The eunuch had been away for a long time, but Hong Chengchou still knelt in the hall with a blank expression and had no intention of getting up, and his henchman Tang Shijie hurriedly rushed forward to help Hong Chengchou up.

"Ugh."

Hong Chengchou gently broke free from Tang Shijie's support and let out a long sigh.

"Dashuai, you can't go to Tianshou Mountain." Tang Shijie frowned and persuaded, "There must be fraud in this." ”

Who is Hong Chengchou, and where can he be reminded by Tang Shijie?

If Jiannu really wants to go to Tianshou Mountain to dig up some imperial tombs, he will definitely go secretly, and when he really digs up the imperial tombs and breaks the dragon veins of the Ming Dynasty, he will publicize it with great fanfare, but now he is uncharacteristically starting to hype it up before taking action, and of course there is another article in it.

It is already clear that this must be a trap set by Jiannu, and the intention is nothing more than to deal with Hong Chengchou and the nine thousand cavalry of the Beijing battalion under him.

The cavalry of the nine thousand Beijing battalion can stand still, anyway, Emperor Chongzhen didn't say how many soldiers to bring to protect the tomb.

But can Hong Chengchou not go?

No, Emperor Chongzhen has already issued a holy decree, even if he knows that he will die if he goes, Hong Chengchou can only go, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister can't not die......

"Alright, don't say anything." Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said in a low voice, "You go and invite General Sun and Lu Jianjun." ”

"Yes."

Tang Shijie answered and took the order.

Soon, Sun Yingyuan, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, and Lu Jiude, the supervising army, came to Hong Chengchou's line.

On the way to Xingyuan, the two of them already knew the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and Sun Yingyuan, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, said loudly: "Marshal, you can't go to Tianshou Mountain." ”

Overseer Lu Jiude frowned and said, "Our family also thinks it's inappropriate to go to Tianshou Mountain, but after all, this is the will of the Long Live Lord." ”

Hong Chengchou waved his hand and said: "Tianshou Mountain must go, but Ben Shuai only took five hundred relatives to ride, and the nine thousand elite cavalry of the Beijing battalion were still stationed in Wanping, and before the army of Cao Bianjiao, Bai Guangen, and Liu Zeqing arrived, they must not be persuaded rashly!" I also hope that General Sun and Gonggong Lu will put state affairs first and go to the national disaster together. ”

"Dashuai!" Sun Yingyuan said hurriedly, "You are in danger of Daming, so you can't take risks lightly." ”

"That's right." Lu Jiude also said, "Only take five hundred relatives to ride to Tianshou Mountain to protect the tomb, isn't it too risky for Lord Hong?" ”

"Ben Shuai has made up his mind." Hong Chengchou said categorically, "General Sun and Gonggong Lu don't need to persuade anymore. ”

Sun Yingyuan hurriedly said: "The handsome ......"

"Sun Yingyuan!" Hong Chengchou Huo Ran got up and shouted, "Do you want to trap Ben Shuai in a place of disloyalty and unfilial piety and leave a reputation for eternity?" ”

"This ......"

Sun Yingyuan and Lu Jiude glanced at each other, and did not dare to persuade again.

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Datong, Lei Gong Mountain.

Li Yan waved his hand and retreated Jing Maocheng, Li Hu, Li Xuan and others, and said to Liu Zongmin sincerely: "General, you just came to Datong, and you don't know what happened here. ”

"Oh?" Liu Zongmin said, "What's going on here? ”

Li Yanran said: "Just over half a month ago, nearly 200,000 Jiannu destroyed the pass and attacked Datong in a big way! ”

"What?" Liu Zongmin was taken aback and lost his voice, "Two hundred thousand Jiannu? ”

Liu Zongmin is no stranger to Jiannu, and his deep impression of Jiannu comes from the common enemy - the Ming Border Army.

The righteous army led by Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin suffered enough from the Ming border army, but this Ming border army that defeated the righteous army was defeated by the Jiannu outside the gate.

It can be seen from this that the Jiannu outside the gate is quite powerful, far more powerful than the Ming border army.

