prosperous age

Chapter 220 Chapter 219
Naturally, Ma Fang was very aware of the troubles of the night battles this year, that is, he did not tell Wei Guangde and Dong Yiyuan about this before.

But now, Ma Fang regretted it a bit.

He was worried that Wei Guangde would be persuaded by Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei, and finally give up the opportunity to raid the Altan Khan camp.

If I had known this before, I should have analyzed the battle situation with Wei Guangde in detail yesterday. This is a rare opportunity.
It's just that at this time, Shangguan didn't speak, so naturally he didn't have a chance to speak.

Wei Guangde could also hear the conversation between the three of them. Liu Dazhang's argument of being timid to fight can be confirmed, he doesn't want to fight, but Tian Shiwei can't find a good idea, and he doesn't support night fighting out of safety considerations.

After discussing for a long time, Wei Guangde also thought of what to do, and said to Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei directly and strongly: "Before I came, there was a strict order from Mr. Weng Pu, and we must fight. You have read the military order sent before, and now it is like this." Said, either tonight's night battle raid Alta Department, or you come up with other plans."

Wei Guangde's tough performance made Liu Dazhang a little bit embarrassed. He didn't doubt Weng Pu's determination to ask their Xuanfu army to fight. The previous military order could not be faked, but it was really not an opportunity at that time.

Now I have a chance, but how can I come up with a good strategy in a hurry.

Wei Guangde glanced at the generals of the next round, and said to Liu Dazhang: "In this way, you leave the generals who have a strategy under your account, and the others let them go down to rest first, and the lieutenants of each battalion go back to prepare. Fighting must of."

Liu Dazhang knew that his idea of ​​procrastination might not work, so he had to order a few veterans with battlefield experience to stay and help him find a way later.

However, when the other generals who were not named were about to leave, Wei Guangde suddenly asked: "I came to Xuanfu, and saw that the guard here only eats two meals a day?"

"Yes, our Xuan Mansion has always been like this."

Liu Dazhang was surprised, but he still said.

Wei Guangde thought for a while before continuing: "We will give the soldiers an extra meal at noon today, and then send them all back to sleep. We will have another meal from Haishi."

Although it is not confirmed whether it is a night battle or something, Wei Guangde has to do things first, and let the soldiers eat at noon before going to bed. Just lie on the bed, don't worry about who can't sleep, and he will be fine at night. of.

In this era, the south of the Ming Dynasty already had "three meals a day", and only the north still maintained "two meals a day", but this was only for the life of the people at the bottom. Worry about food.

However, some ordinary people who are barely able to live still eat three meals a day during busy farming seasons, and only eat two meals a day in winter when the days are short and the nights are long.

But when it came to the Ming army, Wei Guangde had already noticed that they still had two meals a day.

Eat at about ten o'clock in the morning, which is Sishi, and eat at four or five o'clock in the afternoon, which is Shenshi, and then go to bed when it gets dark.

Wei Guangde thought he had thought of everything he should have thought of at the moment, and when he felt a little complacent, Ma Fang in the hall suddenly said: "My lord, we still need to prepare torches and other items for night use."

"Huh? Yes, Mr. Liu, please give orders."

At this time, Wei Guangde turned around and said politely to Chief Soldier Liu Dazhang.

A few miles outside of Bao'an Prefecture, a group of patrol cavalry from the Ming army was slowly walking forward, heading towards the camp of the Alta Ministry.

Unlike the Ming army patrol cavalry, in the past, a team of patrol cavalry had as many as three or 40 people, and as few as a dozen people, but this team of Ming army cavalry had a scale of nearly a hundred people.

"Master Wei, about ten miles ahead is the Ten Thousand Household Camp of the IDA Department."

At this time, a middle-aged man in the uniform of a guerrilla general said to an immature boy next to him, but this boy was wearing a blue official robe.

"Let's hurry up. After reading this, we need to see what Altan Khan's camp looks like."

That young man was naturally Wei Guangde. Taking advantage of the time when the Xuanfu army was preparing for the battle, he asked Ma Fang to take him out to see the situation of the Ida camp, so as to compare it and see if the previously agreed tactics still exist. Leaks.

Wei Guangde is very clear that if he wins this battle, he will gain countless benefits. Although he also has a hidden worry, that is, he will be transferred to be a military civil servant by the court, but he doesn't care about so much at the moment, and everything is about getting promoted and getting rich.

Military civil servants are military civil servants, and he is also from the Hanlin Academy, so he can be regarded as a good root in the civil service system, so he may be transferred back if he thinks of a way.

