Li Mingli continued to put on the armor, there was no grievance in his heart, Houjin is a world that respects strength, this is the case among the major Baylors, the big ones suppress the power, the strength of Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai overwhelms Dai Shan, Dai Shan was sent out to do such a drudgery, the Jurchens within the Eight Banners are all like this, they also oppress the Mongols, of course, they will not be soft on the oppression of the Han army, after all, the Han army has no representative figures in the upper echelons, and it was originally the lowest status group in the Houjin sequence. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Everyone continued to lead the horses forward, except for the wounded people, and the corpses of a dozen or so northern captives in front of them, as if nothing had happened just now, the distance was still covered by mountains, there was still a green space between the layered woodland and the abandoned crops, and the place where the war took place was an open field, and such a scene may have happened here many times in the past two or three hundred years.

People moved forward silently, no one spoke, only the war horse in the hand kept snorting, or jumping excitedly, the war horse was trained in battle, very familiar with the war scene just now, and was excited, the Han army had to appease the restlessness of the war horse from time to time, which made their march more difficult.

In front, the people who were surrounded by the Yellow Banner were also allowed to continue on their way, they were interrogated for a long time, and they have been kneeling to answer, because the questioner is Sakhalian Beizi, this is a very important young nobleman who is valued by the top of the Eight Banners, and his military exploits and connections are very solid and excellent, he is the third son of Dai Shan, who has just turned 20 years old this year, but has been in the campaign for many years, and his military achievements are impressive, Sakhalian and Yue Tuo brothers are considered to have created the tradition of the two red flags in the Eight Banners, that is, to unite the whole flag as much as possible, and to rotate the circle between the banner owners who have contradictions in each flag, Try not to break with everyone, Huang Taiji has to succeed to the throne of Khan, and can successfully take power, his own strength is very important, and the support of Yue Tuo and Sakhalian brothers is also extremely important.

This is also a very small number of Jurchen nobles who were named Baylor during the Mandate of Heaven, the Jurchens still attach great importance to the Lord, even if they are close relatives, they are not lightly awarded, the old slave has several sons who have not been awarded Baylor, such as the same age, and the Abatai who is also a great achievement, is still an elder brother, and he has not even been crowned by Beizi, let alone Baylor or Big Baylor, in the Jurchen high-level, it is necessary to have strength in symmetry with the Lord, without strength, even if it is pushed by the Great Khan, it is useless.

After Li Mingli and the others approached, Sakhalian had already left, and the people in the yellow flag got up from the ground in embarrassment and were slapping their knees hard.

A Niu Lu really greeted Zhang Jing here, and there was no lack of gratitude on his face, after all, it was this side that saved their lives just now, no matter how wasteful the Mongols were, if the difference in numbers was too great, it would still be easy to kill all these people.

Zhenyi politely exchanged a few words in Manchurian dialect, and then decided to go to the East Pass together, the people of Zhenghuangqi came from Yizhou, originally to carry out an escort mission, Li Yongfang brought from Jinzhou to Yizhou a few days ago, it should be to observe the dynamics of Mongolia, Li Yongfang has been trying to get the high-level of the Thirteen Mountains for half a year, but the effect is very poor, a few days ago it should be the old Khan who strictly ordered him to cooperate with Daishan and others, so this Fushun had to temporarily put down the matter at hand, and then pay attention to the movements of the Beiyu, After converging with Daishan, he reported the latest movements on the Thirteen Mountains before he could turn back again.

Li Yongfang's own strength has been very limited, when the surrender of the old slave in order to set a benchmark, but also underestimated the thickness of the Ming Dynasty generals' skin, thinking that there must not be many surrenderers, so not only the daughter of Abatai married Li Yongfang, named it as a forehead, but also handed over his old department to him to lead, and later surrendered the Han army also had a lot assigned to Li Yongfang to take the belt, to the third year of the Apocalypse, because the strategy of the Han army gradually changed, Li Yongfang's strength was not as good as Aita and other Han generals, Not to mention compared to a surrendered general like the Tong family who pretended to be a Jurchen.

"Hey, it turned out to be Brother Li!"

"Brother Cao!"

Li Mingli's eyes lit up, and he rarely showed some excitement.

"Haha, what a coincidence today, it was Brother Li who saved my life."

Cao Zhenyan rushed over, he was obviously injured, and the injury was more serious than Li Mingli's, the cotton armor was never worn again, and the arrow robe on his body was also half hidden, only barely wrapped around the belt, so as not to fall off. Some of the exposed parts of his body were wrapped in bandages, and the wound was still oozing blood after the bandage, but this injury did not make it uncomfortable, Cao Zhenyan still ran over very enthusiastically and hugged Li Mingli.

Lao Ding's face also showed a happy look, he saw that Cao Zhenyan did not follow him, so he spontaneously went over to hold Cao Zhenyan's war horse and stood beside Li Mingli.

Cao Zhenyan had visited Li Mingli before last year, and of course Lao Ding recognized him, if it weren't for the twenty taels of silver sent by Cao Zhenyan, Li Mingli and Lao Ding's family might not have survived the cold winter of last year.

