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Chapter 183 Crazy Promotion
"Your Majesty, I am overjoyed... Uh, Your Majesty, I mean, some unexpected...good news has finally come back from the Shanhai Pass front today."

After thinking about how to shirk the last part of the blame for Song Jin's defeat, and understanding the military exploits of Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong, Chen Xinjia, an old man in the officialdom who reported good news but not bad news, of course went to the palace overnight to ask to see him, and wanted to share it with Chongzhen.

When the bad news of the fiasco and collapse the day before yesterday came back, I didn't see him so active. No matter what, he had to "check and confirm first" for a day and a half before reporting.The treatment of good news is completely different.

Maybe it was because he was too excited, Rao had already thought about how to say it before meeting him, but he almost couldn't hold back when it came to an end, and almost uttered words several times.

In the end, I forcibly suppressed the "big joy" and changed it to "unexpected joy" and then changed it to "unexpected good news".

There is no way, the main tone of Song Jin's miserable defeat is there.

It was obviously a big defeat and retreat, so how could it be considered happy if the retreat was relatively orderly, a little more troops were rescued, and a small group of enemies who aggressively pursued them were killed?
Chongzhen was already a little nervous, but these days he was irritable when he heard Chen Xinjia appear, just like a parent of a poor student going to a parent-teacher meeting, every time he gets the report card, he can't help but jump for a few seconds.

Facing Chen Xinjia's bluffing, Chongzhen of course couldn't get angry: "Speak up if you have something to say, what kind of news is hesitating!"

Only then did Chen Xinjia calm down and report back: "Your Majesty, I got a report just this afternoon that the battle of Pagoda and Xing saved some defeats for the battle of Songjin. We rescued some soldiers and horses, and wiped out part of the pursuing enemy."

With an idea, Chen Xinjia temporarily created a proprietary phrase "Battle of Tashan and Xingshan", which seemed to separate the battle between Tashan and Xingshan from the battle of Songjin, so that it could become a new victory battle independently.

The one who lost was the previous battle!But the latter battle regained some ground a little bit!
As expected, Chongzhen was taken aback by this utterance, and the implication and expectation of the psychological account also changed accordingly. It seemed that "the Songjin War has indeed been concluded, the loss of the Songjin War is already a sunk cost, and the subsequent comebacks are all new ones." Earned", the feeling suddenly changed.

Chen Xinjia was good at observing words and expressions, and by looking at the emperor's expression, he knew that this time he had been fooled for the time being, so he quickly detailed the results of the battle while the iron was hot:

"Your Majesty, the details are as follows: Last month, Shen Tingyang, the minister of Nanjing's household department, made a statement, saying that it has been the third year since the water transport was changed to the sea, and it was carrying Liaodong army rations, so that it was gradually coveted by Japanese pirates, Tartar pirates, and sailors.

Mr. Zhou Ge held a meeting at that time and agreed to follow the old example of the former governor of water transport to set up four battalions to protect the water by sea. For the time being, Zhang Mingzhen, who had previously served as the coastal defense of Ningshao and Huang Sui guerrillas, would be the supervisor.

Unexpectedly, after Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong transported grain to Shanhaiguan, they suddenly encountered wind and waves when they returned. They had to change the channel and go around the shore, approaching the coast of Tashan. , The average grain needs to break through as soon as possible.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong didn't have time to ask for instructions, so they docked on the shore and recaptured the Bijia Shanshui village occupied by Jiannu, and took care of the two troops.In the end, they won the three battles of building slaves in a row at Tashan, Bijiashan, and the nearby sea!

Annihilated a Jiala of Jiannu in Tashan, and killed Erbi, the leader of Azig's subordinate, and annihilated a Jiala of Jiannu in Bijia Mountain, and killed Yonggui, a leader of Azige.

In the blocking attack on Bijia Mountain, they repelled the attacks of Azig, Abatai and Jierhalang several times, killing more than a thousand enemies and injuring them without calculation.

He also smashed the Jiannu navy led by the traitor Kong Youde, who attacked Bijia Mountain in a roundabout way, killed thousands of enemies and captured the enemy, wiped out one of the Jiannu Han army flags, and captured dozens of warships.

Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong stayed on Bijia Mountain for four days and three nights, and fought five victories in five battles, killing and injuring more than 11 Jiannu Zhentars and beheading more than [-] people.Injured Meile Erzhen one person, killed two Shenlings, and killed [-] Zuolings.

Killed and wounded more than [-] Han Mongolian traitors, beheaded more than [-] ranks, captured more than [-] people, killed one Han army flag leader, and wounded one person.Only because most of the results were obtained by repelling Kong Youde's troops in naval battles, the enemy ships at sea sank and it was difficult to behead them.

