The next day, Tang He organized his army and set off with Li Wei's men and horses to return to Dazaifu.

Along the way, there were scattered Japanese people attacking them, but they were all easily wiped out.

Two days later, the army finally returned to Dazaifu, and Jiang Long, who was guarding the town, immediately led people to greet him.

"Master Hou, General!"

Jiang Long bowed to everyone separately, but put Li Wei in front, and Tang He didn't care.

Li Wei opened his mouth and asked, "How is the city now?" ”

"Back to the Hou Ye, we strictly obey your orders, and did not enter the city to clear out, some Japanese people have broken through in the past few days, but we have also killed a lot, and there should still be more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers and horses left in the city now."

"Hmm."

Li Wei nodded, then looked at Tang He and the others, and said with a smile: "Now that our army is here, we can take care of these widows in this city!" ”

Everyone smiled easily when they heard this.

These people in the city are now the turtles in the urn, and they are military exploits that can be harvested at any time.

Everyone laughed, Hu Hai hesitated for a moment, and asked cheekily: "Otherwise, let us solve it with these people in the city, you have worked hard to go back and forth, and it is not convenient for firearms to fight in the city." ”

When Sheng Yong and the others heard this, their eyes lit up, and they looked at Li Wei expectantly.

In fact, Hu Hai's request is equivalent to wanting to grab ready-made military merits, Sheng Yong and others do not have a good relationship with Li Wei, and they will not be cheeky to open this mouth, but they still expect Li Wei to give them this opportunity.

After all, they suffered heavy losses in this battle of pontoons, and they almost didn't get any credit, and if these people in the city let them come to harvest, it would not be in vain.

Li Wei looked at everyone and chuckled: "Okay, then these widows in the city will have to work for you!" ”

When Hu Hai, Sheng Yong and others heard this, they were immediately pleasantly surprised.

"Thank you Jiang Duhou!"

"General Lee......

Everyone opened their mouths to thank them, and their hearts were full of gratitude.

Li Wei responded with a smile.

In fact, he also wanted to compensate these people for giving up this military exploit, and Hu Hai was not bad at saying that the roads in the city were narrow, which was not conducive to the use of firearms, and giving them this matter would also reduce the casualties of his own men.

Li Wei himself agreed, Tang He naturally didn't say anything, Hu Hai, Sheng Yong and others rushed into the city and began to clear out these Japanese people who had not yet broken through.

"General, please."

Li Wei raised his hand and invited Tang He to follow Hu Hai and the others into the city.

Tang He didn't put on a show, and raised his hand to signal him to go into the city side by side.

The two walked slowly, not far in front of them were shouting and killing, Hu Hai and the others were aggrieved in the previous battle, and now they are holding a mood of revenge, they are not merciful to these widows, and those who can be hacked to death will never be left alive.

As the two walked through, the streets and alleys gradually calmed down, and some unarmed widows watched through the cracks in the doors, not daring to show their heads at all.

In half a day, Hu Hai and others wiped out these Japanese people, and the fighting in the city finally subsided, and Dazaifu was completely occupied by the Ming army!

Dazaifu is the western capital connecting the Wa Kingdom to the world, and for hundreds of years, Dazaifu has passed through the Nara period, the Heian period, the Kamakura shogunate period, and the current Northern and Southern Dynasties, during which time it has changed hands countless times, sometimes to the shogunate, sometimes to the emperor, and sometimes to the control of the local nobility of Kyushu.

But at this time, this western capital was occupied by foreign enemies for the first time!

This is something that the local daimyo of Kyushu cannot accept in any way!

After the retreat, Shoji Puten and others reorganized the army and constantly harassed Dazaifu, while sending people to report to the shogunate.

At the same time, the Ming army also sent people to report to the Beijing division while recruiting the surrounding forces.

Daming Jingshi, Cao Guogongfu.

Li Wenzhong's wife lay on the side of the bed and cried bitterly, his eldest son Li Jinglong also knelt in front of the bed with his two younger brothers to wipe their tears, and Li Wenzhong on the bed was silent.

Huai'an Hou Huazhong stood behind with four or five medical lawsuits, feeling worried.

Some time ago, Li Wenzhong fell ill, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to take a medical officer to be responsible for treatment, but after treating him for so long, not only did he not cure him, but he cured him to death!

"How so?"

Hua Zhong asked several medical officers.

These medical officers were also worried in their hearts: "Master Hou, we have tried our best, but Grandpa Guo is seriously ill, and we can't do anything about it." ”

"Rubbish!"

Huazhong angrily rebuked.

All the medical officers bowed their heads one after another, not daring to speak.

At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside, and with the salute of "Your Majesty Sheng'an", Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly walked in.

The Chinese people hurriedly saluted, and Li Wenzhong's wives and concubines and children also turned around and bowed with tears.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the scene in the house, he immediately paused: "Bao'er...... What happened to him? ”

"Your Majesty, Wen Zhong has gone!"

