"You ......" Zhu Youzhen pointed at Hong Chengchou's nostrils, "You think I don't know your mind?" We are the army of the Ming Dynasty, not bandits. ”

"Yes, yes, we are the army of the Ming Dynasty." Hong Chengchou drooped his head, looking full of regret, he was secretly happy in his heart, Zhu Youzhen did not dismiss these women, his soldiers, sooner or later there will be a chance.

Zhu Youzhen no longer paid attention to Hong Chengchou, but turned to Man Gui: "How many Duoyan cavalry escaped?" ”

"Your Majesty, after Hong Junzuo finished cleaning up Qingling, fortunately he arrived here in time and blocked the escape path of the Duoyan people, and none of them ran away, except for those who died in battle, the rest surrendered." Man Gui stretched out his hand and pointed back.

Zhu Youzhen saw that the Ming army was escorting a group of people who were tied up, and he didn't need to ask, just look at the outfits to know that the people who were tied up must be the Duoyan cavalry who had just fled.

"How many people were captured?"

"Five thousand three hundred and twenty-three."

"Okay," Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, "first look after these captives, and send them to Liaodong in the future to build roads for the local area -- it can be regarded as atonement for themselves." ”

"Your Majesty, the cement road from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou, I'm afraid this will have been repaired, what kind of road do you need to build?"

"Even if the cement road is repaired to Jinzhou, it will be repaired to Guangning in the future, and wherever the Ming Dynasty occupies, cement roads will be built, as long as our food supply can keep up, no one can rob our land."

Man Gui nodded, as if thinking about something.

Hong Chengchou saw that Zhu Youzhen's face was calm, not like he was angry, he was about to speak, but Zhu Youzhen glared at him, he had to swallow and spit at the mouth, swallowing what he was going to say back into his stomach.

Zhu Youzhen withdrew his gaze from Hong Chengchou's face, "Order, the soldiers are working too hard, you will set up camp here today!" ”

That night, the soldiers slaughtered cattle and sheep again to celebrate the Ming army's victory over the Mongol Duoyan Tribe.

According to the statistical results, the Duoyan tribe of nearly 100,000 people was almost slaughtered by Hong Chengchou, Man Gui and others, leaving only more than 5,000 cavalry prisoners and 3,000 young women.

Zhu Youzhen walked alone in the night, and he didn't even bring his personal guard Fu Xiaojian.

Isn't it too inhumane for a tribe of 100,000 people to be completely wiped out like this?

For the sake of his own safety, Da Ming must fight to the death with Jiannu, but Duoyan is only an accomplice of Jiannu, not even an accomplice, does Da Ming have to eliminate them? There are also the next Taining Department and Buyeo Department.

If there is a paper cigarette, Zhu Youzhen really wants to burn one, and when a person is thinking quietly in the boundless night, smoking a cigarette may be much more active.

Does the Duoyan Department have to be destroyed? If the Duoyan Department still exists, will they cut off the return of the Ming army?

The result is inevitable, if the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu officially start a war, the Duoyan Division, as a vassal of Jiannu, will definitely dispatch their cavalry and fiercely insert their scimitars in the weakest places of the Ming Dynasty.

Every time he hesitates, Zhu Youzhen will look for answers from history.

What empire's rise is not a bloody history?

Without a bloody history, this empire would never have been able to rise, like the state of Chu in the Warring States period, like Austria in the eighteenth century.

If you miss the divine mission that God has given you, you will be punished by the heavens, or you will be destroyed by Qin Qiang, as was the case with Chu, or you will be dismembered into countless small states, as Austria did.

If it is like his era name, Zhu Youzhen wants to revive the Ming Dynasty, the bloody history that happened to the Duoyan people is just the beginning, and it is definitely not the end.

Now without the United Nations, there will be no peaceful coexistence between large and small countries, and war will be the norm between countries.

In the conquest of the three departments of Duoyan, Zhu Youzhen also had an unknown reason, that is, military training, the Ming army lacked actual combat, and the soldiers of Jiannu were extremely fierce.

The Ming expedition to Jiannu did not have any advantages except for flintlock pistols. The Jiannu in Liaoyang, Shenyang area, operating for more than ten years, they not only all the people are soldiers, but also familiar with geography, allies to help, convenient supply, strong mobility and other advantages, if the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, is not strong to the point of going against the sky, it is difficult to achieve a complete victory.

The number of Duoyan Sanbu is not large, and the threat to the Ming army is not great, but their lifestyle and military system are very similar to Jiannu, and they happen to be the ideal warm-up opponents of the Ming Dynasty.

If the Ming Dynasty wanted to destroy Jiannu and establish an unprecedentedly powerful Han empire, the three Duoyan tribes must be destroyed.

Untying the knot in his heart, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and smiled bitterly, but he felt a little sorry for these innocent nomads.

However, Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the Mongols had also conquered the Han people, and the Mengyuan Empire was established by relying on endless killing, and the three tribes of Duoyan were also Mongols, and now it was time for them to repay their debts.

He could only wave his hand helplessly to the night: Farewell, Duoyan.

Yesterday's battle was too intense, and the soldiers were very tired, both physically and mentally, but the soldiers of the Ming army, whether they were cavalry or infantry, had their own war horses and would not be too tired when marching.

Early the next morning, the 100,000-strong army on the left flank, all of them rose up and began to march in the direction of the north and east.

