Just when Liu Daxia retreated to Ningwu Pass, Shen Xi basically completed the supply in Juyong Pass, raised 80 artillery pieces, plus 948 guns and more than 1,500 old-fashioned two-headed guns and target guns, as well as more than 40 carts of gunpowder, and then took the grain and grass materials equipped by the previous imperial court and prepared to set off for Datong Town. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At present, Liu Daxia's goal is Ningwuguan, and Shen Xi is leading reinforcements to aid Datong Mansion, where Datong Town is stationed, and it seems that there is a great possibility that the two will meet.

But in fact, Liu Daxia is paying close attention to the movements of the Tatars, once the Tatar soldiers and horses that appeared in Lanxian County before turn around and attack Zhenxi Wei or enter the Liangling Pass and Tianmen Pass, Liu Daxia will make corresponding changes, and if Shen Xi encounters Tatar soldiers and horses on the way, he will also change his destination.

Many times, it is because the plan can't keep up with the rapid changes, Shen Xi is deeply aware of this, so he did not rush to send troops, and now with the generals of the army, Hu Songyue and Liu Xu and other generals of the Beijing camp, are arguing with him and asking for rewards.

These people stopped for a few days after Shen Xi entered Juyong Pass, but after hearing that Shen Xi was preparing to go out of Saixi and enter the west, they began to make trouble for Shen Xi again.

Whenever Shen Xi is promoted to the account, these people will always mention the reward to Shen Xi in the big account of the Chinese army, and they are resolute one by one, stating that Shen Xi will not give a reward and will not go out of the customs.

Shen Xi was not in a hurry, in fact, Hu Songyue and others also noticed that Shen Xi was too "calm", and the troops were stationed in Yongguan for more than ten days, and the imperial court issued two military orders to urge, but Shen Xi was not in a hurry.

Hu Songyue and the others all felt that there had to be a problem if it dragged on like this, not only Shen Xi would suffer, but they would also likely be dismissed and investigated and lose their hereditary positions.

However, since they had promised their subordinates that they would ask for a reward from Shen Xi, it was obvious that they could not satisfy the officers and soldiers under their command by giving up halfway, and they did not want to lose face, so they had to entrust Hu Songyue as a representative to conduct the final "negotiations" with Shen Xi.

This time, Hu Songyue's attitude softened a lot, and the conditions put forward were only 30% of the original reward, that is, each soldier in the army received a reward of about the same amount, plus an additional reward for officers, and the amount of reward they proposed this time was about 10,000 taels of silver.

Hu Songyue said: "My lord, don't count it, the last general has calculated it for you, now there are almost 30,000 pieces of military resources and 3,000 stone of grain in the army, just a part of it, the brothers have food in their hands, and they have been rewarded before the war, and they are naturally full of enthusiasm when they go to the battlefield." When the brothers make meritorious achievements, the court will naturally issue rewards, and then the adults will not have to worry about the lack of money and food in the army! ”

Shen Xi looked at Hu Songyue and wanted to spit it out...... Well, I thought that only me and the officers in charge of logistics in the army knew about such a secret matter of money and food in the army, but I didn't expect that you guys who were in a hurry to divide their "belongings" and become deserters had already inquired clearly.

I'll send the reward, you know it's no good to work with me, and you can still count on you to fight hard when you meet the Tatars?

Shen Xi could have continued to refuse, but he felt that it was not a way to drag on like this, and there needed to be a room for maneuvering. Shen Xi groaned for a while and said, "If the money and grain are distributed, and the soldiers refuse to work for their own officials, then what? ”

Hu Songyue clenched his fists: "My lord, please rest assured, which rabbit cub dares to disobey his life and slaughter him!" Axe Hands aren't vegetarians! ”

Shen Xi also wanted to ask, if you were a deserter yourself, would the knife and axe man be ready to execute you? But in the end, he couldn't help but ask, thought about it and said: "If too much money and grain are issued at one time, the soldiers' slacking off will be serious, if not, the official takes Juyongguan as the starting point and Xuanfu Town as the end, and sends out rewards five times along the way, each reward is two percent of the total reward, that is, about two hundred dollars per person each time, three catties of grain, and after Xuanfu Town, all the rewards will be in the hands of the soldiers, what do you think?" ”

Shen Xi is out of line, he is a bit of a wimp as the current coach, and he can't achieve upward and downward effects at all, so he has to fight with these Beijing camp bosses under his hands.

