Although this time the Mo Mongolian tribe was not as ready as the previous one, and was not fully prepared for battle, the loss of the Yang family army still made Yang Hongzhang a little heartbroken, but the results were also very impressive, the Mongolian cavalry left the corpses of nearly 3,000 people in Yanggao, and nearly 700 Mongolian war horses that were too late to take away and a leader of the Ao Han tribe.

Another direct significance of this conflict is that it proves that Yang Hongzhang's measures to set up checkpoints are decisive and effective. The Mongols tasted the pain of the skin, presumably soon the Manchus did the same, and their front feet left Yanggao to reach Datong, and the Mongols roared to arrive, which just shows that there are Mongol studies in Datong Town, and it is very likely that it was done by the merchants of Anxi. Not to launder and sell national intelligence for the sake of their own interests is no longer something that unscrupulous businessmen can describe.

So the first thing he did when he returned to Datong was to scatter all the 500 elites again, and then Zhang Ti announced that the Datong General Military Mansion would recruit 10,000 troops again! Yang Hongzhang made it clear that he planned not to return the materials of those unscrupulous businessmen. Thinking that those hateful businessmen actually sent information to the Mongols and colluded with the Mongols in an attempt to sabotage the production reduction station, Yang Hongzhang hated the future Eight Great Emperor Merchants in his heart.

Datong City became lively again because of the recruitment of troops and the opening of the mine in the General Military Mansion, and that night a horse flew into the General Military Mansion, which was a member of the elite battalion with a special warrant, but the news brought made Yang Hongzhang frown. Soon after, an order came from the General Army's Office, and the cavalry battalion dispatched 500 cavalry to Yanggao overnight. Cut off all the heads of the Mongols, the loot of the previous days, and send them to the capital! A vulgar drama began to be staged again.

The Forbidden City, the Taihe Palace, today's early dynasty is the most lively in several months. Because all the focus was once again focused on the young general soldier Yang Hongzhang.

Although Zhu Youzhen repeatedly emphasized that Yang Hongzhang was not allowed to be impeached or impeached, there was still a royal history who was not afraid of death who stood up.

is different from the previous royal history rumors, this time the imperial historians have obtained real evidence, so the imperial historians are also bold, and they are even more unforgiving when they speak.

The first impeachment of the imperial history was Yang Hongzhang's sacking of Juyong Pass, and now the generals and several guerrilla generals of Juyong Pass are crying in the military department, you must know that Yang Hongzhang passed by Juyong Pass, and there are almost no materials left in Juyong Pass. As the chief soldier of the imperial court, he actually ransacked the pass of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols had just left, if they got the news, wouldn't it be easy to break through the pass and then drive straight into attack Gyeonggi. Therefore, Yushi thought that Yang Hongzhang should be taken back to Beijing immediately.

This matter had already returned to the imperial court, and the officials who could stand here basically had their own news channels, and most of the people knew about it immediately, and now they took it out and said it, obviously to accumulate enough charges to completely defeat Yang Hongzhang at one time.

So everyone held their breath to see what this second shot against Yang Hongzhang was?

Yang Hongzhang, the general soldier of Datong, privately set up checkpoints to compete with the people for profit, and deliberately detained the goods worth 6,770,000 taels of silver from 11 merchants, and then seized the owners of the merchant families who went to ask for explanations, and shamelessly demanded a so-called deposit of 20,000 taels per person. Nearly one million taels of silver were added before and after. For such an insatiable and blatant general soldier who blatantly harms the people, Datong does not need it, Daming does not need it, and he should immediately lock it up and take it back to Beijing.

With such two bombshells dropped, Zhu Youzhen behind the dragon case was also stunned, and some neutral officials in the court also whispered.

Some officials who were already dissatisfied with Yang Hongzhang took out their accusations one after another, asking the emperor to order Yang Hongzhang to be taken back to Beijing immediately, as if Yang Hongzhang was heinous, and they were upright and eager to eat his flesh.

Even some of the people who supported Yang Hongzhang before frowned, and so did Sun Chengzong, the first assistant, who knew that Yang Hongzhang was perverse, but he didn't expect to be so presumptuous after becoming the chief soldier of a town, no matter which of these two things was enough to make him lose his head.

Of course, Sun Chengzong didn't want Yang Hongzhang to sink, he knew that the emperor Zhu Youzhen was also reluctant, so he glanced at the emperor who was high above, and after confirming his eyes, he half-turned around and began to look at his subordinates, hoping that they could stand up and block the fire of the imperial historians.

Sure enough, as Sun Chengzong expected, a Lang Zhong from the military department stood up: "Your Majesty, the lower officials think that General Yang Hongzhang and Yang should not be punished." When the minister heard that General Yang received the order to lead his troops to Datong, Shanxi, he had 10,000 men under his command and less than 40% of the weapons and equipment. You must know that those are broken copper and iron that have been eliminated by the military department or the business and are ready to be returned to the furnace, and the food is only 10,000 stones, so General Yang still went to the front line.

And Juyong Pass is indeed a mountain of materials, three thousand defenders of the city will be a thousand horse thieves after the city gate is broken and fled, if it is not for General Yang arrived in time, the materials of Juyong Pass have already become the bag of horse thieves. Rather than leaving so many supplies in the hands of those useless wastes, it is better to hand them over to General Yang to rebuild Datong Town, believing that General Yang will be able to train a powerful new army for the imperial court.

