The ground trembled and shook, and more than a thousand archers lined up in running columns, running in circles around the school grounds.

The shouts were loud and neat, and after months of training, these things had gradually penetrated into everyone's bone marrow, and their spirits had changed.

Zhang Han was wearing a gray military robe, the short robe was very fitted, and it was also stuffed with cotton, the same as every archer, the only difference was that Zhang Han's military uniform did not have any logo, no chest mark and no badge, which was the only difference between him and ordinary officers and soldiers.

Zhang Han exhaled white air in his mouth, and complained to Sun Jingting beside him while running: "Xiaozheng, when I have time in the future, I have to move to the south to live, let's be here in Datong, it's too fucking cold......"

Sun Jingting said: "South? I've been to Nankaifeng, and I've been to Nandu, and it's the same cold ...... in winter."

The Sun family's Dongshan Club has been around for many years, and it is estimated that Sun Jingting also went to the south to see the market. Zhang Han shook his head with a smile and said, "Didn't you go further south......

Saying that, he also lost confidence, because Zhang Han remembered that he saw in a certain book that it had snowed in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty, and if that was the case, it seemed that there was no other choice but to go to the tropics.

"Tangma is here."

Zhang Han and Sun Jingting ran at the opposite corner of the camp gate, and they galloped to the camp gate on a pond horse, and then the sentry guarding the gate checked the documents of the pond horse, and then the officer ordered the camp gate to be opened, and the pond horse galloped towards Zhang Han's signing room.

"It looks like there's an emergency again."

Zhang Han understood at a glance that the level of this Tangma was very high, and now the Tangbao was divided into three levels, the lowest level was the general level, and a group of scholars led by Sun Jingting first dismantled it, because Zhang Han's Tangbao was not an official system, but a collection of information from all over the world. The intelligence organizations in various places are very effective, and they continue to send information to Li Zhuang, Zhang Han no longer looks at the information one by one by himself as before, and he relies on Sun Jingting for this matter.

Generally speaking, it is urgent, and the emergency report is generally secret, and only a few people are qualified to read it.

Then there is the special urgency, which needs to be delivered to Zhang Han as soon as possible.

"It's Di Copy, my lord, it's Di Copy!"

Tang Ma saw Zhang Han running over from a distance, and he also raised his arms and shouted from a distance.

"Di copy with a special express?" Zhang Han said to Sun Jingting: "Which bastard did a good thing!" ”

"Something big is going to happen." Since it was a copy of the palace, there was naturally no level of secrecy, so Sun Jingting simply ran over.

Jiang Kui and Jiang Yi and others scattered in a semicircle, and did not get close, here every archer was checked out, and the daily mental state was also seriously concerned, Zhang Han was also the safest place in this barracks, even safer than in Xinpingbao, after all, the flow of people here in Lizhuang is very convenient, and a fresh face came in and was recorded at once, the flow of people in Xinpingbao is too large, and this job is difficult to do.

"What's the matter, have you seen Di Copy?" Zhang Han got closer and asked Natangma again.

Tang Ma said: "It may be that the emperor is dead, I saw these lines faintly on the Di copy." ”

"What bullshit." Zhang Han scolded with a smile: "The emperor has been dead for a month. ”

"Well, I don't know."

Tang Ma smiled and touched his head and handed the Tang newspaper to Zhang Han.

"It's hard work, go down and rest."

The express Tang newspaper is not to change people but to change horses, all the way to gallop non-stop, because it involves secrecy so can not be replaced, are hundreds of thousands of miles of non-stop running down, although the best young man is chosen to do this, continuous day and night to run over, iron man is almost tired.

"It's really the emperor who died." Zhang Han looked at the Tang Ma who left, his face did not change much, and at this time, Li Xiangfu and Li Dongxue and others also came over, and they saw Zhang Han say to Sun Jingting: "Collapse today!" ”

The current emperor's year name was changed to Taichang, and it was only a month after the change of yuan, but he died again.

Because he is only middle-aged, there has been no medical case and news of illness before, only vague gossip, and now he is too lascivious, which hurts his vitality, and later Li Kezhuo of the Tai Hospital offered red pills, and the emperor's energy has risen greatly, and he can already see things normally again, and the result is ...... died suddenly, such a way of dying can be said to be a violent death.

"Has the new monarch ascended the throne?"

"The crown prince has not yet been registered." Zhang Han pondered: "According to common sense, it should be the emperor's eldest son, Zhu Youxiao, that is, the emperor's throne. ”

Although Zhang Han is thousands of miles away, he has almost no estrangement from the news of the Beijing Division, Wang Faxiang's work is very effective, and the intelligence organization of the Beijing Division is gradually full-fledged, and there is a lot of information, the high-level officials in Shanxi may not get the news at the first time, but Wang Faxiang has done it.

"Isn't the eldest brother still very young?" Sun Jingting said: "It's less than twenty, how many brothers are there?" ”

Zhang Han said: "There is a brother named Zhu Youzhen, who is only ten years old this year. ”

Because of the suddenness of the incident and the short time, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen were not knighted, neither the prince nor the prince, but the prince.

