I don't know if it's a psychological effect, when I got out of the pass, I immediately felt that the wind was stronger and the weather was colder, even though Chang Yu had a small stove in his car, but listening to the sound of the wind knife outside still made him can't help but get goosebumps.

Although Wu Mengming is greedy for money, he is very meticulous in doing things, and when he gets out of the pass, he lets the team light the torches in the front and back of the torch and rush away, estimating nearly a hundred, looking like a fire dragon winding for miles from afar.

"Is Chunxiang cold?" It was only two miles out of the gate, Chang Yu couldn't sit still, and poked his head out to ask Chunxiang next to the car.

"It's not cold" Chunxiang looked at Chang Yu very calmly and shivered: "You come out and try it!" ”

Hey, Chang Yu is a little embarrassed, to be honest, he is really afraid of the cold, and this era is surprisingly cold, but there is no down jacket with high cold resistance.

Although he made sufficient preparations for his subordinates to resist the cold before the trip, such as each person's small cotton jacket and cotton armor, and the large cotton clothes on the outside of the cotton armor, plus a cotton hat and neck and even gloves, it can be said that the cold equipment in this team is the most rigorous, but he also knows that even so, sitting on a horse and walking in the wind in the cold night is a kind of bone-eating torment.

The cold teeth that wrapped Chunxiang like this trembled, not to mention that the equipment was not as good as their Jinyi Guard, Fu Junwei and Tengxiang Guard, but they were all gritting their teeth and insisting.

Chang Yu is not a ruthless person, he knows how to sympathize with the soldiers, he also wants to order to rest on the spot, but the military situation is urgent, this is not the time to be kind, but it is really difficult to feel at ease when he hides in the warm car.

So he made a decision, got off the car and got on the horse, and shared the joys and sorrows with the pawn.

However, this decision was regretted the moment he just got out of the car, cold, Jinnyima's cold!

But the P released naturally can't be recovered, and the P he made about has to be finished with tears.

Seeing Chang Yu hanging his armor and getting on the horse, Wu Mengming glanced at it, a trace of an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he shrank into the car again, ignoring the movement.

The mountain road was slow, the wind was cold, and it was pitch black all around, except for the roaring north wind, only the sound of horses' hooves could be heard, and the weather was so cold that the soldiers had no interest in whispering.

Chang Yu raised his head and looked to the northwest, there was a spark there, and he knew that Badaling was not far ahead.

Juyong Pass is not an independent pass, or there is no independent pass, it is a defense system composed of passes, dungeons, and city walls, and each pass has several to dozens of passes.

Among them, Badaling belongs to a pass of Juyong Pass, and it is also the most important pass, it is the outpost of Juyong Pass, its terrain is dangerous, the mountains are stacked, the road is rugged and steep, the carriage and horse are difficult to walk, when this section of the Great Wall was repaired to turn eight bends, cross eight mountains, the project is extremely difficult, eight supervisors died before and after, the construction period is still delayed and not completed on schedule, and then meet the master to point out to take the eight methods of repairing the city, that is, "the tiger takes the halter head sheep back saddle, the swallow takes the mud monkey on the shoulder, the turtle carries the stone strip rabbit to lead the way, and the magpie builds the bridge and ice paves the stack" to transport the wood up the mountain to be completed.

Chang Yu curled up in a group and rode on a horse, Chunxiang and other henchmen and eunuchs surrounded him to help him shelter from the wind and cold, and at the same time listened to this big fool Tiannan Haibei tell anecdotes and wild history, and the road was not lonely.

Not long after, the team arrived at the Badaling Pass, and since someone went to hand over the customs matters, Chang Yu began to look at this pass, which is known as one of the nine stops in the world, but the wind is high and the moon is dark, and it is difficult to see the true appearance.

However, there are not many guards at this pass, in fact, later generations have been misled by various film and television dramas to think that there are at least tens of thousands of guards at this big pass, especially Juyong Pass.

