Yizhimei went straight to the street, and saw that there were not many people and households here, there were many Qin soldiers on the street, some were repairing houses, some were pacifying the people, helping the people to place furniture, etc., she called a Qin army, asked where General Wang Jian was, and the soldiers told her that General Wang was in the county office, and Yizhimei went straight to the county office. [Full text reading. 】

When they arrived at the gate of the county ya, the guards were two Li Kang's personal soldiers, these two people knew Yizhimei, and when they saw her arrival, they didn't need to report it, because General Wang Jian had an order first, so he led her straight to the county yahoutang.

Wang Jian and Li Kang were discussing the military situation here in front of the map, Yizhimei walked into the door, the two looked up, they both glanced at each other, and their faces showed a look of surprise, they knew that Yizhimei rushed back so quickly, there must be a major military return.

Li Dare looked at Yizhimei Fengchen Bubu, knew that he was in a hurry along the way, and immediately ordered his soldiers to serve her tea, and then brought washing water, Yizhimei washed his face, drank a few cups of tea, and took a breath, and then he went to Jingbian to inquire about the news, how to enter the marshal's mansion at night, and other things, 1510.

When the two of them heard this, they were both surprised and delighted.

Wang Jian said: "This is an opportunity given by God, it seems that the official army has suffered defeat for a long time, and must be annoyed and angry, and want to kill out of the fortress by surprise, fight a victory to boost morale, and explain to the court." Li Dang nodded: "They said that they would raise troops to leave the fortress in ten days, and it was already four days at this time, just in time to prepare." Our 20,000 men and horses can take advantage of the main force of the official army to attack, first lay down Jingbian, and then fight hard to defend it. Wang Jian said: "Yes, these officers and soldiers only bring fifteen days of grain and grass, one back and forth, it takes at least ten days, we don't need to defend more, after the Jingbian is laid, as long as it is guarded for three or two days, the officers and soldiers will have no food, and they will be vulnerable." ”

Both of them had the same thoughts, so they asked Yizhimei in detail about the garrison of Jingbian City, and Yizhimei drew the layout on the sand table in her heart one by one. Wang Jian said: "It seems that they are still guarding against the Houjin army outside the fortress, and they do not have too much defense on the Nancheng side. Li Dang slapped the table: "Our 10,000 cavalry can break through the south gate within one night, and then occupy the whole city." ”

After the discussion was decided, Yizhimei went down to rest, and Wang Jian instructed to gather all the officers above the thousand generals in the army to arrange the attack.

At this time, the establishment of the Qin army was different from that of that year, the smallest officer was the commander of the army, then the chief, the hundred chiefs, and then the general of Qian, and then the general, and also imitated the system of the Ming army, and set up military positions such as deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrilla generals.

After a short time, about 50 people came to the back hall of the county government and listened to the instructions. Wang Jian ordered Li Kang to take 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard, himself with 7,000 cavalry as the rearguard, and 10,000 infantry, leaving 2,000 people in Baishui City, led by the deputy general Li Yuan, and the remaining 8,000 infantry, led by the staff general Zhang Gong, marched in the rear.

Wang Jian showed everyone the map of the defense of Jingbian City, so that everyone knew the terrain, and then ordered to prepare for battle, and the whole army was dispatched on the night of the fifth day. He had already calculated that from Baishui to Jingbian, the cavalry would take three or four days, the infantry would take six or seven days, the main force of the officers and troops would leave the fortress after six days, and set off on the night of the fifth day, and the cavalry could arrive just after the officers and troops left the fortress, and wait for the infantry for two more days, at that time the officers and troops should have gone far and could attack.

At the sound of an order, the whole army began to prepare. Li Dang was in charge of overall affairs, and he first ordered that Baishui City be put under martial law, and all ordinary people were only allowed to enter the city, not leave the city, so as to strictly prevent leakage of news. Then the whole army prepared food, grass, weapons, horses, and prepared to fight.

Wang Jian asked Yizhimei to go back to Xi'an and report the matter to the King of Qin, but Yizhimei did not dare to delay, only rested in Baishui City for a day, and hurried back to Xi'an.

On the morning of the third day, Yizhimei returned to Xi'an, as soon as she entered the city, she first came to find Li Yan, Li Yan was busy with the resettlement of displaced people, the distribution of acres of land, as soon as she saw that Yizhimei came, she knew that there was an important military situation, so she stopped what she was doing and asked: "This time I went to Jingbian, can I have a harvest?"

Yizhimei told her what she had found out completely, and then told Li Yan about Wang Qian's plan, Li Yan was very happy, and said, "You did a good job, I will take you to see the king." ”

The two came to the palace and saw the king of Qin, who listened to Yizhimei's narration, and was very happy in his heart, and ordered Bai Qi to be invited.

Bai Qi nodded again and again: "If the main force of the official army goes out to fight, it will indeed be a godsend for our Qin army to enter and occupy Jingbian." General Wang's plan is feasible. King Qin rewarded her with a plum and asked her to go down to rest. Then he asked Li Yan about his progress, and Li Yan reported truthfully, saying that the matter was going smoothly, and it was completely possible to end all the resettlement of the displaced people, the distribution of land and other things before the spring ploughing, and build them together with the villages and houses of the displaced people.

