prosperous age

"So it turns out that His Highness is worried about the child's early death."

Wei Guangde murmured.

Wei Guangde can understand King Yu's worry.

If you don't have children, you are still young and have hope, but if you have children and die early, you will be sad, and the blow may even be greater than that of not having children.

Thinking of the two sons and two daughters who had died, Wei Guangde really felt sympathetic to King Yu at this moment.

It was so miserable.

"Eunuch Li, it's best not only to find an imperial doctor from the imperial hospital to treat and recuperate Li Gongren's body, but also to find some capable doctors from the private sector."

Wei Guangde whispered to Li Fang.

"Folk doctor?"

Li Fang was stunned for a moment, and asked back uncertainly.

"There is a proverb circulating in the capital, and Eunuch Li may have heard it too."

Wei Guangde replied.

"What proverb?"

Li Fang asked with a frown.

Wei Guangde glanced at Li Fang, the corner of his mouth twitched and said: "Articles from the Imperial Academy, swords and guns from the arsenal, tea soup from Guanglu Temple, and prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital."

Wei Guangde had heard this passage not long ago, and it was Zhang Ji who told him.

He also didn't care much about the phrase "Articles from the Imperial Academy", no matter how beautiful the articles from the Imperial Academy were, that was actually the case.

People ridicule the articles of the Imperial Academy for boasting, but they don't say what the cabinet votes are. Obviously, they can distinguish the importance.

In fact, it was also because he often went to the imperial doctor of Taiyuan Hospital to recuperate Xu Jianglan's body. As a result, Zhang Ji told him what he had heard outside when he came back. Maybe it was because he knew about it from him that he kindly reminded him.

This passage is ridiculing what is not worthy of the name, rather than saying how good they really are.

After learning about this, Wei Guangde asked Lu Bu about it. After all, he is a native of Sijiucheng, and then heard several different versions from him, but without exception, they all have "prescriptions from the Imperial Hospital". This passage.

Seeing that Li Fang hadn't responded, Wei Guangde laughed again: "Besides, there are several jokes circulating among the people, about 'articles from the Imperial Academy, swords and guns from the Luanyu guards, prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital, and leather suitcases from Luomashi.'

What I said, in fact, is that these 'speaks are superficial and not suitable for use. '

If you haven't heard it yet, there is still a paragraph, let me think about it, what is it talking about. "

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde lowered his head and recalled for a while before he remembered, and then read: "Articles from the Imperial Academy, prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital, tea soup from Guanglu Temple, Luan Yiwei sedan chair bar"

Before Wei Guangde could finish speaking, Li Fang hastily waved his hands and said, "OK, OK, I understand what it means. It seems that someone mentioned it before, but I just listened to it as a joke and didn't take it to heart. .

Hearing what you said this time, I will ask someone when I turn around to find out where there are doctors who are good at recuperating the body, preventing miscarriage and so on. "

"If Eunuch Li believes in me, I'll go back to the mansion and ask. You can also inquire about the doctor I was looking for outside. Anyway, it seems that he is really capable."

Wei Guangde said again.

When he heard this, he immediately asked Zhang Ji to look for folk doctors in the streets and alleys of the capital.

Regardless of whether his methods are better than the imperial physicians of the Imperial Hospital, at least with Xu Jianglan, the mother and child are not safe.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Now that Wei Guangde said to introduce the doctor to Mrs. Wei, Li Fang naturally wouldn't say that he would send someone out to look for it, so he agreed immediately.

Wei Guangde also took note of this matter, and when he returned to the mansion, he called Zhang Ji, learned about the doctor's situation in detail, and then sent someone to send news to Yu Wang's mansion.

As for what Li Fang would do, Wei Guangde couldn't control it.

Time passed day by day, time entered August, and the day when Li Gongren gave birth was approaching.

During this period of time, this matter was undoubtedly the top priority in Prince Yu's mansion, and because of this, Wei Guangde knew the name of Li Gongren, Li Caifeng.

Caifeng is really a bit of a matriarch, like a queen.

The emperor is a dragon, isn't the queen a phoenix?
However, King Yu's empress is destined to be the concubine Chen. Even if Li Caifeng and Li Gongren give birth to a prince, unless the prince finally ascends the throne as emperor, it is impossible to be a queen.

After all, the concubine does not just let whoever King Yu wants to do it. It was ordered by Emperor Jiajing, and the inner court will bestow the gold book.

"Boom"

Accompanied by the sound like thunder, a large group of Tanu cavalry galloped across the plain.

This cavalry had only broken through the permanent fort a few days ago, looted the villages and towns outside Liaoyang City, and now roared out of the already dilapidated side wall and ran to the north.

In the past few months, the Mongol Tartars seem to be at odds with Liaoyang. They successively broke through the permanent fortresses west of Liaoyang, Changning Fort and other side walls. After sweeping around Liaoyang, they escaped through the side walls without paying attention to the surrounding Ming Army Fortress.