"Big brother, little brother wants to thank you this time." After hugging him, Cao Zhenyan made a gesture to kneel down and thank him.

"You're too much of a salute right now." Cao Zhenyan is a bit like a serious banner man, there are too many courtesies, Li Mingli shook his head helplessly, and said: "If you hadn't sent the silver last year, maybe I would have died a long time ago, and neither of us owes anyone." ”

Cao Zhenyan said with a smile: "That silver was sent by my father, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

Speaking of Cao Shixuan, Li Mingli said with a straight face: "How is the uncle's health, is he still tough?" ”

"It's done." Cao Zhenyan looked left and right, lowered his voice and said: "My father was originally a hereditary commander, and it is said that he can at least be awarded to guerrillas, but last year, his old man saw that the Han army was not successful, Tong Yangxing himself claimed to be a Jurchen, he was the prime minister of Han military and civilian affairs, and he didn't dare to call him a Han person, how could he dare to support the Han army and people, and Aita, he simply changed his name to the Jurchen name, Li Efu had the intention to support the Han army and people, but now his own power is not good, the Great Khan only asked him to take care of the espionage, and he was not asked to take care of anything else. It is because our family simply changed to wrapping clothes last year, the name is not good, but at least it can be profitable, the fourteenth elder brother is still to our family, and I have also passed, my father said that the future of our family is on me, since he himself can't get an official, he simply said that his body is not good, he is idle and resting at home, and his face is much better...... Don't tell anyone about this. ”

Li Mingli promised in his mouth, but sighed in his heart, in the end, the Cao family is a hereditary military attaché, and the Jurchen upper echelons still take good care of them in order to win over the generals of the Ming army, he knows that although the Cao family has changed the coat, Cao Shixuan can be called sick and can't come out to do things, don't think about this kind of treatment of the average Han people, don't think about it, don't say that it is sick, even if it is really sick, it is impossible to rest, and you have to work until you die, in addition, several sons and nephews of the Cao family have been awarded officials, like Cao Zhenyan is now awarded to the artillery instructor, Houjin's artillery team has not yet obtained the technology of casting cannons from the Ming Dynasty, and only a few small firearms, but with this position, it is not an ordinary coat, and its status is actually higher than that of ordinary officers in the Han army.

However, Li Mingli is not envious of this, everyone has their own popularity, if it wasn't for him not seizing the opportunity, he would have run back to Daming, and at worst, he would have to go up to the Thirteen Mountains, and join them with Chengfang Yang Yi, where he should go, and only then will he have his brother.

"I'm just too fucking soft-hearted." Li Mingli looked at Lao Ding, who was standing on the side stupidly, and couldn't help but scold himself.

The five households were even guaranteed, plus the coating, and the Cao family and other people who were good to him, so they formed ropes and tied Li Mingli firmly.

"How did you get surrounded?" Li Mingli asked.

Cao Zhenyan said: "I am in a hurry to deliver an urgent letter to the East Pass, the Great Khan has already sent troops, and Li Efu is also anxious, it is estimated that he wants to urge the mountain to make a quick move." ”

Li Mingli said with considerable concern: "Is it really pulling the internal response?" ”

Cao Zhenyan said: "In the past two months, I have indeed infiltrated a lot of fine work, even I have been to the mountains a few times, but I have braids, I can't go deep, that is, I go in to pick up the fine work, they have hair, pretending to be the mountain people in the mountains and still look like a look, but if you want to break the mountain, you must have an internal response...... You'll find out when you get there. ”

Sure enough, I knew it when I arrived.

The Thirteen Mountains are a huge mountain range that is almost connected to Quang Ninh City, and there are not many records in the classics at that time, in fact, you can clearly see the situation on the mountain from the city, and you can almost overlook the entire Quang Ninh City in the mountain.

Originally, there were two mountain roads that were opened up, directly into the hinterland of the mountains, and now the road at the foot of the mountain has been almost destroyed, and it can be seen that those winding and circling mountain roads have been dug up or blocked with boulders, and not only one, but also trees and other things, vision and everywhere are like this, or pits, or huge trees and boulders, one after another, the two mountain roads are almost the same, there were many villages on both sides of the mountain road, after all, from the mountains to the depths of the mountains, there are people living one after another, The more out of the mountain, the greater the density of the people who live, and the more inside, the more sparse the village, in the belly of the mountain, there were originally only a small number of cottages and villages, the cottage is mainly built out by a large household or a large clan over the years, Guangning City is an important military pass set up along the line of the Changcheng in northeast Liao, and has been besieged by the north many times in at least a hundred years, and there is a risk of being breached many times, and the large families and clans are inevitably worried about the safety of the city. They did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to build the stockade in the mountains outside the city in order to avoid the northern captives in times of crisis and reduce the risk, after all, the northern captives came to loot wealth, not to compete for the land of the Ming Dynasty, and they would naturally retreat beyond the time, and it was less likely that they would go deep into the mountains to storm the cottages built in dangerous places.