Lin Heng represents the interests of military generals.

Yang Yiqing is the representative of civil servants. In a sense, even if this battle was fought by military generals such as Cao Xiong and Lin Heng, they were not qualified to compete with Yang Yiqing, who was a Jinshi, if they involved making military merits.

Since the Tumubao Incident in the Ming Dynasty, the status of military generals has been greatly reduced and mostly rely on powerful officials in the court. Civil officials who control the center pay close attention to their merits. When encountering wars, the main military achievements must belong to civil officials, demonstrating the Confucian concept of governing the country.

But now that Yang Yiqing has a "competitor" like Chen Xi, Cao Xiong and Lin Heng saw hope again, and naturally felt that the head coach and deputy coach were bound to compete for merit. Chen Xi, who was one step late, would definitely win over them and other military generals to fight against Yang Yiqing in the future.

Of course, the most important point is that Yang Yiqing's reputation is not as good as Shen Xi, and it can even be said to be far away. Those generals would rather let Chen Xi lead the leader than give the leader Yang Yiqing, who just ran faster but actually did not experience any war.

Chen Xi probably understood from Lin Heng’s story what was going on in Ningxia Town now.

At this moment, Yang Yiqing had a sharp conflict with the generals on the three sides due to his interests. No matter what policy of ease the people is issued, it would be difficult to implement. After all, Yang Yiqing needed these generals who had made contributions to pacifying the place as helpers, but now the generals secretly contacted Chen Xi and openly demolished his platform.

Chen Xidao: "General Lin rushed back from Xingye. He should be very tired now. Why not go and rest first..."

Lin Heng said hurriedly: "Now General Cao is thinking about coming day and night, how can you have the heart to go to bed? I wonder when will the adults set off?"

"Tomorrow morning."

Chen Xi did not hide the issue of marching Lin Heng, and according to fact, he said, "I wonder if General Lin is going to go with him?"

Lin Heng thought for a while and seemed very embarrassed: "I'm afraid I have to ask the Governor's Office and General's Office first."

Chen Xi saw that Lin Heng wanted to return to Ningxia very much. He made great contributions in this battle. He was the first hero to enter the city occupied by the rebels. If, according to the previous statement given by the Governor Yansui, Lin Heng had only led his troops out of the city to practice before, then the credit would have nothing to do with him this time.

Lin Heng is no longer young and needs military merit. Especially now that the head coach is still his brother-in-law, he has to work harder to win.

Chen Xi nodded: "Don't worry, I will send someone to inform the Governor's Office and General's Office. General Lin will rest at the post station and set off with me tomorrow morning to Ningxia Town."

Lin Heng was very anxious when he saw that Chen Xi did not give a specific plan for military merit distribution, but he did not dare to force it. After all, he was only responsible for helping to pass the message. The main person who wanted to compete for the first merit was Cao Xiong, the general officer of Guyuan. Even if he had made contributions, he would not be ranked first.

Because he was about to set off tomorrow morning, and it was already late at night, Chen Xi directly arranged for someone to take Lin Heng to the guest room for rest, and asked someone to go to the Governor's Office and the General Office to send messages and inform him that he would take Lin Heng on the road.

Although Chen Xi was just Governor Xuanda and had no authority to generalize the three sides, anyone with discerning eyes knew that this was the result of Liu Jin's deception behind the scenes. Most officials and generals on the three sides still followed Chen Xi's leader. Not only because Chen Xi had a general system of the three sides, but also because of his lofty reputation among the border troops, he was also the righteous envoy who led the emperor's order to suppress the rebellion.

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Before the sky was completely dawn, Chen Xi got up to prepare.

Hu Songyue and Wang Lingzhi waited outside the inn very early, and as for Jing Yue, they went to the camp to reorganize their troops and set off the camp as soon as the hour arrived.

Wang Lingzhi seemed surprised when he saw Lin Heng following Shen Xi. He didn't know when Lin Heng would come back. Lin Heng is still very tired. After all, he had only slept for less than three hours before. Chen Xi arranged for him to take the opportunity to take a rest, but Lin Heng insisted on riding a horse.

Before the group could reach the camp, Yansui Governor Huang Ke had already come to see him off.

Because Chen Xi did not attend the banquet held by the Governor's Office yesterday, Huang Ke believed that it might contain profound meaning, so he did not bring Yansui officials and generals to practice it.

The sun had just emerged from the horizon, and Chen Xi had led his troops to leave Yulin Weicheng and head towards Ningxia Town.

After coming out of Yulin Weicheng, heading west, the way seemed unusually desolate along the way. Although the Ming Dynasty fought against the Tatars every year from the late Hongzhi to the early Zhengde years, this time was exactly the time when the Tatars were the strongest. After continuous battles, the line close to the Great Wall was almost a scorched earth, and even a village could not be seen along the way.

