Qin Shuhuai's mood suddenly improved, with this silver, he could treat the whole army well. Especially in these days, the martial arts coalition has paid a lot of price for the imperial court to suppress bandits, and it is time to treat them well and express the care of the imperial court.

By this time it was already dawn. Officers and soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and counted battle damage.

In this battle, the official army can be said to have completely annihilated more than 40,000 rogues in the city, and basically eliminated the 1,205 line banners that came to the aid of the Demon Sect. As for the Five Apostles, the Six Apostles, the Seven Apostles and others, they took advantage of the chaos to flee again.

In terms of officers and troops, there were more than 65,000 people, and more than 15,000 were killed in the battle, and the casualties were not too great.

The key is that after this battle, Gao Yingxiang only has more than 50,000 descendants left, and he can only retreat near Weinan City. Moreover, he lost a large amount of military rations, military salaries, and a stable source of income, and was no longer able to launch a large-scale offensive against the official army.

Qin Shuhuai ordered the officers and troops to repair on the spot and purchase vegetables and meat on a large scale in the city, so that the prices of chicken, pork, and mutton in the city soared to three times the usual price, so that the whole army could hold a celebration banquet! At the same time, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Zhang Xiao, He Kegang, He Renlong, and others were sent to the camp to offer condolences and reward those who had made meritorious contributions.

Speaking of meritorious people, Qin Shuhuai remembered Tang Sanniang. In these battles, Tang Sanniang's contribution to the Tang Gate poison played an extremely important role, so in terms of credit, Tang Sanniang's Tang Gate can be called the first!

Qin Shuhuai decided to reward the Tang Sect with 100,000 taels of silver, and planned to nominate Tang Sanniang, the head of the Tang Sect, as an alternate elder, which could be appointed after the approval of the Elders. Although the alternate elder has no real power, it is an extremely high honor, which means that the Tang Sect, which has been excluded by the martial arts, has been accepted by the various factions of the martial arts - at least, no one dares to say that the Tang Sect is a kind of evil demon anymore.

Although Tang Sanniang only thanked him lightly, she was extremely happy in her heart. 100,000 taels of silver, this is a windfall for the Tang Sect who has lived in the poor land of Shu for a long time, I am afraid that they usually can't save so much silver for ten years. With this amount of money, they will be able to buy a lot of expensive medicinal materials to develop all kinds of murderous poisons or life-saving elixirs in the sect! Moreover, after this battle, the Tang Sect will definitely be accepted by fellow people in the rivers and lakes, and the grievances and grievances with various factions in the past can also be resolved by taking advantage of the situation, and it will be much more convenient for the disciples to walk the rivers and lakes in the future.

In this expedition, although the Tang Sect lost more than 200 disciples, it was still worth the trip.

After rewarding Tang Sanniang, Qin Shuhuai personally went to the Emei station and once again expressed his condolences for the heroic sacrifice of Shangshui Shitai. The body of Shangshui Shitai has been cremated on the spot in Baoji City and secretly sent back to the Emei faction.

Qin Shuhuai decided to give 30,000 taels of silver to the Emei faction, plus a large wharf in Jinmen, to give the Emei faction a permanent gift. This means that the Emei faction can at least guarantee an annual income of tens of thousands of taels of silver in the future.

The elder of the Emei faction, the current head of the sect, Xuan Zhishi, thanked Qin Shuhuai on behalf of Emei, but it was still difficult to dissolve the sadness.

The rest of the sects and factions, Qin Shuhuai also had rewards, in short, the 1.3 million taels of silver found in the city, after deducting the compensation for the people and the rewards for the soldiers, only 300,000 taels finally fell into his pocket.

What is even more gratifying is that after several major battles, the martial arts coalition army has gradually mastered the skills of marching and fighting in actual combat, and it has become more and more like an elite army.

Now there are 50,000 troops in Shangluo City, there are 38,000 martial arts alliance troops, and 12,000 are the official army of the imperial court. With the combat power of these 50,000 troops, there is no problem in sweeping through Jinnan.

In the evening of that day, Qin Shuhuai received an urgent report from the capital.

It turned out that three days ago, that is, on June 17 of the third year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led more than 100,000 elites and more than 70,000 soldiers, divided into three routes, and attacked the Xifengkou, Daankou and Malanyu of the Great Wall at the same time. By the time Ma Whistle sent the Tang News, Ma Lanyu was already in danger.

