Chapter 69: Eventful

In the autumn of the ninth year of orthodoxy, the three guards of Uliangha decided to attach themselves to the thorns.

After submitting the petition of submission.

The Watt Thorn also turned his father-in-law's attitude one hundred and eighty degrees first. The leaders of the three guards of Wuliang Ha were respectively named King Duoyan of Dayuan, King Taining of Dayuan, and King Fuyu of Dayuan.

are also hung up with the title of Dayuan Pingzhang.

If Da Yuan is still there, it will be the title of prime minister.

But now, it's just a title. It's just that they have no choice but to do it. Cut off from trade with the Ming Dynasty, the harassment of Xuanda Liaodong in the autumn and winter of last year, the victory and defeat were half of the winners, and there was not much gain.

So in April of this year, the fourth year of Orthodoxy.

When the ice and snow melted in the northeast, the army marched east and attacked Nuergandusi.

The Jurchen guards of the Nuer Gandu Division, while asking for help from the Ming Dynasty, gathered to confront the army of the Tile Thorn and the Uliangha, and continued the unfinished war with the Uliangha last year.

They gathered at Mulan Hewei.

And Mulan Hewei is a little east of Harbin in the later generations.

A little further east, it is the junction between the Northeast Plain and the Songnen Plain, the northern foot of Changbai Mountain, and the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and Qinghei Mountain.

That is, from here, you can directly enter the Hercynian region. No need to climb over Changbai Mountain.

The Mulan River Acropolis was the site of the Yuan Dynasty. Tens of thousands of Jurchen tribes confronted the Vaspur Uliangha coalition army here.

The headquarters of the Tseng Spur did not go to war, but let Uliangha and Nuergan fight, and the two sides gathered tens of thousands of troops around Mulan Hewei.

Of course, it's not that nothing has been done at first.

He was doing one thing, and that was to buy the Jurchen tribe.

The Ming Dynasty did not directly rule over the slave tribes, and if you think about it, you can know how much loyalty the Jurchen tribes can have to the Ming Dynasty. The reason why the Jurchen tribes allied against Uliangha was not so much to be loyal to the Ming as to protect their property from infringement.

After all, surrender to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's taxes are almost none, and the tribute can still get some rewards, but with Wuliangha and Wa Thorn, what will happen to them, they naturally understand, not to mention the tribute soldiers, horses, grain and grass, it is estimated that there will be a strong man to recruit, and the future will not be easy.

But it's not good, and it's going to survive.

If they can't survive, they will naturally make a choice.

Therefore, he also put the horse on the grassland of Uliangha first, urged all the troops of Uliangha to attack, and fought with the Jurchens in full swing. Uliangha didn't eat all the Jurchen tribes in one bite last year, and he won't be able to eat it this year.

Instead, he contacted the envoys of the Jurchen tribes in the rear.

If these Jurchen tribes go up for decades, they are actually all

It is the descendant of the two thousand households set up by the Yuan Dynasty in the northeast, which is also the attitude of Emperor Taizu towards Siyi, which requires submission and rule according to customs.

Fight in the front, talk in the back, and when the back is negotiated, it is the time to send the main force of the tile spur to the battlefield first, and it is also the time for the final word.

For Ye Xian, how to train subordinates with different intentions is an art. In this way, the arrogance of the Uliangha can be polished, and the various tribes of the Uliangha can know that they have left the tile spur and are nothing.

In the same way, Uliangha erected an enemy in the Thorn system, which was none other than the future Jurchen tribes.

There are contradictions among subordinates, and as a superior, it is easy to control it first.

This is also a matter of no choice, there are about 100,000 horsemen in the headquarters of the Tile Thorn, but compared to the Mongolian tribes, the local lords of the Golden Family, Uliangha, and even other large and small tribes. The Spurs have an overwhelming advantage in one-on-one, but it is difficult to say about the united departments.

Therefore, when ruling Mongolia, all kinds of wrists were needed. This is also the reason why the two-king structure with the characteristics of detachment and non-flower and Yexian can exist.

The military information from the northeast made Zhu Qizhen hesitate.

To save, or not to save.

This issue was hardly debated in the Wuying Palace.

In the Wuying Palace, the drizzling rain outside added a lot of bleak atmosphere to this meeting.