You know, where they are located, there are Ming army border forts within tens of miles to the left and right. If the Ming army goes out of the fort to intercept them, as long as there is a little delay, the people of the Liaoyang General Army will catch up.

After all, the Liaodong Great Wall is in the shape of a "V" here, and from the perspective of using troops, it is also an extremely risky move.

"Taiji, I'm afraid Yang Zhao is about to go crazy right now. In the past half a month, we have broken the side wall twice and ransacked the entire west side of Liaoyang, haha"

It was Dalaisun who spoke, and this time he broke through the pass, and on the way, he happened to encounter the soldiers transporting grain and grass in Liaoyang City. They carried a lot of grain and prepared to distribute it to the forts below.

It is also because not long after they broke the wall and looted property last time, the fortresses urgently needed food and grass to rescue the affected military households and civilians.

When the two armies encountered each other, fighting was inevitable.

However, the Ming army was equipped with soldiers, but they had little combat power. Almost as soon as the Tartar cavalry rushed in, many people in the Ming army turned around and fled, leading to the collapse of the entire army. It was easy to grab a lot of food.

"We are lucky, and we have this food. I believe Yang Zhao will lead his troops to chase after him this time. How do you plan to deal with him then?"

The one who spoke was naturally Xin Ai, the son of Altan Khan, who was also Huang Taiji.

Relying on their speed advantage, the Tartar cavalry could go back and forth vertically and horizontally, making it impossible for the Ming army to defend against them.

Only this time, because they grabbed a large number of grain trucks, their speed was greatly slowed down.

But this seemed to be exactly what they wanted, they seemed to be eager for the Ming army to catch up, Huang Taiji was still in the mood to call Sun to joke with his subordinates.

"Over there, I'm afraid I'm already getting impatient with the wait. Then I'll compete with him to see who can catch or kill Yang Zhao, hehehe."

In the Tumed tribe of Mongolia, there are not many warriors who are capable of fighting Dalaisun, and Baduer in his mouth is one of them.

Last time, Ba Du'er followed Huang Taiji to attack Changning Fort and ransacked it, but this time it was him who called Sun.

"This place is nearly a hundred miles away from Xiongshan Mountain. We can't relax our vigilance. If Yang Zhao leads people to chase, you have to take people back to intercept and pretend to be defeated, you know?"

Huang Taiji reminded.

"Taiji, don't worry."

Sun replied indifferently when he called.

While the two slowed down their horses to talk, there was a fast horse galloping behind them.

After arriving near the left, the knight did not dismount to report like the Ming army did, but directly rode up to the two of them and reported loudly: "Tai Chi, Lord Du Tong, the Ming army has chased us thirty miles away."

"Oh, can the leader of the team check it out?"

Huang Taiji hadn't spoken yet, but Sun couldn't wait to ask him the question he was most concerned about when he called.

"There is a Yang character flag in the Ming army, but it is not sure whether it is the Ming army Yang Zhao leading the team."

The scout hurriedly replied.

"Why can't you be sure."

Calling Sun was anxious at the moment, he raised his horsewhip unconsciously, but just as he raised his hand, he had to put it down because of Huang Taiji's eyes, so he had to suppress his anger and asked.

"The Ming army was guarded by cavalry on the front, back, left, and right sides, and they couldn't get close. Also, because the Ming army was marching, the smoke and dust were too heavy, and the flag could not be determined."

The scout hurriedly replied.

He almost took a whip, right now he just wanted to complete the task of reporting the letter as soon as possible and get out of here.

"Continue to stare at it and investigate it as soon as possible."

Huang Taiji spoke at this time, and then waved his hand to signal him to leave.

"Yes."

The scout wished to leave early, but Sun's temper was not very good when he called, so he promised to turn his horse's head and go back.

"Keep at this speed. When we reach Xiongshan Mountain, the Ming army will probably catch up. I just hope that the governor of the Ming country will not do anything bad."

Huang Taiji said to Dalaisun while calculating the marching speed of the two armies.

"Yang Zhao has led troops out, he will still listen to the governor of Ming Kingdom?"

Sun didn't believe it when he called, so he answered casually.

"I hope so."

Although Huang Taiji was rather reckless, whoever was by Altan Khan's side for a long time had also come into contact with many Ming people, especially those white lotus followers who defected from Ming.

During the contact, I learned from them that the generals of the Ming Dynasty listen to those civil servants.

In the territory of Liaodong, the biggest military general is Liaoyang General Soldier, followed by Guangning Deputy General Soldier, but there is also a Liaodong Governor on the head of the two of them, and this is the largest official in Liaodong.

As for the civil servants, Huang Taiji didn't care about them, even if he had inquired about this person before, he knew that he was approved by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty by suppressing a rebel named Shi Shangzhao in the Ming Dynasty, and sent him to inspect Liaodong.

