Yang Tinghe was stunned for a moment, and then he was furious, he lifted his horse, stepped forward and shouted: "Bold! Do you know who is in front of you? ”

Don't look at these three people going out of Beijing on a starry night and running away in embarrassment, but looking at the magnificent outfit, Liu Dabang also felt that it should be a great official, and when he heard this, he rolled his eyes and said, "Who are you?" ”

Yang Tinghe saw that the army had accelerated its march, but the bastard soldier in front of him lined up with twenty cavalry guards, blocking the mountain pass tightly, and he couldn't help but feel anxious, he said sharply: "The three people in front of you are the three major scholars of the cabinet from Beijing, and they have something very urgent to see General Yang, get out of the way quickly, delay the big thing and ask your head."

As soon as he heard that the other party was so there, Liu Dabang's mallet momentum couldn't help but suffocate, but then he remembered that Yang Dashuai used his pawns so much, so he let them go like this, not only betraying the trust of Dashuai, but also inevitably being ridiculed by his comrades in the army, Liu Dabanggavel mustered up the courage and said: "Under the command of the marshal, please return to Beijing with the three adults, mark the military order, and dare not let go!" ”

Yang Tinghe couldn't imagine that a little lieutenant would dare to fight like this, he was furious, and pointed at Liu Daba's mallet with a horsewhip, and shouted angrily: "You are so bold!" How many heads have you grown? ”

Liu Dabang let out the mallet, turned his heart horizontally, and said with his nostrils facing the sky: "The military order is like a mountain, and the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not think about the past."

Jiao Fang didn't expect Yang Ling to send a soldier who didn't understand four or six to negotiate with them, Yang Tinghe was full of money, and this reckless soldier couldn't make sense, and the official authority couldn't be suppressed, Jiao Fang saw Yang Tinghe embarrassed, and his heart was secretly happy.

Li Dongyang stretched out his hand to stop Yang Tinghe, who was about to whip angrily, stroked his beard and said to Liu Dabang and Yan: "This captain, those who don't know are not guilty, you are a sergeant in the army, I don't know what a major move it is for the three of us to go out of Beijing together."

Your devotion to your duties is very commendable, but it is a big matter, it is related to the country, the society and the people of the Ming Dynasty, this official advises you to immediately flash aside, let us go, and if it is not good, you should reply to General Yang to see if he changes his mind and delays our affairs, you are a little lieutenant who can't afford it. You must know that even if the emperor is here today, when he hears that the three of us are here together, he will know that there is an earth-shattering event to report, and he will never delay a step."

As soon as Liu Dabang heard the music, he saw that the old gentleman was speaking in a fluent manner, and suddenly remembered a joke, so he replied proudly and neatly: "The general will be outside, and the king's order will not be granted!" ”。

Yang Ting smiled kindly, and said: "Master Li, this little pawn is vulgar and unliterate, and he doesn't understand world affairs, and he said that these are simply playing the piano to the cow, come on, rush over to the official, I want to see what he dares to do to us as a little captain!" ”

Yang Tinghe gave an order, and his entourage carried the horse forward, but Jiao Fang turned his horse's head and flashed to the side, secretly glanced at his guards, and deliberately flashed behind.

Liu Dabang was in a hurry, raised Shang Fang's sword high, and shouted: "Shang Fang's sword is here, you can cut it first and then play, I see who dares to step forward!" ”

The entourage hesitated when they heard this, and Yang Tinghe also shouted: "It's about the country's body and national fortunes, and it's a sword, even if the emperor is here today, what's the reason why can't he break through?" Rush over to me! ”

Seeing that those attendants really rushed over when they heard the words, he didn't dare to really swing his sword and cut people, he was in a hurry, hurriedly thrust the sword into his waist, picked up the swarthy eight-foot-long iron rod, and with a "woo" sound, he rounded a stick and knocked it on the leg of the horse that rushed to the front of one of the attendants, the horse screamed and fell to the ground, and the guards on the horse rolled off the horse, blocking the way of the guards behind.

Liu Dabang sneered and shouted: "Beat people first hit the horse, and I broke all the horse's legs, but I want to knock on their two legs How can they catch up with four legs!" ”

When the twenty guards heard this, they all picked up their spears and knocked on the horse's legs, and the guards of the three scholars were all ordinary officers and soldiers, who only wore a knife with them when they hurriedly left Beijing, and the leather jackets that were thinly dressed and did not have an inner cover to go out on a long journey, they were numb in the cold, their manners were ineffective, and their equestrian skills were not as good as those of these twenty guards, so they could dodge.

The barrel of the gun was not as good as the iron rod, although it did not break the horse's leg, but also knocked the horse neighing in pain, jumped around and then did not care about the master's command, turned the horse's head and desperately fled to the way it came, and ran dozens of feet away before being strangled by the guards, but no matter how he scolded and kicked the horse's belly, he did not dare to come closer.

