The sky was slightly bright, and the leader of the gang who had not slept all night had already made breakfast, and today's food was much worse than yesterday.

Yesterday, it belonged to Kaiba rice, white flour steamed buns, meat slices soup, if you eat like this every day, Daming can't afford to raise so many troops.

Today's steamed buns are still four, but they are mixed noodles steamed buns, and then one bowl of thin rice porridge per person, and they can't eat the second meal until sunset.

During the march, they march at dawn and sleep at sunset.

The hardest thing was the gang leader, who was divided into two groups, either on the way or in practice, so they could go with the boat.

After distributing the morning's meals, they dismantled the stove, put the cauldron on the boat, and opened it first.

The other group had already gone to the front, and when the army arrived in the evening, they would be able to eat a hot meal.

Entering the canal, the cavalry of the three battalions of Jingwei lined up on both sides of the canal, with five military camps on the left and three thousand battalions on the right.

In addition to the three battalions, there are also Yulinwei, Jinyi Guard and other soldiers who are also guarding.

Early in the morning, Zhu Zhanji met with Zhang Fengshan, the leader of his young army, and Zhao Yongliang, the commander of the Yulin Left Guard.

The Yulinwei marching hand and the five armies were arranged by the Governor's Mansion in a unified manner, and he did not need to interfere.

However, at the request of Zhu Zhanji, the 200 young soldiers of the young army regarded this march as training.

Not only do they need to walk 80 miles a day, but they also need to cook their own meals and hide their whereabouts. Before the army arrived in Beiping, they had to arrive in front.

Although the task is arduous, after three years of high-intensity training, they should be able to meet Zhu Zhanji's requirements.

Other soldiers eat two meals a day, they eat three meals, and they have meat every day, just looking at their physique, they are stronger than ordinary Ming soldiers.

What's more, the training mode of modern special forces has allowed them to master more skills than other Ming soldiers.

Zhu Zhanji hopes that this seed can really germinate.

The fleet continued to move forward, and Zhu Zhanji stayed on Zhu Di's boat. Watching him meet with generals from various ministries and plan various strategies, Zhu Zhanji rarely interjected, but always compared the tactics and plans of different eras in his heart.

In modern society, although he has never personally led troops, he has tens of thousands of mercenaries under his command and has read a lot of various tactical reports on the bodyguard team of more than 100,000 people.

Now, if we compare the two sides and remove the differences in the times, we can get a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the plan.

Zhu Di is indeed a war maniac, and when he encounters a war now, his spirit is extremely excited.

Although he was busy almost from morning to night every day, he didn't feel tired.

Every afternoon, after he was stationed, he would ride his horse for half an hour to an hour for recovery training.

Zhu Zhanji also trains every day, but he basically trains his own archery.

Weapons, such as knives, guns, and clubs, after he became a martial arts master in his previous life, his experience and skills were enough.

He had never been trained in archery, and in his previous life, he had occasionally played with ancient long-range weapons, and he had played crossbows instead of bows.

So after coming to the Ming Dynasty, he also began training in this area since he was a child.

However, he was used to playing with guns and crossbows, and now he was playing with bows, and he was never much interested. Archery can only be said to be above the level, but it is not a marksman.

Even so, Zhu Zhanji's archery skills are already very surprising.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the bow and arrow were still dominated by Mongolian bows, which almost became a circle after being wound, and only after being wound did they resemble a recurve bow. In addition, there are many single bows and recurve bows, but archers have not been the mainstream in the army.

Because since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming army has attached great importance to the use of firearms.

Today's Anyuan Hou Liusheng is the firearms expert and artillery commander of the Ming Dynasty, but in order to avoid suspicion, Zhu Zhanji has never had the opportunity to understand the details of the development of firearms in the Ming army.

He only knew that there were shotguns and three-eyed guns, but as long as he thought that the current gunpowder was still black, he knew how powerful it was.

Zhu Zhanji often regrets it, he knew that he was going to travel to Daming, so he read more chemical information.

In the past, in his computer, there were various weapon manufacturing plans and ammunition ratios, but he only looked at them roughly, and now he almost forgot them.

Moreover, even if some ammunition is familiar with the name and knows how to make it, it is even more difficult that there are no raw materials! And the chemical raw materials are the most important things.

In the evening of that day, the fleet stopped on the bank of the Yellow River.

The estuary of the Yellow River in this era was not in Shandong, but in Jiangsu in later generations.

Since ancient times, the Yellow River has been like a swinging wicker, swinging back and forth from north to south and from south to north at the mouth of the sea. The northernmost reaches of the Qinghe River in Tianjin, and the southernmost reaches the south of Lianyungang in Jiangsu.

In this era, the Yellow River flows into the sea in Jiangsu.

The army crossed the river unlike the well-prepared boats when it set out, and it took at least two days to transport all the men and horses across the river.

The weather is fine, not only is there no wind, but people who are shining in the sun can feel a little warmth.

Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji sat on the roof of the boat, basking in the sun, while chatting about the Warat tribe to be defeated this time.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty retreated to Lingbei Province, known as the Northern Yuan Dynasty in history.

