October twelve, morning.

Tumu Fort is calm and quiet.

After the sunlight rose, Chen Xi habitually stood at the top of the city and used a telescope to observe the Tatars' military camps in the distance. Ten miles apart, even with a telescope, he could not see clearly what the people inside were doing. He could only roughly know the layout of the Tatars' camp.

After tightening his clothes, Chen Xi felt a little cold.

It was the Little Ice Age, and the weather was already very cold in mid-October. The south was ready for winter clothes, not to mention that this was the northern country where thousands of miles of ice will be frozen and snowy in the winter.

At this time, there was no shortage of cold-proof clothes for soldiers in the army to survive the winter. A large number of sheepskins, cloth and clothes were recovered from the Tatar camp twice. After a little tidying, it would be a thick winter clothes.

Compared to the weather, Chen Xi was more worried about the water source in the city. The soldiers were more in a little less energy if they didn't eat for a few days, but if they didn't drink water for a few days, they would lose all their combat power and wait for the Tatars to cut their heads.

As the saying goes, an autumn rain and a cold, Chenxi believes that when the next precipitation arrives, what will fall will not be rain, but flying snowflakes.

"Sir, it's getting colder this day. It's already started to freeze in the morning. This is not a good sign. Our fortifications have not been completed yet!"

Hu Songyue, wrapped in thick sheepskin and slightly bloated figure, came to the top of the city and started to greet Chen Xi.

Chenxi Road: "The upper freezing has the disadvantages of freezing, which is much more difficult for us to dig. But there is also an advantage, that is, after the upper freezing, any fortifications built with mud and water will be very stable. Let the soldiers pay attention to keeping warm, and they must not drink cold water at will. Each person sips of hot wine every day to warm their bodies, but they are not allowed to drink alcohol, otherwise they will be engaged in military law!"

As the enemy is in front of the enemy, Chen Xi also knows that it is useless to obey some military rules and regulations. It is like drinking. Soldiers need to use alcohol to keep warm. It is okay to drink a few sips, but the time and amount of drinking for each person must be strictly limited. Alcohol can make mistakes, especially those soldiers who are vigilant. Once they are asked to touch the alcohol, they may take a nap at night, or they may be touched by the Tatars and cut their heads off.

Chenxi ended his daily routine patrol and came down from the horse road. At this time, the women and children rescued from the Tatar camp had buried their stoves and made fires. The city was covered with a faint smoke from cooking and a rich aroma of meat.

According to Chen Xi's requirements, the soldiers had two meals a day, in the morning and at night. Since countless rice and flour were seized in the first and second battles, they can now change their patterns every meal. If steamed buns in the morning, then rice will be made, and the next day it will be replaced with rolled noodles and rice cakes.

Since the army stores a large amount of horse meat, donkey meat and mule meat, there will be aromatic broth every meal, plus bean sprouts and kelp, as well as wild vegetables picked from outside the city every day. The food conditions of the officers and soldiers are even more favorable than at home. After all, this era is not something that can be eaten every day.

Chen Xi took advantage of the time before breakfast to return to his room at the command post to write a battlefield log. He recorded the things he thought about and thoughts every day in detail. When it was late at night and his thoughts were clear, he would carefully study these materials and make some strategic and tactical arrangements.

This time, Chen Xi followed the army and did not bring his female relatives. Although he had rescued a group of people from the Tatar camp before, Chen Xi did not want to be misunderstood and he took care of his daily life by himself.

After almost half an hour, breakfast outside was ready, and a "dongdong" ringing sounded from the bell tower. Chen Xi put down his pen, packed the rice paper full of words, sorted out his appearance, and then brought the big name to the "canteen" outside to prepare for breakfast.

The city is divided into eight canteens, four of which are in the cracks, both east, west, south, north and south, and four of them are all transformed from dilapidated houses, and officers and soldiers can eat nearby.

Chen Xi did not have privileges in the army. Basically, what ordinary soldiers eat, what he eats.

