In the early morning of October 16, there was peace and tranquility inside and outside the civil fort. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The ugly hour had just passed, and about an hour ago, the officers and soldiers who had built fortifications outside the city had returned to the city, and most of them had fallen asleep by this time, but Shen Xi and a group of senior generals gathered at the command post to discuss matters.

“…… Today, with the exception of the last trench, the fortifications in all directions are almost complete, and although there are still many fly in the ointment, they are finally sufficient. ”

"Once the battle starts, the two thousand men and horses we have deployed outside the city will fight and retreat, and the firecrackers and crossbowmen will make full use of the trenches that have been built to gradually break up the enemy's offensive, slowly lead the enemy into the city, and then give him a fatal blow!" Shen Xi explained the essentials of combat to the participants.

Zhang Yong, as a prison soldier, had an extremely limited military level, so he didn't understand what Shen Xi's words meant, and immediately asked in a male duck voice:

"Lord Shen, since you decided to withdraw from the beginning, why did you spend so much effort outside the city? How can the main force of the Tartars also have more than 100,000 horses, can they hold it just by relying on those ditches and bumps outside the city? The soldiers toiled day and night, and now they were all exhausted, and if the Tartars attacked the nest, how would they hold on? ”

Hu Songyue scoffed: "Listening to the meaning of Grandpa Zhang's words, do you think that Lord Shen is not capable of leading us to defend the civil fort?" I want to remind you, if it weren't for Lord Shen, we would have been a Tartar corpse a long time ago, where can we still give advice here? ”

In the past, it was Zhang Yong who supported Shen Xi, and it was Hu Songyue and others who opposed Shen Xi, but now the situation has just changed, and the generals in the army respect Shen Xi very much, knowing that if they don't obey Shen Xi's orders, they will go down to the underworld to see the king of Yama. However, Zhang Yong complained about some of Shen Xi's recent decisions, and felt that it was Shen Xi's failure to decisively withdraw his troops before, which led to the siege of Tumu Fort by Tatar soldiers and horses.

Zhang Yong has a suspicious and fickle personality, not only is he unwilling to take responsibility, but he also likes to be angry with others, even if he knows that he is messing around, he will never admit it.

Shen Xi explained: "We have limited troops, so we can only make use of the existing conditions as much as possible to consume the enemy to the greatest extent. After this period of construction, our defense system is basically complete, if nothing else, just those laid mines are enough for the Tatars to eat a pot. Even if the enemy attacks the Tumu fort, the result will not be catastrophic, and we have all kinds of countermeasures to repel the Tatar attack! ”

Zhang Yong smiled coldly and questioned: "Lord Shen, those deep ditches you dug are good to hide people inside, but they can have the effect you want, I think there are huge doubts. There are many Tartars, we just need to kill them step by step and fill in the ravine, and we won't be able to deal with it, right? ”

This time, there was no need for Shen Xi to answer, Liu Xu choked and said: "Father-in-law Zhang, we have to dig so hard, they want to fill the pit, which will be even more troublesome." If they really have the ability, let them fill it in. Under the threat of our Franco's cannons and firearms, they did not want to destroy the fortifications outside the city for ten days and a half months, and by that time, the reinforcements of the imperial court had already arrived! ”

Zhang Yong shouted: "Why do you always think about good things!? The Tatars have more than 100,000 horses, how difficult is it to fill the pits? As for the reinforcements from the imperial court, we have been here for almost a month, when did we see the reinforcements from the imperial court coming? ”

Shen Xi found that he was arguing endlessly every time, it seemed that these people under him were more capable, and he could find a reason to give him a problem every time, and in the end, although it turned out that he was purely looking for trouble, it made him very sad.

Just as Shen Xi was considering whether it was necessary to continue the meeting, the herald stumbled into the door and excitedly reported: "Report, there is a change in the east of the city, the shouting and killing sound is earth-shattering, it seems that a large number of people are coming from the outside to kill the civil fort, please show me!" ”

The report was unclear, and it was not known where the shouts of killing came from, nor who the two sides of the war were...... Due to the ravine outside the city, the scouts were all collected at night, and the intelligence was paralyzed, and no one knew what was going on outside.

Liu Xu smiled proudly: "Look, this war hasn't started yet, and the reinforcements from the imperial court have arrived, so some people should shut up, right?" ”

Shen Xi didn't dare to slack off, and thought to himself: "There has never been any information from the imperial court, according to the current situation analysis, once the news of the fall of Zhangjiakou and Xuanfu reaches the capital, in order to avoid the army encountering the Tatar army in the field, the west of Juyong Pass is likely to be abandoned by the imperial court." ”

"From the analysis of the situation in all aspects, the only people who can come to help now are Juyong, Guan Longqingwei, and Li Pin's people. I had received a military report before, but I didn't know if it was a ploy by the Tatars, so I didn't report it to Zhang Yong and the others. ”

Zhang Yong didn't care about being slapped in the face at all, and his spirits were uplifted, Huo Ran stood up: "Lord Shen, since the reinforcements have arrived, can we break through now?" ”

"No way!"

