The next day, the 10,000 soldiers who had already been prepared and were only waiting for the commander to take the position and set off.

These 10,000 soldiers were respectively 3,000 elites from the four martial arts camps of Fen, Yao, Lian, and Xian; The four brave battalions of dare, decisiveness, effectiveness, and drumming were dispatched with 3,000 people; 3,000 people were dispatched from the four Wei battalions of Li, Shen, Yang and Zhen; In addition, 1,000 officers and men of the Shenji Battalion were armed with long and short guns, carrying portable artillery to follow the brigade.

The 10,000 horses of the whole army brought their own dry rations for three days, went into battle lightly, and galloped quickly to Datong.

The scale of this oath was not grand, only a few officials from the Ministry of Rites came forward to preside, and the emperor did not even show his face. Claiming that the dragon was unwell was actually to confuse Li Min and his party.

Three days later, the exhausted army arrived at Xuanfu on time, and Zhang An, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, personally went out of the city ten miles to greet him. Such treatment is rare in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Zhang Ru's title is not on his body, he is just a temporary general, and he doesn't need Zhang An, the chief soldier, to come forward to greet him.

Among the nine important towns, Zhang An, the head general of the town, can be said to be invincible. This is also why Emperor Zhu Youzhu and his courtiers were so ambiguous in their attitude towards Zhang An.

Zhang An was ordered to guard the Xuanfu, and swore as early as the Chenghua period that he would never take half a step out of the Xuanfu until he had to do so, unless he died.

In this case, Zhang An is willing to wait for the dispatch, then he will be able to leave the Xuanfu, because things have reached the point of last resort. If Zhang An is unwilling to go out, it is the emperor's holy decree, and he can not go out. Otherwise, he directly took out the oath in front of the former emperor and said things, and no one was willing to bear the responsibility of disrespecting the former emperor.

"Wenxuan, long time no see." Zhang An gave Zhang Ru a bear hug and said with a smile.

Zhang Ru pinched the muscles on Zhang An's shoulder with his hand, and said with a smile: "Zhang Shuai's body has not decreased back then!" Wen Xuan is no longer a young maniac, and it is a great honor to be able to greet the general soldier. ”

Zhang An's eyes widened, and he raised his hand and slapped Zhang Ru on the shoulder: "Do you think our two masters still have to be so sour and greeting." You don't feel uncomfortable, my coarse man is not very comfortable. ”

"Okay, don't talk about those useless anymore, let's go." The two walked side by side, stepped on horseback together, and walked towards Xuanfu Guancheng.

After walking a short distance, Zhang An asked: "You have worked hard enough this way, why is the court willing to use you as a general?" I thought it would be Zhu Yongqu's old horseman coming, but I didn't expect it to be you, the kid. ”

Zhang Ru smiled bitterly: "Uncle Zhang is polite, how the kid is doing in the capital, it has already been mentioned in the letter. Don't scold me with these bullshit, I don't have much choice, if I can, the ghost is willing to come to this bitter cold place to suffer. ”

"To say that you kid is not kind is not kind, and Zhu Yong's old guy is not necessarily very kind. He is about the same age as me, Lao Tzu suffers at the border every day, and I don't see Lao Tzu say that his body is not good, and he enjoys happiness in the capital, but he has learned to complain about suffering. The problem of those sour scholars is really unbelievable. Zhang An seemed casual, but in fact he said it intentionally.

Zhang Ru said: "No matter what, the boy still has to bear the love of Baoguogong." No, if it weren't for the fact that Baoguo Gong couldn't get sick, it wouldn't be the turn of the kid to come here! If I don't come, you won't be able to scold me. ”

Zhang An said angrily: "Bullshit, if Lao Tzu really wants to leave Xuanfu, will anyone still say that he can't do it!" The bunch of rabbit cubs in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were basically brought out by me and Zhu Yong, so I don't believe they will be white-eyed wolves. Even if they are contaminated with the pedantic atmosphere of those sour scholars in the capital, if Lao Tzu knows the capital, they have to honestly call the general.

It's you kid, if you have anything to do, you are called by an old man, be careful when Lao Tzu gets mad one day, let the 100,000 soldiers of Xuanfu pick you off and hang the flagpole. ”

Zhang Ru flicked the horse's head, left the distance between Zhang An's two horses, and said with a frightened face: "I'm all mixed up like this bird, you can't bully me anymore." ”

Zhang An rolled his eyes and said disdainfully: "You kid is so clever, and you are afraid of the old people in the capital who only know how to drop their bookbags, and the sun hasn't hit the west today!" ”

Zhang Ru laughed, turned the horse's head and returned to its original position: "The parents of the one who gave birth to me, and General Zhang who knows me." Some time ago, I had a miserable time, and I was cold in front of the door, and I almost didn't marry a businesswoman. Fortunately, when I thought of your voice and smile, the kid gritted his teeth and stood up. ”

Zhang An raised his horsewhip, and the whip whistled in the air and made a sharp sound. He opened his mouth wide, revealing a mouthful of yellowed teeth: "You kid really didn't open the roof for three days, and gave Lao Tzu some points." Return the mother's voice and smile, Lao Tzu is not dead, you are waiting to recall Lao Tzu's voice and smile. ”

This is what Zhang Ru said, if another person said this, Zhang An might have been whipped a long time ago. He saw that this young man was eclectic about tastes and the other party's style of acting, which was very similar to him. When he saw Zhang Ru, he was like seeing when he was young, so he couldn't be angry with Zhang Ru at all.

