"What the hell is going on with this Mongolian Tartar, entrenched in the border area, advancing or not advancing, retreating or retreating, every day with a small force of cavalry continues to go deep into the interior, and like to walk in a group, away from the city is also far away, as soon as our foot soldiers go up, they will be far away, although the summer harvest has been completed, but the people in the interior can not all run to the city, right? After all, with so much land, the sweet potatoes planted should always be taken care of! ”

Maybe no one is more depressed now than Wei Shugui, the prefect of Datong Prefecture, because the Ming army's offensive in Mongolian Tatars and Xuanhua Town has been contained, after all, the main force of the entire Shenwu Army and the Tiger Wing Army has come up, and there are more than fifteen infantry battalions and five cavalry battalions on the front line.

But what makes people desperate is that there are many Mongolian Tartar cavalry, they are twenty or thirty thousand people, and they don't fight with the Qin army at all, even if they encounter the cavalry under the command of the Qin army, they also rely on horsepower to flee quickly, and the cavalry of the Qin army with a smaller number can only passively carry out key protection and attack in the border area, so that the arrogance of the Mongols will be brought out, although they dare not fight, but like the water of the Yellow River, they loot the villages and towns where the Qin army's defense is weak, fortunately, the Qin army was prepared first. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Mongols did not pose much of a threat, but even so, two or three villages and towns were broken, and the Mongols looted the local area, killing the local people and the defenders before the Qin reinforcements arrived.

Even if the cavalry battalion of the Qin army caught a small group of Mongolian Tatars who were left alone to strike, they still couldn't frighten the Mongolian Tatar cavalry who wanted to loot the interior, they wanted to grab enough food for the winter at one time, although Datong Town was heavily guarded, but it couldn't stand the Mongols.

"This kind of thing, you can't be in a hurry, don't you know that we lack cavalry, even if we set up ambushes everywhere, we can't kill or injure many Mongolian Tartars?" Zheng Renbao is also helpless, the best way to deal with the cavalry is the cavalry, but the other three cavalry brigades that came up with reinforcements are still on the road for the time being, and he can't send the two-legged ones to pursue the four-legged ones.

"That's the reason, we can't act rashly, although there are six or seven thousand people in the five cavalry battalions plus one piece, but except for some of the elites, the rest are some new soldiers, used to fight the Mongol Tatars in the field, isn't that irresponsible to their own army? I don't want to do this kind of loss-making business. "Ning You also did not agree to immediately use the existing cavalry at hand to fight a decisive battle with the Mongols, if it was lost, wouldn't he let the Mongol Tatars continue to go deep into the interior and loot the place?

"What's the matter, the people have retreated into the city and fortress, safe and sound, but those Tartars have to loot the farmland every time they go, and everything in the field has to be robbed, so how can the people of Datong Mansion survive the winter?" Wei Shugui doesn't care how to fight militarily, he is only the prefect of Datong, which determines that he only thinks about the local Li people, of course, it is also appropriate to take care of the army's reaction, isn't he here to discuss with these people who can call the shots?

According to his meaning, it is best to take the initiative to attack and defeat one or two Mongolian Tatars, so that they feel that it is not worth doing so, but unfortunately, as soon as he said this, he saw that the generals present all smiled bitterly and shook their heads.

"What? If you allow the Tartars to wreak havoc like this, won't you mean that the local people will suffer alive? "Even if Wei Shugui is not a big deal in front of these people, he can only ask hard.

"Lord Wei, don't ask us if you keep coming, we are under the order of King Qin, because we must march into Xuanhua and even Jingshi in the next stage, so this time, we must completely hurt the Tartars, so that they dare not go east within a year, so some things are not easy to say too thoroughly!" Zheng Renbao looked at the anger held by the generals behind him, and could only say with a wry smile.

"What's the matter, and the inside story? But when you fight, you can't throw the common people to the Tartars to plague them, and besides, if you soldiers can't protect the place, then what do you want you to do? Uncle Wei glanced at them suspiciously, but seeing that Zheng Renbao refused to say it thoroughly, he was immediately anxious, he couldn't put him on the fire to roast, you must know that there are a lot of people who have crowded into Datong Mansion to petition these days, if he doesn't express his position, maybe he will be sued by the local superintendent of the imperial history, wronged or not!

"This matter, I couldn't say it originally, but now that the time limit has passed, and all the people present are the brigade leaders of the various armies, Lord Wei, you are not an outsider, you can also listen to it, don't spread it, otherwise the military law is ruthless, and you will have to blame it when the time comes." Zheng Renbao and Ning You looked at each other and smiled, and then sat back in their places and took a pot of tea and poured it for themselves.

