In late November of the eighth year of Xuande, the capital was empty, and the people gathered on the street to talk and laugh with great interest, and the scene was noisy and lively.

A few days ago, Shuntianfu posted notices in the streets and alleys of the city, indicating that the Ming army of Liaodong would enter the city today to meet Emperor Xuande, and at that time, the leaders of the Seven Guards of Guanxi would also enter the city with the Ming army of Liaodong and ask Emperor Xuande for the attack on Beizhili.

In this battle with the Northern Yuan, which lasted nearly two years, the Ming army of Liaodong can be said to have made great contributions, not only eliminating the Mongol army that invaded Liaodong and Beizhili, but also frightened the Mongol army led by the great leader of Datong City, Tuhuan, to flee without a fight, and then the Ming army of Wanquan Dusi was able to recover Shanxi Xingdusi.

Therefore, the Ming army of Liaodong became famous in the first battle, and its momentum has surpassed that of the Beijing army in the capital, and it has become the head of the army of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why it is said to be the head of the army of the governor's mansion is because the name of the elite of the Ming Dynasty has been officially captured by the Xiaowu army, and there is no doubt that the Xiaowu army plays a key role in the Ming army of Liaodong.

In order to eliminate the impact of Emperor Xuande's personal defeat, the imperial court spared no effort to publicize the exploits of the Liaodong Ming army, which made the Liaodong Ming army quickly become a hero in the eyes of the people, so it was enthusiastically sought after.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Suddenly, an excited voice sounded in the crowd, which made people stretch their heads and look in the direction of the Zhengyang Gate.

Generally speaking, the army should take the Andingmen in the north to triumph, but because of the holy decree of Emperor Xuande, the Ming army of Liaodong entered the city from the main gate of the nine gates of the capital - Zhengyang Gate, and enjoyed with the people in the city.

Zhengyangmen is located in the south of the capital, there are three city gates in the south of the city, from west to east are Xuanwu Gate, Zhengyang Gate and Chongwen Gate, among which the Zhengyang Gate in the middle is the main gate of the capital, all the heavy affairs for the sake of grandeur are all taken Zhengyang Gate, so that you can pass through the main road of the residential area in the south of the capital.

The phalanx at the forefront of the queue into the city is the Ming army of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, to be precise, it is the Ming army of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division that Li Yuntian reorganized in Kaiyuan City, although the Xiaowu Army has made great contributions in Liaodong, but it cannot take the lead, so Li Yuntian let the people of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division walk in the front and be the first to accept the cheers of the people in the capital.

A phalanx following behind the Liaodong Dusi was the sergeant of the Suzaku Battalion of the Xiaowu Army, followed by the Jurchen Soldiers, the Mongolian Dayan Division, the Korean Soldiers, the Mongolian Uliangha Division, and the Mongolian Huite Division.

As the killer weapon of this battle with the Northern Yuan soldiers, the musketeer phalanx and the artillery phalanx appeared in the last finale, causing bursts of cheers and screams from the people, and now everyone knows that the Ming army has a powerful firearms unit.

After the musketeer phalanx and artillery phalanx passed, Li Yuntian, Zhang Hao and other senior generals of the Ming army who participated in the battle appeared in front of the people on horseback accompanied by Zhang Fu, Yang Shiqi, Jian Yi and others.

Originally, according to the process, Li Yuntian and others should have been at the forefront of those who entered the city, but under Li Yuntian's construction, Emperor Xuande decided to leave the honor of being the first to enter the city to those soldiers who fought bloodily in the field, even if it was an affirmation of their service to the country, it was also a compliment.

Timur and other high-ranking generals of the Kwantan Army followed behind Li Yuntian and others, and it was naturally impossible for them to ride horses as guilty people, and they walked bare-chested and carried a few thorns on their backs, putting on a posture of pleading guilty, shivering in the cold wind.

Obviously, in order to eliminate the anger of Emperor Xuande against the Guanxi Army, the generals of the Guanxi Army must show their repentance and give Emperor Xuande face, so although the generals of the Guanxi Army were frozen, if Emperor Xuande opened up to them, then they would undoubtedly earn it in the end.

