It rained for a day and a night, and the next day at noon the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped, and the sun shone all over the land.

While Zhang Fu breathed a sigh of relief, after asking Zhu Qizhen for instructions, he ordered the camp to be pulled out, and the whole army advanced quickly.

The roads are muddy and difficult to walk, and the road conditions are even worse when the horses' hooves are trampled in the muddy ground. The infantrymen's shoes had just been dried and the mud had been removed, and they were covered with wet mud.

The imperial chariot stopped, Jia Xiaosi held the corners of his robe, stepped on the mud, crossed the brocade guard holding the guard of honor, came to Zhang Ning's horse, stopped his horse, and said: "Your Majesty said that the road is difficult to walk, please ask the marquis to go up." ”

The house is like an action, relatively stable, Zhu Qizhen can't bear Zhang Ning to suffer from horseback bumps, and specially ordered Jia Xiaosi to come to Xuan.

At this time, he went out of Beijing, and was on the road for many days, not like the first day of the expedition, he must maintain the dignity of the emperor, Zhang Ning no longer refused, rode his horse to the side of the imperial chariot, handed over the reins of the horse to the little eunuch, and went to the imperial chariot.

In the imperial chariot, the tea was just warm, and the dim sum was also hot, Zhu Qizhen motioned to Zhang Ning to drink tea and eat dim sum, and said: "Qing has worked hard all the way, I sit alone in the chariot, and I am bored." ”

You are on an expedition, not a spring outing, how can you say that you are bored? Zhang Ning said: "Your Majesty, the army is approaching Datong, and it is possible to meet the enemy army at any time, so we must always be vigilant." ”

"Before I arrived in Datong, I finally let my guard down." Zhu Qizhen sighed a little, and laughed at himself a little: "If the army was led by me, I wouldn't know how nervous I would have been, isn't there Zhang Qing now?" I was relieved. ”

In addition to the support of Zhang Ning and Yang Shiqi, the command of the troops by Zhang Fu is also an important reason, for the court and the people of the capital, Zhang Fu has rich combat experience, and he handed over the three battalions to him, and everyone is very relieved.

These days the road is lonely, the scenery is monotonous, Zhang Ning insists on refusing to go to the palace, the young emperor who left the palace for the first time is inevitably cranky, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that he still has a lot to learn.

"Your Majesty, it's true that the British have a lot of experience in public warfare, but they are also old." Zhang Ning said with a smile, but remembered that a few years later, Zhang Fu would become strong and have another son, which was Zhang Mao, who attacked the lord.

"What are you laughing at?" Zhu Qizhen said strangely. Why do you laugh so obscenely when you say that Zhang Fu is old?

Zhang Ning laughed out loud and said, "The minister thought that the last time I went to the British Mansion, it happened that the British Duke had a new Mrs. Ru. He has emptiness under his knees, and if his wife can salivate for him to inherit the incense for his son, wouldn't it be a good thing? ”

Zhang Fu's eldest son died young, and for many years, his wife and concubine failed to give birth to a boy and a half girl for him. Who in the DPRK and China does not know that this is the heart disease of the British public? Everyone avoided stimulating him in person, and some political enemies scolded him behind his back. Zhang Ning said this, but it sounded the best blessing to Zhu Qizhen. Zhang Fu is almost sixty years old, how can he give birth?

Zhu Qizhen also laughed and said, "In the past few years, he has not taken many concubines. ”

It's all men, how can they not understand? The monarch and the minister laughed for a while, and the loneliness in Zhu Qizhen's heart dispelled a lot, and said: "I look at Zhang Qing's marching formation quite methodically, and he is worthy of being a good general who followed Chengzu to fight in the east and west when he was a teenager. ”

"Not really." Zhang Ning said, as he spoke, he glanced out of the window out of the corner of his eye, and outside the window, he rode with three feather arrows on his back and galloped over, but it was a messenger who was eight hundred miles in an emergency.

