prosperous age

Chapter 532 531 Firelight
Yang Xuan set off from Shanhaiguan, and hurried on, and within three days of Sun Bin's army entering Sanhe County, Yang Xuan arrived.

During these three days, Yang Xuan suffered a crime.

In the past, he used to travel in a sedan chair. Even if he led the army to Shanhaiguan, he would only come out to ride a horse occasionally when he was bored in the sedan chair.

But rushing back this time is to race for time, so I rode all the way and trotted to catch up.

Not to mention the pain in the buttocks, the inner thighs are also worn out, and I can only walk with my legs crossed, as if my whole body is falling apart.

But after entering Sanhe County, seeing Sun Bin among the welcoming crowd, he became a little anxious.

For the past two days, he was only busy on his way, and he didn't bother to ask Sun Bin where he was and whether he had entered Tongzhou.

Now that he sees people in Sanhe, he knows that Sun Bin must not be moving forward.

Yang Xuan was slightly dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

After entering the county government lobby and sitting down, he opened his mouth and asked, "Zongbing Sun, what's the situation with the Tatars now? Are the capital and Tongzhou safe?"

"Master Yang, the Tatars only sent a small number of sentries in the direction of Tongzhou and the capital, and now most of them are looting around Shunyi and Huairou. Two days ago, some Tartars also entered the territory of Sanhe."

Sun Bin hurriedly answered Yang Xuan's question.

"I asked the various ministries to take the initiative to attack the enemy. How is the fighting situation of each ministries?"

Yang Xuan was naturally relieved when he learned that the Tartars had not attacked the capital, although he probably had guesses in his heart when he saw Sun Bin.

But listening to Sun Bin say it personally, I feel more at ease.

"This"

When Sun Bin heard that Yang Xuan mentioned the military order he had sent two days ago, his face turned ugly.

When Yang Xuan was in a hurry, he sent multiple messengers to notify the commanders of Miyun, Shunyi, and Jizhen that they would take the initiative to send troops to fight the Tartars, hoping that through the Ming army's advancing tactics, the Tartars would retreat and withdraw from the Great Wall as soon as possible.

Yang Xuan was riding on the horse, so he was naturally recalling the news he had received, and because they were on their way in those two days, there were no messengers blocking them.

No new news came to his ears, Yang Xuan immediately thought about the information he already knew.

The lack of soldiers and horses for the Tartars to enter the customs has been noticed long ago.

It seems that there is no backup, and he has also paid attention to it.

He also noticed that the Tartars did not attack Miyun, but looted the countryside.

In summary, the Tartars' intentions have gradually become clear.

Now, seeing Sun Bin hesitating when answering his own questions, Yang Xuan was naturally very upset.

But he didn't lose his temper right away, he thought he was still good-tempered, even if he was facing a martial artist, he still had to be civilized.

"The Tartars entered the customs this time, obviously lacking in troops, General Sun will not fail to see that they are powerless to threaten the safety of the capital.

What's more, now that the Beijing camp has been prepared, the capital should be safe. It is the time when all the ministries are fighting the enemy bravely. How can we fear the enemy and fight timidly? Is this worthy of His Majesty and the court? "

Yang Xuan said in a bad tone.

Before, other officials who could tell that Yang Xuan was in a bad mood when they greeted him, such as Sanhe General Fu Jin and Sanhe County Magistrate, were silent at this time and did not dare to speak.

At this moment, a soldier outside the hall sent the official document of Governor Xu Shen of Shuntian, and handed it to the contestant Yang. He didn't need to look at it to know that Xu Shen was urging the troops of Jizhen to use troops as soon as possible to drive out the Tartars near Shunyi.

Whether the officers and soldiers can win the fight is also outside the scope of Xu Shen's authority, but the Tartars are raging in Shuntian Mansion, so he, the governor, has the responsibility to protect the environment and the people.

The pot, of course, cannot be thrown out.

Yang Xuan opened the official document, looked at it, and then handed it to Sun Bin, "Let's see, this should be the intention of the court. If we don't dispatch troops as soon as possible, the Ministry of War will soon issue an official document to supervise it."

Yang Xuan just glanced at it, and already roughly understood the content of the official document.

As he said, the court in the capital city has gradually calmed down from the shock of hearing the news of the Tartars' breakthrough from the very beginning.

As information from various sources gathered to the Ministry of War, Yang Bo saw that the Tatars' entry into the customs was unusual, and it seemed to have nothing to do with their initial worries.

But despite this, the Beijing camp will not move lightly, because the Beijing camp can fight with few soldiers, and only has the ability to protect the capital.

However, after the army of Jizhen entered Sanhe, and it was confirmed that the Tatars were not strong, Yang Bo naturally wanted to let the army of Jizhen start attacking the enemy immediately and drive the Tartars out.

But considering the imperial edict of King Qin that had been sent out everywhere, Yang Bo thought a little more.

That is, can we wait a few more days, when the army of the Xuan Mansion arrives, gather the forces of the Xuan Mansion and Ji Town, and wipe out this group of tartars as much as possible.

