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At the side door of the temporary official office of Baoanzhou, shortly after all the generals left, a soldier in armor looked at the three people leaving, sighed, and just waited quietly there.

After a while, the side door was opened and a soldier who was dressed in the same clothes as him came out.

"Are you sure there is no uncle here?"

The soldier asked to the man outside the door.

"I didn't see it, I only saw Commander Zhang Heng and Zhang, and people like Zhang Nei and Liao Yuan. The rest are just acknowledgements, and their relationship with the master and the uncle is just average. By the way, what do you say in it?"

The man asked after answering.

"It's pretty good. The coach sent Ma Fang to take charge of the convoy. We'd better rush back to report the message immediately."

After a brief conversation, the two went to the stable next to take out four war horses, greeted the guards and rode away.

The two of them rode out of the south gate of Bao'anzhou, rushed directly to the Sanggan River before turning west. This route was also the route formulated by Wei Guangde and others.

But less than half a day after they left Baoanzhou, more than a dozen horses rushed into the east gate of Baoanzhou.

It was obvious that the dozen patrol cavalrymen on the outside were protecting the two knights in the circle. The two looked dusty and tired. One of them had an arrow on his back, but the arrow seemed to be blocked by armor and was not deep into the flesh.

However, from the blood stains on the gauze wrapped around the arrow, it can be seen that the bandage is very sloppy, just to stop the bleeding, but for some reason no arrows were raised.

Soon, the horse team rushed to the temporary office in the center of Bao'anzhou. The cavalry dismounted one after another, and then helped the injured soldier dismount. Someone had already gone to the side to call the military doctor to come over and raise the arrow, while the other person took off the bamboo tube from his back and held it high with his right hand and ran into the office.

Two days later, the gate of Huailai Acropolis, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly opened. As teams of cavalry rushed out of the fort gate and dispersed towards the surrounding plains, they soon disappeared from sight.

Wei Guangde stood on the city tower and watched the cavalry go away, then turned around and said to Li Zhen, "Mr. Li, tell them to set off."

"good."

Li Zhen agreed to the commander of several Huailai Guards beside her and nodded and turned to the city wall. Soon after, with the sound of wooden wheels crushing the ground, carriages filled with grain bags and forage slowly drove out of Huailai Acropolis.

Until most of the convoy had left, Dong Yiyuan and a brigade of cavalry came here under the city gate. Wei Guangde turned around and bowed to the commanders of Huailai Guard and smiled: "I have been bothering me these days. We will leave this time. Please guard the city tightly, so don't make any mistakes."

"Please rest assured, Lord Wei, we all have the responsibility to defend the people and will never neglect the situation."

The commander of Huailaiwei quickly responded.

Wei Guangde nodded with a smile, "When the Datong Army arrives, you will hand over the warrant I wrote to them, so that they can come to Huailai County immediately, and not delay for a moment."

In fact, this is the key point. Wei Guangde cherishes his life very much and does not want to explain in Huailai County.

As for the so-called powerful border troops he has seen so far, Wei Guangde has no hope and expects them to defeat Altan's army, and his goal seems a bit far away.

He could only use the advantages of the Ming army, that is, to defend the city and go to Huailai County, hoping to attract Altan Khan's subordinates to attack the city, and to use the Xuanfu army and the Datong army to win a battle, his mission would be successfully completed.

After getting off the city wall, Li San led the horse to meet him. Wei Guangde skillfully moved and turned over to the horse. After joining Dong Yiyuan's troops, he beat the horse out of Huailai Acropolis.

Shortly after leaving the city, Wei Guangde slowed down his horse speed and asked Dong Yiyuan beside him: "Have you told them? Let a Tartar Scout Cavalry come in."

"Don't worry, sir, there will be no mistakes."

Dong Yiyuan clasped his fists immediately.

"Is Ma Fang really good at fighting?"

This place has been done, so the rest is whether the people transferred from Xuanfu can hold on to the venue at critical moments. If he is still a soft-legged shrimp in the end, he will be in danger of Wei Guangde and Wei.

The emergence of grain transport fleets is absolutely attractive to the current Altan Department, even if it pays a certain price.

Based on the current local war reports and Wei Guangde's analysis, the Altan army was stationed near Yanqing Prefecture and monitored the movements of the Ming army in Yanqing Prefecture. This army continued to dispatch reconnaissance cavalry to explore the road between Yanqing Prefecture and Juyong Pass, and was also responsible for the investigation in the direction of Yongning.

However, Wei Guangde did not think there were many Tartars here. The preliminary judgment was made in several thousand cavalry, and the task was not difficult to guess. It must have been prepared for reinforcements from Ji Town, Guannei. Whether it was to stop or retreat, it had an early warning effect.

