In fact, Li Yu blamed the Ming Emperor, if it weren't for the emperor's grace, they wouldn't even be able to get these children, Qiu Hejia and Liu Zhilun's good news arrived in Beijing ten days ago, but the two obviously didn't talk about it in advance, and there was some incompatibility in the song, Qiu Hejia was blowing the victory of Zunhua, claiming in the song: He and Ma Shilong personally supervised the army to fight Zunhua Jianyi, and once conquered Luowenyu Fort, Jianshen heard the news and urgently sent the pseudo-Jin Dabeile Daishan to lead tens of thousands of elite horsemen to attack, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers and traitors to follow, and the Ming army abandoned Luowenyu, Gather soldiers in Zunhua and the enemy decisive battle, officers and soldiers grateful to the emperor, although the enemy is outnumbered, but all fight bravely, defeat the enemy three times in a row, and finally repel Jianyi, and the Ming army is also due to gunpowder, artillery exhausted, and people are sleepy and horses, casualties are heavy, retreat to Jizhou to recuperate, waiting for the opportunity to fight again, Qiu Hejia did not forget to Liu Zhilun, Li Yu to speak, said that the military department of the Lang Liu Zhilun did not retreat, more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded, the rest was only two or three out of ten, Liu Zhilun himself was almost martyred, Datong Jingyu general Li Yu led 1,500 soldiers, Taking advantage of the gap to enter the pass from Luo Wenyu, his troops were unstoppable, and he beheaded a lot after attacking the enemy's flank, and he had the demeanor of a good general. Although Liu Zhilun died once, he was not as dead as in the past, but he was unwilling to follow Qiu Hejia to tell lies, although he did not debunk Qiu Hejia, but only said how he fought to the death, how to lose the army, and did not mention the details of the victory in Zunhua, and a large number of pen and ink are describing the courage of the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry, praising Li Yu, the general of Datong Jingyu, is a wise and brave general, and asking the imperial court to reuse, and read that the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry went to the aid thousands of miles, was loyal, and killed many enemies, and allocated them food, salaries, and ordnance.

The courtiers felt suspicious from the two notes, and asked the emperor to order Qiu Hejia to hand over the head to the Beijing division for inspection, and the result of the head sent to the Beijing division for inspection was naturally accurate. Since the war between the Ming army and Jianyi, it seems that there have never been so many beheadings at one time, and some imperial histories have asked for a thorough investigation of the matter, but the emperor and the cabinet ignore these, and the head is true, which means that Jianyi is dead, is there anything more exciting than this? The Ming army really needs a victory to boost morale, since the emperor and his ministers want to close their eyes to confirm the victory of Zunhua, others are not easy to say, in fact, they also want the Ming army to win the battle, but they are a little red-eyed.

When discussing the merit and reward, the courtiers quarreled more fiercely, anyway, they just didn't want to see others promoted, they insisted that there were too many doubts about this great victory, and it didn't matter if it was crowned an official, and if it turned out to be false in the future, wouldn't it become a laughing stock, and since the towns of Qinwang in Jizhen could make a big victory, they should be strong, so wait for them to drive the Dongyu out of the customs and then reward and add officials, wouldn't it be better, and that annoying Liu Zhilun, the right attendant of the military department was not given for nothing, he couldn't toss the soldiers naked and pat his ass back. On the contrary, Li Yu's luck is the best, he is a Yiren, it is not easy to come so far away, and he still has to go back to his hometown after finishing his work, Qiu Hejia and Liu Zhilun all said that he has merit, indicating that this person still has some ability, give him an official to make him happy - the Ministry of War has always thought that Li Yu is a Yiren, at least a Han Yi, and no one believes the nonsense that he said after he was martyred and loyal to Yulin, maybe he found someone to deliberately make it up, for example, the dead Man Gui never admitted that he was a Yiren, I have to say that I moved to Xuanfu from Shandong.

It is even more difficult to take out real money and silver rewards, and the household department immediately said that the local taxes can only be paid one after another after the autumn, and now the money and grain stored in the warehouse of the household department are difficult to pay military salaries and travel food to the Qinwang army, how can there be money to reward, and the military department is justified in saying that now the people in the northwest are in turmoil, Gyeonggi has been convicted, and the horse administration in the north is rotten, and the Nama silver can not be collected at all, and the Changying Treasury of the military department is also so poor that they can't take out this money, and the Ministry of Industry hurriedly said that the city wall of the Beijing division is dilapidated and needs to be repaired urgently, and the equipment for defending the city must also be supplemented, and the Ministry of Industry has long run out of money. They were also waiting for the rice to go into the pot, and after everyone cried poorly, they all thought that they should ask for money according to the old practice.

