In Li Yu's dilapidated house, the two sides quarreled over the rules of group fighting, and neither of them wanted their side to suffer, and they both wanted to suppress each other.

"Li Yuzi, don't be rampant, Lao Tzu's fight is still settled, and Lao Tzu won't leave if he doesn't finish this fight today." Fang Zhikun was also angry.

"It's up to you whether you go or not, don't expect me to take care of your dinner."

"You still have food to eat, and our Xinpingbao rations are running out, what about eating your meals? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu will beat you now. ”

Seeing that Li Yu and Fang Shen were about to fight, the people on both sides hurriedly came to persuade them, and after making trouble for a while, after the efforts and compromises of both sides, the rules of the fight were finally set down, and the two sides agreed that everyone should use sticks, but only wooden sticks, iron rods, copper sticks, maces and other murder weapons are resolutely prohibited, bows and arrows are not allowed, armor is not allowed, pebbles, bricks and other long-range hidden weapons are not allowed to be used, as for horseback riding, donkey riding is not restricted.

The next brawl was like a farce, the soldiers had no intention of fighting for a long time, and even if they danced a few sticks, the Fengzhou cavalry had too obvious an advantage, and the Ming army immediately collapsed wherever they went, and the soldiers covered their heads and climbed to the ground without waiting for the sticks to fall - this was also agreed in advance, those who covered their heads and climbed the ground were counted as casualties and could withdraw from the battle, and some of the officers of Xinpingbao also wanted to fight, but when they got people together, the Fengzhou cavalry ran away, and the people of Xinpingbao had not yet thought about whether they should pursue or not, This group of cavalry quickly detoured back to their other side and continued to fight, after several times in a row, the soldiers of Xinpingbao were too lazy to fight, three or three quit the battle group, the cavalry of Xinpingbao was even more miserable, ran and ran can't run, chased and couldn't catch up, after suffering a few losses, they found a place to rest on the grounds of casualties, the Fengzhou cavalry was not interesting, simply got together with the soldiers of Xinpingbao to look lively.

Li Yu is really fighting, he has experience in this area, to fight this kind of fight, you must first hit the leader of the other party, and if you take the lead, the other minions will fall apart, so he has been chasing the old party to fight, and the old party is not stupid, he has been avoiding him, and when Li Yu has finished cleaning up his family and personal soldiers one after another, the old party has to face the battle hard. The two of them first rode on the horse to fight, the sticks staggered together, a few faces on the stick discounted, the two hugged together and fell off the horse, so the fists and feet added and then hit, the old party is a person who has practiced Hong boxing, known as the first in leg skills, against Li Yu Lian Shi Fei legs, but this trick is useless to Li Yu, Li Yu is a head taller than him, and his legs are longer, a few kicks kicked the old side, the old party was in a hurry to show the iron head skill, and hit Li Yu headlong, Li Yu didn't expect the old party to make this move, and was almost sitting on the ground, Li Yu suffered a loss and immediately pounced to fight back, but the old man immediately covered his head and shouted to pause.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance, and soon a group of cavalry came around, Zhang Chuanjie arrived first, and shouted loudly: "The deputy envoy has arrived, don't stop and salute quickly." Li Yu and Fang Zhikun hurriedly stopped and knelt on the ground together. Song Tongyin looked at these two disheveled guys, and shouted angrily: "Fang Zhikun, Li Yu, you are so bold, you dare to ignore the military law and fight with the public, what crime should you be guilty of." ”

Li Yuzheng was at a loss, Fang Zhikun hugged him and said to Song Tongyin: "The deputy envoy is angry, we didn't fight, we are manipulating soldiers and horses, you see that the two of us are like brothers, how can it look like a fight, you say yes, Mr. Li Qian?" ”

"Yes, yes! Lord Deputy Envoy, I didn't fight with Lao Fang, we were fighting martial arts, you see our soldiers are all good, there really is no fight! Li Yu also reacted quickly.

Officers and soldiers on both sides also hurriedly testified that they were practicing, no one was fighting, and the Tatar battalion and Xinping Fort were fine. Of course, Song Tongyin didn't believe it, but Li Huai beside him suddenly jumped off the horse, rushed over in a few steps and pulled Li Yu to the side to talk, Song Tongyin had no choice but to teach Fang Zhikun who was kneeling in front of him.

Song Tongyin looked at these people suspiciously and asked: "Fang Zhikun, let me ask you, you don't guard your Xinping Fort, but you ran fifty miles to get here, this is an unauthorized departure, you are an old military officer, don't you understand this?" ”

"Lord Deputy Envoy, I saw that Li Qianzong's cavalry was quite strong, and I thought that it was possible to fight in the western invasion of Han, so I deliberately asked him to conduct a drill.

