From the point of view of later generations, the fourteenth year of Orthodoxy is a crucial year in history.

In fact, in Jiang Yugang's view, the so-called "key" is a relatively literary statement, because theoretically, a butterfly flapping its wings may cause a storm thousands of miles away. The key to a thing happening can be the smallest details.

However, when people go to the bottom of the matter, they often fall deeper and deeper into the dead knot of various logics, and finally cannot get the imaginary results, and choose to stop at the right time, maybe they can find relatively practical answers.

At the critical juncture of the Ming Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline and demise, people may have thousands of different answers to this question.

Maybe it was Chongzhen who killed Yuan Chonghuan at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Maybe it was Yuan Chonghuan who killed Mao Wenlong.

Maybe it's "the court is dead and Ming is dead".

Perhaps it was the Emperor of the Apocalypse who trusted Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch party was dominant.

Or perhaps it is the opposite, the so-called official misguided country.

And going back further, there is the famous Wanli 28 years not to go to court.

Emperor Jiajing who cultivated immortals and refined pills.

The child who did not obey the discipline Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao.

Needless to say, Ming Yingzong is one of the most suspicious figures.

And upward, although it may be different from the vast majority of people's thoughts, Jiang Yuyan personally feels that it is the Renxuan era that suppressed the vitality of the wanton growth of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In the end, there is even a statement that Ming died in Zhu Yuanzhang, which laid the foundation for future destruction at the beginning.

And of all these answers, the change of the civil fort is the most powerful and the purest answer. There hasn't been much controversy surrounding it, and there's not much to overturn.

This defeat engraved into history, not only the emperor was captured, the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty were cut off, but even bigger things were cut off.

In Jiang Yu's view, the defeat of Tumubao cut off the backbone of the giant. It has experienced countless hardships until the birth of Zhu Yuanzhang, to the era of Zhu Di, successive three emperors, it went north to the desert, to the south and slightly southwest.

This giant had the most powerful army in the world and the most powerful country in the world at that time, and it freely displayed its unparalleled power on this blue planet, from the borders of Fanbang on land to the distant other side of the boundless ocean.

Compared with the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago, the Ming Dynasty did not have the hidden danger of the feudal town, and the millions of heroes in the world's guards seemed to be unstoppable———— until the change of the civil fort, the Ming Dynasty was defeated, and the great war song came to an abrupt end.

The 200,000 elites of the Ming army fell into Tumubao, and the people who held the authority of the world, Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was captured, Kuang Wei, the secretary of the military department, Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, Zhang Fu, the British prince who had conquered Jiaozhi, and Zhu Yong, the prince of Chengguo, and other civil and military generals were killed, a total of 52 people.

In this battle, not only did the Ming army suffer heavy casualties, the three battalions of the Beijing Division, which had the most advanced military equipment, were destroyed, and the central part of the entire imperial court was also seriously damaged, and there was a serious talent gap. After the change of seizing the door, represented by the killing of Yu Qian, the military and political of the Ming Dynasty broke down again.

After this war, the Ming Dynasty no longer returned to its former glory, and the great era created by Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu came to a final curtain call, and the external situation changed from active to passive defense.

If it is said that in the Renxuan era, the vitality of the Ming Dynasty's outward development was suppressed, and the Ming Dynasty after the Tumubao Revolution was like a seriously injured person who could not recover from serious injuries, sick all day long, unable to cheer up again.

And this Tumubao change happened in August of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy.

For the past, as a modern person, the fourteenth year of orthodoxy is a distant concept, a history hidden hundreds of years ago, covered with countless heavy dust.

Future generations want to look back on that period of the past, but they can only try to understand some vague news through the scales and claws of various historical materials, and then lose their direction in the fog of time, and gain a sense of confusion.

People can't really know history. It's like when two people sign a key, there is a good saying: God knows, the earth knows, you know, I know.

In many historical contents, there is no witness who can be objectively preserved for a long time, and in ancient times, where there was no video technology, this probability became absolute. Nothing but the parties present could prove that something had happened.

This fog can completely block all attempts to spy on it, and its greatest ability comes from time.

Although it has been said that in the higher dimensional world, time is only one dimension, but in the human world, time is an irresistible force that all must submit to its passage. And the only means that can reverse it, the means to pierce the fog of time, is to go back in time, commonly known as "time travel".

Jiang Yu, who came to the Luchuan battlefield in the thirteenth year of orthodoxy from the 21st century, met this very much. As a person who has been immersed in history and culture for many years and makes a living by collecting antiques from all over the world, Jiang Yugang does not have the fear, strangeness or confusion of ordinary people about the distant past.

After knowing the time and space he was in, he was even full of ambition. He wants to use all the knowledge he has as a modern person to change this era that is helplessly going to a tragic end, and to write a magnificent chapter.

Jiang Yu, who is familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty, knows what the Battle of Luchuan is, and from a certain point of view, its influence on the entire Ming Dynasty is not inferior to the Tumubao Change. The conquest of Luchuan for more than ten years occupied the vast majority of the energy of the Ming Dynasty, so that the northern border air defense was weak, giving Wara the opportunity to become bigger, and the later Tumubao change cannot be said to have nothing to do with it.

And because of the battle of Luchuan and the later Miao Rebellion and had no time to get out of Jingyuan Bo Wang Ji, he was a famous general at that time, and he was knighted for military merit as a civilian official, which was a great cause that Mr. Wang Shouren could only do in the later Yangming.

