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Volume Four, Chapter 56, Surprise

Jiajing really didn't expect that the Tartars came to attack Jizhou Town, which not only brought him surprise, but also joy.

The first one that made him overjoyed was naturally Qiu Luan, the Hou of Xianning. He had just issued the edict for one day, and Qiu Luan's memorial arrived. On the fourth day, the 40,000 elite troops led by Qiu Luan actually arrived in Tongzhou City!

The second one to surprise him was Yang Cong, the governor of Zhejiang Zhi. Qiu Luan had just led his army to Tongzhou for two days, and the Tatars had not launched an attack, and Yang Cong's memorial had also arrived.

Yang Cong didn't say anything else, just said that he was organizing elite troops to train near Jinling City, preparing to wipe out the Japanese pirates with all his might. The Tartars actually tried to attack Jizhou Town and threatened the capital. Naturally, he let go of everything and led his army to the capital as soon as possible to serve the king.

By chance, what he said in the memorial was that he led his army to arrive within three days.

Of course, the three days he mentioned are not the same as the three days Qiu Luan said.

Because Xuanfu Town is only a few hundred miles away from the capital, and eight hundred miles are urgently sent to the city, it will arrive in one day. Qiu Luan will lead his army to set off the next day and arrive near the capital on the fourth day.

Jinling is more than 2,000 miles away from the capital, and it takes about three days to reach Jinling for urgent transmission for 800 miles. No matter how fast Yang Cong is, he will have to lead his army on the fourth day and arrive at the capital on the sixth day.

However, even so, it was enough to surprise Jiajing.

Jinling City, Nanzhili, is so far away from the capital, Yang Cong was able to lead his army to serve the king in about six days. This speed is simply incredible. If he hadn't been on the Fire Dragon Car, he would have thought that Yang Cong was talking nonsense.

At this moment, the railway from Jinling City to Beijing had already been completed, but the Japanese pirates in the southeast kept causing trouble, so he did not go to Jinling to worship his ancestors. Unexpectedly, the railway could still give him such surprises after it was repaired.

On the sixth day, just after Yang Cong's memorial was sent back to the capital, Yang Cong indeed led an army of 40,000 to take the Fire Dragon Car to Yuyuantan Station west of the capital.

In this way, the 40,000 elite border troops led by Qiu Luan in the east were stationed in Tongzhou, and the 40,000 elite troops led by Yang Cong in the west were stationed in Yuyuantan. Eighty thousand troops had already gathered near the capital city, and the Jingying Tunwei had also quickly gathered towards the capital city. At this moment, nearly 50,000 troops had been gathered, and the entire capital area had already gathered 130,000 troops. Even if the Tatars broke through Jizhou Town, the capital city would not be at all dangerous.

You should know that the walls of the capital are more than three meters high. If the moat outside is added, let alone the Tartar cavalry who are not good at siegeing the city, even infantry with rich experience in siege, if they want to capture such a powerful city with a huge number in the world, they will have to invest at least ten times the strength.

Did the Tartars have hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops?

Obviously, no, the Tartars had to survive to death by only more than 100,000 troops. It would be almost impossible to capture the capital city where 50,000 troops were stationed. If the 80,000 troops were added to the east and west sides of the capital, if the main force of the Tartars really attacked the city regardless of everything, it would be possible that the entire army would be wiped out.

So, at this moment, Jiajing was not worried that the Tartars would come to attack the capital. He was even complacent, thinking that he was wise and martial, and he used people like a god. Qiu Luan from the northwest and Yang Cong from the southeast were all appointed by him. With these two people here, the Tartars might have to fight!

I have to say that he was a little overthinking.

He is just an ordinary emperor and has nothing outstanding. If he insists on finding out his advantages, he has only one advantage, that is, his luck!

His luck is really great. No matter how he is messing around, someone always comes out to wipe his butt.

For example, when he succeeded to the throne, he cleaned up the capable officials and officials who were left by Zhengde Dynasty due to a dispute over great rituals. If a treacherous minister like Yan Song came at this time, then he might have done his best. However, Zhang Cong, Xia Yan and others who came up behind were all clear-headed. Although they had all kinds of problems in life, they were very attentive in their work. In a confused manner, they almost even had the Jiajing Zhongxing.

For example, after reaching middle age, others became addicted to cultivation and believed in treacherous ministers like Yan Song, which made the whole court chaotic and demons danced. If Yan Song cultivated a successor and continued the corruption power, the Ming Dynasty might have been over. But behind him, a series of famous civil and military officials and generals such as Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng, Hu Zongxian, Yu Dayou, and Qi Jiguang appeared, and wiped his butts clean and allowed him to have a good end.

Like now, he was obviously caught in Qiu Luan's trap. He was about to be humiliated by Altan's sweat, but Yang Cong ran over and wiped his butt.

I have to say that his luck is sometimes a bit out of heaven.

This theory of luck is illusory, so I won’t go into it in depth. By the way, isn’t Altan Khan going to break through Jizhou Town and robbery? At this moment, both troops of the king-supporting troops from the Ming Dynasty have arrived. Why is there no movement at all? Did he dare not come after receiving the news?

It’s not that he didn’t dare to come, but that he didn’t have time.

Datong Town is also seven or eight hundred miles away from the old nest of the Urianha tribe. Although his subordinates are mainly cavalry, there are also 50,000 infantrymen, and there are 200,000 stones of grain and 50,000 taels of silver that Qiu Luan gave him. He had to go to the Urianha tribe to make a walk, settle the infantry, and guard the food and silver.

He led his army to the Urianha tribe, and seven or eight days passed. When he turned around, he was ready to attack Jizhou Town, which was really shocked.

The spy came to report that Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, actually led the northwest army to Tongzhou City. At this time, he was repairing the city walls there and preparing to roll stones and wood. It seemed that he was trying to defend Tongzhou City to the death.

Damn it, Qiu Luan, you are looking for death!

At this time, if he doesn't know that he is fooled by others, he will be an idiot.

Qiu Luan obviously lured him to come to the capital of Daming to rob him, and then pretended to lead his army to serve the king, defend Tongzhou, ensure that the capital was safe and won unparalleled achievements.

If this guy really blocks his army north of Tongzhou, then he will be foolishly coming to give merits to others.

This guy is really sinister and cunning, and shameless.

However, Altan Khan had no choice but to do anything. His subordinates were cavalry and they didn't have to attack cities and villages, advance layer by layer, regardless of whether they were careless or rushing around everywhere.

So what about Tongzhou's road leading to the capital with Jizhou Town tightly? From Jizhou Town to the capital, it is not just Tongzhou. He can go around from other places and doesn't have to worry about the northwest border soldiers stationed in Tongzhou.

Anyway, he had already planned to do so, and only led 100,000 cavalry to rob. The cavalry came and went like the wind, and they were not afraid of being cut off the back of the road. If Qiu Luan dared to run out of Tongzhou City to cut off his back, that would be better.

He kept it and told the turtle to take care of it!

Of course, he didn't know that the army of kings led by Yang Cong also arrived, because the scouts he sent could detect at most Tongzhou City, and further south, the scouts could not get through.
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