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In the south of Xincheng, the central military commander's tent of the Yongning Earl's camp was full of generals.

Except for those who stayed in Xuanzhen and were stationed in the capital, as well as those who were appointed to accompany Sun Chuanting and other officers to the local areas, and secret officers such as Liu Jinhai and Tong Shoushan who were responsible for special tasks, almost 90% of the officers in the Yongyi Army system gathered in this big tent.

When Zhang Guodong and Wei Zhice entered the central army camp, officers from all camps were already gathered together, waiting for the arrival of Earl Yongning and greeting each other...

Of course, after a brief greeting, the topic finally all came back to the battle with the bandits and how to fight them!

Chen Yongfu had long been determined to cling to the big legs of the Yongning Earl. For this purpose, he even sent his own son to the Yongyi Army. Naturally, he would not miss such an opportunity to get close to the generals of the Yongyi Army.

As a general, he did not hesitate to humble himself and, after greeting Wang Pu and Li Fuming, who were also generals, he plunged into the group of commanders of various camps of the Yongyi Army and started chatting with them very happily.

Even though Wang Pu and Li Fuming were the commander-in-chief of the three towns of Xuanda together with Earl Yongning, Chen Yongfu looked down on them at all. He was giving them face by greeting them before going to talk to Zhang Guangda and other generals of the Yongyi Army.

For example, Zhang Dechang, deputy general of Baodu Biaoying, and Cao Shixi, commander of Zhendingwei, although their status was second only to Chen Yongfu, Chen Yongfu always ignored them, and was not even as kind as he was to a thousand-man commander in the Yongyi Army.

As early as the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when the rebels first surrounded Kaifeng, Zhang Cheng, who was then the deputy general of Xuanzhen, led his troops to aid Henan as the general of the suppression campaign. At that time, he and Chen Yongfu had fought side by side to kill the rebels under the city of Kaifeng.

It was precisely because of this rare friendship that Chen Yongfu and the generals of the Yongyi Army had endless topics to talk about and seemed closer to them than others.

Furthermore, his son Chen De was no ordinary person either. He was a respected figure even in the Yongyi Army. This was mainly because Chen De once shot and blinded Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, with an arrow, making him a "one-eyed dragon"!
There is a convention in the army that only the strong can win respect, so Chen De's arrow won him the natural respect of the soldiers of the Yongyi Army.

Even the Earl of Yongning often talked about this incident, saying: It was because I was not well-trained that I did not have the ability like Chen De, otherwise I would have been shot blind by Dorgon, the Tartar dog!
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When Chen Zhong accompanied Zhang Guodong and Wei Zhice into the big tent, before anyone else had time to say anything, Chen Yongfu was the first to greet them and said with a smile: "The two generals have killed the bandits and made great contributions. Chen really respects them!"

Zhang Guodong still respected Chen Yongfu very much. After all, he was the only one in the entire Henan government army who had a few thousand brave fighters under his command. When Kaifeng was besieged for the second time, it was thanks to him who was there to defend the city that it was preserved.

"General Chen is joking."

He also clasped his fists and continued, "How can these small military achievements compare to General Chen's two victories in defending Kaifeng?"

Chen Yongfu was about to say a few more polite words, but everyone around him had already reacted, so how could they give him this opportunity...

Only a rough voice was heard: "Zhi Ce, you are really not simple!"

Wei Zhice was slightly stunned when he heard this, and asked Zhang Guangda who was walking towards him in surprise: "Guangda, what do you mean by this?"

"what for?"

Zhang Guangda came forward and punched Wei Zhice on the chest, saying with a smile: "Your Tengshe Battalion destroyed the artillery battalion of the rebels in one go, it's really not easy!"

"Hahaha..." There was a hearty laughter from the crowd around.

Zhang Guangda then punched Zhang Guodong on the shoulder and said, "Guodong, you are also very impressive. You killed thousands of bandits in one battle, most of them were elite bandits."

"Yes." Wang Pu squeezed to the front of the tent door without knowing when. He stepped forward and put his arm around the two men's shoulders, saying with a smile: "Brother Zhang, Brother Wei, we were just discussing your battle examples."

Cao Shixi, the commander of Zhending Guard, also came up at this time. He continued Wang Pu's words and said, "General Wei, General Zhang, it's a good thing that you are here. Tell us how this battle was fought."

How could Wei Zhice bear such enthusiasm? After he broke free from General Wang Pu, he clasped his fists and said to everyone, "Report all the battle examples to Marshal Jue's headquarters. There are more written there than I remember now. Don't worry, everyone. After the Military Affairs Department sorts them out, they will naturally send the battle examples to each camp, and you will understand them clearly by then."

Zhang Guodong also said the same thing, but everyone present was the commander and deputy commander of a battalion. They were certainly concerned about good battle examples, but they were more concerned about the intuitive feelings of the commander on the spot.

"Don't refuse, you two."

Finally, it was Zhang Guangda who spoke up, and he continued, "Even if the Military Affairs Department compiles the battle examples, we still need you two, the actual commanders of the battle examples, to explain them to us.

If that's the case, why wait that long? Today, while everyone is here, and the coach won't arrive for a while, you can take this opportunity to tell everyone what happened first."

Seeing Zhang Guangda speak like this, Wei and Zhang naturally couldn't refuse any more...

As soon as they expressed their attitude, the people around them immediately split into two, forming two circles centered on Wei Zhice and Zhang Guodong respectively.

Wei Zhice and Zhang Guodong became the only centers, and they were surrounded by the generals and deputy generals of the camps around Xinchengji. Although there were many people, it was not messy at all.

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Although there were two voices speaking separately in the tent of the Earl of Yongning, it had no effect on each other's circles. The people surrounding Zhang Guodong naturally filtered out the voice of Wei Zhice on the other side, and the same was true for the audience surrounding Wei Zhice.

Even the personal soldiers of Earl Yongning standing nearby pricked up their ears and listened to the wonderful stories coming from nearby...

However, there are exceptions, such as He Biao, the chief pacification officer of the Yongyi Army. He was seen sitting in the first seat at the lower left side of the big tent, with his expression as serious as ever. It was really no surprise.

And there were two people under him who behaved in the same way - these two people were Sun Shixiang and Hu Yiwen, the trusted aides recently recruited by the Earl of Yongning, who accompanied him to aid Henan as military advisers.

If there is any difference, it is that Sun Shixiang and Hu Yiwen are not as focused as the Chief Governor He Biao.

Yet even between the two of them, there were some differences...

Sun Shixiang was indeed in a state like an old monk in meditation, as if he was not interested in anything in the outside world, but his ears moved with the volume of the sound, but such subtle changes were rarely noticed by others.

On the contrary, Hu Weiwei is still a little young after all. Although he does a good job on the surface, his thoughts are completely exposed in the details.

However, compared to others, Hu Yiwen was able to listen to all sides. They were very curious about the stories of both sides and could clearly see that Hu Yiwen's ears were constantly adjusting as the volume of the sound changed.

Although most people no longer have this instinct, it is indeed perfectly displayed in Hu Yiwen!
Just as everyone was concentrating on listening to Wei Zhice and Zhang Guodong recounting the details of their respective wonderful battles, a loud voice came from the door of the inner tent not far away...

"Lord Yongning, here you are!" (End of this chapter)