both sides of the door standing straight, Li Guo, Zhang Mingzhen, Liu Fangliang, Wang Shixiu and other Ming army generals, one after another rode horses to the outside of the line, and then turned over and dismounted, untied the knife and handed it to the guards, and then hurriedly entered the festival hall.

After several generals came in one after another, they talked together, some were excited, some were annoyed, and some were just sitting upright without speaking, their faces were distracted, and they were obviously apprehensive about today's war.

Among them, Li Guo was the happiest, and several generals surrounded him and congratulated him in advance on his great achievements.

Just as everyone was laughing, Wang Yan walked in from the back hall, and the generals hurriedly quieted down, and got up and saluted together, "See the prison country!" ”

Wang Yan came to the middle hall, glanced at the generals first, then sat down by himself, and said with a smile: "This battle, you can win a big victory, Li Dudu and Zhang Dudu have made great contributions, and the lone king wants to ask the court for merit for you." ”

In this battle, the northern front blocked Meng Qiaofang's attack, and the southern line defeated Wu Sangui, both of which can be said to be indispensable, and if the goal is not completed in either aspect, the Ming army will not have such a victory.

Li Guo and Zhang Mingzhen suddenly walked to the middle in the envious eyes of the generals, and then hugged their fists and said: "This battle is a good command of the prison country, the soldiers use their lives, and the ministers dare not bow." ”

"If you have merit, you deserve to be rewarded, and you two don't have to be modest." Speaking of this, Wang Yan waved his hand to let them sit down first, and then glanced at the generals in the hall and said: "The merits of the generals here, King Lone will also write them down one by one, and report them together after taking Chang'an." ”

Wang Yan paused, and then said in a deep voice: "Okay, I won't say this in advance." At present, we still have to clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, gather troops and horses, and take Chang'an. Ladies and gentlemen, what is the situation of the ministries now? How's it going? ”

Although the Jin army was defeated in Lintong, it also fled a lot of soldiers and horses, and this was not the time for the Ming army to celebrate the victory.

Li Guo got up and hugged his fists when he heard this: "Qi Qi Jian Guo, the minister broke Wu Sangui on the southern front, and now Wu Sangui has led the horse army to flee in the direction of Lantian." Most of the infantry of the Wu army was annihilated by the ministers, and the number of prisoners should be about 20,000. In addition, Li Benshen has 10,000 people, who are currently surrounded in Lishan, and Liu Zhifu, the general of Wu Sangui, has thousands of remnants, and is surrounded and then lagoon. Because it was dark, there was no attack for the time being. ”

In this way, Wu Sangui still has tens of thousands of horses and horses who have escaped, but Wu Sangui has many horse troops, and it is not unusual to be able to escape.

Wang Yan nodded, stroked his beard with his hand, and after pondering for a while, he immediately ordered: "Wang Shixiu listens to the order!" ”

"The minister is here!" Wang Shixiu immediately got up and hugged his fists.

"After dawn, you immediately lead the horse army to the south and pursue Wu Sangui, don't give him time to rest, how far can you chase it."

"Command!"

Wang Yan bowed slightly, and then looked at Li Yuanyin, "Li Benshen used to be a general under the happy account, and he has worked with him for a few months. Uncle Yuan, you are also happy to be an old general, you can go back to lobbying and persuade him to surrender. ”

Li Yuanyin immediately came out, "The minister is ordered!" ”

"The lonely king will repair a book, and Yuan Bo will come to pick it up tomorrow morning, and then go to Lishan." After speaking, Wang Yan said to Li Guo again: "If Liu Zhifu can move, he will move, but if he can't, before it gets dark tomorrow, he must be annihilated." ”

Li Guo clenched his fists, "The minister understands." ”

At this time, it was Zhang Mingzhen's turn to stand up and report: "Qi Qi Jian Guo, in this battle, our Zhenwu army blocked the attack of the Jin army, but its own losses were also very heavy, more than 10,000 soldiers were killed, Ruan Mei and Qin Yiming died in battle. ”

When Wang Yan heard that he had folded one from the second grade and the other with the third grade, his heart sank, and he was silent for a while and said: "The Lone King will ask the Ministry of Rites to give him a posthumous seal, and let the Ministry of War give his heirs a gift." ”

Zhang Mingzhen thanked him, and then continued to report, "After the rout of the army, Meng Qiaofang had already taken the lead in crossing the Weishui and burned the pontoon bridge. Now on the south bank of Weishui, leaving Tang Tong and other Jin generals and 30,000 or 40,000 defeated troops, they are surrounded on the bank of the river, waiting for the ruling of the prison state. ”

Tang Tong had previously sent the envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty to surrender to Chang'an and showed his loyalty to the Jin court. At the time, he probably didn't think about the current ending.

Wang Yan sneered, but he didn't intend to kill them all because of this. At present, the Jin State has been defeated, and many killings are not conducive to the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Guanzhong.

The Ming Dynasty here had no popular support, and now killing one more person will make one more family resentful of the Ming Dynasty, which is not what Wang Yan wants to see.

At that moment, Wang Yan said in a deep voice: "The lonely king also repaired a book, Zhang Dudu sent a letter to Tang Tong, he is willing to surrender, then leave him alive, if he is not willing to surrender, then completely defeat the rout on the south bank as soon as possible." ”

"Command!" Zhang Mingzhen clenched his fists, then stepped aside.

At this time, Liu Fangliang stood up with some annoyance, bowed his head and saluted: "Qi Qi Jian Guo, the minister went north to chase and kill Haoge, and killed Wang Jinbao, Kubilong and other golden generals along the way, and chased him all the way to the south bank of Weishui, and he was going to capture Haoge alive, and he didn't want Sony to suddenly kill, and finally rescued Haoge." ”

"Let Hauge run?" Wang Yan frowned slightly, a little unhappy in his heart.

Although the Jin Kingdom is now defeated and has lost more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, many people have fled. Hauge does not get rid of it, which means that the war will not end anytime soon.

This gave Wang Yan a headache, and Wu Jinxi, a bachelor who stayed in Nanjing, had already asked for the third time how the war was going. Although he did not explicitly urge Wang Yan or call for a halt to the war, it can be seen from his words that the war-weariness of the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, and the Nanjing court and the people did not want to fight.

"How many soldiers did Hauge take?" Wang Yan asked in a deep voice.

"Just a small boat, no more than ten people!" Liu Fangliang felt Wang Yan's displeasure and replied in a low voice.

Wang Yan knocked his fingers on the table a few times, and suddenly waved his hand and said, "Liu Fangliang, you cross the river as soon as possible and pursue Haoge and Meng Qiaofang, you can't let them collect the defeated army." Don't make a mistake this time! ”

After speaking, Wang Yan didn't wait for him to reply, then stood up, waved his hand, and said: "The rest of the generals, hurry up and pack up, and go straight to Chang'an with King Gu tomorrow!" ”

"No, the ministers are ordered!" All the generals clasped their fists together and sent Wang Yan off.

Wang Yan glanced at everyone, nodded, and retreated into the inner hall, he still had a lot of things to do, and he had to deal with them after the order, and he couldn't waste time.

In addition to writing a letter of surrender, he also had to let people imprison the prisoners, and report to Luoyang and Nanjing, so that the court and the cabinet could give him a little more time, otherwise the grass would not be cut and the roots would be removed, and the spring breeze would blow and regenerate.

If he doesn't take advantage of this opportunity to solve the problem in Guanzhong and give Jin Guo a chance to breathe, the problem in Guanzhong may drag on for a few years, and he will not be able to implement the strategy of recuperation in Guanzhong.

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