The old Khan and Baylor, the important ministers rushed back to Shenyang at noon the next day, and then issued an order to send troops to the various banners, the mobilization speed of the Jin army is fast, received the order to send troops, the elite of each banner are assembled in Shenyang at the fastest speed, the banner soldiers have been looking forward to this day for a long time, there has been no rain so far this year, everyone feels that Liaodong is going to have a big drought, since the crops in the field are not safe, it is better to fight a war.

This time, despite the dissuasion of his children and grandchildren, the old Khan wanted to personally lead the troops into the battle, and the two yellow banners were also under his direct command - Azig had to stand aside. This time the army will be conscripted and transferred 20,000 cavalry, which is almost the main force of the cavalry of Houjin, the Zhushen cavalry and the Mongolian battalion of Wunag will be dispatched, and Aha who has horses and can fight like Meng Ke will also accompany the army, and the infantry will stay in the rear of Liaodong, and the small guards who walk on the guards such as Aobai and Zhunta are also required to stay to guard the Great Yamen and the Great Khan's dormitory, and Sonny, who is familiar with Mongolian affairs, can accompany the army.

Erbeile Amin and Sibeile Huang Taiji sent an errand to fight the vanguard this time, Amin doesn't care, but Sibeile wants to talk about the conditions, he only has eighteen Niu Lu's weak troops, and at most a thousand armored cavalry, so he asked to send additional troops from the two yellow flags, and asked Lao Khan to transfer Wu Bai, Su Bai and Li Yu and other guards who originally belonged to the Zhengbai Banner to him, Lao Khan knew in his heart that this was Lao Ba's dissatisfaction with the two Niu Lu who were taken from the Wuergudai case last time, but it is also a fact that the Zhengbai Banner is not enough, and after thinking about it, he agreed that Su Bai and Li Yu each led two teams, A total of four teams of two hundred taels of red-armored soldiers with yellow flags were transferred to the four beylers, and Wu Bai was the minister of the interior who wanted to act with the old Khan and did not agree to give it to him.

On the fourth day of the first month of April, the Dajin Iron Cavalry set off from Shenyang to the west, and crossed the Liao River from Shifang Temple on the fifth day of the first month, Li Yu set off in the team with white flags to see the familiar figure of Kuru, this team is not many people, less than 500 horsemen, Dudu and Abatai with white flags are probably this elite cavalry.

Li Yu shouted excitedly at Kulu, who turned his head and glanced at him when he heard the shout, and didn't have time to say anything, only waved his hand to him, signaling him to follow the team, and the two just made a mistake, Li Yu didn't expect that this was the last time they met.

As soon as the Jin army set off, the city of Shenyang was heavily guarded, and the Zhushen soldiers of each banner increased their sentry posts at the city gate and on the main roads in the city, and the men who did not leave the Beile and Xungui's mansions also carried Aha with swords and spears to patrol around the Zhushen residential area in the north of the city, and the Han soldiers who were not usually seen were also brought up to the city wall by Zhushen.

After the second-class general soldier, Shi Wuli and Tong Yangxing specially brought a team of Han soldiers to the south of the city, after Shenyang was breached, the Han people were driven to live here, and it has also become the focus of prevention in the city, Tong Yangxing commanded the Han soldiers to check here, and ordered the Han soldiers to set up sentry posts at various intersections to check pedestrians, Tong Yangxing said sharply to a group of officers who followed him: "You all listen, this time the official lives here and sits in the town, you must be careful to take precautions, each of them is optimistic about their own road sections, beware of spies and thieves." , whoever wants to poke the basket will cut off his head first. With that, he let the officers disperse, and turned a few streets into a mansion, where his own soldiers immediately set up a guard around the house.

Tong Yangxing entered a side room in the backyard, there were already two people waiting inside, and he arched his hand to the two of them: "Lao Li, Brother Aita, what are you rushing to find me, the Great Khan and Baylor have just left, don't do anything crooked." ”

Li Yongfang smiled bitterly and said, "Lao Tong, Aita has a new idea, so you have to drag me to talk to you." ”

