Among the Northern Expedition team, there are two people who are very entangled, one is Duoyanwei Proton Boge, and the other is Tainingwei Proton Child.

These two people are quite safe in Beijing, they don't like to study, and they can't ride horses to practice martial arts, so they ran to watch the football league in the sky, and now they have become two die-hard fans of different races.

"What are your Majesty's plans?" Put it as a child.

"How do I know?" ”

The boy sighed and said, "My father is so confused, how can he marry the Khalkha Mongols?" This is an excuse for Daming to send troops! ”

Boge sighed: "At least your father is still alive, but my father died suddenly. ”

The two were purely unlucky, and they both fell into an embarrassing situation.

Boge's father, Hua Dang, died of illness three months ago, and the news of his death has reached the capital. Zhu Houzhao immediately decided to send troops in advance, the reason was to quell the rebellion of Duoyanwei, because Boge's younger brother was the self-proclaimed governor and did not pay attention to Boge, who was a proton in Beijing.

As for Tainingwei, it was beaten by the Khalkha Mongols and kept moving south. In order to survive the tribe, the governor of Taining married his daughter to Archu's only son, Hu Lahachi. Taining Wei proton treated him as a child, and suddenly became Dayan Khan's grandson-in-law.

Not to mention the apprehension of the two protons, in August of the twentieth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao divided his troops into two northern expeditions.

Zhu Houzhao led an army of 50,000 himself, including the Beijing army, Jizhen, and Liaodong troops, and went out of Xifengkou to take Kuanhe (Kuancheng County, Hebei).

Wang Yuan, the governor of Jizhen and the Governor of Jizhen, commanded 13,000 troops, including the troops of Jizhen and Xuanfu, and went out of Gubeikou to conquer Xiaoxingzhou (southwest of Chengde).

Ma Yong, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, was almost implicated in Lu Wan's case and lost his official position because he was promoted by Lu Wan. Wang Yuan took action to protect it at that time, and Ma Yong did not live up to the trust, and he has been training troops in the past few years, not only trying to restore the actual number of soldiers, but also the quality of soldiers can rank in the top three in the Ming Dynasty.

In mid-September, the 50,000-strong army Chen Bing was under the city of Kuanhe, and the Son of Heaven was fluttering in the wind.

A leopard Mongolian warrior came to the outside of the city to persuade him to surrender: "The rebel Aza, who killed his father and usurped the throne, blocked his brother, and set up his own governor." Today, the son of tomorrow is personally conscripted, and the second son of the old capital Governor Hua is also here, so why don't you hurry up and surrender the city? ”

If you want to add sin, there is no excuse.

Duoyan is the governor of Huadang, but he died of illness, where did he come from to kill his father and usurp the throne?

However, Huadang's eldest son is dead, and the second son Boge should take the throne, and the third son, Azamuri, did steal his brother's position.

Zhu Houzhao brought Proton Boge and immediately made the hearts of the defenders of Kuanhe fluctuate.

Kuanhe City was built by Feng Guosheng in the early Ming Dynasty, and was built together at that time, as well as the three cities of Daning, Huizhou and Fuyu.

The city is surrounded by water on three sides, and although the city is not large, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It's easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it's for the enemy to the north. Zhu Houzhao led the army from the south, just on the side that was not near the water, the Ming army only needed to block this wall, and the Mongolian defenders could be surrounded, and the enemy could only choose to jump into the river or take a boat if he wanted to escape.

After shouting, the Ming army did not immediately attack the city, but camped at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time sent troops to sweep the people south of the Kuanhe River.

These people, some of whom were Mongols, lived in the meadows along the river. There were also Han Chinese, some of whom had been taken captive, and some of whom had fled on their own, who made a living by farming for the Mongols.

The Mongols, who were half-cultivated and half-herd, had long lost their strategic mobility, unlike those in the northern steppes.

"Remember to screen Han people," Zhu Houzhao instructed the generals, "Those who can speak Chinese are Han people, and those who can't speak Chinese are not Han people, no matter what ethnic group their ancestors are!" ”

The generals immediately received the order, each with a small group of cavalry, and swept along the wide river.

