It has been five days since the Mongols broke through and looted the Xuanfu, but Hong Chengchou, who was supposed to lead his division back, did not leave for a long time, not because he changed his mind, but because the courtiers were hindered at a critical moment. In fact, this is also to blame Hong Chengchou's current situation is not on the side, leading the troops to leave the Xuanfu on the front foot, and the Xuanfu will be lost, although it is not lost from him, but the relevant responsibilities still have to be borne. Unfortunately, as soon as the army arrived in Beijing, the thieves collapsed, and the credit was naturally not his.

To sum up, the embarrassing situation faced by Hong Chengchou is that he has to take responsibility for the mistakes he faces, but he has no share of the credit. What's more, the ministers have fallen into the trap and demanded that he be held accountable for his previous disrespect.

All kinds of unfortunate things come together, no guilt and responsibility, even if the emperor wants to say something for him, he has to stand on reason, unless there are important ministers who stand up and support it, and the emperor will judge it from the perspective of an arbiter, or he can pass the test. But this time, Hong Chengchou not only did no one stand up to speak for him, but also broke the drum and beat thousands of people, regardless of the size of the official, all stood up to attack him for any mistakes he had before, and even the matter of Chen Sesame and rotten grain was dug out by the good deeds and whipped the corpse.

The excuse that Hong Chengchou is embarrassed by a second-class governor is not, and it is not a defense. In the end, it became more and more intense, and it was not enough to not kill the people to be angry, and not to kill it was not enough to thank the people of the world. But the side affairs can't be delayed, who will fight when it's always so stiff? Zhu Youzhen, the son of the great tomorrow, had no choice but to stand up in person and say two words for Hong Chengchou, the war in Xuanfu is unfavorable, Hong Chengchou is working hard, and when the court employs people, he can first engage in rights and interests.

Unbeknownst to him, the minister did not buy the emperor's opinion expressed in a consultative tone, but grabbed Hong Chengchou's pigtails and launched a more fierce attack on him. At the same time, a new candidate was proposed to replace him, that is, Sun Chuanting, who had been staying in Beijing and deactivating.

Sun Chuanting's ability to support troops is not bad at all for Hong Chengchou, since it is better to send this person out now, why just hang Hong Chengchou on a tree?

This opinion was originally pertinent and appropriate, but in the winter of last year, Zhu Youzhen was dissatisfied with Sun a lot under the influence of Yang Sichang, and directly led this person to resign in anger, which deepened Zhu Youzhen's dissatisfaction with him, thinking that his popularity was too narrow and not enough to entrust him with big things.

Therefore, when the ministers proposed Sun Chuanting as a candidate to replace Hong Chengchou, Zhu Youzhen strongly opposed it. The final result is that the emperor and the minister began to fight the cow again, but the emperor also has to pay the price, the two jumps the happiest to give things, there is a lot of disrespect in the words, and they are all demoted to the people, beaten back to their hometowns, and never hired.

In this way, although most of the ministers were intimidated, it made the top bull stalemate between the monarch and the ministers. The war in Xuanfu was considered by the ministers not to be a concern on the grounds that Li Xin, the chief soldier of Shanxi, was here. However, the emperor also thought that with Li Xin in Xuanfu, there should be no mistakes.

As for the person who holds this argument, it is none other than Xue Guoguan, under his hints and instigation, a number of imperial historians have come forward one after another, putting pressure on the emperor. Although the emperor has supreme power, he can't condemn all the ministers, otherwise wouldn't this court be paralyzed? In the final analysis, Zhu Youzhen fell into the limelight in this bull because there was no private person for him to charge for him, and the embarrassment caused by this made him extremely profound, and it was time to change to an obedient first assistant.

The emperor's gaze swept over the faces of several ministers one by one, and he shook his head in his heart without looking at anyone, until he remembered Zhang Sizhi, a teacher who was sick at home, and seemed to have made up his mind.

The reason for the delay in sending troops by the imperial court also quickly reached the ears of Li Xin, who was stationed in Zhangjiakou Fort, and he could only express his helplessness and powerlessness. However, the emperor also seems to be an unreliable lord, isn't this Xuanfu his country, what kind of skin to have with the ministers, it is not enough to directly intervene in the program, or to take less responsibility, afraid of taking historical responsibility, afraid of being threatened, and all kinds of reasons.

Sometimes it is as small as this can be seen, and the lack of courage to take on many responsibilities can only hasten his demise. For example, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, if he had made up his mind to move the capital to Luoyang a few years earlier, he would not have to be coveted by his younger brother who had been the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion for more than ten years, and perhaps there would be no axe and candle shadow in history. There is also Zhu Youzhen in the original history, if he can move the capital to the south in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the shape is irretrievably eroded to the critical moment, and leave behind a mess in the north, maybe he will not end up hanging to death, and the Ming Dynasty may only have half of the country left, even if it leaves behind the slander of later generations, but the status of Zhengshuo cannot be shaken, and the Sheji Temple has more opportunities to continue.

The battle brought Li Xin back to reality from his cranky thoughts. A soldier came to report that the interrogation of the Mongol Tartar captives had ended.

