Chapter 406, The Battle of the Nations
With the center of the Ming Dynasty agreeing on this matter here, the entire Ming Dynasty was rapidly running.
The silver of the white flowers was moved out of the Hongzhi Emperor's internal treasury and transferred to various places, a large amount of grain and grass was mobilized from all over the Ming Dynasty to Gansu and Shaanxi, and a large number of troops began to gather from all over the country and marched towards Gansu and Shaanxi.
In the past, in the face of the Tartars going south, they basically adopted a Buddhist attitude, as long as they did not advance in the direction of Jingshi, the Ming court would basically not really fight with the grassland people.
Relying on the defense of the city, the strong walls and clear the wilderness, when the grassland people have grabbed enough, they will naturally return to the grassland again, and there will be no such thing as mobilizing too many troops to fight the grassland people.
Because the Ming court can't afford to fight.
One is that there is no money, and the other is that it cannot be won, the Tumubao incident broke the backbone of the Ming army, and since then it has never dared to fight with the steppe people in the field.
Therefore, it is better to adopt a Buddhist attitude, build the city wall higher, strengthen the wall and clear the wilderness, etc., this method is more effective and less costly.
It's different now, Emperor Hongzhi is going to fight, and he has to fight with the grassland people well, silver, grain and grass are constantly allocated, and orders are constantly conveyed to all places.
Here in some guards, after receiving the order from the imperial court, the thousands and hundreds of households in the guards were frightened and bloodless.
What are you kidding, Emperor Hongzhi actually asked everyone to go to war and fight to the death with the grassland people, what is the difference between this and going to death?
Everyone has been comfortable for decades, and it is no problem to bully men and women in the guardhouse, run rampant, and enslave slaves in the general's household.
But asking everyone to go to war, isn't this telling everyone to send them to death, most of the thousands and hundreds of households can't lift the knife anymore, and the knife handed down by everyone's ancestors has long been rusty, and the armor has been rotten, so at this time call everyone to fight with the grassland people?
The generals and nobles, thousands of households, and hundreds of households panicked, completely panicked, and those who were usually pampered and pampered had long since lost any combat effectiveness.
In addition to fighting, they are very good at everything, such as eating empty salaries, drinking soldiers' blood, enslaving military households, encroaching on the fields of guards, and so on, they are very good at doing these things, but they just can't fight, and they dare not fight.
In addition to these flustered military generals and nobles, the military households of the imperial court are also stupid.
Of course, their status is much worse than that of peasants, and if the peasants have a piece of land of their own, they can still live a good life.
But these military households are different, nominally they have their own fields, but the thousands of households, hundreds of households, and so on in the guards have basically encroached on the fields of the guards.
These military households have long become private serfs of these thousands and hundreds of households, and their status is the lowest.
Now that the court has issued an order, these military households, who have long been more peasants than peasants, are going to go to the battlefield, and these military households have not even touched their knives, they are not well fed and clothed, so what are they going to war?
But the order of the imperial court was issued, and it was not possible not to go.
The military households of the guards began to gather continuously, and according to the orders of the imperial court, they converged at the designated location, preparing to fight with the grassland people.
As for the border army that had been at the forefront of the war, they were also completely panicked, this time, the imperial court actually told them to fight a bloody battle with the Tartars, and they could no longer blindly stay in the city, and they had to dare to take the initiative to attack and attack the Tartars.
This is tantamount to letting them go to death, and they all felt panicked when they were guarding the city, and now they even took the initiative to attack, which made them even more panicked.
However, Emperor Hongzhi didn't care about this now, he made up his mind to fight the Tartars, and even made a detailed plan.
Mobilize 100,000 troops from Datong and Xuanfu in Shanxi, led by Liu Yu, the trilateral commander who defeated the little prince in Datong last year.
On the west side, the border troops of Gansu, Ningxia, and Shaanxi were mobilized, plus the Sichuan army mobilized from Sichuan, also a total of about 100,000 troops, and Wang Yue, the commander of the Yansui, Gansu, and Ningxia trilateral commanders, attacked the grassland army from the west road.
In the south, 100,000 garrison troops were mobilized from Henan, Anhui, and Shandong provinces, led by Li Gao, the chief military officer, and Ren Liang, the eunuch who guarded the town, and launched an attack on the raging Tartars in Gansu and Shaanxi from the south.
