Manzhu and the old Hou are both rough goods, even with a comparison to explain their tragic experience, Datong, Xuanfu two towns elite into the defense of Jinggi, Jingshi Deshengmen battle, the two towns were defeated by the Jin army, Man Gui with more than 100 people hid in the urn city, Xuanfu general Hou Shilu was defeated even worse, directly beaten to the desert and fled, this old Hou name Hou Shijie, is Hou Shilu's subordinate division, but also Hou Shilu's own family, led a group of soldiers to cover the boss to escape, but he was scattered, when Man Gui contained the stragglers, he received him in the army, Hou Shilu and Man Gui had close contacts when they were in Liaoxi, Man Gui knew this old Hou, Man Gui told Hou Shijie that his handsome man had no breath and fled back to Xuanfu's nest in one breath, and he would definitely have to eat a lawsuit, so it was better to do it with him first, and then talk about going back, so Hou Shijie and Man Zhu got mixed together and became Man Gui's entourage, and the stable days did not pass for a few days, the Jin army attacked the Andingmen camp at night, Man Gui was confused and sent his life, and the more than 3,000 Datong and Xuanfu soldiers he contained were defeated again, Man Zhu and Hou Shijie, who escaped death, were contained by other troops of the Ming army together, both of them had the title of Dusi, but they didn't recognize them at all, but they were used as auxiliaries, and the hardest, most tiring and most life-threatening work was handed over to them to do, how could these two people stand this anger, and fled with a group of Xuan soldiers, but the days of being deserters were even more sad, there was no food or drink and someone was arrested, they had to be thieves, and the stragglers in the Gyeonggi area were everywhere, and the two quickly pulled up hundreds of people to rob everywhere.

According to Hou Shijie's wishful thinking, first take advantage of the chaos to make some money for travel expenses, and then go back to his hometown in northern Shaanxi to join the rebels, Lao Hou heard that there are many mutinous soldiers in the five towns in the northwest mixed in the rebel army, they both have kung fu in their hands, and the boss is like playing, and then when the court recruits peace, there are still officials to do, and there is no way to go to the full column, except for being a soldier and killing people, other livelihoods can't be done, so he naturally obeyed Lao Hou's idea. These people are still abiding by the rules of thieves, the common people have no oil and water, and they are not willing to go to the scourge, they are specially robbed of the money, food and property of the Jin army or the government, and after taking advantage of them a few times, they have become a public hazard here, the Ming army and the Jin army are staring at them, they are not familiar with the place in Gyeonggi, and they broke up after a few beatings, Manzhu and Hou Shijie were cornered, and they hid in Tibet with the last remaining dozens of Xuan soldiers, and lived a hard life without a meal, and then saw the banner of the Ming army in Datong Town like seeing a savior, With tears in his eyes, he ran away to his relatives.

Man Zhu said with red eyes: "General Li, everyone is their own people, Lao Hou is not an outsider, Man Shuai is dead, Hou Shuai is almost finished, other Ming troops do not recognize our official positions, and scold us for being ruffians, we have nowhere to go, you can afford to eat us, and if you think we are coarse, we will be rewarded for some travel expenses and let us go home." ”

"General, the soldiers in the three towns of Xuanda are all a family, we can't do anything else except be soldiers, let's go to you, both of us brothers can fight, and those who have killed Jiannu will not eat idle meals." Hou Shijie also pleaded pitifully.

"Of course I want you to come if you want to, but let me make it clear first, my Fengzhou soldiers have a hard time, and the imperial court basically does not pay us military salaries, the brothers have money to share together, they have food to eat together, and they will never treat anyone badly, the official position is easy to say, as long as you have the ability, there will be an official, you can come if you think clearly, if you don't want to, it's easy to say, take some travel expenses and leave by yourself," Li Yu replied, Man Zhu and Hou Shijie immediately patted their chests and expressed their willingness to be soldiers, Li Yu waved his hand and said to them, "Don't talk too much, follow along for a while, If you don't want to do it, you can leave, I don't count you as deserters. ”

Man Zhu and Hou Shijie happily followed behind the team with their subordinates, and now that they had changed from thieves to official soldiers, they were immediately arrogant.

