Zhao Xing went to Yanqing again, looked at Li Zhuzi's army status, and had a rough understanding. It was assured that Wang Dazhuang said.

After completing the matter of Lu Xiangsheng's request, he comforted the brothers. Zhao Xing thought that he had already come out anyway, so he might as well go to Yulin and take a look at Wang Jinzhong.

Wang Jinzhong is a person who is responsible and follows the rules. He will not show up with Lu Xiangsheng's qualifications. But it is still necessary to go to his side to see it.

Because Lu Xiangsheng was going to deal with the bandits, the mobile corps in the north only had 40,000 troops in Wang Jinzhong's hands, and 10,000 in Wang Dazhuang's hands.

In this way, Wang Jinzhong will shoulder the task of defending the entire long northern defense line, and the burden on his shoulders will be very heavy. It is necessary for him to go there and have a good talk with him.

Before leaving, Li Zhuzi was worried that his brother would be safe. Now there were no bandits nearby, but the Mongols occasionally sneaked across the Great Wall and came to the Central Plains to harass him. With the 600 tikas around Zhao Xing, it was still worrying about safety.

Unable to resist his brother's kindness, Zhao Xing accepted the thousand brothers sent by Li Zhuzi to him as a companion.

Looking at these soldiers, they were really strong and full of radiance.

Zhao Xing was relieved: "This is the real soldier."

Then, with these men and horses, we walked west along the interior of the Great Wall. Zhao Xing decided to take a look at the defense of the Great Wall.

It is already mid-June, and the weather is as hot as fire, so the army can only slow down its pace to avoid overwork.

So everyone walked around and stopped. On this day, the team arrived at Longmenchuan, and walked not farther forward, and arrived at a garrison, Longmen Station.

The original Longmen Station was stationed in a garrison, with one thousand soldiers in name.

But since the reorganization of the army, the so-called number of troops has decreased, but they are all truly elite. Therefore, the Dushi Fort, Songshu Fort and Red Castle along the Great Wall have all been placed under his jurisdiction.

In this way, only five hundred troops were left in the Longmen Station, and thousands of Zhu Gang were stationed in charge.

Zhao Xing and his party entered the Longmen Station. Zhu Gang personally welcomed him. After meeting Zhao Xing, he introduced the situation of several castles under his jurisdiction to Zhao Xing in detail.

"The three forts under my jurisdiction, on average, each of which has a full 100 soldiers. Because Shimen Fortress is the most prominent, 300 soldiers were stationed there. Then I was in charge of here, and where there was an enemy situation, I would take the main force to rescue him."

"What if the enemy attacks those forts, can they block the enemy?"

Zhu Gang smiled and said, "There is no problem for a small group of Mongolians to harass them. But if a large group of Mongolians really attack, the number of people is absolutely not enough with this. They will play a warning role. Then we will ask Yanqing and Xuanda for help."

Zhao Xing nodded. "I will stay with you for one night today, and I will go to Chi Castle to inspect tomorrow."

Zhu Gang was a little hesitant: "The Red Castle is in the curved protrusion of the Great Wall, which is equivalent to being attacked on three sides. If the enemy brigade comes to attack while the lord is patrolling, the lord will be in danger. It would be better not to go there."

Zhao Xing smiled indifferently: "Now Huang Taiji is being beaten up by us. According to our Jinyiwei information, they had recruited the Eight Mongolian Banners to Liaodong to participate in the war not long ago. Where can they draw strength and launch an attack on our north? Don't worry, it will be quite safe there."

Then I looked at Zhu Gang who was still worried: "There is no problem. The 1,600 soldiers who followed me are not vegetarians. As you think, I can't beat them, and I can't run away from them?"

Zhu Gang poked his hand in a dilemma, but he couldn't stop it, so he finally said, "Please allow me to take 100 brothers and follow the adults."

Zhao Xing believed that it was necessary, not for his own safety, but for his introduction to the surrounding situation along the way.

Achieve city developed along Longmen River, with mountains all over the east and west, and only this valley is an alluvial plain, and Achie Castle is built on this plain.

During the Taiping period, the surrounding output could supply this small castle, but unfortunately, as long as it was in the war era, its position would be quite unfavorable.

The Red Castle is not big, and Zhao Xing's 1,800 people stuffed it into it.

It was really cramped here. I only had a night of rest to replenish food and supplies, and then the team continued to go north. Zhao Xing stubbornly wanted to travel all the forts of the Great Wall.

The team was walking in Longmenchuan. Just when the afternoon break, a young general who accompanied Zhao Xing accidentally looked north. As a result, he opened his mouth wide in surprise, and even the cake in his hand fell to the ground unknowingly.

Facing his expression, Zhao Xing couldn't help but look north.

As a result, he was shocked by this look.

Because just under the northern horizon, in the direction of the Great Wall, a wave of wolf smoke rose into the sky very strikingly.

Zhu Gang, who was following closely behind, immediately stood up alertly, reached out and grabbed Zhao Xing: "Sir, the Great Wall is warning, if there is an enemy attack, hurry up and retreat to Yanqing with me."

Faced with the slight riot in the team, Zhao Xing shook his head calmly: "I came here this time, and I really didn't expect to encounter a war. A wolf smoke broke out in the north, which means that Shimen Fort was attacked by the enemy. From the whole situation, Huang Taiji couldn't take care of himself and took off the Mongolian Eight Banners army to Liaodong. There were not many enemies attacking Shimen. It happened that there were 1,800 soldiers here, so we just went over and reinforced Shimen and defeated the enemy."

Zhao Xing's judgment is correct, and he should be in control of the overall situation in his mind.

In addition, in the past two years, there have been constant smoke on the border, but they are all harassment by small groups and there are no big battles. Therefore, Zhao Xing believes that this is just like the past, just a small group of Mongolians who harass the border town.

Zhu Gang did not dare to be careless about the calmness of the second emperor and quickly stopped it: "Although lord has mastered the overall situation, the changes in the enemy situation are unpredictable, especially if you are concerned about the safety of many major events in the entire Ming Dynasty court, you must not have any mistakes, so I will think you should go back."

Seeing that Zhao Xing had to persist, Zhu Gang had to volunteer: "Sir, I am really worried about what happened before, so please leave me the thousand border troops you brought, and I will take them to rescue the stone gate."

While the two were arguing, the wolf smoke in the direction of the stone gate suddenly went out.

There are two possibilities for the extinction of wolf smoke. One is that the stone gate is occupied by the enemy, but the other is that the enemy retreats.

Zhao Xing tends to be the one behind, and this kind of judgment is based on his thoughts.

"The wolf smoke has been extinguished, that means the enemy has retreated."

"But what if the stone gate falls?" Zhu Gang thought in the wrong direction.

"Even if the stone gate falls, we should face the enemy, block them, and buy time for subsequent reinforcements."

Zhu Gang really scratched his head. Why is this adult so stubborn?

However, just as the two were arguing, suddenly there was a rolling thunder coming from afar. Zhao Xing immediately judged from his years of experience: "No, the cavalry of the brigade is approaching us."

Hearing this, the commander of the Tiqi cavalry, Wang Like immediately stood up and shouted loudly: "Form formation to prepare for war, form formation to prepare for war, protect the adults, protect the adults."

Just as all the soldiers were preparing for the war in a hurry, a dark enemy rushed over just north of Longmenchuan.

What really surprised Zhao Xing was that the enemy who rushed over was the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!