Tong Yangxing sneered, but he didn't say anything, the three of them were the leaders of the Han officials in Liaodong, and they had a close relationship in the past. After the Jin army occupied Liaodong, it collected a large number of Liaodong Han officials, mainly the middle and lower-level officials of the Ming State who surrendered, and some of them were abolished officials and criminal officials of the Ming State. Liu Xingzuo followed the old khan from a young age, brave and clever, and was regarded as a nephew by the old khan to the position of deputy general, and the three of them worked together to assist the old khan after being ordered, abolished the bad government of the Ming State in Liaodong, suppressed the remnants of the Ming State and cracked down on the corrupt officials of the Jin State, helping Dajin quickly stabilize Liaodong in a short period of time. The three of them are all from Liaodong, and they are like-minded - they all want to do good things for their hometown, so they once had a close relationship, especially Liu Xingzuo was jealous and hateful, and he also checked the officials of Zhushen who did evil, and they were all sent to the law department to discuss the crime, and Li and Tong also helped, but since the "Fuzhou Change", the old Khan began to suppress the Han officials, and the three of them almost did not dare to meet, and the relationship gradually became a little estranged.

Liu Xingzuo didn't care about Tong Yang's coldness, and said excitedly to the two of them: "The Great Khan sent troops on an expedition this time, and took away the four major Baylors and many political Baylors, Du Du and Abatai who stayed in Shenyang are not to worry, and the elite of Zhushen is also seven or eight, and we have soldiers in our hands, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we should immediately contact the Ming State and ask them to send troops to Liaodong, and we should cooperate with the outside world, so that the situation in Liaodong should change dramatically, and we Liaodong people just take this opportunity to ......." ”

"That's enough," Tong Yangxing interrupted Liu Xingzuo's words, "Is the trouble you made in Fuzhou still small?" What about the return of the Ming Kingdom, isn't it enough for the people of Liaodong to suffer from those dog officials? I am Zhushen, but my Tong family has lived in Liaodong for several generations, and I am a Liaodong person in life and death, and I never want to see Liaodong people shed blood in vain. ”

"The people of Liaodong are already bleeding, and I don't know how many people will die, of course we will not let the Ming Kingdom come back, but we are too weak to save Liaodong, we bring in the Ming army, and then quietly help secretly, let them fight each other with the Jianzhou thieves, and when they are both defeated, there will inevitably be internal changes, and our Liaodong people will unite with Yehe, Ula and other forces who are dissatisfied with the Jianzhou forces within Zhushen, take advantage of the situation to control the court, force the old Khan to abdicate, and then support the new monarch and the Ming State to negotiate peace, so that the Liaodong people will control Liaodong in one fell swoop."

Tong Yangxing was angry: "Liu Xingzuo, you are whimsical all day long, we can't control such a big situation at all, you will cause the blood of the people of Liaodong to flow like a river, you can do it yourself if you want to, don't pull me in." What are you staring at me for, am I wrong? Look at the stupid things you did in Fuzhou, if I didn't help you, would Lao Khan be able to let you go? ”

Liu Xingzuo's face was blue and speechless, in the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven, when he planned to start an incident in Nansiwei, he wanted to invite Tong Yanghe and Li Yongfang to participate, neither of them agreed, Li Yongfang finally acquiesced to his eldest son Yingge to Fuzhou to assist, and Tong Yangxing refused to even meet him, Liu Xingzuo was alone, and had to change the uprising to flee by gathering crowds, intending to rely on Mao Wenlong's power to build a place for Liaodong people to survive overseas. After the defeat, Liu Xingzuo and Yingge were sent to Liaoyang, and Li Yongfang also lost his position and was dismissed and driven home to live idlely.

