Jin Jun entered Fengzhou, to everyone's surprise, now is the autumn harvest season, the people are busy in the field, at first thought it was their own people, and so on to see the other party's banner clearly, the hoe in the hand, sickle immediately replaced with a knife spear, bow and arrow, screaming and pounced on the Jin army - the people of Fengzhou take weapons no less time than the hoe time, there is a wildness on the body, in recent years, one victory after another, everyone feels that Lao Tzu is the first in the world, dare to move their crops, livestock must play with their lives, Jin Jun is also considered to know each other, Never entangled with the common people, plunged headlong into the hills outside the Great Wall.

The Grand Commander's Mansion was also startled when it received the urgent report, and did not hesitate to issue a ******, appointing Du Wenhuan to command the garrisons of various prefectures to encircle and suppress the invading enemy, but the Jin army moved too fast, and the garrisons were still hurrying with their heads covered, and the Jin army had quietly rushed to the victory fort. Wu Dayou and Du Han were taking the people to harvest corn, and they thought that the Jin army was coming to loot, so they ran to intercept it, but the other party unexpectedly obeyed the rules, and after setting up the camp, they hid in it very honestly, and countless pine fires were lit at night, illuminating the outside of the camp as bright as day.

Du Wenhuan returned to his big tent with a relaxed face, everything was as he expected - when Xuan Dewei's Titang official reported the military situation to him, he mentioned that Zhang Shi'an had taken them into Datong to arrest the Jin State spies in May, and caught a family member of the Jin State Han official Bao Chengxian, who confessed that the Jin State spies had been mixed into the Datong border army, most of them were Datong people who followed Bao Chengxian to reduce the gold together, Zhang Shi'an also wanted to enter the border army to arrest people, but Datong Governor Hu Zhenen has never had a good impression of Fengzhou, and Zhang Shi'an's Jinyi Wei identity made him even more annoying, Unceremoniously drove this gang of guys out of the border wall, and thought that it must be the northern captives of Toyoshu who were trying to make trouble for him.

There must be a Jin State spy in the Victory Fort, otherwise the Jin Army would never be reckless and run away, Bao Chengxian was born in the Datong military household, was originally the deputy general of the Ming Army, and there were many Datong soldiers who followed him to Liaodong, it is not strange for these people to mix into the border fort, wait to see the excitement - Du Wenhuan is a little gloating.

After nightfall, the garrisons of the various prefectures of Fengzhou arrived one after another, and the Jin army was surrounded on three sides, and there was a victory fort behind them, and it seemed that they were falling into a dead place. Zhang Chuanjie, the former battalion officer of the infantry army, Zhou Yuji, the deputy battalion officer of the front battalion of the infantry army, Liu Qian, the Xuande guard, the Dongsheng guard, Zabutu, the Chahan Naoer guard, and Zhang Liwei, the deputy garrison of Fengzhou Mansion, were all running to the Chinese army to ask Du Wenhuan for battle.

"Old marshal, give the order to attack, the Jin army is tired from a long distance, and it is under siege, the army's spirit must be unstable, take this opportunity to kill it, our army's victory is in sight." Among the battalion officers and garrisons in Fengzhou, only Zhang Chuanjie had the rank of deputy general with three tiger head symbols, and when he entered the big tent, he was impatient to ask for war on behalf of everyone.

"Do you think the Jin army is easy to fight, they are tired, and our army is not tired after running a big lap in vain? The main force of the battalion under the command of the commander must not start a battle until he arrives, and you each guard your own camp and block the flow of the Jin army is a meritorious service. Du Wenhuan glanced at the generals and replied.

"Old handsome, the brothers are not afraid of being tired, and the morale is high, let's fight!" Zhang Chuanjie is still not giving up.

"A night battle is a scuffle, how many strong people in my Fengzhou can withstand your spoilage, go back!" Du Wenhuan drank unceremoniously.

At this moment, the fire on the Fort of Victory burst out, and then there were shouts of killing and cannons, and the scouts came to report that the Jin army had begun to attack Fort Victory, and the military flag had been planted on the wall of the victory entrance. Zhang Chuanjie was anxious, shouting and asking for support for Fort Victory, and the generals also asked to fight.

"Enough, here I am the commander, listen to my orders, go back to your camp and be on guard, not a single soldier is allowed to fight," Du Wenhuan shouted angrily, and casually pointed to Xu Jinxian, the deputy garrison of Xuandewei, "You bring a brigade to pick up Wu Dayou back, if the Jin army does not take the initiative to attack, you must not move." ”

The direction of Fort Victory was lively for a while, and then it calmed down, and the side wall was full of Jin troops, waving big flags triumphantly, inviting the poor brothers of Fengzhou to go to Datong with them to make a fortune. Zhang Chuanjie and Liu Qian are Datong people, their lungs are about to explode, and they scolded Jin Jun for being born a thief, and they should be cut with a thousand knives.

