Chapter 363 362 Capital and Datong

Chapter 363 362 Capital and Datong

Wei Guangde was still inexperienced. He just thought that the Ming army could attack Hetao and mobilize Anda Khan to divide his troops for rescue. However, he did not expect that due to the distance between the two places, Anda Khan might choose to give up because he could not rescue him.

Gao Gong also had no substitute troops and did not consider this possibility at all, so he regarded Wei Guangde's idea as a magic weapon for the Ming army to win.

Now, hearing the loophole pointed out by Yang Bo, Gao Gong was speechless for a moment.

Indeed, they only thought that the importance of the Hetao area could mobilize the Anta cavalry for rescue, but they did not consider what would happen if the other party chose to give up.

Once Anda Khan did not fall into the rhythm of the Ming army as Yang Bo said, then the effect of this strategy would be greatly reduced. It would not achieve the purpose of allowing Anda Khan to divide his troops, and it would actually be a failure.

After a long silence, Gao Gong finally said: "Then how should we remedy it? Or just give up?"

At this time, Gao Gong also wavered.

"Mobilize the Shandong and Henan Guards, as well as Liaodong Town soldiers and horses to prepare for reinforcements at any time. This will consume a lot of money, but it can ensure that there will be no loopholes in the nine-sided defense."

Yang Bo responded calmly.

At this time, Yang Bo, although he pretended to be calm on the face, was actually a little irritable inside.

After receiving the military report from the Xuanfu, the entire military department was thinking about how to mobilize heavy troops to defend against the Tatar invasion, but no one proposed such a strategy of attacking instead of defending, although even if it was proposed, there is a high probability that he would make it a Alternative options will not be sent to the emperor.

It is a pity that the Ming army's combat power has declined seriously. If it still has more than half of its combat power in the early Ming Dynasty, Anda Khan's invasion this time is actually an excellent opportunity to encircle and annihilate Anda's troops.

Unfortunately, everything is just a beautiful fantasy.

However, Wei Guangde's plan to attack the Hetao area to disperse the troops of the Anda tribe was quite suitable.

Although the Ming army's combat power has declined sharply, it still has an absolute advantage for ordinary Mongolians. What's more, the main force of the Tatars is in Xuanfu, and there is no force on the grassland that can resist the encirclement and suppression of the two major military towns.

According to Yang Bo's experience in contact with Emperor Jiajing since he took charge of the Ministry of War, Emperor Jiajing was a very decent person.

For more than ten years, the Ming Dynasty has been repeatedly invaded by the Anta tribe and has been struggling to cope. From the impatience on the emperor's face when reporting battle reports every time, he can see that the emperor is extremely dissatisfied with the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.

At the time of his cousin Emperor Zhengde, the Ming army was strutting in and out of the Great Wall, and could fight the Tatars outside the pass. But in his hands, the situation was completely reversed.

Yang Bo was still thinking about the other side of Xiyuan, but Gao Gong here asked eagerly: "Please tell me, Grand Sima, how to improve Guangde's strategy?"

After retracting his thoughts, Yang Boluo thought for a while and said: "As I said before, if Anda Khan chooses to temporarily abandon the Hetao area, still concentrates his forces in an attempt to destroy the Xuan army, and then breaks through the Juyongguan wall to threaten the capital, then we need to mobilize Shandong and Shandong in advance. Guard stations in Henan and other places came in to help.

The Qingzhou Guard, Pingzhou Guard, and Tai'an Guard under the Shandong Dusi were transferred to Dezhou, and they joined the Dezhou Guard to form a force and stationed in Hejian Prefecture. The Dezhou Left Guard sealed the border between Northern Zhili and Shandong to guard against Tatar rebellion.

The three guards from Changshan under the jurisdiction of the Henan Dusi were transferred to Baoding Prefecture. If the Anda tribe really breaks into Ji Town, two armies can go to the capital to aid.

The Shandong soldiers and horses plus the Hejian Prefecture garrison have six guard posts. Baoding Prefecture has five guard posts that can be dispatched. Together with the Henan soldiers and horses, there are eight guard posts. There are Tianjin Sanwei, Tongzhou and Zhuozhou near the capital. There are also more than ten guard posts nearby that can be mobilized, and the number of reinforcements can exceed 100,000.

I think that with these troops at his side, Anda Khan may not dare to break into Jizhen and act recklessly. "

Yang Bo had a good memory and quickly thought of summoning the troops around Beizhili. He even had an idea of ​​how many guard posts to deploy.

Yang Bo's words made Gao Gong on the side nod repeatedly. Even Xu Jie, who was sitting above him, was smiling and stroking his beard. Only Yan Song was still sitting there with no expression, as if he was in a state of mind and was indifferent to their conversation.

The plan formulated by Wei Guangde did miss the safety of the capital. It's not that Wei Guangde didn't think of it, but he didn't think that An Dahan would dare to enter Ji Town from the beginning.