Liu Xingzuo dealt with the dispute between Hanmin and Zhushen in Liaodong, and directly handed over Zhushen's evil behavior of bullying Nikan to the Law Department for investigation and prosecution and reported to Lao Khan, causing several senior Zhushen officials to be punished by the Law Department, including the people of Dadutang Urgudai, Wuergudai released a word that Liu Xingzuo must be killed, Liu Xingzuo of course will not be restrained, and he will start to lay out when he arrives in Nansiwei, this matter Liu Xingzuo and Tong Yangxing and Li Yongfang have already passed the anger, and when Liu Xingzuo and Li Yongfang have an accident, the power of the Han officials has been seriously threatened, and Tong Yangxing has to take action. Secretly sent people to instigate Fuzhou Beiyu Wang Bing and Yongning Beiyu Li Diankui to report to Dabeile that Wuergudai accepted their bribes - these two people were Liu Xingzuo's subordinates in Nansiwei, and Liu Xingzuo arranged for the two to pay bribes to Wuergudai when they arrived in Nansiwei. After the change in Fuzhou, people were panicked, especially Wang Bing also reported the rebellion of his boss Liu Xingzuo, who almost offended the Han officials in Liaodong, and was more anxious to find a backer, and Beile Daishan and Azig, who dealt with the change in Fuzhou, were overjoyed when they received the report, and immediately transferred the case directly to the political Baylor for joint trial, so the change in Fuzhou led to the power struggle between the Baylors - behind Urgudai was the sons and daughters of the family of the four Baylors, and he was very stupid to argue to the Baylors that he had accepted bribes and obtained the consent of the four Baylors, and also cited Zierharang, Yue Tuo, The three little Baylors of the Derge class can testify, this time it is even more chaotic, the big Baylor and others directly convicted Urgudai of the crime of disorderly government, this crime is to be killed, the old Khan immediately became vigilant, realizing that these two things are not simple, so he personally judged the case, and finally dealt with the result, Urgudai took bribes and demoted as a reserve, four Baylor and three little Baylor were fined silver, and the fourth Baylor was also robbed of two Niu Lu, Liu Xingzuo and Li Yongfang, who had caused a big disaster, were only punished for dereliction of duty and demotion, and the most unlucky was the whistleblower Wang Bing, who was beheaded for false accusation- No one wants him to live.

Liu Xingzuo shook his head and said: "I know that this is really risky, but the people of Liaodong can no longer live, this year is another drought, the food is getting tighter and tighter, the old Khan can no longer think of a way except to kill people, you can't bear to watch the people of Liaodong die in batches like this, only by letting the old Khan abdicate and set up a new monarch to implement a new policy, can the killing be stopped, the Ming Kingdom can negotiate peace with us, and Liaodong can also get out of the predicament." ”

Tong Yang replied coldly; "What you think in your heart is probably to kill the old Khan, it is best to be succeeded by your best Sakhalian, and then restructure according to what Gong Zhenglu said, this is wishful thinking! Do you want to learn from Master Gong? He was killed in Liaoyang, and I tell you that no one can kill Lao Khan. ”

Gong Zhenglu is a Zhejiang businessman, has read and learned, has been doing business in Liaodong for a long time, and has a very good relationship with the various departments of Zhushen, the old Khan robbed him when he raised the army, commensurate with the master, and asked him to participate in the secret, and most of the documents of the Ming State are also from his hands, the children and grandchildren of the old Khan and the children of the nobles are taught to read by him, he advocates to promote peace with the Ming State, and forces the Ming State to recognize the self-reliance of Zhushen and allow the mutual market as the purpose of the war, and at the same time advocates the sinicization of the country, encourages the Zhushen to change the clothing and practice the Han etiquette, opposes the old Khan called Khan, and opposes the establishment of the Houjin State, The reason why Sakhalian, Kurtang, Dahai and Liu Xingzuo had a close relationship was actually because they had accepted Gong Zhenglu's teachings and agreed with Gong Zhenglu's proposition, and it was precisely because Gong Zhenglu's influence was getting bigger and bigger that Lao Khan killed Gong Zhenglu on the charge of disorderly government soon after entering Liaoyang.

Gong Zhenglu's matter was generally not mentioned in the Jin court, and the old Khan and Baylor had great differences on this matter, and the four Baylors resolutely opposed the killing of Gong Zhenglu. Today, Tong Yangxing suddenly mentioned Gong Zhenglu, which happened to hit Liu Xingzuo's thoughts, and Liu Xingzuo was speechless for a while.

Tong Yang lowered his voice and said: "Aita, you are more capable than me, but you can't understand the things above the court, the old Khan can't be killed, he will die by himself, maybe it's this year, don't give up." ”

Li Yongfang sighed and said: "Aita, the Ming Kingdom is unreliable, I have been in the Ming army for most of my life, their virtue I know, over the years we have secretly given them a message, at the beginning of the year, the old Khan was clear, if we hadn't instigated the Han officials to ventilate the news, Gaodi's Ming army could run so fast?" But that's it, they didn't remove Youtunwei and Juehua Island cleanly. The Ming army is hopeless, you see what they did in Liaoxi, they stole the castles of Da Linghe and Jinzhou with all their hearts, and put on a posture of being beaten, Liaoxi will never send troops, Dongjiang Town is definitely coming, but Mao Wenlong's rabble will harass at most outside the Fushun border, and they will run away if they grab something, I think this matter will be forgotten, anyway, the Khan King will come back in a month at most. ”

