Datong Town.

For several days, the clouds were shrouded, and after all, it rained heavily in the middle of the night last night, and for some reason, many people were relieved.

Since the Holy Decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse to gather heavy troops on the West Road, the entire town has been under martial law.

The general order of Zhang Wanbang, the commander of Datong, was more severe than the holy decree, and all buying and selling transactions were prohibited, even the nearby hotels, inns, restaurants, and wine shops could not see a few people.

Martial law was to prevent the Mongols from entering the city as merchants, and such a thing happened once in Fushun, and Li Yongfang's surrender caused quite a stir throughout the country.

But after all, he was the first border guard general to surrender to the east, so it was normal for the impact to be so big.

However, many of the defenders of the town were not very nervous, anyway, the battle was in the area of the tiger's mouth on the west road, and they were in the town, and the Mongols would definitely not be able to get in.

After Zhang Wanbang was ordered to leave, he left a general to lead more than 10,000 subordinates to guard the town.

Shi Yongzhen has no merits, and with the blessing of his ancestors, he has become a general.

Just after dawn, a Ming cavalryman yawned and came out of the stable, cleaned up the horse dung, and then changed the fodder for the horses.

He turned on his horse, and just a few blocks away, before he could get out of the city, he cursed:

"In such weather, how could there be Mongolians coming? The general doesn't treat us as human beings, what are you doing when you go out of the city, do you go out to suffer from the wind and cold! ”

Scolding and scolding, the process that should be taken still has to be followed.

Zhang Wanbang set eight military regulations, which were extremely strict, and he was especially good at large-scale positional warfare, and violating military orders was all condemned to death, so his troops and horses have always been strictly disciplined.

This is also the reason why during the Liaodong War, Zhu Xieyuan put the Datong army in front.

As soon as he left the city gate, he felt the biting chill, and the cavalry regretted not adding a cotton coat, and was about to go back, but he suddenly thought of something and turned his horse out of the town.

Before leaving, a general at the head of the city greeted him eagerly:

"Such weather? Do you want to go out to spy too? ”

"Are you light? Just hide from above, but you're miserable? You have to find some Mongols! Really? How could there be a Mongol! ”

The cavalry did not look back, and went away with a stomach full of complaints.

"Harm? Such a ghost weather, if it wasn't ordered by the general? Who wants to go out! Am I feeling cold standing here? Not to mention they rode horses..."

Surprisingly, the city commander didn't feel any anger, but with an expression that I understood, looking at the backs of the cavalry who were out of the city and facing in all directions? And then rubbed your hands? Shrinking his neck, he quickly retreated into the pier.

The cavalryman went around outside the city, did not go far, found a place to squat for about half an hour, and went directly back to Datong Town.

He came to the General's Palace? whispered to several guards who were eating:

"General Qiyu, it's very stormy outside? There was no trace of the Mongol horse, so it should have been headed east to Ulju. ”

Shi Yongzhen was a little surprised? Picked up the water and took a sip, frowned and said:

"The Tang newspaper the day before yesterday said that the Mongols had broken through the border wall? The commander of the town guard made it difficult to die? I'm afraid I'm going to the town? Could it be that you went to Xuanfu? ”

After all, the cavalry had something in his heart, and he thought about his rhetoric before coming back, and said with a smile:

"I don't know if it's a little one, I've looked carefully at the places that should be explored, and I really haven't seen any traces left by the Mongol horse team."

"In the past few days, the general has also known that the haze of the past few days, it has rained heavily since last night, and when the small ones go out of the town, they only see the four fields lonely, and there is not even a single figure."

"When I came back, the doors were still calm, and nothing unusual happened."

Listening to what he said so carefully, Shi Yongzhen's mind calmed down a little, indeed, such a heavy rainy day is neither conducive to marching nor suitable for attacking the city.

I don't know if the Mongols went to Xuanfu or not, but it seems that at least the Mongols will not come to Zhencheng again today, and when Zhang Wanbang comes back, this matter will not be under his own control.

Thinking of this, Shi Yongzhen waved his hand to let the two generals retreat and go to inspect each other, and he suddenly became sleepy and went to bed without worry.

In the afternoon, there was a sudden clamor of shouts all around the town.

"The Mongol army has entered the town!"

"Run, run!"

The general who was patrolling the city seemed to understand something at this time, and quickly reported the situation to Shi Yongzhen, who was sleeping.

Shi Yongzhen was also awakened by these increasingly noisy voices at this moment, and without waiting for the family to come in, he got up and picked up the saber standing next to the bed, put on his coat and armor, and rushed out of the room.

When I went out, I bumped into the family who came to report the news.

Shi Yongzhen was caught off guard, and was almost knocked to the ground by this sturdy family, he staggered back a few steps before standing firmly, and shouted:

"Panic what! It's not the Mongols attacking the city! ”

The family didn't care about Fang Cai's recklessness, so he knelt on one knee and shouted, "Report to the general, it is the Mongols who are attacking the town!" ”

Shi Yongzhen was stunned for a moment, and then directly slapped himself a few times, this is really a crow's mouth, the Mongols really came to attack the city.

He calmed down for a moment, looked at the frightened family and said:

"Didn't the morning report say that there was no trace of the Mongolian horse team, why did you come to attack the city again in the afternoon, who was in charge of the investigation, and he would have been beheaded for dereliction of duty!"

Jia Ding shook his head again and again, Shi Yongzhen also knew that the city was only afraid of chaos now, and it was not important to find people, and the top priority was to block the Mongols.

The town of Datong, one of the towns on the nine sides, has never been besieged or captured by the Mongols!

If this kind of thing happens to me, I'm afraid it will be left for 10,000 years!

"Tell me, how many people are there?"

"The black pressure is overwhelming, and I can't count it!"

"Prepare the horses, prepare the horses, I am going to the city!"

When it was getting dark, Shi Yongzhen, the supreme military general who was currently staying in Datong Town, the power center of Datong Town, finally appeared in the East Gate Tower, the place where he was most needed.

The general's hand holding the knife trembled slightly, and he muttered:

"It's too much, I'm afraid it's going to be more than 100,000 people..."

At this time, the sky has not completely darkened, and the brightness of Dongcheng is very good, and you can see far away at a glance.

Shi Yongzhen walked over, held the buttress with one hand, and shouted:

"Nonsense! There are only a few people in Mongolia, and more than 100,000 people are used to enter the customs and loot, and he can't leave a single male in his headquarters! ”

"I think, at most, tens of thousands!"

Having said that, even if only tens of thousands of Mongols came to attack the city, their number was still much larger than the number of Datong towns, which only had more than 10,000 Ming troops left behind.

Shi Yongzhen looked around, and saw that it was not only the eastern city, but also surrounded by countless Mongolian cavalry regiments on the south, north, and west.

The scimitar that shimmered in the cold light of the sunset, the rain of arrows in the sky that was denser than raindrops, and the Mongolian horse team waving their flags all made his heart tremble as a general who did not know how to fight.