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Chapter 234 Reluctance
On the second day of August, Alta crossed the Great Wall and entered Datong, besieged and pacified the acropolis, and turned to looting. Waiting for the governor of the three sides, Wang Chonggu, to send troops to help pacify the captives, all that was left to the Ming army was the plundered and burned wheat fields and corpses everywhere. .

On the eighth day of the eighth month, the capital first heard about the captives. At this time, Alda's army had already plundered all the way, and the soldiers were divided into Pinglu and Shuozhou in Datong; Ningwu and Zhenwu in Taiyuan, Shanxi, followed by Yangqu and Shouyang. The Tumed army on the South Road is almost separated from the Zhending defenders.

In a blink of an eye, it will be August [-]th.

"Eat mooncakes!"

In the Juma River camp, apart from the thousand households on duty in the Chinese army tent, there were nearly ten generals sitting around the map, each with a moon cake, and had to bow to the northeast after eating.The moon cakes they ate were given to the leading general by Emperor Longqing, and only three boxes were given. Originally, Jiang Yuelin wanted to send someone back to his family to make a confession, but Chen Mu distributed his left and right subordinates. You can only learn from others.

It became a moon cake dinner for the generals of the Fangshan garrison.

The garrison outside the account also had mooncakes to eat. Chen Mu took part of the money intercepted by the inspector Wang Zhongguo and sent people to buy mooncakes from civilian households in the nearby Liangxiang in advance. The number of the whole army is distributed, and each man responds to a scene.

They can't see the moon, and they don't care to look at the moon.

"The captives invaded aggressively, but this is not right. It is unheard of for them to march and destroy the city." The moon cake was not enough for Deng Zilong to squeeze between his teeth, and he ate it in one bite. Add half a bowl of water to him, motioned him to continue, and listened to him: "The soldiers who entered Jingxing were only a partial army, but they went down to several cities. Don't those cities resist at all, and they only know how to live in the city?"

Chen Mu nodded and didn't speak. This is also the doubt in his heart. In just seven days, Tumote's partial division almost killed Taiyuan. For at least fifteen days, the captives will be separated from them and face each other across the river.

Now half of the camps have been set up, and it will take at least two fifteen days to build the position Chen Mu wants near Fangshan, but this is not easy?
"Isn't this normal?"

Hu Xingyun is more Buddhist. He has always obeyed whatever orders Chen Mu gave, and it is the same now.It is normal for him to attack fast, and it is normal for him to attack slowly. He pointed at the positions of Pinglu City and Zhenwuwei in Yutu, saying: "Several generals from the South, come here. In the evening, May Pinglu City Counselor Zhang was escorted by Jin Yiwei to the capital and killed just now."

"Ida came to attack in April, Zhang Gang was afraid that Pinglu would be at a loss, so he bribed me to attack other places, but Zhenwuwei was beaten by soldiers led by me." Hu Xingyun shook his head and said, "such a thing, in the Nine Sides couldn't be more normal."

This sounds like a fairy tale to Chen Mu. What kind of logic is this? When the enemy comes to attack, he neither talks about fighting nor defending, and bribes the enemy to let them attack elsewhere.And the crux of the matter is that this kind of bastard thing was actually done, and I really took [-] to [-] riders and collected money to go elsewhere.

Hearing the meaning of these words, the Nine Border soldiers took this as common sense.

Seeing the faces of Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, Hu Liangpeng and others looking at each other, Jiang Yuelin felt very ashamed, lowered his head and said helplessly: "This is something that can't be helped, and I can't beat it. I still keep my promise, as long as you give him Qian, he doesn't care if you are the emperor or a general, he will listen to you if you ask him to retreat, isn't the change of Gengxu just like this—"

"This bastard led troops to the city of Beijing, told the emperor to open the market and get money, and he left immediately."

The more he said, the more Jiang Yuelin was dejected, and said: "It was good not to farm outside the Great Wall before, but once a year, since the first emperor reorganized the army to practice martial arts, every autumn, 10,000+ troops were transferred to the capital, and they were not beaten outside the capital again. In recent years Many people have fled to the northern part of the Great Wall, and there are villages and farmland everywhere in the north of the Great Wall, and they have planted land, no, this is the second time this year that they have violated the frontier."

The corners of Chen Mu's mouth twitched twice, and when he looked at Deng Zilong, who was also speechless, he was laughed angrily, "This is not a southern invasion, this is the Mongolian Khan patrolling the territory, and he came to collect taxes by the way. There was no shortage of money in the past. It was collected once a year, but now that the tax has been increased, it has to be collected twice a year?"

Hu Xingyun was just about to open his mouth to explain something, but was speechless by Chen Mu's words. These words really choked him, because my answer was exactly the same as what Chen Mu said.

I answered that I didn't do a few things in my life, one was grabbing land, and the other was grabbing money. I've been over 60 in my life, and I haven't done anything else at all.Outside the Great Wall, it is fighting and fighting, constantly expanding its territory to the west; inside the Great Wall, it is fighting and fighting, constantly going south to grab money and food.

I answer these two matters very lightly. In the Ming Dynasty, all the cities were only besieged but not attacked.

"General, don't underestimate the frontier warriors. It doesn't matter if you don't kill twenty or thirty generals because of the battle with the northern captives." Jiang Yuelin originally thought that these things would be enough to be angry, but now that Chen Mu and others underestimated them, Even more enraged, he said sadly: "The defense line is long and the northern captives come and go like the wind, and there are hundreds of generals in command everywhere. If you meet me face-to-face, the result will be death if you fight, and you will die if you flee."

"The imperial court doesn't care if you have enough troops, if you don't fight, you will die; if you don't have enough troops to fight, even if you ask Qi Shuai to bring [-] troops and I say [-] troops to fight, it's an egg hitting a rock!"

"Don't say a thousand, we have more than 1 people in Juma River, and it will take half a month for the northern captives to fight here. Do you think the general can win?"

He's not a child, and Chen Mu wouldn't brag about this bullshit for a moment of quick talk, but he felt his mouth was a little dry. Remembering that there was some tobacco in the bag, he got up to search for it, and then sat back and patted Jiang Yuelin after a while, saying: "Okay Well, no one blames you, it is difficult to be an official, and it is even more difficult to be a military officer. Who is not difficult these days? People, don’t ignore the easy things, but do the hard things.”

"Remember what you said today. If you don't have any troops, what will you do if you have enough troops? Want to fight a war where tens of thousands of soldiers will fight for ten years of peace, and want to establish an indelible achievement? War is an opportunity. , we are the closest to Beijing, and the battle was well fought, and if the northern captives really reach the Juma River, you can follow what Chen said and kill the enemy while fighting and retreating."

"Retreat to the upper mountain and kill more than a thousand northern captives. Are you afraid that there will not be enough troops in the future?"

He said a few words of relief to boost the morale of the generals under his command. When Chen Mu sent them out of the command tent, he heard the suppressed cries in the camp one after another. The sky was gloomy and wanted to rain.

Chen Mu leaned weakly under the curtain of the handsome tent, slowly pressed tobacco into the iron pipe that had not been used a few times, and said with a wry smile: "The atmosphere is not good, a big battle is imminent!"

"Junxiong, two hundred steps by the river, build a slope with earth, build a cannon shed, set up the artillery array before it rains, and then dig a trench by the bridge for five centurions side by side, with wooden frames on top Build out the slope to keep out the rain, our blunderbuss are so short that only half of our body is exposed on it."

"If you can stop him beautifully for a while, it will be much easier for the three guards of Yanqing to obey orders!"

　Good morning!Everyone must take care of your body, don't get sick, I'm really upset when I get sick!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)