In May of the second year of Jingtai, Datong Town.

After Liu Juntao led his troops into the city, he began to hoard money, food, and military equipment to prepare for the subsequent war.

At the same time, Wang Zuhe, the supervisor of the military in Taiyuan Fucheng, also continued to transport the supplies allocated by the military department and the household department to the north, and also continued to transport all kinds of sophisticated military equipment allocated by Yanzhou Town to Datong Town.

At the same time, the Recruit Division of the Military Department of the Shogunate in Yanzhou Town also mobilized more than 2,000 elite recruits, and went north together with the troops transported to Datong Town.

In this regard, Liu Juntao is also very satisfied with Wang Zu and this prison army, this person does not fight for power, does not greed for money, although he is a little tactful, but he is also a person who can do practical things, at least a hundred times stronger than those internal officials and supervisors in the late Ming Dynasty.

After a month of preparation, Liu Juntao not only made up the number of troops in each battalion under his command, but also hoarded enough money and food and military equipment for the army to fight for several months.

At the same time, Liu Juntao and Xue Tong, the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, both mobilized a lot of sharp sentries and went north at night to constantly explore the movements of the Wara army.

What made the two of them feel very strange was that for nearly a month, the Great Khan of Warat had not moved, and he had not moved in the large camp dozens of miles to the north, except for the occasional plunder, and there was no action.

Xue Tong couldn't sit still, so he took the initiative to find Liu Juntao to discuss, and the two discussed, Liu Juntao thought that he must be mobilizing reinforcements first, and Xue Tong also agreed.

"It seems that the Tartars will not give up if they do not achieve their goal!"

Xue Tong said indignantly: "I really don't understand, then I just called Khan first, and I don't enjoy happiness on the grassland, why do you have to attack our Datong Town!" ”

Liu Juntao said with a smile: "I think, it is because it is also the first Khan, so it is urgent to lay down the prestige of Datong Town, and I want to show my prestige and deter the old department that is not spending!" ”

Xue Tong suddenly realized when he heard this, and said: "What Mr. Liu said is really reasonable!" ”

After speaking, Xue Tong remembered something again and said, "If we are really mobilizing reinforcements first, then are we taking the initiative to attack?" If you wait until the reinforcements arrive, the Tartar forces will rise again! ”

Liu Juntao pondered for a moment and said: "In this way, let's act according to the plan discussed before, and I will leave the soldiers of the left battalion of Yanzhou Town to assist General Xue in guarding Datong Town." I will lead the remaining battalions out of the city and set up camp, and then lead the army to attack according to the situation! ”

"Good!"

During this time, Xue Tong also knew the establishment of the soldiers and horses in Yanzhou Town, and knew that the first battalion of soldiers and horses in Yanzhou Town had two war battalions under its jurisdiction, with a strength of more than 12,000 and nearly 13,000 people.

This is not counting this month's time, with the assistance of the Acting Wangfu and the Datong Prefect, Xue Tong has recruited 20,000 social soldiers, and now the defensive strength of Datong Town can be said to be very sufficient.

Xue Tong's heart suddenly relaxed a lot, and he said a lot of words of thanks to Liu Juntao.

A few days later, the sentry sent out by Liu Juntao and Xue Tong rode back to the city one after another, and several elite Yebu were seriously injured.

These nights and sentries all brought back the intelligence of the Warat army: they also increased their troops by 50,000 first, and at this time they had led 210,000 troops to the south, and were slowly coming towards the town of Datong.

After receiving this news, Liu Juntao and Xue Tong also immediately took action.

Xue Tong hurriedly met with the acting king and the prefect of Datong, and reported the news of the re-attack of the Wara army, and then began to deploy the city defense of Datong Town together with Chen Ziping, the general of the left battalion of Yanzhou Town.

Previously, Liu Juntao had notified Chen Ziping of the order to assist in the defense of Datong Town, and asked him to temporarily obey Xue Tong's command.

After discussion, Chen Ziping led a war battalion under his command to garrison the north wall of Datong Town, as well as Beiguan City, while Xue Tong, the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, led his soldiers and horses to garrison the remaining three city defenses.

