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"Well, very good, Xu Mao, you are a knowledgeable person, you can tell this official in time, this official is very happy." A faint smile appeared on Li Xiao's face: "You can go down, and then go to Guan Yi, deputy director of the Supervision and Restoration Department, to receive a reward of three taels of silver." The next time you deliver food, you will tell Mr. Du Qian that you have sent someone to Xiaobaiyang Fort to make Mr. Qian happy. ”

Xu Mao promised and retreated respectfully from Li Xiao's thousand-household official hall.

As soon as he went out, he found that his face was covered in sweat. Xu Mao knew that it wasn't just because of the heat.

Hmph, I want to use Lao Tzu's head to fight for your own future, my Lord Du, I, Xu Mao, although I am the captain of your family, I still want to live for two more days.

Xu Mao thought of the murderous intent implied in Li Xiao's smile, and his heart was still quite palpitating, but he was full of joy.

Thinking about it, since he came out of Du Shaoru's place to deliver food, someone followed him, probably someone from Li Xiaojun's Security Department. It can be seen that he has just talked with Du Shaoru, and this Master Li Xiao already knows everything about it.

This Lord Li has already guarded the entire Jinjiazhuang Fort like a net, and he wants to send someone out of the fort, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Fortunately, he made a quick decision and immediately reported the matter to Li Xiao, and now not only does he not have to bear the responsibility, but he also has a reward of three taels of silver, and finally turned a bad thing into a good thing.

Xu Mao let out a sigh of relief, and with a relaxed face, he walked briskly towards the house of the Prison Division.

After Xu Mao retreated, Li Xiao sat alone in the official hall, his thick eyebrows locked, and his face was solemn.

This Du Shaoru, the dog's eyes were accurate, and he actually guessed that he had fallen into the dilemma of not being able to report.

What to do?

How should I report the first level I have worked so hard to gain?

Could it be that he could only be so helpless to report all the hard-earned heads of the whole army to the commander of the guard, so that Du Shi could not succeed?

This kind of thing of making wedding clothes purely for others, Li Xiao will never be willing.

He suddenly remembered that the last time he was in Jinzhou, Liaodong, he was afraid that his boss Wang Daoqi would swallow up his military exploits, and reported his military exploits through Zu Dabi.

It would be nice if Zu Dabi was also in Xuanfu now.

Li Xiao sighed infinitely for a while.

It's just that in his mind, he suddenly remembered that when he came to Longmen Guard that day, Qin Guoying, the commander of the guard, had told him that this time the Tartars invaded Xuanfu, and Liaodong had also sent troops to help.

Qin Guoying is telling the truth, and it has also been recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the Tatars invaded the border, You Shiwei, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Wu Xiang, the general soldier of Ningyuan, led the army to aid Shanxi, and Zu Dale, the deputy chief soldier of the Jinzhou forward battalion, and the second general of the command, Zu Kuan, entered the aid of this Xuanfu town.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao felt a sense of loss in his heart.

Xuanfu Town is so big, there are four roads under it, and there are a lot of military towns and state forts, who knows where Zu Dale and Zu Kuan were divided.

Now that the Tartars are raging, and the news of the state forts in various places has been cut off, Li Xiao really has no way to send people to find out where these Jinzhou reinforcements are.

Li Xiao thought helplessly: Could it be that he can only take the head back to Shandong by himself and report to Li Maofang, the governor of Shandong. It's a joke.

However, he quickly dismissed the idea.

Li Xiao was sure that as soon as he left Jinjiazhuang Fort, he would immediately have Du Shaoru's troops to report to Du Shi, the commander of Nawei. Then, if you want to get out of this Xuanfu Town easily, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

In the current Ming official army, there may not be many people who have the ability to fight, but in terms of merit and infighting, all of them are top players.

Li Xiao secretly thought that if he didn't die in the battle with the Tartars, but instead died at the hands of these so-called self-righteous people, it would really have too much black humor and too cold.

Li Xiao thought about it, but there was no good way for a while.

Let's leave it like this for now, anyway, according to the course of history, I will have to guard it for more than 20 days. Perhaps, there will be another way out.

Ten days were spent as calmly as flowing water.

During this time, all kinds of military training in the fort were carried out in an orderly manner.

Now those soldiers of Du Shaoru's army, the recruits of the civilian households in the fort, and all the men selected from the exiled people have been proficient in military posture training, and Li Xiao began to train them in arrays.

Now in the rampant team, Li Xiao made full use of the captured Houjin armor and heavy weapons such as tiger knives and tiger spears to expand it to 100 people.

To Li Xiao's surprise, almost all of the spear and shield soldiers wanted to join this team with great warrior spirit and manly qualities, and even cavalry wanted to join it.

