Because the roads along the way were blocked and damaged, it was not until the afternoon of the first day of October that the Yanshan Weifu received a notification from Sun Zhongshan on 23 September about the battle situation of the former enemy and the imminent withdrawal of the army to Yanshan. Wei Fu did not dare to slack off, and immediately copied three copies and sent them to Fangzhou, Duanzhou and Shangjing respectively.

Before the afternoon of the next day, the Wei Government received a notification from Mogan at noon on 24 September. The report elaborated on the difficulties encountered by the retreat of the army, and frankly admitted that the enemy had detected the movement of the army, and the retreat had lost its concealment; Due to the strange movements of the Turks, the army has already rearranged its defenses in Mogan; The briefing also bluntly stated that the army would most likely encounter the enemy's main forces on the way to retreat. This announcement immediately plunged the entire Wei Mansion into a delicate atmosphere. After the same three copies were distributed to the three places, people began to wait for the next military newspaper in a state of apprehension.

More than an hour later, Wei Fu received a battle report from Mo Gan on 24 September: The two brigades of the front battalion had already engaged the big tent soldiers, and the various units had shifted from defense to offensive posture...... After receiving the report, the three generals of Weifu, who were temporarily "in charge," were stunned and shocked and did not give any instructions, neither saying that they would send copies to the report nor mention any other measures. It is precisely because of the inconsistencies between the two notices received in a short period of time, and the difference between defense and attack is even more vast, so all the people who can access this report from top to bottom in the Wei Mansion are a little in a trance, and they don't pay attention to the two details on the second report: The second report is actually a war report, and it was signed by Sun Huan on behalf of Sun Zhongshan.

At the end of that day, the third battle report of Mogan on September 24 came: After an hour of fierce fighting, the Ji Zheng Brigade of the Chinese army completely annihilated 3,000 large tent soldiers, opening the way for the army to go north. Immediately afterwards, Shen Shizheng received the fourth battle report, the third brigade of the Chinese army Qian Laosan received the enemy, and the soldiers forgot to die and fought bloody battles to break through the enemy camp - the actual situation was that the people of Tu Zuo took the initiative to give up one by one, and the enemy was scattered, and Qian Laosan was leading his troops to pursue; In the fifth battle report, Qian Lao's 3rd Brigade once again received the enemy, defeated the enemy's army, and captured 611 of the enemy's herdsmen who had no time to flee......

The good news came one after another, and everyone in the Wei Mansion was happy, surprised and afraid. The good news is that the good news is frequent, obviously the situation is very good, the surprise is that these victories come too quickly and too easily, and the fear is that the good news is too many and too frequent, which makes people involuntarily doubt. In the past two months, Sun Zhongshan hesitated all the way after walking all the way, how could he seem to have changed in the blink of an eye, from a cautious use of troops to a wide open march?

The battle in the direction of Mogan advanced too fast, and the few temporary "family members" who stayed in the guard mansion couldn't come up with an accurate idea at all, but they were afraid that Sun Zhongshan was boasting about the victory in order to cover up the defeat of the army and shirk his responsibility. Everyone in the Wei Mansion spent the night in excitement and confusion. At the end of the morning of the next day, an even more thrilling and unbelievable battle report came: the Yanshan Guards broke through Heishui City at the end of the afternoon on September 25! Attached to the report is the Black Feather King Tent of the Summer Palace of the King of Donglu Valley captured in the city!

There is the king of Donglu Valley as proof that the destruction of Blackwater City is indeed a fact, and the Weifu is lively when it arrives. The large and small pens of the Wei Mansion were gathered to discuss how to make a beautiful report document and submit it to Beijing as soon as possible. Immediately afterwards, several other big yamen in Yanzhou City also got the news, Wei Mu Lu Ji, the inspector Di Xu, Pan Lian, the prefect of Yanzhou, and Zhou Xiang, the chief of the six departments of the Admiral's Mansion and the prosecutor of the household department. With the help of these civil officials from Jinshi background, and the "Rough Statistical Report on the Battle Results of Blackwater City" that they had just received, it only took a moment to make a fanciful article......

