"When? What about casualties? What is the record? Xing Zhao's heart suddenly plucked up, and he stood up suddenly, asking sentence by sentence, and his tone was very hurried.

"It seems to be something from the night before" Lin Song didn't recover yet, he lay on the door frame and gasped, and said: "In the morning, Master Hou received the news, and immediately summoned his staff and Qingke to discuss in Qincun Courtyard. ”

The Tartars have to go to the frontier every spring to burn and loot on a large scale, it seems to be a convention, outside the Pingxi Pass, the Tartars robbed and robbed, as long as it is not excessive, the Great Zhou is not willing to spend a large amount of money to exterminate them all.

However, this year, the Tartars broke through the frontier defense and hit Pingxi Pass clearly, and his uncle had 50,000 horses under his command, and he even had to send a letter to Beijing urgently for 800 miles

Is it to report or to ask for help?

Xingjing was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he muttered softly: "Pingxi Pass is a thousand miles away from Dingjing, and the daily return is once in thirty years. Although my uncle has 50,000 horses under his command, only 10,000 are cavalry, and the rest are all infantry, not to mention that it has been a peaceful world recently, and the maximum number of soldiers and horses stationed in the daily routine is only 5,000! Tartars are good horses and have a strong temperament, if you come prepared"

Xingjing said, I couldn't help but shudder.

Xingzhao's analysis is superficial, but Xingjing's thinking is more in-depth.

"Let's go to the main courtyard!" Xingzhao immediately made a decision, the Fang family suffered a turmoil in her previous life, and she didn't know what it was. But what is certain is that the impact on the eldest lady will definitely not be small, even. This may even be the reason for the final word!

Xingjing thought for a moment and nodded. Let Xingzhao and others run into the warm pavilion quickly, and turned out the map that was pressed at the bottom and rolled very neatly from the sandalwood cage, and raised it: "There are no more than ten people in the Great Zhou Dynasty who can draw such a fine military map!" ”

Xingzhao was stunned, and then smiled, full of relief.

The eldest lady in this room had also received the news, and she was pacing all over the room. From time to time, I asked Huang's mother: "Why hasn't Master Hou come yet?" The holy decree has not yet come down, and when you go out to fight, you must get a seal before you can dispatch troops and arrange troops, right? Do you want me to hand over the post immediately to see the queen, my sister has a lot of ideas, there will definitely be a way"

Mother Huang came in with a cup of white fungus bird's nest soup, put down the Guangcai pastel porcelain, and suppressed the worry in her heart: "You forgot that it was like this before." Tartars survive the winter. When there was no food at home, they came to rob us, and one year the old lady was annoyed, and she was in her sixties. is still wearing armor and hanging handsome to fight, what is the result? We are wearing silver-gray armor and holding a red tassel spear, and the Fang family army is majestic. Before the gates were out, the tartars ran away."

The eldest lady nodded distraughtly. I sat down and thought about it with a frown. I didn't feel right again, and I was about to say something, but I saw Xingjing and Xingzhao come in with the curtain one after the other.

"Come in!" The eldest lady hurriedly beckoned.

Look at the two children sitting on their side left and right, after all, sighing, how dare they talk to the children about such a thing as going out to fight. The eldest lady was bored, and then asked Yueqiao to go to Qincun Courtyard to have a look.

Xingzhao saw it in his eyes, shook the eldest lady's hand, and felt cold. When people are in danger, the first person who wants to ask for help is always the person who trusts and relies on the most in their hearts. And in the eldest lady's heart, the first straw to grasp is He Yan.

"Mother, my uncle is brave and good at fighting, and he will definitely turn evil into good fortune." Xingzhao had no choice but to comfort him like this, and said with a pretended smile: "Ah Yu read the "Kyushu Regional Chronicles" and said that the Tatar whole family has nearly 500,000 talents, and the land extends from outside Pingxi Pass to the west of the Xing'an Mountains, and it is only 3,000 miles after a complete calculation, and our one province is so big."

The eldest lady shook her head, her face turned white: "When you go to the battlefield, every Tartar can become a soldier, and every horse can be a war horse." How many years have the Tartars robbed the people outside Pingxi Pass? How many times has your grandfather written to take command and go on the expedition to cut the grass and eradicate the roots? I can't count them, but they were all refuted by the emperor, it used to be a small fight, and now your uncle is 800 miles away and sent the letter to Dingjing in a hurry! ”

Xingzhao didn't know what to say, the eldest lady was not confused where she should be confused, and she saw the key at a glance, so she had to look at Xingjing.

"Mother, my uncle can still send a letter and go to Dingjing, which means that the situation can be recovered." On the one hand, Xingjing pounced on the map on the blue brick ground, and on the other hand, he pointed out with the eldest lady: "From the northwest to Dingjing, nearly a thousand miles away, passing through the three major post stations of Jiamusi, Baodingfu and Henghe, you can come to Dingjing." After the Tartars attacked the night before, the messenger was not intercepted, you must know that Jiamusi is less than a hundred miles away from Pingxi Pass, which means that the Tartars are still stopped outside Pingxi Pass, and the uncle suddenly controlled the situation, and relied on the advantage of defending the city, the Tartars tried to attack the city in one step, but I am afraid that it is not so easy. Although this time it was forced to alarm Dingjing, it was finally suppressed. We can only wait for Daddy to come over, so that we can know what the letter says, and then we can drug the fight, and we can hand over the post when we should go, and walk around when we should move around. ”

The eldest lady listened carefully and nodded again and again.