Since the skin of the face was torn, Liu Dabang's bandit habit attacked, Yang Tinghe personally drove the horse over, he also waved the horse away, the chicken and the dog jumped to the ground for a while, the three bachelors and dozens of entourage of the horses were knocked and knocked on the horse's legs, limping and difficult to go far, Liu Dabang mallet turned his head to see the army in the mountains far away, only to see a banner waving, couldn't help laughing, a flick of the horse's head with twenty guards spread their hooves and walked away.

Li Dongyang Rao was confident of the city, and his face was so angry that he was so angry that he stood on the ground, leading the horses that were constantly screaming with half-bent legs, and looked at the army that was going far away for a long time and couldn't say a word.

The general of the garrison of Juyong Pass got the report, and rushed to the city pass with his helmet and armor on his armor early, and when Yang Ling's army arrived, he checked the seal letter of Qincha Pass, and immediately opened the city gate, and Yang Ling was not polite to him, and the army immediately crossed the pass.

Yang Ling was worried that Liu Dabang's mallet would not be able to stop the three bachelors, so he stayed in the rear army and waited, and when he saw twenty-one war horses galloping towards him, he asked how he was blocked, and knew that the three bachelors were not injured, Yang Ling couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately led the rest of the troops out of the customs.

The guards closed the city gate with a bang, and Yang Ling's heart was put back in his stomach. The guards did not recognize the three bachelors, they hurriedly chased after them, and they would not bring the customs clearance documents issued by the army.

The army detoured to the southwest, marched all the way, and did not fold into the small county along the way, and the rest and accommodation were stationed in camp tents on the spot, which said that the army set foot on the Lingqiu Ancient Road. The area of Lingqiu County used to be the place where King Wuling of Zhao "opened up thousands of miles", Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, Cao Ying of the Three Kingdoms garrisoned Tuntian, and the Yang family of the Northern Song Dynasty resisted Liao and guarded the border.

Along the way, regardless of the march and accommodation, Zhengde walked with the soldiers, riding horses on flat ground, walking on mountain roads, and never stepped into the sedan chair.

He has such perseverance, which is very different from the appearance of not doing his job properly and playing and playing, not only Yang Ling, but even Zhang Yong was very surprised. The army followed the ancient road to a mountain surrounded by mountains, and suddenly saw an army stationed in front of it, and it looked like there were no more than 3,000 people.

Although it is less than eighty miles away from Lingqiu County, but an army suddenly appeared on this steep mountain, and it seemed that the camp had been stationed for a while, Yang Ling did not dare to be careless, he ordered the army to rest on the spot, secretly guarded, and ordered the Chinese officers to go and inquire.

After a while, the Chinese officer hurriedly walked into the Chinese army tent with a general, Zhengde pretended to be a guard and stood behind Yang Ling and watched, the general was in his early forties, and he looked burly and spirited, and when he saw Yang Ling from afar, he came forward with a smile on his face, and bowed his hand and said: "The next official is under the command of Datong Governor Hu Zan Hu, and the commander of the Datong Left Guard is Diao Huashen, and he has seen Lord Yang, and Lord Yang has worked hard all the way."

Yang Ling wondered in his heart, the battle ahead was tight, but Hu Zan sent 3,000 soldiers to be stationed here, what was he doing?

After a few words of greeting between the two sides, Yang Ling invited him to sit down and asked, "Commander Diao, what is this place?" The front and the Tatars are stalemate, and it is the time to use troops, why is the army stationed here? But what's the matter? ”

The secrets of the army, even if it is the minister of the DPRK and the central government, it is not appropriate to ask casually, but in addition to the labor army, Yang Ling also has the power to inspect and control the entire battle situation in the front, and if necessary, he can use the golden order arrow and the golden seal of the Qin to mobilize the army in the front, so it is not too much to ask.

Diao Huashen is Hu Zhan's cronies, the matter of the Jingshi sending the admiral of the inner factory and the admiral of the Beijing camp to patrol the border has been passed through the military post first, he knows the details of Yang Ling, so he naturally does not dare to speak falsely, and hurriedly said: "My lord does not know, go to Datong here, there are many passes everywhere in the mountains and mountains, and there is no danger pass at the only way to this ancient road."

The Tatars were dragged by General Yang in the front, and they couldn't retreat if they wanted to, and now that the military rations were exhausted, they couldn't bargain for anything. The Tatar annihilation somehow found a small road, sent more than 1,000 men and horses from the mountain path to avoid the various passes and raided Lingqiu, and took away a large amount of property, grain and grass.

Yang Ling only then knew the clue, remembering the situation he had just seen, this is a pass between the mountains, if you want to have a team of more than 1,000 people quickly cross the mountains, only this unfortified pass is easy to pass, it is really difficult for those Tatars to annihilate carefully, I don't know how many twists and turns, it can be regarded as opening up this plundering supply line.

