In the middle of March of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the ice and snow melted, and the spring flowers bloomed. Lin Yi took Xiaoying and Zhezhe and a group of more than 500 Ming soldiers and soldiers to leave Wengniute City.

The city lord Bayan Bushar felt sorry for his daughter, knowing that in this year of war and chaos, he said goodbye today, and he didn't know when he would be able to meet, and he sent his son-in-law and daughter out of more than ten miles of land.

In addition, this city lord is also very generous, for Lin Yi, they are full of more than 20 carts and small cars, including gold, silver and jewelry, dried grain, grain and water and other things used along the way, as well as horses and livestock, animal skin brocade and so on.

Bayanbushar was careful, knowing that the girl had gone far away, not only sent a lot of property, but also sent a few servants, in the barracks, there are differences between men and women, many inconveniences, and it is not good for the daughter to have no woman to serve her.

Therefore, he selected four palace maids as Zhezhe's personal maids, and these four palace maids were also Zhezhe's maids, and asked them to follow Zhezhe back to the Ming camp this time.

Lin Yi thanked the old man for his thoughtfulness, and Zhezhe and his father and brother said goodbye in tears.

Lin Yi and his more than 500 people, driving more than 20 large and small cars, walked on the green prairie with their horses on the reins.

The grassland is picturesque, with blue waves like the sea. The yurt under the blue sky and white clouds is getting smaller and smaller, and the city of Wengniute is getting farther and farther away, and the herds of cattle and sheep slowly turn into unpredictable white clouds on the horizon, and finally dissipate.

Lin Yi was relaxed and happy, and when he walked halfway, he happened to meet the letter soldiers sent by Zu Keyong, and the new governor of Xuanda, Chen Xinjia, was coming to inspect the city defense, and Liu Zhaoji, the chief military officer, asked them to get ready.

Lin Yi didn't know that it was good luck and bad luck, so he immediately gave the order to speed up his march.

As a traverser, Lin Yi certainly knows who this Chen Xinjia is.

He was a person in the Wanli period, at the beginning of the prefect of Dingzhou, and later came to the criminal department as an official, successively served as a member of the foreign lang, Langzhong, the military preparation of affairs, and later promoted to the imperial history of the capital, the governor of Xuanfu. Later, due to Yang Sichang's strong recommendation, he was promoted to the right attendant of the military department and the right to the imperial history, the governor Xuanda, and assisted in the defense of the Qing army. Later, it became the secretary of the military department. In the Battle of Songjin, the command made a mistake, which led to a major defeat. Chongzhen's internal and external difficulties were instructed to negotiate peace with the Qing army, and he leaked the news and was killed.

In other words, Chen Xinjia is one of Yang Sichang's fellow party and one of the main figures of the main peace faction.

For such a person, if he wants to come to inspect his work, Lin Yi has to guard against it. Such a court member has great power, and now is the time when he is prosperous, Lin Yi has to pay attention to it.

At the foot of the Great Wall, Zu Keyong had already led his team to meet him here for a long time.

After Lin Yi arrived at Xifengkou Pass, Zu Keyong made a detailed report to him on the training and defense situation here during Lin Yi's absence in the past two months, Lin Yi nodded after listening to it, and praised Zu Keyong a few words.

The next day, Liu Zhaoji, the chief soldier, accompanied the governor Chen Xinjia, and came to Xifengkou.

Accompanied by Liu Zhaoji, Lin Yi and Zu Keyong, the part-time governor Chen Xinjia went from the easternmost Qingshan Pass to Xifeng Pass, and then to Qingziling, and looked at the 200-mile defense line on one side, and the city wall was reinforced, especially where it was damaged by the Tartars. The newly established forts, especially Xifengkou and Qingziling, were built with iron walls in the two gates, and the generals were heavily defended and ordered at night.

He looked at the training of the soldiers again, during which Liu Zhaoji couldn't stop praising Lin Yi and Zu Keyong for their ability, and after reading it, Chen Xinjia felt very satisfied.

Back at Xifengkou Guancheng, Chen Xinjia asked Lin Yi about his trip to Weng Niute in the past two months, and Lin Yi did not hide it, and told the truth.

After listening to the spring breeze on his face, Chen Xinjia couldn't stop nodding, and announced the holy oracle on the spot, fully agreeing with Liu Zhaoji's recommendation to promote Lin Yi's excerpt, and crowning Lin Yi as the deputy general of Miyun.

