Just when Chen Wenren was in full swing to arrange for people to find Hua Wu's whereabouts, in early October, Li Yuntian unexpectedly received a letter from the military pavilion, asking him to finish the affairs of the two Huai Yan Dao, and then return to Beijing to discuss the matter of sending troops to Duoyan Sanwei.

It turned out that in mid-July, despite the ban of the imperial court, Duoyan Sanwei forcibly advanced the pastoral area to an area less than ten miles away from Daning City, the capital of Daning, and defeated the defenders of Daning City who came to drive them.

After two fierce battles with the Daning Dusi, Duoyan Sanwei forced the army of the Daning Dusi to abandon Daning City in mid-September and retreat to the Shanhaiguan line.

There were 80,000 soldiers and horses in the north of Shanhaiguan, and they were easily defeated by Duoyan Sanwei, who was only more than 30,000 people, which made Emperor Xuande furious and ordered the commander of Daning Dudu to be escorted back to the capital to punish the crime.

In the twentieth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1387 A.D., Ming Taizu set up the Daning Division, which was governed in Daningwei (west of Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), and the jurisdiction was north of the Great Wall of Hebei Province and south of the Xilamulun River in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In the second year, that is, in the twenty-first year of Hongwu, it was changed to the Northern Parallel Division, and in the first year of Yongle, the Daning Division was restored and Baoding Mansion was reformed, and the defense line of the Daning Division began to shrink strategically, and some guards were abolished, and some were moved along the Great Wall.

After the establishment of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Governorate, the seat of the Danyeong Metropolitan Division was moved back to Danyeongseong, and Danyeongseong became the frontier town of confrontation with Doyan Sanwei.

It's really ridiculous to say, according to the establishment of the Daming Guard, Duoyan Sanwei is subordinate to the Daning Division, and now it has forced the Daning Division to withdraw from its office.

Duoyan Sanwei relied on the most is their cavalry that came and went like the wind, quite the momentum of the Mongolian cavalry sweeping the world in the past, and its sharp impact beat the Daning Dusi to the back of the horse, plus Duoyan Sanwei attracted the local nomads, and finally forced the Daning Dudu to command the envoy to abandon the city and retreat to Shanhaiguan, and give the Daning City to Duoyan Sanwei.

Daning Dusi is a buffer zone between the capital and the nomadic peoples such as Duoyan Sanwei, although its territory has been continuously eroded by Duoyan Sanwei over the years, but Daning City is still firmly in the hands of Daningwei.

What is particularly important is that once Daning City is lost, then the three guards will enter the Hetao area with abundant water and grass, which is a scene that the Ming court does not want to see.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande ordered the military cabinet to devise a strategy to recover the city of Daning, so as to prevent the Duoyan Sanwei from occupying the Hetao and then threatening the Shanhaiguan defense line.

Historically, even if Daning City was abandoned, the Ming Dynasty did not allow Duoyan Sanwei to settle in, but let it live two hundred miles away from Daning City, but in the year of Tianshun, Duoyan Sanwei still occupied Daning City.

To deal with Duoyan Sanwei, it is natural to call the Jingwei in the capital, but after the Jingwei experienced the rebellion of the Han King and the Jiaozhi Rebellion, the elite lost six or seven out of ten, and he has not yet recovered his vitality.

Moreover, even before the rebellion of the Han King, it was difficult for Jingwei to deal with Duoyan Sanwei.

At that time, King Ning was restrained by Duoyan Sanwei, so he had to form an alliance with Emperor Yongle to Jingnan, and it was obvious that the combat effectiveness of Jingwei was not as good as the border army led by King Ning back then.

Moreover, after experiencing several northern expeditions of the Yongle Emperor, Duoyan Sanwei, like the Mongolian Tatar Department and the Wara Department, was already familiar with the tactics of the Ming army, so the cavalry would no longer shake the Ming army's Shenji battalion head-on, and knew to avoid the powerful firearms of the Ming army, which put the Ming army at a disadvantage when fighting with Duoyan Sanwei.

What is particularly important is that the Mongol Tatar tribe was also marching towards the Hetao region after learning that Duoyan Sanwei had captured the city of Daning, wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.

Since the Duoyan Sanwei was also a branch of the Mongols, it was likely that they would form an alliance with the Tatars, who would pose a serious threat to the Shanxi Xingdu Division, which was located in Datong, and the Ming army would likely face a two-front battle.