"The governor of the Ming Dynasty is called Wang Zhigao. He used to participate in the suppression of Henan Shi Shangzhao's rebellion. At that time, he was the Henan Counselor and the deputy envoy of military preparation."

At this time, behind Huang Taiji, a man who looked obviously different from the Mongols said loudly.

Needless to say, this person is of course also a person from Guihua City, and many of them stayed with the leaders of various Mongolian tribes to serve as chanting paintings and other positions.

At this moment, they also heard the two talking about the governor of Liaodong, so they spoke.

"Yes, it's Wang Zhigao, the governor here."

As soon as he was reminded, Sun said loudly when he called.

"Let's talk about it after confirming that the person behind him is Yang Zhao."

Huang Taiji just said something casually.

At night, for the safety of the march, both the Mongols and the Ming army chose to set up camp as soon as it got dark.

Marching at night, the soldiers and horses will get separated for various reasons, and even cause chaos and get out of hand.

It's just that, even after setting up the camp, Mongolian scouts kept approaching outside the Ming army's barracks, even if the Ming army's sentry cavalry continued to drive them away, it was ineffective.

In the middle of the night, Huang Taiji finally got a report from the scouts in the tent, confirming that the leading general of the Ming army was Yang Zhao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

In fact, what they planned this time was to hurt the Ming army and let the Ming army in Jizhen go eastward to support Liaodong.

Of course, on this basis, if the officials of the Ming Dynasty with sufficient official positions can be killed by the way, that would be a great wish.

The people of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong are naturally the governor of Liaodong and the two general officers, so whether it is Huang Taiji or other Mongolian leaders, they naturally hope that this time they will be able to catch Yang Zhao, a big fish.

Even thinking about it, they knew that it was impossible for the governor of the Ming Dynasty to go to war. After all, he was just a civil servant.

In the early morning of the second day, the two armies chasing on the plain got up early at the same time and broke out of camp to go north one after another, but one was running and the other was chasing.

The general who led the Ming army this time was really Yang Zhao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. In the two months after the end of the rainy season, Liaoyang was tossed and ruined by the Mongols.

After breaking through the side wall several times in a row, he was completely ignored as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

The first two times, when Yang Zhao learned that the border fort was broken, Yang Zhao had led his troops to pursue it, but the Tartars ran too fast.

This time, Yang Zhao learned that there were only 3000 or [-] Tartars coming in, and he moved slowly because he had robbed dozens of carts of food, so he naturally felt that this was an opportunity, a chance to eliminate this group of Tartars.

As long as this group of Tartars is wiped out, no Tartars should dare to invade Liaoyang in the next year or two.

It was precisely because of this thought that he mobilized more than 5000 cavalry from Liaoyang and its surrounding areas to go out and pursue, vowing to regain the lost food and grass.

Along the way, the scouts of the Tartars continued to scout the Ming army, and the scouts of the Ming army were naturally following the traces of the Tartars, and their strength was already known.

It really looks like there are less than 3000 people.

The Tartar soldiers and horses who broke the side wall these few times have always shown a decreasing trend, and in Yang Zhao's view, it should be the result of the Tartar soldiers and horses dividing up part of the soldiers and horses to transport away the looted property before.

Now that the news has been confirmed, he naturally doesn't pay attention to a mere 3000 people.

There are not many such opportunities. The Ming army marched faster than the Mongolian Tartars, and they saw that they could not escape.

It was precisely because of this preconceived idea that Yang Zhao's pursuit became bolder, and he did not worry about the Mongols cheating at all, even though he had received a letter from Governor Yang Xuan of Jiliao before, reminding him to be careful and beware of large-scale attacks by the Tartars. Capture Liaodong.

Yang Zhao's mind was actually similar to that of Yang Bo, Minister of the Ministry of War. He didn't really believe that the Tartars would set their target on the bitter cold land of Liaodong.

The journey of dozens of miles passed quickly during the march of the cavalry. In the eyes of the forwards of the Ming army, the smoke and dust raised by the passing army ahead were clearly visible, and they had already caught up with the Tartars.

"Quick, speed up, and catch up with them."

The guerrilla general who led the vanguard hastily issued an order, and at the same time sent a messenger to report to the commander-in-chief behind him. Naturally, the purpose was to ask him to allocate a part of his troops to go up from the flanks and intercept the Tartars' escape route.

Yang Zhao got the notification from the front and knew that the forward had bitten the tartar's tail, so he hurriedly dispatched two teams of cavalry to outflank it from the left and right flanks.

These two groups of troops don't need many people, as long as they can block the Tartar army for a while, most of them can reach the battlefield.

The two sides have been marching all the way in the past few days, and there is no shortage of people and horses. Everyone is in the same situation. The Ming army still has the advantage in numbers, so he is not worried at all that they will not be able to defeat.

And between running and chasing, the two armies quickly entered Xiongshan.