Chapter 359 358 What a Great Opportunity

Yu Dayou wanted to achieve military success and use his military achievements to restore the shelter of his ancestors, and he was very determined. This can be seen from the fact that he would propose such a battle plan at this time.

However, just providing advice is not enough. He also needs to personally participate in this battle and gain the greatest credit to have a chance.

Therefore, when Li Wenjin hesitated, not only worried about the feasibility of the plan, but also doubtful about the generals leading the army, Yu Dayou bravely expressed his intention to lead the army himself.

To be honest, when he heard Yu Dayou's battle plan, he felt that the plan was very good and the probability of success was high.

The only problem is that the victorious army's road to victory is full of thorns. If a good general cannot be selected to lead the army, the Ming army will be in high danger.

Li Wenjin still recognized the ability of Datong's chief military officer Liu Han. If Liu Han led the team to attack Bansheng City, Li Wenjin could rest assured, but would Liu Han agree to this dangerous plan? What's more, he has to lead the team himself.

Of course, Yu Dayou has no problem. He has fully demonstrated his judgment ability through many wars, especially his ability to command on the battlefield.

After Yu Dayou recommended himself, Li Wenjin's last concern was dispelled. Liu Han was unwilling to lead a raid, so he would let Yu Dayou go.

When Liu Han talked about the safety of the retreat, Li Wenjin didn't say anything because he didn't know how to respond at that time. It all depended on the on-the-spot judgment of the commanding general.

No matter how carefully you plan, you can never accurately determine the location of the battlefield.

The encounter with the Tatars during the retreat was random and completely unpredictable, so he looked at Yu Dayou, and Liu Han was not stupid. Seeing Li Wenjin's performance, he also looked at Yu Dayou.

Yu Dayou had no stage fright at this time. He had been on the battlefield many times and had fought against the Tatars, so he confidently began to explain to Liu Han his plan for this battle.

Li Wenjin didn't understand this, but Liu Han, who was the chief military officer of Datong, should be able to understand it. With Li Wenjin, he could discuss strategic topics, but in terms of tactics, he could only communicate with Liu Han.

“It’s time for Jiubian to take action.”

When Zhang Juzheng heard Wei Guangde say this, he couldn't help repeating it in a low voice, and then raised his eyebrows slightly, "What's the explanation?"

According to the literal meaning, Wei Guangde seemed to want to mobilize troops from all over the world to deal with the invasion of Ananda Khan.

Well, if this is the case, Zhang Juzheng will lose interest in Wei Guangde. Without him, it is unreliable.

As Beijing officials, they should all be very aware of the current financial predicament of the imperial court.

Mobilizing people from all over the world requires massive resources.

Where does money and food come from?

At present, the army is stationed in the area where the supply of money and food is still tight. Once the army begins to mobilize, the consumption of transportation is something that the current court cannot afford.

Moreover, who doesn’t know that in war, of course, the more troops and horses are mobilized, the better.

Han Xin's principle that the more soldiers the better, none of them understand.

Only a few people who are stupid in reading will think that Zhuge Liang's "ingenious tips" in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are really useful. They are all just things to fool readers.

There are indeed cases of defeating the large with less, and the weak defeating the strong, but that is definitely not what the coach wants. They are all done when there is no other way, perhaps because of their own lack of strength, or perhaps because of the rush of time and no time to mobilize the army. , is not an orthodox way of using troops.

What Zhang Juzheng was thinking, Wei Guangde did not notice that his words were easily misunderstood. At this time, he just thought about it before continuing: "The main force of the Anda Department should have gathered outside Xuanfu Town. The war is about to break out. At this time, reinforcements from nine sides will definitely be recruited. It's too late.

Perhaps only the troops from Ji Town and Datong can join the battlefield during the war. Liaodong Town in the east, Taiyuan Town and Yansui Town in the west may not be able to catch up, let alone the Ningxia towns further away.

But have you noticed that the main force of the Xuanfu Reporter Department has been sent out. What does this mean? On the northern prairie, there are probably no Tatars outside other border towns. At this time, it is time to go north to the grassland to harass and destroy. Chance.

Aren't they going to fight on the front line of Xuanfu? The Xuanfu Army, assisted by the Jizhen Army, defended with all its strength. Other towns moved northward to harass his rear, especially the Datong Army and the Liaodong Army. They were able to advance from east to west and cut off the retreat of Anda's troops. "

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but said with some regret: "It's a pity that the north is full of prairie, and the Mongols are nomadic people who live on water and grass. They don't have a royal city, otherwise they would directly attack his royal city."

After a pause, looking at the stunned looks of his colleagues around him, Wei Guangde sighed again: "Drinking Ma Hanhai, strangling Shi Yanran, sealing the wolf to live in Xu, what a great opportunity."

