In his impression, the city wall collapsed, thousands of Tartar cavalry rushed in, and the city was basically lost, but he didn't expect to be beaten out by the defenders, which was quite difficult to do. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Can Master Fan take this official to see the collapsed city wall?" Wu Fu said with a smile.

Fan Jin knew that Wu Fu didn't believe it, so he said, "Your Excellency, please." As he spoke, he led everyone to the east gate, pointed to the repaired section of the city wall, and said, "Your Excellency, please see, this is the section." ”

Wu Fu followed his finger to look at that section of the city wall, and carefully looked up and down, left and right several times, and then confirmed that this thing was true, so he smiled and said: "Such a big gap, thousands of Tartar cavalry rushed in, according to the general situation, this city is undefinable, but you can actually turn defeat into victory and drive the Tartars out, it is really amazing, this official admires it so much, can Lord Fan tell me about the battle?" ”

He was so curious that he wanted to ask about it so that he could learn this method in the future defensive battles.

"This is for Li Shoubei, who and Zhao Guohua, the captain of the Ji'an Volunteer Brigade, jointly commanded this operation." Fan Jin said with a smile.

Nodding, Wu Fu said, "Please Li Shoubei." ”

"Humble Li Xian, please meet Lord Wu," Li Xian walked up to Wu Xuan and bowed.

He looked at him with a smile, and Wu Fu said politely: "I heard that Lord Fan said that you and Zhao Guohua, the captain of the militia group, jointly commanded this operation, can you describe the battle process to this officer." ”

"My lord, this is how it happened, that day the city wall finally collapsed under the long-term continuous bombardment of the Tartar artillery, and the four or five thousand cavalry of the Tartars took advantage of the situation to rush in......"

Li Xian recounted the battle that day, everyone listened carefully, even the Jinyi guards and the forbidden army who escorted Wu Fu were also listening attentively, and after talking for a while, Li Xiancai finished telling the story of this battle with emotion.

After listening to Li Xian's narration, Wu Fu praised: "In the face of danger, there is courage and strategy, this battle is really good and skillful." Zhuozhou has such a talent as Li Shoubei, which is indeed a blessing for the people of Zhuozhou. With that, he laughed.

"Your Excellency has won a prize! It's over! Li Xian bowed again and again with a happy face. Being able to get the praise of Lord Qincha is of great help to the promotion.

After laughing, Wu Fu stroked the beard under his chin and asked, "Where is Zhao Guohua, the captain of the Ji'an Volunteer Brigade, now?" Why don't you see him? Wu Fu thought that Zhao Guohua was proud of his achievements and did not want to come to see him.

Seeing that Wu Fu asked about Zhao Guohua, Fan Jin hurriedly said: "Lord Wu, Zhao Guohua has taken his volunteer brigade out of the city a few days ago to rescue the people who were plundered by the Tartars. ”

"Oh? Is this true? Wu Fu asked in surprise.

Li Xiandao: "It's true, the lowly rank doesn't dare to deceive Lord Qincha." ”

Stared at Fan Jin and Li Xian for a long time, and when he saw the calm and calm looks on their faces, he believed it.

"There's still such a thing." Wu Fu sighed. He thought to himself: "Zhao Guohua is too rare to take a victory and not hide in the city to celebrate, but to lead the troops out to save the people." Thinking of this, he asked with concern: "How many days has Captain Zhao been there?" Is there any news sent back? Do you want to send someone outside to find out what they do? ”

Hearing Wu Fu's tone become gentler, Li Xian's heart was relieved, and he bowed down and said: "Lord Yuqincha, Captain Zhao has sent people back the day before yesterday to report the victory, and they have rescued more than 40,000 people who were plundered by the Tartars this time, and captured more than 5,000 Tartar war horses" Yesterday, more than 1,000 of his subordinates have brought steamed buns and flatbread to greet the people, and it is estimated that they will return to Zhuozhou in three or five days. ”

After listening to Li Xian's words, Wu Xuan was dumbfounded. This news was so shocking that he came out of Beijing and heard too much news of the defeat of the Ming army.

He thought to himself: "The hundreds of thousands of troops led by Zhang Fengyi and Liang Tingdong, the governor of Xuanda, have confronted the Tartars for more than a month without results, and the Volunteer Brigade was able to rescue tens of thousands of plundered people from the hands of the Tartars, and also grabbed more than 5,000 war horses, which is too unbelievable, I have to wait for him to come back to see him anyway to see what kind of person he is." ”

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and walked towards the state government, all the way, observing the situation in Zhuozhou City all the way, seeing that the faces of the people who came and went were full of smiles, the shops on the side of the road were in and out from time to time, and the tavern and restaurant were full of excitement, so he couldn't help nodding secretly, and he had more good feelings for Fan Jin in his heart.

When he arrived at the state office, Wu Fu stood in the lobby, straightened his clothes and hats, took out the holy decree, straightened up, and said loudly: "Zhuozhou Zhizhou, Zhuozhou garrison Li Xian received the order." ”

Fan Jin and Li Xian, as well as the people in the room, all fell to their knees, bowing their heads and waiting for Wu Fu to read the holy decree.