However, although there are ideas, if they want to become a reality, they need to have a more comprehensive understanding of the current situation.

It is not only necessary to know the distribution of the troops of the Ming army, but also the exact movement of the Tartar army.

Yang Bo was planning, and he had already sent someone to contact Ma Fang on the road, telling him that after leading his troops into Changping, he did not need to head towards the capital, but went directly to Huairou.

In Yang Bo's consideration, Ma Fang led Xuan's army from north to south, while Jizhen's army moved from south to north, so as to realize the encirclement of the Tazi cavalry from north to south.

As for Jizhen, neither Yang Xuan nor Sun Bin gave orders, because he knew the virtues of the Ming army well.

Under normal circumstances, if it is not necessary, the Ming army should not take the initiative to fight, and their strategy is to defend the city to the death.

As for whether the governor of Shuntian will ask Jizhen soldiers to attack the Tartars, it seems to Yang Bo that it is a joke, and those generals will not listen to him at this time.

However, he forgot that Yang Xuan was eager to make meritorious service at this time, and would desperately exert pressure, ordering the Ming army to fight the Tartars.

"Governor Yang, how do you use your troops?"

Sun Bin read Xu Shen's writing, although he was a little annoyed, but he didn't dare to refuse directly.

If you say something when people are not in front of you, you can find excuses to evade it later. Now in front of Yang Xuan, if he refuses to order an attack, Yang Xuan will label him as fearful of the enemy and cowardly, and then throw all the responsibility on himself on the head.

"You lead the army of Jizhen to go to Tongzhou early tomorrow morning, and go north from Tongzhou to attack the enemy. At the same time, you give an order to Miyun, ordering Huzhen to lead the troops out of the city to attack south and go to Shunyi."

Speaking of this, Yang Xuan looked at Sanhe General Fu Jin and said: "General Fu will lead his troops to the border of Sanhe, and the enemy must not be allowed to set foot on the border of Sanhe."

"In this way, the Tartars will look westward to find a pass to retreat."

Sun Bin frowned at this time and said.

If the Ming army sent troops on three sides, the Tartars would not want to be surrounded by the Ming army, even if they thought they could easily break through the Ming army's encirclement.

"You happen to be right, the Xuan army is coming from the west, and the Tatars should meet them. When they fight, our army from the third group in Ji Town can enter the enemy's formation from the rear."

Yang Xuan said indifferently, "Now the Tartars are dividing their forces to plunder, our army must attack with a thunderbolt, so that they have no time to worry about it."

Speaking of this, Yang Xuan took another deep breath and said: "In addition, you and I will jointly issue a warrant to strictly order all armies to march faster and arrive at Sanhe, Pinggu and other places as soon as possible. Anyone who delays the fighter will be punished without mercy."

"Feng Zhao, Hu Can, are they going to fight with me or?"

Generals Feng Zhao and Hu Can are the generals of Jizhen, who were taken away by Yang Xuan to command the army of Jizhen. This time they led [-] cavalry to Sanhe with Yang Xuan.

If this team did not join, Sun Bin would have to consider whether to send troops from Tongzhou.

With this team, he has nearly [-] cavalry in his hands. Although there are still not as many people as the Tartars, there are still many Ming troops around, especially those in Hu Town, Miyun.

In addition, as Yang Xuan said, the Tatars are currently scattered and looting everywhere. If they are attacked at this time, it is actually easy to fight when the Tartars are scattered.

When Yang Xuan heard Sun Bin's question, he immediately nodded and said, "Of course I'm going with you."

With Yang Xuan's answer, Sun Bin no longer worried about his safety, and readily agreed to his life.

Eight thousand cavalry, even if they can't defeat the Tartars, their own safety is still no problem.

As for whether Hu Zhen, Fu Jin and others will follow the order, Sun Bin can't control it at the moment.

Yang Xuan was in Sanhe, so Fu Jin would not have dared to disobey orders, but Huzhen, which was far away in Miyun, was hard to say.

The Ming army was on the move, and in the capital, as the information on the Tartars became more and more comprehensive, Wei Guangde also became more sure of the reality of the Tartar army.

This group of people broke in, they should just grab it and run away.

However, he did not tell others.

In fact, there is no shortage of discerning people in the Ming Dynasty Hall.

Wei Guangde asked himself, if he could see things clearly, it was impossible for those big bosses in the military department not to see them.

Of course, he didn't do nothing, at least in the small cabinet meeting of King Yu's Mansion, he still expressed his judgment.

But he didn't have the boldness of Yang Bo, who wanted to encircle and wipe out the Tartars, nor did Yang Xuan want to squeeze the Tartars to the west.

In King Yu's mansion, Wei Guangde stood in front of the map and said to King Yu and others: "Xuan Da's army is coming from the west, Jizhen's army is going from east to west, and other guards will start from Tongzhou and go north. Therefore, the Tartars must choose to flee northward and return to the grassland by the same route."

The area the Tartars passed through had already been looted by them once, so they were not afraid of making another trip, as the damage had already been done.

