In Datong Mansion, the white-named crane and Yu Qian stood side by side on a section of the Great Wall.

Yu Qian picked up a burned blackened brick and handed it to Bai Minghe: "In the year of Yongle, Datong Mansion plans to build a section of the Great Wall to protect Datong Mansion. At that time, the plan of the military department was to build 72 forts, which were divided into five inner forts, five outer forts, and five outer forts, and then six forts with the same moat. This is the Twenty Great Forts, also known as the Twenty Cities, and then there are fifty-two small forts of the garrison. ”

When he looked around, he saw that a section of the city wall here was less than 100 meters, and he didn't see any fortresses or garrisons.

Yu Qian didn't look at Bai Minghe, but said to himself: "There are five hundred and sixteen miles and a half miles of the Great Wall, including 776 arrow forts in the city, and then 1,000 fire road piers." It can strictly guard the Datong Mansion and protect the Beijing Division. ”

"Destroy the thorns, you don't need to protect anything!" The white crane interface said.

Yu Qian shook his head lightly: "Bai Minghe, before the battle of Tumu Fort, one-fifth of this place had been completed. Spending a huge amount of money is a huge financial pressure on Daming. But who would have thought that overseas is like a mountain of gold, and you can earn silver faster than you can dig silver mines. ”

Bai Minghe thought of a joke, that is, the problem of the profit margin of the silver village in later generations.

But at this time, you can't tell jokes, Yu Qian's expression is really scary, and his face is sad.

Yu Qian pointed to the blackened brick in Bai Minghe's hand and said: "After that battle, Datong will only have this section under our feet, all the qiē have been destroyed, and the people have been killed and injured countless times." After the defense of the capital division, seventy percent of the fifty-two guards in the capital were almost lost. ”

Bai Minghe didn't take the job, speaking of tragic words, how many tragic cases of the land of China being invaded by foreign enemies, this is endless.

"Lord Yu, do you say that the tile thorn now knows that our army is on the march?"

"I guess I know!" Yu Qian thought for a while and replied, "Although it is said that it is closed. Only count in and not out. But in the north of the Ming Dynasty, you can't stop a few people who sneak out. The people of the tile spur must know that the Ming Dynasty wants to avenge the revenge of the civil fort with the strength of the whole country, and they recommended you to be the coach at the beginning, and they have another idea. ”

Bai Minghe smiled: "It is estimated that the Tile Thorn people will think that a young courtier leads the army, and there is no one in the Ming Dynasty." Teach this doll a good lesson. Let Da Ming also know how strong the tile spur is! ”

Yu Qian smiled and nodded: "There is this meaning, but the other meaning is that at least seventy percent of the generals and ten percent of the soldiers you lead are supporting you, because they say that you are a lucky general." You've been on the outside a few times, and you've played very well. The casualties of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are in the single digits, and if they can come back alive from the battle, they are the commanders that the soldiers are worth following. And I, Yu Qian, defend the city in the capital, although it is praised by the world. But do you know how many people died in the defense of Jingshi? ”

Shira-naka Crane doesn't know.

Yu Qian said again: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the military department is not allowed to directly command the army. This is the ancestral system, but now Banzai has issued five holy decrees in a row, granting me the commander of each battalion of soldiers and horses, in fact, he has become the commander. Moreover, there are no military officials, but anyone who disobeys military orders can be cut down first. ”

Bai Minghe still didn't speak, still listening very attentively.

"The first thing I did when I took office. It's not a troop transfer. Instead, it is necessary to change the logistical strategy and ensure the smooth operation in terms of manpower, material, and financial resources. And then the battle. It was filled out with human life. In order to protect the Jingshi, the soldiers used their lives. ”

Yu Qian's words were tantamount to belittling his own merits in the defense of the Beijing Division.

Bai Minghe doesn't think so, at least in the remarks of later generations, Yu Qian resisted this heavy responsibility and supported the Ming dynasty when it was in the most crisis, isn't this a credit?

"Right now. There is no handsome talent in the Ming Dynasty! Yu Qian said with emotion.

"Little tile thorn!" Bai Minghe gestured with the tip of his little thumb: "If you don't force me to fight, give me another ten years, and I can make the tile spur kneel without a single soldier." But right now, ......" Bai Minghe shook his head helplessly: "An army of millions, it is twenty or thirty thousand stones of grain a day, and one million stones of grain a month." ”

Yu Qian's first reaction was that Bai Minghe had a more clever approach to logistics.

Immediately, he asked, "Do you want to?" Do you have a more intelligent shipping strategy? ”

"Yes, there is. But just like the Tianyin Camp, give me one more year, and the efficiency of this Tianyin Camp will be much higher than it is now. Give me ten years, and I only need 50,000 people to sweep the desert. It's a pity that now the army is a million, and the little money that I have saved so hard will probably bottom out after fighting this battle, alas......"

Bai Minghe sighed, and Yu Qian scolded with a smile: "Something that has no interest, you have saved the accumulation of the past fifty years of the Ming Dynasty in two years, and you can save it again after this battle." ”

"Lord Yu, you are standing here, and the people of the Ming Dynasty are convinced that this battle will not be lost. Then, my stock market will not be affected, and the people of Daming are still willing to invest their money, and if they change people, they will keep their money at home, so that they can feel at ease. So the manager has to be an adult. ”

Yu Qian doesn't understand this, but he can understand it if he thinks about it.

