It can be seen from this that the Battle of Daling River should be able to drag on for a while, at least two or three months longer than in history.

The current Hou Jin Army and Guan Ning Army are actually the future Qing Army.

Huang Yi hopes that the more they consume each other, the better!

The Battle of Dalinghe took a few more months, and the Jin Army's casualties would inevitably be much higher than the original trajectory.

The probability of the Jin army attacking the base area within two years after encountering tens of thousands of troops will not exceed 10%.

After reading the Di newspaper, Huang Yi's confidence was further strengthened to go to the southwest of Shanxi to recruit tens of thousands of Shaanxi and Shanxi refugees.

At this moment, Huang Yi even hoped that the rogue bandits would go further and deeper into Shanxi and hit Taiyuan Prefecture.

The Xinghe Army can travel a thousand miles less, and the distance to transport the refugees is reduced by a thousand miles. It can save more food and time, and can bring back more refugees.

Eunuch Wang came to announce that the value of the bribes he had collected from the Grand Governor was more than 150,000 silver in just over two months. Isn’t that too much?

Not a lot actually!

After Wang Kun surrendered, he made it clear that he had no choice but to accept bribes. It was impossible to pocket all the money, and most of it was sent to the capital to share the profits.

Many civil servants and military generals spent a lot of money because they wanted to meet the newly appointed eunuchs to supervise the army. It is impossible to have so many every month and every year.

Seeing that Wang Kun was becoming more and more humble, Huang Yi told him frankly in order to reassure him:

"If the supervisors know what they are doing, I will not be held accountable for corruption, and you will still be able to share the benefits of the military exploits of suppressing the bandits.

Otherwise, I'm afraid you will definitely die at the hands of rogue bandits!"

However, what Wang Kun was thinking was completely different. He looked resentful and said:

"Xuan Da Nai, the Supervisor of the Army, is a top-notch vacancy. The Sa family originally planned to send people to the capital after settling the affairs of the Xinghe camp to send generous gifts to the internal minister and the eunuchs in charge of the various supervisors.

Alas! If they don’t see the Sa family’s filial piety, I’m afraid the eunuch of the Sa family won’t be able to work until the end of the year!”

This is the court in the late Ming Dynasty. The ultimate goal of officials and eunuchs fighting for power was to make better money and make more money!

An official who doesn't make money can't be a good official, and a military eunuch who doesn't make money can't hold his position.

Huang Yi said: "If you want to secure your position, you don't necessarily have to pay bribes. As long as you can win military merits and go directly to Tianting, so that the emperor thinks you are good, you can do it even if you are not!"

"Alas! The Sa family has seen the arrogant soldiers under your command, and they will count on you in the future."

"If you want to count on me, you have to perform!"

"Now that the Sa family has no way out, you can say whatever you want!"

"There are so many eunuchs, but there are only a handful of them who can fight and know how to fight. I will make you endure hardships and make you a fighter among eunuchs!"

"Sajia doesn't understand. May I ask General, what is a fighter jet?"

"Ahem... Well, this is like having a donkey among a group of sheep. It's very special."

This metaphor? Don’t treat people as human beings!

What could Wang Kun say? What could he dare to say? He could only smile bitterly.

Who would have known that Huang Yi wasn't just talking about it, after the conversation, Wang Kun, Xiao Lizi, and Diao Debao became members of the husband-hunting team.

Here the three of them don't get any preferential treatment. They march, drive carts, bury pots to cook, dig toilets, carry water, feed horses and other chores day after day.

The Xinghe Army did not target them. They ate whatever the auxiliary soldiers ate and slept together wherever the auxiliary soldiers slept.

Diao Debao thought it was nothing. He was young, strong and in good health. He did some physical work during the march, and he ate well and slept well.

It doesn’t matter to Xiao Lizi. In the past few years when I was drifting to Beijing, I had to worry about food and food. Now at least I don’t have to worry about food and accommodation.

The great eunuch Wang Kun is different. Although he lived a miserable life as a child, that is already a distant memory. Now he has lived in luxury for more than ten or twenty years.

Now I work sweaty and eat grain pancakes every day, and at night I sleep in a tent with a dozen people wrapped in a smelly quilt. I just feel that life is worse than death.

But it’s not that easy to die!

Xiao Lizi and Diao Debao stayed by their side. Their mission was to keep Eunuch Wang in prison. If Eunuch Wang died or escaped, they would be dead.

Not only the two of them, Diao Dianbao and the Jin Yiwei who were detained in Xinghe City, and Gang Xian also had to be buried with them.

Everything was difficult at the beginning. Eunuch Wang didn't want to die. He wanted to live a good life. After only three days of adapting, he was able to sleep soundly in a tent filled with the smell of smelly feet and the sound of snoring.

After a good sleep, you will feel energetic and have enough energy to work. After more than ten days, Eunuch Wang seems to be stronger!

At this time, the Xinghe Army had been marching away from Xuanfu for half a month, advancing southward for an average of fifty or sixty miles every day. After passing Pingxingguan, the pass of the Inner Great Wall, there was a long and narrow basin.

To the north is the Hengshan Mountains and to the south is the Taihang Mountains. The famous Mount Wutai, one of the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism, is no more than a hundred miles away from here.

Huang Yi didn't know if there were tigers in the high mountains and dense forests, but he knew there were thief bones!

The marching Xinghe Army finally entered combat mode.

The enemy is not thousands of rogue bandits at all, but a group of sitting bandits who have been entrenched in this area for two or three years.

Huang Yi’s style is either don’t do it or do it absolutely if you want to!

A group of bandits headed by Xue Mazi have been wreaking havoc in the mountainous area at the junction of the three prefectures for many years. They must have accumulated a lot of property, and they must plow the streets and clear out the holes.

Wang Jinbao and his spies have clearly discovered Xue Mazi's strength.

The group of bandits consisted of 700 to 800 young men, of whom 1200 were members of the defeated Shanxi frontier army who joined the group in the third year of Chongzhen's reign.

These people used to be under the command of Zhang Honggong, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Province, and most of them were cavalry.

With the addition of border troops, the strength of Xue Mazi's gang increased sharply, and the nearby prefectures and counties were unable to attack. Like most clan strongholds, Zhuangzi adopted the method of spending money to buy peace.

This is also a characteristic of the times. The bandits were at peace with the prefectures, cities, and counties, and they even flirted with some aristocratic families.

If Zhuangzi is destroyed, everyone in the village will be unwilling to cooperate, or are not qualified to cooperate.

The bandits were just armed, Huang Yi didn't take it to heart at all. His request was still to annihilate them all and try to achieve zero casualties on his own side.

Zhang Dong, Bao Zhide, Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaochuan and other generals who had completed their missions and came to join us actively participated in the deployment.

Huang Yi kept his fists in hand, and worked hard every day to practice riding skills. He felt that the large team was moving too slowly, so he often led his guards to personally investigate.

Suddenly, all the spies and sentry horses of Xue Mazi's gang disappeared without a trace, causing Xue Mazi, who had been so powerful in the past two years, to sit on pins and needles.

Huang Yi likes to play with information asymmetry when fighting!

The generals under his command also followed suit!

After deciding to uproot this group of bandits, Huang Yi personally went to the front line to participate in shielding the battlefield.
Chapter completed!