Lu Bing asked Li Yanzhi why he was worried. Li Yanzhi told Lu Bing about the cabinet's order to send troops, and said: "The current capital has no power to fight! Attack rashly, he will definitely not be able to make a contribution, and he will only cause trouble! The son-in-law won the last time, but this time he left the city, I'm afraid he won't have such good luck!"

Lu Bing was well-informed and naturally knew that Beijing was empty. After hearing Li Yanzhi's words, he asked: "What should you do as you say?"

"Drag!" Li Yanzhi said, "Drag until the reunion of the king-stricken army, I will not be afraid of Altan at that time." When he said this, Li Yanzhi looked southeast unconsciously.

Lu Bing said: "Since you should drag it out, then you drag it out!"

Li Yan sighed: "But now that the cabinet ordered the city to break the enemy, the most difficult thing is that the imperial edict has issued a dead order - only attack is allowed, no peace talks are allowed! At present, it is appropriate to use military power to promote peace talks, and use peace talks to delay time, and wait until the situation is beneficial to us to seek a battle, but this imperial edict is a random command, which really makes people in a dilemma!"

Lu Bing smiled and scolded, saying, "I said, son-in-law, why are you smart sometimes like a ghost, and sometimes like you have no brains? The cabinet asked you to leave the city, so you will leave the city. After leaving the city, you will be the general in the army. Should you defeat the enemy or do whatever you want? Wouldn't it be up to you?"

Li Yan was stunned, and Lu Bing said again: "Altan has been to Datong. Others in the capital don't know, but you and I still know how Qiu Luan dealt with Altan at that time? Hehe, you just follow the same gourd, isn't it enough? The soldiers are led by you, and the words are up to you! Since there are people in the cabinet who can help you speak, as long as what you do can make the people in the cabinet make themselves happy and make Your Majesty happy! As for whether you are fighting or talking, hehe--Your Majesty is known as the emperor, but he is actually a person, and he has no clues. What happened outside the Forbidden City? Do you think Your Majesty can really know clearly? It's all up to the mouths of us?"

Li Yanzhi gave Lu Bing this reminder and suddenly realized, "Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me," he changed his mind, and the things that were originally impossible had many possibilities!

According to Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi's established strategy, the enemy is large and we are few. For the time being, it is appropriate to have peace talks rather than attacks and battles. However, the general strategy set by Jiajing is to attack but not defend. Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi are not allowed to reconcile. Jiajing is eager to see the achievements. The two are in a different direction and there are irreconcilable contradictions. Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi are trapped in their existing strategic thinking and cannot be reversed for a while. Especially Li Yanzhi, his philosophy when he was an official was completely separated from his philosophy when he was a general. When he was an official, he could consciously use versatile means. When he was an general, he still unconsciously abides by the martial ethics of obeying the orders. Lu Bing did not have this obstacle. He did not start with the political situation, but instead considered things with the unspoken rules of the officialdom from the beginning.

If you talk about the unspoken rules of the Chinese officialdom, it really has the effect of turning black into white and turning the world upside down. The various wonders are hard to describe. However, there are two basic principles. The first one is to have policies and countermeasures at the top, and the second one is to say one thing and do another. All three-year-olds understand these two sentences, but not many people who have the conditions to use and can use them well. Lu Bing reminds Li Yanzhi this is what he said!

At this time, after Lu Bing pointed out the key points, Li Yanzhi used his official skills to re-plan the entire battle situation. He suddenly realized his heart. When he returned to the camp, he no longer had any worries and hidden secrets. He was full of aura of showing his confidence. Seeing that he was confident, Qi Jiguang and his generals were surprised and asked, "Did the governor already have a plan to defeat the enemy?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "Of course!" The generals asked what they planned, and Li Yan smiled and said, "You just follow me! No need to ask more!"

The generals were not very good at the depth, but Li Yanzhi had a great victory in front of him, and recently he had been widely publicized by the authorities. He was already known as a good soldier, so the generals had confidence in him.

Seeing that the troops had been deployed, Li Yanzhi ordered the camp to be pulled out of the city. Before leaving the city, the department increased it to 3,000 rebels. The Ministry of War also took care of it, and the horses were rated according to the superiority. Therefore, this army had a total of 4,000 war horses, which was rare.

Among this nearly 30,000 troops, Li Yanzhi himself was sure that the five hundred elite soldiers could fight. Hundreds of people stood out in the battle of Andingmen. Li Yanzhi took out his troops and armed them, gathered a total of a thousand people. Before leaving the city, he borrowed the clothes, flags, and ceremonial guards from the Jinyiwei, and went to Lu Bing to violate the taboo royal emblem, and dressed up the other two thousand soldiers with heavy makeup. Therefore, just looking at the team of these three thousand people, they were really furious and angry, with extraordinary momentum!

He arranged these three thousand people in a conspicuous position, and more than 20,000 other troops were lined up in the rear. The 30,000 army left the city in a mighty manner and slowly rushed towards Tongzhou!

