Listening to Feng Qi talking about weapons, Li Yanzhi smiled slightly and said, "Did you forget the business that the Arsenal Secretary gave us to cover our mouths?"

Feng Qi yelled and laughed: "Yes! Why did I forget it!"

It turned out that in order to cover Li Yanzhi's mouth, the Arsenal Department gave Li's Iron Factory a business to order weapons. The Li's Iron Factory was a regular workshop in the local area. The Arsenal Department threw an order. The Ministry of War allocated money according to the market price of weapons. After officials at all levels, they stopped and deducted less than 40% of the hands of the Li's Iron Factory. If the Li's Iron Factory was to make weapons according to the quantity and quality of the established Ministry of War, it would be a loss to death. However, the unspoken rules of the officialdom, the Li's Iron Factory only needs to make a batch of embroidered pillows and handed over. According to "convention", the funds spent were about one or two% of the money allocated by the Ministry of War, and the rest would be considered as the profit given to the Li family.

After the weapons are handed over, the Arsenal Department will still have to verify them. At this time, according to the "convention", Li Yanzhi should take out a portion of the profit and give it to the deacon officials. Then it can pass smoothly and seal the batch of broken copper and iron into the warehouse.

Of course, the head of the Arsenal Department and the doctor are not a fuel-saving lamp. They gave Li Yanzhi such a generous "gift" to Li Yanzhi, but there was a conspiracy behind it - because the weapons in the warehouse must also be marked with the property department, so if something happens to the Arsenal Department in the future, the superiors will investigate thoroughly, and the Li iron factory will also suffer. Therefore, after the Li family made this money, they had to become a part of the corrupt system of the Arsenal Department. As long as the Li family took on this business, Li Yanzhi would no longer be able to treat the Arsenal Department in the future.

When Si Jia was criticized by one word, and even asked someone to thoroughly investigate the Arsenal Department, Li Yanzhi had to oppose it out of his own interests. The bureaucrats of the Arsenal Department had to win over batches of vested interests through this method and created one after another for this dark abyss. God knows how many people were involved behind each wall! So even if Ding Rukui believed Li Yanzhi's words, he might not have enough power to investigate it thoroughly.

So after the Li family took over this business, the people of the Arsenal Department were relieved. They were waiting for Li Yanzhi to become one of them. However, what the doctor in the Arsenal Department unexpectedly failed to do so after taking over this business, the Li family iron factory did not act according to the "unspoken rules". Instead, they honestly and even processed and added materials to build a batch of good weapons. As well as some inventory in the iron factory warehouse that complies with the regulations of the Ministry of War, they were transported to a warehouse in Tongzhou a few months ago. They were not delivered to the Ministry of War before the delivery time had arrived.

At this time, Li Yan said straight: "After the news from Gubeikou came, I have sent someone to get the batch of weapons, and I guess it will be shipped to you in the afternoon."

Feng Qi smiled and said, "It turns out that the third young master has made arrangements, so I said, "Third master, you are not like a person who can do business at a loss."

Li Yan laughed out loud when he heard this.

In the afternoon of the same day, several vehicles of weapons were indeed transported outside the city. Li Yanzhi obtained a pass from Shangdajie to open the city gate and received weapons into the city. These vehicles include long swords, spears, waist knives, rattan cards, bows and arrows, etc., and also "supplied" fifty bird guns. These weapons were all very well-made, enough to arm an army of 1,500 people! In terms of market price, it was actually more than the full amount allocated by the Ministry of War. After Li Yanzhi took the weapons, he stayed them all, and only sent an official to take two notes to Wu.

The warehouse department, one note is "delivery" and the other note is "take goods". The heads of the weapons and arsenal were not even seen. However, the officials of the warehouse department had just been impeached by the censor and could not protect themselves. Li Yanzhi was trusted by Ding Rukui, Shang Dajie and other Shangguans, and was ordered to command the troops. At the time of the war, it was common to take action first and then report. The officials of the warehouse department were unwilling to cause trouble at this time, so they finished the procedure with a big stroke. It was considered that these weapons had entered the warehouse and were taken away by Li Yanzhi.

