Zhengyang Gate, the ceremony site of the army entering the city.

After hearing Chen Xi's explanation, Zhang Yanling sneered: "Shen Zhongcheng, you are really good at training troops. Another day, please help me practice other soldiers in the Beijing camp?"

Chen Xi smiled at Zhang Yanling and said, "Marquis Jianchang is over-reward. He only brought a group of people and left a few times before the Ghost Gate!"

Zhang Yanling was silent at first. He carefully considered Chen Xi's words and felt that there was no problem. Chen Xi did come back to the capital with his troops from Tumu Fort.

There is indeed no need to compete with these people who are always on the verge of life and death!

Zhang Yanling snorted coldly: "If it were other soldiers in the Beijing camp, their performance might not be much worse!"

At this time, Zhang Yanling was desperate to save face and refused to admit that Chen Xi's ability. But Zhang Yanling had to admit that he had never seen such a well-equipped army, and he was deeply shocked.

Just when Zhang Yanling and others thought that the performance of Chen Xi's troops was almost over, the sudden loud news came again: "The 2,600 soldiers of the central army escorted 2,562 Tatar prisoners and entered the city to offer prisoners!"

When this number was reported, the city gate was already silent.

After hearing the sound of the messengers' reports several times, they were sure that they had heard it correctly. It was indeed 2,600 soldiers who escorted nearly 2,600 Tatar prisoners into the city.

Xiao Jing could no longer control his emotions, so he hurried over to ask Chen Xi: "Mr. Shen, this number will not be wrong, right?"

The obvious truth is that the number of prisoners is much beyond the imagination of the court!

In order to make Chen Xi moderate and peaceful, Xie Qian tried to keep a low profile in the court, and deliberately reduced the credit in the credit book and even mentioned it in the issue of captives. However, the emperor had a unique intention to arrange such a ceremony to enter the city, and according to the convention, there was an agenda for the Meridian Gate to offer prisoners. In addition, the cabinet had not taken over the captives, Xie Qian had no time to cover up, so he was escorted to the city by Chen Xi's troops in a magnificent manner.

The number is so great that Ma Wensheng, Zhang Mao, Xiao Jing and others find it very incredible to those who know the Ming and Tatar wars.

Xiao Jing came over to ask because he was afraid that Chen Xi's troops would report falsely and overreport numbers.

Chen Xi looked at the city gate and the prisoners were not escorted here for the time being, but they should be coming soon. He explained as if nothing had happened:

"The specific inventory should be completed by the army. I have already entered the city in the past two days. The specific matters... are not very clear!"

Chen Xi himself also knew that the number of prisoners offered this time would be inconsistent with the reported numbers.

In the past, when encountering such a thing, the soldiers below basically falsely reported the numbers more. When they were actually offering prisoners, they found some barbarians to pretend to be soldiers of the Yigang. However, this time, Chen Xi took the initiative to report the report when reporting before, but instead exposed the truth when offering prisoners.

Xiao Jing widened his eyes and said nervously: "Mr. Shen, if you falsely report the number of prisoners, you will be very guilty!"

Chen Xi knew that Xiao Jing was afraid that the number of prisoners in the end was insufficient, rather than talking about the problem of underreporting before, so he nodded: "Eunuch Xiao will count it yourself afterwards. I think the numbers should not be wrong!"

Xiao Jing didn't want to spend that effort, but after hearing the numbers reported by the messenger, he was already restless.

Nearly 2,600 prisoners, these are living people!

The war reports from the border have accumulated over many wars, and the number of Tatars killed was only this number. It was not until the Battle of the Capital that thousands of Tatars were harvested!

But this time Chen Xi actually directly offered more than 2,600 prisoners. It was not easy to kill a Tatar on the battlefield. Now he was caught alive. The number of such a large number made Xiao Jing feel upset.

If there were no so many prisoners, it would be like being embarrassed in front of the onlookers of the Ming Dynasty, and the face of the court would be gone.

