As Chang Yu expected, the more than fifty miles of mountain road took too long. By the time we walked out of the valley, it was already dark. It should be around seven or eight o'clock in the evening. This place is still twenty or thirty miles away from Xuanfu, but
After leaving the mountain, the road is flat and it can be reached in one and a half hours at most.
"Eunuch Chang, there is a big village a few miles ahead. The name of the village is Gujiaying. Can you take a break for a while?" A Jin Yiwei ran to Chang Yu's car and reported. Since meeting the thief in Yantong Mountain, he asked all Jin Yiwei's spies to report directly to Chang Yu as soon as possible.
He reports information.
"Okay, let's give the order to go ahead and rest. The guards must not let up their guard posts. Don't be careless just because you are out of the mountain." Chang Yu knew how nervous he was walking along the way. It was fine during the day, but it would be terrible if he was ambushed in the mountains at night.
Got it!
The team temporarily camped outside Gujiaying Village to rest. Chang Yu got out of the car, stretched to relieve himself, and then took Chunxiang and others for a walk into the village. However, they found that this was just a run-down small village. It was already getting late and the villagers had already gone to bed. Except for
Apart from a few barks of dogs, no strange sounds were heard and no one was seen.
Disappointed, Chang Yu returned to the team and began to check the injuries of the wounded.
Before leaving the capital, he had told Chunxiang to get a lot of wound medicine from the imperial doctor in case of emergency, and now it finally came into use.
The injuries of the eunuch soldiers were not serious. Some were sprained from chasing thieves up the mountain, some were injured by falling from horses, and the most serious one was just a cut on his leg by a bandit.
However, the soldiers of the Tengxiang Guard who had been on the front line were relatively serious. They had arrow wounds and knife wounds, and their injuries varied from serious to minor.
Although Chang Yu is not a professional doctor, he comes from a later generation and has much more basic medical knowledge than these people. In addition, he is a boxer and injuries are commonplace, so he has extensive experience in healing injuries.
After some inspections, the team was almost finished resting, so Chang Yu gave the order to set off immediately, and they would enter the city no matter how late it was tonight.
After walking for more than half an hour at night, the team finally arrived outside Xuanfu City. Only then did Chang Yu really breathe a sigh of relief.
Xuanfu is also one of the nine important towns in the Ming Dynasty in Xuanfu Town (today's Xuanhua, Zhangjiagang). The border wall under its jurisdiction stretches from Yongguan to the west and reaches Yanggao County in the west. It has a total length of 1,116 miles and 1,000 border piers.
Two hundred and seventy-four seats, one hundred and ninety-two openings.
As one of the important towns on the nine sides, Xuanfu Town also has a strong garrison. According to the records of the third year of Longqing, the number of troops under its jurisdiction is more than 151,000, and the number of war horses is more than 55,200. After many years of fleeing from home, the actual strength of the troops
There were more than 83,300 horses, and only 32,400 horses were left.
Important reminder, this is a record from the time of Emperor Longqing. It is now the Chongzhen year, and it is the end of the Ming Dynasty. How much is it? Chang Yu doesn’t know, but it will definitely not exceed 50,000!
But the annual salary of 120,000 soldiers cannot be less than a penny!
It was late at night and the city gate had already been closed. Wu Mengming sent his men to call the door, but he didn't want to be refused. Even if he took out the Jin Yiwei waist badge, it still didn't work. Finally, he brought up the name of the Jin Yiwei commander, and the officers and soldiers on the city asked him to wait.
Please ask for instructions from above.
"I can't believe that the security here is so strict, and it is still so when entering the city inside the pass."
Wu Mengming felt incredible.
Chang Yu felt a little relieved, after all, it was one of the important towns on the nine sides, so it should be like this.
After waiting for a while, a guerrilla general came up from the city. After checking his badge, he asked him to wait and asked for instructions from the superiors. Wu Mengming's face turned dark, and even Chang Yu became a little angry.
But consider that the guerrilla general is a low-level officer, and he has no right to open the city in the middle of the night in such a border town.
