At this time, Wu Sangui already knew that Zu Dashou was surrounded and surrendered by Jianguo when he led the troops out, and then the Tashan garrisoned by other Zujia troops was also broken by Jianguo, and the captured Zujia army, including Zu Dashou's brothers and other members of the Zujia army who had originally defected to Jianguo, were all killed by Jianguo.

For this situation, Wu Sangui was actually a little surprised. Because when he was in Liaodong, he felt that the relationship between the ancestral army and Jianyu maintained a tacit understanding. It can even be said that Jianguo also did everything possible to dig up the ancestral army, hoping that the ancestral army could be used by Jianguo.

However, in just over a year after he left, the ancestral army had all come to such an end. He was a little puzzled, in addition, he also felt very sorry for his uncle, Zu Dashou's behavior.

I knew that today, I should have persuaded my uncle more to step on two boats, no, something would happen sooner or later, right? Wu Sangui thought in his heart, and hated Zu Dashou a little. If he dies in battle, the court will definitely pay for him and reward his surviving family. However, Zu Dashou surrendered to Jianlu, and then was executed by Jianlu. The imperial court has already known about this, and of course it will not give compensation to Zu Dashou and others. It has even become a negative example to warn others.

Thinking about these things, Wu Sangui's mood was always depressed on the way over.

"Master, there is Datong ahead, according to the previous itinerary, I have to rest for two days and then continue to hurry." Wu Sangui's personal guards, after seeing Datong City, reminded him.

Wu Sangui listened and looked up at this Datong Mansion. Before, he remembered clearly that he arrived here with his car, waited for some days, and then suddenly set off, and then wiped out the Oirats of the Hetao. The emperor's method is uncanny, and it is really powerful.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui couldn't help but complain in his heart about Zu Dashou and them: The emperor is so wise and powerful, why can't he understand it, but he wants to surrender to Jianyu?

Datong is a military town, and there are Datong troops stationed there. After verifying Wu Sangui's seal letter, a military camp was vacated for Wu Sangui's headquarters to rest.

The destruction of the ancestral army inevitably affected Wu Sangui. The general soldiers of Datong behaved very indifferently towards him, and looked like they were doing business. This kind of thing, before the destruction of the ancestral army, was rarely encountered. As an upstart in the ancestral army, he is very popular and is the object of crowding.

However, Wu Sangui didn't care much about the contrast he encountered.

It is better to rely on heaven and earth than on yourself. Wu Sangui's expedition with the driver this time, as well as staying in the northwest region to fight, also greatly tempered him, making him firmly believe that he is a capable person. The honor you lost before, you can earn it back again!

He thought that after returning to Liaodong this time, he must correct the name of the ancestral army, crack down on Jianyu, regain his fame, and play majestic! It can be said that at this time, he was holding his breath in his heart, thinking that he must do something great in Liaodong.

However, what Wu Sangui didn't expect was that the day after he arrived in Datong, he heard the sound of a police gong coming from the city, and listened to panicked shouts, saying something like "Jianyu is coming".

Suddenly, Wu Sangui, who was in the barracks, immediately went out quickly to check the situation.

At this time, he didn't need to ask others, he only saw the direction of the grassland, and he could see the rising wolf smoke, and there were probably wolf smoke in four places. Looking at it like this, it seems that the scale of the attack on the enemy is not small.

As a guest army, it was not good for him to go directly to the city, so he immediately visited the general army of Datong and expressed his desire to help.

When the general soldiers of Datong heard this, they immediately agreed: "There has been a Jianyu Tanma outside the city, and there is definitely no mistake with the money rat tail." And it came very quickly, menacingly. On Datong's side, we really need Wu Dashuai to fight against Jianyu together! ”

So, Wu Sangui and the general soldiers of Datong went to the city to check the movement.

Sure enough, just outside Datong City, there are already Jianyu Tanma haunting. Just like when they were originally in Liaodong, they were very arrogant, often driving horses close to places a stone's throw away from the city, and shouting at the city, which was very contemptuous.

"The situation is a bit bad, the few piers outside are the highest level of wolf smoke." The general soldier of Datong said with a sad face, "It seems that this time, the Jianyu of Hetao has come to invade Datong Mansion in a big way. Just now, I have sent a messenger to the surrounding area to ask for help. ”

Datong is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Xuanda, and this side has always been an important military town operated by the Ming army, and there are a lot of troops. To the west of Datong Mansion is Yulin Town in Shaanxi, where the governor of Yansui is located, which is also a very important military town in the Ming Dynasty. Once several places work together, the number of prisoners is not large, so don't try to please them!