"Yes." Li Yan said solemnly, "200,000 Jiannu." ”

"You're lying." Liu Zongmin didn't believe it, "If there are really 200,000 Jiannu attacking Datong, where are the Jiannu?" Why is Datong City still in the hands of the official army? ”

"That's exactly what the last will say." Li Yan took a breath and said in a deep voice, "200,000 Jiannu attacked Datong in a big way, but they were defeated by Wang Pu, and they also annihilated nearly 50,000 enemies!" Jiannu then divided the army into two routes, leaving 30,000 people to continue to besiege Datong, and the rest of the army had already killed Yanjing. ”

Liu Zongmin still didn't believe it: "What about the 30,000 Jiannu who stayed? ”

Li Yan said: "Just before the general arrived, the 30,000 Jiannu had been killed by the last general and Wang Pu, if the general didn't believe it, he could ask every soldier on the mountain, and the armor on the soldiers, the weapons in their hands, and the 8,000 war horses were all captured from the hands of Jiannu." ”

Liu Zongmin looked at Li Yan with a faint gaze, and asked in a condensed voice: "Li Yan, are you cooperating with the official army?" ”

Li Yan said: "It's cooperation with Wang Pu, not with the official army." ”

Liu Zongmin said: "Wang Pu is an official army. ”

"Nope." Li Yan shook his head and said, "Wang Pu's army is different from other official troops, other officials and soldiers are all eagle dogs of the imperial court and Wang Pu is not, Wang Pu wants to sit on the ground and be the prince of one side!" Therefore, the last general advised the general not to rush to attack Wang Pu, because having Wang Pu guarding Datong is only beneficial to the development and growth of our Shaanxi Righteous Army. ”

Liu Zongmin looked at Li Yan with some surprise, and suddenly felt that the little white face in front of him looked a little strange.

Although Liu Zongmin is a rough man, this does not mean that he has no scheming, Li Yan blatantly cooperated with Wang Pu, but no one stood up against it, what does this mean? This shows that Li Yan has completely controlled this army, and all the generals of the original Fifth Battalion of the Revolution have been purged.

Before coming here, Liu Zongmin really didn't think that Li Yan's little white face would have such courage.

Liu Zongmin suddenly understood that it might not be so easy to take over this army smoothly from Li Yan, and if he was too hasty, the result would likely backfire, if Li Yan really turned his face, with the 5,000 people brought by Liu Zongmin, he would not be able to defeat Li Yan's more than 20,000 people anyway.

"Hahaha......" Liu Zongmin laughed and hugged Li Yan's shoulder, and said loudly, "Brother Li Yan, you are right, since Wang Pu wants to be the prince of one side, then we will not move him first, let's go back to Shaanxi first, first conquer Pingliang, Qingyang, Yan'an, and then Xi'an, how about it?" ”

Li Yan said: "Pingliang, Qingyang, Yan'an and Xi'an must be fought, but not now, now that the military rations have been raised, and the food on the mountains is enough to survive this famine year, so the top priority now is to seize the time to train the troops and train an elite division as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, the top priority is to train the troops." Liu Zongmin echoed loudly, and then asked tentatively, "Why don't you go to Henan, Brother Li Yan, and stay in Shaanxi to help General Ben train his troops?" ”

"How's that going to work?" Li Yan shook his head and said, "Since the king has been summoned, how can the last general not return to Henan?" ”

Liu Zongmin said: "That...... Brother Li Yan, when are you going to leave? ”

Li Yan said: "When the military affairs are completed after returning to Mizhi, the last general will leave." ”

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Datong, the general army marches.

When Wang Puzheng and Zhen Youcai were talking, Monk Zhang walked in and hugged his fist to Wang Pu and said, "General, are you looking for a humble position?" ”

"Sit down." Wang Pu waved his hand, motioned for Monk Zhang to sit down, and asked, "Monk, is Jing Maocheng looking for you?" ”

"That's right." Monk Zhang said, "Jing Maocheng said that they would return to Shaanxi tomorrow, and they specially came to say goodbye to their humble duties. ”

Wang Pudao: "Did Jing Maocheng mention the robbery of thieves outside the city?" ”

"Oh, I did." Monk Zhang said, "Jing Maocheng said that there was a man named Liu Zongmin, and it seemed that he wanted to seize Li Yan's military power, and the robbery outside the city was done by Liu Zongmin's people." ”

"Liu Zongmin?" Zhen Youcai said, "General, this guy seems to be the number one general under Li Zicheng, it seems that the thief has become suspicious of Li Yan, if this is the case, then wouldn't the benefits we gave Li Yan before all in vain?" This Liu Zongmin may not recognize us as good. ”

