As soon as he said this, a Chinese army came in and bowed his hand: "Sir, there is a person under the city, who is called Guan there. He claimed to be a confidant of his husband. [No pop-ups. 】”

Fan Ju was stunned for a moment, hurriedly got out of the big tent, went up to the city, looked down, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Sure enough, there was a man outside the city, on a horse, with his head raised, looking at the gate.

The person who came was none other than Ziyi.

Ziyi was very happy since he followed the Qin army out of Xi'an City last night, he knew that at this time, the king of Qin no longer trusted him, and many people in the Qin army had no respect for him, and his prestige in the army was declining rapidly.

If this continues, his final result will be abandoned by the Qin army, and Ziyi knows the tactics and details of the Qin army, and the king of Qin will never let him go to others, so Ziyi will definitely die. He knows this very well.

Therefore, as soon as he left the city, Ziyi took the lead and rushed to the most chaotic place. Although the Qin army behind him was a little annoyed with Ziyi, he was a general after all, and once he died in battle, he also had the responsibility to protect himself, so he shouted loudly one by one and rushed up to protect Ziyi.

But Ziyi was bent on getting out of the sight of the Qin army, so where was the chaos, where did he drill, after a while, he got into the shadows, hid behind a stable for a while, and then looked around, no one noticed here, so Ziyi beat his horse and went south, and when he left the official army camp, he turned around and went straight to Tongguan.

Ziyi knew that the 3,000 men and horses he secretly recruited in Huayin had also been under the command of Fan Ju, and as long as he arrived in Tongguan, he would have his own men.

So he hurried up, and finally arrived at Tongguan at noon the next day.

Fan Ju hurriedly ordered the switch to take Ziyi in, and as soon as Ziyi saw Fan Ju, the two hugged each other, and they could be regarded as difficult brothers and brothers, and they worked together.

Ziyi didn't have time to gossip, and hurriedly said: "Fan Xiang, although Xiong Wencan has 80,000 horses, he will definitely be defeated, and Bai Qi and Wang Jian are both famous generals, once the official army is defeated and retreats, they will definitely chase after them, I think he has nowhere else to go except Fan Xiang's Tongguan." ”

Fan Ju nodded, and immediately ordered, ordered two thousand cavalry, and went to respond.

Ziyi said in a low voice: "Fan Xiang, Xiong Wencan is already a frightened bird, it is better for adults to retreat and let him die at the hands of the Qin army, wouldn't he go to an opponent?" ”

Fan Ju shook his head again and again: "No, Xiong Wencan led 100,000 horses to besiege Tongguan for several months, but he was defeated and returned, and the court couldn't let him go, I think Xiong Wencan will be imprisoned at the least, and he will be given death at the worst, so we don't need to do it, and if we don't accept it, what will the court think?" ”

Ziyi suddenly realized and nodded again and again.

Fan Ju sent Ziyi to lead the rest of the men and horses to guard the pass, and he took two thousand cavalry out of Tongguan, onto the main road, and ushered in all the way. I didn't go far, and I met Xiong Wencan.

Xiong Wencan saw Fan Ju coming to greet him, he was so excited that he almost cried, and hurriedly rushed forward: "Mr. Fan Ju, save me." ”

Fan Ju was very calm and ordered the two thousand cavalry behind him: "Block the pursuers and escort the adults back to the pass." ”

The 2,000 cavalry got out of the way, set up a position on the side of the road, and shot the Qin army behind with strong bows and crossbows.

Bai Qi saw that this place was not far from Tongguan, and there was a new force of the official army in front of him, so he ordered no longer to chase and kill, because he knew that Tongguan was impossible to take, and his men and horses were too tired, so he would accept it when he saw it, otherwise the official army would fight back, and he would suffer a big loss.

So Bai Qi ordered to collect the army and go back. When the army received this order, they almost fell to their stomachs in an instant.

The Qin army rested on the spot for a while, and found that there was no food in the army, and there was no half a pot of water, and they were already tired at this time, so Bai Qi decided to go to Huayin City to rest first.

When passing through Huayin, some people have already seen that the Huayin guards abandoned the city and fled, and Huayin was already an empty city at this time.

The Qin army entered Huayin, settled the inhabitants of the city, and then rested.

This night was easy to kill, the Qin army killed and wounded the officers and soldiers, there were 10,000 people, and nearly 10,000 were captured, and the rest of the tens of thousands of horses were scattered. And the Qin army's side checked the point, and the losses were not small, the cavalry lost nearly 4,000 people, and the infantry was almost the same number.

Of the 20,000 horses in the Qin army, Bai Qi and Li Yan brought 10,000, a total of 30,000, nearly 10,000 dead and wounded, and the losses were unprecedentedly huge.

Bai Qi knew that Huayin was too close to Tongguan, and once the official army rested, it would inevitably counterattack, so after resting in Huayin for a day, he ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and move to Xi'an together with the entire people of Huayin.

However, he was still a little worried.

Xiong Wencan has been welcoming into Tongguan by Fan Ju, it is easy to catch his breath, he is not giving up, after entering Tongguan, when he saw that the Qin army was not chasing, he became a little bolder, and immediately sent an order, sent people out, and recruited the defeated soldiers who were scattered. At the same time, a handsome flag was erected in Tongguan and the Quartet was summoned.

