In the memory of Xiong Chu, the eastern part of Fengzhen belongs to Xinghe Shouyu Thousand Households, the western part belongs to Xuande Wei, and the southern part belongs to Yanghe Wei.

However, after crossing the Great Wall from the victory pass, after walking less than twenty miles, Xiong Chu found that the original Xuande Wei Station was actually inhabited by Yuanmeng Tartar soldiers.

Although there are only more than a dozen war horses, they are indeed Yuanmeng Tartar soldiers. The original Xuande Guard Barracks was dilapidated and overgrown with weeds.

"Xianggong, it seems that the situation outside the Great Wall is very bad. Yan Erniang's horse was on the right side of Xiong Chu, and at this time, the whip pointed ahead: "Look over there, all the Yuanmeng herdsmen are grazing." This used to be the pasture of our people, but now they have all given up, and I don't know what will happen to the people. ”

In fact, Prince Xiong also saw that his forehead was bruised: "I don't know what the imperial court is doing, how can it be justified! Only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days? If you give up the guards and barracks outside the city, and all the troops are within the Great Wall, how many days can you defend it if you stick to it like this?"

Huang Yanying rode over and said: "Senior brother, have you only seen this situation clearly now? In fact, it has been like this since 50 years ago! The Ming Dynasty was made into a miasma by a group of ill-intentioned scholars, and they shouted in the court all day long that peace is precious, and there is no reason for the country to die!"

Fang Qianxun also helped on the side: "That's it, the Tartars have bullied them to the doorstep, and the imperial court will give them a reward of silver every year." I don't understand, what is the use of such a court? Senior brother is not afraid of anything when he is a killer, but when it comes to national affairs, he is always timid, and I don't know what you are thinking. ”

Seeing Xiong Chu's red face and red ears, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, Lan'er finally stood up: "I see you dead girls, ah, after you get out of the customs, you will be lawless, and you dare to say anything rebellious." ”

Fang Qianxun smiled and exclaimed: "Sister Lan'er, in fact, I have long wanted to get out of the customs, and I have to be careful when I speak in the customs, and I am suffocated to death." Okay now, even if this girl shouts loudly, she will kill the emperor tomorrow, and Jinyiwei can't do anything about me. Hee-hee-hee-"

At this moment, a war horse galloped over the wasteland in the northwest, and finally interrupted Huang Yanying and Fang Qianxun's rebellious remarks.

Huo Lianshan was worried about fraud, so he hurriedly waved his hand and rode forward with a ten-person team, but he quickly saw the person who came: "Li Qing, son, it's Senior Brother Li Qing, the deputy commander of the Silver Fox Battalion!"

"Master, you can be regarded as arriving!" Li Qing came to Xiong Chu, rolled his saddle and dismounted, clenched his fists and said, "There is an enemy ahead, and one of our villages has been surrounded. I hurried back, and if I couldn't touch you, I would prepare to enter the customs to find the officers and soldiers. ”

Xiong Chu waved his hand: "Lianshan, hurry up and give Li Qing some water." Don't be in a hurry, take your time, what's going on?"

Li Qing poured two mouthfuls of water and gasped for a moment: "Master, according to the order of the military advisor, Brother Zhou and I led forty brothers out and began to reconnoiter this area. ”

"Although the two countries have been fighting for half a year, some of our civilians near the Great Wall have not all retreated into Guanzhong. Fengzhen grassland was originally our Daming horse farm, and the common people were grazing here. ”

"Isn't it spring now, but it's not grazing season yet. If a large number of livestock come at this time, even the grass roots will be uprooted, and the pasture will be abandoned next year. ”

"But more than ten days ago, the Horqin tribe, which had been herding everywhere, suddenly came west from the line of Dushikou. Brother Zhou's preliminary judgment was that it was because of the departure of Tu Taiji from Chahar that this group of people had an opportunity to take advantage of. ”

"The day before yesterday, we had already entered this pasture to graze, and there was a conflict with our men, and the forward of the Horqin Department retreated because of the lack of people. Our main focus was on the East, so we were very concerned about this group. ”

"But this morning I suddenly found that a troop of cavalry appeared twenty miles northeast of Jubaozhuang, probably more than a hundred people. Behind the cavalry were herdsmen who drove a large number of sheep over, as if to force our people away. ”

Xiong Chu's brows were already furrowed after hearing this, but he still asked, "How many of our villagers are there?"

