It took three days to get everything ready.

Grain, grass, horses, weapons, bows, crossbows, firearms.

Speaking of firearms, we have to talk about a secret agent of Zhang Ru and Zhu Youzhang. That secret conversation took place after the first battle of Datong that took place when Zhang Ru came to this world.

Zhang Ru, who returned to Beijing in triumph, rescued Zhu Youjiao, who was terrified, and what he held in his hand was a firearm that Zhang Ru had exchanged for from the Shenji Camp. This fire gun is not very powerful, it is not a face-to-face bombardment of the body, it is difficult to kill people.

If this was a weapon of mass destruction, the people of the Shenji Battalion would not be at ease to give this firearm to Zhang Ru.

It is precisely because of this handcuff that arouses the curiosity of Zhu Youjiao, who is still the prince.

He kept asking how Zhang Ru's fire gun was made of such a magical thing, and why Daming had such a killing weapon, but he didn't choose the equipment of the whole army.

Zhang Ru patiently explained to Zhu Youzhu the rough manufacturing process of firearms, and used what he had seen in the novel in his previous life to explain the composition principle of gunpowder.

As for why the whole army is not equipped, Zhang Ru gave two explanations.

On the one hand, the cost of firearms is extremely expensive, and the cost of one firearm is worth the cost of ten standard long knives in the army. The Chenghua Imperial Court had no money, and it was not easy to equip a small amount of firearms.

On the other hand, in the leadership of this era, for safety reasons, firearms cannot be manufactured on a large scale. This is because there will be progress in the manufacture of firearms, and once there will be progress, once long-range weapons of destruction are made, the emperor and his ministers will become very dangerous.

The Ming Dynasty's control over weapons is still very strict, but once it is secret, there will always be omissions, and once it is missed, it will cause a catastrophe.

In addition, the cancer of the White Lotus Sect has always been causing trouble on the border of the Ming Dynasty, once someone in the craftsman camp is bought, and the method of making firearms spreads, it will be a fatal blow to the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Zhu Youzhu was still quite disappointed and said, in this way, there is no possibility of making this firearm.

Zhang Ru didn't have so many worries at that time, and immediately asked the prince to secretly develop firearms, and said that as long as His Royal Highness is not afraid of death, the minister is willing to risk the disapproval of the world and go crazy with His Highness.

has been by Zhu Jianshen's side since he was a child, and all he has been exposed to is the art of scheming, which makes Zhu Youzhang's world very boring. The young man didn't know what it would mean for the feudal dynasty of the Ming Dynasty to be used on a large scale, so he hid from Zhu Jianshen and nourished a few craftsmen in the craftsman.

The clever Zhang Ru completely eliminated the possibility of the loss of firearms technology, and he divided the production of firearms into countless steps, each of which was in charge of a special person. The craftsmen didn't know how other people's processes were made, only that when they were put together, they were powerful weapons that could kill people.

From that time to now, four or five years have passed, and the number of artisan households in the artisan camp has grown from eight at the beginning to more than 3,000 now.

Artisans live in the camps of the artisan camps, guarded by special soldiers, and each artisan has its own space to move, but is not allowed to meet other artisans.

Strict management and generous treatment made those artisans willing to live like they were in prison, because Zhang Ru said that as long as their descendants did not want to do this business, the imperial court could send their descendants away. Once a month, they have the opportunity to see each other, and each time they meet, they can ask their children how their lives are going.

After his death, he was able to leave a fortune as a guest officer to his descendants, which made these craftsmen who had become parents very happy.

As for inheritance, Zhang Ru also thought that every apprentice of the craftsman household was carefully selected, and such a person would be responsible for marrying them and letting them have children, so as to continue their bloodline.

This time, the 1,000 Shenji battalion soldiers who came out with Zhang Ru were holding new muskets that could fire twice in a row. Compared with previous muskets, this musket has a very prominent feature, that is, it is extremely lethal.

Each piece of iron sand is a prismatic iron sand polished after careful selection, and it is made of lead. This thing is softer. It can enter the human body smoothly, puncture when it encounters an organ, and become larger when it encounters a bone.

Basically, if you are hit by such a gun, you are wasted.

In this era when no one dares to do surgery, if you don't get it right, you have to die.

The first of the army was the 50,000 Datong border army, and they wanted to make meritorious deeds, so their destination was the Tatar camp.

The Tatar camp was stationed thirty miles north of Tucheng, and the Tatars took Tucheng but did not enter it, plundered the city and then retreated to the steppe.

These grassland men didn't know how to defend the city at all, so they would rather fight the Ming army on horseback than hide in the earthen city like a shrunken turtle and be passively beaten.

Of course, the deeper meaning is that these Tatars simply looked down on the Ming border army.

