The fighting outside the Bitou Pass lasted for a day and a night.

Zhu Feng stood on the Ming Tower of the north city wall, the rain was falling all the time, pouring on the armor on his body, he pondered for a long time, how could he not understand why this battle had been fought for so long.

Isn't it an attack on the camp? It's time to come back when you're done.

But the thousands of cavalry sent out now are still circling outside, and they haven't said anything about encountering the enemy head-on, and the battle seems to have been fought for a day and a night, but it seems that nothing has been going on.

"Zhijie, why do you want to get drenched outside? Come in and talk. Wang Qiong talked with Liu Jin in the Ming Building for half an hour, but when she came back, she found that Zhu Feng was outside as a soup chicken, and she couldn't help but call from afar.

Only then did Zhu Feng return to the place where there was a tile to cover his head.

Hu Cong next to him wanted to help him take off his armor, but he raised his hand and said, "The war is not over, and the armor will not leave his body." ”

"Huh."

Liu Jin couldn't help laughing when she heard such a two-handed words.

Wang Qiong asked someone to pour Zhu Feng a cup of hot tea and comforted him: "...... It's okay now, it means that there will be no problem, probably because Hu Lu retreated because of the difficulty, but there are still some people who think that there is a possibility of enterprising, and the heart of making contributions is troublesome, so they chase dozens of miles away, and it is estimated that all the people and horses will come back after dark. ”

"Hmm."

Although Zhu Feng had a lot of things on his mind and many possibilities, he had to listen to Wang Qiong.

Because of the use of his brain, the workload is too much for him, and he still likes to empty the thoughts in his head and go out in the rain to calm himself down.

Otherwise, when the war broke out, there would be a heat all over the body.

Liu Jin was busy pouring Wang Qiong a cup of hot tea and asked, "Then Wang Zhongcheng, do you think it should be good news?" ”

Wang Qiong looked at Liu Jin.

For Wang Qiong and Zhu Feng, after experiencing the first battle of Ningyuan, they were able to almost calm their minds about this kind of tug-of-war with the Tatar army, and they didn't say how much victory they had to achieve.

But Liu Jin is different, after all, this is Liu Jin's first decent battle, and Liu Jin hopes to have a "victory".

Wang Qiong said: "Whether it is successful or not, it depends on whether there is contact, if you only drive Hu Lu away, this success will not be able to be reported." ”

"Uh......" Liu Jin was very embarrassed.

Feelings in vain have excited me for a day and a night? The Northwest War mobilized so many people, but there was still no contact? Then you have to fight for a day and a night? It's no wonder that An Bianhou ran out to get drenched in the rain.

"This inner heat is really hard to calm down, why don't you let our family go out in the rain too?" Liu Jin said, as if he really wanted to get up and walk to the door.

Wang Qiong stopped him with a smile, asked him to sit down again, pointed to the sky outside and said, "Neither we nor Hu Lu can fight head-on this day." Just wait for the results. ”

……

……

As Wang Qiong expected.

Before dark, everyone returned.

The result is ...... It's hard to put into words.

Li Yan was the first to bring the troops back, but he was the farthest away from the troops, and after Li Yan came back, he complained: "Before dawn, I took the Erlang out of Saibaili, but I didn't even see the shadow of a turtle king bastard, and the camp was not there, who said that the Tartars were here?" Those sentries are damned! It's a bad day in the city! ”

Liu Jin hurriedly asked, "Aren't there any tartars?" ”

This is something that Liu Jin can't accept.

The intelligence clearly said that the north was full of Tartars, and it seemed that the Tatars were about to be overwhelmed by a large army at any time, but after the men and horses came out of the fortress, they didn't even encounter a Tartar sentry?

So the previous information was a joke?

Zhu Feng asked, "Is it possible that the Tartars were indeed moving around the Biguan before, but then they ...... Just gone? ”

"Where?" Liu Jin hurriedly asked.

"This ......" Zhu Feng couldn't answer.

When Chen Xun, who had sent troops from another way, came back, it had been dark for an hour, and the rain outside had not stopped, but Chen Xun had brought back the results of the battle.

"Live up to expectations!" Chen Xun jumped off the horse and went to the front of the General Soldier's Mansion, where a group of people were holding umbrellas to greet him.

Li Yan was surprised: "Lao Chen, you walked on both wings, and you met the main force of the Tartars?" ”

"The main force didn't see it, but he killed three Tartars and three heads...... Three real heads! Chen Xun looked excited, as if he had killed three thousand people.