The king of Qin nodded again and again, happy in his heart, and ordered a banquet to be set up to entertain Bai Qi and Li Yan, and the three of them said some military things at the banquet, Bai Qi reported that Guanzhong had been very calm from Tongguan to Meixian recently, and there was no military situation. Lu Ru in Gansu also performed well, not only sending 3,000 war horses, but also distributing 2,000 war knives.

After the banquet, Bai Qi and Li Yan said goodbye and left, King Qin drank a little too much, and when he returned to the bedroom, he was a little dizzy, Ji Mengdie took a look, knowing that the king was happy today, and drank more wine, so he hurriedly came up in person to give King Qin a wide coat and helped him to bed.

King Qin fell asleep, this sleep until midnight before waking up, King Qin felt dry mouth, wanted to drink tea, but when he saw Ji Mengdie next to him, sleeping soundly, with a smile on his little face, he didn't know what kind of dream he was having, so he didn't wake her up, got up in his clothes, and came to the outer room, there is a charcoal stove here, and there is a kettle boiling on it all the time, after the cold water is boiled, the servant subtracts some charcoal, the stove becomes smaller, and the boiling water can keep warm.

King Qin poured himself a glass of white water, sat down at the table, and slowly recalled today's events. But the more I think about it, the more I feel that this matter is faintly a little strange, in fact, since the beginning of the day, he has always had a hint of foreboding in his heart, but what is the specific ominous thing, and he can't say, at this time in the dead of night, King Qin stood in front of the window, pushed open the window, looked at the sky, only to see the sky full of stars, such as sprinkling jade beads.

He couldn't sleep, he came to the yard with his clothes, this fashion was cold, the frost was not known, the flowers and plants had already been adjusted, but there were no fallen leaves, because there were servants who cleaned every day, the king of Qin went down the white jade stone steps, walked among the dead trees, looked up at the sky from time to time, took a deep breath of cold air, and was more refreshed.

At this time, his mind cleared, he calmed down to think about it, and explored the uneasiness in his heart, and then it suddenly dawned on him, it turned out that after listening to Yizhimei's story, he was very happy at first, thinking that this was an excellent opportunity, but in the depths of his heart, he had some worries, and these worries were clearly revealed at this time.

At this time, King Qin felt that Yizhimei's investigation of the military situation seemed to be too smooth.

As soon as she arrived in Jingbian, she visited the marshal's mansion at night, and caught up with the commander to gather his subordinate generals and began to arrange sorties, and not to attack Guanzhong, but to fight the Mongols, he had never seen the official army take the initiative to attack the Mongols and Houjin in the grassland desert for several years. Since there has been no such action for several years, why did the commander gather his subordinates on the night of Yizhimei's departure and prepare to go out to fight

Moreover, the king of Qin knew that the Mongolian tribes were nomadic people, and they had the characteristics of warfare since ancient times, that is, they came and went like the wind and were not easy to catch. Although the King of Qin did not know much about several generals in the early Ming Dynasty, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others, and did not know much about the later Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, these people did not pay attention to the attack of the Mongols, but before he was reborn, when he was in the Qin State, the Qin people had fought with the Huns for hundreds of years, and they knew the power of the nomads.

Therefore, the king of Qin requisitioned millions of people to build the Great Wall, one is to resist the attack of the Huns, and the other is to use it as an advance base, without the Great Wall as a basis, it is very dangerous to fight against the nomads.

Tens of thousands of Ming troops dared to go deep into the desert, and they were alone

King Qin knew that the most powerful cavalry of the Ming army was the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and in addition to a part of the Guanning Iron Cavalry suppressing the peasant army in the Central Plains, the ancestors had thousands of people in Datong, and the other main forces were all on the front line of Shanhaiguan, and there was no Guanning Iron Cavalry in Jingbian at all. And the commander of the Ming army dared to take the second-rate cavalry and failed to fight

There will be some trickery here

The more King Qin thought about it, the more he felt strange, and while he was thinking about it, a servant came to report: "King, General Bai Qi is here, saying that there is something important to report to you, I thought that the king was still sleeping, and I didn't want to report it, but the general said that the military situation is like fire, and it should not be delayed, so I just came into the courtyard, but I didn't expect you to sleep yet." ”

King Qin said: "Please come here, the general." ”

The servant went, and after a while, Bai Qi strode into the courtyard and bowed his hand to King Qin: "King, the last general should not disturb your dream, but the military situation is urgent, so I have to come." ”

King Qin waved his hand: "It's okay, what you said about the military emergency is"

"Jingbian cannot be attacked"

The two of them said these six words in unison.

Bai Qi listened, and his eyes widened: "King, you also thought of it" King Qin said: "Yizhimei's trip was too smooth, I just have some doubts." Bai Qi said: "The king's suspicion is right, the last general will return to the next place, the more I think about it, the more I feel that things are too coincidental, so I thought, this is not the official army intentionally, deliberately rehearsing a fake show, Yizhimei learned of this, it will inevitably return, and then the Qin army went to attack, but if the official army did not go out of the fortress, but set up an ambush outside Jingbian City, General Wang Qian's 20,000 horses and horses, more than auspicious. ”

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