Wei Guangde's last words were a bit pretentious. The military generals of this era all regard the things represented by those twelve words as the highest honor of a general and pursue them throughout their lives.

Of course, this is just their ideal, and ideals often lose to reality.

When Wei Guangde finished speaking, he noticed that other colleagues were doing well. Only Zhang Juzheng's eyes flashed with excitement, but maybe he thought of something immediately, and it quickly dimmed.

If it was the early Ming Dynasty, maybe it would be possible. At that time, there were many famous generals and the soldiers were soldiers who had fought hundreds of battles. As for now, just think about it.

The pavilion fell into silence, and everyone was silent.

It should be said that Wei Guangde's idea seemed a bit unrealistic and impractical to his colleagues. At this time, the defense was insufficient, and he was still thinking about fighting. It was really.

At this time, all the six ministries and nine ministers of the Ming Dynasty gathered in the Yongshou Palace in the Western Garden. After the previous intense discussion, they all stood with their hands down, waiting for the judgment of Emperor Jiajing on the throne.

In the previous discussion, although the Ministry of Revenue strongly resisted mobilizing the surrounding troops, the Ministry of War took a tough attitude.

Although the other ministries were not concerned, they all agreed with the opinions of the Ministry of War when they thought that the Altan cavalry might come to Beijing again.

That is, the request of the Governor of Xuanda, Ge Jin, was almost completely approved. He not only planned to mobilize his Xuanda and Shanxi troops to fight, but also requested the Jizhen army to assist in defense and join the battlefield when necessary.

Mobilizing more than 100,000 troops in the three towns, the daily food and horse chewing would be an astronomical figure. The Ministry of Revenue naturally cried poor and resolutely disagreed.

Participants in the discussion included not only the cabinet's chief minister Yan Song, the second minister Xu Jie, the six ministries' hall officials, but also the left censor of the Censorate, the Dali Temple and the Taichang Temple.

Originally, the Taichang Temple should not have been present at such a gathering of nine ministers, but the Tongzhengshi of the Tongzhengsi. However, since the Zhengtong period, because Yingzong was too young to attend the court, the imperial power fell into the hands of the three Yangs of the cabinet, and the status of the Tongzhengsi declined sharply.

Up to now, the Tongzhengshisi has almost become an institution dedicated to delivering memorials to the cabinet, and has lost the right to submit memorials and reject them.

Today, after the Xuanfu Army report was submitted to the West Garden by the cabinet, Emperor Jiajing directly mentioned the name of Gao Gong, the Taichang Temple Minister, when he summoned important ministers to discuss matters, and asked him to replace the Tongzhengshi of the Tongzhengsi and participate in the meeting of the nine ministers.

Xu Jie seemed very happy about this arrangement, and his brows were relaxed. Only the chief minister Yan Song frowned and said nothing.

However, Gao Gong, who attended such an important meeting for the first time, seemed very reserved, like a transparent person. He did not say a word during the entire meeting, but just listened quietly to the opinions expressed by other bigwigs.

Such a scene was a very novel experience for Gao Gong, who was attending the imperial meeting for the first time, and he was very encouraged in his heart.

He felt the emperor's attitude towards Prince Yu's Mansion from the moment Emperor Jiajing asked him to attend this meeting. Was he going to start cultivating the team of Prince Yu's Mansion?

Thinking of this, he had to listen carefully to the speeches of the bigwigs while thinking about what Wei Guangde said before, that there were rumors in the palace that Emperor Jiajing had discussed "going to the vassal state" with Lu Bing.

Groundless?

It seems that it is not necessarily true. Groundless, there may be a reason.

Thinking of this, Gao Gong thought that Wei Guangde seemed to have someone else in the palace, so he made up his mind to go back to Wei Guangde and ask him to find out in the palace to see if there was any other news that he had not noticed.

With his mother gone, Prince Yu no longer had anyone to rely on in the palace. The only people he could talk to were some eunuchs he knew back then. Even though they had maintained contact over the years, it was not as good as before. After all, Prince Yu could not give them what they wanted.

Although Gao Gong was trying to do two things at once, he gradually understood and figured out the essence of the imperial meeting, which was that the emperor wanted to know the attitudes of various departments towards something, the reasons for their support and opposition.

As the deputy assistant Xu Jie made a summary speech at the suggestion of Yan Song, Yongshou Palace fell silent and began to wait for the emperor's decision.

"The battle of Xuanfu is imminent, and nothing is more important than this."

Emperor Jiajing glanced at the ministers in the palace casually, and after a little hesitation, he said: "The Ministry of War should send a document to Jizhen, and the passes along the Great Wall should be strictly guarded.

The army of Jizhen entered Miyun and was ready to enter Xuanfu for support at any time. Yansui Town and Ningxia Town also sent official documents to let them mobilize troops and horses to stand by."

