In recent days, Commander Deng has made the year unfavorable, and he was interrogated several times by two laid-off Jinyi guards a few days ago. He is a dignified commander of three products and one guard, but he can only laugh with these laid-off brocade guards, and tolerate it if he can.

If it was before, he would not have looked at these Jinyi guards who had lost their power, but Li Chengen's letter made him keenly sober, and he calculated in his heart that if King Yan ascended the throne, I am afraid that he would change the policy of Emperor Wen, this Jinyi Wei.... I'm afraid, I can't mess with it.

At night of this day, Wei commanded the middle hall of the Yamen, and Deng Pingyu sat in it, his face ugly.

The other person was dressed in a moon-white civil official uniform, embroidered with cloud geese supplements, and was a four-grade civil official.

This person is in his thirties and has a bit of a bookish spirit. With a gloomy face, he looked at the two people in the hall coldly.

Li Chengen, who was on the side, saw that it was cold, so he got up with a cup of Longjing tea and put it next to the civil official and said with a smile: "Hehe... Master Yao, don't be angry, don't be angry, everyone is a colleague of Yiwei, if there is something, you should discuss it well, don't hurt the harmony. ”

This Lord Yao is the senator sent to Suzhou Wei, although it is only a fourth-grade officer, but the martial artists of these two third-grade officials are also quite polite to him, and he can't be neglected.

Senator Yao didn't appreciate it, and said coldly: "Discuss it well? Do you, Lord Li and Master Deng, regard me Yao Tingxuan as colleagues? What is the reason why everything can be hidden, what is the reason why they can hide and hide, but they don't tell me anything? ”

Li Chengen was puzzled: "What are these words, how dare the two of us hide it from you, Lord Yao?" ”

After listening to Yao's announcement, Yao pointed to the door and said: "Let me ask you, the official post has been heavily guarded for more than 20 days, who lives in it?" ”

This Yao Tingxuan is not a fool, there are so many soldiers in the official post for no reason, he didn't care about it in the first few days, but after many days, the atmosphere in the official post was quite tense, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.

Today, he simply went to interrogate, but was stopped by a hundred households on duty, saying that without the order of Deng and Li, he should not trespass.

He Yao Tingxuan is a high-minded and arrogant person, since he came to Suzhou Wei is to say the same, and now there is a mere six products and hundreds of households who dare to stop him, and even these three commanders dare not talk to him like this.

However, the hundred households insisted, and he stopped him, so he came angrily to the guard to command the yamen to interrogate Deng Pingyu, Deng Pingyu was a martial artist, and he didn't know how to answer, but fortunately, Li Chengen next to him stepped forward to parry.

Li Chengen smiled when he heard this: "Ao, it turns out that Lord Yao is just a Northern Yuan official, and some of my spies caught it, so don't you report it to the capital department to report it." ”

Yao Tingxuan's eyes sank, and after thinking for a while, he obviously didn't believe Li Chengen's 'nonsense', so he said: "Northern Yuan officials? Can you stay in this Suzhou guard for so long? Immediately caught, immediately surrendered prisoner, in my opinion, I'm afraid it's not just as simple as an official, right? ”

Immediately, his eyes stared at Deng Pingyu, who had a sad face, and said, "What do you say, Lord Deng?" I didn't expect that Lord Tuo Deng led the troops well, this Suzhou Wei has been defeated repeatedly in recent years, but he still has the ability to catch the captives of the Northern Yuan? ”

Deng Pingyu was already mixed, listening to this ridiculous words, his sad face turned into an angry face, and the tea cup in his hand was crushed by him with a "crackle", Li Chengen hurriedly pressed Deng Pingyu and signaled him not to be impulsive.

When did Deng Pingyu suffer such humiliation, he had great military achievements in Suzhou, and who was dissatisfied with the barbarians in the Quartet?

Since this bird senator came to Suzhou Wei, he pointed fingers at his own defense operations, and several battles were discordant with the commanders, so that he was restrained by his command and suffered defeat.

But it's just a matter of losing the battle, and now this Yao Tingxuan is also questioning himself about this matter, a four-grade bird official in his own eyes, who dares to be arrogant and arrogant to hold himself accountable for the commander of the three-rank guard, he is as fierce as fire, and now he is already angry in his chest, but he does not dare to attack, the situation is still unclear, and the time has not yet come.

