After Fu Youde and Tang He broke through Sichuan, Mingsheng was escorted back to heaven by Tang He.

For this soldier, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him, but rewarded him with an official and gave him a title, named: Guiyi Hou.

The land is near Nanjing.

Placing him in Nanjing is somewhat to prevent him from slipping away, but it is also worth being happy for Mingsheng, after all, he was a deserter who was not killed and got an official job, which should be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

Zhu Yuanzhang is considered to have done his best for Mingsheng.

After solving Mingsheng's problem, Zhu Yuanzhang began to shift his gaze to another place.

For other small places that have not yet been settled, this is an eternal pain in his heart.

It is even more of a big problem for his henchmen.

Their existence is like sticking a sword of Damocles in their heads, as long as one of them doesn't pay attention to the other party's head for a moment, their little life will be completely over.

If you don't get rid of them completely, you'll never be able to sleep peacefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had pacified most of the south, finally made up his mind, and this time he wanted to solve the trouble completely.

His name is: Northern Yuan.

Their manager has two really great roles.

One is called: Aiyu Zhi Lidara (Ah Shou),

The other one is called: Wang Baobao (expanded Timur).

The two of them are colleagues of each other, and they are also monarchs and ministers, and they are close comrades-in-arms.

From the time Ah Shou was the prince, Wang Baobao followed him, and he has never stopped until now.

The place they occupy at this time is located in the north, in a vast place, with a fierce personality, and they have a terrible penchant, slaughtering cities.

Once the city is broken, there will be no people and animals left, and no chickens and dogs will be left.

It is also for this reason that the people rewarded them with a terrible title.

Steppenwolf.

Since Wang Baobao fled north from Gansu to join Ah Shou, the two of them have only done one thing.

Expansion.

In order to increase their forces as quickly as possible, they have exhausted all means, whether violence or abduction.

Soon their number of soldiers and horses increased to 100,000.

At this time, Ah Shou, who felt that his waist had hardened again, decided not to sit still, and he decided to take the initiative after being nested in the grassland for more than a year.

This time, Ah Shou, who had learned to be obedient, did not take the stupid method of going straight to Beiping last time, but aimed at the border plug in the north.

He wanted to use this place to practice his hands first.

Experience and train this group of recruits under him.

This group of recruits who screamed and shouted all day long to go into battle to kill the enemy and raise the majesty of our steppe wolf were basically obtained by pit abduction, many of them have never been on the battlefield, and they don't know the cruelty of the battlefield at all.

It is undoubtedly suicide to let this group of recruits go straight to the well-defended Beiping.

For the sake of their safety and for the sake of their own grand revenge, it is better to train them first.

So they took care of Zhu Yuanzhang's business every once in a while, either playing Zhu Yuanzhang's autumn breeze, or visiting Zhu Yuanzhang's field.

In short, I'm not happy, and you Monk Zhu don't want to be happy.

But they didn't know that they thought they were just making a small fuss, and they couldn't get into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes at all, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in Nanjing, had already been eyeing them.

And in the bottom of my heart, I began to plan a detailed plan.

In the first month of the fifth year of Hongwu (1372 AD), Zhu Yuanzhang, who could not bear it anymore, issued this year's No. 001 emperor's order.

The Second Northern Expedition, began.

Target: Northern Yuan.

Missions: Ah Shou, Wang Baobao.

Purpose: Radical eradication.

In order to completely eradicate this stubborn disease, Zhu Yuanzhang chose Xu Da, who had dealt with Wang Baobao several times.

After the combat mission was determined, Zhu Yuanzhang must have had a heart-to-heart talk with Xu Da.

Asking is similar to pulling homely words.

For example, brother, how is your health recently, your daughter is so young, she can almost marry it, I will let him marry which of my son's single dogs you like, your mother's asthma has been getting better recently, and other non-nutritious nonsense.

I will definitely not forget to enhance my feelings, and say: This Northern Expedition will have to trouble you again, brother, those who can work harder, you can take more care and other nonsense.

After the final relationship was almost closer, he asked Xu Da how many people he needed for this northern expedition [how many soldiers he wanted to recruit]?

Xu Da's reply was 100,000 enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head.

100,000 is too little, I'll give you 150,000.

Xu Da was afraid that the boss who had always been slamming the door would not approve it at first, but he didn't expect that not only was there no less, but there were 50,000 more, which must have been happy for him.

From the conversation between Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang, sharp-eyed people have heard a different taste.

Xu Da's words are more or less contemptible.

Maybe he wants to be Han Xin this time, or maybe he wants to be his old partner Chang Yuchun, who has passed away.

He also wanted to taste the taste of 100,000 soldiers and horses rampaging across the world.

But often the main general and the fierce general are not exactly equal.

Xu Da will soon understand this.

Perhaps because he discovered Xu Da's underestimation of the enemy, Liu Ji, who was in the same trench, said a sentence: Expansion should not be taken lightly.

Facts have proved that Liu Ji's warning was correct.

Liu Ji, who had never fought Wang Baobao head-on, once again confirmed his almost miraculous prophecy.

It's a pity that Liu Ji's warning was not adopted by Xu Da.

Perhaps in Xu Da's view, Liu Ji, who has never been able to talk on paper and will not lead troops to fight, is simply a waste who is strong in the outside world.

His words didn't matter at all.

What Xu Da also didn't know was that Liu Ji's seemingly casual sentence went straight to the point.

Soon he will suffer.

After determining Xu Da as the main general, Zhu Yuanzhang told everyone about the action plan he had drawn up.

He first divided the 150,000 soldiers and horses into three parts and handed them over to the three commanders, they were Xu Da as the general of the conquest and set out from the middle road to attack and Lin through Yanmen Pass in Shanxi (verbally becoming a rush soldier, but in fact this is shaking Ashou, and their speed is actually the slowest of the three armies).

