Chapter 415: Unprecedented victory

Yan Hong listened to Cui Degong's general soldier narrate the origin, and saw that the White Lotus Sect soldiers and bandits in the outer city of the North Gate had all been dispersed, and the Mongolian iron cavalry was still fighting with the cavalry of the border army, and there was no distinction between top and bottom for a while. He asked Zhang Qingyan a few words in a low voice, and then said to Cui Degong: "Cui and Zhang Er have made a lot of credit for saving the city in the starry night!" Now, the two of them stepped up their attacks, and they must annihilate the invading Tartar captives in one fell swoop. Ben Chin sent a banquet in the city, sparing no gold and silver to reward the victorious army! The future of the two presidents and the sons and daughters of the officials is also wrapped up in my grandfather! ”

The red fruit fruit of what he said was extreme, but Cui Zongbing listened to it very well, and immediately arched his hand and said: "Obey Qin's orders!" He clamped the horse and shouted: "Sons, go with me, and don't let the Tartars slip through the net!" If you want money, you have money, you want officials to have officials! "Led the cavalry of the headquarters and rushed towards the Mongolian horse team that was fighting with the cavalry of Zhang Chengxun's department.

Yan Hong ordered loudly again: "Old man Sun listens to the order!" You, Yuerong, Uncle Ban Wu, Uncle Xiucai, He Dayong, etc., led the Green Forest Cavalry of the headquarters, and 3,000 Minzhuang, along the city wall to the west, around the city to attack the enemy army outside the city, and relieve the siege of each gate! Shao Zongqi, you led 20 Jinyi guards and 3,000 people to clear the remnants of the enemy at the North Gate, and swept the enemy camp with the infantry who came to help. Wang Zongqi, you led 20 Jinyi guards and 2,000 people to garrison the north gate and respond to all parties. Brother Ye, you take the musket team and the rest of the people to go back to the governor's yamen with me, we must not be negligent under our great victory, and we must take precautions! ”

Everyone was greatly impressed when they heard Yan Hong's orderly deployment, and they didn't know that this was the result of him asking Zhang Qingyan for advice. After Yan Hong made the arrangements, he took Ye Zhengfei and others and entered the north gate again. Back to the Yamen. Along. The people shouted in unison: "Victory!" Yan Qin almost won! It attracted the admiration of the onlookers.

Return to the Yamen. I saw that the officials were also smiling, and even Hai Rui turned up the corners of his mouth for the first time. It turned out that the news from the rest of the places during this period of time also came one by one, after the border troops arrived, the White Lotus Sect soldiers besieging everywhere were unstable, and the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted after receiving reinforcements from the people.

In particular, the gap in the city wall to the west of the city was originally the focus of the White Lotus Sect's attack. But when the border army arrived, the Mongol soldiers on that side withdrew from the attack and mounted their horses to resist the border army's iron cavalry. After He Bingzhong and Yun Chuqi received reinforcements from Shao Jing personally, they even organized a team to fight out of the city, took the initiative to counterattack, and killed hundreds of White Lotus Sect soldiers. As a result, the entire Jinan suddenly turned from danger to safety, and there was no danger again.

This Jedi survived, and everyone was so unhappy in their hearts. Some people even celebrated happily in the streets and alleys. Yan Hong was in the middle of it, although he wanted to pretend to be 13. But he couldn't help but be full of joy. There is Shandong Zuo who participates in politics, Jinan Dao is divided into Taoist Xu Zhengyi, and quietly came to Yan Hong's side. Pulling his sleeve and saying, "Master Qincha, take a step to speak." ”

This old man is almost sixty years old this year, in charge of food, following Liu Cai and others to bend the law for bribes, and there are a lot of benefits, and the sins on his body are naturally great. It's just that Yan Hong found out that he was not a disciple, but just a corrupt official, so he didn't care about him for a while. However, when Hai Rui assigned tasks during the siege, he didn't give him any errands, and it was clear that he was treated coldly, and he might have broken the enemy army, and he was about to use it for a knife.

