Outside the Nanguan City of Datong, Zhang Yiming, the governor of Datong, Man Gui, the general of Datong, as well as Datong Ma Jiajiang and several old men of Ma Jiajiang, as well as the hereditary military attachés of Datong Eight Guards who stayed in Datong City, and of course the distinguished The incomparable Dai Wang Zhu Dingwei, and several branch princes of Dai Wangfu such as Guangling King, Shanyin King, Hechuan King, Zaoqiang King, Lechang King, Jiyang King, Fuchuan King, Yongqing King, etc., also There is a group of generals who can take a look at the country, the generals who support the country, and the generals who serve the country. They are all robes and black gauze, arranged neatly according to their superiority and inferiority, and they are just waiting anxiously.
They are waiting for the Emperor of Tomorrow who will lead the army in person!
Logically speaking, the emperor's personal expedition should be an extremely inspiring thing. Datong is a military city, and most of the famous people in the city are related to military affairs.
Even the generals of Zhenguo, Fuguo, and Fengguo of the Ming Dynasty clan, don’t they all have the title of general? According to the wishes of our ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, these "generals" with a salary of six hundred to one thousand stones should all be knights under the command of the king, right? This time, the Great Tomorrow himself went into battle! Even if they "generals" can't go into battle to kill thieves, they should still show a bit of high morale. But why are all these generals, the princes above them, and the acting king Zhu Dingwei, who is old and in poor health, so uneasy?
Not only was Huang Guizhou restless these days, but Datong Governor Zhang Yiming and Datong General Soldier Man Gui, the two biggest civil and military officials in Datong Town, were also a little restless!
And the restlessness and uneasiness of these people are actually not without reason. It was certainly a good thing for the border town military generals to postpone the matter of the emperor's personal expedition to the early days of the country... At that time, the emperor was the emperor on horseback, and the officials were heroes and generals, including the guards officers below. All of them are warriors who came from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!
At that time, when the emperor personally went to war, it was the time for great achievements to be made!
But it's not the beginning of the country anymore... The country is suffering from internal and external troubles, the border towns are in turmoil, the border troops are destitute of food and clothing, and the emperor has grown up in a deep palace, raised by women, and he is still young. The imperial chariot's personal conquest is just a child's play!
This is even more ridiculous than the personal conquests of Yingmiao and Wumiao. Yingmiao was already 23 years old during the Tumubao Incident, and Wumiao was already 27 years old during the Yingzhou War.
But today's young emperor is only 18 years old...still a young man!
This time it’s the child emperor playing war!
Moreover, this child, the emperor, has no sons or brothers. If this is lost, who will the emperor be? To put them in order, it would be Zhu Changxun, the fat man of fortune, who would be the emperor! The dispute over the Wanli Kingdom that revolved around him and Guangmiao had caused an uproar... Thinking of this, Man Gui and Zhang Yiming could only sigh - regardless of Donglin in the court and the eunuchs surrounding the new king. How many struggles started, and the blame was definitely laid on both of them!
Just when a large group of people were dejected and complaining in their hearts, they saw a dozen of the fast horses sent out to greet them rushing over at speed. The leader was none other than Datong Town Standard Counselor Fang Shekun, who was riding in the distance. He shouted to Zhang Yiming and Man Gui: "Long live the Lord is here, Long live the Lord is here!"
The civil servants, military officers and nobles of Datong Town, who were getting a little anxious while waiting, let out a low roar, involuntarily began to adjust their clothes and robes, and then began to crane their necks to look around.
Then they saw the smoke and dust in the sky, and heard the rumbling sound...ah! The momentum of this Long Live Lord's arrival is truly astonishing!
Man Gui, who was waiting there solemnly, changed his expression. He knew that the low roar was caused by the horse's hooves stepping on the ground. Because it was too dense, it was connected together. Mangui, who was standing on the ground, could feel the earth trembling slightly at this moment... It was really a cavalry of more than ten thousand men and two horses!
Mangui took a deep breath, straightened her body, stretched her neck, and began to look south.
I don’t know how long it took, but just as the thunderous hoofbeats became louder and louder, and the trembling of the earth became more and more intense, yellow dragon flags finally appeared on the horizon, not just one, but twelve. This is the emperor's banner, fluttering in the wind, curling, and then there is a field of jumping spear points with cold light - this is the iron cavalry charging with the rifle slung behind the back.