In fact, after General Yang arrived in Datong, he immediately recruited troops and horses, but he did not waste the grain of Juyongguan. What's more, the imperial court originally owed the materials to Datong Town, and now it is just transporting these materials to Juyong Pass. ”

"Hmph, strong words. Maybe Yang Hongzhang colluded with those horse thieves. I heard that most of those horse thieves joined Yang Hongzhang's team later, I don't know how Master Zhang explained? ”

"Let me explain it to you, Yang Hongzhang once wrote the imperial court after leaving Juyong Pass, saying that the horse thieves plagued the people, and he would completely eliminate the horse thieves in Datong Mansion within a month, so there will be later bandits, and more than 2,000 horse thieves have been exterminated successively, and then Zhao'an began, and nearly 1,000 horse thieves joined Datong Town. As for colluding with horse thieves, General Yang was born in Jiangnan, grew up in Jiangnan, and was born in Zhili, and was the general soldier of Tianjin before going to Datong. ”

When the imperial historian saw that it was Chen Xinjia, the squire of the military department, he felt that his weight was insufficient, so he changed his words: "Lord Chen, even if the matter of Juyong Pass can get away with it, what is the matter with seizing the merchant's materials and asking for the merchant's deposit, and he will ask for millions in less than a few months. ”

Hearing this, everyone was shocked, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen hated the most was the Henan thief, if Yang Hongzhang made Datong like that, it would be difficult to redeem it. Chen Xinjia also paused, he had already received a hint from Emperor Zhu Youzhen, knowing that someone would target Yang Hongzhang, from the perspective of the Ministry of War, he didn't want a general like Yang Hongzhang to be destroyed.

Chen Xinjia just wanted to argue, and another imperial historian stood up: "Your Majesty, Yang Hongzhang's crime is far more than that, the two commanders of the front and rear guards of Datong went to Yanggao and were actually humiliated by Yang Hongzhang's men, Yang Hongzhang did not open his eyes for the two after seeing it, and even directly put the two into prison, this approach is too arrogant, and it is too unreasonable, it is two commanders of the three products." ”

Hearing that Zhu Youzhen was happy, Yang Hongzhang dealt with the two commanders, of course, he knew it for the first time, but Yang Hongzhang used a secret fold, and Chen Xinjia and the others didn't know the situation, so they were even more helpless for a while

Including Sun Chengzong, Ni Yuanlu and other supporters of Yang Hongzhang, they did not expect that Yang Hongzhang would be so confused as to detain two commanders, you must know how Yuan Chonghuan was valued back then, and the result was not because he privately killed Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Phi Dao. Yang Hongzhang's status is still not as good as Yuan Chonghuan's back then, in case the emperor gets angry......

What the emperor is most afraid of is that his subordinates will despise the royal power and not take the emperor seriously, and the commander is a third-grade general, the same as Yang Hongzhang. If Yang Hongzhang makes an assertion, it will definitely cause the emperor's displeasure.

And Yang Sichang, who was standing behind Sun Chengzong, showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, and was immediately hidden by him, seeing that Chen Xinjia was going to continue to argue for Yang Hongzhang, so he stepped out and saluted Zhu Youzhen in the middle and said: "Your Majesty, no matter how much credit Yang Hongzhang has paid before, and no matter how good the reason he has for doing these ridiculous things, everything he does is not what a general soldier should do, and the minister suggests that Yang Hongzhang be recalled and listen to what he himself has to say." ”

Yang Sichang said it lightly, and it was not like the imperial historians who shouted and shouted to kill, just recalled Yang Hongzhang, but Yang Sichang characterized Yang Hongzhang's behavior as absurd, everyone knows that Datong is a border town, Yang Hongzhang is the chief soldier of the border town, if the emperor really ordered the recall of Yang Hongzhang, it is not equivalent to sitting on his charges, Yang Hongzhang has male soldiers in hand, and the reason for his nonsense is also a reason, once he returns to Beijing alone, the legitimate reason can also be said to him as no reason.

So Sun Chengzong glanced at Ni Yuanlu, and the other party didn't seem to plan to make a move, so he was going to go into battle in person.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Youzhen on the dragon chair waved his hand at Wang Chengen, then stood up and turned to leave.

Zhu Youzhen was also forced to be helpless, Yang Hongzhang told him about the detention of the two commanders, and there was a little reason, after all, he did not obey the military order and left his post without permission, and Yang Hongzhang did not kill the two on the spot, which is reasonable, but the matter of sacking Juyongguan, Chen Xinjia's words were too pale, no matter how incompetent or derelict the general of Juyongguan was, it was also a matter of punishment by the imperial court, he privately tied up these people crying, and then emptied the war materials in Juyongguan, although Chen Xinjia said that there was no Yang Hongzhang These materials were taken away by horse thieves, But this one is scheduled to be taken back by Yang Hongzhang, and it will all be at Yang Hongzhang's disposal, so he can only talk about it for a while to see what other courtiers can do.

Everyone in the court also understands the emperor's thoughts, and it is precisely because of this that Yang Sichang did not shout and kill without a single mouth, in the final analysis, it is still Yang Hongzhang's holy family.