Chapter 113: Northern Expedition

Orthodoxy twenty-two years, late spring.

Beijing University.

Zhu Qizhen was wearing gold armor, riding on a white horse, and the brocade guards behind him were guarded layer by layer, looking very majestic.

From the location of Zhu Qi Town, it spread layer by layer, and the elites of the Ming Jingying are here.

Under Zhu Qizhen's strong suppression, no one was able to overturn the decision to launch a large-scale Northern Expedition.

Everything was in place before last year and this year.

It was still divided into three northern expeditions, attacking Mobei from Kaiping, Daning, and Zhaozhou, or more precisely, the eastern part of Mobei. After all, the nest of the tile thorn is in the west of Mobei, in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

Zhu Qizhen never had the idea of finishing his work in one battle.

In this battle, the Ming army dispatched 150,000 cavalry, but it was not really dispatched, only 150,000, and a large number of Mongolian tribes were recruited, and there were still 10,000 or 20,000 foot soldiers in Yang Hong and Guo Deng's department as responsible for logistics.

This time, each road has to go deeper than 1,000 miles, plus the possibility of fighting, it is impossible to do without logistical baggage.

Emperor Taizong can't be allowed to mobilize 500,000 people step by step, step by step, to transfer grain to the desert. It's too expensive.

With a baggage, the cavalry's ability to march was limited. Many times it is necessary to let the rear battalion have the power of self-preservation, otherwise the cavalry brigade will go to pursue the tile thorns, and the backhand will be dug out of the nest.

But it's not good.

Therefore, the rear battalion brought a large number of firearms, such as firearms, artillery, 10,000 enemies, and even mines, and other defensive firearms, plus a large number of vehicles, and a large number of baggage, even if it was surrounded by the Tile Spur army, it would be no problem to defend it for a month or two.

This is also the choice of each ministry to consider defeat before winning.

If the tile spur lets go of the other two and storms one of them, the combination of foot and cavalry may not be impossible to fight.

In this way, a large number of baggage, firearms, and ammunition have to be transported, and the number of chariots required to transport is quite large, and the number of pack horses required is very large.

Otherwise, it is simply impossible to support the army.

So, this time there are more people mobilized than horses.

Most of the hundreds of thousands of war horses and pack horses in the Ming Dynasty participated.

It can be said that Zhu Qizhen took out his blood capital. If it weren't for the submission of Monan Mongolia and the hundreds of thousands of horses brought to Zhu Qizhen, and more than 10,000 horses sent from the northwest, plus the horses that had been preserved before the imperial court.

This sudden dispatch of hundreds of thousands of war horses is simply something that Da Ming cannot afford.

As for Shi Heng's subordinates did not bring foot soldiers, it was not that Zhu Qizhen looked at Shi Heng differently, but Shi Heng resolutely did not want it, and his opinion on this Northern Expedition was to fight quickly, and 50,000 cavalry held a month's grain and two horses to break into Mobei. Taking advantage of the fact that the various ministries have not yet gathered, they were caught off guard.

But Shi Heng's opinion was vetoed by Meng Ying.

Da Ming can't afford this

A big defeat.

Therefore, many times it is better to run for nothing than to gamble with the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers one or two thousand miles away.

There is one thing that everyone admits.

That is, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is much stronger than that of the Xuande period. Not once, and again. As long as there is no big natural disaster, the imperial court can support it.

However, the imperial court was defeated in Mobei, and as soon as the sharpness was lost, the next Northern Expedition would not be easy.

You must know that this large-scale use of troops in Mobei has always been opposed.

Now everything is ready, and Zhu Qizhen is ready to review the three armies for the last time before he sets out.

This time, Zhu Qizhen did not choose to be outside Tianan-Men, after all, there is a long street outside Tianan-Men, and the place is still a little small. It can't accommodate an army of 100,000.

Yes, what an army of 100,000 is here.

Although this time the three-way army is 50,000 cavalry per army, even if you add the baggage rear army, the total number is only 200,000, but if you count the Mongolian servant army, it is known as 300,000 troops to the outside world.

But a considerable part of these armies are already in place.

The road from Beijing to Daning has been opened, but the road from Beijing to Kaiping is still under construction.

The galloping road from Beijing to Kaiping must first go to Datong, and then follow the post road left at the beginning from Datong all the way to Kaiping. This section is still under construction.

