The northwest is peaceful, which is a good thing for the people in the capital.

No news is good news, and many people are eagerly looking forward to it. It is best to stay until the end of the year without any danger. According to the experience of Tatars in the past years, the Tatars basically stay at home and not go out in winter.

The sky was covered with heavy snow in the north. If it could not occupy the inland cities of the Ming Dynasty, the Tatars' long-distance raids could easily lose their mobility due to the bad weather.

A four-legged animal, such as a horse, may not travel faster than a two-legged person, especially when heavy snow covers the knees, something that looks flat is a pothole, and the horse can't get out as soon as it sinks in.

The capital is quiet and peaceful, with wind and cranes everywhere in the northwest. It has not snowed after autumn. However, it is the Little Ice Age. It is almost the late September of the lunar calendar, and it will start to snow outside the Great Wall every year. However, when it is really ice and snow, the road is blocked until the winter or the twelfth lunar month.

In other words, the Tatars have almost two months to deploy. As for whether the Tatars attack or retreat, it is currently unknown, but at least there are no signs of the Tatars attacking the Gyeonggi.

At this time, Shen Xi personally led an army of 50,000, but in fact there were less than 6,000 troops, dragging his heavy belongings on the way to Xuanfu Town.

To describe the state of this troop, it is "dragged". There is no slightest way to march and fight. It is fast to walk thirty miles a day. The soldiers always have various excuses to circumvent and procrastinate, as if they are not afraid of the Tatars suddenly coming out.

At present, what every officer and soldier care about most is whether the five rewards can be paid in the way. After walking for two days, he only left Juyongguan for sixty miles. Many people asked for rewards. After that, they struggled to make money and couldn't make it. In desperation, Shen Xi had to agree, but in the end he was delayed for another day.

This kind of farce is rare in other teams, and only the old men in the Beijing camp have this kind of mentality of not being afraid of heaven and earth.

In the eyes of border soldiers, fighting is to hide in the city and guard against it. It will take advantage of the Tatars to make achievements after they retreat. But don’t think about getting rich. Without spoils, they will naturally not be captured and their pockets cannot be filled. At the same time, the rewards given by the court were basically given to them by superiors.

As for the war in Beijing, there is only one purpose, that is, to make money, and even to make money, they can do anything to do. Fortunately, the people basically fled along the way, or they hid in the city blocks of various garrisons, and there was no people along the way, otherwise the people in Beijing might have some chaos.

Shen Xi is a head coach who knows how to be flexible and flexible. It is not the first time he has led a army. He even trained a relatively tactical team in Fujian and Guangdong. He fought some tough battles with him. However, when he arrived in the northwest, Shen Xi seemed to have suddenly become a different person, and he shrank without saying anything. He even tried his best to satisfy his unreasonable requests to the soldiers.

Before, Hu Songyue and others thought that Shen Xi was "stubborn", but now they think that Shen Xi was a soft persimmon. When they encountered such a good opportunity to make money, they were already thinking about it. After arriving in Xuanfu Town, they had to increase the subsequent marching reward price and must get enough rewards. Even if they did not fight or confront the Tatars head-on, they would still make a fortune.

As a result, the military eunuch Zhang Yong was stunned.

Although Zhang Yong was afraid of death and hoped that he would not encounter the Tatars along the way, Zhang Yong was not a slaughter. In the capital, Zhang Yong was afraid of the imperial officials and royal relatives. However, in the northwest and in the army, he was a military supervisor, and he was comparable to Chen Xi in power. He would impeach whoever he wanted to impeach, and no one else could argue.

"...Mr. Shen, those generals are obviously not in dealing with you. I want you to increase your rewards. The speed of the march along the way is almost the same. If you can't reach Xuanfu within a few days and meet the Tatars on the way, what should you do?"

Zhang Yong looked anxious. As for whether Chen Xi was threatened by those generals, it was not important in his opinion. What he cared about was that the speed of the march was really unbearable.

Zhang Yong's opinion is that it is safe to stay in the city gates. From Juyong Pass, the troops should advance quickly. It is best to march day and night to arrive at Xuanfu, and then investigate the situation along the way from Xuanfu Town to Datong Town and Taiyuan Town, and wait for an opportunity to act.

Now, Chen Xi first blackmailed eighty artillery pieces from Juyongguan, as well as a large pile of firearms and combat supplies. Although they were equipped with civilians, they slowed down the marching speed.

In addition, Chen Xi insisted on setting up a strategy of giving rewards along the way, but the speed of the march along the way was too slow, and the soldiers in the Beijing camp were not very interested in fighting. Now they had an excuse, they were lazy and seemed to be ready to become deserters. They just waited to hear the Tatars' movements and were about to leave.

Chenxi is not in a hurry, and sometimes Chenxi even proposes to stop moving earlier and starts camping and resting before the sun sets.

Chen Xi didn't care and asked Zhang Yong with a smile: "How should we march according to Eunuch Zhang?"

"Of course, the faster the better." Zhang Yongdao, "After leaving Juyongguan, crossing the fork road and Yulin Post, and seeing that Huailaiwei is about to reach Huailaiwei, it is better to stay in Huailai Acropolis to find out the situation ahead! If the Tatars are sure to withdraw their troops, they can speed up their itinerary and restore Yulin Acropolis as soon as possible!"

Chen Xi thought to himself, the eunuchs are afraid of death!

An ordinary person dies or has funerals after death, but for eunuchs, they are dead and have no descendants. They can’t even find the person who leads the way after death. Death can be said to be the most painful thing.