After the weapons arrived at Xizhimen Wengcheng, Li Yanzhi first armed the five hundred troops. As for the other thousands of affiliated troops, they were armed with worn-out weapons provided by the Arsenal Division. He looked at the batch of weapons that had not been used up and sighed to Feng Qi: "I originally wanted to be as big as the capital, and thousands of elite troops could always be gathered together, but I didn't expect that I only gathered these five hundred people!"

After the Huma entered the capital, the military and civilians of Beijing felt that time was like a straightened cowhide belt, becoming very tight! The Baihe River was not the Yangtze River. The Mongolians cut trees and rafts without boats, and crossed the Baihe River on the third day. At this time, the 50,000 troops under Shang Dajie were still very loose, and they could only pretend to be on the top of the city or carry it up, and they had no ability to go out of the city to fight. Only Li Yanzhi's battalion had stopped. Qi Jiguang heard that the Mongolians had crossed the river and found out that they were using rafts to cross the river. He couldn't help but pause: "If we could complete the army half a day earlier, even if we only patrol the river with 500 people and cross the river in the middle, they would be unable to come!"

"Half a day?" Li Yanzhi sneered on his face. Of course, this sneer was not raised at Qi Jiguang: "If we could thoroughly investigate the Beijing Army and the arsenal half a year earlier, we still need to be afraid of Altan now?"

Qi Jiguang thought about it and was right. The worst situation had been caused by the top leaders. Now, the only thing they can do is to try their best to dance their own dance on this shabby stage.

While Li Yanzhi and Qi Jiguang were working on temporary cramming training for his subordinate troops, he also asked Shang Dajie to send troops to Tongzhou immediately.

Tongzhou is about twenty miles east of Beijing, and it is the end of the Grand Canal. All the food and supplies from the south are landed here. It is too late to pull all the supplies from Tongzhou to Beijing. Instead, you may encounter Altan's attack on the road! The only way is to send a strong team to defend!

Shangda Festival also understood this section, but said, "Which powerful team is sent?"

The meaning of his words was not to ask Li Yanzhi, but to tell him: Now I don’t have the “powerful team” to send!

"Let the officials go!" Li Yanzhi volunteered.

But Shang Dajie refused. He went to Xizhimen Wengcheng several times in the past two days. Although he didn't know much about military tactics, the mental state and walking pace of the thousands of people under Li and Qi were obviously very different from the "50,000 army" under Shang Dajie, so he had already made such an evaluation in his heart: "This army is available!"

However, he refused to send this army to defend Tongzhou because: "Although Tongzhou is important, the capital is the most important! If Xizhijian goes to Tongzhou, what will happen if the Huma invades Beijing?"

"Xi Direct Operation" is not an official number, but because Li Yanzhi's thousands of people were stationed in the Xizhimen Wengcheng, he was called this. After listening to Shang Dajie's words, Li Yanzhi knew that he wanted to keep him by his side to respond to the emergency.

Although the Ming Dynasty was at home, it was tied up due to the lack of soldiers who could fight in the field. Fortunately, Altan didn't know the truth and reality. He was cautious in using his troops, but he was bold in his caution! One of the Mongolian troops was still in the west to attract the attention of the Ming officers and soldiers, but Altan led the main force to raid Tongzhou! The defenders of Tongzhou scattered and actually allowed him to break into the attack. After Altan got Tongzhou, he laughed and said, "There is no one in the Ming Dynasty! Such a big place did not send heavy troops to guard it!"

How could he know that Shangdajie is not that he does not send heavy troops, but that there is no heavy troops to send!

After Altan occupied Tongzhou, he set up a camp to use it as the base camp of the entire front! He followed the flying cavalry and plundered the surrounding areas of the capital. He sent another cavalry of about 3,000 people to approach Beijing tentatively and directly attack Andingmen!

