Located in Baoding City, the Ming Dynasty was inside, and Zhu Cihong spread out a newspaper in front of him.

The red background of the golden shell was played, and the handwriting on it gave way to laughter.

This is a big win.

Under the overall control of the scholar Li Jiantai, Li Maochun, a general of Guguan, led the army to lead the army to the battle, and fought against the traitor Li Yanbu in Xifengtai, defeated Li Yanbu in the first battle, and in turn blocked Li Yan in the city of Pingdingzhou.

If it was an ordinary war report, Zhu Cihong didn't know how many times he received it, and every time the Privy Council gave a judgment, he shook his head and sighed, thinking that there were many frauds.

But this time, along with the good news, there is also a real head, which is not a random blow. Even if you want to kill the good and take the risk, whether it is the Ministry of War or the Privy Council, there are officials who are old enough to do this.

In these years, ordinary people eating bran vegetables are really different from soldiers who want to fight and kill. Not only clothing, but also physical development, down to the teeth, can be distinguished one by one.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong asked the Privy Council for the results of the first examination.

The Son of Heaven ordered, and the Privy Council and the Ministry of War naturally began a busy inspection work.

It's just that the officials in the line were a little embarrassed when they heard Zhu Cihong's words, and it was Ni Yuanlu who opened his mouth, and the deputy envoy of the Privy Council explained: "Your Majesty, there are too many heads, there are hundreds of them, and the Wu Xuan Division and the colleagues of the Privy Council have inspected it in the starry night, but they still haven't finished dealing with it. ”

Hu Bo on the side also interjected: "Although the head is wrapped in lime, the old man took the liberty to interject, I have to say that the inspection of the soldiers is still too lacking in security." A few of the military doctors I sent out met and repeatedly asked to wear masks and take adequate protection to avoid the outbreak of the plague. As a result, progress has been a bit slow. ”

Zhu Cihong suddenly understood that although the head of the corpse was a military feat, it was also the source of infection of the plague.

"Well, I'll go and see it for myself. Let's take a look at how many have been tested, most of them are true, so there is no need to test them one by one. It can be done in the form of an even spot check. "Zhu Cihong has super strong execution, and he will go when he says he will go.

Not long after, Zhu Cihong, led by Ni Yuanlu, went to the large school field in Baoding City, where a huge tent was erected, lime was sprinkled everywhere, and a large pot was boiled with hot water for disinfection.

And the person who presided over all these things was the military department of the military department, Shiro Nakatsu Hiroki.

Zhu Cihong's arrival caused a burst of excitement, and Ni Yuanlu led the civil and military generals in the school field to salute Zhu Cihong.

Ni Yuanlu is an old buddy, Zhu Cihong greeted him with a free salute, and his attention fell on Chang Guangxi.

The Military Selection Division is a fat shortage of the military department, Zhu Cihong didn't have time to reorganize the structure for a while, and the military department also followed a lot of people to act together this time, among which the military selection department is responsible for the examination of the military attaché's grade, selection, promotion, and reward, and examines the dangers and important points in various places, and builds camps and floods respectively; Manage the inheritance and gift of Tusi military attachés living in ethnic minorities.

Of course, testing military merits is also the job of the Martial Arts Division. Chang Guangxi is a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing an old-style official robe, which is cleanly washed and worn on his body, which is quite neat. Chang Guangxi has a handsome face, a moderate figure, gentle manners, very capable movements, and the whole person also looks very refreshing, which is a typical Ming elite.

There are few ugly people who can be officials these years. After all, there are often cases in Jinshi where you can't order Jinshi because of your lack of appearance. Naturally, Chang Guangxi, who can go to such a high position as the Wuxuan Division, is obviously also a good appearance.

Zhu Cihong added a good feeling to his heart, and there was a little more prohibition in his heart.

Many people rely on good skins and end up with some examples of failure.

Without mentioning it politely, Chang Guangxi led Zhu Cihong into an assembly workshop.

This is Zhu Cihong's suggestion, Chang Guangxi pointed to a huge patchwork of long tables inside and said: "This is the method set up by Wei Chen, in the big tent, arrange a person to number the head. After the next person gets the number, he is responsible for describing the appearance. The next person is responsible for the hair and the next person is responsible for the teeth. The new thieves have been rewarded a lot, but there is a lot of meat for ordinary people, so the gap between the wear and tear of the teeth and mouths during the period can be analyzed. In particular, the people have different knots, and the soldiers have many knots..."

"So, tell me, how many heads have you checked here?" Zhu Cihong looked at the heads and frowned.