If he can choose, Shen Xi would rather take the Longqing guards and horses stationed in Juyong Pass to go on the expedition, although Li Pin and others will also have some bad problems of the generals of the Beijing camp, but they probably know what the military order is difficult to disobey, and they will not go against themselves openly and secretly.

"My lord, once issued, you save trouble, and the brothers are more motivated, why should it be divided into five times? Will the reward be delayed on the way? ”

Hu Songyue naturally would not agree to such conditions.

Shen Xi picked up the official document on the table, with an indifferent look, and said: "If you don't agree, then this matter will be stopped, the conditions of this official are here, you go back and discuss with your robes, and then come back to report to this official!" ”

Shen Xi refused to compromise, Hu Songyue didn't dare to do anything to Shen Xi, after all, Shen Xi was the commander of the three armies, and he also had the right to cut first and then play, although he was confident that Shen Xi didn't dare to do anything to him, but he couldn't go too far, otherwise Shen Xi could use Long Qingwei's soldiers and horses to take him down and kill the chickens and monkeys.

Besides, now Shen Xi did not completely reject their conditions, and the purpose of the five payments was to prevent the officers and soldiers in the army from becoming deserters once they encountered a war after receiving the reward, which made sense.

Hu Songyue thought: "This condition is not harsh, from Juyong Pass to Xuanfu Town, the total mileage is three hundred miles, during which you have to cross the Wuding River and cross the Jiming Mountain, this section of the road is relatively peaceful, and when you arrive in Xuanfu Town, you can get the five rewards, and finally give an explanation to the soldiers below!" ”

Hu Songyue weighed it in his heart, and finally accepted Shen Xi's proposal, so when he went back to discuss with other generals, he naturally sided with Shen Xi.

Although Liu Xu and the others were dissatisfied, they were also afraid that Shen Xi would report their disobedience to the imperial court, so they could only make a compromise for the time being, and the two sides reached a memorandum of understanding in a "friendly atmosphere".

Shen Xi issued the first reward as a condition, and the officers and men of the three armies finally agreed to officially embark on the road to the west on the second day after the Double Ninth Festival in early September.

In the eyes of many Beijing soldiers, staying at Juyong Pass is actually a pretty good choice, there is food and drink, there is a steep terrain and towering city walls as a barrier, and there is no need to worry about the sudden Tatars.

But in any case, the military order they got was to recover Yansui Town, and it was impossible to stay in Juyongguan all the time, if the court was angry and dismissed them all on the spot, it would not only lose their ancestral jobs, but even harm their families.

In addition, no trace of the Tatars has been found for several days, and the information obtained is that Datong, Xuanfu and other places are calm, and rumors began to circulate in the army that the Tatars had withdrawn. Many veterans have made conclusive statements about their "scientific" conclusions based on the summing up of history and the analysis of the current war situation, so the officers and men no longer regard leaving the customs as a dangerous road.

In the end, even Hu Songyue and other commanders of the Beijing camp felt that even if Datong Town, Taiyuan Town, Yansui Town, Guyuan Town, Ningxia Town, and Gansu Town suffered from war, at least Xuanfu Town was safe, and it was worth taking a risk to march from Juyong Pass to Xuanhua Mansion, where Xuanfu Town was located.

As for whether he will go west after arriving in Xuanhua Mansion, he will have to fight with Shen Xi when the time comes.

