The night was already very deep, Liu Xingzuo was still talking: the biggest action he planned in the Jin country was the "Fuzhou Change", the original plan was to organize tens of thousands of Han people to escape from the Jin country, but unfortunately the success was successful, more than 20,000 Fuzhou people were slaughtered, Liu Xingzuo himself was exposed, the old Khan was reluctant to kill him, but he was idle, other Han officials were frightened, and they changed their ways, Li Yongfang hid in his home and never asked about the world, Tong Yangxing simply became a slave of the Aixin Jueluo family, only Liu Xingzuo did not give up, He has to continue to fight, after Tiancong Khan ascended the throne, he did not forget this old partner who had studied together and fought together, and began to reuse him, so Liu Xingzuo began to move again, but his luck was really bad, and the messenger who contacted Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of the Dongjiang River of the Ming State, was captured by the Jin Army with a letter, this time it was ironclad evidence, and he was almost labeled as a spy of the Ming State on his head, but fortunately, Tiancong Khan was busy with the westward expedition to Mongolia, and he couldn't make up his mind to deal with him for a while, so he put him under house arrest at home. Liu Xingzuo thought about it at home and felt that it was very difficult to pass the test this time, and if he didn't run, he would wait for death, so he left a suicide note to his friends Sakhalian, Kurtang, and Dahai, defending himself in every possible way, and found a beggar on the street, and asked the beggar to put on his clothes and white jade wrench, and then killed the beggar, burned the house where he lived, and escaped from the Jin country while the chaos and ran to Dongjiang Town in the Ming country, and the people of the Jin country only saw a charred corpse, and really thought that Liu Xingzuo was wronged.

Liu Xingzuo gave up his old mother, wife and children to go to the Ming Kingdom, but he did not live well, he and Mao Wenlong of Dongjiang Town soon had a conflict, in Liu Xingzuo's eyes, Mao Wenlong is a short-sighted, ambitious, only know how to burn, kill and plunder bandits, and in Mao Wenlong's eyes, Liu Xingzuo is a treacherous and cunning, rebellious at both ends of the first rat anyway, Mao Wenlong restricts Liu Xingzuo everywhere, does not give him a soldier, Liu Xingzuo does not count on Mao Wenlong, he has many brothers in the Liu family, and there are seven or eight who have escaped from the Jin country, He took these brothers in the family and some Aha who were loyal to him to work hard, recruited hundreds of Jin Guo fugitives, and gradually gained some strength in his hands.

Liu Xingzuo and Mao Wenlong did their own work, but Mao Wenlong did one thing that finally made the two completely turn their faces, Mao Wenlong did not truthfully play the situation of Liu Xingzuo's return to the court, but made up a Zhenjiang victory, Liu Xingzuo worked hard, abandoned his family and abandoned his son to return to the Ming Kingdom and surrendered to him before he said nonsense, Liu Xingzuo was angry, this is an insult to him, he secretly killed Mao Wenlong, this opportunity soon came, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, began to plot against Mao Wenlong soon after taking office, while blocking the food and salary of Dongjiang Town, While sending someone to secretly contact the generals of Dongjiang Town, Liu Xingzuo immediately agreed to give Jiliao Governor as an internal response, with Liu Xingzuo's ventilation and reporting, secretly responding, Yuan Chonghuan successfully killed Mao Wenlong, controlled Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong's troops were also divided into four, Liu Xingzuo led one of them with the rank of deputy general, and soon Dongjiang Town was merged into the East and West Association, Mao Wenlong's old general Chen Jisheng led the East Association, and Liu Xingzuo led the West Association.

Liu Xingzuo has soldiers and territory, and is about to show his skills, but suddenly Yuan Chonghuan called him to Ningyuan, and then he can't go back, and he was left in Jiliao Governor's Mansion to listen to it, Dongjiang Xixie had to hand it over to his younger brother Liu Xingzhi for the time being, and he himself stayed in Ningyuan to sit on a cold bench and eat rice, this time Yuan Chonghuan entered the king of Guanqin, and he was also taken to Shanhaiguan to listen to it. After Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned, Sun Chengzong went to Shanhaiguan to supervise military affairs, Liu Xingzuo couldn't wait to jump out and take the initiative to ask for war, Sun Chengzong praised him a few words, and let him figure out his own way, where did Liu Xingzuo find soldiers? Fortunately, Sun Yuanhua, who was in charge of military affairs in Jiliao's Governor's Mansion, usually had a good relationship with him, and lent the newly recruited six or seven hundred Mongolian soldiers to Liu Xingzuo, which led to the victory of the Battle of Qingshan, which was also the only victory of the Ming army in Shanhaiguan.

