Chapter 149: The Battle of Hulan and Sudden Temperature

In the Wuying Palace.

Zhu Qizhen had already ordered Wang Zhen to open a large map, and this map was the map of Mongolia.

From Liaodong to the Western Regions, the Mongolian steppe desert is marked one by one on the map.

This is one of Zhu Qizhen's preparations in the past few years.

Part of it is the accumulation of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that during the Yongle period, the imperial court used troops against the grassland several times, even if there are Tatar officials all over Beijing today, even Zhang Fu in front of him, when he was a teenager, he also stayed in Lingbei Province of the Yuan Dynasty.

Therefore, there has never been a shortage of people who understand the grassland in this era.

Similarly, this map is also the result of several years of hard work by Jinyiwei and Dongchang, and I don't know that many Jinyiwei's spies pretend to be businessmen in and out of the desert, just to find out the situation of the grassland and lead the army.

After Zhang Fu came in, he looked at the map. knew that Zhu Qizhen had put a lot of effort into this.

When Zhu Qizhen saw Zhang Fu coming in, he waved his hand and let everyone out, and Wang Zhen walked at the end and closed the door of Wuying Palace. First, in the Wuying Palace, it is extremely quiet. Zhu Qizhen invited Zhang Fu to sit down. said: "The British Duke is my minister of the pillar stone, and today I am on the Wuying Palace, I want to ask the British Duke to tell the truth, can the thorns be cut down?" ”

The three major halls have just begun to be rebuilt, and it will probably take a while to rebuild them. Even if the three major halls are repaired. I won't really use it too often.

The two side halls of Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall are one of the palaces commonly used by the emperor to deal with affairs.

Of course, every emperor's habits are different, such as Emperor Zhengde, who likes to be in the leopard room. Emperor Jiajing likes to be in Xiyuan, and Emperor Chongzhen likes to meet ministers on the platform.

Wait a minute.

But generally speaking, the original intention of the Wenhua Hall and the Wuying Hall is to have one article and one martial arts. The two main halls are in the pattern of the Forbidden City, which can be seen, separated by the three major halls and the central axis of the Forbidden City. Stuff relative.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen has been active before and has been in Wenhua Palace.

This is also the first time that Zhu Qizhen opened the Wuying Palace.

It can be seen that Zhu Qizhen attaches great importance to summoning Zhang Fu this time.

As soon as he came up, he asked Zhang Fu such a major question, Zhang Fu also had a serious face, and said: "Your Majesty asks each other, and the minister does not dare not answer, and the thorns cannot be cut down." ”

Zhu Qizhen was not too surprised by this result.

Because of this result, Zhu Qizhen himself knows it.

However, the process by which he came to this conclusion may not be the same as that of Zhang Fu.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Guogong, please speak." ”

Zhang Fu said: "There are three unstoppable thorns. ”

"The timing is not right."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, and the battle in Luchuan was booming. Zhu Qizhen himself did not fight on both sides for no reason.

Zhang Fu said: "The imperial court is not well prepared. The battle in the northwest has already explained the problem, Jiang Gui went out to attack Adai Khan, and the forward was only 3,000 horsemen. Even if the rear army is added, it is only more than 10,000 horsemen. ”

"This is the case in Shaanxi and Gansu, Xuanda, and Liaodong, plus the cavalry that can get out of the fortress in Beijing, but there are only 100,000, and they can't all go out of the fortress."

"And the 40,000 households of the Tile Tartary, plus the 400,000 households of the Tatars, these 440,000 households, can draw cavalry, and the total number is more than 200,000."

Zhang Fu only talked in general terms,

Poor preparation.

But how could Zhu Qizhen not know how many things were going on behind this lack of preparation?

There was a shortage of food in the north, and the strongholds outside the fortress could not be maintained one by one, just like the city of Daning, all of them were abandoned.

During the Hongwu Yongle period, Monan Mongolia is now Inner Mongolia in the division of administrative regions. Most of them were no man's land, which the Ming army could not occupy, but the Mongols did not dare to go south.

In an old saying, the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses. This point has also become the horse farm of Daming.

But with the Ming military presence on the steppe was not enough to sustain it.

The Ming Dynasty's control over these places is becoming more and more beyond its reach.

In this way, the area was restored to Mongol control.

This is also the reason why there have been long and long side troubles since orthodoxy. The buffer zone for both sides is gone.

In addition, there is a shortage of 1.2 million in health centers.

All kinds of problems are tangled together, and the lack of horses in the army is just a manifestation, but under this manifestation, there is an extremely complex mechanism.