"Long live the emperor!" The appearance of Timur and his entourage suddenly pushed the cheerful atmosphere of the scene to the top, looking at the senior generals of the Guanxi Army who were downcast, the people suddenly felt proud, and they didn't know who got up, and they shouted in unison.

The square of the Taihe Hall was full of civil and military officials who came to participate in the court meeting, and watched silently as Li Yuntian, Zhang Fu, Yang Shiqi and others strode through the square into the Taihe Palace.

Not only Li Yuntian, but also Zhao Yong, the captured generals who followed Emperor Xuande's personal expedition, all benefited greatly from the victories in Liaodong and Northern Zhili, and I am afraid that in addition to offsetting their guilt for defeat, they could also receive a lot of rewards.

Li Yuntian accidentally saved the fate of Zhao Yong, the captured generals of the Ming army, and then made the forces of all parties in the Ming Dynasty still in a balanced situation, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

Like the civilian clique, there are also factions in the Daming Xungui group, and once the balance of power between the factions is broken, it means that a new struggle will start within the Xungui group, which is a situation that neither Li Yuntian nor Emperor Xuande wants to see.

Taihe Temple.

Emperor Xuande, who was sitting on the dragon chair, coughed while looking at Li Yuntian and the others who entered the main hall, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he was very relieved that Li Yuntian did not disappoint him, and reversed the unfavorable situation of the battle in one fell swoop, so that the Ming Dynasty finally won this war with the Northern Yuan.

Unlike the Yongle Emperor's period, the Ming army not only defeated the combined forces of Tatar and Warat this time, inflicting heavy losses on the Northern Yuan, but also recruited the Wuliangha, Dayan and Huite tribes, which further divided the power of the Northern Yuan.

The reason why Zhou Zheng did not return to Beijing was because he was now leading his army to pursue the fleeing Tuhuan, and under his command there were not only the Ming troops stationed in Wanquan Dusi, but also the Jurchen soldiers and Mongol soldiers transferred from the Ming army in Liaodong, the largest number of which were the soldiers of the Wuliang Ha Division.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the Ming army would capture the territory of the Tatar Department this time, and then divide the territory of the Tatar Department into two parts, north and south, with Hala and Lincheng where the Northern Yuan royal court was located as the center, and the south centered on the Hetao.

In this way, the area where the Mongol tribes live will be divided into three parts, the Hala and Limcheng regions, the Hetao region, and the Uliangha region.

The Hala and Lincheng areas and the Hetao Plain area belonged to the newly formed Mongolian political envoys, while the Uliangha region belonged to the newly established Liaodong political envoys, and Li Yuntian wanted to completely bring these three regions under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, Li Yuntian wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to take the territory of Mobei Warat in one fell swoop, but because Mobei was too far away, Li Yuntian could only give it up first and go all out to manage the territory of Monan Tatar.

Li Yuntian had already negotiated with the Bald Polo to move the Huite tribe's subordinates south to the Hala and Lincheng areas, and the water and grass in the south of the desert were more abundant than those in the north of the country.

In Li Yuntian's view, because the Warat Department is too far away from the Ming Dynasty, it cannot be conquered by force alone, as long as the Hala and Lincheng areas, the Hetao area and the Wuliangha area are well managed, so that the local people can live and work in peace and contentment, then there will naturally be the troops of the Warat Department to move south to take refuge, which is thousands of times better than the effect of sending troops.

In order to dispel the concerns of the vultures and others, and at the same time to strengthen the administration of the three regions, Li Yuntian, the local magistrates of the three regions, will adopt the method of cross-appointment, that is, the local chiefs of the Hala and Lincheng areas will be the Mongols from the Hetao area and the Uliangha region.

In this way, the officials in charge of the three regions are still Mongols, which will undoubtedly make it easier for the local Polo and others to accept, and Li Yuntian is ready to use a step-by-step approach to govern the three regions in twenty years, so that they can truly integrate into the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongols of the Uliangha tribe are naturally in the Uliangha area, and Li Yuntian once promised Halbala, so the Dayan tribe is in the Hetao area with the most abundant water and grass, and the Huite department after moving south is in the Hala and Lincheng areas.