For example, in the ninth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Beiping and the surrounding eleven guards to send a total of 6,384 troops to guard them, and the four passes of Juyong Pass, Gubei Pass, Xifeng Pass, and Songting Pass were only 2,000 people on average.

Another example is the Aries City (subordinate to Juyong Pass) in the orthodox period and Juyong Pass, with a total strength of 814, including 82 cavalry, 414 infantry, 65 drummers, 8 gunpowder smiths, 65 night soldiers, 15 East Gate guards, 15 West Gate guards, 24 Cangcaochang troops, 10 artifact warehouse troops, 19 brick ash kiln troops, 14 Qingquankou troops, 8 Songhu Piankou troops, 41 defenders, 7 moat soldiers, and 6 prison guards. Look at one of the shops and the twenty-three of the old and weak army.

The so-called flag army refers to the elite in the guard, for example, the three hundred military guards and the three hundred Tengxiang guards brought out by Chang Yu this time are all fighting chickens in the guard.

From this point of view, the strength of a pass has not exceeded 1,000, and the main force is only half, and the rest are all auxiliary troops, especially the cavalry is only a few dozen, that is because the pass is a dangerous place, and it is not suitable for cavalry to fight.

There are more than 10 passes under the jurisdiction of one pass, and the troops are seriously scattered, and even at an important pass like Badaling, there are only a few dozen people.

And these numbers are still in the Hongwu and Orthodox years, and at this moment, the shortage of soldiers and empty salaries in the late Ming Dynasty have reached the point of madness.

Taking the Beijing camp as an example, for example, Yingzong's record once mentioned the situation in the Beijing camp at that time: the governor's office of the five armies said: In Beijing, there are 77 guards, and the total banner of officers, soldiers, non-commissioned officers, and captains is 253,800, and in addition to Tuntian to defend the city, its 116,400 are used by the internal government, various supervision bureaus and foreign missions. Today, there are only 56,000 drills in each battalion, and the selection is insufficient. In addition, there are many craftsmen in the Ministry of Works, and they are enough to serve as envoys, and they beg to return the officers and soldiers of the various supervision bureaus to the battalions for training, and from there.

This is a piece of data played at the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which shows that the situation of the Beijing army at that time was only half of the full number of trainers, and among the drills, how many of them were able to deal with the crisis in the border area? The other half of the soldiers were sent by the various prisons at that time to do miscellaneous labor. The direct consequence of this was that the quality of the Beijing camp dropped sharply, resulting in the inability to actively respond to any war.

Therefore, Chang Yu didn't dare to think about the real strength of the entire Juyong Pass now. Looking at the fortress in front of him, his heart couldn't help but be covered by dark clouds, can such a Ming still help up?

Out of the Badaling Pass several miles of more than a few miles, all the way to three points, the north of one to Yanqing Chicheng Mongolia, west to Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu, Datong, east to Yongning, the four seas, the circuit south is Changping, Beijing this is the origin of the name of Badaling, take the meaning of extending in all directions.

The team traveled westward, from Badaling to Xuanfu for about 200 miles, and could arrive at noon if they didn't stop.

Chang Yu led a few henchmen and eunuchs from the middle of the team to the front, the purpose is very simple, is to show his face, boost morale, and let the soldiers see that the dignified Chang Gonggong is riding with you in the wind late at night, moved or not, surprised or not.

It was late at night, the team went all the way west, the mountain road was rugged, the cold wind was biting, the speed couldn't help slowing down, Chang Yu was lazy to say anything on the horse, just wrapped himself tightly in a ball and let the horses follow the team.

There is a big frozen river in front of him, Chang Yu knows that it is a reservoir in the future, and he doesn't remember the specific name, but he knows that after this big river, it is equivalent to going out of the border of the capital and entering the territory of Huailai County, Hebei.

"Give the order to go down, and hurry for thirty miles to make a fire and rest." Chang Yu empathizes, he can't withstand the cold when he wears so thick, not to mention the other three guards.

Sure enough, this military order shocked the soldiers, and the speed immediately increased.

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