Chapter 345: The Great Victory of the Border Fortress Suspicion

On the steppe north of the Great Wall, Chahan of the Tatartan Department led about 30,000 soldiers and horses to start the largest invasion of the border in five years, and the Ming army rarely carried out military adventures after the death of the Zhengde Emperor, whether it was the Jiajing Emperor or the generals of the border passes, they all adopted a conservative military policy.

The conservative military policy is explained in a more plain vernacular, that is, neither the imperial court nor the border army will attack, and all they do is to hold their posts and be tightly armed.

The range of activities of Tatartan Mongolia and Vashorn Mongolia has begun to increase greatly, but the harsh climate and environment on the steppe, the increase in the range of activities has no practical effect, if you want to live better, you still have to enter the pass to plunder, the passive defense of the nine-sided border army, to put it bluntly, is to be passively beaten, so that the days of the Mongolian Tatars in these years are very good, but in the past five years, there have been some strange signs.

If the area is strictly calculated, the range of activities of the various Mongolian Tatar tribes on the steppe is equivalent to nearly half of the area of the Ming territory, of course, it is grassland and desert. In the early Ming Dynasty, the continuous northern expedition had destroyed the gathering place of the Tartars on the steppe, and now the tribes are scattered and nomadic among them on weekdays, and only when they are dispatched on a large scale, they are summoned by the Khan's envoys.

In other words, the connection between tribes and tribes is actually quite unsmooth, and if it were not for the regular looting of the Ming Dynasty every year, both sides would not know whether they were alive or dead.

When Cha Khan's own golden horde was summoned, he found that in Jizhen and the grassland near the original Nuergandusi, many tribes disappeared out of thin air, roughly calculated, it turned out to be five or six thousand people who did not know where to go, the human resources on the grassland are precious, and the loss of so many people is really a pain like cutting meat, and the original preparation for the southward journey was also postponed, and the traces of these tribes were searched for in the grassland with all their might.

The herdsmen and cavalry on the grassland judged the traces very magically, so after a search cavalry team of about 100 people was killed by the slave hunting team of the reclamation manor outside the Guan, and the rest were captured, they finally judged clearly what was going on with these missing people.

The furious Chahan immediately gathered more than 30,000 cavalry to prepare to recapture the population, and this time Chahan knew through some Shanxi businessmen that the reclamation manors outside the pass were extremely rich places, where there was a large population, a lot of money, and it was not the theoretical territory of the Ming Dynasty, according to the convention, the Ming Dynasty army would not pay attention to it at all.

This is the first time in nearly 200 years that the Mongol military campaign has been directed north rather than south, and the cause is not plunder, but to seek 'justice'.

Such an unusualness is not only on the grassland, but also the border generals of Datong and Jizhen are under pressure from the court, no matter what the people's suffering, the establishment of sea trade and slave manors has made the finances of the Ming Dynasty much more prosperous unconsciously, and the nobles who control the Jingshi merchant group urgently need war to plunder the population. The border generals of the Nine Sides in Shanxi and Hebei also urgently needed a war to capture the population and sell it for money.

So on the third day after the assembly of Chahan's brigade, it was caught up by the border army of Datong, and the two sides began to have small-scale contact battles, and the combined forces of Jizhen and Xuanhua's horse team were already outflanked on the other side, in the eyes of the Mongolian Tatar cavalry, although the combat effectiveness of the border army on the nine sides was not weak, but it was not good at fighting and pursuing for a long time, and these border troops in the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of fighting, as long as the opponent retreated, the border army would not pursue.

This time it was different, the Ming army seemed to be stalking like crazy, but they refused to let go, and Chahan's march began to slow down.

Among the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the nine sides are the most difficult people, if the officers and soldiers in the interior of the Ming Dynasty encounter things like quelling, they can also make up for it by looting all kinds of things, but the soldiers of the nine sides fight with these barbarians, the other party is basically cavalry, and they are all poor and dead troops, there will be something to be robbed, and there is no benefit to fight desperately, and the spirit of the battle is naturally much worse.

But when the promotion was opened this time, the border generals all generously promised rewards, and they were very meticulous and clear, whether it was to arrest a person or kill a person, it was 500 yuan.

It's not that the reclamation estates don't need slaves anymore, but they also need a stable grassland for their pastures, and the animal power of the reclamation estates is already a bit of a luxury if the cattle are used in the same way as the Kannai, so it is the best choice to use horses to pull plows and do all kinds of work.