In Bao'anzhou, the main force of Altan's army was, with tens of thousands of troops gathering there, and at the same time, the main force of the Ming army, Xuanfu Army, also gathered here.

According to Dong Yiyuan's words, the Ming army had no problem in defending the Altan team in Bao'anzhou to attack, but it seemed difficult to attack the Altan team, let alone defeat the opponent.

The upcoming Datong Army, in Dong Yiyuan's overall strength, is actually similar to that of the Xuanfu Army, and because the Xuanfu Army has been fighting with Altan's troops for many years, it seems to be slightly better.

Altan is partly two, no matter which one is not easy to fight, at least with the current military strength of the Ming army, it is impossible.

Wei Guangde could only choose to find a way to disperse Altan's army, hoping to find an opportunity to destroy a relatively weak force.

However, after Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan participated in the analysis, they keenly realized that Wei Guangde's idea was correct, but his approach was very dangerous, that was the attraction of food and grass to Altan's department.

Once it is confirmed that there is a large amount of food and grass in Huailai County, if the Altan army chooses to attack with all its might and grab the food and grass, the Ming army in Bao'anzhou or Yanqing may not dare to go out to fight the Tartars in full swing, and they will all enter a dangerous place.

If only a small number of Ming troops appeared in Huailai County, Altan Khan would not pay attention to them, because with the Ming army's field strength, he would not believe that the Ming army would dare to go out of the city to block the passage between Yanqing Prefecture and Bao'an Prefecture.

Then it is necessary to increase the attractiveness of Huailai County, so they still loaded a lot of grain out of Huailai Acropolis, but the grain trucks were reduced by half, and the soldiers escorted the carts were only 800 soldiers recruited from Huailai Acropolis and the cavalry led by Dong Yiyuan.

The remaining grain trucks will set off from Huailai Acropolis in the afternoon. Their destination is not Huailai County, but a long journey that they gave up before. After leaving Huailai Acropolis, they advanced along the west bank of the Yongding River, and followed the Sanggan River for a long time before crossing the river and moving towards Bao'anzhou. At that time, Li Zhen will send a messenger to contact Bao'anzhou to send people to help the Yanghe River.

The reason why Li Zhen still had to lead most of the grain trucks to Bao'anzhou was mainly because the Xuanfu army had not much food and grass, which was only enough to support it for about ten days.

What will be the final result of attracting some Altan's soldiers this time is unknown so far.

The final battle situation was either that one of the Altan troops was defeated by the Ming army, or that they formed a triangular formation to restrain each other.

The main force of the Ming army in Xuanfu defended Yanqing Prefecture, Baoan Prefecture and Huailai respectively, and Altan's troops were also divided into three parts.

In such a situation, at least the Ming army remains undefeated. If you need to win, you can only ask Lord Weng Pu Weng at Juyong Pass to mobilize the army in the town to get out of the pass, and you will defeat the enemy in front of Yanqing Prefecture, so that you can win the battle situation.

However, even if the Jizhen army comes out of the customs and enters Xuanfu, will it definitely defeat Altan's army?

In short, after weighing the combat strength of the Ming army and its capable of mobilizing forces, Wei Guangde chose a combat plan that at least guarantees unbeaten.

In fact, Weng Pu’s strategy was roughly the same before. Even if the Datong Army arrived at the battlefield, it would maintain a balanced situation, hoping to win a victory at a certain point to force Altan’s troops to withdraw from the Great Wall.

If it cannot be natural, it will not force it. That is, it will maintain a stalemate situation. It is really a serious decline in the overall field combat capability of the Ming army at this stage.

Since Emperor Hongzhi ascended the throne, especially the implementation of the Chinese and French forces, the combat power of the Ming border army began to accelerate downhill. Although the Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao rose up briefly during the period of Ming Wuzong, and defeated the then grassland overlord Da Yankhan on the battlefield many times, due to Zhu Houzhao's short life, this military reform failed to reverse the decline in the Ming army's combat power.

In the view of Wei Guangde, who was on the battlefield for the first time, if you want to win, you need to have an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield, otherwise it is better not to take any military risky behavior.

He also wanted to give Xuanda's generals a lot of tips like Zhuge Liang in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and then win the war.

Well, in the information explosion in later generations, Wei Guangde already knew that most of the things in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" were fictional, and Zhuge Liang did not have a very clever military command ability. He should be said to be an excellent and strategic politician.

Huo Shao Bowang was commanded by Liu Bei, Huo Shao Xinye was completely fictional in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhou Yu, the one who contributed the most in the Battle of Red Cliffs, actually, until Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang was unable to carry out a truly independent military command battle.

