Zhang Han said: "Do you feel awkward and have an idea of what you want to do, but you don't know how to do it, or what to do?" ”

Duo'er clapped her hands and said, "The proprietor said that from the bottom of my heart, it feels like I am locked in a cage!" ”

Liang Xing groaned: "We went out from the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and now it has been spring, after so long, I have seen more, seen more, and my mind has changed...... I don't feel like I'm a trader anymore, and I'm not an ordinary businessman, but I don't know who I am......"

Chang Wei pursed his lips and smiled on the side, if he had been the first to speak before, but now he is much calmer, and he is just a sixteen-year-old boy, but he is not much different from adults.

"That's what you've seen a lot, seen a lot, and thought a lot." Zhang Han smiled: "Naturally, my mind is different, and the things I want to do are different. ”

Li Zhiye, Wang Yikui and the others glanced at each other, and said in a southern voice: "What the proprietor said is right, after watching this battle, it feels really different...... To say something that the proprietor doesn't like to hear, after we go back, I want to return to serve in the border army......"

"Lao Li, are you crazy?" Liang Xing turned his head and said: "The proprietor treats us well, you have to think about it!" ”

Li Zhiye said: "On the kindness of the proprietor, I should serve all my life, but after seeing so much in Liaodong, my eyes are full of dead brothers, if I don't become a soldier again, and kill a few times with the Tartars, I feel really uncomfortable in my heart......"

Zhang Han looked at Li Zhiye and said: "Lao Li, I completely understand what you think, but if you believe me, you should still do things under me, I have to say more about what kind of virtue the generals in the border town are, they will not be like this if they are a little able to do this, but it is a pity that the elite people in the border army who dare to die are unjustly killed." ”

The crowd exclaimed...... Looking at the bloody battles, in fact, the Ming army is all fighting more with less, and the armor, weapons, and horses are not as good as people, and the generals have no command, which is equivalent to bringing the army to death. It was those ordinary soldiers who fought bravely to the end, adding a lot of luster to this battle.

Zhang Han said lightly: "Those little soldiers, their names will not be in the history books, and their bones will also be placed here to experience the wind and rain, and they will not be allowed to return to their hometowns if they become lonely ghosts...... But in my heart, they are not much inferior to Zhang Quan who died today, and it is with these loyal and brave soldiers that my Chinese people have been passed down to this day......"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and everyone had some vague thoughts in their hearts, but they were not as incisive and brilliant as Zhang Han said.

Duo'er and Li Zhiye felt even more deeply, they were the most ordinary soldiers, after listening to Zhang Han's words, there were tears in their eyes.

If the court of the Ming Dynasty and those border generals can treat all the soldiers like Zhang Han, how can Daming An be not strong, how can they suffer such a defeat in front of them!

"Anyway, we've been here, we've seen it, and we've thought about it." Zhang Han finally concluded: "Now we can prepare to pack up, and when the aftermath of the war passes, we can turn back to Datong." ”

……

Yang Hao received a clear report on the third day of the new year that the two armies of the West Route and the North Route Army were all annihilated, and he hurriedly ordered the South Route Army to retreat immediately...... In fact, Li Rubai didn't go far in the first place, and Houjin's vigilance on the South Road was also the weakest party.

This is also the most obvious place where Li Rubai was attacked by the government and the opposition later, the road is not far, and the slowest walk, much slower than the East Route Army, which has the most difficult and circuitous route, saying that he has no ghost in his heart, who believes it?

During the Chongzhen period, Li Rubai couldn't resist the pressure and hanged himself, saying that he died from the attack of public opinion, but in fact, it should be caused by the further rise of the ancestral family and other Liaoxi generals.

During the Chongzhen period, the power of the Li Chengliang family further declined, although later Li Ruzhen was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, but it was only a continuation of inertia, and the final overall situation of Liaodong fell into the hands of the ancestral family and the ancestral family's relatives Wu family.

At this time in Liaodong, Li Rubai's position is quite stable, but the general army can't do it, after receiving Yang Hao's military order, even retreating is logical, for Yang Hao, the west road and the north road are finished, the east road is not even easy to run, it is estimated that it is over, at this juncture, retain the strength of the south road all the way, collect some defeated soldiers back, has become the last straw for him to save his life.

This battle was lost so miserably, the court will definitely hold him accountable, Yang Hao stayed in his study for a long time, from midday to dusk, the pen in his hand was as heavy as a thousand even, and there was no way to put down the pen.

But for such an important matter, you can't turn to the staff...... Xingyuan Yamen is already panicked, and Yang Hao estimates that some staff members have begun to write to fellow villagers and friends to find other subordinates...... Most of the masters are from eastern Zhejiang, they take care of each other, Yang Hao is finished, there is no need for these masters to accompany him.

After dark, only a little servant came in and lit a candle, and there was some light in the room, which seemed to have some vitality.