After all, from the year of Chenghua to the year of Hongzhi, except for the battle of Datong a few years ago because of the internal strife of the Tatars, the Ming Dynasty won a victory in some sense, and the rest of the battles were basically more defeats than victories.

50,000 troops pounced, the battle was not small, the Tatars relied on the speed of light horses, scattered the men and horses in dozens of fortresses, if the Chinese army battalion alone to carry the attack of 50,000 horses, it is estimated that the new Tatar Khan will have to return to Daming as a guest.

The enemy scouted the horses and discovered the movement ten miles away from the Ming army, and immediately reported Tu Hu sitting in the golden tent.

Tu Hu's face was childish, and compared with when he was in the capital, he had a little more sense of vicissitudes.

He held a cup full of mare's milk wine, and looked at the table with a frown. At the bottom, there were a number of Tatar generals, who were actually the leaders of various tribes.

"Great Khan, the Ming people are menacing, not to be underestimated!"

"Yes, Great Khan, there are only more than 20,000 people on the king's tent, and there are no less than 40,000 Ming people.

"Please give the order of the Great Khan, warriors of the steppe, never afraid of any risks."

"Immortal Heaven is watching us, how can you be so weak. Those people are not Warat, not powerful Warat. They are Ming people, weak Ming people, Ming people who are as gentle as lambs. ”

The people below were clamoring, and everyone was expressing their opinions. These views of theirs are completely from their own standpoint.

Tu Hu snorted heavily, and slammed the cup containing mare's milk wine on the desk: "If you can tell those Ming soldiers away with your mouth, I will give you the best pasture." ”

The audience was silent.

Tu Hu spoke pure Mongolian language, and the people on the grassland recognized this.

Regardless of whether those tribal leaders agreed with Tu Hu in their hearts or not, he was their nominal leader after all, and he had the purest bloodline of the Golden Family.

"Ben Khan is not in a hurry, you are like eagles who have lost their goals, what kind of system have you become! Not to mention 40,000 horses, even 400,000 horses, they dare not touch the king's account. Tu Hu said proudly.

There is an advantage of following Zhang Ru, that is, Zhang Ru's favorite information, after Tu Hu arrived in the grassland, he learned ten out of ten.

In the final analysis, war is an information war, and whoever has timely and accurate intelligence has a greater hope of victory. On the other hand, whoever is slow to react is bound to become a loser.

Zhang Ru is doing a good job in this regard, and Tu Hu hopes that he can do better, although he can't surpass Zhang Ru yet.

can be so sure, the only reliance is that he knows Zhang Ru.

No one opened their eyes to ask why the Great Khan was not afraid, the discussion was quiet, and there were more resolute expressions on everyone's faces.

In a few moments, an army of 50,000 came back, the steppe people on the periphery made a defensive formation, and all the cavalry mounted to prepare for battle. But those Ming troops pounced like locusts, and they didn't care about the grassland light horsemen who were on horseback with bows and arrows, but went straight to the king's tent.

Sharp arrows rained down, piercing the shoulders of a Ming soldier, and with a muffled grunt, he raised his hand to cut off the tail of the arrow, his injured hand holding the reins tightly, and continued to sprint forward.

When a soldier fell, he was immediately trampled on the head by a war horse and killed instantly.

More and more soldiers fell in pools of blood, and the Ming army was not afraid of death and still moved forward.

The rejecting horses around the camp became decorations in front of Wang Zhou, and with a single halberd, the rejecting horses flew into the air and smashed heavily on several Tatar soldiers who did not have time to mount their horses.

Sharp stubble of wood pierced into their shells, blood gushing from the wounds.

Hearing the shouts outside, Tu Hu suddenly stood up and beckoned to the restless tribal leaders below: "Go, go out with Ben Khan to have a look." ”

The guards followed him, and he whispered a few words to one of them, and then walked outside with a calm face.

Outside the tent, Ma Xuan's war horse was only a hundred zhang away from Tuhu, but he was not charging at all now, but was besieged by dozens of Tatar soldiers.

The vanguard suffered a blow, so the follow-up teams fell into a stalemate, and the two sides fought together, and many Tatar warriors who thought they were good at archery began to shoot arrows at the Ming army.

The crossbowmen on the side of the Ming army were also returning the color to those rangers.

When the guards returned, the scimitar was on the neck of a Ming army general wearing armor, and if Zhang Ru was here, he would definitely exclaim in surprise, because he knew this person.

Lin Kedi, who had a broken arm, straightened his waist, and looked at Tu Hu's eyes full of disdain, Tu Hu smiled, pulled Lin Kedi and said: "General Lin, you see, your brother Paoze, now regardless of your life and death, is there to storm Ben Khan's royal tent." ”

Lin Kedi raised his head high: "I would have sacrificed my life for the country, what are you afraid of!" ”

Tu Hu smiled and patted Lin Kedi's shoulder: "Hehe, good, good man, it's really an iron-blooded man." ”