The emperor's words and words were made, and his words were expressed.

When Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun heard that the emperor actually enfeoffed Liu Jun as the general of the bandit. Since the bandit had a general seal, they were immediately stunned.

There were many generals who had been given seals in the Ming Dynasty, and many generals were granted the title of general and awarded the seal of general. For example, Zu Dashou was given the title of General and the seal of General in Jinzhou. For example, Man Gui, the general of Shanhaiguan, had the seal of General and awarded the seal of General. In addition, many people were given the title of General and awarded the seal. Qin Liangyu had given the title of General Zhendong and awarded the seal, and his son Ma Xianglin was given the title of General Cavalry and awarded the seal.

There is also the Hubei general who was granted the title of General Punishment and the seal of the Hubei general who was granted the seal.

Among those generals who were decreed with seals, they were basically generals. They were not generals who could hang seals, but basically all generals were generals. Among the generals, Ma Xianglin was the deputy general with the title of deputy general, but his identity was a bit special. First, he was a chieftain, and second, the Qin and Ma families were loyal to the court for three dynasties and repeatedly sent troops to defend the king against rebellion. A large part of this decreed general came from the rewards to his family.

But no matter what, Ma Xianglin is still a deputy general.

Liu Jun was just a gentry general who had just been promoted less than half a month. Going forward, he was still a guerrilla more than a month ago, two months ago, and even a martial arts student.

The more they thought about it, they became more and more surprised. They suddenly realized that the general Liu Jun was just a student half a year ago. Three months later, he had become the general of the court who commanded ten thousand troops. Now, the emperor actually wanted to promote Liu Jun to the general of the destruction and hang the seal. Even if this general of the destruction and hang the general, the vanguard general, the general of Pinglu, the general of Pingliao, the general of Pingliao, the general of Zhenshuo, the general of Zhendong, etc., he was also a general of the destruction and hang the seal.

General Hanging Seal is even more rare than general. Isn’t the emperor’s reward too high?

However, neither Cao Huachun nor Wang Chengen spoke. They were just the emperor's slaves. So what if the emperor wanted to be a general with seals? When the Tianqi Dynasty was inaugurated, Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch, was also named Duke, and even his brother, a farmer, was also named Duke.

They don't object, but some people object.

The newly appointed Minister of War Fu Zonglong just accompanied several cabinet elders to the palace. The Minister of War, who had also made great achievements in the bandit suppression, immediately opposed it when he heard that the emperor wanted to give a general a general the title of general and award him the seal of general.

The reason for his opposition was that although Liu Jun annihilated tens of thousands of bandits, it was just a bandit. If he annihilated tens of bandits, he would have to be granted the general with seals. Then there would be more generals who had wiped out more than ten thousand bandits in the past few years. If he would have to be granted the general's title for this merit now. Then when Liu Jun made even greater contributions, what should he use to reward him?

Fu Zonglong's opposition was firm, "Liu Jun is only twenty years old this year, and three months ago, he was just a martial arts student. In just three months, he has been promoted from a lifetime member to a general. This promotion speed is already incredible. If he is promoted again, it will not be a kind reward but will harm Liu Jun."

However, Chongzhen has never been a monarch who follows advice. On the contrary, he is still a somewhat stubborn emperor. The more you oppose, the more he insists. Chongzhen also feels that his reward is not a problem. Now is different from the past. Of course, he must do extraordinary things at extraordinary times.

If it were two years earlier, or even a year ago, Liu Jun's achievements would not have been able to receive such a generous reward. But now the situation is different. The court needs a great victory and also requires a brave general like Liu Jun. Even a general who was wiped out by Zuo Liangyu, who was wiped out by the general who had even lost the general's seal, was not punished and was awarded the title of general to pacify the bandits because the situation is now bad.

Now, whether outside the pass or Central Plains, the situation is bad everywhere. Liu Jun is the only one who stands out here, so who will he give him more rewards?

As for other things, since the civilians were promoted to generals in March, and they were already generals at the age of 20, Chongzhen didn't care much about it. In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he added the palace examination to the military examination and appointed the top scorer, and then directly awarded the title of deputy general to the top scorer he selected. He was just the top scorer in martial arts, so he directly gave the deputy general. Now Liu Jun's real achievements, so what if he was awarded a general?