In addition, the turmoil in the capital some time ago was indeed vigorous, although he believed that Zhang Ru had the strength to deal with it, but he was really worried for a long time.

Therefore, even if Zhang Ru said the wrong thing, Zhang An couldn't be angry.

The wicked man returned to Xuanfu Guancheng, hundreds of cavalry at the gate of the city held waist knives, and sat on horseback with straight waists.

Zhang Ru's ability, the most clear is the three thousand Xuanfu veterans who were once sent to the front line of Datong by him. After the First World War, three of the three thousand veterans remained, and these three adults have been sparing no effort to promote Zhang Ru's good fighting since they came back.

Therefore, whether they have been in it or have never seen Zhang Ru himself, especially the Xuanfu border army, many of them worship Zhang Ru very much.

It is a kind of worship of the weak for the strong, and it has nothing to do with Zhang Ru's title and official position.

The border army is bitter, holding less income than the Beijing army, and doing things that lose their heads.

The border army is good at fighting, even if it is the most courageous Fenwu battalion in the Beijing army, on the battlefield, it may not be able to withstand the impact of the elite of the border army with Huihe.

The border army is uneven, and every year there are always more recruits killed in battle than old soldiers, and the number of old soldiers is decreasing sharply every year.

In general, the border army is a respectable existence.

Therefore, when the 10,000 horses passed by the hundreds of elite soldiers of the Xuanfu, they raised their weapons in their hands and raised them into the air.

After entering the city, he entered the General Soldier's Mansion, and his butt didn't touch the stool, Zhang Ru couldn't wait to say his thoughts: "General, put aside the chatter in advance, let's talk about the battle situation."

Now the situation on the front line is unknown, I don't know if the general knows where Yang Rong is now, and how many Datong fortresses are still in the hands of my Daming? ”

Zhang An quipped: "You kid is still so hot." ”

Zhang Ru sighed: "The military situation is urgent, and there is no room for hanging children!" ”

Zhang Anzheng said: "The situation in Datong is not optimistic, and in the past few days, Baobao Fort, Yichuan Fort, Ninglu Fort, and Zhenchuan Fort have been connected. All of these forts were captured after the scheme. In the last three days, the Tatar armies have not moved, and there is a strange thing about it.

The right guard of Datong retreated to the place where the left guard of Datong was, and Yang Hewei simply came and surrendered without a fight.

This time, the commander of the enemy army seems to know the arrangement of troops in the border town of Datong, and there is a place where our Ming border army haunts, and there must be no Tatar army.

They disguised themselves and took the opportunity to destroy the logistics supply line after entering the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. However, compared to the previous Tatars, this time the Tatars are much gentler, and they will never kill people if they can not kill killers. Sometimes they would rather lose a few more men themselves than give up the opportunity to be captured.

Yang Rong is now nesting in Lei Gong Mountain, and the deputy chief soldier Ma Xuan is hiding in Datong Mansion City.

Shanxi Xingdu Division sent people to ask for help many times, but I ignored it and just sent someone to send a letter back to Beijing. Without the order of the capital, the army of more than 10,000 people in my Xuanfu will never move. ”

"Hey, it seems that I raised a tiger for a problem. I didn't expect this kid to be silent when he was in the capital, and he had such great courage. Zhang Ru said with some annoyance.

He thought that after his accident, Ma Xuan might have a small EEG movement, and he thought that Nanjing Wei Guogong might write a book to intercede for himself for the sake of his former friendship. I even thought that Fan Tong, who was in Fuzhou, might throw away the mess in Fuzhou and run back to the capital, but I didn't think that Tu Hu would blatantly choose to attack the Ming border at this juncture.

"Anyway, if I know you from the house, I'll keep it for you, what do you want, that's your own business." Zhang An said with a smile.

The person he said was not Tuhu, who had an army of 200,000 Tatars, who could attack the border of the Ming Dynasty and retreat to the vast steppe. No matter how arrogant he Zhang An is, it is impossible to say that he kept Tu Hu for Zhang Ru.

Ma Xuan hid in Datong Mansion City, which in itself was not what a border army general should do. Zhang An knew that Ma Xuan was Zhang Ru's person, so he left Ma Xuan and let Zhang Ru decide for himself.

If not, wouldn't the more than 100,000 troops of Xuanfu still go to Xuanfu to teach Ma Xuan a good lesson?

On the sixth day of the fifth month of the third year of Hongzhi, Zhang An and Zhang Ru led an army of 100,000 to arrive at Datong Fucheng.

The gate of the city was closed, and the soldiers in the city saw the banner, and did not open the gate at the first time, but shouted and asked: "Who is the old man!" ”

At the same time, hundreds of archers were already ready around the shouting general.

Zhang Ruce stepped forward immediately, and just reined in the horse's head at a safe distance: "Ma Zhang, your kid is a good man, Lao Tzu is here, you dare not even open the city gate." ”

The guard general saw that it was a young general, with red tassels fluttering on his black armor, and he frowned and scolded: "What kind of thing are you, you dare to insult my deputy marshal." ”

Zhang Ru said angrily: "You are not qualified to talk to me, let that kid Ma Xuan get out of here." Let's just say that Zhang Wenxuan is here, he doesn't appear within a stick of incense, and Lao Tzu will beat him to death. ”

Zhang Wenxuan's name, the general had heard of it, and immediately shuddered, he stopped talking, and turned around to find Ma Xuan.