In addition, more than [-] people from Li Fuming's department and nearly [-] from Cao Bianjiao's department were rescued, and they were all escorted back to Shanhaiguan by sea! "

Chen Xinjia was eloquent, his tone was passionate, and he spoke with full of energy.

If it weren't for Songjin's battle against the main force of the 13 Ming army, except for this small 2 people who came back in the end, all 11 people would have died or surrendered.Then this victory is really worthy of celebration by the entire Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, Chen Xinjia obviously made false accounts again. If Zheng Chenggong or Li Fuming were present, he would definitely be dumbfounded after listening to his whitewashed data——

Among the figures reported just now, Chen Xinjia didn't dare to fake the number of Jiannu Zhentars killed or injured, because the Tartars were all killed in land battles, and they were still guarding the water village, and most of their heads could be beheaded.

However, regarding the results of killing traitors and treacherous troops, Chen Xinjia had poured water into the numbers reported in front by several percent, in order to look better.

As for the number of rescued Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming's troops, it was even more frenzied——Zheng Chenggong sent back to the old troops of the second general Cao Li, and the first batch only had 5000 people.

After several days of fierce fighting, a new batch of wounded was produced. Zheng Chenggong sent another 1000 people, plus the 1000 Korean warships that could not sail across the sea, and these [-] people drove the boat back without returning. up.

So before and after, Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming only recovered [-] old troops, plus [-] fairly strong warships.

The rest of Zheng Chenggong said that he had lost a lot of bloody battles with Tartar and Kong Youde, and the two didn't doubt it much.In other words, even if they had some doubts, they didn't care about Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong's life-saving grace.

If there is no reinforcements to rescue them, they will not even be able to return 6000 people.

However, when Cao and Li reported to the higher authorities, they added a little extra. They felt that only a few thousand people escaped sounded too miserable, so they reported according to "1000 people who broke through the siege", and the number was almost doubled. Anyway, enough to five figures.

And the reason why Cao Li dared to make a false report is also obvious-Daming's army has been starving for almost 200 years. Can the emperor and the Ministry of War still actually verify it?Even if it is a count, more people who report will continue to receive military pay in the coming year in order to get more.

It's just that after Cao Li made a false report, he made another false report when he came to Chen Xinjia. When he told Chongzhen, the 1000 people became more than [-].

Anyway, there are many empty pay, no worries about more debts, no more lice or itches.

The official army of the whole world is estimated to be the troops of Shen Shuren and Zheng Zhilong's top wealthy businessmen, and they are not empty-handed.

They hoped that the imperial court would give more quotas for recruiting troops, and fill as many people as they could with the establishment. As for the military salaries, they could raise their own money, no problem.

After hearing Chen Xinjia's detailed reimbursement, Chongzhen's face finally gradually recovered the color.

Fortunately in misfortune!
"Good! Good! Good! Sure enough, there is a loyal, brave and fast man in my Ming Dynasty, who can take the initiative to rescue friendly troops and fight against slaves by chance! It can be said that he sacrificed his life to go to the country's calamity, seeing death as his home! How could such a loyal man not Reward! Chen Qing, how should we deal with this matter? Does the Ministry of War have a draft proposal for rewards?"

Chen Xinjia breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly said: "According to the old military law of our Ming Dynasty, the staff department judged that in the past, if there were lieutenant generals and generals who killed Jiannu and participated in the leadership, and wiped out their subordinates, they could be promoted to the commander-in-chief as appropriate.

It’s just that Zhang Mingzhen’s promotion to lieutenant general was a temporary exception, because each battalion of Hucao was created at the beginning and there was a lack of officers, so he temporarily replaced him. If he is promoted now..."

Chongzhen didn't even think about it, and made a decision directly: "Such a loyal and brave general, of course he should be promoted directly to the commander-in-chief! No need to be suspicious, let Zhang Mingzhen be the commander-in-chief of the Cao Cao Guard, and lead the battalions of our Daming Cao Cao Guard!"

Daming's military rewards and punishments are still very organized. It is not too much to kill a Jiannujiala and kill him to join the leader.

Don't think that one leader only leads [-] real Tartar soldiers, but there are a total of forty Jiala in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and there are only forty soldiers.

If Daming can give forty official positions as commander-in-chief, he will kill off the entire army of Jiannu. I'm afraid Chongzhen will wake up laughing from his dreams, this deal is too good.

So with a swipe of the pen, not only Zhang Mingzhen was directly promoted to the general army, but also the middle-level officers under his command who were previously in charge of the garrison duties in each battalion were also promoted again.