The defenders on the city were all anxious when they saw each other. Li Yanzhi rushed to ask for battle. Shang Dajie refused and said, "When fighting now, it will reveal the reality of our army in vain!"

Li Yan said straight: "But we won't go out to fight if we force ourselves to the doorstep, so we are showing weakness!"

Shangdajie was hesitant for a long time before asking: "Do you have the absolute certainty to win?"

"How can you absolutely win the war?" Li Yan said straight: "But the enemy is coming from afar, and I feel very nervous. I suddenly attack, and he will be panicked! The subordinates have a 70% chance of winning!"

Shangdajie was about to agree, but the cabinet sent an order, strictly ordering Shangdajie not to fight!

To be fair, this cabinet command was not purely out of fear, and it could even be said to be a smart and prudent decision.

From Yan Song to Xu Jie to Ding Rukui to Shang Dajie, these high-ranking bureaucrats with completely different political positions have reached a consensus at this moment: "You must never face the battle head-on!"

Because at this time, Beijing was a paper tiger, and it could scare people without fighting. If it was fought, the Ming army's foundation would be completely missed! At that time, Altan made a big attack regardless of his life, and the capital would inevitably be lost!

When Shang Dajie was about to retreat again, Li Yan said straight: "In order to ensure the safety of the cabinet, it is normal for this discussion, but the General Constitution leads troops to supervise the battle. If there is no result in the battle, how can the Ministry of War deal with the merits and crimes when the Hu horse retreats? The general is in the army, and the king will not accept the order! Please believe me once!"

When Shangdajie heard the sentence "How to deal with yourself after the Huma retreated", the vest was sweating. He knew that as long as Beijing was not broken, the cabinet ministers would be fine, but if they had no military achievements, they would have to take the blame! He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, go! I will take care of anything if I have anything!"

Li Yan directly ordered and returned to the Xizhizhizhong to pass the order, shouting to the soldiers: "The barbarians violated my capital and regarded me as no one in China! As a warrior, the shame is no greater than this! Now I have asked for the general order here! I want to use Xizhizhizhong to be a death camp and fight against the city! Avenge this shame! Those who are willing to follow me to die and serve the country, take a step forward!"

The supervising team raised the giant axe, and thousands of people hurriedly took a step forward, and dozens of people led the way and shouted: "We are willing to fight to the death with the Lord!"

Thousands of people shouted, "We are willing to fight to the death with the Lord!"

He called three times in a row, and the more he shouted, the more excited he became! Li Yanzhi was overjoyed and shouted: "With this man in the country, why worry about the enemy's failure to destroy it!"

At that time, the arrangements were made with Qi Jiguang. At dusk, the Mongolian soldiers outside Andingmen were a little lazy when they saw that there was no movement in the city for a long time. Xizhixing rushed out in the dusk. When the Mongolians were shocked, the two sides were quite close! Fifty bird guns were ringing together, and amid the banging sound, the war horses were terrified. At the same time, the infantry in the back row shot arrows together, hundreds of feather arrows broke through the air, killing more than a dozen Mongolian knights who had already boarded the horse before the fight. Follow Zhou Wenbao with a long sword hand, slashed with hand-to-hand combat, and the Hu army was in chaos, and the cavalry trampled on each other, either being shot on the horse or falling to the ground and losing their feet. Some people were stuck without time to get on the saddle but were frightened and dragged to death!

The key role of this battle was the five hundred "elite soldiers", and the thousands of people behind were inspired by the victory and bravely moved forward to strengthen their momentum! Thousands of people chased for more than ten miles under the leadership of Li Yanzhi and Qi Jiguang, and forced Tongzhou. Altan was shocked and hurriedly ordered to be on guard. Because they were afraid that the defeated army would disrupt the lineup and cause chain defeat, they did not dare to go out to Tongzhou to meet the enemy.

Qi Jiguang said to Li Yan directly: "Supervisor, stop when he sees it is good!"

