Chapter 218 217 Success

The river water is flowing quietly. With the nourishment of the river water, the vegetation on both sides of the river bank is also growing lushly. If it weren't for the large yellow land in the distance, no one would have thought that this place was approaching the Gobi Desert.

Between the quiet world, there was a sound of rumbling like thunder in the distance.

Unlike the thunder that sounded here in the past, this time the thunder seemed to be overlapping and endless, and the ground began to tremble slightly.

A group of black dots appeared on the horizon in the distance. As the black dots magnified, a team of horses was running quickly from far to near.

Further away from the horse team, there were sporadic scouts running back and forth around the horse team, guarding the horse team without being disturbed by unwelcome people.

"Where are we now and how far is it from where you mentioned?"

In front of the horse team, a young man who was escorted by many soldiers turned his head and asked a middle-aged general beside him.

"This place should be near Dahuangzhuang. Go a little further forward and there is a westward section. Let's go there for a rest."

The middle-aged general looked around first, then answered.

"When you are resting, you can arrange the scouts to rotate, so you can't be discovered by the Tartars."

The young man waved his whip and whipped the horse on his butt, and continued to run forward with the war horse under him.

They took advantage of the night to protect Wei Guangde, Ma Fang and others who quietly left Huailai County.

After weighing the trade-offs, Wei Guangde still planned to take a risk and use the military strength advantages of the Ming army in Baoanzhou to launch an attack on Altan's troops when the troops were insufficient in Yanqing Prefecture and Huailai County.

As for Liu Dazhang, the general of Xuanfu, Wei Guangde had also thought about it and made the due preparations.

Before leaving Huailai County, Wei Guangde had sent letters and memorials to Lord Weng Puwen of Juyongguan, asking Lord Weng to take over the power of the temporary admiral of the Xuanfu Army in Baoanzhou. At the same time, he also sued Liu Dazhang, that was, the messenger he sent to Baoanzhou to secretly investigate and found that Liu Dazhang, the general of the Xuanfu Army, was afraid of the enemy and was afraid of the war. He suppressed him while the Xuanfu General was in charge of the battle and did not allow them to fight against Altan's troops.

The memorial was his own detailed combat plan, and he could only deliver it to Beijing by transferring Weng Pu.

Not only because he is currently on the battlefield, but also because so far, Wei Guangde still doesn't know where the Tongzhengsi yamen is, as if he hasn't been there yet.

Of course, he would not forget to write the military emergency at the end of the letter and dare not delay it. If Lord Weng has a new order, please send it directly to Baoanzhou.

After the clerk sent someone to see him off, Wei Guangde immediately summoned the civil and military officials from Huailai County, including the magistrate of Huailai whom he did not like much.

The meeting was held very quickly. Wei Guangde had no time to discuss tactics with them and directly released the news that he was leaving Huailai County. The defense of Huailai County was still in charge of Huailai Guard Commander, and the infantry led by Zhang Heng and Liu Mo also joined the city defense.

The grain and grass were temporarily stored in Huailai County, and the Huailai magistrate was responsible for it, while Ma Fang and Dong Yiyuan's troops were taken away by him, and the light cavalry went straight to Bao'anzhou along the Yanghe River.

In order to prevent being discovered by the Tartar detective cavalry, they spread a lot of scouts along the way to cover up the news.

Of course, this work is now done by Ma Fang's men. Dong Yiyuan's more than 400 men were taken by him as a guard. After all, it has been more than a month along the way and they are more familiar with each other.

Although I came through time, this is not a game. I can start over if I die. God knows if I can wear it back when I encounter danger. Maybe I will really die.

It is better to live without a single life than to die, and Wei Guangde cherishes his life very much.

The team rushed to the ground, day and night, and took more than a day to arrive near Baoanzhou.

"Sir, Baoanzhou is more than ten miles away. You should meet Xuanfu Rangers when you walk forward."

Ma Fang introduced to Wei Guangde.

"Find a place to rest and go to the city tomorrow morning."

When you arrive near Baoanzhou, it should be considered safe, but the time is wrong.

