Fan Zhixu knelt down and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Liang Fangping is corrupt and perverts the law, indulges in evil and dereliction of duty, and commits serious crimes, please order Your Majesty to be dismissed from office and handed over to the Imperial Historical Observatory for thorough investigation and severe punishment!" ”

Li Yan also knelt down on the side and said: "Your Majesty, Liang Fangping is in charge of Hebei Transshipment, which is very deeply involved in the Northern Expedition, Your Majesty can't just believe one side of the story and affect the Northern Expedition!" ”

Fan Zhixu was furious and glared at Li Yan fiercely, "This is the prime minister negotiating state affairs with the Son of Heaven, what does it have to do with you?" ”

Zhao Ji was extremely annoyed in his heart, but Li Yan's words reminded him again, and he stood up and said, "Let me think about this matter again!" ”

Fan Zhixu was a little anxious, as long as the Son of Heaven thought about it, Li Yan would continue to slander, and the results of this military supervision were likely to be in vain, so he hurriedly got up and said, "Your Majesty ......"

Without waiting for him to continue, Zhao Ji said coldly: "I'm a little tired, let's discuss this matter together next time!" ”

Fan Zhixuan was helpless, so he had to bow his head, "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Zhao Ji turned around and left, and a guard shouted: "Your Majesty is back to the palace!" ”

Li Yan turned his head and glared at Fan Zhixu viciously, and quickly followed, Fan Zhixu sighed secretly, the attitude of the Son of Heaven was ambiguous, and things were a little twisty and turned.

.........

Zhao Ji walked into the apse, he suddenly stopped, turned around and asked Li Yan, "What do you mean by that, what do you mean by one-sided words?" ”

Li Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Fan Xianggong has always opposed the Northern Expedition, but His Majesty is determined, he will definitely try his best to persuade His Majesty, the slave does not want to say that there is anything wrong with this report, but the slave believes that Fan Xianggong must hope that the data of this report can affect His Majesty, especially Liang Fangping's resolute support for Wang Xianggong to adjust some Hebei officials, will he offend some people because of this?" ”

"Do you mean Cai Jing?" Zhao Ji's reaction was extremely keen, and he immediately heard the words of Li Yan's words.

Li Yan sighed slightly, "Your Majesty, Fan Xianggong is too eager today!" ”

Zhao Ji snorted heavily, "I only care if this report is true?" ”

"Beinu suggested that Captain Tong be summoned to Beijing as soon as possible, he knew the military situation in Hebei best, and he would know whether the report was true or not."

Zhao Ji nodded, he was going to discuss the Northern Expedition with Tong Guan, so I don't know how the war in the southeast is going now?

.........

In Lin'an County, Hangzhou, Fang La gathered 200,000 troops to prepare to fight back again, retake Hangzhou, their military food has been seriously insufficient, if they can't recapture the food-rich Hangzhou, once they retreat to the mountains, the food in their hands can only support 50,000 people at most, it is not far from the final defeat, Fang La's heart is full of anxiety, he has to make a desperate bet, and the official army to fight to the death.

Fang La's camp is located on the north bank of Jinxi, the company camp is more than 20 miles, the big tent is one after another, boundless, behind is a towering mountain, the mountain is very steep.

In the afternoon of that day, a team of about twenty people came out of the mountains and forests, and they led five or six mules, each of which carried two heavy packages, and the twenty soldiers were all burly and strong, and the leader was a square-faced man, who was about twenty years old, and I saw that he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his skin was bronzed, and a pair of leopard eyes were particularly sharp.

This person is a fierce general in the Northwest Army, named Han Shizhong, who was originally Liu Fa's general, and later followed Liu Yanqing, this time the Northwest Army was transferred to the southeast to suppress bandits, Han Shizhong served as a scout general, and today he was sent by Liu Yanqing to carry out a special task.

Han Shizhong had a pair of short spears on his back, and his eyes were sharply looking at the Fangla army camp under the mountain, they were currently located on the back hill of the Fangla army camp, and under the city was the warehouse land, about three hundred steps away from them.

"General, there are patrol soldiers down there!" One soldier whispered.

Han Shizhong nodded, he had already seen that there were about hundreds of patrol soldiers patrolling the perimeter, and the twenty of them couldn't get close to the camp fence at all.

Han Shizhong's mission was very simple, destroy the enemy's logistics warehouse, hit the enemy's morale, and defeat the enemy army without a fight.

This plan was proposed by Han Shizhong on his own initiative, and was praised by Liu Yanqing, so that he had 300 people to sneak attack the enemy's logistics center, but Han Shizhong thought that the target was too large and easy to be discovered by the enemy, and he only needed to bring 20 people to break the enemy.

Han Shizhong watched for a long time and ordered: "Everyone rest in place, and wait for the evening!" ”

At night, the wind in the mountain whistling, sending out a strange roar, Han Shizhong led twenty people to carry the earth-shattering thunder and fire oil slowly down, the mountain is very steep, the mules can no longer walk, they can only use ropes and some vines to go down the mountain, the mountain is dark, although there is moonlight, but they can't see them, they have merged with the dark mountain.

