Daming Zhu Di: Father, why aren't you dead? !

Chapter 64 Wang Zhen: In terms of military strength, I have the advantage (please read on!)

The Tumu Fort is located on the inner side of the line from Juyongguan to Datong Great Wall.

It is part of the defense system of the Great Wall, and together with Yulin Fort and Jiming Fort, it is called the Three Great Forts in the north of Beijing.

The entire fortress is laid out in the shape of a ship, about 150 feet wide from north to south, and [-] feet long from east to west.

However, since Yongle, most of the energy of the Renxuan sects has been concentrated on people's livelihood and internal affairs.

Throughout the ten years of Hongxi and Xuande, they never mobilized troops against Mongolia, basically relying on tribute to maintain stability.

As a result, the imperial court naturally did not take into account these border defense stations that Taizu Taizong was most proud of. Under the border defense generals' wanton annexation of land, in the Zhengtong period, there were not even one guard in ten.

The so-called Weisuobing refers to the military station. Soldiers enroll in the army, [-]% of the land is cultivated, and [-]% of the training. To put it bluntly, you are given a piece of land, and you can grow the land to support yourself, and you are completely responsible for your own profits and losses.

Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang once said very proudly that he raised millions of troops without spending a grain of rice on the people.

If Lao Zhu's ideas were strictly implemented, this result would naturally be achieved. For example, during the Yongle period, the guards maintained a very strong combat power.

But in the Xuande period.

I would rather be a bandit than a guard.

Even if the clear law stipulates that military households fleeing, they will be counted as deserters, and they will be sentenced to death, their sons will be castrated, and their wives and daughters will be confiscated, but they still can't stop the speed of guard soldiers fleeing. The number of fleeing guard soldiers nationwide has reached an astonishing 60!

According to the "Ming Xuanzong Records", in November of the eighth year of Xuande, Zhang Cong, the inspector of Shandong Province, went to Liaodong to inspect, and found that the garrison force in Shanhaiguan was only five or six people.

Do you believe it?
Shanhaiguan is such an important strategic place, and the defenders are in single digits!
But it's no wonder that these guard soldiers are so hard-working.

The land is gone, and they have to carry heavy corvees to do white labor for the border generals. If there is a war outside the customs, they have to raise their own rations and go out to fight.

In the end, the land was gone, and taxes had to be paid!
My land is gone, how about chicken feathers? !
And this military household stipulates that it will be passed down from generation to generation. It can be said that there is no hope for the eighteen generations to come.

With a heartbeat, I stomped my feet.

GNMLGB, run it.

The wind raises the dust.

The civil fort covering an area of ​​[-] acres and the dilapidated building houses should have hundreds of military households here according to regulations, but now there are only a dozen or so scattered soldiers who come back and forth from time to time.

Most of these sergeants were wrapped in leather cloth, and the iron objects such as armor had long since disappeared, and they were probably exchanged for money and taxes.

All of them look like Spartans.

At this time, the eyes of these Spartans were all focused on one person.

After all, a man wearing a different kind of clothes made of noble silk, and wearing a pair of glowing things on his face, is extremely conspicuous in this desolate land of the civil castle.

Ji Boying didn't care about the astonished gazes of the Spartans, and stood alone on the highest beacon tower in the civil castle.

From here, he looked around the Tumu Fort and did some on-the-spot investigation. Ji Boying finally understood why the battle of Tumu Fort was so miserable.

Damn, this place is just a big graveyard.

Camping in the Tumu Fort is equivalent to leading people to the cemetery, which is the first time in the ages.

The terrain of Tumubao is extremely high, with cliffs to the north, Yongding River ten miles to the south, the retreating direction of Baozong's Chinese army to the west, and the Pseudoshui River not far to the east.

The entire process of the Tumu Fort's defeat is also very simple.

When Bao Zong's army rushed to Tumubao, they had to continue marching quickly and enter Huailai City, which is only about [-] miles away. If there is a city defending it, and then order the surrounding troops to serve the king, the army will be safe and sound.

After all, Wala also only asked for money in this wave, and did not think about severely injuring Daming.

However, Wang Zhen, the dead eunuch, persuaded Baozong to order the whole army to camp in the civil fort and wait for the supply vehicles to catch up, in the name of more than 1000 military supply vehicles that did not keep up.

Kuang Ye, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, learned that Wang Zhen set aside the lives of the emperor and 10,000+ Ming soldiers for private property. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot. He went directly to see Baozong, hoping that Baozong would take the lead in entering the pass with a small number of elites. He led the main force to stay and wait for the luggage.

But a miraculous thing happened again. Baozong rejected the proposal of Kuang Ye, Minister of War without hesitation, and said that he would stay with Wang Zhen and wait for the luggage to arrive.

Regarding the use of soldiers, why don't you trust the head of the Ministry of War, and believe a dead eunuch? !
Why the hell don't you let Wang Zhen become Minister of the Ministry of War?

As the old saying goes, if you don't die, you won't die. God of War is a typical die.

Ji Boying briefly recalled the process of the Tumubao change.

Afterwards, his eyes fixed on a small courtyard that was considered to be the best preserved in the civil castle.

If nothing unexpected happens, this small courtyard will become Bao Zong's temporary residence.

The sunglasses flickered slightly, and a string of code-like silver data flashed by. These are the coordinates of this small courtyard.

With the coordinates of time and space, Ji Boying can bring all the emperors down with precision, instead of constantly narrowing down the range to locate them like he himself does.

'Wang Zhen. '

Looking at this barren and sandy land, and thinking that in ten other time and space, this place is the burial place of tens of thousands of heroic souls, all of which are caused by a dead eunuch and a God of War mentally retarded, Ji Boying was furious from the heart.

If I remember correctly, Zhu Qizhen at this meeting is on his way to Tumubao.

Whoo~!

The wind and sand passed by.

All of a sudden, there was amazement in the Tumu Fortress. Those Spartans who had been watching Ji Boying all the time almost forgot to lift their pants after draining the water.

'People, people gone? ! '

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Half a day's journey away from the Tumu Fort, there are a series of sergeants resting.

This is the army of the Great Ming God of War.

In the temporarily arranged tent of the Son of Heaven, a handsome and heroic young man, dressed in a golden battle armor, sat on the head of the big tent, with delicious wines on the table in front of him.

On the left side of the big tent, sat a middle-aged man with a fake beard, who exudes a scholarly air. It seems that this Mr. Wang, even though he has great power, still does not let go of the book.

"Mr. Wang, do you think Zhu Yong can win?"

Zhu Qizhen, the war god of the first generation, frowned in a rare way, after all, the first two battles were too ugly to lose.

Mr. Wang laughed.

"Your Majesty, Duke Cheng led [-] battalions of [-] iron cavalry to the rescue, and Nawala's men were all fighting and chasing only [-] people. I have the advantage!"

"Two to one, our army will definitely win!"

In this Mr. Wang's opinion, there are more people than people in war. Can two people win against one? !

"With Mr.'s words, I am relieved."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, then glanced at Wang Zhen, and suddenly smiled.

"Mr. Wang, you've got the book upside down."

(End of this chapter)