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Chapter 838 Military Parade (Part 1)

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After the meeting, Wu Dui looked at the silence with a dark face and said, "According to this money-spending method, at most this month, the budget this year will be out. How to support it in the second half of the year?"

"It doesn't matter," Chen Silent smiled and comforted him, "Just spend money, and you won't be short of you at that time."

"It's not that I don't have confidence in you," Wu Dui didn't feel polite to the silence, and sighed: "It's just that the war is ready, and it's just like water. If a war really starts, how can the court withstand it?"

"Don't worry," Chen smiled and said, "The Ministry of War only cares about war, and paying money is the Ministry of Revenue."

"Isn't it all the money from the court?" Wu Dui smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, I am 'The emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry." Why are you thinking?" After saying that, you were about to get up and leave, but you were a little hesitant.

"What can you say between you and me?" Silent saw his words and stopped.

"I heard that Tang Ruji is going to come back to be the Minister of the Secretariat?" Wu Dui explained again: "I have no idea about this position, but this person has never led a soldier. Can he be competent?"

"His specialty lies in coordinating logistics." Chen Si said lightly: "We used to fight in China's defense, and the logistics pressure was not too great, but once we had to take the initiative and go deep into the grassland, the pressure on logistics would be terrifying." He paused: "It's no exaggeration to say that logistics will be the key to success or failure. So I would rather be called An Chuā's confidant than to let him be the Secretary of the House," he said, "You two work together, one is responsible for military production and the other is responsible for logistics supply, so I can go to the front line with confidence."

"Go to the front line?" Wu Dui said in surprise: "Is it necessary to take action in person?"

"Why don't you need it?" Chen Chen browsed with a hint of worry and said, "As the saying goes, three monks have no water to eat. We are about the same... The border army is from the Shanxi Gang, the Beijing army is from the nobles, and the visiting army comes from the southeast. None of the three families are good at it. If there is no one to suppress them, I'm afraid that before fighting with the Mongolians, I will become popular first."

"That's right..." Wu Dui nodded, suddenly remembered the recent rumors, and asked tentatively: "Is it also related to them yelling to give you a title?"

"Well..." Silent nodded, without saying anything, but it could be seen that he was in a bad mood.

The so-called "grant of title" in Wu Dui will start from now on.

This year, Altan Khan made a comeback again, perhaps in order to get rid of the weakness in recent years and re-establish the reputation of the Mongolian tribes. This time the intensity was stronger than before. He launched seven consecutive invasions against Jizhen, Xuanfu, Datong and Guyuan important towns, but all returned in vain and even suffered minor losses one after another.

The reason is that since he was silent in charge of military affairs, he has paid great attention to border affairs even in minor matters and has never been careless. He is very clear that the Ming Dynasty was the emperor who defended the country, and the northern border defense is the basis of the country's destiny, and everything can be played with. This matter must not be false.

First, he dispatched troops and generals. He transferred most of the powerful generals in the world to the Jiubian Front. In the Shaanxi area, there were Wang Chonggu and Chen Qixue, and in Wu Liu Xian, Li Xi, Jiang Yingxiong and others; in Xuanda area, there were Tan Lun and Fang Fengshi, in Wu Ma Fang, Yin Fengfeng, Zhao Ke, Ma Gui, etc., and in Ji Liao area, there were Cao Bangfu and Zhang Xueyan, in Wu Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Lu Tong, Tang Kekuan and others. They were definitely full of handsome men and stars, which was something that Yongle had never seen since.

At the same time, he also paid great attention to listening to the voices of the side commanders and generals. Shortly after he was in charge of the Ministry of War, Cao Bangfu, the governor of Ji Liao, suggested that the enemy platform should be built on the front line of Jizhen, that is, bunkers, one in each li. The soldiers stationed in the platform, who are responsible for looking at them in peacetime and can attack in wartime... Jizhen is a mén household in the capital. When the Jizhen defense line was broken, the capital was exposed. At that time, the court was learning from the pain and wanted to avoid the alarm bells ringing every year in the capital. Cao Bangfu's proposal was to strengthen the Jizhen defense line.

Although Cao Bangfu has always been unfavorable to Shen Mo, when he received his memorial, Chen Mo immediately replied: "I saw your suggestion yesterday, which is indeed a good way to "set up a dangerous and guard the need". The Ministry of War will be able to approve it immediately. But you said that an enemy station requires fifty soldiers, and then fifty thousand people will be needed for a thousand miles. I wonder if these 50,000 people will be used as the soldiers who were guarding the original, or the enemy soldiers. If the original soldiers are used, then the city's defense will have to be given to the enemy soldiers. Will it cause conflicts?" He asked: "Looking at the style of the enemy station you attached, the circumference is only 12 meters long. Although it is the style of the top-sinking, I guess the foundation is only more than twice as big as this. How can so many people deal with such a small place? Isn't it too narrow to fill the soldiers' clothes, grain, firewood, and water? If it is convenient, please give me an answer."

