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Yu Dayou wanted to use his military exploits to restore the protection of his ancestors, and he was very determined, which can be seen from the fact that he would propose such a battle plan at this time.

It's just that it's not enough to offer advice, he also needs to personally participate in this battle, and get the most credit to have a chance.

Therefore, when Li Wenjin hesitated, he was not only worried about the feasibility of the plan, but also worried about the leading generals. Yu Dayou bravely expressed his desire to lead the army himself.

To be honest, when he heard Yu Dayou's battle plan, he felt that the plan was very good and had a high probability of success.

The only problem is that the triumphant return of the victorious army is full of thorns. If a good general cannot be selected to lead the team, the danger factor of the Ming army will be very high.

Li Wenjin still recognizes the ability of Liu Han, the commander-in-chief of Datong. If Liu Han leads a team to attack Bansheng City, Li Wenjin can rest assured, but will Liu Han agree to this dangerous plan?What's more, he has to lead the team himself.

Of course, Yu Dayou has no problem. He has fully demonstrated his judgment ability through many battles, especially his ability to command in battle.

After Yu Dayou recommended himself, Li Wenjin's last worry was dispelled. Liu Han didn't want to lead a surprise attack, so let Yu Dayou go.

When Liu Han mentioned the safety of the way to retreat, Li Wenjin didn't speak, because he didn't know how to deal with it at that time, and it all depended on the commanding general's on-the-spot judgment.

No matter how well planned you are, you can never know exactly where the battlefield is.

The encounter with the Tartars during the retreat was random and completely unpredictable, so he looked at Yu Dayou, and Liu Han was not stupid, seeing Li Wenjin's performance also looked at Yu Dayou.

Yu Dayou was not at all stage fright at this time, he had been on the battlefield many times, and had also fought against the Tartars, so he began to explain to Liu Han what he had in mind, the plan for this battle.

Li Wenjin didn't understand these things, but Liu Han, who is the commander-in-chief of Datong, should be able to understand them. We can discuss strategic topics with Li Wenjin, but we can only communicate with Liu Han about tactics.

"It's time for the nine sides to move."

Hearing Wei Guangde say this, Zhang Juzheng couldn't help repeating it in a low voice, then raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why?"

According to the literal meaning, Wei Guangde seems to want to say that he must mobilize soldiers and horses from the nine sides to deal with Altan Khan's invasion.

Well, if this is the case, Zhang Juzheng will lose interest in Wei Guangde, without him, it is unreliable.

As Beijing officials, they should be very clear about the current financial dilemma of the imperial court.

To mobilize the troops from the Nine Sides, it requires a huge amount of resources to do so.

Where does the money come from?
Right now, the army is stationed in the area where it belongs, and the supply of money and food is still tight. Once the army starts to be mobilized, the consumption of transshipment is beyond the current court's affordability.

Moreover, who doesn't know, to fight, of course, the more soldiers and horses mobilized, the more.

Han Xin's principle that the more troops the better, none of them understand.

Only a few people who are stupid in reading will think that Zhuge Liang's "tricks and tricks" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are really useful, and they are all tricks to fool readers.

There are indeed examples of the less winning the more, and the weak defeating the strong, but that is definitely not what the coach wants. They are all in situations where there is no other way, maybe because of their own strength, or because of the rush of time and too late to mobilize the army. , is not the orthodox way of using troops.

What Zhang Juzheng was thinking, Wei Guangde didn't notice that his words were easy to be misunderstood. At this time, he just thought about it before continuing: "The main force of the Anda Department should have gathered outside Xuanfu Town. The war is about to break out. At this time, it must be necessary to recruit reinforcements from the nine sides." That's too late.

Perhaps only people from Jizhen and Datong can join the battlefield during the war. Liaodong Town in the east, Taiyuan Town and Yansui Town in the west may not be able to keep up, let alone Ningxia Towns farther away.

But have you noticed that the Xuanfu reported that the main force of the Ministry of Defense is out. What does this mean? Now on the northern prairie, there are probably no Tartars outside the other border towns. At this time, it is time to go north to harass and destroy the grassland. Chance.

Aren't they going to fight on the front line of Xuanfu?The Xuanfu army defended with all its strength with the help of the Jizhen army, and other towns went north to harass his rear, especially the Datong army and the Liaodong army. "

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help saying with some regret: "It's a pity, the north is full of prairie, and the Mongols are nomadic people who live by water and grass. They don't have a royal city, otherwise they will directly attack his royal city."

After a pause, Wei Guangde sighed again, looking at the stunned gazes of his colleagues around him, "Drinking horses in the sea, reining in Shi Yanran, and enclosing wolves as Xu, what a great opportunity."

