Outside Juyong Pass, the soldiers and horses led by Shen Xi were slowly marching into the army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Shen Xi was not in a hurry at all, because he had never thought of garrisoning Xuanfu City, and after calmly judging the situation, all he had to do was to let the Tatars focus on their own reinforcements and disperse the Tatar forces besieging Xuanfu City and the surrounding passes and city fortresses.

Shen Xi's plan was to withdraw his troops and return to Juyong Pass halfway through the march, using the soldiers and horses that Xie Qian and Liu Daxia had won for him, and to fight with the Tatars in the buffer zone between the inner and outer Great Wall.

In Shen Xi's view, the change of the civil fort was not tragic, the soldiers and horses recruited by the emperor of the emperor were almost all wiped out, and even the emperor was a prisoner, and had to temporarily change the emperor, and in the end the Ming still won the victory in the defense of the capital.

It may be the credit of Yu Qian and other famous ministers, but I also have to mention the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, it is precisely because of the strong foundation of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, coupled with the fact that the grassland people are not good at attacking cities, so the Ming Dynasty finally won the war.

In the current situation, although the northwest suffered a fiasco, the situation would never be more severe than that of the Ming Dynasty after the Tumubao Incident, and Shen Xi felt that the Tatars had no reason to succeed.

Therefore, Shen Xi sent troops this time, very confident, he brought eighty artillery pieces not to inflict heavy damage on the Tatars, or to turn the tide on the battlefield, because he didn't plan to be a bird at all, just to strengthen his momentum and deal with some emergencies at the same time.

As he grew older, Shen Xi became more and more scheming, and he was ready to withdraw his troops when he sent out his troops.

But Shen Xi also knew that the battlefield could change at any time, and he was still ready for a hard battle, so during the march, he gathered more than 100 gunners drawn from Juyong Pass for training, so that he could be proficient in firing artillery when he was pulled onto the battlefield. At the same time, Shen Xi also selected 500 people with experience in firing firearms from nearly 6,000 officers and soldiers, so that they could master the skills of using the Franc machine firecrackers.

In the end, Shen Xi also selected 200 people with experience as craftsmen from more than 2,000 people, and according to his guidance, they produced bullets for the Franc machine.

Naturally, there was no way to produce during the march, so the camp was set up early every day, which was also an important reason for the slow march.

But in Shen Xi's mind, the situation of hard fighting should not appear, and it is a big deal to withdraw the troops before entering the Xuanfu, don't care if the Tatars come or not, withdraw first In short, it is right.

Shen Xi can be said to have thought of all aspects of the situation, but this time he was very wrong, because many things would not go according to his vision. On the battlefield, any plan may not be able to keep up with the rapid changes, otherwise there would be no "talk on paper".

Shen Xi is a thoughtful person, he is afraid that the information he transmits will not be able to be sent to the capital or Liu Daxia in time, as early as two days before leaving from Juyong Pass, he has sent out an urgent report through the express shop, and several copies were sent at a time, indicating the seriousness of the matter.

Shen Xi even sent a letter to Xie Qian in his private name, making Xie Qian realize the importance of this matter.

As for Liu Daxia's side, Shen Xi, as the governor of Yansui, was not qualified to send the trilateral governors to work with him, he just said his own judgment, if the main force of the Tatar Chinese army was hidden in the northwest for a long time, he must send troops back to defend Datong, cooperate with the governor of Xuanda to defend Xuanfu, and prevent Xuanfu from becoming a breakthrough for Tatar soldiers and horses to go south.

After Shen Xi issued a warning, he thought that he would just wait for reinforcements, so he would first go around Xuanfu City and withdraw his troops, and wait for the Tatars to pursue and pull the battle line to Juyong Pass, and the battle would turn from a sneak attack by the Tatars to a stalemate......

It's a pity that now with the Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu in the capital seriously ill again, the unanimous attitude of the courtiers and generals is - this war should not be fought, and it is best for the Tatars to retreat by themselves, if the Tatars do not retreat, just wait for him to withdraw, as long as the Tatars do not take the initiative to provoke.