After saying these words, perhaps Emperor Jiajing saw the entanglement on the face of the new Minister of Revenue Gao Yao, thinking that he had just taken over the stall left by Ma Kun, and he probably didn't know where to find money at this time.

In fact, it is true. The Ministry of Revenue of the Ming Dynasty has been in deficit for many years. The new and old warehouses were almost emptied two years ago. Every year, the gold and silver sent from the south would be rushed to be taken away by people from various yamen as soon as they entered Taicang. Now there is a sudden war, and it is inevitable that the income and expenditure are stretched.

After thinking for a while, Emperor Jiajing said again: "First, borrow a sum of money from the Changying Treasury of the Imperial Household Department to prioritize this military operation. We will never allow soldiers to cause trouble because of insufficient food and salary supply at this time."

This year, he has received news of two mutinies by soldiers. If such a farce is staged again at this critical juncture, he will not stay in the capital.

"In addition, the Ministry of War will give a greeting to Duke Chengguo and ask him to rectify the Beijing camp immediately."

Rectifying the Beijing camp is to prevent trouble before it happens.

Ten years ago, the Beijing camp rushed into battle and the defense of the capital was in chaos.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing could not find anyone to get angry with, so he could only punish the officials and eunuchs of the Beijing camp at that time.

This time, I don't know what Altan Khan is planning, but according to Ge Jin's memorial, the main force of Altan's tribe will be fully deployed, and there will always be 70,000 or 80,000 troops. With so many people and horses, even if it is a nomadic lifestyle, the consumption required is not small. It can be seen that Altan Khan is not small.

At this time, everyone in the Ming Dynasty court believed that a war was inevitable. However, in the face of such a war, everyone tacitly did not mention one thing, which was the plan to send someone to govern the war. It seemed that the entire war was handed over to Ge Jin, the governor of Xuanda, to complete.

After the meeting in front of the emperor, everyone left Yongshou Palace, walked out of the West Garden one after another, and got on the sedan chair to go back to their own offices to work and implement the decisions made at the meeting.

After Gao Gong got on the sedan chair, he did not let the sedan bearer carry him back to the Imperial College, but ordered: "Go to the Hanlin Academy, hurry up."

There was no hurry to find out the news in the palace, but now among the officials of Prince Yu's line in the capital, only Wei Guangde had the experience of leading troops in battle. Gao Gong wanted to talk to Wei Guangde about the content of the meeting in front of the emperor and listen to his views. Nothing was more important than this war.

And he himself had never led troops or fought a war, so he asked someone who had done this.

The sedan bearer carried the sedan chair and quickly left the gate of the West Garden and ran towards the Hanlin Academy. At this time, Wei Guangde had come out of the pavilion and sat down in his duty room.

He had already drunk a belly of tea in the pavilion. As soon as he sat down, he saw Lu Bu bringing up the freshly brewed tea, and he felt sick.

The tea was already brewed, and Wei Guangde didn't want to drink it, so he just left it there.

At this time, Wei Guangde was not interested in reading. He looked at the book on the desk, picked it up, closed it and threw it aside, and his mind flew to Xuanfu.

Now Ma Fang is still serving as the deputy general in Xuanfu, commanding the left and right guards.

Thinking of Ma Fang's previous achievements, I think Altan Khan should not be stupid enough to think of finding a breakthrough between Datong and Xuanfu. The greater probability is to find an opportunity to break through the border wall near the Longmen Guard area of ​​Xuanfu, find an opportunity to defeat the three guards of Xuanfu, and then choose the opportunity to continue to move south to threaten the capital.

At that time, Yanqing and Juyongguan will become the main battlefield again, and perhaps the victory or defeat will be decided here. At that time, the Xuanda, Shanxi and Jizhen armies will gather, and it is unknown whether the main force of Altan's tribe can be completely defeated.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde became uneasy again.

Although he was lucky last time and scared people away during the fight with Altan Khan, Wei Guangde knew very well that the Tartars' entry into the pass that time was different from this time.

If the main force of Altan Khan's army was really deployed as stated in the memorial of Xuanfu, thinking of tens of thousands of elite Mongolian cavalry, Wei Guangde did not believe that Xuanda's troops alone could stop them, even if the troops of Jizhen were added, they would not be enough.

Wei Guangde had seen the Jizhen defense line in its entirety and had a general understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Jizhen army, which seemed to be not as strong as the Xuanfu army.

After all, the Xuanfu army had been fighting against the Mongolian Tartars for many years, and their combat experience was not a little bit strong.

I just hope that those who surrendered to me will not suffer any losses in this war, Wei Guangde thought to himself.

"My Lord."

At this time, footsteps sounded outside the door, as if someone had entered the yard, and Lu Bu's words at the door were heard again.

"My Lord Gao Gong is here."