Wei Guangde's last paragraph is a bit pretentious. The military generals of this era all regard the things represented by those twelve characters as the highest honor of the generals and pursue them all their lives.

Of course, this is just their ideal, and ideals often lose to reality.

When Wei Guangde's words fell, he noticed that other colleagues were doing well, only Zhang Juzheng's eyes flashed a gleam of excitement, but maybe he thought of something right away, and then quickly dimmed.

If it was the early Ming Dynasty, it might be possible. At that time, there were many famous generals, and the soldiers were also soldiers who fought a hundred battles. As for now, just think about it.

There was silence in the gazebo, and everyone was silent.

It should be said that Wei Guangde's ideas seemed a bit unrealistic and unrealistic in the eyes of his colleagues. At this time, the defense was insufficient, and he was still thinking about fighting.
At this time, the six ministries and nine ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all gathered in the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan. After the previous heated discussion, they all stood with their hands down, waiting for the emperor Jiajing to be judged on the throne.

In the previous discussion, although the household department strongly resisted mobilizing the surrounding troops, the military department took a tough attitude.

Although the other ministries had nothing to do with them, they all echoed the opinion of the Ministry of War when they thought that the Alda cavalry might come to Beijing again.

That is, he almost completely passed the request of Xuanda Governor Ge Jin. He not only planned to mobilize his Xuanda and Shanxi troops to fight, but also asked the Jizhen army to assist in the defense and join the battlefield if necessary.

More than [-] horses were mobilized in the three towns, and the number of people eating horses and chewing horses every day was astronomical. The household department naturally cried for poverty and firmly disagreed.

Participating in the discussion were not only the chief assistant of the cabinet Yan Song, the second assistant Xu Jie, the officials of the Six Departments, but also the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Minister of Dali Temple and the Minister of Taichang Temple.

Originally, this kind of Jiuqing gathering should not have Taichang Temple ministers coming, but the Tongzheng Secretary and Tongzheng Envoy. However, since the Zhengtong period, because Yingzong was young, he was unable to attend the court, and the imperial power fell into the hands of the cabinet Sanyang. The status of the Secretary of State declined sharply.

Up to now, the Tongzhengshisi has almost become an institution dedicated to delivering memorials for the cabinet, and has lost the right to seal and refute internal and external chapters.

Today, after the Xuanfu Army submitted the report to Xiyuan from the cabinet, Emperor Jiajing directly named Gao Gong, the Minister of Taichang Temple, when he summoned the important ministers to discuss matters, and asked him to replace the position of the Secretary of the General Administration to participate in the Jiuqing meeting .

For such an arrangement, Xu Jie seemed very happy, and his brows were stretched, only the first assistant Yan Song frowned and said nothing.

However, Gao Gong, who participated in such an important meeting for the first time, seemed very reserved, like a transparent person. He didn't say a word during the whole discussion process, but just quietly listened to the opinions expressed by other bigwigs.

This kind of picture was a very novel experience for Gao Gong who joined the imperial meeting for the first time, and it was even more encouraging in his heart.

He felt the emperor's attitude towards Prince Yu's Mansion since Emperor Jiajing asked him to come to this meeting. Is this going to start training the team of Prince Yu's Mansion?

Thinking of this, he had to listen carefully to the speeches of the big bosses, while thinking about what Wei Guangde said before, that there were rumors in the palace that Emperor Jiajing had discussed the matter of "retirement" with Lu Bing.

Groundless?

It seems that there is no reason to be afraid, and it is not necessarily without reason.

Thinking of this, Gao Gong also thought that Wei Guangde seemed to have someone else in the palace, so he made up his mind to go back to Wei Guangde and ask him to investigate in the palace to see if there was any other news that he hadn't noticed. .

Queen Yu's mother and concubine are not here, and King Yu has no support in the palace. The eunuchs who can talk are the eunuchs he knew back then. Even though they have maintained contacts over the years, they are not as good as before. of.

Although he was single-minded and dual-purpose, Gao Gong gradually heard it, and wanted to understand the essence of the imperial meeting. In fact, the emperor needed to know the attitudes of various ministries towards a certain matter, the reasons for their support and the reasons for their opposition.

Following Yan Song's signal, the second assistant Xu Jie made a concluding speech, and the Yongshou Palace was quiet, waiting for the emperor's order.

"The battle of Xuanfu is imminent, there is nothing more important than this."

Emperor Jiajing glanced casually at the ministers in the palace, and said after a little hesitation: "The Ministry of War will issue a document to Jizhen, and the passes along the Great Wall will be strictly guarded.

