A burst of dust flew and obscured the sky, and the neat and dull sound of horses' hooves was terrifying from far and near.

This scene happened outside the mouth of Datong Baiyang.

"Enemy, enemy attack!"

"What are you shouting nonsense, just a hundred or ten cavalry, hurry, go and call the garrison to come over!" Standing on the lookout platform, he rushed down and shouted.

"Yes!"

"It's time to come, it's finally here!" Hu Rui, who was guarding the Qianhu Garrison of Baiyangkou, heard the soldier's announcement, suddenly stood up and rushed out.

"No one is allowed to trespass without my orders, prepare horses!"

"Your Excellency!"

"Noise, I know it!" Hu Rui scolded, jumped on horseback, and shouted, "Open the door!" ”

Ride the dust.

More than a hundred cavalrymen, fully armed, silent, a fierce and cold-blooded aura rushed to the face, suffocating.

It is the elite guards under the command of Tatar Daizong Khan.

Hu Rui gasped, he had been on the border for many years, so he naturally recognized the origin of these people, and he actually ordered himself to put such a team from the mouth of the white sheep, what did he want to do?

"May I ask who is General Haramu?"

"I am, you are the garrison of the Han people of Baiyangkou?" A Tatar in heavy armor and a gemstone scimitar at his waist pointed at Hu Ruidao.

"Below: Hu Rui, Baiyangkou garrisons thousands of households, and I have seen General Haramu!" The two countries are at war, and they don't kill them, although this Haramu has an arrogant attitude, it is nothing.

"Hu Shoubei, have you received an order from Shangfeng?"

"I received it, you have to pass through my white sheep's mouth, but according to the agreement, you can go over, and you can't carry weapons and equipment."

"Bastard ......"

"Hu Shoubei, there is no such article in the agreement. We don't bring these in, what if we run into danger? ”

"We naturally think about this for you, your war horses are exchanged with us one-on-one, and weapons and armor are also provided by us!" Sun Shoubei said.

Although he didn't know what mission these people had to perform when they entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty. But the crime of letting the Tatars into the country cannot be afforded.

"You Han people are in trouble when you do things!" A trace of displeasure flashed in Haramu's eyes, but this time the task was given by the Great Khan, and it must be completed, otherwise he will die in the Ming Dynasty, don't come back!

"Wait a minute, I will take you into the mouth of the white sheep, your identity is the envoy of Daizong Khan, go to Datong to meet the chief soldier Lord Zhu, and discuss the reopening of the horse market. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, verbose, let's go!"

Haramu urged.

"The garrison is back, look, those Tatars are coming with you, can you open the door?"

"You stupid, the garrison is back, what are you doing without opening the door?"

"Open the door. They are the messengers of the Tatar Daizong Khan! ”

"It turned out to be an envoy, no wonder the garrison dared to go out alone!"

Hu Rui led more than a hundred Tatar iron-blooded guards into the fish. Enter the mouth of the aries.

"General Haramu, your horses and equipment are here, after changing clothes, leave immediately."

"What about our horses and equipment?"

"Don't worry, we'll take care of it, and we'll wait for you to come back. Of course, if you don't come back......"

"We'll definitely be back." Haramu said with a cold look in his eyes.

"Good luck to you!" Hu Rui smiled, this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, although you have changed your clothes, you are still Tatars in essence. If you really throw your life away in the Ming Dynasty, no one will be pitied.

I really don't know what the above thinks, why do you do this, borrow a knife to kill someone?

"General, is this knife rusty?" One of the Iron Guards noticed something wrong with his weapon, and when he pulled it out, he saw rust on the blade.

"Hu Shoubei, don't you explain?"

"These weapons have just been received by the officer, and I don't know, if the general dislikes them, can he not use them?"

"Damn, are you Han people so dishonest?" Haramu was furious and stepped forward and grabbed Hu Rui by the collar.

"General Haramu, this official really doesn't know, this batch of weapons was transferred from the Datong Arsenal, and we haven't used it yet, so I will let you use it first." Hu Rui explained.

"Haramu, let go!" A Tatar cavalryman with a stiff bow with an ancient pattern stepped forward and addressed Haramu in Mongolian.

Haramu didn't hesitate and immediately let go of his hand.

Can this person actually say that Haramu can be moved?

Although Hu Rui is only a garrison, he still has eyesight, and this Tatar cavalry with a big bow on his back is probably not low.

"Hu Shoubei, we want these weapons, do you have any better ones here, can we pay for them?"

"Buy?"

"Arms trading, this is a violation of the laws of the Ming Dynasty." Hu Rui said.

"What is this again?"

"Swap, swap doesn't count as buying and selling!" Hu Rui said busily, he was a little proud of his quick wit.

"Then how about I exchange these golden sands for some weapons with Hu Garrison?"

"Golden Sands?"

Hu Rui took it, cushioned it, it was so heavy, and when he opened it, it was indeed golden sand.

"Come on!"

Hu Rui took these Tatar cavalry to another warehouse, opened the door, and led the people inside.

"This is the best weapon we have here, you can pick it yourself, each person can only take one, too much is not good!" Hu Rui said.

"Fair and reasonable!"

At the same time, a dusty procession slowly approached Shuozhou City, and after five days of continuous travel, people were sleepy and tired, and finally arrived at the meeting place.