Besides, age is not a problem. Huo Qubing and Qi Jiguang, these are not young, and have become important positions.

The chief assistant Xue Guoguan also spoke out against the reward of Liu Jun in this way.

Amid this opposition, Cabinet Grand Secretary Yao Minggong publicly stood up to support the imperial enthronement of Liu Jun.

Chongzhen said to Fu Zonglong dissatisfiedly. "Liu Jun is so talented, so he won't use it at this time, when will he wait? Could it be that only the person you recommend can use it?"

After saying that, he shook his sleeves and walked away, leaving behind the ministers looking at each other.

On the same day, an order was heard from the palace, and the emperor rejected the proposal that the previous request of the Governor of Ji Liao, Hong Chengchou, had been approved by Fu Zonglong, the deputy general of Liaodong, Liu Zhaoji, was appointed as the general of Ningyuan's regiment.

Fu Zonglong sat in the Ministry of War, facing the eunuch who came to represent the emperor to criticize him. He was mixed feelings. Unexpectedly, he opposed the imperial envoy of Liu Jun, and the emperor denied that Liu Zhaoji, whom he recommended, was appointed as General Ningyuan. What made him even more angry was that the emperor disagreed with his recommendation because the eunuch Gao Qiqian, the director of the two towns of Guanning, reported that Liu Zhaoji was timid, and the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang even provided evidence to support Gao Qiqian's false reports.

Fu Zonglong, who had just become the Minister of War, suddenly felt discouraged. It was so difficult to do something practical?

The next morning, Chongzhen once again proposed the enthronement of Liu Jun. Many officials including the cabinet master Yao Minggong agreed. Only the chief assistant Xue Guoguan was left in the court, the Minister of War Fu Zonglong and the Minister of War Chen Xinjia opposed it.

"Then you will be promoted to the deputy general of Huguang, and will be appointed as the deputy general of Huguang, and will be appointed as the general of the defensive bandits, and will be appointed as the deputy general of the left governor's office."

This was considered as the emperor giving the Chief Auxiliary and the Ministry of War a favor. Liu Jun was only promoted to deputy general, but the imperial title must be granted.

Seeing this, Fu Zonglong and others had to accept it. Now Zuo Liangyu is the general of Huguang, with the seal of the general of the bandits, while Liu Jun is the deputy general of Huguang, with the seal of the general of the bandits. From these two general names, it can be seen that the emperor is really determined to wipe out the bandits in the Central Plains as soon as possible.

"I will declare the order to supervise Yang Sichang, Prime Minister Mei Zhihuan, General Zuo Liangyu, General Liu Jun, General Liu Jun, and General Governors and General General of Governors. All the troops must work together to destroy the bandits and bandits. If anyone can capture and kill Zhang Xianzhong, he will be granted the title of marquis and reward tens of thousands of gold. I will do what I say! If anyone dares to instigate the bandits and raise the bandits, he will be killed without forgiveness!"

All the civil and military officials of the court were secretly moved when they heard the emperor giving Zhang Xianzhong such a reward. They were named marquis. In addition to appointing the queen's father Zhou Kui as Jiading Bo, this dynasty has never had any ministers who have been granted titles.

No one expected that the emperor would give such a reward to a bandit now. I wonder which guy has such good luck.

Neither the civil and military officials of the court nor the emperor on the dragon throne would have thought that when he offered such a reward, Zhang Xianzhong had been captured alive.

At this time, no one expected that the Eight Kings, who had been withering for many years, had now been defeated and captured. They became the prisoner of the newly promoted general of the bandit.

Sichuan, Wushan, Lannigou battlefield.

The heavy rain finally stopped, but the smoke on the battlefield had not yet dissipated.

The battlefield was full of disgraceful corpses, red blood stains, and broken swords, guns and flags.

Especially in the valley, there are even corpses piled up with corpses.

Liu Jun stood in front of the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong, full of surprise.

