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On the 19th day of the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongguan, Hao Zongcheng issued a secret decree to seize Li Zhuo's military power, and the deputy general Jizhen Army deployed troops to fight Liaoyang......

The horse's hooves kicked the snow and flew away, covering the cold and white sun like a thick fog, the rider pulled the reins, and the horse slid down the Taizi River, the horse's hooves squeaked and slipped on the river ice, and trotted to the Beigong on the opposite bank.

The high wall of the north palace with yellow walls and black tiles looks strangely vivid in the snow, and the fast horse gallops close to the gate of the palace, and the rider on horseback raises his voice and shouts: "Songshan secret letter, dedicated to the king of Khan!" "The gate of the palace village was quickly opened from the inside, and several armor soldiers came out to help lead the horses, and walked in with the people who came - looking in from the palace gate, the king of Donghu was in the north palace outside Liaoyang City in the past, and now there is a castle full of armor soldiers, and the war horses are neighing, I don't know how many soldiers and horses are hidden in it.

Yezier was dressed in a bearded uniform, wearing leather armor, and someone knelt down to present the secret letter of Songshan, he took it and looked at it, and laughed: "...... The fish finally took the bait, and sent a fast horse to report to Datong, so that Duodi could send troops immediately in Datong, without delay! ”

"Are you waiting for Hao Zongcheng to send troops to fight Liaoyang?" Na He Xiongqi said.

"There's no need to wait," Ye Jier said with a very high head and a much louder voice than usual, "Even if Hao Zongcheng sends troops to fight Liaoyang, he doesn't have the courage to come out of the city. This side divides the troops to lure him deeper, and the Datong side has to move at the same time, and time is running out......"

Heavy snow seals the border, and it takes at least five days to report to Datong as soon as possible. Ye Ji Duodi gathered troops and horses in Datong and headed south, which required three to five days of preparation. When the Southern Dynasty Tanma spread the news to Songshan, it would take seven or eight days to reach Songshan. In this way, almost half a month has passed......

In this half a month, it was enough to lure some of the Jizhen troops out of Songshan and other cities.

Even if the Southern Dynasty dragged on and did not change generals, the soldiers and horses on the Datong side would move and re-enter Yannan by borrowing the road from Jinzhong. When the Jizhen army retreated south from Songshan, Liaoyang sent troops to insert into Liaoyang and fight with it. Of course, the Jizhen Army was changing generals at this time, and the army's morale was unstable, which was much better than Li Zhuo, who was known as a famous general, to take charge of the Jibei Army.

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The snow was covered in the north, and more than a dozen knights were slow and difficult to walk in the snow with a carriage in their arms; At the front, a cavalry came with a carriage, and walked in a hurry against the wind and snow.

In the blind-covering snowstorm, the two teams only recognized each other when they made a mistake.

"Captain Geng, can the commander be in the car?"

Geng Quanshan raised his eyes and looked at the rider wrapped in a gray coat and pulled down the mask to cover the wind and snow to reveal his face, but it was Huaidong Wu Qi, and the depressed Tang Dynasty's expression was a little more perked, signaled to stop left and right, turned over and dismounted and walked over, and asked, "Why is Master Wu here?" ”

Gao Zongting listened to the movement outside, lifted the curtain, and happened to see Li Zhuo poking his head out from the carriage opposite.

Li Zhuo's face was full of tiredness, his beard was snowy, his body was slumped, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "Is it the Sect Court?" ”

When he came out of Liaoxi, Li Zhuo suffered from eye disease, but it was not serious, he didn't want to be so close, Li Zhuo couldn't see himself clearly, Gao Zongting couldn't help crying, hurriedly climbed out of the carriage, walked over and held Li Zhuo's hand, choked and said: "Commander, it's me." ”

Chen Dingbang rode over from behind, saw Gao Zongting, and complained: "Why did Mr. Gao go back to Liaoxi?" ”

"I ......" Gao Zongting's words were blocked in his heart, and he couldn't say all kinds of bitterness.

