Lu Xiangsheng looked at Jiang Beiming's back: "The order will go down, all the departments will advance, and Yulinbao will be stationed outside the city, and you will not be allowed to enter the city." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Wang Chengen turned his head and asked, "Lord Lu, aren't we going into the city?" ”

"Princess." Lu Xiangsheng replied, "Let Jiang Beiming deal with the affairs of Yulin Castle, let's not interfere for the first time." ”

"Ugh." Wang Chengen's heart didn't know whether to be more happy or regretful, "What Lord Lu said is very true, everything is arranged by Lord Lu." ”

Jiang Beiming quickly returned to the Yulin Army barracks: "Han Wantao, Xu Lang, order the troops to open Yulin Fort; Inform Lin Zhaolong to return to Yulin Bay in batches according to the original plan; Let Ye Zhan lead some stragglers and slowly return to Yulin Fort. ”

"Tao Min is gone?" Han Wantao and Xu Lang asked at the same time.

"Let's go, I've asked Lu Xiangsheng for his life to go back to Yulin Fort first."

"Got it, I'll arrange it right away."

"Wan Tao, you wait first." Xu Lang shouted to Han Wantao, "Let's play enough, you go get some white cloth and prepare for crying and mourning." ”

"You, you." Han Wantao pointed at Xu Lang and smiled, "I know, I'll prepare." ”

When Lu Xiangsheng's army arrived at Yulin Fort, the cry in Yulin Fort shook the sky, and all the Yulin officers and soldiers wrapped white cloth on their heads and white flowers on their chests.

Jiang Beiming and Xu Lang came to Lu Xiangsheng's military camp.

"Qi Lu Shuai, Qi Wang Gonggong, the anti-Jin Tartar has withdrawn, and Yulin Fort has recovered. It's just that. Jiang Beiming cried bitterly, "Those corpses are indeed my Yulin Army soldiers, a thousand soldiers." ”

Xu Lang also hid his face and sobbed beside him, and said secretly in his heart: "Beiming, if there is an Oscar now, you are the best actor." ”

"Don't be sad, two generals." Lu Xiangsheng picked up one person with one hand, and after a long time, he said, "Have the bodies of the soldiers been disposed of?" ”

"Processing." Jiang Beiming wiped his tears, "The sin general was worried about the outbreak of the plague, so he ordered someone to dig a pit and bury it deeply." It's a pity that my Yulin soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country, but they couldn't return to their hometown. ”

"General Jiang, don't be sad, our family must be enlightened and appeased the families of these soldiers." After Wang Chengen finished speaking, he asked, "There are only 1,000 corpses in the city, and you should have 2,000 more." ”

"Back to the prince." Xu Lang replied, "They were scattered, and some of the stragglers returned, and according to them, some were taken captive by the Tartars. ”

"Oh." Wang Chengen nodded.

There was a sudden commotion outside the tent, and Ye Zhan's voice came from afar: "Let go of me, let go of me, I want to see Lu Shuai, I want to see the prince." ”

"Someone." Lu Xiangsheng shouted, "What's the noise outside the camp?" ”

"Go back to Lu Shuai." A hundred households walked in and said, "A few stragglers from the Yulin Army have returned, clamoring to see Lu Shuai and the prince. ”

"Let them in." Wang Chengen commanded.

Ye Zhan and a few people walked into the big tent covered in blood. Ye Zhan leaned over and knelt down: "Lu Shuai, Wang Gonggong, avenge your humble position." ”

"Get up and talk back." Wang Chengen suddenly felt that Ye Zhan was a little familiar, "Your name is Ye Zhan, right?" ”

"Back to the prince, it is Ye Zhan."

"Ye Zhan, why are you back?" Jiang Beiming asked first, "What about the rest?" ”

"Back to the general." Ye Zhan's two lines of tears flowed down, "The subordinates were separated from the general, and the subordinates led the men and horses of the headquarters to fight their way out of the encirclement, but only these few people remained, and the rest were either killed or injured and captured." ”

"I beg Lu Shuai and beg the prince." Ye Zhan knelt on the ground again, "Avenge the humble position, avenge the Yulin Army." ”

"Ye Zhan, you should step back first and recuperate from your injuries." Lu Xiangsheng said, "Ben Shuai and the prince will avenge you." ”

"Xie Lushuai, Xie Wanggong." Ye Zhan knew that his play was almost done, so he stood up and left the big tent.

