At night, the sky rippled out of a round of silver-white waning moon, in the cold light, the central ** Hachi official in the center of Phoenix City, the huge cherry blossom trees transplanted from Dongyi, waving in the wind, red cherry blossoms scattered in the air.

Under the cherry blossom tree, the two brothers Hachi and Shuerhaqi sat facing each other, with two pots of Shaoxing old wine in front of them, the empty Khan King's mansion, and the silent night, only the silent wind echoed in the ears.

Shuerhaqi glanced at his brother ** Hachi's calm face, his brows furrowed, knowing that he was worried about Hattori Heiji's suggestion a few days ago, and couldn't help but open his mouth: "Brother, Dongyi just wants to attack North Korea, why don't we follow his advice, so as to take the opportunity to seize the Daling River, or even attack the Guannei, and sit as the master of the world?" ”

**Ha Chi heard that the hand holding the wine glass trembled obviously, but he threw the wine glass on the case, and his tone was cold: "There is no room for foreign thieves in a country, no matter what we do, whether we attack the Ming Dynasty or submit to the Ming Dynasty, this is always the family affair of the descendants of China, but if you obey Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it is to lure the wolf into the room, besides...... Dongyi people are not good men and women, if they really seize North Korea and border us, I am afraid that the next target will be our Jurchen! ”

**Hachi, the voice fell, and the candle flame in front of the case was extinguished, leaving only a wisp of green smoke, which slowly rose from the center of the candle and disappeared quietly in the wordless night.

Shulhaqi wanted to continue to persuade, but in the distance at the east gate of Phoenix City, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves.

The faces of the two changed, and their eyes looked down the night street.

In less than a moment!

"Phew!" The sound of vigor swept through the night like a sharp arrow breaking through the air.

I saw a scout with long pigtails hanging down behind him and wearing a tight mink robe, galloping from the darkness of the night.

In the dusty place, the scout tightened his crotch and stopped abruptly in front of the gate of the Jurchen Khan King of the Ming Dynasty!

The scout hurried forward to pray, but his face was one of fear.

"It's a scout!" A guard who had been standing at the gate of the palace hurriedly descended the steps to greet him, "The King Khan is waiting in the council hall!" ”

"Eight hundred miles of expedited express!" The young scout flew in, handed the reins to a Jurchen guard beside him, and walked quickly to the door of the house.

In the court, under the cherry blossom tree, the young man with elite eyes is none other than the Jurchen Khan King Aixin Jueluo **Hachi. Although Hachi has just turned twenty-three years old at this moment, the calm and capable demeanor revealed when he is looking forward to it is already incomparable to his peers.

At this time, the scout stepped into the courtyard like a flying arrow, and at a glance saw an old man in a white robe with pale hair standing under the eaves at the entrance of the council hall, quietly looking at him.

This white-robed old man is none other than Gong Zhenglu, the military advisor of the Jurchen clan.

Gong Zhenglu's original name was also Gong Zhengliu. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Shaoxing would be an auditor. **Hachi's first advisor. In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, when Fang was young, he was a guest in Liaodong, and was taken captive by the Jurchens, and later belonged to **Hachi.

** Seeing that he was knowledgeable, Hachi respected him as a master and was known as a "literary outsider". He was in charge of all the documents of the Jurchen Ministry, handled foreign affairs, and participated in the reception of Korean and Ming envoys. All the Jurchen replies came from him.

Under the assistance and guidance of Gong Zhenglu, the power of ** Hachi gradually grew from the only "thirteen pairs of armor and thirty subordinates" when the army was first raised, until it swept through the Dong'e tribe of the Jurchen tribe in Liaodong, the Sukesu River Moat Department, the Zhusheli Department, the Nayin Department and other tribes, and possessed a territory of thousands of miles, as if one of the princes stood majestically between the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong.

The Jurchen tribes saw that the **Hachi was huge, and they also promoted him as the "Great Khan of the Jurchen Kingdom".

Under the influence of Gong Zhenglu, the young Hachi was educated by the Confucian idea of "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher", and he looked very highly at the Ming Dynasty, thinking that he was a descendant of China, and should obey the emperor's orders, so he still hoped to return to the court one day, so although he had a heavy army, he had been loyal to the Ming Dynasty as a border minister in eastern Liao.

At this time, the scout hurried back to Foalacheng, the capital of Jianzhou, from the Daling River (Phoenix, the Jurchen people called the Phoenix City, the tail of Foalacheng), to Gong Zhenglu and Hachi to discuss the emergency military situation on the border.

The scout hurriedly came to the court, knelt down to ** Hachi, and saluted Gong Zhenglu, and said respectfully: "Master (Jurchen honorific title for Gong Zhenglu), King Khan, his subordinates have important military reports!" ”

As he was talking, Shuerhaqi looked at ** Hachi and Gong Zhenglu with a suspicious face, opened his mouth, and couldn't hold back the shock in his heart, for many years, the border of Jianzhou has been peaceful, how can there be military intelligence, and he couldn't help but open his mouth first: "But Bajihanna invaded my border Liaoyang?" ”

The scout did not speak, but pulled out military information. Gong Zhenglu glanced at Hachi, as if he had guessed something, and sighed deeply: "But did the Ming Dynasty send an army to Liaodong?" ”

