When Qin Shuhuai returned to the Jianghe Gang, the first thing he did was to comfort the dead and wounded brothers. The family members of the brothers who died in the war www.biquge.info first receive a pension of ten taels per household, and then they still receive a monthly allowance of three taels, and as long as the rivers do not fall, they will be paid forever. The disabled brothers will be given six taels of pension silver first, and all the follow-up treatment expenses will be paid out of the gang, and those who can still move will continue to do some odd work in the gang, and the allowance will be increased by 50% on the original basis, and those who cannot move will go home to recuperate, and the allowance will also be increased by 50%.

After that, he began to expand the Jianghe Gang on a large scale. Now that there are less than 3,000 people in the helm of the Jianghe Gang, Qin Shuhuai plans to recruit more than 5,000 people, so that the helmsman has 8,000 people. As for the thousands of Jianghe Gang people who were rudder in other places, because they were out all the year round, and they were all brought out by Qi Jin and others, Qin Shuhuai had almost no contact, so he didn't dare to use them easily, so he still let them be stationed in other places.

Through the martial arts conference and the changes of Jisi, today's Jianghe Gang is in full swing, and it has long been the top gang in the martial arts. As soon as the news of recruiting people went out, martial arts people flocked to it for a while, and there were long queues at the helmsman of the Jianghe Gang almost every day, and even the restaurants and inns in Qingwu Town were full every day, and they were almost occupied by martial arts people.

There are many people who sign up, and the requirements for the Jianghe Gang to recruit people have naturally increased. In the past, it was possible to enter without a foundation, but now those below the third level of the foundation realm are exempted from talking. Even if you go to the third level of the foundation building realm, it depends on your qualifications, and those with bad qualifications will not be accepted. Now those who can join the gang are generally in the eighth or ninth rank of the Xuantong Realm, and there are many people who are higher than this, and even many of them have already completed the Xuantong Realm.

Qin Shuhuai has been busy actively reorganizing the Jianghe Gang these days, and the court has not been idle.

On the first day of December in the second year of Chongzhen, Zhao Shujiao learned that the Jiannu army had arrived more than 20 miles northeast of Shimen Village, and decided to make a desperate bet, gathering 7,000 defenders in the city to rush out and take the risk to intercept it, so as to buy time for Yuan Chonghuan's army to catch up.

Before that, Zhao led the Ministry of Education to encounter 6,000 Jiannu cavalry who had been lying in ambush near Shimen Village on the way, and the two sides immediately started a big battle. Zhao was defeated, he was hit by two arrows, and the whole army suffered heavy losses, but he still led the army to fight to the death and did not retreat.

In less than three moments, Yuan Chonghuan's 15,000 troops arrived, and immediately joined the battle, and the situation was completely reversed. Yuan Chonghuan commanded well and gradually completed the encirclement of the 6,000 cavalry.

Shen Shi, after learning that the 6,000 elite cavalry had been surrounded, Huang Taiji ignored Fan Wencheng's suggestion to abandon the car and protect the marshal, and led the army to reinforcements.

At three o'clock in the Shen period, Huang Taiji led 30,000 soldiers and 6,000 main forces to the battlefield, not only relieved the besieged elite cavalry, but also once again reversed the tide of the battle, so that the Ming army fell into great passivity.

At six o'clock in the Shen hour, the 5,000-strong army of Zu Dashou, who was following behind Huang Taiji, rushed to the battlefield and finally stopped the decline of the Ming army.

At seven o'clock in the Shen period, 8,000 reinforcements from Qian'an and other places arrived on the battlefield and joined the battle, so that the Ming army gradually regained the initiative on the battlefield.

This was the largest field battle between the Ming army and Jiannu since Salhu. In this battle, Jiannu invested a total of 30,000 soldiers and 12,000 main forces. The Ming army successively invested 20,000 Guanning troops, 10,000 Datong and Xuanfu troops, which can be called an epic battle.