This time, it was Wang Mujiu's first royal army that served as the vanguard, and they just carried flintlock pistols and dry rations, and traveled lightly to find the whereabouts of the Taining people first.

Zhu Youzhen led the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army, as the rear army, they carried all the grain, grass, artillery and baggage, and followed Wang Mujiu far behind.

Not long after the army set off, Liu Lin came to report: "Your Majesty, there is a message from the Taining Department from the front. ”

"Taining Ministry? Where is it? ”

"Your Majesty, most of them are in Jianchang City, which should be their big tent."

"Where's Jianchang?" Zhu Youzhen took out the marching map, but unfortunately, the towns outside the pass were marked very vaguely, and the location was not accurate, and Jianchang City was not on the map at all.

"Your Majesty, the investigation rumors ahead, Jianchang City is four hundred miles northeast of Qingling."

"That's supposed to be this area." According to the scale, Zhu Youzhen drew a large circle with a radius of 400 li on the map with his hands, but this was only an approximate location, and the Ming army needed to find it directly.

Zhu Youzhen immediately sent a herald to give Wang Mujiu a rumor, ordering him to quietly look for Jianchang City, and according to the interrogation prompts, Zhu Youzhen drew a general location map for Wang Mujiu.

When Zhu Youzhen arrived at Jianchang City, Wang Mujiu had already fought a battle with the Taining people.

The Taining people were also unable to cope with the flintlock muskets of the Ming army, and after leaving behind more than 3,000 corpses, they temporarily withdrew to Jianchang City.

"Your Majesty, according to the results of the ranger interrogation, the Taining Department is basically concentrated in Jianchang City, with about tens of thousands of troops." Wang Mujiu fed back the information he heard to Zhu Youzhen.

"Aren't the Mongols good at attacking? How can you learn from the Han people and stick to the city now? "Zhu Youzhen is happy, using his own shortcomings against the Ming army, they will only die faster.

After the annihilation of the Duoyan Division, Zhu Youzhen's confidence increased greatly.

Among the three departments of Duoyan, Taining and Buyeo, the number of people in the Duoyan Department is the largest and the strongest, so Daming has always called them "Duoyan Sanbu".

Even the Duoyan Department was wiped out by the Ming Dynasty in a battle, what else can the Taining Department do? Even in the field, in the face of the cavalry of the Taining Division, Zhu Youzhen is not worried now.

"Your Majesty, it's still a flintlock pistol, we shot and killed three thousand of their cavalry, but the Taining people are now hiding in Jianchang City, what should we do?" Facing the city, Wang Mujiu was also at a loss.

"Don't worry, besiege Jianchang City first, and tomorrow morning, we will attack again." Zhu Youzhen immediately commanded the army and surrounded the city of Jianchang on all sides, leaving no escape channel for the Taining people.

Participating in the siege were only Wang Mujiu's Royal First Army, Hong Chengchou's Fourth Army, and Mangui's Seventh Army, because they were real cavalry, fast and capable of hand-to-hand combat, and temporarily the most mobile troops to prevent the Taining people from breaking through from a certain city gate.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen also knew that until the moment of despair, the possibility of Taining people breaking through was extremely small.

They were not a real army, but a tribe of the Mongols, with not only old people, children and women, but also a large number of cattle, horses and sheep, which would never be taken away if they broke through. Unless they were willing to leave the hopes and belongings of the tribe to the Ming army, they would never break through.

Jianchang City is only a small city, and the circumference of the city outline is less than twenty miles, but in the grassland, this is already a rare big city.

There is loess on the grassland, but there are few stones, the city wall of Jianchang City is made of loess, the height is only two steps, that is, three meters, from the outside of the city wall, Zhu Youzhen can not see the thickness of the city wall.

Zhu Youzhen rode a horse, ran around the city, and found that the outside of the city was an open grassland area, which was very flat, and I don't know if the Taining people considered safety when building the city wall.

The artillery of the Ming army is all at the South City Gate, since the city walls on either side are the same, Zhu Youzhen plans to launch the main attack from the South City Gate.

Jianchang City is just an earthen wall, and hundreds of artillery pieces are used, which is really a waste, and Zhu Youzhen only dispatched ten artillery pieces.

Ten artillery pieces were erected five hundred paces away from the south city gate, and when attacking from this position, the flowering shells could extend into the city, and when protecting, even if the Taining people had bows and arrows, they were far from reaching.

There are many soldiers of the Taining Department at the head of the city, they have never seen the muzzle of the black hole hole of the Ming army's artillery, they feel very novel, and point at the barrel from time to time, but for the Ming army gathered under the city, they don't care too much, with the protection of the city wall, they are not afraid of the Ming army's flintlock guns.

Zhu Youzhen gave the gunners the first military order: bombardment of the South City Gate.

The gunners began to adjust the artillery, and now they can only rely on experience, relying on eye observation, to determine the approximate position, and after the first wave of shelling, according to the landing point of the flowering shells, they will make corrections.

Ten flowering shells, one after the other into the barrel.

Ten other gunners, lit ten torches, ready to light the lead#.

The Taining people at the head of the city were amazed one by one: the army on the opposite side was too weird, in broad daylight, the sun was hanging high in the sky, but they lit torches, it was a group of fools!

"Ignition!" Before the Taining people had enough, the artillery commander gave the order.

At the sound of an order, ten torches ignited the lead of the cannon almost simultaneously.