The eastern route was led by Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao Guo, as the deputy general of the left, and went out of Yongguan to attack Helin through Yingchang Mansion.

The last Western Route Army was led by Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song Guogong, as the right deputy general, and went out of Jinlan to attack the Gansu area, as a suspicious soldier to induce the Northern Yuan Army to disperse its forces.

The three of them led 50,000 troops respectively and attacked Ashou in three ways.

Before leaving, Zhu Yuanzhang was full of confidence in the face of these 150,000 soldiers and horses, and since he joined the army, he had never been so eager to kill a person.

Whether it is Chen Youliang or Zhang Shicheng, they were all killed by themselves step by step, but this Ah Shou, or the real protagonist Wang Baobao behind him, is the real thorn in the flesh.

This time, so many people were recruited, and all of them were elite soldiers, each of them was a veteran who crawled out of the blood and the dead rolled out, all of them had experienced a hundred battles, and I believe that relying on their strength can completely kill the hidden danger of constantly harassing the northern border fortress.

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze, the three-way army set off one after another.

But what Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn't have thought was that this was the Northern Expedition that almost capsized him in the gutter.

This is a truly tragic war.

Three battles and two defeats, it can be said that they have won the lottery one after another.

The first to win the lottery was Xu Da's middle route army.

In order to cooperate with Xu Da in the battle, Zhu Yuanzhang assigned him an assistant before setting off.

This person's name is: Lan Yu (everyone remember this name, this guy is a bull man regardless of his background or military exploits).

Name: Lan Yu;

Nationality: Han nationality;

Gender: Male;

Occupation: General;

Identity: Chang Yuchun's brother-in-law;

Another identity: Prince Zhu Biao's father-in-law;

Official position: General of the Expedition, Prince and Prince;

Nationality: Chinese, Ming Dynasty;

Place of birth: Dingyuan, Haozhou (now Dingyuan County, Anhui Province);

Date of death: 1393;

Main achievements: the Battle of Yuerhai broke the Northern Yuan;

Title: Liang Guogong (originally Zhu Yuanzhang gave him Liang Guogong, but he made a mistake, and Zhu Yuanzhang changed it).

First of all, it needs to be stated here that Lan Yu has a characteristic that people have to admire, this guy is the same as his own brother-in-law, the same fierce, the same ability to fight.

But the two have two completely different ways to play on the battlefield.

Chang Yuchun is suitable for quick battles, that is, face-to-face battles with the enemy, like a knife, piercing the enemy's heart to instantly cripple the enemy, and then chasing and killing all the way until the enemy can't find the north of the quick battle.

In today's parlance, it's called a frontal assault.

But Sapphire is different, he is suitable for playing dark warfare.

The dark war I refer to here refers to the kind of surprise warfare, that is, the battle in which the enemy does not know where you are at the last moment, or even knows that the enemy is approaching, but the enemy is killed in an instant, jumping and hugging his head and scurrying around.

I even have some doubts about whether Chang Yuchun's family is a legendary family of the art of war, and if your family gets married, regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, you must choose the kind of other party who can lead the soldiers and fight in order to get married, otherwise the marriage will go bankrupt.

On 29 February, Xu Dajun, who was in the middle of the route, led his cavalry out of Yanmen Pass under the leadership of the vanguard governor Lan Yu, and first defeated Wang Baobao near Yema River (present-day Krulun River on the Sino-Mongolian border).

Victory in the first battle.

In order to achieve a greater victory, Lan Yu, who led the troops for the first time, did not let go of this group of deserters.

He chose to pursue all the way, and on 20 March, Lan Yu defeated Timur again at the Tura River (today's Tula River, located in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia).

Two battles, two wins.

In the face of this kind of battle situation, Lan Yu, who had never dealt with Wang Baobao for the first time, had a light enemy mentality, he felt that Wang Baobao was not as powerful as the legend, and the soldiers and horses he led had a head-on confrontation with himself, and he couldn't even stop a round and began to turn around and run around, this kind of goods is not worth being afraid of at all.

So he decided to continue the pursuit.

Until Wang Baobao is beaten back to his hometown!

Beat back to his hometown where he was still his mother's womb.

But feeling that he was a little lonely, he did not rush into the desert, but waited for the army led by Xu Da in the rear to arrive and go together.

Xu Da also seemed to feel that this terrible opponent had degraded in the face of two wins in two battles, so he did not veto Lan Yu's judgment.

Instead, he personally led his troops and horses to Lingbei, striving to kill this difficult opponent in one fell swoop.

But Xu Da, who has not fought with Wang Baobao for more than a year, will not know that Wang Baobao is indeed not the Wang Baobao of a year ago, because after more than a year of baptism, he has already changed at this time.

Get even more terrifying!

Lingbei (Mobei), a pair of cold eyes in the dark have been hidden here for a long time, he has been preparing for this battle for more than a year, at this time he has long been unable to hold back the excitement in his heart, the cold scimitar in his hand tightened and loosened, loose and tight, and the sturdy body trembled slightly to show the struggle in his heart at this time.

This is the cemetery he chose for his friends who came from afar, and he chose the cemetery a year ago.

For this decisive battle, he rehearsed several times.

All efforts are made for today's decisive battle.

The shame of a year ago is vividly vivid, how embarrassed it was to flee back then, and what a shame it was to flee at that time.

That kind of unbearable looking back like an animal is still like a knife cutting meat and tearing the heart.

A year of nightmare pain is time to say goodbye.

Goodbye will also be the moment when your Xu Da's life will end forever.

Because, only the dead will not divulge secrets.

You have your death, and that unbearable past can be completely sealed in the world.

Come on, Xu Da.

Let's make a break in the yellow sand.