Man Gui's expression changed again, from fear to surprise.
Because he has discovered that the queue of the emperor's servants approaching him is very strict! They formed a large group of hundreds of riders, forming five columns one after another, moving at a brisk pace on the official road.
With such speed, such formation, and such strictness, an expert like Mangui would know that these cavalrymen have undergone rigorous and concentrated training for quite a period of time.
It does look very impressive!
I just don’t know how their martial arts are? Don't look like a guy who only knows how to line up but doesn't know how to fight!
It is not surprising that Man Gui had such an idea, because although the servants of the Ming Dynasty border commanders could also ride horses into battle, they were essentially a group of feudal warriors who relied on personal bravery to fight. It is unlikely that a large formation of hundreds or thousands of cavalry will be formed to attack, let alone 10,000 cavalry at a time - there is no such thing as a side commander with 10,000 servants!
Li Chengliang, who had the largest number of servants since the emergence of the servant system, had less than 5,000 servants in his heyday. And these five thousand servants rarely have the opportunity to gather in one place, so they have to fight everywhere! That is to say, when we sent troops to Korea, more than 3,000 people went there at one time.
After the decline of the two major frontier army groups of East, Li and Xima, "big generals" such as Mangui, Zu Dashou, and Zhao Shujiao only had more than a thousand servants in the sky, and there were no soldiers from Xima and Dongli. The servants are so elite.
Xi Madong and Li are both side generals who have been rising for many years. They have been in charge of one side for a long time and have a lot of time to take care of their own servant groups.
However, Man Gui, Zu Dashou, and Zhao Shujiao have not been around for a long time. They were only promoted from junior military attachés to general soldiers during the Tianqi years, so their retainers are somewhat weak.
When Mangui was wondering whether these emperor's servants were embroidering pillows, the cavalry of the brigade had already approached Datong Nanguan Castle.
The first few hundred knights in golden armor who appeared were all grown-up men, neatly dressed and wearing long golden armor. When exposed to the sun, the reflected golden light would be blinding.
The formation of these hundreds of knights is also very neat, and they can also change formations while marching. While moving forward quickly, they slowly unfolded, and the five columns turned into three horizontal lines - two of the horizontal lines were longer and were composed of two columns, and one horizontal line was shorter and turned into one column.
Three horizontal lines in front and back, like three walls of knights, were displayed in front of Man Gui, Zhang Yiming and others, and then stopped moving forward.
I have to say, this ability to change formations is really eye-opening!
At this time, the formation of these knights in golden armor changed again. The two rows in front split in the middle and became four teams. They moved to the left and right to make way for a passage. Then they saw more than a hundred knights in golden armor, surrounded by ten Two triangular dragon flags poured out from this passage and arrived in front of Man Gui, Zhang Yiming and others.
In the center of the twelve dragon flags is a young man with a golden helmet and a tall horse. He is none other than Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty.
Man Gui and Zhang Yiming had both gone to Beijing to report on their work, and had seen this Long Live Lord in the Wenhua Hall. Of course they recognized him at a glance now, and quickly led a group of prominent figures in Datong Town to kneel down and kowtow, shouting Long Live the Mountain.
Zhu Youjian seemed to be in a very good mood today, with a smile on his face. Because his cavalry in front of the tent came out of the Nanhaizi camp outside Beijing and performed quite well along the way. The 600-mile journey was completed in a few days, and not many people were left behind, and the marching discipline was quite good. So many states and counties along the way did not find any soldiers crossing the border!
This is the real King Master! With such a king master, are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat the wandering Han who invaded the Han tribe?
He looked at Man Gui, Zhang Yiming, and a bunch of unknown high-ranking officials who were greeting him. They must all be generals of the Datong Army, so he smiled and nodded, "Pingshen, let's all be Pingshen!"
Seeing Man Gui getting up from the ground, Zhu Youjian asked again: "Man Gui, has the Hutu Dun who was inserted into the Han Department escaped yet?"
"Ah, not yet..." Mangui answered, but thought in his heart: Why did he run away with his army of 100,000 people?
"Okay! It's good that you didn't run away!" Zhu Youjian smiled, raised his voice, and said a bold statement that scared everyone to the ground, "Everyone in Datong, follow me to kill the captives!"