Since the sixth year of orthodoxy, Wang Ji was ordered to take charge of military affairs in Luchuan, it was he who was in charge of the northern border affairs in the third year of orthodoxy, and he was transferred to fight for thousands of miles, and the big slope invaded the wara army on the frontier. If Wang Ji had not been able to get out of the Tusi Rebellion that had occurred because of the Battle of Luchuan and the influence of the Luchuan War, he would have been responsible for the war against Wara, and it would have been difficult to say whether he would have won or lost the war against Warat in the orthodox fourteen-year war.

If you think about it from this point of view, it was the unsmooth battle of Luchuan that created the tragedy of the Tumubao Change, and Luchuan seems to be the key place to turn around success or failure in the whirlpool of history.

And after further accepting the reality, Jiang Yugang felt deeply powerless again. Although he traveled to the orthodox period of Ming Yingzong, he only became a small guard officer. Although this body has a strength and strength that is almost similar to that of a chivalrous man in martial arts novels, after all, a person's strength is small.

He didn't directly become Ming Yingzong himself like some of the protagonists of the novel, and he didn't even have the slightest power to speak of———— a small banner didn't even have ten soldiers, and only 5 craftsmen who could barely use a firecracker, which was too insignificant.

Even if he took his life to fight between life and death, and won an incredible victory, after a few months, the time entered the fourteenth year of Ming Yingzong's orthodoxy, and his strength as a hundred households has reached a level that his colleagues dare not imagine.

The brilliant results achieved in the Mangu Mountains also made the commander regard himself as one of his most effective subordinates. On the Meng Yangcheng side, Jiang Yu's requests for various materials in Mang Castle were almost on call, and he was simply a well-trained logistics team.

After all, the results of Jiang Yu's two battles in the mountains were the only glimmer of hope and comfort for the commanders who occupied Mengyang City on the surface but were actually trapped in Mengyang City. He didn't dare to disobey the military orders from above, but the harsh reality in Mengyang's area made him unable to sleep peacefully, and Jiang Yugang's existence had become his pillar for a few months.

Not to mention how much help Jiang Yugang has brought to the defense of Mengyang City by sticking to Manggu Mountain, in the worst case, Mengyang City is really broken, and the Ming army is defeated, and Jiang Yugang's achievements can be reported to him, and he can also save his official position and life.

However, Jiang Yugang's strength is still not enough. Compared with the Warat cavalry in the north, the Luchuan forces may be far inferior in individual strength, and even crushed by the Ming army, but they are superior in numbers and sufficient supplies. This sufficient supply is not only the advantage of material supply brought by the geographical advantage, but also the supply of a steady stream of vital forces.

During the long war, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties due to large and small battles and the infestation of miasma poisonous insects, but because of the restrictions of the Wei system, the geographical conditions of the expedition to other places, and the pressure of various imperial court resource allocation that the army had to face when going out, the supply capacity of the war had reached its limit.

The vacancy of the soldiers killed or wounded in the battle was difficult to fill, the troops were getting smaller and smaller, and the gap between the military strength of the Luchuan Army and the Luchuan Army gradually narrowed as the war progressed, and the war fell into a stalemate that was difficult to save.

This kind of stalemate is caused by the gap between tens of thousands of soldiers and the huge logistical supply pressure, although Jiang Yugang has almost achieved a miracle in Manggu Mountain, from a half-formed small banner, with dozens of tired soldiers on Manggu Mountain, and finally became the overlord of Manggu Mountain, eliminating the thousands of Luchuan troops active here, but for the overall situation of the war, it is still like a grasshopper shaking a tree, almost despairing.

Therefore, after recognizing the reality at the beginning, Jiang Yugang quickly gave up the unrealistic idea of relying on his own strength, taking the initiative to defeat the Luchuan army, and ending the Battle of Luchuan ahead of schedule, thus changing the tragic history of the Tumubao Incident.

His plan was to rely on the power of Mang Gubao to block the Luchuan army's offensive on Mengyangcheng in the future war, and to maintain the stability of Mengyangcheng's stronghold and all the logistics organization of the Ming army, so as to ensure the success of the attack on the old nest of the Luchuan army in Jiangtou City, and finally achieve a complete victory in the battle of Luchuan.

If there is no chance to change the catastrophe of the Tumubao Change, then at least reverse the tragic victory of the Battle of Luchuan, so that Luchuan can truly become the rule of the Ming Dynasty, instead of letting the Ming Dynasty lose its prestige and the source of power in various subsidiary forces.

According to this idea, he pushed forward his arrangements in Manggu Mountain step by step, and finally achieved phased achievements.

Whether it was the establishment of Manggu Castle, the continuous acquisition of new manpower from the villages of Manggu Mountain, or the restoration of various modern crafts with the help of a group of craftsmen, or the most direct expansion of military strength, from the hundred households, to the establishment of two companies and the development of the Intelligence Department, he was steadily advancing towards his plan.

But what makes him feel compassion is that with the inexorable passage of time, while he is moving towards his victory on the battlefield of Luchuan, his fate is also approaching its established trajectory step by step, the Tumubao change is about to happen, and the ensuing turmoil and decline of the Ming Dynasty will obviously not be absent.

How can we do to change this sad fate? Jiang Yu thought about it. Relying on the large number of Luchuan locals in the subordinate army, coupled with military merits, to gain the support of superiors and become the manager of the Luchuan area, so as to gain greater power is one way, and after that?

The winter in Luchuan gradually passed, ushering in the spring of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, after that, the worst era came, and Jiang Yugang wanted to change all this.

This night, the temperature rose sharply, and Jiang Yu slept very unsteadily. Ah Tian, who was slowly copying the simplified Chinese characters used in the literacy class by the light of the paper lamp, looked at Jiang Yugang who was frowning over and over, smiled lightly, and gently patted Jiang Yugang's back to help him fall asleep.