The weather has warmed up, there is hardly much rain this spring, the riverbed is exposed in several places of the Luan River, people and horses can easily wade across the river, a layer of mist dissipated, Sakhalian took Ning Wan and more than 100 elite horsemen to the river, there are already about 100 armored cavalry waiting on the opposite riverbank, the red background black tiger battle flag in their hands is particularly eye-catching, Sakhalian knows that this is Li Yu's handsome flag, it seems that this kid is still more sensible, and he has been waiting here early.

"Erlu, you kid don't get out of here quickly, I know you've arrived." Saharan shouted across the river.

After shouting a few times to the other side but not responding, Sakhalian was about to get angry, but he saw a guy with a hippie smile running out of a small forest not far away, and greeted him from a distance: "Sakhalian Belle, you are auspicious!" Do you remember me? I'm a famous Meng Ke in Shenyang. ”

"I know you, your reputation is not very good, where is your master?" Sakhalian glanced at Monk disdainfully.

"We have already crossed the river and waited for you, how can we let you cross the river to find us," Meng Ke nodded towards the grove, and then joked to Ning Wan behind Sakhalian, "Old Ning, you are here too, I haven't seen you for many years, let's play a few games later." ”

Li Yu came out a little embarrassed, Sakhalian ignored him, and shouted at the grove again: "Aita, you get out too, I know that you and Erlu must be together." ”

Liu Xingzuo also came out with a red face, and dismounted and saluted with Li Yu, Sakhalian looked at them, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, these two people were his best friends, but now they have become enemies with their swords, and the guards behind them made him look dazzling, Meng Ke and Mo Zhige behind Li Yu are two Mongolians, this is not enough, Liu Xingzuo behind Asari and Fei Yangwu are Zhu Shen with long braids, especially Asari, he recognized this person as Lao Khan's personal guard before his death, He couldn't help but feel a burst of anger in his heart, Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo were dragging Zhushen and the Mongols to fight against Dajin, and these two bastards might make the war between Dajin and Ming completely sour.

Sakhalian jumped off the horse angrily, picked up his fist and hit Li Yu, Li Yu immediately covered his head and squatted on the ground and shouted, "Brother Sakhalian, don't fight, I can't admit defeat", Liu Xingzuo hurriedly came up to persuade, Sakhalian punched and kicked Liu Xingzuo again, Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo hurriedly hugged Sakhalian tightly and didn't let go, Sakhalian couldn't move his hands and feet, and shouted and scolded, Ning Wan and I and the others were looking stupid, Meng Ke came over and said, it is not our turn to intervene in the matter between the masters, we have to pull them to the side to play a few games, How dare they go, they still want to move forward at a loss, Sakhalian scolded them unceremoniously, "Get out, get out of here", and these people followed Meng Ke and them to the side.

After the noise was enough, the three of them casually found a place to sit down, Sakhalian coldly pointed at Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo and shouted: "What are you going to do in the future, do you want to fight my Dajin to the end?" What is my Dajin doing to you, you all know it in your hearts, you have done all the ungrateful things, I have always regarded the two of you as friends, the Ming Kingdom is so corrupt, angry and resentful, you are willing to die for it? Do you love Ta and rebel against Jin Touming, don't you want your old mother, wife and children? Your heart is so cruel! ”

"What do I think, you, Kurtang, and Dahai all understand in their hearts that the Jin Kingdom is tyrannical and murderous, and there are still a few millions of Liao people left now! I can't help the abuse anymore, the old mother, wife and children will kill if they want to kill, this is God's retribution for me, I Liu Xingzuo will repay the old mother, wife and children with death, but I feel guilty more for the people of Liaodong, I want to atone for my sins, as long as I live for one day, I will fight with the tyrant for a day, and I will never die! Liu Xingzuo replied categorically.

"In the past, my Dajin did a lot of evil things, and I Sakhalian never agreed, after the new Khan ascended the throne, I immediately changed course and treated the people well, the Great Khan abolished Tokso, released a large number of Nikan Aha, allowed it to live separately, and gave land, you know, this time I entered the customs My Great Khan repeatedly told the soldiers of the Eight Banners to strictly abide by military discipline and prohibit the abduction of the people, the first thing I Sakhalian did when he entered Yongping was to strictly prohibit forced shaving of hair, and it was strictly forbidden to harass the people, and I ordered to kill only one person, this guy dared to spread rumors that we were going to slaughter the city, Of course, this kind of wicked person must be killed, you can go and inquire, and the people of Yongping will definitely tell you that the military discipline of my Dajin Army is better than that of the Ming Army, and the officials of my Dajin are more honest than the officials of the Ming Kingdom. Sakhalian immediately retorted.