If it weren't for the prisoner offering ceremony that had begun, Xiao Jing even planned to suspend the entire process and find someone to report to the emperor first, and then the emperor decided whether to continue the prisoner offering ceremony.

Xiao Jing looked embarrassed: "Mr. Shen, you can't speak nonsense on this issue!"

Chen Xi protested with some dissatisfaction: "Eunuch Xiao, the matter of offering prisoners is led by the court. I have always stayed in the city. The matters are arranged by the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Army. I have never intervened. Now the number of prisoners I offer is together with you, and I have just heard the following sorting report. How can you say that I am just talking nonsense?"

Xiao Jing thought to himself, hey, you kid is unwilling to admit it. If the number of prisoners is not enough, I will not let me go down and wear Tartar clothes to capture them, right?

Xiao Jing was about to get angry with Chen Xi, but soon he didn't care because the prisoners had already begun to enter the city.

The one responsible for escorting the prisoners this time was still the infantry under Chen Xi's command, but they no longer entered the city in a straight stairs. The team seemed a little scattered. The main reason was that while they entered the city, they had to be responsible for escorting almost the same number of Tatar prisoners.

At the front of the captive team was a female Tatar general. This person was Huo Ling, who was captured by Chen Xi in the first battle of Tumu Fort. At this time, she was tied with thick hemp ropes and limped while walking. Obviously, the journey was hard. In addition, she had just come from Juyongguan and had to attend the prisoner offering ceremony of the Ming army before she could finish her rest. This made her feel extremely humiliated. At this moment, she couldn't even raise her arrogant head, and her whole spirit seemed extremely poor.

Xiao Jing pointed to Huo Ling below and said, "Mr. Shen, who is this woman? Why is she ranked first?"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites next to him answered in surprise: "Eunuch Xiao, isn't this one a member of the envoys sent by Tatars to the Ming Dynasty? She followed the Tatar national savage Yi Simayin to visit the capital several times. At that time, she was arrogant and refused to kneel down even when she saw His Majesty!"

Xiao Jing then remembered and nodded repeatedly: "By the way, by the way, even she turned into ashes, I know her!"

As soon as Huo Ling passed by, some of the captive Tatar generals followed by, among them, Yi Sima Yin's general Wulicha. They were all arrogant, but at this moment they were driven into the city like animals by the Ming army, and suffered a huge blow in their body and mind.

But these Tatar generals were all rebellious, especially when they saw Chen Xi, they wanted to go up and swallow Chen Xi alive. Now even Hu Songyue felt a little nervous and hurriedly brought more than a dozen guards to protect the high platform, for fear that any Tatar prisoners would break free from the ropes and endanger the safety of Shen Xi and all the adults on the high platform.

At first, Xiao Jing was afraid that Chen Xi would report his military achievements in vain and was worried that the number of prisoners was insufficient. When he leaned out his head and looked outside the city gate, he realized that the team of prisoners was very long and could not see at first sight.

In this way, his heart finally felt a little calmer, but then he began to stir up a heartbeat: "But don't happen if you take advantage of a good prisoner, otherwise you will not be able to explain to the emperor! I just hope that these ignorant people can deceive them!"

After the Tatar generals were escorted, the subsequent Tatars were seen as ordinary Tatar soldiers, all of whom were tall and fierce. Xiao Jing was afraid that there were many ordinary Tatar people behind the team, or the Ming people, who were made up like Tatar prisoners, and were presented to the city together.

But Xiao Jing's concern was obviously unnecessary. When Chen Xi's troops offered prisoners, they asked people to pretend, even the injured Tatar prisoners who were not flexible in their legs and feet were not included in the final list of prisoners.

All the Tatar prisoners who offered prisoners this time were alive. If they put down the ropes, these prisoners might even be able to resist, rob the weapons of the surrounding generals and soldiers, and kill and set fire.
Chapter completed!