The main gate on the north pass of Juyong Pass is called Yongsheng Gate, there is a two-storey city tower built on it, and there is a huge plaque on the city tower, which reads "the first Xiongguan in the world" six big characters.

Originally located in the north of Juyongguan, the Beiguan City Tower, which was relatively far north and more dangerous, has also become the center of Beiguan City with the construction of the new urn city outside the city gate.

Emperor Chongzhen came here this time, named the arrow tower on the Yongsheng Gate Yongsheng Tower, and then decided to stay in Yongsheng Tower during the imperial stay.

Wen Zhenmeng, Jiang Yingzhao and others prepared several places in advance in the Guancheng, such as the Wenchang Palace and the General Military Mansion, which could be used as residences, were not prepared in vain.

At this time, according to the order of Emperor Chongzhen, these places have become the office and accommodation places of the temporary cabinet and the military aircraft department.

On the evening of the day he arrived at the northern gate of Juyong Pass, Emperor Chongzhen, accompanied by the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi, the eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the seal of the celebrant of the ceremony, Wang Guoxing, the envoy of the Fusi of the northern town of Jinyi, the governor of Zhili, Nan Juyi, and a group of military attachés of the imperial attendants, met with the heads of the five military camps, the three thousand battalions, and the heads of the Changping battalion brought from Changping Shunlu.

Emperor Chongzhen's visit to Juyong Pass in person was an unprecedented opportunity for the local generals of Jingying and Beizhili who were stationed on the front line of Miyun, Changping and Juyongguan in western Beijing.

First of all, it shows that the full trust of the emperor in them is a recognition of their loyalty and ability.

If the emperor is a little suspicious of these camp leaders, he will not come to Juyong Pass in person!

Secondly, fighting under the personal command of the emperor, or fighting with the emperor, is a completely different feeling from the emperor sitting on the dragon chair in the Forbidden City and directing battles hundreds or even thousands of miles away through the holy decree.

This was true for the Emperor, and even more so for those soldiers who were on the front line and needed to charge.

At least the emperor is above the gate of Juyong Pass, and the performance of any general or even any soldier will fall directly into the eyes of the emperor.

This is especially significant for these generals who have fought for many years or even half of their lives.

This is also the reason why in history, whenever the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty decided to go on a personal expedition, the morale of the generals and soldiers in front of them would instantly rise a lot.

And when Emperor Chongzhen met with the generals of the Fifth Military Battalion, the Three Thousand Battalion, and the Changping Battalion in the Yongsheng Building in the North Pass of Juyong Pass, one after another, especially when he saw Huang Degong, Hu Dawei, Fierce as a Tiger and Wu Sangui and Liu Tingjie, these glorious generals of later generations are now used, and his heart is also very happy.

No matter how far the times have come, talent is the most important.

For the current Emperor Chongzhen, the talent of the general is particularly important.

There were actually not many generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but in the original history, a considerable number of them died on the battlefield of encircling and suppressing thieves.

Now more than half of the few in front of me died early in the battle against the thieves.

In this life, the fate of these people has changed a lot, at least so far, they have not been sent by Emperor Chongzhen to the battlefield of suppressing thieves in the northwest.

And the thieves in the northwest are also spinning and disappearing.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the army of more than 100,000 thieves suddenly broke out, and now there are only 10,000 or 20,000 people left, and they are divided into several shares, wandering or dormant in the reckless mountains at the northern end of Luliang Mountain, and Sun Chuanting, who is sitting in Jingle and commanding the Yansui army to supervise the army step by step, is staging a game of mice and cats.

However, for these poorly equipped thieves who remained in the mountainous areas of northwest Jin, Emperor Chongzhen, who has now gradually owned the Gyeonggi Industrial Zone, did not pay much attention to it.

As long as the northern border of the Ming Dynasty is quiet again, it is almost easy to exterminate these bandits.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen met with a large number of young and middle-aged generals in Juyong Pass, and the household department took out a large number of Chongzhen silver dollars of real money and silver to reward the soldiers of the battalions who followed the guard.

That night, Emperor Chongzhen, who had hastily eaten dinner, once again took several important ministers around him to summon Ma Shilong, the commander of the first town of the Guards, Jiang Yingzhao, the chief officer of the five military battalions, Wang Tingchen, the chief officer of the 3,000 battalions, and Wu Guojun, the chief officer of the Changping battalion, to discuss the matters of guarding the customs.

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Qing and others can also see clearly today, with the danger of the terrain of Juyong Pass, the complete defense of the city, I personally led the first town of the Guards to help defend it, and it should not be a problem to resist the enemy and block the prisoners under the pass."

"It's just that my relatives are here, if I can't achieve a big victory here, it will be a fly in the ointment and a regret."

Speaking of this, seeing that everyone looked up at him, there was surprise, confusion, and worry in his eyes, and Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly continued:

"Rest assured, I will never leave Guancheng easily, I will not go to learn Yingzong, and I don't have Wang Zhen by my side!"

