The shame of this battle is also the rebellion in the hearts of the Timurid brothers, and no one in the ordinary hundred officials will mention this matter in front of him. Now that the two parties are in a quarrel, Xue Xue's ridicule in court is undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face of Timur!

"Shameless! If it weren't for someone secretly restraining them, stirring up the hearts of the troops and disobeying orders, why would they have been defeated? "First Timur blushed, his head was bruised, if he said that he didn't understand the military at all, but wronged him, after all, there was the influence of detachment, and Timur also served in the army back then, although he didn't have the talent to command the army, but he was not a fool, otherwise, with the ability to get rid of people, even if his own brother is incompetent, he will not let him be the commander!

The defeat of Shahe was partly due to the disobedience of the Yuan army's subordinates, fearing the enemy like a tiger, coupled with the negligence of the various departments, the incompetence of the generals, and when facing night terrors, the generals of the various departments were unable to suppress their subordinates, and even fled the camp themselves, resulting in a great confusion among the subordinate troops, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and they frightened each other, and finally bombed the camp. Even if some of the Yuan troops were able to keep calm and guard the camp at the beginning, but under the impact of waves of routs that were already panicked and indistinguishable from the enemy, they were finally unable to stand alone, and were swept away by countless routs and dissolved in the turbulent tide.

During this period, Timur repeatedly issued orders to try to gather the troops, but under the darkness of the night, the various departments had been completely disturbed, and even the heralds who were discharged were also engulfed in the chaos, and most of them were missing.

But in any case, as the commander-in-chief, Timur will not escape the blame!

This is also the reason why Xue Xue dared to criticize him in public.

Yuan Saiyin, the superintendent of the imperial history, echoed Xue Xue and said: "One general is incompetent, tired of the three armies, black and white, why argue?" ”

Timur also stood dumbfounded, and scolded: "Thou hast reversed black and white, confusing the holy hearing, and thou shalt be no different from a thief, what face do you have standing above the court!" ”

Zhang Chong, the first imperial historian under the queue, also accused his colleague Yuan Saiyin of not sending, the battle of the Sand River has long been decided, at this time barking words, I don't know what Yuan Saiyin wants to do without flowers?

Yuan Saiyin didn't spend time to defend himself, Ru Zhongbai stood in the queue on the side and said softly: "The expedition of the labor division, the loss of the teacher and the humiliation of the country, not to mention the crime of humiliating the country, but in vain the cost of the court's money and food, countless soldiers and horses were destroyed, and the depth of harm to the country has not been seen." Although we are wise and foolish, we are willing to do our best for the sake of Your Majesty's grand imperial cause, and we are not like some people who have a vegetarian meal! ”

The two sides said a word, and they fought for a while.

As a political affairs officer, Hama is not good at joining the quarrel in person, so he just squinted his eyes and simply turned a deaf ear.

This is not only related to his character, but also related to his impatience when he sees that state affairs are becoming more and more erosive, and the magnates are more and more indulgent in pleasure and have no interest in state affairs. In the past few years, he has vigorously rectified the program of the dynasty and eliminated the malpractices, which naturally offended many people inside and outside the court, and even Hama and Ruzhongbai have turned against him.

Fed up with the quarrels of the courtiers, Emperor Yuan had no choice but to issue a decree ordering the prime minister to get rid of loyal state affairs, and to end the war in the south as soon as possible.

This stagecoach carried the holy decree all the way day and night, along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, to the Jianghuai.

The farce in Dadu was fruitless, and the magnates in Yidu City only discussed for two days, and there were spies in Linqu City who sent Liu Zhengfeng a letter and issued a notice!

"Hmph, a thief with ears dares to be the king? What a joke! Mai Nu slapped the handrail on the next side heavily, his hands were numb in pain, and he bared his teeth and gasped, "What is his name?" ”

"Back to the prince, the name of the traitor is called the king of Shuntian." A steward-looking man waiting behind him leaned over and said.