Xuande Wei Qingzhuang, who came to the aid of the victory, came back with Xu Jinxian, but Wu Dayou died in the chaos - Lao Wu is a man who counts, and he promised to protect the Ming army and never break his word, and took his brothers and Jin Jun to get started, and even he died more than a dozen, fortunately, Jin Jun recognized these people and did not dare to do anything wrong, but just drove them away, and the living Qingzhuang and part of the Ming army had the opportunity to retreat from the side wall and join Xu Jinxian's people.

Xuan Dewei commanded Wu Dayou to die in battle, Dong Shengwei judged that Du Han was old, and he didn't survive tonight with an arrow wound, Fengzhou lost two important people in one day, and the soldiers were angry, and surrounded the big tent of the Chinese army and shouted to kill him, Du Wenhuan shouted loudly to no avail, so he had to ask Liu Tianren, the judge of the Dafa Division to be stationed in the army.

"My Fengzhou army is strictly disciplined, those who disobey orders during the war will be beheaded according to the "Seven Killings Order", and those who disobey orders in leisure time will be whipped one hundred and reported to the Great Commander's Office for dismissal and demotion. As soon as Liu Tianren appeared with a straight face, the officers, including his son-in-law Zhou Yuji, immediately shrank back in fright, this person is selfless and ruthless, more ruthless than Ortai, and most of the judgments of the Great Law Division to determine the three hundred lashes came from him, and he is known as the "Living Yama King of Fengzhou", which is really unprovoked.

Du Wenhuan was also holding back the fire in his heart, and saw that there were one hundred and ten Ming soldiers among the people brought back by Xu Jinxian, so he rushed over and grabbed the leader among them and asked angrily: "A group of waste, the border fort more than three feet high was lost in more than an hour, Ben Shuai asked you, what did Li Quan take you to do in the Victory Fort?" ”

"The villain won the victory and put the total horse and the second black, it's messy, it's all messed up, this battle can't be fought!" The officer cried and told the story of the loss of Fort Victory--when the Jin soldiers were under the city, the soldiers of the Ming army begged the officers for salaries according to the custom, but where did the money that fell into the officers' pockets come back, and some people encouraged everyone to ask for the general Li Quan to discuss the explanation, and the soldiers were eager to ask for money, and they flocked to the general's mansion, and Li Quan was so frightened that he didn't dare to show his face - to be honest, the pressure salary that fell in his hands was also subsidized for the family. The officials did not pay back, the soldiers refused to fight, more and more people gathered outside the general's mansion, when the Jin army came to attack, there were few defenders on the side wall, and easily entered the victory fort, Li Quan saw that the general trend had gone, and simply hanged himself, and the fort was immediately in chaos, and the Ming army either fled or surrendered. Ma Erhei was also begging for money at the gate of the General's Mansion at that time, taking advantage of the chaos to slip away, but he did not run to the Guannei, which must be more dangerous, but took a group of brothers out of the side wall around the path and threw himself to the brothers who used to smuggle and sell smuggling together to eliminate the disaster and take refuge.

"Dashuai, there are Liaodong spies in the fort, although there are not many of us guarding the border wall, but the fort gate should not be opened by itself, and the brothers also saw someone throwing ropes at Jiannu." Ma Erhei finally said.

"There are indeed spies, so Ben Shuai wants to see if you are human or ghost, come here, lock them all up, and screen them one by one." Du Wenhuan waved his hand to Xuande Wei Titang official, and a group of Fengzhou soldiers rushed over, and dragged down the Ming army with beating and scolding, and then shouted to the generals: "The official army has lost the victory fort, we will take it back, and the generals will return to the camp to prepare, and as soon as the commander arrives, we will send troops." ”

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Yu and Zhao Ji led the iron cavalry to the victory fort, and saw the victory with the banner of the red flag, and Shuotuo, who followed behind, was furious, and wanted to go back to the old man to ask for an explanation.

Li Yutie entered the big tent of the Chinese army with a blue face, and was tricked once, no one was happy, Du Wenhuan smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said: "Yuzi, we don't have much loss, why cry and lose face, this is a good thing, the court may have to pinch our nose and invite us to enter the customs to suppress the Kou." ”

Li Yu sat down silently, looked at the map for a long time, and then tapped his finger heavily on the location of the Victory Fort, Du Wenhuan shook his head, drew a line along the side wall of Datong, and Li Yu began to ponder again.

