On the second day, before dawn, Du did not forget to go to the morning court.

After Emperor Zhu Houxi came to the court, he was very curious when he saw Du Buxing, so he asked:

"How can King Du have time to participate in the early dynasty today?"

Du did not forget and replied:

"The nine women that the emperor rewarded the ministers were not enough to enjoy, so the ministers wanted the emperor to send a few more women to the ministers this morning!"

Zhu Houxi smiled and replied:

"King Du, this little thing, why mention it in the court, wait until today, I will personally go to the harem to pick a few women for King Du!"

Du did not forget to thank him.

After the early dynasty was over, Emperor Zhu Houxi summoned Yang Yiqing, Zhang Xuan and others to ask Du Yiyi about wanting beauties again.

I only heard Zhang Xuan reply:

"It seems that Du Cheng has indeed become greedy for pleasure at this time, and the emperor can send him to the northwest to guard the border!"

On the side, Yang Yiqing also echoed and said:

"The emperor has already tried him a few times, and generally people who start to covet pleasure like this will not have different intentions!"

Zhu Houxi hesitated and said:

"But I think there's always something wrong, but I don't think Du Cheng forgets that this person really has no dissenting intentions, I'm afraid that there will be a mutiny in the future, Song Taizu, Zhao Kuangyin, and Chen Qiao!"

At this time, Yang Yiqing and Zhang Xuan promised Emperor Zhu Houxi:

"No, I don't think he will do anything to hurt His Majesty and Da Ming!"

Zhu Houxi had some doubts about Du Bucheng at this time, but he had to suppress it, and then said to the two of them:

"Since the two Aiqing are speaking for King Du like this, then I will send King Du to the northwest next month!"

Then he motioned for the two to step back, and went back to the harem alone to pick a few more show girls for Du Yi.

Unexpectedly, at this time, he actually picked five more women and sent them to Du Buxing.

Du did not forget to estimate after receiving these five women, and said:

"Nine, five, isn't that what the Nine Five Honors mean? I can't touch these five women!"

So he ordered the people in the house to entertain the five women, and whenever these five women wanted to come to serve Du Buyi in the evening, they were all shirked by Du Buyi.

A few days later, sure enough, another palace maid came to inspect the bodies of several women, and after the investigation, Du did not forget to go to the palace and asked Emperor Zhu Houxi for two more beauties.

Unknowingly, in April of the seventh year of Jiajing, Emperor Zhu Houxi personally met Du Buyi in the palace, and then crowned Du Buyi as the general of the northwest, ordered Du not to go to the northwest on the same day, and then personally took hundreds of officials to Du Buyi to see him off!

Du did not forget to naturally know the importance of this northwest mission, the focus of which was to recover and defend the land of the Hetao and defend the Tatars, and the second was to deal with the growing Northwest Turpan Department.

At this time, Wu Chengen, who had been waiting in Beijing for a long time, naturally happily followed Du Bufu's troops to the northwest, and Du Bufu did not bring any women with him, but only brought part of the gold and silver rewarded by the emperor for urgent needs, and the women given by the emperor were all left in the palace of the king of Beijing.

Du did not forget his entourage, passed through Baoding, Zhending, Taiyuan, crossed the Yellow River, and first arrived at Yulinwei near the Hetao.

Du did not forget to inspect the side wall he had built before, and then walked over the side wall for a while, and found that this place was desolate and inhabited, so he ordered the nearby soldiers not to cross the side wall for the time being, and to guard the place well, and went to Xi'an Mansion first.

After Du did not forget to come to Xi'an, he met with Wang Xin, the governor of Shaanxi, and Zhai Peng, the envoy and governor of Ningxia, before he came to sleep, and asked about the preparations for the defense of the Hetao.

I only heard Wang Xin say first:

"The Hetao has been abandoned for several years, and if it is re-established for defense, it may increase a lot of costs and materials, and the Hetao is very windy and sandy, and the riverbed of the Yellow River is too high, so it is not suitable to use the Yellow River as a defensive Tatar land, but now it is feasible to defend along the border wall. ”

At this time, Zhai Peng also said:

"Now Ningxia Wei has already withdrawn to the defense along Helan Mountain and the Yellow River, and it is indeed difficult to fortify the Hetao area further east!"

Du Cheng said:

"When I rest for a few days, you two can accompany me to the Hetao!"

At this time, the two of them said together:

"General, this matter is not allowed, the Hetao area that crossed the border wall is now rampant with Tatars, and if you go, you may be afraid of your life!"

Du did not forget to smile and said:

"I turned out to be a general, and His Majesty the Emperor sent me to mainly solve the matter of the Hetao, if I don't even dare to go out of the side wall, how can I face the emperor, besides, I have already been out of the side wall once when I came, and I have walked to the Hetao!"

At this time, Wang Xin asked nervously:

"General, have you ever encountered Tatars again when you went out of the border wall?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"Nope!"

Zhai Peng said:

"In November last year, the general of the Ningxia garrison and participated in the inspection of the border wall to the Hetao and was captured by the Tatar soldiers, and in January this year, the general of the Yulin garrison also went out of the Hetao to inspect and was also captured by the Tatars, general, you should be cautious!"

Du Bu sneered and said:

"Do you two mean that you don't dare to go to the Hetao with this king tomorrow?"

At this time, the two knelt down together and said:

"The lower officials don't dare!"

Du Bu Bu looked at the trembling and frightened looks of the two of them, and said:

"Get up, this king will not force the two of you to follow tomorrow, let it be, this king himself will go to the Hetao tomorrow!"

