Early in the morning, with the sound of trumpets, the soldiers of the battalions assembled.

After the officers counted it, they found that many people were missing. This is the case with all battalions and departments, and some even run away from entire battalions and companies, including soldiers and officers.

Count the number of people and report upwards.

After a simple but inadequate breakfast, the divisions continued their march and marched in a far southwestern direction.

The large-scale exodus of the Liao army and the lack of food were sent back to Gyeonggi one by one and passed to Liu Jun's hands.

The intelligence officers of the Chu army all reported all kinds of unfavorable conditions of the coalition army, they lacked food and weapons, carried insufficient artillery fire, and even more lacked food and grass. The coalition forces abandoned a frontal attack on Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and instead took the Mongolian route, towards Miyun and Xuanfu.

The intention of the rebel army is already very obvious, they want to imitate the tactics of Huang Taiji back then, try to bypass the well-fortified Guanning defense line, make a detour through Mongolia, to attack the defense line of the Great Wall of Yanbei, and even make a detour to Zhangjiakou and enter the pass from there.

Liu Jun was very happy to see that Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou's 100,000-strong army had already lost 30,000 horses before they reached the foot of the Great Wall.

Fighting a war is the logistics of fighting.

Besides, the war has to be famous.

Wu Sangui has no logistics and no teacher, why did he let his 100,000 people die for him? It is normal for the families of the Wu Zu family to work hard for them, these people usually receive the best treatment, and even have a lot of fields in Liaoxi, they fight for Liaoxi, they can understand.

But there are more other soldiers, although most of them are also natives of western Liaoning, but they are just ordinary soldiers, many of them are even just cannon fodder, and there are even many people who were actually absorbed by Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou after the defeat of the Liao troops in various towns before.

If there is food, then they may still work for food.

But now Wu Sangui has neither food nor salary, and his future is still bleak, plus Wu Sangui killed hundreds of soldiers from the Mongols. It completely chilled the hearts of these people.

"Let me go to Miyun in person, Wu Yi is most likely to break through from the direction of Miyun." Fu Shan, the chief of the general staff of the Privy Council, who had just married Liu Jun's fourth sister after the New Year, took the initiative to ask for help.

His marriage with the Liu family made Fu Shan truly Liu Jun's most reliable brother.

Not long ago, Fu Shan had just been promoted to the rank of general, becoming one of the highest military rank holders of the Ming Dynasty.

"There's no need for that, just sit in the Privy Council. Wu Rebellious's troops were short of food and weapons, and they came on a long journey, and the morale of the army was disheartened all the way, and the soldiers kept fleeing, even if they reached the foot of the Great Wall. And how? We have not only the Great Wall, but also many new forts and forts. ”

"You said you don't have to worry about that, in the past few years, these officers and non-commissioned officers who have been continuously trained by our martial arts hall and teaching regiment are all elites in the army, and you still can't rest assured? Now that you are the chief of the general staff, you should plan the whole situation, not go to the front line to command a division or a town. ”

Yanbei Great Wall.

The Great Wall fortress located between Shanhaiguan and Juyong Pass is the throat of the Liaodong Plain and Mongolia leading to the Central Plains. It has always been a battleground for soldiers, and the battles of the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and other dynasties for the Gubeikou have never stopped.

Since Chongzhen, the Qing army has broken through the customs several times, and most of them have entered the customs from this section.

Yanbei Great Wall is located in the southeast of Gubeikou Town, Miyun County. It is composed of the Great Wall of Wohu Mountain, the Great Wall of Panlong Mountain, the Great Wall of Jinshanling and the Great Wall of Simatai.

The earliest history of the Great Wall here can be traced back to the Northern Qi Tianbao six years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, far more than 1,000 years ago, the Northern Qi Dynasty built a Great Wall from Yulin, Shaanxi Province in the west, to Shanhaiguan in the east. Thereinto. The first section of Gubeikou is a key defensive pass.

The Jin and Yuan dynasties have built and strengthened the fortress here.

Since the 11th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Guancheng, the large and small passes and beacon towers and other fortress facilities have been repaired, and two gates have been added. One gate is located at the pass of the Great Wall, called the Iron Gate Pass, which only allows one ride and one car to pass.

One gate is located on the tide river, called the water gate.

During the Longqing period, Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun began a large-scale reconstruction of the Great Wall court from Shanhaiguan to Juyongguan to strengthen the defense.

After Liu Jun entered Beijing and took control of the soldiers and horses of Gyeonggi, the first thing he did was to comprehensively strengthen the defense of the Yanbei Great Wall.