Shen Xi stopped with a serious face, "The situation is unknown, if there is a slight movement outside, we want to break through, is it too hasty?" After ordering the three armies, immediately get up and pack up, pack up their things, and prepare the materials and baggage, and see if those things can be discarded! ”

"Let's make all the preparations, whether there are reinforcements coming or not, we can be foolproof. Ladies and gentlemen, follow me to the top of the city and have a look! ”

Zhu Lie said: "My lord, it's night, and it's cloudy, where can you see clearly!" ”

Shen Xi ignored it and went to his own devices. In this civil fort, although Shen Xi is the supreme commander, he never puts on a show, and he doesn't like to scold others.

Hu Songyue, Zhang Yong and others followed Shen Xi out of the command post and headed towards the east of the city.

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The Ming army in the city was woken up soon after falling asleep, yawning one by one, scolding and scolding to get up and come out of the place where they lived, and soon heard that it was the arrival of reinforcements to organize a breakthrough, and instantly one by one was full of energy, and quickly packed up their things, packed their personal belongings and carried them, and then took firearms, bows and crossbows and spears to the designated place to gather.

Shen Xi took people to the city gate tower in the east of the city, the city wall of the original native wooden fort was full of cracks, and the city head was bare, but after Shen Xi led his troops to settle in, the wall was reinforced, and the battlements were built with fired green bricks on the city head to prevent the threat of bows and arrows when the Tatars attacked the city.

Shen Xi stood behind the battlements, took the telescope and looked out for a long time, but did not see any clues, and next to him, whether it was Hu Songyue and other generals, or Zhang Yong, the supervising army, they were all eager, they were eager to send troops to fight the Tatars to the death, and then break through and return to Juyong Pass.

"Lord Shen, what's wrong?"

Hu Songyue and the others saw that Shen Xi was using a telescope to look, and knew that it was a magical thing, which could see far away like a clairvoyant, and they all guessed what Shen Xi saw, and it was best to see tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the imperial court killed, and the Tatars would have been defeated without a single soldier in the city.

Shen Xi shook his head: "The situation outside the city is unknown, immediately send a hundred households out of the trenches to investigate the situation outside the city...... Forget it, I'll go by myself! ”

It was pitch black all around, even though today was October 15, and the stars and moon were brilliant, but the weather was gloomy these days, and the dark clouds were overwhelming, and the stars and the moon could not be seen at all. Under the heavy cover of night, standing at the head of the city, you can't see the situation more than ten miles east of the city. In Shen Xi's thoughts, when he arrived at the end of the trench outside, he might be able to see it clearly.

Hu Songyue took the initiative to ask: "My lord, you stay here first, let the last general lead a few horsemen to investigate thoroughly, and then pass the investigation back!" ”

Zhu Lie pouted: "Old Hu, are you stupid?" Dig outside the city like that, and you still want to ride out? It's better to listen to Lord Shen and go out along the trench to have a look, anyway, those Tartars never dare to approach the fortifications we dug! ”

Shen Xi raised his hand to stop Zhu Lie's words and said, "I am the boss here, and everything obeys my orders...... I'll go out and see what is going on first, and I'll take the fireworks as a number. If it is red fireworks, then the soldiers and horses will attack all the lines to the east, leaving not a single soldier in the city, and they will go out. If it's a blue firework, stand still! ”

Hu Songyue and the others waited for Shen Xi to finish speaking, and seeing that Shen Xi was about to go down to the city to gather a team of firecrackers out of the city, Hu Songyue hurriedly asked: "Lord Shen, don't you leave a little back, the soldiers and horses are either all out or all stay?" ”

"Otherwise? How many centaurs are there in our city? And how many enemies are there? If you want to send troops, you will naturally do your best and leave no way back, if you continue to defend it, you will naturally stand still, and there will be a third option? Shen Xi asked rhetorically.

Hu Songyue suddenly had nothing to say, so he could only watch Shen Xi lead people to jump off the trench and go out of the city through the tunnel.

Waiting for Shen Xi to leave, Zhu Lie was amazed: "Lord Shen is different, he does things in a hurry, if he is someone else, he must be greedy for life and afraid of death, where is there such a person as Lord Shen who will always take the lead?" Fighting with such a coach makes my heart bright! ”

Zhang Yong glanced at Zhu Lie angrily when he heard this, and muttered, "Now that I know that Lord Shen has the ability, why did you go earlier?" Hmph, even if he has the ability at this time, he is still acting as a hero, why did he withdraw his troops earlier? ”

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