In mid-June, the situation in Fengzhou improved, and after Xinghewei received reinforcements, Liu Xingzuo did not rush to approach Zhangjiakou Fort, but sent troops north into Karamangnai, and the Great Commander's Mansion immediately increased the left and right battalions of the Heihe battalion to advance eastward, and set up the Guanshan camp east of Guillotine Mountain, and the passage for the Jin army to advance westward again was blocked. Relying on the Guanshan battalion, Sanghar Zhai Jinong led the two battalions of Darhan and Martyr's Rite to return to the old capital city, and unexpectedly joined the left cavalry battalion led by Zhao Ji in the Jinlianchuan grassland.

Zhao Ji fought smoothly along the way, the Jin army was insufficient, and several strongholds set up on the way to the west were mainly garrisoned by pawns or Han soldiers, and they were unable to fight against Zhao Ji's gang of horse thieves, and they were uprooted one after another. Zhao Ji was almost overbearing on the retreat of the Jin army, and Yingordai's grain transportation team was overwhelming, with five hundred armored soldiers and two thousand people equipped with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and they were still beaten - Zhao Ji, Sun Fuhu, Qiu Xian and others were all mixed in the grasslands outside the border, the land was familiar and the face was big, and as soon as they appeared, a large group of horse thieves and robbers defected, and even the Jin army team also had their accomplices to do internal response, Yingordai acted decisively, throwing down a thousand people and half of the grain and grass as a price, only to get rid of the encirclement and interception of this group. Zhao Ji ravaged Yingordai, and heard that the Jin army grain station was moving to Ulan Hada, and immediately went on to fight the black hand, and the local horse thieves intercepted the Jin army halfway and beat it, and the Jia La'e Zhen Yan Bulu and Niu Lu Zhen Dong Shan, who escorted the grain platform, were frightened, gave up part of the grain and grass, and the baggage, and hid in the mountains to defend the fortification, and Ulan Hada was close at hand and did not dare to go. Zhao Ji felt that the trouble was almost over, and he might suffer a loss if he didn't leave, so he set foot on the way home, and the left cavalry battalion also expanded from 500 people when it came out to about 1,000 people, and it became even more powerful after the Jinlianchuan and Chahar cavalry joined up. At this time, from Xinghewei to Karamangnai, and then to the front line of the old upper capital, it completely fell into the hands of the combined forces of Fengzhou and Chahar, like a big net cast on the Jin army, and the Fengzhou army seized the initiative in the war.

The situation on the front line is very good, and the territory of Fengzhou has also survived the flood - the sweat of Fengzhou's annual water conservancy construction has not been in vain, and the water in the fields has been introduced into the reservoir and water cellar, and Han Lin instructed everyone to build a dam to stop the overflowing river, and also widen the canal to lead the river water into the old riverbed, and the crops have finally been saved. Everyone admired Han Lin so much, but Han Lin shook his head vigorously and modestly, this flood is not a matter at all in the Guannei, and anyone who knows a little water conservancy can deal with it, but he is very interested in the reservoir that the people of Fengzhou have drummed up, and thinks that this thing can be of great use.

The Great Commander's Mansion has a headache for the Jin Army, fighting, the price is too great to bear, if you don't fight, the other party is relying on the edge of Xuanfu - the farmland in Fengzhou must prepare for the autumn harvest, the workshop will be restarted, and the trade with the Ming State will also be restored as soon as possible, if the Jin Army does not get out, everyone will not be able to do things with peace of mind, but will have to invest huge manpower and material resources to prepare for the war, Li Yu wants to go to the Jin Army camp to persuade them to go home early, even if it is to paste some rations, but Jin Sheng is still in the Barbarian Mountain, and he does not dare to go too far.

Li Yu pushed away the official document in front of him, stood up and stretched his waist and yawned, dealing with government affairs is tired, Na Mu'er's injury is almost healed, he is smarter than me, I have to tell him to come back to work as soon as possible - the Great Commander's Office is divided into the Great Law Division, the Prime Minister's Administrative Office and the Zanhua Military Affairs Office, Li Yu's work is much lighter, it is nothing more than to read the prepared official document again, and then make a reply, but he also feels troublesome about this work, and he can't wait to push it to Na Mu'er, the assistant government affairs.

