Xu Ruji's anxious flying horse returned to Shilipu, and several horses galloped out quickly, the horse's hooves flew over, and the dust splashed, causing the military pedestrians on both sides to look sideways, and secretly speculated in their hearts about what had happened. Some of the more timid ones are already pale--is Sha Mo is Jiannu called?

Those who have a heart, but their hearts moved, and secretly followed, thinking about finding an opportunity to inquire with Shi Jin, a few good people - this morning, some of the victims who came to Shilipu came to the news, saying that Dong Erlang, who was guarding Anxiangdun, had made a great contribution and cut off the heads of more than a dozen Jiannu Tartars with seven or eight dun troops!

And they are all extremely fierce white armor vests! The kind that one person can fight ten Ming troops!

The rumors will naturally be more outrageous, but on the side of Shilipu, it is still very true, at least it is not rumored that Dong Ce killed hundreds of vests.

Most people's first reaction when they hear it is not to believe it, and then when they hear it, this thing was done by Dong Erlang, then it becomes suspicious - after all, they are all Dong Erye's dream gods, their personalities have changed greatly, and their resolute and resolute deeds are all clear.

"As soon as the rumors arrived, Lord Xu went out, but he came back in such a hurry at this time, could it be that Dong Er really did such a big thing?"

Xu Rujian stopped outside the gate of the house, a family member standing at the door hurriedly took three steps and made two steps up and knelt on the ground, Xu Rujian turned over and dismounted, and stepped on his back with his toes to get off the horse steadily, and threw the horsewhip + one + book + read + novel xstxt into the hands of the subordinate who bent down and stood respectfully, and strode towards the door of the house. Behind him, Zhang Han followed quickly, but his face was a little gloomy.

Xu Meng and a few people also dismounted, but they didn't panic into the house, but ordered their subordinates to lead the war horses down and wait, but they shook slowly for a while. As expected, soon, a few idlers hid around the corner and shouted with laughter: "Uncle Meng, Uncle Meng, let's have fun?" ”

Xu Meng smiled and scolded in his mouth: "You turtle grandsons, you come to your uncle's mouth again to find a bargain." ”

As he spoke, he kept taking a step under his feet and walked towards that side.

Xu Rujian went straight to the study, he sat on the Taishi chair, trying to pretend to be calm, but his whole body seemed to tremble with excitement everywhere, so that he couldn't sit still at all. He stood up and spun around like an ant on a hot pot, and finally, he couldn't hold back any longer, and burst out laughing, his whole body trembling with laughter.

Zhang Han's face was gloomy and ugly at first, but after a while, I don't know what came to mind, but his face became normal, and there was even a hint of meaningful smile.

After a long while, when Xu Ruji's laughter finally gradually subsided, he smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "Congratulations to Dong Weng, student, Dong Weng will definitely be able to be promoted to three levels in a row this time, and his career will be prosperous in the future, and there will be no obstacles." ”

"I don't dare to think of upgrading to three levels in a row, but it's a certainty to move the nest......"

Xu Ruji waved his hand, wanting to say two humble and polite words, but after all, he couldn't help the pride in his heart, and laughed again.

He couldn't possibly be unhappy.

Xu Rujie has been in the position of the ten-mile pipe officer for five whole years -- he has not moved a nest in the position of a middle- and low-level officer in five years, which can only show one thing: There is someone above Xu Ruji, but this person is also not very capable of exerting strength, and he is not a very tough backer. If there is a capable person above, it is basically more than two years to be promoted to the next level, and it will not be in his forties and still in the position of 100 households.

Therefore, it can also be imagined that this opportunity is so rare and precious for Xu Ruji, who has passed the age of confusion!

He is a well-deserved master under the sky of Shilipu, but in the eyes of Shangguan, he is just an inconspicuous little person.

As he said, it is impossible to promote the official to three levels this time, but it is a sure thing to be promoted to the next level, and if it works well, it is not necessarily difficult to be promoted to two levels.

After a while, Fang Zi suppressed his laughter, sat down behind the desk, and wrote down vividly with his pen.

Speaking of which, Xu Rujie is an outlier in the army, and many generals and generals in the army of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to read, but Xu Rujian was born in a military attache family, and his wife is a civil official lady in the middle of the family. He is literate and read, and his wife taught him, but he can only read and write, and it is really nonsense to want to recite poetry.

Xu Ruyu finished writing and looked at it, but he was not satisfied. He said to Zhang Han: "My handwriting is too ugly, but I have to be ghostwritten by Mr." ”

Zhang Han didn't shirk, walked to the side of the table and sat down, spread out the pen and ink, and asked with a smile: "How do you write what Dong Weng said?" ”

"Hey, the official documents sent to us weren't all handled by you for me in the past, just look at it and write it, it's better than what I wrote." Xu Ruwei waved his hand.

Zhang Han nodded, splashed ink, and after a short time, a piece of official document was written.

His words are extremely beautiful, and when you look at the words and people, you will know that he is not shallow in learning.

