The two cities provided enough firewood, and the fire burned for three days before it was gradually extinguished. In the past three days, Myungho did not come out of his tent, and only said that he was infected with wind and cold on the day he became ill from work a few days ago, so he couldn't get out of bed for a while.

There is an exaggeration in this statement, but an old man who is almost sixty years ago has not worked hard in white or black a few days ago, and he has personally put on armor several times to inspect the progress of Qucheng and direct the repair of the city, and he is indeed overworked. In addition, the spirit has been hit, and the body and mind really have to adjust.

Anyway, Ming Ho did not issue a new order, and Li Buqi deliberately did not ask for instructions on the use of wood, and intercepted all the wood to build a building car. As for other things, Li Buqi took them over temporarily, although everything needed to be consulted, but with the assistance of Wang Xin, he was addicted to being a handsome. Instead of the leader to preside over the work, this is also a qualification in the future!

But Ming Ho obviously did not let Li Buqi continue to accumulate qualifications, and on the thirteenth day of the first month, he got out of the tent and beat the drum to raise the tent, and Li Buqi secretly screamed when he saw the old man's state. Although the old man had two big black circles under his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot, his cheeks were sunken, and his beard was unkempt, it was obvious that the old man was full of confidence, and he didn't know what crooked tricks he had come up with.

As soon as the old gentleman announced, Li Buqi found that it was still an old trick - digging tunnels. According to his way of playing, it may take twenty or thirty days to dig the tunnel. While digging tunnels, it is necessary to launch feints elsewhere to cover up the signs of digging tunnels, so that people have to fill in every day, and the people and money will be lost!

Li Buqi decided not to tolerate the old gentleman anymore. As the saying goes, again and again, Li Buqi has given the old gentleman two chances, and the old gentleman has taken off, and now there are people in Bianliang who say that Li Buqi is nothing more than that, he doesn't want to wait for the old gentleman to entertain himself. He stood up and said, "Pacify, the lower officials think that the method of digging tunnels is too slow, and it is possible that the thieves will be discovered during the excavation process, so it is better to attack with a building car." If you use a building car, Xia Guan is sure to take Beizhou in half a month. ”

Mr. Ming was probably too much of a shadow on the psychology of fire attack, and immediately vetoed Li Buqi's suggestion: "The building car is also wooden, if the thief sets fire, it will be the same as Qucheng, and it is still authentic and safe." ”

But Li Buqi did not intend to compromise this time, and insisted: "Although the building cars are easy to catch fire, as long as there are a certain number of them, they can capture the city." Xia Guan still thinks that digging tunnels is time-consuming and laborious, and the possibility of failure is even greater. If he insists on digging a tunnel, the lower officials will go up to His Majesty to ask for a holy ruling. ”

Everyone, including Myung Ho, didn't expect Li Buqi to be so tough all of a sudden, which was too different from the previous days. Ming Ho was stunned for a few seconds, and then stood up suddenly: "You are the deputy envoy, and you have the right to play, and you can play whatever you want." But this is the old man's presiding, I have made up my mind, tomorrow I will start digging tunnels in the north of the city, and at the same time carry out feints from the other three directions to cover up the sound of digging tunnels. ”

After all the generals looked at Li Buqi, they all bowed to Ming Ho and said, "Get an order!" ”

Back in the camp, Li Bu gave up his pen and walked the dragon snake, and soon wrote a bullet seal and a document, and sent people to Bianliang Da Nei and the Privy Council for five hundred li to be sent urgently. This is the first time Li Buqi has written a bullet chapter, but he didn't expect it to be an impeachment of his boss. He estimated that his reputation as an "official killer" was even more solid, but he was not prepared to follow the rules and mix the system, and his good reputation would be of a bird to him.

The Privy Council saw that it was about the war in Beizhou and did not dare to delay, so they hurriedly copied it and sent it to the privy envoy and deputy envoy respectively, and the emperor naturally wanted to send a copy there.

Soon, the emperor sent the privy envoy Xia Wei and the deputy envoy Wen Yanbo to discuss the war in Beizhou. On the way to the Vertical Arch Hall with Wen Yanbo, Xia Wei said casually: "Kuanfu, what should you do about this matter in Beizhou?" I heard that Li Buqi took the impeachment of Minghua Ji and his old and faint music. The day before yesterday, I blamed Li Buqi for being such a shrewd character, how could he make the mistake of using grass and trees to build a city for thieves to burn, it turned out that Ming Huaji did not listen to Li Buqi's persuasion. It is not a good thing that the principal envoy and the deputy envoy have different opinions. ”

Although if Xia Wei was allowed to command the battle, he would never have imagined that Qucheng built with grass and trees would be so easy to ignite, but this did not prevent him from talking about this matter now.