"As long as the escape route in the direction of Miyun is not blocked, if the Tartars are wise, they will push out of the Great Wall soon."

Finally, Wei Guangde analyzed.

"Since the Tartars are not strong enough, why not gather Jizhen and Xuanda armies to encircle and wipe out the Tartars?"

King Yu asked at this time.

"Without superior cavalry, it is difficult to achieve encirclement."

Wei Guangde shook his head and said: "Actually, as long as our army moves in the east, south, and west directions, the Tartars should withdraw immediately."

In fact, this is also the conclusion he reached after calculating the time when Xuan Dajun and Jizhen Army arrived near Gyeonggi.

If you want to encircle and suppress, you must set up an ambush before the Tartar army enters the customs, and when it reaches the city of Shunyi, you must mobilize the encirclement. At that time, there is a chance to complete the encirclement and annihilation tactics.

But the current situation is that the Ministry of War did not expect that the Tartars would raid Jizhen in advance, or expected it, but did not have time to make too many preparations in the future.

The time required for the mobilization of the army is actually the time when the Tartars have calculated that they can enter the pass to plunder.

The area to the south of Miyun is densely populated with densely populated villages, and the gains from looting are also very large, and for the Tatars, they have looted here more than ten years ago, and they are familiar with these situations.

The harvest of attacking Beizhili once is indeed much better than that of attacking other areas, far exceeding Jidong, Xuanda and other places.

"Every action has been counted by the Tartars, so it's no surprise that they are passive everywhere."

Zhang Juzheng also tended to agree with Wei Guangde's judgment at the moment, the Tatars came to plunder, and the time was before Daming mobilized the surrounding troops to arrive.

Perhaps a few days later, when the Xuanda and Jizhen armies approached, the Tartars would carry the looted property and choose to flee to the north.

"Is there a way to break it?"

King Yu still asked with some unwillingness to give up.

"In Jingying and the surrounding cities, order elite soldiers to go out of the city to attack the bandits who are scattered and looting, which may reduce the losses."

Wei Guangde said lightly.

Although it's easy to talk, just open your mouth, but if you really want to give such an order, I'm afraid few people will obey it.

"If you want to solve the shock of the Tartars breaking the Miyun once and for all, you still need a large army capable of fighting and fighting well."

Just as Wei Guangde said this, he was interrupted by Zhang Juzheng.

"That's impossible. If that's the case, the Nine Frontiers must be dispatched. Isn't that the restoration of the former regiment camp, and His Majesty will definitely not agree to it today."

Zhang Juzheng said immediately.

Soon after Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, he chose to dismiss the regiment battalion and the two official offices, and resume the old system of the three major battalions, which is still the Weisuo system.

The three thousand battalion was changed to the Shenshu camp, and the three battalions were named as Shaoye and all the internal ministers were dismissed, and a general was commanded, called the governor of the Jingying Rongzheng, and a civil servant was assisted, called the Jingying Rongzheng , which consists of deputy counselors and other officials.

All the soldiers of the regimental battalion and the two official halls belong to the fifth army battalion, while the treasure order flag and other items are still attached to the Shenshu camp.

In fact, this is a disguised denial of the group training system formed during the Jingtai period, and the so-called Twelve Regiment Camps during the Chenghua period, as well as the East and West official offices of the Zhengde Dynasty, were actually evolved on the basis of the group training system.

At this time, the frontier troops had to be transferred into the guard. If they were scattered into the three major battalions, a dispute between the old and the new would inevitably break out, and the consequences would be unpredictable.

In fact, these are all examples that can be checked, so they were compiled and practiced separately later, forming the so-called "Four Foreign Schools". This is also the reason for the formation of the Eastern and Western Government Offices.

Whether such a change is good or bad, in fact, no one can tell for sure, but based on Zhang Juzheng's understanding of Emperor Jiajing, it is absolutely impossible to realize it.

If the frontier army is transferred to fill the Beijing camp, the regiment and camp system must be re-established, which is tantamount to denying the reform of the Beijing camp in the early Jiajing period.

While Prince Yu's Mansion was still discussing, a group of more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry accidentally found a wooden boat by the Wenyu River in the north of Beijing.

The leader of the team coveted the richness on the other side of the river, and ventured to use this wooden boat to go back and forth on the river more than ten times, and transported all his men across the Wenyu River.

In Xiyuan at night, Emperor Jiajing always felt depressed after meditating tonight, so he gave up practicing and went to the high platform of Xiyuan to look around, hoping to relieve his mood.

Suddenly, he saw a red light flashing in the distance to the north.

"Huang Jin, come over and see if there is a fire over there?"

Emperor Jiajing was not sure if he was hallucinating, so he called the eunuch behind him and said.

Huang Jin was not young, so he tried his best to look in the direction indicated by the emperor, but saw nothing.

Emperor Jiajing looked at it for a while, and simply called several young eunuchs, and finally confirmed that there was indeed a red light in the distance to the north, which seemed to be the light of fire.

However, after getting the eunuch's answer, Emperor Jiajing didn't say anything, but just walked away.

(End of this chapter)