The emperor's private money was targeted again, and he was so angry that he scolded him, the first emperor had a big work in Japan, and set up a shrine, there were in and out, there were more than a few years, now the big work has been completed, the ancestral hall has been abolished, I listened to the words of the ministers, and removed the tax supervisors everywhere, there should be a lot of silver, why is there still a shortage of silver in Taicang and Jieshen? Bi Ziyan, the secretary of the household department, replied with a red face, all of which were caused by the unfinished solution of local taxes, and the emperor immediately sent Bi Ziyan back to the household department to clean up the local evasion taxes over the years.

After the emperor was angry, he still had to face the reality, gritted his teeth and allocated 10,000 taels of silver from the internal treasury as a reward for the victory of Zunhua, but he was really angry, since he ascended the throne, he reused the virtuous gentleman, eradicated the eunuch traitors, cleaned up the grievances and prisons, dismantled the internal prisons, and acted in accordance with the standards of the sages and sages everywhere, but he was known as the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" The court is really too strange, the courtiers like to talk and comment, and they are good at forming intra-party infighting, but they can't avoid practice, and whoever does practical things will rise up and attack it. The next day, he ordered the cabinet to draw up a decree to establish Zhu Cihong, the eldest son of Empress Zhou born last year, as the crown prince, and granted amnesty to the world, and the heartless courtiers had no one to comfort the emperor's wounded heart.

The Jizhou camp has been a bit chaotic recently, and the junior officers and soldiers who have not reaped much benefit are full of complaints, and they are listless in their work, Li Yu is very strange, how can these guys who take advantage of him be more wronged than him. The relationship between Liu Zhilun and Qiu Hejia is also very embarrassing, Liu Zhilun is the Jinshi in the first year of Chongzhen, and his position is the right attendant of the Ministry of War, and Qiu Hejia is only from a person's background, and his position is the head of the Ministry of War, it stands to reason that Qiu Hejia can only follow Liu Zhilun's ass behind, but Qiu Hejia is the person of Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he is ordered to supervise the army, he is the boss here in Jizhou, and those fools in the court are worried about making Liu Zhilun unlucky, but they never thought of separating the two, and the result is that the two are clearly distinguished, and they do their own thing, Qiu Hejia grasped the power to the death, and never let Liu Zhilun get involved in the affairs of the Qinwang army in various towns in Jizhou, and Liu Zhilun also held the Fengzhou cavalry in his hands, and never allowed Qiu Hejia to fight Li Yu's idea. The most uncomfortable is the prime minister's military affairs Ma Shilong, his qualifications and military exploits could not convince the public, You Shilu and Wang Shiqin made trouble enough for him to have a headache, and now You Shiwei is here again, this You family is worse than his younger brother, full of ghost ideas, these guys have joined forces to fight against him, and Ma Shilong's life is even more difficult. Li Yu is on the contrary, Liu Zhilun here is afraid that he will jump ship, he takes good care of him and responds to his needs, there is a group of powerful Northwest Army over there with his head covered, everyone has to give him three points, even Ma Shilong is polite to him, with this rare easy opportunity, Li Yu took the opportunity to let his exhausted troops enter to rest and replenish ordnance.

The Ming army of Jizhou wants to mess around, but the emperor will not let them take his private money for nothing, and the court will not let them eat and drink together, Yongping Bingbei Senator Zhang Chun's letter impeached Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong, and by the way, he also accused Liu Zhilun of being a soldier with no soldiers to fight, nor a heart to repay, and he had no food in Jizhou's corpse, useless, the court issued a decree ordering the two to defend themselves, Liu Zhilun and Qiu Hejia were anxious, and the two quickly reconciled, and came forward together to force Ma Shilong to send troops, and poor Ma Shilong had to find the generals of Jizhou to discuss- He had just been fished out of prison by Sun Chengzong, and before he had time to form his own team, he couldn't even command a general, and he could only discuss things with the leaders of various armies.

