prosperous age

Chapter 227 Chapter 226
"In a while, you will control Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei's people, and kill those who are disobedient."

After Wei Guangde's voice fell, Zhang Ji was fine, but Dong Yiyuan's hand, which was putting armor on Wei Guangde, paused slightly, and then returned to normal.

But even so, Dong Yiyuan's heart was overwhelmed, he didn't know how to say what kind of shit mission he received this time.

While pretending nothing happened, he was still putting on armor for Wei Guangde, but he was also calculating the pros and cons in his heart.

He didn't know what was going on between Wei Guangde and Weng Pu, but he had also heard about how Wei Guangde's biography came about. Wei Guangde was also appointed by Emperor Jiajing when he went out to patrol the border. It is said that he was awarded an official position in the Imperial Academy without following the normal procedures.

Obviously, Wei Guangde is a famous figure with the emperor. If there is no accident, there is a high probability of becoming a minister in the cabinet in the future.

Such a No. [-] person, if you can not offend, then don't offend him.

But now, which side should I stand on?
Wei Guangde was going to deal with the general officer of Xuanfu Town this time. Dong Yiyuan probably understood the conversation between the three people before.

He also has his own judgment, and the current situation is indeed not good.

Dong Yiyuan was very entangled and couldn't make a choice, but he couldn't resist under Wei Guangde's gaze.

"No one speaks for you in the court, you think you will live well."

Wei Guangde guessed what Dong Yiyuan was thinking, and said something in a low voice.

This time, Dong Yiyuan was not the least bit different. He knew what was going on with the frontier army. Even Ma Fang's achievements in the Gengwu Revolution were snatched by Qiu Luan in the end, saying that he led his troops to defeat them. of.

It turned out that he didn't become a guerrilla general until the end of the year. This was also the promotion that those officials who received Ma Fang's filial piety helped them speak.

Well, in the frontier army, standing in line is very powerful. If there is no one behind you, you may not be rewarded for your meritorious deeds. If you make a mistake, you may be fined, or even thrown into prison.

Hearing Wei Guangde's second sentence, although Dong Yiyuan also guessed that if he didn't fight well this time, Wei Guangde might not have good fruit when he returned to the court, but thinking that he was in the heart of the emperor, he also wanted to gamble .

Immediately, he nodded imperceptibly, he believed that Wei Guangde could understand what he meant.

After Wei Guangde received Dong Yiyuan's support, he naturally developed confidence.

In border towns and in the army, without the support of powerful figures in the military, it would be impossible to do anything.

Don't look at the governors and governors who seem to be very powerful, but they must actually be able to command those soldiers.

If you don't move around, no matter how high your official position is, you will be ignored.

Then you go to play and ginseng him, and you want to transfer him away, and you don’t know how much delay you have to go back and forth.

Now, Wei Guangde has no time to waste, he intends to cut through the mess quickly, use the current opportunity to seize power, and then let the Xuanfu army follow his instructions to strive for a way to survive.

As for how many soldiers will die because of his gambling in the end, he can only say in his heart: "I'm sorry, brothers."

At this time, Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei watched Wei Guangde first put on a set of Ming army's padded armor, and then his personal attendants took out a set of guerrilla general's armor to put on him, which was very strange.

"Master Wei, what do you mean?"

Liu Dazhang couldn't help asking.

"This is a set of high-grade cotton armor my father gave me. I thought it might be dangerous for a while, so I put it on first."

Wei Guangde replied lightly.

On the other hand, Zhang Ji said loudly: "This is my lord's battle armor, and he was wearing it to kill a Japanese pirate on the battlefield last year."

It's a bit louder, but it's more informative.

This young Jinshi actually went to the battlefield to kill Japanese pirates?

Not only Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei, but even the soldiers next to them had expressions of disbelief.

"It was the gang of Japanese pirates who invaded Nanjing City last year. Our Jiujiang Guards went to destroy them. My master's father is Jiujiang Wei Qianhu, and my uncle is the commander. He took my master to the battlefield last year. He was also with us. A group of young masters from Jiujiangwei.

Those Japanese pirates are really powerful. Not only are they skilled in swordsmanship, they can catch arrows empty-handed and throw them back, just like shooting with a bow. Well, it was my young master who brought his own soldiers and servants to kill all the Tartars. "

Zhang Ji had guessed what Wei Guangde was going to do, and he was actually afraid, terribly afraid.

But he had already boarded the Wei family's boat, and it was hard to get out. At this time, he just used this padded jacket to blow Wei Guangde's reputation. After all, he was from a military household.

Regardless of whether these people are servants of Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei, they are all from military households and have a sense of kinship, not pure civil servants.

