"General, Vice General Zhu has something to ask to see!"

"Let him in!" Cao Yue, who was writing a plan with a candle in his tent, heard the report of the pro-soldiers that the deputy general Zhu Yang asked to see him, and after being stunned for a while, he still ordered the pro-soldiers to bring Zhu Yang in.

It was already night, and it was freezing cold, except for the sergeants who were on patrol at night, the other soldiers basically hid in warm barracks or tents to sleep. Cao Yue thought about it, Zhu Yang came to see him at this time, is there anything important?

"I've seen the chief soldier," Zhu Yang saluted Cao Yue respectfully after coming in with a cold air.

"Vice General Zhu, please take a seat," Cao Yue smiled and motioned for Zhu Yang to sit down opposite him, and asked very politely: "I don't know if Vice General Zhu asked to see him in the middle of the night, what is the important thing to report?" ”

"There is something very important to tell the chief soldier," Zhu Yang said, looking left and right vigilantly.

Looking at Zhu Yang's demeanor, combined with what he had gained during this time, Cao Yue faintly guessed a little, and immediately retreated. "Vice General Zhu, it's just you and me now, just say anything you want!"

"Lord General Soldier, Deputy General Soldier Wu is ready to play to the court, saying that you are preparing to rebel by recruiting soldiers and horses, and he also wants to win over the lowly position to play a joint performance, but the lowly position refuses. Please also ask the chief soldier to be careful, according to the humble understanding, Deputy General Wu is collecting evidence during this time!"

Hearing Zhu Yang say this, Cao Yue's heart suddenly surged with indescribable anger, grandma is a bear, she works hard to train the army, she just wants to train a team of men and horses who can fight well, eliminate foreign captives and internal strife, and return the world to peace, I never thought of rebellion and self-reliance, and I didn't show any meaning in this regard. It was too much for this new deputy chief soldier Wu Ming to frame himself like this.

Seeing Cao Yue's face full of anger, Zhu Yang was overjoyed, knowing that Cao Yue had not inquired about this matter, and his whistleblowing today would play a decisive role in this incident. At the moment, he told him in more detail what he knew, of course, he pushed everything on Wu Ming's head, he didn't have any involvement, and after he knew the news, he reported it to Cao Yue as soon as possible.

Cao Yue didn't say anything, just said that he would personally investigate the matter and asked Zhu Yang to keep quiet.

After Zhu Yang said goodbye and left, another deputy general, Gao Gao, went outside the account to ask for a meeting.

After HD came in, he reported the same content as Zhu Yang, and Cao Yue didn't have any suspicions, and after sending HD out of the account, he immediately arranged it and closely monitored Wu Ming, the deputy chief soldier. At the same time, Cao Yue also sent Cao Neng to leave Datong early tomorrow morning and go to Beijing.

Cao Yue could not determine whether Wu Ming had reported the false accusation to the imperial court, and he had to respond in time.

He sent Cao Neng to Beijing to find Wang Chengen, told him about the matter, and then gave him a generous gift.

Cao Yue also asked Cao Neng to find a way to find Princess Zhu Yujiao of Kunxing and ask her to help, in case this matter really fermented, let her defend him in front of Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou. Cao Yue personally wrote a letter to Zhu Yuanjiao, and he believed that Zhu Yuanjiao would help him.

After making arrangements, Cao Yue continued to lead the sergeant to train skiing.

The weather in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen was strange, before August, there was a great drought in the world, and many rivers were cut off. At the end of July and the beginning of August, there were continuous torrential rains. In winter, cold waves follow one after another, and heavy snow falls continuously.

After the first heavy snowfall of the winter, the weather has only cleared for two days, and before the snow has melted, another heavy snowfall has begun to fall.

Because the money and food for the winter are all ready, and the armory workshop has been producing at full capacity, and the heavy snow has continued to fall, Cao Yue did not feel any disgust, but was a little lucky. On such days, don't worry too much about foreign enemies, including Jiannu and Li Zicheng's peasant army.

He can also take a few days to relax, not like he just came to Datong, busy like a spinning top, the weather brought him some leisure. However, Cao Yue was not a person who liked to be idle, and the training of recruits could not be carried out according to the normal plan, but he also ordered the ministers to continue training if conditions permitted, and not to slack off.

Cao Yue did quite well prepare for wintering. After arriving in Datong, he "extorted" 500,000 taels of silver from the Wang Pu family, the former chief soldier of Datong, according to the hint of Emperor Chongzhen, to serve as military salaries, and even deceived him into asking for 200,000 stone of grain from the Wang family. The "extortion" from the Wang family alone is enough for an army of 50,000 for almost two months. Coupled with his original savings in exchange for war booty, as well as his family's contributions, Cao Yue's current hoarding of money and food is enough for the army under his command for about half a year.

The only thing lacking in the army is winter clothes, after all, the time is too rushed, even if Cao Yue has money, he can't buy more than 50,000 sets of winter clothes at once, so he can only solve it slowly, or distribute silver, and let the sergeants find a way to buy it themselves.

When the cold wave hit, although some sergeants in the army were injured due to freezing, the problem of winter clothing has been basically solved.

All this, thanks to the strong support of the Cao family, without the support of his own family, Cao Yue would not be able to solve these problems smoothly.

However, after the year, some members of the Cao family will go to Nanjing, including Cao Yue's mother and brother, and the support that the family can give will be reduced, and he will have to find a way to solve the follow-up needs by himself. Cao Yue was not worried about this, because he had already thought of many ways to solve military needs.

There was no need to worry about this a few years ago, and Cao Yue also focused most of his energy on training his family troops to ski and use skis to march and fight. After the military affairs are dealt with, he will take his family troops out of the city to train skiing.

In addition to the Jiading troops, the 300-strong quasi-special forces personally selected by Cao Yue also began to train skiing.

However, these 300 people were not trained by Cao Yue himself, but were handed over to Cao Jie. Cao Jie is the general of the first battalion, and the 300-strong quasi-special forces belong to the first battalion, and Cao Jie is responsible for ordinary training affairs.

After Cao Yue came to Datong, he went to inspect all the guards in Datong, and some of the fortresses and piers also went to. When he led the Jiading troops to train skiing, he also took the opportunity to inspect the guards and fortresses outside Datong City.

Cao Yue also found a lot of problems during the inspection, mainly because the sergeants were unprepared in this weather situation and did not send people to patrol. Now that it is a troubled time, Datong is a place where both the Jiannu and the peasant army are likely to attack, and Cao Yue does not want to cause trouble because of carelessness. Therefore, after discovering problems during the inspection, he issued an order that all guards should not slack off because of the weather, and he would raid random inspections at any time.

On this day, Cao Yue took advantage of the time when he took the family to train the troops to ski, inspected several guards and fortresses near the Great Wall, and the results were quite satisfactory.

At the end of the inspection, Cao Yue led his troops to retreat along the line of the Great Wall, and when they were about to return to Datong, when they were turning over an abandoned castle, a sharp-eyed soldier suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted: "Lord Commander, there is a situation, there is a large group of cavalry over there!"

After hearing the reminder of the soldiers, Cao Yue immediately took out his homemade binoculars to check the situation. But they saw that about a few miles away from where they were staying, a group of cavalry of at least several thousand men was stepping on the snow and slowly coming in this direction.