At the same time that Qin Lin galloped towards Yang and Wei, Huang Taiji's envoys had already dispersed to various subordinate tribes along the Great Wall.

"Whew~ I almost lost my life this time, thanks to the blessing of the Buddha, bastard, I don't offer women and wine!" The envoy drew his whip and whipped the uninteresting Mongolian herdsmen.

The poor herdsman dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and secretly said in his heart that you are blessed by the Buddha, but unfortunately the Buddha does not bless me, otherwise you will die on the way, and everything will be fine!

This is a small tribe called the bald, attached to the Tumut tribe, according to the system set by Dayan Khan back then, belonging to the six major households below the Etok, the current chief is also an old patriarch, called Elitu, who is already over sixty years old - this is considered a long life in the steppe.

When Elitu heard that Huang Taiji had sent someone to come, the muscles on his face trembled, but when he turned out to greet him, he immediately became full of spring breeze: "Oh, which gust of wind blew the noble envoy of Xiao Khan?" Beautiful girl, dedicate the white Hada to our warriors! ”

The two young and good-looking girls held Hada and presented it to the messenger, but the messenger's colored eyes only swirled around the chest, and even stretched out their hands and pinched each girl's waist fiercely, causing the two girls to retreat with tears in their eyes.

"Lord Messenger, let them sleep tonight," Erlitu asked with a smile on his face, "I don't know what good news did Lord Taiji send you?" ”

The envoy arrogantly took out the arrow: "Taiji has an order, let you quickly raise troops and knock on the mouth of the white sheep immediately!" ”

Yes? Elitu was shocked, since I replied to the tribute, it has been ten years since I did not have a sword soldier, the people of the two ethnic groups on the border trade with each other, life is auspicious and peaceful, why do you want to fight?

He asked tentatively: "Great, my lord, didn't the great Alatan Khan (Altan Khan) just pass away, and the holy and auspicious Three Ladies have always restrained us to keep the peace and not to fight with the imperial court!" ”

"Fart!" The envoy was fierce and ruthless, and his saliva sprayed the old patriarch in the face: "You keep saying that the third lady, don't you know that it is our Huang Taiji who inherits the throne of Khan?" If you delay the military situation and ask your head to fall to the ground, you will put the bald people, the men who are taller than the wheels will be executed, and the women and children will all be enslaved, this is the decree handed down by Genghis Khan! ”

"Yes, yes," Elitu dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, a small tribe like him couldn't fight against Huang Taiji at all, and someone could wipe out the clan with a small note.

Alas, who let the old Khan die? Although the third lady has great prestige, Huang Taiji inherited the throne, and even she had to get married, so she didn't have to listen to Huang Taiji.

Thinking that he wanted the men of the clan to die in vain, Elitu's heart was like a knife, and he trembled and took out a piece of gold, and held it to the messenger with both hands: "Honorable messenger, this is your filial piety...... As you can see, our tribe is very small and does not have too many troops, so I am afraid that it is not an opponent of the Ming army......"

Old fellow, just take it out! The envoy glanced at him, weighed the gold in the palm of his hand, and then said slowly: "Taiji also knows that your tribe is weak, so he didn't take you as a dish. Well, you just need to put your position out, and you don't need to kill them all, you know? ”

In fact, these are what Huang Taiji explained at the beginning, but the envoy deliberately sold a pass and extorted gold before he was willing to tell the truth.

Elitu is overjoyed, although it hurts to give gold, but it is distressing to call the clansmen to die, and now it is better to feel pain than distress.

That night, the bald men repaired their saddles and bows and arrows, and washed their horses, and lingered with their wives for the last night, and perhaps they would not return...... From Mount Sutuo in the west, to Zhangjiakou in the east, the large and small Mongolian tribes along the Great Wall have received orders for war before or after, but this time the envoys who came were as fierce and vicious as before, after giving gold or beautiful women, their attitudes softened, as long as they sent troops and lined up.

Although the departments were suspicious, they touched the tone of the messenger and only assigned the task of feint to their own tribes, so they finally took it with a sigh of relief. ——

Huyukou, one of the countless Xiongguan of the Great Wall, the two mountains are sandwiched, the key of Xiongguan is the key, the indescribable Jin Ge Iron Horse, and the inexplicable general is white-haired and tearful.

The soldiers carried weapons to patrol the sentry, and it was the season of high autumn and south knocking, but they were not nervous, several veterans had a pair of braggadocio and fart, and the recruits looked at them with admiration, listening to them say those big words that they didn't even believe.