Zhang Xianzhong was rushed up by several personal soldiers, and then his hands were cut back and tied him up like a big rice dumpling.

Zhang Xianzhong originally thought that he might be able to pretend to be an ordinary rebel soldier and find a way to escape. However, the official army actually recognized him at a glance.

"I'm willing to surrender!" Zhang Xianzhong looked at the general in front of him secretly. He was very young and surprising. But his identity seemed to be very high, and the officials and soldiers were hugging him.

"You are already my prisoner." Liu Jun said with a smile, "You should know too. Cao Cao has already escaped with his men and abandoned you."

After saying that, Liu Jun ignored Zhang Xianzhong. "Hurry up and make a prison cart and lock up Xianzhe. Remember to lock him up with iron chains. Never let him run away again."

"Sir, please rest assured. You will never let the thief escape." The soldiers patted their chests and said excitedly.

"Where is Zhang Xianzhong?" From a distance, Mei Zhihuan rushed over with a team of personal soldiers.

Liu Jun reached out to Zhang Xianzhong, who was escorted by a group of personal soldiers, "Master, the thief is here." Mei Zhihuan jumped off the horse, rushed to Zhang Xianzhong for a long time, and then laughed. "It's really a yellow tiger, I thought it was fake."

"At the beginning, I didn't find him, so I just chopped off the head of a bandit and inserted it with a gun, and then asked everyone to kill the thief. As a result, the thief really believed it and withdrew his troops. The real Zhang Xianzhong was left here and had no way to escape. After this guy surrendered, he wanted to hide his identity, but unexpectedly, I had seen his wanted portrait long ago and recognized him at a glance."

Mei Zhihuan laughed loudly, and he walked to Liu Jun, "Just just returned by exploring horses. Yang Sichang was about to arrive. The six thousand Shaanxi soldiers led by He Renlong and Li Guoqi were in Dachang City. You shouted, and the thieves found that the Shaanxi soldiers had already chased him, so they retreated in panic. Otherwise, we would be able to stay alive today."

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Liu Jun also nodded. The battle was too fierce.

"Luo Rucai gathered his troops and marched southwest. It seemed that he was heading towards Fengjie."

"Let him go first, we don't have the ability to chase him now." Liu Jun smiled bitterly. Although he didn't know the post-war statistics, he knew that this time, whether it was the Jiutou Bird Camp or the other battalions, there must be a lot of casualties.

"The top priority is that we have to clean the battlefield, then withdraw back to Wushan, and then return to Fengjie." Liu Jun thought for a while and agreed to the proposal.

Liu Jun and Mei Zhihuan escorted Zhang Xianzhong to the prisoner camp. On the way, Liu Jun asked Mei Zhihuan, "When will the Shaanxi army such as He Renlong arrive in Dachang City?"

“Last night.”

"Then they don't know that we are fighting fiercely with the bandits here, why are there still no soldiers or soldiers?"

Mei Zhihuan just shook her head and said nothing.

The officers gathered their troops and cleaned the battlefield, and they were orderly. The military doctors and many soldiers built tents, built field hospitals, and organized soldiers to carry stretchers around to find the wounded, and carry them back to the tent to treat them.

Teams of soldiers were searching for the remaining enemies, and they killed anyone who did not put down their weapons on the spot. Those with slightly more serious injuries would be directly made up.

Many soldiers were responsible for collecting weapons, armor, flags, etc. left on the battlefield. Some soldiers were also responsible for cutting the heads, while some soldiers were escorting the prisoners to carry the corpses of the bandits. The bodies whose heads were cut off, weapons, armor, and money were searched, and the remaining bodies were carried by the prisoners to the hillsides on both sides and threw them into the trenches.

The battle has ended, and the trenches have lost their function. Now the waste is used to be used as corpse pits.

"We have suffered heavy losses today, and we have lost many brothers who fought together." Yuan Jixian, who was responsible for post-war statistics, said in a heavy tone.

"Let's talk about how many thieves we have killed first." Liu Jun said.