I was still looking for chapters and sentences for the elaborate engraving of the documents, but I didn't expect that in the eyes of others, from yesterday noon to today's hour, there was no piece of paper and a word in Yanshan Weifu for eleven hours, what does this mean!

The business in Fangzhou is not a problem. Zhang Shao, who was in Duanzhou, was not too worried about the war in Mogan; In fact, he wasn't even too worried about the critical situation that Duanzhou was facing. He felt that since Shang Cheng was still staying in Fangzhou, it showed that the situation was not so bad that he needed the general to come out in person, and it was definitely not as bad as he imagined, which gave him a lot of confidence. He didn't know that his idea coincided with Sun Zhongshan hundreds of miles away. He didn't even know that in the south, Shangjing, which is more than 1,300 miles away from Yanzhou, there are still people who have the same opinion.

In mid-July, when the news of Shang Cheng's serious injuries in an accidental fall from a horse in Fangzhou was reported to the Prime Minister's Office, it was suggested that Yan Shanwei should be stopped from continuing to implement the autumn strategy. However, the right minister Zhang Pu did not support this proposal, the left minister Tang Xing did not make a clear statement, and the Marquis of Poyang and the old Agni Yang Du resolutely opposed the call to stop the campaign, and several military generals also said that they could fight a dozen and see the situation. Therefore, the Beijing side finally acquiesced to Yan Shanwei's actions. Privately, though, no one had much hope for this battle. Things are clear, everyone knows what Guo Biao has to do, Sun Zhongshan may be stronger than him, but it can't be much stronger, let the two of them fight one by one, the result is unpredictable......

The development of the war also confirms these pessimistic views. Sun Zhongshan marched slowly like a snail climbing all the way, and it took ten days to reach Luhe, and Shang Yanshan's carefully planned autumn strategy was completely finished. But at this time, the battle could not be stopped, and could only continue according to the original strategy. Soon Guo Biaozhong fell, and the war broke out in Yandong, but Sun Zhongshan was still hesitant in Luhe. When Sun Zhongshan finally decided to go out of Mogan, the Tuqi people on the other side had already surrounded Beizheng, and then the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to the south to Yixian, and all the way to the west to attack Duanzhou. Coupled with Qi Wei's forcible division of troops regardless of the overall situation, the situation in Yandong suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. At this critical moment, in mid-September, some people proposed that the garrisons of Xiangqu Luen and other prefectures adjacent to Yanshan should be immediately ordered to rush to help, and the two guards of Dingjin in the Bohai Sea should be ordered to respond to the situation in Yanshan at any time, and the Liyuan battalion should also dispatch one or two armies to the north immediately. It was at this time that Zhang Pu, the right minister, stood up and said:

"Shang Yanshan is still in Fangzhou."

This sentence is final. From that day on, everyone did what they had to do, and no one mentioned much about the matter of rushing to help Yanshan, at most, they went to the prime minister's office to discuss the progress of the Yanshan war, or took a look at the Yanshan Guard's twice-daily war report. However, basically everyone who comes to the Prime Minister's Mansion will ask before leaving: "Has Shang Yanshan moved?" It is Tang Xing and Zhang Pu, who go to the government every day, and the first sentence is usually "There is no official document from Fangzhou". Perhaps, there is more or less such an opinion in everyone's heart, as long as Shang Cheng is still in Fangzhou, then there will be no major incident in Yanshan.

However, subjective perceptions can never replace objective facts. Shang Cheng has been recuperating in Fangzhou, but something happened to Yanshan after all.

At 3:00 a.m. on the 7th day of the first month of October, the military headquarters received a report from the Yanshan Weifu that Mogan was in noon on 24 September, saying that the retreat of the army was difficult, that its movements were being monitored by the enemy, and that there might be a battle with the main force of the Turbid Forces, which was hidden and unrelenting. The Ministry of War did not dare to slack off, and immediately moved the copy to the Prime Minister's office. The atmosphere in the public hall suddenly became tense.

