The 100,000 horses did receive an urgent order from the imperial court Pegasus on the way back.

Originally, the general was suspicious and led the troops to walk slowly. Because although the cabinet told him that as long as the orders given to him by Xiao Feng were not related to the rebellion, they could all be obeyed.

But he also knew that the cabinet sent him for two purposes, one was to rescue Nanjing City, and the other was to keep an eye on Xiao Feng, just in case.

The first purpose had failed, and when he arrived in Nanjing, he saw that the Ming army was cleaning up the battlefield, and the people in the city were decorating themselves with lanterns to celebrate the victory.

But the second purpose has not yet failed, and it was broken by Xiao Feng's words, which made him not only embarrassed, but also frightened.

He thought that Xiao Feng would take revenge on himself in a fit of rage, and send himself and these 100,000 horses to the coast to defeat a wave of Japanese robbers, and consume this army openly.

But he didn't expect Xiao Feng to let him go back the way he came to help the Xuanda defense line. Although this has nothing to do with rebellion, he still has no bottom in his heart.

As a result, as soon as he reached the boundary of Shandong, the imperial court Pegasus sent a decree asking him to lead his troops to return north quickly to support the Xuanda defense line.

The general was shocked and immediately ordered the army to fast forward at 2.5 times the speed.

At this time, above the court, Ding Rukui was pointing at the nose of the military department and scolding him, and the military department was depressed and didn't dare to come out.

Jiajing's face also sank like water, and he opened his eyes from time to time to look at Xu Jie. Xu Jie thought about it and felt that it was not a way for him to remain silent, so he had to speak hard.

"Lord Ding, the matter has come to this, and it is useless to be angry.

On that day, everyone also fully discussed this matter, and the collective decision was not anyone's idea. Everyone is thinking about the court.

Fortunately, the news from the front line of Xuanda was good, and Governor Qiu Luan not only properly arranged the Mongols who came to take refuge, but also built a very strong defense line. ”

Ding Rukui sneered: "Xu Shoufu praised Qiu Luan for building a strong defense line at this time. Didn't you also instruct the Anti-Corruption Institute to investigate the repair project of Xuanda City Defense on the same day? ”

Xu Jie's old face flushed: "How can this be?" It was put forward by the imperial history, and the old man just issued an order to the Incorruptible Government on behalf of the cabinet. Besides, didn't you check it in the end? ”

Ding Rukui did not relent: "The city defense project is the main business of God-given construction, why did you investigate this matter in the first place, everyone knows it."

As for not checking in the end, it's not long live the wisdom, and it is also a matter of time to say that the border generals will repair the city. It is enough to have the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War verify the budget.

The Incorruptible Government can't check everything, otherwise everyone will be frightened, and no one will dare to do what should be done, so Xu Shoufu will give up. ”

Although Xu Jiexin's words were said by Long Live , this is Xiao Feng's words at all, when who doesn't know?

But at this time, he was in a weak position, so he naturally didn't dare to talk about it, but just smiled and said nothing to show his generosity.

Listening to the noise of the crowd for a long time, Jiajing finally spoke.

"Hu Zongxian's great victory has arrived, and the cabinet and the military department will discuss it and reward it for meritorious service.

At present, the most important thing in the Jiangnan victory is the Xuanda defense line, everyone should not quarrel and centrifugal, and work together to defend the national fortune.

Xiao Feng is far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and the whip is beyond his reach, and it is not improper for the imperial court to take back the military power in the north. However, Xiao Feng knew the two lines of defense very well, and he could still act according to Xiao Feng's deployment. ”

This is why Jiajing came forward to excuse the collective decision-making last time, and he can't let the cabinet bear all the responsibility.

And to tell the truth, Xu Jie's consideration is definitely what a qualified Shoufu should have, which is not only clear to Jiajing, but also to Xiao Feng.

Therefore, Xiao Feng's actions towards the imperial court were not so much anger as helplessness.

Xu Jie's thinking has limitations, but he is still the most suitable candidate for the first assistant at this time. If it is a high arch or Zhang Juzheng is going up, it may not be able to do better at present.

What's more, Xiao Feng knows very well that this Shoufu can't obey his words. As long as someone embarrasses him, Jiajing will still support him.

Any powerful minister, when there is no opponent in the court who can match him, the emperor has to go down in person and become his opponent.

As long as the Xuanda defense line is not lost, this matter will be over, hello, I am good, everyone is good, Xiao Feng and Jiajing will treat this incident as if it never happened.

Just like Lu Bing, who has always been the night when the forbidden army washed Meilong Town in blood, no one specifically looked for and treated him, and it never happened.

