It was fast approaching October, and the cold winter had finally arrived.

This year's winter in Jinling City seems to be exceptionally cold. A gust of north wind swept through the ground, and the city was bleak.

When the first heavy snow covered the entire capital into a snow country, a war report sent from the northwest quickly broke the peace and tranquility of the city, and also caused an uproar in the court.

There was a war in the northwest.

This year's Han Dynasty is still in the Xiaoice period, with grain harvests and snow disasters. In particular, the northwest region was more severely affected. In some prefectures and counties, there has been no harvest for several years in a row, and people die of cold and starvation every year, and a large number of hungry people have left their hometowns to beg for food all the way to the south. In recent months, displaced people have gathered in the southwest, and even some small towns in the south of the Yangtze River have begun to appear in the north.

The disaster of the Han Dynasty was still so serious, and the Khan Khanate in the north can be imagined.

The Khan people are brave and warlike, and they have never eaten and robbed. A few years ago, when the first emperor was alive, there was a protector to guard the border, and then there was the northwest of the British king's town, which made the Khan people restrain a little.

Now it is different from the past, and there is no one in the Han army to deter the Khan, and the fierce face of the Khan is revealed again.

In previous years, when the harvest was good, they were still safe with the Han border people, but now that their families have run out of food, the Khithan farmers and local defenders in the famine have gathered into small groups of rebels to harass the Han border, loot grain, and burn down villages.

As the weather became colder and colder, the situation of the Khan became more serious, and the Khan border army simply transferred men and horses to openly plunder the border towns of our Han Dynasty. From mid-September to mid-October. In just one month, the 5,000 black armor army of the Khan invaded Dahan from Suzhou in the northwest, connected dozens of towns, and went straight to the most important fortress in the northwest - Ezhou.

The Khan army was like entering a no-man's land along the way, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and the border people of the Han Dynasty were miserable, and they fled their hometowns to take refuge in the Central Plains. However, the Han defenders were weak, and they were defeated again and again, and finally retreated to Ezhou. Relying on the Tianqian Hangu Pass and the fortress of Jiancheng in Ezhou. Shut down the city and defend yourself.

When Fu Geng returned home with a gloomy face, he had such a newspaper in his hand.

The 200,000 garrisons in the northwest of the Han Dynasty couldn't even stop the black armor of the 5,000 Qi Khan, and they were defeated and retreated. Fang is above the court. The Holy One was exceedingly angry. Threw the newspaper at the feet of the military department. Questioning how he deployed the army, why the 200,000 defenders were invincible to even 5,000 black armor?

Huo Di, who is one of the five ministers, is also from a family. Seeing the Holy One's wrath. He knelt down in the hall to plead guilty, and wept to ask the Holy General Pei Kuanguan, the former governor of the Northwest Battalion, to be reinstated, saying that he was a brave and warlike general, and if he led the army, the Khan Heijia would be defeated.

What Fu Geng is worried about today is the suggestion made by this Huo Di.

In the court, the saint did not adopt Huo Di's suggestion, and reprimanded him for being a vegetarian meal and useless for the country, but Fu Geng couldn't help but think about it. Therefore, all the way home, his face was always gloomy.

After returning to the outer study, Fu Geng called someone to invite Hu Zhong and Tian Xun.

Tian Xun has entered Beijing since Wang Xiangzhishi, and is now a staff member by Fu Geng's side. This is also what Wang Xiang meant.