In the Ming Dynasty today's army, the most powerful combat effectiveness is the Xiaowu Army under the jurisdiction of the Wutang, the Xiaowu Army has not only experienced the tempering of the Jiaozhi War, but also is well-trained, the military discipline is strict, and the military pavilion naturally thought of using the Xiaowu Army to deal with Duoyan Sanwei.

As long as the Ming army can defeat the Duoyan Sanwei in one go, then it can deter the Tatars and make the Tatars retreat without a fight.

However, it is not easy for the military pavilion to use the Xiaowu army, the Xiaowu army is now regarded as the most trusted "forbidden army" by Emperor Xuande, and Emperor Xuande does not want it to become cannon fodder to fight to the death with Duoyan Sanwei, after all, there are still many Jingwei in Jinggi of the Ming Dynasty who can be used, and it is not the turn of the Xiaowu army.

In addition, the nature of the Xiaowu Army is very special, it is not subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, nor is it under the jurisdiction of the Pro-Military Governor's Office, but is a military institution under the jurisdiction of the Jiangwutang.

Although the lecture hall is a yamen in front of the military minister, it is only attached to it, and its chief official is King Fu, and King Fu's status in the court is equal to that of the elders of the military pavilion.

It is worth mentioning that the authority of the military cabinet is limited to the mobilization of the troops of the five military governors and the Gyeonggi governor's office, and the troops of the pro-military capital are under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, that is, the emperor directly manages the forbidden army.

In this way, the nature of the Xiaowu army is between the army of the major metropolitan governors and the pro-army capital protectorate, and it has a transcendent position in the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, if the military pavilion wants to call the Xiaowu Army, Li Yuntian must nod, as long as Li Yuntian agrees, then Emperor Xuande will agree nine times out of ten, after all, the Xiaowu Army was founded by Li Yuntian, and he definitely doesn't want to see the Xiaowu Army as cannon fodder.

The move of the military pavilion was really helpless, and the three guards of Duoyan had fought with the Mongol Tatar and Warat tribes during the northern expedition of the Yongle Emperor, and they had brilliant achievements and strong combat effectiveness.

It is precisely because of this that those nobles of the Ming Dynasty are quite jealous of Duoyan Sanwei, especially in the kind of terrain outside the pass that is conducive to cavalry combat, it is very difficult to defeat Duoyan Sanwei, and now the vitality of Jingwei has not yet recovered, so no one will entrust the army to fight, a few years ago Anyuan Marquis Liu Sheng died in the battle of Jiaozhi can still be remembered, and although the number of Duoyan Sanwei is less than that of Jiaozhi rebels, the combat effectiveness is undoubtedly stronger.

At this time, even the British Gong Zhang Fu and the Zhongguo Gong Zhou Zheng will not rashly take command to crusade against Duoyan Sanwei, although the Ming Dynasty can form a crusade army with several times the number of Duoyan Sanwei, but the opposing cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and is familiar with the terrain, this battle is really not easy to fight.

More than ten years later, the battle of Tumubao is the best portrayal of the Ming army's combat effectiveness, and the Mongolian Warat Department alone made hundreds of thousands of Ming troops defeated, so that Ming Yingzong was captured "Northern Hunting", which can be described as a great shame of the Ming Dynasty.

Once the Duoyan Sanwei is indecisive for a long time, it will not only bring great pressure to the logistics of the Ming army, but also make the Mongol Tatar Department get involved in the Hetao area controlled by the Shanxi Xingdu Division, and the consequences will be very severe, and the northern region of the Ming Dynasty will ignite a continuous war, and the national policy of Emperor Xuande to recuperate will also be disrupted.

At this time, the Xiaowu Army naturally entered the sight of the Ming Emperor, and if the Xiaowu Army was used, it would be able to end the battle with Duoyan Sanwei in the shortest possible time.

The members of the military pavilion couldn't, so they had to send an official letter to Li Yuntian, asking him to go back to Beijing to discuss the matter of dealing with Duoyan Sanwei, so that he could also be freed from the whirlpool of the Lianghuai Salt Road, after all, everyone knew that the water of the Lianghuai Salt Road was too deep.

In Li Yuntian's view, Daning City cannot be lost no matter what, otherwise Daming would have gone to an important military town outside Shanhaiguan.

As for the thoughts of the members of the military cabinet, Li Yuntian also knew that things like this kind of marching and fighting could be formulated by the military cabinet, and there was no need for him to discuss it at all, unless they wanted to use the Xiaowu army.

