Yumu River, the place where Zhu Di's fifth personal expedition fell.

In the second year of Yongle, on the Yumu River, tens of thousands of male soldiers confronted each other, and the two sides were separated by dozens of miles, and each of them deployed troops to arrange an array, and a war with butterfly wings came in advance.

Flags are lined up, and war horses are chirping.

In the military tent, a blanket was spread on the ground, and on the side was a fire pit inlaid like the ground, on which was hung hot mare's milk wine, and the wine was fragrant, and in the center of the military tent on one side of the fire, a table was set up, and a scroll of Kanyu maps was spread.

This is the Great Tent of the Chinese Army of Tatar.

It is also the gap between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars: in Zhu Di's Chinese army tent, there is a sand table.

The sand table is much taller than the map.

More three-dimensional and detailed.

On the wolf chair of the Chinese army's big tent, there was a burly and rugged-looking Wei Wuzi, about thirty, who looked a little old because of the long years of wind and frost, but he couldn't hide his heroism.

The air is magnificent.

He was the Northern Yuan Taishi Arutai, the de facto leader of the Tatars.

In the first year of Yongle, he was a khan.

In fact, he coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

This time to the south, Arutai is full of ambition, always feel that this is a golden opportunity, not to mention the counterattack of the Ming Dynasty to reproduce the scenery of the Great Yuan Empire, at least to hit Shuntianfu and grab it wantonly.

According to the news from the spies lurking inside Daming, Daming is in chaos.

Mei Yin, the concubine of the Ming Dynasty, launched a rebellion in Yingtianfu and almost killed Zhu Di in Qingliang Mountain, although the success fell short, Mei Yin succeeded in snatching Zhu Yunwen's young son Zhu Wengui and escaping to Fujian to establish a small court.

The young emperor's year name is Shuntian.

It is very rough to take the meaning of obeying the heavens.

Arutai knew that the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty would carefully consider the era name when setting the year name, and some of the era names were still from strange books, so this Shuntian year name was indeed taken very casually.

However, it just caters to the thoughts of Jianwen's old ministers.

After learning the news, Arutai knew that the Tatar opportunity had come!

The Ming Dynasty is in civil strife, and sooner or later there will be a war.

Once the war is fought, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to take care of the border defense, and when the time comes, the Tatars will go south wantonly, robbing the population, livestock, and food, of course, beautiful women are indispensable, but unfortunately, the Jiangnan women that Arutai yearns for, he can't reach.

After expanding the strength of the Tatars, he returned to the steppe to clean up the Uliangha and Warat - a complete steppe kingdom that was fully qualified to compete with the Ming Dynasty.

So Arutai has been preparing for a long time.

But Arutai is also careful.

I am afraid that Mei Yin's goods are an embroidered pillow, and the small imperial court was destroyed by the Ming Ping rebels as soon as it was established, so Arutai waited for a while, until Zhu Gaosui was besieged in Datian, and Arutai was going south with the elite.

But Arutai only approached the Yumu River.

War, it's not that simple.

Arutai's intention is very clear: it depends on how Zhu Di chooses, whether to put down the rebellion against Mei Yin first, or give up Mei Yin, temporarily defend his own Xiong Division to the south and reinforce the border pass.

If it is the former, then the Ming border pass is weak and can be attacked.

If it's the latter...... Arutai did not intend to attack.

Just confronted the Ming Dynasty, let Mei Yin continue to develop in Fujian, once Mei Yin sits on the big side, Zhu Di will be attacked by the enemy, and then the entire Ming Dynasty will fall into war, and the Tatar chess game can be played bigger, and it is necessary to instigate Wara and Wuliangha to also go south.

As for whether Daming will go to war on two fronts?

Arutai thought about this question, but directly denied it - with a little bit of overall situation and military common sense, he knew that Daming would not do this, after the troops were divided into two, don't fail to quell the rebellion against Mei Yin at that time, and also failed to hold the border.

In that case, Zhu Di will be finished.

So Arutai was a little confused at the moment.

