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Chapter 199 Yang Tinglin Delegated to Jiangxi

Among the generals who came with Sun Chuanting, there was one who aroused Zhang Cheng's great interest.

He is Cao Bianjiao, the Lintao General Soldier who served as the governor, and looks quite young, less than 40 years old.

Cao Bianjiao is the nephew of Cao Wenzhao, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty. He served in the military camp with Cao Wenzhao when he was young, and made many military exploits. Promoted to general.

After Cao Wenzhao died for the country, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, accepted Cao Bianjiao as a general under his command. Military officer.

At that time, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were called Cao generals of the Ming Dynasty, and they were all famous generals in the world.

During the Songjin War in the 15th year of Chongzhen, most of the Ming army collapsed, and all the troops fled. Only Cao Bianjiao dared to lead his troops to rush into the formation of the Houjin army, and went straight to the central army of Huang Taiji. Make the Chinese army retreat for a while.

At this time, the Qing army reacted from the chaos, occupying a high place and desperately shooting arrows to block them, and gathered from all directions towards the imperial camp. Cao Bianjiao, who was almost fainted due to excessive blood loss, burst into the inner camp. There was no hope of killing Huang Taiji, so he had to lead the army Return to Songshan.

Songshan City fell on February 15th, [-]th year of Chongzhen. Liaodong Governor Qiu Minyang, Chief Soldier Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, Deputy Generals Jiang Zhu, Rao Xun, Zhu Wende, etc. were all slaughtered for their bravery.

Later, Cao Bianjiao's wife asked for a posthumous gift and Feng Yin. The imperial court posthumously granted him the title of Dr. Ronglu and Prince Shaobao.

Throughout Cao Bianjiao's life, whether it was in the battle to wipe out the vagrants in the pass, or in the battle against the Eight Banners cavalry outside the pass, he has made immortal feats.

Cao Bianjiao, who was a hero in his life, died in battle at the end. Perhaps the shroud of horse leather is the best interpretation of the hero.

Zhang Cheng's respect for Cao Bianjiao is from the bottom of his heart. It is his admiration for the real heroes of this era, just like he respects Lu Xiangsheng.

In addition, Zhang Cheng also noticed a person's name: "Shaanxi Guerrilla Gao Jie?"

He looked over with both eyes, and sure enough, he saw a big man standing behind He Renlong and the others. Although he forced himself to show a respectful expression on his face, he couldn't hide the unruly look in his eyes.

It is rumored that he was originally a general of Li Zicheng's army. Because he had an affair with one of Li Zicheng's wives, he was afraid of being retaliated by Li Zicheng, so he simply kidnapped the woman and surrendered to the army. Thieves will drop the most.

Like Bai Guangen and others, they are all refugees and surrendered to the army. Bai Guangen's temperament is prey, and he has never been restrained. Gao Jie is even more violent.

Because Gao Jiesu cut his teeth for Li Zicheng, the Ming court sent Gao Jie to fight many times. In the next few years, he will be promoted from guerrilla to general soldier, and he will be added to the crown prince and Shao Fu, and his son Shi Jinyi will serve as a guard.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was granted the title of Bo Xingping, one of the four towns, and a figure similar to Zuo Liangyu.

At this time, the governor of Baoding and other officials in the city also came forward to meet Sun Chuanting, and invited Sun Chuanting and other generals from Shaanxi to the city for a banquet to cleanse them up.

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On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the Xuanda, Guanning, and Shaanxi armies gathered under Baoding City pulled out their camps one after another.

In the cold wind, teams of knights galloped back and forth on horseback. After many days of cultivation, they had regained their former splendor. On the official roads and in the wilderness, their heroic appearance was everywhere.

Behind the horse cavalry is the infantry brigade, they are all marching along the official road, and the carts in the team are full of grains, grains, beans, military tents, ordnance, etc., all kinds of things.