Liu Zhilun came back, and brought back more than 1,500 well-equipped iron horses, the news immediately spread throughout the Jizhou camp, Prime Minister Military Affairs Ma Shilong and the supervising army Qiu Hejia looked at each other, how dare this guy still live, it was too disappointing for everyone - Liu Zhilun was a Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, his qualifications were too shallow, he should have had a good relationship with the courtiers, and slowly survived in the position of Shu Jishi, but this guy is too arrogant, he will never touch any party or faction in the court, and he calls himself "Liu Shengren", everything must be done according to the teachings of the sage, this kind of pretentious and maverick person cannot integrate into the collective of Ming Dynasty ministers, and almost everyone hates him. This time the Jin army invaded, he didn't care what everyone thought, he jumped out and shouted and shouted to kill, the emperor actually promoted this madman to several levels, and was promoted to the squire of the military department, everyone was red when they saw it, and wished he would die sooner, in fact, the emperor probably also meant this, first give him a candy to eat and then ask him to die, Daming is really lacking in martyrs.

Liu Crazy is not in the trap, he lost the battle and jumped back alive, then don't blame everyone for being polite, you are self-isolating from the collective, and if you don't die, you have to let you peel off your skin, Qiu Hejia immediately prepared to impeach Liu Zhilun, but before he could put pen to paper, Liu Zhilun came to the door arrogantly.

"How did Lord Liu get here, didn't you go to recover Zunhua? You should stay in Zunhua and defend the city," Qiu Hejia showed no mercy to Liu Zhilun, and continued to sarcastically say, "I understand, you are afraid of the enemy and retreat, the sage Youyun 'kills Chengren', why doesn't Lord Liu die in battle?" Since you don't die, then I will go to the court to discuss your sins. ”

"Didn't Lord Qiu also retreat from the closed door? When I left Beijing, there was a royal history to impeach you and Ma Shuai to avoid fighting and stop fighting, and to this day the army of 100,000 Qinwang in the Jizhou camp is still not moving, what should Lord Qiu be guilty of? Liu Zhilun has the goods in his hands, he is not afraid of Qiu Hejia's complaint at all, he said to the general Marshal Zhengse who is full of rooms, "The soldiers who fought with me are the righteous people of my Ming Dynasty, we did not fear the enemy, but fought with the East to the end, and killed countless benevolent people, fortunately favored by the emperor, our army attacked the enemy in front, Datong Iron Cavalry covered the killing, won a small victory and retreated, leaving a useful body in order to plan for the future, but what did the princes of Jizhou do when our army fought to the bloody death?" ”

Liu Zhilun angrily walked up to Ma Shilong and scolded: "Ma Shuai, what have you done?" Where are the reinforcements you promised? The righteous and brave are still forgetting to kill the enemy, but your Qinwang army is sitting and watching, delaying the fighter plane, a good handsome man, but he is a coward who has been defeated repeatedly and fears the enemy like a tiger, and this official will come back to impeach you. ”

After Liu Zhilun scolded Ma Shilong, he pointed to Wu Zimian, the chief soldier of Yansui, and scolded: "Wu Shuai, your Yulin soldiers are known as the heroes of the world, where are the heroes now?" You are angry with Governor Yansui on the way to King Qin, the matter is not over, you don't want to make meritorious contributions, then wait for Zhang Mengjing's colleagues in the court and China to clean you up, I don't know what is good! ”

Ma Shilong and Wu Zimian were scolded to the sore spot, their faces were pale and they bowed their heads and were silent, both of them couldn't say anything, Ma Shilong was tall and mighty, dignified, but he really couldn't get a decent record, the defeat of Liuhe made him famous all over the world, his thousands of elite Ming army was beaten by Jin Guozheng Blue Banner an unknown small Beiyu Tun Bulu with a Niu Lu male Ding Jianwoman, and he was also imprisoned, fortunately, his old boss Sun Chengzong saw him pleasing to the eye, and this time he was bailed out of prison instead of Man Gui who died in battle, The emperor also went to the hospital in a hurry, and gave him Shang Fangjian as the prime minister of the towns and the king's army, but the marshals of the towns did not take him seriously at all, and Ma Shilong himself could not come up with a strategy to break the enemy, so he took a group of marshals to live in Jizhou, and Liu Zhilun had long forgotten about his appointment. Wu Zimian's trouble is even greater, the five towns in the northwest have long been fluctuating in the hearts of the people without paying military salaries all year round, and they can still control it in the barracks, and they will flee and mutiny as soon as they go out, and the soldiers would rather carry weapons and surrender to thieves than go to the king of Beijing Qin, the five towns of 17,000 elites will be less than 10,000 people after crossing the Yellow River, and the two towns of Yansui and Gansu will dispatch the most people and horses, and the most people who have mutinied and run away, Wu Zimian knows that if he goes on, the people will run out, so he simply resells the ordnance and utensils in the camp along the way, and he does not dare to swallow it alone with the conscience of heaven and earth. Most of them are still subsidized to officers and soldiers, but Zhang Mengjing, who only succeeded Yue Hesheng who died of illness last year, was appointed governor of Yansui, and he quit, this dead old man was persecuted by Wei Zhongxian and had a good history of Donglin, bitter and hateful, and upright, this time in order to show his loyalty to the emperor, he didn't care about the thieves at home, and insisted on entering Beijing for a piece of Qinwang, the old man did not rub the sand in his eyes, and was extremely indignant at Wu Zimian's illegal act of reselling army assets, the two quarreled along the way, and the old man was actually angry to death, Wu Zimian knew that he was in trouble, the old man's friend in the court, There are a lot of people in the same party, and they will definitely find trouble with him, and then another terrible thing happened, Wang Shixuan, the deputy general soldier who was in trouble with him, arrived in Gyeonggi, and ran to surrender to the Jin army of Yongping, and the two things plus one pressed Wu Zimian to panic all day, and now he has no heart to fight.