Li Wenzhong's wife cried.

Zhu Yuanzhang's heart sank suddenly, and a strong grief surged into his heart.

Although Li Wenzhong disagrees with him in many places, he still loves this nephew very much, after all, this is one of the few relatives in his old Zhu family!

"How so?" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were slightly red, and he turned to Hua Zhongren as he spoke, and shouted angrily: "Let's let you see Bao'er's illness, how did you see it?" ”

Hua Zhong and those medical officers trembled and quickly fell to their knees.

"Your Majesty, the minister is incompetent and the healing is ineffective, please forgive your sins!" Hua Zhong lowered his head and said in a trembling voice.

"Is it incompetence or is it deliberately delaying the condition?!" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened angrily.

Since the death of the emperor's grandson, his suspicions have become even heavier, Li Wenzhong is only in his forties now, and he died of illness so suddenly, how can he not be suspicious!

Hua Zhong's face turned pale when he heard this, and he looked up in horror and explained: "No, no, the minister really tried his best, Your Majesty can ask these medical officers!" ”

"Hmph, let's see you're all in a group, here! Put them all in jail and interrogate them severely! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't listen to his explanation at all, and immediately ordered someone to take him down along with these medical officers, and no matter how he shouted injustice, it would be useless.

After dealing with these people, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Wenzhong, who was silent on the bed, and couldn't help but feel unbearable grief, and Li Wenzhong's wife, concubine, and children wept for a while.

The Cao Guogong Mansion was full of mourning, and the Jingshi, who had been calm for a long time, made waves again.

The marquis of Huazhong was raided, and his father Hua Yunlong was also one of the first Huaixi generals to follow Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the Qianqing Palace, under the lonely lamp, the grief in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart had not diminished a little, and he saw these noble pleas.

"Bao'er has a deep affection for you, and now that he is dead, not only do you not know how to be sad, but you also keep pleading for this Central China, bastard!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his hand violently and swept all these recitals to the ground, yelled angrily, and the swept recitals were still angry, and kept pacing back and forth, scolding bitterly:

"Disobedient generals, lawless ministers, all should be killed......"

After scolding for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang gasped and stopped, his eyes flashing with a cold light.

Li Wenzhong is one of the few people he can trust, although this nephew can't see the situation clearly, and sometimes he is used by people with intentions, but when it really comes to the need, he will definitely still be loyal to him.

Now that the prince has not yet grown up, he has lost a powerful relative, and for a while he is even more vigilant.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of Li Wei who went on an expedition to the Japanese Kingdom.

"I don't know how this kid is playing now."

Zhu Yuanzhang let out a sigh and muttered.

After pondering for a long time, he sat back down on the dragon chair and continued to read the other books.

The night was getting deeper, and in the empty hall, he was the only one, with a lamp, and he seemed a little lonely.

The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to behead all the medical officers and exile them from Central China.

Although Xungui's plea did not absolve this Huai'an Hou from responsibility, it also helped him save his life.

Regarding this result, although the nobles did not play again, they had a lot of complaints in private.

As soon as Li Wenzhong's matter was settled, the military report of the Japanese State arrived.

Although there are thousands of miles between the Wa Kingdom and the Daming Jingshi, there is a direct waterway, and it can be reached in three or four days by sending a fast boat.

In the Wuying Palace, He Li, who had been officially promoted to Shangshu, presented this battle report to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when he saw it.

"This kid can do it, he played well!"

Zhu Yuanzhang praised while reading the battle report.

He Li also understood who he was talking about, and immediately praised: "Yes, this time the Marquis of Jiangdu can be described as invincible, along the way, he first took Songpu and then took the western capital of the Wa Kingdom, Dazaifu, which can be described as an outstanding achievement!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and laughed twice.

He also knew that many of these current courtiers had something to do with Li Wei, and they said good things for this kid openly and secretly.

But this is also what he single-handedly produces, so he doesn't blame He Li.

And what He Li said is not an exaggeration, Li Wei's performance this time is indeed remarkable, not only attacking the city and grabbing the land again and again, but also arrived in time in the battle of the pontoon bridge to turn the tide.

It was Tang He, who recklessly marched into the army and was ambushed by the Japanese people, which made him a little disappointed.

And this Lin Xian, who dared to pass through!

"Hmph, kill this Lin Xian to the nine clans!" Zhu Yuanzhang shouted coldly.

He Li trembled, lowered his head and didn't dare to say more.

Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, put away his cold tone, and said softly:

"Alright, you go back first, ready to carry grain and grass for the army at any time."

Although the Ming army won a temporary victory, the attitude of the Japanese state did not show that if the other side insisted on fighting to the death, then this battle would have to be fought for a long time, and it was necessary to continue to deliver grain and grass.

"Yes, I obey."

He bowed and bowed, and bowed and retreated.

