Wanli's hand really caught the Donglin Party off guard, although these people have always been known for being shameless in the court.

However, in front of a bunch of fart people, it is really embarrassing to be stripped of his pants for a court battle.

The key is to hit it, this is purely disgusting to open the door to disgusting, disgusting to home!

Although the imperial historians of the Ming Dynasty had the tradition of winning court battles and inviting their own names.

But those were all maimed or even killed because of the "death advice" of the emperor.

For example, Zou Yuanbiao, who was crippled by the court battle for opposing Zhang Juzheng's love at the beginning, is the object of imitation by the Donglin Party.

This time, Wanli issued an order, the Li family expressed their support, Xungui stood for Li Xianzhong, and the members of the three parties of "Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang" chose to stand by coldly, and the Ministry of Rites was not under the control of the Donglin Party.

In the end, this farce had to end hastily.

Although the Donglin Party frantically wrote to impeach Li Xianzhong and listed dozens of charges against Li Xianzhong, Wanli is just four words: "stay in the middle and not send it".

After a while, they died down.

However, Li Xianzhong did not live in the previous Ningyuan Bo Mansion, although the mansion was magnanimous, but the feng shui was too poor.

Now that Hazia was pregnant, he didn't dare let them live in that damn place.

Li Xianzhong directly redecorated the door of his current residence and added a new plaque.

As for Li Chengliang's old house, he gave it directly to Li Xingzhong.

At this time, after several months of interior renovation, the heavenly and earthly areas of the capital have officially opened for business.

Its unique dishes and high-end positioning soon became the entertainment vane of Beijing.

However, due to its membership system, ordinary wealthy people and even officials and gentry could only eat a delicious meal in the hall on the first floor.

Membership badges are required for services on the second floor and above.

For a while, the membership card in heaven and earth has become a symbol of status, and without a gold medal member in heaven and earth, you are embarrassed to say that you are in the capital honor circle.

Some of the original silver members took the initiative to upgrade themselves to gold members, so much so that Mao Yuanyi hurriedly made another batch of member gold medals.

Coupled with the rise of mahjong in the capital now, the mahjong room on the 4th floor of heaven and earth has become a place where the powerful must check in every day, and even have to make an appointment in advance.

A large amount of intelligence information was also summarized into Li Xianzhong's hands through here.

Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, is almost permanent on the fifth floor and lingers in the land of fireworks every day.

In desperation, Mao Yuanyi had to agree to her request to redeem herself for the top purple smoke girl in heaven and earth, and sent the undercover agent of this intelligence department to the Chengguo Mansion.

However, the development of the Intelligence Department in the palace has not made much progress.

These adult eunuchs are really not credible, in case of the East Window incident, let Wanli know, it will definitely outweigh the losses.

Although the Intelligence Department has built several "orphanages" throughout the country, some children are selected from early age to become spies of the Intelligence Department, including some young eunuchs.

These little eunuchs were then sent to the palace through the connections of the Intelligence Division.

But now it is just getting started, and it will take at least ten or eight years for these little eunuchs to come out.

So the Intelligence Department targeted Cui Wensheng, the steward eunuch of Yikun Palace.

Chang Yun, the great eunuch beside Wanli, must not be able to buy, but Wanli will go to Yikun Palace every day to soak his feet, and this Cui Wensheng is Zheng Guifei's most favored chamberlain, and the role he can play is really not small.

Of course, with Cui's status as Gonggong Cui, it is only a cooperative relationship with the Intelligence Department, and it is impossible to have a subordinate relationship.

In the footwashing room on the third floor, Cui Wensheng is comfortably enjoying the massage service of the female technician.

Among all the attendants today, he is the only one who has a gold medal member in heaven and earth.

Although he has to soak Wanli's feet every day, it is the first time that he has been served to soak his feet.

Cui Wensheng said with a smile: "Our family is going to congratulate the shopkeeper Mao on his promotion to the commander of the Nanzhen Fu Division." ”

Although Li Xianzhong could not directly control the Nanzhen Fusi of Jinyiwei, he still arranged a commander of the four products for Mao Yuanyi, which was second only to the commander and the commander of the Jinyiwei.

Mao Yuanyi said with a smile: "This is all Ning Yuanbo's care, Gonggong Cui has offered the court to fight the Donglin Party this time, presumably the concubine Niangniang must be very happy." ”

This kind of bad trick of taking off his pants in public for an hour Wanli naturally couldn't think of it, it was Mao Yuanyi who asked Cui Wensheng to give Zheng Guifei the idea, and then told Wanli through the "pillow wind" way.