"Shuntian, what heaven can he follow? The world is all my Mongolians, and His Majesty is the heaven in this world! The slave's rough voice buzzed in the ears of everyone in the hall. This anti-thief is hateful, but he is the opposite, and he even plays a banner and openly flaunts himself as the king of Shuntian, isn't this slapping King Yi's face?

There can only be one king in this Yidu Road!

At present, the flames of anti-thieves on both sides of the Jianghuai River are blazing, but the anti-thieves everywhere have not yet raised such a swaggering banner, and it is unthinkable that in the always relatively peaceful Shandong region, there are still rogues who can occupy the county seat, and they also set up a banner to rebel, openly calling the imperial court. He was named the king of Yi and sat in Shandong, and if such a big thing happened, the court would definitely call for reprimand.

You thief is the opposite, what kind of name do you still play, you used to be a thief, you can still be a good and slow kill, now these hateful guys are playing banners, and they are issuing documents, issuing notices, isn't this forcing the slave to be immediately incompatible!

Although he is a Mongolian orthodox, he will not be punished by the revocation of the king's title, but after all, he is also a person who has been fighting in Jiangnan and Jiangbei for many years, and it is just a matter of not being appeased under the rule, and it doesn't matter if it is difficult to exterminate, anyway, everyone has been used to it over the years, as long as the imperial army arrives, no matter how powerful the thieves are, they will be slaughtered to pieces, like hot water pouring snow. But the thief is called the king, it is indeed not trivial, the court must pay attention to it, and now I think about it, I still underestimated them too first!

The ancients have always attached great importance to the name, at the beginning Liu Thief Futong was known as Han Shantong, the eighth grandson of Song Huizong, when he ruled China, I don't know how many people were ignorant of the world, and finally made a big momentum in Xuzhou, and even the 200,000 troops of Timur were shocked overnight.

"The prince doesn't need to be annoyed, the thieves are just clowns jumping off the beam, and the monkeys are well-dressed and make people laugh!" Gu Kai smiled slightly, and leaned over to buy a slave. Then the words changed, and he continued: "It's just that this matter should be resolved as soon as possible, as the official prefaced, if you can't plow the court and sweep the cave with the power of thunder, once the thief has time, he will deceive the ignorant farmers and small people, and bring his family with him, and it will be difficult to deal with the thief after the power is opened." ”

"What Lord Gu said is extremely true, the prince should clearly order all the troops to send troops this time, and he will not give up until he reaches his goal." A civil servant on his right hand spoke in agreement. Everyone saw that this person was Ji Zongzhou, who was now the head of the Department of Persuasion of Agriculture, who was capable of acting and paying attention to physical objects, and was a person who had quite a good record in governing the Department of Agriculture.

"Although the strength of the thieves is small, they have already rebelled, if they can't be exterminated as soon as possible, as Lord Gu said, I am afraid that it will gradually become a prairie fire. The rebellion of the Yellow River laborers in the 11th year of Zhizheng has caused the loss of a large number of young and strong laborers under my rule, and in recent years, there has been a shortage of people in various localities to cultivate and maintain water conservancy. And just after the chaos, the people's hearts have not yet been completely settled, if the disposal is delayed, delaying next year's sowing, I am afraid that next year's harvest will be greatly affected! ”

What Ji Zongzhou said was the truth, and everyone in the audience was silent in their hearts.

"In this case, how to dispatch the army, can the Xuanfu Division have a saying?" Mai Nu asked. Shandong is the land of the hinterland, a should be administrative, military by the capital of the book and the Privy Council control, in the Shandong region has the Shandong East and West Road Propaganda Division, subordinate to the Privy Council, in charge of military and civilian affairs, there are propaganda envoys, Tongzhi, deputy envoys, experience, capital affairs and other officials.