"Erlu, Rosh, they bought a few sheep, please come over and drink." The iron spear entered the study with a wooden stick and a smile - he was a prisoner who was comfortable, recuperated in Li Yu's house, with good food and drink and new clothes to wear, even he was embarrassed, and he couldn't be idle when he was injured, Li Yu's chores were all packed by him, and he followed him all day long, and he didn't know that he thought that Li Yu had added another personal guard. The Yansui people are very dissatisfied with this, Li Yu's side is either Mongolian, Zhushen, or Bansheng Han, and the only Guannei person Wu Xian is still from Nanzhili, why are there no people from the Northwest? Du Wenhuan was in charge, and his two most powerful personal soldiers, Gao Heizi and He Dashui, were also stuffed to Li Yu's side as guards.

This is what I like, that guy from Rosh took the IOU I made in Zunhua and exchanged it for more than a hundred taels of silver bills, it was time to invite me to a meal - Li Yu came to his senses, shouted "Go to dinner" and walked out, and the four personal guards of Mo Rige, Wu Xian, Gao Heizi, and He Dashui immediately followed behind excitedly. The captured Yellow Flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Luoshi was waiting outside the gate of the Grand Commander's Mansion, and when he saw Li Yu coming out, he saluted happily, and a group of people went to the prisoner camp with talk and laughter.

Starting with Ah Shan's gang, Fengzhou captured more than 800 prisoners of the Eight Banners before and after, but they couldn't find a place to lock up people, so they had to take the prisoners to a small forest under the Barbarian Mountain, and everyone started to build a shack together, and then sent some soldiers to stand guard, which was considered a prisoner camp. Ah Shan is the largest in the captivity, and is designated as the big leader of the captive camp, this guy warned these new brothers and sisters as soon as he took office, the conditions of the prisoner camp are definitely not as good as at home, but it is definitely better than the Jin army camp, sleep peacefully, eat and be full, say hello and wander around, don't think about running away, out of the barbarian mountain camp dozens of miles without seeing people, and there are wild beasts infested, can't escape and lose their lives in vain, wait patiently for the battle to go home. Good food and drink do not work, you can go home in the future, fools don't do it, the captives live a leisurely life with peace of mind, there are many people still learn to come first captives to go out to find work, the iron and cloth here are cheaper than the Jin country, earn some money to buy an iron pot or a few pieces of cloth back, it is not in vain.

Jin Sheng is like a cat who can't see a mouse, so he didn't miss the idea of this group of captives, and specially asked Du Wenhuan and Bai Xianzhi for help, planning to catch a few and send them to Jingshi Xianpeng. Du Wenhuan refused, and solemnly told Jin Sheng that if the Ming army wanted to be strong, it must learn to respect its opponents, and sent the prisoners to Beijing to be chopped, except for making some fools and fools hysterical, it did not play any role. Bai Xianzhi ignored it, and instead transferred Tu Lichen to lead a team of Zhushen soldiers to protect the prisoners, and clearly ordered that the prisoners were allowed to enter and leave the camp at will during the day, and it didn't matter if anyone wanted to escape and feed the wolves - Lao Bai had gained experience from the Gyeonggi War, and it was beneficial and harmless to have more contact with the opponent, and the people of Fengzhou were familiar with these poor worms, and they would only despise the Jin army even more.

The people of Fengzhou hated these captives at first, and the two sides fought a few times, but then they had more contact, and found that after these guys were beaten back to their original form, they were just honest farmers, and they belonged to the more stupid kind, and gradually they didn't take them seriously - the soldiers all understood that they couldn't be blamed on the battlefield, and it was not easy to blame the little soldiers if they had hatred, not to mention that these people worked very hard, and they just used them. Some time ago, the prisoners also actively participated in the flood relief, and a few of them were rewarded by the Grand Commander's Office for their outstanding performance, which made them embarrassed, but in fact, they were just bored and went out to have a good time.

Li Yu came to the prisoner camp to see the flowers a few times, everyone recognized him, and did not treat him as an outsider, some people who did not have a burden at home still wanted to stay in Fengzhou for naturalization - Zhu Shen is not ashamed to change jobs between tribes, whoever fights the most brave, everyone will take refuge, Erlu Batulu won the Great Khan, and he is kind, the tribe is also well governed, and he has a future with him.

Rosh shouted, and more than a dozen captives came out from everywhere and sat around a large cauldron around Li Yu - another hot pot of mutton shabu, as well as a few jars of wine and a large pile of tofu, yam eggs and radish, and the smell of meat wafted out and attracted Tu Lichen and his gang, and everyone ate together. Li Yu asked Ah Shan by the way why he didn't come, Rosh waved his hand and said leave him alone, he must have followed Boss Fan to drum up tobacco leaves - Ah Shan has a bad reputation in the Eight Banners, and everyone doesn't like to be with him, this Li Yu knows, but how did this guy fiddle with tobacco leaves, don't Fan Yongdou fool Ah Shan to help him sell tobacco later, right?