Cui Wensheng said: "This time, the emperor and the mother are happy, and they finally let out a bad breath, and it is thanks to the clever plan of Mao Yishi." ”

"Your Majesty has reappointed the mine supervisor of Liaodong, it is Ma Yun, the eunuch of Guanglu, the commander of Shangshan, he is a good brother of our family, and I ask Ning Yuan to take care of it."

Liaodong Mine Supervisor is a fat shortage, but since Liu Gonggong's "accidental death", the palace attendants have some scruples, Cui Wensheng has a good relationship with Li Xianzhong, and hurriedly let his friend Ma Yuntong take over this errand.

Mao Yuanyi said: "Since he is a friend of Father-in-law Cui, Uncle Ning Yuan will naturally take special care of him, how can my uncle be the kind of person who can't see others get rich?" ”

Soon, the news of the eunuch Ma Yun being appointed as the mine supervisor of Liaodong was transmitted back to Liaodong.

Li Xianzhong was very satisfied with this result, as long as it did not affect his private mines and the freight passage from the Liao River to Yingkou established in the name of transporting copper to the capital, he did not care about those eunuchs being greedy for silver.

He didn't expect that this heavenly and earthly business would be so hot, and he could actually earn 20,000 taels of silver every month, excluding the dividends to the nobles, the remaining more than 10,000 taels could almost maintain the expenses of the Intelligence Division.

In the past few months, his own expenses have indeed been a bit large, and Mongolia's trade income is declining, so he currently has less than 400,000 taels of silver in his hands.

It looked like a lot, but then he was going to send people to Macao to buy ships, buy guns, hire Portuguese gunners and boatmen, and also prepare to build a shipyard in Yingkou and a large artillery factory in Pingyubao.

This little bit of silver is simply not enough to spend.

After the completion of Yingkou Port, it will be much more convenient for the grain in the south of the Yangtze River to go north, but at present, there are no warships in their hands, and the merchants need to hand over the "protection fee" to the sailors all the way to smuggle the grain.

It seems that he still has to find a way to get a water master.

When Li Xianzhong continued to repair the side wall of Hongtou Mountain, there was already tension near Kuandian Fort on the southern front.

The six forts of Kuandian, which Xiong Tingbi called "the new territory of eight hundred miles", are an area composed of six forts: Kuandian Fort, Changdian Fort, Yongdian Fort, Dadian Fort, Xindian Fort and Sudian Fort.

They were proposed by Li Chengliang between the first year of Wanli and the fourth year of Wanli, and were an expansion of the Jurchen-controlled area of Jianzhou by the Ming Dynasty in the early Wanli period.

Therefore, the six forts of Kuandian are outside the eastern border wall of the Ming Dynasty.

In the 34th year of Wanli, Li Chengliang abandoned the six forts of Kuandian and forcibly relocated more than 64,000 households there to the interior on the grounds that it was lonely and difficult to hold.

As a result, many ministers of the DPRK and China were impeached, including Xiong Tingbi at that time.

After that, the Kuandian area was gradually encroached upon by the Jianzhou Jurchens.

It also changed hands several times.

Before Yang Hao's conquest of Hetuara this year, the Kuandian area was still in the hands of the Ming army; However, when Liu Wei's Eastern Route Army withdrew to Qinghe, Kuandian was empty of troops and was occupied by Jianzhou.

After that, Xiong Tingbi took advantage of the main attack of Jianzhou to open the plain, and sent 3,000 white pole soldiers to kill the border wall of eastern Liao, and took advantage of the situation to recover Kuandian Fort.

However, after Yuan Yingtai succeeded to the Liaodong Economic Strategy, in order to show his political achievements, he continued to increase troops in the Kuandian area.

At present, the six forts of Kuandian have all been garrisoned by the Ming army, with a total of 12,000 garrisons.

In fact, among the six forts, only Kuandian Fort is more suitable for heavy garrison, the circumference of Kuandian Fort is 4 kilometers, the city height is more than 8 meters, which is wide in the north and narrow in the south, it is trapezoidal, and there is no city gate in the north of the city by the mountain.

The other forts are either too small or the walls are too low, generally only more than 3 meters, and the defense effect is average.

This is also the reason why Xiong Tingbi did not garrison all of the Six Castles at the beginning.

