Four carts were each pulled by two horses, and all the gold and silver were loaded into them and pulled into the city.
Although there is an error in the weight, the error is not large and is within an acceptable range.
However, it was not without its interludes. Despite repeated orders, some people still hid gold and silver secretly.
After a body search, three people were found to be hiding gold and were executed on the spot.
Money moves people's hearts, and there is no shortage of desperate people in this world.
Chen Gong also sent back news from the southeast one after another.
After pursuing all the way, about 300 cavalry were separated and escorted the fleeing bandits back to Chunhua in batches.
Then at noon on the second day, they caught up with some of the intruder cavalry that had been intercepted by Liu Chenggong, and cooperated with Liu Chenggong to annihilate them in one fell swoop.
However, Li Zicheng escaped in the end, and only more than 500 elite cavalry remained with him. The rest of the elite cavalry and horse troops were left behind.
The situation in the direction of Sanshui in the north also became clear during the investigation.
The Chuang army collapsed due to the fire and fled all the way towards Sanshui.
The person guarding the back of Sanshui is Li Zicheng's nephew Yihu Li Guo.
After hearing that the army was defeated in Chunhua and that all the supplies and equipment were burned, Li Zicheng and others did not know whether they were alive or dead.
Without any hesitation, Li Guo directly led the elite cavalry and horse troops who were guarding Pizhou to quickly flee north, abandoning Sanshui City, exiting the boundaries of Xi'an Prefecture, leaving behind all the old, weak and hungry soldiers.
Because of this, Chen Wang also found an opportunity and contacted Zuo Liangyu.
When Zuo Liangyu received the message from Chen Wang, he actually didn't believe it at all.
Zuo Liangyu's immediate reaction was that Chunhua had been defeated by Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng sent him a message in the name of Chen Wang, asking him to lead troops to advance in order to eat the troops under his command.
But on second thought, even if Li Zicheng really wanted to deceive him, he wouldn't use such a clumsy strategy.
It was only with the support of various reports from Tang Ma sent later that Zuo Liangyu believed that the Chuang army had indeed suffered a major defeat at the foot of Chunhua City.
However, despite this, Zuo Liangyu was still very cautious.
He first sent cavalry as the vanguard to ensure that there were no ambushes on both sides of the road, and then sent infantry to recapture Sanshui City.
After consolidating and repairing the city defense of Sanshui City, the lords moved from Pizhou to Sanshui City.
In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, Zuo Liangyu encountered a heavy siege in Wu'an and almost died. Since then, Zuo Liangyu has been cautious.
Zuo Liangyu was still in a daze until he led his troops to recapture Sanshui City and gained a piece of the restoration effort.
Tang Ma found out that there were more than 100,000 bandits heading south.
Zuo Liangyu knew very well how many people there were in Chunhua, and he had met Chen Wang several times.
Chen Wang brought more than fifty cavalry over, as well as four new recruits trained under his command.
The remaining soldiers under Ai Wannian were also divided into four rounds, but these people totaled less than 1,000 people, and together with Chunhua's Liao cavalry, the total number was less than 2,000 people.
Although Zuo Liangyu is uneducated and doesn't know a few Chinese characters, he can still do basic arithmetic.
He could still tell the difference between two thousand people and one hundred thousand.
If he hadn't really occupied Sanshui City, Zuo Liangyu would never have believed he could win.
Zuo Liangyu thought hard and sent people to ask the defeated troops again, but naturally they did not ask the specific reasons why the Chuang army was defeated.
Those defeated soldiers only knew that a fire suddenly ignited, and then the entire camp collapsed, and then nothing happened.
Outside Sanshui City, a group of generals in the Chinese military tent were noisy about how to write a battle report and how to deal with the prisoners in Sanshui City.
Zuo Liangyu, on the other hand, was sitting in the Chinese military tent, thinking about the news he had received. The noise in the tent did not affect him at all.
In the tent outside Pizhou City, he joked that Chen Wang only had to make a few more achievements.
When the time comes, it won't be a problem to be promoted to guerrilla. In the future, I won't be able to become a deputy general or commander in chief.
