The news of the establishment of the Yushan Town Praise Painting Department spread quickly, and the power structure that Liu Juntao had been looking forward to establishing was finally completed, so that the framework of the entire Yushan Town had been completely built and began to run at a high speed, and Liu Juntao also began to think about the next layout.

After receiving Liu Juntao's appointment, Lan Siqi, Zhang Yuqing, and Zhao Ling were overjoyed, thinking that they had finally met the master.

Moreover, the three of them are full of enthusiasm and want to make great achievements in the thriving Yushan Town.

Early the next morning, Lan Siqi, Zhang Yuqing, and Zhao Ling came to the government office early in full dress, reported to Liu Juntao, and prepared to start the start of the praise painting department.

At this time, a row of rooms on the east side of the second floor of the government office has been cleaned up in advance, and the signs of the Praise and Painting Department, the Strategy Department, and the Staff Department have also been hung up, and this is the office location of the Praise and Painting Department.

Liu Juntao, who came to the government office early, chatted with Lan Siqi, Zhang Yuqing, and Zhao Ling for a while, and then personally took the three of them to the main hall of the Praise Painting Department, where there were already more than a dozen literati-like personnel waiting here.

"These people are all good hands that I have selected for you, and the three of you can discuss the specific division of labor. If there is any need for manpower in the future, the three of you will need to promote it yourself. ”

After listening to Liu Juntao's words, Lan Siqi, Zhang Yuqing, and Zhao Ling hurriedly thanked them.

"That's it! Today is the first day of the establishment of the Zan Painting Department, and I will work here with you. ”

Lan Siqi said: "General, what is the topic of the painting department that I praise today? ”

"Warat south!"

Soon, more than a dozen subordinates of the Zanhua were divided into three teams, Liu Juntao asked Zhao Ling to take a team of subordinates to study the countermeasures that the imperial court might take, and asked Zhang Yuqing to take a team of subordinates to combine the nine-sided terrain and cities to formulate a strategy that might be used by the army to go north to King Qin.

After that, Liu Juntao and Lan Siqi's team discussed the overall situation together.

"General, you mean that the people and horses of my Yushan Town will go north to King Qin? In other words, the general thinks that the elite of the hundreds of thousands of border troops on the nine sides can't resist the Warat Iron Cavalry? ”

Looking at Lan Siqi's worried appearance, Liu Juntao sighed and said, "Indeed! So we have to plan for the worst-case scenario this time! ”

Lan Siqi's face was very ugly, and at the same time, he was a little eager to try, after all, he and his two brothers had just taken refuge in it, and they encountered such a big thing, and they just showed what they had learned in their chests!

Half a day later, Zhao Ling hugged the strategy against the enemy drawn up by the Strategy Department, and Liu Juntao opened it and nodded slightly.

“…… The Warat Iron Cavalry is long in field battles and short in fortifications, and the elite of the nine sides should be able to gain the edge, stick to the city, and buy time for the imperial court; At the same time, the elite soldiers and strong generals from all over the country should gather in the north as soon as possible, encircle the Tartars in the vicinity of Datong Town and Xuanfu Town, and gather and annihilate the Warat army that has entered the Koukou here......"

"Well, that's good!"

In fact, Liu Juntao knew that the strategy book drawn up by Zhao Ling coincided with the proposition of Yu Qian, the squire of the Ministry of War, and it was also very correct.

However, it is a pity that the orthodox emperor at this time will not adopt this strategic idea in the end, but chooses to drive the expedition himself.

Then, Zhang Yuqing also reported the plan of the General Staff Division, and Liu Juntao also opened it and looked at it.

“…… The army should use elite soldiers and horses to hold the Jingcheng Pass, Yanmen Pass, Xifengkou, and Juyong Pass, divide and block the Wara Iron Cavalry in various places, and then break through each with superior forces, and must not go deep into the mountains and deserts of Datong and Shanxi alone, and meet hundreds of thousands of Tartar Iron Cavalry with infantry......"

Liu Juntao also recognized the plan of the General Staff Department, which was also the most important strategy and combat method that the Ming army, which was dominated by infantry.

