"Hehe, this is nature!" Hu Kejian said with a smile: "Xiu Wende, Huaiyuan people, this is the wind of my country!" At this time, after listening to Liu Cheng's plan, he felt that it was quite feasible, plus the benefits of the 25,000 taels of silver that he had given him not long ago, he also felt more and more pleasing to the military general in front of him, smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Liu Cheng's sleeve, and said in a low voice: "General Liu, after this battle, you, the general soldier, are sure to succeed, and the next thing is to be a feudal marquis." You have come to this position at such a young age, which is rare in the past 300 years of the dynasty! “

"Where, where!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "It's all thanks to the blessings of the imperial court, the cultivation of your lords, and the care of your father-in-law, otherwise how can there be no end today?" ”

"According to the law of this dynasty, civil and military officials who have passed the fifth grade or more must resign in Beijing. General Liu was busy with military aircraft and couldn't get out, and after being promoted to the general army, I'm afraid he will have to go to Beijing as well! It is estimated that the edict is coming soon, and the general should hurry up the matter in his hands! “

"Thank you father-in-law for the reminder!" When Liu Cheng heard this, he hurriedly bowed down to avoid the surprise in his heart. He, a halfway monk, knows very little about the various rules of the Ming Dynasty officialdom, but fortunately he was reminded by Hu Kejian today, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a lot of errands when things come to an end.

"Hehe, thank you, I and General Liu are also our own people!" Hu Kejian patted Liu Cheng's arm with a smile, and said with a smile: "Speaking of General Liu, you were promoted too quickly, if someone else is a garrison, you will have to stay up for twenty or thirty years, and you will know what rules there are during this period, and people like General Liu are an outlier!" Speaking of this, he laughed sharply, and Liu Cheng had to laugh along.

Hu Kejian laughed for a while, his voice gradually became smaller, and he suddenly asked, "General Liu, I heard that you were promoted by Lord Yang Heyang." I don't know if it's true or not? ”

"Not bad!" Liu Cheng didn't know why Hu Kejian suddenly mentioned this, so he had to deal with it casually: "Lord Yang's kindness will never be forgotten." ”

"Hmm!" Hu Kejian nodded: "You can't forget your roots, General Liu is not ungrateful, then this time when you enter Beijing, you must go to visit Lord Yang's son." ”

"Lord Yang's son-in-law is also in Beijing?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this. As an engineer in his previous life, he knew very little about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, although he knew that Yang He had a son who was also an official in the court, but he didn't know that this person was Yang Sichang, who was later recognized as the culprit of the Ming Dynasty, and thought that he was just an ordinary official who was an official in other places. At this time, when I heard Hu Kejian mention it, I couldn't help but be taken aback.

"That's natural, when Lord Yang was imprisoned, he was the imperial history of the right capital, the governor of Yongping, mountains and seas, and he was honest. Presumably now he has been added to the knighthood. Hu Kejian smiled meaningfully at Liu Cheng: "If General Liu enters Beijing, this Governor Yang's mansion must go there!" “

After bidding farewell to Bu Lost Rabbit, Gu Shi Khan was not in a good mood, so he asked his subordinates to fetch mare's milk wine, and poured himself a big bowl sullenly. As a warrior on the same level as Batur among the Erut people, in addition to bravery, he also has a characteristic of reverence for the Gelug sect. Tenzin "is the title of the Apologetic King. He also deserves the praise of the Gelug monks. His scimitar was stained with the blood of Kazakhs, Ogarhot (a separatist force in present-day Urumqi), Zangpa Khan, who believed in the Karma Kagyu sect, and Tusi of Kham. An important reason why he risked his lair to be raided by his sworn enemies Kham, Baili Tustun Dan Dorjee and Zangpa Khan, was to punish Lin Dan Khan for his apostasy. But when he easily killed Lin Dan Khan. I found myself like a bee, glued to the cobwebs of conspiracy. Bu Lost Rabbit and Erji were in their arms, and the powerful Ming defenders waited along the Yellow River, while their own men complained that they had not received the spoils of war. At this time, Gushi Khan began to regret rashly sending troops.