Sent along with the urgent report, there was also a secret letter written by Chongzhen himself. In the letter, he eagerly asked Qin Shuhuai, how was Gao Yingxiang's sweep in southern Jin, and when could he lead his troops north to fight against Jiannu at the earliest?

To put it bluntly, Chongzhen still has no confidence in the 40,000 Guanning army, tens of thousands of Datong army, Xuanfu army, and hundreds of thousands of Tuntian soldiers in Jizhen. Only when Qin Shuhuai appeared on the map of Jizhen could he feel at ease.

Qin Shuhuai thought about it, now Gao Yingxiang still has more than 50,000 descendants, if more than 50,000 people defend the city, the official army really has no good way, but if they dare to come out, only 30,000 officers and soldiers can kill them - of course, they must be the elite soldiers in the official army.

However, if you want to go north to fight Huang Taiji, then at least more than 50,000 troops will be withdrawn from here, and at that time, Shaanxi's troops will suddenly be a lot empty, and there are many hidden dangers in the case of Gao Yingxiang and 780,000 miscellaneous rogues in the west of the Demon Sect.

It seems that there must be another battle, at least to clear out the seventy or eighty thousand miscellaneous troops before leaving. Of course, it would be better if he could find an opportunity to defeat Gao Yingxiang's remaining more than 50,000 horses.

The reason for his doing this, in addition to considering the overall situation, also has private factors. Because Lai San'er and Chen Jing were still in each other's hands, if they didn't rescue them, he always felt uneasy.

He conceived it for a while and gave Chongzhen a note, to the effect that most of Gao Yingxiang's territory has been recovered, and only Weinan City remains. And the rogues in Shaanxi are currently only more than 50,000 people from Gao Yingxiang, plus 70,000 or 80,000 miscellaneous cards. At this time, if he leads the army north, it is difficult to guarantee that Gao Yingxiang will not resurge. Therefore, in order to completely stabilize the situation on the three sides, he must launch another offensive against bandits to ensure that Gao Yingxiang is unable to offend the official army again, so that he can move his army north. This process can take 7-10 days. During this time, he believed that Yuan Chonghuan should be able to drag Huang Taiji in Jizhen, so the emperor did not need to worry and so on.

After writing the recital, I was about to send someone to send it, but I heard a commotion outside.

"Bold!" This official is the governor of Baoding, the Qing Officials Department of the Ministry of War, and the minister of the Qin Cha investigating Qin Shuhuai's related case evidence, how dare you stop it?" said an arrogant and angry voice.

"Hehe, Minister of the Imperial Mission? Our Hou Ye is also the Minister of the Imperial Mission, so it can be offset. In addition, our Hou Ye is a Tongzhou Hou, the crown prince Shaobao, and a scholar of Wuyingdian University, strictly speaking, he is an important cabinet minister, so is he older than you?"

Meng Hu was deliberately angry with the other party, but there was a saying that was true, although Qin Shuhuai never participated in cabinet meetings, he had always been one of the cabinet members of Wuyingdian University.

Hearing this, Qin Shuhuai knew that the person who came was Zhang Yijia. Chongzhen asked Zhang Yijia to check on Qin Shuhuai, which was originally Qin Shuhuai's idea, and the purpose was to transfer Zhang Yijia out of the post of governor of Baoding, so as to prevent the Donglin Party from interfering with Yuan Chonghuan through his blind command of the army.

Zhang Yijia thought that he was a dignified minister, but he couldn't even enter Qin Shuhuai's study, so he couldn't help but take out the holy decree in a hurry and anger, and shouted to Meng Hu, "No matter what position you hold in the army, kneel down for Ben Qincha now and listen to the order!"

When Meng Hu saw that he took out the holy decree, he didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, so he had to kneel down obediently.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said. In order to rectify the trilateral military discipline, the special military department of the Qing official Si Zhang Yijia ......"

The gist of the decree is that Chongzhen entrusted Zhang Yijia to inspect military discipline on the three sides, but if any general who is found to be afraid of war and avoid war, and deceive his superiors and subordinates, he can be dismissed on the spot and sent to the capital. The holy decree did not say that it was specifically for the investigation of Qin Shuhuai, but the power given to Zhang Yijia was greater, because in this way, he could do it with all the officials in the three sides.

Zhang Yijia finished reading the holy decree proudly, handed it to Meng Hu, and said, "Do you want to take a look?"

Meng Hu smiled and said, "Don't look at it, don't look at it, Master Zhang, please come in." ”

Zhang Yijia snorted coldly, and then walked in with a dozen followers.