"Hanmin, good apprentice, your opportunity to serve the imperial court has come, the two towns of Datong and Xuanfu can't hold on and ask us for help, hurry, quickly lead the troops to enter the pass with the division." Liu Zhilun suddenly ran in, still holding two letters in his hands.

Liu Zhilun just came from naturalization, and his face was full of smugness - among the four towns of Xuanda, the status of naturalization town is the lowest, and the corresponding Liu Zhilun also has the lowest status among the governors of each town. However, he is now seeing a rise in the market, the Jin army beat the Xuanfu official army to the ground, and then drove straight to the west, the rangers even appeared outside Datong City, the officials and soldiers of the two towns shrank their heads and hid in the strong city, allowing the Jin army to gallop vertically and horizontally, and did not dare to take half a step out of the city gate, and Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, in addition to constantly reporting to the imperial court for help, could not come up with any way, Xuanfu Governor Jiao Yuanqing, Datong Governor Hu Zhan'en was anxiously red-eyed, put down the shelf and begged Guihua Town to help, Liu Zhilun was very angry, and came to Li Yu in a hurry.

Liu Zhilun continued excitedly: "Han Min, Dongyu broke through the Victory Fort under our noses, you and I are guilty, if the battle is successful, not only will the previous crimes be forgiven, but also have a great contribution to the imperial court, quickly order the troops, Datong and Xuanfu have promised to provide us with food and salary, and you are the best at fighting Dongyu!" ”

Li Yu stood up, walked back and forth in the big tent for a while, suddenly stood up and said loudly: "Brother Boxi, what are you doing outside the tent, you have something to say." ”

"Great Commander, we have brought all the merchant troops, can you give us some credit, I really read a lot of military books at home!" Sun Tingyao walked in embarrassedly and said.

"Great Commander, no one is more familiar with the roads near the side wall than us, and we can go around the back of the Jin army with our eyes closed." Fang Zhikun and Buck, who were following Sun Tingyao, also shouted.

Li Yu nodded, clapped his hands to summon the guards, and said loudly: "Pass my order, Xinghe Guard garrison Wang Yongqiang stationed in Xinping Fort, Xuande Wei Deputy Garrison Xu Jinxian stationed in Shoukou Fort, Guihua Mansion Deputy Garrison Zhang Liwei stationed in Kill Hukou Fort, and the other departments will follow me tomorrow to recover Victory Fort." ”

"That's not right, just recover the Victory Fort, Xinping Fort, Shoukou Fort, and Kill Tiger Mouth are still in the hands of the officials and soldiers! What are you going to do? Liu Zhilun asked puzzled.

Li Yu sneered and replied: "I can't trust the Ming official army!" ”

"Your Excellency, don't get me wrong, the officers and soldiers have lost the Victory Fort and we have been affected, if we lose a few more passes, we can't afford to be guilty! Good people do it to the end, let's help them," Du Wenhuan explained with a smile, and then turned his face to Sun Tingyao and said, "Bo Xi, you have worked hard tonight, leading the front battalion of the infantry army and the deputy army of the front battalion to block the back road of the victorious fort Jiannu, light more torches, the momentum must be bigger, and it is best to scare them away." ”

However, Du Wenhuan thought in vain, and the old Dai Shan slipped away again - when Shuo Tuo and Zhai Sangu appeared in front of him violently, Dai Shan immediately realized that Li Yu had arrived, and Shuo Tuo didn't look at the old man's face, and opened his mouth and asked loudly, "Are you my pro-Ama", Dai Shan trembled with anger, raised the whip casually, and scared these two guys to run away. Driving away the two gangsters, Dai Shan immediately ordered to prepare to retreat - this side wall can't stop the big Jin soldiers, let alone the native Fengzhou army, more than 15,000 cavalry are stationed in this palm-sized place, Li Yu doesn't have to fight at all, just outflank his back road, and surround the victory fort for three or five days, the Jin army will starve and die with men and horses. As soon as it got dark, the Jin army quietly set off, Zhang Chuanjie and Zhou Yuji were still bluffing on the road, and they were already walking on the official road to Datong.

Early the next morning, Li Yu led the team out of the camp, Sun Tingyao volunteered to take the lead, the merchant army arrived at the victory fort, let out a wolf howling ghost cry, and continued to shoot arrows, the Ming army soldiers who stayed in the fort heard the call of the smuggling accomplices, and immediately mustered up the courage anyway, tied up one hundred and ten old and weak Eight Banner soldiers who took care of them, opened the gate of the fort to welcome the Fengzhou army, and the victory fort went down without a fight, and the merchant army who wanted to make meritorious service was demoralized, and beat the soldiers with fists and feet. On the same day, the Fengzhou army also smoothly entered Xinping Fort, Shoukou Fort, and killed Hukou Fort, and the fearful Ming army saw the Fengzhou army as if seeing a savior, and put the Fengzhou army into the fort in a hurry, and it was useless to stop it regardless of how the guard of the pass and the imperial history shouted.

