Chapter 173: The external enemy is not clean, and internal troubles regenerate

Seeing that Tang Feng's speed had slowed down, the Tiger Cavalry naturally could not leave him, so he slowed down his speed. Now that the enemy was chasing him, they didn't need anyone to give instructions, they immediately divided fifty people and turned their heads to meet him, while the other fifty people continued to protect Tang Feng and rushed forward. Sima Junyi also turned the heads of the horse at the same time, and turned around and killed him with the Tiger Cavalry.

When the Jin army saw the Ming army turning back, they were shocked and happy. Although they did not expect that the Ming army had the courage to turn around and fight, they felt that this was a good opportunity to make contributions when they saw only a few people to stop them. However, this time they met someone they could not mess with. The tiger cavalry had already loaded their muskets while walking north. Once the Jin army reached the range, they fired a burst of guns at them. Although these guns were moving because both sides were moving and the damage was not too great, they still played a deterrent role, which made the speed of the Jin army rushing forward stagnant.

Ma Junyi was even more brave. When the Jin army was shot, he had already urged his horse to quickly kill him. Although the Jin army shot several arrows, they were all blocked by the long axe that was dancing like a windmill in his hand. When he entered the Jin army formation, the long axe in his hand was even more whimpering. The three Jin army who were about to swing their swords to slash at him in just one encounter, they were chopped into six pieces by his powerful axe. The fifty tiger cavalry following Ayi were not willing to let it go. After he entered the Jin army formation, they also rushed in, and the steel knife in his hand slashed into the bodies of the Jin soldiers in a burst of sounds of breaking through the air.

Although the number of people is very different, the fierce killing methods of Tiger Cavalry and Ayi made the nearly 1,000 Jin soldiers panic. After they killed more than a hundred people in the front, the people behind them unconsciously retreated.

After they stopped him, Tang Feng and the others went far away. Seeing that the lord had escaped danger, the tiger cavalry no longer had a fight. After firing another shot to deter the Jin army, they went back to chase north. After laughing, Ayi turned around and ran north again... At the head of Ningyuan City, Yuan Chonghuan looked north with concern. It had been two days since. Although he had not seen the Jin army attack again, they did not wait for Tang Feng and others to take their men back. He suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, afraid that the 30,000 troops pursuing the Jin army would suffer. He knew that chasing the Jin army was not a good choice, and it would be great if he could forcibly stop them from chasing.

With a little uneasiness in his heart, Yuan Chonghuan sighed deeply again. He knew that he could do nothing now. Now the little force in his hands was only enough to defend Ningyuan City. If he left the city, he would probably end up with annihilation of the Jin army. Thinking of the word "annihilation of the entire army", he felt a sudden jump in his heart, hoping that he was overwhelmed.

"Sir, look! Someone is coming over there!" Just as Yuan Chonghuan was thinking about this, a soldier suddenly pointed to the north and shouted loudly. Yuan Chonghuan was happy, thinking that the people chasing the Jin army had returned, and hurriedly raised his eyes and looked around. He saw hundreds of riders and horses appearing from the north. Judging from the clothes and armor, they thought they were the Ming army, but the number of people... When everyone in the city was full of surprise, the hundred riders had already rushed to the city. The first person was Zhen Ziming, who saw that he was covered in blood and had two arrows on his left shoulder.

"Open the city gate!" Once you see clearly, Yuan Chonghuan immediately ordered. After the hundred cavalrymen entered the city and dismounted, everyone fell to the ground. Immediately, the soldiers from the city stepped forward and helped them up and rushed to the military camp for treatment. After Zhen Ziming's injury was bandaged and some food was awake, Yuan Chonghuan asked in a nervous tone: "General Zhen, what's wrong with you? What about the others?"

Hearing this question, Zhen Ziming's face was filled with misery: "The last general is wrong. He is too greedy for me, which leads to ambushing the Jin army outside Jinzhou City, and was surrounded by twice as many as mine. In the end, more than 30,000 soldiers were killed on the spot, even General Wang Kai..." Speaking of this, his voice was already a little choked. Who said that a man would not cry easily? It was because he had not arrived at the place of injury.

"What about Lord Tang?" Although Yuan Chonghuan was saddened by the fact that Wang Kai and many soldiers died in the battlefield, he was more concerned about Tang Feng's situation and hurriedly asked.

Zhen Ziming's voice was a little hoarse, obviously not strong enough, but seeing Yuan Chonghuan's anxious expression, he still insisted on answering: "It's unknown what the last general is. At that time, our troops were divided into two groups, and General Wang and I led all the troops to break south, while Lord Tang led hundreds of cavalry to break north, but after that we started a big battle with the Jin army, so we didn't care about Lord Tang and the others..."