Zhang Cheng also separated from Chen Dakuan's infantry in Baoding. They will stay in Baoding Fucheng. After Zhang Guangda and Wu Zhizhong's injuries stabilize, they will set off to escort Zhang Yan's coffin back to Xuanfu.

Zhang Cheng knew in his heart that the soldiers who broke out from the Battle of Julu were all veterans of hundreds of battles, and those infantrymen were not good at cavalry, so it was useless to stay. He was reluctant to let these heroic soldiers die in vain.

However, the forty or so knights who stayed in Baoding to recuperate during the Battle of Gaoyang insisted on following Zhang Cheng in the battle, so they were temporarily assigned to Zhang Cheng's central military post.

According to Zhang Cheng's original intention, he originally planned to let Wei Zhice and his [-] clansmen return to Xuanfu with the infantry first, but he never thought that when he arrived in Baoding, Wei Zhice regretted it, and he was looking for Zhang Cheng day and night.

He said that the purpose of following Zhang Cheng this time was to kill the Tartars, and the twenty clansmen were also carefully selected by him, so they could go to battle to kill slaves. be punished.

In the end, Zhang Cheng had no choice but to agree to Wei Zhice's stay, and combined the forty wounded soldiers who had returned to the camp from Baoding, and the more than twenty cavalry who had recovered from Julushi's wounds, and twenty members of his clan to form a A mobile cavalry sentinel was temporarily commanded by Wei Zhice.

Two days later, the army arrived at Dacheng County, Bazhou, and temporarily camped here, waiting for Liu Yuliang, who came from Tianjin, to gather together before marching to Shandong.

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It turned out that when Liu Yuliang led the army through Anping County, when he heard that the Qing army was approaching, his face turned pale, and he hurried to Jinzhou to escape, but he didn't want Chen Hongxu, the governor of Jinzhou, to shut himself behind closed doors.

Liu Yuliang was furious immediately, and ordered the arrow to be ordered, otherwise he would follow the law of the generals.

Chen Hongxu still ignored him, and sent a message to Liu Yuliang: "The supervisor came to defend against the enemy. Now that the enemy is coming, how can we avoid it? There is no supply of food, and there are responsibilities. If you want to enter the city, you dare not hear orders."

Liu Yuliang had no choice but to lead the army to avoid Tianjin, while writing a letter of impeachment.

Emperor Chongzhen issued a decree to arrest Chen Hongxu, but the people of Jinzhou complained about Chen Hongxu's injustice, and were willing to use their own lives to replace them. Seeing these memorials, Emperor Chongzhen hesitated again.

He threw the memorial on the desk, and said bitterly: "Liu Yuliang is useless in the end, and it will only increase and disturb the people. The cabinet will handle things, and Zhou Yanru and Yang Sichang will still be there."

He sent another decree to transfer Chen Hongxu, the prefect of Jinzhou, to the rank of Jinzhou, and ordered Liu Yuliang to be severely reprimanded, and ordered him to lead the army south immediately, and discuss with Sun Chuanting and Chen Xinjia the military rescue of Jinan.

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At this time, Yang Tinglin, the admirer in Lu Xiangsheng's army, from the time he followed Zhang Cheng to Huolu, shouted that Lu Xiangsheng's death was wronged. , all because of the high ambush and self-protection, and the reason for dying.

Despite Zhang Cheng's repeated persuasion, Yang Tinglin was still unwilling, so he separated from Zhang Cheng in Baoding and went straight to Beijing.

After returning to Beijing, he wandered around in many ways, saying that Governor Lu died in a bloody battle, and absconded in fear of crime. Some censors in Beijing have heard about this and are planning to impeach him.

Yang Sichang, in front of Emperor Chongzhen, accused Yang Tinglin of being untrue, so he drafted an edict on behalf of Emperor Chongzhen, accusing Yang Tinglin of deceiving the emperor, making false statements, lowering his rank, and demoting him to Jiangxi has gone up.

(End of this chapter)