There is still a copper basin in the corner of the house, and it has become warmer and warmer day by day in the past few days, Yang Hao's thoughts suddenly turned, thinking that if according to what Liu Ling and others said, if the troops were sent out in mid-March, would the battle situation change anything?

Yang Hao smiled bitterly, it was too late to think about anything now.

His hair is also unkempt, Yang Hao almost didn't sleep for two days and two nights in a row, his official is definitely not done, and it is estimated that he will also go to prison, just like the situation in the twentieth year of Wanli, but this time the defeat is much worse than the Renchen rebellion, Yang Hao has no confidence that he can save his life.

"How could you lose so badly...... Yang Hao couldn't figure this out.

The four-way Ming army, adding up to nearly 100,000 soldiers, only how many people in the whole clan of the Dongyu, the four-way march to attack Hetuala, in one fell swoop to destroy this eclipse, thinking of the army out of the division, although he was faintly a little uneasy, in the end he still saw the army flying with his own eyes, and he still had a strong sense of pride and self-confidence in his heart...... Now, I don't have to talk about it anymore.

"The important thing is to take it out by myself...... Yang manuscript finally finished the draft and figured out how to write this fold.

can only blame the sins and mistakes on Juniper, this person is the commander of the West Road, in fact, he is also the main force in the main force, greedy for merit, rushed to the battlefield earlier than the rest of the roads, and recklessly crossed the river, divided the troops into three places, resulting in the main force being easily eaten by Jianyu, in fact, he was the first sinner in this defeat.

Of course, Marin is also guilty, the soldiers have been fighting outside the Sancha Fort and Fushun Pass, and the town is not coming, and the slaves take advantage of the victory to drive north, and the garrison is not set up, resulting in the capture of the camp, and the soldiers are also defeated.

After writing this note, Yang Hao asked a Shuqi staff member to come in and transcribe it, and then wrote a private letter accusing Fang Congzhe, and then fell asleep with his head covered.

……

By the time Yang Hao's performance rushed all the way to Beijing, Beijing was still quiet.

The camel camels and horse teams from the north from Deshengmen poured into the city endlessly, the first batch of boats in the south has not yet arrived, but there are still many ships from the south to the north, the water surface in the area of Zhangjiawan in Tongzhou is crowded, there are more business travelers on the official road from Zhangjiakou to Xibianmen, there are also quite a lot of merchants in Liaodong in the area of Dongbianmen, Liaodong is not peaceful in the past two years, but it has also given merchants a lot of business opportunities, quite some bold and bold to continue to trade secretly with Jiannu, and can still sell Liaodong's leather goods, ginseng and Dongzhu and other hard goods are also some, Because the quantity has decreased, the price has increased several times, even so, people are still flocking to it, after all, as long as these goods are bought, only to sell them at a higher price, there is no reason to smash them in their hands.

The homeless beggars seem to be still so many people, the weather has not been good in the past two years, either earthquakes or droughts, or snowstorms, there are many homeless people who come to flee the famine and beg, but with the size of the capital and the wealth of the capital, as long as these homeless people are not frozen to death in winter, they can eat well, and they will definitely not starve to death.

There are noble sedan chairs and merchants' mules and horses everywhere, and there are also small families who go out and ride donkeys in the middle of the avenue and walk slowly, to the vicinity of Chongwen Gate, there are official shops everywhere, and the slaves are sitting or standing, slanting at people, and the pedestrians passing by will inevitably speed up their pace, and dare not stop more in this kind of place.

Entering the inner city, there are many restaurants and businesses along the street, and the signboards are shaking in the cold spring breeze, and the faces of pedestrians show expressions of wealth and tranquility...... In the Ming Dynasty at the end of Wanli, commerce and trade developed rapidly, especially after the opening of the sea, the people were very rich, although the north began to suffer, but the prosperity of the south is still the same, and the capital is the place where the elite and the wealthy class are most concentrated, and the people who can buy a house here and settle down are either Beijing camps, or official eunuchs, or merchants, and the people who farm will not settle down in the inner city.

There are also some monks and nuns walking on the street, there are hundreds of thousands of yellow crowns in the capital, large families are not short of money, bribing the Buddha or Taoist ancestors in advance is nothing more than spending a few dollars, seeking peace of mind is the best, it is to the Buddhist temple in Beijing There are many audiences, and there are also some monks who are traveling to knock on the cloud board, begging in front of the portal.

Not far from Chongwen Gate, is the direction of the Imperial City, the Imperial City Gate is not the ordinary people want to enter, it is the afternoon when the Tang Ma arrives, the Imperial City is full of people who have just eaten outside the Yamen to walk around to do things, or stand and chat, from time to time there is a green sedan chair passing by, the people sitting in it are not the ministry hall is also the waiter, the crowd on both sides quickly get out of the way, by the sedan chair through.