Chapter 257 Red Spring Blood (2)
Zhang Ping'an suddenly stood up with a bang and walked back and forth in the yurt irritably. He didn't dare to pick the scars on his face, otherwise his face, which was full of ugly wounds, would have been even more ugly. When Li Xunhuan cured his left face with a knife, he was also itchy, but his attention was on the war at that time. The tense mood during the war made him have no time to care about the itching of the wound. Now the war has subsided, and the face is extremely itchy. The fear of Zhang Dashuai, Zhang, fell on the brink of madness.
The violent Zhang Ping'an shouted: "Give me ten Mongolian households to you! Hurry up!"
Zhang Ping'an's inexplicable roar made everyone in the tent petrified instantly. They couldn't understand why the general suddenly went crazy, but Hao Yidao did not hesitate at all and dragged Lu Deyin to the prisoner-of-war camp to select people.
In an incense stick, Hao Yidao entered the yurt and reported to Mr. Zhang that the person he wanted had been brought. Zhang Ping'an's face twitched and he pulled out his waist with a clang. After he patrolled left and right, he walked to Gu Xin and looked at Gu Xin's at a loss with a smile. He twisted Gu Xin's ear with his left hand and led Gu Xin outside the tent.
Gu Xin bent over and begged in pain. He instantly understood Zhang Ping'an's intention. Zhang Da'an was trying to kill someone and relax. Gu Xin knew that Zhang Da's rest taste was very special. He just advised him to anger Zhang Da'an. It seemed that he wanted him to accompany him to kill someone and play.
Hao Yidao is now getting to know Zhang Ping'an more and more. Although he is not very smart, the furious Marshal Zhang didn't even eat dinner at this time, so he brought up the captured Mongolian households, indicating that Marshal Zhang wanted to kill people to relieve his hatred. Therefore, as soon as Zhang Ping'an took out the yurt, he saw his thirty personal soldiers, three of them in groups to guard a Mongolian officer who was kneeling and tied up.
Moreover, in front of each prisoner, a personal soldier dragged the prisoner's hair forward with his hands, revealing his neck, and the other two pressed the prisoner's arms backwards and prepared for execution. Looking at this situation, Zhang Ping'an let go of Gu Xin's ears and gave a thumbs up to Hao Yidao who was following him out.
He walked towards the yurt steps, walked to the nearest prisoner and raised his knife. Zhang Ping'an, whose eyes were full of blood, slashed towards the prisoner's neck. At the moment when the heads of the prisoners were separated, the two personal soldiers responsible for pressing their arms pushed the headless body forward, and the blood splattered on the neck rushed out of a blood nest on the ice and snow ground. The personal soldiers cooperated with the tacit movements, so that the blood of the prisoners would not be splattered in the commander's body.
Mr. Zhang, who was very satisfied with his personal soldiers, raised a smile at him. After slashing six Mongolian officers in a row, he let out a long roar. He rubbed his blood-stained waist knife cleans the clothes of the last fallen Mongolian prisoners. Then he kicked the air and pointed at the remaining prisoners and said to Gu Xin: "The rest is yours!"
After three days of pursuit, Lin Danhan finally stopped retreating a hundred miles southeast of the Hueryu Sea. He wanted to use the camp here to fight against the pursuing Pou Army.
As the head coach of the pursuit legion, Chen Zheng was already in a panic at this time. Behind him were a large number of rescued Ming slaves, and tens of thousands of Mongolian prisoners were eager to be escorted. The troops he could fight against Lin Danhan were less than 70,000 combat soldiers.
In order to solve this problem, he asked Lu Xiangsheng, who had civil experience, to lead the troops of the headquarters and Li Chen to deal with the troubles behind him.
Although Lu Xiangsheng was born as a civil servant in the Ming Dynasty, he had a headache for so many slaves. The Mongolians fought many differently from the Ming Dynasty. They often led all their tribes to migrate, with the elderly, weak, women, children, and cattle and sheep gathering together. After this battle, the slave-defeating army almost became a shelter team.
According to Lu Xiangsheng's preliminary grasp, there were more than one million Ming slaves rescued, which was very different from the information of the 800,000 slaves mentioned by Haserdun. Because in addition to the Ming people who were captured by Lin Danhan in the city and rural areas around Datong, many of them were Ming people captured by Mongolian tribes over the years.
Lu Xiangsheng, who knew the nature of Zhang Dashen, knew very well that these Ming people, General Zhang, would not hand over to the court. He wanted to exchange these people for the overlord status of the Slave Army outside the pass. Before the battle began, General Zhang had planned to place these people in Hulun Lake. But General Zhang, General Zhang, had food to prevent these weak people from starving to death?
Lu Xiangsheng rode a horse to patrol the 50-mile camp while thinking about countermeasures. Suddenly, a black shadow stumbled towards him, opened his mouth excitedly and wanted to shout, but he couldn't make a sound for a long time, and his feet jumped in a hurry. The personal soldiers guarding Lu Xiangsheng's side attacked the thin Ming man, and rushed forward to surround the thin Ming man.
Finally, the person's hoarse voice squeezed out two words with difficulty: "Jiu...Tai!"
When Lu Xiangsheng heard these two words, he was shocked. "Jiutai" was his Lu Xiangsheng's name, and no one who was familiar with him would know it at all. Only Marshal Zhang and the commander in the Possess Army knew his name, and no one called him. This means that this person must be very familiar with him.