"Governor Zheng, you are going to say it quickly, isn't this a rush to kill me?" Wei Shugui knew that he was going to tell the inside story, and secretly thought that he had finally given an explanation to the people below, so he urged hurriedly.

"Okay, I won't hide it from you, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has strictly ordered all the four brigades of the Second Cavalry Army to go north, and then we will have more than 20,000 people in fourteen cavalry battalions, and even no less than the Mongols in terms of cavalry, and now the temporary concession is just to prepare for a large-scale encirclement, and all these Tartar cavalry will be loaded into it, you think about it, once all the Mongolian cavalry is wiped out, then Lin Dan Khan will no longer have the strength to threaten us, this is the grand strategy set by the King of Qin, At the same time, it also involves the Hetao tribe to the west, which you don't know,"

Zheng Renbao simply said simply, originally these are the purpose of calling these people here today, that is, to carry out an active and containment counteroffensive, preparing to cooperate with the cavalry brigade from Yulin along the Great Wall north to carry out a counter-encirclement, and the two cavalry brigades from the east are also about to be in place, which determines that the big war will come soon.

"The problem now is, if the Mongol Tartars can't continue to move south a little longer, if we can't contain their main force, then they will soon retreat, this is twenty or thirty thousand cavalry, if they run away, who will bear this responsibility?" Ning You also came out to speak with a smile, and even smiled at Wei Shugui, and continued,

"The Mongol Tatars went deep into the interior, and the Ming army must have limited money and food to give them, if we make a strong wall and clear the wilderness, of course we can do it, our foot soldiers are arranged in an array, they don't even dare to rush, but take a detour from a distance, but in this way, what can we get? That is to get the escape of the Mongol Tartars, and it is a certainty. ”

"Yes, think about it, the Mongolian Tartars see that we are treating us seriously, they can't grab a piece of money and food, and they can't win the fight, in this case, the slightest hint of wind and grass, they will run away, these are all cavalry, so how do you let us catch them?" Zheng Renbao continued to explain, but soon his next words shocked everyone,

"But now it's okay, I've arranged people, deliberately spread the lack of food on the border, we are going to send people to send a large number of grain and grass to the border to replenish the news, this time I am ready to lure the snake out of the hole, first send the cavalry brigade in Datong to encircle and suppress the Mongolian Tartar cavalry in the west, so that they mistakenly think that our main cavalry are in the west, so that they dare to let go to do it, and the two cavalry brigades from the east will wait at the predetermined location, once the Mongolian Tartars dare to march to attack this batch of grain, then we will decisively close the door, In order to completely annihilate them in one fell swoop, the infantry battalions stationed in the north should also be sent south to participate in the encirclement and annihilation. ”

"What? Finally going to get real? "The generals below are overjoyed, and the turtles that have been pretending to be for so long are finally going to do it, who is not happy!

"We deliberately adjusted such a southerly route, and at the same time exposed the route to the Tartars to know, you must know that this is a full 50,000 stone of military rations, even according to the needs of the Mongolian Tartars for one person and one horse, it can support the needs of 10,000 horses for 100 days, and it is only 20,000 or 30,000 horses entering the customs, and it can also support its needs for a month, how can they not be tempted?" Zheng Renbao laughed, but the cold light revealed in his smile made people shudder, this time it was finally their turn to take the initiative.

"This time I decided to send a main battalion and 10,000 people in Datong out of the city, first to the south to the market town, and then to the east, ten miles to the east and ten miles to the south, there will be a well-prepared cavalry brigade at that time, and I also decided to send the cavalry battalions of our two armies to follow and protect ten miles to the west, and once the Mongol Tatars go south, let them come and go."

"But the governor, 50,000 stone army rations, only 1,500 men and horses are sent to garrison, if the Mongolian Tartars are in a hurry, our reinforcements will go late, even if they can't fight, they will have enough time to burn the grain and grass, isn't this using their own children to lure jackals?" The whole plan is good, as the so-called people die for money, birds die for food, and the Mongols go south for food and grass, how can they not be tempted by this amount of money and grain?

Moreover, the limited military strength of the Qin army has been exposed, coupled with the deliberate weakness, they have already fallen into the trap, and there will not be too many doubts at all, this time as long as they know and dare to go south, it will become a complete situation of closing the door and beating the dog.

"Military rations? What they have in the city is their meticulous work, and besides, a batch of military rations has really arrived at the south gate, and I ask them to transport them in every day, and after nightfall, they clean the city gate and go out of the city repeatedly, how many of them can know how many are coming? At that time, if you go north and expose it more, are you afraid that they will not be fooled? Zheng Renbao smiled confidently, he didn't care about anything else at all. (To be continued.) )