"On July 23 of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Jiannu invaded the jurisdiction of Shilipu, and the officials heard the news, and the elite of the shop did not receive it at night to probe and find out the reality of Jiannu. The slaves plundered all directions, and the lower officials were extremely indignant in their hearts, but the overall situation was important, so they could only sit and watch, and their hearts were sad and indignant. That night, the thieves stayed in the northwest three miles outside Chenpizhuang, the next official starry night arrived, recruited more than 10 people from the Anxiang Dundun army, first made a feint to surrender, led them to come to the night attack, the thief army into the urn, then the ambush soldiers were everywhere, the fierce battle was difficult, and finally won a big victory. Then the next official sent the Anxiang Dundun army to attack the camp of the thief army at night, and the sound of killing was everywhere, the color of the world changed, and the four fields were sad. Fortunately, thanks to the power of the saint, the princes of the court and the central government were wise, united in their hearts, and effective in command, defeated the thief army and beheaded dozens of people. ”

"There are many real Jiannu, and there is a soldier of Jiannu Bai Baya, who is the white attendant of the big leader of the pseudo-red flag. There are five horse armors, eight Aha horses, twenty-eight slave horses, five iron helmets, three lacquer helmets, one collar of iron valve armor, five collars of red satin copper nail copper leaf armor, two collars of fish scale iron leaf armor, four collars of leather armor, three long iron spears, one big axe, one sledgehammer, one Mo knife, thirteen long iron knives, eleven other weapons, fifteen pairs of large iron bows, and two hundred and thirty heavy arrows...... Jiannu was frightened when he heard the wind, and when he saw my king's teacher, he also avoided retreating ten miles away and did not dare to fight...... In this battle, the lower officials are in the middle of the dispatch, and there is Dong Ce, the chief of the Anxiang Dunjia, who is brave and able to fight, and he must fight in front of him every time, and the head of the battle array is even as high as five......"

As soon as Xu Rujian touched his mouth, he put the credit of commanding in the center, making decisions on sentinels, determining the division of troops, and ambushing soldiers, and took seventy percent of the credit.

However, he always had some jealousy in his heart, and he didn't take the credit for Dong Ce and the others fighting on the battlefield to himself-this credit is also greedy, and there is no way to be greedy.

Xu Ruwei was not only not half embarrassed in his heart, but felt that he was already benevolent enough to Dong Ce - according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the command credit of the strategist could not be the turn of Dong Ce, the lowest-ranking officer, and when the time came, he would only be given credit according to the way of the soldiers and the number of beheadings.

After reading it carefully, Xu Rujian immediately ordered the good news to be reported to Zhenqiang Fort.

Shilipu is not very far from Zhenqiang Fort, only about thirty miles away.

Zhenqiang Fort is an important town in the border pass, known as the place where the border plug is the first to rush, built in the second year of Chenghua, and the city wall was wrapped with a thick layer of big blue bricks in the second year of Wanli.

There is a garrison here, with 1,053 officers and soldiers, 268 horses and mules, guarding the side wall that is tens of miles long, and 28 side piers under its jurisdiction.

In the past few days, Hou Jiawei, the garrison officer of Zhenqiang Fort, has been worried, watching his hair fall out one by one, there are not a few left, and now he is almost bald.

The reason why the great man of the Hou family is worried is very simple - he is going to be unlucky.

Some time ago, there was a group of Jiannu cavalry of about 60 or 70 people, wreaking havoc in the territory under the jurisdiction of Zhenqiang Fort, plundering villages and towns, plundering thousands of people, slaughtering more than a dozen villages, and not knowing how much gold and silver goods were looted, just the cattle, sheep, fat, pigs and other large animals that were driven do not know how much. Within the jurisdiction of Zhenqiang Fort, wolf smoke is everywhere, and there is mourning everywhere.

As the garrison officer of Zhenqiang Fort, Hou Jiawei's responsibility to guard the land cannot be shirked. That group of Jiannu has been active in Zhenqiang Fort for many days, and the details have long been very clear, a total of sixty or seventy people, it stands to reason that the Hou garrison with thousands of soldiers under his command should take the initiative to attack, and defend the land against the enemy. However, Hou Jiawei not only did not send troops, but closed the gate of Zhenqiang Fort all day long, and just hid in the Buddhist hall in the backyard of his home every day and kowtowed and burned incense, hoping that these Jiannu would get out of the house as soon as possible...... You should have had enough!

Not only that, but he also strictly ordered the other fortresses to never attack, otherwise military law would be involved.

Originally, this kind of move was nothing, unless it was fifty times or a hundred times that of Jiannu, nine out of ten of the defenders of the Ming Dynasty would choose to hold on to the fortified city. Hou Garrison's behavior is normal, but when the Tartars retreat, kill some civilians, shave off their hair and send them to the top as merit, how many people do this.

But he was also unlucky, and he ran into a wrong boss - Liu Ruozai, the northern Hebei soldier.

This time, the Houjin army entered the Kou, plundered the northern Jin Dynasty, and all parts of the northern Hebei Province, in front of the Houjin Iron Cavalry, the nine-sided important town that spends millions of taels of silver every year to support is in vain, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, are up and down, a mess of waste. Emperor Chongzhen was furious and strictly investigated the crime of losing the plane of the guards in various places. Just a few days ago, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, Jiao Yuanqing, the governor of Xuanfu, Hu Zhanen, the governor of Datong, and Dai Junen, the governor of Shanxi, were all dismissed and reprimanded for the crimes of ineffective governance of Xinjiang and ineffectiveness of the imperial captives, and the chief soldiers of the three towns and the eunuchs who monitored them were also exempted.