The battle lasted more than two hours, from the afternoon until dark. At this time, the 30,000 soldiers of Jiannu had collapsed, and they were running away. These soldiers were originally composed of Han slaves, Korean slaves and some Mongolian slaves, so naturally they would not work as hard as the Houjin people. And even if they wanted to die, they didn't have any decent weapons, and it was very rare to be able to hold out for an hour or two before collapsing.

The chaotic soldiers not only disrupted the formation of the main force of Jiannu, but also greatly shook the morale of the army. Since the Battle of Zunhua, Jiannu has been defeated, and he has long lost his former self-confidence. Especially after the defeat of Hengling and Hexi, morale suffered heavy setbacks one after another. Now on the way to retreat, it has been surrounded and suppressed by a steady stream of heavy troops of the Ming army, and the morale has fallen to the extreme.

And after several big victories, the Ming army found that Jiannu was nothing more than that, and his self-confidence and morale were greatly improved, and he broke out stronger than usual!

The advantages of the Ming army were established little by little.

Huang Taiji, who lost his pawn as cannon fodder, was soon surrounded by the Ming army, and knowing that the general situation was gone, he immediately decided to break through at night.

At two o'clock, Huang Taiji left behind a bunch of headless flies and some of the main forces, successfully broke through under the cover of night, and fled north with more than 3,000 horsemen. After Yuan Chonghuan learned that he had broken through, he immediately sent Zu Dashou to chase after him with five thousand elite horsemen.

Outside Zunhua City, the two sides launched another contact battle, and each lost more than 1,000 cavalry before breaking away.

Huang Taiji only had more than 2,000 horsemen left around him at this time, and if he entered Zunhua again at this time, he would be cocooned and self-bound, as long as Yuan Chonghuan led the army to surround Zunhua, there would be a hundred ways to destroy him. Huang Taiji, who knew this well, immediately rushed in the direction of Da'ankou after converging more than a thousand defenders in the city.

In this battle, in terms of results, the two sides were evenly divided. All the 30,000 soldiers of Jiannu were killed in battle (more than 10,000 fled and more than 10,000 were captured), and the main force suffered 9,000 losses. On the side of the Ming army, the Guanning army suffered 18,000 casualties, the Datong and Xuanfu armies suffered more than 7,000 casualties, and the 35,000 army only had more than 10,000 people left.

However, from a strategic point of view, the Ming army completed the predetermined goal of blocking Jiannu, completely established the victory of the Jisi Rebellion, forced Huang Taiji to lead thousands of remnants of troops to withdraw from the Guanwai, kept the rich land of Gyeonggi from plunder, and smashed Huang Taiji's attempt to alleviate the domestic economic and food crisis through plunder, which can be said to have achieved a complete victory.

Another important significance of this great victory is that it dealt a heavy blow to the peasant armies in various localities and demonstrated the strong combat effectiveness of the officers and troops.

Such a result was enough for Yuan Chonghuan to atone for his crimes! In his report to the imperial court, he had always been very happy with his achievements, and he was impressively inscribed with the four big characters "Shimen Great Victory"!

However, the conceited Yuan Chonghuan also showed a modest side. On the night of the victory, he repaired a book, enthusiastically praised Qin Shuhuai, and even wrote in the letter: Without the general's rise, the trick, the courage, there is no great victory of our army today, and the general can be the mainstay of our Ming Dynasty......

Part of this is out of wanting to reconcile with Qin Shuhuai, the big celebrity in front of the emperor, but more of it is also sincere. From Guan Ningjun to Chongzhen, everyone knew that if it were not for Qin Shuhuai, this incident that shook the government and the opposition would never have ended so easily.

When Qin Shuhuai received this letter, he didn't think it was an exaggeration. You must know that when Yuan Chonghuan set up an ancestral hall for Wei Zhongxian, what he said was much more exaggerated than this. Moreover, in fact, it was he who saved Yuan Chonghuan's life - although Yuan Chonghuan would never know how tragic he was in this incident in another time and space!

On the third day of December in the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji withdrew from Da'ankou with the only remaining more than 7,000 people after collecting the remnants of Jibei.

The change of self is over!

But Qin Shuhuai's great cause has just begun.