"My lord, the matter has come to this, no matter how much you complain, it is useless, there is a plan in the bottom, it should be feasible. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Hong Meng, the captain of the family, interjected on the side.

"Say!"

"My lord, the order given to us by the Ministry of War is to rush to the Wanquan Right Guard as soon as possible, but it is not stated when we will arrive." Hong Meng paused, and said in a low voice: "Our army carries a lot of silver taels of grain and grass, so you might as well delay on the road, anyway, as long as you march to the right guard of Wanquan." If we can delay for a while longer, maybe those Tartars have had enough of the captivity and plunder, and they will have left the pass, and our army will be able to return to Shandong. Even if the Tartars don't retreat, it's a good thing to be able to drag on the road for a little longer and have fewer opportunities to come into contact with those Tartars. ”

Yao Wenchang nodded when he heard this: "Alas, now it's just this procrastination." Hong Meng, as you said, our army will start tomorrow, and the daily march speed will be reduced to twenty miles. Our army has only reached the boundary of Baoding, and there are still more than five or six hundred miles away from the right guard, so it can drag on the road for an extra month. ”

When the marching speed of Yao Wenchang's army was reduced to only 20 miles a day, Li Xiaojun accelerated the marching speed, and could walk nearly 70 miles a day.

The reason why Li Xiao wanted to reach Longmen Guard as soon as possible was because he knew that according to the true trend of history, the Tartar army was now concentrated in the Datong area, and the Tartar army remaining in Xuanfu was very weak. Li Xiao needed to take this opportunity to let his own support army rush to the Longmen Guard quickly to start arming as soon as possible.

If Huang Taiji leads the army back to Xuanfu, then Li Xiao, the army that has worked the road, will only become a fat sheep in the mouth of the Tartars in the face of the surging Tartar army.

The route Li Xiao chose was to go north from Bazhou to Gu'an, then to Liangxiang, Changping, and then enter the boundary of Yanqing Prefecture, and then continue northward to reach the Nanhe River, and finally trace the Nanhe River to the west, and finally reach Longmenwei.

Li Xiao estimated that at the current pace of marching, it would be enough to arrive within a week.

Five days later, the whole army finally crossed the border of Yanqing Prefecture and reached Xuanfu Town.

Li Xiao noticed that when he arrived here, the local scenery was completely different from that of Shandong.

As far as the eye can see, there are overlapping gray-black mountains, and in front of you are the seemingly boundless land, because of the lack of vegetation, the dark yellow earth and the brown-black sand and gravel form a depressing desolation. There are very few trees, and occasionally they are seen in a sparse and sparse wilted appearance. Li Xiaojun walked through many villages and found that many villages had become charred and blackened, and it seemed that he could still smell the stench of corpses that had not yet dispersed. Li Xiao understood that this was undoubtedly the masterpiece of the cruel and tyrannical Houjin Tartar.

Walking to such a place, there is an inexplicable feeling of depression in everyone's heart.

Li Xiao thought to himself, in such a barren and war-torn place, if you want to farm and develop, I am afraid that the difficulty will be hellish.

"Brother's meat, my sister thinks 。。。。。。 in her dreams"

Seeing that the morale of the whole army was low, Tian Wei, the commander of General A, this guy from Yansui Town, a similar environment here, began to shout at Xintianyou.

This meat word and the word want were deliberately stretched very long by him with a tail sound, full of a kind of ambiguity. Ambiguous hints.

The officers and men of the whole army laughed and cheered. Tian Wei became more and more proud, but he sang louder and louder.

Hear this vulgar singing. Zu Wan'er, who was marching with the medical team, blushed, she stared at Tian Wei who was singing loudly in front of her with hatred, and she wanted to tear his mouth to pieces with hatred.

followed Li Xiao for thousands of miles, and Zu Wan'er really didn't add trouble to Li Xiao. Along the way, she also kept working with Chen Mazi and the others to take care of and treat the sick sergeant, and helped Li Xiao a lot.

Collecting dust all the way, the wind and the sun, made Zu Wan'er, a rich lady who used to spend a leisurely life in the deep boudoir, become a lot darker, and at a glance, she looked like an ordinary peasant woman.

It's just that in her heart, she is very satisfied. This simple girl thinks that being with her beloved every day is incomparably happy.

The whole army marched west along the Nanhe River for several hours, and finally arrived at the Longmen Guard in the afternoon.

The dragon gate guard who appeared in front of him, the city circumference was more than four miles, and it was a rather large guard town fort. It's just that at this time, it has become a shocking ruin, and the remnants of the wall that have been burned black and scorched are still standing, as if they are still complaining about the brutal crimes of the Jin army in the future. Seeing that a border fortress was so dilapidated, Li Xiaojun was not shocked.

According to the "Reading History Fangyu Minutes": at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Wangyun County was changed to Longmen Guard, and the entire guard castle was built in the 25th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1546 AD), and was added and repaired in the second year of Wanli (1574 AD). Unexpectedly, this border fortress, which was built with a lot of money and grain from the imperial court, has become a worthless ruin. Li Xiao was also embarrassed in his heart.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance.

Li Xiao saw that there were about dozens of Ming soldiers and horses, and they were moving quickly in his direction.

"Phew!"

Twenty paces away from Li Xiao, the group strangled the horse's hooves. Then, a stout general wearing ordinary iron armor turned over and dismounted with a few of his personal entourage, and strode towards Li Xiao and the others who had dismounted and waited.

"The one who came is the Shandong soldiers and horses who came to help?"

The general shouted from afar before he could get closer.

