Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has entered August again.

The county seat is hot, and Ciqikou is also hot, Sun Wuye took the scholar and the old servant to Ciyun Village again, and heard Han Da say that Han Xiufeng and Fei Erye moved to the bamboo forest courtyard on the mountain, and they didn't even drink a sip of tea and went up the mountain non-stop.

All the way to the pine road, the green mist and the pan, the iris stream, the water to the top of the mountain and down, the sound of the Ling Ling and the pine spring to the sound, such as a song and music. Rushed to the outside of the bamboo forest courtyard, saw Han Xiufeng lying on the rattan chair for a nap, Fei Erye was sitting with the old monk Huiming around a boulder playing chess, suddenly came to Shixing, and couldn't help laughing: "The mountains are green and the peaks are together, and the streams are flowing with white clouds." The monk tower lamp is always there, and the cedar pine leaves do not wither......"

Monk Huiming looked up, hurriedly got up and said, "Amitabha, it turned out to be Lord Sun!" ”

Second Master Fei reacted, and hurriedly pushed Han Xiufeng, who was sleeping soundly, and then got up to greet him and said, "Sins and sins, the fifth master has arrived, and we have missed the distance." ”

"Don't blame those who don't know, brother doesn't need to be like this." Sun Wuye arched his hand, and then walked up and kicked Han Xiufeng, who was still asleep: "Zhixing, wake up, what do you sleep in the daytime!" The ancients couldn't buy an inch of time, this good time was not for sleeping, and it would be too late to regret it at my age. ”

Han Xiufeng was kicked awake by him, rubbed his eyes, confirmed that he was not dreaming, and hurriedly got up and smiled: "Fifth master, when did you come, why didn't you send someone to bring a letter before you came?" ”

"Yes, Fifth Master, if I bring a letter earlier, I can go down the mountain to greet you." Second Master Fei said with a smile while helping to make tea.

"I'm not an official master, so I don't need to be so troublesome." Sun Wuye turned around and motioned to the old servant to send the porter who carried him up the mountain to go back first, and asked the scholar to send the salute into the house where he lived when he came to escape the summer last year, then he sat down and took the teacup and looked at Han Xiufeng with a smile and asked: "Why did you move up the mountain, the mountain is quiet and cool, I can come to stay for a few days, what is it that you moved here, this is really not the place where you should stay!" ”

Han Xiufeng couldn't hear the meaning of his words, and explained helplessly: "You always misunderstood, Xiufeng didn't think about escaping, let alone seeing through Hongchen and wanting to become a monk, the reason why he moved the mountain was purely a last resort. ”

"What's the last resort?"

"Because I didn't follow the edict to transfer filial piety and loyalty, I was just reprimanded by the emperor a few days ago, scolding me for having no conscience, being deeply favored by the emperor but not thinking of serving the court, and even scolding me for being a seven-foot man is not as good as a woman! Fortunately, this edict was not explicitly issued, otherwise it would really be famous all over the world, and maybe it would be impeached by those imperial historians who had long looked at me unpleasantly. ”

"Just a reprimand?"

"It's just a reprimand, the Yong is still there, the top belt is also there, and the errand of supervising the group training in eastern Sichuan is the same."

"It's good to just reprimand," Sun Wuye smiled, put down the teacup and said: "Thunder, rain and dew are all gentlemen, and it is also a rare honor to be reprimanded by the emperor." Listen to your uncle, who always wanted to return to his hometown when he was an official abroad, and regretted his illness when he returned home, as long as the number of civil and military ministers has been reprimanded by the emperor, and only Jane in the emperor's heart will be reprimanded, and anyone who has not been reprimanded by the emperor is embarrassed to brag to others about the holy family Enlong. ”

"If only you had the simplicity you always say." Han Xiufeng said with a wry smile.

"By the way, being reprimanded by the emperor, what does it have to do with moving mountains?"

"Just like you just said, the thunder, rain and dew are all gentlemen, and if you are reprimanded, you can thank you for it, and you have to give the emperor an explanation. Thinking about it, I can only move the mountain up, eat fasting and chant sutras to pray for the emperor's blessings, pray for the Buddha to bless the emperor's dragon health, and pray for the Bodhisattva to bless my Qing Dynasty and the people. ”

"This method is good, the emperor knows that there must be a dragon's heart."

