Chapter 135: Let's take a peek first

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong said: "But is it because of the drought? ”

"Not bad." Zhang Fu said: "In recent years, the income of the imperial court has increased greatly, but this year is a disaster year, the use of the capital depends on the storage of Beijing, Tongzhou, Tianjin, and has been directly subordinate to the output, and the grain of the southern provinces has been transferred to Henan, Shandong, Lianghuai, Huguang and other places nearby. ”

"We have been dealing with the grassland for so many years, and you also know that even if you defeat it, even if you occupy it first, this war will be over?"

"Not to mention the revenge of the tile spur, just your majesty, after so many years of preparation, how can you give up?"

"At the beginning, I didn't know when it would be over."

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong said: "Brother, what's the big deal, I have been looking forward to this battle for a long time." ”

Yes, most of the nobles in the group are looking forward to war, not peace, because only by fighting can they have glory and wealth, and only by fighting can they have power, and as long as they fight, they will have everything they want.

Although it is hot, many nobles have degraded their ability to fight. But the backbone led by Cheng Guogong is still looking forward to the war.

"I know." Zhang Fu said: "This battle is better not this year. It's best to drag it out for two years. ”

Zhang Fu also felt inexplicable, after entering the orthodox years, in the past ten years, floods, droughts and locust plagues have been connected. There are very few that can be called good years.

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong is still inferior to Zhang Fu, what Zhu Yong sees is only things from his point of view, but what Zhang Fu thinks is things from the perspective of the Ming court.

This year is not a good time to go to war.

In the first half of this year, the tax on grain was more than 23 million stones, and in the first half of this year, the taxes were reduced or exempted to millions of stones, and as for the disaster relief funds to be allocated, I am afraid it will also cost millions of stones.

Suffice it to say that this year the imperial court could hardly expect any harvest from the grain tax. As long as the grain tax can heal the hole of disaster relief, it will be a great joy.

Although the imperial court now has savings, these savings are always insufficient in the face of the holes in which the sky collapses. And fighting a war is a particularly expensive thing.

Zhang Fu is not without the courage to fight, but how to see and decide, today is not to fight.

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong had some small reluctance in his heart.

After all, in the eyes of Cheng Guogong, they don't have to think about it, the emperor is not hungry soldiers, no matter how tight the court's finances are, it is impossible for the court to treat people who fight badly.

Zhang Fu is worried about it at all.

It's just that Zhu Yong was used to listening to Zhang Fu's words and said, "Brother, don't worry, I know what to do." ”

Zhang Fu seemed to see Zhu Yong's slightest resistance, sighed secretly in his heart, and said without saying more: "

I won't say much else, be careful. ”

Within a few days of Zhu Yong's inauguration as the general of the conquest. He put the cavalry in order in the camp.

With 3,000 battalions as the core, a total of more than 50,000 cavalry, they set out from Beijing and passed through Juyong Pass to Xuanfu.

Along the way, Zhu Yong saw a long gallop.

Horse-drawn carriages sped past the tracks. From outside Beijing all the way to Xuanfu. Originally, it was a single lane, but now it has become a two-lane road, which can be separated, but now it is ready to fight, and both tracks are going north, A large number of materials from Tongzhou to Beijing, and then from being transferred to Xuanfu and Datong. It's all done with a gallop road.

Zhu Yong has been in and out of Xuanda several times, and he is also very clear about this situation.

After all, it's not been a year or two since this gallop. He looked at Chidao and asked, "Has the Chidao from Beijing to Datong been built?" ”

"General, now the transfer of grain and grass in Datong must be from Xuanfu to Datong, and as for the route from Beijing to Datong, it has not yet been repaired. The Ministry of War said that it could probably be repaired in the 14th year of orthodoxy. ”

Zhu Qizhen has not relaxed the construction of the Chi Road, and at the same time, it has not accelerated the construction.

There are many reasons, the technology is not mature, from Beijing to the west to the north, the movement is mountainous. How to make the gallop over the mountains is still a big problem.

Zhu Qizhen would rather work slowly and carefully.

There are also a relatively small number of craftsmen. The financial expenditure was huge, which was completed in several years, which had a good alleviating effect on the imperial court's finances. And then according to the timetable in Zhu Qizhen's heart, it only needs to be completed in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, and the connection of Datong, Beijing, and Xuanfu Triangle Chi Road will be completed.

