prosperous age

Chapter 202 Chapter 201
Early the next morning, Wei Guangde still rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up to take a shower.

After coming out, I thought that I would go to the Beijing camp to meet Weng Pu in a while, and I felt a headache.

When going out for breakfast, Wei Guangde told Zhang Ji in a low voice, "Take our battle armor, and you will find Li San in a while, and when you let him go to the Beijing camp, find a few better war horses. If you want two horses, he will take care of the horses."

Well, after thinking about it all night, Wei Guangde can only make these preparations. If he really runs into a Tartar this time while patrolling, he just needs to make sure that he can run faster than others. One person and two horses should be fine.

The carriage, of course, can only be left in the guild hall. If you are greedy for comfort, it is a bit risky to go on patrol in a carriage.

After a hasty meal, Wei Guangde bid farewell to Lao Kan, Zhang Ke and others who saw him off, and took Zhang Ji and Li San into a hired carriage to go to Beijing camp.

In the early years of Hongwu, after the establishment of the world, the Beijing camp was set up to train soldiers to defend the capital.

The Ming Dynasty initially set its capital in Nanjing, so at that time two large and small playgrounds were built inside and outside Nanjing to train 48 guards respectively, which belonged to the Marshal's Mansion. Soon, Zhu Yuanzhang reorganized the trained soldiers and called it the Five Army Battalion.

After Chengzu Zhudi succeeded to the throne, while following the old system of Hongwu, he also expanded the Beijing camp, increasing the original 48 guards to 72 guards. After that, three major camps were gradually established: Wujun Battalion, Sanqian Battalion, and Shenji Battalion. The three battalions are collectively referred to as the Jingjun or Jingying.

Among them, the Fifth Army Battalion was the main force of the original Beijing Battalion, and the Three Thousand Battalion was a cavalry unit composed of Mongolian soldiers accepted by Chengzu.

In the capital, in addition to these three battalions, there are also the emperor's bodyguards, the Jinyiwei and the Twelve Guards. Among them, the most powerful are naturally the Wuxiang Left Guard, Wuxiang Right Guard, Tengxiang Left Guard and Tengxiang Right Guard are called "Four Guards".

After the Tumu Fortress Change, the main force of the Beijing camp was completely lost, and the three major battalions became history. The remnants of the soldiers and the troops transferred from the surrounding area formed a new Beijing camp. .

From the initial tenth regiment battalion to the twelve regiment battalion, it lasted until a few years ago, that is, in the 29th year of Jiajing, with the occurrence of the "Gengxu Change", the twelve regiment battalion became history, and when Emperor Jiajing revoked the regiment battalion system and restored it to the ancestors There are three major battalions: Wujun Battalion, Shenshu Battalion, and Shenji Battalion.

The only thing that changed was the change of the Three Thousand Battalion to the Shenshu Battalion. This was a rare pure cavalry unit in the Ming Dynasty. It is also because there are not so many Mongolian soldiers in this era, but most of them are selected from the frontier army. The elites who come out have extraordinary riding skills.

Although some adjustments have been made in the system, the current Beijing Camp and the previous [-]th Regiment Battalion do not seem to have changed much. At least during the time Wei Guangde was in the capital, he did not see the Beijing Camp conduct any decent activities. Drilling, and what I heard after entering the officialdom was similar. No one thought that there was any change after the regimental battalion was changed to the Beijing battalion.

Most of the Jingying camps are located in the north of Beijing, that is, on the vast plains outside Deshengmen and Andingmen. They camped against the city wall. The inner city exits from Andingmen.

Speaking of which, their location is quite far from the Beijing camp. Fortunately, they left early. When they left the Anding Gate, they saw a carriage in front of them. There were several guards around the carriage. They walked out of the city and saw the carriage. The mark on it is the car of the right servant of the Ministry of War.

Wei Guangde didn't let the coachman overtake them, but followed them not too far away, and didn't come forward to meet them immediately.

Although the guards around the carriage also noticed that a civilian carriage was following behind, they did not take any action because the distance was not close. They just paid more attention to the following carriage.

The two carriages left the Anding Gate one after the other, and stopped in front of the gate of the Beijing Camp after a short walk.

Wei Guangde jumped out of the carriage nimbly at this time and walked towards the carriage. Zhang Ji and his guard Li San could only follow behind him.

However, before Wei Guangde approached, he was stopped by the guards around the carriage, "Who is it, leave immediately, don't run into your lord."

A guard closest to them shouted, reaching out his hand to block Wei Guangde's way.

"Is Mr. Weng Puweng in the car?"

Wei Guangde didn't care, and his reaction was reasonable when someone he didn't know approached.

