While dispatching troops along Hutchison, Datong and Xuanfu towns were also nervous.

It’s okay for Datong, but Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, was extremely nervous.

His relationship with Hutchison is more ordinary, not like Datong, and there is a deep tangle, let alone the fact that towns such as Shanxi and Yulin and Gansu have been penetrated by Hutchison.

There are many big merchants and gentry in Zhangjiakou. Xuanfu Town did not take Zhang Han and his Hutchison too seriously at the beginning. In many things, Xuanfu has had friction with Hutchison.

Later, under the silver bullet attack of Hutchison, the generals of Xuanfu fell one after another. By the time Yang Guozhu was transferred to the office, Hutchison had reached a difficult situation.

But Yang Guozhu never expected that such a thing would happen during his post.

For many consecutive days, border military forts have reported large-scale marching of soldiers on the grassland. No one clearly stated that it was the Hutchison Shang army, but everyone was not fool. Everyone knew that it must be the merchant army marching on the grassland. In this border military town, there was no longer the power of the Mongolians on the opposite side.

After continuous reports, Yang Guozhu fell into a dilemma.

Logically speaking, it should be reported to the governor of Xuanfu, and the governor should report to the governor of Xuanda. Then the governor of Xuanda ordered the martial law of the Xuanfu, and the seal was submitted to the court, and the court decided whether the entire nine borders would be martial law.

This is the process in the previous records of the Northern Barbarians' attacks on the border.

However, the border generals reported it mostly because they were not clear, only saying that a large number of cavalry passed by, and did not explicitly say whether they were hostile or did not take any measures to offend the border.

Such a large-scale move will not only easily cause panic among the people, but will also cause the court to be quite embarrassed.

There were large strands of grass growing under the horse's hooves. The war horses were blowing their noses and lowered their heads to chew the fresh and tender green grass. In the winter, these big animals were tired of eating the hay bunches, and they couldn't help but eat them.

Even if the riders kept lifting the reins up, the big animals kept lowering their necks and gnawing on the green grass on the ground. After a while, all the knights felt that there was no need to curb the desire of war horses, so they let go of the reins and let the war horses walk around and eat at will.

This is outside the Great Wall, behind more than a hundred knights is the endless Great Wall.

There is a section of the Great Wall defense line in Gansu and Yulin sections that are empty. The natural danger of the Yellow River and the built military fort enemy stations replaced the role of the subway.

When we arrived between Xuanfu and Jizhen, there was no gap of half a mile in the Great Wall. We winded east along the plains, hills, and the steep Yanshan Mountains, and went straight to the throat mountain in western Liaoning. The gate and the Great Wall were built between the mountains and the sea. This was a very spectacular project. If we included the walls in Liaodong, the entire defense system project would be vast beyond ordinary people's imagination.

The knights who left the Great Wall naturally felt a little nervous. Fortunately, behind them was the continuous Great Wall, and there was a military fort worth more than three miles long not far from the side wall. Once there were policemen, they could enter the mouth and hide in the fort for a while, which made the cavalry feel more at ease.

But the feeling of being threatened is still very big, so big that their hair is causing them to stand upside down.

"It's coming again." A guard touched the beard on his face and said with a wry smile: "Huaji is really a training for Shangtuantuan? Why do I feel much better than any town in Jiubian?"

"I'm afraid I really have to gather the power of the nine sides to compete with it." An officer on the side of the garrison agreed and said: "There have been at least 30,000 combat soldiers and chariots. The baggage soldiers also have cotton armor and muskets. In terms of armor and equipment, they are almost the same as our Need."

The guard lowered his voice and whispered: "I heard that there are more than 100,000 soldiers like Hutchison, and more than 100,000 have recently passed through the border outside Xuanfu."

"Can it be a rumor?"

"No," said the guard: "I sent people to hide outside and watch every day. There are at least 100,000 people, all of which are war soldiers and elite baggage soldiers."

"What kind of baggage soldiers? I want me to say that baggage soldiers are our elite troops in the main camp, and the war soldiers are our Need."

"Didn't you say that Zhang Han has 100,000 Needs?"

Several officers were frightened by this conclusion and didn't say anything for a long time.

The garrison's eyes drifted forward, and there was a hilly landform there. Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu Town, rode his beloved big green horse and stood on a high place, looking into the distance.

A group of confidant officers and needs surrounded the generals, and were also whispering in a turmoil.

Recently, there has been almost no other major event in Xuanfu. All the officers are watching the movements of their own defense line before. When they meet every day, they ask: "Have you ever been in the army?"

Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and even Ji Town have been almost in full swing recently.

The strange thing is that no general reported it. At most, in order to shirk responsibility, the garrisons on the border reported that there were large groups of unknown troops on the grassland, and there was no sign of attacking the border, so they did not call the police.

Of course, the generals of each town knew this report very well, but no one came out to do anything, and asked for a detailed inspection before giving back.

Each of them guarded the road and the road. The patrols and governors of each town also maintained a wise silence in this matter.