"Back to the prince, the soldiers and horses of Laizhou, Jinan, and Dizhou have already issued an order a few days ago, and they can reach Yidu the day after tomorrow, but only five days at the latest. The officers and soldiers who originally participated in the encirclement and suppression in the mountains were difficult to travel on the mountain road, and the spies came to report, the pass to the east out of the mountain has been rejected by the thieves, if it is a hard attack, it is uncertain whether it can arrive on the day of convergence, and it is easy to startle the snake, so the division has ordered that only a group of men and horses be stationed outside the pass to prevent the thieves from running into the mountains again, and the rest of the whole army will go north first, bypass the pass, and take the mountain road, according to the distance, when the whole army can go out of the mountain after three days. It happened to meet with reinforcements from three places and go south together. "Xuan Wei said in the department.

"The soldiers and horses of Yizhou received the military order late this time, and their dispatch time will be two to three days late, but the task of Yizhou is to block the road for the thieves to flee south, and there is no need to participate in the direct battle against the thieves, and there are more than 4,000 soldiers and horses that can be mobilized in Yizhou this time, controlling several key roads in the south, and they will be responsible for the encirclement of the entire southern and eastern fronts."

Zhuo Sicheng, the consolation envoy, added to the slave: "Lord Meng sent a messenger this morning, and according to the distance, the vanguard of his righteous army can rush here tomorrow evening, and the righteous army of the Tian clan in Laizhou should arrive in six days." ”

He also served as the deputy envoy of the Propaganda and Comfort Department of the Yidu Road Management Army of tens of thousands of households, and also owed himself at this time: "Yesterday's report, last night our army crossed the river and attacked at night, and the large and small ships on the west bank have been basically destroyed, and the thief army is now unable to cross the river and invade the east!" ”

"That's great!" Buy slave happy to say, Liu Zhengfeng seized Linqu City, everyone is a little worried that the thief army will take the opportunity to cross the river to the east, the east of the river is also mostly mountains and undulating, if you go to the northeast, it is the plain most, rich in products, but the local officials and troops are more empty, and it is difficult to stop it.

"When will Tang Wuwei arrive?" Buying slaves is still not at ease, so he asked.

"The news from Zhan Chi is estimated to be seven days away." An experience to reminisce.

Everyone couldn't help frowning when they heard this, it had been seven days since this group of people left the Beijing Division, why did it take so many days? However, I heard that these guards have always been domineering, and the place cannot be controlled at all, so I just hope that they can arrive quickly.

"I think this time the commander is also the first adult." Mainu still had no objection to the overall deployment of the Xuanwei Division, he looked at the military attaches under the seat, and directly named him as the commander first.

He also followed the slave buyer for a long time to fight, and he was a person close to the slave, so he was naturally assured of his loyalty and ability to buy slaves. He also accumulated military merits to tens of thousands of households and benefited the marshal of the capital road, and it was not a problem to command the officers and troops of all roads.

Xuanfu made the Marshal Sidu Mansion located in Yidu, and the Marshal of the capital was ranked from the second rank, a total of three members, and it was also one of them.

He also listened to King Yi's order under the seat, and quickly stood up and saluted, and said: "The last general will go to the soup and fire, and he will never live up to the prince's trust!" ”

"The first lord has made great achievements, and this will be a success, and the lower officials dare to ask the prince to allow the lower officials to go with the first lord, so as to see the power of the official army." Gu Kai asked for his life from the slave.

"Oh, if you have a heart, you can't do it." The slave nodded in agreement.

"Thank you, Lord Wang!"

The group discussed the dispatch of troops in a few days, and thought that they should wait until the various divisions converged before going out. During this period, it was still surrounded on all sides and blockaded.

He also ordered the Yidu Road Military Intelligence Department to strengthen the exploration of Linqu and send scouts to try to find out the truth of the thief army before the war.

Then the slave was disbanded without mentioning. When he left first, Wang Ying stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve and told him again, hoping to have a chance to fight.

also said first: "A little bit of thieves, don't need to worry about the boss, this time the army gathers, you will be able to plow the court and sweep the holes, and the horse will be successful, and the adults will only wait for good news." "This old guy doesn't accept the old, and he really has a headache at first, if it weren't for the fact that he is quite qualified, and he is already at home, he has no intention of dealing with him.