After speaking, he didn't bother to pay attention to the two of them, so he went back to the room to rest.

On the second day, Du didn't think they would come together, and the two of them were actually waiting outside the door.

Du did not forget to deliberately ask the two of them:

"Two governors, is there something wrong so early?"

The two of them replied together:

"It's fine!"

Then one of them Wang Xin said:

"Lord Wang, we have already discussed it last night, even if we die in the Hetao this time, we will accompany you!"

Du didn't forget to pat the two of them on the shoulder and said:

"Well, you guys have ambitions!"

Then he freshened up, went out with the two of them, and rode in a carriage to the Hetao.

As soon as the carriage crossed the Wei River, countless soldiers followed, and Du Cheng got out of the carriage, and then asked a leader, and said:

"Who are you, and who sent you?"

The leader replied:

"The last general is Xu Hao, the deputy commander of the Shaanxi capital, and it is the governor and commander that Lord Wang ordered us to protect the general!"

Du Cheng said:

"You guys stand down and go on your own, we don't need so many people to protect us!"

Then a few people went to the place of the border wall, and as a result, Ma Su, the commander of Ningxia, also came over with nearly 10,000 soldiers and said that he wanted to protect Du Buxing, the general, but he was still ordered by Du Bufu to retreat.

Du did not forget that he knew who had called him, so he specially reprimanded the two governors, Wang Xin and Zhai Peng, and then did not want to bring the two of them with him, and then picked up three hundred elite cavalry at the Jingbian guards, and then took these people and began to enter the Hetao area to inspect carefully.

When a few days later, Du Buyi led all the cavalry to see that there were no Tatar soldiers in the Hetao, so he crossed the Yellow River and inspected the hometown of Jiuyuan in Qin County, but he happened to encounter a large group of Tatar soldiers.

As soon as the Tatar soldiers saw that it was the Ming army, they rushed towards Du Buyi and a few people, and Du Buyi saw that there were at least thousands of Tatar soldiers, so he did not dare to fight, so he ordered the soldiers to ride their horses and flee.

Unexpectedly, this group of Tatar soldiers was in hot pursuit, and in desperation, he had to find a piece of high ground and start fortifying.

This group of Tatar soldiers quickly surrounded Du Buyi and the three hundred cavalry on the high ground, and only heard one of the leaders shouting to Du Bucheng:

"You are already surrounded by us, hurry up and surrender on your knees!"

Du Yi did not forget and replied:

"Since you Tatars have surrounded us on this mountain, why don't you come and catch turtles in an urn, and we are waiting for you to come up!"

At this time, the Tatar general at the head hesitated, and then said to the soldiers on the side:

"You hurry back and report to General Wawuer, and ask him to come to support quickly, saying that we have besieged a Ming army general again!"

It seems that this group of Tatar soldiers was the subordinate of the old Wuwawu'er, one of the Five Tigers.

Du did not forget that shouting at the Tatars just now was just a delaying tactic, and if the Tatars really attacked, he might not be able to resist them.

There are still some grass and trees to cover this mountain, and Du Yi regretted it at this time, after all, this time he was more dangerous than the siege of Baideng of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

At night, seeing that they were closely surrounded by Tatar soldiers under the mountain, and during the day, they found that some Tatar soldiers continued to look for reinforcements, and then the hundreds of cavalry on the mountain instantly despaired.

Many of his own people began to come over and try to persuade Du not to forget to surrender, but Du did not forget that he was unwilling, so he gave an order, and then mentioned that the surrenderer was killed, and then calmed down, Du Bu did not forget to think about what to do.

After all, at this time, the Tatar general at the foot of the mountain had already shouted that if everyone did not come down the mountain and surrender at dawn tomorrow, their reinforcements would come up when they arrived, and I am afraid that there would be tens of thousands of Tatar soldiers at that time, and where would they be opponents with these 300 people?

Du Buyi also wanted to rush down to break through, his martial arts were high, and it should be no problem to escape, but the three hundred elite soldiers under his command were probably lost, so he was unwilling.

The main thing is also that all around, almost all of them are bare hills, and there is no way to escape.

Du did not forget to think about it, then walked over and said to the soldiers:

"General Ben thought about it for a long time, and felt that we might really become Tatar prisoners this time, but in order to protect the soldiers, I still decided to go down the mountain and surrender!"

At this time, some soldiers who did not want to surrender said:

"General, you don't have to do this for us, since we are Ming soldiers, how can we surrender to the Tatars!"

At this time, a group of soldiers who advocated surrender on the side said to these soldiers who were unwilling to surrender:

"Do you have no parents and children at home? Is it rare that you are willing to die here and ignore them?"

For a while, two groups of people quarreled, and there was even a tendency to fight, Du did not forget that he was even more helpless, so he came over to stop the two groups of people from arguing, and then clenched his fists and said:

"I also know that it is not easy for all of you, but our situation is really too difficult now, you may all have parents in your family, and the general and I also have many wives and concubines waiting for me to go back!"

Then he continued:

"In that case, then I will take you and rush down the mountain now, death will be death, it is better to die standing than to live on your knees, and I am sure that your family will praise you as well. ”

After speaking, he took out the kettle and took a sip of water, and said passionately and generously:

"Brothers, if there is an afterlife, we will patrol the border fortress together in the future and guard the territory of the Ming Dynasty, everyone will drink this last cup with tea instead of wine, and we will rush down the mountain!"

Then these soldiers were also passionate, and drank this glass of water with the general Du Buyi with a mortal heart, and then Du Bu Bu took it, rode a horse and drew his sword, and rushed down the mountain.