On the second day of August, Altan crossed the Great Wall to Datong, surrounded the Pinglu Affiliated City, and changed his career to plunder. When the governor of the three sides of the country Wang Chonggu sent troops to aid Pinglu, the only thing that left the Ming army was robbed and burned into naked wheat fields and corpses everywhere.

On the eighth day of the eighth month, the capital first heard of the enemy's invasion. At this time, Altan's army had looted all the way, with troops splitting into different routes, Pinglu and Shuozhou in Datong; Ningwu and Zhenwu in Taiyuan, Shanxi, followed by Yangqu, Shouyang, and the Tumote army on the south road were almost separated from the Zhending defenders.

It's August fifteenth in a blink of an eye.

"Eat moon cakes!"

In the large camp of Jumahe, in addition to the thousand households in the central army, nearly ten remaining generals sat around the map, each with a mooncake, and had to pay homage to the northeast after eating. The mooncakes they ate were given to the generals of the army by Emperor Longqing, and only three boxes were given. Originally, Jiang Yuelin wanted to send someone to his home for offerings, but Chen Mu distributed his to his left and right subordinates, and the two commanders could only follow the example.

It became a mooncake dinner for the generals of Fangshan garrison.

The troops outside the tent also had moon cakes to eat. Chen Mu took some of the police from the money intercepted by Wang Zhongguo and bought moon cakes from the nearby Liangxiang and others in advance. There were also some parts of the army's fireheads made by themselves, and they collected enough numbers of the entire army to distribute them. Each person had a single one to meet the scenery.

They can't see the moon, nor do they have the heart to see it.

"The enemy attacked a large number of people, but this is not right. They had never heard of marching and breaking the city." The mooncake was not enough for Deng Zilong to get his teeth, and he finished it in one bite. Chen Mu simply put his piece in Deng Zilong's hand, took the pot and added half a bowl of water to him casually, signaling him to continue, and then he heard him say, "The only soldiers who entered Jingxing were just a partial army, but they went to several cities in a row. Do those cities have no resistance at all, and they only know how to survive in the city?"

Chen Mu nodded and said nothing, which was also his doubt. In just seven days, Tumote's side troops almost broke through Taiyuan. Although there were city barriers, they did not forgive the paths along the route. At this speed, at most fifteen days, the enemy would be separated from them and looked at them with the Mahe River.

Now that the camp has not been set up half, it will take at least two fifteen days to build the position Chen Mu wants near Fangshan, but how easy is this?

"Is this not normal?"

Hu Xingyun was relatively Buddhist. He always obeyed whatever order Chen Mu gave. The same is true now. The attack of the enemy bandits quickly is normal for him; the attack of the enemy bandits slowly is normal for him. He also gave two instructions to the position of Pinglu City and Zhenwu Guard of Yutu, and said: "A few generals from the south came late. In May, Zhang Gang, the general of Pinglu City, was escorted by the Jinyiwei to the capital and killed him."

"In April, Altan came to attack. Zhang Gang was afraid that Pinglu would be in trouble, so he bribed Altan and asked him to attack elsewhere. As a result, Zhenwuwei was attacked by Altan's troops." Hu Xingyun shook his head and said, "It's normal for such a thing to be on the Nine Territory."

This sounds like a fantasy to Chen Mu. What is this logic? When the enemy attacks, they neither fight nor defend, and bribe the enemy to attack elsewhere. And the key to the matter is that this kind of bastard has been done. Altan really took 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry and took the money to fight elsewhere.

After hearing what this said, the soldiers on the Nine-side still regarded this as common sense.

Seeing Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, Hu Liangpeng and others looking at each other, Jiang Yuelin felt very embarrassed and lowered his head and said helplessly: "This is nothing to do. You can't beat him. Altan still keeps his credibility. As long as he gives him money, he will listen to him if you ask him to withdraw his troops. Gengxu's change is not like this-"

"This bastard led his troops to the city of Beijing, and told the emperor that he would leave immediately after getting the money."