The remaining battalion of the left battalion of Yanzhou Town is used as a reserve force, ready to support all parties at any time.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also convened the generals of each battalion to discuss and announced the strategy of going out of the city to face the battle, which all the generals agreed, Liu Zi'an and Zhang Yuqing were also quite active, and the two had made preparations in advance.

Liu Zi'an's sentry cavalry has all been scattered, and they are closely monitoring the movements of the Warat army, and they are also constantly paying attention to the movements of the court.

And Zhang Yuqing has already worked with many staff officers under him to formulate a lot of battle plans for Liu Juntao's reference.

Seeing that everything was ready, Liu Juntao went to the acting king's mansion and the prefect's yamen on the same day, explained the situation to the acting king Zhu Shiqi and the prefect of Datong, and said goodbye by the way.

The acting king Zhu Shiqi and the prefect of Datong were full of expectations, and said a lot of words to cheer for Liu Juntao, and Liu Juntao also guaranteed that he would definitely be able to lead the army to repel the attack of the Wara army.

The next day, Liu Juntao led the army out of the city from the north gate of Datong Town, and the general Zhang Xiaojun led the pioneer battalion of Yanzhou Town to open the road in front, and then the front camp, the right battalion, the middle army camp, the rear battalion, and the iron cavalry battalion of Yanzhou Town went out of the city in turn, and the 70,000 troops almost completely occupied the wilderness in the north of Datong Town, and it was magnificent from afar.

At this time, the news of the Wara army attacking again also came, and many people in Datong Town flocked to the vicinity of the north gate to cheer for the soldiers of Yanzhou Town.

"Daming Wansheng! The military master triumphs as soon as possible! ”

"The military master kills more Tartars, good job!"

At the same time, Xue Tong, deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, and Chen Ziping, general of Yanzhou Town, also came to the north of the city, looking at the 70,000 troops marching in the wilderness.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The majestic sound of war drums resounded in the sky, and the already high morale of the army was immediately rendered and soared into the sky!

Liu Juntao led the army all the way north, marched more than ten miles in one day, and set up a large camp in the wilderness between Leigong Mountain and Baishan Mountain, just enough to completely block the road of Wara's army south to Datong Town!

The news that the 70,000 troops of Yanzhou Town were going north to meet the attack was also detected by the Wara Sentinel Cavalry, and after getting the news first, they ordered the army to stop advancing and set up a large camp fifteen miles away from the Ming army camp.

After that, he first convened the general Alazhiyuan and the big tent of the king of the journal, and the three of them began to discuss the matter of fighting against the soldiers and horses of Yanzhou Town.

Previously, 50,000 troops were also drawn from the grassland again, and the king of the saikan and the general Arazhiyuan were opposed, and the two believed that their side had no chance of winning this battle, and if they continued to fight, they could only lose their troops and lose their generals, so it was better to temporarily withdraw to the grassland.

According to the king of Saikan, although the army lost a lot of soldiers and horses, it also plundered a lot of people and money and food from the surrounding areas of Datong Town, and it can be regarded as an explanation internally.

However, he was unwilling to withdraw his troops first, for him, only by capturing Datong Town could it be regarded as a result, and he could block the mouths of those powerful people inside Wara!

Therefore, he will mobilize reinforcements again at any cost to go south, wanting to fight again and take Datong Town.

However, for the transfer of troops, the general Arazhiyuan is also opposed, and this time the southward has already mobilized nearly 300,000 iron cavalry, which is almost all the troops of Warat, once there is a mistake, Warat will be lost in a battle!

In the face of the opposition of the general Aro Zhiyuan and the king of Saikan, he also tried his best to overcome public opinion, thinking that even if this battle was defeated, he would bring the army back to the grassland safely, and if he could defeat Liu Juntao and take Datong Town, the national situation of Nawara would go to a higher level!

In the face of Yexian's stubbornness, the general Arazhiyuan and the king of the journal can only fully support it.

After some discussion, the three agreed to take advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold to fight a decisive battle.

As a result, the 210,000 Warat army marched south again two days later, approaching the soldiers and horses camp in Yanzhou Town.