On April 25, Zhu Di, who was located in the camp of the Chinese army, received the news sent by Liu Sheng, and was also very excited when he knew that Arutai had agreed to Daming's conditions almost without discount.

As the weather got warmer, his old ailments were much better, and lately he stopped riding in the car, but rode back on horseback.

handed the information from Liu Sheng to Zhu Zhanji, and he couldn't help but take the test for Zhu Zhanji again. "How did Kiel determine that Arutai would agree to our terms? Are they really not going to rebel on the battlefield? ”

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said, "We are guarding against him, and he is also guarding against us." Neither of us will give the other a chance to rebel. With some preparation, how much effect does Grandpa Huang think his 10,000 people can play? Moreover, force is never the best means of conquest, and all-round economic and cultural control is the real conquest. When the people of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were proud to speak Han and wear Hanfu, and when they had to rely on the Ming Dynasty for food, clothing, housing and transportation, at that time, even if they were allowed to rebel, they would not rebel. ”

"But it's only going to give them time to recover! The Huairou policy has not been used less in the past. ”

"Grandpa Huang, the Confucian policy of gentleness can only be aimed at people with moral conscience, not against the wolf-like Northern Yuan people. The control I am talking about is not Huairou, but the use of means other than war to better control them. ”

"So you asked the Jinyi Guard to investigate the trade between the Nine Border Guards and the Northern Yuan people? When the water is clear, there are no fish! ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang, don't worry, I won't do anything in this area for the time being, I just want to better understand what materials the people of Beiyuan need most today." They need iron tools, and we need to control them. They need artisans, and we can't give them a single artisan. When they can't beat us, and they can only bow to us, the first step is to control them. ”

Zhu Di also laughed, and said with relief: "Ji'er can have such insight, and it lives up to my expectations of you." ”

Zhu Zhanji is actually rejoicing in his heart, he has traveled through the era when the Ming Dynasty was the strongest, and it was also the era when the grassland was the weakest.

More than ten years ago, on the grassland, it was not so weak, although Zhu Yuanzhang drove Mengyuan to Lingbei and occupied most of the area of Monan, but the military strength of Beiyuan was still there.

In the past ten years, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has changed several emperors, and several ethnic groups have been fighting each other.

Zhu Di has been swaying left and right between them, and when anyone wants to be defeated, Da Ming will immediately send weapons to give them the ability to continue fighting.

It was because of this weakening that he was able to drive Benjamin cleanly to the North Sea four years ago, and in the end, only seven people were left to follow Benjamin and be killed by the Warats.

And Arutai, who was originally rampantly clamoring to recapture Beiping, can only bow to Zhu Di now.

It can be said that in the original history, the Northern Yuan Dynasty at the end of Zhu Di had almost lost any ability to resist.

After Zhu Zhanji came to power, in order to protect the capital of Beiping, he gathered almost all the border troops around Beiping, and took the initiative to give up most of the area of Monan, which gave the Northern Yuan a chance to revivenation.

After another thirty years of recuperation, the Warat people have recovered, but the contrast of strength with the Ming is still very large.

Even after the Tumubao Change, the Northern Yuan only had the ability to harass, and had no ability to march into the Ming Dynasty at all.

Now is the critical period when the Ming Dynasty is thriving and the Northern Yuan Dynasty is gradually declining. During the Mongol and Yuan Empires, they inherited almost all of the industrial techniques of the Han Chinese, but did not give these craftsmen room to develop.

The craftsmen who were captured to the grassland are almost dead, and now they can't even make an iron knife, how can they fight against the Ming Dynasty!

As long as we don't give them a chance to rise again, and tighten the shackles around their necks step by step, now is the best chance to solve the great disaster of the grassland.

It can be said that from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present, the grassland forces have never been so weak.

As long as the grassland problem is solved, Daming will have no worries, and Zhu Zhanji will be able to put more energy into attacking other regions.

And he also has the best conditions, that is, in front of him, there is also a Zhu Di who protects him from the wind and rain.

Although he cannot directly hold power and carry out his ambitions unscrupulously, he does not need to directly face pressure from all walks of life.

However, if we want to solve the grassland problem permanently, we can't rush this matter, and if we want to do it quickly, we can't do it quickly, and the more urgent it is, the more we have to slow it down.

He will be satisfied that it will take about 10 years to completely unify the grasslands and completely solve the national issue in 50 years.

Although he has become a generation of heroes in modern times, it is the first time to be an emperor after all!

And in modern times, he gathers momentum with business and is free. But now, he felt that a net was on his body, and it was impossible to do whatever he wanted.

Even if he became an emperor later.

Because in modern times, his men are all gathered under his hands for a clear goal.

That's it – money.

But now? Many people are not around him for money at all. And he needs to spend a lot of energy, just to coordinate the interests of all parties.

Zhu Zhanji shook his head, put aside those troublesome fantasies, and invited Zhu Di to fight. "Grandpa Huang, do you want to have a competition with your grandson?"

