With Emperor Xuande's edict, the capital suddenly became lively, and Liang Kuntongguò Junge quickly transferred 30,000 troops from Shandong and 40,000 from Shanxi to requisition the troops he needed.

The household department is even more busy non-stop to raise the military supplies that Liang Kun needs, anyway, the household department is now rich, there is no need to worry about the problem of money, after the silver flows out, there will naturally be grain and grass to arrive in the capital.

There was also good news for the Ming army, Niu Shihao's progress was very smooth, according to the edict of Emperor Xuande, he slowed down the pace of pursuing the Tatars, and in early July succeeded in driving the invading Tatars out of the territory of Xingdusi in Shanxi, and the Tatars fled across the Yin Mountains to the northern steppes.

After hearing the news, Emperor Xuande set off to Datong City, and at the same time ordered Niu Shihao to enter the grassland to pursue the fleeing Tatars.

As a result, Niu Shihao led 100,000 Ming troops to cross the Yin Mountain, and pursued the Tatars fleeing north in two ways, and the troops reached the most important city in the south of the Tatar Department - Yilin.

At the end of July, Emperor Xuande's holy car arrived in Datong City, and the civil and military officials of Datong City went out of the city to greet each other and welcomed Emperor Xuande's imperial chariot into the city.

Looking at the people who were prostrate on both sides of the street, Emperor Xuande couldn't help but feel a burst of high spirits in his heart, he lived in Datong City when he went north with Emperor Yongle, and now he thinks about it as if it was yesterday, the scene in front of him is similar to when Emperor Yongle entered the city, but the object of worship by the people was replaced by Emperor Yongle to him.

Emperor Yongle once conquered Mongolia five times, except for the second expedition to the Warat Department, the other four times were all against the Tatar Department, so that the Tatar tribes fled and took refuge in Mobei.

Compared with Emperor Yongle's northern expedition, Emperor Xuande's expedition is undoubtedly much smaller, according to historical records, Emperor Xuande's five northern expeditions all led hundreds of thousands of troops, while Emperor Xuande only led 150,000 troops, the reason is that Emperor Xuande was sympathetic to the people's feelings, and did not want to spend too much manpower, material and financial resources on the matters of the northern expedition.

Moreover, the purpose of Emperor Xuande's northern expedition was only to teach a lesson to the Tatars who invaded the south, and he was not prepared to pursue the enemy deeply.

The experience of Emperor Yongle's five northern expeditions shows that both the Tatar and the Warat tribes usually choose to flee north when facing the large forces of the Ming army, and the Ming army cannot pursue at all, otherwise the long logistics line cannot be guaranteed.

In mid-August, Niu Shihao sent people to send good news, the Ming army took the city of Yilin without blood, the Tatar defenders of Yilin fled in despair, and did not dare to plunder the edge of the Ming army, so that the Ming army captured countless cattle and sheep, and captured more than 10,000 Tatar people who did not have time to escape.

Niu Shihao asked Emperor Xuande for an edict, asking Emperor Xuande if he pursued the fleeing Tatar department, led the army to the "Drinking Horse River", and then captured the Tatar department's important place Hulan Hu lost temperature, and then threatened the former capital of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Hala and Lincheng, which were also the capital of the Tatar department.

The original name of the Drinking Horse River is the Xuqu River, which is now the Krulun River, located in the southeast of the Tatar important city of Hulan and the sudden loss of temperature, and the Yongle Emperor led the army to this place during the first northern expedition, and renamed it "Drinking Horse River".

Emperor Xuande had heard about the Yinma River, when Emperor Yongle went north, he was still young and could not witness the spectacular scene of thousands of horses drinking together on the banks of the Yinma River, and now he has the opportunity to enter the Yinma River and reign in Hala and Lincheng like Emperor Yongle, he will naturally not give up such great achievements.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande ordered to gather 30,000 troops from Shanxi Xingdu Division, plus 20,000 horses from the Qinglong Legion of the Xiaowu Army in the Datong camp, and rushed to Yilin City to meet Niu Shihao.

