In the eighteenth year of Yongle (1420), Lu Xian received an edict from Ming Chengzu: "Zhuang Lang commanded Lu Shijia to lead two hundred troops to participate in the March parade of the following year." ”

After receiving the edict, Lu Xian immediately arranged for people to prepare personnel and horses, and remade the purple battle robes. Why choose purple, firstly, the emperor's mighty purple air comes from the east, and secondly, the purple is simple, elegant, and clean, which makes people feel comfortable. Strictly train in accordance with relevant regulations.

From the news from all walks of life, Lu Xian knew that this military parade was not as good as before, and Cheng Zu wanted to show off his Ming muscles to the surrounding countries through this military parade, so as to achieve the goal of shocking the four countries.

It turned out that a new empire called Timur had risen west of the Ming Dynasty for some time. Its pioneer was Timur, known as the most brutal conqueror of the surrounding countries. The reason for this name comes from the fact that Timur was warlike and brutal and killed innocents indiscriminately. Timur fought for more than 40 years in his life, successively swept away Central Asia, West Asia and other places, defeated the Ottoman Empire, and established the strong position of the Timurid Empire.

Timur's army was unstoppable and swept in all directions. From Central Asia to West Asia, the Indians, Egyptians and the Ottoman Empire, without exception, could not stop the iron cavalry led by him. So, the arrogant Timur set his sights on the Ming Dynasty in the east.

He used his identity as an envoy several times as a cover and entered the Ming Dynasty many times to inquire about the situation. Sometimes the topography of the northwest frontier of the Ming Dynasty was drawn on a map for future troops. With Timur's many in-depth explorations, he gradually gained a detailed understanding of all aspects of the Ming Dynasty. Timur also drew up a series of detailed battle plans for attacking the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he also knew that if he wanted to travel long distances to capture the Ming Dynasty, he must have a strong logistics support army. Therefore, Timur quietly hoarded grain on various routes in the Western Regions very early, and prepared a large number of camel teams to provide transportation and logistics.

However, man is not as good as heaven. Unexpectedly, Timur was too old and weak to withstand the long journey, so he died of illness on the march. At that time, Timur's army did not even smell the wind on the borders of the Ming Dynasty's territory. Before he died, Timur once entrusted his child: "After I die, the important task of annexing the Ming Dynasty will be handed over to you, and I must fulfill my wish." ”

Timur overestimated his sons. Immediately after Timur's death, several of his sons began to struggle for power. As a result, the plan to attack the Ming Dynasty was also lost, and in the end, Timur's fourth son became the monarch of the empire.

For Timur's ambitions, Ming Chengzu, who has the world in mind, knows it well. After ascending to the throne, he arranged for heavy troops to guard the northwest border to prevent the countries of the Western Regions from rebelling.

Ming Chengzu also understood that it was difficult to deter by defense alone, and the leaders of the various ethnic groups in the Western Regions must be allowed to see the strength of the Ming army with their own eyes, and only in this way can they be controlled for a long time. Therefore, Ming Chengzu wanted to hold a big military parade, and invited the envoys of various surrounding tribes and countries to watch the Ming military parade together! In order to highlight the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

With this plan, Ming Chengzu sent Chen Cheng, an outstanding diplomat, to the countries of Central Asia and West Asia, and successfully brought the news of the Ming court's preparations for the military parade to the countries outside the region, inviting them to watch it together.

In July of this year, a delegation of more than 600 envoys from more than 20 countries arrived at Jiayuguan. Ming Chengzu sent 6,000 elite cavalry to escort them all the way along Jiayu Pass through the Ming Dynasty's nine-sided military town to "visit".

The far-sighted Ming Chengzu asked the delegation to visit the Nine Sides, not only to let them see clearly the strength of the Ming Dynasty, but more importantly, to let them see the Ming Dynasty's equal and friendly ethnic policy, not as the rumors said, "the Ming Dynasty mistreated the Mongols and the Hui people". For this reason, Ming Chengzu specially sent Mongolian and Hui officers in the Ming army to receive them, allowing them to visit the places where the Mongols and Hui people lived. Let them understand that the Ming Dynasty had a broad atmosphere and a broad mind, and would never be like the Yuan rulers, who divided people into three, six, nine and so on, and artificially created national divisions.

On 20 November, Ming Chengzu received envoys from various countries at the Imperial Palace in Beijing. The envoys of all countries bowed, but the envoys of Timur insisted on bowing on the grounds that "there is no such custom in our country". In the eyes of Timur's envoys, his country's strength was not a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it should be equal to the Ming Dynasty, so he was only willing to bow. For this, Ming Chengzu didn't care about it, and still entertained him very warmly.

After diplomatic etiquette, Ming Chengzu arranged for the mission to "tour" in Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu, visiting many places of interest and historical sites, including the Confucius Temple in Shandong, to see the prosperity of Chinese mainland cities and experience the vast and profound Chinese culture. Two months later, the missions of various countries received a notice that the Ming Dynasty would begin a large-scale "hunting" exercise around Beijing, and invited the delegations of various countries to visit it.

Lu Xian led his subordinates to Beijing, reported to Ming Chengzu, reported the training of his subordinates, and paid tribute to the imperial court with 30 horses. Cheng Zu was very happy and assigned him to the "Three Thousand Battalions" to train with everyone.