Glancing at them, Wu Fu read aloud: "Zhuozhou is a great victory, and the heart is very relieved, Wu Fu, a scholar of Dongge University, brought 20 jars of imperial wine and 100 golden flowers, and went to Zhuozhou to reward meritorious soldiers." Chin this. ”

"Thank you, Lord Ronne! Long live my emperor, long live, long live. Fan Jin and Li Xian led everyone to shout.

After reading the holy decree, Wu Fu smiled and said, "Two adults, get up." ”

"Thank you, Lord Chincha." Fan Jin and Li Xian stood up, and the others followed suit.

After handing over the imperial wine and golden flower to Fan Jin and Li Xian, Wu Fu smiled and said, "Two adults, I want to go and see the head of the Tartar now, okay." "He's too eager to find out if he really exterminates thousands of Tartars.

After Fan Jin and Li Xian heard this, they looked at each other, and Fan Jin said: "My lord has been tired of saddle horses, and he has come to our poor country all the way, and he must be thirsty and hungry, so he should go to eat and drink first, and then look at those amine dirty things after eating, and the province will lose the appetite of adults." ”

"Yes, Lord Qincha should go after dinner." Li Xian also persuaded.

Seeing that the two of them were so dissuading, Wu Fu became suspicious, and he thought to himself: "These two people are behaving like this, is the record a false report?" Pompous? ”

Thinking of this, Wu Fu said: "Two adults, when your achievements were reported to the imperial court, the vast majority of adults in the imperial court did not believe in this, so when the official was about to leave Beijing, His Majesty specially explained that the official must find out about this matter, His Majesty's heavy trust is in his body, and if he does not find out about this matter, the official really can't eat, and please understand my feelings." ”

"Okay, since Lord Qincha said so, let's go with your lord." Fan Jin said.

So the two of them, some Zhuozhou officials and entourage, with Wu Fu and his attachés and the soldiers of the guard, came to the warehouse with the heads of the tartars piled up with nitrate, the light in it was not very good, and there were many heads, some of them were gloomy, and the dark space also wafted a strong smell of blood and stench.

Fan Jin and Li Xian covered their noses and walked in with Wu Fu and his attaché.

The heads were piled up on wooden shelves, row by row, in the cold and dim warehouse, looking very hideous and terrifying, Fan Jin's heart was beating wildly, and he was disgusted for a while.

Li Xian is a military general, but he doesn't care, he just accompanies Wu Fu to watch in rows.

Wu Fu was a governor in HN, and he was also a ruthless person who had slashed and killed rogues with his own hands, so he didn't care, but wore cowhide gloves and held the head of the tartar, and carefully inspected them one by one.

The money rat tail is distinguished, the head is bright, the face is wide and the mouth is large, the teeth are large and sharp, the nose is wide and the eyes are wide, and the real Tartar is 100% not the head of the surrendered Ming army. (At that time, there was a clear difference between the Jurchen and Han ethnic groups in appearance)

Count in a row, after reading it, the number of the first level is nearly four thousand, which is consistent with the number on the report of victory, it seems that not only the thing is true, but also the number is true, this Wu Fu was shocked, this thing is too rare, in this era of destroying the enemy and daring to report a thousand, such a thing is too rare.

"Two adults, your behavior is really admirable, you are the direct ministers and loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, after the official returns to the court, he will truthfully report the merits of the two to His Majesty." Wu Fu said excitedly and admiredly.

Fan Jin and Li Xian looked at each other and smiled, when Zhao Guohua asked the two to truthfully report the number of Tartar heads, the two were still a little incomprehensible, and later under Zhao Guohua's persuasion, the two agreed.

Fan Jin said: "The matter of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, this is how it should be." After eating wine and dinner, I will take the adults to count the number of captured Han soldiers. ”

"The Han army didn't kill it." Wu Fu said with a smile.

Li Xiandao: "Captain Zhao said that the Han army is also my Ming people, and they can't kill each other, whether they can kill or not, try to give them a chance to be a new person." ”

"That makes sense." Wu Fu praised.

Glancing at the two of them, he said with a smile: "Wu has a fate to come to Zhuozhou and get acquainted with two adults, this is my honor, let's go, let's eat, don't get drunk and don't return." ”

The three of them laughed and walked to the Gaosheng Restaurant in Zhuozhou with their entourage.

Besides, Dekzik took five cavalry to find Rao Yu Bel Abatai in Weifang, and told him about Yanguli's defeat by a sneak attack, Abatai was taken aback when he heard it, and carefully asked Dekzik about the details of Yanguli's sneak attack, and then asked them to send them down to rest.

Walking back and forth in the big tent for a while, he thought: "The militia that appeared in Zhuozhou is so strong, if it is not eliminated now, it may be a trouble for the Qing Dynasty in the future, but if you raise troops to go back and join forces with Yangguli to fight Zhuozhou again, with the strength of the defenders in the city, it is estimated that you will not be able to take Zhuozhou City at once, and it will be a tug-of-war, and if you delay it, you will violate the withdrawal order......

After thinking about it, he couldn't make up his mind, so he said, "I have something to discuss when Baksh is here." ”

"Wow." The guards agreed and went out. After a while, a handsome man in his thirties, dressed as a Manchu, walked in.

walked up to Abatai, bowed down, and said softly, "Uncle, do you have anything to do with me?" ”