After all, such an ironclad hoplite soldier, armed to the teeth and like a miniature tank in motion, is the ultimate dream of almost every hot-blooded man who wants to sweep the enemy soldiers on the battlefield.

In the end, the happy captain of the rampant team, Monk An, and the deputy captain Wu Zhuang, carefully selected among these spear and shield soldiers, and recruited more than 70 people to supplement the rampant team.

Now in the rampant team, there are a total of 5 soldiers, including the captain and vice captain, a total of 102 people. These newly added Captains and Deputy Captains are all members of the rampant team who fought bravely in the last battle.

The shortage of spearmen and shieldmen was selected from the best of the recruits who had been captive during this period of training.

Li Xiao only selects recruits from these people, and he also has a last resort.

After all, Du Shaoru is a soldier and can be used as an auxiliary, but he can't swallow up all his troops, after all, Du Shaoru's military position is still above himself. If you want to swallow it forcibly, you will be so ugly and ugly, I am afraid that it will make the generals of Xuanfu hate it to the bone.

Li Xiao still has doubts in his heart about these Du Shaoru soldiers, who are full of bad habits, and the reason why Li Xiao left two teams of spearmen in the fort when he went out to fight with the Tartars that day was also because he was afraid that these Du Shaoru soldiers would take advantage of the fact that they would lead the army to fight and cut off their own back roads in the fort.

As for those new recruits from the civil households in Benbao, Li Xiao originally planned to use them as temporary auxiliaries, these people, their families and relatives were all in the local area, and it was impossible to follow Li Xiao to leave after the war, so naturally it was not Li Xiao's focus on the scope of consideration.

Moreover, it was more than enough to select a few dozen vacant candidates from among the 690 recruits made up of the exiles.

Until now, Li Xiao has not eagerly added these recruits to the ranks of soldiers as before, and the most important reason is the lack of weapons.

The scale of the blacksmith shop in Jinjiazhuang Fort was too small, and due to the lack of raw materials, it was impossible to manufacture shields and spears in large quantities that met Li Xiaojun's specifications. Now Zhang Tongzhu and the most they are doing is to repair damaged armor and weapons such as spears and shields.

Only the weapons and armor of the sacrificed soldiers, as well as the related weapons that have been repaired, can only be given to the selected recruits.

The recruits who were selected to join the Lance and Shield Corps were elated, while the recruits who were not selected had a mixture of envy and loss on their faces.

What's even more frustrating is that those recruits in the fort and some of Du Shaoru's soldiers, due to the intensive brainwashing of the personnel of the Supervision Department every day, as well as Li Xiaojun's victory over the Tartars this time, many of them have regarded Li Xiao as a savior-like existence.

Many people thought that they could impress Li Xiao with hard training, but they didn't expect that they had no chance of being selected for the war team at all.

Li Xiao actually noticed the expressions of these people.

But there is no way, Li Xiao can not let them really become a member of Li Xiao's army now, nor does he have so many standard weapons to equip them, so he can only give priority to his own direct soldiers.

Of course, Li Xiao also gave them a little hope.

That is, although they were not selected for Li Xiaojun, as long as they worked hard to kill the enemy and worked hard, Li Xiao would definitely treat them equally, and they would also be rewarded and compensated.

Li Xiao's explanation reinvigorated the mood of these soldiers, and the training became more and more hard.

Li Xiao originally thought that such a day would go on so peacefully, but he didn't expect that in the evening of the next day, a sudden news came and shocked him.

In the evening of this day, when Li Xiao's whole army was about to close the team, the fort soldiers guarding the corner tower of Jinjiazhuang Fort saw two Ming cavalrymen with flags on their backs, desperately riding towards Jinjiazhuang Fort.

When Li Xiao hurried to the castle gate, the two cavalrymen had already rushed to the outside of the castle gate.

He saw that the two cavalrymen, with their armor disheveled, their backs crooked, and their faces covered with blood and mud, rushed to the outside of the fort gate, and the men and horses were already exhausted.

The two horses were covered in sweat and foaming at the mouth, apparently at the limit of their strength. The cavalry on the horse were all so tired that they couldn't stand upright, panting for breath.

"Where are you soldiers, report quickly!" One of the fort soldiers asked aloud.

"We are the Liaoxi Ming army who have entered the aid of Xiaobaiyang Fort, open the city gate quickly, we have an urgent military situation, and we want to be the general of Guibao!" One of the horsemen gasped and screamed.

Liaoxi reinforcements?

It's Zu Dale, Zu Kuan them?

Li Xiao was shocked and hurriedly ordered the fort soldiers to let him in.

