In the early morning of the next day, Du Bu came to the antique shop that the tomb robber Zou Neng said yesterday.

At this time, an old man in Tsing Yi and a young man in the antique shop were sorting out the shelves.

Du did not forget to ask the old man:

"Do you know Boss Zou? I'm here to find him!"

The old man in Tsing Yi replied:

"Since you're looking for Boss Zou, there should be goods, right?"

Du Buyi took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms, handed it to the old man in Tsing Yi, and said:

"How about you take a look at this for me?"

The old man looked at it and said:

"This jade pendant is still in good condition, but the old man can't estimate it, I'll help you call Boss Zou and Xu Yuanlai!"

Then he went to the back, and after a while, Boss Zhou and Xu You came, looking at the two of them as if they had just woken up.

Du Cheng did not forget and shouted first:

"Brother Zou and Brother Xu, I came to find you!"

Xu You immediately took the old man's jade pendant, looked at it carefully, and said:

"This jade is really an excellent Chu jade, it is the thing of King Chu Kang!"

Du did not forget to ask:

"How could Brother Xu know that this is King Chukang's thing?"

Xu You came over with a jade pendant and said to Du Yiyi:

"You see that this word is a slender move, there are nine bears engraved around, and the Central Plains Chudi has respected nine since ancient times, nine bears plus a move word, it is a bear move, jade can only be owned by the nobles at that time, and the jade quality is also real Ancient Chu Yu is undoubted, so this jade must be the thing of King Chukang Xiong Zhao!"

Then he asked:

"Could it be that Brother Feng Xian, what you once dug is the tomb of King Chu Kang?"

Du Buyi only knew at this time that he saw the tomb of King Chu in his hometown that belonged to King Chu Kang, so he said:

"Brother Xu is really powerful, you can know so much with a jade pendant!"

At this time, Xu You asked again:

"Brother Feng Xian, since you have entered the tomb of King Chukang, there should be more than this jade pendant in your hand!"

Du did not forget to reply:

"Of course it's more than that, as long as Brother Xu starts at the price, I can still take out a lot of bronzes!"

Xu You said with a smile:

"Okay then, when will Brother Du take us to see these items?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"No hurry!"

Then he asked:

"What about your other brothers?"

At this time, Xu You replied:

"Sleeping, then go into the house and call them out!"

Du didn't forget to look at a few people, it happened to be five people last night, and said:

"It's time for your sweet potato digging career to end!"

Then he waved behind him, and at this time there were many officers and soldiers, as well as the local prefect.

When the prefect saw Du Cheng, he immediately came to salute and said:

"Lord Jingluo, the next official is here!"

At this time, when the five of them heard that Du was not forgotten to be a court official, their faces changed instantly, and they quickly wanted to escape, but they were all arrested by the officers and soldiers, even the old man and the young man in the antique shop.

Du did not forget and said to the prefect:

"The prefect is bothering you, you should have seen the evidence, right?"

The prefect nodded, and then gave the order to the officers and soldiers:

"Put all these tomb robbers on death row, wait for tomorrow's interrogation, and then execute them directly!"

Du did not forget to leave with the prefect and continued to hurry.

And Du Bu forgets the tomb of the King of Chu in his hometown, although the bamboo slips have been moved out by Wang Daochang, and the gold and jade hidden outside have been taken out by Du Buxing, and the other items are still intact.

In order to prevent tomb robbers from digging this tomb again in the future, Wang Daochang let the groundwater flood into the tomb and backfilled the tomb of King Chukang.

The tomb robbers stole the tombs of the princes and kings last night, but they were unsuccessful, and they were also valued and protected by the prefect.

After more than a month, Du did not forget it, and before he knew it, he finally arrived at Datong Mansion.

At this time, there was a mess around Datong Mansion, because the cavalry of the little Tatar prince had just raided the area around Datong Mansion again.

Although these Tatar cavalry did not capture Datong City, they had already frightened the soldiers and civilians in the city.

After Du Bu Bu entered the city to take office, the first thing he did was to investigate the defense and material situation of the garrison near the entire Datong Mansion.