"It doesn't matter." Wang Pu said indifferently, "Since you are raising a thief, who is not raising it?" ”

Zhen Youcai said: "General, do you think Li Yan will obediently hand over the military power?" ”

"It's hard to say." Wang Pu shook his head and said, "However, as long as they return to Shaanxi, it doesn't matter who is in charge of the military in the end, what I am most worried about now is the safety of the Beijing Division, what kind of mistake will there be in the Beijing Division, if there is a good one, our Ming Dynasty is only afraid that the world will be in chaos immediately." ”

Zhen Youcai said in a condensed voice: "What does the general mean...... Is it to send troops to relieve the siege of Beijing? ”

Wang Pu breathed a long sigh of relief, and said in a non-trivial manner: "It's not yet time for the world to be in turmoil......

"This ......"

Zhen Youcai was confused.

He faintly heard that Wang Pu seemed to have the idea of sending troops to relieve the siege of the Beijing Division, but he didn't know why Wang Pu did this? I don't know what Wang Pu meant by the sentence "It's not yet time for the world to be in chaos"?

Zhen Youcai can't understand, now Wang Pu's foundation is still too shallow, if the Ming Dynasty is now in chaos in the world, it is difficult to do anything with Wang Pu's strength, sticking to the corner of Datong will not be eaten by Jiannu in the end, or destroyed by Li Zicheng, if you want to survive in the cracks, you may have a negligible surname.

Wang Pu thought about it, and Huo Ran said: "Youcai, there are two things that must be done immediately. ”

Zhen Youcai said: "Please give the general's orders." ”

Wang Pu said: "The first thing, all the guards, all the guards, all the forts in Datong Town are all abolished, and the garrison troops are also abolished on the spot, these garbage can not be outside the country, but internally it will only harm the local people. ”

Zhen Youcai said: "It's not difficult to dismantle the guards, but how to settle the garrisons and thousands of generals who have been withdrawn?" ”

Wang Pu said: "Let them go back to Datong first and stay with Zhao Liujin." ”

Zhen Youcai nodded and asked, "What about the guest soldiers and recruiters?" ”

Wang Pu said: "This is exactly the second thing that General Ben wants to say, those guest soldiers who want to go back to their original places will be sent back with travel expenses, and if they are willing to stay, they will select the strong and brave men who dare to fight to turn them into recruits, and then recruit strong men from the Datong people, and gather enough 8,000 people to form a spear battalion and a baggage battalion as auxiliary troops of the firearms battalion." ”

"Yes." Zhen Youcai answered, and then asked, "Let's do it." ”

"Ugh."

Looking at Zhen Youcai's thin figure who left in a hurry, Wang Pu couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, an increasingly prominent problem was trapping him, that is, there were too few talents under him who could be used, Zhen Youcai had to take care of the weapons workshop, the gunpowder bureau, and be responsible for the dismantling of the guard army and the recruitment of people, it was too difficult for him.

But in a hurry, Wang Pu didn't know where to recruit talents, because Datong was originally a barren land for literati.

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On the bank of the Yu River, Hong Chengchou was leading 500 personal horsemen to gallop forward like the wind.

This trip to Tianshou Mountain can be said to be a last resort, because Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree, Hong Chengchou as a courtier can only obey the order, otherwise it is a great rebellion, that is, contrary to the courtier's courtesy, but Hong Chengchou is not a fool, he knows that this is a trap of Jiannu, so he only took five hundred personal horsemen to fly there, but nine thousand Beijing camp elite horsemen did not move in Wanping.

In fact, Hong Chengchou also has a fluke mentality.

The target of five hundred light horsemen is small and fast, even if Jiannu lays a net on the way to Tianshou Mountain, it may not be able to catch him Hong Chengchou, as long as he goes around Tianshou Mountain and then returns to Wanping, even if Jiannu really destroys the emperor's tomb in the end, Hong Chengchou can also explain to Emperor Chongzhen.

But Hong Chengchou still underestimated Fan Wencheng, a hardcore man, and underestimated his own weight in Jiannu's heart!

Not long after Hong Chengchou left Wanping, Jiannu's annihilation had already spread the news to the Jiannu camp outside Guangqu Gate.

Hong Chengchou's five hundred light horsemen had just arrived on the bank of the Yuhe River, and before they could cross the river to the north, the Jiannu iron cavalry that heard the wind had already pressed over from more than a dozen directions at the same time.

(To be continued)