The army of Jizhen was stationed in Miyun, ready to enter the Xuanfu for support at any time. Yansui Town and Ningxia Town also sent official documents to ask them to mobilize troops to stand by. "

After saying these words, perhaps Emperor Jiajing saw the tangled face of Gao Yao, the new Minister of the Household Department, and thought that he had just taken over the stall left by Ma Kun, and probably didn't know where to find the money at this time.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The household department of the Ming Dynasty has been running low for years, and the new warehouse and the old warehouse have been almost emptied two years ago. Let's go, now there is a sudden war, and it is inevitable that we will be stretched in terms of income and expenditure.

After thinking for a while, Emperor Jiajing said again: "First lend a sum of money from the Changying treasury of the Taipu Temple, and give priority to guaranteeing this military operation. Soldiers are absolutely not allowed to make troubles due to insufficient food and payment at this time."

This year, he has received news of soldiers mutiny twice. If such a farce happens again at this juncture, the capital will not stay here.

"In addition, the Ministry of War said hello to Cheng Guogong and asked him to rectify the Beijing camp immediately."

To rectify the Beijing camp is to prevent problems before they happen.

At that time ten years ago, the Beijing camp rushed into battle, and the defense of the capital was in chaos.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing couldn't find anyone to get angry, so he could only punish the officials and eunuchs of the then governor's capital camp.

This time, I don’t know what Alta Khan’s plan is, but according to Ge Jin’s memorandum, the main force of Alta’s troops will be exhausted, and there will always be an army of [-] to [-]. With so many people, even if it is a nomadic way of life, The required consumption is not small, so it can be seen that the picture of Alda Khan is not small.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty Hall believed that a big war would be inevitable, but in the face of such a big war, everyone tacitly did not mention one thing, that is, the plan to send a governor to this battle, which seems to be the purpose of the whole war. All were handed over to Ge Jin, Governor of Xuanda, to complete.

After the imperial meeting was over, everyone withdrew from Yongshou Palace, walked out of Xiyuan one by one, boarded their sedan chairs and went back to their office to implement the decisions made at the meeting.

After Gao Gong got on the sedan chair, he didn't ask the bearer to carry him back to the Imperial College, but ordered: "Go to the Imperial Academy, hurry up."

It is not in a hurry to inquire about the news in the palace, but among the officials of King Yu in the capital, only Wei Guangde has the experience of leading troops in battle. Gao Gong wants to talk to Wei Guangde about the content of the imperial meeting. In his opinion, nothing is more important than this great war.

And he himself has never commanded or fought a war, so he should ask someone who has done this.

The bearer carried the sedan chair and quickly left the gate of Xiyuan, and ran towards the Imperial Academy, while Wei Guangde had already come out of the gazebo and returned to his duty room to sit down.

I had already filled my stomach with tea in the gazebo, and when I sat down, I saw Lu Bu bring up the freshly brewed tea, and I felt bored for a while.

The tea was already brewed, and Wei Guangde didn't want to drink it, so he just put it somewhere.

At this time, Wei Guangde was not interested in reading either. Looking at the book on the desk, he reached out and picked it up, closed it and threw it aside, and his thoughts flew to Xuanfu.

Now Ma Fang is still serving as the deputy commander-in-chief in Xuanfu, commanding the complete left and right guards.

Thinking about Ma Fang's previous record, I think I Dahan would not be foolish enough to think that looking for a breakthrough between Datong and Xuanfu, the greater probability is to look for an opportunity to break through the side wall near the Longmenwei area of ​​Xuanfu and find an opportunity to defeat him. The three guards of the Xuanfu, and then took the opportunity to continue south to threaten the capital.

At that time, Yanqing and Juyongguan will become the main battlefield again, and perhaps the victory or defeat will be determined here. At that time, the Xuanda, Shanxi and Jizhen armies will gather.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde felt uneasy again.

Although he was lucky last time and scared people away during the fight with Altan Khan, Wei Guangde knew very well that the entry of the Tartars that time was nothing compared to this time.

If it is really like what the Xuanfu Memorial said, if the main force of the Ida Department is fully deployed, think about the tens of thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry, Wei Guangde does not believe that Xuanda's troops alone can stop them, even with the soldiers and horses of Ji Town I'm afraid it's not enough.

Wei Guangde has seen Jizhen's defense line completely, and has a general understanding of the combat strength of Jizhen army, which seems to be not as strong as Xuanfu army.

After all, the Xuanfu army has fought against the Mongol Tartars all year round, and they have more than a little bit of combat experience.

He only hoped that those who took refuge in him would not lose anything in this war, Wei Guangde thought in his heart.

"grown ups."

At this time, footsteps sounded outside the door, as if someone entered the yard, and heard Lu Bu's words at the door again.

"Master Gao Gonggao is here."