Only then did I learn that the total number of soldiers in Datong Town, which was mainly defending Tatar together with Xuanfu and Guyuan Town, was now only 40,000 or 50,000, and then I learned that Xuanfu, the important defense area of the Beijing Division, was only 100,000 soldiers, and the soldiers and horses of Guyuan Prefecture were only equal to the soldiers and horses of Datong Prefecture, and the grain stored in several towns was not enough for the soldiers and civilians for three days.

However, the Great Wall on the border is badly damaged and needs to be repaired urgently, lacking both money and manpower.

Then he exclaimed:

"No wonder the little Tatar prince dares to abuse my land in the north of the Ming Dynasty like this. ”

He immediately ordered someone to write a letter to Emperor Zhu Houxi on his behalf, reported the situation, and then summoned the commanders and generals in Datong Mansion to prepare to arrange the defense of Datong Mansion first.

Summoned all the generals to discuss outside the city gate, Hu Hu naturally came, and he was the first to come to the city to meet Du Buyi.

The two hugged each other, and Hu Hu said excitedly:

"Childe, we can be together again in the future!"

Du did not forget to ask:

"How's your left guard doing?"

Hu Hu replied:

"It should be good, but it's just very aggrieved!"

Du did not forget to ask:

"What's the grievance?"

Hu Hu replied:

"Because the Tatar cavalry is too strong, we have suffered repeated defeats, and now the commander has no choice but to order us to avoid the Tatar soldiers every time we see them, like rats crossing the street!"

Du did not forget to smile bitterly, then changed the topic and asked:

"Xiaoxin and Jacaranda are doing well now, why didn't you see them coming?"

Hu Hu replied with a smile:

"Xiaoxin is six months pregnant now, it's inconvenient to come to visit you, Son, the jacaranda is just taking care of her!"

Du Buyi also said happily:

"Brother Hu didn't expect you to be a father now!"

Hu Hu replied:

"Childe, if you want to be a father, don't you do it earlier?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"I want to, too, but they don't have any stomachs!"

Hu Hu replied:

"There's no urgency!"

At this time, the governor of Datong and the generals of various commanders have come to the gate of Datong.

Du did not forget to inspect them one by one, and then Zhu Zhen, the governor of the general army, came over to introduce the names of the commanders one by one.

When a middle-aged general named Qiu Luan was introduced, Du Buyi asked Governor Zhu Zhen curiously:

"Where is this Qiu Luan stationed?"

Zhu Zhen replied:

"Qiu Luan is the grandson of Qiu Yue, Marquis of Xianning, who originally served in Ningxia Mansion, and I heard that the imperial court sent a young and promising Master Jinglu to Datong Mansion to take office, so he declared that he came to serve in our Datong Town. ”

After hearing this, Du Buyi immediately stepped forward to greet Qiu Luan and said:

"It turned out to be the Hou Ye, it's really disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Qiu Luan replied:

"How dare the young general be called Hou Ye, I have no military exploits now, I am just a small pawn, and now I am here in the hope that you can have a good opportunity to make some military exploits with Lord Jinglu!"

Du did not forget and replied:

"Okay, there is a shortage of generals like you who have the courage to take the initiative to make war exploits. ”

Then he issued an order to the generals that in the future, they should defend to the death in the face of Tatars, and they should not retreat, otherwise the generals would be beheaded immediately, and their morale instantly rose a lot.

Then asked Zhu Zhen to call Hu Hu and Qiu Luan to the governor's yamen in the city, and the four of them talked alone.

Due to the arrival of Du Buxing, the master of Jinglu, Governor Zhu Zhenzi took the initiative to give up his governor's yamen to Du Buyi to preside over the defense of Datong Mansion.

Du did not forget to ask Zhu Zhen first:

"Every time the Tatars attack, how many people do they attack?"

Zhu Zhen replied:

"Thousands of people at a time, but only 10,000 at most!"

Du Cheng said:

"I see, is this the Tatar soldier every time he raids the weak points of our border towns with a small number of elites, and the other places are pinned down by heavy troops?"