Yuan Jixian nodded and looked through the records before, "In this battle, we killed more than 8,700 bandits, including more than 3,100 horse thieves. In addition, more than 500 prisoners were captured. More than 600 war horses were seized, more than 500 injured horses, many of them were injured, and many more than 500 swords, guns, and armor."

After five or six hours of fighting, a fierce battle for one day, more than 8,000 people were killed. The prisoners were only more than 500, and this battle can be said to be completely different from the previous two battles of the Nine-Headed Bird. The previous two battles were also ambush, but every time they fought, with several rounds of artillery fire, the thieves collapsed directly, and then most of them surrendered. Very few were directly killed, most of them were prisoners, and the Nine-Headed Bird had very few casualties or even no injuries.

But this time, both sides fought for a day. Especially the thousands of horse thieves surrounded into the valley were all elite old thieves, quite fierce and were fighting hard.

In the end, more than 3,000 cavalry were basically wiped out, leaving only 200 cavalry. The bandits outside continued to attack and attack, and the human sea tactics caused great casualties to the officers and soldiers, but the defense of the officers and soldiers also caused great damage to them, especially the huge damage caused by artillery fire.

In addition to more than 3,000 horse thieves, more than 5,000 were killed. Among them, more than 3,000 bandits died in front of the car formation that attacked the north entrance.

During the fierce battle, the large number of shells carried by the Nine-Headed Bird were about to be exhausted, and even several guns were damaged.

More than 8,000 thieves were killed, and blood flowed into a river. However, the official army suffered huge casualties. Due to the heavy rain, artillery fire was limited. In addition, the number of thieves was large, the three battalions of Duke of Hu and Lu Yuansun brothers were almost disbanded, especially the battalions of Duke of Hu. They have been assisting the baggage camp to guard the north entrance, and have used flesh and blood to block them again and again.

More than 800 people in that battalion were killed in battle, hundreds of them were seriously injured, and everyone was injured, and almost half of them were reduced.

The two battalions led by Lu Yuan and Sun Lu Yuan asked the two brothers to reduce their personnel by almost a thousand people, and the two battalions were killed directly in battle and the total number of them was over a thousand.

The situation of the three battalions of Jiutou Bird was slightly better. At first, they did not rush directly to the front, but later, when the thieves climbed the mountain to attack, Liu Jun had to send all his troops out to fight. More than 300 of his third battalions were killed in battle, and a large number of injured people were initially estimated to have been reduced by at least 500 people.

"There are more than 2,300 people in our sixth battalion, and more than 1,000 people in serious injury. Many seriously injured brothers have survived today. There are still many brothers who are disabled. In the end, no more than half of them can be cured and returned to the camp." Yuan Jixian said in a heavy tone.

Everyone was silent.

Three thousand deaths in one battle, even if more than eight thousand thieves were killed, it would still be a heavy loss.

Li Changgeng comforted Liu Jun and Hu Duke Guo and other generals, "In fact, this battle has been fought very well. We fought more than 50,000 thieves with more than 10,000 people and encountered heavy rain. As a result, we finally killed more than 8,000 thieves, especially more than 3,000 elite cavalrymen of the bandits and captured Zhang Xianzhong alive. No matter what, this is a great victory."

Everyone just sighed. Although this is true, how can we not be sad about such a large casualty? After all, there are still many reasons for such large casualties. For example, the thousands of the most fierce bandits and pond horses were surrounded, and the elite backbone of the bandits cannot be regarded as ordinary bandits. Secondly, when it rained heavily, although Liu Jun built a cannon and allowed artillery and muskets to continue to be used, it still had a great impact. For example, later the bandits came to attack on the mountain, and the firearms in the trench could not be attacked by the enemy, and they could not be used in the rain when they came out of the trench. In the end, the Nine-Headed Bird's musket gunmen were close to each other, causing major casualties. Another thing is that the only battalion of the Hu Duchy Kingdom in the Chu army was a long-term fellow villager's battalion, and the other battalions were established for a short time.

From these aspects, the more than 10,000 Chu troops finally won, which is already quite remarkable.

"Take the bodies of all the brothers who died, take them to prisoners, and put them on the heads of the bandits, and let's go back!" (To be continued.)

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