In addition, there were lush woods everywhere before, but as years of war came, both the enemy and us needed wood and firewood. The forests were cleaned up one by one, and the fields were bare and shocking. However, this way, small groups of foreign cavalry were avoided from hiding them, and it was clear to the eye within a few miles.

Chen Xi did not sit in the carriage to rest, but also rode on a tall horse to check the surrounding environment.

Chen Xi is still familiar here, but when the team goes west, he becomes a little unfamiliar with the nearby landscape. Just as he frowned and pondered about things, Lin Heng followed, walked with Chen Xi, and said, "Sir, if you keep going like this, you may not be able to reach Ningxia Town within half a month. It would be too late at that time!"

Lin Heng seemed very anxious.

In Chen Xi's opinion, Lin Heng's main purpose of following him was to urge him to go to Ningxia Town earlier to preside over the overall situation, divide the military achievements into clear division, and determine that the first contribution to Cao Xiong and other former three-sided generals. As for Yang Yiqing, who was one step late, he could only line up behind.

Chen Xi shook his head and said, "Most of the ones I lead are infantry. They don't walk as fast as four legs, so they can only do it step by step!"

Lin Heng asked tentatively: "Why... the lord leads the cavalry first?"

As soon as he said this, Hu Songyue and others who were following Shen Xi, who were riding horses beside him, all stared at Lin Heng... It is obvious that Lin Heng represented the interests of the three-sided military generals, especially the local military generals who had just quelled the rebellion of King Anhua. As for Hu Songyue and others, they were eagerly waiting for Chen Xi to lead them to achieve success, and it was normal to have resistance.

Chen Xi said seriously: "Everything must be ruled... This is already a borderland, and there may be bandits or rebels remnants at any time, and they may even encounter Diyi's troops... If I, the commander, leave the large army first, who will command and dispatch the war when encountering war?"

Chen Xi was easy to talk to, and had no grudges with Lin Heng. After all, he was a relative of marriage, and Lin Heng saved Chen Xi's life, so it was not too much to do. But when it was involved in disputes of interest, Chen Xi had to speak from his own perspective. In the end, it was not Lin Heng's troops who went to fight with him, but old subordinates such as Hu Songyue and Jing Yue and soldiers who trusted him. These are the power he could rely on.

Lin Heng was a little wise after all. He knew that he had committed public anger and quickly bowed and apologized: "Please forgive me, sir, I am too anxious!"

"It's okay!"

Chen Xi raised his hand and looked into the distance and said, "Although we can't leave our troops and enter Ningxia Town earlier, it's okay to step up the march next time. We will march for eight hours a day, and strive for the army to enter Ningxia in seven days... I only have so much to do!"

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The distance between the Yansui Town garrison Yulinwei and Ningxia Town is about 800 miles. It is definitely a rushing 800 miles in seven days.

Chen Xi was also thinking about this question. How did Yang Yiqing arrive from the capital in such a short time? After all, it was more than two thousand miles, and it was incredible to arrive in more than a month.

Perhaps driven by military merit, but Chen Xi also saw Yang Yiqing's extraordinary ability.

After two days of marching, the soldiers were complaining.

This can be said to be the most urgent part of the journey. After the garrison, the soldiers quickly found a place to rest, and didn't even have to eat dinner. According to their ideas, there was time for eating dry food and drinking water on the march. Once they stopped, it was best to find a place to sleep as soon as possible to relieve fatigue.

The most difficult thing in the army is the soldiers who have to take turns to watch the night after a day of march. Fortunately, Shen Xi set a rotation system, and the night watch officers and soldiers are mainly dispatched from the cavalry, with a squad of 100 people, and each hour is changed, so that the soldiers can be rested to the maximum extent.

However, the specific implementation effect was not as good as expected. After all, there were more shifts, which meant that there were more people who were tossed and watched the night.

It was late at night and Chen Xi continued to review official documents in the Central Army's tent, writing and painting from time to time.

His tent always lights until dawn, which invisibly adds confidence to the soldiers. Even Lord Shen hasn't slept. What's the reason why we are lazy?

But Chen Xi's situation is obviously different from these soldiers. He has war horses to carry on, and when he is tired, he can go back to the carriage to rest. The most important thing is that someone around him pinched his waist and pounded his legs.

Li Jin himself worked very hard along the way. After all, he was a woman, but he was bumping in the carriage without shock absorption. He followed the army from Xuanfu to Ningxia. Chen Xi felt very sorry.

That night, Lin Heng couldn't wait to enter the Chenxi camp tent and urged the march.

Perhaps he realized that Chen Xi's attitude towards him was different from the past, although Lin Heng was very anxious, he could only go to the Central Army's tent to urge him under the name of inquiring about information.

"...General Lin, I said, you must not be too rush in marching. If the soldiers are too tired and encounter danger on the road, you will be unable to do so. Just rest assured, I will definitely help you fight for military merits this time. After all, Governor Yang entered the city one step later and did not participate in the fight against the rebellion..."

