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Lin Jian led the army from Yangxin on the ninth day of the first month, and did not arrive at the vortex mouth of Jinhainan until the 14th.

Yue Lengqiu led the main force of the Qinwang Division on the southern line and was not slow, and 30,000 foot soldiers marched east to Zhangqiu, bypassing the Yellow Flood Area, borrowing from Yangxin, and recovering Dezhou on the 14th. The main force of the southern front of the eastern captives has withdrawn into the south of Baoding Fu, and the cavalry behind the palace of the eastern captives is composed of Nahe Xiongqi, and almost more than 10,000 horsemen remain in Xingzhou to monitor the Yue Lengqiu division in the south, forcing the Yue Lengqiu division not to overly approach the main force of the southern front led by Yezir Khan himself.

For Dongyu, this harvest has been rich enough, and the fundamental purpose is to return safely and fully. The cavalry monitoring Jinhai increased to 8,000 people, but there was no intention of launching a battle in Jinhainan and attacking the city.

Even if it was certain at this time that the main forces of the north and south lines of the East and the North would withdraw from the Jingdong region after converging, it would be difficult for Lin Jian to do anything in Jinhai.

Including the remnants of the Jiangdong Left Army, the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, the remnants of the Shaowu Army, and the armed forces of the prefecture and township docks, as well as the captured and surrendered troops, there are almost 10,000 troops gathered in the Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi Sanzhai areas, but the elite who can really fight in the field is only about 5,000 people. These forces were sufficient to defend the three villages of Wukou, Changlu, and Qingqi, but it was difficult to defeat the 8,000 cavalry of Donglu monitoring Jinhai in the field battle.

At the same time, the main force of the Dongyu North Line also moved from the west of Gyeonggi to the area of Jizhou and Ninghe in the east of Gyeonggi, which is more than 100 miles away from Jinhai.

The main force of the Qinwang Division in the three towns of Datong, Xuanhua, and Jibei with a total of 60,000 elite troops stationed in Xianghe and Sanhe in the east of Gyeonggi watched as the main forces of the captives on the north and south lines continued to coerce 300,000 or 400,000 young men through the eastern region of Gyeonggi after joining forces in the south of Jizhou on the 19th.

The cavalry of the palace led by Nahe Xiongqi also withdrew from the western border of Qingxian County, Hejian Province, and accelerated the speed of joining the main force of the captives to go out of the pass.

After Yue Lengqiu led his troops into Dezhou, he was much slower, and it was not until the 19th that he marched north to recover Xingzhou.

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On the 22nd, the sky that had been overcast for a long time began to rain lightly at dusk, which was the first rain since the beginning of spring in Jinhai. Lin Lian was reading the official documents in the tent, and at first he listened to the sound of raindrops dripping from the edge of the tent and didn't realize that it was raining, or Sun Shangwang came to him from the vortex village, and stood outside the curtain of the tent The dehumidifying rain attracted Lin Bin's attention, and Lin Tie noticed that it was raining outside.

"It's raining!" Lin Jian put the pen on the pen stand, stretched his waist, walked outside the tent, walked under the canopy and looked at the dripping rain, and the light snow in the corner poured the rain, and there was no trace.

"Heh, this rain has been falling for almost half an hour, and you are only conscious," Sun Shangwang said, handing the Tang copy to Lin Bin, "The main force of the captives has arrived in Changli, and the Hexiong Qi Department has also withdrawn to the north of Jizhou, it should be out of the customs in two days, and Ninghe has also been recovered by Hao Zongcheng's troops, and Jinhai is completely stable......"

"I can spend some time this spring with peace of mind, but what about after autumn?" Lin Jian frowned and said worriedly, "The Dongyu entered the Kou this time, and the loss of soldiers was not more than 10,000, but the number of people who took away from them was about 300,000, and the young and strong should exceed 100,000, and there were nearly 20,000 soldiers at this time...... The captives withdrew from the pass, how to clean up the mess left behind? Who's going to clean it up? ”

Sun Shangwang also sighed, his wife, eldest son and brother and sister-in-law were all taken away, the old father, mother and young son were killed by the captives, only the second life and nephew retreated to Jimo after the victory in Cangnan, and it was still in Jimo at this time, and it was not much worse than the death of the family.