That Yao Tingxuan didn't give this Deng Pingyu any face, got up and flicked his sleeves and hummed: "Since the two adults don't say it, then I will go back to my government office to write to Lord Huang, the counselor of the Xingdu Division, and let him ask you." ”

was about to leave, but he heard the noise outside, and the sergeant on duty outside the yamen sent a few people inside, all of whom were unkempt and extremely embarrassed.

"Publicity?! But that....", Deng Pingyu saw that the first person entered, and naturally recognized that this was a hundred households at the mouth of the cliff, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good.

Zhang Yang trembled his hands and said, "Commander..... Yakou was stolen by the Qiang people... Lost!! After saying that, he hung his head in shame, "Today I led people to build the river embankment, but I didn't expect that the Qiang people gathered seven or eight hundred people and attacked the village. Now only a few of us with horses have fled, and everyone else is.... All lost!! ”

When Deng Pingyu heard this, he kicked over the chair with one foot, paced back and forth and shouted: "Pass my order, Suzhou Wei will order immediately!" ”

Yao Tingxuan looked at Deng Pingyu, and when he heard him order troops, he said: "At this moment, the enemy situation is unknown, and it is night, I think it is inappropriate to hastily order troops, and I will make a decision in the next day!" ”

Deng Pingyu suddenly turned around, stared at Yao Tingxuan, who had started to manipulate slightly, clenched his fists and gurgled on the ground, and endured the words a few times when he came to his mouth.

Although the 100 households at the mouth of the cliff are the quota of 120 people in the imperial court, but it is located in the key chong, and the imperial court is far away in the hinterland.

In this way, the strength of one hundred households in such a gap was far from enough, so he adapted measures to local conditions, so he sent an additional force of three hundred households, a total of 360 people, to guard it in three shifts, and there were a full number of 120 people stationed at night at any time.

However, when Yao heard the announcement, he pedanticly deployed his troops strictly according to the number of troops arranged by the imperial court, and forcibly withdrew the troops of the hundred households at Yakou to the acropolis, leaving a hundred households to guard it.

Deng Pingyu had a big argument with him about this at that time, and was finally reprimanded by the Xingdu Division before he gave up, but he knew in his heart that the troops of this hundred households could not guard the cliff mouth no matter what.

He guards day and night, and he comes to whatever he is afraid of, how can he not be angry if he doesn't listen to his own words!?

Li Chengen approached and said: "This Qiang people must have come prepared, picked an afternoon to attack the village, calculated that the news of defeat was transmitted to the Acropolis at night, and now we are going to go in the dark at night, they are waiting for work, I'm afraid..."

Deng Pingyu said: "Lord Li, Yakou Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if they stay in the camp today, we want to take it again, but it will be even more difficult." ”

Yao Tingxuan retorted: "My king is mighty, and the camp of less than a thousand people can be taken in an instant, so why be afraid!?" ”

"Lord Yao!!" , Deng Pingyu couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted loudly, shaking that Yao Tingxuan's body in shock.

"Lord Yao.. I know Wang Shi Tianwei, but I can't play with the lives of my sergeants, they are not only soldiers of my Ming Dynasty, but also the sons of my grandmother and the husband of my wife! ”

Yao Tingxuan was not moved when he heard this: "The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty should be loyal to the country, and what is the reason why Lord Deng will destroy his own prestige?" ”

Seeing that he couldn't make sense with him, Deng Pingyu sneered: "I'm afraid Lord Yao is not familiar with the geographical situation outside this pass, do you know where this cliff pass is?" ”

Yao Tingxuan raised his eyebrows, obviously not knowing.

"The Acropolis's Lai River flows out of the cliff mouth, and the Lai River is the only reliance on the Acropolis' agricultural and grain irrigation, if the Qiang people guard the cliff mouth and block the river, even if the Suzhou Weidang wants to cut off the water, this 10,000 acres .....of fertile land will become an abandoned field..."

Unexpectedly, Yao listened to Xuan, and really frowned, obviously discovering the seriousness of the matter, and changed his face and said anxiously: "What should I do!" This field... This field shall not be wasted..."

Deng Pingyu snorted coldly, and said in his heart that you are indifferent, you will not be anxious until your own interests are damaged, Piff!

"Shogunate soldiers!! Take my armor and follow me to the Suzhou Guard Camp immediately! He said and walked out.

Yao Tingxuan hurriedly turned around and greeted: "This time, I will also go with the army, and I will definitely take this cliff pass!" With that, he hurriedly lifted the pendulum and hurried out.

But Li Chengen was thoughtful, and walked out of the gate of the yamen to the official post.