Three months later, in Xuanfu, Shanxi, the wolf changed into a short-shirted man's dress, wearing a hat, standing in the woods on a high ridge hundreds of meters high, his eyes were as cold as electricity, looking at Xuanfu Town in the distance.

Xuanfu Town, formerly belonged to Jizhou, and the Qin and Han dynasties were Shanggu County; In the first year of the Liao Taizong meeting (938 AD), after the Later Jin Dynasty Shi Jingjiao cut the sixteen states of Yanyun and dedicated them to the Khitan, they belonged to the Liao State; After Jin destroyed Liao, it belonged to Jin; Yuan belongs to Zhongshu Province on the capital road; In the Ming Dynasty, it belonged to the Beijing Division, and belonged to the command of Wanquandu, because it was in the mountains of the northern Jin Dynasty, guarding the key point of Mongolia to the Beijing Division, and it has always been a place where soldiers must fight.

Because at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, borrowed the Mongolian Duoyan Sanwei that was originally outside the Ming Dynasty as a barrier outside the Ming Dynasty, and made concessions to it afterwards, and the control force declined, so the Ming Dynasty directly used the Great Wall to defend the Mongols outside the fortress again from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

In the seventh year of Yongle (1409 AD), Ming Chengzu officially set up a general military officer in Xuanhua Mansion, which was originally called Xuanfu Town. Because the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beiping when the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, and the Xuanfu Datong line has always been the best shortcut for the Mongolian cavalry to directly attack the Central Plains from the desert and attack the Beijing Division.

From the west of Xuanfu to Shanxi, the edge is steep and deep trenches, and the beacons are connected. The pass is guarded by hundreds of riders, and ten people are guarded by the shepherds. Wu'an Hou Zheng Heng is the first chief military officer here, Ming Chengzu's edict requires: all chimney piers, to build more plateaus, on the storage of May grain and firewood medicine crossbows, piers open wells, well walls and piers level, look the same.

It is also based on this principle. From Datong to Xuanfu, the Great Wall of more than 1,100 miles is full of beacon towers, there are more than 1,200 beacon towers, and there are more than 190 city gates out of the customs.

Xuanfu Town is the general headquarters of the Xuanfu theater, and the Xuanfu General Army Town Guard Mansion is in Xuanfu Town, commanding a deputy general soldier, seven staff generals, three guerrilla generals, and 31 garrisons. as well as 150,000 soldiers and more than 55,000 military horses, and this current general soldier is Qiu Luan, who started by framing Zeng Mo and Xia Yan.

Back then, in that valley of Liu Yu, Sky Wolf had read the military book left by Liu Yu. Although it is said that he lacks command experience in battle, after all, he has learned a lot of military knowledge from a generation of military gods. These days he has traveled all over Xuanfu. However, I saw that the garrison here was in ruins, and most of the soldiers who went to the Great Wall beacon tower to defend were old, weak, sick and disabled, and in many barracks rated at three or four thousand people, there were more than 1,000 young and middle-aged people who could fight, and they still stayed in the camp all day long to drink and gamble, and many of the soldiers who went out to drill and defend were beggars and gangsters hired from the city.

And that's not all. Although the Ming Dynasty explicitly forbade the trade between the border passes and the Mongols, as a defender, they still had dealings with the Mongols outside the pass, and the Sky Wolf had seen hundreds of defenders carrying goods on hundreds of horses out of the city at least a dozen times. A day or two later, he returned with a large number of furs, medicine villages and other goods, apparently out of the customs to do business with the Mongols.

This more than a month of open investigation and secret visits, so that the wolf for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty side affairs is not a small surprise, I thought that there has been no war in the interior of the south of the Yangtze River for more than a hundred years, the garrison is lax, it is understandable, but it is unthinkable that as a nine-sided important land, even the most important border pass of the Ming Dynasty, Xuanfu Town, is also like this.

Although many beacon towers on the front line of the Great Wall have just been repaired a few years ago, not dilapidated, but the defenders do not have the vigilance and combat effectiveness that the border army should have, although the wolf has not seen the real Mongolian iron cavalry, but seeing the virtue of the defenders, I only feel that if I encounter the foreign enemy at the level of the Japanese under the city of Nanjing that day, it will not be able to stop it at all, and I have pretended to be a pawn or a woodcutter in the mountains many times for more than a month, and I am only a few miles away from these fortresses, and I have never been discovered, which shows the slackness of the defenders.

