The ministers in the court are just pawns for work, and the real people behind the scenes are many scholarly families.

These families, who relied on the Four Books and Five Classics to become prosperous and wealthy, could not bear the fact that their advantages in poetry and books were ruined by Wang Xiao.

They are the real masterminds behind this.

Wang Xiao's plan is actually not complicated at all. The ministers in the court can be taken down at any time, but the mastermind behind the scenes is not easy to catch.

In that case, then simply let them succeed. When the time comes, all of them will jump out.

Once they are in front of the stage, no one in this world can protect them.

Only by removing the influence of Confucianism that hinders development in all aspects can the Ming Dynasty truly embark on the broad road on which the sun never sets.

This can be regarded as Wang Xiao's greatest contribution to the Ming Dynasty of this era.

"I'm quite capable of it first." On the grasslands of northern Cyprus, two large legions faced each other several miles apart. After carefully observing Warat's soldiers and horses, Wang Xiao agreed with Yexian's ability.

During the Battle of the Three Gorges Estuary, Mahamu handed over the most elite 10,000 horses of the Warat tribe to Yexian, and asked him to take these fires all the way west to avoid the fate of the entire army.

Compared to the braids that started with thirteen pairs of armor, the starting point of the first is much higher.

He led tens of thousands of elite horsemen all the way to the west, and it took ten years to sweep through the many tribes in the western steppe, making Warat strong again.

For Yexian, whether it is a national hatred or a family hatred, Daming is his lifelong enemy.

It's just that Da Ming is too powerful, and he knows that he doesn't have the slightest chance of defeating Da Ming at all.

Until someone inside the Ming Dynasty took the initiative to contact him, giving him hope that he would be able to take revenge in his lifetime.

He had been trying his best to lure Wang Xiao away to the northwest until he was far away from the pass and was cut off from supplies.

At this moment, he got the exact news that the Ming army had fallen into a food shortage crisis and had to go south to return to Guannai. also chased after the main force of Warat all the way first, wanting to entangle Wang Xiao to the death.

"The British Duke took 3,000 battalions to steal the camp of the Warats, and I don't know if it can be done." Fan Zhong regretted that he didn't get the opportunity to run thousands of miles to attack the old camp of the Warat people.

This is comparable to the feat that Huo Quzhi once did.

Wang Xiao raised his horsewhip and pointed to the grass under his feet, "Do you know why you chose the battlefield here?" ”

"I don't know."

"Because this is not the territory of the Warats."

In the past ten years, the Warat people have been active in the far west, and here are some small tribes that have long been subdued by the Ming Dynasty, and they are hospitable and good at singing and dancing.

Although the intelligence system of the Ming Dynasty is developed, it is still much worse than that of these native-born natives.

The information on the location of the old camp of the Warat people was reported by these small local tribes.

Fan Zhong asked a very important question: "But there is not enough food and grass in the army. ”

Wang Xiao raised his hand sideways to cover his chin, and whispered to him, "Tell you a secret, there are people in the court who want to rebel, so the grain and grass team over there in Shanhaiguan will not come." ”

Fan Zhong's eyes popped out, and he looked at Wang Xiao stupidly. I don't understand why Wang Xiao doesn't care about such an important matter.

Waving his hand to signal the herald on the side to let the army forward press, Wang Xiao leisurely explained, "They colluded with the Warat people, and this matter has long been known." They thought that if they cut off the transportation of Shanhaiguan, they would be able to kill us, but they really thought too simply. Daming is not just a mountain customs. ”

The three battalions have more than 200,000 elite soldiers and horses, and they have also been equipped with new-style firecrackers on a large scale.

Under this kind of fierce combat power, unless the Warats are all supermen wearing inside and outside, it is impossible for them to win head-on even if they die.

The only chance to win is to lure the Ming army far away from the pass, and then cut off the food and grass of the Ming army with poor mobility.

Originally, with the strength of the Warats, they couldn't do it.

But this time, with the assistance of Daming insiders, it was actually successful on the surface.

It's really just on the surface.

Wang Xiao made preparations early. Two different reinforcements will depart from Datong and Gansu respectively, carrying large quantities of supplies and three battalions.

This matter is extremely secret, and no one in the DPRK and China knows about it at all.

Wang Xiao smiled playfully and said, "I also think that I am here to pester us." But he won't know that our mission is to pester them. ”

He also brought about 40,000 soldiers and horses. This is already enough to run amok in the grassland.

But they are many and need a lot of supplies. Once the old battalion in the rear was wiped out by Zhang Fu's 3,000 battalions, where would they go to find supplies on this vast prairie?

Horses can still eat grass, but can people eat grass?

Without supplies, the Warats could only kill horses to satisfy their hunger. But 40,000 mouths had to eat every day, and how many horses were enough for them to kill.

Without horses, they wouldn't even have a chance to get out alive on this prairie. Not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of Ming troops eyeing you from the sidelines.

When he first accepted the Confucian alliance advice and led his troops to come, he was already doomed to not be able to go back.

There was a very strange scene on this grassland, and the two warring sides were pulling each other without any effort, as if they were worried that the other party would run away and they would not be able to catch up.

This strange situation made the alarm bells in Yexian's heart ring.

His experience told him that the Ming army was not in a hurry to go south, but entangled with himself, and there must be a conspiracy in this.

If it weren't for the fact that Tanma would report every day that there was no transport convoy in and out of the military camp, he would even want to take people away.

Now he was already tied up by the seemingly low-hanging fruit victory, even if he always felt that there was something wrong in his heart, but the huge hope of victory still made him stubbornly stay.

It wasn't until half a month later that two pieces of news broke down in succession and became more and more uneasy, almost sleepless at night.