Zhu Zhen replied:

"It's still a clever master, otherwise we wouldn't have suffered like this!"

Du did not forget to say to Hu Hu and Qiu Luan:

"In that case, the two of you will go to the guards everywhere for your official to select 10,000 elite soldiers to train outside Datong Mansion first!"

Then he wrote his own handwritten book for the two of them to use to pick up soldiers.

After the two left, Zhu Zhen asked:

"Lord Feng, do you want to fight against the Tatar cavalry elite with 10,000 elites?"

Du did not forget to reply:

"Exactly!"

Zhu Zhen said again:

"We've tried this before, but our horses and horsemen aren't as good as the Tatars, so we can't defend them at all!"

Du did not forget to smile and said:

"I have my own way, Lord Zhu, you can help me by your side, if Datong Mansion is really wrong, it is also me, the lord, who will be responsible and has nothing to do with Lord Zhu. ”

Seeing this, Zhu Zhen didn't speak, so he said goodbye to Du and went back.

Du did not forget to study the method of how to resist the Tatar cavalry by himself.

Nearly half a month later, the Tatar cavalry, led by Tie Hu'er, one of the Five Tigers, rushed towards Datong Mansion again.

After Du Buyi received the order, he hurriedly called Zhu Zhen, Hu Hu, and Qiu Luan to discuss urgently.

Zhu Zhen first said:

"According to the route of the Tatar army when it comes this time, it will definitely break through from Caojiabao on the left guard!"

Du Buyi looked at the terrain of Caojiabao, and then said to a few people:

"Caojiabao is a pass and it is difficult to defend, and our local garrison is only a thousand people, so we can't defend it, even if we rush to rescue now, it's probably too late!"

Then he slowed down and continued:

"The goal of the Tatar soldiers this time is definitely to plunder the nearby people, and they will not come to attack our Datong Mansion City, so it is better for us to send all the soldiers to the nearby Shuozhou direction to ambush!"

At this time, Zhu Zhen hurriedly replied:

"No, if the Tatar soldiers take the opportunity to capture our Datong City, then we will not be able to escape the death penalty?"

Du did not forget to continue to explain to a few people along the map:

"You see, since the Tatar soldiers came in from Caojiabao, the target can only be our Datong and Shuozhou two prefectures, and now our Datong Mansion is well defended, and the Tatar soldiers must be aware of it, and they dare not come here to plunder, and the soldiers of Shuozhou City are almost all stationed in the northwest, and the defense in the territory is weak at this time!"

Then he said:

"If the Tatar soldiers attack Shuozhou at this time, it will be like entering a no-man's land, I think Shuozhou City must be difficult to keep, and the Tatar soldiers will also light the enemy after plundering, we just dug and set up an ambush on their way back, so that ambushing them will definitely defeat the Tatar soldiers!"

Then he ordered Hu Hu to take the selected 5,000 elite soldiers to track the Tatar soldiers, and asked Qiu Luan to lead the 5,000 elite soldiers to dig traps for ambush after the Tatar soldiers descended from Shuozhou.

In the end, he ordered Zhu Zhen to take all the more than 10,000 garrisons inside and outside Datong City to Caojiabao to block the Tatar reinforcements behind.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhen didn't dare to take the risk and refused Du Yi's order.

Du did not forget to see that Zhu Zhen did not obey the order to take the soldiers inside and outside Datong City to defend Caojiabao, so he said:

"Anyway, there is no hurry to guard Caojiabao now, since Governor Zhu, since you are worried about the safety of Datong City, let's wait to see if the Tatar target is Shuozhou!"

As a result, a day later, the spies came to report, and sure enough, after the Tatar soldiers entered Caojiabao, they drove straight into the direction of Xiashuozhou.

At this time, Zhu Zhencai believed that Du would not forget, so he hurriedly led all the soldiers and horses inside and outside Datong City to Caojiabao.

And Du did not forget that of course he had to take the lead, so he rode a horse and took a few guards to support Hu Hu and Qiu Luan.