“…… Specially ordered your state, draw 2,000 warriors, merge into the conquest army, and fight against the enemy together, Qin this! ”

The envoy, dressed in ornate robes, held a yellow silk cloth in his hand and announced loudly.

He was standing in a hall with a man kneeling in front of him. In this hall, bows, animal heads, and calligraphy and paintings are hung at the same time, and the chairs are cushioned with thick animal skins, but the chairs are covered with fine silk, which looks a little nondescript.

This is the residence of a governor of the prefecture, and at this time, the governor is kneeling in front of the messenger and listening to the holy decree of Emperor Wuxing.

When he heard the words "Two Thousand Warriors," he raised his head in astonishment, but waited patiently for the messenger to finish reading it, and then he raised his head and asked:

"Your Excellency, two thousand cavalry, is it a little too much?"

This is not a very big mansion, more than 2,000 young people, almost let his subordinates go to eight or nine, such a method of drawing, he has never seen it.

However, the response he waited for was cold words:

"Violators are deprived of all their duties and beheaded! The Governor can try it as much as he wants. ”

"I'm just asking." Dudu's face twitched violently, obviously feeling aggrieved by these unkind words. He didn't expect that he just asked a question, and he actually received such an answer, and after all, he was the governor of one party, if he really wanted to convert, he was also an official of the fourth grade, how could he stand such humiliation?

"That's what Your Majesty meant." The messenger's face was still so cold, and he didn't care.

Du Du's breathing increased slightly, and his face was embarrassed for a while, but in the end, he still bowed down, and said in a slightly trembling voice:

"By the will of God."

What could he do? The big war nine years ago is still vivid! That Yan Shizhao is still in the prime of life!

There is no way, even if you are reluctant, you can only obey.

The whole province was mobilized.

"Is there going to be a war?"

The government of this prefecture, which is a large gathering place, rarely concentrates a large number of young people.

Unexpectedly, when they heard that they had been selected to accompany the Ming army, they showed a look of excitement.

Many of them had heard of the Tatar defeat nine years earlier, regarded Yan Shizhao as an invincible general, and some of them even witnessed the Tatar army fleeing in a hurry and beating the water dogs.

They naturally felt that it was an extremely honorable thing to be able to follow this general and cross the battlefield.

If you can get an official and a half-job, and enter the world of flowers in the Celestial Empire, it will be a great joy.

And their relatives and friends are also smiling:

"Wu'er, I must fight to the death to repay Your Majesty!"

"You must be loyal to the Celestial Empire and kill the enemy!"

"If you don't make a contribution to the Celestial Empire, don't come back to see me!"

……

Amidst the joyful singing, the restrained cavalry set off with enthusiasm and excitement.

……

"Guogong, the cavalry of the various provinces has arrived."

The envoy of the imperial court came to Yan Shizhao and told him that he had been ordered to send a holy decree to the prefectures, and then led the army to fight against Yan Shizhao.

Yan Shizhao was riding on a horse, but when he heard this, he glanced back at the Ming army behind him and sighed slightly.

This army, composed of the Beijing army and the Zhili Ming army, had a total strength of 50,000.

This time it's a real number.

After all, in the face of the aggressive Yan Chenhao, those generals want to say that they are not afraid, it is false.

Yan Chenhao's rectification of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, mainly focused on the people's livelihood, he adhered to the concept of "people-oriented", giving priority to improving the quality of life of the people, for the army, although there is also a certain rectification, but in comparison, it is much worse.

In particular, he also knew that the commanders of the guards in those places all had military power in their hands, and if they were really in a hurry, they might make a big mess if they joined forces with those landlords and gentry.

Therefore, although there has been a certain amount of rectification of the military system, the intensity is not large, which is another reason why Yan Chenhao opposes sending troops - large-scale rectification of the army is still after water conservancy.

But after all, Yan Chenhao's methods are also quite severe, so the honorable generals have also been restrained a lot over the years, resulting in the Beijing army and other armies finally improving their appearance.

However, even so, Yan Shizhao also saw that these soldiers had not fought for a long time, and their combat effectiveness had seriously declined, and the 50,000 people, of which only 5,000 cavalry, were too few in the face of the Dzungar department, which was the most powerful in Navarat.

Therefore, the key to determining the outcome lies in the Mongolian army.

Now they were ordered to come and meet.

"How many are there?" He asked.

"Twenty-six thousand." The court official replied respectfully, how can there be half a point of majesty when facing the governors?

"Twenty-six thousand?"

Yan Shizhao was stunned, he thought he had heard it wrong, and asked again.

"Guogong, it's 26,000 people, to be exact, it's 26,843 people."

The official of the imperial court said it again, this time the numbers were more detailed and precise.

When Yan Shizhao heard this, he was in a trance.

This number was far beyond his imagination, he thought that the vassal army would be seven or eight thousand people at most, so that although it was a little difficult, it could also fight.

But I didn't expect that there were so many.

You must know that the grassland is not an agricultural area, and the population that can accommodate it is not much, and when Temujin dominated the grassland, there were only 95 thousand households under his command, and these thousand households may not be full, although it was after the war, but the number of people in the grassland can also be seen. Although the restraint has made some progress over the years by relying on the grain and grass of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many people, after all, it has not been too many years since that big war.

According to statistics some time ago, there are only more than 40,000 men.

Moreover, in recent years, tens of thousands of young people have been filled into the 3,000 battalions, and the remaining Ding Zhuang is even less.

Yan Shizhao did a rough mental arithmetic, and was stunned to find that except for a few prefectures in the outer circle that directly bordered the various departments of Warat, the rest of the fetters had already sent most of the remaining men.

At this time, the envoy of the imperial court came over again and whispered:

"Your Majesty's intention is to use them as the vanguard to minimize the casualties of our army......"

Yan Shizhao glanced at him, and in an instant he understood what the emperor meant.

It seems that a large number of independence and rebellions in the last years of Wanli have made the emperor no longer trust the fetters, and this is the people who don't regard them as Ming at all!

It's just like this...... Is it really not going to go wrong?

Yan Shizhao opened his mouth, but in the end, he just hugged his fist and said:

"Shi Zhao took the order."

After all, his uncle had just quarreled with the emperor, and if he had any rebuttals now, it would inevitably make the emperor disagree. To be honest, if he hadn't supported Zhu Changxun's decision-making enough before, maybe the emperor wouldn't have let him continue to command this army.

Now what he has to do is to win this battle and try to dispel the emperor's suspicions, so that it can also help his uncle.

And now, with this fetter cavalry, he is more sure.

Yan Shizhao's eyes were shining, which was full of excitement and fighting spirit.

In November of the ninth year of Wuxing, Chen Guogong Yan Shizhao led a large army, and in the name of repeatedly violating the border of the Warat Junggar Department, he went north to crusade.

(End of chapter)