Because Xuanfu Town is not under the jurisdiction of the trilateral governor, and now the officials who lead "Admiral Xuanfu, Datong, Yatou, Ningwu, Yanmen, and the town patrol are all listening to moderation", that is, Shi Lin, who is commonly known as the governor of Xuanda, is old and faint and has a mediocre personality, and he does not belong to Liu Daxia.

Liu Daxia withdrew his troops to Ningwuguan, which was under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan Town, and in fact had already clashed with Shi Lin's position, Liu Daxia didn't want to make trouble for himself, so he worked against Shi Lin.

When Shen Xi slowly marched into the army, Xie Qian in the capital was the first to receive Shen Xi's private message.

Shen Xi, as a foreign minister like the governor of Yansui, wrote a letter to the cabinet scholars in the capital, which was not legal in itself, but Shen Xi was also forced to explain the situation to Xie Qian out of desperation.

The letter was sent directly to Xie Qian's mansion, Xie Qian has been busy these days, but he didn't find out that Shen Xi had played a transcript about the movements of the Tatars in the Northwest before, as for whether the transcript was sent to the celebrant after Liu Jian or Li Dongyang's ticket, or on which layer it was suppressed, Xie Qian didn't know at all, and he only knew that there was such a thing after seeing Shen Xi's letter.

"This kid, try to make trouble for me, the northwest is too peaceful, if you have to say that the Tatars want to attack Xuanfu, it will not be so far! The stakes are very high, if the Tatars really intended to attack Xuanfu, why not Xuanfu Town's report, but his advance? Could it be that this kid found clues in some other intelligence? ”

After Xie Qian read the letter, he had a lot of confusion in his heart, not that he didn't trust Shen Xi's judgment, but that he really didn't want to ask for trouble recently.

Emperor Hongzhi was seriously ill again, and he did not go to court for many days, and the Tatars were very cooperative at this time, and there was no war report in the northwest, Xie Qian listened to Xiao Jing, the eunuch who was in charge of the palm seal, said that on weekdays, he only needed to report to Zhu Youzhi in the morning and evening if there was anything in the northwest, Zhu Youzhi would not care, let alone touch the following transcript, so that all Zhu batches were completed independently by the master of ceremonies, even if Zhu Youzhu was not there, the Ming court was not chaotic, which made Xie Qian feel very gratified.

"Do you want to report this matter to Your Majesty?" Xie Qian hesitated, he was thinking about a question, if something happened in Xuanfu Town in the northwest as Shen Xi expected, the Tatars would most likely threaten Juyong Pass, and then Jingshi. If he doesn't report it, he will never forgive himself for the rest of his life.

But Xie Qian thought about it: "Shen Xi'er is completely a subjective assumption made out of nothing, if I report it and finally prove that there is no such thing, it will be asking for trouble and then being hated by His Majesty, and losing his prestige in the court." Even if they don't report it, the Tatars really take Xuanfu as the main direction of attack, and Xuanfu Town will inevitably report to the imperial court after the war, I don't talk about it, and others will not know that Shen Xixiaoer had predicted this. ”

"Besides, since Shen Xixiao'er also said that it was just his speculation, this kind of thing can't be accurate, and the book has not passed through my hands, whether the celebrant and His Majesty adopt it or not, it has nothing to do with me, I just need to keep my duty, isn't it good? Why bother yourself? ”

After Xie Qian suffered several losses, he became more and more shrewd and conservative, even if he knew that what Shen Xi said was likely to become true, he was not ready to touch the mold, and he was still extremely confident in the defense around Gyeonggi.

In Xie Qian's view, as long as Jingshi is still under martial law, all the passes are strictly guarded, and the Tatars will not be able to mix in at all, so that Jingshi will not be threatened.

The loss of Xuanfu Town is not a disaster, the Great Wall was destroyed for hundreds of miles after the Tumubao Change, and in the end, the Ming Dynasty was not still safe and sound?

Although Xie Qian made the decision not to ask, for the sake of prudence, he still tried to go to the cabinet to find Shen Xi's transcript.

