Datong Town is an important town on the defense line of the Great Wall, connecting Shanxi Town and Xuanfu Town, since ancient times, it is a place where soldiers must fight, known as the "key to the north".

Datong has developed into a military town at the beginning of the Warring States period, the Ming Dynasty Hongwu five years, the general Xu Da was ordered to lead the army and civilians to build Datong City, so that it is more solid and perfect.

Its city is square in shape, the city walls are rammed, and the outer bricks are covered. In the city defense, there are many horse faces, many corner towers, and there are defensive facilities such as moats and horse blocking walls outside the city wall, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Since Yexian led 200,000 iron horsemen to the south, Datong Town began to implement the practice of clearing the wilderness, and concentrated the people, grain, grass, and property in the villages and towns around the city into the city.

And under the organization of the General Military Office of Datong Town, the soldiers of the Ming Army also formed a social army, which was issued by the government with weapons.

These social soldiers are all sent by the wealthy families in the city, and the people have dozens of gold producers to send one army, or two families to send one army, and two hundred gold producers to send troops, and the same is true for giant merchants.

There are 50 soldiers in each society, and the members of each fang, the squire, and the clan are selected as the chiefs, and they are led by the generals and 100 generals in the officers and armies in Datong Town.

There are more than 60 squares in Datong Town, more than 3,000 people are counted as social soldiers, divided into five general societies, more than 60 flags, each person gives a paper to the community ticket, and those who tie a worry-free ribbon in the waist are all people in the community.

Moreover, these social soldiers do not need food and salary, and they are all the children of rich families in the city, not to mention their physical strength, and they still have a bitter hatred for the Tartars outside the city, and it is impossible for them to cooperate with the enemy inside.

They have nothing to do to practice their arts, and they have something to do to defend the palace, and they have become an important auxiliary force for the guards of Datong Town.

At the same time, the government in Datong City also increased the intensity of the relief of the tent, and the news of the reward came out, where the social soldiers, soldiers and civilians killed a Wara soldier, they could go to the yamen of the state capital in the city to receive fifty taels of silver, so the whole city was excited.

Not only the officials, soldiers and social soldiers in the city are gearing up, but even many outlaws, as well as ordinary people, are also spontaneously carrying bows, arrows, knives and guns to guard the city, and the momentum in Datong Town is high for a while.

It didn't take long for him to lead the 200,000 Warat army to sweep away most of the fortresses and strongholds in the north of Datong Town, and the vanguard of the Wara army had arrived under the city!

I saw an army of 30,000 warats on foot, nearly 20,000 warat iron horsemen hovering outside the "horse wall" in the north of the city, and more than 10,000 warat infantry were dragging the dust outside the horse wall, making suspicious soldiers, so as to make the soldiers and civilians in the city suspicious, I don't know how many people they came.

At the same time, the sentry horses of Wara continued to move, and even forced the defenders in the first line of defense of Datong Town, "Horse Blocking Wall", which caused the Ming army soldiers to panic for a while, after all, the defenders in the city at this time were not much, even if they added more than 3,000 soldiers, there were only 30,000 of them, and the remaining soldiers and horses had been surrounded and annihilated by Wara together with the chief officer of Datong Town!

After showing off their might outside the city, these Warat forwards set up camp fifteen miles north of the city, and began to prepare all kinds of siege equipment.

Four days later, he also led the main army of Warat to come, only to see 200,000 Warat iron horsemen and horses stretching for nearly 100 miles.

If you look down from the sky, from the north of Datong Town, there are a sea of Tartars wearing felt hats, cloth armor, and armor, rolling like a prairie fire.

"There are too many Tartars in this country......

At this time, the dense army of Warat outside the city was like locusts, and they first covered the land of Pingchuan in the north of Datong Town, and then this wave spread to the south of the city, the west of the city, and the east ......of the city, until the Datong Town was surrounded and occupied all the strategic points outside the city.

Counting the battle flags of a team of people and horses in the Warat army, if you count them casually, it is tens of thousands of flags.

This is not counting the flocks of sheep that came with the army, the women and children of the tribe who are in charge of logistics, if they are all counted, this time they will also move south first, and the manpower led by them is almost as much as 300,000!

At this time, Xue Tong, the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, who was in charge of the city defense, had a somewhat ugly face, and many ants bit elephants to death, although there were nearly 30,000 soldiers in Datong Town, but there were too many soldiers and horses in Wara.