"So you Fang Zhikun has a lot of merit, and you should be rewarded, right?"

"The last general will not dare!"

"Clever words, don't take your people back to Xinping Fort quickly, if Xinping Fort makes a mistake, you will be punished for the crime of leaving your post without permission."

Fang Zhikun hurriedly got up, said hello to Li Yu, and left with his people in a hurry, not forgetting to return the lost cattle and cauldron from the Tatar camp when he left.

Song Tongyin drove away Fang Zhikun, and called Li Yu over to scold a few words, and the matter was dealt with. On the way back to Yanghe City, Song Tongyin saw Li Huai on the horse thinking about it without saying a word, so he smiled and asked, "Yushan, can't I handle it like this?" How do you deal with this kind of thing in Yulin Town? ”

"What else, fights as soldiers are a common thing, as long as there is no major incident, Shangguan can only turn a blind eye, and so-so will pass," Li Huai couldn't help but get excited when he said this, "The arrears of wages in the towns on the three sides have long been more than a year, and the soldiers can't afford to eat and wear clothes, and they are so poor that they sell their sons and daughters and wives, is this the life of a human being?" The emperor and the court have forgotten those of us who guard the border for the Ming Dynasty! Those soldiers who are still in the barracks to guard the side wall, whether they are Han or Yi, they are all good men of my Ming Dynasty, how else can we force them? It is ridiculous that the princes of the court are full of loyalty, filial piety, morality, right and wrong, but in fact, they do not know practice, are greedy, and form parties to fight for power. ”

Song Tongyin shook his head gently, after all, he is a young man, and he still can't see through many things. After Li Huai finished complaining, he continued to bow his head and ponder, muttering in a low voice: "Like, it looks really similar!" How the accent has become so powerful. He suddenly looked up at Song Tongyin and said, "Lord Deputy Envoy, the late student has a request, can he stay in Yanghe for a while when the late student comes back from the capital division?" ”

Song Tongyin was overjoyed: "Okay! Yushan Dacai, the Governor and I both want you to stay in Yanghe, there is something for you to do here. ”

Song Tongyin returned to the Governor's Mansion to resume his life, Zhang Xiao didn't say anything, the current situation of Datong Town is like this, how else can you manage to be a soldier, but it is always a trouble for these Tatars to stay in the pass, Song Tongyin thought of a new idea, since I agreed to pay tribute, the patrol regulations of the three towns of Xuanda have existed in name only, the soldiers are reluctant to go out on the side wall, and the officials are not willing to do this idleness, and the Ming Dynasty mainly relies on the Shunyi Wangfu and some Mongolian Taiji who were enshrined by the Ming Dynasty. The rest is the gossip brought by the Shoukouyi people and the merchants of the mutual market, a major event happened on the grassland outside the border, often more than a month later Xuanda here to get the news, Song Tongyin believes that now the Han Dynasty invades the west, and the Xuanda border is changing rapidly, and it is necessary to send capable people out of the customs to patrol the border, and report it as soon as there is news, so as not to make a mistake in dealing with the Ming army's eyes.

"The Tatar camp finally didn't have a major incident this time, but it's still inappropriate for these people to stay in the pass, maybe one day they will cause a big disaster, so it's better to send them to Yanghekou to station, and by the way, take care of the patrol and investigation outside the Datong border, this group of people is familiar with the outsiders of Datong, and that Li Qian is also considered his duty, this errand is the most suitable for them." Song Tongyin said to Zhang Xiao confidently.

Zhang Xiao's eyes lit up, but soon thought of the virtue of the Xuanda Ming army, and immediately became a little deflated: "Dedication, this is a good thing, but our soldiers are useless, no one is watching these Tatars, will they disperse once they get out of the pass?" ”

"Don't be afraid, let's send them rations every ten days in Shoukou Fort, if you do a good job, you will have food, and if you don't obey, you will starve them for a few days, I don't believe they are honest, even if they get into trouble outside the border, we are not afraid, they don't have our banner and military uniforms, we can not admit it," Song Tongyin suddenly felt a little lacking in virtue when he said this, and immediately said good things for Li Yu and them, "They go out of the customs to serve my Ming Dynasty, and we don't treat them badly, each person will be rewarded with a few coins of silver, and then send some warm clothes, these people are used to being poor, I will be grateful to Dade if I get the benefits, and I am embarrassed if I don't work hard. ”

Zhang Xiao nodded again and again after hearing this, there are not many Tatars in this group, and it doesn't cost much, Daming recruits a bare-ass pawn to give five taels of silver to settle down the money, Li Yu and they rushed over, he Zhang Xiao didn't give a penny of silver except for taking care of the food, and now he is driving people to work outside the customs as an errand and not giving any benefits, it is really impossible to say.

