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A fine Jingdezhen porcelain cup was shattered, and the splashing hot tea wet the soldier who reported the news, but he didn't dare to move at all, for fear that the nameless fire would burn him to pieces.

"Get out!" Xiao is a person who has read poetry and literature, and he can't stand it at this moment, and scolding is light.

The soldier who reported the news was not surprised, his forehead touched the ground, and he retreated quickly, and when he reached the door, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and it was good to pick up a life.

"Master, it's not worth it to be angry and angry." There was the cronie butler on the side, watching worriedly, but he didn't dare to come up to help, just watched the old man staggering back a few steps alone and slumping down on the chair.

The old man covered his face with his hands, and his voice was cold and almost devouring, "Hong An, how long have you been following me?" ”

The housekeeper's heart suddenly suddenly, he didn't care about pondering this sentence, he stepped forward and knelt on the ground, "Master, the little one has been following the master for thirty years." ”

"Did I take you with me?" is still the tone that does not contain half of the emotion, and Hong An, who was frightened, was panicked for a while.

But I couldn't help but answer, touched the ground with my head, and showed my expression, "The lord treats me like a mountain, gives me worry-free food and clothing, and shines on the lintel, and the little one in this life is beyond retribution!" ”

"Good, good, good!" The three of them sounded in a deep voice instantly, and the old man sighed, "The lord has something, I need you to go, if this matter is done, there may be a way to live, if something goes wrong, the lord and I will give up my body, and meet the ancestors and ancestors together." ”

"Huh?!" Hong An's hands and feet were cold when he was frightened by these decisive words, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time when he opened his mouth wide......

Xingwu Camp Fort, a Ming army thousand households near the Great Wall, since the Hetao Mongolian iron cavalry attack, here has become the first line of resistance against the Mongolian Tartars, and in the vast area of the Great Wall in the south, it has become the entire Shaanxi soldiers and horses grain and grass to the north to support Ningxia Wei must pass through.

However, these have nothing to do with the Xingwu Camp Qianhusuo, their task is to guard against the invasion of the Mongol Tatars at any time, after all, it is much more convenient to cross the Great Wall from here than through Ningxiawei, and it is very easy to penetrate into the interior, so as to plunder money and grain.

"Damn, I don't have many soldiers and horses, so I sent three elites from hundreds of households to protect the grain, isn't this going to cost our lives."

Early in the morning, the thousands of households in the main fort scolded and summoned the hundreds of households under them, and held an official document from the Shaanxi Metropolitan Yamen to everyone to see.

A supervisor of Iron Pillar Spring City below looked at it, and immediately frowned, "Qianhu, we only have less than five hundred soldiers and horses in our office, if we transfer another three hundred to protect the grain, if the Tartars take advantage of the weakness to attack, I am afraid that they will break the city and leave." ”

What he said was not false at all, the Iron Pillar Spring City should have more than 1,500 soldiers and horses, but in recent years, the three sides have been deserted, the civil and military at all levels have become exaggerated, and the contacts are a huge deficit, and the generals at all levels can only eat the blood of the soldiers to barely fill the holes.

His number of 500 has to be added to the more than 100 gatekeepers in Tiezhu Spring City, but the official document clearly orders that there are 330 people, if there is one less, I am afraid that he will be questioned again, but go all, it is estimated that several fortresses in this vicinity will be emptied, otherwise where will these people go?

Several generals discussed and discussed, and in the end there was no way, anyway, the peak was strictly ordered, even if there was a problem, they could not be punished, besides, the nearby fortress, ten miles away, did not find any trace of the Mongolian Tartars, I think it is just to escort grain and grass by the way, it should be fine.

So they discussed all night, and they could only gather all the soldiers near the fortress, and finally gathered together the façade of three hundred and thirty people, and the deputy thousand households took it as three hundred households, and went south to escort the grain and grass.

At this moment, only a few miles south of the Xingwu camp, a huge grain team is rushing to the north, with no less than 1,000 wheelbarrows, 5,000 porters, and 500 sturdy men from the Yamen of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division.

In order to prevent the rogues from jumping over the wall, the Yamen of Shaanxi Province deliberately chose such a northern road to avoid the increasingly serious banditry.

More than 20 miles south of this grain team, there is also a 3,000-person Governor's Fubiao Battalion and the officers and soldiers of the Ningxia Rear Guard's 3,000 households, who went to the front line to reinforce together, but for some reason, the two armies were dozens of miles apart but did not join forces, but they both went north.

What is even more unknown is that the Yamen of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division has never issued an official document to the Xingwu Camp Thousand Households to send troops to protect food, but has issued an official document ordering strict defense, and no one knows the way of it.

Just said that in the second hour of the main force of the Xingwu battalion going south, in the Iron Pillar Spring City, there was a caravan with hands and eyes to the sky, went out of the north gate to bypass the pass of the inner Great Wall, looked at the abandoned fortress and sneered, and then went out of the Great Wall and went straight into the grassland.

For such a caravan that traveled south and north, I don't know which adult is standing behind, an ordinary soldier, who took the money to buy the road, naturally he didn't dare to ask more, otherwise he would be guilty of a few crimes, and this business would not be able to be saved.