The Mongolian generals were known to be more than 100,000, but not all of them were in Tongzhou. Altan heard that the army had made a large-scale move out of the city and drove towards Tongzhou, so he did not dare to neglect them. He sent all the soldiers and horses of Tongzhou out of the city to meet the enemy.

There was a road between Tongzhou and Beijing City, and there were villages and buildings beside the road. At this time, all of them had already escaped! The two sides arranged their troops in this area, with 30,000 infantry and cavalry on one side, and more than 40,000 people and horses on the other side. Although there was a difference between strength and weakness, it was not a huge difference. Moreover, the Ming army was at home, and the Hu people were in the guest place. Altan calculated this condition in his heart and did not dare to underestimate the troops coming from the opposite side.

Altan stepped forward and looked out of the range. He saw that Li Yanzhi's troops were in a very strict atmosphere, with thousands of people in the core troops, especially brightly dressed in armor, cavalry and infantry disparate, and the team arranged by Qi Jiguang was quite neat, which was very different from Qiu Luan's troops he had seen. He thought to himself: "This must be the main force of the Ming Dynasty!" He did not dare to challenge rashly, so he sent an envoy to ask Li Yanzhi what he was doing in Tongzhou.

The messenger rode alone and got off the horse when he arrived at the middle line of the two formations. He raised his hand to Li Yanzhi's formation to pass the message. After hearing Altan's question, Li Yan said angrily: "You offended the capital of the Ming Dynasty and secretly occupied Tongzhou. Why do you come to ask me about it? Of course, you are here to wipe out your arms and others and take back Tongzhou!"

The envoy had entered the army at this time. Seeing the bird gunner guards on both sides of the general flag, the soldiers and generals next to them were all energetic and majestic. The two teams of bird gunners were elites among Li Yanzhi's old subordinates. If they were to pick up a martial artist and gathered in one place, they would naturally have amazing power. The envoy didn't know that Li Yanzhi's family was just that. He said that 30,000 people were like this. He didn't have much confidence in his heart, but he was still tough and said, "If you want to defeat us and take Tongzhou, you may not have the ability! But we don't want to stay in Tongzhou for a long time. My Khan has sent people to the city to request tribute, and you didn't respond. Why did you send troops to attack?"

Although Altan was at the city of Beijing at this moment, he not only had no ambition to destroy the Ming Dynasty, but he did not even have the ambition to compete with the Ming Dynasty. He only had the name of profit. If the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was willing to open a horse market and promised a tribute, Altan was willing to surrender.

Li Yanzhi stayed in Fangsi, the Ministry of War for two years, and went to the northwest, and communicated with many merchants who had been to Mongolia. Therefore, he knew this festival well. It was precisely this way that he knew the peace talks and knew how to talk. At this time, Altan knew himself but not his enemy, and could not understand the details of the Ming Dynasty. However, Li Yanzhi knew himself and his enemy, so he was able to talk with him easily and sneered: "Since ancient times, there is no rule that the troops were at the city? I, the Ming Dynasty, were not guarded for a while, and you broke into the capital. Now that the troops have gathered, you are not allowed to be rude!"

Both armies were about to fight, but he spoke the word "Li" and the word "Li" in silence. It doesn't matter whether it is victory or defeat, etiquette is the most important thing. However, this is in line with the reputation of China's "country of etiquette".

The messenger asked, "The Grand Marshal said how to be polite?" He couldn't understand the official rank of the Ming Dynasty, and because he saw that Li Yanzhi was commanding the army and was very powerful, he called him the Grand Marshal.

Li Yan said straight: "You must first withdraw from Gubeikou, and then hand over the letter of request from the court to the border generals. They will be submitted to the court and issued by the cabinet. This is in accordance with etiquette."

The messenger said, "I'll go back and ask." Then he ran back, first told Altan about the military power he saw, and then told Altan what Li Yanzhi said.

Although Altan broke into the city of Beijing, he was quite sincere in asking for tribute this time, so he asked the envoy to come back and said to Li Yanzhi: "We Khan are willing to abide by etiquette and retreat outside Gubeikou, but we also hope that the Ming Dynasty can keep its promise. Otherwise, we will not be so polite next time we come!"

These two sentences contain intimidation. Li Yanzhi was neither humble nor arrogant, but said, "When will I not keep my promises in the Ming Dynasty? Hehe, if there is another time, it will not be the question of whether we keep our promises or not, but the question of your being honest! But then we will not be the place where we meet at that time, but must be the north of the desert!"

The messenger yelled, but he did not make a quarrel in front of the formation, and said, "Then please withdraw the general, so as not to hurt the harmony between the two families."

Li Yanzhi refused to withdraw his troops and said, "How can we ask us to withdraw first? You can withdraw from Gubeikou first."

The messenger went back and said, "We have to wait a few days if we want to withdraw from Gubeikou." His words were honest. No matter how sincere Altan was, the Mongolians had to inform the ministries first if they wanted to withdraw from the Great Wall. They could not retreat if they wanted to retreat now.