It is worth mentioning that the Mongol officials in the three regions were not so easy to serve, because they were appointed by the imperial court, and were not appointed by the people such as the vultures and the harbara, but only through the guò imperial examination, and only after receiving systematic training could they manage the local government affairs well.

To put it bluntly, that is, those Mongolian officials must first enter the lecture hall to study, and only after passing can they become officials.

Obviously, due to the factors of educational resources and education level, it was impossible for Li Yuntian to let them participate in the martial arts, so he could only use alternative methods to participate in the martial arts.

Among the three Mongols who attached to the Ming Dynasty, the Uliangha was undoubtedly the most reassuring to Li Yuntian, so he sent the Uliangha soldiers and the Mongol soldiers to assist Zhou Zheng in the pursuit.

Li Yuntian did not distrust the soldiers of the Dayan Division, the key was that the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty had fled back to Hala and Lincheng, and if the soldiers of the Dayan Department were used to attack Hala and Lincheng, even if there was no accident, it would make the psychology of the soldiers of the Dayan Department suffer a certain amount of blows.

But the Wuliang Habu were different, legally speaking, they were loyal to the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty rather than the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan, so there would be no problem that Li Yuntian feared.

This is also the reason why Li Yuntian wanted the Huite tribe to move south, the Warat people are not as loyal to the Adai Khan as the Tatars, so once the Huite tribe moves to Hala and Lincheng, then the influence of the Adai Khan in the local area will be greatly reduced.

With the Huites as a barrier to the north, Adai Khan's forces could not enter the Hetao, which in turn had an impact on the Tatar-based tribes.

After this great battle with the Ming Dynasty, Adai Khan will lead the Tatar tribes who follow him to move north, and the sun will fill the power vacuum left by the Huit tribe in the Warat region because of the southward movement of the Huite tribe.

It is worth mentioning that Taiping, the leader of the Turhut tribe, one of the three major departments of Warat, also fled back to Mobei with Tuhuan, and Taiping led his troops to guard Juyong Pass, but Zhao Yong and others mixed into Juyong Pass with Mongolian soldiers, and then suddenly attacked, and hit the unsuspecting Taiping by surprise, so that Taiping fled back to Datong City in a hurry under the protection of hundreds of horsemen.

Compared with Tuhuan, Taiping suffered greater losses this time, but he should be glad that Adai Khan led his army to move north, so that Mobei presented a three-legged pattern of Dehuan, Adai Khan and Taiping, otherwise Taiping would definitely be annexed by Tuhuan by taking the opportunity.

In Li Yuntian's view, after this great war with the Ming Dynasty, Tuhuan, Adai Khan and Taiping have been greatly damaged, and they can no longer organize effective southward military operations in a short period of time, and the northern part of the Ming Dynasty will enter a period of peaceful and stable development.

With the Hala and Lincheng areas and the Hetao area as buffer zones, it was not so simple for Tuhuan and Adai Khan to attack the Ming Dynasty in the south, and the defense line in the north of the Ming Dynasty pushed north to the area of Hala and Lincheng, which made the Jingshi get rid of the threat from the northern grasslands in one fell swoop.

In addition, Li Yuntian not only incorporated the Jurchen tribes to strengthen the power of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, but also asked Emperor Xuande to establish the Liaodong Political Envoy Division, and then strengthened the control of the Nuer Gandu Division through the Liaodong Metropolitan Division and the Liaodong Political Envoy Division, laying a solid foundation for the stability and prosperity of the northeastern territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the war between Daming Tongguò and the Northern Yuan Dynasty achieved the goal of Emperor Xuande's northern expedition, although Emperor Xuande was attacked by Arutai in the Yuma River, it was still Emperor Xuande who won the war in the end.

This means that Emperor Xuande's northern expedition was victorious, and it became another great achievement of Emperor Xuande in the history books after quelling the Jiaozhi rebellion, and Li Yuntian's name was closely linked with the two major battles of defending the territory and expanding the territory during the Xuande period, and became the representative of the Ming Dynasty in the Xuande period.