The reason why Yuan Yingtai dared to fully enter the six forts of Kuandian was also confident, and he had two elite troops in his hands.

One is the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the Xuanfu Division of Shiyan, led by Ma Xianglin, and commanded by Tong Zhong, a general of Zunyi, that is, the well-known white pole soldiers.

The other is the famous Qi family army, which is also 3,000 people.

Since the emergency in Liaodong, Qi Jin, the former Jiangnan Wusong chief soldier who was recuperating at home, was urgently requisitioned by the military department and appointed as the chief military officer to aid Liao.

Although the Qi family army at this time has gone through a series of major battles, there are few elites left. But after all, it was once an army that terrified the enemy, so Yuan Yingtai asked the Qi family army to come to help.

After several months of trekking, they finally came to Liaodong.

It should be said that the combat effectiveness of these two armies is very strong, and if they are stationed in two places separately, then the situation around Kuandian can be stabilized.

However, Yuan Yingtai was in line with the idea of joining forces, and arranged for the two elites to be stationed in Kuandianbao.

That's when the problem comes in.

All walks of life in the Ming army have always been dissatisfied with anyone, mainly reflected in the "north-south contradiction" and the "east-west contradiction".

The contradiction between the east and the west is the contradiction between the Liaodong Army and the Shanxi and Shaanxi border armies.

On the Korean battlefield, Ma Gui directly faced Li Ning, the general of the Liaodong Army, and even beheaded Yang Yuan.

Including Juniper is a native of Shaanxi, many generals in Liaozhen are not convinced by him.

The contradiction between the north and the south is the contradiction between the Ming army in the south and the northern army dominated by Liaozhen.

For example, in the Battle of Pyongyang, the Southern Army led by Luo Shangzhi and Wu Weizhong and the Northern Army led by Yang Yuan, Zhang Shijue, and Li Rubai "grabbed merit."

In the end, it caused contradictions between the two armies, and also affected the follow-up coordinated operations.

Even Li Rusong had no way to handle the relationship between the northern and southern armies well.

Yang Hao is still self-aware, knowing that there are constant contradictions between the Ming armies, and if they are put together, he can't command them at all, so he simply made a division of soldiers into four routes.

Yuan Yingtai is naturally clear about these contradictions, but he thinks that the white pole soldiers and the Qi family army belong to the category of the southern army, and there is no big problem.

Although the white pole soldiers also made outstanding achievements in pacifying Banzhou, how could the Qi family army, which has always prided itself on being the strongest army in the Ming Dynasty, take these Tusi soldiers from the southwest in their eyes.

The two sides have constant quarrels over trivial matters on weekdays.

This time, because of the issue of supply distribution, Qi Jin directly fought with Ma Xianglin.

Qi Jin had just recovered from his illness and suffered a loss under the young and strong Ma Xianglin.

Qi Jiajun saw that his master was at a loss, how could he bear it?

Pick up the guy and start fighting, and finally it turns into an armed fight.

100 men on both sides were wounded, and 13 were even killed in the fight.

To make matters worse, the granary was accidentally set on fire during the fight, resulting in a fire that destroyed most of the grain stored in Kuandian Fort.

Upon learning of this, Nurhachi hurriedly seized the opportunity to send troops to surround Kuandian.

Except for the blue flag of Qierharang and the white flag of Du Du, they stayed on the line between the city of the Boundary Domain and Hetuala, and contained Li Xianzhong and He Shixian's department.

The remaining 29,000 men of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and 32,000 men of the Han army have already appeared in the Kuandian area.

Due to the serious shortage of troops in the Eight Banners at present, the identity of these Han army wrappers has been improved, and they are no longer used as pure auxiliaries.

Instead, as a combat unit, each of the Eight Banners was equipped with almost the same amount of Han army clothing.

Nurhachi even let out the words, if the Han army coat behaves well, it may be upgraded to the Han army flag in the future and enjoy the treatment of the flag man.

This makes the morale of these Han troops unprecedentedly high at the moment!

The reason why the Han Army Banner was not directly established as in later generations was because there were almost no senior generals of the Ming army who surrendered to the old slave at this time, and only one Li Yongfang was captured and cut down by the Ming army.

Among these Han troops, there were not many soldiers of the Ming army, and their combat power could not be compared with the regular army of the Ming army that surrendered in later generations.

Therefore, it is not possible to form an army on its own.

The so-called shadow of a man, the name of a tree.

Although the Eight Banners of Jianzhou did not fight much with the Qi family's army, they had heard of its name.