The scout couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: he couldn't imagine that these two humble gentlemen, who were regarded as "gods and men", could be so clever. As soon as he thought of this, he hurriedly nodded and said: "According to our scout's report, three days ago, a group of about 10,000 people passed through Shanhaiguan from Shanhaiguan, with excellent machinery, all of whom are people with strong martial arts, and their subordinates suspect that these people are the legendary Jinyi Guards of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"What more than 10,000 brocade guards?" Gong Zhenglu was taken aback, his face was worried, "The Jinyi Guards are all from the Lian family, if this information is true, this army is likely to be the elite of the Jinyi Guard, and it is well-armed...... Could it be! ”

**Ha Chi first helped Gong Zhenglu to sit down on the upper seat, sat down on his lower right head, straightened his face, and said: "Master Gong, you expected it well in advance, did the Ming Emperor really want to do something to Liaodong?" ”

"Alas! …… A few months ago, the Ministry of War issued an official letter, and I replied too much, Yang Bo was not Qiu Luan and let him bully, and now the Ming border defense has changed to an iron-blooded general, of course, I can't be allowed to continue to do evil...... It's just that this time I don't know if there will be a follow-up firearms unit, if a large firearm is really used, it will be safe to keep Jianzhou safe! Gong Zhenglu stretched out his hand and stroked the white beard under his chin, and his expression froze, "I just don't know if it was Li Chengliang who led the troops this time, or Zu Chengxun, both of them are generals, and they are not easy to deal with, they were not well prepared, they were all personnel, and they could still take root in Daling City to fight against me for more than 20 years, and now with this heavenly army, they can't keep ......."

"The master is worried...... Shuerhaqi couldn't help but smile when he heard it, "Don't worry! With me and my eldest brother here, we will never let the people of Jianzhou be violated! What's more, we Jurchen more than 100,000 soldiers, can't we beat just 10,000? ”

"Shulhazy! Don't be rude! ** Hachi looked at his brother's blind arrogance, which was the most important thing, turned his head to look at the scout, and asked, "Who is the one who is leading the army this time?" ”

The scout thought for a while, and hurriedly replied: "Tell the Khan, it is a person sent by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ning Yuanbo, the first-class earl of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Jingying Rongzheng, the envoy of the Fusi of Beizhen, and the governor of the three sides, Xia Mu. ”

Hearing so many titles, Gong Zhenglu and **Hachi were both secretly speechless, and they looked at each other, and they both saw the solemnity in each other's eyes. Gong Zhenglu pondered for a while and sighed: "Since Lu Bing, no one has such power, this person is even more powerful than Lu Bing, although Lu Bing is three princes and three orphans, but he only has the power of Jinyiwei, and does not involve the army, but this Xia Mu holds one-third of the border military power of the Ming Dynasty in his hands, but I don't know how old this person is?" ”

The scout thought about it, his expression was even more shocked, and he said tremblingly: "Second...... Two...... Twenty...... Ten...... Coming out! ”

"Twenty?" Gong Zhenglu almost exclaimed.

Shulhaqi laughed loudly: "A doll whose hair has not yet grown, I'm afraid he will do something!" ”

**Ha Chi's face was displeased, and he reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense!" This person is one year younger than me, but he can grow me too much, although I am the king of the Jurchen Khan, but most of the cute fathers, this person can be young, the governor of the three sides of the official residence, the power of the heart is naturally excellent, I can't guarantee that he is a peerless hero, to think about meeting this person! ”

Gong Zhenglu smiled when he heard this: "The old man has never seen such a young hero for more than 50 years, don't worry, you will meet sooner or later, the old man believes that this day is not far away!" ”

At the beginning of the seventh month of August in the 40th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, the starry sky was covered by dark clouds, and the sky and the earth were dark.

In the dark sentry of the board room next to the gate of the camp gate in front of Yizhou City, Li Rusong rubbed his palms vigorously, "shhh I even suspect that I came to attack at night! We have tens of thousands of troops here now, and he didn't dare to come to death even if he ate the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard! ”

The young and old ancestor Dashou didn't seem to hear Li Rusong's words, sitting cross-legged on the ground like a stone statue, motionless, his eyes seemed to be closed, as if he was not open, and there was no response.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Li Rusong felt bored, and muttered again: "You just go to become a monk and forget it, it's stupid!" ”

At this moment, Zu Dashou's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, shining brightly, Ling Ling, and said coldly: "They are already here!" ”

"What...... What the? Li Rusong was stunned - before he could wake up, a flower in front of him, Zu Dashou had disappeared like a ghost.

Li Rusong couldn't believe his ears and eyes, I really dared to sneak attack? But he still believed Zu Dashou's words. They have followed Li Chengliang's side to fight in the east and west since they were children, and they have practiced a good martial arts on the battlefield, and because the Mongolian steppe is the majority, the territory is vast, and the sky is endless, and the military horses are walking as fast as the wind, fleeting, so they have trained a pair of ears and eyes since they were young, and any wind and grass within a hundred steps can not hide from them!

Zu Dashou is even more extraordinary in martial arts, but he is a man who is calm and forbearing, and never shows the dew!

Li Rusong just escaped from the shadows, and heard a miserable scream from the old dead tree in the distance, accompanied by the noise of the old crow, and several waves of jackdaws flew away.

After a while, I saw Zu Dashou coming back with a dead corpse, the dead corpse was killed with a knife, and he was covered in black, but when Li Rusong saw the upside-down katana on the dead corpse, his eyes were full of disbelief, and he exclaimed: "It's not me who answers, it's a slave!" ”