Chapter 210 209 Dangerous

Two days later, Wei Guangde stood on the city of Guan and said goodbye to Weng Pu, and stood beside him, the deputy chief of the Censorate of the Censorate and the Miyun Army Officer Li Zhen.

According to the previous official documents sent by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue, the grain and grass allocated in Tongzhou were transported by the Bingbai Road around the capital. The one responsible for escorting the grain and grass this time was Li Zhen of Miyun Bingbai Road. According to Wei Guangde's arrangement, this batch of grain and grass was from Juyongguan.

Pass the Great Wall, go straight to Huai, and then transfer to Baoanzhou.

Li Zhen’s task is to send the food and grass to Baoanzhou even if it is done, the reason why he arranged for the military preparations to be escorted was that the food and grass at this time was of great importance and he could not be careless. Whether it was for the king’s affairs or for himself, soldiers from all over the country

The Beidao is responsible for escorting grain and grass, and will naturally draw elite soldiers and generals in the jurisdiction to go there.

"You must be careful when going to Baoanzhou. Remember what I said before. If the time is not right, remember not to act rashly."

Weng Pu had already told Li Zhen about his arrangements. This time, he sent the military officers of the Xuanfu to send Wei Guangde to Bao'anzhou to supervise the battle. However, he was still a little worried before leaving, so he called Wei Guangde and whispered his advice.

"Don't worry, sir, the official understands the power, and will never move lightly if he is not sure."

Wei Guangde hurriedly made a statement.

This time, Li Zhen brought more than a thousand people, which did not include the recruited civilians. The food and grass that had been reserved in Huailai had to be taken away. It can be said that it is the most important team in the grain transport team this time.

"Mr. Li, please give me everything."

Weng Pu nodded, then turned to Li Zhen and said.

Li Zhen didn't dare to be arrogant, so she immediately bowed to answer.

Under the urban management, the gate of Juyong Pass was open, and grain trucks continued to drive out of the pass and walked forward along the mountain road.

On both sides of the official road, countless refugees who had not yet been investigated were driven to both sides of the road by soldiers. Most of them were staring blankly as the carriage of food passed by them.

Because it was during the war, these fleeing people naturally had no road guides and other identities to prove their identity, and some of them had passed the test.

However, Wei Guangde was hungry and cold when he saw them escaping here. After receiving education from later generations, he still couldn't bear to ignore it and arranged for people to serve porridge twice a day under the city, as long as he ensured that no one would starve to death here.

Soon, the rumbling sound of horse hooves sounded, and a man rushed out of the city gate. The two leaders were naturally Wei Guangde, and next to him was Miyun soldiers Li Zhen.

After leaving Guancheng, Wei Guangde just turned around and bowed slightly to Guancheng, and then took his guards forward.

Speaking of which, although Li Zhen was a deputy chief of the Censorate, and was a regular military officer, and was a fifth-rank civil servant, he could not be above Wei Guangde.

Although Wei Guangde was only a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy, a seventh-rank official, he was also the deputy envoy of the border patrol. As the war began, the border patrol ambassador Weng Pu had already changed to military affairs, and Wei Guangde was also changed to military affairs. Although

He has not been promoted, but his position has been decided.

It is worth mentioning that this "counselling military affairs" is not a literal staff member. In fact, the term "counselling military affairs" is a unique thing in the Ming Dynasty that uses culture to build military affairs.

It was created by Zhu Gaochi, the Ming Renzong, and fundamentally changed the way of controlling the army.

During his reign, he established the word "counselor military affairs" in the army. Generally, the appointment documents of governors from various places were added to such a position, that is, the court sent to the General Military Ministers' Office to assist in the handling of military confidentiality of civil officials, and

The top leaders of later generations generally served as deputy commanders of military regions at the same level.

However, in the Ming Dynasty, the power of this position was amazing. It not only could it be "to the heavens listen", but it could also reach into the Governor and the system. Its actual power was still above the general, which was said to be "assistance".

For "control"

So much so that before a few years of development, under the promotion of the court, the counselors and civil servants from all over the country were able to command the army, and even directly crossed the previous Ministry of War and the Governor's Office to check and balance, forming a series of their own. You must know that the governor at that time was just a temporary agency.

, the power is so great.