Chang Guangxi picked up a booklet and said: "Back to the Holy Lord, there are a total of 763 levels here, and more than 500 levels have been inspected, and among these more than 500 levels, it can be confirmed that they are armed personnel...... There are more than 400 levels. ”

"According to this ratio, even if it is a good killing, there are more than five hundred heads." Zhu Cihong realized the difference, turned around and strode towards Xingzai: "Convene all ministries to discuss!" ”

With more than 500 first-class foundations, the merits of this victory have been confirmed. Moreover, according to the average scale of battle, there is a big gap between the number of heads and the number of places that are actually killed. After all, it won't be all enemy troops who are obediently standing and waiting to be beheaded.

Just like in the previous Ming record of the Battle of Pyongyang, the Japanese army was beheaded at the level of 1,285 and 2,985 horses were taken.

But in fact, the war exploits were far more than that, and the number of Japanese soldiers who were smoked and drowned was about ten times as much; The rest of the records also mention the burning of the drowning dead. In turn, according to Japanese records, Konishi's headquarters lost more than 9,300 troops after the Battle of Pyongyang.

Li Maochun is not a famous general, nor is he the main force of the empire, his combat effectiveness is not so perverted, nor is it a war of annihilation and defeat, it can only be a repulsion battle, and the results may not be ten times as much, but no matter how you calculate it, there will always be two or three times.

This can be confirmed by the tens of thousands of Li Yan's troops, or the rumors of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Confirmed by the facts, the final judgment of the Privy Council was that the good news was credible. The good news was convinced, and even Zhu Cihong recognized it, and the atmosphere in the line was suddenly relaxed and happy.

Zhu Cihong convened the civil and military affairs to discuss the matter, and the ministers came and went, and they could hear laughter in their ears.

Soon, Ni Yuanlu, the executive military adviser of the Privy Council, gathered with the military divisions of the Privy Council. In the cabinet, the Minister of National Defense and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, Gao Mingheng, the Minister of Finance and Economy, Fu Shuxun, and the Royal Guards Regiment Hu Dawei, Liu Sheng, Qi Xian, and Mengruhu all arrived.

Zhu Cihong was brought to the side hall of the conference hall by the stars, and inside, seeing Zhu Cihong's arrival, Huang Zongxi, who led the team, retreated left and right with people, revealing the scene behind him.

It was a huge sand table, a foot long and half a foot wide. On that, the terrain of the entire Shanxi, Hebei, Mongolia, and Henan was instantly clear, which was a sand table that Zhu Cihong specially asked Huang Zongxi and others to draw according to the same scale. Behind the scenes, I don't know how many brocade guards and privy council military advisors worked hard to restore the terrain and landforms one by one.

Zhu Cihong held a small wooden pole and pointed to Baoding City: "Everyone, we are here." And the enemy ......"

The small wooden pole fell to the place where it rose in vain on the sand table, which was a split path in the middle of the Taihang Mountain Range: "Here! ”

On the west wind platform, a place where swords and guns cross.

The villain, who symbolizes the strength of the Ming Dynasty official army, moved from Guguan to Xifengtai, and sent all the way, and under the indication of an arrow next to him, he blocked the three words surrounded by a small wall. Those three words are the current location of Li Yan: Pingding Prefecture.

"According to the battle report, Li Yan and Li Maochun were deadlocked on the offensive and defensive battlefields of Pingdingzhou." Huang Zongxi said, and placed the villains one by one inside the small wall of Pingding Prefecture.

Soon, a total of five yellow villains were placed up, and outside, there were three red villains.

The yellow villain is represented by Li Yanbu, which is about five battalions, and the red villain means that it is Li Maochun's division, which is about three battalions.

In addition, Li Zicheng's large army was moving relatively slowly, and it was still on the road to Pingdingzhou. In the past few days, heavy rain has fallen in Shanxi, and the weather is favorable to us. Our current enemy is only Li Yan's rebel army for the time being. After Huang Zongxi finished speaking, everyone felt excited.

"With Li Maochun's big victory, we can swallow Li Yan first, thwart the enemy's arrogance, and then fight against Li Zicheng!" After Gao Mingheng finished speaking, he aroused a group of approvals.

Everyone looked at the long list of villains located on the official road near Taiyuan in Pingding Prefecture, Li Zicheng claimed to have 500,000 soldiers and horses, divided into divisions, and his main force was only about 100,000 left, and this meant that there were more than 40 villains. Now that Li Yan and Li Zicheng are cut off, if they can swallow Li Yan first, and then deal with Li Zicheng, everyone's psychological pressure will be much less in an instant.

"Take advantage of his illness to kill him. Taking advantage of the situation to pursue, you can easily clean up Li Yan! Hu Dawei's eyes were blazing, and he returned to the border town, making him both familiar and excited. What's not more frustrating than a night walk in brocade?