"Whether the dragon's heart can be Yue Xiufeng dare not have extravagant hopes, I just hope that the emperor will not be angry with me again."

"Then have you been chanting these days?" Sun Wuye couldn't help but ask.

Han Xiufeng scratched his neck and said with embarrassment: "I have recited twice with the master, I have been observing the fast, I don't believe you always ask the second master, I have never eaten meat until I went up the mountain." ”

"On such a hot day, you should have eaten lightly," Sun Wuye smiled, thought about it and reminded: "It is said that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, since it has been said, don't patronize and sleep in your spare time, you have to turn over the scriptures, otherwise in the future, when you enter Beijing to face the saint, the emperor asks you to memorize a scripture, and you can't recite a word, and then it will be the crime of bullying the king." ”

"Xie Wuye mentions, I'll watch it when I'm free."

"Don't talk about this, you don't need me to teach you, I just want to ask about the situation outside."

When it came to the battle situation, Han Xiufeng's mood became extremely heavy, he took a few deep breaths in a row, and said worriedly: "The situation outside is not good, this spring, Jiangsu Governor Gil Hang'a led troops to attack Zhenjiang, and Yang Xiuqing, the king of Changmao Dong, mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Anhui, led by Qin Rigang, and marched east from Qixia and Shibu Bridge to help Zhenjiang. Xiang Rong ordered Gilhanga to send troops to prevent the blockage, and the official army and Changmao fought in Longtan, Dongyang, Cangtou, Xiashu, and Tangtou for more than a month, regardless of victory or defeat.

Wu Ruxiao, the long-haired Zhenjiang guard, sent troops west many times to respond, but they were all blocked by the official army. In order to break the deadlock, Qin Rigang sent Chen Yucheng, the prime minister of the winter official, to break through the blockade of the official army by small boat, arrived at Zhenjiang to see Wu Ruxiao, and agreed that the east and west would attack. Qin Rigang then led the army to attack the east, and fought fiercely with the official army in Tangtou, and could not hold each other. Li Xiucheng, who had detoured to the side of the officers and troops before the war, suddenly attacked, and the officers and troops were hit in the abdomen and back, and the formation was in chaos. At this time, Chen Yucheng and Wu Ruxiao also led the army from Zhenjiang to kill, and after the convergence, they defeated Gilhang'a, broke 16 of their camps, and reached Zhenjiang.

Just when Gilhang'a gathered the rout, Qin Rigang actually turned his troops, crossed the river from Jinshan to the north, and joined Guazhou Changmao, and then took the opportunity of the Jiangbei official army to take precautions, stormed the earthen bridge, broke through the long wall of the earthen enclosure built by the official army to besiege Guazhou Changmao, and broke through the official and military camps such as Hongqiao and Pushuwan. The Jiangbei official army was dispersed, and the minister of the Qincha, who was in charge of the military affairs of Jiangbei, Tomin'a, fled to the Sanxia River. Changmao was full of energy, and successively captured more than 120 barracks of the Sanxiahe official army, and Tuo Minga could only lead the remnants to flee to Shao Bo in the northeast of Yangzhou. ”

Sun Wuye was taken aback: "The Jiangbei camp was broken by long hair? ”

"Don't stop the camp in Jiangbei."

Han Xiufeng sighed lightly, and continued: "Qin Rigang captured Yangzhou, and after grabbing a large amount of food and salary, he only left a small number of troops to defend Yangzhou, and led his troops to kill a horse gun, intending to cross the river from Guazhou to attack the Jiangnan official army.

Just when his brigade of soldiers and horses was ready to assemble and plan to cross the river from Pukou, the official army regained Pukou, Qin Rigang was worried that he would be attacked by the official army halfway, and led his troops back to Guazhou, rested in Guazhou for a few days, crossed the river in a big way, and after capturing Huangnizhou, he took advantage of the victory and attacked Gaozi, planning to open up the road back to Jiangning.