It turned out that when Chen Xi was at home, he was very picky about food, mainly because the women and maids at home were good at cooking, so he kept his mouth awkward, but Chen Xi could still accept a simple life. After all, he was a human being again and his desire for a stomachache was not that great.

To put it bluntly, people in this era are just to seek peace of mind when they are two meals a day and one night!

Today’s breakfast was a piece of bread with a piece of marinated donkey jerky, and a large bowl of kelp soup. The kelp itself had salt frost. It also brought a lot of salt to the army when they went to war. This time, hundreds of stones were snatched from the Tatar camp, which was enough for tens of thousands of people to spend a year or two.

Kelp soup is not clear soup with poor water. There is a layer of oil foam floating on the surface, and below is horse meat that tastes a little astringent. This is actually no longer considered vegetable soup, but a delicious broth. The most important thing is that it can be added after eating. Of course, there is no horse meat when adding it, but at least it can be stained with oil, right?

After breakfast, all the soldiers were organized to build fortifications outside the city. This busyness would take until the afternoon sunset before returning to the city.

Chen Xi originally planned to go back to the command post to sleep for a while. This period of time in the morning is usually the quietest time on the battlefield. Chen Xi usually stays up late at night. Now he has enough food and drinks, and his whole body is warm and wants to sleep. This way he will be more energetic in the afternoon and evening.

But today there are still many things waiting for him to deal with, so he can only choose to advance the tent to discuss the construction of defensive fortifications outside the city.

The meeting lasted for half an hour. After the meeting, Liu Xu and Zhu Lie were ordered to go out of the city to supervise the construction of defensive fortifications, while Hu Songyue urged the musketeers to practice queues and shooting techniques.

In order to enhance the speed and maneuverability of the musket soldiers, Hu Songyue was also asked to teach these musket soldiers cavalry. In this way, the group of musket soldiers under Chen Xi had some characteristics of Western dragon cavalry.

Unlike the previous three generals who always argued with Chen Xi, the whole army realized one thing that if they didn't listen to Chen Xi, they would be buried in Tumu Fort and become lonely ghosts.

In the past, from the general manager to the ordinary soldiers below, they unanimously questioned the ability of Chen Xi, a young man who was still young. However, after seeing Chen Xi's two battles led by a force, they realized what kind of genius coach they had followed.

Zhu Lie and others knew that they had no brains. Now the entire army was in a siege. They either broke through the siege for life or stayed to have a vigorous battle with Chen Xi.

If you don’t even have the chance to be a deserter, what’s the point? Don’t try to be a brave and fearless soldier, fighting the barbarians to the end for the sake of the country and nation?

After confronting the Tatars for a long time, the soldiers of the entire army felt the extraordinaryness of Chenxi. There are now nearly 10,000 Tatar cavalry outside the city, but they probably were afraid of being beaten by Chenxi. They guarded the area of ​​more than ten miles outside the city. Even if the Ming soldiers built fortifications under their noses, they ignored them and ignored them at all.

Hu Songyue and others have finally deeply realized what it is like to follow the coach.

In their past, in their impression, the Tatars were jackals, tigers and leopards. When the Ming officers and soldiers saw this, they could only hide in the city, or they would run away, just like rabbits.

But after fighting with Chen Xi, they deeply felt how glorious it was to be a citizen of a "nation country".

Just a little girl, I'm standing outside your camp. Do you have the ability to fight? Let our coach kill you with "Mare"...

Isn't your camp very strong? Let's try our artillery and let's try our livestock bombs.

In order to prevent the Ming army from using "Mare" to launch a sudden attack, the Tatars cooperated very well to build many trenches in front of the camp, just like a moat. Once the Ming army uses "Mare" again, the animals will fall into the ditch, so that they will feel at ease when defending.

The Tatars had already made up their minds that the main force would not come and the trenches would not be filled. This battle would be dragged on until Chen Xi's troops came out on their own initiative. At that time, the offense and defense would reverse, so that you can taste our power!

The Tatars had many soldiers and strong combat power, but as the side of the besieged city, they were even more cowardly than the Ming army stationed in the city. The Tatars also deeply experienced a huge humiliation from commanding generals to ordinary soldiers.

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