Xingzhao looked at Xingjing, who was squatting on the ground with a very serious expression, and his heart was mixed. Xingjing is a very rough person on weekdays, and it is difficult to really want him to analyze so much information from a small matter. Probably Xingjing can really become a general in strategizing!

Talking inside, He Yan, who was walking from Qincun Courtyard to the main courtyard, was not idle. With a calm face, he turned the verandah without saying a word, and countless possibilities flashed in his mind—Fang Qi's letter was written very shortly, and although the words were vague, they could still be seen.

"On the evening of February 11, the Tatars attacked Xiguan, and more than 100 soldiers guarding the city gate were killed. Later, the minister led 3,000 cavalry to retreat from the enemy and defended Pingxi Pass. In a fierce battle, the enemy is menacing, and the ladder, eagle eye, and gunpowder are all available. According to the minister's rough estimate, the invaders were about 10,000, but after the eighteenth year of Kanghe, the Tatars came to counterattack again. ”

Pingxiguan is an important town, how can it be that only a hundred soldiers are stationed on the city wall every day! The Tartars are diligent and mentally weak, they only know how to rely on brute force, and where did they get the eagle eyes and gunpowder used by tens of thousands of people! The emperor allocates two carts of gold and hundreds of carts of grain to the northwest every year, and at this time he dares to come to ask for money and grain, and he is not afraid of the emperor's anger!

He knew very well that Fang Qi was not such a short-sighted person.

There will be something strange in between.

Could it be related to the big blood change in the northwest the month before?

He Yan held the letter transcribed from the palace in his hand, turned a corner, and just heard the noise in the main hall, and remembered that the stupid woman of the Fang family was at stake in the national situation and the fate of the family, and repeatedly sent people to the Qincun Courtyard to disturb it, and her eyelids were shallower than the maid mother in the inner courtyard!

"Here's what it's doing." He Yan suppressed his breath, lifted the curtain, and saw a picture on the ground, and saw Xingjing squatting on the ground, dancing and talking, and for no reason, a burst of anger came up, "What do you look like!" They are all people who are about to say goodbye, and they haven't done it yet! ”

stepped forward, pulled Xingjing up, and was heartbroken: "I don't expect you to get ahead, so I can't tell outsiders that the He family is an idle gentleman!" ”

Xingzhao's hand was clenched tightly in his sleeve, but the eldest lady hurriedly stepped forward and rescued Xingjing from He Yan's hands, and said, "Brother Jing is talking to me about the map!" He asked again and again: "Is my brother okay?" Pingxi Pass was defended in the end, what about the emperor's attitude? Do you want to send another Protector to follow? ”

He Yan frowned, ignored the sentence "Brother Jing is talking to me about the map", held the letter and waved his hand, walked forward, sat on the Taishi chair at the top, and did not speak for a long time.

If it is an internal strife in the northwest, the new governor Liang Pinggong, three ministers of armaments, and a Zhenxi Houfang Qi, there are problems and discord between the three parties, and the consequences are unimaginable

He Yan thought about it, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a pair of apricot eyes that were widening and looking at him Xingzhao, who was blinking and looking at him, and his heart was much lighter for no reason, and he beckoned to Xingzhao and motioned for her to come over. He patted her hand lightly, turned his head and commanded Xingjing: "Bring your sister in, I have something to say to your mother." ”

Xingjing responded, and stepped forward to take Xingzhao in frustration, and walked slowly inside.

The two walked to the flower hall, Xingzhao stopped, stood on tiptoe and whispered to Xingjing: "Brother forgot what Ah Yu said? What our father tells is not necessarily right, but what is wrong with caring for our uncle and mother? Besides, my father only said to go inside, but he didn't say where to go."

Xingjing's eyes lit up, he hugged Xingzhao on the kang, lifted his robe, sat lightly on the side, and listened with his ears close to the partition.

I only heard He Yan's slightly muttered voice outside: "How dangerous it was the night before, my uncle didn't say it, but I can guess it." Fortunately, Uncle Fang has already suppressed the situation, and it is impossible for Pingxi Pass to be lost within half a month. After a pause, he said: "This morning, the emperor has given an order, and sent a letter to wait to the northwest to protect the army, escorting thirty truckloads of food and salary with the car, and they can also arrive in three or five days, which can be regarded as solving the urgent need in the northwest." ”

"Amitabha!" The voice of the eldest lady was filled with infinite joy, comfort, and relief, accompanied by the sound of rustling clothes: "The emperor's grace is immense! I will go to the small Buddha hall to burn pillar incense later, and then go outside the ancestral hall to kowtow to the ancestors and ancestors! ”

There was another silence, Xingzhao frowned slightly, and her intuition told her that He Yan had not finished speaking.

At this time, success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He. In this battle, if the uncle holds on, he will definitely be added to the rank of knight, and the mother will naturally follow the rising tide, and Yingyi will no longer be able to turn over any wind and waves. On the contrary, the Fang family was turbulent, and the first to bear the brunt were the eldest lady and Queen Fang.

Why did He Yan hide when his future was still unclear? (To be continued......)

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