For example, Shen Lian, who was originally just a servant next to Shen Shuren two years ago, was already one of the three defenses under Zhang Mingzhen's command this time.

In the middle, the level of "Du Si" was skipped, and the rank was directly promoted.

From servants to guerrillas, it only took two years. Naturally, these servants became more and more loyal to the young master. This Ming army is actually Shen Shuren's private soldiers.

After being promoted, a more significant benefit was that the Shen family could justifiably expand the scale of the "Cao Hu" troops.

In the Ming Dynasty system, the governor of water transportation can always have six battalions of water soldiers, and the full establishment is more than 2 people.

At the beginning of Shen Shuren's crossing, when the Governor of Water Transport was still Zhu Dadian, these establishments were already full.Later, at the end of last year, after the Governor of Water Transport was changed to Shi Kefa, he also occupied this establishment.

Originally relying on Zhou Yanru's help, the Shen family only set up three battalions that were not full of size. In fact, there were only [-] soldiers on the books, and they were all drawn from the Shen family's family members and the Huangzhou army.

Out of the 1 people dispatched this time, there are actually [-] seafarers from the Shen family, who are not counted as soldiers in law, and the imperial court does not need to pay the soldiers, and the wages are all paid by the Shen family.

It wasn't that Zhou Yanru didn't want to help the Shen family win more, but there was resistance from the court, and the finances couldn't bear it, and the opposition had very good reasons:

Didn't the imperial court say that it would take five years to completely realize the reform of water transportation to the sea?It's only the third year now!Today, theoretically, sea transportation only accounts for [-]% of the capacity, and [-]% needs to be transported through the canal by land.

Therefore, of course, the shipping side does not have a full quota of six grain guard battalions, and it would be good to give three.Shi Kefa still needs to keep three battalions and money and food. After all, the thieves and bandits along the canal will continue to be suppressed.

Now that this battle is over, it can be regarded as helping the Shen family's naval establishment to complete the two-year journey ahead of schedule, and directly grow into a complete body in one step.

As for the source of troops needed for the expansion of the army, the imperial court did not need to worry about it—there were actually more than 7000 soldiers from Zhang Mingzhen's Cao Bianjiao tribe who broke through the siege, and Li Fuming's tribe had [-] soldiers.

In addition, in the next few days, more than [-] people from Hong Chengchou's tribe who fled sporadically, and more than [-] Dongjiang prisoners from Kong Youde's tribe were captured, adding a total of more than [-] veterans of the Han frontier army.

The 6000 people who were returned to Cao and Li had to be planed out, leaving about [-] people, and another [-] North Korean blunderbuss soldiers surrendered as an organization.

In addition, hundreds of Zhang Mingzhen's troops were killed and thousands of people were injured during the camp defense in the past few days (when the Bijia Shanshui Village was first attacked, the casualties were all elite Shen's army, but in the next few days while defending the camp, Shen's army died Very few, because Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao's soldiers carried the line to bear the damage in close combat, Shen's army mainly hid in the fortifications for long-distance output), and Zheng Chenggong's loss in naval battles.

All the additions and subtractions were offset, and in the end the actual net increase of Shen Jiajun was 7000 people.

There were 2 soldiers and [-] sailors when they set off, but when they returned, there were [-] soldiers and [-] sailors.

These 2 soldiers just filled the sixth battalion of the Cao Cao Army in name, and the name matched the reality.When Shen Tingyang turned around, he could justifiably obey the lijin that Nanzhili had received this year, and take out the full amount of the 2 soldiers' salaries and distribute them to these troops.

In this way, the Shen family’s private property can no longer be used to support the army, and the basic daily expenses can be borne by the local commercial tax, which not only ensures the army’s determination and morale to defend the local area, but also does not burden the Shen family. Just bear the temporary rewards and incentives for future battles.

Chongzhen was in a good mood. After roughly finalizing the rewards for the generals, he looked at the list that Chen Xinjia had just made, and suddenly thought of a question: "Why didn't Zheng Chenggong be rewarded? And Shen Tingyang, who made the initial policy and suggested the protection of the canal, is here. It is the greatest merit of decision-making.”

Chen Xinjia hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you have forgotten that this Zheng Chenggong is a civil official, and his promotion and reward should be under the management of the Department of Literature and Selection of the Ministry of Officials. The Department of Military Affairs in our Ministry of War is only in charge of generals. As for Shen Shilang, naturally he will not be under the control of the Ministry of War."

Chongzhen patted his head, realizing that he was in a daze, and hurriedly told the eunuchs beside him: "Tell Zhou Yanru!"

(End of this chapter)