Not long after, Wei Guangde saw the tents set up by the Mongols in the wilderness from a distance, and then he saw a row of low wooden fences.

"This is their camp?"

Seeing this, Wei Guangde couldn't restrain his ecstasy.

The Mongol camps are really rudimentary.

It’s not that Wei Guangde has never seen the camp of the Ming army. Let’s not talk about the arrangement of the internal tents. A few rows of rejected horses were placed outside the camp gate.

If the level of combat readiness is high, traps and sheep and horse walls will be built outside the camp to prevent surprise attacks by the opponent and cavalry raids.

When we get here, although there is no such thing as a telescope in this era, and it is hard to see clearly from a distance, the general situation is still clear at a glance.

The camp is just a row of low fences, and the tents inside are only roughly arranged, which is relatively messy.

He was about to move forward when Ma Fang pulled the horse's head, "My lord, don't keep approaching, otherwise you will draw out the Tartar cavalry."

When Wei Guangde heard this, he knew it was good or bad, there was no need to start a war at this time, don't expose his whereabouts, let Altan Khan be prepared.

"Then let's go around and stay away from them."

Wei Guangde nodded to Ma Fang and said.

Immediately, the group stopped approaching the Tartar barracks, but started to walk out, away from the Tartar barracks, and continued to walk forward.

"Approaching the Tartar army camp before dawn, can you touch the row of wooden fences?"

On the way, Wei Guangde asked Ma Fangdao in a low voice.

"It's impossible."

Ma Fang shook her head, "Although the Tartar camp is poorly built, they keep a lot of hounds in the barracks, and they will be divided into four directions at night. As long as our people approach, the dogs will be barked."

When Wei Guangde saw the Tazi's camp, the first thing he thought of was the special operations of future generations, whether it is possible to send elite soldiers first, that is, those who act as scouts at night.

According to Ma Fang's words, most of the brave men in the Ming army would fill this position, and they were relatively proficient in various weapons, at least they all had a housekeeping skill.

Before the Ming army attacked, send a team of people to go in to find Alta Khan's big tent. When the Ming army's attack caused a short-term chaos in the Tazi camp, if the Ming army attacked and killed Alta Khan alive, he would have achieved great success.

I just heard Ma Fang say that the Mongols would set up hounds everywhere when camping, which is really difficult to deal with.

If there is a slight disturbance outside, it will call, attracting soldiers on patrol.

In later generations, there were people who stole dogs, but they took advantage of the owner's inattention, threw some food with medicine in it while the dog was barking, or simply robbed the dog directly, covered the dog with a bag, loaded it into the car and ran away.

These tricks are obviously useless here.

"Are all the ministries of the Xuan Mansion also like this? I saw that there are dogs in your army."

Wei Guangde said casually.

"I stayed there for a long time, so there are dogs in our army, some of the other generals have dogs, and some don't"

As the two communicated, the group traveled farther and farther.

It was summer at this time, and it was dark late, and the sky began to gradually darken at the beginning of Wushi, and it was completely dark by the time of Haishi.

In the past, the military camps inside and outside Baoan Prefecture, which were supposed to be quiet at this time, are different today.

Although there are not many sergeants in the barracks, many conscripted civilians have already entered and left the barracks with a large number of torches and other things. These things that have been prepared all afternoon must be placed at the point of instruction.

Many of the sergeants who had slept in the barracks for a long time could no longer lie down, but dared not go out when they got up. They could only stand behind the door and look out through the cracks in the doors and windows.

The main passages of the camp were lit with fires as usual, so that they could vaguely see the shadows outside.

At noon, the sergeants were happy with an unexpected extra meal, but after they were driven back to the barracks after the meal, the old soldiers realized something, and I am afraid that they will not spend the night peacefully.

Those newly recruited soldiers were quite excited at first, but after seeing the performance of the veterans, they gradually guessed something.

In the beginning, there were people who planned to get up and go for a walk after falling asleep, but when they opened the door, they were chased back by the soldiers outside the door, and continued to lie on the bed to sleep.

No one wants to be beaten, so they can only lie on the bed honestly.

After lying down for a long time, not only can't fall asleep, but also feel uncomfortable all over.

Gradually, they found that as long as you don't go out, the soldiers patrolling outside don't care much about you, so at this time, many people have actually gotten up, sitting or standing in the house, and started talking.

In fact, there is nothing to say, that is, whether we will fight the Tartars tonight, or we will never drive them back to sleep.