"Bu Lost Rabbit, your eyes don't see farther than the donkey in the mill!" Gu Shi Khan drank all the mare's milk wine in the cup and scolded: "I am really blind. Ally yourself with a short-sighted and greedy guy like you! ”

It was as if some god in the darkness had heard Gushi Khan's curses, and one of his men hurried in from outside and said to him, "Great Khan, it's not good, the Tumuts have been attacked. ”

"What?" Gu Shi Khan stood up suddenly. "Who is it?" ”

"Look at the banner like the army of the Ming Kingdom!" His subordinates prayed: "It seems that the Tumuts can't stand it, Great Khan, do we want to help?" ”

Gu Shi Khan hesitated for a moment, but still did not say the word "help": "Let's take a look first!" ”

Like most of the dissenting coalition armies, the three armies of Gushi Khan's Heshut, Erji's Dzungars, and Bushuntu Khan's Tumuts were not co-camped, but were stationed in three camps about four or five miles apart. Gushi Khan stood on a high place, looking towards the camp of the Tumuts, only to see dozens of pillars of fire rising from the camp, pillars of smoke straight into the sky, gray-black smoke has been connected, the sound of firearms shooting and shouting from time to time in the air, there is nothing to doubt, Bu Lost Rabbit Khan has fallen into the trap of the Ming Kingdom, leaving no leaderless subordinates to be slaughtered, and he himself has been reduced to a prisoner, and may not even be in this world.

"Great Khan, are we going to send troops to the rescue?" There was a hurried question from his subordinates, and Gu Shihan raised his right hand, but put it down again.

"What about Erji? Did the Dzungars move? ”

"Dzungars?" That subordinate looked at Gushi Khan with some inexplicability, could it be that the Great Khan wanted to pull the Dzungar people to send troops together, but Erji only had a thousand cavalry, and it didn't matter how much he had.

"The Dzungars didn't move, they just closed the camp gates and strengthened their defenses."

"No other movements?"

"Nope."

"Then we won't move, let everyone get ready, and close the camp gates!" Gushi Khan turned and walked down the watchtower, and went back to his tent to fetch it, leaving behind a group of suspicious men.

On the high ground next to the Tumut camp, Du Guoying stood on horseback, staring at the burning battlefield not far away. There was no suspense about the outcome of the victory, and the swift surprise attack of the Ming cavalry caught the Tumuts off guard, and most of the Tumerts didn't even have time to saddle their horses when they saw the enemy. The Mongols, without horses, were like a group of cripples, and the cavalry of the Ming army rushed into the weak lines. Slash and slash, set fire, and behind them are squads of infantry. These densely formed infantry easily crushed the weak counterattack of the Tumuts, and in the cramped camp, the cavalry on horseback could not compete with the highly organized cavalry.

"My lord, it seems that Gushi Khan will not come to help." One of them laughed.

"Hmm. The master is really expected again! Du Guoying laughed: "It made me prepare in vain!" He turned around, and behind him six intact cavalry and a thousand cavalry were waiting in formation.

"The master is clever!" The Dusi smiled: "But the villain still doesn't know, why didn't this Gushi Khan come to help the Tumuts, aren't they in a gang?" ”

"Huh!" Du Guoying smiled reservedly: "Didn't you see that the Jungar people over there didn't move?" That Gushi Khan was afraid that he would be stabbed in the back by the Dzungars. Don't look down on these Tartars, all of them are like monkeys, fine! ”

"My lord, should we pull the brothers of the team up as well?" Nadusi's face was already full of eagerness.

"The team is up too?" Du Guoying looked his subordinates up and down, and sneered: "Greedy? Mother, this is a war, what if Gushi Khan changes his mind and kills him? Are you going to block it? It's really a loss for money. ”

Nadusi's face was like earth when he was scolded by Du Guoying. The gray was about to hide to the side, but was stopped by Du Guoying: "Rabbit cub, is it good to have a longer brain, no matter how much silver you win, you have to have a flower that is only in your life, when has the master treated you badly?" Go and pick two articulate ones, and send them to Gushi Khan and Erji. ”

"Yes, sir!"

The Great Tent of Gushi Khan.

The candlelight is reflected on the slightly yellowed parchment, and the lines of Tibetan are like a swarm of black tadpoles. This made Gu Shi Khan look a little hard. At this moment the curtain was lifted, and a cold wind poured in. The candlelight pulsed violently. Gu Shi Khan put his sleeve in front of the candle and raised his head in annoyance.

"Great Khan, do you want to tie up the messengers of the Ming army?" A Taiji (Mongolian for tribal leader) asked.

