"General, our people in Liaodong have sent back an urgent message."
Zhao Wu quickly walked into the signing room and came to the table. He handed a secret letter sealed with fire paint to Liu Heng with both hands.
Liu Heng took it in his hand, tore open the outer seal, and pulled out a piece of white paper filled with words.
Soon, he finished reading the contents on the paper.
"You should also take a look!" As he said that, he handed the secret letter in his hand to Zhao Wu.
Everyone at the officer level of the Tiger Character Banner can read. Within the Tiger Character Banner, those who are illiterate will not be promoted. It is a personal matter. Many people take the initiative to learn to read and read.
Tiger Flag has a special literacy class to help illiterate people improve their literacy skills.
Although such literacy classes may not allow people to write poems with gorgeous rhetoric, they can read and write letters without any problems. Guards like Zhao Wu, who have been with Liu Heng for many years, are among the first batch of literate people.
"The slave thief was really defeated?" Zhao Wu looked surprised after reading the contents of the secret letter.
Before the Great Victory of Jinzhou, he would not have doubted anything. However, after the Great Victory of Jinzhou was achieved by the civilian officials of the Liaodong Ming Army, and now he suddenly saw the Ming Army defeating an army of more than 100,000 slaves and bandits in Ningyuan, he subconsciously doubted whether There really is such a victory.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "Don't worry, this is the news from our people, you can believe it."
"I didn't expect that there were people in the Ming army who could really defeat the slave thieves. It seems that the court was boasting again." Zhao Wu said with emotion.
From Sarhu to the present, the victory of the Ningyuan Guard Battle has been regarded as the greatest victory the Ming army has faced against an army of slave thieves in so many years.
Liu Heng took out his pipe, pinched some tobacco and put it in it, pressed it down with his thumb, and asked at the same time: "Where is the Third War Division?"
"I sent news not long ago that I successfully received the grain and grass stored in Xin'anbao. Now I am afraid it has arrived in Shanyin County." Zhao Wu said.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Third War Division left Xuanfu. Every few days, a military report would be sent back to Datong Town and sent to the general town office.
Liu Heng took out an official letter from the official documents on the table, took out a seal and stamped it, then handed it to Zhao Wu and ordered: "Send this official document to the guard division stationed in Shuozhou, and order Jia Liu to lead it. The army attacked Ningwuguan."
"Yes." Zhao Wu agreed, picked up the official document and turned to leave.
In Shanyin County, an army of thirty thousand people appeared more than ten miles outside Yanmen Pass.
Wang Yuncheng sat in his tent.
In front of him was a huge sand table, with the locations of Yanmen Pass and Yanmen Suo marked on it, along with the trends of Daizhou Zhenwuwei and the surrounding mountains and rivers, all displayed on the sand table one by one.
"There are nine fortresses in the world, and Yanmen is the leader. I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight." Staff officer Lin Wenye stood on the edge of the sand table with a steaming tea vat in his hand.
Deputy Commander Zheng Yuhuai frowned and said: "The general ordered us to capture the entire Shanxi Province before the summer harvest. We don't have much time to waste here at Yanmen Pass. Why don't I take a thousand-man team tomorrow and try to fight?"
"It's difficult." Lin Wenye shook his head and said immediately, "Although there are not too many defenders in Yanmen Pass, the 1,800 people who want to take Yanmen Pass are simply wishful thinking and a waste of lives."
"Then what do you think we should do?" Yu Huai asked Lin Wenye with an unhappy look.
Yanmen Pass was the only way for them to enter Daizhou from Shanyin County. They could not avoid it at all. The people who built Yanmen Pass and the Great Wall were to blame.
Lin Wenye looked at the sand table and considered it carefully, then said: "There are not many defenders at Yanmen Pass. We can concentrate our efforts and take down Yanmen Pass in one go. As long as we get down to Yanmen Pass, Daizhou will be in our pocket."
"There are five to six hundred defenders in the city, and there are several cannons at the top of the city. If we concentrate our efforts on attacking Yanmen Pass, there will definitely be a lot of casualties. If we encounter several more difficult cities later, our Third Battle Division will I'm afraid we don't even have enough soldiers and horses to sustain the losses along the way," Yu Huai said.
Lin Wenye took a sip of water from the tea vat, walked around the sand table, and then looked at Wang Yuncheng and said: "Shi Zheng, I think we can use the heavy troops who came with us as the main force to attack Yanmen Pass. These people used to be from Datong. The border troops must be familiar with Yanmen Pass and can ensure the effectiveness of our third battle division to the maximum extent."
"No." Wang Yuncheng decided without thinking.
He also knew Lin Wenye's plan, which was simply to let these heavy troops die and use the sacrifice of these heavy troops to win the victory over Yanmen Pass.
Yu Huai looked at Lin Wenye and said: "Although the heavy soldiers who came with us were prisoners before, they are now our own. If you do this, let the general know about it, and you will definitely not get any good results from you."
"If you don't do this, what other way do you think we can capture Yanmen Pass while ensuring that the strength of the Third Battle Division will not be compromised?" Lin Wenye looked at Yu Huai.
Yu Huai said: "Even if we lose some soldiers of our Third War Division, we must not betray our comrades. I won't do such a thing anyway."
"Hello, you have a conscience, but if you can't take Yanmen Pass, it will directly affect the next war." Lin Wenye said with an ugly expression.
"Regardless of whether it will affect the next war, I will not sacrifice my comrades." Yu Huai said in a strong tone.
"Okay, stop arguing."
Wang Yuncheng interrupted the quarrel between the two people.
Yu Huai and Lin Wenye looked away and stared at each other angrily.
"Shizheng, there really isn't much time left for us. If the Personal Infantry Division captures Ningwuguan, we haven't captured Yanmen Pass yet. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold our heads up in front of the Personal Infantry Division in the future." Lin Wenye looked at Wang Yuncheng and said.
Wang Yuncheng pursed his lips hard and said, "If you wait a little longer, there will definitely be a way."
Seeing this, Lin Wenye had no choice but to return to the table beside him with the teapot and sit down.
The sand table was in front of him, and Yanmen Pass was more than ten miles away. Wang Yuncheng stared at Yanmen Pass on the sand table with his brows furrowed, thinking about ways to break the pass.
"Report!"
As the sound came, a soldier ran in from outside the tent.
The eyes of several people in the tent were attracted by the soldiers coming in.
I saw the soldiers appear at the entrance to the tent and said, "Please tell me, Master Zheng. The Foreign Intelligence Agency has sent someone here to see you, Master Zheng."
"Why did the people from the Foreign Intelligence Service suddenly come over? Could it be that something happened?" Lin Wenye looked at Wang Yuncheng with a puzzled look.
Wang Yuncheng told the soldiers who came in to report: "Bring the people here."
The soldier raised his right arm in salute, turned around and exited the tent.
Wang Yuncheng said to Lin Wenye: "If the Foreign Intelligence Bureau sends people here at this time, there must be something important. Maybe we will fall on them if we break the barrier this time."
