Bai Yuanjie sent a letter from Nanyangwei, although Chen Mu was not in Nanyang, the remaining manpower could ensure that Nanyangwei would continue according to the arrangement before Chen Mu left.

Hexingsheng's fleet went a few times, Weigang was still under construction, and Qingyuanwei failed to plant Eucommia ulmoides on a large scale, but they purchased a large amount of Eucommia ulmoides leaves from Huguang to boil gum and boil out this piece of stuff that didn't seem to be of much use.

In short, everything is fine, but the son is lost.

Li Dan took the Hexingsheng fleet to make a lot of money in Malacca, and then returned to Nanyang Wei to replenish the goods, and then went to Luzon, and sent a message back that he was going to live in Luzon for a year and a half, neither with much silver taels, nor a few ships, only with a group of men, and went away to the ocean.

He said that he had found something yellow, but he didn't know how to plant it, and he wanted to learn from Fanyi in Luzon how to grow it.

Nanyang Wei has really become bigger, in the past half a year since he left, all the roads paved in the past have entered a state of vigorous development, whether it is the business market, fleet, shipyard or military industry, the shark ship produced by Xiangshan Shipyard is moving towards the 400 material big ship, and the 200 material small boat has really become what Chen Mu expected, becoming the fishing boat of Nanyang Wei Junyu.

This will be their first step towards dominating the South Seas.

Compared with Nanyangwei, the situation in General Chen's northern defense area is getting worse and worse.

The Tumut Department is really decided.

The first to break through was the right guard of Shenwu, the local defenders were neither willing to bribe the northern captives, but also unwilling to hold the city, outside the city with the outpost enemy cavalry for a small victory, and then greedy for merit and fell into the encirclement of the captive cavalry, not an inch of advance and could not be returned, after the rout was wantonly killed and plundered, half of the troops scattered and fled.

Then the southern part of the Beiyu army entered Baoding, attacking the Qingdu area of Tang County, and at the same time, the army of the southern road of Beiyu also entered Baoding Mansion from Lingqiu, Shanxi, and knocked on the Bauhinia Pass. The pass defense is stubbornly defended, but the belly is back by the enemy, the two captive armies combined more than 10,000 troops, the guards of the pass are difficult to support alone, and the general of the Bauhinia Pass who guards the pass for ten days sees that there are no soldiers to help, and leads the army to abandon the pass and retreat to Yizhou and Laishui, and enter the southern defense of the Beijing Division.

The enemy rode an outpost, less than 100 miles away from the water of the horse.

It was only at this time that Chen Mu figured out who his enemy was.

It's not me answer, the main force of my answer is still in Datong, because of its internal problems, and did not continue to the south, Chen Mu needs to face a tribe under the control of my answer, it is my brother Ji Neng led the soldiers and horses, more than 10,000 horses, watching its tactics is to imitate the story of the Mongolian army breaking through the Bauhinia Pass and hitting all the way to Xizhimen in Beijing.

For Chen Mu, the situation is very good.

"It's weird to be a barbarian, my uncle is fighting with us, and my grandson has come to run by himself." Deng Zilong took the letter and said to Chen Mu: "Han Naji fled to Datong with more than a dozen people because I married his fiancée and asked for surrender, and the governor allowed it, and the court was very happy about this, so I answered that I gathered 100,000 troops and went to the border to ask for Han Naji." ”

Chen Mu took the letter, looked at it for a while and didn't understand the relationship between the characters in it, and counted Hannaji as the grandson of Alta, and his fiancée was the daughter of the Wara tribe as Alta's niece - in short, in this mess, the Ming Dynasty added another important bargaining chip to the purpose of the peace with me.

"Don't worry about the affairs of the court for now." Chen Mu slapped the letter back on the case, went out of the tent and climbed up to look in the mirror, in the misty fog in his vision, there were traces of pigtailed cavalry running, "The enemy is getting closer and closer, they are observing the formation of our army, Wuqiao, when do you think they will attack?" ”

The fog was thick in the morning, and the rain was not far away.

Deng Zilong shook his head, he didn't have any experience in fighting with the Beiyu, so he just said thoughtfully: "When the rainstorm first comes, they will definitely attack; However, the northern captives had attacked all before, and they were likely to attack first when their troops and horses were assembled. ”

"Is the thistle cloth on the bridge ready?"

After receiving a positive reply, Chen Mu was a little relieved, the cavalry in the fog on the opposite bank was like a ghost coming and going without a trace, and from the beginning of the enemy cavalry crossing the border, there would be a few screams in the night from time to time, which brought great pressure to the defenders.

Chen Mu stood on the watchtower and counted the defense again, from the iron thistle terrestris on the bridge to the antler wooden fence on the shore, he even had people wrap the mines mixed with gravel with leather and bury them on the side of the bridge, and the fire line was wrapped in bamboo, but not too much - the weather was very humid, and the rain might not be useful.

Except for the waterproof artillery positions and the gunner trenches, all the firearms outside were not enough to rely on.

"How many little flag arrows are there?"

The three hundred-household bird team has all been stationed in the trenches, and it seems that the banner army is quite accustomed to this kind of defense, and when they heard Chen Mu's question, the hundred households replied: "General, there are sixty small flag arrows, enough to fight twice." ”

"This is different from fighting in the south, don't fight so many at once, and when you see the enemy cavalry attacking the bridge, you can only send five small flag arrows." Chen Mu took a deep breath, pointed to the bridgehead and said to the flag army: "This battle cannot be won in an instant, it will be fought for a long time." ”

When the southern soldiers went to the northern Xinjiang, it was difficult to change the offensive and defensive strategies because of the different situations facing the flag army, and Chen Mu was the same. The small banner arrows they used to kill and wound the enemy in the south may only play a role in disrupting the enemy's cavalry in the north, and if they are swarmed out, it will have little effect.

Approaching the battle, fighting against the unknown enemy army, even Deng Zilong, who had been in battle for a long time, became a lot of talkers, touring the position again and again. Chen Mu was the same, but he pretended to be calm, and kept pulling Deng Zilong and Hu Daxiong to talk and laugh in front of the battle, as if he was not worried about the enemy at present.

In fact, every time he walked around in front of the battle, he had to drink a large pot of water when he returned to the military tent, and the lack of sleep made his eyes bloodshot, so that no one could see it, he often squinted when he was outside the tent.

It's back to the state of the past, with similar troops, and more than half of the friendly troops who lack training account for eighty percent!

Three days, three days passed in a blink of an eye.

There were more enemy cavalry wandering on the opposite bank, and sometimes they would even see a large group of cavalry circling around the shore, and their morale was even more low, and the banner army that had never fought against the cavalry bowed again and again in the trench with a wooden carving Xiao Chen Mu, and the riders sent to the opposite bank only came back more than 300, and more than 100 people were killed in the encounter with the enemy scouts.

The remaining 300 or so came back alive not because they were victorious in the encounter, but because they were lucky not to encounter the enemy.

The heavy rain still hadn't fallen, but the fog that seemed to be there was thicker in the morning and evening, and it was impossible to see clearly even with a telescope a few hundred steps away, but Chen Mu could feel that the large group of men and horses were already lined up on the opposite bank, and sometimes the songs from the grassland could reach their ears.

In order to arouse morale, Chen Mu sometimes led his family soldiers to put a few guns on the shore to the opposite bank, whether he could hit the enemy army was another matter, in order to let the flag army see that he was not afraid, so that the flag army under his command would not be afraid.

The fear in the heart is an opponent who is more terrible than the enemy in war.

On the morning of the 10th day of the first month of September, the trumpet sounded on the opposite shore.

"Enemy attack!"