Zhou Shangwen, the first general in the northern Xinjiang of the Jiajing Dynasty, showed his face this time because he blocked many mountain passes in Yinshan.

And Liang Zhen, the second general of the Jiajing Dynasty in the northern Xinjiang, was not willing to be a suspicious soldier in the south, and pulled Li Jin, the general soldier of Datong, to set off, wanting to fight the Mongols in the north and south with Wang Yuan.

As a result, when Liang Zhen and Li Jin arrived at the battlefield, not only had the main Mongol force been defeated, but the entire city had been forced to surrender, and they were waiting outside the city to cut their fingers.

Liang Zhen was dumbfounded: "Wang Shangshu broke the formation and captured the city, how fast!" ”

Li Jin was also dumbfounded: "This is the end of the fight?" ”

Wang Yuan previously recovered Hami, recovered Daning, and destroyed Turpan, and these military exploits seem to be not worth mentioning compared with the recovery of Hetao.

Once the Hetao is recovered, the northern Xinjiang will have no worries!

In such an important war, Li Jin, as the general soldier of Datong, originally followed the main force and was the third person ranked after Wang Yuan and the supervising army.

But he was thrown away as a suspicious soldier, with more banners and claimed to be 300,000, and he only marched ten miles a day, walked for seven days and returned the same way, making it like a large-scale armed outing. Seeing that Liang Zhen also wanted to make meritorious contributions, the two hurriedly led the troops to set off, but who knew that the battle would be over halfway.

What the hell?

Lao Tzu's great achievement!

Suddenly, large carts were pulled out of the city by horses, and huge white yurts were piled up.

A few barrels of tung oil were spilled, and the Ming soldiers were holding torches, trying to burn the yurts.

In an instant, all the Mongols outside the city turned to look that way.

When the Ming soldiers raised fires, many Mongols rioted together. Some have already had their fingers cut off, and some have not yet been cut off, regardless of their hands being tied, they rushed to the Ming army around them, and then were hacked to death with random knives.

The torch touches the tung oil, and the white yurt ignites a raging fire.

The Mongols, who were hacked to death, stared at the flames and did not blink. The Mongols, who did not dare to riot, also seemed to have lost their spirit, and the whole person sat paralyzed in place.

There were also some Mongol captives, whose hands were tied and there were straw ropes between their feet, rushed into the flames without hesitation, throwing themselves into the flames like moths to fire. These martyrs were all priests who presided over the sacrifice of the Eight White Chambers.

"Are these Tatar thieves crazy?" Li Jin was surprised.

Liang Zhen said: "What burned the Eight White Rooms? ”

Li Jin reacted: "It must be the Eight White Rooms, Genghis Khan's palace tent!" ”

A few days later, the prison army Zhu Hong arrived with Teng Xiang Siwei, and Zhu Houzhao's Daxu and dragon flags were planted on a cloud of ashes and fluttered in the wind.

And Wang Yuan had already sent a messenger to rush back to Datong City to report the news with the items used by Genghis Khan.

"Great victory, great victory, Wang Shangshu recovers the Hetao!"

"Great victory, great victory, Wang Shangshu recovers the Hetao!"

"Great victory, great victory......"

The messenger shouted all the way, and there was a sensation inside and outside the city, and both military and civilian households cheered and ran to tell each other.

The recovery of the Hetao is even more meaningful to the people of the border towns.

Mao Ji and other civil and military officials who accompanied the army were all thrown by Wang Yuan in Datong to wait. These days, he has been anxious, for fear of hearing the news of a major defeat at the front.

Mao Ji hated Wang Yuan, but he was not shameless enough to hope that Wang Yuan would be defeated.

This is the basic bottom line of civil officials, once the court falls into party disputes, it will break through the bottom line in various ways. Even in order to bring down political opponents, he deliberately secretly made a stumbling block, that is, he did not hesitate to annihilate the entire front line. The Chongzhen Dynasty was really difficult, not only had to fight with the enemy, but also had to deal with the political enemies in the court.

Mao Ji heard the noise in the city, and immediately got up and asked, "What's the noise outside?" ”

"It seems to have a military situation." Zuo said.