Everyone ate and drank happily, and there were more words, Rosh spat out the wine, shook his head and said: "The battle must be almost over, I really feel uncomfortable to leave here, what's wrong with our Dajin Kingdom?" When the army was raised, we wanted to drive away the dog officials of the Ming Kingdom, and finally took Liaodong, and the Great Khan used them as treasures, and also learned the official system of the Ming Kingdom, we are all illiterate rough people, who can calculate the Han officials, sooner or later they will be trampled under the feet of others, or the tribe of the Erlu brothers, if you don't eat the Han people, just do things according to our customs, who has the ability to be an official, if it weren't for the drag of a family, I really want to do it with the Erlu brothers! ”

"Who says it's not, the Ming Kingdom is really good, they will always lose the battle? We are good here, the old and young masters are discussing and doing things, who wants to be an official has to be a public officer," Tu Lichen took a sip of wine, and angrily hugged his former master, "Isn't Amin Belle just against changing the customs of Zhushen, why did the Great Khan confine his old man, and Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan My group of minions, I was disgusted when I saw it, I will leave when they become officials, there are Han people in Fengzhou who are officials, but people really have the ability, they can't be dissatisfied, read a few broken books and want to be an official, dream of it!" ”

"That's it, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan me, Ma Guozhu, these Han officials also came this time, they can't do big things, it's still our Zhushen who fights and bleeds, the Great Khan must have been the Han officials, and if you have to engage in the six-part system and the regulations of leaving the master, Lao Zhushen is on fire in his heart." Baoshun, who was inlaid with a yellow flag, also vented his dissatisfaction.

Some people say that since the use of Han officials, the shelves of the official government have become bigger and bigger, and they have also learned to be corrupt and take bribes, and even dare to bully Zhu Shen when they are dressed for the Great Khan; Some people say that the Han officials didn't know how to pretend to understand, and taught everyone to repair water conservancy and grow crops indiscriminately, making Liaodong even poorer; Some people also said that the people of Zhushen were originally simple and simple, but as soon as those Han officials came, the atmosphere was broken, and the young people of the Eight Banners also learned to eat, drink and enjoy themselves, so how could they go on like this. The more everyone talked, the more angry they became, and after scolding the Han officials, they scolded Baylor and the ministers who advocated sinicization, and finally even Dajin Guo was scolded.

The more he talked, the more unspeakable he became, Li Yu hurriedly waved his hand to stop: "Say a few words, you are going back to Liaodong!" Besides, I don't have slavery, no nobility here, I talk about freedom and equality, and I don't even have Ahha, do you feel dissatisfied? ”

"What's the matter, although your tribe doesn't have Aha, but there is no master, everyone works together, no one can bully anyone, and there is lawlessness, this is the old Zhushen's way of living, and we Zhushen also like freedom and equality." Rosh said in a letter, the captives talked nonsense, in fact, Aha is a family member, they are good to Ahha, but it is those masters who are big officials who bully them, they are enslaved, or Fengzhou is good, just like when Lao Zhushen was in the mountains, the stronger the tribe of Erruba Tulu, the better, let those Jin people who take the evil road see, Zhushen's old road is the bright road.

Li Yu had nothing to say to these guys who knew nothing, so he changed the topic and chatted with them, and the captives sighed, Liaodong is not having a good time, spring cold, drought, waterlogging ......, whatever bad luck will encounter, they and Aha are tired and tired in the field, it is good to be able to harvest five buckets of millet on an acre of land, and they can't eat enough and have no money in their hands, so they want to go out to fight and make some money, but fighting is not a joke, like this westward expedition is five or six thousand miles, and they are tired and hungry on the road and often can't find water to drink, Many weak brothers died on the road, and the living also shed their skin, and in the end they lost the battle, and the poor were unlucky everywhere!

"The boss of the bull's eye family died in Daling River last year, he is also a hard worker, he is crippled, the boss is gone, the other children are still young, and it is not easy to guard a few yards, I went to Tieling to see him at the beginning of the year, and the family and a few Aha are huddled on a kang to keep warm, and the whole family does not even have a decent cotton jacket." The iron spear, which had been holding its head shut, spoke.

