"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says that the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city. The method of siege is a last resort.

Generally speaking, even if it is a dispute within the Han people, they will not storm a city as a last resort, let alone a strong city like Datong that has been in operation for many years.

But the method of using soldiers is the most taboo to set up military books.

Dayan Khan fought Datong because he knew that Zhou Shangwen's Ministry had left Datong. To put it simply, if the main force is not there and he doesn't dare to fight, then he shouldn't come this time.

To this end, Dayan Khan had prepared ladders for the siege and firewood and grass to burn the city gates.

After an order,

The first to fly towards the walls was a rain of arrows, followed by the infantry advancing against the cannon fire set on the walls, and the earth-shattering shouts filled everyone's ears.

Chang Dacheng hid at the battlements on the city wall to observe carefully, and several generals behind him also squatted on the side waiting for orders.

"Chen Qing! Chen Qing! ”

"The last general!"

"You lead 3,000 people to Dongyang and Gate to support! Pay attention to the firewood, find a few good hands, and don't let the firewood and grass get close to the city gates! ”

"Order!!"

The Tatars were not good at attacking cities, and Chang Dacheng did not know who gave these Tartars the idea, and thought of burning the city gates with firewood and grass.

In fact, there are pros and cons to this approach.

For the side defending the city, this thing is very threatening, so naturally they will pay attention to it, and they will not let it get close.

And once the firewood and grass are burned within the range of your own troops, it will harm your own people.

It's not the first time that Chang Dacheng has defended the city, like an arrow pouring oil on the fire, which will have been prepared a long time ago.

After a few volleys of Tatar troops, he commanded:

"Anyone who shoots firewood and grass and builds a ladder will be rewarded with a silver tael!!"

From this moment on,

The battle for the city begins!

Yang Yiqing in the northwest probably didn't feel the atmosphere of Datong, they still arranged closely according to Wang Shouren's suggestion before, and the governor's palace also added 15,000 soldiers and horses to the vanguard Qiu Yue.

This is a field horse race.

Everything was as Wang Shouren expected, as long as Yang Shangyi did not move his troops and waited for work, the fire screen would not dare to meet the battle with all his troops.

Qiu Yue is a man who came out of the blood and fire, although this is a charge that is very likely to be defeated, but after receiving the military order, he still resolutely went out.

In the second year of Zhengde, the Northwest Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty has strengthened its organization, from the emperor to the governor, from the governor to the governor, and then to the commanders of the guards, there is no room for cowardly people from top to bottom.

So in August, the Ming Dynasty entered the war from west to east.

The Jingshi was far away, and it would only take more than a month to react, but as time went by, soon the princes and nobles, and even the common people of Li knew that the Ming Dynasty was at war.

The impact is also fully manifested,

First of all, the military department,

Wang Bing led the order to reorganize and train the 12th regiment battalion, the war is imminent, the generals and schools at all levels are very nervous, the rules of the court are very simple, which level of school officials want to leave the old, weak, sick and disabled, just stay in their own hands, the battle starts, you yourself take these people to face the battle. This method is extremely immoral, and everyone knows that their life is good.

The second is the household department, and the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, which is the truth since ancient times. Hangul fully mobilized the people of Beijing and Tongtong, and large trucks and small vehicles began to transport grain to Beijing. This was done once in the orthodox years of Shaobao, and later the reward silver was also paid, and this time there was no hindrance, so that all industries in the capital were 'depressed' for a while, because the common people did not go to transport grain day and night.

At the same time, affected by the war, some people in the Jingshi began to pack up and flee for their lives in the south, and the imperial court did not stop this, because there were still many people around the Jingshi who wanted to enter the city to avoid disasters.

But there was one thing that was beyond Zhu Houzhao's expectations.

Originally, he issued an order to ask the cabinet and the governor of Shuntian and Baoding to organize the prefects and counties of Beizhili to notify the people to hurry up the wheat harvest.

This is part of the policy of clearing the wilderness, and it is related to the vital interests of the people, and there should not be too many obstacles to doing it, who does not know that the grain collected in their fields is good.

And this year was supposed to be free of money and food, in other words, how much money was collected by yourself.

These have nothing to do with the war, in order to help this part of the extremely poor common people, the emperor used his brains.

But what I didn't expect was that this year, many people had just divided their fields, and now it is the first season of wheat! People who have never been poor or hungry never know what it is like to gather grain from their fields and see their rice jars filled with grain.

Some people have never seen their family so rich since they were born!

This is not food, this is the hope of survival!

The power of hope is an infinitely powerful force.

As a result, at this time, the Tatars actually led troops to attack the Ming Dynasty! The crossing of the army is like locusts, what is left after a round of robbery?

In other words, the hope of just getting it is gone!

That is absolutely unacceptable!

The anger of the common people was difficult to suppress, and the government would not suppress the anger of the people against the Tatars, so all the prefectures and counties began to report to the people, and the common people spontaneously formed a militia, determined to fight desperately with those who robbed their fields and their grain!

But what is the nature of this kind of force that is not in the military department? How to deal with it?

These questions cannot be answered by the prefect and the county, and can only be reported layer by layer.

Zhu Houzhao was a little moved and emotionally moved when he received these notes in the palace, the power of the people is always great, and he really didn't think that things would evolve like this when he first divided the fields.

In the words of the cabinet king: the people's will is available, and this battle will be won!!

Yes, popular hearts are available.