It was just a casual remark at first, but unexpectedly it came true immediately.
"This kid, maybe he can really become the commander-in-chief..."
Zuo Liangyu muttered in a low voice that Cao Wenzhao's current position is the Chief of the Assistance and Suppression Forces.
Theoretically speaking, he is the head of the generals and has a higher status than the other generals and lieutenants.
Cao Wenzhao had deep roots in the court and extensive connections, and was highly valued by Hong Chengchou.
As a close confidant of Cao Wenzhao, Chen Wangli's meritorious deeds are often discussed more than less.
And Cao Wenzhao will go further because of Chen Wang's military exploits.
"The monsters are really full of monsters..."
Zuo Liangyu didn't understand the situation in the end, so he had to blame all problems on Cao Wenzhao.
Cao Wenzhao was a monster, and so was Cao Bianjiao. Now Chen Wang has appeared under Cao Wenzhao, and he is also a monster.
The main reason why Zuo Liangyu respected Cao Wenzhao was during the Battle of Four Cities.
Prime Minister Ma Shilong awarded Shang Fangjian to Cao Wenzhao, and asked Cao Wenzhao to lead the generals Wang Chengyin, Zhang Shujia, and him to recover the four cities.
Zuo Liangyu watched with his own eyes as Cao Wenzhao led his servants to face off against Hou Jin's armored soldiers. Hou Jin's armored soldiers were even more numerous, but they won in the end.
Zuo Liangyu knew very well what kind of combat power the Hou Jin soldiers had.
So from then on, he never voted against anything Cao Wenzhao said.
Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu looked slightly strange.
He always felt that Chen Wang was quite familiar to him when he was in Pizhou. Now that his memory was deeper, he finally remembered it.
Chen Wang was following Cao Wenzhao at the beginning and was Cao Wenzhao's bodyguard.
During the battle of Four Cities, it was he who cut off the heads of two Zhenyi and tied them to the necks of horses.
The most important reason why Zuo Liangyu remembers it now is because besides the head.
At that time, there was a captured Niulu Zhangjing flag stuck on the saddle of Chen Wang's war horse.
The soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty used Niulu as the basis for cultivating fields, recruiting soldiers to wear armor, and paying taxes for military service. All of them used Niulu as the unit of calculation.
There are three hundred people under Yi Niu Lu, and the leader is Niu Lu Zhangjing.
Liaodong fights dozens or hundreds of battles every year. The leaders do not take much in total in a year, and they capture even fewer military flags.
Chen Wang followed Cao Wenzhao to the battle at the scheduled time and came back with a Niuluzhangjing flag.
"Yuncheng."
Zuo Liangyu raised his head and shouted.
The originally noisy military tent fell silent instantly.
Now Zuo Liangyu still firmly holds the power in the army.
Although the requirements for military discipline were very relaxed, Zuo Liangyu did not relax at all in other aspects.
When Zuo Liangyu was speaking, no one dared to interrupt.
"My subordinate is here."
Wang Yuncheng left his chair and answered while kneeling on the ground.
Zuo Liangyu's eyes flashed, and he first glanced at the people in the tent.
Although he was thinking about the problem, he heard clearly what everyone said.
"Don't be clever in the battle report. Just write what it is."
Hong Chengchou was not easy to fool. For the sake of a little gold, silver and achievements, Hong Chengchou remembered that he killed good people and risked his merits, and killed and surrendered to receive rewards. He was undoubtedly picking up sesame seeds but losing watermelons. Zuo Liangyu knew these things very clearly.
When all the military officers in the tent heard Zuo Liangyu's words, they naturally had no objections and all bowed their heads and obeyed the order.
Zuo Liangyu sighed in his heart, he still didn't have an outstanding talent in his army.
Just thinking about some petty profits makes me red-faced.
Zuo Liangyu's expression softened slightly, and finally he turned his gaze to Wang Yuncheng.
"You go there..."
When Zuo Liangyu was about to finish speaking, he suddenly stopped.
"No."
Zuo Liangyu paused and stood up.
"You go prepare your horse, order two hundred to ride, and come with me to Chunhua."
Zuo Liangyu changed his mind at the last moment.