When Emperor Xuanzong of Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhanji succeeded to the throne, he played a bigger role than his father Zhu Gaochi, and "properly established" the temporary governor and let him jump to the local governor, commander and inspect the three departments.

Existence makes it impossible for those who understand the army to lead the army, and they must be commanded by the governor who says "counselor military affairs".

But if such a position is brought to Wei Guangde, the specific effect depends on the attitude of the general. You should know that he, a Hanlin Academy, is completely different from the governor sent to various places. He still lacks the title of the inspector.

Because one of the big reasons why the governor was able to invade military power was that he could impeach the generals.

But according to his position, Li Zhen is really a bit under the control of Wei Guangde. After all, he is just an official in the war zone and naturally has to be commanded by the admiral military officials. Wei Guangde, who is the counselor of military affairs, can do it.

This time, Wei Guangde, in addition to bringing Zhang Ji and Li San, also transferred the cavalry team that Ji Town came to guard them to leave. At least in Wei Guangde's view, the cavalry in Ji Town is probably better than the cavalry in Jingying.

The combat power is much stronger.

The leader of this team of cavalry is Dong Yiyuan. He has had a lot of contact with Wei Guangde in the past month. Wei Guangde feels that this person is quite reliable, at least not a person who is afraid of death.

Dong Yiyuan also has an older brother named Dong Yikui, who is now serving as a guerrilla general in Xuanfu. This is because his brother takes over his father's position, and he can only start with the general, or because of his relationship, he can get this position.

However, although Dong Yiyuan is just a general, he is doing the job of a guerrilla general. This time he comes out, he can take charge of two teams of cavalry, with 400 small people.

Since childhood, he has lived in the military camp with his father, Datong General Dong Yang. He is naturally very familiar with military life and is fully competent in commanding a team of soldiers.

This time he was sent to protect, Dong Yiyuan naturally did not dare to neglect anything. However, he was still very upset when he saw Wei Guangde, who was several years younger than him, and he was a rookie who had just entered the officialdom.

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It was only later that Wei Guangde asked Zhang Ji to make friends with them, and then he realized that Wei Guangde was born in a garrison and had gone to the battlefield to kill Japanese pirates, which made him a little better.

But in my heart, the northern border troops looked down on the Southern Guards.

No, who are the Japanese pirates? A person with short figures can't even deal with such a small guy, so he can't help but lose Ming Jun's face.

Fortunately, Wei Guangde was born in Jiujiang Guard, and it is estimated that only Jiujiang Guards in the south may be able to fight. No matter what, the group of Japanese pirates who invaded Nanjing were destroyed by them.

The imperial court’s praise for Jiujiang Guard was issued by a Ming Dynasty imperial edict. Naturally, all governments in the Ming Dynasty knew about this, and the northern border towns also knew about it.

As for the legend of the group of Japanese pirates described as special forces in the war report, whether it is Jiujiangwei or Wei Guangde, Zhang Ji will not tell the truth. It is actually a group of poor pirates. If he tells the truth, he will give him nakedly.

Causing disasters and offending the entire Jiangnan officialdom.

Because of the war report, Dong Yiyuan was a little suspicious, but he had to believe that this group of Japanese pirates could actually receive arrows with their bare hands and even throw them with the same power as archery. Naturally, he was still "

Wei Guangde, who killed his own hands, also looked at him with admiration.

Wei Guangde asked Dong Yiyuan to follow him this time, and the reason was very simple. He had a good relationship with Dong Yiyuan. It can be seen that he has ideals and ambitions. He is an ambition-oriented young man in the Ming Dynasty. He can pass the ability and command himself.

move.

Another reason is naturally because of his brother Dong Yikui. Although he didn't know if Dong Yikui's team had been transferred to Baoanzhou, at least he had such a relationship, so it would be much more convenient to find those guerrillas to talk about things in private.

Along the way, Dong Yiyuan's team acted as the scout of the convoy. A dozen cavalry formed a reconnaissance team to investigate the enemy situation from all directions of the convoy. However, they encountered several Tartar reconnaissance cavalry, but they were all led by Dong Yiyuan to arrive in time.

The people who drove away were not afraid to let the Tartars find that there was a huge convoy here, carrying a huge amount of food and supplies.

