Yu Datong was just an ordinary soldier in the Beijing camp, because Shen Xibu suffered a lot of losses as a scout when he was in Tumu Fort, and because of his good riding skills, he was selected to join the scout team, responsible for scouting the terrain, spying on the enemy, and transmitting messages. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but it was such an ordinary person who sent Shen Xi's letter from Juyong Pass to the capital besieged by Tatar heavy troops.

The Tatars besieged the city on all sides, but they did not make it watertight.

The territory of the capital is vast, and the number of Tatar soldiers and horses is only more than 100,000, so they can only choose to focus on attacking, and on the same day, the Tatars successively dispatched heavy troops to attack Desheng Gate and Zhengyang Gate, making the rest of the city gates empty, which allowed Yu Datong to find an opportunity to rush to the city of Beijing.

Yu Datong didn't understand why Xie Ge Lao in front of him always kept asking about the matter of Tumubao, he had good riding skills and was alert, but he couldn't know too much about the situation outside his position, and he didn't know much about the details in Shen Xi's army.

Yu Datong pondered for a moment and replied cautiously: "Now the Tartars outside the civil fort ...... I guess there isn't! I remember that on the first day of returning to Juyong Pass, Lord Shen led his troops to destroy the besieging Tartars, beheaded 2,000, captured 400 alive, and captured countless weapons, grain and grass......"

As a scout, Yu Datong never thought that no one knew about these news in the capital. In his opinion, since Shen Xi's army has achieved such great achievements, the capital should have spread all over the city a long time ago, and he was already ready to reward Shen Xi and his subordinates.

When Xie Qian heard this, his head was hot, his legs and feet were weak, and he couldn't stand steadily.

"You...... You repeat, what happened to the civil fort? Shen Xi Children's ...... It's you, Lord Shen, the last battle...... Won? ”

After the Tatar main force bypassed the Tumu Fort to attack Juyong Pass, and after the Bauhinia Pass was lost, the imperial court naturally recognized Shen Xi as "martyrdom", but from Yu Datong's introduction, Shen Xi not only did not die for the country, but lived a very nourishing life in the rear of the Tartars.

Yu Datong asked: "Elder Xie Ge, the villain doesn't know much about military affairs, how to report it from above, how the villain will report it, and the villain doesn't know it...... Which one is the last battle, but Lord Shen did lead the troops to break the Tartar military camp, and even the battle was successful, after the main force of the Tartars withdrew from the Tumu Fort, Lord Shen led the troops to break the Tartar camp, and on the way back to Juyong Pass, he destroyed thousands of Tartars! ”

Xie Qian felt that his heart was a little overloaded, he held the city wall with one hand and his chest with the other, he wanted to believe the words of the young scout in front of him, but he felt that this matter was too unbelievable.

"Shen Xi'er's use of troops in the northwest has repeatedly exceeded the expectations of the imperial court, and now he can actually break out of the encirclement and return to Juyong Pass safely? It is also said that thousands of Tartars were destroyed on the way, which ...... How does this make me believe? ”

Xie Qian muttered quietly, he had forgotten to ask Yu Datong, because in his mind, either Yu Datong was lying for some purpose, or Shen Xi had really withdrawn to Juyong Pass. He picked up the letter in his hand, looked at it and read it, wanted to open it, but was afraid that the contents would not make him acceptable.

Thinking about it, Xie Qian beckoned, Sui Zhong and the others, who were nervously looking in the distance, hurriedly trotted all the way over, and several soldiers went up to escort Yu Datong again.

Xie Qian waved his hand and said: "Let go, loosen his ties, and leave people here in Zhengyangmen for the time being, if there is something, the old man will let people pass it on, and the good wine and good food will be taken care of!" ”

He had always regarded Yu Datong as a Tatar before, but at this moment, Xie Qian would rather believe that this young man was really a messenger sent by Shen Xi, because what Yu Datong said was too popular, and Xie Qian had already believed it selectively.

But Xie Qian didn't want to ask too much, lest the final result was not what he wanted, and he would rather lie to himself for a while than expose the truth and make his dream come to naught.

Sui Zhong asked Yu Datong to escort him down, and then he came to Xie Qian and asked, "Elder Xie Ge, are you ...... What's the explanation? ”

Xie Qian said: "Send a few people to the Ministry to find Ma Shangshu...... Oh, bring the old man's letter, and let Ma Shangshu go directly to the old man's mansion, you ...... Can you do it? ”

Sui Zhong was embarrassed when he heard this, it was not difficult for him to go to the military department, but it was really beyond his ability to go to the ministry or find a big man like the ministry.

In the eyes of Sui Zhong, these middle and lower-level generals, the Ministry of Officials belongs to the unattainable Yamen, and now Xie Qian not only asked him to go to the Ministry of Officials, but also asked him to go to the Ministry of Officials, which is more and more nonsense. But Xie Qian was looking at it, and Sui Zhong naturally wanted to be appreciated by the scholars of the Auxiliary Political University of the DPRK and China, even if he knew that he couldn't do it, he also agreed to it: "The last general will definitely do his best to complete the entrustment of Lord Xie!" ”

Xie Qian shook his head and sighed, "What adults are not big, just do the errands well, go quickly...... Oh yes, help me prepare a carriage, the old man has to go back to the house first! ”

Night gradually fell, Xie Qian had an idea in his heart, find a safe place to read Shen Xi's letter, he was afraid that others would know the content of the letter, the idea was very simple:

"Assuming that Shen Xi'er really won a big victory in Tumubao and withdrew his troops to return to Juyong Pass, the letter to Jingshi was not with the imperial court, which must indicate that Shen Xi was afraid that the imperial court would not allow his proposal, or that he would be obstructed by Liu Shaofu and others, so he simply wrote the letter to me and asked me to help him complete it."