The more he spoke, Jiang Yuelin became more depressed and said, "It was better not to farm outside the Great Wall before. Once a year, since the late emperor consolidated his army and cultivated martial arts, he transferred more than 100,000 troops to the capital every autumn, and was not beaten outside the capital. In recent years, there are many people who fled to the north of the Great Wall. There are villages and fields everywhere north of the Great Wall. They all planted the ground. This is the second time this year."

Chen Mu's lips twitched twice, looking at Deng Zilong, who was speechless, he was angry and laughed, "I think this is not an invasion of the south, this is a Mongolian Khan inspecting the territory, and I will collect personal income tax by the way. In the past, I did not lack money, and I collected it once a year. Now I have increased my taxes, and I have to collect it twice a year?"

Hu Xingyun was about to defend something, but Chen Mu was speechless. This really choked him because Altan's mind was exactly the same as what Chen Mu said.

Altan hasn't done many things in his life, one is to grab territory, and the other is to grab money. He is over 60 years old in his life, but he has never done anything else. Outside the Great Wall, he is fighting and constantly expanding his territory to the west; inside the Great Wall, he is fighting and constantly robbing money and grain to the south.

Altan divided these two things very lightly. The Ming Dynasty's cities only surrounded and did not attack them. They snatched them all outside the city and left.

"General, don't underestimate the frontier warriors. No matter how many generals and thirty generals and officials were killed because of fighting with the Northern Barbarians, it doesn't work." Jiang Yuelin originally thought that these things would be enough to be angry, but now when Chen Mu and others underestimate them, they are even more angry and said uncomfortable: "The defense line is long, the Northern Barbarians come and go like the wind, and there are generals and officials who command hundreds or thousands of generals everywhere. The only result of meeting Altan is to die, fighting is to die; escaping is to die."

"No matter whether the court has enough troops or not, if you don't fight, you will die; if you don't fight, you will have no troops, so you will ask Shi Shuai Qi to bring 1,000 troops and Altan's 20,000 troops to fight. That's just an egg hits a stone!"

"Not to mention a thousand, we have more than 10,000 people in Jumahe. The Beilu will fight here in half a month. The general thinks he will definitely win?"

He is not a child, and Chen Mu will not brag about this for a moment, so he feels a little dry. He remembers that there is some tobacco in his bag, so he gets up and searches. After a while, he sits back and pats Jiang Yuelin and says, "Okay, okay, no one blames you. Being an official is difficult, and being a military officer is even more difficult. Who is not difficult these days? People should not ignore it, but they should be reluctant to do it."

"Remember what you said today. If you don't have enough troops, what will you do if you have enough troops? Want to fight a war that will determine the peace of tens of thousands of soldiers in one battle, and want to establish unparalleled achievements? War is an opportunity. We are closest to Beijing. This battle is excellent. If the Beilu really kills Jumahe, you can kill the enemy and fight and retreat as Chen said."

"Retreat to the upper mountain and kill more than a thousand northern barbarians. Are you still afraid that there will be no sufficient troops in the future?"

A few words of relief were made to encourage the morale of the generals under his command. When he sent them out of the tent, Chen Mu heard the depressed crying sounds coming and going in the camp. The sky was gloomy and wanted to rain. His restrained flag army missed home because of the mooncakes.

Chen Mu leaned weakly under the curtain of the handsome tent, slowly pressing the tobacco into the iron pipe that had not been used several times, and smiled bitterly: "The atmosphere is not good, the battle is imminent!"

"Junxiong, two hundred steps by the river, build earth slopes and cannon sheds. Before it rains, he set up a cannon array and dig a trench next to the bridge that can accommodate five hundred-man teams. On it, wooden frames are used to build a slope to prevent rain. Our gun is short and only half of the body is exposed on it."

"If I could stop him beautifully for a while, it would be much easier for the three guards of Yanqing to obey the orders behind me!"
Chapter completed!