There is no other reason, since I answered the tribute, the soldiers along the Great Wall have not been prosperous for ten years, and there is no war until Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang's Jiliao defense line, and the soldiers on the front line of Xuanda may have seen blood, and the soldiers of three or five years are afraid that they don't even know what it is like to fight.

Suddenly, a number of horses galloped from outside the pass, two of which were particularly eye-catching, one was all black, only four hooves were snow-white, and the other was snow-white without half a hair, and it was a famous horse of a thousand miles.

If it was the officers and soldiers of Nanjing City, they would have opened the city gate a long time ago and greeted the eldest lady and Aunt Qin with a smiling face, but the soldiers of the Xuanda Line didn't know who it was, and they stood there one by one.

Finally, a veteran reacted, stretched his bow and set up an arrow, and shouted: "Oh, stop, let's release the arrow further on, today is not the day to switch the mutual market!" ”

The comer lifted an object high in his hand, galloped to the close, and threw it upwards with all his might.

The old soldier's arrow did not leave the bowstring, and the other picked up the talisman, and several people looked around, but they did not recognize the words written on it.

The guard finally heard the sound, holding his pants in his hands, sleepy-eyed.

However, as soon as he saw the talisman, the general drowsiness suddenly disappeared, and he said in a loud voice: "Open the door, open the door and greet you!" ”

The veteran had the courage to ask, "Boss, who is the prisoner?" ”

The general voice has changed: "Jin and Jinyi Wei are both commanding envoys, and Beizhen Fusi is in charge of the seal officer!" ”

The door was wide open, Qin Lin led the crowd straight in, and the general had already knelt on the ground, raised his hands high and returned the waist card to him.

"In which direction is the Doge's Palace?" Qin Lin thought for a moment and ordered straightforwardly: "You get on the horse and lead the way for me!" ”

Riding a yellow horse to lead the way, the group galloped towards Yang Hewei, twenty miles away from Huyukou.

As everyone knows, Zheng Luo, who was the governor of Xuanda and Shanxi and other places with the rank of squire of the military department, and was also in charge of food and salary, was not in the governor's palace at this time, but took advantage of the crisp autumn weather to lead a group of literati and scholars to climb Baishan Mountain.

Yanghe is the Bai Deng of the year, and Bai Dengshan is not far from the Guannei.

More than 1,000 years ago, Liu Bang led his army to attack the Xiongnu in the north, and the cavalry reached Pingcheng first, and the Han infantry had not yet fully arrived at this time. Mao Dunshan saw the Han soldiers rushing to set up an ambush on Baishan Mountain. As soon as Liu Bang led the soldiers and horses into the encirclement, Mao Dunshan commanded the 400,000 Xiongnu army on the horse, intercepted the Han infantry, and besieged Liu Bang's soldiers and horses in Baishan Mountain, so that the Han army had no food and grass and no reinforcements outside, and could not save each other.

After Liu Bang found out that he was surrounded, he organized a breakthrough, and after several fierce battles, he did not break out, and the two sides suffered great losses and have been holding each other. At this time, it was the middle of winter, the climate was very cold, and the soldiers of the Han army were not used to life in the north, and many people suffered frostbite, among which there were two or three out of ten who froze off their fingers. The Book of Han? The Biography of the Huns recorded: "There is also sincerity and bitterness under the peaceful city!" Seven said that if you don't eat, you can't use a crossbow." The Xiongnu besieged it for seven days and seven nights, and did not occupy Baideng.

Later, Liu Bang used Chen Ping's strategy to bribe the Xiongnu clan, that is, the queen, and she spoke to Shan Yu, which relieved the siege of Baideng and Liu Bang was able to get out.

It can be said that this mountain is a place of shame in the memory of the Han nation.

Zheng Luo has a hundred faces and black beards, is a middle-aged civil official with a personable demeanor, Jiajing was born in the 35th year of Bingchen Kejinshi, and he has been a governor and a feudal official for more than 20 years.

This time, he led all the literati and scholars to climb the Baishan Mountain, and his mood was naturally different, and he chanted loudly: "The bright moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountain, and the vast sea of clouds." The long wind is tens of thousands of miles, blowing the Yumen Pass. Hanxia Baideng Road, Hu peep into Qinghai Bay. came to the battlefield, but no one returned. The soldier looked at the side, and thought about how bitter he was. High-rise buildings are at this night, sighing is not idle. Ladies and gentlemen, when Li Taibai's poem is read now, there is still a lingering atmosphere of Jin Ge! ”

"No, no," a scribe deliberately retorted first, and waited for Zheng Luo's gaze to turn before he smiled playfully: "The capital hall is open and the border soldiers can't afford it, which is very different from the artistic conception in Li Taibai's poem." It is the 'night roll tooth flag thousand tents of snow, towards the flying feather riding a river of ice. Fan'er swaddling clothes came to the green mound, and Di Nu's pot pulp out of Bai Deng', this is right! ”

That's a great deal! Zheng Luo was used in his heart, and still waved his hands again and again, telling jokes and jokes.