Of course, from the patriarchal point of view, the two brothers are well-deserved heirs to the throne, Zhu Youxiao is the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youzhen is the tragic emperor, and the famous Emperor Chongzhen.

Sun Jingting said with a gloomy face: "Between the ten moons, the country lost two emperors, and the new monarch is not the eternal monarch, it is really not the blessing of my Ming Dynasty!" ”

"It's normal." Zhang Han said: "After changing the Yuan Taichang, he indulges in excessive desires today, and often counts women every day, so indulgent, his health is not good, and it is expected that his vitality will be ruined. ”

"Wen Lan, you are sometimes not like my Ming people......"

Sun Jingting suddenly said like this, Zhang Han was startled, and said with a forced smile: "How can you say this?" ”

"Your attitude towards the emperor is not only inconsequential indifference, but completely treating the emperor as an ordinary person, analyzing the reasons, summarizing and summarizing, and there is no feeling of sadness and discomfort at all."

Zhang Han said: "Emperor Daxing and Jinshang...... In fact, it is also very popular today, how to say it, these two kings, one has reigned for forty-eight years, in fact, they have not contributed much to the country, and the other has enjoyed the country for a short time, and the grace has not yet benefited the people, to be honest, it is true that I have no feelings for these two emperors. ”

Sun Jingting nodded and said: "In fact, when Emperor Wanli was here, I often hated him for neglecting government affairs, but after he made a big trip, I was inevitably a little sad and sad, in fact, most people are like this, only you, Wen Lan, you are too calm." ”

Zhang Han smiled: "Then count me as cold by nature." ”

Sun Jingting rolled his eyes and stopped discussing this topic with Zhang Han.

At this time, Zhang Han flipped through the Tang Newspaper and read a few lines, his face became ugly, and he said with his feet: "Ridiculous nonsense, how can such important news be copied in the palace!" ”

As soon as Sun Jingting went on the expedition, Zhang Han looked at him and handed him the next page of the Tang newspaper.

"Yu Shiqian?" In an instant, Sun Jingting's face also became extremely ugly, and he said: "Wen Lan, you have to quickly inform Governor Wen and Zheng Bingbei, but it's a pity that Li Zunlu went to Beijing!" ”

"I'm afraid they don't have any good ideas." Zhang Han said: "The thief has not yet arrived in Lingqiu, and he has not broken the state and county before, and it is better to have more things in the local area than to have less. If you don't wait for thieves to disturb the place, they will not be able to make a big move. As for the commander-in-chief, adjutant generals, and staff generals, they are not allowed to leave the land without permission, and it seems that we can only rely on ourselves in this matter. ”

Judging from the history of the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the thieves were in a hurry, the local reaction was unprepared, the reaction was complex and chaotic, and there was a lack of backbone and effective means, and even there were differences in war and peace, not to mention the unified command of various localities, and the officers and soldiers were transferred to effectively intercept or kill.

It was not until the thieves were so powerful that they attracted the attention of the central government, and the civil officials under the positions of the trilateral governors and the commanders of the military affairs of the five provinces were qualified to coordinate the actions of the provinces.

The rise and low tide of the peasant army in the early days were closely related to the ability of these prime ministers to manage the affairs of thieves, as well as the financial and military political system of the entire Ming Empire.

If he runs to Datong, it will be a trouble for the governor of Datong and Datong Town, and it has nothing to do with the governor of Shanxi and Shanxi Town...... As for really starting people and killing this group of thieves, I'm afraid that no one from top to bottom has such thoughts.

It's not that the civilian and military generals of the Ming Dynasty have been rotten to such an extent, but because they know that it will be difficult to do.

The place where Yu Shiqian is located is an endless mountainous area, full of mountains, Taihang Mountain, Heng Mountain, Wutai Mountain, these mountains stretch into a piece, forming a large area that is difficult for officers and soldiers to reach, originally there are many bandits in these places, for a thief like Yu Shiqian with the border army as the core, this is a refuge in the sky.

To the north, Datong Town is very strong, but there are also large areas of Yinshan Mountain Range, and out of the mountains is the line of the Great Wall, the main force of the border army has to guard against the northern captives, how can they really free up their hands to suppress bandits?

"It seems that we really have to rely on ourselves, but ......" Sun Jingting looked at the archers in training, and his originally suspicious face gradually showed an extremely determined expression, and he said: "Moreover, it must be reliable!" ”

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The team in the col is sparse, but the long team drags on, in the bleak valley of early winter, like a colorful flower snake, constantly surging forward on the winding valley road.

Yu Shiqian rode on a horse and walked, a personal soldier led his war horse in front, cautiously moving forward, this belongs to the Taihang Mountains, to the east is the famous well path, northeast is the border wall of Shanxi and Datong junction.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, it was also a part of the border, at that time the most important frontier front line of the entire Datong, and later Datong was stable, the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty gradually took shape, and the focus of the Mongols' attack gradually shifted from the west to the direction of Jizhen and Liaozhen, from the Bauhinia Pass to the partial pass line gradually safe, Jingjing to Taiyuan, which was a strategic place in Hedong that the soldiers had to fight for, gradually became a safe inland.