Liu Xingzuo sighed and turned his head to leave, Tong Yangxing whispered to Li Yongfang: "Liu Xingzuo is a madman, and sooner or later he will be unlucky." Brother Li, we can't follow him to fool around. ”

Li Yongfang nodded: "I'll just go home and stay, it's a big deal to eat and wait for death, what he does has nothing to do with me." ”

Under the night, the big golden iron horse is tired and tired is walking out of the continuous hundred miles of sandy land, in front of the vast Xilamulun River grassland, their goal is already very close, they set off from Shenyang early in the morning of the fourth day of the fourth month of April, and run all the way day and night, except for the horse to add water to take a little breath, the rest of the time almost never got off the horse, hungry on the horse to eat a few mouthfuls of dry food, trapped on the horse's back in a daze for a while, four days to run more than a thousand miles of road, they have been numb to no day, night feeling, I only know that I have to keep walking, and when I walk this big sandy land, it is already night, and the people and cattle are almost exhausted, and then finally there is an order to come down - all dismount and rest, and immediately someone puts off the horse and sleeps, the veterans look at these young people lying on the ground, and shake their heads again and again, this is not the time to sleep, you have to serve the horse first, and only when it is full of food and drink will it have a chance to rest, and fighting on the grassland is always more important than the horse.

The young old horse thief Meng Ke did just that, as soon as he got off the horse, he first settled his and Li Yu's two horses and two mules - Li Yu's livestock were usually kept in Uncle Wei Qi's horse pen, and he didn't need wages and fodder, and he was still fat and strong, and when he was about to leave, Uncle Wei Qi saw that Li Yu's mule was not very good, and lent him two strong mules.

In fact, Meng Ke was also very sleepy, but he had already developed a habit of taking care of the animals in advance, and he was relieved when the animals were eating and drinking. Meng Ke had some tobacco leaves in his hand from the shopkeeper Fan, which was most useful when he was sleepy, and then he smoked again, and several veterans came over to ask for some tobacco leaves to smoke together, and a few people worked in the choking smoke, gossiping - on the battlefield, no one among the soldiers would care who was Aha and who was the master.

The second-class guerrilla Bai Ge with the yellow flag came out of nowhere, this guy was hiding under the horse's belly and was drowsy, and when he smelled the smoke, he immediately came to his senses, and when he got up, he asked Meng Ke for a cigarette, and Meng Ke reluctantly gave him a little bit - this guy smoked Meng Ke's tobacco leaves along the way, and the veterans said that Bai Ge was a special pick, a second-class guerrilla carried a cigarette stick all day long, but he never begged others for cigarettes to smoke, and he never saw him smoke for everyone, and Meng Ke also felt the same way.

Bai Ge followed Li Yu again this time, last time Li Yu accompanied his 100 people to Yizhou to pick up Fan Shopkeeper and his party, although he was beaten by horse thieves, but everyone was quite satisfied, no dead people, no serious injuries and there was food and drink, and when he came back, he also coaxed and blew a meal, so he mixed up some military achievements, especially Li Yu's courage made everyone admire it, everyone felt that it was more promising to mix with Li Yu, Bai Ge forgot it, he was also a good person, but he was the loudest in the fight, and he couldn't find his shadow at a critical time, When the battle was about to end, he came out of nowhere, so this time as soon as he heard that Li Yu was going to bring people to support the Zhengbai Banner, this group of people from the two teams of Zhenghuang Banner and Yellow Flag who had traveled with Li Yu volunteered to form a team to fight again, and encouraged Bai Ge to take the initiative to ask for war, Azig who helped Lao Khan take care of the two yellow flags was moved by their enthusiasm for fighting, Azige, who was familiar with the two yellow flags, knew the details of these guys, these two teams belonged to the situation that there were not many of them in the war, and there were not many of them, Azig immediately agreed without saying a word, so, Li Yu took the group to Zhengbaiqi.

When Meng Ke and Bai Ge and the gang were talking nonsense, Li Yu was called over by Sibeile again, Sibeile is such a person, once he finds out who is a talent, he can't wait to pinch it in his hands all day long, and he adjusts it over and over again, and he also found that Li Yululu's expression is not quite right, as if he is deliberately avoiding him, so he has to seize the last bit of time before the battle to teach this kid a good lesson.

