On the seventh day of the fifth month of the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634 AD), the 10,000 cavalry of Gaojun Mountain, with Cao Wenzhao as the vanguard and He Renlong as the palace army, left Pingliang and went to the northwest, galloped along the Liupan Mountains for three days, and then crossed the Wating Pass and went out of the Xiao Pass in the west.

In this expedition, in addition to Cao Wenzhao's 3,000 iron cavalry and He Renlong's 2,000 light cavalry, there were also 4,000 Tiger and Leopard Army of Red Army friends and Liu Chenggong's 1,000 rocket cavalry, and the defenders left in Pingliang were less than 8,000.

This time, there were Jiya and Suena who came out. Since she was going to hold a big wedding ceremony with Jiya, of course Jiya wanted to come with her, but Suena was afraid of loneliness, so she also came out with Jiya, and of course her escort Shail also came. Gao Junshan wanted to test Shayir on the battlefield, so he agreed to Su Yena's request to follow, his own guard officers were Bai Wenxuan and Zhuang Youfu, and Zhang Cong stayed in Pingliang and was responsible for the safety of the old camp.

More than 10,000 cavalry did not encounter any interception along the way, and there were no garrisons to intercept the several fortresses along the way, only some old and weak women and children who had no combat ability, and it was impossible for them to defend the fortress, let alone pose a threat to the troops in the high mountains.

"This big brother, what's wrong? Why don't you see a strong man in the stockade? When the team came to Xin'an Village, a hundred households in the team spoke the local dialect and asked a 50-year-old man who was mowing grass by the village.

"Who's the your big brother? You beheaded thieves! The old man suddenly scolded.

Xin'an Village was built in the middle of the road, and if you want to move forward, you must pass through this village. Gao Junshan dismounted and arched his hand: "This big brother must have misunderstood." My righteous army came all the way, and there was not a single grass or tree at the border pass, and there was no offense against the border people, I believe you have already heard of it, big brother. What I don't know is why our army has passed through the barriers, and not a single soldier is missing. ”

The old man glanced at Gao Junshan and saw that he was polite, not like the legendary thief, so he sighed and said: "With 70,000 people, the Mongolian people invaded our border pass and broke through dozens of fortresses along the border. ”

"I see." Gao Junshan comforted: "Big brother doesn't have to sigh, although we are rogues, in the face of foreign invasion, as a big Han people, how can we stand idly by." Please open the gate of the village, borrow me a way, and go to kill the enemy. ”

The old man is actually a veteran, he is really the leader of the guards in Xinansai, he still understands the principle of "brothers are on the wall, and the outside is insulted", so he took the initiative to open the gate of the village and let the team of Gao Junshan pass.

After Xin'an Village, the team marched only twenty miles, and then encountered the retreating border army, these border troops were the men and horses of the Guyuan General Army, and they had fought against the righteous army together with Cao Wenzhao, so many people knew Cao Wenzhao.

"Mr. Cao, you're finally here!" A garrison thought that this force was a reinforcement from the Ming Court, and said with tears in his eyes when he saw Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao recognized this person, he was Yang Qi's subordinate, Xigu garrison, surnamed Hu Mingying.

After Cao Wenzhao returned the salute, he asked: "Tiger garrison, how is the battle on the front line?" ”

Hu Ying told Cao Wenzhao that Ezhe's tens of thousands of troops surrounded Guyuan, and the general soldier Yang Qi was wounded by an arrow and was trapped in Guyuan waiting for reinforcements, and Hu Ying's task was to rush back to Qingyang Mansion to move rescue troops.

Gao Junshan got the news and instructed Cao Wenzhao to comfort Hu Ying with kind words, and asked Hu Ying to gather the retreating soldiers and horses and go to Guyuan to relieve the siege together. He did this because he was worried that Hu Ying would really run to Qingyang Mansion and recruit the army of the Ming Court, which would be very unfavorable to him.

Of course, Hu Ying quickly understood that this was not the army of the imperial court, and what he didn't understand was why Cao Wenzhao was also in this team, but he didn't want to cause more trouble, so he didn't dare to inquire carefully.

After stabilizing this garrison under Yang Qi, Gao Junshan ordered to camp on the spot, and sent the military advisor Liu Hongru to accompany Ji Ya to Ezhe's camp to negotiate.

Liu Hongru was ordered to take a few retinues with Ji Ya, rode for a day, and then found Ezhe's camp, and after negotiations, Ezhe agreed to withdraw the army and return the property of the border people, on the condition that Gao Junshan provide 3,000 stone of rice free of charge.

Ji Ya was left behind by his elder brother Ezhe, and as a hostage of 3,000 stone rice, Liu Hongru returned alone.

Fortunately, it was spring, and the mountains were full of wild vegetables, and on the day Liu Hongru and them left, Gao Junshan ordered Zhuang Youfu to go out to dig wild vegetables. The task of digging wild vegetables has always been completed by Zhang Cong and Zhuang Youfu, which is to ensure that the secrets of the neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger are not revealed.

One stone of rice is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, and one catty in the Ming Dynasty is about equal to one catty and six taels, which is the saying "half a catty and eight taels", then, one stone of rice is about one hundred and eighty-nine catties, and it is also about one hundred kilograms, which is the weight of a bag of rice.

