The officers and soldiers of Zhushan and Qin Yu set off almost on the same day.

But when Qin Yu and the others were about to arrive in Zhushan County three days later, more than 20,000 guards were still circling around the mountain pass, and they hadn't even moved for twenty miles in three days.

And Dai Dongmin was also worn out of temper, and after spending two nights in the barren mountains and wilderness, he simply went back to the county seat to stay.

All the military attaches laughed.

Aren't you going to march?

Okay, let's march, but the soldiers and horses under our command are disobedient and run around, and they have no choice?

I can't catch it again, I can't catch it again, I can't kill it, I don't know how many years I owe it, I can't remember it.

This time I came to fight, and I didn't even have any money to pull out, and I was holding back the evil fire in my heart, and if I still killed people, I was afraid that I would mutini immediately.

So it's not that they are incompetent and can't manage it, but they can't manage it, unless they can take out tens of thousands of taels of silver, and give each person a little, not to mention walking twenty miles a day, even thirty miles is not a problem.

However, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are all urine, and other things are easy to say, but the silver is not to be discussed, and the court has not allocated it, where is the silver?

Although the military attachés were doing perfunctory things, they didn't really care about anything, they had long found out that Qin Yu and they were approaching Fang County.

So he retreated as soon as possible, leaving only a few men and horses to defend the mountain pass, and no one knew better than them about the catties and taels of these military households under his command.

Gathering in a pile can still frighten people, the knife is against the back, and it is okay to defend the city, but if tens of thousands of people are nested in the mountains, seeing the head and not the tail, one is not good, I am afraid that if it is not, it will all disappear.

When I went, I walked for three days, but when I came back, I only sent it for half a day, and I obviously knew that the anti-thief army was coming.

Compared with the border army, the guards also have another advantage, that is, no one dares to flee before the battle.

Because they are not alone, there are a lot of wives, children, and relatives, once the military attache is not there, they will have to be dealt with as deserters, and they will wait to see a good show when they go back.

When the war is fought, there are no such concerns, after all, it is not clear, so those who do not go back will be dealt with in battle, and those who go back will not be investigated.

The military attachés have never lacked manpower, and they will not care whether they live or die, which has almost become the default rule of the local guards.

The idea of the military attachés was that the army would be divided into three, with 10,000 horses stationed in the county town to defend, 5,000 people to defend the mountain pass relying on the terrain, and finally 5,000 people to garrison the Zhushan Thousand Households.

In this way, even if the mountain pass is not guarded and the thieves come in, the county seat and Qianhu Fort can still be horns for each other, which is definitely the safest way.

After all, there are more than 20,000 horses, and they can't fit in the county.

"A bunch of nonsense, this official is the governor of Yunyang, because of the raising of money, food and military salaries, he can't take the initiative to suppress the anti-thieves in time, and it is okay to recover Fang County, and now the thief army is coming, I have 20,000 officers and soldiers, not to face the battle, but to stay in the city to defend it, and let the anti-thieves ravage the place, where does the official's face exist? What is the majesty of the imperial court? ”

Dai Dongmin was furious, staring at them with an iron face.

These military attaches clearly wanted to kill him.

If this is really defending in the city as they say, then I'm afraid he, the governor of Yunyang, will also do it.

In case someone takes advantage of the topic to impeach him for fearing the enemy like a tiger, which will damage the majesty of the imperial court, according to His Majesty's temper, most of them will have to lose his official position and go to prison.

So at this time, the intestines are about to regret the green, I knew that such a guard soldier is so useless, he should not come, nor should he say big things, so it is difficult to ride a tiger now.

At this point, he stood up and said in a stern tone: "As a Ming general, you are favored by the emperor, and this is the time to serve the court and Your Majesty, and you should fight to the death with the thief army outside the city, and annihilate the thief army in one fell swoop, instead of defending the enemy to the death." ”

"My lord, no, the thief army is powerful, and you must not fight in the field outside the city!"

"Yes, once you have a business trip, I'm afraid that even Zhushan will fall, think twice!"

All the military attaches were shocked, and hurriedly persuaded each other, and the bird governor clearly wanted to force them to death.

"Don't you really know when you are the official? The thief army is more than 15,000 people at most, and there are a large number of women and children among them, and the soldiers who can fight are only half at most, but we add up to more than 20,000, how can we not fight? ”

Dai Dongmin was unmoved, and sneered, no matter whether he wins the battle or not, this battle must be fought, otherwise he will have to walk around without eating.

Even if you lose, it doesn't matter if you lose Zhushan, anyway, Fangxian and Baokang have been breached, and there is not one more Zhushan, the key is to lose the battle, it is better than being afraid of the enemy like a tiger and not daring to face the battle.

"But..."

"Smack! There is no need to say more, if you dare to say no more than anyone who does not fight, it is greedy for life and afraid of death, and afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and then Benfu will play Your Majesty. ”

Seeing that the military attachés were noisy and ugly, Dai Dongmin suddenly slapped the table and snorted coldly.

Sure enough, the field suddenly fell silent, and as soon as the big hat was buttoned down, the deterrent power was huge, and no one dared to speak again.

After all, if he loses the battle, the most he can flee back in embarrassment is, but if this guy really plays His Majesty, eighty percent of them will end up with a raid.

This is precisely because China has a vast territory, and in ancient times, when communication conditions were backward, imperial power could still be extended to various places, rather than as in Europe, where the big places were independent kingdoms.

Although the civil officials are corrupt, the military generals are afraid of death, and the Ming Dynasty is stormy and riddled with holes.

But under Chongzhen's holy decree, even if you are far away in Guangxi and Gansu, a few guards with knives and brocade clothes come all the way to the door, you can still make your family ruined and your wife separated.

This is also a major advantage of Confucian governance, and it is also the key reason why successive emperors have followed Confucianism.

Because in ancient times, it was also the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch, coupled with the imperial examination system of being an official in a different place, that could do this.

In order to make an emperor feel that the life and death of the whole world are in his hands.

"Since the governor is determined to fight to the death with the thief army, we will receive the emperor's grace in the world, so we naturally want to repay the determination to die and fight bravely to repay Your Majesty's holy grace, but those poor soldiers may not have such an awareness, as the so-called clever woman is difficult to cook without rice!"

Yun Yangwei commanded the envoy to stand up with a fist and said with a bitter expression, and the other military attaches also nodded frequently.

It's not that they are greedy for life and afraid of death, but the military households under their hands are greedy for life and afraid of death, as the so-called emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.

They are not blind, Dai Dongmin came to Zhushan, in the name of suppressing thieves, but raised tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Among them, the big family who escaped from Fang County donated more than half, and in order to get rid of the crime, Liu Qianhu handed over most of the family property to the governor, otherwise how could he stand with them now?

Dai Dongmin's face suddenly collapsed, as if these military attachés wanted to sleep with his concubine.

But I also know that if I want these guys to organize those military households and fight against the thieves, I am afraid that it will not work if they don't pick up some money.

In the end, he gritted his teeth and took out 20,000 silver to reward the army, after all, he still wanted to win and climb up.

The attitude of the military attachés immediately changed 180 degrees.

The chests are banging, so there is still a little greed for life and fear of death just now?

Hurry down and get busy, and when you go back, you will first take out 10,000 taels of them and divide them according to the size of the official positions of each military attaché.

Then he took out 5,000 taels and distributed them evenly according to the number of each family, and finally 5,000 taels came to ordinary military households.