Early the next morning, a holy decree came out from the celebrant supervisor, and the cabinet and the six departments signed and released it as quickly as possible, and the holy decree was immediately sent to the military department.

On this day, Rong Zheng's squire and the Seven Towns Governor was slightly more pragmatic and rare than staying in the Jingbei camp of the Praetorian Guard, but sitting in the duty room of the military department - waiting for this holy decree.

The holy decree is nothing more than that style, first talking about the tense situation in the northwest, then scolding the traitors for their treachery, and then praising the genius of the high palace protection, and finally ordering him to "supervise the military affairs of the northwest with his own and various positions" before the arrival of the new governor of the three sides, and act cheaply, and the cabinet and the military department are not remote.

This sentence is a bit interesting, theoretically the first half of the sentence does not need to be explained, but the holy decree specifically said it.

Holy decree this kind of thing, don't look at the nonsense seems to be a lot, but in fact, every word must have its role, here is especially explained that Gao pragmatic is "to supervise the military affairs of the northwest with his own and various positions", in fact, it means emphasizing his "main and various positions".

There are actually a lot of high pragmatism and various positions, for example, his palace guard is also a position, but the palace guard is definitely not the focus of the emphasis here, the focus can only be the real power position, that is, "the assistant Jingying Rong Political and Military Department left Shilang, the right capital of the Imperial History, the four towns of Jiliao and the three towns of Xuanda and other border affairs and food and salary".

Gao pragmatic thought about it and found that the real emphasis in the holy decree was probably not Rong Zheng Shilang, nor was it the Seven Towns Strategy, but the "Imperial History of the Right Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate" that was added to him not long ago in order to match the Seven Towns Strategy.

At first glance, this may seem suspicious, but it is not. Although the Rongzheng squire after the reform of the Beijing camp has a lot of real power and a very high actual status, the grandfather of the country has to obediently obey orders, but in the final analysis, it is still just a third-grade official, just a squire.

The governor of the three sides was inaugurated with the title of Shangshu, whether it was Gao Guangxian before or Wei Xuezeng, who was about to take office.

The two governors of Jiliao and Xuanda controlled by Gao Pragmatic, Zhou Yong, the governor of Jiliao, is okay, and he is also the rank of squire of the Ministry of War, but the current Governor of Xuanda, Zheng Luo, is also the title of the secretary of the Ministry of War, so Gao Pragmatic wants to go through Jiliao and Xuanda, so he has to add a right capital imperial history, so as not to be unable to control the field - of course, this is just the habit of the imperial court, in fact, whether it is Zhou Yongyi or Zheng Luo, they are all people of the real school, there is no reason not to give Gao pragmatic face.

Now that Gao Pragmatic is going to supervise the military affairs of the Northwest, ordinary people will subconsciously think that he is going to the Northwest with the Seven Towns Scripture, but the Seven Towns Scripture itself has no grade and no rank, so the Holy Decree will name this and hold various positions, among which the one who can improve the dignity of the title to Gao Pragmatic is the right capital imperial history.

The right is the second grade, and the left is the same as the royal history. Of course, in fact, the left is respected, and the left imperial history is the number one of the Metropolitan Inspectorate, while the right imperial history is generally used for external magnification.

At the same time, due to the characteristics of the position of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Gao Pragmatic went to the northwest with the title of the right capital imperial history, and he had the special attribute of supervising the entire northwest officialdom, which was also a kind of weighting.

All in all, Zhu Yijun's sentence actually means that the entire overall situation in the northwest is fully given to Gao Pragmatic to take care of.

Well, this is very Zhu Yijun. In the original history, Emperor Wanli also used people in this style, whether it was in the border town or in the center, he was very accustomed to this set.

Although the appointment of Gao Pragmatic this time was temporary, Zhu Yijun still maintained his habits, in addition to making it clear that Gao Pragmatic was to supervise the military affairs of the Northwest with "this and various positions", he also gave Shang Fangjian - really called this name. [Note: The record in "Ming Shilu" is called Shang Fangjian, but there is no treasure word.] ]

With the holy decree given by Shang Fangjian, there is a special explanation, the original text is "If the commander does not need to die, he will be beheaded before the army, and there is no need to report it".

In other words, the generals to whom the "Northwest Military Affairs" belongs are now all in the hands of Gao Shi. However, the status of civil officials is different, and the holy decree only mentions military generals, and does not mention civil ministers.

After receiving the holy decree and taking the sword, Gao Pragmatic immediately set off, said goodbye to Liang Menglong, and took the "Follower Family" to take office, in addition to the Follower Family, there were also the four thousand Janissaries that Zhu Yijun temporarily wrote into the Holy Decree and let him bring.

