Among the four general soldiers, Zhou Yuji was in the best situation, and he basically didn't keep any of the military salaries he paid, and he used them directly in the army.

Although it was only a few months, it was enough for him to dismiss the old, weak, sick and disabled, and recruit strong soldiers for training.

Therefore, the army under his command is the best equipped, the largest in number, and the strongest in combat power.

In addition to Zhou Yuji, it should be Tang Tong and Bai Guangen.

Although the two of them were defeated on the Songjin battlefield, after all, they kept their soldiers, who were all veterans of a hundred battles, although there were not many of them, and they were also psychologically shadowed by Jiannu, but in any case, the combat power of the old pawns was stronger than that of the new pawns.

In terms of combat strength alone, although their equipment is not as good as Zhou Yuji's, if the factors of generals and morale are excluded, their 20,000 veterans will win against the army under Zhou Yuji's command, and eighty percent of them can win in the end are still soldiers under Tang Tong and Bai Guangen.

As for the worst combat power, it is naturally the 10,000 soldiers under Zhang Dengke.

In terms of equipment, he is not as good as Zhou Yuji, and there are no veterans under his command in terms of the source of soldiers, plus he is a new general soldier who has only been in office for a few months, and his prestige among the soldiers cannot be compared with Zhou Yuji.

Therefore, among the 50,000 troops, his 10,000 army is relatively weak.

But fortunately, if there is no accident in this battle, it should be mainly to defend the city, so the combat power is a little worse, and there is no big problem.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

Lao Zhu pondered for a moment, and then asked: "You don't have to worry about the grain and grass, we will make up the grain and grass for you." ”

"As for the armor, the Ministry of Industry is still working on it urgently, and before the fight starts, it should be possible to make a batch of them, and when the time comes, it will be given priority to supply to your troops, and the problem is not very big."

"Do you have any other questions besides that?"

Seeing that Lao Zhu had taken care of everything, the rest of the people glanced at each other and felt that there was nothing wrong with the others, so they all nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, there is no problem with the ministers." ”

"In this battle, we will serve the death force, and the imperial slave will be outside the pass."

"Hmm."

Lao Zhu nodded, and ignored the loyalty of several people, and directly let them all retreat first, except for Zhou Yuji.

"In this battle, Jinyiwei has found out that Jiannu will be divided into two shares and enter the customs from two directions."

"On the side of the main force of Jiannu, we will solve it, and the other group of Jiannu will enter the pass from the Jieling Pass, but we are not sure how many troops there will be now."

"It could be only one or two thousand, or it could be fifty thousand."

"We want to send you to guard the border ridge now, are you sure to defend it?"

"Boundary Ridge Pass?"

Zhou Yuji thought for a moment in his heart, then nodded without hesitation, and said, "Back to Your Majesty, the Jieling Pass will be handed over to the ministers to guard." ”

"Unless the minister dies, he will never let Jiannu step into the mouth of the Boundary Ridge."

"That's fine."

Lao Zhu bowed slightly, and then spoke: "Jielingkou is a border pass, and when there is no war on weekdays, it is a place where merchants are entrenched, and it is also the base camp of those merchants. ”

"This time you go, we won't give you more food and grass, and after you arrive, we will ask Jinyiwei to give you a list, and you will directly cut off some of those merchants and deduct part of them in the name of collaborating with the enemy."

"Then you use the detained merchants as a threat, and let them provide you with food and grass."

"As for those who are beheaded by you, you will directly steal their property, and then take their goods and money, and trade them with the rest of the merchants, so that they can provide you with grain and grass."

"In this way, you will surely be able to raise enough food."

Since revealing his identity, Lao Zhu has not concealed his work, and the words of killing people and robbing money have no vague meaning at all, and he said it directly and openly.

After Zhou Yuji heard it, he was shocked for most of the day, he had never seen such a black emperor, and he actually told the generals nakedly that he wanted to rob his people.

Half a day later, Zhou Yuji, who came back to his senses, said with some puzzlement: "Your Majesty, if you do this, the minister is afraid of losing the hearts of the people." ”

"Heh, they can also be counted as citizens?"

Lao Zhu sneered, his expression full of disdain.

In history, the Qing army entered the pass from two passes, one is the Jieling Pass, and the other is the Yanmen Huangyakou.

These two passes are the heavy passes built by the Ming Dynasty, although they are not as majestic as the Shanhaiguan, but they are also two dangerous passes.

In these passes, there have always been heavy guards of the imperial court, although now because of the weakness of the imperial court, the number of soldiers guarding these passes has been greatly reduced in recent years, but it is not that it can be broken.

According to Lao Zhu's history, when Jiannu entered the customs, these two passes did not have any effect at all, and were directly broken by Jiannu, and then drove straight in.

This shows that these two passes, they didn't attack them at all, and they took them directly.

The problem is that if the soldiers stationed at these two levels really surrendered to Jiannu, history would definitely mention it.

But Lao Zhu didn't mention this matter at all in the history books he read, which shows that the fact that these two passes were taken so quickly was not because of the surrender of the Ming soldiers.

Thinking about the largest Jin merchants in the border business, and the eight great imperial merchants in the future of Jiannu, why these two passes were taken down so quickly, Lao Zhu can guess this with his heels.

In this matter, it must be that the Jin merchants who did the largest business were acting as spies for the Qing army, and even directly bought the defenders of these two passes.

Thinking of this, Lao Zhu's heart was full of calm.

Originally, he was a little prejudiced against businessmen, but after reading so much history, he looked at things a lot more comprehensively and realized the importance of the businessman industry.

But after seeing the actions of the so-called eight masters of the Jin Dynasty in history, he instantly felt that his opinion of Shangjia was not prejudice, but the essence of those merchants.

Most businessmen only know how to pursue profits, and they don't have the concept of home and country in their hearts.

These businessmen smuggled tea and salt, iron, weapons and other contraband for Jiannu, and after tasting the sweetness, they even smuggled the production process of firearms for Jiannu, and even artillery.

In the end, they directly intensified their efforts and began to bribe the officials of the Ming Dynasty, providing intelligence to Jiannu in a grand manner, and even taking the initiative to act as an internal response to Jiannu.

This kind of businessman, in Lao Zhu's opinion, should be cut with a thousand knives, so at a very early stage, he began to let Jinyiwei collect information about these families.

After all, he knew which main targets there were, and the scope of the targets was not large, so he asked Jinyiwei to check secretly, basically checking one by one.

In the past few months, Jin Yiwei has long been aware of their situation.

The reason why they didn't move was because they didn't want to startle the snake.

Now, it's time to fight Jiannu, and it's time to clean them up.

Not only the Jin merchants in Huangyakou and Jielingkou, but even Jizhou, and even their Shanxi headquarters, Lao Zhu will not let go.

Lao Zhu only believes in one truth, either don't do it, or do it absolutely.

Since you have done it to them, then just cut the grass and eradicate the roots!