Wen Yanbo heard Xia Wei's hint from Xia Wei's voice, and he also knew that Wen Yanbo and Xia Wei did not deal with each other, so he naturally knew what Xia Wei meant. Originally, Wen Yanbo and Ming Hao still had some friendship, but for the sake of his own ideals, he naturally said: "Judging from the previous two sieges, Master Ming is indeed inferior to Li Buqi Zhibing. If Li had not given up command, he might have beaten Beizhou. ”

Xia Wei originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to persuade Wen Yanbo to support Li Buqi, but he didn't expect him to give up Ming Ho so quickly, which is not quite like the style of a scholar. Xia Wei thought exquisitely, and immediately thought that Li Buqi was recommended by Zhang Guifei's uncle, and everyone said that Wen Yanbo took Zhang Guifei's path to return to Beijing from Yizhou. Could it be that Li Buqi and Zhang Guifei are also involved?

But now it's not important, it's important to keep Myeongho down. So he said: "It's been more than 40 days of fighting in Bay, right? If it drags on any longer, I am afraid that there will be no harvest of summer grain in Beizhou this year. The people are in difficulty, and it is better to conquer Beizhou one day earlier so that the people can return to their hometowns as soon as possible, and this war cost can also be saved. ”

Wen Yanbo said: "The privy council is right. ”

When the two came to the Vertical Arch Palace, Zhao Zhen immediately said: "Just now, Li Buqi took the impeachment of Bachelor Ming. He explained that the name of the scholar and the soldier was not worthy of the name, and he did his best to make some stupid moves, which not only caused unnecessary casualties among the officers and soldiers, but also caused the war to drag on for a long time. Do you know this? ”

Xia Wei said: "Li Buqi also has documents submitted to the Privy Council, which should be sent together with the bullet seal, and there are also many complaints about the Ming Bachelor. After reading the battle report a few days ago, the minister also wondered that the city built by grass and trees was vulnerable to fire attack, even if the Ming scholar couldn't think of such a simple truth, Li Buqi should have thought of such a shrewd person, but why did he fall into the way of a thief. It turned out that Li Buqi had already persuaded Master Ming, but Master Ming insisted on going his own way to cause this failure. The minister thought that Li Buqi was reasonable. ”

Wen Yanbo didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence to Xia Wei's support. Zhao Zhen complained that Li did not give up: "Alas! Since Li Buqi understood these truths, why didn't he argue with reason, or wrote a recital earlier? Then why did tens of thousands of troops work for so long in vain? ”

Wen Yanbo saw that Xia Wei didn't speak, so in order to push Li Buqi, he had to explain to Li Buqi: "Your Majesty, the minister estimates that Li Buqi also has difficulties." ”

"Huh? What's the pain? Zhao Zhen asked.

Wen Yanbo said: "When Li Bu gave up his order to go on the expedition, he repeatedly said that he was young and had little knowledge, and this time he learned from experienced ministers. When he was a transit envoy in Shaanxi, he was famous for repairing the walled fort and training the Qing border army, Li did not abandon the weak crown of the year, and led no more than a thousand soldiers, how could he dare to point fingers at such an old minister? The minister thought that he was only afraid that he would be cautious when he did not impeach Bachelor Ming before, but now he is thinking deeply about impeaching Bachelor Ming. ”

After saying this, Zhao Zhen nodded again and again. Zhao Zhen still clearly remembered how painful he was to press a cadre of old ministers back then, and he understood Li Buqi's situation when he put himself in his shoes, so he couldn't help but regret it: "It's me who thinks things simple." At that time, I only thought of sending a stable old minister to check Li Buqi, but I didn't expect this layer. If Li Buqi had only been sent to Hebei at that time, he might have beaten Beizhou long ago. ”

Wen Yanbo knew that it was a taboo for Shilin to praise and disparage Ming Ho for Li Buqi today, so he took the opportunity to remedy it: "Your Majesty can't say that." Although Li Buqi is full of wisdom, he is too young after all, and if he is allowed to go out alone, the court is afraid that everyone will not be at ease. ”

The emperor thought about it, and he couldn't help but make a difficulty. Most of the ministers who knew the soldiers in the DPRK were incompatible with Li Buqi, and if Ming Ho was removed, who would go to Hebei?

Raising his head, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Wen Qing, why don't you go to Hebei." Master Ming is old, and he has been overworked lately, and I am also worried about his body, so how about you change him back? ”

Wen Yanbo didn't know that Li Buqi's building car was useless, in fact, he didn't want to wade into this troubled water, but when he said it, he didn't dare to show cowardice in front of the emperor. So he immediately replied: "Minister, it was for Your Majesty's worries." ”

PS: Brother R thinks that the Great Song Dynasty military generals written in the first few chapters are too watery, and there is a problem here, that is, there has been no war in Hebei for more than 40 years, and most of the generals are hereditary, so it may be okay to train troops and defend the city (after all, this is the basic skill of the Great Song Dynasty officers), but the level of field warfare and siege should not be very good. This refers to the three major defeats of the Song army and the Western Xia in the early stage. It took 66 days from the uprising to the defeat in Beizhou, in which the fire bull array and the burning of Qucheng were both facts. And when the superiors made up their minds to use laymen to guide insiders, the level of insiders has always plummeted.