At this point, the Fengzhou army controlled the first line of the Datong side wall and did not advance half a step, and Li Yu ordered that except for the battalion soldiers and a small number of garrisons guarding the pass, all the others were disbanded and returned home to continue the autumn harvest. Liu Zhilun was so angry that he was like thunder, but Li Yu expressed helplessness - there was no edict from the imperial court, he would never dare to enter the customs rashly, and besides, he had to have food before he could talk about sending troops to suppress the captives.

"Okay, if you are reasonable, I will go back to write a chapter and ask for food and send troops." Liu Zhilun stomped his feet and turned his head to leave, wondering in his heart - I have already asked for troops three times, why didn't the court even reply?

Liu Zhilun's recital has already arrived in Beijing, but the courtiers can't even take care of the drought in Shanxi and Shanxi, who cares about the changes outside the border, and it is a good thing for the eastern captives to fight the northern captives, anyway, they are all disasters, one less to die, in order to avoid Li Yu taking the opportunity to reach out and ask for money, the imperial court does not plan to reply at all.

At present, the most important thing is to suppress the thieves, since the Liukou crossed the Yellow River, the Central Plains is chaotic, Huguang, Sichuan are invaded by thieves, the imperial court in the first month transferred Chen Qiyu to the military department of the military department of the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, Sichuan five provinces of military affairs, stationed in Junzhou to command the officers and troops of all roads to suppress thieves. Chen Qiyu once served as the governor of Yansui, and he was quite effective in office, and he was favored by the imperial court, but after the military affairs of the five provinces, the governor had no past demeanor, and was led by the thieves by the nose.

In June, Chen Qiyu reported that the thieves had been trapped in the Xing'an Carriage Gorge, including the giant generals and the eight kings, and the courtiers rejoiced, thinking that this time they would definitely win a great victory and ease the thieves' feelings in one fell swoop. However, the good news did not arrive for a long time, but the news of the thieves encroaching on Fengxiang, Baoji, Qianzhou, Jingyang and other places came. Lian Guoshi was very aggrieved, and immediately defended himself: the thieves in Hannan were trapped in the deep valley, but the governors stopped moving forward and let the thieves return to their hometowns, and tens of thousands of thieves had no food and clothing all the way, how could they not plunder the place? implies that the culprit is none other than Chen Qiyu!

The lawsuit of the governor hit the court, and the courtiers became excited again, Chen Qiyu is a native of Baode, Shanxi, and Lian Guoshi is a native of Yongcheng, Henan, both of whom are Jinshi of the North Bang in the 44th year of Wanli, but Chen Qiyu was in the Ministry of Rites, and in the Tianqi Dynasty, he once followed the Donglin boss Yang Lian to lash out at Wei Zhongxian, who belonged to the Donglin family from the root, and Lian Guoshi was a magistrate from beginning to end, lacking connections in the imperial court. But the events of the Carriage Gorge were selectively forgotten.

Shoufu Wen Tiren never expressed his position, allowing the courtiers to jump up and down - this Shoufu is not good, Zhou Yanru formed a party to accept bribes, but his reputation was good and supported by Qingliu, Wen Tiren did not form a party and was not greedy for money, but he had a bad reputation, and he was always demolished by others, Jingshi is circulating a ballad "The cabinet is turned into a brothel, and the turtle king is always plagued", and the three cabinet ministers of Wucheng Wen Tiren, Bazhou Wang Yingxiong and Wu Zongda, who obeyed his orders, were all scolded, and the prestige of the cabinet headed by Wen Tiren was so low, and nothing has been achieved since taking office.

You don't let me do things, and I don't let you fulfill your wishes, I'll listen to the emperor's general line - Wen Tiren has long learned to look at the emperor's face and act, and if the emperor doesn't express his position, he won't say anything.

The news that the Jin army broke through the border wall of Xuanfu came, and the emperor finally spoke, and immediately arrested and went to prison to discuss the crime - the rights and wrongs are clear, Chen Qiyu is indeed guilty first, but the strategy of appeasement is supported by him, Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, is also selected by him, and hitting Chen Qiyu is to slap himself in the face, and now he has burned his eyebrows, so he has to be wronged to practice state affairs first.