Hearing that Zhang Ru asked Fan Tong to take 300 people to stay, Wang Zhou was the first to stand up and object: "No, general, General Fan is reckless, take 300 people to stay, I'm afraid I can't stop the footsteps of the Tartars." ”

Fan Tong's eyes glared: "Wang Xiaozi, what are you doing when you are full, Lao Tzu is reckless, do you want to compare!" ”

Jiang Wei persuaded and said: "You two don't talk nonsense, the commander has his own opinions." ”

Zhang Ru didn't bother to explain, and told Fan Tongdao: "You can choose the three hundred people yourself, but these three hundred people will be handed over to you, and you must bring these three hundred people back to me completely, otherwise you won't go back to see me." ”

It's a bit heavy, but if you don't say that, I'm afraid that Fan Tong will really not take it to heart.

As time passed, the sense of trust between each other became stronger and stronger, and Fan Tong, a reckless man in the rivers and lakes, had a stronger sense of belonging to the army. This is a good thing, but it is also a bad thing.

The good thing is that he will not deviate from Zhang Ru at a critical time, and the bad thing is that he is a man who is not too old at this age, and he always exudes a reckless atmosphere that is difficult to refuse. It's only been a few days since they came out, and many of Jinyiwei's little brothers have been taken by Fan Tong into bandits and bandits.

After making strategic arrangements, Zhang Ru led the army back, and in order to avoid being discovered, they walked all the way. Ten miles of land was enough for the deaf and discerning Tatars to hear the sound of horses' hooves, so they did not dare to use horses.

After returning to the col and marking the pass, Zhang Ru led the people to start crossing the short col.

As soon as he came out of the mountain pass, he sneezed several times in a row, and after touching his nose inexplicably, he muttered: "Which bastard who doesn't know whether he lives or dies is scolding Lao Tzu." ”

The soldiers, who were all looking forward to the war and a little nervous, couldn't help but feel relieved after hearing the commander's words, and the tense atmosphere became a lot more relaxed.

The bastard who didn't know whether he was alive or dead was going crazy in Datong Mansion at the moment, and Yang Rong, the general soldier of Datong who was of the same rank as him but of different levels, sat down and was silent, and several generals of Datong and Xuanfu did not dare to raise their eyelids to look at him.

"Nonsense, all of them are messing around, he is the governor of the nine sides, but he is not a small fish and shrimp, he ran out with three thousand people, and he was going to die. Yang Rong, don't you know how dangerous the battlefield is? Don't you all know how important he is? Zhang An slapped the table and shouted hoarsely.

There are some consensus between him and Zhang Ru, although he can't say it, but Zhang Ru's identity is very important, with him, he doesn't need to appear on the front line of the war, he doesn't need to command the troops to fight, just poke into the Datong Mansion, and the morale of the Daming border army can grow a lot.

Morale is something you can't see or touch, but it's a powerful weapon that determines the final outcome of the war.

Throughout the ages, I don't know how many wars have been won because of the existence of a famous general, and those emperors who have personally conquered may not be famous generals who can fight well, but they can make hundreds of people burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness in the face of enemies several times their size.

Everything is because of hope.

The hope of living, the hope of becoming an official and a knight, and the hope of defending the country!

Everyone was scolded by Zhang An silently, Yang Rong wanted to bite the bullet and talk to this unreasonable Xuanfu general, but he was the general of the town, and he was just the general of Zhengzitou.

"Send someone to contact the Governor immediately, and implore him to come back and preside over the overall situation." Zhang An finally ordered.

The content of his discussion with Zhang Ru did not include the fact that the two stunned men ran to the rear of the enemy with 3,000 people. He regretted it a little now, he shouldn't have let the demon king of the mixed world who gave countless second- and third-grade masters a headache in the capital to come to Datong first.

If it weren't for the fact that he admired this young man's heart to serve the country with his fists, Zhang An would not have bothered to care about his life or death. But the key is that now in the emperor's heart, the status of this young general who is less than 20 years old is very important, if something happens to this person, he, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, is afraid that he will not be able to escape the catastrophe.

When Yang Rong heard this, the whole person was stunned, and said in his heart that the world outside Datong Mansion is not big or small, this vast wilderness, where do you let me find someone?

Ma Xuan, who made an exception to participate in this military meeting, asked Yang Rong what he was thinking: "Where to find it?" ”

Zhang An said angrily: "No matter where you go to find it, in short, you must find the commander." If the Governor makes any mistakes, there will be no good fruit to eat in this battle, whether we win or lose. In the future, after the one in the East Palace ascends the throne, it will be the time for me to die. ”

The last sentence made everyone feel a little frightened.

Oh, yes! Zhang Ru, the governor of the Nine Sides, is not only a young man valued by His Majesty today, but also a person who has been born and died with the crown prince.

The people below immediately began to mobilize, with more or less panicked looks on their faces, only Ma Xuan was very indifferent.

Zhang An saw it in his eyes and quietly asked Ma Xuan to stay.

Yang Rong's eyes flashed with suspicion, but he didn't ask what was going on.