"Princess, the Tartars have already withdrawn, what are we going to do next?" Lu Xiangsheng asked Wang Chengen.

"Let's go to the city." Wang Chengen said, "Our family wants to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Yulin Army. ”

"Thank you for your kindness." Jiang Beiming and Xu Lang thanked together.

Beijing City Nourishing Heart Palace.

"Master Qi, the secret music of the prince has arrived." Wang Chengen followed Lu Xiangsheng to Xuanfu Town, and it was another eunuch Gao Qiqian who served Chongzhen.

"News so soon?" Chongzhen put down the tea bowl in his hand, "What did you say?" ”

"Back to the master." Gao Qiqian said, "The prince said in the recital that when Lu Xiangsheng's army arrived in Xuanfu Town, the Tartars had already retreated. The 6,000 Yulin army fought against the Tatars alone for more than ten days, suffering heavy casualties, and Yulin Fort was also conquered by the Tatars. ”

"Yulin Fort has fallen?" Chongzhen's brows furrowed, "Show me the fold." ”

"Huh." Gao Qiqian handed over Wang Chengen's recital, "Wang Gonggong said in the excerpt that the Yulin Army suffered 3,000 casualties and captured more than 700 Tartar heads. ”

"6,000 people against 60,000 Tartars, hold on to Yulin Fort for more than ten days." Chongzhen slowly closed the fold, "Gao Qiqian, do you think Yulin Jun should be rewarded or punished?" ”

"It's all up to the master, and the slave doesn't dare to talk much."

"I want to hear from you." Chongzhen didn't care about Gao Qiqian's attitude, "Wang Chengen also said in the recital that although the Yulin army was guilty of losing the city, the 6,000 people fought alone, killed and injured nearly 1,000 Tartars, and forced the Tartars to retreat, I don't know whether to reward them or punish them." ”

"Master, according to the will of the slave, the master can first give a will for punishment and then a will for reward, and the merit and demerit will be offset. This will not only chill the hearts of the soldiers, but also let the Yulin Army know the majesty of Long Live it. ”

"You have a point." Chongzhen thought for a while, "Intention." Jiang Beiming, a staff officer of the Yulin Army, was unfavorable to defend Yulin Fort and damaged the prestige of heaven, so he was deprived of his post as a general and demoted to a guerrilla general. ”

"The minions obey." Gao Qiqian took the pen and paper and asked again, "Master, how to write the second will." ”

"The officers and men of the Yulin Army, with one enemy and ten, fought hard for several days, defended our Ming territory, and their loyalty was commendable. Give 100 bottles of wine and 100 pieces of brocade. After Chongzhen finished speaking, he commanded, "In this sense, you can consider the words yourself." ”

"The minions obey."

The two holy decrees were quickly delivered to Yulin Fort. In the past few days, tens of thousands of troops have been stationed around Yulin Fort, more than 1,000 corpses have been deeply buried, and the people who had taken refuge in Xuanfu Town in advance have also been picked up by Han Wantao intermittently.

"Beiming, you have been demoted." Xu Lang pointed at Jiang Beiming and smiled, "You are now the same as me, both are guerrilla generals." ”

"If you really want to be an official, I'll go and tell Chongzhen that you will be promoted to a general." Jiang Beiming laughed and said, "Don't joke, there is another thing we have to discuss together." ”

"You mean Wu Sangui, right?" Xu Lang guessed Jiang Beiming's thoughts.

"That's right, it's Wu Sangui." Jiang Beiming said to the people around him, "Guan Ning Tieqi will arrive in a few days, how can we deal with them when they come?" ”

"What else do you need to do?" Zhou Lei shouted, "Now that Tao Min has withdrawn his troops, it's useless for them to come, I guess Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen can deal with it without us." ”

"That's not what Beiming meant." Xu Lang explained, "Let's not talk about Wu Sangui's position, he is a famous general, if he knows that our Yulin Army is 6,000 against 60,000, he will definitely come to us to inquire." Moreover, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is also a strong force in the current Ming Dynasty, and its combat effectiveness is also very strong. ”

Xu Lang suddenly became serious when he said this: "Everyone, everyone knows what happened to us this time. We are alone with six thousand troops against the Eight Banners, and the relationship between Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen and us can be said to be the best in the entire Ming Dynasty, but their actions are still slow, not to mention that the Guanning Iron Cavalry has not yet arrived, everyone should understand what Chongzhen thinks in his heart. Whether we will turn against Chongzhen in the future I think it's really impossible to say now, if there is really that day, Guanning Tieqi will be our sworn enemy. ”

"Xu Lang, you don't want to kill Wu Sangui right now, do you?" Fan Qiuming suddenly came up with such a sentence.