Li Qing did not hesitate: "The number of people is not large, the entire Jubaozhuang is more than 100 people in more than 30 households, there are about 300 small animals, and there are more than 20 horses. ”

Yan Erniang asked, "Since it's so dangerous here, why don't these villagers enter the customs?"

Li Qing pointed to the northwest direction: "Although it is very dangerous here, it is even more dangerous after entering the customs, because there is no clear rule in the imperial court, and after entering the customs, they will have no houses and no land, so they can only starve to death." There are still many of our people in the south of Daqing Mountain, and they dare not enter the pass. We also asked the locals, and they were right. ”

"I think it's a lot of trouble. Huang Yanying came over and said, "We can't stay here for too long, and we can't stay here forever." Even if we stand up for them this time, what will we do after we leave?"

"If it's a local detail, you can take care of it. But this is due to the imperial court's external national policy, that is, the imperial court has given up on these people, and we are now a commoner, can we manage it?"

Li Qing is only fifteen years old, and he has always grown up as a slave, so he doesn't have so many rules in his heart, so he didn't know the severity, and directly interrupted Huang Yanying's words: "Master, no matter what, we can't watch our own people being bullied, right?"

When Huang Yanying saw that this little kid who had just arrived dared to interrupt her words, she was immediately unhappy: "Help? How do you say to save it? You and Zhou Laosi also grew up outside the gate, don't you know that the Tartar soldiers and people's family don't know? Find out how many people the other side has and how many people can fight? The situation has not been clarified, so they are talking nonsense here." ”

Not to mention, this young man Li is not very old, and his courage is really not small: "Uncle Huang, I won't tell you anything, I don't dare to come back to see Master if I don't figure it out." There were about 3,700 Horqin tribes, including more than 4,500 cavalrymen, and the name of the tribal leader was Oba, and his younger brother Budaqi was the commander of the army. ”

"Because most of the Taiji of the Horqin Department secretly harbored ghosts, and had completely fallen to the Jurchen Nurhachi in the east of Jianzhou, Oba was unwilling to give his life to Lin Dan Khan on the one hand, and on the other hand, he did not want to completely surrender Nurhachi and became a vassal of the Jurchen Tartars, so he is now a little uncertain. ”

"According to what Brother Zhou learned about the locals in makeup, Lin Dan Khan always wanted Oba to make up his mind to punish those who surrendered to Nurhachi, but Oba didn't dare to completely fall out with the Jianzhou Jurchens and cut off his retreat, so he didn't attack those tribes who surrendered. ”

"In the face of the military oppression of the Jianzhou Nurhachi Jurchen, all the tribes of Eastern Mongolia wanted to move west. Lin Dan Khan let the Pututtai Ji sit in Chahar, just to block the westward advance of the Horqin Department and disrupt the layout here. But now that Oba's brother Budazi has come out with more than a thousand people, are we just watching?"

After listening to Li Qing's words, Xiong Chu always felt that there should be a big problem. What is the problem, but I have never been able to grasp it.

But there is no doubt that there must be a problem here, but there is too little information to grasp the point.

Now that the situation is urgent, no matter what the problem is, Xiong Chu thinks that Li Qing's saying is very right: "You can't watch your own people being bullied, right?"

Of course, Huang Yanying didn't really lose her temper with Li Qing, but was using the topic to play, and even referring to Sang scolding Huai, which Xiong Chu knew well.

The object of Huang Yanying's tantrum is actually herself, and Xiong Chu seems to be a mirror in her heart.