"I've heard that the Japanese pirates are really powerful. They couldn't even defeat the Nanjing Jingying camp. They were wiped out by Jiujiang Guard. I didn't expect Mr. Wei to be from Jiujiang Guard, and he participated in that war. He is really young and promising."

At this time, Tian Shiwei seemed to be a little impressed by Wei Guangde, and complimented him.

"Master Tian is flattering you, Wei just did what he should do."

Wei Guangde smiled kindly.

For ordinary soldiers, Zhang Ji told Wei Guangde's family background, he was a thousand households and he was a commander, and it was okay to bluff the soldiers. Naturally, it didn't have much effect on Liu Dazhang, Tian Shiwei, and the soldiers around them.

When the commanders from the inland came to the border towns, they might not even get the rank of general, at most they would work for a guerrilla general, and if they were commanders of the guards, that general would be fine.

As for Wei Guangde's father, Qianhu, he may not be able to become a guerrilla general. We still have to investigate to see if you have the ability to lead troops independently.

In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, those who held the rank of general could lead troops to fight alone, and they could be regarded as talents selected by the guards.

"Master Wei is indeed young and promising. I am at Mr. Wei's age, and I am still staying at home, and I haven't even taken up my post."

Liu Dazhang also echoed.

Wei Guangde put on his armor and got on his horse again.

To be honest, riding a horse on weekdays is really different from riding a horse now. The armor weighs tens of catties, which is a bit laborious, and it is much heavier than cotton armor.

Seeing Wei Guangde mount his horse again, Liu Dazhang continued: "Your Majesty Wei's determination to kill the enemy can be learned from time to time, but the current situation is really not good for us. It is best to start withdrawing the army now, even if Liu Huan's troops are temporarily killed by the Tartars. If they are entangled, they will go to reinforce Altan Khan, so it should be easy to escape."

"What does Master Tian mean?"

Wei Guangde did not immediately respond to Liu Dazhang's words, but asked Tian Shiwei for his opinion.

This person's attitude is vacillating until now, although most of the time he listens to Liu Dazhang, but in Wei Guangde's view, as long as he doesn't express his attitude, he can fight for it.

If he directly controls both Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei, the military formation in front of them will not be able to say that those generals and guerrillas will make trouble and mutiny.

Liu Dazhang and Wei Guangde don't have any hope, this person won't listen to him at critical times, so he must be taken down.

If Tian Shiwei was won over and issued orders in the name of his deputy commander, those generals in front would not dare to make trouble.

"I don't have any opinions on the humble job, what the adults say and do."

Tian Shiwei replied very tactfully, he only said to obey the order, but he didn't say whether he obeyed Liu Dazhang's order or his Wei Guangde's order.

At this time, Wei Guangde rode his horse and came to Liu Dazhang's horse. He seemed to be discussing with him. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Dong Yiyuan calling several team officers to whisper something.

Without paying much attention, Wei Guangde looked at Liu Dazhang and said, "Earlier, Master Liu said that Ma Fang could be abandoned at this time, so we and Liu Huan can still get away with it, right?"

"General Ma, I have no choice but to do it. Now he has been lost in the Tartar camp, and we are not strong enough to rescue him."

Liu Dazhang frowned slightly when he heard Wei Guangde's words, although the soldiers dare not speak ill of their generals, but they are all sensible, they still discuss in private, abandoning their comrades, what kind of words do they say.

But when Wei Guangde said this in person, Liu Dazhang was a bit uncomfortable.

Wei Guangde only smiled slightly when he heard the words, and then said: "I still insist, I can't retreat at this time.

We have the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield, or even retreat completely, but the price is that Ma Fang will be wiped out by the Tartars.

You can give up Ma Fang's department today, but which one will you choose to give up in tomorrow's battle? "

Wei Guangde suddenly raised his voice and asked loudly.

"Master Wei."

Hearing Wei Guangde's words, Liu Dazhang couldn't hold back anymore, and was very angry in his heart, so his tone was very bad, "Stay here, the lives of the soldiers of the Wanxuan Mansion here are in danger. Compared with the tens of thousands of people here, there are two thousand people here. , which is more important?"

"Ma Fang's troops are still fighting, we can't leave them alone just to escape for our own lives."

Wei Guangde replied.

"What can you do? Could it be that you can win by continuing to attack and occupying the Tartar army camp?"

Liu Dazhang issued a series of rhetorical questions.

"Yes, as long as we rush into the Tatar army camp and wipe out the Tartars in the camp, even if Ma Fang's tribe really falls, then we will avenge our brothers in the camp. To put it bluntly, we are right, Tatars The son killed more than 2000 of our brothers, and we also killed 2000 of them."