This is why eunuchs love money, because only white silver is the most realistic in the eyes of eunuchs. Only with gold, silver and jewelry can one rely on them, and when they are about to die, they can find someone to bury themselves.

Chen Xidao: "We won't be in Huailaiwei anymore, otherwise those bad soldiers will have to put forward conditions... Since they are on the road, they will speed up their pace in the next few days, and strive to travel forty miles every day!"

Walking forty miles a day is obviously not enough in Zhang Yong's opinion. Zhang Yong hopes that Chen Xi can show the majesty of the head coach, but unfortunately Zhang Yong can only be anxious, and Chen Xi does not think about him.

Zhang Yong said urgently: "Mr. Shen, our family doesn't know what you mean, but aren't you afraid that a Tatar soldiers suddenly jumped out along the way and blocked our way? At that time, we will be the dead soul under the Tatar sword. Who can I tell you if you have any reason?"

Chen Xi said: "Eunuch Zhang's words should be told to the military generals below when he was promoted to the tent. You can lose your temper at them... Eunuch Zhang should have seen it. It's not that I'm not in a hurry, but that my subordinates are too greedy. No matter how fast I walk by myself, they always drag their backs on their work and don't work hard. What can I do?"

When Zhang Yong heard this, he didn't get angry. He no longer had the good temper he had towards Chen Xi before. He shouted at Chen Xi: "Even if there is no way, please think about it. Your Majesty sent Lord Shen as the governor of Yansui. He has the power to take action first and then report to his generals and schools. He can completely kill one to warn him. However, Lord Shen, you are not concerned about it and cannot make a decision to kill. Do you want those ungrateful wolves who are not full to discover their conscience?"

Although Chen Xi had tried his best to restrain himself, Chen Xi couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhang Yong's pertinent evaluation that Hu Songyue and others were "eyed wolves who could not be fed", which was too appropriate.

Chen Xidao: "Eunuch Zhang, there are some things I don't want to hide from. Three years ago, I took the Beijing camp soldiers to the northwest to send cannons, and encountered the same situation. The Beijing camp soldiers have a characteristic, that is, they don't cry when they don't see the coffin. When they really find that the Tatars are chasing behind their butts, they run faster than anyone else. Eunuch Zhang may be able to see them in the near future."

"What, let our family see that they are being chased away by the Tatars? Lord Shen, are you okay? Or is it that Lord Shen learned about what the situation was and didn't tell our family?"

When Zhang Yong heard this, he became nervous. Seeing Chen Xi speaking so easily and calmly, he seemed to have known the movements of the Tatars for a long time, and Zhang Yongsheng was afraid that he would be kept in the dark.

Chen Xidao: "Have you ever heard of snailing a snake out of the cave?"

"We have never heard of what leads snakes out of the cave. Lord Shen reads a lot of books, so don't show off in front of our palace servant!" Zhang Yong said dissatisfied.

"It's similar to throwing bricks and attracting jade." Chen Xidao, "Eunuch Zhang should know about the throwing bricks and attracting jade among the thirty-six strategies?"

Zhang Yong thought for a moment, was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking, and said, "Mr. Shen, are you trying to say that our troops are the bricks you threw out, and you want to attract the Tatars to the jade? Let us die?"

Chen Xi thought to himself, you finally understand. Do you think it's fun to spend time with this group of people on the road? When these people see the Tatars, they will know what urgent things are and how serious the situation they are facing. At that time, everyone can walk steadily.

Thinking of the fact that Chen Xi led the Beijing camp to send cannons and horses to race against the four-legged Tatar cavalry outside Yulin Guard, the situation was really jubilant. Although the final result was a tragic victory, Chen Xi also saw the maximum limit of a person's physical potential. At that time, Song Shu and others tried their best for a lifetime, and even fought the Tatars to the end.

Unfortunately, in the battle on the south bank of Yuxi River, Chen Xi's troops were attacked by small groups of Tatar cavalry after completing the shelling of the Tatars, and suffered heavy losses. In fact, most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp failed to return to the capital and truly became the souls of the northwest battlefield. As the saying goes, "The bones by the Wuding River are still people in the dream of spring boudoir."

Although these people had all kinds of disastrousness in their lives, Chen Xi respected them from the bottom of their hearts. They truly died to the point of death and are people who are always worthy of being remembered by history.

So no matter how despised and disdained the soldiers of the Beijing camp, Chen Xi also felt that the soldiers of the Beijing camp might be a little greedy, cowardly and cowardly, but they did not despise the six thousand soldiers under his command. He is just trying to inspire these people's fighting spirit and desire for survival.

Chen Xidao: "Eunuch Zhang is right, but not completely right. It may be inappropriate to throw bricks and attract jade, and it is more appropriate to say that throw bricks and explore the way. Now we are testing how many Tatar soldiers are there on the road to Xuanfu. If the Tatars shift the focus of the attack to Xuanfu Town, when the Tatars hear that reinforcements are coming, their target will definitely turn to reinforcements, that is, us, and then we will wait for an opportunity to act!"

Zhang Yong looked dead and said, "Waiting for an opportunity? I'm afraid you can't move at that time. People are dead, so how can you move?"

"Mr. Shen, you are so big. We thought that following someone as cautious as you would be able to save your life back to the capital. Now, you are treating yourself as bait. Isn't this seeking death? Where can I find someone as stupid as you in the world?"

In desperation, Zhang Yong no longer cared about any etiquette and started cursing.

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