It was just dawn, and it was one of the coldest times of the day. Not necessarily, no one generally wants to get up at this time.

Niu Delu, the governor of Jiazhou, was holding his concubine and was sleeping comfortably, when suddenly an anxious voice came from outside the door: "Master, master, it's not good, something is wrong!" ”

He was past the age of knowing his destiny, but he was still lustful, so his body was empty and he was desperately sleepless.

Niu Delu was very annoyed when he was woken up early in the morning, and when he was about to go crazy, he heard that the person who spoke was a housekeeper who had been with him for decades and had always known the severity. This heart is immediately tightened, can't it be that there is another place where the people have changed?

He hurriedly got up, dressed under the service of the concubine and the maid who heard the sound, and asked a little irritably, "What is the big deal?" ”

When the housekeeper outside the door heard that the master had a response, he hurriedly said, "Master, Lord Tongzhi is back, he ......"

As soon as he heard this, Niu Delu originally suspected that the concubine and the maid were moving slowly, and he was also tidying up his clothes, so he stopped and interrupted dissatisfiedly: "What you said is the big thing, is this the matter?" ”

Between the words, there was obviously a hint of irritation.

The butler has served him for so many years, and how can he not hear it. However, he didn't care about the old man's anger, and immediately continued: "Yes, Lord Tongzhi fled back in embarrassment, and almost the whole army was wiped out!" ”

"Ah......h

The housekeeper knew that this must have been unexpected by the master. Actually, don't talk about the master, anyone thinks that Lord Tongzhi took 3,000 soldiers and horses to suppress the people's rebellion, which is a very easy thing.

When he saw the frightened look of Lord Tongzhi at the yamen, he could hardly believe his eyes. Because of this, I hurriedly came over to wake up the old man in a panic, and this matter cannot be delayed!

After a while, the door of the room opened, and Niu Delu strode out of the door with a cold face.

But the cold wind blew, and it made him freeze again. Since I was admitted to the Jinshi and left the Beijing Division, I have never gotten up so early on such a cold day!

As a result, he was even more angry with Wan Delong, what did he eat, he actually brought the army over, and he couldn't even defeat some chaotic people!

After sitting down in the back hall, closing the doors and windows, putting on the stove, and drinking the hot tea brewed by the maid, he felt a little more comfortable, and his face looked better.

After a while, the butler led the men in.

Niu Delu looked up and was taken aback. Even if he was very familiar with Wandelong, at this time, he didn't even know the person in front of him.

I saw that Wan Delong was not wearing an official hat on his head, his hair was fluffy, some messy hair was draped on his forehead, and his face was haggard, as if he was more than ten years old, and he was older than himself.

Wang Jincai, the general who followed him, was much better than Wan Delong, but his helmet was crooked and he didn't know it, and his face was extremely ugly.

Niu Delu knew that the matter was more serious than he imagined, he thought about it a little, and then thought of a possibility, and immediately stood up "Huo", and before they could speak, he first asked: "But the Hetao Tartars came to fight Qiugu again, and they were bumped into by you?" ”

He thought that those untouchables should not be so powerful, and the only possibility could only be those tartars. The weather has been bad in recent years, and the Hetao Tartars have a hard time, and they will come to fight the Autumn Valley almost every year.

When Wan Delong and Wang Jincai heard this, the two glanced at each other and showed a wry smile helplessly. For Niu Delu, he didn't need to hide it, so he told the general situation.

This battle, if Wang Jincai had been in command, it would not have been such a fiasco. But because of Wan Delong's anxious urging, he committed a taboo in the art of war, and after a long march, he didn't even have a whole team, so he went into battle, even if there were no ambushes outside the city, he would definitely lose the battle later.

Therefore, before the two met Niu Delu, they had already discussed and formed a consensus.

In the process of proclamation, he highlighted the cunning of the rebels. And it is emphasized that among the chaotic people, there are border soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and even generals and colonels may participate, otherwise there can be no chain strategy, and there are cavalry assaults and so on.

Niu Delu realized the seriousness of the situation, and hurriedly sent people to bring in other major officials such as Tong Ju to discuss the matter of the troubled people in Fugu.

Originally, I wanted to suppress the rebels first, and then report to the higher authorities, and try to reduce and remove my responsibility. Now that the crackdown has failed, I don't know what will happen next, and each of them is in a bad mood.

It was discussed until almost noon, and then a conclusion was reached.

First, after the Fugu riots, Jiazhou responded immediately and responded in a timely manner.

Second, it emphasized that there are border troops involved in the rebellion, and there are quite a few of them, and their combat power should not be underestimated.

Third, it is precisely because of the chaos and trickery of the border army that the army sent out by Jiazhou has been ambushed and has no troops available.

Fourth, the situation has been explained, how to deal with it in the future, and I hope that Yan'an Mansion will give a charter.

After sending the results of their deliberations out in a hurry, the officials were somewhat relieved.

Because they know that Fugu County Ling was killed, and the court will definitely investigate this matter if they know about it, and they have tried their best to exonerate themselves from responsibility, but they have heard that Jinshang has a bad temper, and they still have no bottom in their hearts about how to deal with them.

Who knew that as soon as they dispersed, the soldiers who went to Fugu to suppress them fled back one after another, including the group of soldiers who were released by Hu Guang.

In order to have a better life in the future, these soldiers relayed Hu Guang's words to others.

It didn't take long for these words to reach the ears of several major officials in Jiazhou, so that they had to gather again for a meeting.

As a result of the meeting, a second letter was sent out in a hurry.

The main content of the letter is naturally to report to the authorities the reasons for this riot, and the main responsibility is the Fugu County Order, as well as the You family's own death, and those rioters will only riot if they can't survive.

In order to reduce their criminal responsibility, they described the evil policies of Fugu County Commander, You Dagui and others as they saw with their own eyes, and said that they were heinous and indignant.

The Yan'an Mansion received the first letter before it could react, and before it could react, it received a second letter. Their first reaction is not how to quell the riots, but how to shirk their responsibilities.

The Fugu mob is very powerful, and if the army sent by Yan'an Prefecture fails again, then the matter will be too big.

The result of their deliberation was to continue throwing the hot potato upwards. This time, the Yan'an government wrote two letters to the top.

The first letter was addressed to Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, emphasizing that it was the border army that participated in the rebellion.

The second letter was addressed to Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, emphasizing that it was the Fugu County Commander and You Dagui who were tyrannical and heinous, and the officials forced the people to rebel.

Hu Guang himself did not expect that the fact that he released those Ming army captives and asked them to tell the truth would trigger a series of chain reactions that reduced the pressure on the peasant rebel army.