As soon as Xia Yuanji's words fell, Lu Zhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Fang Bin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, knelt down together and said, "The minister seconded the proposal." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"Okay, you are a minister, you are actually singing against me! Are you disgusted that I'm getting old? Lian is quite old, can he still eat? Wrong, I will tell you today that I am not Lian Po, but the king of a country! ”

Zhu Di was furious, and immediately ordered Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, to clean up the grain storage in Inner Mongolia.

Subsequently, he still felt angry, and recalled Xia Yuanji and went to prison with Wu Zhong, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Seeing that Xia Yuanji, who was once praised by Zhu Di as "my good minister" and personally assisted the emperor's grandson, was treated like this, Fang Bin, the secretary of the military department, hanged himself in fear.

Zhu Di killed the three Shangshu at once, and no one in the court dared to oppose the Northern Expedition.

In the end, Zhu Di also wanted to kill Xia Yuanji and others, but after Yang Rong's persuasion, his anger subsided a little, so he sent Xia Yuanji home, except for a small amount of money, only cloth clothes and pottery.

With an iron fist to clear out the voices of opposition, Zhu Di only waited for a reasonable reason to send troops.

On March 18, the twentieth year of Yongle, Arutai attacked and plundered the border of Xinghe again, and killed the commander of the guards.

When Zhu Di heard the report, he immediately issued an order: "Order the crown prince to supervise the country, and I will personally lead my division from Beijing to launch the third battle of Mobei." ”

On March 21, the army set out from Beijing, and on the 24th, the Ming army was stationed at Jiming Mountain.

At this time, the forward officer came to report: "The enemy who attacked Xinghe has fled, and the generals have requested a pursuit. Please give an order from the Emperor. ”

Faced with the morale of the crowd, Zhu Di thought for a while and stopped: "The escape of the thieves must have been premeditated, if we chase it, it will only make us work hard and mobilize the people, but in vain, don't worry, I have my own arrangements." ”

Zhu Di ordered the Ming army to take Kaiping, pass through Yingchang, take Arutai unprepared, and go straight to its lair.

On April 1, the Ming army arrived at Longmen, and the defenders reported that the thieves had just fled, and that more than 2,000 horses had been left behind at Ximaling, and the general Wang Li was ordered to collect them all.

On 29 April, Zhu Di held a military parade in Yunzhou.

On the twelfth, Zhu Di shot and composed three songs of "Pingyu" for the soldiers to sing to strengthen their morale.

At this time, listening to the impassioned singing of the soldiers, Zhu Di was overjoyed.

Even Zhu Di himself wondered: Oh, when did I become a master of music? Can you even compose music yourself? I am not an emperor who likes poetry and songs. ”

In fact, Zhu Di's generals were also secretly wondering: "It's strange, the emperor has always been a brave and martial artist, how can he even compose a music from Yaxing?" ”

"Yes, the battle is so tense and fierce, the emperor is in such a mood!" Forward Zhu Rong, the governor of the left, also felt that it was too strange.

"Don't you see that our emperor actually enjoys the process of this battle? The saint is really worthy of a generation of war gods. Wang Li, the general of the forward Shenji Battalion, said sincerely.

At this time, Zhu Di rode his horse and listened to the discussions of these generals and smiled indifferently.

They are only half right.

Zhu Di was able to compose music at the moment, just because he remembered someone.

At this moment, in this battlefield in the north of the desert, all that appeared in front of his eyes was the figure of Concubine Quan Xian back then, as well as the wonderful jade voice of Concubine Xian.

At this time, Zhu Di's eyes couldn't help but show those dusty pasts.

In the seventh year of Yongle, Zhu Di brought his most beloved Quan Yan'er to this desert.

His enemy was none other than Arutai.

Everything is so similar.

Along the way, Concubine Quan Xian's Yu Xiao accompanied Emperor Yongle through the mountains and rivers on the road to the Northern Expedition.

When Ming Chengzu won the first battle with Arutai, Quan Yan'er's jade voice quickly spread throughout the military camp.

"Ah, Yan'er, I finally have a chance to see you again. I came too late. ”

Closing his eyes, 63-year-old Zhu Di couldn't help but burst into tears.

Quan Yan'er's 21-year-old beautiful face was forever fixed in front of Zhu Di's eyes.

Over time, Kwon Yeona has become a painting in her heart.

At this moment, Kwon Yeon'er's voice and smile flashed in front of her eyes one by one.

The face is close, but it is not Kwon Yeona.

And it seems to be the biological mother in his memory - Concubine Shuo Niangniang.

"Ah, mother, the child has made you suffer. The arrival of the child did not give you the honor you deserved. Instead, let you suffer the 'punishment of the iron skirt', I am ashamed of you. ”

Zhu Di muttered to himself in his heart.

Mother's love is an unspeakable wound in Zhu Di's life.

The family affection that has never been obtained, as well as the concern and guilt for her biological mother Concubine Shuo, as well as the inner desire for eternal love, are all illusionized in Quan Yan'er alone.

Quan Yan'er has become Zhu Di's demon.

Therefore, if anyone stops Zhu Di from wanting to get close to Quan Yan'er, he will be like those three Shangshu, who were still Zhu Di's trusted ministers before, and they will become ghosts in the blink of an eye.

"Ah, Yan'er, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you."

Zhu Di looked at the vast sky of the desert and shouted in his heart.

In the gray sky, there are only a few sparse stars, just like Zhu Di's loneliness at the moment.

At this time, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, a generation of male lords in the eyes of outsiders, was as fragile as a child in his heart.

He called Kwon Yeona's name in his heart over and over again.

But his call was drowned in the loud military songs of the soldiers.

Listening to this earth-shattering singing, Zhu Di fell asleep contentedly.

"Ah, this is really the most satisfying dozing off of anyone in years. It's so sweet, so satisfying, so enjoyable. Ah, if only I could sleep here forever. ”

After waking up, Zhu Di thought sweetly.

Zhu Di, who had a sweet sleep, began to launch a general attack.

On the 17th, the Ming army set out from the West Pavilion and set up camp in Min'an.

In the camp of the ministers, the five armies were stationed outside the camp, and the left and right posts were built, and the left and right guards were built to protect their camps. The infantry is inside, the cavalry is outside, and the Shenji battalion is outside. There is a long wall outside the camp, which is twelve miles long on all sides, and the army is not allowed to cut wood and graze out of this range.

On the 21st, Zhu Di ordered Zhu Rong, the forward governor of the left capital, to lead 5,000 sentry cavalry forward, and the rest returned to the camp.

On the 4th of July, the troops marched to Kill Huyuan. Zhu Rong led the army to capture the thieves' subordinates.

According to them, Arutai was very frightened when he heard that the Ming army was going on an expedition, so he threw his horses and baggage in Kulenhai, and Chengzu summoned Zhu Rong and others back to the army. Asked, and sure enough, it was decided to withdraw the troops.

"Hey, Arutai, this old thief, it seems that he doesn't dare to confront me head-on. But I can't come in vain. ”

Zhu Di was a little helpless, he couldn't fight the tiger and had to fight the fly.

Zhu Di believed that "Arutai dares to rebel, and he is also a wing", and on the way to the class, he attacked the Uliangha Department attached to Arutai in five ways with 20,000 elite cavalry, annihilated hundreds of enemies, forced them to surrender, and captured 10,000 cattle and sheep.

This is Zhu Di's 320,000 army, the most significant achievement of this northern expedition. (To be continued.) )