Of course, Zhuge Liang cannot be denied because of this. He should have military talents. After all, after Liu Bei's death, Zhuge Liang went south to defeat the southwest barbarian tribes and gentry armed forces, and also attacked Cao Wei several times in the north. Although they failed in the end, it at least showed that he was able to command troops to fight.

Wei Guangde's soul comes from later generations. He knows very well what he should do as a Chu Ge on the battlefield at this time. If he doesn't want to be a meteor in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, then he will honestly arrange his combat plan.

Now go to Huailai County first. Huailai County, which has three thousand infantry guards, according to Dong Yiyuan, even if Altan's troops mobilize 10,000 troops, they may not be able to be taken down in a short period of time.

In Huailai County, there were two soldiers from the Ming army's 1,000 households. In addition to the soldiers they brought in, there were also young and strong people in the area that could be summoned at any time.

As for transferring Ma Fang from Baoanzhou, Wei Guangde's little thought was that if there were not many troops coming from Altan's troops, he would mobilize the Ming army to eat them. If the other party was strong, he would just guard the city gate.

If you really can't defend it, you can still follow Ma Fang and Dong Yiyuan's horse team to retreat to Huailaiwei.

In the end, when fighting, you have to rely on your strength to speak.

There are many war cases in historical books where swords and odds are taken and odds are won by surprise, but relatively few are still very few.

The way of being strange and righteous, grandson has an explanation for this, "Anyone who fights will win with the right combination."

Just looking at this passage, it seems that grandson said that when the two armies were fighting, the frontal battlefield was often in a stalemate, difficult to see the level of the situation, and difficult to determine the outcome.

The sudden appearance of surprise soldiers on either side broke the dynamic balance, thus changing the situation on the battlefield, and the war tilted towards the side that was conducive to the surprise soldiers, so that the "shocking" side took the initiative in the war and won the victory.

But in fact, there is another sentence after this sentence, that is, "The war is only strange and right, and the changes of strange and right are invincible."

There are no fixed surprise soldiers, nor fixed orderly soldiers. Regarding who is the surprise soldiers and who is the orderly soldiers, it depends on the situation on the battlefield. There is no unchanging truth, so it is invincible.

As for how Wei Guangde knew about these, it was also a blessing for future generations of Internet. Although I don’t know if the author who wrote these is right, Wei Guangde thought it made sense at that time, and now it is the same.

As for why Wei Guangde came here, it was also because when they ran from General Shiguan to Huairou, Wei Guangde went to find the "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and crammed for the moment.

I'm going to drive the ducks on the shelves, how can I not be in a hurry?

Wei Guangde has read a lot of books, but he hasn't read many military books, almost nothing. He never realized that he would become a little commander when he went to the battlefield one day.

As the brigade was marching, nothing unexpected happened. Two groups of people appeared on the hills in the distance. The number of knights in front was slightly small, with only a dozen horses, and more than twenty horses were followed behind.

"Sir, here you come."

At this time, Dong Yiyuan, who had been following Wei Guangde, whispered.

"Go and chase them with all your might."

Wei Guangde pointed at that direction with the horse whip, and Dong Yiyuan pushed the horse head over and rushed forward with nearly a hundred cavalrymen.

Although the horse's hooves are not very smokey, they are enough to indicate the target.

The cavalrymen arrived here and were obviously surprised to see the long convoy in the distance, but did not slow down. Instead, they slightly adjusted their direction of progress and drew a perfect arc from one side of the convoy to run away. The two groups of cavalrymen behind them had already chased after them, one left and one right.

Watching Dong Yiyuan chase the group of Tartar detectives away, Wei Guangde suddenly became nervous.

I was just planning before, but from this moment on, I really took action. The so-called "drawing the bow without turning back".

After finally suppressing his nervous mood, Wei Guangde waved the horse whip and whipped the horse on the butt, making the horse speed up and run. At the same time, he turned his head and said to Zhang Ji behind him: "Notify the team officials below and ask them to urge the soldiers to speed up the march and rush to Huailai County as soon as possible."

Yes, it is unsafe in the wilderness of Xuanfu at this time, and it may be raided by Tartar cavalry at any time.

In fact, no matter how they travel, they can't reach Huailai County tonight, and they have to spend one night in the wild.

But it doesn't matter. As long as you set up the temporary camp, you can't cause any big waves by relying on the hundreds of Tartar scouts around you.

As for whether the team of Tartar detectives would rush back to deliver the letter, Wei Guangde was not worried. Even if they ran away, neither the security guard nor the Altan troops under Yanqing City had time to intercept them halfway.

At this time, only by entering a city protected by the city walls can Wei Guangde feel a little safe.
Chapter completed!