If it rests on someone else's body, he will definitely not want to take the lead with the descendant troops he has formed, but Li Yuntian doesn't see it this way, which is both a challenge and an opportunity for the Xiaowu army.

If the Xiaowu army wants to grow, it must squeeze out the quota of the guards under the jurisdiction of the governor's office, and under the military system of the cantonment system, it is not easy to grab the quota of soldiers from the governor's mansion, and Li Yuntian can't wipe this face to grab other people's jobs.

But now it's different, the nobles in the capital want to let the Xiaowu army fight Duoyan Sanwei, Li Yuntian naturally has to put forward conditions, his condition is very simple, that is, if the Xiaowu army wants to fight Duoyan Sanwei, it can but must expand the army.

Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the four troops under the command of the Xiaowu Army, these four troops have their own directions of attack, such as the Vermilion Bird Legion mainly attacking the direction of Liaodong, and the Qinglong Legion mainly attacking the Datong direction, and these two troops can be used in the battle with Duoyan Sanwei.

The White Tiger Legion guards Jiaozhi, and the Xuanwu Legion is entrenched in eastern Zhejiang, because the main attack direction is different, and the subjects of the usual training are also different, so Li Yuntian will not transfer the White Tiger Legion and the Xuanwu Legion to work on the expedition.

The Vermilion Bird Legion and the Qinglong Legion each have about 10,000 people, that is, the size of a division, and the number of troops must be insufficient to deal with Duoyan Sanwei, so Li Yuntian naturally wants to increase the number of troops, and the newly added soldiers are undoubtedly mainly military households from the Daning Division, the Liaodong Division, and the Shanxi Xingdu Division.

Therefore, after receiving the official letter from the military cabinet, Li Yuntian immediately wrote a reply letter, saying that he would return to Beijing immediately after handling Yangzhou affairs.

In the eyes of the outside world, this official document of the military pavilion undoubtedly relieved the crisis of the Lianghuai Salt Road, and Li Yuntian could leave Yangzhou openly and honestly and throw the matter of the Lianghuai Salt Road to Xie Heng or Han Liang, the two deputy envoys, to deal with the aftermath.

Xie Heng and Han Liang are naturally not an order of magnitude with Li Yuntian, and as soon as Li Yuntian leaves, the two of them will definitely be overhead by the two Huai Salt Roads in Yangzhou, and then become two decorations.

Li Yuntian didn't seem to have the heart to stay in Yangzhou any longer, and after replying to the military pavilion, he set a time to leave Yangzhou, and decided to return to Beijing in two days, which made the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Road and the salt merchants of the Salt Merchants Association very happy.

On the sixth day of October, the night before Li Yuntian left Yangzhou, he specially set up a banquet at the Yangzhou Affairs Office of Jiangwutang, and invited Chen Wenren, the left attendant of Nanjing's household department, Lu Xing, the prefect of Yangzhou, Han Hu, the commander of Yangzhou Wei, and Zhang Sheng, the transfer envoy of the Lianghuai Salt Road.

The atmosphere of the banquet was very relaxed, Li Yuntian and everyone were staggered, talking and laughing, and he couldn't see that he had grievances with Chen Wenren and Zhang Sheng, and even drank a few glasses of wine with the two.

This was an eye-opener for Lu Xing and Han Hu, originally the two of them thought that Li Yuntian would be indifferent to Chen Wenren and Zhang Sheng, and immediately realized that Li Yuntian's city mansion was far-reaching beyond the imagination of the two, and it was no wonder that Li Yuntian could be in a high position in such a short period of time.

After the banquet, Li Yuntian returned to the bedroom with a drunken body, took a sip of a cup of hot water on the table, and sat on the stool, his brows furrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth showed a sneer.

He left Yangzhou City and returned to Beijing this time to deliberately show weakness to the enemy, in order to confuse Chen Wenren, so that Chen Wenren thought that he was busy with the affairs of Duoyan Sanwei and flawlessly took care of the affairs of the Lianghuai Salt Road, and then relaxed his vigilance, and when Zhao Xinyue returned safely, he would use thunderous means on the Lianghuai Salt Road, starting from the accumulated salt that was transported to various places, and crushing the Lianghuai Salt Road in one fell swoop.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and Li Yuntian never expected that a sudden event not only changed his itinerary, but also made the situation of the Lianghuai Salt Road change earth-shattering.