Chapter 222: Those who come can still be chased

If the prince of England can grow up with the eldest son of the emperor, and the eldest son of the emperor ascends the throne in the future, he will be the minister of the hidden mansion of ironclad.

Zhu Qizhen is in the middle of the British prince's key point, the British prince has not experienced anything for most of his life, but his knees are difficult, and there is only one son, and he is not very worried about his son's future.

The British public is too old to raise his son.

With this arrangement, the British public can be regarded as relieved.

The British Duke said: "Your Majesty, thank you Your Majesty, my old bones are pressed on this matter, even if I fight for my life, I must do this thing properly." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I naturally trust the Duke of Guo. ”

In fact, this is a win-win cooperation.

Zhu Qizhen actually does it according to the standards of the prince for the eldest son, so he naturally has to arrange a team for him, although the son is still young, but many things should be arranged, and they must be arranged.

But another point Zhu Qizhen also has doubts, he is only a teenager away from his son.

If he still reigns in the future, his son will be full-fledged, which is not a good thing for both their father and son. But if nothing is arranged, once he has something long and two short, his son does not have enough team to take over the government in advance, and then the power will not be in the hands of the royal family.

And the son of the British Gong Zhang Fu, Zhang Mao is a good arrangement.

First of all, he is young, and the British public is old, so naturally he will not live to be the prince on the political stage. But after all, Zhang Mao is the next British duke, so he naturally has to inherit the power of the British duke.

Although I dare not say how much strength the British Duke still has after the death of the British Duke, at least the prince is a supporter in the army. With this line, at a critical time, you can pull out a group of generals who want to work from the dragon.

It will not be like when Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he was simply hesitant and careless.

Moreover, Zhang Mao is still young and lacks authority, he is the same age as the prince, and the most important is just a matchmaker, and it is impossible to have high merit and cover the master. Zhu Qizhen was in one day, thinking that even if Zhang Mao was a diehard loyalist of the prince, he couldn't do anything, and Zhu Qizhen didn't have to worry about them threatening him at all.

As for what will happen to the prince and his ministers in the future, it is not something that Zhu Qizhen can see.

The British Duke agreed, so he naturally went to do things immediately, and went to the cabinet to discuss various affairs with Wang Ji.

In the end, it took two days to finally come up with a plan.

It's rudimentary though. It's rough, but even the prototype is out.

The combination of Wang Ji and Zhang Fu's opinions is a combination of conscription and conscription, first of all, all the selected soldiers will be exempted from military service at home. This is a great benefit to the people.

Compared with taxes, forced labor is what ordinary people fear the most.

The matter of recruiting soldiers was broken down by Wang Ji, and the floods between the eight prefectures in Hebei last year were exempted from conscription, and the remaining Tianjin Mansion, Yongping Mansion, Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, plus Shuntian Mansion locally, according to the population ratio, each prefecture and county apportioned a few thousand soldiers.

When they arrived in the prefecture, it was apportioned among the counties, and there were probably less than 1,000 conscripts in each county. It was sent to Beijing by the yamen of various places.

From here, it is all a civilian system, and the exact Ministry of War is responsible.

And Zhang Fu vacated a large battalion in Tongzhou, let recruits from all over the country enlist here, and sent the veteran general Dingxibo Jiang Gui to preside over the training, plus some generals in Beijing who can handle it. There are also martial arts students who train together.

When you get here, it's under the responsibility of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

However, the military department will send a squire to be stationed in the army, responsible for providing food and wages.

The checks and balances on the powers of the two sides are quite sophisticated. Zhu Qizhen was still a little uneasy, so Liu Yongcheng sent him over as a supervisor.

Although in many places, Zhu Qizhen is not very satisfied, such as how to retire.

The conscription in history is a conscription for a lifetime, and he doesn't want to do that. I want to keep the age of most of the soldiers in the army young.

Therefore, the retirement system must also be used.

"The functions of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are not very suitable." Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "If you take a hair, the whole body will be moved, and many systems will have to be modified." ”

Although Zhu Qizhen has a model of the army of later generations in his heart, he also knows that he may not be able to establish the Ming army like that in his life.