Chen Xi kept explaining facts to Lin Heng, but Lin Heng just couldn't listen.

In Lin Heng's opinion, civil officials look down on military generals, and Yang Yiqing cannot give up his military achievements so readily.

"Maybe I don't know that Yang Junmen has only two days late to enter the city this time, and there is a confidant eunuch sent by Eunuch Liu to serve as a military supervisor. If Eunuch Liu insists on supporting him, who dares to make any remarks on military merit?"

Chen Xi frowned: "Since you think it's difficult to win credit, why do you still travel all the way to me to make the decision?"

Lin Heng lowered his head: "This is the last hope of the soldiers who have made contributions on the three sides... Everyone knows that Lord Shen, you are rigorous in your military management and have clear rewards and punishments. If Lord Shen refuses to make decisions for the soldiers on the three sides, then this military merit... may be really earned by the people of the eunuch party, and the hard work of the soldiers these days will be in vain!"

"I will not care about anything, but it will hit the morale of the soldiers on the three sides..."

Chen Xi thought to himself, now it is not because others are unwilling to accept it, but because you, Lin Heng, are unwilling to accept it.

Speaking of the first merit, you, Lin Heng, led your troops into the city as soon as possible to quell the rebellion. Their merits were even higher than those of Yang Ying, Qiu Yue and others.

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No matter how anxious Lin Heng was, he couldn't urge Chen Xi to faster.

After all, half of Chen Xi's soldiers were infantry, and his troops were still more than a thousand miles before reaching Yansui. Fortunately, Chen Xi asked the soldiers to rest in Yulin Weicheng for a day, otherwise the army would have to rest on the way.

Even so, the soldiers began to complain.

Chen Xi could only tell Lin Heng to be calm, but he didn't know where this uncle got his spirit. After walking around for a day, he was so tired that he was very busy even if he was bumping on the road. That is, he almost didn't sleep every night, so he ran to Chen Xi to urge him.

After Lin Heng left, Chen Xi read the official documents for another half an hour and finally received more news from Ningxia Town... This time it was a message from the intelligence system controlled by Yun Liu.

Before Chen Xi entered Ningxia Town, he had already learned the situation in the city clearly.

It is basically consistent with expectations.

After Yang Yiqing led the army to Ningxia Town, he had a conflict of interests with the local soldiers and horses in Shaanxi who arrived first. Even if Yang Yiqing immediately issued a series of measures to safeguard the people, he could not win the support of local officials and generals. Yang Yiqing was struggling in Ningxia Town.

As a result, Yang Yiqing's subsequent measures to safeguard the people were not issued because all forces in Ningxia Town were waiting for Chenxi to arrive.

"...I didn't expect to give the credit to you on purpose and let you go to the city first, but I still have to clean up the mess... You, Yang Yiqing, is a big shot in history, I don't need to teach you this kind of thing? In fact, the question is very simple. Do you want credit to be content with people... If you can establish a good relationship with Cao Xiong and others, I don't have to worry about the rest..."

Chen Xi did not send anyone to Ningxia Town to send a message to Yang Yiqing, or greet Cao Xiong's people in advance.

He felt that these matters needed to be resolved after he arrived in Ningxia Town. He wrote a letter and memorial first. On the one hand, he passed the war reports obtained from Ningxia Town to the capital, and greeted Xie Qian.

As the rebellion of King Anhua quickly subsided, the next step was to get to the point, which was to fight Liu Jin head-on and work hard to overthrow Liu Jin.

Chen Xi is now leading the troops, so Xie Qian needs to move in the capital first to lay some things... Xie Qian is running around to defeat Liu Jin during this period, making various ideas, but everything will be discussed after the rebels are suppressed and the horses will return to Beijing.

Chen Xi thought to himself: "Liu Jin will do everything possible to prevent me from returning to Beijing, but now the first effort is owned by Yang Yiqing, and Yang Yiqing is firmly controlled in Liu Jin's opinion. After all, with Wei Bin as the military supervisor, he must push Yang Yiqing behind his back. Then everything will follow historical records... If I can return to the capital, Liu Jin will die miserably!"

Thinking of this, Chen Xi couldn't help but want to write to Ma Jiu.

Ma Jiu's mission in the capital is different from that in Yunliu.

Yunliu is responsible for collecting information in the capital and then passing it to Chen Xi. At the same time, he has to keep in touch with Xie Qian, bring Chen Xi’s meaning, and assist Xie Qian in his work.

As for Ma Jiu's in the capital, he had one purpose to create some evidence for Liu Jin's "rebellion". What Ma Jiu did was not at all.

Whether it is good or evil, Chen Xi must do his best to do his best. According to his estimate, the news of the quellation of the Ningxia rebellion will spread to the capital within a few days, and the government and the country will inevitably cause a huge uproar.
Chapter completed!