After leaving Juyong Pass, the entire convoy was running for life, for fear of being exposed to being raided by the Tartar cavalry on the road, so only a few hundred cavalry and more than a thousand infantry could not resist it.

Fortunately, on the evening of the third day after leaving the customs, the convoy finally arrived at Huailaiwei safely.

The Huailaiwei rested for a day and loaded the baggage he was going to take away again to prepare for transportation. This time the convoy was even longer.

Wei Guangde wanted to draw troops from Huailai Guard, but when he saw a thousand people, the others were still scattered in other military forts, so he still could not give this order, but he temporarily drew three hundred from the rest of the garrison.

The man entered the escort.

From Huai to Baoanzhou, it would take at least five days to arrive at the speed of advancement before, and it was closer to the Altan army garrison, so it was the real most dangerous moment.

On the night when he arrived in Huailai, Wei Guangde summoned Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan to his house to discuss. In fact, there was nothing to say. He just arranged for Dong Yiyuan to send someone to Baoanzhou to deliver a letter. It would be best to find Dong Yikui and let Dong Yikui go again.

Find some people to lead the team out to support.

In addition, it is naturally necessary for Dong Yiyuan to arrange enough scout teams in all directions of the convoy to try to block the news from the convoy.

The next night, Wei Guangde summoned the two again to discuss the team going tomorrow, Dong Yiyuan suddenly clasped his fists at Wei Guangde and Li Zhen and said, "Two sirs, I have talked with the people from Huailaiwei today, they suggest

We first cross the Sanggan River westward and then towards Baoanzhou, and then cross the river there."

"No, if you want to cross the river, it will take at least two days to delay. It is still very risky to cross the river again after reaching Baoanzhou."

Li Zhen expressed his opposition after thinking for a while. After all, the main force of this team was still a grain transport team. Li Zhen's words had a great influence. After all, most of the groom and guards were drawn by Miyun.

It is a good idea to use the river to block the Tatars' scout cavalry, but it would be fine if there was not as much food and grass as Changping brought out.

This time the job is important. Li Zhen and his team not only transported some food and grass from Tongzhou, but also transported a large amount of food that should have been transported to Xuanfu in Changping. If this batch of food was transported before the Tartars entered the pass, their fleet would

It can be reduced by at least half.

Now, the food and grass transported two or three times in one go is naturally much more risky. Whether it is Li Zhen or Wei Guangde, he is sweating coldly about this errand.

The key is that Xuanfu is not well-fed now, especially the troops transferred to Baoanzhou, and there are not much food and grass with them, and they are waiting for the supply here.

"It is not advisable to cross the river and take a long way. It is too time-consuming. We can't afford to delay in the wild."

Wei Guangde shook his head, still thinking that what Li Zhen said made sense.

Speaking of the lack of water in the north, but when we arrived here, Wei Guangde found that the water network here was pretty good, and there were two rivers that converged here, namely the Yanghe and the Sangganhe River.

When Wei Guangde initially planned the route, he also considered starting from Huailai Acropolis and going to Huailai County first. Although the distance was a little closer, there were two thousand households in Huailai Guards and the Left Army. It was relatively safer.

Closer to the sphere of influence of the Tartars.

It will take three days to get from Huailai County to Bao'anzhou if the journey is fast. Even if there is a Bao'anzhou sending troops to help, the risk will still be very high, because there will be at least two days for the convoy to lack protection.

Wei Guangde and Li Zhen both had the same idea, so in the end they chose to bypass Huailai County and go to the periphery. Although they were a little further away, they had the advantage to be farther away from the Tartars.

As for Dong Yiyuan’s proposal just now, it’s even more a long way to go.

Just thinking about the news sent by Huailaiwei today, a large number of Taurus reconnaissance cavalry appeared north of Huailai County again, and the frequency of activities was very high. This sign may indicate that Altan's army has begun to pay attention to the trends of reinforcements in Datong direction and has increased.

Investigation efforts in Huailai’s direction.

For this reason, Wei Guangde called the two of them tonight. In fact, he had a not very mature idea, that is, since sending food and grass to Baoanzhou now becomes extremely dangerous, why do you still have to send so much food and grass to you.

Go out, the sheep enters the tiger's mouth.
To be continued...