"My lord, this is all the battle reports that Juyongguan has received in the past six months, please check it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Li Pin asked people to carry two boxes of battle reports into Shen Xi's Chinese army tent, and Shen Xi couldn't help frowning after opening it and looking at it, thinking:

"Li Pin thinks too highly of me, right? I thought I was an immortal, but I could read so many battle reports? In fact, it is enough to send a war report for ten days and half a month at most, and send a war report for half a year at a time. ”

Li Pin saw Shen Xi standing in front of the box, picked up the two battle reports and looked at them casually before putting them down, thinking that the battle reports he sent were not perfect enough, and hurriedly asked, "My lord, do you think it is necessary to send some more ......?"

"I just want to check this for more than half a month...... At most, no more than a month, the movement of Tatar rangers near Juyong Pass, so much, you can't see it all at once. Shen Xi sighed lightly.

Only then did Li Pin realize that he was acting Meng Lang, and said ashamedly: "I am afraid that the adults will not be fully prepared in the future, these ...... I haven't summarized it beforehand, do I need to find someone to reorganize it? ”

Shen Xi waved his hand: "No need, as long as you look up and have a time marker." Mr. Li, you go back and rest first, this official has seen it overnight. If there is any new movement among the Tatars, remember to inform me as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, my lord, you check it first, and then you will retire."

Li Pin originally wanted to stay and talk to Shen Xi about the current battle situation, but he didn't dare to go against Shen Xi's intentions, opened his mouth to say something, and finally respectfully retired.

In this Guancheng, Li Pin seemed to hand over the control to Shen Xi, and regarded himself as Shen Xi's pawn.

In the face of so many war reports, Shen Xi had a headache, no one came to sort it out for him, all the war reports were written in obscure Chinese, without punctuation, it was really difficult to find the clues of the Tatars, he could only pick some relatively important war reports and review them overnight.

Until midnight, Shen Xi read no less than 200 battle reports, and could find very few useful things, and finally got impatient with it, simply cleaned up, and prepared to go back to the sleeping tent to rest.

When Shen Xi walked to the door of the big tent, lifted the thick curtain, and found a figure at the door, pacing back and forth against the cold north wind, Shen Xi glanced at it, and his brows couldn't help frowning: "Chief Li, what are you...... Gone and returned, or not returned? ”

Li Pin walked over and saluted Shen Xi respectfully: "My lord, I have always wanted to say something to you before, but I don't know whether to say it or not?" After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't answer it, so I had to come back and ask for advice. ”

"Say it."

Shen Xi knew that the words had been opened, and he would inevitably ask the words clearly.

Li Channel: "My lord, that's the case, Juyong Pass is the north gate of my Ming Jinggi defense, and it is also the most important place, and it has always been fought for by soldiers. However, the world has been peaceful for a long time, and Juyong Pass has not been disturbed by foreign attacks for a long time, so that the defense of Guancheng is lax, and now the actual number of soldiers is less than 5,000, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, and temporarily recruited people, the number of actual soldiers is only 3,500. If Beiyi suddenly kills, the pass ...... I'm afraid I can't stop it! ”

Shen Xi wanted to answer, so what?

The Daming border guard is like this, it is impossible to equip all the soldiers completely, in addition to the lack of soldiers caused by the flight of military households and local people, there is also the reason for eating empty salaries.

Shen Xi frowned: "In recent years, the phenomenon of military service evasion at the northwest passes has been serious? ”

"This ......"

Li Pin's face was full of embarrassment, "In the past ten years or so, the northwest has used troops relatively frequently, and frequently transferred troops and horses from Juyong Pass. ”

"After the end of the year, the border tended to be stable, and the three sides of the land successively stationed troops in the fields, and from Juyong Pass to draw troops to garrison the border. At the same time, the people in Yanqing Prefecture have chosen to move inward, so that now there are no soldiers to replenish in Juyong Pass, even the old, weak, sick and disabled can not be replaced...... The last general is afraid that the city cannot be prepared! ”

The words were sincere, and he talked about a reality of Daming.