At first, the Anta tribe was able to advance to the vicinity of Tongzhou. Although some Tatars were said to have passed under the walls of the capital, Wei Guangde believed that the Tatars at that time were at the end of their war effort and had no strength to attack Tongzhou. Otherwise, they would never give up the attack on Tongzhou. Opportunity, that is the granary of the capital, and countless materials are stored here.

By capturing Tongzhou, Anda's troops could gain a foothold in the north, because the grain and fodder in the city could support his tens of thousands of troops for at least half a year.

But what happened? Anda Khan gave up the attack on the fortified city and wandered around the capital. After grabbing enough, he chose to run away.

After seeing the reactions of the three people, he didn't feel proud. Yang Bo was slightly surprised at this time, because he found that he had been here for a long time, but why was he the only one here?

Didn't other ministers come together to discuss such an important matter?

Thinking of this, Yang Bo asked about the doubts in his heart.

Before Yan Song and Xu Jie could speak, Gao Gong on one side opened his mouth to explain.

After listening to Gao Gong's explanation, Yang Bo nodded slightly. The war strategy between countries really should not involve irrelevant officials, such as people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he did not feel the need to involve them.

"Two pavilion elders, should we send Yang Shangshu's opinions as a vote to Xiyuan now, or should we write a new memorial?"

Although Wei Guangde's plan was pointed out by Yang Bo as a major mistake, Gao Gong still did not want to give up the plan, because the method of fighting out and sweeping the Hetao area suited his temperament.

Why are you Tatars only allowed to run into the pass and plunder? I, the Ming Dynasty, can also break out of the pass and snatch things back.

Having said this, Xu Jie looked at Yan Song with questioning eyes. Such a military and national event must be led by the chief minister, and it was not easy for him to express his opinions directly.

At this time, Yan Songcai seemed to be waking up from a big dream. He looked at Gao Gong with turbid eyes and then at Yang Bo. He didn't know what he was thinking. Then he turned to Xu Jie and said, "Just Cunzhai." Come and write a draft, add in the only plan, and send it to Xiyuan for His Majesty's inspection."

"But."

Xu Jie was about to say something when he saw Yan Song wave his hand, "Those who have led soldiers and fought in wars, the only ones who know this plan are Wei Yue and Shan Dai. Since they think it is feasible, I think it should be feasible.

Besides, this matter is ultimately decided by His Majesty, and we just have to do everything we need to do. "

When he said this, Yan Song's eyes turned serious when he looked at Xu Jie. Xu Jie felt a chill in his heart. He knew he couldn't say anything more and had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Gao Gong on one side was so happy that he didn't notice the eye contact between the two cabinet ministers at all.

However, all this was seen by Yang Bo, the Minister of War, and he couldn't help but look at Yan Song with a little joking in his eyes.

Yan Song sent people to send the memorial written by Xu Jiepiao directly to the palace. Gao Gong was fine for the time being. If His Majesty saw it, he would summon them again urgently.

After Gao Gong bowed to the three people in the room and left, he returned directly to the Hanlin Academy. At this time, Wei Guangde was still on duty, but he was not reading. He was still reviewing the contents of the memorial in his mind to see if there were any calculation errors.

After Gao Gong arrived, Wei Guangde knew the loopholes in his memorial that were pointed out by Yang Bo, Minister of War. Wei Guangde smiled bitterly in his heart. Anda Khan simply did not have enough troops to threaten the capital, so what should he be worried about?

But what he didn't expect was that the people who read the memorial, except Yang Bo, were all people who experienced the Gengxu Revolution in the 29th year of Jiajing. They were surrounded in the capital and warned for more than half a month. The experience cannot be easily erased.

In their opinion, nothing is more important than the safety of the capital.

So as soon as Yang Bo mentioned another possibility, Gao Gong knelt down.

On the other hand, when Xu Jie was writing the draft, Gao Gong and Yang Bo were discussing in a low voice, constantly helping Xu Jie to modify the contents. As long as it was what Wei Guangde had considered at the time, he would just fine-tune the original plan, so there was no time limit. Not very urgent.

For example, for the soldiers and horses in Yansui and Ningxia Town, the Ministry of War had already drafted a document to summon troops, but this plan changed their direction from marching east to support Xuanfu to moving north to sweep the Hetao area.

The garrison posts in Shandong and Henan are all garrisoned near Beizhili. They should also receive documents from the Ministry of War now, asking them to organize their troops and prepare for war.

This is also the reason why Yang Bo can so easily talk about the mobilization of many guard posts. In fact, everything is within the scope of discussion by the Ministry of War.

Once the war goes south, these guard posts will be mobilized to go north for support.

As for their new mission, they only need to wait for the battle report of the Xuanfu war to be sent and then the text can be issued.