The establishment of the Praetorian Guard, more than 60,000 people, is divided into five towns, according to the plan of Gao Pragmatic at the beginning, each town has a quota of 12,512 officers and soldiers, composed of infantry, horses, artillery, engineering, baggage and other arms, each town has a commander, a deputy commander, and a chief of staff. Later, because the word "system" in "unification" could not be used casually after the Great Rites Discussion, it was directly changed to "co-unification" and "deputy co-unification".

Each town has two infantry associations, one of which has four thousand and thirty-eight officers and soldiers; 1,756 officers and soldiers per standard for each standard (the number of officers and soldiers for the horse standard is slightly less, 1,117); Each standard is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, and each row has three sheds...... Wait a minute.

It stands to reason that Gao Pragmatic went to the northwest and should give him the horse army, but I don't know if Zhu Yijun forgot or had other ideas, and gave a joint infantry army, a total of 4,000 and 38 people. Gao pragmatic himself estimated that the emperor's intention was probably to let him use the Praetorian Guard as a pro-army to show his honor.

The record of the first commander of the Praetorian Guard to leave Beijing to perform military affairs fell on Gao Shishi's head, but it is not wrong to think about it the other way, after all, he is the founder of the Praetorian Guard, and he is eligible to enjoy this record.

The Praetorian Guard sent four thousand, and the number of followers was only slightly less, a total of three thousand. Because Gao Pragmatic generally only put so many armed soldiers around the Beijing Division.

The three thousand followers are almost at the level of the general soldier in many places, but they are nothing to Gao Pragmatic, and the families he brings now are only for the hundred officials in the capital to see, in fact, he still has a lot of armed families on the three sides of the northwest, especially the cavalry. It's just that these families were scattered before, for example, Cao Gan brought 3,000 horsemen and others in Lanzhou before.

Of course, now it seems that Cao Gan is afraid that he will make a move, the situation in the northwest is like this, and it is no longer meaningful for him to continue to stay in Lanzhou and wait for the army - the ghost knows when the army will be free to go to Lanzhou.

The first step of the highly pragmatic marching route is to go straight to Datong. However, it is said to go straight, because the current road conditions are here, the so-called straight still has to go through Xuanfu, the whole journey is about 700 miles, if it is all infantry, it will take more than ten days just to walk over.

But the Praetorian Guards brought out by Gao Pragmatic were unusual, they had horses to travel, and the difference with the cavalry was only that their horses were not considered war horses, they were only used for transportation, and there were no double horses, one for each person, and there was no margin.

Needless to say, Gao Shishi had already been dispatched some time ago, and these 3,000 people were all horsemen, in addition to one person and two horses, they also brought 500 "reserves", and now they are also temporarily undertaking the task of "horse reserves" in the Praetorian Guard.

The training syllabus of the Gao family was originally compiled by Qi Jiguang according to the requirements of high pragmatism, and now the training requirements of the Praetorian Guard are also very high, so the more than 7,000 cavalry of the two armies are quite capable of running - the training standards of the two sides are the same, one hundred and forty miles a day.

This speed is not obtained by Gao pragmatic patting his head, but is the result of Qi Jiguang's strict research on the endurance of the Ming army's horses, and it is actually basically the same as the speed of the Xiahou Yuan cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period. 3a Reading Network

At that time, Xiahou Yuan's department was known for its speed, known as "five hundred in three days, one thousand in six days", and the Han ruler was converted into almost one hundred and forty miles a day.

Now Gao Pragmatic is also advancing at this speed, and rushed to Datong on the afternoon of the fifth day. At this time, Ma Gui was all ready to stop, and there were about 5,000 Ma family soldiers among the 20,000 people in his department, and the whole army was ready to go.

But although Gao Shishi's time is tight, he will not rush at night, because other people may be able to stand it, but the artillery team can't, even if there is a special gun carriage with a spring chassis in Jinghua, and the whole process is too tired to run over at the speed of the cavalry "horse-drawn cannon", and normal rest is completely necessary.

So he slept outside Datong City that night, and Gao Pragmatic himself didn't enter the city.

If he didn't enter the city, the officials of Datong had to go out of the city to see him, so from the governor of Datong, the eunuch of Datong town to the general soldier of Datong, Magui, they could only go out of the city to meet Jinglu.

The current governor of Datong is still an old acquaintance, and it is Gu Yangqian, a protégé of Gao Gong and a scholar in Jiajing's 44th year. In the original history, Gu Yangqian was promoted to the governor of Liaodong in the fourteenth year of Wanli from Jizhou Bingbeidao, but in this life, because of the pragmatic little butterfly wings, he did not go to Liaodong, but became the governor of Datong.

But it doesn't matter, there is not much difference in the importance of the governor of Datong and the governor of Liaodong, and Gu Yangqian is still one of the important members of the Shixue School. As for the eunuch guarding Datong Town, it is still Huang Mengyu's person - Huang Zhangyin attaches great importance to this position he started, so since he returned to Beijing, the eunuch guarding Datong Town has always been his faction.