"Alas! It's really sad, people with a little level of combat strategy can think of it, why can't those leaders in the DPRK think of it? ”

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao's heart was also full of doubts, just like the change of Tumubao, later generations of scholars have also found many mysteries after research, such as why did the orthodox emperor rush to send troops before he was ready? Why didn't hundreds of thousands of Ming troops rely on the fortified city to camp step by step, instead of going to the dead place of Tumubao?

In later generations, the most popular explanation for these doubts is that at this time, the Wenchen in the court bewitched the orthodox emperor to drive the expedition in person, and regarded the eunuch Wang Zhen as a substitute for the dead, and buried hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers in Tumubao, and also ruined most of the elites of the Ming Wuxun Group and the Founding Meritorious Group!

It was from the change of the civil fort that the Ming Dynasty began to gradually form a political pattern of civil and military superiority, and the civil official group completely controlled the court and even controlled the military power of the Ming Dynasty!

"It is no wonder that later scholars generally believe that the Tumubao Incident was a political conspiracy!"

Liu Juntao sighed slightly, and then discussed with Lan Siqi, Zhao Ling, and Zhang Yuqing for a while, and reorganized the two plans of the Strategy Department and the Staff Department, preparing them as the general program for Yushan Town to deal with the changes in the civil fort.

Of course, Lan Siqi, Zhang Yuqing, and Zhao Ling didn't know that Daming would experience a big fiasco, but they were just shocked by the size of Liu Juntao's heart and the depth of his question.

On the same day, before Liu Juntao left the Zanhua Department, he said to Lan Siqi: "The Zanhua Department must keep in touch with the Investigation Department in a timely manner, after all, all the plans and plans formulated by the Zanhua Department must be based on accurate and timely information, and you must not give me some fake, big and empty plans and plans!" ”

Lan Siqi also understood the importance of this, and immediately said; "Please rest assured, General!"

At the same time, just when Liu Juntao was in full swing preparing for the big battle, Wara Taishi had already led 120,000 iron cavalry all the way south and advanced to the territory of Datong Town.

The defenders of Datong Town saw that the Warat Iron Cavalry was rampant in various places, so they mobilized tens of thousands of elite soldiers to take the initiative to attack, led by Wu Hao, the general of Datong, and prepared to rely on the fortresses in the north of Datong Mansion to hold on, intending to consume the strength of the Warat Iron Cavalry under the layers of defense.

But it backfired, and the 120,000 iron cavalry of the first department was huge, and the battle was invincible all the way to the siege of the city, and the Ming army was scattered along the way, and they could not support each other, so that they were defeated and retreated, and they could not stop the advance of the Wara army at all.

Ten days later, the military department received an urgent report from Datong Town: "The Tartar soldiers are very sharp, and the soldiers and horses of Datong have repeatedly lost, so that the castle outside the fortress has been trapped, and the soldiers and horses everywhere are afraid of battle!" “

When this urgent document sent by Pegasus in Datong Town was presented to the orthodox emperor, the orthodox emperor couldn't help but be furious, and urgently ordered the military department to draw up a plan to meet the enemy, and ordered the cabinet to agree on a strategy within three days.

However, these wills of the orthodox emperor were soon drowned out in the endless quarrels of the courtiers.

Within a few days, the orthodox emperor received the defeat of Wu Haobing, the general of Datong, who died in Maoerzhuang, Datong Town, and lost more than 30,000 soldiers.

In the face of the attack of the other three armies of Warat, the Ming army in various parts of the nine sides also lost one after another, and for a while, the northern land continued to ask for help, and the emergency documents received by the military department flew like snowflakes.

Under the onslaught of the 300,000 Wara Iron Cavalry Army, the border defense of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty collapsed and became useless.

At this time, Wang Zhen, the eunuch of Bingbi, was also anxious, and he advocated gathering a large army to take the initiative to attack, if he could not be adopted by the orthodox emperor, then his position in the court would be compared with his political enemies.

Within a few days, the Chinese officials of the DPRK continued to go to Wang Zhen's mansion, constantly encouraging Wang Zhen to recommend the orthodox emperor and must take the initiative to attack in order to resist the Wara army and restore the prestige of the Ming dynasty.

However, although the orthodox emperor also tended to take the initiative, he could not convince the other two courtiers, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

At this moment, some civil officials who supported Wang Zhen's proposition suddenly began to clamore for the royal driver's personal conquest, and Wang Zhen's eyes lit up after hearing about it, and he began to plan in his mind!