So Li Yu and they just stepped on the land of Baishan Mountain, and were driven out of the pass, but Zhang Xiaohua's money soon returned, Li Yu out of the customs patrol only a few days to send someone to send a shocking news, Hudun Tuhan finally started, the leader of the Ha La (Ming Dynasty official name for Karaqin) Bai Yan Taiji was defeated, only with a few hundred people to flee west, Yongshao Bu Wanhu has collapsed, inserting the Han attack on Ha La's anger and then attacking the west and attacking Tumut Wanhu non-stop, The Shunyi king of the Ming Dynasty, the leader of the Tumut, fled west to the west (the official name of Ordos in the Ming Dynasty), and the great-grandson of the three ladies, Xi Ling Setaiji, presented the city of naturalization to the Khan (the name given by the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to Kuku and Tun), and the first battle of the Han Western Expedition was a great victory.

Zhang Xiao and Song Tongyin high-fived each other, they were finally saved, they just got the news from the Beijing division the day before yesterday, the Ming Emperor started, poor Wei Gongcheng was on the way to the ancestral tomb of Fengyang to Si Xiang, suddenly heard the emperor sent someone to arrest him, he knew that he was guilty, on the sixth day of November hanged himself in a hostel in Fucheng, Wei Gonggong died and the situation changed greatly, and the courtiers who were idle and panicked were in high spirits, and immediately threw themselves into their best infighting, A campaign to expose and criticize the eunuchs was vigorously launched with the support of the Ming Emperor, and the little Tatar outside the Xuanda border didn't want to pay attention to it, Zhang Xiao really fell ill in bed now, and he knew the cruelty of the Ming party struggle, there was no good thing to play this, and the whole person was going to be cut down and eradicated, and he even felt that he might hang himself.

Hearing the good news of Song Tongyin's victory in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Xiao got up from the bed with a bone, his two old eyes were full of tears, and he excitedly pointed at the family with a trembling hand and said: "Quick, quick, prepare paper, ink, pen and inkstone, I want to write a recital for the emperor." Xianzheng, you also have to send a letter to Erlu, let him also write to the court, and say that Hudun Rabbit Han is a great victory, and there will be chaos in the capital of the jacket, 'internal change is not the enemy external change', Erlu really said it. ”

Zhang Xiao personally wrote the recital this time, he wanted to tell the courtiers who were busy beating the eunuchs, Xuanda went out on a big day, you can't do it if you want to, the stability of Xuanda for decades depends on the friendship between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian right-wing 30,000 households after I answered the tribute, and now the Shunyi King of the Ming Dynasty and the leader of Yongshao Bu have been driven away, and the Xuanda crisis is about to break out, see if you dare to beat my old man's bad idea. He wrote with a stroke of a pen: Hudun Tuhan came with 100,000 people, and the poor and tired must go south, or coerce the imperial court or plunder the border, since then the Xuanda border wall will never be peaceful, and the Xuanda three towns have been peaceful for a long time, the armament is slack, and the officers and soldiers of the three towns have reached the point of no pay, no soldiers, no food, and no weapons, how to resist the strong enemy? The imperial court must make an early claim to avoid changes over time. Zhang Xiao wrote this, the pen immediately turned, claiming that since he took over Xuanda, there is no day as good as walking on thin ice and painstaking management, but he is willing to think hard to serve the court, but he is helpless to not learn well, and he is deaf and dizzy, physically and mentally exhausted, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to take on this great task.

After Zhang Xiao finished writing the recital, he nodded proudly, and Song Tongyin high-fived and applauded: "As soon as the boss writes this recital, the guys in the court who read the book of death can also understand that the place of Xuanda is now a muddy water, and if you want to move, we have to go into the water ourselves, I see which of them has the guts, Yue Erlu is right, 'internal change is not enemy external change', if you want to set us as eunuchs, the emperor also has to weigh it." ”

The two laughed, Father-in-law Wei died, the collapse of the eunuch party with his old man as the core of leadership was a foregone conclusion, and the people who got on the ship of Gonggong Wei were doomed to be unlucky, and people like them who were on tiptoe were not unlucky, which was the emperor's thought, fortunately, there was going to be chaos outside the border, and they were still saved.