Not a lack of preparation, it can be made clear.

But Zhu Qizhen also understands that Zhang Funeng is honest enough when he says this.

The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is the leading body of more than 300 guards of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Lords headed by Zhang Fu have always occupied the leadership of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

There are many things in this that cannot be put on the table. If it is just a lack of preparation, the more than 30 million taels of silver prepared by the Empress Dowager of the Inner Treasury can be smashed into it.

It's definitely enough to fight a big fight.

It just doesn't work.

These things cannot be solved by throwing money at them.

Zhang Fu continued: "The strength of the tile spur is not enough to humiliate. ”

Zhu Qizhen's heart moved, he was very interested in this, and said, "How about asking Guogong to explain the strength of some tile thorns for me?" ”

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen still knows a lot about tile spurs.

For example, the origin of the thorn, the power structure of the thorn, and so on.

But the combat effectiveness of the Tile Thorn people is not something that Zhu Qizhen can know.

If you can fight or not, you can only talk about it after fighting.

I haven't fought in person, and a lot of the prior speculation is just speculation.

But Zhang Fu is different, he is a veteran who followed Taizong's Northern Expedition, and he is no stranger to dealing with the old opponent of Wa Spur.

Zhang Fu pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, the biggest battle between my Ming Dynasty and the Tile Spur is the battle of Hulan and Sudden Hypothermia. The minister was fortunate to follow Emperor Taizong to experience this battle. ”

Zhu Qizhen cheered up, and in Zhang Fu's dry words, he went to figure out the last strategic decisive battle of the Ming Dynasty in Mobei.

"Emperor Taizong chased to the Shuangquan Sea of Tile Thorns, met the pioneer of Tile Thorns, Taizong meant that the Tile Thorn army was nearby, and then Arutai asked to join the war, but Taizong refused."

"The minister followed Taizong's main formation and went north to pursue the tile spur. When I arrived in Hulan, I suddenly lost temperature. The ambush of the tile spurs was large, a total of 30,000 horses, any one horse was a few horses, and the war horses alone were as many as 100,000. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he suddenly felt a strong dissatisfaction in his heart.

It is estimated that there are not many more war horses that can be used by the imperial court today than the war horses that were shaken in the battle of Hulan and Sudden Temperature. It is impossible to compare with the spur war horses that now occupy the entire grassland.

For a moment, Zhu Qizhen felt that he was too poor.

Zhang Fu couldn't help but wonder what Zhu Qizhen was thinking in his heart, and he continued: "Mahamu is ready to wait for the formation, with tens of thousands of heavy horses, rushing to Taizong's main formation. Our army's heavy cavalry is less than the tile spur people, Taizong is the order of the late Rongguo Gong Liu Sheng to lead the Shenji battalion to line up with the belt, with artillery bombardment of the tile spur heavy cavalry -----"

Zhu Qizhen said: "Wait, you said that the imperial court is heavy on horseback, it is better to spur the thorns?" ”

Zhang Fu said: "The minister doesn't dare to say anything. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How is this possible? ”

There are many tile spur cavalry, and Zhu Qizhen can understand it. Because the cost of raising horses on the grassland is not the same as the cost of raising horses in agricultural planting areas.

This cost gap caused the same hundreds of thousands of horses, and the Central Plains Dynasty had to exhaust its national strength, but the Grassland Dynasty was easy.

But the iron rider and heavy armor are different.

This is a composition of the national strength of a country.

Only a strong country can build such an army.

Tile spur 30,000 heavy horses, how much iron is used, you must know that the iron in the Central Plains is a completely different value from the iron on the grassland, especially as early as the time of Emperor Taizu, there was a ban, and even an iron pot could not be sold on the grassland.

How is the heavy cavalry of the tile spur built, and what kind of national strength can make the tile spur create a heavy cavalry unit that surpasses the elite of the Ming Dynasty.

This is completely inconsistent with Zhu Qizhen's cognition.

He had always believed that the Tile Spur cavalry was a light cavalry unit that had been recruited by the herdsmen, had no armor, but was very mobile and flexible.

But now from Zhang Fu's mouth, he heard a completely different tile spur.

Zhu Qizhen had to re-evaluate the tile spurs.

Zhang Fu said: "The minister also captured a lot of armor after the war, some of which were the armor of the Yuan court back then, and some of the armor should come from the Western Regions, not the Central Plains process, as for how it came about, the minister is not too clear." ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "The Yuan Dynasty and the Western Regions? Then he thought a lot to himself, and he also solved a lot of doubts.