With a bang, the fort door opened, and the two horsemen galloped in, then turned over and dismounted, and knelt down to Li Xiaofu, who was sitting on the high platform.

"This official is Li Xiao, the general of a thousand households, and the current general of this Jinjiazhuang Fort, if there is any urgent military situation, come quickly!" Li Xiao said calmly.

"Lord Li, twenty days ago, Lord Zu Dale, the deputy chief soldier, led 3,000 soldiers and horses of my Liaodong Forward Battalion to aid this Longmen Guard Xiaobaiyang Fort, and joined forces with the Dragon Gate Guard to command Lord Du to guard this place. I got the news this morning that there was a batch of grain escorted from the East Road to Longmenwei. Therefore, the commander of the Longmen Guard, Lord Du Shi, asked my ancestor to send reinforcements to the border of the North Road to meet the guard grain team. General Zu agreed, so he led 1,000 reinforcements to the east of the Nanhe River, ready to receive the grain team. It's just that I never thought that I suddenly encountered a large force of Tartar soldiers on the road, and the whole army was caught off guard, so I formed a formation near the river and fought desperately with it. The Tartar battle was elite, our army was defeated, and there were heavy casualties. A cavalryman said this, his face a look of pain.

Li Xiao's face changed greatly, and the faces of several generals next to him were also full of shock.

What's going on?

According to the normal historical records of the end of the Ming Dynasty, the large number of Tartars at this time were all in the Datong area of Shanxi, and it was not until the end of the month that the army led by Huang Taiji returned to Xuanfu, and after conquering the Wanquan Left Guard, he went out of the customs from Shangfang Fort on the west road of Xuanfu.

Why is it that at the intersection of the border of the North Road and the East Road, there is such a large stock of Tartars?

"My lord, seeing that the situation was critical, General Soldier Zu hurriedly sent several horsemen to the nearby military fort to ask for help. The two of us were sent to your place, and two other cavalrymen were sent to General Zukuan, who was stationed at the Eagle Osprey Castle. Seeing Li Xiao's stunned expression, another cavalryman said next.

Li Xiao's heart moved, it turned out that Zu Kuan was now stationed in Diaoju Fort, but it was quite close to his own Jinjiazhuang Fort, but it was more than thirty miles to the east.

"Then do you know how much the total strength of the enemy army is, and it is the Tartars? Can the commander of the dragon gate guard let Lord Du know? Have you ever sent to inform other forts? ”

Li Xiao asked the two cavalrymen a long list of questions.

"Your Excellency, according to our observations, the enemy army is mainly the Tartars of the Zhenglan Banner, as well as many Mongolian Tartars and Han troops, and the enemy soldiers are numerous, probably more than 3,000 people. When our army was in battle near the river, it also sent troops to Xiaobaiyang Fort, Longmen Pass Fort, Sanchakou Fort and other places to ask for help, but these three places are far away, and it is estimated that the cavalry is still halfway to ask for help, so the commander of the Longmen guard should not know that our army is surrounded. And your place and the Eagle Osprey Fort are the closest to the place where our army is besieged, so we can get there as soon as possible. ”

After this man finished speaking, another cavalryman immediately followed: "The guard of Eagle Eagle Fort is my Liaodong general Zu Kuan, and Zu Kuan, the general of Liaodong, has led a total of 1,000 Liaodong soldiers and horses to garrison this place. I believe that General Zu Kuan heard about the siege of General Zu's soldiers, and must have quickly sent troops to rescue him. I also hope that Lord Li will send troops quickly, otherwise, my ancestor general army and Liaodong army soldiers are afraid of danger. ”

The cavalryman finished speaking, and the two horsemen bowed together.

Li Xiao, whose face was as heavy as iron, lowered his head and groaned, and did not immediately answer the two people.

He suddenly felt that he seemed to be able to sort out the context. I can also know why these blue flag tartars came here.

Li Xiao sighed secretly in his heart, but he didn't expect that the battle that invited the Baiketu Department would become a butterfly wing that changed history.

These Zhenglanqi Tartars, who re-invaded Xuanfu in such a big way, must have acted like this under the guidance of the fleeing Zhenglanqi Niu Lu Zhenbaiketu.

In other words, that Zu Dale actually just happened to be unlucky and was touched by this army of Tartars with the Blue Flag, so there was this sudden battle.

And the real goal of the Tartars is likely to come to seek revenge on themselves, and to be ashamed of the annihilation of the entire army last time.

Li Xiao's guess was correct.

On the same day, Baiketu and several followers desperately escaped across the Tangquan River, and then turned northeast and entered the territory of Tumut Mongolia. Then he hastily put the golden medicine on his shoulder, and endured the weakness of his body, re-entered the customs from the Wayaokou Fort that had been broken by the Houjin army, and entered Datong, just in time to meet the Zhenglan Banner headquarters that was being plundered between Datong Yang and Wei and Gao Shanwei.