Li Yan nodded and said yes, then gathered his troops and horses, cut off the rear with 500 people, and slowly retreated.

Altan looked in the camp and saw that this man was coming to win, but he was not in love with the battle. When he retreated, he retreated, and there was no flaw to find. Then some subordinates suggested sending people to chase him. Altan sneered and said, "Chasing? Can you catch up? This man is good at doing well. Even if you catch up, the person who entertains you will be afraid of being ambushed by the other party!" He changed his previous tone and sighed: "The Ming Dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and there are still capable people!"

Li Yanzhi cut off the rear with 500 people and ordered the 3,000 people to confiscate the spoils along the way, and captured 231 prisoners, 457 war horses, and 364 beheads.

During the Jiajing period, the Ming army fought against the Mongols. Even the generals at the governor level led tens of thousands of troops to attack, and often only caught dozens of people, or even returned empty-handed. This was the case with famous generals like Weng Wanda. Therefore, Li Yanzhi's battle this time was actually a rare "big victory" in the past decade! What's more, this was a great victory achieved at the feet of the emperor!

After he returned to Xizhizhan, he asked for the rewards based on the spoils he received. Shang Dajie knew that he had won a great victory and was in a good mood. How could he not allow it? However, when his permission arrived at Xizhizhan, the spoils in the camp had been almost all given away. Only then did the soldiers win a great victory and receive a fair reward, cheering and their morale was greatly boosted!

Ding Rukui, Shang Dajie ordered people to report to the cabinet. The cabinet rushed to Xiyuan to report the victory. Everyone from Jiajing was excited. Under the siege of the city, victory was even more needed to promote it to inspire people! Therefore, when Ding Rukui reported the victory of Shang Dajie, he had already made three points more exaggerated. Yan Song took the credit and added three points to the cabinet's memorial. Jiajing was very happy and ordered the officials to reward merits!

If the emperor has something to do, the subordinates will be even more serious! The emperor showed his intentions, and the cabinet immediately doubled down on the work. The cabinet established a direction mark, and the subordinates worked harder!

Therefore, after such layers of packaging, the results of Xizhi Direct Operation were added to the top, and then the awards were added to the bottom, and when they posted a notice on the whole city, it turned out to be a decisive victory!

Since ancient times, the military merits were rewarded the most. Jiajing ordered all the meritorious soldiers to be promoted to three levels. Xu Jie hurriedly reminded him that this time the Xizhixing was a temporary unit and was not officially named. The commanders in the battalion were all temporary martial artists, and most of them did not have the title of military generals.

When Jiajing heard this, he said, "So what!" He then granted all the martial arts lieutenants and Jinshi from Xizhixing, and upgraded their merits according to their merits.

Xu Jie was determined to praise Li Yanzhi, so he took the opportunity to ask: "The chief general is Li Zhe, the head of the Ministry of War. The preparations for the establishment of Xizhixing and the achievements of leading the army in the battle are all his plans. How can this person be rewarded?"

Because it is relatively more likely to be taboo for military generals to make contributions, Jiajing was even more happy when he heard that the leader of the army was a civil servant, and blurted out: "Add to the title of Minister of War and let him punish Zhili military affairs!"

Yan Song was startled when he heard this, and Xu Jie also said, "It's too fast! Although Li Zhe has made great contributions and has low qualifications, he still serves as the inspector of the Censorate of the Northern Zhili Military Affairs, and is still on duty at the Ministry of War to listen to it. If he can make a contribution, he will be promoted. What does Your Majesty think?"

Jiajing nodded and said, "Okay, that's it." Suddenly, he remembered something and said, "Li Zhe... seems to have some impression of this name..."

Xu Jie smiled and said, "This person was a Jinshi of Ding Wei. He was arrogant and rude at that time. His Majesty's Holy Commander was sent to the Ministry of War for training, but now he has become a talent."

Jiajing said oh and said with a smile: "I remember, he is Lu Bing's son-in-law!"

