Kyoshi, Imperial Study.

Emperor Tianshun's roar almost toppled the roof, and the huge sound continued to reverberate, constantly washing the hearts of the courtiers present, and some of the elderly ministers were already sweating profusely and feeling great pressure.

"Now Yanmen Pass is in an emergency, what is the urgency of this seal, this is the blood of my Ming soldiers, and it is the white bones of the Ming soldiers!"

Emperor Tianshun roared loudly: "Up to now, the main army led by the governor of Shanxi is fighting a bloody battle with 100,000 Tatar cavalry in Datong Town, and there are only more than 10,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army in Yanmen Pass, facing the onslaught of tens of thousands of Tatar elites, and the military department has not even mobilized reinforcements, can you courtiers come up with countermeasures after the Yanmen Pass is lost!" ”

At this time, the name of the military department is Li Xian, Li Xian was born in the sixth year of Chengzu Yongle, Li Xian was the first in the Zhongxiang examination in the seventh year of Xuande, and the first in the eighth year of Xuande.

Later, Li Xian, who was already an official, was ordered to Hejin to investigate the locust plague and was appointed as the director of the sealing department. At that time, the young master Yang Shiqi wanted to see him, but Li Xian didn't go, which shows his uprightness.

In the early years of orthodoxy, Li Xian once played the orthodox emperor, saying: "The number of Tatar officials living in Beijing has exceeded 10,000, and the commander of the envoy has 35 stone per month, but only one stone is actually paid, but the Tatar official actually pays 17 stone and 5 buckets." Such a Tartar official is equivalent to seventeen and a half Beijing officials. The Tartars should be gradually moved to other places in order to save onerous expenses and to nip the scourge in the bud. "

However, the orthodox emperor of the time failed to adopt this proposal.

At that time, the imperial court decreed that the edict of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs would not be granted for nine years. Li Xian said again: "With the limit of nine years, some officials cannot expire, and some cannot wait for the number of years because of their relatives, so there are eight or nine out of ten who cannot get the edict." This will not persuade your subordinates, so please continue to use the three-year period as a convenience. "

The orthodox emperor obeyed this time, and then Li Xian was promoted to the Ministry of Officials Examination Gong Langzhong, and later changed to the Ministry of Officials Wenxuan Langzhong.

In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the orthodox emperor ordered the personal expedition to Warat at the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, and the servant of the ministry who was supposed to accompany the expedition was on leave due to illness, so Li Xian obeyed. In the same year, the "Civil Change" broke out, the Ming army was annihilated, and Li Xian and a few others escaped death and returned to Beijing.

In February of the second year of Jingtai, Li Xian put forward the original ten strategies, namely: be diligent in the study of the sage, listen to the advice, quit the hobbies such as lust, cut off good play, act cautiously, advocate frugality, revere the mandate of heaven, encourage the ministers, cheer up morale, and unite the people.

Emperor Jingtai was very appreciative after reading it, and ordered Hanlin to copy it and place it on the left and right for reading. Soon he wrote a book stating the advantages of chariot warfare and firearms, and Emperor Jingtai adopted it.

In the winter of the same year, Li Xian was promoted to the right attendant of the military department and transferred to the right attendant of the household department.

After Li Xian was reappointed as the right attendant of the ministry, he selected the style of action that the twenty-two ancient monarchs could emulate, compiled the "Ancient Records", and presented it to Emperor Jingtai.

Later, Shi Heng and others launched the "Change of Seizing the Door" to welcome Zhu Qizhen, who was imprisoned in Nangong, to be reinstated. After Emperor Tianshun was reinstated, he ordered Li Xian to be a bachelor of Hanlin and enter the Wenyuan Pavilion on duty, and participated in the aircraft service with Xu Youzhen.

Soon, Li Xian was promoted to the rank of secretary of the ministry. Li Xian's bearing is dignified and dignified, his playing is to the point, and Emperor Tianshun treats him very much.