"It's just hypocrisy, the Great Khan will strictly enforce military discipline every time he goes out on an expedition, but in fact, you know better than me, where did the livestock and property you bring back to Liaodong come from? It won't fall from the sky, and the population you escorted to the Jin Kingdom won't be willing to go, right, and what about the massacre of Gu'an and Shunyi? The common people will not seek death by themselves, the Ming Dynasty is certainly cruel and unkind, and the Jin Kingdom is even more like a beast. Liu Xingzuo replied coldly that the two cities of Shunyi and Gu'an had resisted the Jin army, and they were all slaughtered by the Jin army, and this Sakhalian could not deny it.

Sakhalian didn't bother to pay attention to Liu Xingzuo, the dead man, and said to Li Yu: "Don't learn from Aita, you still have salvation, the Great Khan still has you in his heart, you also have the Great Khan and us in your heart, we all know about your rescue of Haoge in Karaqin, you go back with me, the Great Khan will treat you and your people well." ”

"I don't go back, I came out of the Ula Mountain, I just wanted to have something to eat with the villagers, and I could live a stable life, but I was used back and forth like a knife in the Jin country, constantly fighting and killing, the Great Khan wanted to call me back is nothing more than wanting to kill people with my knife, I don't want to live that kind of life again, I don't want to fight with you, and my Fengzhou folks don't want to die for the Ming Kingdom, but I'm afraid that one day you will burn the war to our homeland, and the grassland will suffer the same catastrophe as today's Ming Kingdom Gyeonggi, and the Jin Kingdom will definitely do this! We all know this in our hearts, I have no choice but to pick up the sword and fight," Li Yu shook his head and refused, he thought about it and said, "If one day, the Great Khan can let the Ahabs have their own land to cultivate and no longer be enslaved, return the pastures of the Mongols to them so that they can live freely, the Jin and Ming kingdoms will no longer fight, and the people of the two countries can live and work in peace and contentment, I will find a piece of land to farm and hunt, and when Sibeile is old, I will accompany him and protect him, how good it would be!" ”

Sakhalian glared at Li Yu fiercely, this guy was even more ruthless, he simply wanted to dig the ancestral tomb of the Golden Country, he shook his head helplessly, and said with a long sigh: "We all have our own ideals, since we can't talk about it, then continue to fight, but don't think you are good people, we are beasts, whether it is the old Khan, or the current Great Khan, when it comes to their kind of power, there is no one who does not want to be a good master who is supported by all the people and praised through the ages, but the reality is very complicated, forcing you to do what you don't want to do, Maybe it was just a small mistake with good intentions at the beginning, and then you had to make more big mistakes in order to correct this small mistake, and eventually you went crazy, and then you couldn't stop at all, the old Khan was like this at the beginning, the Jin State was almost brought to the brink of collapse by him, and now the Great Khan has learned this lesson and adopted the strategy of 'consolidating the foundation and reforming the system', on the one hand, to maintain the customs of our Zhushen who are good at riding and shooting, simple folk customs, brave and good at fighting, and consolidate the system of my Eight Banners, on the other hand, learn from the Ming State and establish the system of the Dynasty Gang State, If time comes my gold will be above the Ming Kingdom, you don't keep scolding us for plundering the population and enslaving Aha, when today's chaos and the people are not living, according to the customs of Zhushen, although Aha has to work but is also a family member, the Eight Banners Zhushen must also protect and feed the family Aha for their own interests, the poor people can always get food to eat, and there is a hope of living, there is no Aha in the Ming Kingdom, everyone in the world is the emperor's people, it can also be said that they are all the emperor's slaves, can the emperor control his people? He can't manage it at all, he must feed a large number of officials to govern his people, and also feed a large number of officers and soldiers to protect his people, but you can see the actual situation, the emperor's officials will never love the emperor's people, they are sanctimonious, wolf-hearted, unscrupulously eat the flesh of the Ming people and drink the blood of the Ming people, the emperor's officers and soldiers will not protect the people but will harm the people, you just have to think carefully to understand, died by the Ming Emperor and his officials, The people in the hands of the officers and soldiers are not only ten times the number of people who died in the hands of my Dajin, shouldn't such a court be overthrown? Aren't what you are doing also aiding and abetting? ”

