At dawn, the local battle in the southwest of Wang Dengtai Mountain was nearing its end, and most of them were annihilated except for a small number of captives who broke out of the encirclement and fled.

Although the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers had all kinds of shortcomings, they were basically able to fight bravely in this battle and played a huge role.

Xiao general, Jinzhong Governor's Mansion Zhenwei Deputy Lieutenant Zhou Tongqin led 300 elite soldiers with white cloth and high shields, covered their bodies, and ambushed in the snow in the direction of the enemy's breakthrough to the southwest.

In the snowy night of the moonlit night, the remnants of the Jiangdong Left Army and the Jinzhong Army have two sentinels set up in Wangdengtai Mountain and Wukou Village to point out the direction, so it is not easy to get lost; For the cavalry who were beaten to the head, they often broke out of the encirclement, lost their way, and crashed into the encirclement again.

By dawn, except for all the cavalry who were scattered to guard the battlefield and clear out the small remnants of the enemy, all the foot soldiers gathered in the direction of Wang Dengtai Mountain, and Lin Mengde also sent all the auxiliaries of the Gong's battalion out to clean up the battlefield, and asked Lin Jian to transfer part of the cavalry to him to collect the horses everywhere.

Most of the horses that can be used as military horses are mild-mannered, and the entire southern part of Jinhai is full of scattered horses, and people do not run away when they approach, often an auxiliary soldier brings ten or eight horses back, Lin Mengde estimates that there will be three or four thousand military horses captured in this battle. His headache now is that the need for corn and forage for a military horse is two to three times that of ordinary soldiers, and so many military horses are not at all something that the Jiangdong Left Army can eat.

Lin Jian set up a simple shelter on the top of Wang Dengtai Mountain, which was used as a command post on the ground, and guarded it with Lin Xuwen, Liu Zhi, and Yang Zhishan, and waited for the return of various departments to report the victory.

The sound of horses' hooves rushed like thunder, dozens of horses galloped up the mountain, Ning Zechen and Ma Yigong, Zhou Tong were the leaders, and the three of them hugged a white horse, and on the back of the horse was a man who was covered in blood but tied like a zongzi. Galloping to the front of the command shed, Ning Zechen, Ma Yigong, and Zhou Tong got off the horse, untied the captured man from the horse, and threw it in front of the command shed, Ning Zechen said loudly: "Commander Cao asked me to come and report to all of you, and the deputy of the captured thief chief is all unified in name, a silver medal, a war halberd, and a war knife, please inspect it!" ”

"Okay," Lin Jian stood up and pressed his saber, looked at the half-dead and bloodied body in front of the command shed, and asked in a loud voice, "Capture the chieftain, who has the most merits, and report it to the officers and soldiers of the whole army......."

"Ma Yigong, captain of Zhaowu School of the Admiral's Mansion in Jinzhong, and Zhou Tong, deputy lieutenant of Zhenwei, were lucky enough to win this honor, and they were really greedy for the merits of the Jiangdong Left Army......" Ma Yigong and Zhou Tong stood up and replied loudly, these words were all taught by Cao Ziang.

"Okay, good, good, the generals of Jinzhong are really brave and good at fighting," Lin Jian comforted two sentences, and then bowed his hand to Lin Xuwen, Liu Zhi, and Yang Zhishan and said, "The capture of the chieftains in this battle is all the work of Lin Duyi, Liu Guanjun, and Yang to supervise the battle, please come forward and watch the prisoners!" ”

Liu Zhi's eyes wandered, he had already guessed that the Jiangdong Left Army was fighting in Jinhai and the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers trapped here. In the first battle of Gaoyang, the soldiers of Jinzhong were almost wiped out, although Lord Hao was not blamed afterwards, but entrusted the emperor with the general responsibility of the director of the Tianxia Qinwang Division, and the discerning people knew in their hearts that the destruction of the Jinzhong Qinwang Division was directly related to the fact that Lord Hao led the Jibei soldiers to see death and did not save them, and I am afraid that these remnant generals of Jinzhong will also hate Lord Hao so much that they grit their teeth in their hearts.