"Exactly, the last general is Li Xiao, the general of thousands of households, who specially brought more than 1,000 soldiers of the whole army to aid Xuanfu." Li Xiao hurriedly replied loudly,

"Okay, it's good to come, our army is now extremely short of garrison troops, and you are waiting to come, but it is timely." The general saw that Li Xiaojun did not have many troops, and his face was quite lost. He paused, and then hurriedly said: "A certain family also introduced itself, this official is Qin Guoying, the commander of the Longmen Guard. ”

"The last general will meet with Lord Servant."

"No need to be polite. Now that it's getting late, it's important to go to the camp and rest as soon as possible. Qin Guoying stopped Li Xiao's salute.

Seeing Li Xiao's puzzled expression, Qin Guoying patted his head, sighed and said: "I forgot to tell you, now that the main fort of Longmen Guard has been burned down by Tartars, Lord Du Shi, the commander of the guard, is now temporarily stationed in Xiaobaiyang Fort near Longmen Guard." Now this Longmen Guard Office has been temporarily set up as a simple dungeon, which is stationed in the place by this servant, and is specially responsible for receiving soldiers and horses from all over the country who come to our aid Longmen Guard. Some time ago, the commander had heard an order from the Wanquan Division, saying that there would be a Shandong army and horses to help our Longmen guards. Lord Du made an arrangement, if your soldiers and horses arrived at the Longmen Guard, they should immediately go to Jinjiazhuang Fort next to the Tangquan River in the north to garrison. ”

Qin Guoying then hurriedly took out Du Shi's military order to Li Xiao to look at, and after Li Xiao finished reading it, he said solemnly: "Li Qianhu, I am Longmen Guard, located in the North Road of Xuanfu North Third Road, leaning on the mountain as the side, it is the northern fence of the Ming Dynasty, and there is only a side wall from the Mongolian Department of Natumut. Among them, Longmen Fort is closed to its holes, Sanchakou Fort guards its vital points, and Jinjiazhuang Fort is the northern guard of our Longmen Guard, these three border forts, extremely critical. Li Qianhu must be stationed cautiously, it is important, it is important. ”

Li Xiao arched his hand and said: "Thank you for reminding you, Li Xiao will definitely be stationed with his heart and act carefully, then the general will immediately lead the army forward." However, there will be a request at the end. ”

"Speak."

"My lord, our army has marched so far, the stock of grain is not much, the land of Xuanfu is barren, and the towns are scarce, so it is not easy to replenish food. The last general asked the adults to pull out the grain and grass quickly to calm the hearts of the army. Li Xiao said solemnly.

"Oh, this 。。。。。。" Qin Guoying paused, he stroked his beard and said hesitantly: "I can't hide it, I'm a dragon gatekeeper, because the main fort was burned and plundered by the Tartars, and there is not much food left. In this case, you will go first, and after I have given Lord Mingdu, I will allocate some of the grain and grass to your army. ”

When Li Xiao heard this, he suddenly felt a tightness in his heart, but he didn't say much, he thought about it and asked, "That Jinjiazhuang Fort, who is stationed now?" ”

Qin Guoying hurriedly replied: "Now at Jinjiazhuang Fort, there is a thousand households and thousands of general Du Shaoru led 500 troops to garrison. Some time ago, in order to resist the invasion of the Tartars Longmen Guard, the former Jinjiazhuang Qianhu garrison officer and deputy Qianhu led troops to help, and they were killed together, leaving only Wei Zhen to pacify Anqian, and stationed in Jinjiazhuang Fort with some remnants. Seeing that Jinjiazhuang's defense was weak, Lord Du first transferred Du Qian and his 500 soldiers to go. When Qin Guoying said this, he lowered his voice and said: "Du Qian is always the nephew of Lord Du, Li Qianhu is there, but he needs to have a good relationship with this person." ”

Looking at Qin Guoying's somewhat complicated eyes, Li Xiao frowned, and then said with relief: "Thank you for reminding me, then I will say goodbye to adults." ”

"Well, be careful on the road."

Li Xiaojun crossed the Nanhe River, marched all the way north, and when he came to the outside of Jinjiazhuang Fort, it was nearly dusk.

Outside this Jinjiazhuang Fort, Li Xiao clearly heard that there was a sudden chaotic and noisy noise inside the fort, mixed with the screams of a woman in terror.

What's going on?

Did the Tartars enter the fort?

It's just that the head of this city is clearly hung with the Ming Dynasty's sun and moon double dragon flag?

When Li Xiaozheng was doubting, the gate of the fort opened, and an official dressed in a military attache uniform from the fifth grade, with several entourages, came out of the fort to greet him.

"A certain Li Xiao, the general of thousands of households, specially brought Shandong soldiers and horses into this fort. Who is you, and what is the noise in the castle? Li Xiao hurriedly asked.

The official's expression was worried and haggard, and he sighed and replied: "Lord Qianhu, the next official is the Jinjiazhuang Fort to pacify An Qian. There is a commotion in this fort, and it is really 。。。。。。 ”

Seeing that he wanted to speak and stopped, Li Xiao shouted: "What the hell, just say it's okay." ”

An Qian gritted his teeth, suddenly knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Li Qianhu, such a noise in the castle is really the Qianzong Du Shaoru is leading the soldiers to rob the people's property and rob the people's daughters. I begged Li Qianhu to quickly lead his troops into the fort to stop Du Qianhu's bad behavior! ”

After An Qian finished speaking, Li Xiao had not yet answered, and Tian Wei, the chief of General A on the side, was already shouting angrily: "Enter his grandmother!" The people in this fort finally escaped the poisonous hands of the Tartars, but they want to let these guys kill me with such a scourge! Master Li, you can give me an order, and I will lead the army into the fort and correct these guys on the spot! ”

Seeing Tian Wei's angry appearance next to him, Li Xiao, who was also angry in his heart, shouted: "The whole army enters the city!" This official wants to ask Mr. Du Qian, is there any royal law in this big tomorrow! ”