The next day, when they went to the guards to recruit soldiers, everyone had to join voluntarily, the old ones could not ask for them, the younger ones could not ask for them, the only sons could not ask for them, and the two brothers could not ask for them at the same time.

Three thousand soldiers, all of whom had been battle-hardened, many of whom had fought against the Tatars. These people are the real elite of the army, and they represent the strongest combat effectiveness in Xuanfu Town.

The organization of these people was reorganized and all reorganized, and after that, the team of 3,000 people took away 3,000 high-grade war horses from Xuanfu.

On the day of the expedition, more than 100,000 troops of Xuanfu saw off these strong men at the same time, these people were real warriors, and each of them chose to die generously.

No one thought that Zhang Ru's plan was safe, and no one thought that the three thousand strong men who would encounter the most elite Tatar iron cavalry would come back alive. Even when Zhang Ru told them that he would choose 3,000 people to go to the battlefield together, some people suspected that this young nobleman had a bad brain.

Those noble sons who don't take other people's lives in their eyes but attach great importance to their own lives, where would they make such a ridiculous decision as Zhang Ru.

When it was really practiced for these 3,000 warriors, the most ordinary Huotou army believed that this young governor of the Nine Sides was not a gentleman who was defeated by Jin Yuqi.

The army set out with only a small amount of dry food, and all the supplies were planned to be replenished after going to Datong.

In order to speed up the march, the army basically did not carry any baggage, and even the forage that the war horses needed to eat was replaced by Zhang Ru with those poor weeds in the wilderness.

The feeding of war horses is different from that of cattle and sheep, and the forage that all war horses eat is concentrate, which is mixed with soybeans, rice bran and other things. If the war horse does not eat these and eats only grass, it is very likely that it will be poured out directly without strength during a long-distance run.

A black line disappeared from view, and Zhang An watched these warriors leave, until he could no longer see a little flying dust, and then he ordered Sima in the army to prepare grain and grass and mobilize the army.

This time, the decision of the two can be said to be in the face of the world's disapproval, and they did not even listen to the orders of the military department.

However, two generals surnamed Zhang, one old and one young, chose this seemingly dead end road without hesitation when 300,000 Tatar iron horsemen were about to arrive in Datong.

No one knows what they think in their hearts, maybe as Zhang Ru said, as a man of the Ming Dynasty, even if he dies on the battlefield, at least he must do something for this hot land that gave birth to him and raised him.

Li Ming, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, received a private message from Zhang An two days later, and he summoned a group of henchmen to the White Tiger Festival Hall to discuss the matter, holding the letter paper in his hand, but his arm was trembling slightly.

A veteran who has just passed forty but has been sitting in the position of the chief soldier of Jizhen for nearly ten years, when he is upright and in the prime of life, he will definitely not have a situation that only old people can have. The only possibility is that what was said on the letter paper was too shocking to him.

Many of his generals thought so, and everyone stared at him, hoping that he could say something.

After a long time, after the atmosphere became a little stagnant, Li Ming handed the letter in his hand to Qiao Mu, the most trusted lieutenant: "You all take a look!" This is a private message from General Zhang Anzhang, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, and after reading it, everyone will talk about their opinions. ”

All the generals felt a little strange, the generals had never been in such a situation for so many years.

After reading the contents of the letter, Qiao Mu's face became solemn, and after handing the letter out, he pursed his lips tightly, not knowing how to speak.

It wasn't until everyone finished reading it that the atmosphere in the military tent, which was already somewhat stagnant, almost became a pool of stagnant water. Everyone was afraid to come out, as if time had just stopped.

Li Ming looked at the generals around him left and right, and said slowly: "Everyone is an old brother who has been with me for more than ten years, and it is not easy for everyone to have today." Many brothers died on the battlefield, but we are still alive, and that is the blessing of misfortune.

I know Zhang Anqi well, and the fact that he can write such a letter to me means that he trusts me. But he and the new Governor of the Nine Sides wanted to take the orders of the military headquarters as child's play, and I couldn't make up my mind. ”

Finally, a man with a short figure and a gloomy face stood up: "What the general says, the last general will do." ”

With the first person to stand up and make a statement, naturally there was a second one, and other generals stood up one after another to express their position.

Li Ming smiled bitterly: "I haven't made a decision yet, and you have expressed your position one after another, which makes me very pleased." But what I want now is not your attitude, what I want is an answer, what should we do? ”

Qiao Mu, who had not spoken or expressed his position, stood up and said with a solemn face: "General, the decision of the governor of the nine sides, the last general feels that there is some. Monkey business. ”

Li Ming sighed: "Who said it wasn't!" It is a good thing that young people are energetic and sharp, but this military event does not allow for the slightest child's play. I don't understand, Zhang An is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for decades, that Zhang Ru doesn't understand, doesn't he understand? ”

Qiao Mu said: "The last general thinks that although Zhang Ru, the governor of the Nine Sides, is a little nonsense, his intentions are good. The adults in the military department have a vegetarian meal on the corpse, and our border army can't have a vegetarian meal on the corpse. The people are raising us, isn't it so that someone can pull out a knife and stand up to protect us in times of crisis!