Liu Xingzuo's experience was full of ups and downs, Li Yu was shocked when he heard it, Liu Xingzuo took a big sip of wine, and asked bitterly: "Yuzi, do you know who your big brother Liu is now, will you still treat me as a good person in the future?" ”

"I don't care what others think of you, you're still my good big brother, and I know you're never doing it for yourself." Li Yu replied firmly.

"No, I'm not a good person, I took Zhushen into Liaodong and made a rebellion against the Ming Kingdom, this is disloyalty, I abandoned my mother and fled for my life, this is unfilial piety, killing innocent people to avoid disaster, this is unkindness, I betrayed the Wise Khan and Tiancong Khan who are kind to me, this is unrighteousness, disloyalty, unfilial piety, unkindness, and unrighteous people like me will be punished sooner or later," Liu Xingzuo suddenly cried loudly, Li Yu hurriedly supported him, Liu Xingzuo continued to cry, "I did wrong, everything was wrong, I wanted to drive away the dog officials of the Ming Kingdom, Let the Liao people live a good life, but the Jin country I serve is more ruthless than a hungry wolf, and how many innocent people have died under their swords! I want to use the power of the Ming State to weaken the Jin State court and take the opportunity to realize the self-reliance of the Liao people, but the Ming court is rotten, they are powerless to shake the Jin State, these Ming dog officials harm their own people more ruthlessly than the Jin State harms the Han people, and the Liao people must not let the Ming State go back, I want to let the Han, Mongolian, and Zhushen ethnic groups in Liaodong get along equally in their own homes, and no one bullies anyone, why is it so difficult to achieve, where is the road of our Liao people? Could it be that the Liao people only have the life of being a slave? ”

Li Yu didn't know how to comfort Liu Xingzuo, and wiped his tears and said: "Actually, I'm the same as you, as long as I wave my sword at Zhushen, Sibeile they will definitely scold me for being ungrateful, I have seen Aha who was bullied by Zhushen in Jin as a cow and a horse, hungry and cold, and I have also seen the corpses of the Han people and Mongols killed by Zhushen all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river, I fled from Jin and wanted to avoid all this, but I finally had to face it, Sibeile and his Jin country are ambitious and will not allow our existence, they will definitely kill and dismember, enslave us, I don't want the people of Fengzhou to suffer, I can only choose to pick up a knife and fight them, I really don't want to fight them! But what can I do, where else can I flee to escape from all this? ”

Liu Xingzuo shook his hand violently and said: "Yuzi, you have to persevere no matter what, there is still hope in Fengzhou, I can't do it, Phi Dao has a narrow area, limited manpower, and close to the Jin State The war is continuous, it is difficult to make great achievements, I can only live one day at a time, maybe death is my best destination." ”

"Brother Liu, you can also come to Fengzhou, let's work together, I am really afraid that Fengzhou will suddenly collapse one day." Li Yu looked at Liu Xingzuo with expectant eyes.

Liu Xingzuo hesitated for a moment before saying: "I also want to help you, but I can't do it, there are still Xingzhi on Phi Dao, I thought that if I killed Mao Wenlong, everything else would be easy to do, but I regretted it, as soon as Mao Wenlong died, Dongjiang Town was about to fall apart, Yuan Chonghuan used Mao Wenlong's henchman Chen Jisheng and me, the person who conspired with him to kill Mao Wenlong, to take charge of the Dongjiang East and West Association, his intention is self-evident, Chen Jisheng, this rough man is not my opponent, Yuan Chonghuan transferred me to Ningyuan, and Xingzhi kept Phi Island on my behalf, but he was young and vigorous and Chen Jisheng was incompatible, I'm always worried that something will happen to them, and if there is infighting in Phi Dao, Dongjiang Town will be completely finished. ”

Liu Xingzuo and Li Yu kept talking late at night, Li Yu asked Liu Xingzuo to accompany him for a few more days, Liu Xingzuo had nothing serious to do when he returned to Shanhaiguan, and agreed very happily, and the brothers said that they were tired and fell asleep on a kang with Asari.