It took them a full hour, they finally descended the mountain, only fifty steps away from the enemy barracks, and sure enough, as Han Shizhong expected, at night, the patrol soldiers on the periphery of the barracks were greatly reduced, and there were only ten people left in their corner.

But the ten Patrolmen all stood on a high place, and below them was an abandoned riverbed, and no matter how they passed, they would be spotted by the Patrolmen.

"Shoot them!" Han Shizhong immediately made a decision.

Twenty long arrows were fired almost simultaneously, whistling towards the ten patrolmen, 'Ah-' A series of long screams rang out around the camp, and in the midst of the screams, twenty soldiers rushed down the hillside, brandished their swords, and swiftly climbed over the barracks, and in an instant rushed into the enemy camp.

Under the leadership of Han Shizhong, 20 soldiers were like 20 fierce tigers rampaging in the logistics camp, tents were overturned, sprinkled with fire oil, and pieces of fire were quickly ignited, and many logistics soldiers were ignited by the fire, running in the camp with fire all over their bodies, and the screams came one after another, and the whole camp seemed to bomb the camp.

The fire became bigger and bigger, and the 3,000 soldiers stationed in the rear camp fled from the camp tents one after another, and they scattered and fled in all directions, like swarms of headless flies, and the east and west ends of the logistics camp were blocked by the flames, and many soldiers jumped into the river and swam to the other side of Jinxi.

At this time, a raging fire had been ignited in the entire southwest corner of the barracks, where the tents were densely packed, and soon became a sea of fire. Rumble! "A series of earth-shattering explosions sounded, and several large warehouses stacked with sundries collapsed, and this earth-shattering explosion frightened the souls of the 200,000 square army to scatter, the earth trembled, and countless people crawled on the ground and howled in fear.

Fang La's face was extremely pale, he trembled all over, and he couldn't stand anymore, kneeling on one knee, but it was not because the earth trembled, but because of the despair in his heart........

Twenty warriors under the leadership of Han Shizhong have withdrawn from the original road, but they were surrounded by hundreds of patrol soldiers on the periphery, Han Shizhong roared, pulled out his double spears, rushed left and right in the crowd, the double spears stabbed, unstoppable, twenty soldiers were extremely brave, killing hundreds of patrol soldiers dead all over the field, heads rolling, blood flowing.......

At this time, a war horse galloped over, followed by more than 100 soldiers, and the general was Fang La's nephew Fang Qifo, Fang Qifo was the head of the peripheral patrol post, he had already fallen asleep, but he was awakened by the screams of the battalion, turned over his horse with a knife, and rushed towards the logistics warehouse that was on fire, just in time to meet Han Shizhong.

Fang Qifo originally thought that it was a large army of officers and soldiers stealing the camp, but when he saw clearly that the other party only had a team of twenty soldiers, he couldn't help but be furious, and roared loudly, "Stabilize your position and kill them!" ”

Han Shizhong has grabbed a war horse, he also turned over, grabbed a spear and roared to meet the battle, the war horse is like thunder, the spear in Han Shizhong's hand is like a dragon out of the clouds, the tip of the spear flashes with a green luster, fast as lightning, and before Fang Qifo reacts, the tip of the spear has pierced into his neck.

'Click! With a crisp sound, the neck bone was pierced by the tip of the spear, Han Shizhong picked it hard, and the head of Fang Qifo was torn off violently, flying five or six zhang away, and immediately only a headless corpse remained, and blood spurted out of the neck cavity.

The Lord was killed in a single shot, causing all the other soldiers to flee for their lives in fear.

At this moment, the trumpets in the distance shook the sky, the drums rumbled, Liu Yanqing led the 50,000 Northwest Army to launch a night attack on the Fangla camp, at this time the Fangla camp was already a chaos, the people were panicked, the morale was extremely low, the battle was defeated, the 200,000 army fled like a landslide, a defeat, the dead bodies blocked the river, the blood stained Jinxi, and the surrenderers numbered hundreds of thousands.

In the first battle of Jinxi, the Northwest Army led by Liu Yanqing annihilated more than 75,000 enemies and captured more than 100,000 enemies.

Liu Yanqing left 10,000 people to deal with prisoners of war, he led 40,000 troops in hot pursuit, three days later, at the foot of Tongling Mountain, again defeated the prime minister Fang Fei's 20,000 reinforcements, Fang Fei's army was annihilated, Fang Fei fled south with more than 100 people, and after joining the remnants of Fang La's army, he retreated to Qingxi County.

The Northwest Army fought successively, and regained Fuyang, Xincheng, Tonglu and other counties, so far, in addition to tens of thousands of square troops in Qingxi County, hundreds of thousands of other rebel troops were all wiped out by officers and soldiers, Tong Guan naturally took credit for himself, at this time, he happened to receive the urgent will of the Son of Heaven, Tong Guanzhi was full of pride, and rushed back to the capital overnight to ask for credit.