He wanted to take a specific look at what Shen Xi mentioned in the transcript, so that he could finally decide whether to report Shen Xi's prophecies to the emperor, but unfortunately he didn't find any transcripts of Shen Xi in the cabinet at all, and even asked the secretary of the general envoy, but he didn't find any transcripts.

Xie Qian was even more puzzled at this time: "Could it be that this kid did something wrong in a hurry, and as a result, the book was not sent, but sent my private message?" If this letter falls into the hands of someone else, I don't know how to arrange my relationship with this kid, and then I will be even more confused in front of the emperor and his ministers. ”

When Xie Qian was still wondering whether Shen Xi had really written a warning to the imperial court, Liu Daxia, who had just withdrawn his troops to Ningwu Pass, finally knew that the person sent by the emperor to replace Zhu Hui and Yansui as governor was none other than Shen Xi, whom he had been asking for from the emperor before.

When it comes to Shen Xi, Liu Daxia is a little unhappy, after all, for the sake of Shen Xi's stay and stay, he fell out with his old friend Xie Qian for many years, and finally Shen Xi stayed in the capital and was left idle, but Zhu Hui, who was temporarily charged, made a big mistake, resulting in the loss of the Yulin Acropolis. But in times of crisis, the emperor finally sent Shen Xi to come and personally led "50,000 soldiers and horses" to help, but in Liu Daxia's opinion, it was useless at all.

Although it is known as 50,000 soldiers and horses, Liu Daxia knows that there can be 10,000 soldiers and horses are the special kindness of the imperial court, and the northwest is in chaos, although now the contact between Ningwuguan and Datong and Xuanfu has been restored, but he has never heard where Shen Xi's soldiers and horses have gone.

Even the letter sent by Shen Xi to Liu Daxia was intercepted or lost halfway through, and Liu Daxia had no chance to see Shen Xi's judgment on the development of the war.

"Shen Xi's arrival in the northwest is somewhat a good thing, at least it shows that the imperial court is not giving up on the trilateral soldiers."

Liu Daxia felt a little sad in his heart, "Now that the movements of the Tatars are unknown, the most important thing for the three armies is to find the main force of the Tatars, and take advantage of the convenience of defense to annihilate the Chinese army of the Tatars in one fell swoop, so as to lay the foundation for the northwest war!" ”

After Liu Daxia garrisoned Ningwu Pass, the most important thing was to find out the movements of the Tatars from various battle reports.

The emperor lived up to his wishes, and Liu Daxia really found it.

According to the news from Ningxia Wei, the Tatars appeared on the front line of Ningxia's right guard, and the number of soldiers and horses was about 50,000 horsemen.

After Liu Daxia saw it, he was sure that Ningxia Town was not deceived this time, because he had sent sentry agents south to Jingle and Lanxian to investigate, and no trace of the Tatars was found.

In this way, there is only one situation, that is, the Tatars captured the county seat of Lanxian, so that the Ming side mistakenly thought that the main Tatar force would take the opportunity to go north to attack Ningwu Pass, and then enter Datong and Xuanfu, and then wait for the opportunity to invade Bauhinia Pass and Juyong Pass, but in fact, it was a false shot, turned around and marched westward, invaded Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Gansu Town, and then invaded the Guanzhong Plain.

Liu Daxia's first reaction was that it was expected to recover Yulinwei.

In Liu Daxia's view, the fortress lost from his own hands must be recaptured by himself with his troops, only in this way can he keep the evening festival and not be forever engraved on the pillar of shame in history.

Therefore, when he learned that the Tatar "main force of the Chinese army" appeared near the left side of Ningxia Town, he immediately made up his mind that he must complete the task entrusted to him by the emperor, hold the city fortress, and wait for the opportunity to attack the Tatars.

Liu Daxia immediately summoned the three armies, and even sent a letter to Shi Lin, the governor of Xuanda, asking Shi Lin to transfer some men and horses to cooperate with him to march west and fight against the main Tatar force under the condition of ensuring the defense of Xuanfu Town and Datong Town! (To be continued.) )