Lin Mengde walked over with his hand covering his forehead, and saw Lin Jian holding a copy of the pond in his hand, took it and looked through it while standing in front of the tent, and said: "In the past few days, the wind direction has been conducive to the south, Ge Ye, they should have almost arrived in Chongzhou, right?" ”

"It should be early to calculate the time," Lin Jian saw Liu Zhi, the deputy envoy of Guan Junrong, probing his brain outside the camp, and he didn't know what was going on, and when he saw that he didn't come, he ignored him, and talked to Lin Mengde standing under the canopy of the camp tent, "It's easy to go south, but it's difficult to go north, and if you have to wait for them to come back, you will have to wait for another month......

When Lin Tie led his troops to Jinhai, Hao Zongcheng wrote a letter to Liu Zhi to him, asking the Jiangdong Left Army not to fight again, and everything was to send the captives out of the customs and not regenerate.

Without the active attack and cooperation of the Gyeonggi Qinwang Division, and the containment of Liu Zhi, the deputy envoy of the Guan Army, in Jinhai, Lin Jian also knew that no matter how sharp the teeth of the Jiangdong Left Army were, they could not bite the main force of the captives, so he firmly guarded the Jinhai gateway and gave up the efforts to pursue the captives in the north.

Since there was no possibility of a battle, Lin Jian asked Ge Cunxin to transfer a large number of captured horses, ordnance, gold, silver, goods and other materials to Chongzhou as early as the 16th, as well as the wounded who needed to recuperate for a long time.

In the four battles, not counting the minor injuries and returned from the team, the 3,000 new soldiers who set out with Lin Jian from Jiangning to Yannan lost more than 400 killed and more than 1,100 wounded. About 1,200 troops were replenished from Cangnan and Jinhai three times, and of these 1,200 people, 200 were killed in battle and nearly 600 were wounded.

The combat attrition rate of the Jiangdong Left Army exceeded 50%.

For the soldiers replenished in Cangnan and Jinhai, the war dead will be buried in Cangnan and Jinhai, and the wounded will recuperate at the vortex before deciding where to go; The bodies of other war dead and wounded, as well as more than 400 wounded of Shao Wujun's remnants, were transported to Chongzhou for burial or recuperation.

In addition to leaving the Dongyang, Lin Jian sent the other six thousand-stone ships and two five-thousand-stone ships back to Chongzhou.

When transporting troops by surprise, a thousand-stone ship carrying men, horses, and ordnance can be shoehorned into half a battalion of troops, and long-range naval aviation cannot be so foolish.

Nearly 100 soldiers plus boatmen, sailors, and miscellaneous servants of the First Capital Brigade are the standard establishment of the Qianshi, 5,000 ships are the main warships, and about 250 people are the first guards of the First Sentinel plus boatmen, sailors, medical officers, and miscellaneous servants. There were six thousand-stone warships and two five-thousand-stone warships in the south, with a total of 800 soldiers in the reinforced escort battalion, with Cao Ziang as the battalion commander. In addition to escorting the guards and shipwrights, sailors, miscellaneous smugglers, and medical officers accompanying the ship, these eight ships mainly transported the bodies of the wounded and the soldiers who died in Yannan, as well as some light and non-occupying ordnance materials.

In addition, he also hired eight horse-carrying ships with the maritime merchants of Dengzhou to transport 1,200 foreign horses to Chongzhou.

The price of a horse in the south is extremely high, and the price of a horse is ten times or even dozens of times that of an ordinary mule horse.

In Jiangning, Weiyang, Pingjiang and other places, the big businessmen also regarded the carriage as a sign of status. It is quite normal for a horse outside the mouth to buy a high price of hundreds of taels of silver or even hundreds of taels of silver in Jiangning and Weiyang.

Even if it is very distressing to sell these horses outside the mouth, but you can't afford to raise them, carefully raising a horse needs twenty-four stone of coarse grain, three hundred and sixty grass, plus all kinds of other expenses, you will always have to eat twenty taels of silver a year.

