Yichai Guozhu has been well versed in military affairs for a long time, and before the defense is arranged, he has to order the troops first, and then arrange further defense according to the number of the troops, which is a very normal thing.

He counted the number of soldiers in Bauhinia Pass, and found that the soldiers in Bauhinia Pass were about eighty percent of the books recorded, nominally 10,000 people, but in fact there were 8,000 people, more than 2,000 people who were too old and weak to use, and 6,000 soldiers who could fight.

As one of the famous inner three passes, it is useless before there is no danger in the outer pass, Chai Guozhu thought that the actual strength of Bauhinia Pass would be pitiful, but he didn't expect that there were so many soldiers who could fight, which was really rare.

But then his face went black.

There was a problem with the Jingying soldiers.

When he arrived yesterday afternoon, it was full of 10,000 people, and there were no fewer of them, he only roughly counted them and didn't do anything else, but now when he looks at it, even a blind man can see that there is a lot less, and the school field that was full yesterday has become sparse today!

Are they blind when I am surnamed Chai?!

The soldiers of the Beijing camp are so rampant! How dare you be such a blatant deserter! It's just presumptuous to the extreme!

He immediately asked the deputy general of the Beijing camp and the general of Qian and other officers to come to see him, and asked them to find out what was going on, but he only found one general Qian, and the rest of the general were gone, and the deputy general of the Beijing camp was also gone.

"What the hell is going on?! What about people?! ”

He angrily questioned the Qianzong.

That Qian always looked embarrassed.

"The deputy general said that the old mother at home was critically ill and wanted to go back to guard, Li Qian always said that his son was critically ill and had no intention of fighting, Zhao Qian always said that his wife was critically ill and had no intention of fighting, Chen Qian always said that his grandmother was critically ill and had no intention of fighting, and Liu Qian always said ......"

"Enough! Did they hit Tai Sui this year?! This war is critically ill one after another, and when there is no war, there is nothing at all one by one, not to mention this kind of thing, the army is on the march, the war is imminent, and they dare to leave the army without authorization, they think they have lived too long, and they want the white-haired people to send the black-haired people, don't they? ! ”

Chai Guozhu was so angry, he never thought that the officers of the Beijing camp would be so shameless.

"General, this ......"

Mr. Qian, the only one who stayed, looked around and said cautiously: "The reason why those people drove away is because they have a backstage behind them, including the Zhenyuan Hou family, the Xining Hou family, the Wu'an Hou family, the Dingyuan Hou family, and even the Dingguo Gong and Chengguo Gong's.

General, the water in the Beijing camp is extremely deep, any little chief may be a house slave of a certain family, and if he touches it, he will get into trouble, like those of us who have no backing, we can only honestly humiliate them, eat with a mouth, have a little identity and a little relationship, they all ran away, and those who stayed were bitter haha.

Originally, everyone thought that it would not be our turn to fight, so they came over to make up a few shouts and shout a few times to be worthy of this military uniform, but the Pingxingguan was gone, and the Mongols were going to fight, who would fight among those old soldiers? The horses can't get up, and if you don't run quickly, it's too late to run! ”

Chai Guozhu looked at this Wang Qianzong dumbfounded, and saw that his face was full of bitterness, not like he was lying, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning.

I have long heard that the Beijing camp is rotten, but I didn't expect it to have reached the point of blatantness, this is also the foot of the Son of Heaven, is the soldier under the feet of the Son of Heaven like this? If this really loses the Bauhinia Pass, how can Beijing City be guarded? Isn't that fatal?

Unfortunately......

He Chai Guozhu and these people have no way, he knows some inside stories, knows some gossip about those nobles and ministers of the DPRK and China colluding with each other to hollow out the Beijing camp, and also knows that each family has its own umbrella, no one is false, no one is stupid, they are all foxes for thousands of years, only he Chai Guozhu is a big fool.

The 6,000 available soldiers at Bauhinia Pass, plus these Jingying soldiers who only had more than 6,000 soldiers who fled, and 20,000 troops on the surface, had not yet started a war, and had not even seen the Mongols, there were only 12,000 left, and there were still people in the world who could fight like this?

This is a big mistake.

Those nobles have no way to deal with civil officials, they are already pigs in captivity by civilian officials, they have no power at all, they just eat empty salaries to fatten their own pigs, but for border generals like him, these nobles still have a way, they can pay for themselves with the help of civilian officials, and they have no ability to fight back at all.

Don't they think about it, if the Bauhinia Pass is really finished, and the country is really attacked, can they have a good end?

Chai Guozhu didn't believe it, he didn't believe that these people were really shameless to this point.

But it's true, this group of civilian, military generals, who can rank among the top three in China's history for shamelessness, can't believe that they are facing death even at the last moment of their lives.

Even when Li Zicheng's iron hoop was on their heads and was about to burst their dog's head, when the Manchu butcher's knife was raised and about to see their necks, they might all feel that they were dreaming.

They have long been left with only themselves in their hearts, they have long been in a high position and do not know the suffering of the people, they have long been left with only themselves, they have long held power without competitors, they have long only known to protect themselves and do not know how to protect the country, their shamelessness can only be compared with the civil and military generals at the end of the Song Dynasty.

So Chai Guozhu is destined not to get the answer he wants, no matter how much he doesn't believe in all this, he still has to be tough and ready for the Bauhinia Pass Guard Battle.

He distributed the main forces in the Bauhinia Pass City, Xiaopanshi City, Qifengkou City, and Guanzuoling City on the south bank of the Juma River, and the Xiaojin City on the north bank only left a little reserve force, ready to support wherever there was an emergency, and deployed enough troops at each pass, and also equipped with enough firearms, especially artillery, and allocated a lot.

Just when Chai Guozhu was stubbornly guarding against Bauhinia Pass, Wang Shiyang also got extremely shocking news, which made him fall directly to the ground in Taiyuan City and be stunned.

Pingxingguan was lost, Dong Yikui was killed in battle, a Mongolian cavalry roared south and rushed straight to Taiyuan, 5,000 troops supporting Pingxingguan encountered Mongolian cavalry near Wutai Mountain, in a panic, the 5,000 people were wiped out, and only a few dozen people escaped and came back to report the news.

Now the Mongols are rushing to Wutai, Wutai Town has been in chaos, the defenders fled without a fight, and a large number of Wutai people came to Taiyuan together, and the Mongols are close at hand, and the fall of Wutai has been irreversible.

The only thing to be thankful for is that, according to the report, there were tens of thousands of people when this Mongol army attacked Pingxingguan, but only more than 10,000 people went south, which means that most of them went to Bauhinia Pass, trying to copy the back road of the capital.

Anything else, at least the Mongol group was targeting Taiyuan, and there were only 10,000 of them.

Wang Shiyang gritted his teeth, thought about it again and again, and decided to speed up the deployment of troops, give up the idea of rushing to the aid of Pingxingguan, and set up three lines of defense in Dingxiang, Xinzhou and Shiling Pass to block the attack layer by layer.

Then, in the worst-case scenario, that is, when all three lines of defense were lost, Taiyuan was used as bait to concentrate the troops of Taiyuan Town and Yulin reinforcements, and lined up near Taiyuan to eat these 10,000 Mongolian cavalry!