For the war in the northwest, Tian Xun and Hu Zhong have both heard of it. Now that he heard Fu Geng talk about Huo Di in the court, Tian Xun twisted his beard and said: "The Huo family and the Pei family have always been close, so Pei Kuan does have some skills, so Huo Di dared to bring it up in the court." ”

Hu Zhong's expression was a little solemn, and he said: "Huo Di said that it is not too important, I am afraid that he will start the matter, and the next group of people will be arranged over there to talk about the item, and the matter will be in danger." ”

Fu Geng frowned and said, "Hu Gong is right, I'm also worried about this." There are countless Pei clansmen, and if they really join forces, the arrangements in front of us will be all in vain. ”

When Hu Zhong heard this, he sighed, lowered his voice and said, "I am jealous of the Pei family, and I am even more jealous of the King of England." ”

"Hu Gongming sees it." Fu Geng also sighed a little and said, "I'd rather use my relatives, but I don't know that a British king can be against thousands of troops." Now it is being taken advantage of by the young. ”

Tian Xun lowered his eyes and pondered for a long time, and said in a low voice: "If you know a person, you can also use it." ”

Fu Geng raised his eyes to look at him and asked, "Who is it?" ”

Tian Xun stretched out his index finger and dipped it in tea, and wrote the word "warm" on the table.

"Wen Guogong?" Hu Zhong asked first.

Tian Xun shook his head and said with a smile: "Definitely." ”

Fu Geng understood, and a fine light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and said, "Wen's? ”

Tian Xun nodded and said, "Exactly." The Wen family are all military generals, and the eldest daughter of General Wen is now Mrs. Weibeihou. As far as a certain know, Mrs. Nawei Beihou has a younger brother, who first served in the Northwest Battalion, and now he has been transferred to the Liaodong Battalion to guard Jinzhou, and the official has been hereditary in Dongjiang Town. Moreover, the Marquis of Wei Bei has been in the Northwest Army for many years, and now he goes to the Northwest to say General Dou, and the generals and officers in that battalion are all respectful. ”

Tian Xun said, Fu Geng's eyes became brighter and brighter, and at this time, he said: "If the Liaodong Army is transferred north to aid the army, and then it is led by General Wen, you can use the old Marquis Dou to lead the northwest camp in the northwest and solve the crisis in the state." Wonderful, wonderful. ”

Hu Zhong also stroked his beard and smiled: "Mr. Mao De is really smart. In this way, our layout is not only unharmed, but also more stable. ”

Fu Geng stood up, paced two steps with his hands, and couldn't help but be happy on his face: "General Wen is full of loyalty, most of the Wen men are in the army, and Wen Zuo, the son of General Wen Wen, is now the leader of the former honor guard of the Dragon Guard, if the saint can reuse the Wen family, it will also be extremely beneficial to my Han." ”

Tian Xun said in a deep voice: "It's just like this, His Royal Highness ...... the King."

Fu Geng shook his head when he heard this, and his voice was slightly low: "The northwest is in an emergency, and the people are in misery, we still put state affairs first and worry about the king." ”

Tian Xun and Hu Zhong both said with solemn faces: "My lord, I see it." ”

The next day, when Huo Di cried for the second time to ask the Holy Lord to reuse Pei Kuan, Fu Geng went out to play, on the grounds that Pei Kuancai had been demoted, and if it was so quickly reactivated, it would damage the majesty of the imperial court, and asked the Holy Lord to mobilize the Yunnan army to the north, and elected Wu Tuo, the commander of the Yunnan army, as the commander.

The Yunnan army was stationed in the Yungui area of the Han Dynasty, commanding nearly 100,000 troops, and it was also a strong army when the first emperor was the emperor. It's just that in recent years, the sea has been leveled, the wind and rain in the Yungui area have been smooth, and the admiral Wu Tuo was born in one of the four major families, and he is the cousin of Concubine De. The emperor appointed him back then, but he saw that the Wu clan had no power in the army, and he just used his name, but he did not really want him to lead the troops to fight.

But Fu Geng proposed to let this person who had never even fought a battle go into battle, which was obviously unwilling for Pei's recovery, and it was completely an attitude towards people and things. So Huo Di and Fu Geng debated in court. Later, several more people joined the two camps, each listing reasons to refute the other, and the quarrel became so great that the saint's brow became more and more furrowed. (To be continued......)