The soldiers and supervisors all came forward to support Ma Shilong, and the generals did not dare not come, including Li Yu, Liu Xingzuo and Bai Xianzhi all came, the Chinese army's big tent was crowded, Ma Shilong first conveyed the will of the imperial court, and then said to everyone: "The will of the imperial court must be obeyed, we still have to fight, at present, Jianyi takes Yongping as the core, occupies the three cities of Zunhua, Qian'an and Luanzhou, and the relationship between Zunhua and Qian'an is that Jianyi retreats from the pass, they must focus on fortification and defense, if our army attacks, Jianyi will be saved, and it is easy to form a decisive battle posture, And Luanzhou is lonely in the south of Yongping, the surrounding Funing, Changli and other cities are still in our hands, our army can advance and retreat freely, so I want to send troops to Luanzhou, so that our army has the least risk, take Luanzhou can threaten Yongping, force Jianyi to get out of the customs as soon as possible, what do you think? ”

After Ma Shilong finished talking about the battle plan that he thought was safe, he waited for the military leaders to express their opinions, but there was silence in the big tent, Ma Shilong looked at Liu Zhilun and Qiu Hejia helplessly, these two were also iron-faced, and finally Qiu Hejia couldn't help it: "You are all my Ming generals, and you have been favored by the emperor for a long time, and now the Ming Dynasty is in trouble, and the people are miserable. ”

"Ma Shuai, let me ask you, how are you going to attack Luanzhou, do you dig a hole or go to the city? Have you prepared enough military salaries and silver for your children? The boss of the army, You Shiwei, finally spoke, he didn't dare to confront Qiu Hejia, but pointed the finger at Ma Shilong, Ma Shilong was asked by him and stammered, You Shiwei did not let him go, and continued: "The city of Luanzhou is strong and tall, and it is impossible to attack hard, once our army does not conquer the city and stays under the city, Jianyi reinforcements arrive, our army will be defeated, to fight Luanzhou, we must ask Sun Ge Lao Governor to lead the Shanhaiguan army to contain Yongping Jianyi first, and then have a chance to break the city with good luck." ”

"That's it, Sun Ge Lao doesn't send troops, and we can't fight Luanzhou, I heard that Zu Dashou over there in Shanhaiguan has set up a big camp and doesn't move his nest, and he would rather be beaten than move, their soldiers in Ningyuan get more food and pay than anyone else, they refuse to fight, how can we teach our sons and daughters to work hard?" Wang Shiqin echoed You Shiwei in a strange way.

The officers in the big tent screamed strangely, there was only one topic, Sun Ge Lao did not send troops there, and Jizhou could not send troops here, Ma Shilong covered his head and said nothing, Liu Zhilun was angry, slapped the table and scolded: "Do you want to resist and disobey?" Do you still have the Ming Emperor in your eyes? Changli's Zuo Yingxuan and Funing's Shi Kefa are all civil ministers, and there are no officers and soldiers stationed in the city, and they can still lead the people in the city to defend the city, and defeat the Jiannu to keep the city without losing. ”

Liu Zhilun's threat couldn't scare the military leaders, and he couldn't control the Ming army in the Jizhou battalion, Qiu Hejia's words were more effective than him, and the military leaders shouted even more, blocking the two ministers to ask for money, food, and ordnance, You Shilu lifted Li Yu up, saying that he had mixed with Jianyi, and let him say a fair word, whether the Ming army was cowardly, and it was not as good as a group of ordinary people.

This question is difficult to answer, Li Yu really wants to explain that the army is indeed too timid, but a large number of large and small army leaders in the big tent are looking at him, how dare he tell the truth! He had to simply compare the gap between the Jin army and the Ming army, such as the speed of marching, the Jin army has horses and livestock, and can run non-stop for several days, and the rapid march of a day and night can reach more than 200 miles, while the Ming army has too few horses and livestock, and the march can only rely on its feet, and under normal circumstances, it can only walk 30 miles a day, and the mobility is far worse than that of the Jin army. Shoot more than one or two light arrows, although it shoots very far, but it is difficult to shoot through the heavy armor of the Jin army, and there is a gap in the weapons of the soldiers, the soldiers of the Jin army use a large number of heavy long knives, and the big blades of the Ming soldiers are light and thin, this can not be beaten, Li Yu finally concluded that it is not that the Ming army is timid, but that the weapons issued by the imperial court to everyone are not good. As for a group of ordinary people who were able to repel the Jin army and defend the city, Li Yu thought that they were lucky, the tactics of the Jin army were to float, avoid the real and attack the weak, and never consume troops for one city or one place, and Funing and Changli could only be said to be that the Jin army was not determined to attack, and it must not be proved that the Ming army was inferior to the common people.

Li Yu's words were unanimously appreciated by the military leaders, everyone thought that what Li Yu said was right, it was not that the Ming army was not good, but that the guy in his hand was too bad, so the court had to give more money, Liu Zhilun was furious, which side of Li Yu's kid was on, isn't this a troublemaker?