Liu Zhilun scolded violently, and then waved his hand to let the entourage drag up a sack, and proudly pointed at everyone and said: "You are as timid as a mouse, afraid of the enemy and do not fight, this official will bring you some rare things to strengthen your courage this time, there are hundreds of such things in the official's camp, Lord Qiu, since you are the supervisor of the order, come to check early tomorrow morning." ”

After Liu Zhilun finished speaking, he turned around and left, Qiu Hejia immediately asked people to untie the sack, and everyone came up to take a look, and immediately let out a burst of exclamation, it is the first level, five heads with braids, this is indeed a rare object, and money can't buy it.

Qiu Hejia covered his nose and said: "Where did Liu Shilang get this treasure, he still has hundreds, it won't be a good kill." ”

"It's indeed the head of Jiannu, judging from the color of the scalp, it's not a freshly shaved one, and the fake head can't hide it from me." You Shilu, the general soldier of Ningxia who fought in Liaodong, said very expertly after taking a closer look at his head.

"Maybe it's the head of the Mongols and Han people in Liaodong, and they can't all be counted as Jiannu." Ma Shilong has a sour smell.

"The new chieftain did force the Mongolians and Han people who were attached to them to shave their hair and keep braids, and there were very few Han people who entered the customs with Jiannu this time, mainly Mongolians, these guys are also fierce, and slaughtering them is similar to slaughtering Jiannu, which is considered a great achievement," "Wang Shiqin, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan Guannan, looked at Ma Shilong unpleasantly, and sarcastically said in a strange manner, "Ma Shuai has been mixed in Liaodong for many years, I haven't seen you get a few heads, don't you be a popular person." ”

Ma Shilong's face turned red and his mouth was closed, and Qiu Hejia was still muttering to himself: "Where did Liu Shilang get the head?" There are hundreds of them, and his luck is so good! ”

Everyone immediately analyzed and studied the origin of the head, and agreed that Liu Zhilun's group of ordinary people would be good if they could keep their heads, and they would definitely not be able to get the head of Jiannu, and the problem should be in the Datong cavalry who went to Jizhou with him, these people are said to be all one person and two horses, most of them have armor, and they are obviously elite, but the elite of the Datong army was finished with their general soldier Mangui not long ago, where did they come out of an elite cavalry?

You Shilu secretly glanced at Wang Shiqin, the two of them and the Gansu general soldier Yang Jiamo, the Guyuan general soldier Yang Qi, and the Lintao general soldier Wang Chengen quietly slipped out one after another, Yansui general soldier Wu Zimian looked back and saw that his accomplices left without saying hello, for fear that others would not take him to play, so he hurriedly chased after his buttocks, and the remaining Nanzhili, Sichuan, Shandong, Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangxi, and Fujian town marshals accompanied Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong for a while, and they couldn't figure it out, Qiu Hejia patted his thigh and said: "Don't guess, Tomorrow we will go and see together, and everything will be clear. ”

After breakfast the next day, Qiu Hejia took Ma Shilong and a large group of generals who had nothing to do out of the city early and went straight to Liu Zhilun's camp. Liu Zhilun's people were not qualified to enter the city, and set up camp at the foot of a mountain outside the city, the soldiers were busy with tree fences, digging trenches, and burying deer barreds, and there were heavily armed cavalry guards around the camp, and there were scouts holding triangular black eagle flags at the gate of the camp - this is Li Yu's old habit, and the camp must be fortified first, but Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong are not used to it, and no one is lined up to greet them and guard everywhere, so that they have a feeling of being thieves.