The banner lord Dege, who had originally captured a large number of people, animals and goods, almost fainted on the spot when he heard that Baiketu had buried half of Niu Lu and two small Mongolian soldiers in a remote small fort of the Xuanfu Longmen Guard.

Derg couldn't help but be angry, he knew how negatively Baiktu's defeat would have on his political career.

Zhenglanqi was robbed of a lot of cattle by Huang Taiji because of the Mang Gurtai rebellion incident the year before last, and then under the pretext of the case of Derge's sister Mang Guji's rebellion, a number of Zhenglanqi soldiers, including Meler Ezhentun Bulu, were executed together. And Derge himself, who was almost executed and deprived of his post, fortunately he was well-behaved and knowledgeable about current affairs, drew a clear line with Mang Gurtai in time, and worked more diligently to do his duty, so that he gradually dispelled Huang Taiji's doubts, and he succeeded him as the leader of the Blue Banner.

But because of this series of incidents, the strength of Zhenglan Flag has been greatly damaged. It's good now, in such a remote Ming **** Fort, a low-level general who doesn't even know what his name is, killed half of the elite Niu Lu at once, this is simply a shame for the blue flag!

When such a thing spreads, the emperor Taiji, who already sees himself as unpleasant, will definitely be even more disgusted with himself, and in the days to come, he is afraid that he will not be able to achieve it.

The more Derge thought about it, the more angry he became, and then he immediately gave an order, pushed Baiketu and others out of the tent, and killed them all on the spot.

Fortunately, his son Dekesik led a group of generals to intercede, saying that Bai Ketu this person, the defeat of the army, his crime is to die, but ask the banner lord to be gracious, with his merit to atone for his sins, and lead the other half of his Niu Lu as the front guide, I am sending a huge force of Jiala to the crusading army, and the damned Ming general will fight again, and this person will be broken into pieces, and then take the Jinjiazhuang Fort, and after killing all the soldiers and civilians in the fort, then raze the whole fort to the ground, in order to solve this hatred.

Derger thought for a long time and agreed to the request of Dirk and the others.

It's just that the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable, and Niu Lu Ezhen Baiketu and others each received thirty lashes as punishment.

Subsequently, Derge class ordered, with Jiala Zhenai Bali personally led a Jiala's army of 1,500 people, thinking that the main force of the crusading army, and then in order to win the ticket, he transferred 600 troops from the Inner Domain's Mongolian Alukorqin Department who followed him to fight, as well as 800 Tianzhu soldiers of the traitor Shang Kexi Department, plus half of the 150 people of Baiketuna, to form a vast army of more than 3,000 people, all under the unified command of Jiala'e Zhenai Bali, and it was necessary to wipe out Jinjiazhuang Fort in one fell swoop.

The army marched rapidly, from Datong into the Xuanfu, all the way through the state and fort, no one dared to stop. Seeing that the action was so smooth, Aibali was very arrogant in his heart, and began to plunder the people along the way, burn the villages and forts, and rob a lot of people, animals and goods.

Today, when the whole army arrived on the south bank of the Nanhe River, it happened to meet the grain team that sent grain to the Longmen guards, and those grain teams saw such a large number of Tartars, and immediately knelt down and surrendered, and there were always nearly 5,000 stone rice grain, 1,000 stone horses and bean feed, all of which fell into the hands of the Houjin army.

In the afternoon, when the whole army was looking for a place to cross the river on the south bank of the South River, they accidentally ran into Zu Dale and his 1,000 soldiers who were marching along the river looking for the grain team.

The ensuing battle was what the two cavalrymen were talking about.

"My lord, do we save it or not?" Tian Wei, the chief of General A on the side, had a very low voice.

Tian Wei's inquiry made Li Xiao make up his mind.

Save, of course save!

Rescuing this ancestor Dale, for the public, is the obligation of the same Ming officials and soldiers to watch and help each other. Privately, after all, in a sense, this ancestor Dale is already his future father-in-law, and there is no reason for a son-in-law not to save his father-in-law.

Li Xiao jumped up from his chair.

"Pass on the general's order, immediately send troops to rescue the ancestral general soldiers!" Li Xiao's voice was clear and firm.

"Order!"

"You two change horses immediately, go forward and lead the way!" Li Xiao shouted to the two cavalrymen kneeling in front of him.

The two cavalrymen looked overjoyed, and kowtowed together: "Obey orders!" Thank you for your kindness to the reinvention of my Liaodong soldiers! ”

(Thank you Alexanderm, 16 brothers for the tip, thank you) (To be continued.) )