There was a muffled bang, and suddenly it sounded in the distance.

The people who were discussing in the room all subconsciously paused and listened. The roar came from the north, apparently the troops heading north to explore the way had encountered the Mongols again. A few days ago, although Chen Dexing used the gods of the Heavenly Taoist Sect to organize tens of thousands of refugees in Liujiaji Town and organize them into regimental camps.

Not only did Ding Zhuang be organized, but even the old and weak women and children were organized - Ding Zhuang had his own Ding Zhuang camp, and the old and weak women and children had family camps. Ding Zhuang's camp practiced day and night, and the family camp sent errands for cooking, laundry, and sewing war jackets.

In addition, the craftsmen who knew how to make weapons among the refugees were also organized into artisan battalions, and they worked day and night to make iron and make weapons—most of the iron tools carried by the refugees were collected and turned into spearheads, and a simple spear with a wooden pole inserted.

To bring the tens of thousands of refugees here in Liujiaji Town to Yanyun, it is obvious that they must be armed first. There were about 18,000 refugees who needed to be armed, down to the age of twelve or thirteen, up to fifty or sixty years old, and all the men who could draw bows and spears were mobilized into the Zhuangding battalion, and ten large battalions were formed, which were divided by Han Ansheng and nine other landlords and tyrants who had joined the Heavenly Taoist Sect - of course, the landlords! Now is not the time to wage the peasants to fight the landlords.

Moreover, those who can become landlords in the north under the rule of the Mongols are all masters who can fight, and their status is not based on the imperial examination! In addition, there is a clan behind these local tyrants. It is incomparable with the Yimen clan in the south, and the north has been too chaotic in the past few decades, most of the clans have been slaughtered by the Mongols, and the big clans have also been slaughtered into small clans. However, the local tyrants sharpened under the Mongolian butcher's knife are not comparable to the imperial examination clans in the south. Relying on them as the backbone, you can quickly pull up a team that can really fight a dozen.

The task of training these strong battalions was given to Guo Kan. He doesn't need to train among them, he has his own officers to train - they all bring old soldiers. and these strong men are fellow villagers (Guo Kan's soldiers were recruited from the Shi family's territory, and Zhendinglu was originally Shi Tianze's). It's just right to go to training.

In addition to training troops, Chen Dexing also sent a horse team with a black flag and a steel-armored cavalry of the cavalry division to explore the road to the north. However, the results of the exploration were not ideal, Kublai Khan this time was Wang Ba's heart was iron-hearted, and he refused to let Chen Dexing go back to Yanjing. Not only were several Mongol troops deployed to the north of Liujiaji Town. He also took out the Heavenly Thunder Arrow they bought from the Southern Song Dynasty, and as soon as Chen Dexing's cavalry approached, they were bombarded by Heavenly Thunder Arrow......

Chen Dexing sat on the top and listened with bated breath. Guo Kan, Zhu Jiusi and other Ming army generals sat in two columns, and they did not dare to speak at this time.

Although the 14,000 Ming troops around Chen Dexing all had horses, except for the 2,000 Eight Banners Horse Team, the rest of the people included the 1,500 heavy cavalry. Actually, it's all infantry! Their way of fighting was to fight in formation, not in the field—that was the way the light cavalry played. And the Mongolian cavalry of 50,000 or 60,000 people will obviously use the tactics of light cavalry, using delay, ambush, harassment and other tactics to trap Chen Dexing to death on the road to Yanjing!

The explosions did not ring out one after another, and it was clear that the cavalry sent by Chen Dexing had retreated - it was probably a whole Mongol team of 10,000 people who stood in their way! This is not something that 3,500 people can defeat.

After listening for a while, Chen Dexing snorted: "This Kublai Khan is determined, and he has put fifty or sixty thousand horsemen in the north, so he is not afraid that Li Pu will fight out of Taiyuan City?" ”

Guo Kan shook his head with a smile and said, "This Emperor Li's fighting skills are notoriously stinky. Even if you come out of Taiyuan, you can't go fast. Kublai Khan knew that he was a human being, so he didn't worry about anything. But we don't have to worry, those refugees are all rushing with food, plus the military rations we carry. There is no problem with supporting it for two months. ”

Two months in Liuji Town? This is Li Pu's style, Chen Dexing does not bring this. He sneered and asked in a low voice, "Has the sentinel sent to the south returned?" ”

Guo Kan's originally bored complexion suddenly became nervous again. Why did King Ming ask about the situation in the south? Could it be that he wants to move south? Most of Kublai Khan's 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry were scattered in the north. Of course, there must be arrangements for the other three sides, but there will not be many people.

If King Ming wants to go south, he can move. After all. The Mongol cavalry also needed to go around fighting grass valleys (i.e., looting) to maintain supplies, in order to be convenient. Will definitely spread out some. If you want to go south in a big way, you have to have a process of assembly. From the discovery of the Ming King's army going south to the completion of the assembly, there were no two days that were not enough at all. If King Ming sends out the Eight Banners to cover the battlefield again, this time can be extended even more. It's just that......

"King, are we going south?" Guo Kan asked tentatively.