"Be content. We didn't have this kind of treatment before. The Shangguan will beat you if you want to beat him, and you will be given time to sleep. This time, you will be given food first, and you will have another meal when you go out later. It is not bad."

The veterans didn't pay much attention to other people's comments at first, but they are in the same state now, unable to sleep, and the veterans opened their mouths unconsciously.

In this era, most generals don't care much about soldiers. In their eyes, soldiers are not as good as a dog raised by them.

Regardless of whether it is a battle or anything else, the physical condition of the soldiers will not be considered. It is just to prepare a full meal before the battle so that they have the strength to kill people.

"Boom!——Boom! Boom!" The slow and quick sound of the watchmen came from the streets of Baoanzhou. It was the watchmen who were patrolling the night.

Although there is a large army of Tartars stationed outside the city, but as an ancient profession - the watchman is still doing his job dutifully.

It's just that in the past, during the third watch, few people were seen on the street except myself.

Yes, those are also soldiers carrying lanterns and holding torches to patrol the night.

It's just that today, there are significantly more pedestrians on the street. They are all young and strong men, but they did not wear the standard military uniform of the Ming army, but ordinary people dressed up, carrying all kinds of clothes on their hands or on their backs. The things that come and go between the state department warehouse and the barracks.

Hearing the sound of the watchmen outside, Liu Dazhang, the Chief Military Officer of the Xuan Mansion, turned his head to Wei Guangde and said, "Master Wei, are you sure you want to do something?"

Wei Guangde naturally knew what Liu Dazhang was up to. When he first saw Liu Dazhang accepting the order to go to war so happily, Wei Guangde still felt that he had preconceived and wrote a document to Mr. Weng Puweng, as if the matter was not done properly.

But now, he doesn't feel that way at all.

For such an incompetent official, he should be taken down, otherwise there will never be peace in the Xuanfu.

If there is an accident in the Xuan Mansion, the neighboring capital will not be safe. Wei Guangde doesn't want to be sent to this place where nothing shit happens, and wipe Liu Dazhang's incompetent ass.

"Naturally, now the arrow is on the string and has to be fired."

Wei Guangde replied with a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Let's go down and tell the soldiers to serve dinner, and let them go out at night to observe the movement of the Tartar camp."

Liu Dazhang was a little helpless at the moment, he regretted it, he didn't want to offend Weng Pu.

It must be Weng Pu's intention to let the Xuanfu army go to war.

Although he doubted whether Wei Guangde's arrival had been ordered by Weng Pu, he didn't dare to question it.

He didn't care about Wei Guangde, at least he didn't care about Wei Guangde's opinion on matters as important as the start of the war. Even though he was an official of the Imperial Academy, he couldn't help but care about Weng Pu.

The night watchman on the streets of Baoanzhou was walking on the empty street at this time, and now he is much more normal. Those who were active before have disappeared, and he is the only one on the whole street, holding a lantern alone, holding a There is a clapper that is more useful for playing.

At this time, what he was thinking in his heart was to complete the three shift tasks as soon as possible, so that he could go back and rest for a while.

"Boom—boom! Boom! Boom", one slow and three fast voices, which means that the time is already 1 o'clock in the morning, the fourth watch.

"Whoa Whoah"

Not far away from the direction of the Baoan Prefecture Government Office, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, and then the watchman watched as many people poured out of the gate of the Office with torches.

Soldiers were already densely packed outside the gate, and they all stood there quietly, holding a rein in their hands.

People who came out of the official office, people kept approaching, took the reins from the soldiers, and then got on their horses
The watchman who was near the military camp in Baoanzhou City was scared and hid on the side of the street. In the middle of the night, more than a dozen torches were lit in front of the gate of the military camp. The gate of the military camp was wide open, and countless heavily armed soldiers lined up The queue ran out from the gate of the barracks
The city gate of Baoanzhou was opened at some time, and the night watchmen rushed over to ask why they saw it. They are watchmen, and their duties are not only to tell the time to the residents in the city, but also to prevent fire and theft, and to give early warning responsibilities.

Although he saw bright lights at the gate of the city and many soldiers standing there, he still had to go over immediately to find out the reason. He had not received the notice from Zhizhou Yamen that the city gate would be opened tonight.

"The army is dispatched, quickly avoid it."

When he was about to run close to the city gate, the familiar roar of the city gate officer made him stop.

Not long after, dense footsteps came from the direction of the military camp in the distance
The military barracks outside the city of Baoanzhou also woke up in the middle of the night at this time. Countless soldiers had already put on their battle armor and lined up with weapons in their hands.
(End of this chapter)