Chapter 506: Purging the Remnants of the Traitors
Although the captives are ready to go to Shaanxi and other places on both sides of the Yellow River to govern the Loess Plateau and the Yellow River, at present, Shaanxi is not in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and is still occupied by a large number of remnants of traitors who have fled in the past.
On this day, Li Yan suddenly hurriedly walked into the imperial study.
"Your Majesty, the remnants of the traitors in Shaanxi sent a letter, saying that they are willing to surrender!"
Li Yan said, and presented the letter in his hand to Zhu Cijiao.
Zhu Ci stumbled to open it and saw it, and immediately his face turned blue with anger, and he left the letter still on the ground.
"Bastard! A mere traitor, who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, dares to mention such conditions to me, looking for death! Zhu Ci had to be angry, the remnants of the gang of traitors, not only did he want to restore the privilege of the noble clan to never pay taxes, but also to withdraw the holy decree that limited the price of land lease, and even proposed that each noble family send a beautiful woman to him as a concubine.
Zhu Ci sneered, when he was a debaucherous and unscrupulous king, he couldn't do it! There must be hundreds of women in each family, whether it is to be a concubine for him or to spy on him, in short, it is impossible for him to agree to such conditions, and the traitor is not qualified to make any conditions with him.
"Someone!"
"Spread the news that all the armies have descended into the palace to see me!" Zhu Ci stumbled and said.
Li Yan's heart shook slightly, the emperor was angry, and he wanted to be surrounded and suppressed by the army. Also, the emperor hates traitors the most, and those traitors still want to negotiate terms with the emperor, but they really don't know whether they live or die, and their only way is to be arrested.
In December of the fourth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Ci sent the Fifth Army of Yinglong Army, with the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army, with a total of 50,000 horses to exterminate the remnants of traitors in Shanxi and Shaanxi. The three armies originally had 60,000 people, but since the Northern Expedition, they have lost 10,000 horses in a row, and now there are still 50,000 people left, but no general will doubt that the 50,000 army can crush the remnants of traitors in Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
"Boom"
The snow was falling, and on the way to Shanxi, the Fifth Army and other 50,000 Ming army iron cavalry rushed quickly.
Attacking the Manchurians in Liaodong, Yan Yingyuan captured more than 100,000 war horses, destroyed Horqin Mongolia, and captured no less than 200,000 war horses, plus Chahar's, and other Mongolian tribes, the Ming Dynasty obtained a total of hundreds of thousands of war horses in the Mongolian steppe, and the soldiers of each army were distributed.
During the few days in the city of Beijing, the officers and men of the various armies spent most of their time practicing horseback riding.
Nowadays, many soldiers ride horses, although they are still a little crooked, but everyone can ride horses anyway.
Although the Ming Dynasty did not develop fast mobility equipment such as automobiles, Zhu Cihe's determination to establish the Ming Dynasty's rapid mobility army is beyond doubt, and the Mongolian steppe will be a horse farm for the Ming Dynasty to obtain endless war horses in the future!
"Hahahaha! The army has war horses, and it is several times more majestic! Zhang Kuishan, the commander of the 50,000 army and the commander of the Fifth Army of the Ying Long Army, laughed.
"What Commander Zhang said is yes, thanks to the emperor who led the army out of the customs this time and wiped out Mongolia, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get so many war horses!" The commanders of the other two corps complimented with some compliments.
Although they are all army commanders, everyone knows that the commander of the Ying Long Army is different from the commanders of other armies, just like this time, Zhang Kuishan has undoubtedly become the commander of the army, and no one dares to question it.
"Dadada"
"Newspaper"
"Ten miles ahead is the boundary of Shanxi!" A scout rode a war horse to Zhang Kuishan.
After a day of running, Shanxi has finally arrived.
"Good! The generals obey the order, and the border of Shanxi is ahead, and the war to exterminate the remnants of the traitors is about to begin! Zhang Kuishan is arrogant and dry, and it seems that he will be able to sweep Shanxi and go straight to Shaanxi.
"No!"
The iron cavalry increased its speed, and the rumbling hooves of the horses were like the beating of war drums, and they entered Shanxi with endless momentum.
Originally, the Ming army did not accept their conditions, and they were shocked and angry when they refused to surrender, but now with the news of the killing, it immediately caused some chaos.
Shaanxi Provincial Government, Chang'an City.
Since Li Zicheng's defeat and fall out of Shaanxi, Li Zicheng's Xijing City has restored its original name, Chang'an City!
This thousand-year-old capital is full of remnants of traitors.
The Manchus moved westward, the Mongols retreated, and the nobles who had no support could only rely on themselves, in order to fight against the Ming Dynasty, perhaps for their own interests, they put aside all their prejudices and hugged together, in order to be able to make the Ming compromise with them.
However, a traitor is a traitor, only caring about his own interests, Zhu Ciji hates traitors the most, how can he give them any possibility of compromise.
A group of traitors listen to a report from a scout in the lobby.
"What? You say that the army only came with 50,000 troops? He Hongzhao, one of the remnants of the three traitors, screamed in surprise.
"Hahahaha, God help me wait!" He Hongzhao laughed: "I thought that the Ming army would send heavy troops, but I didn't expect that only 50,000 people were sent, and we had an army of 300,000, six times that of the Ming army, and we would definitely be able to defeat the Ming army. ”
Really keep fighting against Da Ming, He Hongzhao doesn't have any confidence, and the other traitors don't have any confidence, they can only hope to defeat the 50,000 Ming army this time, let Da Ming see the powerful relationship, and finally choose to compromise with them, as long as their interests are still there, they don't care who is ruled.
To say that when they just fled to Shanxi and Shaanxi, the strength of this group of traitors was only about 100,000, but in less than half a month, they expanded to 300,000, so at all costs, the remnants of the traitors composed of these powerful warriors fought hard against the Ming army.
"Yes, only 50,000 Ming troops, we will definitely be able to defeat them!" The rest of the traitors chimed in.
Unfortunately, before they could be happy, a piece of news knocked down their morale.
"Newspaper"
"The Ming army has entered Shanxi, and it will immediately come to the city of Taiyuan!" A scout quickly rushed in to report it.
"Hiss" All the remnants of the traitors gasped.
"Impossible! It was only one day since the Ming army sent troops, how could it be possible to reach Shanxi! He Hongzhao screamed in surprise, looking undaring, and the other traitors were the same, in disbelief.
"The Ming army is all equipped with war horses and forms an iron horse, which is extremely fast!" The scout explained.
In fact, because the Ming army was equipped with a large number of war horses, the scouts suffered extremely heavy casualties in order to listen to the news, and if these scouts were not composed of loyal people from various families, they might not be able to send the news back.
The faces of the traitors instantly darkened, full of panic.