Lin Jian only planned to keep one battalion of cavalry, and Zhou Pu, the former Liuma Kou, would be the commander of the battalion, and the rest of the horses would be transported to Chongzhou, Weiyang, Jiangning, etc., to be sold in exchange for silver to make up for the shortfall in military funds.

Lin Jian only kept 800 horses in Jinhai, and there were more than 1,200 ordinary mules and horses.

Due to the fact that Hejian Province was also in great need of animal power, the Jiangdong Left Army was stationed in the coastal port, and there was no logistical pressure, so Lin Jian only kept 200 ordinary mules and horses, and transferred the surplus mules and horses to Hejian Province.

This time there is no free giving, and there is no reason to give forever, and most of the people who pay this time are local squires, who urgently need mules and horses for spring ploughing and rebuilding their homes, and an ordinary mule and horse in the south is only worth seven or eight taels of silver, and in Jinhai because a large number of mules and horses are snatched away by the Dongyu, the need for a surge, and the price has doubled and is in short supply.

However, compared with Lin Lian's lavish spending on military expenses, nearly a thousand mules and horses only made the burden on Lin Mengde's shoulders a little lighter.

"There's something I want you to say," Lin Mengde pulled Lin Jian to the camp tent, Sun Shangwang walked away with interest, Lin Mengde said, "Jinhai is a great victory, the four hundred first-level merits are allocated, do you know how much silver the eldest prince took it in exchange?" ”

"How much?" Lin Jian asked.

"The border soldiers are mainly defending against the enemy, and it is extremely difficult to obtain the first rank, so they can lead thousands of soldiers, and they will be promoted to the first level by ten meritorious deeds, which is the reward standard given by the Ministry of War," Lin Mengde said, "How much do you say this head is worth?" ”

"And how many levels should I go up?" Lin Jian laughed.

"Don't joke," Lin Mengde said with a straight face, "Liu Zhi wants to buy the first grade, he doesn't dare to discuss it with you, probably seeing that I am easy to talk to, he will make a bid, and the first grade will be twenty taels of silver!" ”

"Some of the heads, the military department has already calculated the merits......," Lin Jian asked suspiciously.

"Don't worry about this, Hao Zongcheng can't handle the military department, and he won't offer this price through Liu Zhi," Lin Mengde said, "In addition, haven't the Jinhai victory and Yangxin victory not been reported yet?" ”

Lin Jian stared at the rain outside the camp tent, Hao Zongcheng and the others in order to cover up and be cowardly and incompetent, they actually thought of buying the first grade to get by, he stared at the dripping rain for a while, and said to Lin Mengde: "You go and talk back to Liu Zhi, the first level of the barbarian is two hundred taels of silver, one less than a penny, if you agree to this price, we can let a thousand heads give them!" ”

Lin Mengde smiled, he admired Lin Lian's ruthlessness, the price directly increased tenfold, who would kill Hao Zongcheng and these eunuchs and generals? A thousand Shengman heads are only 200,000 taels of silver, which is cheap for them. Even if they filled in 10,000 lives, they would not be able to achieve such a feat.

Lin Lian didn't know how much military exploits Yue Lengqiu would make on the southern front, and Hao Zongcheng, who was actually in charge of the Qin Wang Division on the northern front, was too ugly on his face, 200,000 taels of silver, he could afford it, even if he couldn't afford it, the generals of Jibei, Xuanhua, and Datong towns had enough oil and water to scrape. The problem of the Jinzhong Army is still a headache, and to properly deal with the problem of the remnants of the Jinzhong Army, Hao Zongcheng is the biggest resistance, and selling the head to him at this time can be regarded as leaving a way back.

Besides, Lin Lian was too short of silver in his hands, and the bereavement of the dead and wounded in the war required a large amount of silver, and he couldn't be born out of thin air.

The reward may be promoted to a few levels, but the imperial court is a miser, and there will not be much silver reward, and how to solve the salary of the Jiangdong Left Army in the future is also a big problem. The first level can be exchanged for silver, even if it is a transaction with a character like Hao Zongcheng, Lin Jian can only pinch his nose and admit it.