There was a famine in Henan, and the state allocated insufficient relief money, so Emperor Tianshun summoned Xu Youzhen and Li Xian to discuss, Xu Youzhen said that most of the relief money was filled by officials. Li Xian said: "Worrying about being full and not giving loans, and sitting back and watching the people die, this is a waste of food because of choking." Emperor Tianshun then ordered an increase in silver taels.

At that time, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang and others were in power, and Li Xian did not dare to say everything because of scruples, but he often calmly answered Emperor Tianshun's questions, so it also played a great role in inhibiting Shi Heng and others.

However, although Li Xian is an upright person, when dealing with such a big decision as now, Li Xian seems to be a little soft, and he wants to deal with everything perfectly, but under the current military emergency, such a style is obviously out of place.

Li Xian, the secretary of the military department, and his subordinates, as well as the household department, the official department and other relevant people discussed for a long time, and it took such a long time to only propose to transfer 30,000 soldiers and horses from Henan to the north to support Yanmen Pass.

As for the tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiance Army stationed in Shandong, Li Xian's opinion was not to transfer for the time being.

After listening to Emperor Tianshun, he was immediately furious, the current war in Shanxi is already in danger, Liu Juntao, the governor of Shanxi, led his troops to fight with 100,000 Tatar iron cavalry, Yanmen Pass was also attacked by the Tatar iron cavalry, under such a crisis situation, the countermeasure of the military department was only to requisition 30,000 soldiers and horses from Henan, such a countermeasure really could not satisfy Emperor Tianshun.

"No! Absolutely not! ”

Emperor Tianshun said loudly: "This time to support Yanmen Pass and Datong Town, we must recruit elite soldiers and strong generals, I decided to transfer troops and horses from Xuanfu Town to support Datong Town, and from Shandong to send troops and troops stationed in Tiance to support Yanmen Pass!" ”

"Your Majesty, never!"

Li Xian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately said: "Your Majesty, according to the current battle situation, the Ministry of War has already made a decision, this time the Tatar army invaded south, and also divided the troops in a big way, this is obviously a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" The minister is worried that once the imperial court draws elite soldiers and strong generals from Shandong and Xuanfu Town, the Tatar Department may have ambushes and iron cavalry that has not yet attacked, and these strange soldiers are very likely to turn the direction of the main attack and take the opportunity to attack Xuanfu Town and other places, after all, the Tartars are all iron cavalry, and I can't catch up with the soldiers and horses! ”

Emperor Tianshun was also a little hesitant when he heard this, but he still said: "Since this is the case, then the soldiers and horses of the imperial court will not deal with it?" Just waiting for the bloody battle of Shanxi soldiers to the end? ”

Several generals present did not agree with the opinion of the Ministry of War, and everyone believed that now that the internal strife in the Tatar Department was initially decided, the 150,000 troops divided into two routes were already all the soldiers and horses of the Tatar Department, and it was impossible to have rich soldiers and horses waiting for the opportunity, so the imperial court must mobilize elite troops as soon as possible to support Datong Town and Yanmen Pass.

After a while, these generals quarreled with Li Xian and other military officials, and the two sides insisted on their own opinions and refused to give in to each other.

Seeing this, Emperor Tianshun was also the first two big, and for a while he felt that what both sides said was reasonable, and it was not easy for him to make a decision, after all, there was an example of the change of the civil fort before, and Emperor Tianshun was also afraid that his decision was wrong and he would repeat the mistake again.

After some quarrels, Emperor Tianshun only felt a splitting headache, so he had to issue an order for Liu Juntao to coordinate the soldiers and horses from all over Shanxi to defend Yanmen Pass and Datong Town, and at the same time transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses from all over Gyeonggi to support Yanmen Pass.

As for the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town and the soldiers and horses of the Tiance army stationed in Shandong, Emperor Tianshun strictly ordered to stand by and wait for the movements of the Tatar Department to be discussed.

