Time back to a year ago, Zhengde with Jiang Bin and others of the four armies left the capital, happily rushed to Xuanfu, it was early autumn, the weather was very cool, it was a good time to march, and along the way Zhengde finally saw the boundless fields on both sides of the road, most of the fields were planted with corn and sweet potatoes.

Seeing that the corn and sweet potatoes he promoted were so popular, and even replaced the original millet and big things, this made Zhengde also feel a sense of accomplishment. Once Zhengde secretly took Gu Dayong, the two of them left the army and went to the field to steal a few corn cobs and a few half-sized sweet potatoes, but the owner of the field took people to chase out for several miles, until they saw Zhengde enter the army, those people fled back in fright, but Zhengde laughed happily, and personally cooked corn and sweet potatoes to make dinner at night, but he felt that this was the sweetest dinner he had eaten.

played around along the way, and finally spent more than half a month before finally coming to Xuanfu from the capital. Xuanfu is not just a city, the Xuanfu of the Ming Dynasty refers to the Great Wall from Jizhen Sihaiye to Pingyuan Fort in Datong Town, because the chief military officer is located in Xuanhua Mansion, so it is called Xuanfu Town, there are six roads under it, namely East Road, Middle Road, Shangbei Road, Xiabei Road, Shangxi Road and Xiaxi Road, which belong to the jurisdiction of Wanquan Command Division.

After Zhou Zhong came to Xuanfu Town, it was like a dragon entering the sea, every day he was either lingering in the flower street of Xuanfu, or he took his own ears to the guards around Xuanfu to inspect and check, and he did not identify himself, every time he went without prior notice, he would pull others to chat when he saw ordinary soldiers, and when it was time to eat, he ate directly in the guard, and like those ordinary soldiers, he was holding a sea bowl the size of a person's head, and the bowl was either corn porridge or sweet potato porridge, plus a few pickles and a steamed bun, Although the food is very simple, Zhengde doesn't care at all, because this is the life he dreams of.

But Zhengde is a person who has no longevity, he stayed in Xuanfu for nearly a month, and suddenly felt that the life of Xuanfu was a little boring, after all, Xuanfu belongs to the border town, it is not particularly prosperous, the only thing that makes Zhengde feel fresh is that there are many Mongolians here, some are desperate on the grassland to return to the Ming Dynasty, and some are to come to Xuanfu to do business, after all, many materials on the grassland need to be traded with the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty also needs horses, cattle and sheep on the grassland.

Zhengde soon felt a little bored with the life of Xuanfu, and even felt that he couldn't even find a fun place, which made him feel very bored, so in this case, Zhengde decided to go to other places, such as some border towns around Xuanfu, maybe there will be some interesting things, and it is late autumn now, this time in previous years is the time when the grassland people go south, if you can meet the grassland people to go south, it would be better, after all, Zhengde wants to fight is already crazy.

Speaking of Zhengde, it is ridiculous enough to come to Xuanfu from the capital to inspect, but now he not only does not stay in Xuanfu well, but also runs out to wander around, and even wants to fight with the grassland people.

Zhengde is still very disciplined, he knows that the generals of the Ming Dynasty generally cannot leave their stations without authorization, and if they want to control the army outside, then they must have a proper name, so Zhengde added an official position to himself, that is, "the Governor of Military Affairs Mighty General Military Officer General Military Officer of the Ming Dynasty

Zhengde is also very satisfied with the official position he has given himself, and he also plans to regularize this official position, so he also asked people to go to the Ministry of Officials for the record, and also prescribed the grade and Yulu for himself, but after the news reached the capital, the ministers in the court were crying and laughing, but there was no way.

After Zhengde gave himself an official position, he also had a reason to go out to investigate, so in a crisp autumn weather, he left Xuanfu with a cavalry of 2,000 people and began to inspect several border towns around, and his first stop was Datong Town, which was located in the west of Xuanfu Town.

Speaking of Zhengde's luck is really good, just when he just came to Datong Mansion, and stationed in a guard called Yang Hewei, ready to start his Datong inspection tour with this as the center, but suddenly received the news that the little prince of Tatar led the troops to the south again, this time it was still leading 50,000 steppe cavalry, it seems that the defeat of Xuanfu in the ninth year of Zhengde did not make the steppe people die, and now after a few years of recuperation, the Tatars have regained their strength again, ready to be ashamed, but this time the little prince of Tatar has learned a lesson, did not dare to go south from Xuanfu, which suffered a big loss last time, but chose Datong Mansion next to Xuanfu.

