In the first battle, he defeated the enemy's tentative attack and annihilated more than a thousand people.

Such a record is no longer worth showing off in the eyes of Shen Shuren and Zuo Zixiong. What they value more is the effect of stabilizing morale in this battle.

I believe that the Ming army was inspired by this and would have to wait for another ten days and half a month, waiting for a turnaround. There should be no problem.

When he returned to the camp, Chen Shuren spread out the map with Zuo Zixiong immediately and planned subsequent actions.

Even the senior generals of Chen Fu and Lu Datou, who had experienced seniority, participated in this temporary and informal military meeting, listened very seriously and provided some current military information from time to time for reference by military preparation and Master Dusi.

However, this calmness is only achieved by those who have followed Chen Shuren for more than a year.

On the other side, Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue and other newly recruited generals were overjoyed after they withdrew their troops. They found several jars of good wine that they had finally collected, and rushed to the tent of the Central Army of the Army.

Before Zhang Mingzhen lifted the curtain, he walked and held the wine jar and shouted: "Mr. Bingbei! You are really planning and commanding. Today, you can still be so calm when facing five or six times the enemy! In today's battle, you can make the entire army unrest from beginning to end and break the enemy calmly! The last general is really convinced!"

Yang Jinjue, who was standing aside, was also so excited that he was incoherent: "Shame, I dare not deceive the matter until now. When I was transferred, I was still a little dissatisfied. Now, I think about it, it's really awkward to me!

Lord is really strict in governing the army! Especially those firearms and soldiers who were able to break through the wooden wall by the enemy, and they still did not retreat. They dared to use guns and swords to assassinate the enemy in order to resist the enemy. It is really unprecedented!

The last general has been fighting pirates for seven or eight years, and has never seen my Ming Dynasty firearms dare to fight in such a close battle, and never retreated! The original guns and swords are just decorations! The Japanese pirates rushed in front of him and had long been abandoned as deserters! The last general actually suspected the use of the master's guns and swords, which was really ashamed!"

The two of them were so moved that they spit out of their mouths, and they swayed the wine bowl and toasted them in front of Shen Shuren. Shen Shuren had to give face to drink first, and then told the others to drink together.

Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue realized that Zuo Zixiong and the old men were not excited after the battle, and were already there very calmly thinking about the deployment of the next battle.

Zhang Mingzhen and others were stunned for a while, and finally realized the gap: it turned out that under Shen Shuren, there was almost no loss and annihilation of more than a thousand enemies, and it was not worth celebrating with great fanfare...

The gap!

Zhang Mingzhen touched his head awkwardly: "My lord and his colleagues are really generous and heroic, but they have made a big fuss. Now, no matter where the Ming Dynasty, it is not worth celebrating, and what a demeanor..."

Chen Shuren smiled and patted his shoulder: "It's okay, you'll get used to it from now on. I've really been neglected today. I should have taken care of the emotions of you newcomers. For nothing, let's have a good drink and discuss military operations tomorrow morning.

The soldiers also had extra meals, each four were divided into tilapia and each eight were divided into chicken. Then send a quick horse back to the county town to report the victory, and the county magistrate Yan also came to see him. Let’s work together to summarize what to do.

But remember! Firearm soldiers are not allowed to drink tonight! They should be on duty to prevent the camp from robbing! But tomorrow and the next two days, you can give the firearm soldiers two drinks to compensate for the celebration. It is the turn of other soldiers to take turns to serve the night!"

Even during celebrations, Shen Shuren is still very careful and must not relax the basic operations of preventing robbery camps at night.

The soldiers then cheered and went to prepare supplies and shout for people without mentioning them.

Chen Shuren was still a little uneasy when he watched the generals disperse. After thinking for a long time, he wrote a note to let Chen Fu deal with it, so that the artillery team that is still on the road will also accelerate and strive to be in place tomorrow.

The Shen family's army has just arrived one day. The cannons that came from the Zheng family are relatively heavy and must be much slower than infantry. So they are still changing ships at the mouth of the Hanshui River. There is no chance to appear in this battle today, but they should be able to arrive tomorrow.

...

Haste is not achieved. After the war, you really need to rest for a night, and then some wine and meat will relax.

The next day, the rest was until Chen Shi, and the generals came to the central army's tent again and asked Chen Shuren for instructions. They found that Chen Shuren got up earlier than them, and only one civil servant Yan Yingyuan was already serving him, and the generals were all later.

It’s not that Shen Shuren is not sleepy, but he is more restrained when drinking, unlike those generals who will drink openly when they are happy.

The generals quickly exclaimed ashamed and said some clichés, praising the diligence of the Bingbei.

Chen Shuren just smiled slightly, took a document from Yan Yingyuan, and signaled to the generals to circulate it. When the generals saw that they had copied Yang Gelao and Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhang, respectively, and the content was nothing more than a victory.

I wrote down all the achievements and military achievements of yesterday in detail, and all of them were distributed to each guard and battalion. The calculations were very fair, and they were equivalent to the number of people counted by each battalion last yesterday.

Those heads that were subsequently cleaned up by Zuo Zixiong's cavalry, who were found to have gun holes, were already dead at that time, were counted on the heads of the corresponding camps of the musket team.

Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue couldn't help but admire the new boss who had just been with him for more than a month. He secretly said that he must follow the Bingbei Lord to work hard and win a wife and son.