After everyone left, Zhang An stared at Ma Xuan's eyes and asked, "Do you know where the commander is?" ”

Ma Xuan shook his head and said, "I don't even know the deputy marshal, how can I know about a small captain of the guard." The commander never explains to the people below when he does things, and if the deputy marshal wants to ask this question, he should ask General Yang. ”

Zhang An smiled: "The old man doesn't need to ask Yang Rong, the old man only needs to ask you." If you know the whereabouts of the commander, let someone tell the commander that Zhang An will not be able to win this battle without him in Datong. ”

Ma Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "The deputy marshal is trying to threaten the commander!" ”

Zhang Anpi said with a smile: "What about threats, if that kid can make such a foolish decision, he won't want my old man to give him some eye medicine." ”

He grasped Zhang Ru's eagerness to win this battle, and used this battle to threaten the young commander who had now reached the heart of the enemy army.

Ma Xuan spread his hands: "Forgive me, the last general can't contact the governor now, he was in Yajiao Mountain a few days ago, but he should not be there now." As for where the commander went, even Shi Lei, the new guard of Yajiao Mountain, didn't know, let alone the captain of the general guard, who had never left Datong Mansion an inch. ”

Zhang An waved his hand to show that he didn't want to hear his explanation: "No matter what method you use, just convey my meaning to the commander." ”

Ma Xuan said helplessly: "Okay! I try my best! ”

Where Zhang Ru is, if someone in Datong Mansion knows, then this person must be Ma Zhang. The reason why he refused to tell Zhang An anything was because he was defensive of Zhang An in his heart.

He didn't want the Governor to be happy on the battlefield, and the enemy didn't let the Governor lie down, but his own people suddenly came out and stabbed him in the heart.

After returning to his residence, Ma Xuan opened the mechanism of the bedroom very carefully, and after entering the mechanism, through an underground passage that was two miles long, he successfully reached the outside of Datong Mansion.

Here, there are Wang Zhou's people waiting.

After writing a few words on a slip of paper, he stuffed the note into the bamboo tube, watched as the two people who rode the clouds sealed the bamboo tube with wax and tied it to the feet of a goshawk, and watched the goshawk fly away, and then re-entered the tunnel and returned to his residence.

I have to say that although the number of people in the Soaring Cloud Rider built by Wang Yiyi is not large, his ability to do things is still very good.

In this year, seventy percent of the silver that Xie Lun's God of Wealth got was taken away by Wang Zhou, an unkind boy. Of course, this is also not unrelated to Zhang Ru's emphasis on the intelligence system.

Zhang An sent people to stare at Ma Zhou after he said goodbye and left, and those people stared outside Wang Zhou's house, but after staring for a day, they didn't find anything wrong with Wang Zhou.

After going back to report, Zhang An's brows were about to twist into knots.

He is really worried about Zhang Ru now.

A nine-sided governor may be nothing to the Ming Dynasty, but this time it was the decision made by the nine-sided governor and the general army of the three towns to fight against the order of the military department. The reason why the soldiers were in high spirits was because of the young Governor of the Nine Sides.

Today, the Governor of the Nine Sides is not in Datong.

Although Zhang An himself is a veteran of the Rongma Frontier, it is naturally not a problem to order the soldiers of Xuanfu, but without Zhang Ru's suppression, he wants to order the soldiers of Datong, but I am afraid that it will be difficult.

Not to mention the people who have a bad relationship with Yang Rong, the chief soldier of Datong, Li Ming, the general soldier of Jizhen, they came to Datong, if they can obey Yang Rong's orders, it would be strange.

If this is the case, there is no need for the Tatars to attack, but I am afraid that there will be contradictions within the Ming border army.

It is obviously not enough to raise the name of Zhang Ru, only when he sits in Datong, Zhang An can give orders to the soldiers and horses of several towns, and the name of these orders needs to be issued in the name of the governor of the nine sides.

The speed of the goshawk is faster than the speed of the cavalry, and the messenger sent by Zhang Ru has not yet arrived in Datong, and the secret letter sent by Wang Zhou has already arrived on the battlefield with the goshawk.

At this time, Zhang Ru led 3,000 cavalry to successfully go around the back of the Tatar army that was still in Tucheng, and this looted village temporarily became the foothold of the Ming army.

There are not many words on the note, only a few: Zhang Ananxious, return to Datong quickly.

"Jiang Wei, what do you think?" Zhang Ru handed the note to Jiang Wei and asked.

Jiang Wei looked at it and sneered: "General, we are coarse, and we really don't know what to do." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Fan Tong.

Fan Tong didn't even bother to read the letter, so he waved his hand directly and said: "Old Jiang, your head was kicked by a horse, Lao Tzu is thicker than you, how can you know." ”

Jiang Wei sighed and said, "It would be good if Yang Ting and that kid were here, if he was there, he would definitely be able to give the general an idea." ”

Zhang Ru burned the note and said with a smile: "It's okay, don't worry about Zhang An, just do what we should do, I believe that it won't be long before your old guy will not worry about letting me go back." ”