"This kind of thing is not in line with the rules of the imperial court, if it is known by the imperial court, it will damage Shen Xi'er's reputation and career!"

Xie Qian has been in the DPRK for many years, and he is well versed in human feelings and sophistication, and he thinks about problems more thoroughly.

"If I can't do it, let Ma Shangshu help, looking at the court, the only one who can cooperate with me and Shen Xi'er is Ma Shangshu, Ma Shangshu has enough prestige in the court, and he said a word in front of His Majesty on military issues, maybe it would be more effective than me saying ten words!"

Xie Qian thought about these things, and hurriedly arrived in front of the carriage prepared for him by the city gate guards, because he was so excited to hear Shen Xi's news that he even forgot about Li Dongyang entrusting him to escort the prince back to the palace.

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Xie Qian rode in a carriage and was escorted by several soldiers to Xie's mansion.

At the head of the city, Zhu Houzhao was taking care of the three armies, and Zhang Yuan, as the eunuch of the East Palace who accompanied the prince to supervise the battle, had just recovered from vomiting, and he seemed weak, and he wanted to quickly talk to the two pavilion elders about escorting the prince back to the palace earlier, but he did not expect to learn from the guards that Li Dongyang and Xie Qian had left Zhengyangmen one after another.

Zhang Yuan complained: "What the hell, the prince is the prince of a country, could it be that the two ministers are ready to leave the prince in Zhengyangmen and ignore it?" ”

He was still looking down at the city, and a squire behind him hurriedly came over and beckoned: "Gonggong Zhang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince invites you over!" ”

Zhang Yuan let go of his depression and hurried to see Zhu Houzhao, this time not in the city, but in the room on the third floor of the city gate tower.

Zhu Houzhao returned to the city tower after recovering the soldiers of the three armies and sat on the bedside of the room to rest. The city head is drenched in blood, and many times what you see is not only blood and wounded, but also a large number of fragmented corpses, especially those hideous Tartar heads piled together, very terrifying, walking around from the city, Zhu Houzhao felt dizzy and a little sluggish.

As soon as Zhang Yuan entered the door, he said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, it's not early, Your Majesty and the Queen Mother are very concerned about you, it's better to go back to the palace early, if you go back late, there will be Tartars in Zhengyangmen again, and after a night of fighting, I'm afraid that you can only return to the palace tomorrow!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said angrily: "The palace has not yet completed the errand entrusted by my father, how can I return to the palace lightly?" If you're afraid, just go by yourself, don't bother the main palace! By the way, where are Mr. Xie and Mr. Li now? ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The two of them have already gone down the city wall, and they don't know where to go now." ”

Zhu Houzhao was annoyed and ashamed: "My father sent them to accompany the benevolent soldiers of this palace, I never thought that they would slip away faster than anyone else, didn't they even care about the safety of this palace?" Alas, forget it, Grandpa Zhang, you accompany the palace to the city, this time we will inspect the dinner of the soldiers! ”

Zhang Yuan felt that he was about to go crazy, and thought: "This little ancestor really doesn't know whether to live or die, the soldiers are fighting, are you staying here just to toss people?" ”

He still wanted to persuade, but Zhu Houzhao has always been bent on doing things, what he was thinking at this time was: "Mr. Shen taught me that I had to share weal and woe with the soldiers, so that they would obey my command and dispatch, this is a qualified commander, even if I am the prince, I can't be an exception!" ”

It turns out that in the mind of the bear child, he would rather be a general who leads troops to fight on the battlefield than an emperor who guards the palace.

And Zhang Yuan could only follow Zhu Houzhao pitifully, Zhang Yuan knew that when he walked down the city tower, he would definitely see the wounded soldiers and dead corpses again, and he would inevitably vomit again, and I was afraid that he would even vomit out bile at that time......

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The carriage that Xie Qian was riding was parked in front of the Xie Mansion, and it had been nightfall for some time at this time.

After entering the winter moon, the days were short and the nights were long, Xie Qian had not returned home for a few days, and when he personally went up and knocked on the door, the porter inside was a little impatient: "The old mansion of the pavilion refuses to meet guests." ”

Xie Qian said angrily: "It's me, master!" ”

The porter immediately came out and opened the door, Xie Qian ignored it, and walked straight inside, his face pale.

Xie Qian walked a few steps, suddenly turned to look at the porter, and ordered: "After that, Ma Shangshu will come over, and you welcome him in!" ”

After speaking, Xie Qian hurriedly went to the study. When he entered the room, the maid sent the candle, Xie Qian sat at the desk, took out Shen Xi's letter from his arms, and couldn't wait to open the envelope and take out the letterhead, but seeing that the text on it was extremely brief, it made him feel that this was not like a private letter at all: "Excuse the crime, Jing Lu Nan Finger." ”

Xie Qian was stunned at first, he hadn't touched the book for a long time, and he couldn't understand the deep meaning for a while, but he roughly knew the literal meaning of these two sentences: "On the order of the Son of Heaven, crusade against the criminal ministers, and lead the troops to the south." ”

"Shen Xi'er is really getting more and more disagreeable, the gods are chattering, such a clueless sentence, how can the old man guess his intentions?"

Xie Qian was angry from his heart, and asked him to make a special trip to find someone to come back to explain this sentence, after all, he was once the champion, and it would be disgraceful to ask people because of allusions.

Xie Qian said to the servant standing at the door: "Go, call the second young master to the old man!" ”

Can't go to the Hanlin Academy to find someone to inquire, Xie Qian immediately thought of his son, although this son is not angry, he didn't even get the Jinshi exam in his twenties, but he expected that it was always okay to ask an allusion, and by the way, he could test Xie Pi's talent.