It is common for civil officials of the Ming Dynasty to deduct the merits of military generals and receive benefits that lead to uneven distribution. It is rare for Shenshu people to be able to do not be greedy for merit, give them all to their subordinates, and don’t have money.

"Where can we find Shangguan like this? We are so lucky. If Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's boss could have been so bright and slapped in a bowl of water, they would probably not be warlords, alas." As he thought about it, Zhang Mingzhen's eyes were moist.

After they quickly wiped their eyes secretly, they remembered something and asked for instructions while returning the documents:

"Sir, look at the document you sent to Mr. Yang and Governor Fang, and finally reported the effect of the Lijin dynasty in the middle of the month of Jiangkou Pass, saying that the first batch of silver would be sent. The last general thought about it. Is this going to ask for reinforcements from Mr. Yang or Governor Fang?"

It turned out that there was still a lot of content in Chen Shuren's letter. When he came here to reinforce, Zheng Chenggong had just received three or five days of liquor.

However, including the marching dispatch of Chen Shuren, the stalemate has been here for six or seven days, and the total amount is more than ten days. Chen Shuren counted his messenger's time on the way, made some fake accounts, and sent all the benefits of the six months after the opening of the Lijin collection.

According to five or six fleets of ships heading south to Jiangxi and south Zhili every day, the same number of fleets headed north against the current, and each fleet Zheng Chengyi collected dozens to hundreds of taels of lijin.

The provincial waterway between Huangzhou and Jiangxi, Nanzhili, has a total income of Lijin in half a month, which is estimated to be more than 10,000 taels, and it can reach more than 200,000 taels a year.

This number is also in line with expectations, because Chen Tingyang calculated the accounts for Chongzhen that he believed that the three southern provinces could receive about two or three million taels a year when they were intertwined. After a balance, there were three places in Huguang, Nanzhili and Fujian. One less province could receive 500,000, and the most were nearly one million.

Huguang is considered a mean, with 700,000 or 800,000 a year. Chen Shuren only controls the tax customs adjacent to Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, and other places, as well as other governments and salt law masters. Therefore, the silver managed by Chen Shuren is equivalent to one-third of the lijin in Huguang province.

Zhang Mingzhen and others were not young men with no experience in officialdom. They knew that when Lord Bingbei received the money, he was in a hurry to report the results and sent the money in full, so he would definitely ask for reinforcements.

Chen Shuren did not hide it from his own people, and directly said the layout he thought last night: "You guessed it right. I thought that after retreating yesterday, Erhe should not start an offensive immediately.

The enemies we saw yesterday were indeed only 20,000 to 30,000, which was inconsistent with Erhe’s strength learned from the military information. If the two families were all dispatched, the total strength of 50,000 or 60,000 people would be able to be raised. Even if they did not come all, there would definitely be reinforcements from the rear army in the future.

They knew that our army's muskets were sharp and could not be taken by attacking their hearts, so they would slowly wait for the rear army, build attacking equipment, and even prepare more array houses, thick wooden shields, shield vans, etc. It is possible to prepare for three or five days.

Our army will be able to transport a batch of red and barbarian cannons today. I asked Zheng Xiandi's family before. I have sacked ten of them in total. Two of them are left to Zheng Xiandi's guarding the Jiangwei Pass. I will take two of them away. The remaining six are left to your camp.

Zuo Zixiong, after I leave, you will coordinate the entire army. Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue are each responsible for the defense of the left and right battalions. Each person is divided into three red barbarian cannons, each guarding the left and right sides of the camp gate.

If the enemy's subsequent offensive is very strong, they need to retreat to the county town and deploy defense step by step, be sure to transport all the red cannons back to the ship in advance and go back to Xiaogan County by water. Did the bandits come from the water, so without a large ship, our army's large ship will definitely not be intercepted on the water."

All the generals were inspired by yesterday's small victory, and now they are very confident. After hearing Chen Shuren's arrangements so clearly, they all said that they would hold on for a while and use up the thief's spirits first!

Among the crowd, only Yan Yingyuan was a civil servant, and he was relatively careful. When he heard Chen Shuren say "I want to take away two cannons", he quickly asked and confirmed:

"Is it necessary to go to Jiangling to personally seek help from Governor Fang? It takes more than 500 miles to go to Jiangling even if you go to Han River and Xia River. I am afraid that it will take four days to get there if you travel day and night.

If you walk the Yangtze River, you will be even further away. You have to go south through Wuchang and Yueyang, more than 800 miles. In this way, do you need us to stick to it alone for at least half a month?”

Chen Shuren nodded: "I believe you, after all, I am a civil servant. I have explained the points you should pay attention to when fighting tough battles. The first battle has also won. Now the morale is available. You can handle the subsequent daily military affairs by yourself.

Although I don’t know if there is any difficulty between Governor Fang and Yang Ge Lao, Erhe can do his best to deal with our Huangzhou this time, and he is not worried about other officials 'surrounding Wei and saving Zhao'. I always have a bad premonition in my heart. I am afraid that if there is any enemy rising in other directions and restraining our friendly forces?

In this case, if you send a small minion to send a letter to ask for help, others may not be willing. Only I will take action personally, so the face may be enough."

The generals listened to his analysis and immediately expressed their support. The daily guards of the camp and the city were originally the responsibility of these warriors.

"Don't worry, go and ask for help. We must guard this place. With the Red Barbarian Cannon, even if Erhe's troops are twice as powerful, we are not afraid!" Zuo Zixiong was the leader, and everyone expressed their determination.
Chapter completed!