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Datong right guard and Yulin Wei left near, more than 30,000 new soldiers and horses, immediately became lively, these more than 30,000 soldiers and horses some from Jizhen, some from Tianjin Wei. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Divided into several places to set up camp, the garrison of Lord Qincha is in the sanitation of the Huwei Army, the people on the right guard side of Datong, on weekdays are not lightly tossed by the border soldiers of Datong Town, so many new soldiers and horses, those who can run are running, and those who can't run are also trembling, the women in the family are easy to dare not go out, and valuable things are buried in secret places.

However, since November, these new soldiers and horses may not be so bad, the first to arrive in a cadre to build camps, build various facilities, will inevitably requisition a large number of people, but do not work in vain, but to give cash, silver and copper money, ten days a knot will never be in arrears, and work when also take care of food, but you want to eat this meal, then the salary will be scooped a little less, everyone has calculated, this time the work is done, the New Year and the beginning of spring in the next year, the family life must be much more prosperous.

So later, the people who went outside came back, and the progress of the project was not delayed and was completed on time.

And this time is a lot different from before, first of all, the number of large warehouses and large grain tuns, when they began to be built, there were still people who joked, saying that this might be a straw boat to borrow arrows, and when the Tartars came, they shot arrows at these warehouses and grain tuns, and there was nothing to put in them anyway.

But the person who told this joke has now become a joke himself, because the provinces of Shanxi and even Henan have big trucks transporting things to these warehouses, and they have to work overtime to build them when they are full, so that they can be used.

Seeing this scene, someone said again, so much food and materials must have been stolen by someone, and even someone came to rob it, and it was possible that the car generals here were half soldiers, so what else was there to talk about.

The person who said this, immediately realized that he was wrong, there was a general excuse that his soldiers had no food, led his men to grab a few carts of grain and left, everyone understood that this is a certain big man of the right guard of Datong sent someone to test, if there is no reaction here, then the next is a large-scale plunder, but in the morning things were robbed, and in the afternoon the head was cut off and hung high on the donkey to show the public.

It is said that the people who arrested and cut people were Ma Dong's personal soldiers who temporarily acted as the chief soldier, and even Lord Ma's personal soldiers came here to see what the warehouse was about, and he could actually let the deputy chief soldier's personal soldier be the guard of the warehouse.

The warehouses and camps have been built, and the army has also come, and the people here are nervous, and they have to dodge and dodge, for fear of being affected by the military disaster.

But they thought wrongly, the newly arrived soldiers and horses of Jizhen and the so-called forbidden army soldiers and horses have strict military discipline, and they practice in the barracks every day, and there are no cases of disturbing the people at all.

Whenever these people needed military supplies, they would scoop up cash and go to the market to buy them, and they would not bargain with the market price, but if they also inflated the prices, they would not accept this loss, but the soldiers and horses from all over Datong gathered from all over the side wall, and the military discipline was very corrupt, and there were already several cases, and the local government and local commanders pretended not to see it, which was a common practice.

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Beyond the border wall is the steppe Tartars, and the spies in Datong Town are also as numerous as cattle hair, and such a large-scale garrison of soldiers and horses will inevitably attract the attention of the spies.

Although the cold wind on Datong's side in the Layue period was fierce, and when it got dark, the cold wind was even more like a knife, but there were still spies looking outside the camp.

Two men who looked similar to the local people were looking at a dirt bag, the soldiers and horses of Datong Town, as well as reinforcements from other places, each with its own camp, the scale was very large, and at night you could see the stars inside and outside the camp, as if there was an extra town out of thin air.

"Are there any soldiers and horses in the camp of Jizhen, and why is it so quiet from Tianjin?"

One of them whispered as he looked around, and the other put his finger to his mouth, made a silent gesture, and whispered:

"Why are there no soldiers, it's not that you haven't seen the drill during the day, you look over there, the camp of the Datong Right Guard seems to be a market, you are looking at this side, how can the soldiers and horses trained by Qi Jiguang be ordinary."

The two of them exclaimed a few words, and one of them said:

"Let's go first, it won't be long before the dark sentry of the Ming army on horseback will come over!"

The two of them turned around and retreated into the darkness, still whispering halfway through:

"The soldiers and horses of Jizhen can be said like this, why is the forbidden army from the capital division also like this......"

"It's just a good look, what kind of ability can the forbidden army of the Beijing Division have, it's not a rich young master soldier"

Wang Tong, who is known as the model goods, is in the military tent, Wang Tong is the Qin cha, the governor of Datong, naturally sits in the middle, Ma Dong, the deputy general of Datong Town, and Yang Jin, the deputy general of Jizhen guarding the West Road, sits on the left, and the Huwei army is on the right.

