On 5 March, Liu Sheng led an army of 150,000 and 60,000 people from Zhangbei to the northeast along the eastern prairie with abundant water and grass.

Except for the Shenji Battalion, all the guards were composed of veterans of the Northeast Frontier Guard, and most of them also participated in the First Northern Expedition and knew the situation in various parts of the grassland well.

These veterans were also the main force of this northern expedition, but now they were all sent to the Eastern Front in order to prevent the Tatars.

But as long as you can drive the Tatars into battle and drain their strength, it will all be worth it.

Arutai is cunning and cunning, he is clamoring to help Daming fight Warat this time, and now Daming will plan to see how he responds this time.

However, Yoo Seung is well aware of Arutai's cunning. Although he now submits to the Ming Dynasty and accepts the King of Hening canonized by the Ming Dynasty, in the past four years, not only has he not helped the Ming Dynasty contain Wara, but has instead sat back and watched Warat collect the scattered tribes of the Tatars.

This time, he was also self-defeating, and the rising Warats drove them out of the lush pastures of the Tushu River, and he was forced to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty.

But no matter how fierce their infighting is, they all have a common name, that is, Beiyuan.

They have the same living customs, the same way of life, and Daming, they will never be all the way.

Since the fifth day of the first month, Liu Sheng has been marching with the highest vigilance, and this time he wants to use Arutai, and he also has to guard against the bite of the evil wolf Arutai.

Five days later, the army arrived at the capital of Yuan, which was originally the capital of Mengyuan, but now it is under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and has been set up to guard the front of Kaiping.

Once here, the army traveled north along the west side of the Ganno River.

Marching along the riverbank not only does not worry about the water source, but also prevents the eastern side from being attacked by the army.

This East Road march, safety first, do not seek merit, but seek no fault.

As long as he can drive the Tatars to the front of the battlefield to fight the Warats, he will be a great achievement.

On April 16, Liu Sheng finally met Arutai, who led 10,000 cavalry, at the mouth of the three rivers of the Yuma River and the Hannan River.

Like Liu Sheng, Arutai was also afraid that the Ming army would open its fangs against him at this time. Behind him, Warat was even more aggressive.

The Tatars in the middle are weak. Seeing the vastness of the 200,000 army, and then looking at the 10,000 cavalry behind him, Arutai couldn't help but feel a little worried.

Although the Ming army was slow, it was unstoppable, and it was only expected that the less than 300,000 herdsmen under his command could not withstand the flat push of 200,000 elite generals.

As long as these armies remain in the steppes for a summer, his people have nowhere to graze, and in the autumn their numbers will be reduced by at least half.

Partly because there were no cattle to starve to death, most people would go straight to other tribes.

"National teacher, are we really going to fight the Warats? Calling back and forth, isn't it cheaper for the Han people? ”

Although Arutai was named the king of Hening by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in Tatar, everyone is still used to calling him a national teacher, and in their hearts, they will not agree with a prince canonized by a Han emperor at all.

Arutai's eyes looked at the boundless dust in the distance, all the dust raised by the march of the army.

He sighed and said, "If you don't fight, you can't do it, only by helping the Han people defeat Warat, can we survive." This grassland, after all, belongs to us, and even if the Han people win, they will not stay on the grassland. ”

In terms of hatred of the Han Chinese, he was no weaker than the Wakhamu of Warat, otherwise, he would not have bewitched Benjamin against the Ming Dynasty four years ago.

But if they fail, they can only suffer the consequences of failure.

Wahamu received the swords and guns provided by the Han Chinese, so that he could take advantage of their weakness to seize a large area of the grassland, and also killed the Great Khan Benjamin.

Now, he's just following the old path of Wahmu.

Borrow the power of the Han people to fight the power of the opponent. If they don't resist again, their Tatar alien race will have no steppe to survive in at all.

However, he would not have known that in the distance there was already a scheming young man, ready to cut off the roots of the Tatars directly.

Seeing that the forward battalion of the army had already marched within ten miles, Arutai said: "Ugqi, you lead a hundred troops and then go to meet the Han division." ”

Ugqi said a little unhappily: "Taishi, Aster, aren't they already going to greet them continuously?" ”

"Han people like to talk about rules, and when we ask for them, a little more etiquette, they will be happier, and they will be more generous when they talk about conditions."

"Okay, for the sake of immortality, I will also bow to the Han people once today."

Ugqi raised his right arm, stretched out a finger, and with a wave of his head, he rushed down the hill in a hurry. A hundred people rode in parallel, like a long dragon, and rushed down after them, really coming and going like the wind.

Before Liu Sheng's car was driven, there were already two thousand household chiefs from the Tatar tribe, which were also the highest-ranking military generals of the Tatar tribe today.

In the First World War four years ago, the Ming Dynasty almost crippled the Tatars, leaving only two elderly Wan Hu chiefs, who have now been replaced by these rising stars.

However, in order to control the rise of Tatars, the Ming Dynasty did not canonize the post of head of Tatar households.