Yan Hong followed Xu Cheng outside, and Xu Yi said: "Master Qincha, this time the border army has won a big victory, and it seems that the lower officials have to show a little bit of it locally." Otherwise, if the border army makes a fuss about killing good people and disturbing the locality, it will be disgraceful in your face. It is a pity that Shandong has been plagued by disasters for many years, and after the siege is lifted, all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, and the treasury is not full. The subordinate officials were willing to destroy their families to relieve their difficulties, and donated their family resources for the use of the labor army, and prepared livestock to feed the army. ”

Yan Hong also knew that this old man was clearly going to take the opportunity to buy atonement. Anyway, now that the catastrophe has passed, I have to spare people and spare people, and I thought that I couldn't slaughter all the officials in Shandong, so I nodded and said, "Good job." It's just that there are thousands of iron horsemen on this side, plus the military horses from this province to help, the cost is huge, and you can't let anyone break the bank. You go and talk to a few of your colleagues and get together. If the officers who are not enough to find a way, it will not be easy for the border army, and if they don't do a good job, it will definitely be a trouble. You don't have to think too much, let's just say it at the beginning, Liu Cai's stinky things in office in the past, as long as you treat this official as your own person, you will not blame the past. This official's recital must be a few words for you. Xu has always wanted this sentence, when the old face smiled like a flower, and hurriedly ran to arrange. Yan Hong continued to sit firmly in the yamen and inquire about the good news. Not long after, the good news came one after another, saying that after Cui's cavalry went up to flank the attack, the Mongolian cavalry finally couldn't resist and withdrew from the battlefield. And the rest of the White Lotus Sect soldiers and Green Forest, who were scattered outside the city, fled even more desperately. There are also tens of thousands of people who took the initiative to surrender, saying that they were forcibly coerced by the White Lotus Sect, and they were happy to be saved by Master Wang. By the afternoon, dozens of miles outside the city of Jinan, there was no longer a single armed enemy army alive. At this point, the siege of Jinan, which lasted for more than half a month, ended with the complete victory of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

That night, at the governor's yamen, a banquet was held to celebrate the liberation of the siege. Zhang and Cui Er's generals naturally sat on the table, and Yan Hong praised them, calling them the pillar of border defense and the savior of Jinan. Na Xu has always gone down to contact several colleagues who have committed serious crimes, and everyone gritted their teeth and cut meat, scraped together tens of thousands of taels of silver, and bought hundreds of pigs and sheep to reward reinforcements. Yan Hong then allocated a thousand taels of gold and a few treasures from the treasure house that confiscated Wang Xuan, and sent them directly to the barracks.

Seeing that the local officials in Jinan were so sensible, this Yan Xiaoxianggong was even more rare and unscrupulous, and they felt useful in their hearts. In addition, the silver of the white flowers that was really sent to the camp, the fine grains of the good Lu, the fat pigs and the fat sheep, naturally they were smiling. The soldiers of the border army were full of food and drink, and they were paid their salaries, and they were always embarrassed to go to the court to ask for rewards again. Of course, many of the people who were coerced by the White Lotus Sect were killed as traitors, but there was nothing they could do.

At the banquet, Yan Hong made a wish, which made the two chief soldiers enthusiastic. After resting in the city of Jinan for a night, he set up his men and horses the next day, chased the dead and chased the north, and killed the rebels. This time, the guest soldiers crossed the border, and did not disturb the place, many of the people were spared from having their family wealth confiscated, and the women were also spared the calamity of hanging themselves on the southeast branch and going to Qingchi. And the military horses of Shandong Province also followed the border army majestically, sending troops to help suppress and kill the rebels. As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain, and the White Lotus Sect, which is wrapped up in crowds, can snowball when the wind is down, and when it encounters adversity, it will be torn apart. Once they lose their fighting spirit, these will become ordinary criminals who are running for their lives, where can they stop the officers and soldiers of the whole province from coming to ask for credit for their heads as if they are crazy?