In the two dynasties from the Apocalypse to Chongzhen, the defense center of the imperial court has been in western Liaoning, and the defense line of the Great Wall of Yanbei belongs to Xuanfu and Jizhen, but it has been short of food and salary, and the city pass has been in disrepair, resulting in this important defense line guarding the capital, but it has been repeatedly attacked by the Qing army.

Liu Jun did not expect the imperial court to pay for the repair of the guards, he took out 20 million silver dollars to carry out a comprehensive renovation and reinforcement of the entire 800-li Yanbei Great Wall, built additional forts, repaired forts, deployed many cannons, and stationed heavy troops.

Not many people in the imperial court know about these. They knew that Liu Jun had strengthened the Great Wall defense line, but they didn't know that Liu Jun had put so much effort into this defense line and invested so much money, food and materials, let alone how many soldiers and horses were stationed in the entire Great Wall defense line.

On the surface, now that the soldiers and horses have been reduced in various places, only the two towns of Zhili and the garrison are left in Gyeonggi, plus the guards and the guards and pro-army, and only the two towns of Lushun and Ningyuan are left outside the pass. Even the two armies of the Praetorian Guard and the Guards combined, they are only six towns and horses.

But in reality, of course, there is more to it than that. These are only registered by the Ministry of War, and there are many that are not registered. From the Chu army of Zhenjiang and Beiyang, which had nominally been retrenched, plus some of the original soldiers and horses such as Shanxi and Ningyuan, the Chu army still had three shadow military towns in the Gyeonggi area.

Therefore, even if the two armies of the Praetorian Guard and the Guards are excluded, in the two military regions of Zhili and Guanwai, Liu Jun actually still has five integrated towns in his hands: Garrison, Garrison, Lushun, Ningyuan, and Beiyang, and there are three shadow military towns that are not on the roster.

These three shadow military towns are basically deployed on the front line of the Yanbei Great Wall.

On the defense map seen by the ministers of the imperial court, the garrisons of the First Association in many places are actually two associations, and one town is two towns.

Although Liu Jun is not in a hurry to fight Manmeng outside the customs, but in fact he has been guarding against them, no matter what, only by being prepared can there be no trouble, and you must first stand firm and stand firm, in order to be invincible, and talk about long-term plans.

Outside the Gubei Mouth, the Chaohe River.

The Chaohe River originates from Fengning, passes through Luanping to the Gubeikou and enters Miyun.

Because of the turbulent water, its sound is like a tide.

Zhang Wannian, the commander of the light cavalry company under the garrison, was patrolling with 200 light cavalry of his company. With the approach of the rebel army. The various troops sent out returned one after another, and they brought back a large number of Mongolian herdsmen, leaving behind a hundred miles of barren and scorched earth north of the Great Wall.

Some time ago, Zhang Wannian also led his subordinates to act together with the division's cavalry standards, and successively relocated several Mongolian tribes back.

However, now that the relocation operation has ended, there is a strict prohibition on leaving the fort of the Great Wall. Zhang Wannian was only carrying out routine patrols, and his route of action was to patrol along the south bank of the Chaohe River, and it was strictly forbidden to cross the Chaohe River.

As the rebel army approached day by day. The atmosphere in the Great Wall defense line was also a little tense.

However, Zhang Wannian is not afraid, he is in his early fifties, and he was personally promoted by the county king during the reorganization of the Beijing army last time, and he has been a pawn for more than 30 years, and when he is old, he has also jumped to the rank of company commander.

Even with his two grandsons, they have now become Beijing soldiers and cavalrymen. Zhang Wannian is very grateful, and he also looks forward to making military achievements in this upcoming battle.

For the area of Gubeikou, Zhang Wannian is very familiar. He'd been here several times before.

Zhang Wannian's patrol team is not to intercept the rebel army, their task is actually more to intercept the people in the pass and not allow them to go out. Especially on guard against merchants, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty had close contacts with the Mongols outside the Guan. Even after the Qing army conquered Mongolia, there were still many merchants who ignored the ban and passed the customs privately.

Now is the time of war, and it is even more necessary to strictly prohibit these unscrupulous businessmen from collaborating with the enemy, preventing them from sneaking out of the customs to send information to the rebel army. Or even send grain and grass.

March.

This is not a good season for soldiers, this season, both men and horses have been cats for a winter. People are thin and horses are weak, horses are not fat, and it is easy to die when they come out to fight.

The best season to attack is after autumn, when the weather is high and the weather begins to get cold, and the rivers freeze, no longer an obstacle but a smooth road. Several times the Tartars broke through the gates in the autumn and winter, and retreated in the winter or at the latest in the spring.

Now the Tartars are attacking in March, when the rivers begin to thaw, and the winter grain and grass are almost eaten, and the horses have lost all their fat, and the grass has not yet grown.

What he couldn't understand the most was why Wu Sangui was opposed?