When Cao Bangfu gave the appropriate solution, he immediately accepted it and supervised it himself. After a year, he repaired all the enemy stations and sent troops to garrison, building a tight line of defense before the capital. This was this line of defense that blocked Altan's invasion and made the capital city not hear any warnings for the first time.

This incident also made Cao Bangfu have a new understanding of silence and no longer resist as before.

Silence pays all-round attention to border defense, and he attaches great importance to those places that ministers did not pay attention to in the past. For example, when he learned that the military rations in Yulin were asked to withdraw from soldiers one or two hundred miles away, he wrote to Wang Chonggu: "I heard that a family of soldiers with several families relied on one stone of food per month to survive. Not only was the distribution not timely, but it was not enough. At the same time, they were asked to go hundreds of miles away to wait for collection, travel back and forth, and hire people When hiring a car, who paid for the money? Besides, there have been some levies recently, all of which are spent in this grain. If you do this, you want the soldiers to eat enough and fight against the country. Can that work? I checked the classics and found that there were official warehouses in various districts in the past. I ordered people to check it out. I learned that although the warehouse is damaged, the system is still there and the officials are still there. Can you repair it and send military rations nearby? You don’t have to submit a memorial to this matter, just discuss a solution with the grain manager.’

Silence is like this. If you report to the following, you don’t simply criticize a “agree” or “disagree”, even if you learn from it, you will learn from it and study the root of it. You are as careful as an old farmer, and you will never delay it. Even if the cabinet ministers are so serious and meticulous, how dare those governors who fight him be slackened?

Of course, this is also clearly related to silent rewards and punishments. For the meritorious generals, he never stings with rewards, and always spares no effort to win favors for him. He does not care about his old grudges, promoted and appointed Cao Bangfu and Wang Chonggu, and spared no effort to improve his status for civil and military officials on the border. The punishment for officials who made mistakes is equally severe, even the governor... The Governor of Xuanda Huo Ji, faced Altan and fought, and punished him to take the initiative to fight Ma Fang, Yin Feng and others. After learning about it, he scolded him according to reason, set off, and transferred him from the front line, and Tan Lun took the lead as the Minister of War.

When talking about rewards and punishments, he told several governors more than once: "There is a kind of gloating person in the world who is jealous of others and prevents others from accomplishing success." He asked them to avoid being jealous of the virtuous and capable, work together, and do a good job in border defense.

It was with such a hard work and calm mind that the silence finally brought the generals from all walks of life to their hearts and followed his horse. He always remembered the safety of border defenses, and the defense areas naturally prepared their troops and were ready for battle, so that Altan and Tuman could not find it well.

There were both famous generals guarding and good ministers planning and dispatching. By the third year of Longqing, the Ming army had already won many defeats in the encounter between the Ming barbarians... The situation between strength and weakness was quietly changing.

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Under setbacks, Altan, who was unwilling to be disgraced, decided to concentrate his strength and implement a "key strike" in Xuanfu. According to the suggestions of his subordinate Han Xiao Qin, Altan carefully planned and ordered his son Xin Ai to lead his troops to attack Weizhou. After the Ming army was attacked, he sent jingling cavalry to take advantage of the situation to attack Xuanfu, in an attempt to replay the good show of blitzing the Xuanfu in the 42nd year of Jiajing.

However, with Tan Lun in charge, the Ming army was not deceived this time. When Altan led a heavy army to blitz to Xuanfu, he not only saw that the important town of Xuanfu was ready, but also dug trenches and defended the horses to form a defense line to curb the assault of the Mongolian cavalry. Knowing that he could not succeed, Altan immediately pulled out his horse and returned north. Ma Fang did not give up and immediately led his troops to follow and chase for 200 miles, and finally defeated Altan Khan's main force in the Changshui Sea.

Altan was reluctant to give up after suffering losses. As soon as Ma Fang was in the forefront, he immediately gathered heavy troops and rushed back to the scene with murderous aura. When Altan's army was approaching, Ma Fang's troops were still eating. When he heard the news, Ma Fang immediately threw dishes on the ground and shouted to the generals: 'Let me take the enemy's food!" He immediately led his troops to fight, and fought with the Altan's army head-on and bloody battle at Anzi Mountain. A head-on attack made Altan run away again.