But in fact, at this time, on the Xuanda defense line, Qiu Luan was not as easy as everyone in the court imagined, he hadn't touched the fire girl for three days.

In the past three days, the Mongol and Rakshasa coalition forces have stormed the Xuanda defense line like a tide. Fortunately, the Xuanda defense line has been operating for many years and is extremely strong.

The Rakshasa commander was extremely cunning, and the Rakshasa muskets were sharp. Compared with the previous Altan Khan led the Tatars to attack the Xuanda defensive line, this coalition attack was more ferocious and more varied.

They used only part of their forces to contain the main city, and the large army of men and horses stormed the border cities in the city. The walls of the border city were much less thick than the main city and were relatively weaker.

Although the fall of the border city will not directly endanger the safety of the main city. However, breaking through the border city can kill many civilians outside the main city, and it can also form a siege of the main city.

The Rakshasas brought a few artillery pieces, the caliber was not large, because it was too big to carry. There are also battering rams made on the road, which are used to bombard the walls of border cities.

Fortunately, the quality of the Tianci construction is very good, not only there are a large number of city walls built by glutinous rice sanhe soil in the Xinren era, but also the new "new sanhe soil" of Guofang is prepared in each city for repair.

This new triple soil surprised the Rakshasas, who painstakingly carved out the gaps in the city wall, and then reconciled the new triple soil, and wiped the broken stones, and after a day's effort, they were extremely hard.

The Rakshasas concentrated their muskets and suppressed their firepower, allowing the Mongols to charge and attack the city. But there are also 3,000 muskets in the Xuanda defense line, although there are not as many as the Rakshasas, but after all, they are on the defensive side, and they do not show weakness.

The real battle is still hand-to-hand combat. The Mongols rushed into the border city several times, but they were all beaten out by the Ming army.

On the passage between the border city and the main city, cavalry and infantry came and went, and the river was endless.

This is the first time since the time of Genghis Khan that Mongolia has devoted its entire steppe power to launch a fierce attack on the Ming Dynasty. With the addition of the Rakshasas, it reached the scale of 200,000 people.

What is the concept of 200,000 for the Mongol cavalry? In that year, he also fought the civil fort first, defeated the 300,000 troops of the Ming army, and captured the god of war, but there were only 60,000 troops.

There are even historical sources that say that in fact, there were only 20,000 main cavalry, and the rest were all made up. Altan Khan went to the capital and went out again, and only 30,000 cavalry were used.

And this time, the combined forces of Mobei Mongolia and Rakshasa from north to south, like a snowball, recovered all the tribes that surrendered, crushed all the tribes that refused to submit, and it became bigger and bigger.

This huge cavalry snowball finally crashed headlong into the solid Xuanda defense line, setting off a bloody storm all over the sky.

Lin Tong knew very well that in this case, it would be impossible to go out of the city to face the battle. Even more than half of the Xuanda defense line is cavalry.

Compared with the Mongols in the steppe, the cavalry of the opposing side has an advantage in numbers, which is only possible by relying on a large number of muskets. But in the opposing camp, there are more muskets.

Defend to the death, as long as it is a defense battle, the power of the cavalry will be canceled out, and the two sides will have to fight each other by consuming human lives. And at such times, the defenders of the city will always die less than the besiegers!

When the siege entered the fourth day, the manpower of the Xuanda defense line began to be tight, but fortunately, the supply troops brought back dozens of truckloads of thunderbolts.

Thunderbolts are easier to build than muskets and bullets, because there is no bottleneck in steelmaking, just a large amount of gunpowder is produced, and a shell of iron or wood is sufficient.

The disadvantage is that the power is not as great as that of the musket, and the lethality is limited in ordinary combat. But in the defense of the city, this thing can work wonders.

When a raindrop of thunderbolts fell from the city walls, the gas waves generated by the large-scale explosion blew up the Mongols under the city walls.

Even if he didn't die, he wouldn't be able to get up for a while, and he would become a living target under the random arrows.

When the cannons and shells of the defending city ran out, the defenders and the people went to pick up baskets of stones, stuffed them into the cannons, and bombarded them below.

Although the lethality of the stone is small and the distance is short, the killing area is large, and it is very effective against the enemy who is attacking the city intensively, and a single cannon can defend a large area.

The advantage of the coalition forces is that they are large in numbers and have strong individual combat effectiveness. The advantage of the Ming army was that there was a steady supply of materials behind them, especially gunpowder, which was almost unlimited in supply, supporting the defenders' extravagant use.