At the beginning, Wu Sangui was also a young hero who was called a double hero with the king of the county, a double wall in the military world, and was promoted to chief officer at the same time. But the king of the county is the chief soldier, relying on the merits of suppressing bandits and killing thieves, but Wu Sangui relies more on the glory of the family.

When the king of the county killed the Tartar Emperor in Liaodong, broke Liaoyang, and besieged Shenyang, what was Wu Sangui doing?

Commanded an army of 120,000 to attack Yizhou, but was defeated by tens of thousands of Qing troops, fled back to Songshan, and then abandoned the city and fled, lost Songshan and lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and even lost Jinzhou.

Where did Wu Sangui get the confidence to dare to rebel?

It's stupid to make such a move just for the sake of a position as a general soldier.

Just like when the Beijing army was instigated to make trouble, the result was not that it was pacified by the king of the county all of a sudden. Zhang Wannian thought that Wu Sangui's rebellion was just a joke.

100,000 rebels, before they reached the pass, they had already run 30,000 or 40,000.

Zhang Wannian sat under the tree and was distracted, smoking a cigarette stick.

At this time, his deputy company commander had already walked over with a smile, this deputy company commander was extremely young, about the same as his eldest grandson, and he was not yet twenty this year, but he turned out to be the deputy company commander. It is said that it was originally a Miao barbarian baby in the mountains of Hunan, who went to Liaodong with the king of the county, and as a result, he fought bravely, made a lot of meritorious contributions, won a medal and was promoted to the title, and later was selected to study in the lecture hall for a year.

This time, he immediately became the deputy company commander and became his deputy.

"Company commander, look what we've gotten, it's so fresh fish, stew fish soup for a while."

Zhang Wannian looked up and saw the deputy company commander Ma Bao coming over with a big herring, at least four or five catties. Behind him, there were several horsemen, two of whom carried a net of fish.

"This tide of the river is a little anxious, but I didn't expect that there are still a lot of fish, so I threw a few nets, and immediately caught so many nets."

"The river melted ice, and the fish came alive." Zhang Wannian called Lao Liang with a smile. This is a veteran of their company, in his forties, who cooks a good dish, no matter what the ingredients, he can make a pot of deliciousness.

"These fish are fresh, simply clean up and stew and eat, get some wild vegetables and throw them inside, the most delicious." Lao Liang said with a smile.

"Then stew the fish and eat it, and when we're done with it, we'll patrol again and go back."

The deputy company commander nodded and said, "When you come out to patrol in the future, you have to remember to go to the river to net fish, or you will eat fried noodles and dried meat every day, it will be really tireless." ”

"There are fried noodles and jerky to eat every day, and you still dislike it, alas, you haven't paid for the hardships of being a soldier, and you have a good life with the king of the county." Zhang Wannian couldn't help but say, when he was a soldier, he still had dried pork fried noodles to eat every day, which he never dared to believe before. And this is also dry food for patrolling, if you are in the fortress camp where you are stationed, you can eat better, every day is a hot meal, at least three dishes and one soup.

Zhang Wannian felt that he seemed to have gained a little weight in the past six months.

The three horsemen galloped in.

"Company commander, Wu is here!"

When Zhang Wannian heard this, he hurriedly stood up, "How far are they from here?" ”

"Wu Yi's forward sentry is less than five miles away from us."

"How many of them are there?"

"We saw about a hundred people."

Zhang Wannian groaned for a moment, and then shouted loudly, "Give me the horse!" ”

"Deputy Lian, you take a few brothers back to inform them to close, let them light the beacon fire, and the others will follow me."

Deputy Company Commander Ma Bao was not happy when he heard it.

"Company commander, you go back first to report, I took my brothers to do this ticket."

"I'm a company commander."

"Company commander, you are old, so let's be young."

Zhang Wannian, who has always had a very good temper, was angry, "Lao Tzu is not old enough to go to the battlefield, and the gun in Lao Tzu's hand can still hit a bird in a hundred steps." Damn, Lao Tzu is the company commander. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, you're a company commander. I'm not worried about you if something goes wrong. ”

The two argued several times, but Mabao just refused to go back. In the end, Zhang Wannian had no choice but to let the three brothers who came back before go back first, "Don't fight with me, you have been running for a long time, people are sleepy and tired, not to mention that someone has to report the news." Rest assured, this battle is over, and you have a share of the credit. ”

Zhang Wannian stepped on his horse, his eyes swept over the surrounding subordinates.

"Brothers, Wu Sanguizu has a great longevity and rebellion, colluded with the Manchu rebellion, and now he is sent to the door at his own death, since they have met them, it is our luck. How can you miss the meat delivered to your door? Cheer me up, check my gear, and get ready to fuck me. ”

"Fuck it."

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