Wu Sangui listened and nodded, it is very necessary to ask for help. Otherwise, once the city is besieged, it will be very difficult to ask for help. Now that the Messenger has been dispatched, it is good to hold on. The importance of Datong Mansion is self-evident, and the imperial court will never fail to save it. It's a pity that he only has 2,000 cavalry, otherwise, his guest army suddenly arrived in Datong, which is not something that Jianlu can calculate, but it can make Jianlu suffer a loss.

At this time, Datong City was naturally under martial law in the whole city.

The next day, the army of Jianyu finally appeared outside the city.

From the top of the city, there were enemies everywhere in the mountains, almost as far as the eye could see. There were sloppily dressed Mongol cavalry, and there were also money rat-tailed Jianyu cavalry. The enemy who came from the steppe was really extravagant, and there was no such thing as an infantry army, all of them were cavalry or horseback infantry troops. There were so many that the rumbling sound of horses' hooves converged, as if the earth dragon was about to turn over.

As the chief soldier, Wu Sangui naturally immediately distinguished from the banner what kind of enemy the enemy outside the city belonged to? After watching the details with the general soldiers of Datong, I probably knew.

Most of the Mongolian cavalry were Mongolian tribes on the line from Shaanxi to Shanxi, and the leaders among the Jianyu were Prince Zheng and King Doluo Wuying. This is also consistent with the news I heard before: it is said that Jianlu sent Zilharang and Azig to lead more than 10,000 horses to the Naturalization City.

"Damn, what kind of stupidity are these Jianjiao doing, they don't fight the nearest Shaanxi side, they actually run to Datong Mansion!" The general soldier of Datong scolded his mother at the head of the city, "Is it because he looks at this handsome and is so bullying, there is a kind of siege to see the city!" ”

Wu Sangui didn't speak, Jianyu's army this time was all cavalry, Shaanxi and Shanxi were close to each other, where they wanted to fight, the distance was not a problem at all. He stared at the banner of the leader of the Jianyu outside the city, thinking about his own affairs.

At this time, the Jianyu army outside the city, under the command of the leader of the Jianyu, surrounded Datong Mansion. At the same time, you can also see that there are cavalry troops, galloping out from the encircled army, and nine times out of ten they are going to plunder the surrounding area. However, there is a beacon transmission, which should be seen everywhere, and there will definitely be precautions.

"Damn, are those two of them the Jianyu's Zilharang and the Azig?" The general soldier of Datong pointed to the outside of the city and said angrily, "What does it mean to have the ability to get closer and point at Datong?" Do you really dare to come to attack the city? ”

Hearing this, Wu Sangui came back to his senses, and looked up when he heard the sound. It was found that the banners of Zilharan and Azig were indeed close to the side of the city wall. Of course, the so-called proximity is also at a safe distance, and it will not be stupid enough to be within the effective range of long-range weapons on the head of the city.

Looking at them, it seems that they are watching the movement on the head of the city, and by the way, they are making some arrangements. This kind of thing is also very common when the two armies are facing each other. However, Wu Sangui looked a little strange, he blinked, and then looked over there.

After a while, I saw Wu Sangui frowning and muttering to himself: "It's strange, that Azig is right, but that Zilharang doesn't look like it!" ”

Of course, the general army of Datong had never seen Zierharang and Azig, but Wu Sangui had been in the Guanning army before, and he stayed by Zu Dashou's side, so he had seen them many times in the city for the high-level leaders of Jianyu, so he recognized them.

However, at this time, he saw that there was nothing wrong with that Azig. However, that Zilharang, although it looks a little similar, but Wu Sangui's memory is good, and he doesn't look like it.