Mao Ji hurriedly said: "Go out and inquire whether you have won or lost." ”

As soon as the official ran out of the door, the messenger rushed to report the victory: "Great victory, great victory, Wang Shangshu recovers the Hetao!" ”

Mao Ji finally heard it clearly this time, turned three steps into two steps, quickly rushed to the door, grabbed one of the messengers and asked, "Really recovered the Hetao?" How many did the Mongols run? ”

The messenger said excitedly: "Tens of thousands of cavalry in the Ordos Department were defeated in a battle, with more than 30,000 beheaded, countless prisoners, and the Mongolian deputy Khan was captured alive. The cavalry of the Tumut Department was beheaded by nearly 10,000 in the front and rear formations, and countless prisoners were captured, and the rest fled eastward from the Hetao, and the Tumut Wanhu was beheaded. The Yongshebu Department did not rescue the Hetao. ”

Mao Ji was dumbfounded when he heard this, thinking that he was dreaming.

Wang Yuan's army was sharp-armed and numerous, and the victory was expected. But what the Manchu civil and military were most afraid of was that the Mongols ran away directly, and when the imperial army withdrew, they ran back to occupy the Hetao.

Who would have expected that Wang Yuan would actually give the Ordos Department a pot!

There were five messengers, and they all took out the relics of Genghis Khan: two scimitars, a horsewhip, a saddle, a rein, and a milk bucket.

The messenger smiled and said: "Old Mao Ge, Wang Shangshu said that these things should be expedited for eight hundred miles and immediately sent back to the capital to be presented to Your Majesty." ”

"Good, good!"

Mao Ji couldn't close his mouth, couldn't help but take the scimitar, carefully examined it, stroked his beard and said: "Good knife, good knife, worthy of Temujin's imperial sword." ”

The messenger added: "Please Mao Ge Lao immediately organize the immigration of Shibian." ”

"You go back to Wang Shangshu to report to him, and say that the old man will immediately arrange for immigration." Mao Ji is colorful.

Although the total number of Han serfs in the Hetao area has exceeded 100,000, it is still not enough to enrich the Hetao area.

Wang Yuan continued to send troops to attack, and the 6,000 musketeers of Yuan Da and Zheng Hu attacked the territory of Yongxiebu to the east, intending to recover the hometown of Xuandewei (Liangcheng County in later generations), the hometown of Datong Zuowei (Zuoyun County in later generations), and the hometown of Datong Youwei (Youyu County in later generations).

The left guard and right guard of Datong are different from those in the early Ming Dynasty, although the name is still retained, but all the places of governance have moved south. There are many mountains and hills, there are the Great Wall built by the Yongle and Xuande dynasties, and only need to immigrate to the real border, and then plug the gap in the Great Wall, you can build a joint border defense system of Datong and Hetao.

The messenger said: "It is an immigrant to the north, and Wang Shangshu wants to recover the hometowns of Xuandewei, Datong Left Guard, and Datong Right Guard." ”

Mao Ji was stunned, flipped out the old map, and finally found the exact location of the three guards.

"This Wang Erlang is really ...... I really want to be fat in one bite! Mao Ji couldn't cry or laugh, happy and headache at the same time.

With the construction of such a huge border defense system, I am afraid that it will cost millions of taels of silver just to immigrate and build cities.

However, once the border defense system is completed, the three towns of Ningxia, Yansui, and Datong will be able to easily resist the Mongol invasion in the future.

Especially Yansui Town, it has directly become a big rear!

Wang Yuan even suggested that the imperial court cancel the town of Yansui, move the main force here to the north, and set up a new Hetao town and Hetao capital division.

Just thinking about it casually, Mao Ji felt that his head was big, and it would take at least three years for this project to achieve initial results, and at least five years to be completely consolidated. During this period, tens of thousands of main troops had to be stationed to prevent the Mongols from coming back, which may add up to tens of millions of taels of silver - in fact, there is also a way to save money, that is, all the servants are recruited to build cities, but this practice will make the livelihood of the people in the northern provinces wither, and the construction time will be greatly increased.

If Wang Yuan was present at this moment, he would definitely say: "The fart costs tens of millions of taels of silver, and now there is only one Yongxieb Department left, and six thousand musketeers rush over and beat the other party down." If he did not dare to go south for several years, he would not need to garrison a large army for a long time, and most of his military expenses would be saved. ”