After this holy decree was issued, it was quickly sent to Datong Town.

At this time, Liu Juntao was leading the soldiers of the Longxiang Army, the Changshui Army, and the Tiger Ben Army to attack, and the army was fighting a bloody battle with the Tatar army.

In the previous battle, the casualties of all units of the Tiance Army were not small.

The officers and men of the Longxiang army were in front of the battlefield and faced the onslaught of the main force of the Tatar army, so the casualties were not small, and a total of more than 1,100 soldiers were lost; The casualties of the Tiger Army were slightly smaller than those of the Long Xiang Army, with a total loss of more than 700 soldiers.

The Changshui Army and the 20,000 Tatar Iron Cavalry Army fought against each other for a whole day, suffering more than 2,900 casualties.

In just one day of battle, the soldiers of the three Tiance Army lost 5,000 soldiers!

The soldiers of the Tiance Army suffered great losses, but the casualties of the Tatar Iron Cavalry Army were even greater, and the officers and men of the Tiance Army were beheaded by more than 2,000 ranks.

If you add the Tartar soldiers who were torn apart by firearms on the battlefield and could not be decapitated, as well as the corpses that were snatched back by their companions, the loss of the Tatar army in this battle was at least more than 10,000!

On this day, Liu Juntao once again led the army to attack, and fought a bloody battle with more than 60,000 Tatar iron cavalry troops in the wilderness a few miles south of the Tatar camp.

In this battle, the two sides fought from noon to evening, and there was still no winner.

Although the Tatar army in front of Liu Juntao did not have the elite of the 50,000 army led by Xiao Lai personally, it was obvious that Xiao Lai had already given the order to die, and the morale of these soldiers and horses was still sufficient.

In the evening, the Tatar cavalry suffered a setback, but still retreated.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao frowned, and on the one hand ordered the army to withdraw to the camp for a little rectification, and on the other hand, he was ready to write again to ask for reinforcements.

After the army returned to the camp, a team of brocade-clothed guards and Pegasus rushed into the camp of the Tiance army, bringing Liu Juntao the will of Emperor Tianshun.

Staff General Zhou Zongsheng, Staff General Sun Xu and other generals rushed to the Chinese army's tent one after another, at this time the eunuch and Jinyi Wei who announced the decree had already left, leaving only Liu Juntao, who had a solemn face, sitting on the chair.

Seeing this, everyone's hearts couldn't help jumping, they all looked at each other, and the general Zhou Zongsheng asked tentatively: "Governor, what is Your Majesty's will?" ”

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty ordered us to defend Datong Town and Yanmen Pass, and we must not lose!" ”

"Reinforcements?"

The generals were not worried about defeat, or thought that the soldiers of the Tiance army could not withstand the Tatar iron cavalry, but now the soldiers of the Tiance army were insufficient and could not divide their troops to the south to support Yanmen Pass.

Liu Juntao was a little angry between his eyebrows, and said: "Your Majesty has dispatched 20,000 soldiers and horses from all over Gyeonggi to Yanmen Pass. ”

"Gyeonggi garrison?"

"Only 20,000 soldiers?"

The generals were all surprised.

And the general Sun Xu even said: "Why didn't Your Majesty transfer troops and horses from Shandong? There are still tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiance Army stationed in Shandong, why didn't the imperial court move! ”

General Zhou Zongsheng also said: "Even if you don't recruit the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army stationed in Shandong, you can transfer some soldiers and horses from Jiubian and other places, and it will be stronger than the Gyeonggi garrison, what does Your Majesty think?" ”

Liu Juntao received the news from the Ministry of Intelligence almost at the same time, and already knew the reason for the incident, so he said: "Naturally, the ministers of the DPRK and China are arguing again!" ”

"Humph!"

Liu Juntao snorted coldly and said to the two: "After this battle, this governor will definitely cleanse the ministers of the court and the central government, and never let a similar situation happen again!" ”