Meng Yan planned to take a break here, meet Zhang Chong, and then go to Yatou Pass to do an investigation along the border.

Although three years later, this is not the main battlefield of the Ming Dynasty and the Warat army, but it cannot be ignored that the Hetao area has become a springboard for the Warat people to attack the Ming Dynasty because of the active withdrawal of the imperial court.

Although this fertile land still belonged to the Ming Dynasty in legal theory, it was actually controlled by the tribes on the grassland.

Shrinking the defense line, due to border defense and limited capacity, after all, the normal border line, how many soldiers and horses need to be garrisoned, the cost of financial resources is innumerable. In particular, the grain and grass cannot be connected.

If the Northwest Frontier Defense had not implemented the "opening the middle" law and encouraged Shangtun, I am afraid that it would have been difficult to maintain the daily and operational consumption of the huge number of troops at the border gates.

During the Chengzu period, there were more than 100,000 garrisons in Datong alone, but now there are only 60,000 or 70,000 people. The troops could not be replenished, which was also the reason why the imperial court abandoned the first line of Daning, Kaiping and Dongsheng Sanwei and withdrew them internally.

This is a difficult opportunity, no matter whether it is useful or not, first find out the actual situation and terrain of the border pass.

Others thought he was going for the case, but in fact, he didn't take the case to heart at all.

Everything he did was for the war that affected the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty three years later.

"I've finally seen a decent city!"

"This Shuozhou is a military location, bordering the Yellow River in the west, Taiyuan in the south, and Datong in the north. In ancient times, it was a battleground for soldiers! ”

This Shuozhou city was built by the right prime minister Polo Timur in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, however, he only built a southeast corner in order to garrison, but it was abandoned before it was completed, this dynasty Hongwu three years, Xingyang Marquis Zheng Yuchun opened Shuozhou Wei, according to the old site to complete. In the tenth year of Hongwu, Shuozhou Wei commanded the cave shou and enshrined the bricks. This is the current Shuozhou City! Ma Weiran shook his head and said teasingly.

"Let's go, let's go into town, let's have a good meal tonight!" Meng Yan raised his horsewhip, laughed, and took the lead towards Shuozhou City.

"Childe is really an optimist. We've been out of contact with the capital for four days, and he can still laugh? Guo Xiaochao's eyes were full of worry.

"Brother Xiaochao, since you are here, you will resign yourself to fate, and you will just cut off contact. It's not a big deal, don't you still believe my old man? Meng Yan's laughter came, "It's not terrible for a tiger to be locked in a cage, what is terrible is that the cage is not locked, and the tiger may rush out at any time." ”

"Husband, how can there be such a person like you, I actually say my father like this." Guo Yue snorted dissatisfiedly.

"It's just an analogy, hehe." Meng Yan smiled and got carried away, his daughter was still on the side.

"But it's a good analogy." Guo Yue actually became proud and praised in the next second.

Sure enough, it was the water spilled by the married daughter, and this heart was towards her own man!

Guo Xiaochao shook his head and smiled bitterly, he really lost to this couple.

There is no official appearance as an official, and there is no quiet and virtuous appearance as a wife, and the whole person is a ghost.

Maybe only Meng Yan would be so indulgent to Guo Yue, if it was himself, would he be able to accept the previous Guo Yue, and could he still accept the current Guo Yue?

I'm afraid that this question will never be answered.

In recent years, the northwest frontier has been relatively calm, after all, Warat also needs to accumulate strength, and the Tatars are also recovering their vitality, and they are not unified internally, which is also a consideration of the Ming Dynasty's military strategy from the northwest to the southwest.

In the north, the Ming Dynasty adopted the practice of co-opting the Tatars and suppressing the Warats, and played a balancing tactic.

Moreover, it is a tripartite balance, as long as all three parties are suspicious and do not really form an alliance, then peace can be maintained.

Of course, local conflicts are bound to exist, and everyone is playing this kind of game and testing each other.

Shuozhou City is not far from the border, but it is very important here, and it plays the role of connecting the upper and lower levels, and the military rations from Shanxi are transferred through Shuozhou to Datong and then arrive at the border pass.

If the Warat army invaded from the Hetao, Shuozhou would be the first to bear it.

There are 5,600 garrisons in Shuozhou City, which is quite strong and well-armed, which is enough to resist the half-moon attack of the enemy ten times larger.

What's more, there are tens of thousands of people in Shuozhou City, tens of thousands of people are strong, and the border cities have always been used by the people.

This is where Shuozhou City's confidence lies in its ability to resist strong enemies.

"This is our guide."

"Well, let's go in, it's forbidden to set up horses in the city, and if you catch it, you'll be detained." The guards of Shuozhou City did not embarrass them, and after checking the road guide, they let them into the city.

"Where did you make an appointment to meet Zhang Chong?"

"Chongfu Temple on East Street, whoever arrives first, who goes there first to leave a mark of meeting." Guo Xiaochao said.

"Find a store to stay in first, what time is it today?"

"It's the fourth day of the fourth month of April, Son!"

"According to the itinerary, it should be one of the three days of fourth, fifth, and sixth days, and no later than the eighth day of the new year."

"It looks like we're going to be in Shuozhou City for two more days." (To be continued......) R1292