"This may be providential," Li Zhuo sighed faintly, he didn't need to ask and knew what the result of Gao Zongting's southward journey was, and after this sigh, two lines of turbid tears hung down from his cheeks, as if he was crying for the end of the Great Yue Dynasty, gently patted the back of Gao Zongting's hand, and said, "You shouldn't come back!" ”

"How can the Zong Court abandon the commander? How could the court abandon the commander? Gao Zongting burst into tears.

Wu Qi is a hard-hearted character like cold iron, looking at this situation, it reminds him of more than ten years of snowy nights, what is the difference between this scene in front of him and the Sumen tragedy more than ten years ago? This scene has never been broken.

Wu Qi dismounted, walked up to Li Zhuo, and said: "Wu Qi has seen the commander, this is a letter from the lord of my family to the commander......" took out the letter from his arms that was more than a month old and was a little crumpled, and handed it to Li Zhuo.

Li Zhuo's hand trembled slightly and opened the letter, almost under his eyes, only to see clearly the small characters written by Lin Zhu's charcoal pen, after reading it for a long time, Li Zhuo said to Wu Qi: "Sacrifice life for righteousness, although I will not give up, my road is almost at the end, and I don't have the heart to explore anything more; Where is the road in Huaidong, I can't see through, I just hope you go back and tell your family, think about the people's livelihood! ”

Wu Qi looked at Gao Zongting, although Lin Lian's letter was not known to Gao Zongting, it should not be difficult for Gao Zongting to guess what was written in the letter, and at this time, the only person who could persuade Li Zhuo not to go to Beijing was Gao Zongting.

Once the defense line of Yanbei collapses, and the captives re-enter Yannan and threaten the Jingshi, will the emperor who is in the deep lock palace and high above think that the fault is all on him? Will Zhang Xie, Hao Zongcheng and others admit that they have not fulfilled their duties as courtiers? Those fanatical courtiers, scholars, Qingliu and the people of Beijing who are fanatical about pacifying the captives once a day, will they think that they will calmly wake up to the gains and losses?

If you want to find a scapegoat, there is no more suitable person than Li Zhuo.

Li Zhuo had been deprived of military power at this time, and the post of secretary of the military department was also replaced by Zhou Zongxian, but after all, he had the merits of Songshan's great victory, and the imperial court was looking forward to the Jizhen army to pacify Liao, so he could take advantage of the fact that Liaoxi had not yet been defeated and resigned to return to his hometown for retirement. Huaidong arranged for a sea ship to send him south quickly, so that he could get out of this place of right and wrong.

Even if he doesn't go to Huaidong, even if Li Zhuo goes back to his hometown in Jiangxi, it will be much safer than going back to Beijing.

Besides, when Li Zhuo returned to Beijing at this time, Emperor Chongguan might not be happy to see him.

Gao Zongting opened his mouth to speak, but he stopped again. Sometimes he knows that there is a dead end ahead, but he still has to go, maybe the commander still has the last trace of hope in his heart, hoping that after the situation in the north collapses, the emperor will wake up and use him to make up for the crisis - even if there will be any accidents in the capital at this time, it is Li Zhuo's last support.

Gao Zongting waved at Wu Qi and said, "Thank you General Wu for taking care of you all the way, and after you arrive in Linyu, let's say goodbye." Not only did he not persuade Li Zhuo not to go to Beijing, but he also made up his mind to accompany Li Zhuo to Beijing.

Wu Qi knew that he couldn't persuade him, so just like the Hou Ye back then, he admitted a dead reason in life and death, and he was not afraid of life and death.

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traveled all the way to the south, and when he arrived at Linyu Pass, he rushed Hao Zongcheng to order the defenders of Linyu Pass to go north to Liaoxi. In western Liaoning, the Donghu people organized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to capture Songshan City, Hao Zongcheng repelled it, and pursued it in columns, and won more than 500 heads.

The cavalry team of the victory entered the Linyu Pass City majestically, and more than a dozen heads were hung on both sides of each war horse, frozen into an ice gourd, with a hideous face, and the people in the city were onlookers, and it was really as happy as a festival - in the eyes of Wu Qi and others, this was just the last return of the Dayue Dynasty, and such a victory was sent by the Donghu people.