"So we plan to take a new road, a new road different from the Ming Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom," Sakhalian is telling the truth, the slave is often more ruthless to other slaves than his master, this truth is understood by everyone, Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo fell into deep thought, and after a while, Li Yu spoke again, he told Sakhalian the truth about the situation in Fengzhou, and then asked eagerly, "There is no emperor and master in Fengzhou, there are no dog officials, officers and soldiers, all people work together and share the harvest together, I want the villagers to live a good life, Brother Sakhalian, you are learned, do you think we can succeed? ”

"The trip to the avenue, the world is for the public, the Han sages have this idea for a long time, but no one has succeeded, you are not a sage, and you will not succeed," Sakhalian had a headache, he was too unlucky today, he met a madman, a fool, he replied coldly, Li Yu immediately lowered his head in frustration, Sakhalian was a little unbearable, patted Li Yu's shoulder and comforted, "Don't think too much, no one can tell what will happen in the future, you recognize the direction and work hard, so many people have survived because of you, this is already very remarkable." ”

After another moment of silence, the two sides felt that they could no longer talk, and Sakhalian smiled bitterly and began to get down to business: "Do you still want to continue fighting?" If you want to fight, we will accompany you. ”

"I don't want to fight, our people can't fight, what about you?" Li Yu shook his head and asked rhetorically.

"We don't want to fight either, I want to bring our people home as soon as possible," Sakhalian nodded in reply, and then added in a low voice, "Erbeile and Shuoto are coming, you can deal with them in the future, Erlu, don't say that you have nothing to do with Erbeile, you can't leave Dajin without his help back then, no one can guess this." ”

"What are you doing at this time? This is a dead land, is the fourth Belle going to do it? Liu Xingzuo was taken aback, and then asked eagerly, "Sakhalian, Da Belle and you will be fine, how about Dahai and Kul pestering them?" ”

"It's a shame that you can still afford to think of our friends, my Ama will be fine for the time being, the most dangerous ones are the second and third beylers, you can guess these things, I don't need to hide them from you, there will be fights where there is authority, I just hope that there will be less blood," Sakhalian sighed, he stared at Liu Xingzuo and scolded viciously, "Aita, you bastard, you slapped your ass and left, you will make us miserable, the Great Khan will not do anything to me, Dahai and Kurtang will definitely be killed by you in the future, I understand him, What he hates the most is that the people he trusts betray him, Elu is young and has a reason for it, but you cheat to death before you leave, Dahai and Kurtang have been hated by him for interceding for you, they are no longer trusted by the Great Khan, Kurtang was also sent to serve in the Luanzhou army this time, you know what he wants to do. ”

Liu Xingzuo's face was pale, and he trembled, and Li Yu jumped up: "No, no one wants to hurt my Kuertang master, no one can!" I'm going to save Master Kurtang. ”

"Don't make a mess, don't worry, the Ming army doesn't have the ability to capture Luanzhou, Kurtang can return to Liaodong sooner or later, I'm worried about the future." Sakhalian glanced at Li Yu coldly.

Time flies quickly, near noon, the three of them finished talking about everything, Li Yu and Sakhalian both promised not to offend each other, as much as possible so that more people can go home, as for the second Bel Amin came to what to do, then only Li Yu went to talk to him, Sakhalian left, Li Yu took out a large bag of tobacco and asked him to bring it to Abatai, Sakhalian said with a bitter face, Li Yu regarded the second girl as a bitter one, the second girl was married to the Bahrain Ministry of Selgulun, I heard that the relationship between the couple is very stiff, the second girl did not even let Selgulun enter the sleeping tent.

When Sakhalian got on the horse, he asked Li Yu again: "Some people say that you are a Mongol, and some people say that you are a Han, but I believe that you are still a Ula in your bones, and you are our Zhushen, you tell me, are you still willing to be our friend?" ”

"On the battlefield, we fight with our lives, life and death have our own destiny, and we will continue to be brothers after the war." Li Yu replied firmly, and Sakhalian laughed and left.