Liu Jin was still excited, waiting for Chen Xun to report a big victory or something, but when he heard that there were only three heads, the smile on his face was almost frozen.

"Not bad, yes, good." Li Yan was envious, "I walked the right way, and I didn't meet a single tartar, so it's good for me to see a few herdsmen." ”

Several people glared at Li Yan.

What does the heart mean by this?

Do you still want to kill the good and risk the success?

Chen Xun hurriedly explained: "What I killed here is a serious Tartar. ”

Liu Jin smiled bitterly in his heart, can he still meet an "unserious" tartar? What kind of impropriety is that which is not serious?

……

……

All the men returned, and peace was restored to the city.

As if there had never been such a night raid, the officers and generals in the room looked a little serious, because everyone felt that this battle seemed to be a little different.

Li Yan said: "An Bianhou, dare to ask you, is this really calculated by that Immortal Master Zhang?" ”

"Huh?" Zhu Feng didn't know how to answer.

Wang Qiong said this, not me, why do you ask me?

Wang Qiong asked rhetorically: "What's the matter, driving the enemy away, in your opinion, is just a toss?" Isn't that a credit? ”

"Alas!" Li Yan sighed heavily, "Credit, merit, but ...... Same as before...... Why is it different? ”

The officials and generals present also looked at each other.

They have the same doubts in their hearts.

Look at the previous two battles, Yaotouguan and Ningyuan, the first game won the same victory as 3,000 people, and even if it was a little worse in the second game, it was close to capturing and killing nearly 1,000 Tartars, how did you change to us...... Go out and come back with a toss and only kill three people? It doesn't have to be a genuine Tartar, it may be a good killing?

Wang Qiong asked, "How much has you lost?" ”

The officials and generals present all looked at Chen Xun.

They hadn't thought about it before, so it stands to reason that if you take one or two thousand cavalry out and only kill three people, you shouldn't be damaged, right?

But when they saw Chen Xun's embarrassed eyes, they knew that it seemed that things were not so simple.

Chen Xun said: "Fold a ...... He fell from his horse and landed on a stone, just in time for a tartar to come...... Cut him off, but bring his head back......"

Liu Jin frowned and said, "Wu Pingbo, what do you say about writing books?" How can a dead person die with such bizarre twists and turns? You're pretty good at scratching! ”

"Huh?"

Chen Xun didn't expect Liu Jin to speak so harshly, without a single dirty word, but he said it to make him lose face.

This belongs to the character of this group of eunuchs in the East Palace, who usually think about how to please the little prince and how to intrigue when they have nothing to do, and they can't say ugly things to teach the prince badly, so in terms of studying how to scold people quietly, Liu Jin and these are all experts in the industry.

"Maybe ......" Li Xun has been working with Chen Xun for half a year, and he will say a few words for Chen Xun, "The one who died, the idea is so inch?" ”

Liu Jin couldn't help it, and counted it on the spot: "Our family can be heard that people have a big victory, one victory is thousands and hundreds of people, let's play one victory, just three?" Is there still one dead on your own side? Is this embarrassing to report? ”

Li Yan said with an embarrassed face: "Speaking of which, it's really a little different, maybe that Immortal Master Zhang's purpose is not to kill a few more Tartars, but to let the Guanguan regain stability before Qin Laoshangshu comes over?" ”

A group of people looked at Wang Qiong and Zhu Feng again.

The look in his eyes was like questioning.

Is that the war planned by Zhang Zhou? Why was it also planned by Zhang Zhou, we didn't have the treatment of Wang Weining and Zhu Zhijie, and gave us 3,000 cavalry to go out of the city, and then came back lonely?

Wang Qiong's face was somewhat unbearable.

In the end, he is now the governor of the official position, and the civil officials are headed by him, and he is also needed to come out to calm people's hearts at this time, he raised his voice and said: "What's wrong with the third head?" Did the impact work? Or are you willing to endure it because you don't plan to report it? But you can make it clear, if you don't succeed this time, the next time Hu Lu comes, I don't know when it will have to wait! ”

"This ......"

A group of generals looked at each other again.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to only kill three Tartars, it is better than nothing, mosquito legs are not meat?