However, what makes people feel incredible is that from the third quarter of the seventh day of the first month to the noon of the eighth day of the first month, there was no alternation in the entire fourteen hours, and there was not a word of paper from the Yanshan Wei Mansion. Several prime ministers and deputy prime ministers put aside everything at hand, anxiously awaiting further news, while repeatedly discussing why this was the case. Heavy rain collapsed roads, heavy snow blocked traffic, and boats and boats at the Yellow River ferry failed...... All possible bad situations are brought up and discussed over and over again. The clerks and clerks of the public office went in and out, and they were so busy that they did not touch the ground, and transferred all the official documents of the prefectures and counties along the post road from Beijing to Yanzhou in the past two or three months, and carefully read them one by one, just to find out why the front-line war reports could not be delivered in time.

Now, no one mentions anything about Shang Cheng being as stable as Mount Tai in Fangzhou, let alone saying anything "Shang Yanshan is here, then Yanshan is here". Yanshan Weifu didn't say a word for more than a dozen hours, and didn't leak a word, no need to ask, it must be something major in Yandong Yanzhong! Maybe it was Ximen Sheng's loss of Yixian, or maybe it was the fall of Duanzhou City, but none of them was as terrible as Sun Zhongshan's defeat. If Sun Zhongshan was defeated by Mo Gan, and the main force of Tu Du Ci took advantage of the situation to move south, with the empty and scarce troops in Yanzhong and Yanxi now, there would be no possibility of blocking the delay. Even if the blind man's skills are thorough, it is impossible for him to turn the situation around with his bare hands!

The prime minister and deputy prime minister of the imperial court, the six ministers of Shangshu and several members of the court, held an emergency meeting in the prime minister's office, and finally came up with their opinions. The first is to issue a document to carefully find out the reason for the interruption of the news, the second is to inform the garrisons around Yanshanwei that they must be prepared for war, the third is to strictly order the two guards of the Bohai Sea and Dingjin not to watch the fire from the other side and take necessary actions, and the fourth is to transfer two to three armies from the Liyuan battalion to reinforce Yanshan. As for the proposal of a small number of people to strictly investigate and deal with Yan Shanwei's delay in concealing it, it was vetoed by the two prime ministers, and the matter has not yet been clarified, so who is to be held accountable now? Who can be investigated and punished?

Before the meeting was over, Zhen Xiang, who was staying at the yamen of the military department, hurriedly ran into the public office. It was already the winter weather in Beijing in October, and there was a snow two days ago, although it was not so cold that it was thorough to teach people, but the cold was still piercing the skin and soaking the lungs. But this left squire of the military department ran with hot sweat on his face, and wisps of white vapor loomed between his sideburns and hair. He grabbed two official documents in his hand, and before he could enter the door, he didn't have time to salute several prime ministers, deputy ministers and old generals, and first raised an official document and shouted: "Yanshan reported victory: On September 24, Sun Zhongshan broke the enemy in front of Mo Gan, beheaded more than 3,480 enemies, and opened up the passage to the north!" "Hold up the other one with that." This is also Yanshan's success! On September 24, at the beginning of the Shen period, Sun Zhongshan's subordinate pursued the thief again, and captured a ......"

There was silence in the public hall. The two sudden good news made the people who were still discussing how to deal with the aftermath of Yanshan just now hurriedly unable to react, and could only stare at Zhen Qian who was still snoring and gasping with his eyes.

Zhang Pu, who presided over the meeting, was the first to make a move. Instead of standing up, he stretched out his hand with a serious expression and said, "Show me the good news." He was a little skeptical of the two good news. That's how almost everyone in the room thinks about it.

Zhang Pucai got two good news, and the head of a military department rushed in: "Yanshan reported victory: At the beginning of the unitary time on September 24, Sun Zhongshan's troops fought again against the thieves, broke the enemy, and captured more than 600 people......."

Since then, Yanshan's official documents have been reported one after another, and the marquee is generally dizzying, and often the previous document is still circulated in the hands of several prime ministers and deputy ministers, and the latter good news has been sent to the public office. For almost half an hour, apart from repeatedly circulating, browsing, and pondering official documents, not a single person left his seat. Obviously, because the good news came too much, too quickly and too intensively, these people who had long been accustomed to ups and downs were a little unable to react.