The situation in Yongping deteriorated sharply, when Li Yu and Liu Xingzuo, Bai Xianzhi, and Ma Guangyuan sat together to think about the next move, the scout reported the news of the loss of Yongping, and the four of them shook their heads and sighed, which was also expected, and now they can only consider whether the Jianchang camp can hold it, and when they were discussing, Meng Ke and Asari, who went out to investigate the military situation, came in with a bloodstained person, Liu Xingzuo jumped up in fright: "Fei Yangwu, didn't I ask you to accompany Xingxian to Shanhaiguan, why did you become like this?" ”

"Master, it's all over, we were ambushed by thieves in Liangshenkou, and the whole army was wiped out." Liu Xingzuo's personal Aha Fei Yangwu came in and knelt on the ground, crying bitterly and silently, Meng Ke said what happened on the side, the Jin army annihilated Liu Xingzuo's hundreds of Mongolian soldiers in the two gray mouths, Liu Xingxian, Fei Yangwu and others desperately rushed out of the encirclement, and were chased by the Jin army all the way, and happened to meet him and Asari with a team of cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation, the two saw that the situation was critical, and hurriedly led people to kill and saved Fei Yangwu several people, but Liu Xingxian's horse was shot, fell off the horse and was captured, Asari also saw the battle flags of Zilharang and Abatai, He estimated that the other party should have prepared in advance, otherwise he would not be able to come to two Baylors for these hundreds of people.

Liu Xingzuo didn't have a single tear, he helped Fei Yangwu up, looked up to the sky and sighed: "This is fate!" Huang Taiji must have known that I had cheated to death, he was going to kill me, and it was me who should be damned, but it was Xingxian, Yuzi, you really shouldn't have appeared at this time, if it weren't for seeing you, I would have died. ”

"Brother Liu, it's always a good thing to be alive, don't think about it so much, let's think about what we should do," Ma Guangyuan's face turned pale, and he asked Li Yu in a mournful voice, "General Li, Yongping is lost, Jiannu will hit the Jianchang camp soon, we will definitely not be able to hold it, can you help us?" ”

"We are cavalry, it is impossible to help you defend the city," Li Yu hesitated and shook his head and said, "The Jin army has tens of thousands of horses, and we are only more than a thousand people together, and the surrounding Ming army is also unable to assist us, the strength is too different, let the officers and soldiers organize the people to retreat, the Jin army has broken through the border wall in several places, and there is no need for the Jianchang battalion to defend it at all." ”

Bai Xianzhi also said in a low voice: "In the current situation, it won't help if we stay here, my Fengzhou army can only withdraw from the side wall, and General Ma will also withdraw with us." ”

"You all go, you don't have to leave any of them, I, Ma Guangyuan, will stay here and wait for death to serve the emperor and the court." Ma Guangyuan's face turned red, and he staggered away with a loud roar.

After Ma Guangyuan left, Li Yu immediately ordered the Fengzhou army to prepare for retreat, and in order to conceal its whereabouts, it would set off after dark. At dusk, Ma Guangyuan entered the urn city again, and when they saw Li Yu, they pointed to a dozen carts behind them and said: "Everyone is a soldier and eats food, meeting is fate, it is not easy to endure the cold outside, if you want to leave, take away the food and ordnance on this car, anyway, it is a waste to keep it." ”

Bai Xianzhi asked in surprise, "Brother Ma, what do you mean by this?" You don't need these things to defend the city, Brother Ma, you have to make it clear. ”

"We have decided to surrender to the Jin army, and the messenger has also been sent, the Jin army may arrive in the second half of the night, if you want to surrender, you can be a companion together, and if you want to leave, you can leave quickly with your things." Ma Guangyuan hung his head and said, after the loss of Yongping, the abolished officials Bai Yangcui, Zhang Yangchu, Meng Qiaofang, Yang Wenkui and others came forward to organize the people to surrender, avoiding the disaster of Yongping's slaughter, Tiancong Khan immediately named Bai Yangcui as the governor of Yongping, Zhang Yangchu as the prefect of Yongping, Meng Qiaofang, Yang Wenkui as the deputy general, these degraded officials went around to contact officers and soldiers around to surrender, Bai Zhongjun of the Jianchang camp was a relative of Bai Yangcui, and also came to persuade Ma Guangyuan to surrender, Ma Guangyuan began to refuse, but when he heard that Meng Qiaofang also surrendered, he immediately hesitated, Meng Qiaofang was born in the general's family, leading troops to fight a very set, and he was bold and chivalrous, upright, offended the official in Ningxia's deputy commander-in-chief, and was dismissed and rushed back to Yongping's hometown, although this person has no official position, but with his qualifications, ability in Shanhaiguan, Yongping is very prestigious among the generals, Ma Guangyuan thought twice, and finally decided to surrender, but he is a kind person, did not forget to say hello to a few new friends in the urn city.

