The vast courtyard was calm, as if there had never been a battle, the coals for heating had been burned to the ground, and the ashes were filled with the bitter cold of the winter night, except for the snoring and snoring, and occasionally the painful groans of the wounded.

Li Xin stayed up all night, thinking a lot about the future direction, and finally only came to one conclusion, although he was about to go to the place, the root of the struggle was always above the court. He is just a general soldier of the three guards, and he has no ability to fight left and right in the court, but he is not willing to become a fish on the board and let others slaughter him.

There was already a faint glimmer of color in the eastern sky, and Li Xinhuo stood up, he didn't want to join those battles, but if anyone stood in his way, he would definitely pay a terrible price. Because he still has another big thing in his heart, it is not surprising that the rogue in the south will rise again next year, and the Tartars in the north will still be approaching step by step, and the Han family cannot watch him be destroyed in any way.

He believes that the mastermind behind the scenes will not give up on his repeated plots and failures, and instead of being passively beaten, it is better to take the initiative to attack and find out about it, and save a piece of heart disease. In this matter, he suddenly thought of the second son of Huang, who always came and went suddenly. Especially in tonight's attack, he was able to appear from the tunnel to rescue himself, which indirectly proves that this person is inextricably linked to the person who plots against him.

If you want to find out the details of the black hand behind it, you can't say that you have to fall on him. After the end of the war, Li Xin wanted to find out where the tunnel led, but the big house had burned down and collapsed, and the tunnel entrance was being buried, so he had to give up.

After a long time, a red sun rose from the far distance, and the cold air of the early morning began to dissipate into bursts of white air. Li Xin only felt that his body was numb from the cold, the iron armor did not fit, and the cotton clothes he wore were not very thick, he stood here for a long time and felt the cold of the winter morning, letting the temperatureless and golden sunlight fall on his body, and a silent sigh seemed to be drumming in his chest.

"General Li is so interested, the winter sun is infinitely beautiful, but it's a pity that the soldiers are in chaos, who still has the heart to appreciate the beautiful scenery of this good day?"

The change that Zeng dared made Li Xin sigh, is this still the stunned young man who is a little guilty? At that time, although he always did bad things with good intentions, he was better than being pure and sincere. After just a few days of hard work, a blue-robed official uniform deepened, as if he had changed people, and became extremely unfamiliar.

If it had been half a month ago, he would never have believed that this kind of unnutritious and unspoken words would come from Zeng Dare's mouth.

"It's nothing more than the legs and feet that have been frozen all night in the activity, Li Xin is a rough person, how can he know what is beautiful and not beautiful! By the way, Lord Zeng, are you and I going to Shanxi together? ”

He once dared to chase out of the capital overnight in order to go all the way with Li Xin, and now that he is shouldering a heavy responsibility, he naturally has to take more care of himself. But he didn't expect that he saved Li Xin.

"If there is chaos today, bandits are rampant, and there are many people, it is good to have a response, and I can't ask for it."

This kind of conversation made Li Xin feel tired for a while, and after discussing the matter, he no longer bothered with Zeng Dare, woke up the soldiers under his command one by one, and arranged for people to send the wounded to the capital. Some of the less lightly wounded soldiers objected to the treatment of their own wounded man, insisting on accompanying the big guys.

In the end, in desperation, Li Xin had to send a few seriously injured people back to Beijing for treatment, and left them enough gold and silver to explain to them, and once they recovered from their injuries, they could immediately return to Datong to find them.

After the sky was completely bright, the two groups of men and horses joined forces and went along the official road in the direction of Juyongguan. Juyong Pass is located in Yanqingwei, not far from Changping Prefecture. It turned out that the big car shop where they slept last night was only a dozen miles away from Changping Prefecture, but they couldn't tell where it was in the dark light and blind fire, otherwise the tragedy of last night would not have happened if they walked for a while and settled in Changping Prefecture.

After Changping Juyong Pass is coming in a flash, the majestic Guancheng listens to it between the mountains and mountains, a big river goes out of the Guancheng side to the south, because of the winter frozen river surface a horse flat river.

Li Xin and Zhou Jin both had the customs clearance documents in their hands to rush to Datong, and after the general guarding the customs personally inspected the documents, he waved his big hand, and the door was slowly opened, and the golden gate slowly rose in a gurgling and harsh metal friction sound.

Out of Juyong Pass, it is equivalent to completely out of the territory of the Beijing Division, and not far in front of it is Xuanfu. They will cross the Badaling and go to the west from Huailai.