Datong is an important line of defense, and once Datong is broken, the Tatar iron cavalry can drive straight in.

Datong can't afford to lose, there is no reason why the bigwigs in the capital can't understand this, but at such a time, such an order comes down, and the general feels a little strange! ”

Li Ming shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, but that's not a problem for us to consider, what we have to consider is whether we should get involved in this troubled water." ”

A slender general stood up and said, "Dadong is dead, and he saved my life on the front line." We have been able to be in a high position for so many years, all of which were bought by those brothers with their blood, and now is a good opportunity for revenge, and the last general does not want to let it go. ”

Another general, who looked a little fat, also stood up and said, "General, the Tartar is too fierce, beat his mother." ”

Qiao Mu took the lead and knelt on one knee: "Please give the general an order, the 100,000 troops of Jizhen gallop to the aid of Datong, don't let me die in vain in the burial ground outside Datong City." ”

As soon as he knelt down, the generals of the main battle also knelt on the ground and pleaded, there were about twenty people in a room, but seventeen or eighteen people knelt down, and a few did not kneel, that was because of problems with their legs and feet, and they couldn't kneel at all.

Looking at the earnest pleading of the old brothers with white hair on their sideburns, Li Ming suddenly became proud in his heart: "The law does not blame the public, Zhang An also said in the letter that as long as this battle is won, even if those big men in the capital have a great reason, they will not dare to attack us meritorious soldiers." That yellow-haired boy who is less than twenty years old dares to go to the front line with three thousand old soldiers, and I, Li Ming, am also the chief soldier of the town guarding the side, afraid of a ball, **** mother. ”

A dull roar sounded in the White Tiger Festival Hall: "**** mother!" ”

"Qiao Mu, you take five thousand brothers into Datong in batches, let's take a look at the situation in Datong first, Yang Rong's guy was dismissed by the general back then, don't let this cautious guy spoil the big thing.

You can choose 5,000 people yourself, and when necessary, you can help the 3,000 soldiers of our nine-sided governors.

Everyone in the capital can do this part, and we are also old men who lick blood with knives, and there is no reason why we can't even compare to a stinky boy. ”

After making a decision, Li Ming issued a series of military orders, the first order was to let his absolute henchmen go to Datong to investigate the truth.

If Wan An is a hardcore pro-princess faction and Zhang An is a neutral faction, then Li Ming is a hardcore royalist. His decision is tantamount to giving Zhang An a reassurance.

In other words, even if this battle is defeated, as long as it is not a fiasco, the emperor will try his best to maintain these generals loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

The frequent movement of troops and horses in several border towns quickly attracted the attention of well-intentioned people, but whether it was Li Ming or Zhang An, they did a very good job of secrecy measures. At a critical juncture, the two jointly wrote a letter, requesting the two towns to plan military drills at the same time, and even invited the current emperor to inspect both sides.

Originally, this only dispelled the doubts of some people, but the interest shown by the emperor completely attracted the attention of those civil servants.

It is not a trivial matter for the emperor to go on patrol, not to mention the loss of labor and money, if the emperor has any mistakes, none of the ministers can escape.

No one dared to gamble with their own lives, so they did their best to prevent the emperor from going on patrol, with only one purpose, my emperor, if you want to die, you will die in the capital, and if you die outside, there will be many people to bury you.

After the death of the imperial historians, the cabinet ministers looking for death and life, and a group of idle six departments to check the ancestral system and lay out the facts, the emperor, who had been mediocre for half his life, finally made a decision not to go out on patrol again.

After the incident subsided, soon those civilian officials who reacted noticed that something was wrong, the place where the military exercises of the two towns were so good that they could not die, and it turned out to be Datong, who was about to face a big war.

But at this time, they still want to find the emperor, it is unlikely, Zhu Jianshen came directly to escape, even if he is the first assistant of the cabinet who adheres to the golden mean and is impartial, it is difficult to see the emperor.

Soji flew like snowflakes to the cabinet, and after entering the celebrant of ceremonies, he was sent to the stove in the imperial dining room.

In short, it's just a sentence, you don't let Lao Tzu go out on patrol, your words, Lao Tzu doesn't want to listen to now.

However, he said that after Zhang Ru arrived in Datong, he was a little relieved to see that the city walls of Datong, which was preparing for war, had been raised a lot. After explaining his intention to Yang Rong, he wanted to take three thousand old soldiers out of the city, but Yang Rong refused to let him go.