The three-way army, with a total of 300,000 troops, was divided into three routes to launch an attack on the southbound Tartars, with great momentum.
It can be said that this is the largest military operation in the entire Ming Dynasty since the Tumubao Change, except for the military forces used to defend the Beijing Division, the entire Ming Dynasty's military forces in the north have almost all been mobilized.
Even for the sake of the safety of the Jingshi, in the past, if it was defeated this time, the Tartars would march eastward and approach the Jingshi.
Here in the Beijing-Tianjin area, all the military forces were also mobilized, and the guards were organized, and the walls of the capital began to be heightened and strengthened with cement, and at the same time, they also began to transport grain from the south to the Beijing-Tianjin area.
Moreover, Emperor Hongzhi is not at ease, and the ministers in the court are not at ease, everyone still has some numbers about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, so not only the military forces in the north are mobilized, but also the military forces in the south have begun to be transferred to the north.
The mountain battalion, which had just made great achievements in the southwest region, was also ordered to march towards the northern battlefield because of the courage of the mountain battalion.
At the same time, the guards stationed in various parts of the Ming Dynasty were also mobilized, and the armies of the guards continued to gather in various places, and as soon as they were assembled, they immediately marched to the north, some of them went to the battlefields of Gansu and Shaanxi, and some of them went to the Beijing-Tianjin area, ready to be used to defend the Beijing division.
It can be said that this time, it is regarded as the strength of the whole country to fight this war, the silver of the white flowers is sprinkled like water, a large amount of grain and grass from all over the Ming Dynasty is continuously transported to the front line, the post station of the herald is busy, and the horses that run rapidly carry the herald to and from all parts of the Ming Dynasty.
On the official roads, troops from all over the Ming Dynasty are constantly converging, fluttering flags, mighty.
"Emperor Hongzhi is actually ready to fight to the death with the grassland people, and I, the little butterfly that crossed over, finally caused a great change, and the Hongzhi Emperor in history has never been so enthusiastic and the grassland people."
"I don't know if this battle is good or bad."
Liu Jin, who was in the capital, naturally felt the great changes in the Ming Dynasty, and the whole person became worried.
The flapping wings of his butterfly that crossed over finally caused the butterfly effect, resulting in such a huge change, and the historical trajectory of the Ming Dynasty has completely undergone great changes.
A major event that has not happened in history has appeared now, Emperor Hongzhi wants to fight to the death with the grassland people, Liu Jin knows very well that this has a lot to do with himself.
Because of his appearance, Emperor Hongzhi had the money to fight, and he no longer blindly believed in civil officials, so the civil officials couldn't persuade Emperor Hongzhi at all, and Emperor Hongzhi also had enough control over the court, and his words still worked.
In addition, it was also because of his own appearance that he founded this newspaper, so whether it was Emperor Hongzhi or the Ming Dynasty, this battle would not be able to be fought.
Because of the newspaper report, the Ming Dynasty has been outraged, everyone knows about the crimes committed by the Tartars in Gansu, Shanxi, and Ningxia, and the scholars of the Guozijian even went to Taihemen to ask for their lives, asking the court to take revenge.
So it's not okay not to fight, you can't watch the Tartars wreak havoc in the Central Plains, and you must also teach the Tartars a lesson, which is why Emperor Hongzhi was able to convince many ministers, because it is not okay not to fight, they have all been stabbed into the heart, and if they don't fight back, the shrinking turtle is not like this.
Liu Jin is not worried about winning or losing this battle, whether he loses or wins, Liu Jin feels that there is no big problem.
Lost, the Ming Dynasty will not die because of this, now is the Hongzhi Dynasty, the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is strong, and the court is okay, unlike the late Ming Dynasty, the party is fierce, regardless of the life and death of the court.
Emperor Hongzhi is also a virtuous monarch, not the king of the dead country, so even if this battle is lost, the Ming Dynasty will not die.
As for winning, it would be even better, the steppe people would be less of a threat, and there would be less trouble in the future.
Liu Jin is really worried about the impact of this battle on the budding development of Daming capital, he is afraid that the budding development of Daming's capital will be cut off because of this, so that Liu Jin's hard work will be completely wasted.