Vice General Miyun is equivalent to the deputy commander-in-chief, that is, the second-in-command of Liu Zhaoji, the chief soldier, and was promoted to the post of general of Zu Keyong's guerrilla army.

Chen Xinjia announced this order, which Lin Yi did not expect, and he and Zu Keyong hurriedly thanked him.

After only a few months as a guerrilla commander, he was directly promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, which was really a rocket-like promotion.

Seeing Lin Yi's puzzled look, Governor Chen Xinjia smiled and said the inside story.

Lin Yi sent troops to Mongolia and successfully rebelled against the Weng Niu Special Department, making them stand with the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court already knew about these things. Of course, I knew it through Zu Keyong, Liu Zhaoji and others.

Longyan Dayue, although the Weng Niu Special Department is a small tribe in Southern Mongolia, but it can disintegrate the Qing army and pull this department over, which not only increases the security of the border fortress, but also has far-reaching significance.

First, talk is better than nothing. Although there are only more than 30,000 people in Wengniute, and only a few thousand people can go into battle to fight, they assisted the Ming Dynasty and they assisted the Qing Dynasty, so that the difference between one and the other is doubled, which is equivalent to the defense of 10,000 troops outside the border of the Ming Dynasty.

The second is that Emperor Chongzhen will reason, Lin Yi can plot against one Weng Niu special tribe, and he can plot against other tribes in Southern Mongolia.

With such a meritorious service, of course, he has to be rewarded heavily, plus the last time Lin Yijing's division retreated, he only added a small guerrilla commander, and he himself felt shabby, and he couldn't chill the hearts of the border soldiers.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen saw the excerpt of the chief soldier Liu Zhaoji, and this time he made an exception to promote Lin Yi to the deputy general, as for Zu Keyong, he had long been the guerrilla commander of the Ning Yuan Army, a few years earlier than Lin Yi. In the past few years, he has followed Lin Yi to fight and repeatedly defeated the Tartars, and his contribution is not small, so he was re-crowned as the guerrilla commander and general of the army to show the emperor's grace.

After Chen Xinjia passed on the emperor's dictation, he also praised Liu Zhaoji, Lin Yi and Zu Keyong and others.

All the armies will come together to congratulate.

Then he held a grand banquet in Guancheng to entertain the governor and the chief soldier, accompanied by Lin Yi and Zu Keyong.

During the banquet, they ate and talked, and through the mouths of Chen Xinjia, the right attendant of the military department and the imperial history of the right capital and the governor of Xuanda, and Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of Miyun, Lin Yi learned a lot about the situation in the court.

In particular, the new governor Chen Xinjia, although he has only been in office for a month after becoming governor, he is a Beijing official, a member of the second-grade court, and an important position in the military department, and he knows the situation in the court best.

Now Yang Sichang's four-square, six-corner, ten-sided net has been effected. Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Zuo Liangyu in Nanyang, and expressed his willingness to accept the surrender of the imperial court.

Li Zicheng was defeated by Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, and several other thieves such as Luo Rucai in Henan, Lao Huihui, Ge Zuoying, Passing the Sky, the lights are not on, and so on are also embattled, and now the relatively large thief Luo Rucai, nicknamed Cao Cao, also expressed his willingness to surrender. The people of the imperial court are about to close the net.

But now, there is a split in the high-level camp, and Yang Sichang opposes the imperial court's acceptance of the surrender of the thieves, advocating that they should be annihilated in one fell swoop, leaving no one behind.

He mainly learned lessons from his daddy, Yang He. However, Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces, advocated that the imperial court recruit them and agree to their surrender.

And now Yang Sichang has bumped into bad luck, and Chongzhen doesn't like him very much. The reason is that he had been suspected of framing Lu Xiangsheng and Lin Yi before, Governor Yang Tinglin also opposed him, Xiong Wencan also opposed him, Donglin Party official Yushi also impeached him, and Emperor Chongzhen finally suspended him for inspection.

Therefore, before the banquet, the newly arrived governor Chen Xinjia shook his head and sighed for the ups and downs of Yang Sichang's eunuch sea with the strength of wine, and sighed for the changes in the imperial court.

Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong were happy in their hearts, Yang Sichang should have been unlucky a long time ago, but on the surface, they were also sympathetic to Chen Xinjia's feelings and couldn't help comforting him.