Li Zhuo led his troops into western Liaoning, with more than 60,000 soldiers and horses. Although the vanguard swept down Songshan City, the strength of the entire Northern Expeditionary Army was arranged in a gradient, and Li Zhuo would not concentrate all his troops in Songshan City, so as to give the Donghu people a chance to wrap up. Just like the Donghu people gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses on the periphery of Datong, but the ones who really entered the vision of the Datong city wall were only 20,000 or 30,000, and more troops were scattered on the outer line.

Including more than 12,000 garrisons in Matsuyama Castle, the entire front line has less than 30,000 troops; After entering western Liaoning, Li Zhuo put more energy into restoring the Saibao on the line from Ningjin to Songshan. Even in the cold season, more than ten docks from Ningjin to Songshan were barely restored, and about 30,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in these docks.

Now the soldiers and horses in western Liaoning have been transferred to Hao Zongcheng to the front line of Songshan, and he is constantly pumping troops from the rear of Linyu and Changli to press up - although Hao Zongcheng's action in Songshan to attack Liaoyang is not big, and he is also afraid that he will lose if he rashly attacks Liaoyang, but he has moved the center of gravity of the entire Jizhen army forward, and he has already fallen into the trap of the Donghu people and cannot jump out.

Don't say that the Donghu people can return to Yannan from the direction of Datong, but Hao Zongcheng transferred the Jizhen army to the front line of Songshan, and the Donghu people sent an elite cavalry from the flank to wade directly through the sea ice three or four feet thick in Liaodong Bay.

Li Zhuo still refused to despair when he arrived at Linyu Pass, stayed in Linyu Pass for a few days to watch the situation, and wrote several letters to the generals who went north to Hao Zongcheng, Yuan Lishan and others.

On the fifth day of the second month, from Wu'an County, Jinzhong, there was news that there were captives and cavalry outposts plundering the border, and neither the imperial court nor Linyu paid much attention to this news. The main force of the captive cavalry was stranded in the Datong line, and its outpost rangers infiltrated Jinzhong, which seemed to many people to be a common thing, and they were more eager to hope that the battle of Liaoxi could achieve a big victory.

Wu Qi knew that this was a precursor to the detour of the captive cavalry from Jinzhong.

Jingcheng and Wu'an counties all have passes from Jinzhong to Yannan, which is one for Fukou and one for Jingcheng, and then north is Flying Fox, and then north is Puyin, which is connected with Datong in Gyeonggi, also known as Bauhinia Pass.

Wu Qi couldn't delay any more time in Linyu, and Li Zhuo also knew that the general trend was not something he could change, so he said goodbye to each other in Linyu that day. Wu Qi led his men and horses to Jinhai, and Li Zhuo, Gao Zongting, Geng Quanshan, and Chen Dingbang traveled west to Beijing......

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, as soon as Wu Qi returned to Jinhai, he received the news that Ye Jiduodi, the prince of Dongyu, led the elite cavalry from Jingcheng County to re-enter Yannan.

Ye Ji Duodi led not many cavalry, only more than 10,000 fine horses, horses have a pair, but the speed is very fast, like a thunderbolt through the air, in Jinzhong, Yannan caught off guard, suddenly interspersed in the middle of Jinzhong, seize the city, and then enter Yannan.

This is the first wave, and Huaidong expects that the Donghu people will be able to draw 30,000 elite cavalry from the 100,000 soldiers and horses in the direction of Datong to fight in a roundabout way.

When the Jizhen army was evacuated, including Yannan, Gyeonggi and Jizhou, there were no soldiers and horses who could fight with the captives.

After Wu Qi joined Sun Shangwang, Lin Xuwen and others, they didn't care much about the news that the captives rode into Yannan, and they could only guard the three cities of Hejian, Cangzhou, and Jinhai at the moment. The weather will not be cold anymore, as long as the sea route is smooth, Jinhai will have a way out.

Everyone's eyes were on the north: did Hao Zongcheng continue to attack Liaoyang after knowing that the captive cavalry on the Datong side had inserted Yannan from Jinzhong, or did he hastily retreat from Songshan? If Hao Zongcheng decided to withdraw his troops from Songshan and intercept and block the Donghu people, how many troops would be able to withdraw to Guannei in the end?