"Great Khan, the cunning Ming people brought the news, the Iron Pillar Spring City is empty, and the promised silver and food have arrived, just waiting for the Great Khan to get it."

No one could have imagined that on the boundary of less than ten miles north of Xingwuying Qianhu, there were 3,000 elite cavalry personally commanded by Lin Dan Khan of the Mongolian Han Department.

Yes! Retirement.

He couldn't fight anymore, who would have thought that three years ago, he could send the main force to almost break Datong Town, and then this time, he sent out 50,000 iron horses, but he didn't even break through the border fortress, and the elite of the Ming army on three sides really dealt him a heavy blow.

Originally, his position was challenged, and this defeat, the eight tribes of Hetao will inevitably be more detached, but he doesn't care about these, as long as his tribe can get food for the winter, it is enough.

"Let's go!" With an order, the mighty iron cavalry entered the pass all the way, and there was not the slightest fort guard along the way, and these soldiers guarding the fort were either emptied or had their throats cut long ago.

There were only two unwilling eyes left staring at the sky, as if telling of injustice.

But who made them the Ming army, this kind of bitter fruit seems to have been determined as early as when he ascended the throne today.

In the first year of Ming Chongzhen, at the beginning of 1628 AD, Zhu Youzhen of Ming Sizong waved his pen and throttled! Save everything you can save, start with yourself, cut down on food and clothing, and reduce the expenses of the inner palace.

Since ancient times, he was ruthless to himself, of course, he was even more ruthless to others, in this year, he did two major things, one was to abolish the post station, saving 300,000 taels of silver every year, and then provoked Li Zicheng and other fierce people, and finally could only hang himself in Jingshan with hatred.

There was also the abolition of the customary bounty of 40,000 taels that was due to Chahar Lindan Khan every year.

300,000 taels buried the entire empire, and 40,000 taels of course caused a big mess.

Lin Dan Khan had the ambition to unify Mongolia, and it is said that there were many conflicts with the Ming Dynasty, but fortunately, the rise of the Houjin regime in Liaodong attracted the attention of Lin Dan Khan, who was inspired to unify Mongolia.

The enemy of the enemy is naturally a friend, and Lin Dan Khan is not unable to see the situation clearly, so in the case of obtaining a trade market, he began to form an alliance with the Ming Dynasty to deal with Nurhachi together, but who knows that the Ming Dynasty has betrayed allies since ancient times.

First of all, in the battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi defeated Yehe, Nekharkha and other tribes who had dealings with the Great Light and Darkness, and then fought a decisive battle with the Ming army, during which the Ming army sat back and watched the destruction of its allies, but did not send a single soldier to help.

After Lin Dan Khan formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty, the Chahar Mongol tribes were not dedicated, but they also passed on the surface, at least they sent troops to fight Shenyang once, and in the decisive battle of Guangning, they assisted the Ming army to defend the first line of Shanhaiguan, and fought more battles with Houjin, but they had no choice but to lose again and again.

But if it's just like this, Lin Dan Khan will definitely not be able to break with the Ming Dynasty, who will let the will of heaven make people, soon! Two of the most important men in his fate appeared one after another.

The first was the Later Jin Khan Huang Taiji, after this person took office, he tried to win over the Mongol tribes, using a series of means such as marriage, bribery, etc., and launched several attacks on the Chahar tribe, forcing Lin Dan Khan to move westward.

The second is the great emperor Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, after this person ascended the throne, he was hateful, and overthrew his brother Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao's policy during his reign, and changed the previous reward for the Mongolian tribes, and the minister Gui Yingqia sent by Lin Dan Khan to ask for the reward was also killed by the Ming army.

For this reason, Lin Dan Khan in June of that year, with the main force of soldiers and horses, invaded Datong Town, killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, and almost occupied Datong City for a time, it was this battle that made Lin Dan Khan completely see the reality of the Ming Dynasty, and no longer paid attention to the Ming army, even if Emperor Chongzhen suddenly repented in the second year and resumed his grace, he could not restore Lin Dan Khan's broken heart.

In the following years, Lin Dan Khan, who unified the Mongolian Hetao tribes, had to attack the three sides south every year, plundering Xuanda and other places, these losses were far from being comparable to 40,000 taels of silver a year in the past, but who made the Ming Dynasty extremely vicious and short-sighted, and the bitter fruits planted by themselves could only be tasted by themselves.

Originally, in history, at this time, Lin Dan Khan should have taken the opportunity of Huang Taiji's main force to attack the Daling River, and attacked the Mongolian tribes in the east to attack the Houjin, but the rebellion of Li Jing in Shanxi Town made Lin Dan Khan see hope, that is, the Mongolian tribes who fought hard haha, but they grabbed some cattle and sheep, while the rivers and mountains of the Han people in the south could rob countless people and food.

Besides, the Mongolian tribes in the east are not so easy to mess with, and I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of civil unrest in the south, and the Ming Dynasty army must be exhausted, so it is just the opportunity to invade the south. (To be continued.) )