When the messenger came to the chariot, he knelt down beside the road, took out the letter, and held it high above his head.

The little eunuch rushed over to get the letterbox, and after checking that it was correct, he presented it to Zhu Qizhen.

The urgent report was written by Jiang Gui, the chief soldier of Datong, and the urgent report said that the Taishi of Wara had exhausted the elite of the royal court, and was led by the Taishi himself, and was now 300 miles away from Datong.

After reading it, Zhu Qizhen handed the urgent report to Zhang Ning, his expression was flat, and he said: "Ignore the envoy Gessel first, and attack with all the army." ”

It seems that the two sides thought of going together. The Ming court did not carry out political rescue because the envoy Shi Dacheng was imprisoned in the grassland, but did its best to meet the elite of the three battalions and approached Datong. The possibility of a decisive battle between the two sides in Datong is extremely high. Zhang Ning muttered to himself silently, read the letter, and returned the letter to Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Xuan Zhangqing will come to see you." ”

After a while, Zhang Fu came, and after reading the emergency report, he groaned a little and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that according to Datong Jiancheng, condescending to bombard the enemy army, the chance of victory is the best. ”

These days, he has imagined countless ways to meet the enemy army, but he did not expect that because he was well prepared and sent his troops early, he actually met in the best way.

According to Jiancheng, bombardment with artillery is the most ideal combat method that Zhang Ning has mentioned, and Zhang Fu still remembers that Zhang Ning smiled at that time and said: "If we are lucky, we will rush to Datong first, and the enemy army will arrive." We first set up the cannons, pile up the 'thunder', and when the enemy army comes to the city, we will first blow up his mother's with the 'thunder', and then use the cannons to bombard him on his back and turn over alone. ”

Zhang Ningzi also thought of this, and smiled: "What does Grandpa Guo do to see me?" ”

I had imagined all possible scenarios before the expedition, and now is the best-case scenario, so you know what to do, just do it.

Zhu Qizhen obviously also thought of what Zhang Ning had said, and said, "Zhang Qing ordered it." ”

"Obey the command." Zhang Fu got up and saluted solemnly, and then gave an order that the whole army should speed up towards Datong, and be sure to arrive at Datong within two days.

Warat was full of cavalry, one man, two horsemen, or even three horsemen, three hundred miles, and if you hurried with all your might, you would arrive in one day and one night. If it weren't for the mixed cavalry and infantry on the other side, Zhang Fu would have ordered to rush overnight, and be sure to arrive at Datong before dawn. Helplessly, the cavalry can gallop back and forth, but the infantry cannot.

The army sped up and rushed towards Datong without mentioning.

Zhang Ning knows how many spies are in the grassland, and now he has led the army only three hundred miles away from Datong, but there is no news sent back by the spies, the matter is too abnormal, after Zhang Fu ordered the whole army to speed up the march, Zhang Ning also sent spies to check the situation of the spies sent to the grassland

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Warat, without waiting for Gessel to come back, the spy flew to report that more than 100,000 cavalry of the Ming court had left Beijing, and he couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately gathered a large army to rush towards Datong. Datong must be broken through first, so that the army can drive straight into and occupy the flowers and mountains of the Ming court. If even Datong can't be breached, why talk about leading troops south to restore the glory of the ancestors?

In order not to leak the news, he ordered the army to assemble, and before he ordered the army to assemble, he first beheaded the Ming people who were doing business with the herdsmen in the grassland, so that the Jinyi Wei secret agent could not deliver the news back. Jiang Gui saw that the Warat soldiers had not provoked under the city for several days, so he sent a small group of cavalry out of the city to investigate, and learned the astonishing news at the cost of the annihilation of the entire cavalry. The cavalry captain swallowed when he sent the news back.

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Jiang Gui was in a tight position, in addition to sending troops to garrison the city wall, he also divided the 100 sharpshooter battalion sergeants stationed here in advance into two groups, each group of 50 people, and then carried all the "thunder" on the city wall.