Within a few days, the news of the great victory of the Japanese army quickly spread in the DPRK and China, and the "Li Party" elements praised Li Wei one after another and shouted for Li Wei's meritorious service.

It's just that among the many voices of invitation, there are some accusations against Tang He, and these accusations are intensifying.

In this case, not only Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised, but Chen Su was also quite surprised!

Li Wei had already sent someone to deliver a message to him, but he did not dare to disobey it, so he did not incite the ministers to impeach Tang He as originally planned, and the "Li Party" in the court was only to invite Li Wei to take credit.

But he didn't do it, but someone in the court did it for him, which couldn't help but surprise him.

In the face of this situation, many nobles led by Li Shanchang and Feng Sheng had to stand up again and wrote to defend Tang He.

Zhu Biao learned the details, and also specially found Zhu Yuanzhang to intercede:

"Father, Xinguo Gong has worked hard and made great achievements, although there were mistakes in the battle this time, but the result is always good, especially at the critical moment, the leader led the army to cross the pontoon bridge and kept most of the troops, which can be regarded as offsetting the merits and demerits, and please ask my father to be more lenient."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, flipping through these impeachment books, his face was cloudy.

He is not blaming Tang He, after all, Tang He is the founder of the country, and he has a lot to do with him, so he will not be punished for a single combat mistake.

What he is thinking now is who is pushing for this impeachment.

"You don't have to worry about Tang He, we have our own arrangements." Zhu Yuanzhang said softly.

When Zhu Biao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the book, and then asked in the tone of the school examination: "Biao'er, what do you think of the impeachment of the ministers this time?" ”

When Zhu Biao heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then pondered.

This time, the change in the direction of the court was quite strange, originally everyone was asking for credit for Li Wei, but they never wanted to be led astray by some people, and they became asking Tang He for their guilt.

If you want to say that there is someone manipulating behind this, there is no doubt that Li Wei is the most suspicious, because no matter how you look at it, he benefits from this matter.

In a war, the greatest merit is undoubtedly owned by the main general, Tang He, as a general, as long as the army wins, no matter who makes the contribution, he is indispensable.

And if there is no him, Li Wei will naturally take over the post of general, and then he will take over the military power and meritorious service, if the battle goes well, it is not too much to come back and be crowned.

But thinking of Li Wei's hanging appearance, Zhu Biao didn't believe that he had such a conspiracy and calculation.

"Erchen feels that this matter seems to be manipulated behind someone's back, but it is definitely not Li Wei!"

Zhu Biao frowned.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted lightly: "Why can't it be him?" ”

Zhu Biao didn't mention it to others, but he mentioned Li Wei, which already shows that he is suspicious of Li Wei.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also a little skeptical, and like Zhu Biao, he couldn't believe that this stinky boy who was usually stupid and didn't understand human accidents could have this calculation.

It's just that unlike Zhu Biao, he is suspicious of everyone!

"Father, Li Wei, you know, he is a person...... Well, I don't have any scheming, so I shouldn't be able to do such a thing. ”

Zhu Biao said euphemistically, in fact, he felt that it might be more appropriate to describe Li Wei with a lack of heart.

"Li Wei, this kid looks stupid, and even dares to point at Sang and scold Huai in front of us, he looks like he is not afraid of death, and he inadvertently offends many people when he behaves in a way that matters......"

Zhu Yuanzhang said, he couldn't help but think of the previous scenes, thinking about the pit he was planning to pit this kid, this kid was very active, and even jumped into the pit by himself, until he became a colt later, he wanted to pull this kid hard.

No matter where you look at it, this is a stunned young man without a city.

But!

"But you can't just look at the surface of people, what if he's pretending?"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a long breath, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"This ...... Impossible, right? Even if he can deceive everyone, he can't hide it from you, father! ”

Zhu Biao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in astonishment.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.

If it was in the past, he did have this confidence, but now, he couldn't help but be a little uncertain, especially when Tang He also attached another secret letter, suspecting that this kid had already known about Lin Xiantong's affairs but didn't report it!

In fact, this kind of thing is very understandable to other generals, it is just to compete for merit, but on Li Wei, he has to be suspicious of this stinky boy who has always been unwanted by officials.

Once the suspicion arises, many of the past events are not so simple to recall at this time.

For example, Li Wei insisted on going to Yangzhou after being attacked by the Japanese invaders, was it really just to build a city?

If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have allowed this kid to have thousands of soldiers and horses to guard him, and even almost crowned him king directly.

If this kid is really pretending, then he is too terrifying, countless times more terrifying than Li Shanchang and these scheming guys!

In the past few years, this kid just pretended to be crazy and stupid, so he took the initiative to give away his powerful position, and now he has reached the point where he is not inferior to Li Shanchang Xu Da, a founding minister, if this is really carefully calculated, it is simply unmatched in the whole world! (End of chapter)