On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Hongyi led 3,000 soldiers to pass through the "Huangquan Road" and quickly lurked in the mountains and forests. In the dead of night, when everyone was most sleepy, Li Hongyi gave an order and led everyone to attack. I saw that thousands of people suddenly appeared in Nanshan, and they were caught off guard by killing Xiou.

In the firelight, Ouyang Zhenyu hurriedly came out of the tent, and when he heard the little soldier report that there was an enemy attack, he couldn't believe it with his mouth wide open. Enemy attack? Isn't the enemy besieged in the Golden City? When did they come out?

"The King." The adjutant general hurried over and said urgently, "The enemy came too suddenly, and burned the camp. The brothers were killed and wounded, and we were defeated. ”

"Impossible, they are obviously in Jincheng opposite us, how can they make a detour behind enemy lines?"

"Come, my lord. The last will escort you back to the desert. ”

"Strategist, what about Strategist?" Ouyang Zhenyu looked around and yelled, "You must rescue the Nuosha Army." ”

"Nosha's military division is all right, King, let's go."

Ouyang Zhenyu listened to the shouts in his ears and looked into the distance with rivers of blood, and finally had to admit his defeat. Eventually, he broke out of the encirclement with a few thousand remnants and fled north.

"Win! Win! The soldiers here cheered, this surprise attack of 3,000 strange soldiers, in one fell swoop to take down tens of thousands of troops in Xiou, it is really an unbelievable great victory. Li Hongyi looked at the cheering scene happily, thinking that this time thanks to Wu Huiming leading the way, she is really a heroine among women, and she has made great contributions.

When Li Honghui led people to clean up the battlefield, he really found that Xiou was storing water. When Li Honghui saw such a vicious scheme that violated heavenly principles, he couldn't help but sigh: "This time, there must be a master in Xiou to help him, so he can come up with such a vicious scheme." It seems that this battle must completely eliminate Xiou, otherwise there will be endless troubles. ”

Li Hongyi also agreed with his younger brother's view that this battle was all about their luck and courage, and it must have been many times more difficult than the ambush battle back then. He slowly released the water, solving Jincheng's urgent need. Then he ordered that the whole army would not return to Yongjing, and that all the large armies should be assembled in Jincheng, and that they would immediately set off to the west after the whole army was assembled.

The battle lasted for three days and three nights, and Li Hongyi swept all the way west, recovering Guangwu County and seizing a large area of fertile grassland in the west. This battle severely damaged the main force of Xiou, with a total of more than 300,000 enemies annihilated, more than 1,000 prisoners, and countless enemy baggage, military horses, and weapons captured.

However, Ouyang Zhenyu, the king of Xi'ou, was not captured, and Li Hongyi sent people to conduct a comprehensive search in the west, but there was no trace of the king of Xi'ou. Li Honghui speculated that he might have fled north. However, this time Xi'ou suffered heavy losses, and I am afraid that within a few years, it will not be able to recover, let alone attack the Central Plains again, and become enemies of the Han people.

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The messenger who reported the victory rushed to the capital five days later, saying that General Li led the whole army to break the enemy's army, pursued for hundreds of miles, annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, and Yu Kou died in the north. When the news was heard, the whole country rejoiced. The emperor rewarded all the soldiers, named Li Hongyi as the Marquis of Yongning, promoted to the privy envoy, and took charge of the military power in the world. And Li Honghui, Xu Lei and other generals have also received a lot of rewards.

In addition, the emperor planned to reclaim the frontier on the captured grassland and set up a county, which was named Xining, meaning Yongning in the west.

This celebration lasted for a long time, and Shao An lived in the Prime Minister's Mansion and could still feel the festive atmosphere outside. The elder brother finally wins, and he realizes his dream of becoming a big hero in everyone's eyes. However, Shao Anxin is very contradictory, he is really sad about victory, and sad about defeat.

At the end of August, Li Hongyi made an excerpt and asked the class teacher to return to the court. However, he didn't expect that his letter would cause a huge wave in the capital.

In the early dynasties, the emperor was furious at court meetings. He said: "General Li went to the recital and asked for the class. However, he also mentions one thing. According to Li Hongyi, it was only one day after the withdrawal, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of July, that they received the decree that we were prohibiting the withdrawal of troops from Jincheng. In saying this, it is not that Li Hongyi does not obey the holy decree, but that the holy decree arrived late. ”

The court suddenly exploded, and the ministers were also surprised. Some people wondered: "Who dares to delay military affairs?" ”

"Since the founding of the country, there has never been such an accident. I thought there must be a secret in it. The emperor said sharply, "Check, check layer by layer." Sun Jianming, I remember that I issued a holy decree on the twenty-fourth day of July, when did Zhongshu Province sign it? Who will sign it? ”

Sun Yi took a step forward and replied: "Back to the saint, it was Shao Xiang who signed the detainment, and he signed it before he went to Yingzhou, that is, on the morning of the twenty-fifth day of July. ”

The emperor thought about it, Shao An did leave on the twenty-fifth day of July. He nodded, "Okay, continue to check down, after Shao An signed the postponement, when was the holy decree issued." ”

Sun Yi recalled: "The minister remembered that the minister also asked Liu Ruqing, a member of the Zhongshu House, that day, and he said that after Shao Xiang signed the detention, he immediately issued it. ”

"That is, on the twenty-fifth day of July, it was sent from the capital, and it was urgent for eight hundred miles, and it would definitely be possible to arrive in four days, it seems that the post was derelict in his duties. Each post house has a record of what urgent income and dispatch on which day, and where the problem is, you can know it at a check. The Emperor ordered, "The Criminal Department and the Guards Department, I will give you five days to find out about this matter at once." ”

For a time, all the posts from the capital to the golden city were terrified, and everyone was in danger. The guard was resolute, got the records of each post house, and compared them one by one, but did not find any problems. Finally, here in the capital, it was discovered that the decree was not issued on the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month, but on the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month. This explains why the decree is a day late.