Prince Xiong knew that Huang Yanying and Fang Qianxun's goal was to instigate himself to rise quickly, then establish himself as the king, and then lay down a piece of the world, and then he could really protect his people from being bullied.

As long as there is the slightest opportunity, Huang Yanying and Fang Qianxun will lead the topic in this direction. Because they have never made a clear statement, they are angry.

Thinking of these complex internal causes, Xiong Chu's head suddenly became a little big, so he waved his right arm violently, as if to drive away the endless troubles: "Don't talk about the rest for the time being, now go to Jubaozhuang to see the real situation, and then say the final conclusion." ”

"Huo Lianshan, you led Fan Tao's 100-man team of abductors to immediately set off to fight the front station. The main thing is to make the situation clear, we don't have a supply of gunpowder, don't fire lightly. ”

Yan Erniang looked at Huo Lianshan's departing back, and was a little worried: "Xianggong, Ying'er's worries are not unreasonable. The opponent has more than 1,000 capable warriors, and all of them are capable of fighting. There are less than 300 people around us, are you ready to give it a go?"

Xiong Chu shook his head, took out a piece of brown paper from his arms and spread it on the ground, Huang Yanying exclaimed: "Senior brother, how can you have a map outside the plug?"

"What's so strange about this?" Prince Xiong said with a smile: "Do you think that I am full of food and will do my best to help Zhang Ying for no reason? If he hadn't given me this map when he arrived at Chongfu Temple, I wouldn't have lightly believed that he was planning to fight the Tartars, let alone agree to be the head of the sect." ”

"Zhang Ying has been in the officialdom for so long, and he has already understood that he will not be able to realize his long-cherished wish, and it is impossible for the imperial court to agree to him to lead troops north, so he handed me this map. This was drawn by him secretly sending people out of the customs, which shows that he really wants to fight abroad. ”

Although Yan Erniang is well-informed, she has never experienced marching and fighting, so she doesn't know what Xiong Chu is going to do when he takes out the map: "Xianggong hurry up and tell me, what do you mean?"

"Come and see. Xiong Chu pointed to the map and said, "Li Qing said that the vanguard of the Horqin tribe of more than 100 people suddenly appeared in the northeast of Jubaozhuang, right? ”

"Fifteen miles north of Jubaozhuang is a small hill beam that enters Pingdingshan. What is the place 20 miles northeast of Jubaozhuang? This is the best ferry to cross the Yuma River, and even the sheep can wade through the water. ”

"But when we get to where we are, that is, east of Fengzhen, of course the horses can cross the river, but the sheep cannot. From this, it can be inferred that the Horqin tribe must have gone south from Longshengzhuang in the northeast, turned west at Heitutai, and then crossed the Yinma River through Yongshanzhuang to the west, which happened to be twenty miles northeast of Jubaozhuang!"

After all, Huang Yanying came from an extraordinary background, and quickly understood the true intention of Xiong Chu: "Senior brother, do you want to cut off the crossing of the Yinma River and cut off the connection between the front troops of the Horqin tribe and the rear? ”

Xiong Chu stretched out his hand and clicked on the names of two places, and his face was already full of murderous anger: "As the saying goes, it is good for the boat to turn around, and we can leave at any time if there are few people." Whatever Oba son Guruth Chib wanted, I hope they know how to advance and retreat, and don't go too far. If you dare to be presumptuous and let our villagers suffer heavy harm, this son will let them have no return!"

Speaking of this, Xiong Chu turned his head to Qiao Rushan and said, "Rushan, you lead Wang Bangquan's 100-person team of the Five Thunder God Machines to set off immediately and rush to Shenjiayao, thirty miles to the north, to guard the west bank of the Yinma River. Shenjia kiln is a kiln factory that built the bricks of the Great Wall of Deshengkou, which is now abandoned, just enough to garrison soldiers. Arrange a team of 10 people to keep in touch with Jubaozhuang at any time. ”I734