Hearing the master's name announced by the other party, the guard knew that the other party had come prepared, so he didn't dare to be careless, but Wei Guangde was wearing a green robe, even though he was very close, he didn't dare to push and push.

"Who are you? I can report to my lord if you have something to do, but you can't get close."

The guard had already stood in front of Wei Guangde and said, although Wei Guangde was wearing an official uniform, he didn't have a patch on his chest, so he wasn't sure if he was an official, let alone such a young man.

As for Wei Guangde, he could only stay still at this time, and there was no point in arguing with the guard.

But just as he was about to speak, the curtain on the side of the carriage was lifted, revealing an old face, who looked at least 50 years old, probably close to [-].

"You are Wei Guangde and Wei Censor, please come over, Mr. Wei."

When Weng Pu in the car saw Wei Guangde, he obviously knew him, so the last sentence was for the guard.

As far as the current Beijing officialdom is concerned, young officials almost don't need to guess, that is, Wei Guangde is a guy under 20 years old.

Wei Guangde was also helpless, he didn't know that he was awarded an official until very late last night, he had an official uniform but no patch, and he didn't have time to find someone to do it, so he could only come here wearing an official uniform without a patch.

"Master Weng, the next official is Wei Guangde."

Well, I'm used to underachievers, so I almost didn't change it all at once. Now that I'm an official, although it's just a review, it's still considered a formal official position, so naturally I have to call myself a lower official.

The guard had already respectfully moved out of the way when he heard the master's words, Wei Guangde walked to the carriage, at this time Weng Pu had already got off the carriage.

Wei Guangde turned around and took from Zhang Ji the waist badge left by Mr. Li last night, engraved with the five words "review by the Imperial Academy", and the imperial decree last night, which should be handed over to Mr. Weng for inspection. It is the procedure that he has reported to the border minister here.

But Weng Pu shook his head with a smile, "I found out from the official who passed the decree last night. I also saw you when the Jindian Chuanlu was passed on. I was so impressed. Hehe, if I asked you to pass the provincial examination, we would be here We have known each other since the Lu Ming Banquet."

"Thank you for your praise, sir, I am ashamed to be an official."

Wei Guangde hastily bowed and said.

At this time, the guards who went to contact the Beijing camp had already come out. With the opening of the gate of the Beijing camp, they were about to enter the Beijing camp.

"My lord, I don't know how many guards we will choose and where to choose from."

Wei Guangde watched the gate of the Beijing camp open, so he still asked a question at this moment.

"Choose from the Shenshu camp, and according to the regulations, you can take 200 people out to patrol the border."

Weng Pu said casually, and then pointed to the gate of the Beijing camp, "Let's go in."

The guards have already handed over to the customs of dispatching troops, so there is no one hindering their selection of troops next, even because of Weng Pu's official position as the Minister of the Ministry of War, except for the governor who did not come out from the Beijing camp, the Fifth Army Battalion, Shenshu Camp and Shenji The camp owners and generals have all arrived here to cooperate with Weng Pu in picking troops.

Naturally, Weng Pu or Wei Guangde would not choose those people.

Wei Guangde saw that the people who went there were selected by the guards brought by Weng Pu, and their movements were also powerful, obviously they were all Lianjiazi, but they were from the civilian or military, Wei Guangde couldn't see it. Out.

On Wei Guangde's side, Zhang Ji talked to Li San, and when picking horses, he went down to select six good horses.

Although the Ming Dynasty's Beijing camp is now abolished, it is still easy to gather 200 troops. What's more, after the Gengxu Revolution, the generals in the Beijing camp no longer dared to deduct their military pay as before. Now the emperor pays more attention to the Beijing camp than before.

Although they wouldn't do anything to them just because they were corrupt, it wouldn't be good if they became the chicken in the "Killing Chickens as an Example to Monkeys".

In fact, sometimes, it is far better to keep deterring these generals than to punish a few black sheep.

Weng Pu didn't stay in the capital camp for a long time, and he was about to set off with a few days of food and grass.

For Weng Pu, who is over 50 years old, riding a horse is definitely not enough. He went in that carriage, and Wei Guangde was also called into the carriage by him when he set off. This is to talk about the specifics of this patrol. Now for the details, there were too many people in the Beijing camp before, so it's hard to talk about it.

"Guangde should know that we are going to inspect the Great Wall pass from Jizhen to Datong this time. I have already planned the route last night. Now that I speak out, let me hear what Guangde has to say."

The carriage started to move, and felt that the team was not going east to Tongzhou. Wei Guangde felt a little strange. At this time, he was going north, and he didn't know whether it was Changping or Shunyi.

Well, when Weng Pu asked him to get in the car, he guessed that Weng Pu must be talking about the itinerary in the car, and now he can only listen. Now he is out to perform official duties, Weng Pu is the envoy, and Wei Guangde is the deputy envoy, only one level older than him.