Before leaving the customs, Li Xin still stopped the general guarding the pass, and said that the attack last night was that the location of the big car shop was not far from Changping Prefecture or Juyong Pass, and they were also responsible for the border security in this area.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the general guarding the pass smiled bitterly and said: "General Li doesn't know anything, since the Tartars entered the Kou, there are many thieves who gather more than 1,000 people. Saying that, he pointed to the soldiers in the city, "Look, we have just a thousand people, and the main energy is spent on defending this city, as for the rogues, as long as they blatantly attack the pass and the county seat, they will all turn a blind eye, we are just a small general, and we can't even transfer the soldiers, how can we talk about suppressing bandits?" ”

Originally, he thought that after the Tatars retreated, the people in the Gyeonggi area would be able to return to their homes, but what he never expected was that not only did many of these people not return to their homes, but instead gathered together to become an unstable factor in the security of Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty.

I only heard the general say again: "It's not all homeless people, many Xiangma thieves are also mixed in the troubled waters, it is estimated that the gang of thieves who attacked the general last night is likely to be this kind of people, although they are brave, but they are still at a different level than our officers and soldiers!" ”

The speech was full of disdain for these outcasts and thieves.

Li Xin knew that no matter how much he asked, he couldn't ask for any valuable information, so he had to thank the general again and again, and then he was ready to chase Zeng Dare, who had already been far away. Zeng dared to be a civil official of the sixth grade, although he was not born as a jinshi, but he also had a natural sense of reserve, for these Wuqiu Ba, just nod and deal with it, there is no need to talk in depth.

The general has also heard of Li Xinqi, and recently it was rumored that the emperor in the capital had appointed a general soldier of the three guards, but he didn't expect it to be the strong man in front of him, and he didn't expect that the red man in front of the emperor was so unscrupulous, and he spoke in a polite and polite manner, and he couldn't help but have a good impression of him.

"General!"

The general stopped Li Xin, who was about to walk out of the city, and stopped talking.

Li Xinqi said: "What's the matter with the general? ”

The general glanced at Zeng Dare and his escort team, who were gradually moving away.

"The general and the civil official are not subordinate to each other, why are they on the same road with him?"

"The war is in chaos, and it is good to take care of it when we walk together!"

The general shook his head and said: "The general's words are wrong, I see that the general's deployment is cavalry, and many soldiers are even one person and two horses. Rest overnight in Wanquanwei, and arrive at Zhenyuwei on the next day. Why go with it, suffer from that idleness! ”

He saw that Li Xin was silent and said: "There is even more terrible, now almost all the soldiers of Xuanfu have been transferred to the south, the emptiness is tight, and the thieves are becoming more and more arrogant, as if these hundreds of official teams are the primary target of their plunder." The guards under the civilian officials were all infantry, and if they walked slowly, they would naturally become the first target for attack. I'm afraid the general's life is still in danger if he follows him! ”

Li Xin smiled: "It won't be so exaggerated!" ”

The general's face was exaggerated, and he seemed to be in a hurry to persuade: "The general wants to listen to my persuasion, a few days ago, there was a county order with three hundred guards out of the customs, just after Yanqing Prefecture, near Chang'an, he was killed by the Liukou who gathered in the vicinity of Chang'an, and the bones of the county order have not been found yet!" As he spoke, he looked at the dozen or so big cars in Zeng Dare's team with a worried face.

"Especially when he was driving more than a dozen carts, looking at the ruts, he estimated that the things he was carrying were not light, and he had to make the thieves worry about them. Listen to me, you can go as fast as you get out of this Juyong Pass. ”

Li Xinxin smiled secretly, he knew very well what the dozen or so big cars were loading, and it was clearly iron lump mines and more than a dozen baskets of gunpowder. Those who don't know the truth think that it is some kind of gold and silver property. In any case, the general's words to remind the danger of the road were completely out of kindness, and he no longer argued with him, and after thanking him again, he turned over and whistled, and the ironclad cavalry accelerated violently, although there were only more than 100 cavalry, but the murderous aura that came out made the general smack, and he had not seen this kind of murderous cavalry for a long time.

If Lu Jiu would have abandoned Zeng, he dared to ignore it and leave alone with his troops. Sure enough, Lu Jiu spoke.

"Thirteenth brother, what the general of the guard is reasonable. The one who dared to come here came because he heard the allusion of the county order! He also said that he kindly came to save us, it is better to follow what the general said, and gallop all the guards in one day! ”

Lu Jiu saw that Li Xin was not stubble, so he immediately raised his horsewhip upside down and stabbed the Jiexiu monk beside him.

"Why didn't the mage persuade my thirteenth brother?" Lu Jiu knew that Monk Jiexiu couldn't get used to it, and he persuaded the thirteenth brother to act alone last night, so why did he keep silent and look lively today?

Jiexiu recited the Dharma number and said with a smile:

"It's useless to persuade, the donor has already made up his mind to be a good person to the end!"

Monk Jiexiu really said it, Li Xin really didn't plan to act alone, no matter how he dared to change, after all, he was also the official of the Ming Dynasty, although he stood in different teams, he couldn't watch him fall into danger and ignore it.

Lu Jiu, who was stunned, looked at Monk Jiexiu, and then looked at Li Xin, who seemed to be preoccupied in front of him, and patted his thigh and said, "Brother Thirteen is confused!" ”