Li Yu's sensitive nerves were touched again, the Jin army marched along the way to send scouts for twenty miles, and attacked the Mongolian herdsmen who met herding horses and sheep, and never let go of a single person, those who could keep up with the team were forcibly incorporated into the team to transport baggage, and those who could not keep up were immediately killed, the Jin army continued to kill along the way, Li Yu saw with his own eyes the corpses of many old people and children, Li Yu was furious several times to find Sibeile for comment, Meng Ke persuaded him alive and dead, Meng Ke told him that fighting on the grassland has always been like this, in order to hide the traces of the march, I will never let go of anyone I meet, and there are many innocent people who die in vain every time we fight, and you can't control this. However, Meng Ke couldn't help but scold: "The **** Jin soldiers are much more ruthless than our horse thieves, when we encounter this kind of thing, we will beat a stuffy stick and tie up a person, they really dare to kill, and they won't even let go of the doll." ”

Seeing Li Yu's depressed face, Sibeiler didn't have to think about it to know why, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, this kid is just this problem, he fights to make a living, he is usually soft-hearted, how can he get it if he goes on like this, not to mention that he can't make a big deal, he will have to suffer a big loss sooner or later, since ancient times, which general is not like a stone and kills people like hemp, but Sibeile is still determined to save Li Yu.

"Seeing those people die, I feel a little uncomfortable, right," Seeing Li Yu nodded, Sibeile said softly, "Actually, no one wants to kill them, I see those innocent dead old people and children are also very uncomfortable, but I can't save them, there are 20,000 people behind me, I must protect them first, they also have old people and children in their families." We have penetrated deep into the territory of the Mongols, and it can be said that there is a danger lurking, and once a Mongol runs back to report the news, it will not be long before thousands of Mongols may surround us on all sides, and there is no need to fight us, as long as we are dragged here, and the rations and forage we carry with us cannot be sustained for too long, and then I am afraid that these 20,000 people will have to stay here. That's how you go to war, whether you want to or not, you have to kill, even if the other side is unarmed, because you have to think about the people who follow you, and take them back alive to see their relatives as much as possible. So we don't have to blame ourselves for killing, this can't blame us, we can only blame the people who provoked the war, after the battle of Tieling, we swore an alliance with the five Khalkha tribes, but they robbed our messengers as soon as they turned their faces, and killed our people at the instigation of the Ming Kingdom, and exchanged the heads of the dead for the rewards of the Ming Kingdom, these despicable and shameless things were done by those Mongolian Taiji and Nuoyan, and they should be responsible for those who died innocently, and only by eradicating these villains can the people live a peaceful life. ”

Li Yu's brows gradually relaxed, Sibeile was very satisfied that this guy was still saved, and couldn't help but take a few puffs of snuff, and then taught Li Yu his military theory: "To fight a war on the grassland, you must first be fast, because the grassland is sparsely populated, and it is impossible to obtain provisions, it is difficult to fight for a long time, and the transportation of supplies consumes a lot, and we can't toss our family money a few times, we just want to choose elite soldiers and fast horses, run long distances, and hit with lightning speed, and secondly, we must learn to hide, scouts must continue to increase their exploration efforts, and strive to find the target first, At the same time, isolate your own marching area, do not let the opponent find your whereabouts and strength, strive to surprise and attack its unpreparedness, the third must be ruthless, find the target to go all out, the first enemy to launch a fatal blow, the grassland war is the first to strike strong, who is ruthless who takes advantage. Erlu, do you understand all of this? ”

"I understand, it is to march quickly, run long distances, find the opponent first, but let the opponent not find him, and then suddenly rush up, and fight to the death while he is unprepared."

Sibeiler is very satisfied with Li Yu, no one in Dajin Country wants to listen to him talk about this, Baylor and Beizi are more willing to talk about women and property together, and most of the others are rough goods who can't understand, Sibeile's summary of military theories can only be stuffed in the stomach, and there is no audience at all, even Haoge has to yawn after listening for a while, only Li Yu listens the most seriously, and has been looking at him with adoring eyes, which makes him very useful, Sibeile has made up his mind, and he will have to find Li Yu to listen to it if he has the opportunity in the future.

Sibeile was also a little tired after finishing the lecture, so he asked Li Yu to hurry back and rest, the white-armored scouts with white and blue flags had already found the camp of the Bahrainis, and they would attack as soon as the main force of the old khan arrived.