During the decades of the attack of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the last emperor Kun Timur Khan was originally exiled to present-day Jeju Island by his minister Guili Chi. But then he was killed.

So far, in the year that Zhu Zhanji crossed over, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has become history.

The Northern Yuan was divided into three tribes, the Tatars, the Warats and the Uliangha, except for the slightly weaker Uliangha, the Warats and the Tatars have been fighting against the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time they are also competing with each other for leadership.

The Tatars inhabited the southern part of present-day Lake Baikal and most of the Mongolian People's Republic; The Warat tribe inhabited the western part of the present-day Mongolian People's Republic and the Junggar Basin; The Uliangha is in the area of Tangnu Ulianghai.

The three tribes often killed each other, and also often harassed the Ming border.

Although the two clans regard the Ming Dynasty as their most important enemy, the struggle between them is also extremely fierce.

However, since they had all withdrawn from Monan, their destructive power to the Ming Dynasty was limited.

Zhu Di had a relationship with the ghost Li Chi, known as the Tatar Khan, during the Jingnan period. After ascending the throne, he sent envoys to appease the Tatar and Warat tribes, and established some guards in the Tatar nomadic areas, trying to subdue the Mongols by means of tributary trade.

After the Ming Dynasty, the national strength was not restored, and the two tribes could only be mixed with sand by dividing and pulling together.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Emperor Yuan Shun's great-grandson, Ben Ya Shili, was called Khan in Tartary and took a tough attitude towards Ming. In the seventh year of Yongle, he killed the Ming envoy and defeated Qiu Fu's Northern Expeditionary Army.

Zhu Di had to personally go on a northern expedition in the eighth year of Yongle.

At the time of his departure, the Tatars had already been divided into internal strife, and Zhu Di pursued and defeated the Tatar Khan Benyasuri and the Taishi Arutai on the banks of the Martyred River and east of Lake Bear.

After the war, Benjamin was killed after defecting to Warat, and Arutai sent tribute.

The powerful Tatars were defeated, but the rise of another Varat was caused. At this time, the Great Khan of Warat, Mahamu, called on all tribes to submit to the Ming Dynasty with the slogan of fighting against the Ming Dynasty.

It is in such an environment that Zhu Di is definitely the second pro-conscription.

Zhu Zhanji is not familiar with history, he only remembers Zhu Di's five personal expeditions, after Yang Guang, he became the emperor, and he was the only emperor who personally led the army to fight.

Even Li Shimin, after becoming the emperor, has never been a royal driver.

Although the successive emperors of the Ming Dynasty also drove the expedition in person, they were all soy sauce.

As for the heavenly Kang Mazi who was advocated in later generations, it is even more of a joke. It's about the royal conquest and the war in Xinjiang, where are the others? At the junction of Hebei and Inner Mongolia, I waited for news, and I was embarrassed to say that I was driving in person.

Even the unreliable Emperor Zhengde, who said that he would drive the expedition in person, followed the army to the front line, and personally killed an enemy.

Because he was not familiar with history, Zhu Zhanji at this time did not have the advantage of being a traverser. He only knew that Zhu Di's five personal expeditions finally died on the way back.

That also shows that the results of his second Northern Expedition are not obvious.

Even if it is won, it is only a battle that is won, but the strategic goal has not been achieved.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji has also been studying the intelligence of the Warat tribe, hoping to help Zhu Di in terms of strategy.

The base camp of the Warat tribe was in the area of the later Hangai Mountains, and occupied most of the land from Lake Baikal to Central Asia.

But their population is not large, only two million people.

Speaking of which, only the Ming army has more numbers, but they are nomads, and if they can't win, they will run. At this time of backwardness, it is not easy to catch up with them.

Four years ago, Zhu Di defeated the Tatars and made Arutai bow down.

In this Northern Expedition, Arutai also responded positively, willing to use the Tatar tribe to assist the Ming in attacking Warat.

However, Zhu Di did not trust Arutai, and was afraid that Arutai would fight back and attack the Ming army back and forth with the Wara tribe.

Today's Zhu Di is in such a hesitant situation.

Zhu Zhanji tried his best to persuade Zhu Di to accept Arutai's invitation to fight, no matter whether they contributed or not, at least their dispatch could relieve a lot of pressure on the eastern flank of the Ming army.

In this era, an army of 500,000 had to travel thousands of miles from Beiping to Ulaanbaatar to fight. Logistical replenishment, personnel fatigue, are very serious problems.

But if the number of people is small, it is simply to stuff the teeth of the Warat tribe, and fight on horseback, the Ming army is still inferior to their nation that grows on horseback.

"Although the Tatar tribe is now subjugating to my Daming, they are also white-eyed wolves that they can't raise, let them know my Daming's march route, strategic intentions, if they fight back, it will only put us in a dangerous situation."

Zhu Zhanji said: "Grandpa Huang, we must first figure out one thing, that is, what is the reason why my Ming Dynasty launched this war and what is the purpose?" What is the significance? ”