"This means that Lord Tang is likely to have escaped?" Yuan Chonghuan looked at him with anticipation and asked.

"Well, because we have attracted all the main forces of the Jin army to the south, Lord Tang might be able to break out from the north. However, it is not so easy for him to come back. After all, it has been occupied by the Jin army."

Now as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Yuan Chonghuan would rather believe that Tang Feng still has the possibility of survival. After nodding, he let Zhen Ziming recover from his injuries, he left the military camp and returned to the command post to write a military report and sent it to Shanhaiguan to report to Gao Di. Although he couldn't stand Gao Di's style of greed for life and fearing death, he was the highest military and political leader in Liaodong after all. Of course, he had to explain such a big thing to him.

Two days later, Yuan Chonghuan did not wait for Tang Feng and the others to return safely. Instead, Gao Di quickly returned a letter. In the letter, he did not mention the fact that they did not defend the military order and went to war without authorization. Instead, he praised the fearless spirit of the soldiers of Ningyuan City in resisting the Jin army. Then the letter said that Yuan Chonghuan brought his men and horses to rest in Ningyuan Chenghua. He would do all the things for them, and soon there would be rewards from the court, so that they could defend the city with peace of mind.

This letter, which was half like a formal order and half like a private message between friends, made Yuan Chonghuan feel a little unpredictable and profound, but since Shangguan Youling, he had to refuse to listen. Although he and Tang Feng had resisted Gao Di's order before and did not withdraw their troops from Ningyuan, it was forced by the situation, so he would not have completely tear his face with Gao Di.

But three days later, Yuan Chonghuan had to be a head-on enemy with Gao Di because he learned something. When he thought Gao Di would report the war to the court as he said in the letter, Zhao Rui sent his confidants to send news, saying that Gao Di reversed right and wrong and took all the credit for repelling the Jin army's attack on him. It would be fine. He also pushed all the faults of the 30,000 troops who were rampant and wiped out the missing Tang Feng and Wang Kai who died in battle. He said that they refused to obey his advice and led their troops out of the city to pursue the retreating Jin army, resulting in the annihilation of the 30,000 troops, which made the original victory a small defeat.

After hearing this, even Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but curse Gao Di several times, but he didn't know what to do. After all, the other party was the highest military and political official in Liaodong, and the court certainly believed him more than he believed in himself. But if Yuan Chonghuan kept silent, he could not do it. After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to write to the court again, just as he wrote to the court to point out Wang Zaijin's mistakes, and report the war in Liaodong and Gao Di's actions to the court. Only in this way can he be worthy of the soldiers who died in Ningyuan City and outside the city, and Tang Feng, who was determined to defend the city and kill the enemy, but in the end he was not even aware of life and death.

In order to make his memorial attract the attention of enough officials in the court, Yuan Chonghuan also found all the military officers in Ningyuan City and asked them to sign and stamp on the memorial. The generals had long looked down on Gao Di's actions. When they heard that he not only robbed military achievements after the war, they also slandered those who had made merits. They were even more angry. Without saying a word, they signed their name on the memorial, and those who could not write would stamp it.

After all this was done, Yuan Chonghuan sent this memorial to the capital day and night and sent it to the Ministry of War. He didn't believe that Gao Di could cover the sky with one hand and turned everything upside down.

At this time, Gao Di was waiting with satisfaction for everything to settle down, waiting for the court to make a great change in himself after receiving his memorial. Before, he knew that Ning Yuan was a little scared when he repelled the Jin army, fearing that once the truth of the matter was announced, he would not only not become an official, but also be attacked and imprisoned. But after knowing that the military supervisor Tang Feng followed the army to pursue his life and death, he knew that a great opportunity had come. Tang Feng was also a member of the eunuch party, and was deeply supported and trusted by the Liaodong soldiers. If he wrote to the court, he would not have had his own good fruit. But now the most difficult person to deal with is dead, so naturally he could not threaten himself. A dead person naturally could not compare with him, a living person. If Eunuch Wei and his friends wanted to control the military power of Liaodong, they would naturally use themselves, and they would probably not refuse to take advantage of this victory to consolidate their status. After all, there are many people who will do things that add icing on the cake.

Thinking of the grand occasion of his response in Liaodong in the future, Gao Di's smile became even stronger. Of course, he didn't know that there were several pairs of hatred staring at him beside him, and his every move did not escape these pairs of eyes, including the memorial he secretly sent to the capital...
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