When the world is chaotic, the people naturally bury their silver in the backyard of their homes, which is true.

"I have handed in my resignation and resigned from the post of secretary of the military department. The secretary of the military department is not allowed to be in charge of the army, so he ......"

"Long live will not agree, at most you will not bring troops in the future, but this time, it is still the same sentence, you have to be."

Bai Minghe and Yu Qian were chatting, but the guards next to him were in a hurry, because the time was already 5:40, and it was about time to talk to the capital, how could it be done without these two present.

But whether it is Bai Minghe's guards or Yu Qian's people, it is not easy to disturb.

It always feels like the two of them may be discussing important military affairs.

Bai Minghe and Yu Qian were originally very speculative people who could talk, and Bai Minghe admired Yu Qian, and even admired him. And Yu Qian is very modest, and more importantly, both of them hope that Daming will be better.

Before you know it, it's already past six o'clock.

A horse galloping out of Datong City stopped in front of the guards, and Yu Qian and Bai Minghe only cared about chatting, not knowing the time, and naturally did not pay attention to the horse.

Wang Cheng rushed up to the city wall: "Two adults, Luo Tong sent a report that the scout met the scout of the tile thorn and fought it. ”

"Get back to the city!" Yu Qian didn't blame himself for forgetting the time, and it was the right thing to go back to the city right now. It's been nothing for the past few days, so I've been a little relaxed.

There were constant radio waves in the northern sky of the Ming Dynasty, and all the old generals of the Beijing Staff Institute focused on the Wuying Palace, and even the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty also rushed over.

"Hooray, the scouts arrested the other four people, but didn't ask for anything useful."

"Rubbish!" Zhu Qiyu was furious: "Those who are pioneers will not be tortured, sue Sù Luotong." If you can't ask anything useful for half an hour, you will send people to Datong. I still don't believe it, and I can't ask for any useful information. ”

It is angry to send it, and it is impossible to really go to the same path.

Luo Tong's current position is a hundred miles north of the city of Xishou, which is the northwesternmost corner of the Yellow River. In later generations, Bayannur was about fifty or sixty kilometers northwest of its location, camped near a tributary of the Yellow River, and the location where the scouts caught people was about 100 miles north.

Without the telegram reprimanded by the Ming Emperor, Luo Tong himself knew the severity.

As a vanguard officer, it was already a mistake to catch the enemy scouts and ask for something useful.

Luo Tong found the Dongchang team guarding the telegraph machine and asked for help in the torture.

"General Luo, it's not small enough to help you. It's the small one who knows how to kill people in the East Factory, and this torture is really not what the little one is good at. "The people in Dongchang are ruthless, but not all of them can interrogate people, and torture is also a skill.

"What tricks does Dongchang have, do you know?"

"This is to know something, the most commonly used trick in the East Factory has a very good use, use very scary torture to make these people scared first, and then pretend that someone has already recruited, and the rest of the people will not insist."

"What torture is scary?" Rotong asked again, before he thought what was not scary enough to use the whip.

"This ......" the Dongchang team replied after thinking about it: "Recently, I read miscellaneous books, and there was a criminal officer in the Tang Dynasty who was ruthless, and he put people in a water tank, and then burned them on a fire, and burned them slowly. And there's that the oil pan. And then there is ...... "If Bai Minghe is present, he will definitely issue a medal to Lai Junchen of the Tang Dynasty."

Four water tanks were laid out in a row, firewood was added, and four of them were thrown in.

The four tanks are hydraulically of different sizes.

When I was just thrown in, it was very cold, because the weather was cold, but slowly it warmed up a little, and it was very familiar. But then, it started to heat up under my feet, and it started to heat up around me, and the heat was a little unbearable.

The one with the biggest fire is already screaming, and it definitely feels like he's going to die.

"What, you're going to recruit." There was a Da Ming scribe who said a sentence in the language of Da Ming and the language of the tile thorn, and then that person was brought out, in fact, the person had fainted to death. The scribe continued to shout: "If you dare to tell a lie, you will go into the oil pot and confess to the others later." ”

Finally, Rotong got some useful news.

In the Wuying Hall of the capital, these news are also urgently summarized and analyzed.

"Everyone had brought ten days of dry rations, and they had been on their way for five days. Their task is to keep going deeper until they encounter the Ming army, or see the Great Wall and then return. Li Xian began to read the news.

In Datong City, Bai Minghe asked a staff officer beside him: "Five days, how far can you go." ”

"Depending on the horsepower of the scouts, five hundred to seven hundred miles!"

Bai Minghe made two ropes, pulled out one for 500 li and one for 700 li according to the scale of the map, and then drew two semicircles on the map with a pencil. This method made Yu Qian's eyes light up, that is, the location where these scouts set off, it should be between these two Yuangu.

"Take two more and draw them according to 300 li and 900 li!" Yu Qian thought that the scouts must have set off first, the range of nine hundred miles should be one of the departure positions, and three hundred miles might be the location of the current tile spur army. (To be continued......)