"Li Hanmin, what is your intention to talk nonsense, do you want me to treat you and shake the morale of the army? Beat you stinky boy, get out of here! Liu Zhilun was so angry that he grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it at Li Yu.

Li Yu was so frightened that he ran away, shouting as he ran: "Lord Shilang, what I said is the truth!" I'll listen to you and fight Zunhua, okay? ”

Liu Zhilun chased after Li Yu tightly, and shouted loudly: "You go to fight, if you don't dare to fight, go home." ”

Li Yu and Liu Zhilun made such a fuss, the meeting couldn't go on, the military leaders stirred things up, Lele and he dispersed, Qiu Hejia stared at Ma Shilong fiercely, Ma Shilong gritted his teeth and said: "Luanzhou can't fight, but there are often Jianyi harassing Yutian and Fengrun, or we send people to Yutian and Fengrun to fight a few battles?" ”

Ma Shilong's plan to attack Luanzhou was in vain, and in the end he could only find his old subordinates to go to Yutian to fight guerrillas, and the honest Cao Wenzhao guerrilla was honorably selected, but he was too poor to support his family, and he could bring out only a few pro-soldiers, Ma Shilong forced the richest generals in the old subordinates, Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia, to give up their families, of course these two people refused to do it, and Ma Shilong was not polite, please take out the Shang Fang sword that the emperor gave him, pointed to these two people and said, you either go together, or hand over the family, otherwise you will be punished.

Wang Chengyin and Zhang Shujia succumbed and agreed to go with their families, Ma Shilong was not at ease with these two guys, and lent Shang Fangjian to Cao Wenzhao and asked him to command these two generals to fight, Zuo Liangyu was also honorably selected, originally he had nothing to do, but this guy was too demanding to progress, so he liked to go to the side of the big official, and he happened to be bumped into by Ma Shilong, and he was stuffed into this death squad.

So, Cao Wenzhao held the sword of Shang Fang, escorted two generals, a capital division, and more than 200 family members and personal soldiers on the road to Yutian.

Li Yu was also urged by Liu Zhilun here, he did have the idea of fighting Zunhua, and took Zunhua, Da'ankou, Luo Wenyu, Ma Lanyu and other border wall passes were basically controlled in his hands, and he also had a way out of the nearest pass, but the matter of fighting was not as simple as the literati casually talking, this required careful planning and preparation, he had already sent a large number of scouts to the direction of Zunhua to investigate the enemy's situation, waiting for a favorable opportunity to appear - there was also the retreat of the Jin army, and it was impossible for him to succeed easily.

Liu Zhilun doesn't care about these, the court forced him, he forced Li Yu, and that Yongping soldier prepared the road to participate in politics Zhang Chun also rushed to Jizhou, this person is Wanli year's birth, Shaanxi Tongzhou people, the original Yongping, Yan Jian two road soldiers, was accused of indiscriminate killing, dismissed and left in Beijing to be investigated, this time the Jin army was attacked, he was also reactivated, the old guy has the momentum of the northwest people, and entered Jizhou City and quarreled with Qiu Hejia and Ma Shilong, seeing that these two people have no hope, they went out of the city with Liu Zhilun to coerce Li Yu.

"Vice General Li, I heard that you are also from the Northwest, when have we Northwest people been afraid of the Tartars, you don't need to worry about the lack of soldiers, I recruited 10,000 volunteers from near Yongping, as long as you send troops to Yongping, my people can be handed over to you for command, I can also collect grain and grass for you, no matter what the victory or defeat, Lord Liu and I will protect you to the imperial court." Zhang Chun opened his mouth and proposed a more ambitious plan.

Li Yu was taken aback, and asked him to fight Yongping with 10,000 people, then he was going to find death, this old guy didn't have the kindness of the Northwest people at all, Liu Zhilun also felt that Zhang Chun's plan was too amazing, and reminded on the side: "Let's fight Zunhua according to my plan first, and my 3,000 people will be handed over to you to command." ”

"Then let's fight Qian'an, Qian'an is within the boundaries of Yongping Mansion, and I can help you too." Zhang Chun immediately lowered his requirements.

Li Yu felt that these two people were really unreliable, although most of the soldiers in my hands were soldiers, but I couldn't send them to death, he decided to discuss with a reliable person, and found an excuse to say that he was going to find a helper, got rid of the entanglement of the two, and went straight to the military camp in the five towns in the northwest.