Zhu Di laughed, and his legs clamped the horse's belly. "If you want to compare with me, you have to practice for a few more years! ...... driving"

On 16 May, the 700,000-strong army of the Central Route Army and the 200,000-strong Eastern Route Army of Liu Sheng converged at a narrow embankment in the middle reaches of the river.

The Khulun River, which was later known as the Krulun River, is the largest river on the Mongolian Plateau, but due to geological reasons, although this river will not be broken, it is also pitifully small.

The men and horses of the army can directly cross the river, and the auxiliary army spent two days to build five wooden bridges on the river surface more than ten meters wide, which is convenient for carrying heavy military vehicles and cannons to cross the river.

This narrow embankment is 400 miles away from Krulun, the religious holy place of the Mengyuan Dynasty, in the east, and 200 miles away from Dahan'er, the first capital of the Mengyuan Dynasty, in the west.

Two hundred years ago, Genghis Khan was born here, and the original Mongol Yuan regime was established here.

And now, it has been renamed Hulan Huagen, and Mahamu and 30,000 Warat cavalry are waiting there for work, eyeing the tiger.

The sixteenth day of the first month set off from Yingtianfu, and today is the sixteenth day of May, and for this war, the million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty has been on the road for four full months.

The Great War is finally about to begin.

Mahamu, who only has 30,000 elite cavalry, does not want to fight with the Ming army, even if he pulls out all the people who can fight in Wara, it is less than 200,000, and there is a huge gap with the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

However, they can no longer retreat, because if they retreat, more than a million Warat people will lose their pastures and their strength will be greatly damaged.

Moreover, in terms of guerrilla warfare, he believed that he had a wealth of experience and was able to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army.

Knowing that Mahamu was no longer evading, the people on the Ming side were extremely excited. Half a year of preparation, four months of marching, and now there will finally be a result.

Zhu Zhanji also saw Arutai, who had caused decades of harm to the Ming Dynasty, this person Zhu Zhanji had never heard of in modern times, but in this era, he was the most powerful man in the grassland.

The only thing Zhu Zhanji knows about the grassland of this period is that Warat unified the grassland, and there was a Warat leader named Yexian who won the Tumubao Change.

But in the past few decades, he has no idea about the changes in power on the grassland, and even Zhu Zhanji doesn't know who this is first.

After coming to this era, he also checked this person, but did not find this person among the people in power in Warat.

Zhu Zhanji guessed that if it wasn't that he hadn't risen yet, he might not have been born yet.

After all, it is still more than 30 years before the change of the civil fort.

Arutai has a rough appearance and a strong body. Although he seems to be older than Zhu Di, this is just weathered, in terms of age, he is ten years younger than Zhu Di.

There are hundreds of generals in the Chinese army's battalion, although Arutai also gave Zhu Zhanji a gift. But at this juncture of the life and death of the Tatars, he didn't care too much about Zhu Zhanji, the imperial grandson.

If this war is only won by the Ming Dynasty, it will not be enough for the Tatars. If the goal of weakening the Warats cannot be achieved, as soon as the Ming army withdraws, the Tatars will have to face the wrath of the Warats and the robbery of the Uryanha tribe.

Therefore, the Tatars attached more importance to the outcome of this war than to the Ming Dynasty.

On the 16th they arrived at the Hannan River, and on the first day the cavalry and infantry crossed the river and began to camp on both sides of the river, and then the army rested.

On the 19th, artillery and grain and grass were transported across the Hannan River, and the forward army began to march in the direction of Kulan and Kulan to conduct preliminary explorations.

On 22 May, the forward battalion led by Governors Liu Jiang and Zhu Rong arrived at Kulan Kusen, but Mahamu abandoned the ancestral land of Kulan Kuwen and led the army to hide in the northern Tereji Mountains.

Liu Jiang occupied the Tucheng of Hulan and established a base camp based on the Tucheng of Hulan and the loss of temperature.

Subsequently, after Zhu Di led the Chinese army to station, 10,000 Tatar cavalry, under the supervision of the Shenji Battalion, continued to advance westward along the Hannan River.

On the third day of the sixth month, when Liu Jiang's forward battalion advanced to Kanghari, it encountered the tentative army of the Warat people for the first time, beheaded dozens of them, and suffered more than 200 casualties of their own.

Hulan was the capital of the later Öndörkhan city, and the mouth of the three rivers was located southeast of Ulaanbaatar in the later dynasty. At this time, Ulaanbaatar had not yet been established, and the mouth of the three rivers was the transportation hub in the central part of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, which was the intersection of the two rivers, and was 400 miles away from the temperature of Hulan.

Subsequently, the forward battalion did not rush forward, but set up a large camp along the river, echoing the front and back of the base camp.

Seeing the steady advance of the Ming army, the Warat people had nothing to do, and they could not let the Ming army occupy the pasture unscrupulously.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, their army finally appeared on the hill in the northern suburbs of Hulan Huwen.

(Mother underwent surgery, accompanied the bed in the hospital, wishing the world good health)