In this way, coupled with the 50,000 troops escorted by Emperor Xuande, the army that accompanied Emperor Xuande to Yilin City had 100,000 people.

"Marquis Zhenwu, the emperor has summoned." On this morning, when Li Yuntian was leaning on the moving carriage and closing his eyes to recuperate, the carriage suddenly stopped, and then a voice sounded outside the carriage.

Li Yuntian opened his eyes when he heard this, moved his neck and got out of the carriage, these days he often accompanies Emperor Xuande to relieve his boredom, and he has long been accustomed to the rhythm of life on call.

Emperor Xuande's imperial chariot was a cart drawn by eight horses, like a moving house, stopped at the foot of a hillside at this time, and the chamberlain guarding in front of the imperial chariot saw Li Yuntian coming and hurriedly opened the thick door curtain for him.

In the imperial chariot, Emperor Xuande sat on the soft ball with a pale face, an official document was placed on the table in front of him, and the fingers of his right hand kept beating on the table, and the atmosphere of the scene was a little heavy.

"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" From the somewhat iron-blue look on Emperor Xuande's face, Li Yuntian felt that something unpleasant should have happened, so he asked cautiously after bowing down.

"Look at this!" Emperor Xuande picked up the official document on the table and handed it to Li Yuntian, his tone was a little cold.

"How so?" Li Yuntian took the official document and looked at it, his face couldn't help but show a look of surprise, and he looked at Emperor Xuande in disbelief.

In mid-July, he led his army to meet the army of the Daning Dusi at Shanhaiguan, and gathered 120,000 troops to attack the Wuliangha Sanwei who was confronting the Daning Dusi outside the Great Wall, wanting to destroy the Wuliangha Sanwei first and then rush to the aid of the Liaodong Dusi.

The strength of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei was only thirty or forty thousand people, and in the face of the overwhelming strength advantage of the Ming army, the Wuliang Ha Sanwei continued to retreat, and finally retreated to Daning City, and the two sides fought a big battle outside Daning City.

Unexpectedly, the battle that was originally a battle for the Ming army suddenly changed in the middle, and the Wuliang Ha Sanwei did not know where to come out of 50,000 or 60,000 reinforcements, and its cavalry broke the rear of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and the Ming army was defeated in chaos.

Under the pursuit of the enemy all the way, Liang Kun led 20,000 or 30,000 people to retreat to Shanhaiguan, so far, there was no garrison outside the Daning Dusi, and the road to Liaodong was completely blocked by the Wuliang Ha Sanwei.

Liang Kun had already pleaded guilty to Emperor Xuande in the recital, imploring that he could kill the enemy with the body of the guilty, and even if he died, he would fall in front of the battle.

Emperor Xuande's northern expedition and two reinforcements to Liaodong have already drawn out the main forces of the Ming army in the Gyeonggi region and Shandong and Shanxi, and the remaining Weisuo army can be described as old, weak, sick and disabled, unable to deal with the war in Liaodong.

Now, the Wuliang Ha Sanwei and the Ming army are facing each other in front of the Shanhai Pass, and the Gyeonggi Governor's Office has urgently dispatched troops to the Shanhaiguan to reinforce and ensure that the Shanhai Pass is not lost, otherwise the Wuliang Ha Sanwei will ride their horses south and go straight to the Beijing Division.

"Marquis Zhenwu, how should I decide in your opinion?"

Emperor Xuande looked at Li Yuntian with a stern expression, and he was extremely annoyed in his heart, no matter what, he could not have imagined that Zhang Hao and Liang Kun, the two noble veterans of Jingnan Xun, who had made great achievements in the Ming Dynasty, would defeat Liaodong one after another, which not only made the war in Liaodong fall into a critical situation, but also made the Jingshi unprecedentedly shrouded in danger.