Feeling the pressure on his face, the soldiers of the Ming army and the soldiers on the north city wall were all pale, and even the deputy chief soldier Xue Tong pursed his mouth, clenched his fists, and clenched his teeth.

However, after all, the soldiers of the Ming army in Datong Town are the elite of the nine sides, and they fight to the death with the Warat army all the year round.

At this time, the main force of the Warat army outside the city had just arrived, and they were camping and resting, and they would not attack for a while, so Xue Tong, the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, took a team of personal soldiers to inspect the city wall.

The city has already prepared for battle, and the city wall is full of soldiers in twos and threes, including soldiers of the Ming army, as well as many social soldiers, and even ordinary people and heroes who spontaneously ascended to the city.

Among them, the soldiers of the Ming army camp are the best equipped, each of them has a pair of cotton armor and armor, and the rest of the social soldiers only wear red hats, green clothes and skirts are covered with a coat, and the armor is quite tattered.

Of course, compared with the soldiers of Yanzhou Town, the armament of these soldiers is still a lot shabby, and there is no comparison at all.

On this day, he did not rush to attack the city, but set up a large huge camp outside Datong Town, almost cutting off the main road outside Datong Town.

At nightfall, a fire was lit on the head of Datong Town, and there were groups of three or five beside the fire, surrounded by soldiers and soldiers who were roasting the fire.

However, seeing the arrival of the Warat army, many of the defenders flocked to the top of the city and looked out nervously, very worried that the Warat soldiers and horses would take advantage of the night to start attacking the city.

At this time, Xue Tong, the deputy commander-in-chief, inspected all the way, and all the soldiers at the head of the city saluted him one after another.

Xue Tong looked at all the soldiers who were nervous, so he said to a soldier: "Brothers, the Tartar army is coming, are you afraid?" ”

The soldier shouted: "I'm afraid of a ball, it's a big deal that my head falls off a bowl and a big scar, and the Tartar is just right when I come, and if I kill a Tartar after the fight, I will have a reward of fifty taels of silver." Drinking wine and eating meat in large bowls is enough for me to enjoy for months. ”

As soon as the words fell, all the soldiers around laughed, and Xue Tong also smiled when he saw this: "The military heart is available." ”

After inspecting the area, Xue Tong returned to the deployment in the pass, looking at the map on the desk, Xue Tong fell into deep thought: "Looking at the current situation, the Tartar siege strategy is to attack from all sides, and it must be to take Datong Town before the imperial reinforcements arrive." However, if our army is strong, although the Tartars have 200,000 troops, it is not impossible to hold on to the danger of Datong Town. What's more, there is a small gate outside each of the four gates of Datong Town, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

If you look down from the sky, outside the huge city of Datong Town, the main city is in the middle, and there are four passes in the east, west, south and north distributed on all sides, and the core is each other's horns, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The so-called four passes, that is, the city, is generally an erected rectangular shape, to put it bluntly, it is four, all of them are facing the direction of the city gate on all sides, and the city is connected with the city gate road, the distance is generally within two miles, or even only about 100 steps.

For example, the ancient city of Fenzhou in Shanxi Province has four guan cities, and the main city is only more than 100 steps away from each guan city. Moreover, the four cities are very large, especially the East Gate, which is basically as big as the main city, and the city walls of the two cities are separated by more than 100 steps, and there is a long and narrow strip in the middle. If you want to attack the east gate of the main city of Fenzhou, not only will you not be able to spread your troops, but you will even have to risk the fire of the two city walls and the risk of heavy casualties.

The same is true of Datong town, Dongguan, Xiguan, Nanguan, and Beiguan guard the city, and each Guancheng also has urn cities, moats, and moats.

In addition, there are "horse blocking walls" and moats around the periphery of the city and the main city, so it can be said that a strong defense line has been formed around the town of Datong, and it is also very convenient to support each other.

If the defenders are strong, with the strength of the main city of Datong Town and the four passes, it is actually very difficult for the first department to break through Datong Town.

However, Xue Tong, the deputy commander-in-chief, still shook his head and said: "This time, the main force of the battalion is concentrated in the area of Beiguan and the north wall of the main city, so except for Beiguan, the rest of the three levels of battle must be prepared for the worst." ”