Facing Liu Dazhang's rhetorical question, Wei Guangde replied loudly, "If we move fast enough to destroy the Tartars in the camp before Ma Fang's troops are wiped out, we can still go forward and attack Al Da Khan's camp. It doesn’t matter if we take care of the brothers who rushed out, there are still many things we can do, but it is definitely not going back to Baoanzhou.”

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, he stared at Liu Dazhang coldly.

In fact, he also knew in his heart that withdrawing troops and retaining strength might be the most correct choice, but it was too bad for him, so Wei Guangde had to persevere.

Moreover, after wearing the armor, Wei Guangde also figured out his own idea, there is still something feasible, he can't run out of the city in the middle of the night to give the Tartar his head, and he has to pull out some of his teeth no matter what.

Destroying the thousand households currently in the Tartar camp is the most feasible solution.

It seems that the fighting power of the Tartars in the camp is not strong, maybe they are the ordinary Tartars that Ma Fang mentioned.

At this time, there were bursts of gunfire from the direction of the camp gate behind the Alta Ministry, and it was obvious that the second wave of raids had begun.

The first wave of Liu Huanbu was able to stop the Tartars, obviously because the power of the new batch of firecrackers was astonishing enough, and they were able to fire continuously to surprise the Tartars. It is also possible that the charging Tartars were not their elite, so for a while I was stunned in between.

Now people must be prepared, so naturally it is not so easy to block.

Sure enough, when Wei Guangde was arguing with Liu Dazhang, the messenger from the Liu Huan Department arrived again, and now the Liu Huan Department has been entangled with the Tartars and asked for reinforcements.

Naturally, the second time the Tartars rushed to the camp was not the same as the last time. The first ones were all archers. After they rushed out of the camp gate, they quickly released arrows and shot at the Ming army with a dense rain of arrows.

After the gunners of the Ming army shot all the cartridges, except for those who were able to draw their bows and fight back, everyone else could only raise their knives and follow Liu Huan and the Tartars to hedge. The two sides had already engaged in battle near the gate of the camp.

"understood."

The messenger retreated, and Liu Dazhang naturally would not send him reinforcements, and there was no reinforcements to send at this time.

"Master Wei, no matter what we say now, we have to retreat to the city. I am the commander-in-chief here, and I have the final say."

Liu Dazhang didn't want to continue arguing with Wei Guangde, the most important thing was to save his life.

Once the Tartars broke through Liu Huan's block, Ma Fang's tribe would be wiped out sooner or later, and the tens of thousands of infantry might not have a chance to return to the city.

"Come on."

Liu Dazhang was about to give an order to order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and he took his men back first, he already figured out Wei Guangde's purpose, it might be bad luck for him to go back, and there is no need for him to accompany him.

"Liu Zongbing, have you made up your mind?"

Wei Guangde interrupted him and asked again.

"Mingjin withdraws troops."

Liu Dazhang ignored Wei Guangde, and there was no need to pay attention to him, and directly ordered loudly.

The brief confrontation of a few words made Tian Shiwei on one side unable to intervene at all. He already had a premonition that the two of them might have a falling out. I heard Wei Guangde also speak.

"Come here, take down Liu Dazhang, how dare you disobey Lord Weng Puweng's military order and retreat in front of the battle, ignoring the friendly army, and arrest him."

Wei Guangde ordered loudly.

Tian Shiwei looked at Wei Guangde in disbelief, and Liu Dazhang also looked at him as if he was insane, but the next second he heard exclamations from behind him, and when he looked back, several soldiers around him had been killed. Kicking off the horse, surrounded by Jizhen cavalry led by Dong Yiyuan.

Before he could speak, the reins of the horse in his hand had been taken away and held by a flag from Ji Town, and several people nearby also took out their sabers and aimed at him.

"You want to rebel?"

Liu Dazhang laughed back angrily, but roared fiercely.

When the words fell, his personal soldiers also drew their sabers to step forward to rescue him, but they were still a step too late, and a circle of Ji Town cavalry had already surrounded them.

"When we left Juyongguan, Mr. Weng only gave me a word, listen to Mr. Wei."

Dong Yiyuan looked at Liu Dazhang and clasped his fists and said, "Lord Liu, I'm sorry, the humble job is just following orders."

"Master Tian, ​​you don't want to disobey Lord Weng's orders, do you? You have seen those military orders before."

At this time, Wei Guangde once again used the previous military order to threaten Tian Shiwei. At this time, another team of Jizhen cavalry had surrounded Tian Shiwei.

(End of this chapter)