Sky Wolf put away his current of thought and looked at the general military mansion in Xuanfu Town in the distance, which was quite well defended, with hundreds of heavily armed soldiers walking the streets and alleys in the town, patrolling back and forth, and Qiu Luan's Xuanfu General Military Mansion was high-spirited, with the majesty of a general's camp, but if General Qiu used his mind to protect himself on the entire defense line, it would not be like this.

The wolf has been outside Xuanfu Town for three days, and he has never seen Qiu Luan out of the General Military Mansion, as a general of the border pass, but he almost never inspects the border defense, no wonder the defenders below are so disrespectful, probably Qiu Luan only wants to do business with Mongolia, spend some money to buy a peace, and spend a few years in this position safely, so as to pave a smooth road for himself to enter the prime minister.

The Heavenly Wolf took a cold last look at the General Military Mansion, it was almost dusk, it seemed that Qiu Luan would not be able to leave the Mansion today, today was the last day of the planned observation of the Xuanfu border defense, starting tomorrow, the Heavenly Wolf would have to find a way to break into the interior of the White Lotus Sect and explore the relationship between this cult organization and Qiu Luan and the Mongols.

During this period of investigation, the Heavenly Wolf also found that although the White Lotus Sect has a huge influence in the Xuanfu area and has many believers, most of these people have believed in this cult for generations, and they often don't know anything about outsiders who inquire about the White Lotus Sect, and some people immediately change their faces and drive the Heavenly Wolf away as soon as they hear the Heavenly Wolf pretending to be a peddler ask this and that, and it seems that if they want to enter the White Lotus Sect, they have to think of other ways.

But the Heavenly Wolf has also recently heard that the White Lotus Sect has been exterminating the green forest cottages in Shanxi and expanding its own power, and those copycat thieves who have been exterminated, there are quite a few people who have joined the White Lotus Sect, maybe they can infiltrate the White Lotus Sect in this way.

The idea was set, the wolf turned around and entered the grove behind him, more than thirty miles south of this Geling, there is a red city, and there is a sheep house fort more than ten miles west of the city, there is a group of two or three hundred thieves on it, gathering in the mountains and forests, often robbing the merchants who come and go under the mountain, and the officers and soldiers have always turned a blind eye to this group of thieves, it is estimated that they have also gained a lot of benefits from this group of people in private, the White Lotus Sect has swept away six or seven cottages in the vicinity in the past six months, and it seems that it will soon be the turn of this sheep house fort.

There are three thieves in Yangfang Fort, the leader is named Lidi Tai Sui Yang Chun, the second is called Sweeping Star Li Shuangquan, and the third is called Ghost Head Dao Lin Wuxing, all three of them are well-known masters on the green forest road in Shanxi, but martial arts can only be regarded as second-rate goods at most, and it is okay to bully the common people.

But the three masters of Yangfang Fort are not fools, and if they can't do martial arts, they are counting on the number of people to make up, relying on the dangerous organs and terrain of the cottage, and the White Lotus Sect is maneuvering one or two, yesterday in Xuanfu Town, the wolf also heard that Yangfang Fort has recently been pulling Zhuang Ding up the mountain everywhere.

In the past few years, due to the instability of the border passes, frequent wars, and a severe drought in Shanxi last year, there are homeless beggars everywhere, which not only provides those lazy border soldiers with a large number of coolies to stand guard and patrol on their behalf, but also allows all kinds of bandits and bandits to have a steady stream of reserve minions, as long as a large piece of bread, can fool people up the mountains and down to the grass.

The wolf dressed himself as a fleeing middle-aged victim, his well-developed muscles were unstrained, loose and skinny, and his face was yellow and thin, gray-headed, with a walking stick, picked up a broken bowl with a missing mouth, and walked in the direction of Akagi.

Less than three miles down Geling, the wolf encountered a group of people fleeing the famine on the official road, and when they came up to ask, they were dozens of families in Majiapo more than ten miles to the south, and this year's drought and the locust plague were encountered, and they really couldn't survive, and the people of the whole village came out in groups to escape the famine.

Led by an old man in his fifties named Ma Laosi, is the village chief, asked where the wolf came from, the wolf lied that he was from Huailai Town to escape the famine, named Liu Laosan, on the way encountered bandits robbery, and the same village ran away, because this time the wolf also traveled all over the north of Shanxi, but also learned Shanxi dialect before coming out, this rhetoric did not arouse Ma Laosi's suspicion, and see that the wolf is a strong man, compared to his own gang of old, weak, sick and disabled still have the strength, so he took the wolf with him, and there was a good response on the way. (To be continued......)