Another humanitarian: "There is a Han in the army, and the western thief is cold when he hears it; There was a fan in the army, and the western thieves were shocked when they heard it. Now there is a Zheng in the army, and the western thieves dare not fight when they hear it! ”

This went one step further, comparing Zheng Luo with Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan, and it tickled the itch even more.

"Come on, come on, from here, the grass is in the sky, the Great Wall is winding, let's each write a poem!" Zheng Luo's enthusiastic proposal.

All the scribes responded violently, and they all searched their stomachs to make poems, but there was nothing new in the words, either shooting the wolf, or clearing the dust, not shooting the golden armor, or falling the long tassel, and the predecessors turned over and over hundreds of times.

Suddenly, a man pointed to the distance and shouted, "Smoke, smoke, smoke!" ”

Smoke, smoke, smoke, what does it mean? Everyone also knew that Luo Bingwang's goose, goose, goose, and song with a curved neck to the sky, they were all guessing what he was going to pick up next.

Who knew that this person didn't take it, it was just a strong smoke, and finally someone reacted, and he opened his mouth when he landed, no different from the person who smoked cigarettes.

Looking north from Baishan Mountain, I saw a beacon tower in the distance lit wolf smoke, which was faint at first, so only the person with good eyesight saw it first, but then it turned into a thick black pillar of smoke and went straight into the sky, so as long as you are not blind, you can see it.

"Quick, send someone to find out what's going on!" Zheng Luo hurriedly urged the accompanying officials, and said to himself: "Isn't there a fire?" ”

The Great Wall Xuanda Line has not been lit for a long time, so it is no wonder that Governor Zheng has this question.

Before the words were finished, there were two beacon towers in the east and west that lit up wolf smoke, and it didn't take long to wait, farther away, more beacon towers were billowing with thick smoke, and columns of thick black smoke went straight to the sky, like a black dragon flying into the sky with teeth and claws!

No matter how stupid Zheng Luo is, he won't think it's a fire, he shouted angrily: "Go back to the house quickly, pass me the general army of Datong, and pass the generals from all walks of life, what's going on?" The Mongols went crazy? ”

At this time, the beacon towers of the Great Wall in Datong, Yanghe and the first line were almost lit with wolf smoke. The Mongol tribes were already united in their soldiers and civilians, and the mobilization speed was extremely fast, and Huang Taiji's envoys were in a hurry, but they only asked for a feint, so the tribes sent troops after hastily preparing that night, and launched an attack on their respective targets this morning.

At Huyukou, where Qin Lin passed not long ago, the officers and soldiers were stunned when they looked at the group of Mongolian cavalry galloping on horseback and drawing bows and arrows outside the pass.

There were not many Mongols in front of him, about a thousand people, but what was frightening was that wolf smoke was lit from the beacon towers in the east and west, and I don't know how many Mongol iron cavalry were attacking, 50,000, 100,000, or 200,000 people from the Tumut Department poured out?

The veteran slapped his thigh in frustration: "I knew that there was nothing good for the Jinyi Guard's people to come...... Cheer up, we are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in life, and ghosts of the Ming Dynasty in death! ”

Another veteran roared in the ancient Qin dialect: "Two Wolf Mountain, Zhan Hu'er, the sky is shaking, good man, for the country, why not be afraid of death and life!" ”

The soldiers and horses guarding the pass are only about 200 people under the general command, but there are more than 1,000 Mongolian iron cavalry in front of them, not to mention that the smoke is rising everywhere, I am afraid that there will be no reinforcements...... The rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the terrible charge was about to begin, and the entire thousand-man squad on the opposite side was divided into three waves, which was exactly the wave charge that the Mongol army excelled at.

The old soldier clenched his swords, guns, bows and arrows, and someone filled the only Franc machine with gunpowder, and the recruit's face turned pale and his body trembled slightly, but he stood firmly on the gate.

In the early years of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng worked hard, quite a bit of Zhongxing, and these border troops did not lose their courage, which was far from being comparable to the later erosive divisions.