Although it is better to go directly to the city to rest, Wei Guangde came with his purpose, and everything must be cut off with a quick knife. He will launch a raid on Altan Khan's camp that night, and he has no more time to spend here.

You should know that Baoanzhou has insufficient troops, and Altan Khan should also realize that the most likely measure he is to transfer a team from Yanqing Prefecture to strengthen the combat power of Baoanzhou.

It was already the middle of the night. They found a place nearby to set up camp and start resting. After Wei Guangde had already put his clothes together and went to bed, only Ma Fang was still patrolling the camp and arranged patrols around the camp.

Wei Guangde closed his eyes and just glanced from afar and stopped caring about it.

On this day, Wei Guangde also noticed that Ma Fang was indeed very capable, more familiar with the military than Dong Yiyuan. He was very skilled in setting up camps or sending patrols. Ma Fang's men obeyed his orders meticulously, and obviously they believed in him as a general.

People in Huailai County did not know what Wei Guangde went to Bao'anzhou to do. There were only two people who knew his purpose here, namely Ma Fang and Dong Yiyuan.

What Ma Fang always thought about was to raid Altan Khan's headquarters. He had been suppressed by Liu Dazhang before and did not dare to act rashly. Since Xiao Wei wanted to scratch the tiger's beard, he was naturally willing to accompany him. Anyway, he was always on order.

As for Dong Yiyuan, although he also agreed with the plan Wei Guangde said in his heart.

In fact, this plan should be strictly Ma Fang's idea, but he cannot implement it, so he must use Wei Guangde to operate it.

Like Ma Fang, Dong Yiyuan only needs to follow Wei Guangde's orders to execute. Anyway, if there is something wrong, it will be Mr. Wei, so he has nothing to do with him.

This is also a gamble for Wei Guangde. The winner takes all, so naturally no one pursues what he does. If he loses, Wei Guangde is not sure whether he will go to the Heavenly Prison.

But according to the current situation, he feels that the probability of losing is not high, and he will keep it the same as before.

So, it's worth a try.

Early the next morning, after getting up, everyone washed up by the river, and immediately rode their horses towards Baoanzhou.

They bypassed Baoanzhou and passed by the west of Baoanzhou, and they did not want to be discovered by Altan's detective cavalry.

Such a large team was discovered by Xuanfu patrols ten miles away from the west gate of Baoanzhou. Fortunately, they were all Ma Fang's men in front and behind, so they were naturally not unfamiliar with thousands of cavalrymen in Xuanfu.

Seeing that it was Ma Fang's team, Xiaoqi, who was leading the team, didn't think much about it except for being mentally strange.

Ma Fang is also famous for his bravery in the Xuanfu army. He will never betray the court. He just took a few more glances at the team of Jizhen cavalry and let them go. At the same time, he also sent a fast horse back to Bao'anzhou to report the news.

Wei Guangde and his friends did not delay, and the horse arrived at the city of Baoanzhou at a slow speed. At this time, the main generals and officials from the Xuanfu Army of Baoanzhou had gathered at the city gate to greet them.

For the patrolman, he naturally didn't know who Wei Guangde and Wei's review was in the Hanlin Academy, but Liu Dazhang and Tian Shiwei knew that they had seen all the official documents written by Wei Guangde, and there was also a signature of Wei Guangde on it.

After a brief greeting at the city gate, Wei Guangde was welcomed by them into the city's official office.

In the lobby, Wei Guangde was sitting in Tian Shiwei's previous position, and Tian Shiwei could only sit behind Wei Guangde.

"I wonder if Wei Guangde suddenly arrived, but what order did Lord Weng come?"

After sitting down, someone served tea. Wei Guangde would not dislike the bad tea. He took it and took a sip. It was a bit astringent, but he could still swallow it.

Regarding Liu Dazhang's words, Wei Guangde just turned his head and looked at Liu Dazhang and smiled: "Has the General received the official documents we sent from Juyongguan?"

Wei Guangde pretended to be surprised and said loudly: "I wrote a document by myself. Later, my clerk also wrote such a document. Lord Weng and me seals were all printed by me."

Wei Guangde arrived in Baoanzhou without waiting for Weng Pu's instructions in Huailai. However, there was a document before that Wei Guangde would escort grain and grass to Baoanzhou to supervise the battle.