On the way back, Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo each hung their heads and thought about their own thoughts without saying a word, Li Yu felt uncomfortable when she thought of Erniu, no matter how many shortcomings Erniu had, but she sincerely wanted to live with him, and she hurt Erniu. Liu Xingzuo felt guilty for hurting his two best friends, Dahai and Kurtang, and if these two died because of him, then his sin would be even heavier.

The people who accompanied him were very lively, and Asari said that he was lucky to escape, and listening to Sakhalian's people, the minister Yasun, who was favored by the old Khan, was unwilling to be martyred for the old Khan, and after pretending to be crazy and stupid for many years, he was still killed by the Great Khan with an excuse last autumn. And Meng Ke opened his mouth and scolded Fan Wencheng, saying that this bastard is the most undesirable thing, he borrowed a lot of grain from Li Yu when he was in Liaodong, and the total before and after added up to more than one stone, but this guy has never paid it back, and Ning Wan also revealed that Lao Fan secretly married a little wife at that time, which is equivalent to Li Yu giving food to help him raise his child, what is this! Ning Wan, I resolutely encouraged the Fengzhou army to return to Zunhua to find trouble with Fan Wencheng.

In April, Zilharang, Sakhalian, and Abatai led the Yongping Jin army out of the pass and returned to Liaodong, and the two Belle Amin and Bel Shuotuo brought 5,000 men and horses to Yongping, and the Jin army's change of defense made the Ming army see hope again, and the Ming army commander Sun Chengzong reassembled the main force of the Ming army in Shanhaiguan and Jizhou to resume the offensive against Luanzhou, but the Ming army was still the same, and it was the Jin army in Luanzhou City that became more and more confident, almost every time - the Ming army finally gathered some men and horses to the city, The Jin army immediately went out of the city to counterattack, and the Ming army then fled in defeat, and the Ming army could not even reach the city wall, and the Ming army gradually lost the confidence to attack the city. Sun Chengzong set 200,000 troops but could not capture a small Luanzhou City, by the courtiers blamed, the old Sun head was at a loss, or the army praised the painting Sun Yuanhua was prescient, and sent people early to urge the south of the newly cast four Hongyi cannons, so the Ming army in the siege must use cannons to prevail, Ma Shilong, Zu Dashou took advantage of the situation to stop the offensive, peace of mind waiting for the cannon to arrive, the Ming and Jin armies returned to a state of peace and quiet.

Erbeile Amin entered Yongping only to find that he had entered a dead end, the strength of the Jin army was limited and unable to develop, and the Ming army continued to mobilize troops and food from all over the country into Gyeonggi, on the surface the Jin army had an advantage, but in fact, with the strength of thousands of enemies in the four cities, the defeat was decided, and what was more troublesome was that the guys who followed Amin into the customs were all red-eyed, and their relatives and neighbors followed Tiancong Khan into the customs and made a big profit, and they couldn't sit still at home, and they noisily pulled Erbeile to take them into the customs, Erbeile himself also wanted to make a fortune, so this gang of thieves and thieves came in a hurry, but Tiancong Khan would not leave property waiting for them to share, but threw a mess that was beaten on all sides to them, and Amin and his rabble who wanted to get rich were angry, and threw Tiancong Khan's ban on plundering the people to the back of his mind, Amin entered Yongping and did not fight, but was ferocious, and slaughtered the hazelnut town that had surrendered near Yongping, and his children and property were robbed by this gang of thieves.

Li Yu is also at a loss in the west of the Luanhe River, he now has less than a thousand soldiers in his hands who can fight on horseback, no one cares about his military salary, and the food can only rely on Liu Zhilun to beg from the nearby state capital - the attention of the imperial court is on the Luanzhou battle commanded by Sun Chengzong, the imperial court will not take their gang of soldiers seriously, the Luanxi war reported two hundred heads, the emperor was very happy, and soon issued a commendation order, and encouraged them to conquer Zunhua and Qian'an as soon as possible, but the reward was only two hundred silver medals, and nothing else. Bai Yintu thought that the silver medal was made of silver, picked up a silver medal and bit it, almost broke a big tooth, everyone said that the emperor was lying to them to fight, shouting that they wanted to go home, and the military heart of the Fengzhou army began to waver.