In the eighth year of Wanli, the emperor's book and telegram to the central and eastern sides were read by the world.

In the Forbidden City, the young emperor took the arm of the little Mongol prince Butash Li and told the three governors Fang Fengshi, asking him to supervise the army to hold down the empire.

After Wu Dui, the squire of the military department, entered the Shoufu Mansion next to the Jingshi Tiger Room, the lantern at the door of Zhang Juzheng's house was never extinguished.

Until the evening of the third day, the Han general and the Jinyi guards rode to the door, and the first assistant personally led the horse to send Wu Shilang out of Beijing.

After that, the military department squire settled in the right guard of Datong, and looked across the Qingshui River on the Great Wall at the naturalized city that had been built in the outer city last year.

Cooperate with Wu Shilang to open to the side, is the Beiyang Army that was supposed to board the warship at this time and go to Asia, they caught up with the best time, on the spot with the emperor personally trained Teng Xiang Erwei to form an army, led by the Beiyang important minister Ye Mengxiong, Jinyi Wei Governor Xu Jue supervised the army, called the Wanli Army, which means that the emperor personally came, stationed in the inner Great Wall, Ningwu, Yanmen outside the three passes.

The Wanli Army was the biggest concession from the court to the emperor's insistence on confronting me directly.

As for the expeditions to England and France in the Great Eastern Ocean, you can pull them down! Where in the world is there anything in the world that makes the ministers care more than holding down my answer? Didn't you see what the emperor said in the telegram to Qi Jiguang, an important minister of Beiyang and the governor of the left capital? The five-character emperor's order is clear: I want Wulianghai.

Because of these five words, the crazy wild grass next to the official road in Saibei fell to the direction of the rutted iron hooves, which was the Wuliangha that this generation of Ming people had never heard of, and it was also the Wulianghai in the heart of Emperor Wanli.

Qi Jiguang beat his horse and passed through the silent marching queue of chariots and horses, and looked back at the Great Wall side plug that shrank into a line on the green hills behind him, and his blood boiled.

What made his blood boil was not because this battle was easy for the Ming Dynasty for decades of offensive and defensive situation, and it was not because the truth-telling Emperor Wanli happily took out an edict from his bulging chest when he sent him on the horse at noon before the expedition and patted it: "The battle is won, I will give this to Qi Dashuai." ”

What really made his blood boil was that Emperor Wanli put the edict in his arms again, sighed and said: "I have self-knowledge, although I am wise and powerful, my combat skills are not my strength, so I won't make trouble for you." Ji Liaozhi Ren I have delegated power to the side wall Liang Menglong, will not let you have the slightest worries, just let go and fight, once not twice, twice not three times, I will also protect you if you lose, as long as I win. ”

Liang Menglong's official title is very long, he is the governor of Jiliao Baoding and other military affairs, and also manages food and salary, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, and the left waiter of the military department, and once served as the right waiter of the household department, presided over the construction of 10,000 and 4 zhang of the side wall in Jizhen and Changping, 111 enemy platforms, and 642 zhang of the shovel slope, and now there is only one main business: where Qi Jiguang's battle goes, the baggage will be supplied to where.

The young Wanli Emperor has a unique view on the art of war, with the Qi Army, the Nanyang Army, and the Beiyang Army in front of Zhuyu, everyone says that quantity is not as good as quality, but the emperor said to Qi Jiguang: Quantity is quality.

The quantity of baggage is the quality of the Ming army.

The quantity of baggage was controlled by a number of basic conditions, such as the incorruptibility of the officials, the greed and courage of the powerful in the middle of the way, and so on, but the most important element, which the emperor thought he could control and had a great advantage in, was the amount of silver.

What really makes Qi Jiguang's blood boil is this, such trust, all worries are eliminated layer by layer, and only the enemy and his own ability are in front of him.

Having such treatment is the greatest blessing of being a general.