In mid-December, the winter outside the Seychelles reaches its coldest time. The wind is whistling and rolling up the goose feather heavy snow, the lively Shoukou Fort city in the past has long been empty, the far side wall is thickly covered with a layer of snow, there is no one on it, only a few red flags of the Ming army are blown by the wind and snow, from the Shoukou Fort out of the Yang and Kou to the west along the Hu'er Mountain can not walk a few miles, in a sheltered mountain nest stands a few thatched houses and dozens of Mongolian tents, and a wooden fence is built around, here is Li Yu's camp outside the Shoukou Fort.

Li Yu has moved his camp from Baishan Mountain for a month, and the brothers have no opinion on this order, they are originally Tartars outside the Saiwai, where to be a soldier is not the same as mixed food, here is closer to home and no one cares about them, not to mention that they each got five coins of silver and a cotton coat, of course they are happy, as for the Han soldiers are afraid of patrolling the border, it is similar to walking horses to them.

Li Yu was sitting in his big tent at this time, silently stirring the brazier on the ground, Wuhai, Buck, Han Dagong and others smiled and looked at a guy in front of him desperately sending sorghum rice to his mouth, this guy was bearded and ragged, and he didn't know how many days he hadn't eaten, he was burping but still swallowing hard, Li Yu couldn't help but said to him: "Bilige, I'm full here, but you can't choke yourself, you have eaten three bowls." ”

"Brother Yuzi, don't you know that I haven't eaten for three days, if I hadn't found you, I would have to freeze to death if I didn't starve to death." Bi Lige said with a full hiccups, he took a few sips of the water handed over by Han Dagong, took a few sips and breathed slowly, and said to Li Yu, "It's better for you to be here, you can have something to eat, I won't go anywhere, and I won't leave, I'll follow you." ”

Bi Lige has really suffered a crime these days, after Li Yu left the Bayala camp, the Bayala camp soon disintegrated, Bi Lige returned to the Shunyi palace to continue to be his petty official, originally lived quite steadily, but I didn't expect the Chahar people to call, Shunyi King Bo Shuo Ketu Khan no one cared, put the Tumut River to Omulun, Batu two sons of a stuff, with a few of his wives and ran away, Omulun saw that the situation was not good and followed the hind legs, Batu wanted to fight, but before he could get people together, the Chahar people hit the door, Xi Lingse of Kuku and Tun surrendered to Chahar Khan without hesitation, and dedicated the Dazhao Temple, the family temple of his great-grandfather Altan Khan to worship the Buddha, to Chahar Khan, Batu had to protect the Qierji Lama who was driven out of the Dazhao Temple to flee westward, Xi Lingse and Chahar Khan sent the joint qi lama to chase and kill, and beat the tribes of Kuku and Tun around Boshuo Ketu Khan to the ground, fortunately it was snowing heavily at this time, and it was several days, the Chahar people had to stop and prepare for the winter. The Batu brothers finally had a chance to catch their breath.

Omulun and Batu ran away, but the little minions of Boshuo Ketu Khan like Bi Lige were unlucky, and a little person like him was not qualified to escape with the Taijis, but when Xi Lingse and the Hezhang Qi Lama liquidated the remnants of Bo Shuo Ketu Khan, this kind of little person was definitely the object of suppression, of course Bi Lige would not wait for death, their family used to be the slave of Xi Lingse's family, and when the master was unlucky, he jumped ship and followed Boshuo Ketu Khan, and also bullied Xi Lingse, Xi Lingse turned over and would never spare him. Bi Lige fled south with a family of more than a dozen people in the heavy snow, he helped Bo Shuo Ketu Khan to handle the business, knew a few border merchants of the Ming Kingdom, he planned to immigrate to the Ming Kingdom through the relationship of the border merchants, those border merchants were really good, immediately introduced him to the Ming officials, the Ming officials were also very happy, directly reached out to him to ask for money, where can Bi Lige get the money now, had to beg people, the Ming officials immediately turned their faces, you have no money and want to immigrate, see that we really want to eat in the Ming Dynasty, get out of the way. Those border business friends saw that he was going to be unlucky, and simply ignored him, Bi Lige was almost to the point of desperation, then he remembered that he also had a good brother Li Yu who defected to Yanghe, so he held a glimmer of hope, and inquired and begged all the way along the Great Wall to find Li Yu, relying on the help of those fellow villagers who were guarding the mouth along the way, he finally found Li Yu, and when he saw Li Yu, he fainted, and fed a few mouthfuls of hot soup to ease up.