Liu Xingzuo asked with a gloomy face: "Brother Ma, you and I get along well, you tell me the truth, are you willing to surrender?" ”

"Which bastard is willing to surrender to the enemy, but I really have no way out, Taitou Battalion, Anshan Fort, Qian'an, and Luanzhou are all ready to surrender, Jianchang Camp is unguardable, and I have to pay thousands of lives for the soldiers and civilians in the city, I dare not run, I evacuate the defense area without authorization, the court will definitely kill me, I am not willing to seek death, I am also dedicated to the court, why should I spend money to buy an official to be martyred," Ma Guangyuan urged impatiently, "You guys go quickly, Bai Zhongjun is still holding my family in the General's Mansion, this kid is not bad, and I do not want to embarrass you. ”

"Brother Ma, if you are unwilling to surrender, then it will be easy to do, and I have to be worthy of my friends." Li Yu nodded, quietly glanced at Mo Rige beside him, and then suddenly flashed back, Mo Rige stepped forward suddenly, and a hand knife slashed at Ma Guangyuan's head, Ma Guangyuan was caught off guard and fainted to the ground, before Ma Guangyuan's personal soldiers could react, Chen Erzhu and Liu Shishi rushed up with people and put the knife on their necks.

Li Yu shouted at Ma Guangyuan's personal soldiers: "No one is allowed to do anything, General Ma is our brother, we will never harm him, who is willing to take us to snatch General Ma out of his family?" ”

The soldiers looked around for a while, and saw that the Fengzhou soldiers really didn't mean to do anything, only a few people stood up and were willing to lead the way, Li Yu waved his hand and rushed into the city with Meng Ke and Jida, and everything went smoothly when he arrived at the General's Mansion, Bai Zhongjun was kicked to the ground by Meng Ke, and the others didn't dare to stop this group of wolf-like soldiers, and let Li Yu take away Ma Guangyuan's family, Bai Zhongjun sat on the ground and scolded angrily: "As soon as you leave, what should we do?" What about the thousands of people in the city? You Tartars are going to kill us. ”

Li Yu pulled Bai Guerrilla up from the ground, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Bai Zhongjun, don't be afraid, I, Li Yu, will never harm you, if the Jianchang camp can't be defended, you don't have to defend it, and the blood of the brothers can't be shed in vain, you send someone to inform the whole city overnight, those who are willing to surrender stay, and those who don't disperse, if the Jin army comes to embarrass you, you can find Sakhalian Belle with the red flag or Haugbel with the yellow flag, just say that you are friends with Errubaturu, they will help you, brother, live well!" ”

After Li Yu finished speaking, he walked away, and the stunned Bai Zhongjun was still stupid in place.

Li Yu returned to Wengcheng, and immediately set off with the team while it was dark, and when the team passed out of the side wall from Lengkou, Ma Guangyuan suddenly became stupid, shouting that he wanted to go to Shanhaiguan to see Lord Sun Chengzong, he was a general of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't just leave without knowing in vain, and he didn't want to go out of the customs to be a Tatar.

Bai Xianzhi was angry and funny: "Brother Ma, can you still go back now?" When you get to Shanhaiguan, you have to let the old grandson tie it out and cut it, you are lucky to meet us, ****** are going to be the people who are going to be slaves, and you are afraid of being a Tatar? You think that the Tatars can be if they want to. ”

Ma Guangyuan cried and made trouble, at this time he wanted to be a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty again, Li Yu, Liu Xingzuo, Bai Xianzhi persuaded each other with good words, he was still unwilling to listen, Ma Guangyuan's wife was impatient, and came over and slapped Ma Guangyuan in the face, Ma's sister-in-law reprimanded angrily: "The surname Ma, don't know what to do, who said that you should be a Tatar, will Li Shen General and Bai Ginseng be Tatar?" Your broken general is not my mother's family paid for you to buy it, let's just admit compensation, I'm sorry for the court, I want to die and find a tree to hang myself, don't affect our family. ”

"Adults, let's continue on the road, we don't need to pay attention to him." After Sister-in-law Ma scolded the old horse, she beckoned everyone to go, everyone was calmed by Sister-in-law Ma's momentum, and followed Sister-in-law Ma away, Lao Ma saw that no one paid attention to him, he hesitated in place for a while, and also covered his face and followed behind everyone without saying a word.

"Brother Liu, are you going to go back to Shanhaiguan?" Li Yu asked Liu Xingzuo quietly.

"Of course I want to go back, but that's after this battle," Liu Xingzuo seemed to be in a better mood, he waved his fist and said, "I figured it out, I should die this time but I didn't die, God will leave me with a big responsibility, I will take Xingzhi and they will resign after I go back, we will all go to your Fengzhou, the water in the Ming Kingdom is too deep, we won't play, I want to fight with Aixin Jueluo's family in Fengzhou." ”

"Hao-Rui, Hao-Rui!" Li Yu excitedly clamped his legs, the horse rushed forward, everyone followed Li Yu with a long roar, speeding up and galloping forward, at this time the sky suddenly snowed, and this year was another spring cold.