A few days later, the Tartars finally "arrived as promised", and Altan Khan led 100,000 iron horsemen to rush directly into Jizhou Town from the deserted Gubeikou, and surrounded Zunhua City, the northernmost part of Jizhou Town.

The inside and outside of the capital suddenly became extremely tense, and the people in the court were suddenly panicked, and almost everyone was so frightened that they turned on their faces, knowing that it was one thing for the Tartars to come, and it was another thing for the Tartars to really come, one hundred thousand iron horses, how to resist?

The next day, martial law was declared in the capital, all the city gates were closed, and idlers were strictly forbidden to enter and exit.

Anyway, didn't this Qiu Luan and Yang Cong both lead the army of King Qin to the outskirts of the capital, why didn't Jiajing send them to Jizhou Town to resist the Tartar army?

Perhaps, let them pass, and the Tartars will not be able to rush in.

Jiajing didn't expect this at all, because he was tricked by Yan Song again.

As for why Yan Song still played him at this time, it was very simple, because Yan Song didn't want Qiu Luan or Yang Cong to go to Jizhou Town to preside over the overall situation.

Yang Shun, the governor of Jizhou, has eaten an empty salary for I don't know how many years, and the border army of Jizhou Town is not 15,000 men and horses on the books at all, but 5,000 people, if Qiu Luan or Yang Cong runs over, they will definitely be able to see the cat at a glance, and when the time comes, Yang Shun will definitely be finished.

What if Yang Shun couldn't help but torture him and confessed to him?

Therefore, he can't let Qiu Luan or Yang Cong go to Jizhou Town to preside over the overall situation, these two guys, one is his sworn enemy, and the other is a white-eyed wolf, in the past, he must have no good fruit to eat.

So, what method did he use to drag Qiu Luan and Yang Cong.

This is also very simple, although he can't deal with Tartar, it's still very easy to deal with Qiu Luan and Yang Cong, no way, who let Jiajing be so foolish, he thought of a way casually, and then played Jiajing around, and he had no time to take care of the defense of Jizhou Town.

This method, in fact, is not to fool Jiajing, but when combined with Jiajing's wandering temperament, it becomes a fool.

The method he came up with was very simple, that is, to remind Jiajing that he needed to elect someone to preside over the overall situation.

There are a lot of Ming troops in Gyeonggi at this time, and it is the Jingying Tunwei, the Northwest Frontier Army, and the Southeast Tunwei elite, adding up to more than 100,000, this number, it seems to be quite strong, but these Ming troops do not have a unified command, everyone has their own subordinates, if they really want to fight, it is not easy to say whether they can cooperate with each other, if no one presides over the overall situation, more than 100,000 Ming troops are likely to be a plate of scattered sand!

There is nothing wrong with this suggestion in itself, the problem is that when Jiajing asked Yan Song to nominate the commander-in-chief, Yan Song played tricks.

This guy actually pretended to be selfless, and put forward all the candidates who could take on the big responsibility, and he didn't go beyond it at all, and let Jiajing call the shots.

He recommended many candidates, not only Qiu Luan, Marquis of Xianning, and Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, but also Xu Yande, Duke of Dingguo, and Zhu Xizhong, Duke of Chengguo.

These four people, in terms of qualifications, can indeed serve as commanders, so who should be chosen?

Jiajing was suddenly overwhelmed by his whole head, and he was at a loss.

Xu Yande, the Duke of Dingguo, and Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, are logically incompetent for the post of commander-in-chief, although they have prestige in the army, they rely on the remnants of their ancestors.

However, at this time, the number of Jingying guards is more than that of the northwest border army and the elite of the southeast guards, and the Jingying guards have always been under the control of the five armies controlled by these princes and nobles, and they are not allowed to be the commanders.

As for Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, and Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, in terms of their ability to lead troops to fight, they are both qualified for the post of commander, at least Jiajing thinks so.

The question is, they all have 40,000 horses under them, who can serve whom?

This question of selecting a commander really stumped Jiajing, and he thought about it, but he could only consult the opinions of these people before making a decision.

Xu Yande, Duke of Dingguo, and Zhu Xizhong, Duke of Chengguo, are easy to talk to, they both understand that they have a few catties and taels, and they are commanders, forget it, they can't command 10,000 horses, let alone more than 100,000 horses.

Xianning Hou Qiuluan and Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, are not easy to talk to, both of them want to be commanders, and the reasons are quite sufficient.

The reason given by the Marquis of Xianning Qiuluan is that of the troops gathered in Gyeonggi, only the Northwest Frontier Army has fought with the Tartars, and more than one battle, and the others basically don't even know what the Tartars look like, he is not the commander, who is the commander?

The reason given by Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang, was that the foot soldiers had to rely on firearms to deal with the Tartar cavalry, and who could match the familiarity with firearms?

This guy, who will be the commander in chief really makes it difficult for Jiajing to choose, just asking for advice, he spent a few days.

It was in these few days that Yan Song gave Yang Shun a secret order, asking him to frantically gather the guards, and stuff them into the three cities of Zunhua, Jizhou and Xianghe, and gather as many as they could, in short, it must exceed 15,000, otherwise, they will not be able to hide the matter of uniting to eat empty salaries.

Yang Shun received the secret order, naturally he was crazy about recruiting people, he even gave a ridiculous order, regardless of men, women, old and young, as long as it is a registered military household in Jizhou Town, each household must have one person, otherwise, cancel the military registration and let you go as a homeless!

This guy, this trick is really ruthless, in just a few days, he actually made him gather nearly 60,000 horses!

Therefore, when Altan Khan led the army to Zunhua, he raised his eyes and saw that the city wall was densely packed with Ming troops, which made him a little dumbfounded.

Isn't there only a total of 5,000 people in this Jizhou Town, where did so many people come from to defend the city?

How did he know that the Ming army on the city wall was all temporarily assembled guards, and these people looked like Ming soldiers in their clothes, and others, regardless of their body or momentum, did not look like Ming troops, but like a group of peasants, and even, the weapons in the hands of many of them were rusty, and it was said that they were killed, and they probably couldn't kill chickens!

Of course, these Altan Khan can't really see it, and he doesn't have a telescope in his hand, so at such a distance, he can vaguely distinguish the clothes, where can he see whether the weapons in people's hands are rusty.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Ming army, seize a few cities, and plunder them, after all, the people living in this city are basically "rich people", no matter what, they must be richer than the peasants outside the city, and robbing the city must be much happier than robbing the countryside.

He really didn't expect that there would be so many "Ming troops" stationed in this first city.

What to do?

What else can I do, run to try my luck somewhere else first, anyway, he is not here to attack the city, but to loot, which city to rob is not all robbed, Zunhua City can't be robbed, so don't rob it.

He still didn't believe it, there were so many defenders in all the cities of Jizhou Town.

As a result, he ran to Jizhou City to see that there were more defenders on the city wall than Zunhua City!

What the hell is going on?

Altan Khan even had the illusion of being tricked, he thought about it, and finally decided, first go to the surrounding countryside to loot and then say, if there are really hundreds of thousands of Ming troops surrounding, he will run away, if not, then continue to rob, until the Ming capital, the feet of the Son of Heaven!

He is a good deal, but Jiajing has been wandering, not knowing who to choose as the commander, while Yang Cong and Qiu Luan began to use their own means, in order to compete for the position of commander, they fought openly and secretly, and they had a lot of fun.