Within a few days, the White Lotus Sect was killed in a river of blood and a mountain of corpses. Su Gui, who claimed to be the king of Xiao Ming, was not in the chaos, and his body was cut to pieces. The princes and marshals of the White Lotus Sect were killed or captured one after another. It's just that the father and son of the Chang family, who took advantage of the chaos to escape from the city, still disappeared. And according to the captive's confession, Elder Li Zixin, who came from Alta, did not find his whereabouts.

As for the Mongol army that invaded Shandong, although they were fierce and good at fighting, they lacked room for maneuver in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. On the first day of the battle outside the city of Jinan, because of being outnumbered, he was killed and retreated by the iron cavalry of the border army, and then transferred to various places, but the thousands of iron cavalry of the border army behind him clung to it. The Mongolian army has one man and two horses, although it is faster than the border army, but the border army is fighting on the mainland, and the Mongolian army is the Ming army no matter where it goes. In this way, the Mongol army was never able to get rid of the border army, and every time it passed through a county, the strength of the army was weakened by a few points. After several battles, the whole army was finally wiped out on the edge of the Yellow River. China and Bara threw themselves into the water and died, and the two general soldiers cut down more than 300 heads of the Mongols alone.

Don't underestimate the more than three hundred heads. At the beginning, Yang Bo guarded the border pass, and the 140 heads of the Mongols were considered a great victory, and this won more than 300 heads of Hulu, which can be called an unprecedented victory. However, the majority of this credit fell on Yan Hong. After all, he was the nominal supreme commander of the battle. Although he stayed in the city most of the time, he was surrounded by a large group of guards, and he did not kill a single enemy with his own hands. But it doesn't matter. It is written on the fold that he strategizes and praises the military aircraft, who dares to deny it? And Yan Hong brought Wang Liu Tao Shao Si General Banner and other Jinyi Wei, He Bingzhong and other Beijing troops, Sun Lie and other Flying Tiger Mountain Ringing Horses, but it became a bloody battle, killing Tartars, with more than a dozen large and small wounds, and fighting to the death...... And so on and so forth. Most of them, while exaggerated, are not entirely nonsense.

The local officials, Yan Hong naturally took them right. The civilian officials are all in the middle of the dispatch, supporting money and food, and the military generals fought bloody battles, and the battle did not turn around, and killed a number of enemies. The sedan chair carries people, as it should be. With this Qincha's twists and turns, coupled with the strength of the Yan family, even if he can't be promoted to an official and make a fortune, at least the suspicion of the White Lotus Sect will be cleared, and the problem will not be big.

On the other hand, as soon as the war ended, Hai Rui, the deputy envoy of the Qincha, received an order from the DPRK and China to recruit him to return to Beijing, and to assist in the investigation of the case of the embezzlement of money and grain from the inner carrier treasury by Li Bin, the eunuch of the Imperial Palace, and Yan Hong, the official of the Zhengqin Mission, and Zhang Cheng, the lieutenant official, stayed in Jinan to deal with the aftermath. Before the arrival of the new governor, Yan Hong temporarily took the post of governor.

If you change people, there may be a lot of resistance to this kind of appointment. After all, now that the turmoil in Jinan has been settled, it is a good time to show off your strengths and feet, and you can even take advantage of the juncture to reap a lot of benefits. What's more, from the perspective of the imperial examination, Hai Rui is a national court, although he is despised in front of ordinary non-commissioned officers, but in today's strange leadership team, he is above Yan Hong's official background. If Mr. Hai stays in Jinan, although he can't compete for this temporary governor, he will not be able to get a second-in-command, and there will be no problem at all.

So how do you look at this order, it is also a situation of unloading the mill and killing the donkey. However, Hai Rui, an official of the Qing Dynasty, did not have these thoughts about the twists and turns in the officialdom, and his focus was all on the case. Embezzling money and grain from the internal transport treasury and digging into the corners of feudalism, this kind of case is simply a heinous crime committed by a super scum scum in Hai Rui's eyes, and he is furious and vows to bring this corrupt person who has no JJ to justice. At that moment, he went straight to Beijing non-stop to arrest the rats and moths for the country. (To be continued......)