Don't underestimate the role of a road in the war, if the Tartars use this secret passage to constantly bypass the army in front of us to obtain supplies from our rear, the outcome of the war is still unpredictable, without this supply line, the morale of the enemy will be greatly reduced, and even the brave Tatar generals will lose the courage to continue fighting, no wonder in the middle of winter, these 3,000 men and horses are stationed in the mountains, standing on this mountain ridge.

Yang Ling nodded and said: "I see, my army is also stationed here tonight, and we will set off tomorrow morning to continue to Datong, by the way, what is this place called?" ”

Diao commanded: "This place was called the bottle-shaped village in ancient times, and it was called the bottle-shaped town in the Song and Yuan dynasties, because the top of the ridge is more than 900 zhang and is naturally flat and square, so after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Lingqiu County will change the name of this place to Pingxingling. ”

The two sides talked about it, Yang Ling sent Diao Commander out of the big tent of the Chinese army, stood on the ridge and looked into the distance, at this time it was said that the West Mountain was falling, the afterglow was faint, and the overlapping snow-capped mountains were shrouded in a pale red halo.

Zhengde approached Yang Ling's side, put his hand on the canopy and looked at it from a distance, and said: "Well, look at this group of mountains, sure enough, only here is a pass for the army to pass, and it is really dangerous to go straight down from the ridge.

It's just that it's too hard to station troops on this ridge for a long time, Zhang Yong, you write down, after returning to Beijing, the military department will build another pass on this flat-shaped ridge, thinking that it is a dangerous barrier and is included in the important passes of border defense, which is called Pingxingguan."

Zhang Yonglian responded, Yang Ling couldn't help but glance at Zhengde in surprise when he heard this, and said in his heart: "Pingxingling, Pingxingguan, how did I not save it just now, it turned out that the famous Pingxingguan was actually built by Zhengde's order."

Zhengde looked at him differently, and couldn't help laughing: "Why does Yang Qing look at me like this?" Isn't that right? ”

Yang Ling hurriedly smiled: "What I said is that building a pass in this dangerous place and preventing Tartars can indeed play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort, but there is no unbreakable Xiongguan in passive defense, and we should."

Zhengde said with a smile: "We should also enrich the country and strengthen the army, take the initiative to attack, and destroy the strong and captured outside the country, right?" ”

The two monarchs and ministers glanced at each other, and couldn't help but laugh together.

The army finally arrived in Datong, and Yang Yiqing, the general commander of the three sides, led the army to be stationed on the pass of the Great Wall, and is currently in Zhenqiang Fort. There was originally a horse market outside the Guan, and there was a horse market siege built next to the Great Wall on the outside of the Great Wall.

In order to facilitate the nearby command, General Yang Yiqing's camp was set up there, and Hu Zhan, the governor of Datong, personally escorted the grain and grass to Zhenqiang Fort, and is currently flying back. Hearing the news, they rushed to greet the bureaucrats at all levels of the governor's yamen, and they took Yang Ling's army into the city, and traveled all the way, only to see that this originally prosperous big city seemed to be a little depressed, and there were more officers and soldiers on the streets than the common people.

The officials will welcome the Qin to the post house, the post house here is not the same as the Changping post house where Yang Ling lived, and the luxurious third courtyard in the post house is specially designed to welcome the past ministers, and the layout is very luxurious. Yang Ling was stationed in the post house, and the inside and outside of the post house were inhabited by his own 200 personal soldiers and 300 internal guards, and the rest of the officers and soldiers were placed in the school palace and the school field.

After being busy for a while before settling down and sending off the adults, Yang Ling returned to the post house, welcomed Zhengde into the post house and arranged the room for him to live in, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I have also endured the hardships that should have been endured along the way, and now I finally have a more comfortable place, you still live here, recuperate well, and wait until the minister informs Huadang, everything is arranged, and then go to Baishan Mountain to negotiate with him."

Zhengde nodded and asked, "Yang Yiqing is in Zhenqiang Fort, when will he be able to return?" I would like to know more about the military situation."

Yang Ling frowned and thought for a while: "Boyan is anxious to get out, but he can't steal chickens and rice this time, the tribes have suffered heavy losses, the internal political situation in Tatar is unstable, he doesn't take advantage and is not willing to retreat, now he and Yang Yiqing have attack and defense each other, the war is fierce, the minister still doesn't inform Lord Yang of the news of the emperor's arrival, and the minister will go to Zhenqiang Fort to see him."

Zhengde was overjoyed and said, "Very good, I want to go and close the gate to see the scene of the battle, and I will go with you then." By the way, the acting king is the vassal king of Datong, since you have arrived, you should pay a visit according to the ceremony, when are you going to go? ”

Yang Ling said: "It's too late today, it's inconvenient to go to the palace to deliver the sticker to Jin, the minister wants to visit again tomorrow, does the emperor want to go too?" ”

(To be continued)