Zhang Fu Chen said: "The minister estimates that the three guards of Wuliang Ha and the tile spur will join forces, when it is above 100,000 horsemen, if the imperial court sends troops outside the fortress, then the tile spur is likely to continue to transfer troops from Mobei, and the two sides will form a decisive battle posture." ”

"How many troops can the imperial court send?"

"Dispatch all the cavalry of Xuanfu, Datong, and the three towns of Liaodong, plus 3,000 battalions, the imperial court can send 100,000 cavalry, which is the main force of all the cavalry in the imperial court except for the northwest."

"Once this battle is lost, the Ninth Border Defense Line will completely lose the initiative and fall into passivity, and the tile spurs will come and go whenever they want."

"And when the war comes, can the Jurchen guards help the imperial court?"

"It doesn't work either."

"The Jurchen guards, a plate of scattered sand, not even as good as the Haixi Jurchen Li Manzhu a leader, they are just united because of the pressure of Uliangha, once the army is out of the block, the siege of Mulan Hewei will be immediately resolved."

"When the time comes, the Tile Thorn will turn around and go south, and the Jurchen guards will never take the initiative to fight the Tile Thorn, and send troops to rescue, but it will be just me."

"It's a desperate gamble."

"Military affairs should not be wasted."

Zhu Qizhen also knew that what Zhang Fu said was not wrong, the imperial court cavalry was around 100,000, but it was distributed over the entire long border line, and the cavalry that could be gathered as the main force to fight was only 100,000.

Even with this 100,000, Zhu Qizhen still suspects that there is a vacancy in it

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Don't think that this number is very small, in fact, even during Taizong's Northern Expedition, the most dispatched were only foot soldiers, not cavalry, and the large-scale decisive battle of cavalry was only the use of tens of thousands of cavalry.

The decisive battle of 100,000 horsemen is really a strategic battle.

If he wins, he will retreat to Mobei, and even his authority will be lost, and the grassland regime united by Yiwa Thorn and Tokhokbuhua will fall apart.

But if you lose, you fall into the abyss. As mentioned above, today's nine-border border defense is not the continuous Great Wall at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but a defensive posture that forces the enemy entering from the north to several nodes for a strategic decisive battle.

It's just that the premise of all this is that the border army has cavalry, and there are enough cavalry, even if it does not fight a decisive battle with the Mongol cavalry, it can also achieve the role of pursuit, stagnation, and force the other side not to move freely.

But the 100,000 cavalry are all gone, and the Ming border army is only left with foot soldiers, so when the time comes, the tile spur cavalry can come and go freely.

Zhu Qizhen actually has a sentence, I have always wanted to ask Zhang Fu, this can't be beaten, that can't be beaten, so when can it be beaten?

If it can't be fought at any time, then what is the imperial court used to raise millions of soldiers and spend hundreds of millions?

Yang Pu said: "Your Majesty, if you abandon the Jurchens, you will abandon the slaves and do the guards, so that outside the border walls of the court, everything will be owned by the thorns, but now is really not the time for a big war." Ningbo epidemic, Guo Zhong has been reported, more than 30,000 deaths, although the epidemic has been controlled in Ningbo Prefecture, but the Ningbo Treasury has been insufficient, Guo Zhong has been the customs treasury silver first transferred. ”

"And the leaf thieves moved to the three provinces, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces, and mobilized more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians, but they can't be governed, and there is no need to count on the treasury of these three provinces this year."

"And today's climate is abnormal, in previous years, the spring was dry, and this year it rained a lot, fortunately, Your Majesty, far-sighted, to manage the flood in Zhili, and now Zhili is still safe, but Henan has been a little bad."

"If the weather doesn't change, I'm afraid the Yellow River will be dangerous in May and June this year."

"Now although Zhou Chen of the household department is a capable official, he does not have three heads and six arms to support all parties, if the war is fought together, it will cost tens of millions, and the court really can't take it."

Zhu Qizhen also understands that what Yang Pu said is true.

But it was precisely because it was the truth that Zhu Qizhen felt extremely uncomfortable.

I really don't know what's going on this year, it's been an eventful time. The main items spent money, the Ningbo epidemic, the rebellion of Ye Liuzong, but also to prepare a sum of money for the Yellow River, if the Yellow River is divided, it is better, if the Yellow River is restless, but also to be prepared.

At this time, Yo Ye first bet on the outcome of a game. Zhu Qizhen is indeed unconfident.

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's just that, can you just sit and watch the loyal ministers of the court being held by Ye Xian?" ”