Nan Juyi, who originally heard the emperor's words and had something to say in his heart, also closed his mouth at the moment, and did not open his mouth after all, only to hear the emperor say again:

"Summoning everyone here tonight is to discuss a way to introduce the Jianyu army into the military capital.

"It's best to attract the slave chief Huang Taiji to lead the army of Jianyu to attack Juyong Pass!"

Emperor Chongzhen said this with a smile on his face, and the ministers and chief soldiers who were present at the imperial meeting immediately understood the meaning of the emperor's words in front of him.

These people are either high-ranking officials who have been up and down in the sea for many years, or they are veterans who have fought on the battlefield for many years, as soon as the emperor said this, who can not understand what the emperor wants to do!

As the chief officer of the Fifth Military Battalion who was ordered to guard Juyong Pass, the veteran Jiang Yingzhao said: "If Jianyu does not have heavy artillery, they will have no way to take Juyong Pass."

"From this point of view, Your Majesty is here to sit here, if you just rely on the pass, our army can be said to be invincible!

"It's just that if Your Majesty wants to rely on the consolidation of the Guanshan and the complete defense of the city in the area of Juyong Pass, and inflict heavy losses on the Jianyu army, so that it will not dare to give birth to the intention of going south in the future, then the current plan is not to show the enemy weak!"

As soon as Jiang Yingzhao's words were finished, Xu Guangqi said: "Not bad! General Jiang's words are in line with the art of war!

"My soldiers are strong and show the enemy to be weak, I am prepared and show the enemy to be unprepared! In order to help build a fluke, or you can lure the enemy to risk going deep into the military capital to take the chest! ”

Jiang Yingzhao and Xu Guangqi's words came out one after the other, and everyone in Yongsheng Building nodded in agreement.

Emperor Chongzhen also nodded, and then looked at everyone, as if he was thinking, as if he was waiting for the following.

At this time, Nan Juyi, the governor of Zhili, who was ordered to accompany him this time, first suddenly bowed his hand to Wu Guojun, the commander of the Changping battalion, and then said to the emperor:

"If it is said that the enemy is weak, the first town of His Majesty's Guards, as well as the five military battalions and three thousand battalions, are all strong troops for a while, and it is difficult to say that they are weak when they replace Shangcheng!"

Speaking of this, Nan Juyi pointed to Wu Guojun, and then said: "The Changping Battalion under the control of the Governor's Mansion has been responsible for guarding the Changping Imperial Mausoleum in recent years, and since last year, it has been supervising the Deling Mausoleum as a full-time job, compared to the Guards, the Five Army Battalions, and the Three Thousand Battalions, I am afraid it is inferior!" That's where it comes in! ”

After Nan Juyi said this, Wu Guojun's face was red and his ears were red, and he was very embarrassed, and everyone in Yongsheng Tower, including Emperor Chongzhen, smiled.

The predecessor of the Changping camp was Changping Town, but this Changping Town was set up and withdrawn from time to time, during the Orthodox, Jingtai and Tianshun periods, the Mongolian Wara and Tatar rose one after another, which posed a greater threat to the Ming Jingshi, so Changping Town was once also a big town.

However, after the decline of Mongolia and the annexation of the Tumut Department, the threat of Monan was lifted, and Changping Town was gradually downgraded and abolished, leaving only a Changping battalion and setting up a Changping deputy commander-in-chief, which was under the jurisdiction of Jizhen and was responsible for the defense of the northwest of Beijing.

After the Chongzhen Emperor came up now, he didn't think much of these traditional camp heads, and the Changping camp happened to be in Changping, so he simply let them participate in the construction of Deling.

In this way, whether it is the Fifth Military Battalion or the 3,000 Battalion, the old and weak personnel who have been reorganized and eliminated have all been arranged to the Changping Battalion in one go.

No matter what it is, when you arrive at the Changping camp, at least you still have a salary to take, food to receive, and food to eat, and there is always a place to accept it, which is better than being completely dismissed.

In this way, the number of people in the Changping battalion has increased considerably, from more than 2,000 old and weak people to a threefold at once, and it has become a large battalion with 6,000 or 7,000 people.

Wu Guojun was also promoted to the chief soldier of the Changping battalion by Emperor Chongzhen because of his meritorious service in guarding the imperial mausoleum and supervising the Deling Mausoleum.

However, the combat effectiveness of this Changping battalion is very sorry,

In addition to the task of renovating the Changping Imperial Mausoleum area, he worked with the eunuchs who guarded the Imperial Mausoleum to open up the wasteland and farm the fields.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen agreed to let Wu Guojun lead his Changping battalion was actually to use him as a baggage engineering battalion at the suggestion of Nan Juyi.

This also avoids the trouble and expense of the people of the south and the north of Zhili for the army and the people.

At this time, when everyone talked about this show of weakness, they naturally quickly thought of the Changping camp of Wu Guojun's headquarters in front of them.

After Nan Juyi mentioned it, Emperor Chongzhen nodded, and the matter was settled!