Some households in Fenghuang Post heard the sound of firecrackers here and reported it to the guarding 100 households. The guarding 100 households quickly summoned 60 sergeants and hurried over. They saw numerous people outside Yaowang Temple at the northern foot of Fenghuang Mountain.
The dead body, the guarding Baihu was so shocked that his face turned pale. Fortunately, except for the injured Qianhu Zhen Zidan, the deputy of the Jinyi Guards, the other officials of the Ming Dynasty and the North Korean mission were all safe. Otherwise, he, the Baihu, could not bear the responsibility, because he was responsible for guarding this area.
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Two Jinyi guards entered the temple and reported to Zhang Yuan the number of captured Jiannu horses and related artifacts. They found twelve Jiannu corpses and one captive. There were supposed to be thirteen horses, but only ten were found, five of which were found.
The three horses that were wounded by muskets and could not be found must have run away with the retreating Jiannu——
Several packages were also found on the captured horses. In addition to a small amount of dry food and wine, the packages were filled with gold and silver property, totaling 600 taels of gold, more than 3,000 taels of silver, and a lot of gold and silver jewelry. Zhang Yuan saw
One of the gold earrings also involved a piece of meat, which was obviously torn from the woman's ear. There was also a silver Bagua lock, which was hung around the neck by children to keep them safe. The Bagua lock was also stained red with blood -
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Zhang Yuan looked sternly and said to Ruan Dacheng and others: "Before attacking us, this group of rebels also robbed other Han people, including women and children. I don't know how many lives were killed. It's hateful!"
Several Jinyi guards came forward and beat and kicked the captive Jiannu cavalry, and asked the prisoner where he had robbed the Han people. The prisoner gritted his teeth and refused to tell, and the Jinyi guards beat him so hard that he vomited blood——
This time, together with Zhen Zidan, sixty-one Jinyi guards followed Zhang Yuan on a mission to North Korea. In the first battle, twelve people were killed and twenty-one were injured. The leader Zhen Zidan was also seriously injured. You can imagine the hatred of these Jinyi guards towards Jiannu.
Yizhi. Zhang Yuan watched the Jinyi guards abusing the prisoners and did not stop him. He just said: "Don't beat him to death. Let him live for the time being. After interrogation, it will not be too late to kill him with a thousand swords."
Phoenix Guards Hundreds just wanted the mission to leave the territory under his jurisdiction as soon as possible, and bowed their hands to Zhang Yuan and said: "Sir Zhang, I saw that there were many seriously injured among the Jinyi Guards in my humble position, so I must rush to Lianshan Pass for treatment as soon as possible. Lianshan Pass Guards
All military doctors specialize in treating wounds caused by swords and arrows."
It was not advisable to stay in Yaowang Temple for a long time. The sergeants at Fenghuang Baihu Station were all infantry and were unable to hunt down the nineteen Jiannu cavalry. Zhang Yuan left more than ten injured horses at Fenghuang Post and recruited ten more from Fenghuang Post.
A horse-drawn carriage helped transport the dead bodies and the injured. Those with minor injuries could be treated with hemostatic bandages and then internally administered a kind of Jinyiwei's secret wound medicine. Those with serious injuries had to be rushed to Lianshanguan.
Before noon, the mission's chariots and horses left Fenghuang Mountain and headed for Lianshan Pass. Jinyi guards and musketeers were sent out along the way. The Jiannu cavalry came and went like the wind, so they had to be on guard -
Those who previously criticized Zhang Yuan's cowardice in their hearts are now in awe of Zhang Yuan. If Zhang Yuan hadn't been cautious and transferred a hundred musketeers from Lianshanguan, the entire mission would have become a Jian.
The thief's sword is a ghost, and the sixty Jinyi guards can't resist the Jiannu cavalry.
Ruan Dacheng and Zhang Yuan have been friends for several years. He admired Zhang Yuan's craftsmanship in the past, but Zhang Yuan's ability to adapt to adventures this time made him even more impressed by Zhang Yuan. Thinking about how he would face the attack of the construction thieves
Compared with Zhang Yuan's command, Ruan Dacheng couldn't help but feel ashamed, and said in his heart: "Zhang Jiezi is an outstanding person, not as good as Ruan."