In this way, more than 1,000 Mongolian herdsmen and more than 2,000 Han serfs and tenants were arrested. The pastures and cultivated land south of the Kuanhe River were all temporarily occupied by the Ming army, and the Mongols who could fight all shrank into the city.

The next day, 30 Franc machine field guns fired wildly at the south gate of Kuanhenan.

It's a pity that the power of the field artillery is too small, and it can't collapse the city wall for a long time, and only a few big holes are blasted out of the wooden city gate.

The Mongol defenders were terrified, and the nobles abandoned the city and fled to the north. The remaining Mongols, who did not leave, directly opened the city and surrendered to meet the proton Berge, who was supposed to be the heir.

There is no way to fight, there are not many Duoyan people in this city, and there are two or three thousand young people who can survive the death, how dare they face tens of thousands of enemy troops with cannons? This is the old tradition of the Mongols, if you can't beat it, you can immediately slip away, look for a good opportunity and then kill it back, and the Han army will never stay here forever.

A nobleman with a face, but hundreds of clansmen, knelt down to welcome Zhu Houzhao into the city, and asked with a lot of courage: "Your Majesty the Holy Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, may I ask where is Boge, the son of the old governor?" ”

Zhu Houzhao had already learned Mongolian, and said with a smile: "Boge, come here." ”

Boge could only ride over and say to the nobleman, "I am Boge." Azamuri killed his father and usurped the throne, and dared to set himself up as the governor, and whoever submits to him is a rebel and a thief. ”

The noble man knew that this was nonsense, but he was indignant and said: "I have long seen the ambition of the wolf son of Azamuri, and this time I will definitely avenge the old governor!" ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "Boge, these hundreds of surrendered people will be handed over to you to command." ”

Boge hurriedly dismounted and knelt on the ground: "The minister doesn't dare, please ask Your Majesty to receive it personally." ”

Zhu Houzhao said: "That's good, it will be under the command of General Xiao Shen." ”

Liaodong general Xiao Lu, participated in the battle of Yingzhou throughout the whole process, and followed the emperor to deal with the little Mongolian prince. Although he is still a general, his grade has been improved, and his territory has become larger, and the entire Liaodong East Road is under the jurisdiction of Xiao Lu, and he is second only to the Liaodong General Army and the Deputy General Army.

After capturing Kuanhe City, Zhu Houzhao immediately crossed the river to the north and handed over the city to civil officials.

In this expedition, military occupation is only one of them, and more important is the actual side of migration. Otherwise, once the Han army withdrew, the Mongols who were Duoyanwei would return.

There are far more supplies needed for immigrants than for war, and the civilian officials are about to blow up.

Fortunately, there was enough silver in the inner treasury and the national treasury, and there was not enough grain to buy in business.

After Zhu Houzhao led his troops across the Kuanhe River, he found that the Mongols along the way had run out, leaving behind countless pastures and cultivated land, and there were still green wheat seedlings in the fields that had just broken ground. These fertile fields and wheat seedlings are now owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the civil officials immediately assigned people to serve the crops.

In front is Huizhou City (south of Pingquan City, Hebei), the city wall is square, each side is 900 meters long, rammed earth and built, only four gates.

The city is empty!

Only a small number of Mongols and Han Chinese people, all of whom withdrew ahead of schedule.

This time, Yuan Da also led five hundred cavalry to the expedition, and he followed the emperor around, he frowned and said, "Your Majesty, Duo Yanwei is luring the enemy to go deeper." ”

"It's kind of interesting." Zhu Houzhao laughed.

Tens of thousands of troops marched north, and they liked the Mongols to defend the city, so it was very easy to break them one by one. But Duo Yanwei actually took the initiative to shrink his troops, and did not fight with the Ming army on the flat ground in the mountains, as if he wanted to gather cavalry to fight a decisive battle with the emperor in Daning City.

Whether it was the previous Kuanhe City or the evacuated Huizhou City in front of them, they were all located on flat land sandwiched between the mountains, which was very unfavorable for the cavalry to run vertically and horizontally.

As for Daning City further afield, although it is located on the edge of the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, it is still relatively flat on the whole.

This Duoyan Dudu, who has just stood on his own, seems to be very sober and knows what it means to promote his strengths and weaknesses.

At this moment, our Wang Shilang is leading troops to sweep Xiaoxingzhou.