After Chahan's men and horses fought with the border army of Datong for three days, the border troops of Jizhen and Xuanhua rushed to the battlefield.

Although the 30,000 Tatar cavalry was at a disadvantage, they did not collapse, but fought and retreated, and the last straw that crushed the camel was the 3,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong.

In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Jiajing, the Ming army broke 30,000 Mongolian cavalry and captured nearly 20,000 people.

Datong and Jizhen, Xuanhua's soldiers and horses dispatched a total of 40,000 people, 40,000 against 30,000, it is almost inconceivable to achieve such a victory, the Ming army has not had such a victory for a long time after becoming an ancestor, and the entire government and the opposition are in an uproar, yes, not a surprise, but an uproar.

Many people don't believe in such results, eunuchs, imperial history, brocade guards or bright or dark spies are sent out to verify the results, these are naturally true, suddenly, all kinds of praise for Emperor Jiajing's martial arts, the emergence of public opinion in the world of virtue, although Emperor Jiajing was not deceived by these twists and turns, but in his heart he also pondered not to understand, what he is currently doing is not more than Zhengde or the previous emperors, or what major changes have been made.

But why did things change like this, but in this war, Emperor Jiajing finally had a clearer understanding of the vague Liaozhen Pass, knowing that it was full of manors run by the rich families of the Ming officials, driving slaves to work and being extremely rich.

And in these manors, the Han men are basically not engaged in labor, but are armed, guarding the manors and suppressing the slaves, Jiajing has no concept of the appearance of these manors, because there was no precedent before, but he has no goodwill towards these manors, most of the manors are not under the control of the Ming Dynasty government, and I heard that the Jurchens of Nuergandusi have basically become slaves.

There is no tax collection in the reclamation manor outside the Guan, there is still force in his hands, and he is independent of the Ming Dynasty, no matter which emperor does not think that it will be a good thing to have such a force by his side, not to mention, Emperor Jiajing feels a little uncomfortable that he has been hiding this matter.

The emperor has lived in the deep palace for a long time, relying on the eyes and ears of the Jinyi Guard, the intelligence system of Dongchang, the news of the imperial history, and the reports of officials from all over the country, but this time Emperor Jiajing understands this from the words of the guards, what does this situation mean, Emperor Jiajing knows that the officials at all levels around him are involved, and they all have more or less interests in it, and only in this case, these forces that have such and such contradictions with each other will be so amazingly consistent and compromise with each other.

And what's even more strange is that the power above the court is not distributed according to the same year of protégés and so on, but according to the geographical distribution of the north and south, but although these southern officials are fighting with the northern officials in all aspects, they are silent about the reclamation of manors and slaves.

Emperor Jiajing angrily wanted to overturn the table, but he forced himself to press down, he now doesn't believe the little eunuch around him, Dongchang, Jinyiwei have deceived themselves, isn't this the world of the Ming Dynasty......

"Aren't you the world of the Ming Dynasty!?"

On the port of Incheon, Liu Shunhua asked Jiang Feng who came to greet him very angrily, but he didn't have a little bit of good anger on his face, speaking of which, no one had talked to Jiang Feng like this for a long time, and the faces of Zhang Liang and Yang Da and others who followed behind him were quite wrong, but Jiang Feng's family affairs, they were not good at saying anything.

Liu Fangrui is not good at showing her head, but Jiang Feng is very kind on her side, and said with a smile there:

"This is North Korea, a Ming domain, naturally not the world of the Ming Dynasty."

Although the attitude is good, but it is not soft or hard to throw a nail back, Liu Shunhua was suffocated there, and then he was about to be furious, he was originally sick at home because of Jiang Feng, but now he was directly invited by Jiang Feng, or more precisely, he was arrested in Incheon, now even if he doesn't even have the opportunity to resign and go home to be a bully, do you want to be a rich man in this overseas and die of old age, he is a dignified Hanlin, and he has also been a political envoy of one party!

But when he was about to say something next, Zhao Xiucai and a group of Jiang Jiajun's civil and military officers hugged each other with a smile on their faces, and this fire couldn't be released, Jiang Feng's respectful support to Liu Shunhua, who was not weak, smiled and whispered:

"Father-in-law, governing 300,000 Dingkou here is much stronger than being idle in Hangzhou, and here, there is no limit to ...... in the future."