After the war, Ma Fang ordered people to cook delicious food and buried the corpses of the fallen soldiers in the battle. After hearing this silently, he couldn't help but praise: "If you love soldiers like this, you will have a tiger army!"

After the Xuanfu encountered a setback, Altan turned the gun and then turned to the Datong generation to focus on the Datong generation. This time, Tan Lun made a mistake in judgment and ordered Datong General Zhao Ke to station heavy troops in Zijing Pass. Although he once repelled the enemy, Altan avoided the real and attacked the virtual. Bypassed Zijing Pass and attacked Huairen, Shanyin and other areas. In a rage, Tan Lun simply called Altan the 'right' and versus Huo' for Altan's orders to change defenses with Ma Fang, Datong General Zhao Ke, and transferred Ma Fang to Datong to prevent Altan. However, Altan continued to do so. Dodge, not only did Ma Fang stop attacking Datong, but instead turned the gun again and launched a strong attack on Xuanfu area. When Ma Fang led his army to help, Altan's troops immediately fled north... This is not that Zhao Ke is much worse than Ma Fang, but that Ma Fang has fought with Altan for many battles, and has won many great victories, and has already made a great reputation. When he heard that Prince Ma was coming, the arrogant Mongolian cavalry immediately became short of breath, and just wanted to apply oil to the soles of his feet and was unwilling to face him. The other generals did not have this deterrent power.

Facing Altan's tactic of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and he will advance and retreat, Ma Fang decided to take the initiative and must make a big fuss!

Just this month, the Jinyiwei discovered that Altan was stationed in Haizi, Xianning. Ma Fang immediately recruited Yin Feng and concentrated all the main forces to attack. Before the battle, Ma Fang ordered the three armies to abandon the baggage and supplies, each of them only brought food for three days to show their desire to fight to the death. On June 7, the entire army set out, and the "people were silent, and horses were holding a piece of horses" quietly marched quickly. When he arrived at the periphery of Haizi, Xianning on the eighth day, Altan, who was ambitious to plan a new round of southern invasion, was unaware of it. In the early morning of the ninth day, Ma Fang launched a general attack and first attacked with firearms. Ma Fang's jing family troops attacked from both wings of the enemy camp. Ma Fang led the main force to attack head-on. Yin Feng led the army to intercept Altan on the way to escape. Altan, who was caught off guard, was attacked again and was surrounded by Ma Fang's army and galloped. The Altan army had no choice but to abandon the camp in a hurry, and the people who died were trampled and killed.

After a night of bloody battle, Altan finally fled without support. The Ming army chased closely and chased westward from Haizi, Xianning for dozens of miles. In this battle, Altan's troops suffered heavy casualties. There were more than a dozen tribal leaders captured, and countless horses and baggage were seized. This was another great victory after the Battle of Wanquan Right Guard. After reading the battle report, Tan Lun, who was in the rear, read the battle report and said happily on the spot: "There is nothing to do for the time being!"

The good news came to the capital, and the whole country celebrated. The emperor went to the Taimiao to pay homage to his ancestors and rewarded the generals. Ma Fang was promoted to the first-rank Taibao, the Grand Commander, Tan Lun, and Yin Feng also received the Prince Taibao. The other generals and soldiers were rewarded with great rewards and were very happy.

Just as the rewards were heard, the left deputy chief censor Zou Yinglong proposed that the second assistant in charge of military affairs, who worked hard and made great contributions. In addition, the victory of Wanquan Right Guard that year was also obtained under his command, and he asked to be awarded a title for him. As soon as this was heard, many officials agreed and flew to the imperial front like a snowflake for him.

Emperor Longqing was already in a state of excitement, and he felt that Gao Gongchā team was the chief assistant, which really made Master Chen feel wronged and wanted to compensate him for it. After taking advantage of the excitement, he issued an order to ask the Ministry of Rites to draft a title number and report it.

When the news came out, he was silent. Shen Mingchen scolded: 'This is simply a scam...'

Although there is no explicit regulation, it is already a consensus that those who receive titles cannot serve as the chief minister of the cabinet. However, silence cannot be refused, otherwise they will be regarded as ambitious people and will suddenly fall into a dilemma.

After analyzing the causes and consequences, Wang Yin told Chen Mo with certainty that I felt that you had fallen into a conspiracy, but I just didn't know who was planning.

Silent smiled bitterly and said, "The familiar taste is absolutely no semicolon except my good teacher." He said, "I have been waiting for his revenge. Now the boots have finally landed. Although I feel at ease, it is really difficult to deal with."

It turned out that Xu Jie had known what his weakness was... As a cabinet minister, silent but holding the military power of the Ming Dynasty was a sin in itself.

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