These four words gave many old ministers great courage.

Min Jue said excitedly: "Your Majesty, such a popular sentiment, if it is suppressed, it will be counterattacked, and the minister thinks it should be used!" ”

"How?"

"There's a military academy!" Wang Bing, the secretary of the military department, said: "You can send a small group in the military academy to go to the prefectures and counties to lead the militia formed by the people spontaneously, and with the students of these military academies, the soldiers of all counties can cooperate with each other to fight, as long as the little prince of Tatar comes, let him be in the fire of war every step he takes!" Day and night, no rest! Tired, tired of them! ”

This is the vast ocean of the people's war.

Zhu Houzhao flashed this word in his mind.

This time, the imperial court divided more than 2 million mu of land from Huangzhuang and Zhongguan Zhuang, and more than 1 million mu from the fields of honorable and noble officials at all levels. Of the nearly 4 million mu of land, three mu per capita is shared, and more than 1 million people directly benefit.

Not all of these people will have the courage to take up arms to fight the regular army, but the proportion of those who are willing to take up arms must be extremely high, even if a conservative one-third estimate is more than 300,000.

And that's just the people who divide the fields. Do people who have no land want their land, grain, livestock, and women to be robbed arbitrarily?

That won't either!

As long as someone takes the lead, it is a herd mentality.

At the beginning, he also faced this situation when he first took Zhu Qizhen to attack Beijing. When he came, he was extremely vicious, and the people didn't dare to provoke him, and when he saw that he was about to fail and wanted to withdraw the army, he was beaten by the people along the way.

These people take food on the spot, do all kinds of evil, and the common people hate it!

Zhu Houzhao thought that this was an unexpected trick, on the one hand, it could help the imperial court resist the Tatars, and on the other hand, it could also organize the strength of the people, so that they could better protect their food, and at the same time add some trouble to the supply of the Tatar army.

"Just ...... Protect the land and protect the grain as the slogan, simple is good, simple people can understand. The complicated lecture to the students of the military academy means that the officials are the main ones, and the militia is the auxiliary. A serious army is not something that the people can resist, and once a rout is formed, it will be irreversible. ”

"That's nature, raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while. Besides, he Dayan Khan may not be able to pass this level of passing, and he may not be able to be captured halfway. ”

Zhu Hou took a look at Min Jue, this little old man, as soon as he became excited, he spoke a little wantonly.

"The mobilization of military academies should also be carefully arranged. In this battle with the Tatars, the imperial court should make it clear that they have made meritorious contributions and are the same as others, the silver money that should be rewarded should be rewarded, and the official positions that should be given should be given, and for them, they also left the academy one day early. At the time of the crisis, Fang Xian was a hero, and I expected that there would be some young generals in the Ming Dynasty. ”

The military department has its own way of this matter, "They have been mobilized for the previous division of the field, so it should be regarded as a round of drills before, and this time there will be a heavy reward, and there will be brave men among them." After Weichen went down, he divided them one by one according to Fuzhou and counties, ensuring that dozens of counties, large and small, could be divided into a group, and the group was combined with the county, and together with the capture of the fast ya, the guards of each county were organized, the counties were connected, and the governments were coordinated, and at the same time, the military department maintained communication with the groups of various military academies, and the Beijing battalion and the Shangzhi guards were used to guard the Beijing division, and the rest of the Qinwang's divisions mobilized by Shandong and Henan were to cooperate with Fuzhou County to fight. In this way, how can you not win? ”

After listening to this, Zhu Houzhao also had more confidence in this operation.

"Having said that, Bauhinia Pass still needs to focus on defense, so that it can buy more time and make better preparations. It's best to keep them from crossing the Bauhinia Pass. Although the unity of the army and the people is exciting, in this way, it is inevitable that the prefecture and county will be sacked, and as a monarch, I always can't bear such a thing to happen. ”

The ministers knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty is benevolent and generous, which is really a blessing to the people." ”

These are all polite words to each other, just listen to them.

"In accordance with Your Majesty's will, the minister has sent the governor Tongzhi Shifeng, the son of Chengguo Gong, Zhu Feng, to lead the four guards and three thousand firecrackers to the Bauhinia Pass for reinforcements, and it will not be easy for Dayan Khan to pass this pass!"

"Approximate time will they arrive?"

"The army is marching quickly, and it will be there in three days!"

"Okay."

Shi Feng is the hereditary commander Tongzhi, and Zhu Feng is the second son of Zhu Fu, the Duke of Chengguo, both of whom were born in military academies. Zhu Fu has an eldest son, Zhu Qi, but it is really useless, and Zhu Feng is still a little self-motivated.

In fact, Zhu Houzhao also hopes that there can be one person among the nobles, not to mention reproducing the demeanor of his ancestors, at least not to make people feel mediocre.

This Zhu Feng is in his early twenties, and I hope he can have good luck.

Zhu Houzhao didn't say anything, and reflexively went to the imperial case to write down the four words mentioned earlier:

Protecting the field and protecting the grain.

"Take it, let these Tartars know how powerful they are to the Han people."

At this time, the mobilization power will not be so strong, after all, there are no grassroots organizations, but mobilization depends on organization on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is more important to rely on tangible things. It's all about the organization, but it's not really about that.

Baotian is not fake, and it actually doesn't need to be organized.

There were no knives and guns, and they were beaten to death like hoes.

(End of chapter)