Even so, there are now an unknown number of baggage, from these two gallop roads to the front line to transport a large amount of grain, grass, baggage, and men and horses.

Only Zhaozhou side, but through the waterway, the supplies of North Korea and Haixi were sent to Zhaozhou through Songyin City.

Especially on the side of Zhaozhou City, because it is too far away from Beijing, in order to send troops on the same day, Zhaozhou is the best prepared, and Shi Heng is already in Zhaozhou at the moment.

Zhu Qizhen only reviewed some of the soldiers.

Zhu Qizhen rode past in front of the phalanx, only to see red flags, as if a burning sea of fire, countless soldiers and soldiers regardless of foot, all neat, like knives and axes.

Now, Zhu Qizhen finally felt the feeling of the military parade in later generations.

Zhu Qizhen first rode around in front of the army, and then came to the general platform, he sat on the dragon chair, and the ministers of civil and military affairs behind him sat one after another.

Fan Hong immediately stepped out of the ranks, stood at the front, opened the holy decree with both hands, and read it out loud: "Inheriting the succession of Taizu Taizong Renzong Xuanzong, with the enmity of the ninth generation, I dare not forget -------"

Zhu Qizhen's edict to send troops is naturally a feud between the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan. Since he also wants to take over the orthodoxy of the Yuan first, then the Ming Dynasty doesn't need any excuse at all, not to mention, there is still the defeat of Maoerzhuang, which was calmed by Zhu Qi as a national shame, and it must be reported.

Of course, these things are important to scholars.

For most of the non-commissioned officers who joined the army, they didn't have any of these orthodoxy or anything

is too interested.

Zhu Qizhen naturally did not forget the reward, and took out more than one million taels in one go, and gave each soldier a salary of ten taels. Counted, that is to say, every soldier is a double salary this year.

If you want people to sell their lives, they will naturally be rewarded, and there will be brave men.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty do not have such a high consciousness, even if they fight now, they will have wartime allowances. I just don't know what the number is.

And at this time, it is also a little bit of a pull-out, the meaning of settling in costs.

We have to admit that the conscription system is also disadvantageous.

These professional mercenaries, many times, look at money. It is impossible to move every money available, so Zhu Qizhen also feels one thing, that is, with the greatness of the Ming Dynasty, if there are recruits, the burden of six or seven hundred thousand troops is already heavy enough, and if there is a reward or something when there is a war, it is a great financial burden.

Zhu Qizhen even had some reflections.

Is this system a curse for the future?

However, this is not the time to think about this. This policy adjustment will be talked about later, and what Zhu Qizhen needs to do immediately is to boost morale and win the big battle in front of him.

So Feng Wuding Hou Guo Deng was the general of the expedition to the north, the chief military officer of Kaiping, the general of the Western Route Army, Yang Hong was the general of the expedition, the chief military officer of Daning, the general of the Middle Route Army, Shi Heng was the general of the expedition to the west, the chief military officer of Zhaozhou, and the general of the Eastern Route Army.

At the sound of an order, the army marched out.

So a team of people and horses walked in front of Zhu Qizhen, with a feeling of chariots and horses Xiao Xiao, in the barracks, after all, the emperor personally came to see him off, and the soldiers could still remain solemn, but out of the school field, on the roads on both sides, there were not many people.

Some came from Baoding, the land of true determination.

In a sense, the Daming Jingying is the Hebei Army.

Because although other parts of the border army have been transferred into the Beijing camp, it has evolved into a recruitment of troops, and the recruiting place is Zhili Bafu plus Shuntian Mansion, Xuanfu, and Datongdi.

This campaign, for the imperial court, is certainly a victory, even if there is a loss, it is impossible to lose too badly. Because before the troops were dispatched, the balance of forces between us and the enemy was already very clear.

But this is not the case for every soldier.

Where are the undead in war? But behind each one of them is a whole family. That's why these people would rather run hundreds of miles to take a look.

You must know that the control in this era is very strict, and it is very difficult for people to travel from their hometowns to Beijing.

Because they know that this is likely to be the last one.

It's just that some people may not be able to see the last side. Because they were here, they could only see the large group heading north, but they could not recognize which one was their child.

Maybe it's all their children.

Because these are all Hebei men.