The territory was determined after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and there were basically no major changes since then, although successive emperors have encouraged the reclamation of wasteland in the Nine Frontiers, but the population growth is still slow.

Even though there is a lot of idle land on the nine sides, the common people do not want to cultivate it, but choose to flee to the south, because no one wants to live in an area that can be attacked by steppe nomads at any time.

On the contrary, inland areas such as Jiangnan and Liangguang have a swelling population, which not only has the natural increase in Dingkou for many years in Chengping, but also the migration population is also an important factor.

The people in the land of the nine sides are reduced, and the Ming Dynasty wants to replenish the soldiers, it is obviously not enough to rely on the military households, because there will always be losses in the war, not that the son of Lao Tzu died and made up for it directly, even if it was over, a large-scale war was down, and it was likely that there would be a situation where the family was out of order, and the military family of the male family died, so it was necessary to draw Ding from the households to supplement, which accelerated the pace of the people's escape and migration, and the number of people in the land of the nine sides decreased sharply, even if they wanted to find someone to serve in the military.

If it is a place around Datong, then it is good to say that the people can be recruited from Shaanxi and Shanxi for a generation, and the people can be transferred to the pass, so that they can be used as soldiers in wartime.

The location of Juyong Pass is more awkward, to the north is Xuanfu, almost a "barren land", there are no households to draw Ding, and to the south is the capital, Li Pin is crazy and does not dare to offend the people of Gyeonggi. The people around Gyeonggi guard the big tree of the Son of Heaven, and they enjoy immunity no matter what.

Before the Ming Dynasty implemented the "One Whip Law", labor could not be exempted, and if we wanted to ensure the number of laborers, we could only increase the number of people in the jurisdiction, and if we encountered a sharp decrease in the number of people, the number of soldiers in the border defense area would naturally be insufficient.

What Li Pin said is the truth, Shen Xi knows that the crops in the north of the Ming Dynasty are now of a single variety, and the corn and sweet potatoes he introduced before have not yet spread to North China and Northwest China, and at the same time, the common people will not be willing to cultivate in this kind of land but insecure area, and would rather go to the south to be tenants or work to live.

Shen Xi said: "General Li mentioned something, this official has some understanding, although Juyong is the first Xiongguan to shelter Gyeonggi, but it is close to Xuanfu, an important town on the nine sides, and it has always been difficult to supply soldiers......"

He first gave Li Pin a signal, I understand your difficulties, not only do I understand the imperial court, so there is no need to complain, if there are difficulties, talk about difficulties, don't beat around the bush, "The imperial court may move hundreds of thousands of landless people from the south to enrich the Xuanfu and Yanqing Prefecture, Baoan Prefecture and other state capitals within a few years after the war, and supplement the shortage of local soldiers!" ”

"Really?"

When Li Pin heard the news, his spirits were lifted.

Shen Xi said: "After this officer leads the troops out of Juyong Pass, the soldiers and horses in Juyong Pass should be mainly stubborn, and do not attack lightly, so that the disaster of Tumu Fort will be repeated." ”

Hearing Shen Xi mention the "disaster of the civil fort", Li Pin's helpless face suddenly increased a little pride.

After the Tumubao Incident, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses attacked the capital, and Juyongguan held on for seven days and seven nights, still standing majestically, laying a solid foundation for winning the battle to defend the capital.

Li Pin originally learned that the Tatar soldiers were coming to the city, and he was anxious, for fear that he would not be able to explain to the imperial court if the city was lost, but now Shen Xi put forward an analogy, the soldiers and horses that were also the first were not stronger than the Tatars now? In the end, what is it, not just returning from Juyongguan?

The garrison of Juyong Pass relies on the danger of the pass, as for the number of soldiers is not important, as the so-called one man is not open, 5,000 soldiers and horses are not much different from 50,000 soldiers and horses.

Although it sounded like self-deception, Shen Xi still lifted Li Pin's spirits.