This approach really worked, and the people he sent out really recruited a lot of people, and the other defeated soldiers heard that Xiong Wencan had entered Tongguan, so they came to vote one after another.

Within a few days, more than 10,000 people returned, and the number of people in Tongguan increased to more than 20,000.

But there are many people, but Xiong Wencan is depressed, he knows that it is impossible for the court not to know about such a big defeat, and Chongzhen's temper is clear to him, and his end is mostly just in front of him. So he had no choice but to go to court and ask for a confession. At the same time, write a letter to Yang Sichang in Beijing and ask him to say something good.

He guessed right.

On the third day of the defeat of Tongguan, a piece of music was sent to Chongzhen's dragon case.

Naturally, it was not Xiong Wencan, but the military department. The Ministry of War has set up observation envoys in all provinces, in order to prevent local officers and feudal officials from falsely reporting the military situation, and some provinces have more than one observation envoy, so immediately after Xiong Wencan's defeat, an observation envoy wrote to the Ministry of War and reported the truth to the Ministry of War.

When the military department received this news, it did not dare to slack off, and immediately wrote it into a memora and handed it over to the emperor.

Yang Sichang is a cabinet minister, so naturally he was not too surprised when he saw this letter for the first time, because the night before, a fast horse had already sent Xiong Wencan's letter, and he had already learned the news of the defeat of Guanzhong.

After reading Xiong Wencan's letter, Yang Sichang fell into a deep panic, everyone knew that Xiong Wencan was recommended by him, not long ago, Xiong Wencan surrendered Liu Guoneng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, the prestige was shocked, Yang Sichang was really excited for a while, but since he overthrew his political opponent Sun Chuanting, put him in prison, and let Xiong Wencan replace him, Xiong Wencan can be regarded as standing on the top of the wind, and he is the same.

If Xiong Wencan wins, half of the credit will be attributed to him Yang Sichang, and in the future, no one will match him in the court, and his reputation may be able to catch up with the former famous Zhang Juzheng.

However, Xiong Wencan was defeated, and he lost a lot.

What to do on your own? At this time, Chongzhen must have been so angry when he saw this letter that he was furious, how could he keep Xiong Wencan? Let him lead the army again and counterattack Xi'an?

If he said so, would Chongzhen be able to listen to it? If you don't listen, then even you will lose Chongzhen's trust.

Yang Sichang didn't sleep all night, he thought hard for a long time, and then he had an idea.

As soon as he went to court the next day, Chongzhen saw this letter, and at the same time, Xiong Wencan's own letter arrived.

Chongzhen had a gloomy face, and after reading the two letters, he first snapped, threw the folds on the case, and was silent for a moment, at this time the atmosphere in the hall was depressed to death.

After a long time, Chongzhen suddenly got up, put his hands together, and with a bang, overturned the entire dragon book case. The red pen on the dragon book case, the fold, the dragon inkstone, the lampstand, the ruler, the royal fan and other things, rolled to the ground.

The ministers shuddered.

Chongzhen squeezed out a few sentences from between his teeth: "Xiong Wencan is incompetent, he lost his teacher and humiliated the country, 100,000 male soldiers, once defeated, he is the main general, he can't resist the enemy, but he is the first to flee for his life, what is the use of such a shameless general!" If Fan Ju hadn't defended Tongguan to scare the Qin army away, and also recruited a general, even Tongguan would have been lost. Passed the decree to Jinyiwei, and quickly escorted Xiong Wencan to Beijing to discuss the punishment. ”

He turned his head to look at Yang Sichang: "Yang Sichang, Xiong Wencan was recommended by you, you said that he had the talent to calm the world, what is the situation now?" You said! ”

This can be regarded as a question, and everyone thinks that Yang Sichang is hanging this time.

Yang Sichang was not in a hurry, and went out to play: "Your Majesty, and the anger of the thunder, Weichen has a word, dare to ask for a play." ”

Chongzhen said: "Say it." ”

Yang Sichang said: "Your Majesty, Xiong Wencan is indeed an extraordinary person, good at anticipating the enemy's scheming, and taking countermeasures, he recruited Liu Guoneng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, which is the embodiment of his ability......"

Chongzhen said angrily: "You still dare to exonerate him......"

Yang Sichang said: "Weichen doesn't dare, please let Weichen finish speaking." ”

Chongzhen suppressed his anger: "Go on." ”

Yang Sichang said: "Xiong Wencan's ability lies in penetrating people's hearts and minds, rather than facing the enemy and commanding thousands of troops. After he recruited a few thieves, he believed that he had high merits, but he didn't think about his shortcomings, and only wanted to make military merits in order to be knighted, which was really greedy. Now that Guanzhong is defeated, the responsibility is all on Xiong, how dare Weichen explain it to him, and Weichen asks His Majesty to return it to Beijing for punishment. ”

These words made the ministers in the palace stunned. I didn't expect him to say that.

Xiong Wencan was protected by Yang Sichang, this matter is clear to the whole court, everyone saw Yang Sichang out of the class, they all thought that he was defending Xiong Wencan, but also defending himself, he and Xiong Wencan are grasshoppers on a rope, which is also understandable.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Yang Sichang opened his mouth, he put all the blame on Xiong Wencan, what about himself? To put it mildly, the crime of recommending disadvantage can be big or small, which makes it clear that Xiong Wencan is used as a shield, and it is also a plan to lose the pawn and protect the car.

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