In other words, Zhuang Youfu had to dig up 3,000 baskets of wild vegetables in order to exchange for 3,000 stone of rice through the neutrino rice-vegetable exchanger.

The wild vegetables they dig up every day can be exchanged for more than 200 bags of rice, so they have to wait for more than ten days before they can exchange Jiya back.

To Gao Junshan's delight, this time the exchange actually sent a letter, a letter written to him by his parents.

The letter paper was white, but it was crumpled and rough.

The letter was spread on the front of the top bag of rice, and he curiously picked up the letter and opened it, and the first paragraph that caught his eye was "Jun'er, my son".

He was so excited that he held the letter and looked down word by word:

Mom and Dad miss you very much, and I don't know how you live over there for four years. Since you left, we have been very good, and the leaders of your unit often come to visit us, especially on holidays, and send a lot of condolences.

Your leader said that you are a person who has done great things, and you are working hard for the health of mankind, and your parents are very relieved to hear it. The unit not only pays us your salary and bonuses on time every month, but also gave us a luxury house in the Dongting community and a shop last year.

We moved into a new house during the Spring Festival last year, and the shop was also rented out. Now I don't have to worry about food and clothing, but I miss you very much. When we see the green and pollution-free fresh vegetables you sent, it is like seeing you working hard to grow vegetables over there, especially your mother, who always can't bear to put down chopsticks in the face of a plate of vegetables.

We asked your leader to write a letter to you, and after the study of experts, a piece of rice paper was made and powdered with black rice to write this letter. If you don't have enough food, after reading the letter, you can use it to cook and eat, don't go hungry.

I wish my son happiness and health!

Mom and Dad word

May 12, 2034

After reading the letter, Gao Junshan was already in tears, and he had not seen his father's handwriting for a long time, which made him feel particularly cordial. He held the letter in his hand and said silently: "You already have two big fat grandchildren, so leave this letter for them to enjoy." ”……

After receiving the first batch of rice, Ezhe led the army to retreat thirty miles according to the negotiated conditions, waiting for the follow-up grain. The reason why he did this was because Ji Ya had done a lot of persuasion work in front of him, and the return of the border people's property was absolutely impossible for him, and he didn't have such a high level of ideological consciousness and spit out what he had snatched.

Xigu garrison Huying originally didn't believe that the Tartars would take the initiative to withdraw their troops, he witnessed Gao Junshan send people to the Tartars' camp, and the Tartars did withdraw their troops, so he completely believed that the Tartars' withdrawal was the credit of Gao Junshan, although he didn't know what conditions Gao Junshan used to persuade the Tartars to withdraw their troops.

Hu Ying returned to Guyuan and immediately came to the house of Yang Qi, the chief soldier of Guyuan, and reported the matter to him.

"What? The high thief has relieved us of the siege, is it really fake? Yang Qi, who was recuperating from his injuries in the house, couldn't help but get up from the recliner when he heard Huying's report.

"It's true! His subordinates were in their camp, and they saw with their own eyes that not only I was in their camp, but even Cao Wenzhao was there. ”

Yang Qi asked suspiciously: "Cao Wenzhao?" What is he doing there? ”

Hu Ying scratched her head and replied, "How do I know? ”

"Cao Wenzhao was caught by them?" Yang Qi asked again.

"I don't think so." Hu Ying shook his head and said, "I greeted him, he was full of smiles, and he didn't look like he was forced at all." ”

"Could it be that you recognized the wrong person?" Yang Qi still didn't believe it.

Hu Ying said in an affirmative tone: "I and Mr. Cao are not friends for a day or two, how can I recognize the wrong person?" No, it won't. ”

Since Yang Qi was injured, he didn't want to investigate why Cao Wenzhao was in the camp of Gao Jun Mountain, so he said to Hu Ying: "Anyway, we were able to get out of danger this time, and it has nothing to do with the high thief." ”

Hu Ying nodded in agreement: "Exactly." ”

Yang Qi thought about it, in case the Tartars came back again, they would still rely on others, so he instructed Hu Ying again: "It's hard for you to go to Cao Zongbing's side again to find out what is going on with him." In addition, you can inquire about the real purpose of these thieves here. ”

"Obey!" Hu Ying withdrew from Yang Qi's mansion.

After Hu Ying left, Yang Qi ordered that the men and horses of Gao Junshan should be allowed to enter and exit freely in the passes under his jurisdiction, and not to intercept them.

In the middle of the mountains, the camp of the high mountains is heavily defended. Gao Junshan sits in the Chinese army, there is Cao Wenzhao in front, He Renlong in the back, and there are Red Army friends to take care of the left and right, patrolling everywhere.

Zhuang Youfu, who was on a secret mission, went very smoothly in digging wild vegetables, and in more than ten days, the rice prepared for Ezhe had been prepared.

The task of escorting rice is naturally Liu Hongru, who went to Ezhe's camp this time, in addition to escorting rice, he was also responsible for bringing back Ji Ya and the thousands of Mongols under Ji Ya.

Ezhe was not trustworthy, and after collecting all the 3,000 stone rice, he only let Liu Hongru return alone, and did not return to Jiya, let alone the thousand Mongols that Ezhe had promised before.

"This king eight lambs!" Gao Junshan, who was furious, decided to raise an army to fight against Ezhe, but was strongly persuaded by Liu Hongru.