Zhao system, the officials sign in at the beginning of the time, and disperse at the end of the time. But today it was the time when the sun was slanting westward at the end of the Shen Dynasty, and none of the prime ministers and scholars had left, and this situation immediately attracted the attention of the officials on duty at the various yamen in the imperial city. Immediately, someone discovered that the same was true of the military department, such a big yamen, and no one had returned to the detention until now. The officials in the six departments are the best, and the voice is also the fastest, and after a little inquiry, the news of Yanshan's great victory came out from the yamen of the military department, and it is said that it is not an ordinary big victory. As a result, many officials were no longer worth it, and they no longer kept their duties, and they gathered around the prime minister's office in groups in the east and west, all wanting to see what kind of big victory Yan Shanwei fought.

Just after the hour of You, Emperor Dongyuan could no longer hold back the anxiety in his heart, and cleared the line from the prime minister's palace. In fact, he received the news an hour ago, and he had already circled countless circles in the study of the inner court, waiting for the two prime ministers of Tangxing and Zhang Pu to report the good news to him. How do you know that you can't see anyone on the left, and you can't see anyone on the right, so you have to run to inquire in person about the sympathy for a day, and see that the ministers are diligent and don't think about sleeping and eating, so they look at each other in person.

Emperor Dongyuan arrived, and the good news of Yanshan also arrived:

"At the end of noon on the twenty-fifth day of September in the twenty-first year of the Eastern Common Era, my Yanshan Guards broke the Blackwater City"!

This was followed by a series of congratulatory documents sent by the government offices along the way through the military post road: Yanshan Governor's Mansion congratulated Heishui City on the great victory, Yanshan Weifu congratulated Heishui City on the victory, Yanshan Mufu He, Yanshan Inspector Sihe, Yanzhou Mansion, Yanzhou Prefecture, Yanzhou Prefecture, Yanshui County, Yannan County, Dun'an County, Quzhou Mansion, Luzhou Mansion, River Water Division Yamen, Luzhou Thorn History Yamen, Xiangzhou Mansion, Xiangzhou Thorn History Yamen, Gyeonggi North Camp Command Yamen...... In a long list of yamen, there is also a rolling order report from the General's Mansion on the Shangjing Plain: After receiving an urgent report from the garrison on the way to Yutu, the sixteen horses of Yanzhou "reported the victory of the red horse" and captured the black feather tent of the king of the eastern Lugu Valley of the Sudden Exhaustion Ci and the display and layout of the Yiying, which is less than 30 miles away from the capital at this moment, how to deal with it?

Zhang Pu and Tang Xing looked at each other, and bowed to Emperor Dongyuan at the same time. Tang Xing said: "Please Your Majesty." This is an example and a signal, all the officials and generals inside and outside the public palace also bowed their bodies in the direction of Emperor Dongyuan.

Since ascending the throne, Emperor Dongyuan has never been as high-spirited as he is today. Since his accession to the throne, the country's income has been 40 times that of Gaozu in the last years of his ascension, and the income of the 19th year of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty has been three times that of the early years of the Eastern Yuan Dynasty. But in terms of martial arts, it is the same, and it is even more defeated and less victorious against Tu Quanci. Today, however, is different. From the Battle of Yuanzhou in the sixth year of Taizu Yide's expedition to the Later Jin Dynasty, to the siege of Heishui in the fourth year of Taizong Jingkuang, and then to the defeat of Mogan three years ago, in one hundred and three years, Dazhao has never won such a great victory. For a moment, he felt as if he was in the clouds, and he had the feeling that he could open the world with a wave of his hand. He tried his best to suppress the churning heat in his chest, took a long breath, and said word by word: "The will of Chuan: The Nine Gates of Shangjing will be opened immediately, and the Yanshan Victory Red Horse will be welcomed; From now on, it is allowed to set off fireworks for 10 days, and 100 officials will rest for three days. Spread the message that all the state capitals and counties in the world will set off fireworks for ten days, and the whole world will celebrate! ”

"Ministers, obey the orders one by one." The large and small officials present answered aloud together.