"So, someone has detained the decree for a day?" The emperor wondered, "The holy decree only passed through Zhongshu Province, and it must have been done by people within Zhongshu Province." Liu Ruqing is the most suspicious, Chen Wu, you immediately go and arrest this person, detain him to the guard prison, and interrogate him strictly. As for the rest of the Tongshi Sheren, the Living House, the Principal, the Chief Secretary and others in Zhongshu Province, they are all under house arrest in Zhongshu Province and are not allowed to contact the outside world. ”

"Yes." Chen Wu received the order. Then he hesitated, "Your Majesty, Xiang Shao and Vice Minister Sun, are you also taking care of them?" ”

The emperor pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "They are not suspicious for the time being, you can send someone to secretly keep an eye on Shao Mansion and Sun Mansion." ”

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Shao An was also slightly surprised when he heard that Liu Ruqing was in prison. He said, "Why?" ”

"It is said to be dereliction of duty, but in fact, it is the extension of the holy decree and the delay of the military in the northwest." Uncle Qin inquired about it from outside for a long time, and this matter was spread by everyone, which made hundreds of officials uneasy.

Sure enough, the holy decree was delayed, but the black cauldron was detained on Liu Ruqing. Shao An was surprised, and said to Uncle Qin lightly: "It is impossible for Liu Ruqing to do such a thing, I believe him." ”

"It's useless to believe it, now that he's been caught in the Guards Prison, that's not a place for people." Uncle Qin said worriedly, "Can the prime minister manage to transfer him to the Criminal Department, at least it is a little better than being in the Guards Prison." ”

"It's impossible for the criminal department, the emperor is afraid that I will favor Liu Ruqing, how can I let Liu Ruqing come to my territory?" Everyone knows that now the six departments are under the command of the prime minister, and Liu Ruqing is Shao Xiang's right-hand man.

Uncle Qin frowned, did the Emperor of the Heart Dao start to suspect that it was the prime minister's troublemaker again? He sighed slightly, and had to say: "What about Dali Temple, Pei Shaojun, the secretary of Dali Temple, is upright, and he is neither a party nor a cardinal." It is most appropriate for him to interrogate him. ”

Although Pei Shaojun is upright, the means of trying the case are slightly lacking. Speaking of the most proficient in trying cases, and the most upright, there is no one more than Feng Che and Feng Zhiyuan. Shao An thought that it was time for Feng Che to return to Beijing and do things for him.

However, at this time, Feng Che, who was far away in Yingzhou, finally settled the victims, and began to inspect the embankment with Xu Ce and Xu Ce, and sure enough, they found many problems. So Feng Che wrote a letter in a fit of rage, impeaching all the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the local officials in Henan.

When it was transmitted to the capital, it immediately caused a sensation in the government and the opposition. Unexpectedly, the officials of the Ministry of Industry who went to repair the embankment were so corrupt, and the emperor immediately ordered the Ministry of Guards to go to check on them, and imprisoned the officials such as the Ministry of Works, the left and right attendants, and so on.

The evidence sorted out by Feng Che and Xu Ce must be ironclad. And the Guards were close confidants of the emperor and only loyal to the saints, and it was impossible for those officials to bribe them. The case soon came to light, the Ministry of Industry lost more than half of the officials, and Yin of Henan Mansion was escorted back to Beijing in a gloomy manner, waiting for the Holy Lord to deal with it.

Poor Zhao Fuyin, the impeachment could not be counter-accused, and he didn't drive Feng Che away, but even his own net worth and life could not be saved.

And Feng Che did not stay in Yingzhou anymore, at this time he made great contributions, was transferred back to the capital by the emperor, and was promoted to the secretary of the criminal department, from the first grade.

Feng Che was transferred from the local area to the Criminal Department at the beginning of Tai'an and served as the right waiter. Later, the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, a few drops and a few liters, up to the Zuo Shilang of the Criminal Department, Dali Siqing, down to Zhixian and Zhizhou, he almost did everything. From the prosperous Chang'an, to the remote Yingzhou and Liuzhou, he has stayed almost all. Now Feng Che has finally achieved positive results, returned to the capital, and sat in the position of the secretary of the criminal department that should have belonged to him.

Feng Che returned to his hometown with emotion, only to see that the lobby of the Criminal Department was still so majestic and solemn. However, the iron-clad yamen, the officials of flowing water, and the colleagues who worked with him in the Criminal Department in the past have long since left, scattered, and over the years, the officials of the Criminal Department have not known how many waves have changed. Just as he lamented that things were wrong, a small official of the Criminal Department stepped forward and secretly gave him a letter. He saw that on the envelope was the handwriting of Shao Xiang, which was unique and unimitated, and it read: Feng Zhiyuan's relatives.

There are still acquaintances, such as the high-ranking prime minister, such as his friend Pei Shaojun, who is still in Beijing. Feng Che cleaned up his mood and opened the letter, it turned out that Shao An asked him to secretly investigate Liu Ruqing's case.

"Tell Shao Xiang that Xia Guan will do his best." Feng Che said to the little official. He had heard about Liu Ruqing's case a long time ago, and it was indeed full of suspicions. Even if Shao An didn't say it, he would ask.