On the second day of the first month of August, I crossed the Great Wall into Datong, surrounded the Acropolis of Ping, changed to plunder, and waited for Wang Chonggu, the governor of the three sides of the Central People's Republic of China, to send troops to aid Pingyu, leaving only the wheat fields and corpses that were looted and burned as red land.

On the eighth day of the eighth month of August, the Beijing division first heard that the prisoners were captured, and at this time the army of Alta had plundered all the way, and the troops were divided into roads, Pinglu and Shuozhou in Datong; Ningwu and Zhenwu in Taiyuan, Shanxi, followed by Yangqu and Shouyang, the Tumut army on the south road was almost separated from the Zhending defenders.

It's August 15 in the blink of an eye.

"Eat moon cakes!"

In the Juma River camp, in addition to the 1,000 households on duty in the Chinese military tent, the remaining nearly ten generals sat around the map, each with a moon cake, and had to bow to the northeast after eating. The moon cakes they ate were given by Emperor Longqing to the leading generals, and only three boxes were given, originally Jiang Yuelin meant to send someone back to the family to provide for them, but Chen Mu gave his share to his left and right subordinates, and the two commanders could only learn from each other.

It became a moon cake dinner for the generals of the Fangshan garrison.

The garrison outside the tent also had moon cakes to eat, Chen Mu took some of the money intercepted by Wang Zhongguo from the money intercepted by Wang Zhongguo, and sent people to purchase moon cakes from the nearest Liangxiang and others in advance, and there were also some of the fireheads in the army who made their own money, and made up enough for the whole army to distribute it, and each person responded to the scene.

They can't see the moon, and they don't have the heart to see it.

"The thieves are attacking in a big way, but this is not right, they are unheard of on the march to break the city." The moon cake was not enough for Deng Zilong to stuff his teeth, and he ate it in one bite, Chen Mu simply put his piece in Deng Zilong's hand, took the clay pot and casually added half a bowl of water to him, motioned him to continue, and listened to him: "The soldiers who entered the well are only a partial division, but they have even taken down several cities, don't those cities have the slightest resistance, but do you know how to live in the city?" ”

Chen Mu bowed his head and did not speak, this is also the doubt in his heart, in just seven days, Tumut, this partial division almost killed through Taiyuan, although there are city passes to block, but there are small roads along the line, at this speed, at most fifteen days the thieves will have to face them across the Ma River.

Now that the camp is not half completed, it will take at least two fifteen days to build the position Chen Mu wants near the left side of Fangshan, but how easy is this?

"Isn't that normal?"

Hu Xingyun is more Buddhist, and he has always listened to whatever orders Chen Mu gave him, and it was the same at this time. It was normal for him that the thieves attacked quickly; The thief's attack was slow, which was normal for him, and he pointed to the position of Pinglucheng and Zhenwuwei in Yutu, and said: "Several southern generals came late, and Zhang Gang, the general of Pingyucheng in May, was killed by Jinyiwei escorting Jingshi. ”

"In April, I answered to attack, Zhang Gang was afraid that the capture would be lost, so he bribed me to attack other places, and as a result, Zhenwuwei was beaten by my army." Hu Xingyun shook his head and said, "This kind of thing is normal in Jiubian. ”

This sounds like a fantasy to Chen Mu, what kind of logic is this, when the enemy army comes to attack, he neither talks about war nor defense, and bribes the enemy army to let them attack elsewhere. And the crux of the matter is that this kind of bastard thing has actually been done, and I really took twenty or thirty thousand horsemen to collect the money and go elsewhere.

Listening to the meaning of this, the soldiers of the Nine Sides still took this as common sense.

Seeing the expressions of Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, Hu Liangpeng and others looking at each other, Jiang Yuelin felt very embarrassed, hung his head and said helplessly: "This is also a helpless thing, I can't fight and fight, I still keep my reputation, as long as you give him money, he doesn't care if you are an emperor or a general, he listens to him if you ask him to withdraw from the army, Gengxu's change is not like this-"

"This bastard led his troops to the city of Beijing, told the emperor to get through the city and take the money, and he left immediately."