Zhang Yuan was not complacent. The killing of Hu Erhan, one of the five ministers of the Jin Dynasty, only gave Zhang Yuan a brief surprise. The combat effectiveness of the Jiannu cavalry worried him. The battle just now was very dangerous. If Mu Jingyan hadn't killed him first
Hu'er Khan, if the Jiannu cavalry did not retreat in fear because of Hu'er Khan's death but resolutely charged and killed him, and if Hu'er Khan came with twenty more armored troops, then the mission would definitely be in trouble.
Fortunately, the Jiannu cavalry at this time did not have strong confidence to face the Ming army. Fortunately, Huerhan only came for robbery, so he only brought thirty-one cavalry...
This is not an afterthought, but a necessary summary. When he arrives at the Guangning Guard, Zhang Yuan will work with the Liaodong governor, the general, and the general to comprehensively summarize Huerhan's raid, because after this incident, Nurhachi invaded Liaodong.
Most likely in advance——
As the sun set, the mission arrived more than ten miles southeast of Lianshan Pass. Chen Qianhu, the guard of Lianshan Pass, had received the news and led his people to greet him. He learned that the Jin Yiwei and the musketeers he sent had suffered such heavy casualties. Chen Qianhu
He was also frightened and immediately sent an envoy to report to Guangning Guards.
That night, Chen Qianhu followed Zhang Yuan's order to cut off the heads of the corpses of twelve Jiannu slaves and put them in lime wooden boxes. These heads were to be taken to Guangning City and had to be embalmed, and the corpses were cremated on the spot.
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The four dead musketeers were all local military households, and their families would take the corpses back for burial. In addition to the normal pension money distributed by the guard, Zhang Yuan ordered Zhang Rushen to give each of these four households one hundred yuan in the name of Eunuch Lu.
Two taels of silver, the nine injured musketeers each received 20 taels of silver, and the remaining musketeers each received one tael of silver——
Zhang Rushen thought that Zhang Yuan gave too much money to the casualty military households. This was a generosity to others. Didn't he get a lot of gold and silver from Jiannu? Why didn't the pension money come from there? Zhang Rushen felt unhappy and looked at him.
The superior smiled and said: "Master Zhang, this amount of money is not a small amount. How should I explain it to Eunuch Lu?"
Zhang Yuandao: "When I get to Guangning, I will tell Duke Lu about it."
The corpses of the twelve royal guards could not be transported back to Beijing due to the long journey. They had to be buried in coffins and stored in Puci Temple. The original abbot of Puci Temple, Jie Mian, had been sentenced to hard labor, and the new abbot came from Guangning.
At Lianshanguan, Zhang Yuan, Mu Jingyan and Chen Qianhu carefully inspected the relics of the slaves. The leader Hu'erhan wore a chainmail armor and a helmet made of silk and cotton, wrapped in iron and covered with copper.
Nails are extremely tough and cannot be damaged by ordinary swords unless they are stabbed with great force——
Jin Zhongqing, a North Korean litigator who is familiar with the story of Jianzhou, said: "It was a hot summer day, and the Jianzhou Jiajun was only wearing one layer of armor. As far as I know, when Nurhachi officially went to war, his cavalry often wore three layers of armor.
The armor weighs eighty kilograms and is not afraid of arrows and firearms."
The guest on the side nodded repeatedly, but Chen Qianhu disagreed. Zhang Yuan didn't say anything more and just asked Chen Qianhu to record in detail the armor, weapons and injuries sustained by the thirteen Jiannu cavalry.
He wants to take him to Guangning.
On the morning of June 18, the mission, escorted by one hundred musketeers and one hundred infantry archers from Chen Qianhu, left Lianshanguan and arrived at Guangning City six days later. Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Zhang Chengyin and Han Yuanshan were both commanded.
, the guarding eunuch Lu Huai, and the Liaodong governor Li Weihan, who had just returned from his inspection tour of Fushun, had received the urgent military information from Chen Qianhu of Lianshan Pass, and they all went outside the city to greet Zhang Yuan and the Korean delegation that day——
The news of the North Korean coup reached Guangning three days earlier than Chen Qianhu's urgent report. Governor Li Weihan was very angry and said to the guarding eunuch Lu Huai: "The abolition of the establishment is unprecedented in the past two hundred years.
Wouldn’t you be surprised to hear the rumors from the North?”
Eunuch Lu said: "Zhang Zhuangyuan is in North Korea, and the governor has also learned about it. We will make a decision when Zhang Zhuangyuan comes back."