In March, the long-prepared "hunting" military parade finally began in Huailai, north of Beijing. Ming Chengzu transferred a total of 100,000 troops, and carefully selected elite soldiers such as the "Five Military Battalions", "Three Thousand Battalions", and "Shenji Battalion" of the Ming Dynasty stepped on the parade ground with neat steps, loud slogans, sonorous steps, and high spirits. Every step they take, it is like a mountain shaking, and the momentum is extraordinary.

Subsequently, these soldiers performed their own stunts, and successively performed wonderful combat skills such as archery and horseback riding, knife slashing, swordsmanship, cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, and infantry and cavalry combined attacks. The "coyote soldiers" and white pole soldiers transferred from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan practiced "military subjects" such as infantry crossbow salvo fire and spear infantry assassination training.

Lu Xian led the Lu family army to be in high spirits, and performed wonderful projects such as light cavalry outflanking raids, ambushes and blockades, and flying horses shooting the enemy, which fully demonstrated the style of the Lu family army's brave and good fighting, and everyone nodded and praised.

The large-scale "hunting" operation organized by Ming Chengzu lasted for a whole month. In particular, the firearms drill of the "Shenji Battalion" of the Ming Dynasty, the display of "Tiger Cannon", "Fire Dragon Gun" (special musket for cavalry), Annan Gun (carrying guns), "A swarm of bees" (rocket artillery), "Fire Dragon Car" (flamethrower) and many other "high-tech" weapons, performed a salvo of 1,000 cannons on the spot, and the cannon rumbled in an instant, and the scene was huge and spectacular. The envoys of various countries present were all impressed by the strong strength of the Ming army, especially the envoys of Timur, who were full of awe, where was the slightest contempt before. He took the lead in bowing to Chengzu, and no longer dared to underestimate the Ming Empire. It is rumored that after the envoy returned to China, he said to the then monarch Shaharu: "The strength of the Ming Dynasty is far from what we can imagine. Now, not to mention sending 200,000 troops to conquer, even if the imperial army is ten times more, it is not the opponent of the Ming Dynasty at all. I am very glad that the first emperor (Timur) died halfway a few years ago, otherwise he would have been defeated and would have died, and he would not have been able to return his body with hatred and humiliation. Now it seems that the first emperor (Timur) died halfway a few years ago, and it is really a blessing from heaven to preserve his reputation. ”

It is precisely because of this Ming Dynasty military parade that the Timurid Empire knows the gap in strength with the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the Timurid Empire no longer dared to have any plans against the Ming Dynasty, but chose to take the initiative to repair the relationship with the Ming Dynasty and continue to pay tribute until the fall of the Timurid Empire.

In the south, there is a country called Borneo, which is rich in dipterocarp, and the people here boil the sea for salt and live a very rich life. Their palace was decorated with pure gold, the treads on the floor were made of silver, and even the crown was inlaid with countless diamonds. It is so rich and rich, but their king has come to Daming, and he was dumbfounded, and was shocked by the magnificent landscapes, rich products, and heavy civilization of Daming, no matter how his subordinates persuaded him, he was unwilling to return to China and leave Daming. Later, he fell ill and died, and His Majesty buried him in Nanjing according to his last wishes.

In addition, after the Warat Department suffered a heavy blow, in the first month of the thirteenth year of Yongle, Mahamu, Taiping and sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to "pay tribute to Ma to apologize". The Tatar tribe took the opportunity to rise again, and Arutai, who was attached to the Ming Dynasty, after several years of recuperation, sent troops to defeat Warat twice in the 14th and 17th years of Yongle, and managed to control the Uliangha tribe. With the rise of Tatar strength, Arutai is eyeing the Ming Border and wants to attack and disturb the Ming Border. In July of the 19th year of Yongle (1421), Ming Chengzu planned to march north again. Ming Chengzu edict: "Xining, Zhuanglang, Pingliang, Gongchang, Minzhou, Hezhou, Lintao, Taozhou Zhuwei selected an unlimited number of elite native troops, so that the local officials were all commanded by Li Ying, commanded Lu Weijia, Liu Fang, Zhao An, Qianhu Hara, Dong Xian, Zhang Yong, etc., to Beijing in March next year. "In November, the collection of salaries for the Northern Expedition began. In February of the twentieth year of Yongle, Li Qing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was in charge of mobilizing more than 300,000 people to supervise the transportation of nearly 400,000 stone of military grain for the Northern Expedition. In March, Arutai led his troops to invade Xinghe and killed Wang Zhao, the commander of the Ming army. When Chengzu heard the news, he ordered the crown prince to supervise the country, and personally led his division from Beijing to launch the third battle of Mobei.

The Ming army arrived at Jiming Mountain (north of present-day Huailai, Hebei), and Arutai hurriedly retreated north to avoid the battle. The Ming army pursued all the way. Arriving at Kaiping in May and the north shore of Kuoluan Haizi in July, Arutai abandoned cattle and horses and led his troops to flee. The Ming army withdrew after collecting its cattle, alpacas, and horses, burning its baggage. Zhu Di believed that "Arutai dares to rebel, and Wuliangha is the wing", and on the way to the class, he attacked the Wuliangha Department attached to Arutai in five ways with 20,000 elite cavalry, annihilated hundreds of them, forced them to surrender, and captured more than 100,000 cattle and sheep. In August, the Victory Class Division.