According to the specifications of Xuanfu Town, a general military officer was established in the 7th year of Yongle, and later a deputy general was stationed in Xuanfu Town, and then moved to Yongning City in the 28th year of Jiajing.
In addition to the chief and deputy generals, there are seven separate garrison generals. However, they are not stationed in Xuanfu Town, but are garrisoned in various areas under its jurisdiction.
There were also three guerrilla generals, two officers in the camp, thirty-one guards, and two foremans. Later, there were slight changes, and most of them were on duty under the jurisdiction.
After waiting for about half an hour, just when Chang Yu was getting impatient, there was finally movement on the city. A man stood on top and shouted. It turned out that Wang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, had arrived.
After all, it was an important town. After all, an army of thousands of people with unknown origins came to the city gates late at night, and it was a time of war, so there was no room for him to be careless.
Documents from the Ministry of War? No!
Soldier talisman? No!
But Wu Mengming cursed at the top of his lungs at the bottom of the city: If the commander of the Jinyi Guards can still cheat, then the badges and seals are not fake!
Obviously, Wang Chengyin in the city was a very cautious person and did not want to open the door, but Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, made the golden sign very difficult. He first said that he would wait until dawn and was flatly refused to open the door, so he finally had to send someone to hang him from the city to check.
After Yinche and many Jinyiwei waistbands and other two-guard waistbands, it was confirmed that they were not fake. After all, no one can pretend to be a Jinyiweifu military guard and a Tengxiang guard at the same time these days. Even if the clothes can be faked, those waistbands cannot be faked!
The city gate opened wide, and Wang Chengyin personally greeted him with a smile and apologized repeatedly: "I had to do this at this very moment."
But Wu Mengming's anger remained unabated and he remained silent with a dark face.
From the moment Chang Yu entered the city, his eyes never left Wang Chengyin's figure.
This middle-aged military officer in his forties had served as a general under Yuan Chenghuan and Cao Wenzhao. In the second year of Chongzhen, he accompanied Yuan Chenghuan to aid the capital. He also accompanied Cao Wenzhao to ambush the Qing army. However, he had no meritorious service and
He passively avoided war, but he unexpectedly joined the general army ten years later. This shows that there were really no generals available at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
But the reason why Chang Yu has a deep memory of him is because Xuanfu Town was lost after he opened the city gate and surrendered.
People should not be judged by their appearance. Looking at the upright man in front of him, Chang Yu could not imagine why he opened the door and surrendered to the rebels without resisting.
Should this person be killed?
After Wang Chengyin welcomed Wu Mengming and others into the city, he immediately arranged for the soldiers to go to the military camp to rest, and the silver car was escorted directly to his general military mansion.
Wu Mengming had already received instructions from Chang Yu earlier that the silver car must be stationed in the military camp under the protection of the eunuch army, so he rejected Wang Chengyin's proposal.
Wang Chengyin did not insist, and passed on the order as requested by Wu Mengming. Then, under the leadership of a middle officer, the Jinyi Guards, Fujun Guards and Tengxiang Guards pressed the silver chariot to the military camp.
Wu Mengming and others were invited to the General Military Mansion. It was at this time that Wang Chengyin noticed Chang Yu's presence. To be precise, he noticed Chang Yu's carriage and Chunxiang and other more than ten strong men wearing armor beside the carriage.
Chinese.
It was unexpected that a commander of the Jinyi Guards personally escorted the salary, but why was it followed by another carriage? Judging from the security situation outside the carriage, there must be someone inside, and he seemed to be quite arrogant. He had never shown his face since entering the city.
"Master Wu, who is in the car?"
On the way to the General Military Mansion, Wang Chengyin couldn't help but raise his hands and asked.
"from the palace"
Wu Mengming answered speciously and stopped talking. This made Wang Chengyin even more confused. The person in the palace could not be the emperor's prince or concubine. It was most likely the eunuch who was in charge of the army. But where are the eunuchs in charge of the army now?
For someone to make such a big show, it's not that the battle is huge, but that he is also the commander-in-chief. The eunuchs who supervise the army will say hello and be polite when they see him, but this person doesn't even show his face and thinks he is Wei Zhongxian.