But on the fifth day, one of the border cities was breached, and the enemy took control of the walls and charged downwards in an attempt to open the gates.

But Qiu Luan's life-saving trick when he first arrived at Xuanda was still there. Seeing that the head of the city could not be defended, the soldiers pushed down the boulder and blocked the city gate from the inside, turning it into a stone gate.

The Mongols who rushed in from the wall were so demoralized that they tried to move the boulders by men, but they couldn't. The battering rams outside almost smashed the gates, but the boulders behind them couldn't hit them.

The invading Mongols searched for horses, and if there were horses, they put ropes on the boulders, and dozens of horses worked together to drag the boulders.

But the problem is that people can kill from the walls, but horses can't. No matter how magical the BMW was, they couldn't climb in from the city wall, so they could only find a way to grab the horses of the Ming army.

They didn't have to wait long, Lin Tong led the cavalry into the border city, crisscrossing and killing the enemy army without horses.

The Mongol cavalry, which had lost its horses, was like a broken leg, its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the enemy troops who could fight through the city wall were only a few after all, and they could not withstand the charge of tens of thousands of cavalry.

As the infantry of the Ming army poured into the city, the border city was lost and regained. Such a struggle has been staged repeatedly in many border cities.

As the defense line of Xuanda became tighter and tighter, the atmosphere in the court became more and more tense. Ding Rukui asked for more troops to Xuanda several times, but Jiajing and the cabinet were silent.

It's not that they don't care about the front line of Xuanda, it's really that there are no more soldiers to add. Among the 100,000 troops sent to reinforce Jiangnan, there were 20,000 troops sent out by the capital.

At this time, there were less than 30,000 defenders in the capital, and if the troops were sent out, there would be no one in the capital. In case of an accident, what will the capital do?

The defenders inside and outside Shanhaiguan have also transferred tens of thousands of people, and they can no longer be transferred. Soldiers and horses in other places, far water can't save the thirst of the near.

Now I can only hope that the 100,000 people who have been transferred away will hurry up and challenge the limit!

Outside the gate, a large group of people and horses were entering the grassland, but they were not in a hurry, just shooting star scouts running back and forth, delivering news.

Takshi followed Li Chengliang's side, rubbing the musket in his hand, eager to try.

"My lord, since the front line of Xuanda has been fighting fiercely, why haven't we rushed to the rescue?"

Li Chengliang shook his head and said: "Tucker, if you fight like this, you can only fight small battles, and you can't win big battles."

How strong is the Xuanda defense line, and Lord Xiao has already sent troops to attack Mobei Mongolia, so how can he not be fully prepared?

No matter how dangerous the Xuanda defense line is, it is also a battle to defend the city, and it will not be defeated. But we rushed up to hedge against the Mongol cavalry and bombard with the Rakshasa muskets!

We were transferred by the imperial court, and now there are only 30,000 cavalry left, and there are only 1,000 muskets.

We have to wait until both sides are unable to fight, and suddenly charge, inside and outside, in order to destroy the withering and decay and succeed in one fell swoop. ”

Tucker glanced at Li Chengliang in awe, and didn't dare to say anything more.

But Li Chengliang did misjudge one thing, and the more than 20,000 people who were transferred from the Xuanda defense line did have a great impact.

The old and weak soldiers are also soldiers, especially the more they fight to the back, the more important the manpower is, and it is difficult to ensure that there are people in every city defense line on the long Xuanda defense line.

Fortunately, the passage between the cities was unblocked, and Lin Tong led a cavalry team of 10,000 people to shuttle between the border cities like a whirlwind, where there was a shortage of people.

It's like a propeller, which has a big gap, but once it spins quickly, the gap disappears.

When he held on to the seventh day, there were more and more gaps, like a propeller that had been broken off a fan blade, and Lin Tong's cavalry team was almost unable to make up for it.

On the tenth day, the most difficult day of the defense of Xuanda finally came. On the city wall, thousands of Mongol soldiers and Ming troops were fighting,

Lin Tong was hit by two knives and one shot, and half of his life was snatched by his own soldiers and sent back to Datong City. The mobile cavalry lost its leader, and the broken blades on the propellers stopped rotating.

Qiu Luan's face was like earth, looking at Lin Tong, who was covered in blood, and there were only two words in his mind: It's over.

The cavalry looked at Qiu Luan, waiting for him to give an order, Qiu Luan pointed at Lin Tong's lieutenant in a panic: "You, you come to lead the team!" ”

"He can't! He was inexperienced, and although he was brave, he couldn't see the entire battlefield situation clearly, and he didn't know where to lead the cavalry! ”

Lin Tong covered the gunshot wound in his chest and categorically vetoed Qiu Luan's order. The cavalry generals looked at each other, listening to the governor, or to the commander-in-chief?