Dozens of miles away, in the camp of the Ming army, in the camp of the Chinese army, which was guarded by tens of thousands of troops, it turned out to be the Ming Dynasty who was in command, a person who should never have appeared.

At this time, shouldn't Zhu Di sit in Yingtian and command his troops to quell the rebellion while resisting the northern defense line?

How did he come to Yumu River.

How dare he come to Yumu River?

Daming wants to quell the rebellion internally, even if Zhu Di comes to Yumuchuan, there will not be many troops under his command, in such a situation, he still dares to drive the expedition in person, he is really not afraid of death?

At the same time, Arutai was a little excited.

He was thinking.

If Zhu Di has enough troops, he can choose the situation where the enemy advances and I retreat, drag Zhu Di to let Mei Yin develop, if Zhu Di does not have enough troops, he can take the opportunity to kill Zhu Di!

No one can resist the temptation to kill Zhu Di.

How many centaurs does Zhu Di have?

Arutai didn't know.

According to the scout spy report, the strength of the Ming army's border defense line, when combined, is only 350,000 - this number is not large, if the strength of the two sides is equal, in terms of combat power, Arutai believes in the elite under his command.

Not to mention that Arutai is a little confused, all the generals in the Chinese army's tent are in a daze at this moment.

They don't have the ambitions of Arutai.

Seeing that it was King Yan who had beaten us so hard that he had come to the world, almost no one still had the will to fight, thinking that since Zhu Di had come to conquer in person, we would definitely not be able to eat good fruits when we went south this time.

Or let's withdraw.

Go back to the wife and children to warm the kang head and drink mare's milk wine, isn't it fragrant?

A Qianhu named Bagen said: "Taishi, Zhu Di is here, when will we attack, we should take advantage of his unstable foothold to catch him off guard." ”

The voice is weak.

As a grassland child, Bagen, as a leader of a thousand households, although he wants to go home in his heart, he won't say it, so let's take a look at the meaning of Taishi Arutai first.

Bagen means pillar.

This thousand households, of course, are not pillars of Tatars.

Arutai glared at Bagan angrily, "Zhu Di would be so stupid to come and confront us without any preparation?" Do you dare to say that this is not his trick to decoy his troops? Before figuring out the situation of the Ming army, you can't move without permission. ”

After thinking about it again, he said, "Send more scouts, and you must find out how many troops there are around Zhu Di." ”

Less is the same.

How...... Retreat first, and then decide according to the situation.

The tent door suddenly opened, and a person came in, without saluting, glanced at everyone, and chuckled: "Taishi, don't want to follow Zhu Di's way, there must not be many troops around him, he ran to Yumuchuan to sing the empty city plan." ”

Arutai perked up, "How can you see it." ”

The people who came in were not Tatars.

It is a forty-year-old scholar, wearing a blue and white Confucian shirt of the Ming Dynasty, with an elegant face, just arrived in late spring, but he took a folding fan to mean it, and he was graceful and suave, showing the chic spirit of a scholar.

It's also a bit pedantic.

His name is Wu Shengyou.

also has a more down-to-earth real name: Wu Xiaosi.

His origins can be seen from his real name.

Wu Shengyou is a person from Datong, because he has repeatedly failed to participate in the imperial examination, he returned to his hometown to set up a private school, studied day and night, hoping to accumulate a lot of money, and wait a few years to participate in the imperial examination, so as to glorify his ancestors in one fell swoop.

Before the Jingjing, the Tatars went south several times to invade the border, and Wu Shengyou was also brain-pumping, thinking of writing two poems on the side, if he failed in the imperial examination, he relied on these two poems to visit the important officials of the court and the central government, and strive to get a recommendation.

However, the shit was unlucky, that time he just went out of the border to collect wind, and happened to encounter the Tatars who went south to invade the border pass, so this scholar was captured, and because of fate, he met his "Bole".

Under the erosion of fine wine, "beauties" and power, Wu Shengyou's philosophy of life has become "I would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail".

He became the military advisor of Arutai.

Now he is a hot and powerful figure in Tatar, and this time he went south, which was his idea.