In the Hetao prairie, people and horses with no edge in sight are moving eastward along the Yellow River.

At this time, the north wind is strong, although it is still autumn, but the Hetao prairie is already a desolate scene, except for the dry grass is barren mountains, there is not a trace of green.

On both sides of the Yellow River, there are tribes of yurts, most of which have been slaughtered and pickled as winter reserves. Only a small number of cattle and sheep were kept as "seeds" and were no longer grazed, but enclosed in wooden pens and fed with reserve grass. Most of the people who move around the yurt are women in bright clothes or teenagers who have not yet grown up. In the past, young men rode horses to compete with each other, and the sight of bending bows and shooting eagles on horseback was never seen again. Only a few elderly shepherds, on horseback, swam around the tribe, looking eastward, as if they were worried about something.

In Liaodong, there are already heroes born, and they are doing the trend of conquest in the west. Maybe he has already waved his army into the Monan grassland!

Part of the Mongol steppe, the Hetao steppe is now one of the winter pastures of the central Ulus of Mongolia. It was also the cantonment of the 100,000 Mongol army to which the Central Urus belonged. Kublai Khan was not stupid enough to let all his Mongol warriors live in the cities and live like the Han Chinese. Even if he pretended to be a Han himself, lived in the palace of Jingzhao Mansion, and organized the imperial examination in a troubled manner.

But he did not forget that his own roots and those of Great Mongolia are on the steppe! So apart from a few high-ranking officials and generals, Kublai Khan did not bring more Mongols into the Central Plains. It was never intended to sinicize the entire Mongolian nation.

Because he knew very well that the Sinicized Mongols would not be able to hold the steppe. At that time, new forces will rise in the wild lands outside the Saiwai, just like the Jurchens and Mongolians. When the time comes. It's the end of Great Mongolia.

But he didn't expect it anyway, just under his careful precautions. A new generation of Saiwai male lords still appeared, and what he couldn't imagine was that this male lord was actually Han Chinese!

For the rapid rise of the Northern Ming Dynasty, Kublai Khan never took it lightly. The reason why he did not use the main force in Liaodong was actually a manifestation of the excessive attention he paid - he was afraid that he would be defeated by the Northern Ming, who had powerful firearms and elite light cavalry, and thus lose the strength and prestige to continue to rule the Great Mongols.

In other words, he didn't have the confidence to defeat Chen Dexing at all!

But now, this hero who destroyed the Han family in history and created the Great Yuan Empire. But he saw a good opportunity to defeat Chen Dexing and defeat the rising Beiming Shengsheng.

Now leading this brigade of Mongolian cavalry to the east, it is Kublai Khan, the Great Yuan Emperor and the Great Khan of Mongolia, who is leading the eastward march of this brigade. However, Kublai Khan did not let people play the Nine White Silks that symbolized the Great Khan, nor did he have the Yellow Dragon Banner that symbolized the emperor, nor did he pass Guò from the densely populated Han land. Rather, it quietly moved eastward from the sparsely populated steppe, inhabited only by Mongols.

Even the Dawanhu and most of the Menghan officials in Jingzhao Prefecture, who were overseers in various places, did not know that their Great Khan and Emperor were now wrapped in a half-worn cloak and riding horses to put away the fish scales and iron armor. Under the escort of the cowardly Xue Jun, who was only wearing a white sheepskin robe, he rode eastward, his face extremely gloomy, and his brows were tightly wrinkled. It seems that he is repeatedly calculating in his heart the strategic policy that the Tang, Song and Ming Kingdoms may adopt in the great war that will begin.

Although Kublai Khan was rough, he was very thoughtful. Every step taken. It's all well thought out. This was the case before the transfer from Yanjing to Jingzhaofu, and now the strategic focus has been put back to the Yanyun region. It is also the result of repeated deliberations.

In his opinion, the rise and fall of the entire Great Mongolia is in the hands of the 100,000 army in his hands and the 100,000 army of the Mongolian host. If these 200,000 troops are wiped out by Chen Dexing. The Great Mongol Kingdom is finished. Not only could the northern Han land not be protected, but even the Mongolian headquarters and the four Ulus in the west could not be protected!

Because he felt that Chen Dexing was an unconventional emperor of the Central Plains, his eyes were not staring at the one acre and three points of land in the Central Plains, but similar to the Mongols, and there was no land in the world that he did not want to conquer! He also whimsically sent people to the other side of the sea to find some new world!

Moreover, Chen Dexing also sacrificed a strange trick to restore the Zhou ceremony, what kind of Zhou-style feudalism should be engaged, and what kind of Xia Jun Yimin should be engaged...... Kublai Khan didn't know what he meant at first, so he asked Liu Bingzhong and Yao Shu to explain for a long time, it turned out that the princes and princes of the Han people took some nobles and some commoners and sealed them to the barbarian territory! Isn't this the same trick as Genghis Khan's separation?

What Zhou-style feudalism, what Fu Zhou ceremony, and what Xia Jun Yimin, it is clearly a copy of the system of Great Mongolia. What a way to go! He is very good for a Mongolian Khan to pretend to be Chinese, but he, a king of the Han people, is learning the old methods of the Mongols......