"The sooner the war is ended, the pressure on logistics and the devastation of the local people can be reduced." Ni Yuanlu, deputy envoy of the Privy Council and executive military advisor, sighed: "It is really not easy for Baoding to recover in a short period of time." I only hope that Shanxi can also return from the ravages of traitors earlier. ”

"When chasing stolen goods and looting, it seems that everyone has heard about it." Zhu Cihong looked at the expressions of everyone present, and they all guessed something.

Immediately afterwards, everyone enthusiastically criticized the traitor Li Zicheng. After all, none of the high-ranking officials present would like such a thing as fighting local tyrants and landlords.

Everyone told the story of their own investigation and torture and recovery of stolen goods, and told the examples of humiliation of famous people in Taiyuan City, which immediately aroused the indignation of the people, and the morale suddenly rose a lot.

Zhu Cihong listened quietly for a while, and saw that the morale was good, so he didn't interrupt.

But when Ni Yuanlu had just finished saying that the governor of Shanxi had died heroically and was not humiliated, he suddenly saw that everyone was cold.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was a little different, Zhu Cihong turned his eyes, and found that there was no one more person in the side hall, everyone knew it, and Zhu Cihong also recognized: "Yunshan, come in." What is the emergency military situation? ”

His gaze was a little surprised.

If it weren't for an emergency military situation, Wei Yunshan would not have appeared rashly. What Jin Yiwei used to do was to monitor hundreds of officials, but now although he specializes in military intelligence reporting, there are still many officials who are uncomfortable.

Sure enough, Wei Yunshan came in and saluted, "Back to Your Majesty, it's the urgency of the Tianzi number B." ”

As the emperor, Zhu Cihong will waste time and miss opportunities if he comes to various affairs regardless of priority. Therefore, it is important to divide the three important things such as heaven, earth, man, and yellow. The yellow character means ordinary affairs, the human character means that it needs to be dealt with within a time limit, and the ground character already means that it is very urgent and has a major impact on a major area and needs to be dealt with as soon as possible. The Tianzi number is further subdivided into A, B, C, D, but no matter which category it is, it means that it is extremely urgent, and it is ranked together with rebellion and the impact of major wars.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Cihong's eyes suddenly changed in vain: "Say it quickly!" ”

"Your Majesty, the Eight Banners of Mongolia have gone south, and under the leadership of Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Tulai, the troops have sent to Datong Town, and they have already crossed the Great Wall. In addition, Xuanfu Town received a report that there were traitors who were in rebellion. I'm afraid Zhangjiakou won't be able to protect ......" After Wei Yunshan finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar.

"Jiannu has really been holding back, and will never let go of this opportunity to let me recover slowly!"

"It seems that last year's battle in Shengjing didn't make Dolgon suffer enough? The almost uprooted damage still failed to break Jiannu's will to fight! ”

"Come on, come, who's afraid of him!"

Seeing the commotion of the crowd, Ni Yuanlu said in a deep voice: "Who is afraid? But courage and complaining can't solve the problem, it can only add more troubles! Now it's about how to deal with it! As for Jiannu, when will I let go of this opportunity and interrupt my Ming Dynasty's move to quell the civil strife. It's not beneficial to dwell on this kind of thing. Colleagues, think carefully about how to deal with it! ”

The commotion of the crowd quietly subsided a lot.

"It's not that bad." Zhu Cihong waved his hand: "This can be regarded as an unexpected and reasonable thing." Privy Council, there should be a draft, right? ”

Hearing what Zhu Cihong said, everyone present suddenly quieted down as if they had a reassurance.

"Back to the Holy Lord, there is." Everyone's eyes fell on Ni Yuanlu.

Ni Yuanlu smiled and gave up his hand, and sure enough, there was no panic, the Privy Council did have plans for various responses, and when asked at this time, he immediately replied: "The opinion of the Privy Council is to divide troops to support Datong Town. At present, what is needed most is people's hearts, hope, and the hope of persevering and winning. The border soldiers knew the strength of the Royal Guards and had heard of the victory in the Battle of Shengjing. But exactly how strong, no one has an intuitive experience. Divide troops to support Datong Town, stabilize the first line of northern Xinjiang, fight, show your skills, and the hearts of the border soldiers will naturally be stable! As long as we hold the time, when the main force of our army defeats Li Zicheng, we can naturally reverse the troops from Taiyuan to the north, relieve the siege of Wuguan in Ningning, and go north with the troops of Shanxi Town, and clean up the Tartars in one fell swoop! ”

Many people nodded, such a road is indeed very safe and reasonable.

But some people disagree. (To be continued.) )