Li Xin was greatly surprised, this group of Mongolian Tartar soldiers who fought against the Zhenyu army during the day turned out to be the descendants of the remnant Yuan, but this combat power was like heaven and earth compared with the great martial arts of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan in the past.

Li Xin doesn't believe in the fortune of heaven, but who can say that the current Mongolians are not as brave and fierce as they were back then? Why can't even the Jurchens who used to crawl at their feet can't beat them, and even crawl at the feet of the Jurchens, willing to be eagle dogs.

Isn't this the invisible fortune?

What about Da Ming? The Ming Dynasty has lasted for nearly three hundred years, and it has been rumored that Emperor Chongzhen has been full of holes, wind and rain, like an old man in the last years of the wind and candles, unable to afford to be sick for a long time, and is about to die. Is this the fortune of Daming? In the original history, this is indeed the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, the rise and fall of the dynasty, the old for the new. However, the price is too great for Huaxia to bear, and the Han family lost all its money at the hands of Yi Di after Zhao and Song.

Since he Li Xin has come to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he can't sit back and watch the tragedy happen. One of the troubles of the Ming Dynasty is the border trouble, and the other is the thief. The thieves are still far away, but this side is full of trouble.

Although the main perpetrators of this trouble were the Mongol Tatars, since the Mongol tribes submitted to the Manchu Dynasty, the Mongols who originally grazed outside the border wall of the Ming Dynasty abandoned the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. In other words, the submission of the Mongols was crucial to the significance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

An idea was formed in Li Xin's mind, if the Mongol tribes and the Manchus were mixed together, it would be equivalent to putting a fire in the Manchu backyard, and once this fire was burned, the Manchus would not be able to go south to attack the Ming until the fire was extinguished.

And the twelfth year of Chongzhen, it is also the year when Zhang Li's thieves were unlucky, it was in this year that they made a comeback, and completely smashed a good Ming Dynasty, and five years later was imprisoned in Beijing by Juyong, destroying the Ming Dynasty.

As long as this year or even next year, the Manchus outside the customs will not go south to mix peace. Li Xin believed that with Hong Sun's talent, it was more than enough to exterminate Zhang Li. As long as Zhang Li is punished, the Ming Dynasty may be able to get a chance to breathe, and maybe the pass of unshipped delivery will come. When the time comes, it is not impossible to concentrate forces to fight with the Manchus outside the Guan.

As for how to mix, we have to think about it carefully, now the strength of the Zhenwei is weak, and there is not enough strength and chips to operate on the grassland. For thousands of years, the heroes on the grassland have only one thing, that is, fists, and whoever has a hard fist, they will listen to whomever they want. Even though the grasslands are full of bears today, their habit of only recognizing hard fists has not changed.

Therefore, the outcome of the battle against the Han Department directly determines whether his idea can continue to be implemented.

Early the next morning, a caravan returned from outside the border wall. Obviously, this was done before the embargo was imposed. Before they could hear the news, they came to Xinping Fort and asked to go into the fort to rest.

In the past, the guards would have opened the gates of the fort and allowed the merchants to enter the city, and these merchants would have distributed some food and clothing as usual. It's just that now it is Li Xin, the general soldier of the three guards, who is in charge of the entire Xinping Fort. Li Xin had a strict order last night that no one was allowed to enter the city without the personal order of the general soldiers. How dare the soldiers make their own claims, so they went to inform Li Xin.

Li Xin learned that there were merchants who took the initiative to knock on the door, how could he let them go, and immediately ordered the guards to let only a few stewards in. The merchants did not suspect him, and ordered their men to rest outside the fort, and they first went to the fort to investigate.

This caravan was not small, consisting of three families combined. The stewards of the three families were led to see Li Xin, they originally only knew the guard of the Qianzong, but when they saw that the person sitting upright behind the case was a stranger, they thought that this was the newly exchanged Qianzong who didn't know the rules, and one by one they put their hearts back in their stomachs. Who can have a grudge against money these days, as long as money can solve the problem, it is not a problem. This sentence is what the head of the Fan family has been talking about, and it is emboldening them at this moment.

Li Xin first asked how the deal was doing, and then asked if he had encountered danger on the road, and logically mentioned that the Mongol Han Department attacked Xinpingbao, but there was an inexplicable sudden retreat.

Unexpectedly, one of the stewards smiled and said: "Don't worry about it, Mr. Qian, we are out in business, and those tribes regard our ancestors as ancestors!" ”

This statement is indeed true, there is a shortage of materials on the grassland, and the supply depends on robbery and buying. It was the latter that the merchants relied on. Of course, they all have the concession of the slave chief Emperor Taiji, and the passage on the grassland is unimpeded.

"However, there is also a strange thing to say to Mr. Qian." It's still the one in charge, with a mysterious look on his face. "It is said that the eldest son of Tu Taiji was beheaded by the unknown Ming army with the pioneer tribe in the Xiyang River valley......"

Li Xin frowned, it turned out that the Mongolian cavalry he encountered on the south bank of the Xiyang River was the eldest son of Zhentu. But the next words in charge made Li Xinru fall into a fog.