"Tyumen, what do you think." Xu Lang smiled, "No matter how capable I am, I can't kill Wu Sangui now." I mean, shouldn't we have a relationship with Wu Sangui, it's better to have one more friend than one more enemy in the future. ”

"But how are we going to have a relationship with Wu Sangui, do we still have to do business with him?" Liu Jun asked, "Even if you do business with him, what kind of business do you do?" ”

"I thought about this when I was in Beijing." Jiang Beiming replied, "Zhang Hai means to do cigarette business with Wu Sangui, and the Liaodong soldiers all smoke. ”

"That's a good idea." Liu Jun was a little excited, "Do what you like, there is a market, the profit is high, we can take the sea transportation, the cost is low." ”

"Cigarettes alone aren't enough." Xu Lang suggested, "Do you think we can sell him some arms?" ”

"Sell arms to Wu Sangui?" Everyone was a little skeptical, "What if he hits us with our arms in the future?" ”

"Actually, I've been thinking about this for the past two days." Xu Lang said, "As you know, Tao Min and we reached a two-year truce agreement. In the past two years, Tao Min will definitely build arms and train the new Korean army. If two years later, Tao Min really trained a North Korean army of tens of thousands of people armed with firecrackers and artillery, then his next place of entry may not be Xuanfu and Datong, but most likely Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan. ”

"Why do we have to set aside 2 years for Tao Min?" Zhou Lei asked again, "Can't we go to North Korea to make trouble for him?" ”

"I'm afraid not now, I have discussed this issue with Xu Lang." Jiang Beiming replied, "We still have a lot to do in the next two years, we still have to consolidate Vietnam and Singapore, and we have to join Zheng Zhilong to enter Japan, we don't have the energy to fight Tao Min anymore." More importantly, we have to keep our heads up, and we can't be too strong in front of Chongzhen. ”

"If that's the case, I'll really have to sell some guns to Wu Sangui." As soon as Wang Qianxiang finished speaking, he suddenly found that Xu Lang's eyes were a little straight, "Chief of Staff Xu, what are you thinking, why are you in a daze?" ”

Everyone turned their heads towards Xu Lang, and Xu Lang shook his fingers: "I suddenly thought of a question. We can't fight Tao Min anymore, but can we find a way to create some contradictions between Tao Min and Huang Taiji, so that they can bite first? ”

"Chief of Staff Xu." Liu Jun smiled, "Do you want to use a counter-trick or a beauty trick, or do you want to find a way to get Hai Lanzhu to Tao Min's bed?" ”

"It's all right, it's all right, as long as Huang Taiji can't trust Tao Min, anything can be done." Xu Lang thought about his mind and didn't pay attention to Liu Jun's joke.

"Hahahaha." Everyone laughed together.

"What are you laughing at?" Xu Lang hadn't reacted yet, "Isn't my idea bad?" ”

"You've got a good idea." Jiang Beiming couldn't help but laugh, "But this is a later story, let's discuss Wu Sangui's matter now." ”

"I think it's going to be otherwise." Han Wantao concluded, "Let's set a principle first and try our best to do business with Wu Sangui." As for what kind of business to do, I'll talk about it when he comes, and I guess he'll definitely come to us. ”

A few days later, Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's 30,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry finally arrived.

Lu Xiangsheng and Wang Chengen called Jiang Beiming, Han Wantao, Xu Lang and others to the Chinese army's big tent.

In the big tent of the Chinese army stood a general in his 40s, and behind this general stood this young general in his twenties, medium build, white face and high nose.

The traversers who came in were invariably asking a question in their hearts: "This is Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui father and son?" ”