"Tie what tie!" Gu Shi Khan scolded angrily: "Lead him to a warm tent, send some wine and meat, and if you want a woman, give him a woman." ”

That Taiji looked at Gushi Khan with some inexplicability. It wasn't until the other party waved his hand in annoyance that he hurriedly bowed down and received the order: "Yes, Great Khan!" ”

Finally, Gushi Khan finished reading the Tibetan letter sent by the messenger of the Ming army, sighed and pondered. The author of this letter is none other than the organizer and initiator of this expedition, the Chesang Lama. As one of the most important defenders of the Gelug sect, Gushi Khan has a deep relationship with the personal disciple of the fourth ****, admires his talent and character very much, and also trusts his loyalty to the cause of the Gelug sect. It is precisely because of this that he sent an army of 10,000 troops to the Hetao on the basis of Cessan's words alone, and he has the largest number of troops in the coalition army, but also the least involved in it. From the present point of view, the death of Bu Lost Rabbit Khan is not unrelated to Lama Chesang, but in his letter, Chesang analyzed the benefits and disadvantages to him, and asked Gushi Khan to put aside the deaths of Bu Lost Rabbit Khan and Lin Dan Khan, recognize Liu Cheng's control over the right-wing homeland, and form an alliance with the Dzungar Department and Liu Cheng to establish a large alliance based on the Gelug sect. The gains and losses between the interests and losses, and the intricate relationship between the various forces, made Gushi Khan think deeply for a long time. Finally, he got up and walked out of the tent and asked, "Where is the envoy of the Ming Kingdom?" ”

"In the tent of the back camp!" The guard at the door replied.

"You bring him to me right away!"

"Yes, Great Khan!"

Soon after, the messenger was brought in, and Gushi Khan handed the letter he had just written to the attendant beside him, and said in a deep voice: "You bring this letter back and tell your general that I will return to the division in three days, and if he wants to join the alliance, he will follow what is written in the letter." ”

The messenger took the letterhead from the squire's hand, carefully placed it in his bosom, and replied, "The little man must bring the letterhead." ”

"Hmm!" Gu Shi Khan raised his head arrogantly: "You remember, I will return to the division in three days!" ”

Fucheng, the general soldier's house, study.

"What? Would you like to go to their camp in person? Du Guoying's eyes widened in surprise: "Is this really what this letter is written?" ”

"Not bad!" Che Sang's expression remained unchanged, and he put the parchment full of Tibetan in his hand on the bookcase: "Gushi Khan said in the letter that Bu Lost Rabbit had a merit in killing Lin Dan Khan, but he was killed by Ming Guo, and he didn't want to end up with the same fate as Bu Lost Rabbit. If you want to join the alliance, you must first come to the camp to prove your sincerity. ”

"Phew!" Du Guoying snatched the parchment and scolded in his mouth: "A dog king, even dare to bargain with the master, if I don't recognize these bird words, I will tear this up on the spot." My lord, please send troops, I will show him the 'sincerity' of our Ming Dynasty right away." “

"General Du, put the letter back!" Liu Cheng's voice was not loud, but it seemed to have a special magic that made Du Guoying calm down, and he put the letterhead back on the bookcase.

"Sit down and talk!" Liu Cheng picked up the parchment letter and carefully smoothed it again.

"Yes, sir!" Du Guoying was stunned by Liu Cheng's actions, and he silently sat down on a chair in the corner.

"Master Chesan, Gushi Khan means that if I don't go within three days, he will go back?"

"Exactly." Chesang nodded: "My lord, Gushi Khan is true to his word, since he said that he will return to his teacher in three days, he will definitely not break his word." “

"Then Master, why do you think he asked me to go to his camp? Is it really to test my sincerity? ”

Du Guoying, who was sitting in the corner, heard that Liu Cheng had the intention of going, and hurriedly shouted: "My lord, Yi Di is the nature of a dog and a sheep, and there is no faith at all. “

"No!" Chesang shook his head and said, "My lord, it's okay if you go, it's okay if you don't go, but you must not let General Du go, it will only harm his life." ”

"Oh? Why doesn't it matter if I go or not, he will die? Liu Cheng asked, "Isn't the messenger good?" ”

"Your Excellency, Gushi Khan has invited you to go in order to see if you are worthy of the heroes who have allied with him. If General Du goes, Gushi Khan will either think you are a cowardly person or think that you despise him, and in either case General Du will lose his life. (To be continued.) )