No one cares about Li Chengliang's sorrow, and similarly, no one cares about Wang Shiyang's difficulties.

As the governor of Xuanda, Wang Shiyang is obviously derelict in his duties, his responsibility is to pacify the three towns and three fus of Xuanfu in Datong, Shanxi, with high power, one-third of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty is under his jurisdiction, and he is fully responsible for the middle of the Ming nine-sided front, and his station is Yanghe City, guarding the center of the three towns and responding to the overall situation.

When Mei Guozhen's early warning letter was sent to Yanghe City, he had already set off to Taiyuan to inspect the arsenal, and when the early warning letter was chased to Taiyuan, he felt that this was nonsense, and Wei Yunzhen, the governor of Shanxi, was a little concerned, and persuaded him to strengthen the defense of Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass, but he said-

If Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass are in the way, then the first thing to be held accountable is him Mei Guozhen, he Mei Guozhen is the governor of Datong, and the first line of defense of the Ming Dynasty is in his hands!

So he didn't bother with Mei Guozhen, who seemed whimsical to him, he trusted the three ladies very much in their yearning and loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and he firmly believed that the three ladies would not allow Pullik to do this kind of thing, not to mention that the three ladies were not a woman and child who had nothing, she not only had prestige, but also had the 10,000 fine horses that I left her.

But three days later, when he got Wei Yunzhen's letter of urgency for help, he was completely panicked.

Mongolia is really in the Kou, the main force is the Tumut cavalry led by Tuolik, the three ladies have no news at all, and 100,000 Mongolian iron cavalry has broken through the Datong defense line, the Datong is torn apart, and the troops are currently attacking Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass in two ways.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Wei Yunzhen and Mei Guozhen have a good relationship, he felt that Mei Guozhen would not send a warning letter for no reason, so he dispatched Dong Yikui, the chief soldier of Shanxi, to take 5,000 soldiers and horses to Pingxing Pass, and he took 5,000 people to Yanmen Pass.

Then they happened to bump into the Mongol attack, and in a big shock, Wei Yunzhen and Dong Yikui respectively served as the guards of Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass, concentrated their forces, and barely thwarted several Mongol onslaughts, which was regarded as temporarily keeping Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass.

Wang Shiyang was shocked, after panicking, the mind tempered by the ups and downs of the sea made him forcibly calm down, he has been in charge of border affairs for many years, he has rich experience, after reading the map, he immediately knew that the Mongol soldiers were divided into two ways for a purpose.

Attacking Yanmen Pass all the way, the purpose must be the rich Shanxi, and all the way to the Pingxing Pass, the purpose is obviously the Bauhinia Pass and the Beijing division behind it.

Some time ago, Mei Guozhen kept arguing with himself about food and weapons, saying that the army had no food to eat, and he had to support the Tumut Department, and he also came to Shanxi with the idea of transferring a batch of food and weapons back to Mei Guozhen.

He knew the actual situation in Datong, but he didn't expect the Mongols to come so quickly and so suddenly.

Datong didn't know if it had all fallen, and his own station, Yanghe City, didn't know if it had fallen, and he suddenly felt a little afraid-

If it weren't for Mei Guozhen's request to come to Taiyuan to check the inventory, it is estimated that he would be finished, at least he would be besieged in Yanghe City and unable to move.

The dignified governor of Xuanda, the control of the three towns and the three towns, was actually besieged and could not move, the official did not do it, and it was still a question whether his life could be saved.

Now that he is alive and in a safe place, he can still call the shots, which is the greatest luck.

So he immediately ordered the soldiers and horses of Taiyuan to be divided into two parts to gallop to the Yanmen Pass and the Pingxing Pass, and never let the Mongols break one of these two passes, otherwise with the current strength of the Ming army, if they can't snipe the Mongolian cavalry condescendingly on the two male passes, if they let him enter the plain area, it will be over.

The field combat capability of the Ming army has long been out of order, and this year's catastrophe and famine, everyone is short of food to eat, the last batch of grain is about to be consumed, and the next batch of grain does not know when it will arrive, the three towns are short of food, everyone is living tightly, and some marginal troops even have only three days of rations left.

And winter clothes are also very problematic, when Wang Shiyang went to the treasury to inquire about the army's materials and equipment, he found that the winter clothes that should have been issued had serious problems in terms of thickness and quality, and this was not the first time.

He inspected the treasury three times before and after, this is the third time, and there were many problems in the previous two times, but there was no warning at the border gate, and the imperial court was also engaged in a dispute over the country's capital at that time, and he did not want to participate in it.

But when it came to the end, he realized how wrong his previous approach was, the soldiers did not have good enough winter clothes to keep warm, in such an environment, how to persist in fighting, his hands were frozen and he couldn't even pick up his weapons, his feet were frozen and he couldn't even take a step, how could this battle be fought? This is even more difficult to fight in the field.

In the eyes of the civil officials of the imperial court, war is the start of the army, the victory of the enemy, and then the return of the statistics of the results, as for how the army is pulled out, how to defeat the enemy, they do not care at all, and do not want to care.

When the army is pulled, the first thing is money, food, clothes, shoes, military hats, trousers, if it is winter, such requirements are even higher, and if the soldiers do not wear enough, they will not be able to fight at all.

However, all this, in the eyes of those crazy people who make money, is not a problem at all, and losing the battle is the incompetence of the officers, the incompetence of the civilian commanders, and the incompetence of the soldiers, and it has nothing to do with them at all.

Once a civilian official goes to a local area to be a military commander, he is different from the Qingliu civilian officials of the imperial court, and there is a chasm in the middle, and the civilian officials who have personally experienced the bitter cold of the border pass know how difficult it is for the army, while the civilian officials who live in a safe area do not know, and they do not care about understanding and sympathy, and they are crazy when they make money.

The weapons are defective, the military uniforms are defective, the shoes are defective, and the military rations are all lacking in catties.

Wang Shiyang regretted his cowardice incomparably, but now he can only catch the ducks on the shelves.

He ordered the army to be marched, but for half a day, not a single army was dispatched, and he was furious, and thought that the soldiers were cowardly, so they disobeyed.

So he braved the wind and cold and rushed to the garrison camp outside Taiyuan City, to personally supervise the army's pull-out, and decided to kill a few people to set an example, so that these greedy people who were afraid of life and death knew that only by rushing forward could they have a chance to live.

As a result, when he arrived at the barracks, he found that this was not the case.

After his angry inquiry, an emaciated Qian Zong led him to a military tent with a bitter face, and opened the tent, and inside were soldiers wrapped in various rags and strips, all shivering, their faces were blue and black, their lips were chapped, and their eyes were blank.

"Inspector, it's not that we don't move, just like this, we all freeze to death before we go out and walk a few steps! It's too strange to be cold this day, this military uniform is not warm at all, we wear it as if we don't wear it, it's so cold outside, how can this battle be fought? ”