Qiu Luan gritted his teeth: "I also know that he can't do it, but you can't even get on the horse, and he can't do it!" He can't, who can't? ”

"You, my lord, you can do it! Only if you are on, we can stand it! ”

Lin Tong's words not only shocked Qiu Luan, but also shocked the cavalry generals. The four guards who followed Qiu Luan almost laughed, but fortunately, seeing Lin Tong's miserable appearance, they stopped the car in time.

Qiu Luan waved his hand again and again: "Brother Lin, don't joke, I ...... this governor"

Lin Tong took a deep breath and yelled, "Are you still a fucking general?" You have been a general soldier in Gansu! You've led your troops to victory!

You kill into the heart of the Mongols, die a hundred, kill a thousand! Have you fucking forgotten? Yes?

Have you been pretending to be cowardly for so long that you've forgotten who you fucking are? Yes? ”

Lin Tong roared desperately, frightened Qiu Luan's face like dirt. Lao Tzu told you these secrets, he treated you as his own, not for you to shout out and pit me!

"Shut up, stop talk! I didn't, I didn't win any big battles! I defeated that battle, I killed a thousand, and I died eight thousand! ”

"Fart, you fart! You killed a thousand Tatar cavalrymen, and less than a hundred died! You eat empty salary, you dare not admit your big victory! ”

Qiu Luan wanted to strangle Lin Tong to death, but he was so numb by Lin Tong's roar that he couldn't move.

All the generals looked at Qiu Luan with surprised and adoring eyes. As grassroots generals, they all understand what it is to eat empty salaries, and they are not surprised.

But Qiu Luan actually had such a brilliant record, which is what really makes them incredible.

If anyone else said this, they wouldn't believe it. But they all know who Lin Tong is, and Lin Tong won't lie.

There is only one truth, the Governor was really a very awesome general.

Lin Tong roared too loudly, shook the wound, and fainted again, and everyone at the scene fell silent.

Qiu Luan's face was red and white, and after a fierce ideological struggle, he finally shouted.

"Bring Bento's armor!"

He put on his armor, rode on a white horse, followed by Hu Da, Miao Er, Tian San, and Fan Si four guards, and brought the last mobile force, 10,000 cavalry, and began to spin.

Qiu Luan knew very well in his heart that it was useless to be afraid of death now. In this battle, if he loses, he will die, and if he escapes, he will die, and there is only one way to live, and that is to win.

He cheered himself up in his heart while running: "I am a lucky general, and Xiao Feng also said that I am a lucky general!" Xiao Feng said that the front line of Xuanda is as solid as a rock!

It's been ten days of fighting, and reinforcements should be coming soon. Li Chengliang should also arrive soon, hold on, Lao Tzu can win! ”

Qiu Luan didn't know that Li Chengliang was grinding foreign workers on the road, waiting for the consumption of both of them. If he knew, he would have written a complaint to the imperial court.

The leaders of the Monan army who had just rebelled were all following Altan Khan to fight in the south and the north, and they were familiar with the details of Qiu Luan.

When he saw Lin Tong seriously injured and carried away, and after a while, Qiu Luan led the team to rush to the city, he couldn't help but change his face.

The leader of Mobei Mongolia and Duke Ronande did not know why, so the leader of Monan Mongol told them the horror of Qiu Luan one by one.

"Back then, Altan Khan led 30,000 soldiers and horses into Gubeikou, the momentum was like a bamboo, no one could stop him, and even Xiao Feng, the great master of the Great Tomorrow, was captured by Altan Khan!

Only this person, led 20,000 cavalry, rushed out of Datong City, and chased all the way. Intercepted and killed our convoy of 2,000 men!

That's not all, next, he completely annihilated the nine thousand elite cavalry led by the general Delha, who was ordered to guard Gubeikou!

That's not all, in the end, he led 20,000 cavalry to the capital, chased our ass all the way, and started a bloody battle in the WTO Entry Concept!

That's not all, he also entered the camp of Altan Khan with only two people as a chief envoy and negotiated with Altan Khan!

Back then, the sentence 'go, don't talk about it' became the pinnacle of the Ming Dynasty's envoys, and it was widely spread on the grassland!

The tribes on our grassland, the two people who are most afraid of the Ming Dynasty over the years, one is Xiao Feng, and the other is Qiu Luan! ”