However, what disappointed Gao Gong was that two days after the memorial was sent to the palace, he still did not receive the summons from the palace.

At this time, Gao Gong, sitting in the Imperial Academy, couldn't help but wonder whether it was the confidential words he said to the cabinet that made the palace start to pay attention, thinking that he was just the minister of Taichang Temple and had nothing to do with the war, so he was not interested in him. It was kept secret.

But he also knew that this was just his wild imagination. If Emperor Jiajing really meant it, Wei Guangde would not let it go no matter what.

In the past two days, as far as he knew, Wei Guangde had not received any orders from the palace.

Apparently, what he considered important was ignored by the palace.

Perhaps, the Hetao was really a taboo for the imperial court.

"Dang, clang, clang, clang."

Amidst the ringing of the horse bell, a pond horse rushed towards the gate of Datong City.

Far away, the soldiers guarding the city saw the messengers carrying the flag with the word "order" running towards them. They hurriedly drove the people blocking the way to both sides of the road to make way for the messengers.

The horse did not slow down when it arrived at the city gate, but quickly passed through the city gate and rushed to the General Military Mansion of Datong Town.

Soon, Datong Town Chief Military Officer Liu Han rushed to the Datong Governor's Yamen with a warrant from Xuanda Governor Ge Jin and met with Governor Li Wenjin.

"Master Li, the Tatars are attacking Xuanfu."

Upon entering, Liu Han waved the warrant from Xuanfu in his hand and said loudly.

"It's just these few days, what is supposed to come will eventually come."

Li Wenjin stood up and met Liu Han. After taking the order from him and reading it quickly, he said with some surprise: "Ada Khan is attacking Longmen Pass? They really want to kill the three guards of Xuanfu."

"What should we do now? Do as we said before, or follow the governor's order and immediately go north to rescue Xuan Mansion?"

Liu Han also thought about it on the way here, but this is not important. He needs to confirm whether Li Wenjin still insists on giving up supporting Xuanfu and instead leads his army to attack Bansheng City.

Before Li Wenjin could speak, there were footsteps outside the door. A moment later, Yu Dayou walked into the room. Seeing Mr. Liu arriving, he clasped his fists at him.

Yu Dayou is also the chief military officer. Although he offended the boss and was demoted this time, Liu Han knew after contacting him that this man was capable, not to mention Li Wenjin's face, so he did not treat him as a criminal or a criminal. He still As an official at the same level.

"Dayou, the Tatars are attacking Xuanfu's Longmen Pass. It seems that they are targeting the three guards of Xuanfu. Governor Ge ordered us to move east immediately to support Xuanfu."

As Li Wenjin spoke, he handed the military order in his hand to Yu Dayou.

After Yu Dayou took it and read it quickly, he said with a serious face: "We are all prepared. We will win Bansheng City in this battle, but I don't know how many of those White Lotus rebels followed the Tatars to Xuanfu."

Li Wenjin heard Yu Dayou's words and knew that he had made up his mind. He immediately looked at Liu Han and said, "General Liu, let's follow the previously agreed strategy. You and I will report to the court and Governor Ge respectively."

According to the previously agreed plan, before they leave the customs, Li Wenjin, as the governor of Datong, will report to the court his plan to attack Bansheng City, while Liu Han will need to report to Ge Jin, the governor of Xuanda.

However, after they sent out the official document, they would not wait for the reply from the court and the governor, but would leave Datong and attack first.

The purpose of reporting is just to avoid being accused of being "specialist". Although it may still be used as an excuse later, for the civil and military officials on the border, as long as they win in the end, the court will only give rewards and not carry out punishment.

The key to everything lies in successfully attacking Bansheng City, mobilizing Anda troops to support them, and relieving the Xuanfu crisis.

"Okay, I will send the official document I wrote when I get back. When will we set off?"

In order to mobilize Anda Khan to return reinforcements, we need to seize time. We must take action before the war expands, so that Anda Khan can rush back to rescue troops.

If they were already entangled with the Ming army, it would be impossible for Anda Khan to withdraw his troops, and their strategic attempt would have failed.

At that time, if something goes wrong in the Xuanfu, they will all be guilty of serious violations of orders and dereliction of duty.

"The Tatars attacked Longmen Pass three days ago, and they are afraid they have already broken through."

Li Wenjin muttered, "Soldiers need to be quick. The army will leave the border tomorrow."

After speaking, Li Wenjin looked at Yu Dayou.

After hearing this, Yu Dayou just nodded silently. Just as he had said to Li Wenjin and Liu Han, it was safe to go out on an expedition, but the most dangerous thing was to return after victory, which was full of thorns and bumps.

After the three people agreed, they quickly left and prepared for tomorrow's expedition.

Just as the Datong Army was preparing to go out, the messengers who also came from the Xuanfu rushed out of Changping City and galloped towards the capital, waving their whips and whipping their mounts.