As for the fact that there is no punishment for losing the battle, is the emperor's words true or false? The generals who crisscrossed the north and the south did not care, and these promises never had a chance to be kept.

Because he is Qi Jiguang, since the Ming Dynasty, the most costly victory is called the Battle of Cen Gang, when the Qi army was not born, the Ming army took half a year to finally defeat more than 1,000 pirates at the cost of 3,000 casualties, and the general who led the army was Qi Jiguang.

After that, the Qi family army formed an army, and the least costly victory since the Ming Dynasty was called the Battle of Wangcangping, with 5,000 tired soldiers who participated in the Battle of Xianyou and more than 7,000 Japanese soldiers met on a narrow road, and finally defeated the enemy army, and there was no casualty on their side.

The morale of that battle was inspired by Rulong, the overlord of Guangfu Prison, who was not a prison bully at that time, and when he threw a knife to stimulate the officers and soldiers, he used the method of self-cutting with a knife to boost the morale of the Qi family's army.

Qi Jiguang has never lost a battle.

The car rode out of the Xifeng Pass along the wide river, through the Yellow Cliff, Jiu Wei Ling to Songting Pass, the galloping horse brought back the news that Qi Jiguang changed his intention to attack Chahartumen Khan, Chang Ang of the Duoyan Department sent a distress letter from the northwest battlefield, Taining Wei Zheng gathered his troops to attack Duoyan, and asked the Ming army to protect his tribe.

"Dashuai, we found the hoof prints of Taining Weibu Cavalry, I'm afraid they have already set off, seventy miles away."

The general of the Zhejiang army, Tyrant Yiping, was once Geng Zongyuan's subordinate, and if he hadn't been transferred north that year, he was likely to die in the assassination of the rebel general Zhou Yunxiang with Geng Zongyuan.

At this time, the Songting was closed, and the generals who had charged under Geng Zongyuan and Qi Jiguang were frowning, looking at the three ink circles on it according to the map, and drew a line to Qi Jiguang kneeling on one knee and hugging his fists in accordance with military law: "Dashuai, if you go on the road tonight, our horse infantry soldiers can catch up." ”

The difficult march was said in a state of mind, but no one at the Songting closed did not know what it meant.

The Ming army and Changang of the Duoyan Department did not have a basis for mutual trust, especially in the first year of Longqing, Dong Fox of the Duoyan Department and Changang's father Yingke and the Chahar Department invaded the Jielingkou together, and Changang's father died in the hands of Qi Jiguang, and now the imperial court has issued private messages in order to make them civil strife, and it is also ironclad to offend them.

Not to mention that the mixed Qi family army chased the Taining cavalry marching quickly on the grassland, even if it barely caught up, it was difficult to have a little combat power left, and Changang alone was not reliable enough, so it was not worth the risk of the Ming army.

Qi Jiguang shook his head and vetoed this idea, and said: "The tired army, even if it relies on Checheng, it can't fight with the Taining cavalry, Duoyan can't be saved, and Changang can't be ignored...... It's better to fight each other. ”

He used his hand to pull a line from Tainingwei to Duoyanwei on the map: "If Changang's request for help is fake, Duoyan must have ambush soldiers, and Taining is mostly empty; If the request for help is true, Taining is mostly empty, whether it is true or not, we don't know, Taining's subordinates must know. ”

The situation is a bit tricky, Duoyan is the most powerful of the three guards, although it is still not comparable to the barbarians, but with them as a surprise soldier, the odds of victory in this battle are very great; If Duoyan falls to the barbarians, plus Taining, they will no longer have any eyes and ears north of the Great Wall, except for the Qingjiang Du Taiji of the Karaqin Tribe.

Qi Jiguang sighed in his heart, pressed the sword on his waist with his palm, and said, "Whether the Duoyan Department is surrendering or rebelling, you can only ask clearly when you go to the Taining Department." ”

"Beat the drums, send the troops to Taining, spread the word to the departments, and whoever adds an arrow to the heavenly army is regarded as a non-subordinate."