At this time, in the face of Kuandian Fort, Nurhachi did not intend to attack, but used their best tactics of encirclement and reinforcements.

One side lured the Ming army in the eastern border wall of Liaodong to come to relieve the siege of Kuandian; On the other hand, it also lured the Ming army in Kuandian Fort to come out, so that they could eat these Qi family troops in the wild.

At this time, many Han troops were digging trenches under the supervision of the Eight Banners, preparing to besiege Kuandian.

Qi Jin in the city looked at the clothes who were wielding shovels, and secretly said that it was not good.

Jianyu probably knew that there was not much grain and grass left in Kuandian Fort, so he gave up the assault and changed to a siege.

Originally, the grain and grass in Kuandian Fort was enough for the army to eat for three months, but now most of it has been burned by a large group, and it can only last for a month at most.

Thinking of this, he still regretted a little, he shouldn't be angry with these southwesters, so as to cause the current predicament.

However, when he saw Ma Xianglin who was arrogant in the distance, he was not angry, and he would not take the initiative to lower his posture and find the white pole soldiers to cooperate.

When Yuan Yingtai, who was sitting in Liaoyang, learned that the Eight Banners of Jianzhou surrounded Kuandian Fort, he panicked instantly.

The Ming army in Kuandian totaled 12,000 people, but half of them were in Kuandian Fort.

The Ming army in the other forts was only one or two thousand people.

Moreover, the Ming army in Kuandian had just experienced a weapon fight, and the current grain and grass could only last for a month, which made him confused.

Veteran Liu Wei said: "Now that Kuandian is surrounded, the main force of our army on the southern front has been trapped by the enemy. For today's plan, I asked Ning Yuanbo to send troops as soon as possible to relieve the siege of Kuandian. ”

Now that the Donglin Party and this Ning Yuanbo are already incompatible, how could Yuan Yingtai give Li Xianzhong another chance to brush up on his military exploits?

He glanced at Liu Wei and said angrily: "Uncle Ning Yuan wants to guard Kaiyuan, and now the copper mine in Hongtou Mountain is also very important. What if our army mobilizes all the main forces to the south, and Jianyu takes the opportunity to seize the copper mines? ”

Now the Ming army has a lot of men and horses on the southern front, except for Liu Wei's 5,000 men and horses guarding Liaoyang and 5,000 Xuanfu border troops guarding Yahu Pass.

There are still 8,000 soldiers in Huguang Yongshun, and Peng Yuanjin is commanded by the capital; Baojing Xuanfu has 5,000 soldiers, and is personally unified by Peng Xiangqian; and Youyang Xuanfu 4,000 soldiers, led by Xuanwei Ran Yuelong.

plus his cronies He Shixian's 5,000 Ming troops in Fushun Pass.

Even if Li Xianzhong and Li Rubai's troops were not mobilized, Yuan Yingtai could still use 34,000 Ming troops in his hands.

This kind of meritorious service opportunity will naturally be handed over to his close confidant He Shixian.

So he decided to send He Shixian, the commander-in-chief of Shunguan, to lead his troops and horses to the south, and commanded 17,000 men and horses under the Southwest Three Xuanwei Division, totaling 22,000 people, to go out of the Yahu Pass to relieve the siege of Kuandian.

As for Fushun Pass, let Li Rubai transfer troops from Shenyang to hold on.

The veteran general Liu Wei continued to sit in Liaoyang, and the 5,000 Xuanfu troops at Yahu Pass were temporarily immobilized as backups.

Liu Wei was also helpless in this regard, originally saving soldiers was like fighting fire.

But He Shixian waited for the change of guard troops in Shenyang and was delayed for most of the day, and it was delayed for more than a day from Fushun Pass to Yahu Pass.

By the time he arrived at Qinghe Fort, he had been delayed for more than two days.

During this period, the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers of Kuandian Fort also tried a tentative breakthrough at night, but they were ambushed by the Han army's coated fire gun troops and the Eight Banners, losing more than 100 people, and finally had to return in vain.

Originally, Jianzhou did not attach much importance to firearms, but after the battle of Nanguan, the firearms of the Ming army left a deep impression on Nurhachi and others.

Although the Later Jin could not manufacture firearms, the previous Liaodong War was divided into the hands of the Ming Northwest Route Army and the Qinghe Fort to capture a lot of Ming army's bird guns and three-eyed guns.

Including the previous year's attack on Fushun Qinghe, and Li Yongfang also brought a lot of firearms.