Li Yu was silent for a long time, then raised his head and asked everyone: "I want to know about Beitunzi in Fengji Fort, who can tell me how the villagers are doing?" ”

"Is it Uncle Wudai's village? I am from the blue flag, Beitunzi is not far from our village," a young man stood up and said to Li Yu, "Beitunzi has poor land and lack of water, and the people in the village have been living a bad life, relying on fishing and hunting, and doing some small business in private, so that they can eat half full, but Abataibel has few opportunities to go out to fight, and there should be no one dead in the village in the past few years, maybe there will be more men in the future, and life will be better." ”

"Is Uncle Udai okay? Is that Bayanha still a cow? ”

"Uncle Wudai took people into the mountains to hunt in the winter before last, and his legs were frozen, and now he has to walk on crutches to get down to the ground, and Uncle Bayanha is not a good person, he took the people in Niu Lu to do business in private, and he was investigated and punished, and he was removed from his official position and fined a large amount of property, and now he is also poor."

Li Yu's face became ugly, he lowered his head and drank hard, everyone didn't dare to speak for a while, Mo Rige glanced at several other guards, the four of them picked up Li Yu and left, and the iron spear also waved his hand at everyone and said, Brother Erlu still has official business, let's drink here today.

"What kind of world is this, bad people can eat anywhere, after being the official of the Ming Kingdom and the official of the Jin Kingdom, the good people are unlucky everywhere, always suffering and suffering the lives of the poor, this is still a fart fight, the Ming Kingdom is a bastard, and the Jin Kingdom is also a bastard in the world," Li Yu was carried by the guards and walked a few steps, and suddenly turned around and shouted to everyone, "When you go back, tell the villagers, if you can't go on, come to me, I'll give them food, Brother Iron Spear, Brother Rosh, when you leave, bring me some money to Uncle Wudai and Brother Bull's Eye, Let's just say that I haven't forgotten them, and there are black bulls, and they are really not worth dying! ”

Li Yu was taken away in a daze, and the captives looked at each other, Elu is really a good person, but five or six thousand miles, people can't defect to you!

Li Yu came out of the prisoner camp just when Ah Shan came back, and before Ah Shan had time to salute, Li Yu hugged him, pointed to his nose and said, Ah Shan, I know that you are a black man with a bad heart, I warn you, don't do bad things in the future, otherwise I will kill you! Mo Rige hurriedly waved his hand at Ah Shan, picked up Li Yu and left.

Ah Shan can be frightened a lot, he met Fan Yongdou in Shenyang some time ago, the two guys got together to discuss the future fortune plan, Fan Yongdou secretly planted some tobacco leaves in Shanxi, Fengzhou, and opened a tobacco workshop, is thinking about how to traffic tobacco to Jinguo, saw Ah Shan overjoyed, immediately appointed him as the general agent of Fan Ji Tobacco in Liaodong, the two have been planning this matter these days, Lao Fan also taught him to make up nonsense, such as smoking the old Fan's cigarette race to live immortals, smoking tobacco can strengthen the body, nourish yin and aphrodisiac and so on, In short, how can you cheat the money, how can you come, did Erlu hear the rumors?

Li Yu slept all night, and the next day he arrived at the Grand Commander's Mansion in a daze, the officials were already waiting in the lobby, Li Huai handed him an official document, and said with relief: "The Jin State has asked for peace, the envoy has arrived in Xinghewei, and Liu Xingzuo, the deputy commander, sent Fei Yangwu to escort them to the Barbarian Mountain, and it is expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon, it seems that this battle is going to be over." ”

"Liu Xingzuo and Terig are in Weining Haizi, Ma Guangyuan is in Karamangnai, and Zhao Ji is in the old Shangdu, putting pressure on the Jin army in three directions, they can't hold it anymore, and the chief Jian has to admit it," Du Wenhuan curled his beard and said disdainfully, "It's obvious that he is asking us for peace, but he doesn't say that he will go to Fort Victory, and he will die to save face and suffer the crime." ”

"Master Kurtang is coming, as well as Yingordai, Sony, Changshu, and Baige, I will personally greet them," Li Yu's hand holding the official document trembled a little, pointing at Namu'er and Wang Fang and shouting, "They are my elders and brothers, go and prepare the most solemn etiquette to welcome them." ”

"Okay, let's all go to greet your guests, Masaki, are you going?" Li Fugui stood up with a smile and casually asked Jin Sheng again.

"I'm an official of the imperial court, if you don't go, you can do it yourself, no one will listen to me anyway." Jin Sheng replied with an expression on his face, his situation is the most embarrassing, the imperial court has not seriously managed Fengzhou until now, and he is almost an ornament as the highest court official in Fengzhou, seeing that Fengzhou and the imperial court are getting farther and farther away, but he is helpless, but he is facing a problem, the vigorous Fengzhou and the twilight Mingguo, which one should he choose?