Seeing that the other party took a step back, Li Yanzhi also said, "Okay, I will give you five days. You will withdraw from Gubeikou within five days, and then submit a memorial to Kaima City and Xu Chaogong. I promise to reply to you within five days. However, Tongzhou is the end of the canal, and the city of the capital depends on the vegetables, vegetables, firewood and charcoal transported here. It has been occupied by you. The people in the capital have many inconveniences in their lives, so you must withdraw from Tongzhou within today and choose another place to camp."

The envoy went back to pay back. Seeing that it was the other general's promise in front of the formation, Altan said so carefully and clearly that the information was correct, so he agreed and agreed to withdraw from Tongzhou before dusk, but asked Li Yanzhi not to attack them. Li Yanzhi ordered the order to take out twenty banners and said, "You hold this flag as evidence. You will withdraw from Tongzhou within today, retreat to Shunyi within two days, retreat to Changping within three days, and withdraw from Gubeikou within five days. You are not allowed to harass the residents along the way during these five days, so I will not pursue you. If anyone dares to take advantage of the chaos, I will be here by the emperor's order. No Hu Han will be divided into punishment!"

Altan thought that at this time, the things that the troops of various troops had already snatched in the capital were enough for winter, and he also hoped that the Ming Dynasty would be able to raise tribute. In the past, he went to the border to send people to see Weng Wanda and other general generals. Kaima City was one of the topics that Jiajing disliked to hear the most. How dare Weng Wanda and others agree? Therefore, Altan's answer was very vague. No one was as clear and firm as Li Yanzhi's answer this time. He thought that the person responsible for the guards of the capital was not comparable to the border general. This general must have great power. He was very concerned about Kaima City and Xu Chaogong. At this time, he had hope and was willing to give in and seek completeness. Moreover, Li Yanzhi's request was upright and not unreasonable, so he agreed, and ordered all localities to stop robbing. He himself withdrew from Tongzhou before dusk.

Li Yanzhi bluntly made a statement. Through negotiations with Altan, the soldiers took back Tongzhou without any blood. After entering the city, he breathed a sigh of relief. However, he ordered Qi Jiguang to lead 1,600 cavalry to divide into eight teams to patrol the ground within 30 miles of Tongzhou and the capital. Those who walked properly under the guidance of the flag ignored them, but they would be punished on the spot when they encountered looting. The Hu people were used to being scattered outside the border. Although Altan ordered, many people still led the sheep and killed people and set fire. Most of these people were scattered small groups, and even left the order. Qi Jiguang gathered troops to encircle and slaughter, beheaded more than 200, and captured more than 300 people.

Li Yanzhi found out when he interrogated, but left his head and most of the prisoners. He only released a dozen people to Shunyi. The Hu people cried to Altan, and Altan sneered: "I have ordered you not to act rashly, but you don't obey the orders. Damn!"

It turns out that these tens of thousands of Mongolians are not a solid piece of law. Most of those who do not obey orders are not Altan's direct descendants, and some are even Altan's opponents in the clan, so Altan is happy that Li Yan is so clearing out his dissidents on his behalf.

On this side, Li Yanzhi went to Tongzhou and obtained the first captives, so he reported the victory to the cabinet and reported the head of the capital. Xu Jie was overjoyed when he saw the victory and hurriedly reported to Jiajing that he would win the first battle, and that Tongzhou had recovered it.

Yan Song and his son had many eyes and ears, and knew that there was something different. They wanted to expose it for a while and there was no evidence. Li Yanzhi had indeed retaken Tongzhou. Those head captives were indeed Mongols. They did not cut off the heads of the people like Qiu Luan. In addition, there was Xu Jie's gang in the cabinet, and Lu Bing of the Jinyiwei was Li Yanzhi's father-in-law. The Yan family and son were thinking about Jiajing's thoughts. At this time, they were mostly fond of merits and bad news, so they did not dare to expose it rashly. Instead, they praised Your Majesty's wiseness in front of Jiajing! They were still like this, let alone other people.

When Jiajing received the good news, he felt a little broad-minded and his face was filled with joy. He asked the cabinet to draft an order, and promoted Li Yanzhi to another level, and gave him his father and brother, Yin and his wife and children. He summoned Lu Bing and praised him, "A Bing! Good eyes, good eyes! Why did you choose such a good son-in-law!"

Just then, another news came from outside, but Qiu Luan's army of kings arrived.

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Although the barbarians were barbaric, they did not measure their depth after entering the Han area. If they met someone with organization and courage, they might not dare to disobey the rules. During the Jingkang period of the Song Dynasty, the Jurchens were ten times stronger than those of the Mongolians during Altan's time. However, after Zhong Shidao arrived in Kaifeng, he used a banner to seal the boundary. The Jurchens did not dare to violate their rules lightly. If they could do good at planning and not be anxious at that time, they might not have no chance to turn things around. However, if they were afraid of the ruling leader, even if they could not be anxious, they could not be able to stop their declining situation.
Chapter completed!