The current eunuch of Datong Town is also one of Huang Mengyu's "godsons", but Gao Pragmatic didn't care too much about the specific situation. And this eunuch was also very low-key in front of Gao Pragmatic, I don't know if Huang Mengyu had an explanation, in short, he basically treated himself as an ornament, and let Gao Pragmatic discuss military affairs with Gu Yangqian and Ma Gui, without interjecting a word from beginning to end.

Gu Yangqian was a little worried that Gao Pragmatic would only take 20,000 people from Datong, because he already knew that Gao Pragmatic only planned to transfer 30,000 horses from the three towns of Xuanda, and he felt that this number was too small - even if he added 4,000 Praetorian Guards, it was too small.

According to what Gu Yangqian said, Datong has been recuperating for more than ten years, not to mention 20,000, doubling to 40,000 can also be easily mobilized, as for the defense issue...... To the north of Datong is the headquarters of Tumut, which has been fine for more than ten years, and the king of Shunyi put Han Naji as a die-hard supporter of the Ming Dynasty, as long as he is there, Datong is simply impregnable.

Even if the Tumen are killed, he doesn't know if he can win the fight or not, how can he have the spare strength to come to the side of the co-offender? Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the Tumen really defeat Tumut, Datong still has 70,000 or 80,000 troops left at this time, and it may be difficult to say if you attack it, but can you still hold it? What's more, Xuanfu is not far to the east, and it and Datong are each other's horns, Datong has police, and Xuanfu must have support...... In short, the two towns of Xuanda are not afraid of the Tumen coming over now.

Gao was quite pleased with Gu Yangqian's confidence. Once upon a time, the confidence of the Ming Dynasty in the Mongols had long collapsed, especially when the Gengshu was beaten out by the Altan, the border generals were mostly afraid of the Metar, and many people almost fled as soon as they saw the Mongol cavalry, and now this situation has been completely reversed.

It seems that the thinking of the year was still correct, and the border army could not follow the line called Hanako, and only well-equipped troops could train good soldiers without worrying about food and clothing, especially in a period of overall peace.

However, when Gao pragmatically expressed this attitude, Ma Gui had a different opinion.

The mainstay of the Ma family army at this time sighed and said: "The cardinal does not know, although the Datong border army can be regarded as full compared to the past, and there is time to drill on weekdays, but this army has been in peace for a long time, and it has not been in battle for more than ten years...... The last general is still worried that they will be smoothed out. ”

Gao pragmatically nodded and said: "What you said also makes sense, but this matter can't be based on conjecture alone, whether it is used or not, you have to fight to know - isn't this opportunity coming now?" Xiquan, you are the main force in this battle, I hope you will do your best to let the headquarters also take a look at what the situation of the Datong border army is now, which is important for the next ...... Well, it's also very referential, you know? ”

Ma Gui hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "The last general understands that the last general must fight hard, firstly, to live up to the high expectations of the cardinal, and secondly, to allow the cardinal to accurately assess the true strength of the Datong border army." ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, and said to Gu Yangqian: "Senior Brother Yiqing......"

"What do you command?"

One is called the senior brother, and the other is called the world brother, which is to discuss with the door according to the relationship of the high arch, in other words, there are some personal things to talk about.

The town guard eunuch and Ma Gui got up at the same time, and both said that they still had important things to do and needed to retire first.

Gao pragmatic confessed to Gu Yangqian, got up and sent them out of the gate, and came back to talk to Gu Yangqian.

"Senior Brother Yiqing, there are two biggest problems in sending troops this time: one is that I can only stay in the northwest for more than a month, so this battle must be fast; The second is that there is no surplus silver in the imperial treasury to support a big war, and the silver I brought with me this time was all squeezed out by the emperor from the inside, and there are only 200,000 taels at present. ”

Gu Yangqian immediately frowned when he heard this: "I know that the imperial court is nervous, but I didn't expect it to be so nervous. Seeking truth, do you want to ask Datong Town if you can even out some silver? ”

Gao Pragmatic sighed, but still nodded: "Yes, I do have this intention, but Senior Brother Yiqing doesn't have to be too embarrassed, just as much as you can." ”

Gu Yangqian nodded, did not answer immediately, but carefully considered it, and then said slowly: "This matter is a bit unexpected to me, so I haven't made much preparation in advance, right now...... I mean that I will be able to provide delivery of the silver immediately, and I will be able to secure a hundred thousand taels. As for the next, maybe there will be a little, but I'm afraid there won't be too many, you see......"

"Then 100,000 taels first, this money should be enough to deal with Bo Shuoketu's side." High pragmatism and decisiveness.

Gu Yangqian was stunned: "What do you mean by seeking the truth?" ”

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