When Lu Xiangsheng thought of this, he turned over and got off the horse and walked towards the man. He gently pushed away his personal soldiers with his hands and arrived at the man in black and lost his true nature. He looked at him carefully for a while. But he saw that the man was in his thirties, his beard was messy, his hair was thrown behind his head, his face was dark and thin, and his eyes were covered with tears. But Lu Xiangsheng still couldn't remember who this person was.
Although Lu Xiangsheng didn't know who the person was, he still bowed gracefully to him: "I don't know what the name of this brother Tai is?"
"Jiandou! We are in the same year! My surname is Zhang..."
"Ah! You are Zhang Ziteng from Chengdu Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Brother Zhang Nian? Why are you so down and out?" Lu Xiangsheng finally remembered the origin of this person. His surname was Zhang, his name was Huzhou, and his courtesy name was Ziteng. He was 135th in the third examination of the second year of Tianqi Palace Examination and was awarded the same Jinshi by the emperor.
As a scholar who was born in a Jinshi, others can forget it, but the master and Yipin must not forget it in the same year. Because these people will be his hard-core ally in the court, and once he has difficulties, these swearing hands will help them in the same year. So, Lu Xiangsheng quickly took off the squid cloak on his body and put it on Zhang Huzhou's trembling body.
It took Zhang Huzhou a long time to calm down and talk about his miserable experiences tremblingly. Since he was on the list of gold, he was assigned to a real-time magistrate. He went to Huairen County, Shanxi to serve as the eighth-rank county magistrate. Not long after he took office, he encountered the unlucky incident of Lin Danhan defeating Datong. Huairen's magistrate ran away and he was foolishly trying to defend the city. As a result, he was captured by the county town by Kundu Khan's troops, and he became a prisoner of the Mongols. He had been suffering for almost a year, and almost died several times in the middle.
After hearing his experience, Lu Xiangsheng felt very sympathetic. But the rule of the Ming Dynasty was that civil and military officials who lost their city defense would be rewarded if they died in battle. But if these officials were captured or surrendered to the enemy, they would definitely be severely punished if they returned to the Ming Dynasty.
"Brother Nian, come with me and go to my tent. Let's talk about your future places." Lu Xiangsheng said very obscurely. Even if Zhang Huzhou was stupid, he could hear the mysterious voice-over. Lu Xiangsheng wanted to make an arrangement for the future of the same year. So Zhang Huzhou rode his personal soldiers and gave up his horse and followed Lu Xiang to the garrison.
As soon as he entered the tent, Lu Xiangsheng asked him to eat for him and chatted after Zhang Huzhou finished eating. However, Zhang Huzhou was worried about his future fate. After eating a few bites, he couldn't wait to ask: "Brother Jiandou! For the sake of the same year, I will help my brothers. I did not be loyal to the court, but my family was concerned about my father and children. Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo w
Zhang Huzhou said and knelt in front of Lu Xiangsheng and cried. Seeing this, Lu Xiangsheng quickly helped him into the seat, and sent his personal soldiers away, and then kept comforting him: "Brother Ziteng, get up quickly, why is this? With me here, you will definitely not be wronged. Let me tell you the truth. I am now the assistant minister of the Xuanwei Envoy of the Ponucheng. As long as your brother Ziteng doesn't return to the Ming Dynasty and I recommend it, it will be no problem to find a position here."
"What's going on? Jiandou? Isn't this Xuanwei envoy of the Daming Dynasty a vassal?" As a regular bureaucrat of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Huzhou immediately heard something strange from Lu Xiang's promotion's official position.
"I'm still a vassal. Sun Ge Lao gave the title of Po Nu Army. Brother Ziteng, you may not know how old Zhang Ping'an was. He is only fourteen years old this year! Everyone in the court took a look. He led less than 200,000 Po Nu Army troops and defeated the Jurchen Nurhaci's millions of troops. So, Lin Danhan's millions of troops were defeated in front of him for a day and was defeated. In the future, the world outside the northern pass of the Ming Dynasty will be dominated by the Po Nu Army."
Lu Xiangsheng's heart was full of mixed feelings at this moment. He not only hoped that the Ponu Army would win, but also feared that the Ponu Army would be too powerful. The too powerful Ponu Army could not control it at all. After this war, the Ponu Army suffered a lot of losses, but it was never enough to be damaged. The situation that the Ming court had speculated that both sides were injured was not formed at all. On the contrary, the Mongolian Lin Dankhan and Jurchen Nurhaci suffered serious losses.
Lu Xiangsheng, who knew the inside story, also knew that the Ponu Army failed to wipe out the enemy completely. It could not pose a substantial threat to the Ming Dynasty in strategic terms, because the Jurchens and the Mongolian Lin Dankhan always watched the every move of the Ponu Army. Once the Ponu Army attacked the Ming Dynasty, the rear of the Ponu Army would be empty, which would give the Ponu Army an opportunity a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the Ponu Army would fall into an unfavorable situation of siege on three sides.
Therefore, as the commander of the Slave Army, Zhang Ping'an would not let this happen. His only choice was to do things according to the intentions of the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhang Ping'an's mind was unpredictable. If the court did not meet his requirements, he would definitely take bad moves and make the Ming Dynasty uncomfortable.
"Brother Ziteng, if you want the Ming Dynasty not to hold you responsible for losing the city, you will achieve something with me first. As long as the rescued people are maintained, they will not starve to death or go out of unrest, you will be respected by Zhang Ping'an, the Xuanwei envoy of the Possess City. He may appoint you as the governor of Yicheng. In a few years, he will ask the court for a pardon for you. Just tell me what you want. By the way, I have the gold medal of Xuanwei envoy."
Chapter completed!