Liu Zhilun was not polite at all, and led them to the big tent of the Chinese army to sit down without even a cup of tea, and directly asked someone to put the head in the open space in front of the big tent, urging them to count quickly, he was too poor here to manage the lunch of so many big officials, and the head was quickly checked, and the inspector excitedly rushed into the big tent and shouted: "Four hundred and seventy, four hundred and seventy!" All of them are the heads of the braided soldiers of Jianzhou, my lord, a great victory, a great victory for my Ming army! ”

Qiu Hejia stood up excitedly, walked out of the big tent and looked at the heads spread all over the ground, his eyes couldn't help but burst into tears, he raised his fists and shouted: "God bless me Daming, go and report to the emperor, our army has a great victory in Zunhua, beheading four hundred and seventy levels, no, it's four hundred and seventy-five levels, long live my emperor!" The Ming army is mighty! ”

"Long live our emperor! The Ming army is mighty! The generals of the Ming army and their personal soldiers also raised their arms excitedly and shouted, shouting higher and higher, and the Fengzhou soldiers who were working were startled by them, stopped what they were doing, and looked at them like fools.

"Liu Zhilun, you honestly, where did these heads come from? Don't try to lie to us that your people did it. After Qiu Hejia finished venting, he immediately asked Liu Zhilun aggressively, and the other generals also shouted: "You don't want to swallow the head alone, we should also have a share." ”

Liu Zhilun was forced to retreat step by step by these red-eyed guys, pointed at Li Yu behind him and defended loudly: "I didn't say it was mine, what I said was that I attacked the enemy in front, and the Datong Iron Cavalry covered and killed in the back, he was the Jinglu general of Datong Town, you ask him, he killed the slaves." ”

The gang immediately threw Liu Zhilun aside, and surrounded Li Yu in the middle, but they were all replaced by amiable smiling faces.

"You are the famous Datong Jingyu general, what a young and promising handsome young man, have you started a family? How many children do you have? ”

"This young man is so good! There will definitely be a future in the future, go, go to my brother's place to eat. ”

"Little brother, we soldiers have to help each other when we go out, is there any difficulty? It's all wrapped up in the old brother. ”

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Li Yu didn't expect to meet so many enthusiastic people here, and he was speechless with emotion, Bai Xianzhi was anxious, he knew very well what these people were thinking, and pulled Liu Xingzuo forward and shouted: "I am Bai Xianzhi, the general of Datong Jingbian, this is Liu Xingzuo, the deputy general of Shanhaiguan, the first rank is the three of us, and he wants to rob us of the credit." ”

The generals of the Jizhou battalion were stunned at first, but they immediately knew what to do, Qiu Hejia made a look, divided the commanders into three groups of people, and divided and surrounded Li Yu, Bai Xianzhi and Liu Xingzuo.

Li Yu was still young in the end, first of all, he couldn't hold his breath, and he opened his mouth and leaked the bottom: "What is the head, I knew you wanted it, so I brought the heads of the hundreds of dead ghosts outside the side wall, and gave me military salaries, food, grass and ordnance, and the heads belong to you." ”

Everyone cheered when they heard this, and they all praised Li Yu for being sensible and knowing things at a young age, and he would have a bright future in the future, Li Yu's face turned red, Bai Xianzhi was so angry that he stomped his feet on the side, but Liu Xingzuo didn't care, he knew best what kind of person Li Yu was, typical of eating soft and not hard.

Qiu Hejia came out to uphold justice at this time, General Li's cavalry is the elite of the Ming Dynasty who has created a glorious record, the emperor will never treat them badly, he wants military salaries, grain and grass and ordnance is also a matter of course, even if we don't have him, he should have, although he is very kind and willing to give the head to everyone, but are we embarrassed to take the credit of the younger generation? Be kind, don't be too greedy, at least leave a hundred heads for him, and everyone will divide the other heads, this is also the kindness of General Li, those of us who are elders must receive this feeling.

The generals said that this is the fairest, and the credit of General Li should not be erased, Liu Zhilun hid on the side and breathed a sigh of relief, and this farce finally ended happily.

The first-class gift package was sent out, Li Yu felt very good, except for Bai Xianzhi and Zhang Chuanjie, who had some strange words from the top of the Fengzhou army, no one else cared - Fengzhou did not have "the first merit", and the military merit was all based on the officers and soldiers' own ability and battlefield performance, and was collectively evaluated by each team and outpost, and the "three major merits" were evaluated by the commander and the officers of each battalion.