While speaking, Weng Pu had already unfolded a roll of map from a small hidden door in the carriage, and began to explain to Wei Guangde facing the map.

There is also a map of the Northland in the Imperial Academy. After hearing the news yesterday, a group of people from the Imperial Academy found it out and studied it, so they are no strangers.

The maps of this era are very abstract, but they can still be understood, and I heard Weng Pu say slowly: "You haven't seen the memorial from the Xuanfu newspaper, I will explain it to you now.

The Xuanfu and the Alta tribe fought outside Yutailing and Zhangjiakou. Afterwards, the Tatars detoured to Songshubao, Dushibao, Longmenbao and continued eastward, and they disappeared. They still sent horses to inquire about news. "

While speaking, Weng Pu pointed to the north of Xuanfu, and then slid all the way to the east, which gave Wei Guangde a more intuitive impression.

The three castle names mentioned by Weng Pu on the east side of Xuanfu are located on a prominent part of the Great Wall, and if they continue northward, they will not be in the control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

The Alda Department is obviously marching along the Great Wall, and the purpose of finding weak points to break through is very clear.

"You are from the guard, you should understand the purpose of the Ministry of Response."

Hearing Weng Pu's words, Wei Guangde nodded.

"Although the order from above is for us to start our inspection from Ji Town, I guess I won't go that far."

While speaking, Weng Pu's fingers continued to slide eastward along the side wall of the Great Wall.

"Sihai Station, Bohai Station, Chaohe Station, and all the way to Gubeikou, Modaoyu, Jiangjunguan, and Malanyu are the areas where the Tartars are most likely to break through.

Guangde may also know that the last time the Tartars broke into the pass wall, they broke through the pass through Gubeikou. They went down to Miyun, Huairou and Shunyi, and went straight to Tongzhou along the official road. Fortunately, they were blocked by the river and did not hit. Go to Tongzhou. "

Weng Pu continued.

"According to the meaning of adults, where do we start our inspection directly?"

Wei Guangde heard at this time that Weng Pu came out this time not to fool around with his errands, but to do big things, so he probably wouldn't go east to Ji Town, and start inspections from Ji Town, after all, it must be too late.

"I plan to go to Shunyi now, go to Pinggu, and start patrolling directly from Malanyu. I hope there is still time."

Weng Pu expressed his thoughts at this time, and he really didn't plan to go to Ji Town to waste time, and ran back to Beijing City when the Tartars broke through the barrier.

"Then over there in Ji Town?"

Wei Guangde was hesitant to speak, but he stopped after hearing Weng Pu's plan.

"Over there in Ji Town, I plan to ask them to dispatch a team to Zunhua, join us at Malanyu, and patrol the border with us."

Well, Wei Guangde is determined. If we don’t go to Jizhen, it should be Weng Pu who judged that I would not be so stupid. If I ran so far to attack the Great Wall, it is very likely that I will find a target to attack at several passes near Gubeikou and rush into the pass. .

Weng Pu is not stupid, he intends to use his privileges as a border patrol minister to send a team of officers and soldiers from Jizhen to follow him, increase some defense forces, and be safer.

"It's all according to the instructions of the adults."

Wei Guangde knew that he couldn't say anything, anyway, the big deal is to run faster because of his youth, Weng Pu should have made up his mind, there is no need to argue with him at this time, let alone insist on going to Ji Town, otherwise he will return to the capital , I must become an official joke.

Maybe, Weng Pu is waiting for him, Wei Guangde, to say something about going out of Jizhen, so that he can throw the blame at that time.

"Okay, I'll arrange it now."

Afterwards, Weng Pu opened the curtain of the car and gave some instructions to the guards outside the window. Wei Guangde also heard it, that is, to ask people to take the letter he had prepared to go to Ji Town. Go north to Shunyi, then turn east to Pinggu.

The carriage was driving on the uneven official road, and the wooden wheels naturally made the carriage shake very badly. Although it was covered with thick cushions, Wei Guangde felt uncomfortable after sitting for a long time.

I found a chance to get off the car, and it was better to ride a horse.

Although the horse is bumpy, it's just that it's not galloping at this time, and there is no need to clamp the horse's belly with both legs, so there is no possibility of grinding the thigh, that is, the buttocks suffer a little.

Wei Guangde checked the equipment on the horse. Apart from his own armor still on Zhang Ji's horse, he also had a saber and a blunderbuss on his horse.

In the Beijing camp, there was no shortage of these weapons, especially the blunderbuss. Li San picked six horses, all of which had sabers and blunderbusses on their saddles, except for the battle armor.

Wei Guangde still prefers this set of Nanjing-produced armor on his body, after all, he went to the battlefield with him.

(End of this chapter)