"Three thousand seven hundred."

Chen Mu's brows furrowed, his eyelids twitched, and his raised fingers trembled slightly, "Yanqingwei's full quota is only five thousand six hundred, and you said that he Yanqingwei is short of three thousand seven hundred?" ”

Deng Zilong sighed lightly, with an unconcealable disappointment in his eyes, he knew that Chen Mu should be even more disappointed than him, how easy is it to practice such a thing as a good three guards? He hugged his fists at Chen Mu and said: "General Hui, yes, there is a shortage of 3,765 households in Yanqingwei, and there are only 1,835 military households. ”

"But that's not right, you've been with me to see it, there are five thousand households under the Great Wall, and each thousand households have seven or eight hundred banner troops practicing, what about those people?"

Could it be that this Wang Zhongguo will do magic, what will he do to spread beans into soldiers?

Deng Zilong's face showed a little indignation, "I was deceived by him, and commanded Wang Zhongguo to have five hundred horsemen, and after receiving the news that the general went to investigate, five hundred horsemen galloped along the trail, and galloped away five thousand households in two days, and the soldiers were all those soldiers, and the five thousand households were all the same soldiers!" ”

Chen Mu blinked, stunned for a moment before relieving himself, that is to say-wherever they went, the cavalry galloped from the other side of the trail and then pretended to be a flag army drill?

This bastard knows the art of war and the way of reality!

"What about Wang Zhongguo?"

"The subordinate sent troops according to the words of the general soldier and went straight to the five departments and thousands of households to check, and after checking the accounts of the military households, Wang Zhongguo felt afraid of himself, and led one hundred and ten horsemen to escape from Gubeikou, but fortunately it was intercepted by Qi Shuai's subordinates, and now they are in Miyun Yamen, Jizhen Town, Qi Shuai asked you to go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to visit the department."

Deng Zilong was talking in the yamen, and Long Junxiong stepped forward quickly at the door, and it seemed that Deng Zilong whispered in Chen Mu's ear: "General, there is a lady from outside the yamen, accompanied by dozens of people, and sent a big box, wanting to see the general." ”

Long Junxiong's face was a little red, and he said emphatically: "There are no less than five thousand taels of gold and silver in the box. ”

Five thousand taels?

Chen Mu was sidetracked by the numbers, "Is it Wang Zhongguo's family?" It's just that this loyal country is disloyal, he didn't bring his wife and concubine when he ran away, and the gold is not enough, but the people are finished-persuade him to go back, don't touch the gold and silver in the box, and send it back as it is. ”

Chen Mu stood up, nodded at Deng Zilong and said, "Go, follow me to the military department." ”

Quickly walked out two steps, and then stopped Long Junxiong and said: "It's really not good to show her the way, these five thousand taels of gold and silver don't care whether to send Miyun or send the army, or send Tianning Temple is better than Chen, of course, I think Tianning Temple is the best." ”

Chen Mu and Deng Zilong each took six attachés, and rode out of the yagong to the capital for fourteen.

Deng Zilong is very worried, in his opinion, there is no military household, this is like a good woman who is difficult to cook without rice, no matter how good the training skills are, she can't use it. Now that the whole Changping is full of calculations, not counting the 12,000 chariots and cavalry of Yang Siwei, the chief military officer of Changzhen, there are only 14,000 soldiers with real origin, what do they use to train 20,000 soldiers?

It's just that these two years are not enough!

But Chen Mu doesn't think so, the Ming Dynasty lacks soldiers? Joke, the Ming Dynasty lacked everything, only people. As long as the military department is willing to transfer some silver, he can recruit enough soldiers between January and March, and he is more concerned about the first thing needed for military training, Liwei, which has been done.

Wang Zhongguo is a good teammate, he is godly attacking the defense and wants to escape from Gubeikou, after his action, no matter what he committed before, only this one, he is finished.

Want to defect to Warat?

He was dead, so Chen Mucai said that even if five thousand taels of gold and silver were sent to Tianning Temple, it would be better than sending him to the yamen, so that some monks could be overtaken when collecting the corpse.