"Your Majesty, Shanhaiguan is heavily guarded by our army, and it is impregnable, and Wuliang Ha Sanwei is not good at attacking the city, if you attack Shanhaiguan, it is tantamount to a moth fighting a fire and killing itself."

Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and solemnly bowed slightly to Emperor Xuande, "According to the minister's opinion, the purpose of Wuliang Ha Sanwei this time should be to cut off the connection between Liaodong and Guannei, with the intention of taking down my Liaodong defenders, and then occupying Liaodong. ”

"Your Majesty, once the Wuliang Ha Sanwei captures Liaodong, then our army will be at a disadvantage outside the Great Wall, and the Tatar Department and the Wuliang Ha Sanwei will undoubtedly occupy the Hetao area, and then confront our army across the Great Wall, so that our army will lose the initiative in the war."

As he spoke, Li Yuntian walked up to a map of the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty hanging on the side, stretched out his hand to draw a large circle in the Hetao area and the Liaodong region, and said in a deep voice.

"Marquis Zhenwu, now it seems that the Tatars have indeed participated in the war in Liaodong, no wonder they are losing and retreating in the face of the offensive of Marquis Anping." Emperor Xuande got up and stepped forward, looked at Mo Nan and Liaodong on the map and pondered for a while, and said with an expressionless face.

He now finally understood why Niu Shihao's battle in Xingdusi, Shanxi Province was fought so smoothly, it turned out that the Tatars had rushed to Liaodong to reinforce the Wuliangha Sanwei, and defeated the unsuspecting Zhang Hao and Liang Kun one after another.

"Your Majesty, this time the Wuliang Ha Sanwei and the Tatar Ministry are acting strangely, it is obvious that they have come after careful planning, and the minister feels that the Warat people are also involved, otherwise they will never dare to provoke my Ming so much."

Li Yuntian groaned slightly, and expressed his attitude to Emperor Xuande, "Your Majesty, if the Warats, Tatars and Wuliangha Sanwei unite, then our army will face the remnants of the entire Northern Yuan, and its strength can reach at least 150,000 people. ”

"Warat, Tatar, Duoyan!" Emperor Xuande's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he stared intently at the map hanging on the wall, the territory of the Warat Division, the Tatar Department and the Wuliang Ha Sanwei almost included all the areas except the Liaodong Prefecture and the Nuergandu Division except for the Great Wall, and it was not difficult to gather 150,000 troops.

This means that the Ming army is no longer facing the challenge of a single Mongolian tribe, but will be at war with the three major Mongolian tribes.

In other words, for the first time since Emperor Hongwu, the Ming army would break out into a full-scale war with the remnants of the Northern Yuan, even when Emperor Yongle was in such a situation.

"Marquis Zhenwu, do you suspect that the Tatars are luring the Marquis of Anping to the north?" After a long time, Emperor Xuande turned to look at Li Yuntian and asked with a stern expression, he had already understood the meaning of Li Yuntian's words.

"It's just a guess on the part of the minister." Li Yuntian bowed to Emperor Xuande when he heard this, and said his reasons in an orderly manner: "

If the Tatars march east to support the Wuliangha Sanwei, the rear must be empty, the Warats and the Tatars began to compete for the orthodox status of the Northern Yuan as early as the Yongle Emperor, and there are many fights between the two sides, and the reason why the Tatars dare to go to Liaodong must be some deal with the Warats, and the two sides have formed an alliance nine times out of ten! ”

"Damn!" Emperor Xuande's eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but slam his fist on the map, judging from Li Yuntian's analysis, the Tatar Department, the Warat Department and the Wuliang Ha Sanwei must have been united, and the opponent's large-scale attack was obviously not good.

"Set up accounts, and pass on the accompanying second-grade and above officials to enter the accounts and discuss matters." Then, Emperor Xuande turned his head to look at Jin Ying, who was standing aside, and instructed him with a cold expression, preparing to summon all his ministers to come and discuss how to deal with the crisis in Liaodong.