"The Xiyang River valley is a miserable place, all the men, women and children of the pioneer tribe have been slaughtered, and there is not even half of the living creatures left."

"Well, it is estimated that Lao Tu Tu withdrew his troops in a hurry because of this incident."

Li Xin was still stunned, it was impossible, he just made the right thumb of the captured man cut off, and as for the men, women, and children, they were not injured, how could they say that they were killed? If the eldest son of the Buntu is indeed killed, then Xinping Fort will definitely become the primary target of the Buntu's revenge. Originally, my relaxed mood suddenly became tense again. It seems that he could not leave Xinping Fort for a while, and not only could he not leave, but he also had to scatter his cavalry horses outside the border wall for dozens of miles to prevent them from bypassing the border wall and breaking into the territory.

This possibility is not impossible, the side wall of Baiyangkou has been destroyed, and it can be killed in the territory of Daming without a knife or a shot.

Li Xin felt that he couldn't ask anything about these merchant stewards, so he asked them to be led down one by one, and then driven out of the city directly. A few angry business stewards jumped to their feet and scolded under the fortress, letting Li Xin, the little Qianzong, wait to lose his official position and go to work.

Listening to the meaning of those merchants, the family owners behind them seem to have dealings with the real power figures in the General Military Mansion, otherwise these eagle dogs would not be able to have such an arrogant attitude, and if they opened their mouths, they would let Li Xin lose his official position, as if the General Military Mansion was opened by their family.

Angry to angry, the merchants did not dare to risk staying outside Xinpingbao for the night, although they were not afraid of the Mongols or the Manchurians, but the horse thieves and bandits who haunted the vicinity were afraid of tight, if they could not stay at night, they were only afraid of the bad luck. Therefore, they had to enter the Acropolis before it was dark to rest.

When Li Xin was thinking hard about how to defend Xinping Fort and drag the people of Xinping Fort to Xinping Fort, Heisenberg came to see Li Xin excitedly.

"Respect, General Lee, guess what I found in the fort?"

Li Xin had something on his mind and was unwilling to cooperate with him to sell Guanzi, so he said impatiently: "I can't guess!" ”

Heisenberg, as if he could not feel Li Xin's impatience, replied to himself: "It's an iron cannon, a four-pounder cannon, and countless four-pounder shells." ”

What the? There are actually cannons in this Xinping Fort? Li Xin didn't know how big the caliber of the four-pounder gun was, and how powerful it was, but looking at Heisenberg's excited expression, it would definitely not be bad.

"Strangely, I searched the inside of the fort, but I didn't find a pound of gunpowder! Won't you Orientals prepare gunpowder with the cannons? ”

Li Xin said, how do I know that there is no gunpowder prepared in Xinping Fort? After a long time, it is equivalent to empty joy, and the iron cannon and iron lump are a pile of scrap iron when the gunpowder is gone. Heisenberg was still confident, recounting how he had found the four-pounder cannon and countless shells in a dilapidated warehouse, as if Li Xin could conjure gunpowder with just one word.

When Heisenberg learned from Lixin's mouth that there was no gunpowder not only in Xinpingbao, but also in the old nest of the Zhenwei guard, the boss with his mouth open couldn't close for a long time. How to maneuver artillery without gunpowder? He immediately went from elation to extreme, and finally had a chance to show his face in front of General Li, but he didn't expect it to be an empty joy.

Suddenly, a soldier came to report again.

"Your Excellency, there is another caravan from outside asking to enter the fort."

Li Xin waved his hand and said, "Do it according to the rules just now, call the steward in, and the rest stay outside the fort." Who knew that the soldier did not turn around and leave after receiving the order, but bowed down and looked at Li Xin as if he wanted to speak and stopped. Li Xin couldn't see it.

"Let's be straight, what's the matter?"

Only then did the soldier speak: "Lord Commander, this caravan came from the side wall, saying that it was sending carbon to the snow!" ”

Oh? There is such a strange thing, Li Xin secretly wondered, he offended all the Shanxi businessmen to death, who could give him charcoal in the snow?

"It is said that it is the caravan of the Huang family in Shanxi, is the chief soldier ......?"

The half-cut soldier behind him didn't speak, just looked at Li Xin. Li Xin waved his hand and said, "Okay, let them in." Let's go, let's go and see what kind of carbon and what surprises Huang Jiasheng is! ”

In the second half of the sentence, Li Xin said it to Heisenberg, who hurriedly took a few steps backwards and followed.

After the cart entered the city, Li Xin was dumbfounded, and there was an iron cannon standing in it, and several carts were full of stuff. A goatee who seemed to be in his forties should be the caravan steward, and when he saw Li Xin coming, he bowed and saluted: "The second prince specially ordered the villain to send these truckloads of goods to help the general defend the city!" ”

Heisenberg seemed to have guessed what was in the carts, stepped forward, stretched out his right hand and lifted the tarpaulin vigorously, only to see baskets of gunpowder on the carts.