Yang Guozhu and Hutchison couldn't argue much, and the main contradiction also stemmed from the power struggle.

Hutchison has been infiltrating the Xuanfu and controlling a lot of generals. This is of course a potential threat to Yang Guozhu. Hutchison also has energy in the court. Yang Guozhu is worried that Hutchison will try to drive him away and change to a closer general to the throne.

This has been recorded in Datong and Shanxi, and Hutchison managed to replace it with his favorite general.

"We won't worry about the Grand Marshal." The garrison who spoke was also one of the generals who received money on time every year. He smiled, looked at Yang Guozhu not far away, and whispered: "The Grand Marshal is afraid that he knows that his previous worries were wrong."

No one spoke, but his emotions were immersed in a pure shock.

As a warrior, how can you not be excited by the situation in front of you?

A large number of cavalry passed by like clouds, thousands of cavalry lined up in columns, and the cavalry lined up in four people seemed to come from the distant skyline and then lead to the distant skyline.

There is no end at all, no end, and no place to come.

All of them are wearing silver breastplates or bright silver scales, or quite obvious armor.

Holding a musket or a spear in your hand, or putting these weapons in the pocket on the oblique edge of a war horse, there is usually a sabre around your waist, which is a bit like a lancet, but it is narrower than a lancet, and the handle is wider and thicker.

Just by observing far away, it can be seen that these cavalry are all thick and strong armor, and their weapons are made of fine iron and are extremely sharp. The manufacturing work of muskets is definitely a hundred times better than those of the unscrupulous work department.

What a terrible army this is. At least a few thousand warriors ride by horses every day, and the formation is neatly arranged, and silently besides the sound of horse hooves.

There were only two colors of withered yellow and fresh green on the grassland that could not be seen, but at this moment it was filled with various colors.

Red flags, various war horses, silver armor, cold weapons, gray or red cloaks fluttered behind the cavalry.

A large convoy follows the cavalry, or there are cavalry mixed in the convoy.

There are at least a thousand four-wheeled trucks passing through the border every day. Everyone knows that this kind of truck is quite expensive, much more expensive than the traditional mule trucks in the Ming Dynasty.

A mule cart costs dozens of taels of silver. Everyone knows what these big carts represent.

After watching the military service for a few days, the generals of Xuanfu had a new understanding of Hutchison's strength.

Weapons, armor, and what these armored guards represent are very clear.

There are also a large number of muskets and baggage auxiliary personnel, and of course thousands of large cars.

These products, organizational capabilities and logistics capabilities representing Hutchison are not inferior to those of the Ming Dynasty. One is a huge empire and the other is just a company formed by merchants. The difference between the two should have been tens of thousands of miles. But from the current reality, Hutchison's company's armed forces and the overall strength of its representatives are not inferior to those of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Wanli period, the Nine Borders of the Ming Dynasty verified the military strength and the stock of war horses, with the troops being about 890,000 and about 100,000 war horses. This is a very strong military force, and many Central Plains dynasties could not master such a large number of armed forces in the end of the world.

The Han and Tang dynasties were independent, with only large and small separatist armies. The Song Dynasty's military equipment directly under the Imperial Army was not as large as the Ming Jing camp and the Nine Borders.

By the sixth year of the Apocalypse, after many wars, the Nine Bands had lost and supplemented more than 700,000 people, and the number of war horses was not low.

But the combat power of the Nine Borders does not come from these ordinary battalions, but from the Need of each general.

If all Need Dings were gathered together, the number of people should be around 50,000 or 60,000. With Need Ding as the core and some battalions that can fight, the effective armed forces of the Ming Dynasty were around 300,000.

The remaining hundreds of thousands are purely empty amounts in the account book, or cannon fodder that is only worthy of death.

From the sixth year of Tianqi to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, many recruitment of troops and losses from the war have proved that the number of elite troops who maintained the front line on the two major battlefields was between 200,000 and 300,000.

For example, the 140,000 reinforcements gathered during the Battle of Songjin and the stamina guarding Shanhaiguan, plus the troops in Jinzhou, should be more than 200,000.

In the Central Plains, there are also elite troops such as Sun Chuanting's troops who are pursuing the peasant army, and there are less than 100,000 people.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to maintain these troops and at the same time maintain the military expenditure of these troops. During the Tianqi period, there was no large-scale peasant uprising, and it was not difficult to maintain the front line against the Jurchens. It was difficult to sustain in the Chongzhen period. The entire northern defense line was sieve by Huang Taiji. Five invasions were like entering a no-man's land, plundering millions of people, dozens of prefectures and counties were completely destroyed, and more than tens of millions of people were displaced, further increasing the strength of the peasant army.

The troops shown in Hutchison in front of him are no exaggeration to say that they are already the strength of the entire Jiubian, and they are easily dispatched together. This kind of strength is difficult for any town on the Jiubian to resist. They can only gather the strength of the towns and the defense of the military fortress city, and can barely fight the Shang regiment army.
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