Therefore, as soon as Zhang Yuan arrived in Guangning, he immediately asked Yu Yan, the envoy of North Korea, to report to Li Weihan on North Korea's efforts to bring order out of chaos. Li Weihan heard that Concubine Renmu had a memorial to Emperor Wanli. He pondered for a while and asked Yu Yan: "Is North Korea still stable?"
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Yu Yan said: "Anyway, on that day, the market will not be easy to operate, and the government and the public will be in trouble. This is what the two angels Zhang and Ruan saw in person."
Zhang Yuandao said: "Kwanghae Lord communicated with the slave chiefs of Jianzhou and was ungrateful and unethical. The people of North Korea worked together to bring order to the chaos. Concubine Renmu ordered Ayang to take charge of state affairs and wait for the emperor to report to the Ming Dynasty before canonizing him."
Li Weihan read the application submitted by Yu Yan and heard what Zhang Yuan said, so he said: "Then let Zhang Xiuzhuan return to the capital to explain to the emperor and the Ministry of Rites. As long as Korea is not in chaos, it will be fine."
Zhang Yuan then told Li Weihan in detail about the attack on Phoenix Mountain, and submitted Chen Qianhu's detailed petition——
The matter was so important that Li Weihan invited Han Yuanshan, the commander of the capital, Zhang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief, and Lu Huai, the guarding eunuch, to the governor's Yamen to listen to Zhang Yuan's report, and told Zhang Yuan that a military document from Kuoyang Guards had been sent to Guangning the day before yesterday, reporting that there was an incident.
A caravan of Shandong merchants was robbed in Kuoyangwei, with more than ten people killed and injured. This must have been the caravan that was robbed by Huerhan.
Zhang Yuan compiled a detailed list of the gold and silver property seized from the slaves' parcels and handed it over to the governor's Yamen, asking the governor's Yamen to return these properties to the robbed caravan. Zhang Yuan's move made some Jin Yiwei dissatisfied.
, these Jin Yiwei thought that this was their trophy and should be distributed to them. They never thought that going to North Korea as an envoy would undergo a test of life and death——
Fan Tongshi found out about the complaints of the accompanying Jin Yiwei and reported it to Zhang Yuan. The next morning, Zhang Yuan had a long talk with deputy Qianhu Zhen Zidan for more than half an hour. Zhen Zidan explained to the other Jin Yiwei whether the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty were the same as Jiannu.
Are you a bandit? This is the property of the people of the Ming Dynasty, not the property of the slaves. Of course it should be returned to the group of Shandong businessmen. Anyway, everything that needs to be said has been said. If there are still people who are dissatisfied, then let them do so and suppress them by force.
, Zhang Yuan knew that it was impossible to convince everyone.
That evening, the guard eunuch Lu Huai specially invited Zhang Yuan to a banquet. Eunuch Lu was rather snobbish and only liked Zhang Yuan. He didn't even invite the deputy envoy Ruan Dacheng. As soon as they met, eunuch Lu asked someone to carry two boxes of silver. He smiled.
Rou Buxiao said: "Mr. Zhang, the Za family said last time that the gift given to Mr. Zhang by the Za family will be temporarily stored here, and will be taken back to the capital when Mr. Zhang returns - this is one thousand taels of silver, Mr. Zhang accepted it with a smile
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Zhang Yuanzuo bowed and said: "Zhang Yuan has already paid for the gift from Eunuch Lu in advance at Lianshanguan. How dare he accept any more generous gifts from Eunuch Lu?" Then he talked about the matter of subsidizing military households.
Eunuch Lu had already learned the details from Zhang Rushen, but he did not expect that Zhang Yuan would say that it was an advance gift. He hurriedly said: "The Zajia family knows about this. Mr. Zhang is paying for the dead and injured military households in the name of the Zajia family. The money
Even if it comes from the Za family, Mr. Zhang must accept this thousand taels of silver."
Zhang Yuan could not refuse, so he said: "Zhang Yuan will thank Eunuch Lu for the reward on behalf of the family members of the Jinyiwei who died in the battle."
Eunuch Lu saw that Zhang Yuan was not greedy and stingy, and his words were easy to listen to, so he ordered someone to take another three hundred taels of silver as compensation for the casualties of Jin Yiwei.