Four years ago, the Tatar tribe had 1.5 million men, capable of organizing 50,000 cavalry, and had 50,000 heads of households. But now, there are only 300,000 troops, and it is difficult to organize even 20,000 horsemen.

Da Ming is actually satisfied with such a result. If this time the Warat is also disabled, so that they can maintain the same military strength as the Tatars, then the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty will be stable in the future.

But thinking about the grandson's explanation when he left, Liu Sheng had a headache.

Although this grassland is vast, the Ming Dynasty already has Liaodong, Jiubian, Chuzhou Wei these horse farms, and now has nearly two million horses, and the qualified military horses have reached 500,000.

Therefore, neither the emperor nor their generals have any intentions for the land here.

A slave cadre needs to spend hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year. A Jiaozhi spends millions of taels of military spending every year, and the tax is only 70,000 taels.

And the tribes of the steppe are more and more barren, except for raising horses, there is almost no income, what is the use of using it?

However, in order to cultivate the grandson, the emperor vigorously supported his plan, and I am afraid that he also wanted to make the grandson suffer a loss, only to know that the bigger the country, the better!

"Report, the Tatar Imperial Zuoye Thousand Households Chief Ugqi came to greet the marshal, and the army is still six miles away from the intended destination."

"Let him ...... with him"

Liu Sheng snorted and said secretly: "I don't even have a big sweat anymore, and I still have a royal ...... It's a joke! ”

After the murder of Benjamin, there was no more Great Khan of the Tatars, which officially announced the end of Kublai Khan's family rule in the Mengyuan Empire.

Meng Yuan has become the Northern Yuan, and the Golden Family is over, and the Northern Yuan at this time has lost its threat in the eyes of Liu Sheng.

But he wouldn't know that more than ten years later, this family would resurrect again, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty was the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty.

When the two armies met for three miles, at the mouth of the river on the tributary of Kalaotai Lake, it was a garrison specially prepared by the Tatars for the Ming army.

It is close to Kalaotai Lake, surrounded by water on both sides, and the terrain is flat and open. In addition to leveling the land, the Tatars prepared plenty of hay for the army, which served as horse rations.

When the army gradually approached, Arutai also led three hundred tribes to personally greet Liu Sheng.

The army was settled, and Liang Bokai, the eunuch who accompanied the army, took the lead in setting up the incense case and read out Zhu Di's holy decree.

In the decree, Zhu Di expressed his appreciation for the willingness of the Tatars to act as the vanguard of the crusade against Warat, and appointed Arutai as the deputy governor of the Eastern Route Army, leading the army to obey Liu Sheng's command.

Of course, since the Tatars are to be used as the vanguard, it is natural to give them some benefits.

The army brought 200 stone of sea salt and 1,000 iron pots, which were immediately rewarded to the Tatars, and allowed the Tatars to send a caravan of no more than 5,000 people to trade with the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the Tatars were to be rewarded with 2,000 sabers and 1,000 spears, but these would only be given to them after the armies had converged.

This also means that the Tatars have to make a little contribution first.

Arutai's heart was bitter, the short bow he wanted most was not among the rewards this time, and this was the weapon that the Tatars lacked the most nowadays.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not see the rabbit and did not scatter the eagle, and if they wanted to work without help, I am afraid it would be difficult.

The big tent was raised, and Liu Sheng sat next to him despite Arutai, and began to count the generals. This was also a way of declaring force to the Tatars, so Arutai and his men here had a little bad looks.

In terms of personal force, they think they are stronger than the Han people, but there are too many Han people!

Until the evening, the whole army's big tent was erected, and Liu Sheng deliberately pretended to make time to set up a banquet to entertain Arutai and his party.

Arutai was most concerned about the attitude of the Ming Emperor towards the Tatars, and Liu Sheng also vigorously praised the friendly relations between the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty in accordance with the strategy that had been discussed in advance. And the Ming Dynasty's dispatch this time was regarded as the most powerful support of the Ming Dynasty to the Tatars.

At the same time, he also emphasized the cooperation and development between the Ming and Tatars, and was willing to expand commercial trade on the existing basis.

Although the Northern Yuan was strong, it was poor.

They have almost no productive capacity other than the trade in fur and cattle and sheep. Now even the blacksmith and gunpowder maker have no successor.

The herdsmen at the bottom have no kitchen knives, no iron pots, and even need to share iron knives to kill cattle and sheep, and without iron pots, they can only rely on clay pots to cook rice and stew meat.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty imposed an economic blockade, cut off trade, no tea, no salt, and the Northern Yuan Dynasty died at least 100,000 people.

But they can't afford to rob Daming now.

If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't survive, the Warat people wouldn't have just recovered a little bit of vitality, and they couldn't wait to go against Daming.

Just in order to be able to trade with the Ming Dynasty, Arutai had to agree to Liu Sheng's conditions and send 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 horses to participate in this war.

This is not only to help the Ming Dynasty, but also to find a way to live for the current 300,000 Tatars.