It can only be done step by step.

At this moment, Baoding Hou Mengying had already led the army out of Juyong Pass and joined the army left in Xuanda. And the tile spur has also sorted out the internal order, and began to carry out a new round of southern invasion.

But the place where the real war broke out was not Xuanda, but Liaodong.

To be precise, it is Liaohetao Xiongshan Station.

As mentioned before, a large area of land west of the Liaohe River is outside the border wall of Liaodong because there is a huge gap in the north of the Liaohe Loop, which is connected to the Northeast Plain, and there is no danger to defend.

Tartar cavalry can drive straight in.

The Ming army was not easy to resist, even if they drove out the Uliangha, or the tile thorns. It's not easy to gain a firm foothold, it can be regarded as a strategic buffer, or a land of two subordinates.

However, with the support of Zhu Qizhen, before the Battle of Mulan Hewei, Cao Yi reached into the west of the Liao River and established a castle west of the Liao River.

Compared with the artificial establishment of a line of defense, the Liaohe River and the Hetao into the Ming rule, this moment is arable and pastureable, even if there are not enough people to reclaim the cultivated land for a while, it is enough to be a horse farm.

And today, Tokhoff does not spend time leading troops to attack Liao

East, but chose this place as the battlefield.

Overall, the time to take off and not take the attack was more than half a month later.

It's not that Totokh Buhua intends to do so, but that Totoku Buhua's subordinates are all people and horses of the Wuliangha Jurchen tribe, and the people in the headquarters of Tokhoff Buhua are pitiful.

The prairie is the most realistic.

Tokhtar does not have the strength to spend it, even if he is a Great Khan, he will not be respected. Therefore, it is normal to sort out the top and bottom, pacify all parties, and organize an attack, but it is normal to be a beat slower than the first.

Even before, Tokhoff Buhua deliberately did not fight with the Liaodong army, and adopted a containment method. The army was divided into several branches, and in Liaodong, Haixi was in a state of elusiveness, which made the Ming army unbearable, but it could not catch the main force of the tile spurs.

This situation made Cao Yi a little crazy, but there was no way, after all, horses were inferior to people, what could be done, but passive defense.

But when the first Maoerzhuang won a big victory and shook the world, Totobuhua suddenly changed his mind, no longer using this erratic style of play, but decided to capture a city of the Ming army.

This city is Bear Mountain Station, or Bear Mountain Fort.

This Xiongshan Fort was still a post station a few years ago, and there were many post stations outside the side wall in the Ming Dynasty, even if the tile spur people helped to maintain it, the reason was simple, when the tile thorn paid tribute, it was also necessary to use the post road.

And because Xiongshan stands in the middle of the Liaohe Loop, there is some distance between the Liaohe River in the east and Guangning in the west. It is located in a geographical location that is not close on all sides.

Although it was reinforced, there were only more than 1,000 defenders.

Attack here, the reinforcements of the Ming army everywhere will hold some.

Of course, it was not only the geography of Fort Bear Hill that made Tokhokbuhua suddenly change his mind, but also the change in the morale of the troops under his command.

In the face of the big victory in Maoerzhuang, especially the things that were also rewarded by the tribes first, it made many people blush.

The Ming Dynasty was defeated and left behind a lot of weapons and armor, which were all first-class hard currency on the grassland, and the really good iron armor was also occupied first. But the remaining corners were enough for many tribes to get excited.

This is also the reason why the Ming cavalry can fight three with one against many tribes.

This also further strengthened Yexian's authority. It also made the various departments that had been hiding back and forth with the Ming army full of complaints.

They felt that they had fought for so long, and they had worked a lot, but they had no results, after all, the entire Tile Thorn Alliance was almost a bandit alliance.

For them, it's all about getting something to get there.

When is it a matter of time when more people die? On the grasslands, human life is never valuable. So they all blushed, and they seemed to think that they could also defeat the Ming army first, and they could too.