Although Datong's soldiers and horses are local snakes, claiming to know everything about the wind and grass on the grassland, the information that can be scooped out is all hearsay, even legends, and has no value, but Wang Tong got all the documents and newspapers through the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, which are extremely valuable, and Ma Dong and Yang Jin are very attentive.

Ma Dong and Yang Jin knew some inside information, so they didn't shy away from some words, and when Wang Tong finished talking about the information, he hesitated and said:

"My lord, there are more than 1,700 cavalry on Xiaguan's side, all of them are the personal soldiers of each general, my lord, is this number too small, there are nearly 150,000 soldiers registered in Datong Town, if you want to transfer, Xiaguan can also transfer more, wouldn't it be safer."

Yang Jin, the deputy general of Jizhen, glanced at Ma Dong, and then sat upright, the contempt in his eyes was extremely heavy, most of the 150,000 soldiers were first-class serfs, where could they fight.

Wang Tong also said with a smile:

"Deputy General Ma's mind of seeking safety is good, but the soldiers are not expensive, and there are nearly 2,000 fine horses, which can already be of great use, not more anxious."

Ma Dong smiled a little abruptly, and Wang Tong asked again:

"Among the 1,700 cavalry, how many of them are the personal guards of Adjutant General Ma?"

"If you go back to Lord Qincha, there are more than 900 people, and the rest are the old subordinates of the lower officials at that time in Tianchengwei and Yang Hewei, they either brought more than 100 people, or brought dozens of people to come over, and there are more than 300 people who have not yet arrived, your lord knows."

The general army has its own family guards, and the generals, guerrillas, thousand generals, and generals also have their own personal guards, Ma Dong was a sub-guard general on the side of Tianchengwei and Yang Hewei, and there are also a cadre of old subordinates, each of whom brought his own cavalry over, and also made up this number.

Yang Jin on the side listened a little strangely, what is "more than three hundred did not arrive", and "the adults know", this is not the words spoken by the army to the marshal, although Qi Jiguang is usually kind in Jizhen, but when the military talks about this, he will definitely immediately push it out and cut off his head.

What was even more unexpected was that the young but serious Wang Tong actually tolerated this statement, nodded with a smile, sighed with emotion, and said with a smile:

"Deputy General Ma is a good family, and there are nearly 1,300 family soldiers, which is really remarkable."

"Don't be praised by adults, this kind of family business is just a share of the father, the younger brother Ma Lin, who went to Liao Town with 2,500 soldiers, wrote back and said that Liao Town's Li Zongbing alone has more than 10,000 personal guards, and several sons add up, the Li family has nearly 20,000 families, this is the best thing."

Speaking of this, Yang Jin remained silent, Li Hutou and others reacted obviously half a beat slower, this is also the practice of the Ming army today, the strength of the army is the family soldiers and generals that everyone brings, and they also rely on them to charge into battle, and they also rely on them to fight bravely, the quality of a general often does not look at his strategy, does not look at his training skills, but looks at how many pro-soldiers he has, because this is their capital on the battlefield.

Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhen, trained with the Huwei Army, but he didn't think about any pro-soldier generals, and the overall training was nothing special on the Tianjin Wei side, and the pro-guards around Wang Tong were more like an officer training center and a training camp for his children.

After a few words of gossip, Yang Jin got up to say goodbye and wanted to go back to the camp to inspect, but Ma Dong stayed, and when Yang Jin walked out of the military tent, Wang Tong smiled and said:

"If Master Ma doesn't have the money now, the official will allocate it, don't chill the hearts of the brothers!"

"My lord bother, the first amount of silver over there in Xuanfu has been paid, even if there is no such batch of goods, the lower officials have some surplus money in their hands to deal with, my lord, if the goods over there in Baiyangkou are sold calmly, at least more than 200,000 taels, all let the lower officials scoop it, this, this, it's really ashamed, on the grassland, it's still the hard work of the horse team under the adult......

Wang Tong waved his hand and said with a smile:

"Without your help, these things wouldn't have gone so smoothly, your three hundred people were also born and died on the grassland, not to mention that you still have to maintain so many other people's domestic soldiers here, all of them have to rely on silver to stabilize, you don't have to be polite!"

Hearing Wang Tong say this, Ma Dong stood up from the chair and owed his body, and said with a smile:

"Those boys are very happy in the north, they have never been so happy in the past, and they don't want to come back after saving a lot of money!"

Wang Tong nodded with a smile, reached out and tapped the table a few times, and said:

"They have been toiling on the grassland for months, and it's almost time to come back and rest!"

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After the caravan was robbed last time, this time led by the Jinhe Firm, several large merchants gathered hundreds of carts of goods and prepared to send them to Guihua City.