The first piece of news was that a large transport convoy had appeared in the camp of the Ming army, and the carts full of grain and grass could not be seen at a glance, not to mention hundreds or thousands of vehicles.

If this news made Yexian speechless for a long time, then the second message completely knocked him down.

The old camp of the tribe was raided by the cavalry of the Ming army!

The large camp of the tribe, five hundred miles away from the rear, fell into the hands of the Ming army. All the cattle, sheep and horses, the old and weak, the women and children, the nobles and even the family members of his ancestors were all lost!

The one who was as strong as an ox shook his body twice, and then fell heavily to the ground.

It is about a thousand miles away from the Great Wall to the south, and more than 5,000 miles from the nest of the Warat people to the west!

To the north is a bitter cold land, with no tribes and no supplies. To the east is the Liaodong Nuer Gandu Division of the Ming Dynasty, and going there is also a dead end.

The logistics camp was breached, and the Warats were left with only two ways to go.

Either go south to break through the Great Wall and plunder, get supplies and return west.

Either head straight west and return to the nest in the west before the horses are eaten.

If the Great Wall was so easy to break, the herdsmen on the grassland would have been drinking horses by the Yellow River.

Herdsmen who lack siege equipment and related experience estimate that they will not be able to break through the level even if they hit their heads and break the blood flow under the Great Wall.

As for returning directly to the west, Mongolia today is no longer the Mongolia of 300 years ago.

Three hundred years ago, the Mongols were able to fight thousands of miles on a large scale, because they carried with them a large amount of supplies and a large number of pack horses.

Basically, a cavalryman would be equipped with more than three pack horses loaded with cheese, meat and hay.

Where do the Kwarats have that strength, there are very few who can ride alone. As for the supplies, they will only last for a maximum of six days.

Horses are not cars, they can be driven as long as they have gas.

Horses are actually very delicate creatures, and riding long distances can be very damaging to horses. Therefore, the cavalry in the era of cold weapons has the best short-distance mobility ability in the world, but if you march for a long distance, sometimes you can't even run as fast as the infantry.

In six days, I ran more than 1,000 miles at most, and I didn't even reach a third of the distance.

At that time, the horses will be killed and eaten, and the pace will only get slower and slower, until all the horses are eaten, and everyone can only walk on their legs.

When the Warats came this time, they had already swept away all the small tribes along the way.

Now go back the way you came, don't expect to have a chance to hit the grass valley. They can be regarded as having pitted themselves into a pit.

What's more important is that there are still more than 200,000 elite Ming army elites around the Wara army.

It was impossible for the Ming army to watch them flee.

There is no doubt that the army of Warat has reached a desperate situation.

"Liar! You are all liars!! "The desperate also went crazy in their own big tent first, slashing everywhere with a saber" The words of the Han people can't be believed! What join forces to get rid of the emperor, this is the trap you have set for Warat! ”

First of all, this is a misunderstanding of those Confucians, they really want to cooperate with the Warat people.

In the Shuntian Mansion, the Confucians, who had been preparing for a long time, finally began to take action after receiving news that the emperor's army was entangled by the Warats.

The foundation of Confucianism is that there are many scholars in the world, but these people are at most doing some things that are waving the flag and shouting. If you really let them do things, they will respond to the old saying 'show talent rebels, and it will not be achieved in ten years'.

At the top of Confucianism is the scholarly family of many poetry and book heirlooms.

These people don't work all day long, and they devote themselves to studying and gaining fame.

If you want to feed a huge family and many servants and maids, you can't rely on books alone. Therefore, these families have a large number of fields and shops, and they are all very wealthy.

Money is a very important thing, and it can be used to buy people's hearts.

The Five Cities Terracotta Division, which is responsible for the security of the capital, is the place where it is most seriously bribed by a large amount of money.

With the assistance of many ambitious people who had infiltrated the city, the Five Cities Terracotta Division raised the banner of the Qing monarch's side. Attacked the south gate of the city, opened the gate and let the many so-called troops outside the city who had spent a lot of money recruit and gathered.

The military system of the Ming Dynasty is strictly managed, and it is also a place where Jinyiwei focuses on guarding all year round. It was too difficult to buy the regular army, so Confucianism spent money to buy a large number of heroes, bandits, bandits, and even ruffians.

Although the combat effectiveness of these people is very problematic, after all, they are full of momentum when they are overwhelmed. It will not be a problem to take down the city and defend the empty Suncheonfu.

When the men and horses entered the city, they immediately rushed to the palace and prepared to occupy the most important place in the world first.

Tens of thousands of men and horses surrounded the palace.

Under the light of the hunting torches, the bright swords and guns reflected the faces that were distorted with excitement.

This is the home of the emperor's old son, as long as you break the city gate and kill in, the beautiful woman who fills the house with gold, silver, jewelry, and rare goods will be theirs.

For this action, the Confucian clans really invested in it. They even spent a lot of money to get a few cannons.

Without artillery, it would have been almost impossible to storm the palace.

As the rumbling cannons began to bombard the palace gates, many eunuchs in the palace who had been bribed for a large amount of money also began to rebel, trying to open the gates to let people in from outside.

Firelight, cries, roars and shouts were all in the mix. The entire Suncheonfu was plunged into an unprecedented crisis.

When the many civil officials involved in the event and the representatives sent by the many big families who supported them gathered in front of the palace to prepare for the historic moment.

Suddenly a sky-piercing monkey rose in the palace.

The monkey flies into the depths of the dark night sky and blooms into a beautiful and colorful firework at night.

Before the people who saw this scene had time to appreciate this beautiful scene, the entire Shuntianfu City echoed in all directions.

The night sky was decorated with many brilliant fireworks, but the leaders of the incident were pale.

It's not a fireworks show, it's a contact signal!