Soon these Han army coats were equipped with firearms.

In these two days, the Eight Banners of Jianzhou successively captured the four forts of Changdian, Yongdian, Dadian, and Sudian in the south of Kuandian Fort, and wiped out more than 4,000 Ming troops.

Now the six forts of Kuandian have lost four of them, and only the fort of Kuandian and the new fort have not been lost.

Xindian Fort is located between Kuandian Fort and Yahu Pass, and its location is extremely important.

He Shixian immediately decided to march the whole army, go out of the Yahu Pass, and first relieve the siege of Xindianbao.

The new Dian Fort was built in the early years of Wanli, with a circumference of about 1,200 meters, surrounded by corner towers, the wall is about 3 meters high, and there is only one south gate in the whole city.

At this time, the Ming army in the city was throwing stones and rolling logs to the whole city, and nearly a thousand corpses of the Han army were lying under the south gate.

Due to the suppression of the rain of arrows from the Eight Banners in the rear, the casualties of the Ming army in the fort were not small, and the original 1,500 defenders were now only one-third.

At this time, Seonzheng was watching the battle of the new Castle from the hillside not far away.

Yue Tuo said: "Ama, the combat power of these Han army coats is still too weak, although they are clothed with armor, but they are also in a fight with the Ming army. ”

"If it is replaced by my two red flag warriors, at most one pillar of incense can win the new Dian Fort."

Dai Shan said: "Now that my Dajin bannermen are insufficient, these Han army coats must also be used carefully, after all, they are also wearing cloth armor. Don't say anything more about this in the future, or the Great Khan will be upset when he hears it. ”

It's just a small city, and it's naturally easy for Dai Shan to take it down, and he is naturally doing it now for fishing.

He Shixian's 5,000 men and horses can also be regarded as an elite division that has experienced many major battles, especially after taking refuge in Yuan Yingtai, he got hundreds of pairs of armor, as well as 500 bird guns, and a lot of cloth armor.

The strength of the more than 1,000 family members under his command is particularly strong!

This time, he was entrusted with a heavy task by Yuan Yingtai, so he naturally wanted to go all out and recreate the captives to repay Yuan Jinglue's kindness.

There were indeed a lot of soldiers and horses under his command, a full 22,000 people, but although the Tusi soldiers in the southwest were not weak, they were almost all infantry.

Rescue soldiers are like fighting fire, He Shixian had to lead his 2,000 cavalry to support first.

At this time, the Han army banner under the city was inseparable from the Ming army, and he was powerless in the face of He Shixian, who suddenly appeared.

He Shixian took the lead, and the Ming army behind him was like a whirlwind, scattering those Han troops.

These Han army coats belonged to the two red flags, and naturally they also wore red armor, and in order to show their allegiance, these coats were also shaved and had rattail braids.

These gave the Ming army an illusion that they were not facing any coats but the main force of the two red flags.

He Shixian kept waving the long knife in his hand, and almost every time he cut it, a Eight Banner soldier was killed by him. In a short time, his cavalry troops had already killed seven or eight hundred "two red flags".

The adjutant general said: "General He, the combat power of these Tartars is too weak, it seems that something is not quite right!" ”

He Shixian has a habit of drinking a few sips before the war, although he was coaxed and scared by Li Xianzhong to quit drinking.

But this time he couldn't help but drink again.

Now that the head of the Jianzhou Tartar has been raised to 25 taels, it has only been a short time since 20,000 taels of silver have arrived, how can he bear it.

said: "The Tartars have fought repeatedly, and the main force has long been killed and wounded, and now it is normal for the combat power to decline." Besides, the equipment of our army is not what it used to be, and our combat power is stronger! ”

He shouted: "Brothers, follow me, slay the Tartars, and take the silver!" ”

Soon he pursued him with two thousand horsemen.

This scene directly made Dai Shan stupid, where did this come from?

The Ming army actually chose this kind of goods as the main general.

Originally, he was also going to let the real soldiers and horses of the two red flags go up again to fight for a while, as a lure to the enemy.

As a result, the goods came in headlong on their own.

At this time, he had already entered the ambush circle of the Eight Banners, and for a while arrows rained down.

Although at this time his men and horses were also wearing heavy armor, some of them were still wearing armor.

However, the armor-piercing arrows of the Eight Banners still knocked many people to the ground, and a large number of ambush soldiers were seen to kill from all sides, and the battlefield was full of shouts of killing for a while.

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