"My lord, the Tatars are now extremely strong, and the nine borders of the land are not able to be defended, and the Tatars are very likely to come to the outskirts of Beijing, ...... Still ready to go out of the game? ”

Li Pin began to care about Shen Xi's next strategy.

If Shen Xi said that he would garrison Juyong Pass and help him defend the first Xiongguan in Gyeonggi, it would naturally be the result that Li Pin wanted to hear the most, but he also knew that Shen Xi's imperial order was to recover the Yulin Acropolis.

Shen Xi asked, "What does Mr. Li think about this?" ”

Li Channel: "Now outside the Yong Pass, the Tatar cavalry is rampant, from the pass to Datong Mansion, the roads are all blocked, the adults lead the troops to fight, I am afraid that there are no reinforcements everywhere, the army you lead...... I'm afraid it will be difficult to go head-to-head with the main Tatar forces! ”

Shen Xi sighed lightly: "What General Li said is that the Tatars are a nation on horseback, and the Mongolian cavalry can be said to come and go freely and unimpeded, even if the officer has thousands of soldiers and horses in the Beijing battalion, the number of cavalry is pitiful, once the Tatar main force is encountered, the chance of victory is almost none!" ”

Li Pin has been stationed at Juyong Pass for not a year or two, and the strength of the Mongolian cavalry is naturally well known, and he sighed at the moment: "That is, Lord Shen, you personally lead the troops, in exchange for others, not to mention the main force of the Tatar Chinese army, it is a small force of cavalry, and thousands of soldiers and horses cannot resist." ”

"So my lord, don't rush forward, why don't you think in the long run, start from Juyong Pass, walk slowly, wait for the cold winter to fall on Tatar and withdraw the troops, follow and gradually regain the lost territory, and raise the prestige of my Ming Dynasty."

These words can be said to Shen Xi's heart.

Li Pin's words were tactful, and the point of view he put forward was basically the same as Shen Xi's idea, that is, he was not in a hurry to send troops, and he would wait for the main force of the Tatars to withdraw before attacking.

I advance when the enemy retreats, I retreat when the enemy advances, and I don't move if the enemy doesn't move, that's probably what it means, in fact, to put it bluntly, is to keep a "coward" word, and never confront the Tatars head-on, so that they will not encounter failure, even if there is no great merit in the final calculation of credit, at least there is no fault.

Originally, this suggestion was excellent, but the problem was that the imperial court did not allow this, Shen Xi was sent to the northwest like cannon fodder by the imperial court, and he received the errand of the governor of Yansui, and those bigwigs in the imperial court would say, you Shen Xi, as the governor of Yansui, did not enter Yansui Town, and the people who were still hundreds of miles away in Juyong Pass were cowering, so the purpose of your trip to the northwest was to passively avoid war?

"It's not advisable to hold back."

Shen Xi smiled bitterly, "This official has always been responsible for the people of the world, and the battle with the Tatars is a war that my Ming court has been preparing for a long time, in order to promote the prestige of our country. ”

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PS: The third update is here!

Don't think that the Son of Heaven wrote the Ming army too weakly, in fact, after the Tumubao Incident, even if the so-called great victory of the Beijing Division defended the battle, Guo Deng, Yang Hong, etc., who stuck to the acropolis of Datong and Xuanfu, were known as brave and good at fighting, but when Wara attacked and transited, they only knew that the infant city defended itself; Zijing Pass was in distress and asked for help many times, but did not send troops, and sat back and watched Xiongguan be broken; Even when the Warats retreated in defeat, they did not go out of the city to intercept them, but sat back and watched them retreat freely.

Shen Xi was a civil servant, and he had no way to train his troops, so he used weak soldiers to deal with the Tatar iron cavalry, and the consequences were unknown.

Of course, Shen Xi will definitely find a way to defeat the Tatars in the end! Let's wait and see.

Finally, these days Kavin is serious, and it takes six or seven hours to publish a chapter, everyone is so diligent in the Son of Heaven, I don't sleep at one o'clock in the morning to update for everyone, come to a wave of subscriptions and monthly passes to encourage! (To be continued.) )