"Well, the Lone King has this intention, the Lone King wants to go south to fight the Mongols." Chen Dexing didn't mean to hide it, "Guo Qing, where in the south is the dense hukou and the population is large?" ”

"It's all too much!" Guo Kan said with a smile, "The Zhending Road where we are now, Hejian Road in the east, Shunde Road, Guangping Road and Daming Road in the south are all the territory of my father-in-law Shi Runfu...... My father's military and political talents are among the best in Mongolia, and the governance of the land of the five roads is also good. It is a rare paradise in the Northland, with 50,000 households on the books, but in fact it has more than doubled, and the total population is 780,000. ”

Seven or eight hundred thousand! Even if the population of Zhendinglu is lost and fled due to the war, the total population of the five roads will not be less than 600,000, that is, there will be 200,000 people in the first third. Add to the 50,000 that have already arrived, and there will be 250,000 people.

All the generals present suddenly thought - population means army! If you can increase the population by 250,000, you can increase the army by another 20,000. With 20,000 more soldiers, there will be a lot of opportunities for promotion! Moreover, the Ming Dynasty has many soldiers, and it is closer to the day of sweeping the world and achieving the great cause of prosperity!

At that time, everyone will be the founding hero!

Facing the interested eyes of the generals, Chen Dexing smiled faintly, but in this smile, there was a bit of fanaticism.

"Kublai Khan did not let the Lone King go north, so the Lone King went south to attack the Zhending and Daimyo roads, saving the people who were oppressed by the Mongols along the way, and expanding the troops and horses...... Kublai Khan is nothing more than bullying the lonely soldiers, waiting for the lonely to go on the roads of Zhending and the Daimyo, and coercing, he liberated two or three hundred thousand people to go north, and then see who dares to stop it! Pass on the order of King Lone, rest for a day tomorrow, prepare to pull, and the day after tomorrow, the whole army will go south! ”

……

Just when Chen Dexing went south to attack Zhending, Shunde, Guangping, and Daming.

Between the mountain roads west of Taiyuan, the torches raised high are rolling eastward like a torrent.

Tens of thousands of Mongol horses, crammed between the narrow roads of the two mountains, marched overnight and poured westward. This army is the department of Baturu and Wang Tiange, who besieged Taiyuan a few days ago, and as a result, Li Pu, Shi Tianze, Zhang Rou and others fought hard for their lives. Of the 50,000 troops at that time, less than 30,000 remained...... This is still the result of Baturu choosing to retreat immediately, but Li Pu reacted slowly and did not listen to Shi Tianze's fierce pursuit.

This is the mountain road leading to Niangzi Pass, which has always been narrow, and now it is night, not only the visibility is poor, but also the Shanxi Haoqiang who is loyal to Li Pu is often encountered to ambush along the way. So the army was cautious, and the passage was extremely slow. There was a long pause before moving forward. In the night, there was the neighing of impatient people. Many Mongol warriors simply sat on the hillside next to the road and took a nap back to back.

Baturu also sat on the rocks, staring coldly at the congested road in front of him, and kept holding up the sheepskin water bag and pouring wine into his mouth. It's obviously borrowing wine to drown your sorrows.

Tens of thousands of Mongol troops first besieged Taiyuan, then fought hard for two days and two nights, and now fled in panic. Not to mention the loss of soldiers or anything, even the army's grain and straw are about to bottom out. After all, this series of actions requires all efforts to be concentrated, and there is no spare strength to send troops to loot in all directions.

Now I hope that Zhending City can get some replenishment, otherwise I will have to kill horses and eat meat......

Brother Wang Tian rushed from the front with a heavy heart, came to Baturu, and said in a low voice: "The contact with the Great Khan has been cut off for three days, and now there is no order for the cowardly Xue to come from the mother's pass. I'm afraid that there will be changes in Taihang Shandong, so it's better to urge the warriors to speed up the journey. ”

Baturu shook his head, "The Great Khan won't be in trouble, didn't you say three days ago that Chen Dexing was surrounded in Liujiaji Town...... Dingtian just let Chen Dexing run away, what else can he do? It's a headache in Taiyuan, and Li Pu's traitor has already led his troops to chase him out! ”

Li Pu's hesitation delayed the pursuit for a day, allowing Baturu to calmly arrange the palace army. Now the pursuers led by Li Pu himself are fighting all the way with the palace army of Baturu, and the shape is extremely critical! If Chen Dexing defeated Kublai Khan, advanced all the way to Zhending City, and blocked the exit of Niangzi Pass, it would really cost his life.

This possibility, of course, is saved zài! But Baturu didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it, and he used it if he thought about it. The place where Kublai Khan and Chen Dexing fought is Zhendinglu! If Kublai Khan had been defeated, Chen Dexing would have been in control by now. What's the difference between getting to Niangzi Pass earlier or later? Anyway, there is an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back...... This Niangziguan is where less than 30,000 Mongolian sons are buried.

As he spoke, Baturu kept pouring wine into his mouth, looking decadent and depressed. Brother Wang Tian just wanted to persuade a few words, when there was a disturbing sound behind him, and he saw the firelight shaking, and several horses galloped over. When he saw Baturu on the high rock, he reported loudly: "Marshal, the big thing is not good, there are a few officials who fled from Zhending City in the direction of Niangzi Pass, and they say that Zhending City has been ...... Occupied by the Rebel Bandits! (To be continued......)