Finally, the first wave of the Mongols approached, and Hulala shot a rain of arrows, and the Ming army also shot arrows.

Just as the soldiers of the Ming army were preparing to meet the baptism of arrow rain, they were surprised to find that these arrows fell one after another when they were shot more than ten zhang away from them, and they did not hit the city wall at all.

Of course, the arrows of the Ming army did not rub the cold hair of the Mongols, but the Franc machine roared and knocked the two unlucky people off their horses.

It turned out that the Mongols had shot arrows from a hundred and fifty paces away from the city wall and quickly retreated, and at such a distance that bows and arrows and shotguns could not do anything, and even the Franc machine had to rely on luck to hit.

What the hell are the Mongols doing?

"They are feintting, and the main force is mostly attacking......" The veteran was happy about his fate, but at the same time, he looked worriedly in the direction of Baiyangkou in the east, if Huyukou was not the enemy's main direction of attack, then the brothers in Baiyangkou would be in danger.

As if to support his assertion, the wolf smoke rising from the mouth of the white sheep was also extremely black and terrifying.

The white sheep mouth was the direction of the attack of the bald Elitu, and as expected, after the three waves of attacks, the men of the tribe retreated, and there were not many injured, and even fewer died.

"The kids are smart!" Elitu was very pleased, why did he use his flesh and blood to suffer the guns of the Ming army?

said that a team of 1,000 people was sent, but in fact only 700 people came, and the attack just now was even more thunderous and rainy, and Elitu even wanted to tell the court officials and soldiers who guarded the official that we were just feints here, everyone just made a show, and simply didn't let go of the arrows and guns, you see, my children and grandchildren have been scratched by the arrows you shot! Two other horses were also hit by bullets and were unable to live.

The envoy of the war, who had been drunk with the clever Eli Tu, had collapsed on the bellies of the two young girls, and in any case, it was a very good deal to exchange the pure bodies of the two girls for the tribe to die less and be stronger.

It doesn't matter what kind of face you don't have, you only talk about survival on the grassland, not face.

However, the Ming army in Baiyangkou didn't see it that way, they were suddenly attacked, and they were already very nervous, so their judgment of the situation was not so accurate, not to mention that wolf smoke rose in all directions, it can be seen that the Mongolian iron cavalry is attacking in a big way, who knows what conspiracy is behind it?

Baiyangkou's emergency document sent a meteor fast horse to the Xuanda Governor's Mansion in a hurry.

Not only that, Huyukou, Fangshan, Sutuo Mountain, Tuan Mountain...... Urgent reports everywhere, like snowflakes, flew to the governor of Xuanda, to the governor of Xuanfu, to the governor of Datong and other yamen.

Thousands of miles of side plugs, everywhere is urgent!

Zheng Luo, who was full of returning home, bumped into Qin Lin who came to look for him but didn't find him at the door.

"Governor Zheng, this official Jinyi Wei is in command of Qin Lin, there is urgent military affairs to discuss with you!" Qin Lin walked over and told him bluntly.

Zheng Luo was anxious, and he didn't think much about it: "General Qin, right?" Yes, you are the minister of Xuanfu Qincha, ah, yes, that's you! ”

Zheng Luo grabbed Qin Lin as if he was afraid that he would put on his wings and fly away.

So anxious to know about the military situation? Qin Lin was very satisfied with Zheng Luo's style, and pulled it in with him.

Unexpectedly, before he sat down, Zheng Luo shouted: "What a Xuanfu Qincha, Xuanfu is unfavorable, provokes border troubles, and flees in battle, and actually ran to my Xuanda Governor's station!" Come on, come on, let's slowly fight this lawsuit in Beijing, Master Wang, write a seal for me, and sue this Qin Daqin for a bad case! ”

"Come on!" A Shaoxing master with a two-inch short beard ran up, and really laid paper and polished ink, ready to write a chapter of revelation.

The revelation is a black complaint, and it has not been written in front of the defendant in the world, but Zheng Luo is also anxious and panicked, and he can't take care of it much.

This old bastard officialdom, the abacus is crackling, why did Mongolia invade the south on a large scale? That must be the failure of Xuanfu, now that my Xuanda Governor's area is under attack, the soldiers and civilians are killed and injured, and the lives are devastated, the responsibility has to be attributed to this Xuanfu Qincha, if any checkpoint city is broken, you can't blame me Zheng someone... Qin Lin had a dark face, and when he met this Zheng Luo, it really made people cry and laugh.

(To be continued)