Liu Zhi glanced at Lin Lian, and saw that he was looking at the generals who had returned with a cold expression, and thought to himself that he couldn't believe that he couldn't figure out the joints in this. Anyway, the great victory of Jinhai happened in front of him, Lin Lian is the favorite general of the Chu Party, Lin Xuwen is angry with his peers, Lin Lian is the power of the three victories, that is, he does not take Lord Hao in his eyes, at most he is young and arrogant, and he really can't help him for a while, Liu Zhi smiled and said: "Lin Dujian is really polite, if a certain family stands here, there will be merit, this credit is too easy, a certain family does not dare to fight for this merit with the soldiers who fought bloodily......"

"Lord Liu is the deputy envoy of Guan Junrong sent by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, how can this battle be justified if it is not the credit of Lord Liu?" Lin Jian said with a smile, he still wanted to put aside the relationship when he heard Liu Zhi's words, the problem of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers was really tricky, but with Jinhai's great victory, he could at least seize the initiative to solve the problem.

Lin Jian had a thorough understanding with Lin Xuwen beforehand, but Lin Xuwen didn't say anything. The Jiangdong Left Army is insufficient, and it is the right thing to come to Jinhai to fight with the remnants of the Jinzhong army.

With the great victory of Jinhai, it is enough for many middle and low-level generals in the remnants of the Jinzhong Army to atone for their crimes, and there is no need to worry that they will be held accountable for the fiasco of Gaoyang. As far as Hao Zongcheng is concerned, it is impossible to stare at Gao Yang's fiasco.

The key is the question of whether to retain the remnants of the Jinzhong army after the war, whether to retain the establishment and return to the Jinzhong, or to abolish and integrate them into the various armies, or to integrate them into the front bases of the border army, these are all things that can only be decided by Zhang Xie and Tang Haoxin.

Lin Xuwen didn't have a headache for this matter at the moment, he knew that if Lin Lian led the army westward, he would have to gain a firm foothold in Hejian Mansion in the name of the right capital and the governor of Hejian Mansion's military preparations, and he would also encircle Ma Yigong and Zhou Tong, these Jinzhong generals.

Lin Xuwen walked down, looked at the captive general in front of the shed, covered in blood, and didn't know whether it was the blood that flowed out of his body or the blood splashed on him by the generals of the Jiangdong Left Army......

"This captive general's name is Xinjue Timur, and he is the deputy commander of the Donghu Wang's tent soldiers," Lin Jian took the silver plate, looked at it carefully, and said, "The Donglu military system is divided into the king's tent soldiers and the tribal soldiers, and the king's tent soldiers are the great chieftain of the Dongyu, Yezier, who is composed of the elite of the Yeji tribe and the elite of the tribes. The tribal soldiers were originally drawn from various tribes, and only in wartime did the soldiers return. However, recently, there have been frequent border affairs, and the tribal soldiers have gradually become the standing army of the Eastern Prisoners, with seven divisions, and a total of eight with the king's tent soldiers. This is also the origin of the saying that the eight soldiers of the Eastern Capture Army. The royal tent soldiers are personally led by Yezier, the great chief of the Eastern Empire, and the status of the deputy capital commander is comparable to that of the other seven departments, and he is really a big fish...... "Lin Jian explained the military system of the Eastern Capture to Lin Xuwen.

"Then say that," Lin Xuwen turned back to Yang Zhishan and asked, "This thief is comparable to the admiral of this dynasty." ”

"It's okay to say that," Yang Zhishan said, "Even if it's different, it's not much different......" He was kept in the dark beforehand, not knowing that it was the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers who fought with the Jiangdong Left Army, and the doubts in his heart had not been dispelled at this time, he wanted to take the captured war halberd from Ning Zechen's hand, and only after grabbing it did he feel that this war halberd was so heavy, he couldn't catch it, the halberd handle was cold, and there were spiral lines in his grip, thinking that the whole body was made of stainless steel?

Lin Jian saw that Yang Zhishan did not catch the war halberd, he curiously grabbed the war halberd, hey, I am afraid that there will be no less than seventy catties, this kind of heavy weapon, not to mention being stabbed, is used as a whip, even if ordinary people are wearing scale armor, they will be drawn half a life, but I don't know how much damage will be required to capture this person alive.