Xu Jie said yes, and Jiajing asked with a smile: "Have you made any progress in the past few years?" Xu Jie said with a smile: "I have to ask the Grand Sima this."

Ding Rukui hurriedly stepped forward and said, "After Li Zhe arrived at the Ministry of War, he was moved and endured his nature, and he became more and more unable to do anything in the past."

Yan Song also said: "This shows that Your Majesty is wise and wise. If Your Majesty had not been trained on that day, and this son is afraid that he is still working in the Hanlin Academy, how could he achieve his merits today?"

His flattery was quite timely. Jiajing laughed. He hated Li Yanzhi because of Xia Yan. After that, he had changed. In fact, he had long forgotten about Li Yanzhi. At this time, he asked Ding Rukui: "Will Li Zhe recognize my painstaking efforts towards him? Have you ever resented me?"

Ding Rukui hurriedly said, "How dare this boy!"

When Yan Song heard the word "How dare" and knew that Ding Rukui and Li Yanzhi had an ordinary relationship, because "How dare" could not increase Jiajing's favor for Li Yanzhi. Xu Jie smiled slightly and said, "I must have realized Your Majesty's painstaking efforts when I look at this son."

Jiajing asked: "How can I see it?"

Xu Jie said: "If this son is resentful, he will be depressed and sad, or he will be secretly slandered in poetry or abstain from official duties. This is a common attitude for the resentful ministers! However, after he arrived at the Ministry of War, he devoted himself to the country and worked day and night, without any sign of depression. Therefore, I think this son must have experienced the painstaking efforts of His Majesty's cultivation and training, and is committed to loyalty to the emperor and serving the country, so he can do this."

When Jiajing heard Long Yan was very happy, Yan Song sighed: "Da Zong Bo really has the ability of a thousand eyes!" Da Zong Bo is the nickname of the Minister of Rites. Xu Jie entered the cabinet as the Minister of Rites, but Yan Song called him "politely" at this time, but it made people feel that there was something thorny in his words!

Xu Jie hurriedly asked, "What do you say!"

Yan Song smiled and said, "Huating, you are in charge of the Ministry of Rites, but you know very well whether you are diligent or lazy in the Ministry of War. Those who know will admire Huating for his concern for the government and know everything about all matters in the court. If you don't know, you may not doubt that Huating has accepted the benefits of Li Zhe?"

When Li Ben and others heard this, their faces changed slightly. Although Yan Song said these two words with a smile, they were harboring poison! Although Li Yanzhi was a Jinshi, he is now in charge of soldiers in the capital! Affair between generals and ministers is a taboo! Didn’t Xia Yan die like this at the beginning? If Xu Jie denied this statement, then he would also ask the people at the rank of the court for whether he had anything to do. This seemed to be a matter of happiness to Jiajing. If Xu Jie wanted to deny these two things, how did he know that Li Yanzhi was "working day and night" and "serving the country"? If he was nonsense, he would be deceiving the emperor!

Jiajing's eyes flashed and he looked at Xu Jie, wanting to see how he responded.

Xu Jie was not panicked and said with a smile: "I don't know if other officials have done things or not! But Li Zhe, he even wrote eighteen memorials to complain about the current problems. Even the big things like Altan's going south were criticized by him. At that time, the cabinet had discussed this matter specifically! Everyone in the court knew about this matter, and I was a minister of the cabinet, so how could I not care about this person? Li Zhe usually asked, and even if he didn't ask, just looking at the contents of these eighteen memorials, he knew that Li Zhe must have worked very hard in the past two years, otherwise how could he master so many situations?"

Jiajing was stunned and asked, "Eighteen memorials? Then Li Zhe once said that Altan would go south?"

When Xu Jie heard Jiajing's words, he was stunned, and then he was shocked and asked Yan Song: "Fenyi, you won't submit those eighteen memorials to His Majesty for the emperor's reading, right?"

When Jiajing looked at Yan Song again, this peerless great official who had been standing in the political arena for decades turned into a state of rustic expression!

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