Even so, Zhu Yong felt that it was much more convenient.

They marched along the gallop road all the way, arrived at Xuanfu, and then ordered the army, Xuanfu and Datong, a total of 50,000 cavalry, and 50,000 iron cavalry in Beijing, known as 200,000 foot cavalry, out of the dragon gatekeeper, stationed in the monolithic fort.

And Yang Hong was already waiting in the monolithic fort.

Although the monolith fort is not small, it is not enough to accommodate 100,000 cavalry, so the cavalry of the Ming army set up a camp several miles wide, and the smoke of the army can be seen clearly from dozens of miles away.

In the military tent.

Yang Hong was explaining the situation to Zhu Yong.

Yang Hong pointed to the map on the desktop and said: "The Tile Thorn army is scattered in several units, wandering between Kaiping and Daning, there are many horses, I have sent a lot of nights, many people who go out, and few who come back, and now I have folded nearly a hundred brothers." ”

"We can only find out the scope of their activities, and the specific location of the camp has not been clarified, but it should be between the Shangdu River and Kaiping."

"The specific situation, the subordinates are incompetent, but they have not been proven."

Zhu Yong said: "It is already quite good that General Yang can do this step. It's just that from the general's point of view, what is the intention of the tile spur to go south this time? ”

In the large

After the Ming gave up Kaiping and Daning, the monolith fort became a dagger for the Ming Dynasty to go deep into the grassland, Yang Hong was stationed here but more than 10,000 people, in the face of the pressure of the tile spur army, he was able to not be afraid of hardships and dangers, and worked hard to release the night without receiving, to find out the enemy's situation, and not mess up, it was already good.

Yang Hong thought about it and said: "The last general thinks that it seems that the tile spur does not have the heart to go south, if the tile spur really has the heart to go south, it should be stopped, the army should go south, and attack the monolith fort, so the fanfare will make the side wall heavily guarded." Pay for one's whistle. ”

Yang Hong is a veteran soldier.

Can show can't, can't show can't, this kind of superficial military reasoning, no one needs to explain it very clearly.

I don't think I will know it at first.

So there's something inexplicable about what the Watts are doing. Unless the tile spur doesn't want to fight.

Zhu Yong said secretly in his heart: "It seems that the eldest brother said it." He smiled faintly and said, "What kind of mind is the Tile Thorn, just send one to ask." ”

Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, immediately summoned the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who accompanied the army and went to see the tile spur as a messenger.

As for why Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, asked Jinyiwei to do this, it is also very simple, people and ministers have no diplomatic power. Even if he has this power now, Cheng Guogong is also very careful not to be limited to the place of suspicion. Now I will hand over this matter to Jinyiwei.

After all, Jin Yiwei is His Majesty's person.

As soon as Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, gave the order to go down, one of them suddenly came in and whispered in Yang Hong's ear, Yang Hong immediately saluted the Duke of Chengguo and said, "General, there are more than 1,000 cavalry peeps into the camp. ”

When Zhu Yong heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "Is the tile thorn bullying no one in the imperial court?" Wu Keqin. ”

Wu Keqin immediately came out and said: "The last general." ”

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong said: "Lead your men and horses, go and bring him over." ”

Wu Keqin is Wu Jin's uncle, a Mongolian, and a fierce general among the ministers. He agreed, and immediately rushed out of the camp with more than 1,000 horsemen and horses from his headquarters, and headed in the direction of the spur cavalry.

On a small hillside dozens of miles north of the camp, more than a thousand cavalry cavalry were really heavily guarded, but there were only a dozen guards surrounding one person, but they seemed very relaxed.

This person is none other than Yexian.

He also handed over the army to his younger brother first, and he himself peeked into the Ming frontier. What I saw was not only the monolithic castle here, but also the side wall of Xuanfu Datong, which I had also looked at carefully.

I heard that the army of the Southern Dynasty had arrived here, so I came lightly and took a look.

After all, it has already swept outside the Saiwai, and outside the border wall of the Ming Dynasty, there is no important place except Haixi, and Haixi itself is too easterly, far away from the main battlefield, and it can be ignored. If you want to pull out the west of the sea and cross the Changbai Mountain, some gains outweigh the losses.

The Hercynian pair is almost chicken ribs first, the bones are very hard, and there is very little meat.