Gilhang'a led his troops to help from the Jiuhuashan battalion in Zhenjiang, but was surrounded by Qin Rigang in a place called Yandun Mountain. Gilhanga fought with him for five days and nights, and was shot and killed. Liu Cunhou, the prefect of Jiangning, a fellow township of my country, broke through the siege, was intercepted by long hair halfway, and died in battle. The deputy capital commander threw himself into the river, and the deputy general Zhou Zhaoxiong was killed in battle. ”

Ba County sang and danced, and few people cared about the war in Liangjiang.

Sun Wuye really didn't know this, and asked eagerly: "What happened later?" ”

Qin Rigang took advantage of the victory to pursue, first broke through the Jiuhua Mountain camp, and then broke through the Jingxian Mountain official army camp, and relieved the siege of Zhenjiang. Then abandon the camps of Xiaomao Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Yandun Mountain, Huangnizhou and other places, and retreat to the Yanziji and Guanyinmen areas in the northeast of Jiangning through Gaozi, Xiashu, Dongyang, and Shibu Bridges. ”

"What about Xiang Rong, is Xiang Rong okay?"

"Xiang Shuai was defeated and retreated to Danyang, I don't know what the situation is now." Han Xiufeng rubbed his face, and continued: "The battle situation has taken a sharp turn, in just a few months, the Jiangbei camp and the Jiangnan camp have been broken by Long Hair one after another, and it is said that He Heng, the cabinet secretary who served in Xiang Shuai's army, also died in battle. My friend Zhang Yiguo when I was in Taizhou can be called defeated and defeated repeatedly, I don't know how many times I have lost and lost battles, and every time I can pick up a life without danger, but this time I didn't have the same good luck as before, and I was also killed when the Jiangbei camp was broken. ”

"What does the emperor think!" Sun Wuye put down the teacup and muttered: "After Monk Greenqin Kefu Lian Town, after capturing Lin Fengxiang alive, why didn't the emperor order him to lead his troops south to wipe out Changmao in one fell swoop?" Instead, he ordered him to dismiss tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and ordered him to return to Beijing to maintain filial piety! ”

After exterminating Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and other northern criminals, the emperor issued an order to dismiss the Beijing Division Patrol Office, and ordered the monk Greenqin, who had just lost his mother, to lead the Minister of the Interior to stay in Beijing with the Zhenghuang Banner, and only sent Xi Ling'a and others to lead part of the horse team to Hubei and Henan to suppress the Changmao and Twist bandits.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that the imperial court has missed a good opportunity to "plough the court and sweep the holes".

But Han Xiufeng didn't think so, and said helplessly: "You don't know, the emperor is really helpless to do this, first, the court doesn't have so much food and salary, and it can't afford to raise so many soldiers; The second is that the foreigners continue to provoke on the grounds of repairing the treaty, and there is a possibility that the north will invade Gyeonggi at any time, and the emperor has to be prepared for danger in times of peace, so he wants to leave the monks and the 20,000 soldiers and horses who have not been repatriated to stay in Gyeonggi. ”

"Foreigners are also making trouble, and foreigners want to take advantage of the fire to rob?"

"If it weren't for worrying about foreigners, if it weren't for the lack of so much food, the emperor would have ordered the monk to lead those tens of thousands of troops south." Han Xiufeng sighed, thought about it and said: "The war in the two rivers is erosive, and Guizhou is not much better, Zhang Zhidong's father, Zhang Ying, the prefect of Xingyi, who I mentioned to you before, died of illness last month. On the seventh day after Zhang Ying's death, Duyun Mansion City fell, Zhang Zhidong's wife, brother and acting Duyun Prefect Shi were hunted and killed by bandits, and the former Duyun Prefect was martyred by Zhang Zhidong's sister's male Lu Pizong. ”

"Where's Huguang?"

"Huguang is not much better, not only Wuchang is still in the hands of Changmao, but even Luo Zenan, the veteran of the Hunan Army, died of serious injuries in the Wuchang Army. Jiangxi is even more miserable, it is said that more than half of the prefectures and counties have been occupied by Changmao. ”