However, when he was in Huailai, he changed his itinerary to report it to Weng Pu, but he didn't know if Weng Pu had passed the news to Baoanzhou.

Now, he is also testing whether Liu Dazhang knew that the previous official documents had been invalidated.

As for the questions raised by Liu Dazhang, he had already thought of a way to deal with them before leaving Huailai County.

Previously, two official documents were issued to urge the Xuanfu Army to go to war and I came to supervise the war, so naturally I did not need to issue new orders.

Today I would say it loudly here, and it was a joke to start. In fact, I was telling all the generals in the hall that they had ordered the Xuanfu army to fight the Tartars long ago, but they did not hold their troops as Liu Dazhang did.

"Mr. Tian, ​​hasn't the General Office received the order from Lord Weng?"

Wei Guangde turned his head and asked Tian Shiwei, deputy general of Xuanfu.

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Tian Shiwei's face was smiling at this moment, and he was stammering and didn't know how to answer.

Wei Guangde now spoke up and took a reason. It was a fact that military orders were required, so he could only look at Liu Dazhang, where Governor Liu should come to answer the conversation.

"Mr. Wei, it's not that we don't want to fight. It's because there are more than 10,000 soldiers from Altan's troops under the city of Bao'anzhou. They are as powerful as our Xuanfu Army. This battle cannot be fought."

When Liu Dazhang saw Tian Shiwei looking at him, he cursed the trash in his heart, but he had to answer Wei Guangde's question.

"We received the official document and naturally knew what Lord Weng meant. However, the Xuanfu transferred more than 10,000 people, but it was just as strong as Altan's army. I think it would be better to wait until the Datong army was in place before fighting. Our army's chances of victory were greater. Please give it a clarity."

Liu Dazhang said.

For a seventh-rank official, Liu Dazhang could only speak out as an adult.

There is no way. Nowadays, the civil and military officials are inferior, and the other party is still from the Hanlin Academy, so it is considered one of the prime ministers. It is best not to offend them.

Wei Guangde then looked back at Liu Dazhang and smiled, "Mr. Weng knows your difficulties, so he sent me here."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde looked around at all the generals in the hall and then said word by word: "That is the case with Huailai's action, and some of Altan's soldiers went to Huailai County to set up defenses.

Now that the Altan team in Baoanzhou has dropped significantly, it is the time to go to war, what do Lord Liu think?"

While greeting at the city gate, Wei Guangde asked how many troops Altan's troops had dispatched to Huailai County in the past two days. Although he didn't know what Wei Guangde and his team were doing, since he knew that Altan Khan sent people to Huailai County again, Liu Dazhang couldn't hide it at that time, so naturally he said that about 4,000 people sent to Huailai County twice.

Now he understood what was going on. It turned out that it was the plan set by Weng Pu and Wei Guangde that some of Altan's troops were given no reason to continue to delay the war.

Liu Dazhang never doubted the authenticity of Wei Guangde's identity. Although he did not know Wei Guangde, he still knew Dong Yiyuan around Wei Guangde, Dong Yang's son.

In fact, when Dong Yiyuan appeared, some of the generals of the Xuanfu family recognized him. His brother was still a guerrilla general in the Xuanfu family, but he was not transferred this time.

Of course, he also knew during the ceremony that Weng Pu and Wei Guangde were patrolling the border this time, and the guards sent by Ji Town were Dong Yiyuan's troops.

Although it was strange that Wei Guangde suddenly came to Baoanzhou, the answer to the mystery was revealed now, and they still wanted their Xuanfu army to fight.

Helplessly, at this time he could no longer find a reason to refuse.

"I don't know what the adults plan."

Liu Dazhang could no longer be afraid of fighting at this time. He closed the door and could be the same in front of the generals of the Xuanfu, but he could not.

"Of course it was a sneak attack."

Wei Guangde simply said five words, and then he saw Liu Dazhang's face change, and then continued: "According to the documents you sent before, the food and grass in Baoanzhou is only enough for the army to use for a few more days, so we can't wait any longer.
To be continued...