After looking at it for a while, Wu Sangui said categorically: "That's not Zierharang!" ”

"What? You said that the slave chief was not theirs, what Prince Zheng Zilharang? The general soldier of Datong heard it this time, and after looking at it carefully, he still said suspiciously, "It's impossible, that Azig spoke to him respectfully, and he was asking for something." The captives outside the city are also dominated by this Zilharang. Are you mistaken? ”

Indeed, judging from the situation outside the city, the general soldier of Datong is right. Generally speaking, that person is Zilharang, and he must not have run. However, Wu Sangui knew him, and after he looked at it carefully, he said categorically: "My memory has always been good, although that person is under the banner of Prince Zheng, Azig seems to be deferential to him." However, this man is definitely not Zilharang! ”

Hearing him say so resolutely, the general soldier of Datong wondered: "Since that person is not the real Ji'er Harang, what the hell is Jianyu doing?" ”

Wu Sangui also wondered, he didn't have the eavesdropping system that Emperor Chongzhen had, so he naturally couldn't judge what Jianyu was doing at the first time? However, at this time, since he had already discovered something strange, he naturally observed it more carefully.

Not to mention, under Wu Sangui's careful observation, he found a lot of problems.

For example, there are some money rat tails, their words and deeds, and their way of doing things are inconsistent with Wu Sangui's long-term impression of Jianyu on the Guanning front, and more of them seem to be the Mongols' way of doing things.

For another example, the army outside the city looks like it is huge, but when you look at it, it seems to be virtual and real, and there are not necessarily so many soldiers. In a place that was too far away, although there were figures shaking, Wu Sangui always felt that something was wrong.

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The more he looked, the more doubts Wu Sangui had in his heart. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he immediately said, "Could it be, Jianyu is attacking the west, right?" ”

"What's the noise?" Hearing this, the general soldier of Datong asked a little curiously.

Wu Sangui listened, pointed at the fake Jierharang with his hand and said: "From this fake Jierharang, we can know that Jianyu wants us to think that this is the real Jierharang, which is on the side of Datong Mansion." Its real intention must be to cover up the whereabouts of the real Zilharang. This is one of them. ”

"Second, look over there." Wu Sangui pointed to the distance and gave all the problems he observed to the general soldiers of Datong and said, "Those people should not be the real Jianyu cavalry. In other words, these people should be Mongols, and they have not long been Jianyu. At least in terms of behavior and deeds, there are still many differences between them and the army of the headquarters of the building......"

Listening to what he said a lot, the general soldiers of Datong were not stupid, and they figured it out, but they didn't understand it and said: "If it is really according to what Wu Dashuai said, then where is the plan of Jianyu?" ”

Wu Sangui couldn't guess this. According to his speculation about the urine of the Jianyu, he asked several questions in succession, such as where there was a grain hoard, or where there was a lot of grain and grass materials gathered, or where someone fled, and the recent defense was not in place or something, all of which were rejected by the Datong General Army.

"Today's emperor is wise and powerful, how dare all localities fool the military affairs casually." The general soldier of Datong said with a little emotion, "Although most border cities can't take the initiative to attack the grassland, they have all the precautions they should have. The piers and beacons have all been repaired. Nowadays, there is no money like before, not only the arrears are paid, but even the military salaries are paid on time. The money for repairing the defenses, as long as it is revealed to the Governor, will basically be allocated after verification. As for the food and grass materials, the grasslands are full of wolves, which have been around for hundreds of years, and they must be guarded against! ”

Wu Sangui heard it very strangely, he couldn't figure it out, and finally had to say: "That can be verified from two places." First, see if Jianyu will really attack the city. Second, send someone to break through and report the news, if Jianyu does not attack the city, or can successfully break through, it means that Jianyu is bluffing, attracting the attention of my Ming Dynasty, and will definitely make trouble somewhere else! ”

The general soldier of Datong listened and nodded in agreement.

Even if there is no such speculation, the Datong General Army's side, if someone should be sent to ask for help, it will still continue to be sent. However, the content of the letter will be added to Wu Sangui's speculation.

Not to Wu Sangui's surprise, Jianyu has always besieged the city and not attacked, at most it is just harassing the city head and arrogant. The messenger also broke through and sent a letter back to Datong. said that Yansui's side was also attacked by the grassland tribes, but the scale was not as large as here.

In the past, the governor of Yansui thought that Jianyu was going to attack Datong, so he delayed Yansui's side. However, Wu Sangui's speculation made Governor Yansui feel that he would be attacked by Jianyu, so he was not prepared to send reinforcements over.

When Wu Sangui was curiously guessing the movements of Jianyu, the news about the Jianyu army coming to attack Datong also spread out wave after wave.

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