As soon as they arrived in Beijing, the atmosphere was completely different from usual, the three battalions of soldiers and horses shouted and shook for miles, and when they arrived at the six departments in the south of the city, it was even more so, a team of sergeants with spears and bows marched through the market, and the officers of the military department carried swords and knives, and the troops lost their previous temperament.

Chen Mu and Deng Zilong looked at each other, and said in their hearts: Something happened!

When he arrived in the hall, it was a different situation, Tan Lun sat firmly in the hall, several hall officials, whether Wu Guifang or Liu Tao and others, were all calm, Chen Mu didn't dare to say much, and entered the hall and said: "General Chen Mu, meet all the ministers!" ”

"No need to be polite. We all know about Wang Zhongguo, we have been deceived so hard, we still think that Changzhen has more than 20,000 soldiers, and the number reported to Qi Shuai by your subordinate General Deng is that Changzhen only has 14,000 banner troops? ”

"Back to the Ministry Hall, Changzhen was controlled by the generals and only 13,000 soldiers, of which 2,318 battalion soldiers were newly recruited for Jinyi." Chen Mu saw that this atmosphere was not right, as if it was time to use the soldiers, he hugged his fists and said more: "There are more than 11,000 soldiers in the Sanwei Banner Army, half peasants and half soldiers, which is not much different from the newly recruited miners and salt apprentices. ”

Chen Mu's words seemed to block what Tan Lun wanted to say next in his throat, and the governor of Jiliao and the secretary of the military department sat in the hall with his lips moving lightly, and did not speak again. Wu Guifang, who was sick on the side, looked at the old subordinate and sighed, coughed lightly twice to break the silence, and asked: "Chen Erlang, although you are young, you are also a good war veteran in the south, and you have saved Zhang Ziwen in danger many times. ”

Beiyu?

Chen Mu hurriedly clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Please show the boss!" ”

Wu Guifang's withered fingers tapped at Chen Mu twice and said, "Thirteen,000 soldiers, can you gather them under your command and build a defense line between the Juma River in Fangshan?" ”

Fangshan, Juma River? That's the defense area of Jingying, not the defense area of Changzhen!

Then Chen Mu came back from Wu Guifang's words, his face was not good-looking, and he clenched his fists and asked, "Shanxi, was attacked by the northern captives?" ”

"In June, I just retreated, and in August I re-entered Shanxi, three days before the attack to Pingyu City, divided the troops to follow the road, if it broke through the defense line five days can be under the capital; My eldest son, Huang Taiji, also had a movement of troops entering the Shanhaiguan to invade Jinzhou. ”

Tan Lun bowed his head, Wu Guifang sighed: "Twenty-nine years, since the Gengxu change has been twenty-nine years, I am a great shame, Emperor Shizong in his later years every time he writes the word Yidi, the word must be very small, and the hatred is nothing more than that, now the cabinet ministers are cutting-edge, they can smell the warning, the high level is in charge of the northern affairs, and they have ordered Qi Shuai to rest the border defense, and the ministers and Zhu Shangshu have personally gone down to the city to lead the division behind the capital to wait. ”

"Zhang Cifu is in charge of the west, and he has entrusted the matter of conquest and suppression to Tan." Tan Lun looked at Chen Mu and said: "Taihang Eight Roads, Zhending and Baoding have two lines of defense, Fangshan and Juma River are the last lines of defense outside the city, Changzhen is under the control of General Yang Bing, and the baggage is carried by the imperial envoy Liu Shilang to Tianjin to guard the grain, which has been interlocked." ”

After that, Tan Lun put his eyes on Chen Mu's face, and the meaning was very clear - all the important places in Beijing had been connected, and the last iron ring that was not locked was General Chen.

"Please give me the right to kill those who violate the command in the war, then I can not only lead the three guards to fortify Fangshan, but even if I go to war, I can also gather thousands of elite troops and 2,000 dare to die to rush with the order of the army!"