Hu Songyue was already ready, and when he waited until Xuanfu Town, he would at least let Shen Xi take out more than twice the reward, and the whole army would continue to follow Shen Xi to Datong Town.

When they arrive in Datong Town, if everything is fine, it proves that the Tatars have indeed retreated, and then they can follow Shen Xi in peace, go to "receive" the Yulin Acropolis, and earn the credit.

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On the 10th day of September, after more than half a month of rest, the soldiers and horses finally set off again.

When Shen Xi led the troops from the capital, the imperial court allocated 6,000 soldiers and horses, 2,000 people, known as 50,000 soldiers and horses, and when he arrived at Juyong Pass, more than 200 fled without a war.

Most of the fleeing soldiers in Beijing are the kind that they don't care about at home, and they don't know what it means to be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, and they only know that saving their lives is the first thing.

The situation of deserters in the Ming Dynasty has always been very serious, especially the kind of non-hereditary military households, after being conscripted into the army, they will collapse without a fight when they encounter a war, and flee to the mountains, Shaanxi and other places incognito, and become bandits in Taihang Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain or Guanzhong, and when the war is over, these deserters only need to lie about their experience, and they can use the identity of the victims to take root in a new place.

When Shen Xi set out from Juyong Pass, the soldiers and horses that could be used for actual combat were about 5,750 people, plus 2,000 people, that is to say, Shen Xi's "50,000 soldiers and horses" were almost only more than 10% of the claim, such equipment was too cold, and even Shen Xi himself didn't think that this road of men and horses could help the northwest.

But Shen Xi is a person who knows how to plan for himself, and his trip to Xuanfu Town this time can be said to be a decisive choice made after predicting the military movements of the Tatars.

In Shen Xi's view, as long as Shanxi Town, Datong Town, and Xuanfu Town are stable, then no matter how many castles fall in the border area, the Tatars will always choose to retreat because they cannot occupy the rich areas of the Ming Dynasty and cannot plunder enough money and food to feed the war. The Tatars could not divide their forces to defend the city of Daming, because the logistics supply lines were too long, and if there was not enough food, this winter would not be possible.

This is the same reason that the Central Plains Dynasty repeatedly defeated the tribes on the grassland, but was never able to occupy the grassland.

Shen Xi's current focus is on the hidden true purpose behind a series of military campaigns by the Tatars, speculating about what their ambitions are and how to ensure the safety of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Xi of Datong Town couldn't manage it, he only knew that the actual garrison of Xuanfu Town was mainly based on the people of Wanquan Dusi, and the total strength should be between 30,000 and 50,000, mainly military households.

Shen Xi's more than 5,000 people and horses won't be of much use, but Shen Xi, in the spirit of responsibility, can help a little.

If he stays at Juyong Pass, in addition to not being able to explain to the court, he will not be able to pass the psychological level. led reinforcements to help, not let him hide in the rear as a shrinking turtle.

From Juyong Pass to the west, go to Huailai, the first line of the chicken song, there are many rivers and waterways along the way, here is the first line of the Yongding River water system in the middle and upper reaches of the Haihe River, and it is also the original site of the Guanting Reservoir later, after entering the autumn, the march on this road is no longer light, especially after the night, the temperature drops very quickly near the place of Shuize, it is close to zero degrees, and the soldiers need to bake the fire to keep warm.

Fortunately, however, there was no sign of Tatar activity in the first few days after the departure from Juyong Pass, and gradually even the officers and men on the night patrol began to relax their vigilance.

This is also related to the fact that this passer-by itself is not psychologically prepared for a tough battle.

The soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp have neglected to practice over the years, and they have rarely gone to the battlefield, and they do not have many years of experience in confrontation between the border army and the Tatars, coupled with their own arrogance and selfishness, the middle and upper levels of the army are seriously corrupt, and the lower ranks of the soldiers have no fighting spirit.

On the battlefield, life is always the most important!

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