The more he said, the more depressed Jiang Yuelin became, and said: "In the past, it was okay not to farm outside the fortress, once a year, since the first emperor reorganized the army to cultivate the army, and transferred more than 100,000 troops to the Beijing division every autumn, and was not beaten outside the capital again, in recent years, there are more people who have fled to the north of the Saibei, and there are villages and fields everywhere north of the Great Wall, and they have all planted the land. ”

The corners of Chen Mu's mouth twitched twice, looking at Deng Zilong, who was also speechless, he laughed angrily, "This is not a southern invasion, this is the Mongol Great Khan inspecting the territory, by the way, to collect a tax, in the past, there was no shortage of money, once a year, but now it has been added, and it has to be collected twice a year?" ”

Hu Xingyun just wanted to open his mouth to defend something, but Chen Mu was speechless, and he was really choked by this, because my answer brain was exactly the same as what Chen Mu said.

I replied that I had never done a few things in my life, one was to grab land, the other was to grab money, and I had never done anything else in my sixties in my life. Outside the Great Wall, it is a fight and a constant expansion of territory to the west; In the Great Wall, it is a fight, constantly going south to grab money and food.

I replied that these two things were very light, and the cities of the Ming Dynasty were only besieged and not attacked, and they were snatched up outside the city and left.

"Generals, don't underestimate the Border Saiwu people, if you don't kill twenty or thirty generals because of the battle with the Northern Captives, it won't work." Jiang Yuelin originally thought that these things would be enough to be angry, but now that Chen Mu and others underestimated him, he was even more angry, and said uncomfortably: "The defense line is long, and the northern captives come and go like the wind, and there are hundreds of generals everywhere. To flee is to die. ”

"The court doesn't care if you have enough troops, if you don't fight, you will die; If you don't have any troops, you just let Qi Shuai bring 1,000 troops and 20,000 troops to fight, which is also an egg hitting a stone! ”

"Don't say a thousand, we have more than 10,000 people in the Juma River, and the northern captives will fight here in half a month, and the general thinks he will definitely win?"

It's not a child, Chen Mu won't brag about this bull for a while, he felt a little dry in his mouth, remembered some tobacco in his bag, got up to rummage, and only sat back after a while to pat Jiang Yuelin and said: "Okay, okay, no one blames you, it's difficult to be an official, it's even more difficult for a military attaché, who isn't difficult these days?" People, don't ignore it, but make it difficult. ”

"Remember what you said today, without troops, if you have enough troops, what will you do? Want to fight a war in which tens of thousands of Chen soldiers will fight for ten years of peace, and want to establish an immortal career? War is an opportunity, we are the closest to Beijing, this battle is excellent, if the northern captives really kill the Juma River, you can kill the enemy and fight and retreat according to what Chen said. ”

"Retreat to the mountains above and kill more than a thousand captives in the north, are you afraid that there will not be enough troops in the future?"

Haosheng relieved a few words, boosted the morale of the generals under his command, and sent them out of the tent Chen Mu heard the suppressed cries in the camp one after another, the sky was gloomy and wanted to rain, and his restrained banner army was homesick because of the moon cakes.

Chen Mu leaned weakly under the curtain of the handsome tent, slowly pressed the tobacco into the iron pipe that had not been used a few times, and said with a wry smile: "This atmosphere is not good, the big war is imminent!" ”

"Junxiong, two hundred steps by the river, build an earthen slope, build a gun shed, take advantage of the rain to set up the artillery array, and then dig a trench by the bridge for five hundred people side by side, and use a wooden frame to build a slope to prevent rain, our gun is short, only half of the body is exposed on it."

"If you can stop him beautifully for a while, it will be much easier for the three guards of Yanqing to obey the order later!"