Wang Qiong said: "That is, you are used to waiting for you, thinking that every battle in the northwest can play an earth-shattering momentum?" The most important thing in the defense of the northwest is to be stable, and whether it is His Majesty or the Chinese military generals of the DPRK, what they want to see is that the border passes are stable, and the people also hope to live and work in peace and contentment. If you are a military general just to make great achievements, then go back to defend the Beijing Division as soon as possible! ”

Li Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Wang Zhongcheng, don't be angry, we actually have the heart to make meritorious contributions, who is not a hot-blooded son of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Chen Xun said: "Actually, Wang Zhongcheng is right, let's stay in the side pass in the future, does it mean that the opportunity to make contributions in the future is gone?" There is Zhang Xianshi who can pinch and calculate in the court, and there are famous generals like Anbianhou, the Tartars are newly defeated, and now their internal fighting has not subsided, will we guard this in the future and turn our backs to the loess? ”

Liu Jin's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said with a mocking smile: "Hey, listen to what you mean, you are very good at fighting, can you also rush to the front when you send troops to the grassland in the future?" ”

"Of course." Even if Chen Xun knew that he was bragging, he still had to respond to his words.

No matter how incompetent Liu Jin is, it is also a eunuch sent by the emperor to represent the emperor.

Zhu Feng said with a gloomy face: "It's good that the Tatars don't come again, I'll wait here and wait for the court to change." ”

All of a sudden, Zhu Feng became the target of public criticism again.

The following generals also heard that the famous general in our eyes was a great power to be an idler.

Everyone else is waiting to make a contribution, but you want to change your army, which means that you want to go back to the capital to live a stable life?

Wang Qiong said: "Since you have the heart to serve the country on the battlefield, Your Majesty will definitely be satisfied with you, now that the military tent in Tatar is already in the Hetao, when the Qin system is at the pass, a war will be opened, and you will have the opportunity to realize your ambitions." ”

"Suppression?"

Chen Xun's slogan just now was loud and loud, but as soon as he heard that he was going to send troops to Hetao, his face was clearly saying, which of you likes to go, I won't go.

Liu Jin said: "Wu Pingbo, there are opportunities, do you think there are too few opportunities?" It's okay, let's kill the trick first, and then we will seal the wolf, without ambiguity at all. ”

"Huh."

Chen Xun smiled bitterly, and suddenly looked at Zhu Feng with sympathetic eyes.

It seems that he thinks now that this Anbian Marquis is still "aware of current affairs", and it is good to change troops and return to the capital to live a stable life at this time.

Wang Qiong didn't want to listen to this group of old fritters in the army anymore, and was thinking in his heart, if you want to fight, can I discuss with you? When the time comes, you will have to send troops, and you will have to go if you don't go!

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the war is over, it's time to win, but have you captured cattle and sheep?" Wang Qiong asked.

"Nope." Chen Xun said.

"There's always a horse, right?" Wang Qiong continued to ask.

"Two ...... Horse, and one of them ran away......"

Chen Xun was also embarrassed.

If the three Tartars don't even have horses, wouldn't they tell others that they were killing good people?

Now that we have the war horses of the Tatars as circumstantial evidence, let's see, we really killed "serious" Tartars.

"Let's play." Wang Qiong said, "I will wait until the partial pass, which can be regarded as a victory, reward the three armies, and wait for the arrival of the Qin system, and then discuss the method of sending troops!" ”

"Huh."

Several bigwigs present were smiling bitterly.

I was thinking to myself, why does this sound so awkward?

……

……

The military meeting ended.

Liu Jin signed the performance of the performance, and returned to the guest room where he was staying at the back, with a sad face.

Zhu Feng followed in, and when he saw Liu Jin's expression, he was a little strange and said, "Since it is a success, why does Grandpa Liu mean such a look?" ”

Liu Jin said helplessly: "General Xiao Zhu, you are a person who has made great contributions, and you don't understand the pain in the hearts of these little people in our family, so I said that the prince has high hopes for our family to come to the northwest, so that if our family has any war situation, we must go to the capital as soon as possible to inform us." You said that today's victory, how can our family tell the prince? ”

"Oh."

Only then did Zhu Feng know why Liu Jin was so distressed.

In addition to being because Liu Jin himself is pursuing meritorious service, but also because there is a "spur" behind Liu Jin, that is, the prince of the dynasty.

"Then Father-in-law Liu still has to be based on the truth." Zhu Feng reminded.

"Huh? General Xiao Zhu, what are you smiling? Even if you send a letter to the prince, you don't have to be too responsible, but our family still can't do the deception, what it should be...... It means that only by sending troops to suppress the trap can we have the opportunity to establish a great deed, right? ”

Liu Jin looked eager.