Lin Yi was funny in his heart, of course Lin Yi didn't care too much about Yang Sichang, he laughed at a good game of chess and was about to be lost by Chongzhen.

If he wanted to listen to Yang Sichang's policy, although the policy was reactionary, it would not be a quick ruin, and if he did not accept their surrender and did not give them a chance to breathe, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would inevitably be defeated, and there would be no chance of resurrection at all, so that in 1644, Li Zicheng would have broken through Yanjing, and it would have been impossible.

If he wants to listen to Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting, the northeast defense line will not be able to be torn open by the Manchu Tartars, and if the Qing army wants to enter the pass, I am afraid it will have to wait for at least another few decades.

But the problem is that now Emperor Chongzhen is wavering. One will listen to this, one will listen to that, to put it bluntly, he will not listen to anyone, and in the end, he only hangs himself on the crooked neck tree in the coal mountain.

Now this game of chess has reached a critical time, and Lin Yi, as a person who has come over, or a bystander, can see it very clearly.

Although the Ming Dynasty was stormy and riddled with holes, it was still strong, although the Huang Taiji outside the gate cleared the two worries of the dynasty and Mongolia, and sharpened the sword against the Ming Dynasty.

But there are many loyal ministers and good generals in the Ming Dynasty, if they are used well, he will not be the king of the dead country at all, but it is a pity that this Emperor Chongzhen, who is rigid and self-serving, must bow down to himself, and is diligent on the surface, but in fact, he can't control the situation.

This is a manifestation of incompetence, the emperor, as the highest commander-in-chief of a country, was originally seen by him, and others did it. Now it's the other way around, he doesn't go to work in person, and the other people who work can only watch idlely, so what is waiting for if the court building does not collapse?

And what's even worse is that Chongzhen not only wants people to sell his life to him, but also doubts people's loyalty to him, in this case, it must be the death of the king in the end.

Lin Yi, as the guard general of the border army, of course could not control the current situation of the imperial court, so he could only laugh at it.

He made up his mind in his heart that no matter how the government and the opposition tossed, as long as no one came to harm him, he could tolerate it for the time being. Do your own essence, guard the frontier, kill more Tartars, and don't care about the rest. If there are corrupt officials and corrupt officials who bump into their guns without long eyes, traitors and scum will inevitably be punished, and they will never be merciful and tolerant.

At this time, Chen Xinjia said: "Everyone, this governor will not stay here for too long, now that the Jiannu outside the gate has conquered the dynasty, conquered Monan and Mobei Mongolia, and captured Phi Island, you can do it yourself."

As soon as these words came out, Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong were surprised, the new governor had just arrived, how could he say such a thing, what did it mean, and how long would he not stay for long? But who dares to ask more, only Lin Yi knows it in his heart.

Sending away this governor, Liu Zhaoji Of course they have to taste the governor's words, Lin Yi said to Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong: "It's not difficult to understand, please forgive me for saying bluntly, he and Yang Sichang are the same hill, and they are fighting against the Tartar lord or not." That's what it means to be self-contained. ”

Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong think that what Lin Yi said is reasonable, how can the imperial court reuse these people? Besides, won't he stay here for too long when he first arrives?

Lin Yi said in a shocking voice, "This Governor Chen will be promoted soon, of course he won't stay here for too long." ”

"Promotion?" Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong are a little incredible, he has just been promoted to the official position, there is the governor of Xuanfu, promoted to the right squire of the military department and the right to the capital of the imperial history, and also the governor of Xuanda. What kind of official position will it be to rise again? That is the first assistant of the Cabinet of the Ministry of War, is this possible? Is promotion faster than pancakes?

Liu Zhaoji and Zu Keyong were a little unimpressed.

However, a month later, the news of Jingshi came, Yang Sichang was imprisoned, Chen Xinjia became the secretary of the military department, and the emperor of the imperial court had agreed to recruit thieves such as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai.

Liu Zhaoji, the chief military officer, and Zu Keyong, the guerrilla general, were overjoyed, Yang Sichang finally fell and was imprisoned, it was really happy, this traitor didn't expect that there would be today, it should be, it is not a loss to cut off his head!

Then the two of them gave Lin Yi a thumbs up: "Lord Lin, it's really a god!"

"Ha, the two adults have won the prize." Lin Yi smiled modestly in his heart, "What is this, it has long been expected by Lao Tzu, if Lao Tzu expects it well, the Huang Taiji outside the gate will immediately make a big move!" ”