Liu Zhi recognized the opportunity, didn't take the halberd, and took the war knife in Zhou Tong's hand to take a closer look.

This knife is really beautiful, the handle is made of copper, the silver wire is entwined, the grip is inlaid on each side of the horse's eye-sized blood agate, and the scabbard is also embedded with various broken gems. Liu Zhi temporarily put the problem of the remnants of the Jinzhong soldiers behind, carefully admired this knife, looked for an opportunity, pulled out the knife, the sound of the knife out of the sheath was exceptionally clear, the blade emitted a cold light under the moon, so sharp that it seemed that this cold light could also stab people: "It's really a good knife, I have been in the army with Lord Hao for some time, and I have never seen such a good knife......"

"It's really a good knife...... Lin Lian returned the halberd to Ning Zechen to take, and wanted to take a closer look at the knife, but he dragged Lin Mengde behind him, and when he turned around, he saw that Lin Mengde was squeezing his eyes with him, but he saw that Liu Zhi's eyes were very greedy when he looked at the knife. Don't say that Liu is straight, even Zhou Tong's eyes when he looks at the knife are quite different.

As a military general, most of his other hobbies are false, but his hobby of weapons comes from the heart; I didn't expect Liu Zhi to like knives too.

Ning Zechen said beside him: "This captive is very difficult to catch, or Captain Zhou went around the horse and threw him off the horse, so they worked together to catch him, and this knife was also captured by Captain Zhou......"

"Or Commander Ning first took the Mo knife and slashed it on his shoulder......" Zhou Tong said embarrassedly, his eyes looked at the war knife in Liu Zhi's hand again.

Ning Zechen took the war halberd and Zhou Tong took the war knife to offer Jie, Lin Jian knew that they had already divided the spoils before they came, and expected him to give the knife to Zhou Tong and the halberd to Ning Zechen, but Lin Mengde meant to give this knife to Liu Zhi, which was really difficult, so Lin Jian did not reach out to take the knife.

Liu Zhi pulled out his knife, waved it a few times, and asked Lin Jian quite proudly: "Lin Dujian, do you think I can still get into the eye these few times?" ”

Lin Jian didn't expect that Liu Zhi could also use swordsmanship, so he smiled and said: "It's a pity that Lord Liu didn't lead the troops to kill the enemy, and this knife should belong to Liu Guanjun......

"Really?" Liu Zhi asked happily, and then said, "Capture the chieftain, this knife should be presented to the emperor together with the chieftain, a certain family does not dare to be greedy......"

"If you want to offer victory to the emperor, it should be Lord Liu who takes this knife to offer victory......" Lin Jian was afraid that Liu Zhi would not be greedy for his little benefit, so he insisted on stuffing this knife to Liu Zhi.

Liu Zhi wanted to get rid of the Jiangdong Left Army before, saying that he did not distinguish between the military merits of the great victory in Jinhai, but at this time, he was greedy for this knife, hesitated, and hesitated for a while before he smiled and said: "Lin Dujian, you are harming me......" He took the knife in his hand, but did not mean to return it to Lin Bin.

Zhou Tong was not good at hiding his thoughts, and his face showed a look of disappointment, Gao Yang was defeated, and the soldiers of Jin Zhong were killed, all thanks to the eunuchs, at this time, the eunuch Liu Zhi took away his beloved war knife, and hatred bred in his heart. Lin Jian saw Zhou Tong's look in his eyes, untied the knife on his waist, and said: "Captain Zhou has the first merit of capturing thieves, and he should not be rewarded by me, but Captain Zhou's heroism is impressive, I have a knife here that was captured by the great victory in Cangnan, and I have not been able to find a qualified owner, so I gave it to Captain Zhou, hoping that Captain Zhou will use it to build military merits again......"

"......" Zhou Tong was clumsy, he didn't know what to do for a while, of course he knew in his heart that Lin Tie must have loved wearing this knife on his waist, but he wanted to excuse himself but stuffed the knife into his hand for Lin Tie, and he blushed and stammered and couldn't say anything.

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