He originally thought that he would be able to stay in the partial pass, waiting for the soldiers to make meritorious contributions, and he would be able to follow the light.

Isn't this the method that Zhang Yong made meritorious service to Ning Yuan in the previous partiality pass?

Why did you have to follow the army on the expedition, or even enter the steppe, and take such a big risk?

Zhu Feng said: "I don't know how Your Majesty arranges it, I am more obedient to orders." When Brother Zhang left, he told me that he would listen to what Qin Lao and Wang Langzhong said, and I would do so. ”

"You're really ...... Obedient. Liu Jin unconsciously wanted to sarcastically mock Zhu Feng.

The more I hate this kid, the more I want to count him.

You said that you are a famous general of the dynasty, others regard you as Wang Weining's second, and you still have a big backer like Zhang Zhou behind you, you actually told me that you plan to obey orders and be led by others?

It's polite to say that you don't have big ambitions.

"I'm going to sleep." Zhu Fengdao.

"No heart and no lungs......," Liu Jin muttered.

Zhu Feng asked, "What did Gonggong Liu say?" ”

"Oh, it's okay, I mean you have to rest early in case you can fight again in the future, no wind or waves is the best." Liu Jin explained with a smile.

He doesn't have to be so polite to others at all, if you are sarcastic, you will be sarcastic, and you dare to blow your beard and stare at us?

But to Zhu Feng......

Regardless of Zhu Feng's background, let's just say that he is a certain person, and he is still waiting to make contributions to Zhu Feng, offending this big guy, and he can't do his own errand.

……

……

The three of them played the game, and passed the post to Beijing on a fast horse.

Before sunset in the afternoon of the next day, the battle report reached the capital, and the battle report clearly fell into the hands of Zhu Youji, who was having dinner with his wife and children in Kunning Palace.

"Did you succeed? All right. ”

Zhu Youzhu smiled and looked at Dai Yi who came to deliver the message.

Zhu Houzhao on the side glared: "Is it Liu Jin?" Let's just say that Liu Jin inherited the ambition of his son, and he must have won! Ha ha. ”

Zhu Youzhu frowned.

This son is really uneducated, and he still inherits? Liu Jin is the grandson of your son, isn't it? Are you dead?

When Zhu Youzhu opened the sealed music, and when he saw the content on it, the smile on his face was still undiminished.

For the generals of the Partial Pass, the results of killing three people were really not worth mentioning, because they knew that it would not have any effect on their titles.

But for the emperor, what he valued was that Zhu Feng and Wang Qiong dared to send troops to fight as soon as they arrived at the Eccentric Pass, and they also "scared the Tatars away", which was in line with his strategic intention to take the initiative to attack, as for killing three people...... That's just the icing on the cake, it's like in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, Zhu Hui and their five-way army suppressed Ordos and suppressed loneliness, anyway, the result is achieved.

Otherwise, do you really expect a protracted war in the northwest and a war to stabilize the grassland?

"How, how?"

Zhu Houzhao was eager.

Zhu Xiurong sat there holding the rice bowl in her hand, looking at her father and brother with curious eyes, she didn't understand what it meant at a young age.

"Keep eating!" Empress Zhang couldn't persuade her husband, so she could only pull her son.

Zhu Youzhu said with a smile: "It's good, the border sent troops for a hundred miles, the Tatars retreated in response to the situation, and the Ming Dynasty was stable and didn't have to worry about the impact of the death of the Marquis of Weining, and then I could let go and prepare to send troops to the Hetao." ”

Zhu Houzhao blinked and asked, "How many Tartars did you kill?" ”

"Three." Zhu Youji's words were all for his son.

"Three?" Zhu Houzhao almost flipped the table when he heard this.

What's the trouble?

It's so thrilling to say, as if the northwest is about to be pacified, and as a result, three were killed?

"Father, if the sons are not mistaken, there are at least 30,000 or 300,000 Tartars, right? Kill only three...... Can you really send troops with confidence? Not afraid of their comeback? Zhu Houzhao was very dissatisfied with this result.

Zhu Youzhu said: "You should be fiddling with abacus beads when using soldiers?" Hurry up and eat, study the scriptures in the coming days, and pay less attention to the affairs of the Northwest Battlefield! It's Bingkuan who brought you badly! If you don't think about your homework again, I won't let him teach you the art of war again! Weigh it yourself! ”

(End of chapter)