The reason why Zhengde left the capital and came to the border town, the biggest wish is to be able to fight with the grassland people, so he chose to leave the capital in early autumn, and when he came to Xuanfu, it happened to be the day when the grassland people went south, but he waited in Xuanfu for more than half a month, but he has not waited for the grassland people who went south, originally he thought that the grassland people would not go south again this year, but he did not expect to encounter such a big surprise here in Datong.

finally waited for such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhengde naturally would not give up, so he immediately issued an order to Wang Xun, the chief soldier of Datong, in the name of his own governor-general, the mighty general of military affairs, and took over the military affairs of the entire Datong, that is, from this time on, the entire army of Datong will be under the command of His Majesty, the emperor.

Wang Xun is also a veteran, he has been fighting with the Mongols all the year round, he naturally knows the power of the little Tatar prince, originally in recent years, their army has added a lot of new weapons, and the money, food and military salary are also very sufficient, which makes the combat power of the border army greatly increased, so even if the little Tatar prince personally led the troops to come, he was not afraid at all, even if he couldn't win, but he would definitely be able to block the other party out of Datong.

But now it's good, an order from His Majesty the Emperor directly deprived him of his command, although he heard that Emperor Zhengde likes martial arts, but the other party has not been on the battlefield after all, let alone know how to fight, and what's worse is that the strength of Datong Mansion is not superior, and if you want to let the surrounding border troops come to the rescue, I'm afraid time can't wait. As soon as he thought that Zhengde, the first brother on the battlefield, was going to fight against the little prince of Tatar, a guy who had fought for many years, Wang Xun felt a sense of weakness, and even said unceremoniously that he didn't believe that Zhengde could defeat the little prince of Tatar at all.

Sure enough, as Wang Xun expected, after Zhengde took over the command of the army, the first order almost made him vomit blood in anger, because Zhengde actually asked him to gather Datong's army, go north to meet the enemy, and take the initiative to start a field battle with the little Tatar prince.

For Zhengde's unknown order, Wang Xun is also angry and angry, after all, their Datong army is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, even if it is plus the surrounding guards, it is only more than 40,000 people, although the strength is not much different from the grassland people, but you must know that the Ming army is infantry, and the grassland people are cavalry, although their Datong army has also increased a lot of firearms, but use infantry to fight with cavalry on the plain, that is not looking for death?

However, no matter how unwilling Wang Xun was, he did not dare to disobey the military order, not to mention that this military order was personally sent by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so in desperation, Wang Xun could only order the assembly of Datong's army, plus the army of the surrounding guards, a total of nearly 40,000 people were gathered, and the rest of the army was in front, and it was impossible to withdraw at all.

40,000 infantry against 50,000 steppe cavalry, even if there is firearms to help, but if there is no city as a defense, there is not much chance of victory, unless Zhou Zhong invented the machine gun, and then equips Wang Xun with a machine gun company, and then supplies enough ammunition, in this way, the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Tatars are just sent to death, but this is obviously impossible.

In fact, Jiang Bin, who has been with him, also disagrees with Zhengde's order to let Wang Xun take the initiative to send troops to meet the grassland people, although Jiang Bin's character is not very good, but he is a rare general, plus he spent a period of time in the military academy, during which he learned a lot of the art of war, so when it comes to marching and fighting, he is also a first-class general of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he also knew that Zhengde let Wang Xun take the initiative to attack, which was like sending him to death.

However, Zhengde on the battlefield showed his decisive side, and he didn't pay attention to Jiang Bin's words at all, but insisted on letting Wang Xun lead the troops to attack, not because Zhengde was too reckless, but because he also ambushed his backhand.

In October of the twelfth year of Zhengde, when Wang Xun's army just arrived in Yingzhou, he finally met with the 50,000 army of the little prince of Tatar, if it was placed in peacetime, Wang Xun would definitely enter Yingzhou City, with the help of the fortification of the city wall to consume the strength of the grassland people, but this time he brought 40,000 people, Yingzhou was small, and there were thousands of defenders in the city, which could not accommodate Wang Xun's 40,000 army at all, and Zhengde's order was to let him take the initiative to fight with the grassland people, not to let him borrow the city to hold on.

In this case, Wang Xun had no choice but to set up a position under Yingzhou City to meet 50,000 grassland cavalry. When the little prince of Tatar came to Yingzhou with his army, he saw that the army of tens of thousands of people on the other side was ready to fight with them, which also made him a little confused, even if he was defeated by the army of Xuanfu last time, it was they who attacked the city first, and when they were demoralized for a long time, they were defeated by the later Ming reinforcements, but now the army of Datong is directly fighting with them outside the city. rs