If he is allowed to win his will, the Great Mongolian State must have a strong army, so that it can fight around, and if it can't work, he can escape!

Along the way, all the way to think about it, in the end Kublai Khan finally had a clue. Only then did he lift his spirits, holding a horsewhip and pointing ahead: "The front is Yunneizhou, this road is very hard, and the warriors will drink tonight!" Starting tomorrow, we have to redouble our spirits, and the army of Chen Thief may be hundreds of miles away. They are not the foot soldiers of the Song Kingdom, they also have countless war horses and pack horses available! ”

Kublai Khan was surrounded by two people, Boyan on the left and Liu Xiaoyuan on the right. The two of them are dressed in the same costume, they are both riding on horses the same, they are about the same age, and even their appearance is almost the same, they are both slightly gentle, rigid and soft. Among them, Boyan was originally a subordinate of Hulegu, and was sent by Hulegu not long ago to congratulate Kublai Khan on his inauguration as Great Khan and Great Yuan Emperor. As a result, Kublai Khan was left by his side - Kublai Khan himself had never been to the West, but somehow he became interested in Western things, and often asked Boyan questions. And Liu Xiaoyuan was because he "watched Chen Dexing grow up" and was very familiar with Chen Dexing's various policies and the new weapons of the Ming army, so he was also taken by Kublai Khan and asked at any time.

Hearing Kublai Khan's order, Liu Xiaoyuan frowned and did not speak. Boyan opened his mouth and said, "Great Khan, not so fast, right?" It's nearly 500 miles away from Ping, how could Chen Dexing go deep into it? And what is he here for? Hit the Hetao grassland? ”

Kublai Khan laughed, "Boyan is really resourceful, and he can't hide anything from you." ”

was praised by Kublai Khan for no reason, but Boyan's face was slightly red, because he didn't see what Kublai Khan was going to do at all. And Liu Xiaoyuan, who was beside him, sneered slightly, and then immediately gave his hand: "Great Khan, you have to send someone to contact Yanjing to find out the location of Chen Dexing and the four kings of the host." ”

Kublai Khan glanced at Liu Xiaoyuan, nodded and said, "I have to let people go, why don't you go to Yanjing!" ”

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Luanping Road, west of the Luanhe River, along both sides of the Luanhe River in the north-south direction, there are many fortresses and walled cities. With the rise of Chen Dexing in eastern Liaoning, Luanping Road, which is next to western Liaoning, also became tense, and fortresses and walled cities rose one after another. The originally scattered Han farmers were all gathered in one fortress after another, ploughing and fighting. Not long ago, there were also Han people who moved from western Liaoning, and they were also arranged in Luanping Road, so more forts were built. Luanping, which was originally not densely populated, became prosperous for a while.

However, at this time, a large walled city was full of smoke, and thousands of soldiers of the Northern Ming Army had rushed into the city through the gap opened by the artillery, slashing and killing everywhere. Soon a Mongol army entrenched here was driven out of the fortress. The Eight Banners and Black Flag Soldiers and Horses, who had been waiting outside for a long time, roared and swarmed up, slashing and capturing, and in a short time they wiped out this color.

A black-clothed Eight Banner general and a Ming army general wearing a yellow jacket galloped up a hill as if they were flying, and saluted Chen Dexing under the banner of the Chinese army: "King, this time I got a total of 85 heads, all of which are colorful. In addition, 213 people were arrested, all of whom were armed and foot, and none were seriously injured. ”

Chen Dexing glanced at the two generals in front of him, one of whom was Yang Axi, the leader of the Zhenghei Banner Left Association - he is now a dignified Hanshi! He was made a knight, and also owned three granges of 300 acres and 22 serfs.

The other is the newly surrendered Chen Dexing Yan Zhonghei, who surrendered with 2,000 people, but did not receive any preferential treatment - although Chen Dexing shouted Zhou etiquette and feudalism all day long. But his feudal and weekly rituals are all well-behaved and orderly, and they all revolve around merit.

Yan Zhongsi was forced to surrender in desperation, and Chen Dexing was not a bad treatment for giving him a great credit. However, after giving the grange to the grange, he unceremoniously deprived him of his military rights and scattered his 2,000 men into various ministries. At the same time, he was sent by the commander of an infantry battalion, and his battalion rushed to the front line, pulling out several fortresses in Luanping Road to resist the Northern Ming Dynasty.

Chen Dexing listened to the report, but just waved his hand: "You fought well, Yan Zhonghei, you still have some skills, and after this battle, you will go to the military academy to study for two years, and the future is bright." ”

He waved his hand and asked the two of them to step back, discussing the matter of repaying merit, and there was a collegiate discussion between Yan Zhongsi and Yang Axi's superiors and the righteous instructor. Chen Dexing, the king of Ming, does not directly interfere.

"King, isn't it too slow for us to attack the city all the way?" Zhang Shijie, who was accompanying Chen Dexing, said in a low voice at this time, "It's better to bypass Jiancheng and attack Yanjing quickly, as long as Yanjing is taken, the four kings of the Mongolian host can only go west to Datong." (To be continued......)