"Quick, let them come to me!"

This is only Kong Youde and Gu Fourteen, the battalion officer of the second-step combat battalion. After a while, the two of them came one after another, and Gu Shishi presented the confession to Li Xin, and stood aside respectfully.

These Mongol Tatars were actually composed of three tribes, led by the Uzhumuqin tribe, followed by the Tumut tribe and the Karaqin tribe, which may also be mixed with the remnants of the Han tribe. Since the death of Lin Dan Khan, the Han tribe has been declining, and after the king of the county of Zhentu was beheaded by the Three Guards, the situation has deteriorated, and now he can only follow other tribes to pick up some scraps.

And now the strongest north of Shanxi Zhili should be this Uzhumuqin tribe, as for who their Saiwang Khan King is, Li Xin does not know.

Kong Youde added: "The confession may not be clear enough, but these Mongolian tribes farther north were forced to take refuge in the south during the snowstorm last year, and spent the winter on the river beaches around the Angchao Erhai and Haliutu rivers. It should have heard that General Li took the lead in confiscating goods at checkpoints on the border wall, and knew that these guards were now rich and flowing, and that after a winter of consumption, they had reached the point where it was difficult to continue to receive green and yellow, so they went south in a big way and attacked Xuanfu in the spring when the war horses were growing fat. ”

Li Xin confessed passionately, turned it over and over again, and looked at it twice, but he didn't see any explanation of the whereabouts of the Tartars.

"Why didn't you interrogate the whereabouts of the Tartar?"

Kong has virtue and a difficult face.

"The bones were so hard that no one confessed to killing two people in a row...... However, it is not that there is no harvest at all, these three Tartars who have entered the Kou only have the road of Xuanfu Town, that is, the road of the Uzhumuqin Department has withdrawn from the side wall, and the other two roads are probably still wandering around the mountains. ”

This explains why they hear signs of Tartars everywhere, but they always fail to catch up.

Suddenly, a soldier reported that a merchant outside asked to see him, saying that he was sending a letter on behalf of someone. Li Xin waved his hand and sent Kong Youde and Gu Shishi out......

……

Tian Fuzhen counted the days every day, and was trapped in this place for almost three days, and these Mongolian Tatars did not intend to release them, nor did they reveal any intention of killing them all, but did nothing to lock them up in this valley.

After being captured that day, they were driven north by the Tartars. At the beginning, Tian Fuzhen was still estimating the distance, but as the time lengthened, day and night, he was out of proportion. According to his rough guess, even if this place does not reach the side wall, it must not be far from the side wall. In short, the place where they are should still be in the territory of Daming.

The strange thing is that the Tartars actually found some people who were mixed with Meng and Han to take care of them, which provided an opportunity for Tian Fuzhen and the auxiliary soldiers of the Three Guards to take advantage of the loopholes. Just like the guard in front of him who is talking with Niu Dan, he is a Han man.

Two people are suffering more than the other.

"Can you still have my life? At most, you are uprooted from your homeland, but I am different, I was caught by horse thieves and sold to the Mongols as slaves, and it took ten years to have such a little freedom! ”

As he spoke, he also raised his hand to lift the long hair in front of his forehead for Niu Dan to see.

"Look at it, this is the damn Tartars who are pressing me to the death, that's called a pain, the pain is heartbreaking! Just because I have this thing on my face, those Mongolian girls don't take it seriously......"

The Mongols don't know Chinese, and he can abuse them with impunity. The burn scar on his forehead was shocking, and the cow egg was stunned by the Han guard.

"I'm not as miserable as you, or you're miserable!"

Unexpectedly, the guard smiled, "Little brother, don't worry, soon you will be worse than me, you will experience everything I experienced ten years ago, and when you get to the tribe of the Tartars, they will also have a scar on your face that is exactly the same as mine, ha...... Haha......"

He laughed halfway through until he burst into tears, as if this was something that would make him extremely happy.

Niu Dan was angry, "I'm not hot, I'd rather die than be hot, I don't learn from you, I don't want to be a slave, I want to be a man!" If I can't be a human, I'd rather go to the underworld to be a ghost! ”

But the guard sneered.

"Then why don't you die now? Isn't it greedy for life and afraid of death? ”

Niu Dan didn't bother to argue with them, but he was very firm in his heart that the general would definitely come back to save them.

But the guard was not good at giving up, and unscrupulously humiliated and ridiculed the cow eggs. How could Niu Dan have imagined that when he first started to speak, he still looked like a simple uncle, revealing his true face, how could he be so unbearable......

The dispute between the two frightened Zhu Huiyu, the lord of Xinle, she was not afraid of death, but she was afraid of burning such a hideous and terrifying scar on her fair face, and she finally realized that this was no longer a fun and novel journey, but a cruel journey to hell.

Zhu Huiyu was homesick, thinking about her father, thinking about every grass and tree in the palace, thinking about it, and unconsciously bursting into tears. She kept praying in her heart, "General Li, my great hero, come and save your Huiyu!" ”