"Admiral Shen, the Dagu Haiphong Pass is just ahead, are we going to land?"

Li Zhan, the guerrilla general of the Fujian Navy Division, came behind Shen Yichen and asked, but there was an irrepressible nervousness on his face.

The reason is that the treasure fleet was initially ordered to go north to suppress the Japanese, but it turned around halfway and went directly to the Dagu Haiphong Pass.

Throughout the ages, the army has not been summoned to Beijing, and all of them are rebellious moves. Li Zan chose to be loyal to Shen Yichen, and he could do some behaviors that exceeded the rules, such as besieging and killing Song Zhang, the right-hand political envoy of Fujian.

But leading the troops to rebel against the Ming Emperor really didn't have the courage, let alone the ambition of "Conglong".

"Otherwise, are we here to play?"

Shen Yichen replied with a serious face, in fact, he didn't think about getting permission from the Shangshu Imperial Court, but for some reason, he never got a response from the emperor.

The arrow is on the bow, and he has to send it, when Shen Yichen chooses to lead the army north, he has no way to retreat!

"Yes...... But there is no will of the imperial court, we are plotting against us! ”

At this moment, Li Zan finally couldn't bear it anymore, Ye Zongliu and others, who committed heinous felonies, might be willing to accompany Shen Yichen to death, his friendship and loyalty could not reach this level.

If Shen Yichen really had wishful thinking, he led his troops to Dagukou to land in the name of suppressing the Japanese, and planned to go straight to Beijing to win the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

Then this kind of action that can be called death will make it difficult for Li Zan to obey his fate!

"Guerrilla Li, do you think I came to Beijing to compete in the world at the risk of raiding my family?"

"Wrong, this official is saving the Ming Dynasty, saving hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the nine sides, and saving millions of people in northern Xinjiang!"

To be honest, on this journey north, Shen Yichen was under too much doubt and pressure.

Except for Bian He and a few other people, no one understands his true thoughts, and no one trusts that his original intention is for the righteousness of his family and country!

Shen Yichen understands these doubts very well, after all, others have no God's perspective, and on the surface, he does look like he is committing a rebellious act.

But now that the Jingshi is in front of him, the situation in Daming is in danger, what if under his influence, Yu Qian fails to turn the tide as he did in history?

Then the Ming Dynasty, which is in full swing at this moment, will be reduced to the Southern Song Dynasty in the next second!

The entire northern land will become a horse farm under the iron hooves of the Mongols, and the former people are not worthy of slavery and maids, and live a fourth-class life that is inferior to pigs and dogs.

Shen Yichen resolutely led the army north, because he wanted to control his fate in his own hands. No matter how history changes, no matter whether Yu Qian can still turn things around, he will become the last line of defense of the Ming Dynasty!

In other words, the change of history was caused by Shen Yichen, and he was shouldering an unshirkable responsibility.

"It's not that the last general doesn't want to believe Admiral Shen, but His Majesty leads an army of 500,000 in Beijing, how can he be defeated and need King Qin?"

Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen drove the news of the personal expedition, Shen Yichen had already informed the whole army after receiving the news. The emperor led the Beijing camp to follow the army, a total of 22 soldiers and horses rushed to Shanxi, and at the same time declared 500,000 troops.

According to the statistics of the Ming army's battles against Mongolia in the past, the casualty ratio can basically reach one to two. Theoretically, if the Mongolian Tile Spur Department wants to defeat the Jingying army in Zhu Qizhen, it must prepare at least 500,000 soldiers and horses, which is also about the same number as the number of people claimed by Yexian.

In addition, the Beijing camp has always been well-equipped, regarded as the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, as long as there are no strategic decision-making mistakes, it will definitely not end up in a crushing defeat. Even if it encounters a temporary disadvantage, it can still rely on the nine-sided castle to defend.

It can be said that it can be attacked, retreated and defended, and it is invincible.

But what Li Zan didn't know was that the Beijing camp was already a golden jade in the orthodox years, and all kinds of noble sons and military generals were inserted into the Beijing camp to serve as middle-class officers.

"The Exotic Reclamation of Vegetable Skeletons"

Not every Xun Qi can still lead the army out of the fortress in person like Cheng Guogong, and always maintain a brave and martial style. The vast majority of the relatives were people who ate, drank and had fun, resulting in a state of plummeting combat effectiveness in Beijing compared with the early Ming Dynasty.

In the case of one to one, it may still be that the Ming army is still slightly superior to the Mongol army.

But the war is not a heads-up, the soldiers are blazing, and no matter how brave the warriors are, they can't stand the blind command of Ming Yingzong and the eunuch group, and it is only a matter of time before they are defeated.

"If Your Majesty is not defeated, it will be a blessing for the country, and this official will take all the punishments with his head."

"If we are defeated, we will be worthy of our family and country!"

Shen Yichen stared at Li Zan with his eyes, and at the same time, the generals of the three guards of Fuzhou, as well as Wu Rui and others, all came to the deck and heard the last sentence.

The commander of the Fuzhou Zhongwei made Feng Zheng's fear even worse than Li Zhan's, but it was precisely because the relationship was not close enough that he did not dare to raise such a question.

After all, I have seen Shen Yichen's methods in Fuzhou, in case the other party really wants to rebel, if he raises objections and doubts at this time, won't he have to be used to sacrifice the flag?

Feng Zheng's suspicions were quickly confirmed, and first Chen Shangong, who is now the commander of Fujian's five major water villages, stood up and expressed his attitude.

"The last general will sink to the governor for the country and the people, and I am willing to stay left and right!"

Chen Shangong was once Ye Zongliu's confidant, and after the "Ye Zongliu" in the territory of the Ming Dynasty was killed, he went to the outer islands to operate the smuggling trade against the Japanese, he enlisted in the army and followed Shen Yichen's side, and became a hardcore supporter of the Fujian sailors.

"Admiral Shen has a great heart and righteousness, and the last general will swear to follow!"

Meng Da of Fuzhou Left Guard also expressed his attitude without hesitation.

He has a small ability, but he was appreciated by Shen Yichen, relying on the work of counterinsurgency and the work of exterminating the Japanese, he was forcibly promoted to the position of the commander of the left guard in Fuzhou.

As the saying goes, a scholar dies for a confidant, Meng Da only knows that his life is Shen Yichen, and he will not hesitate to go to the fire!

"The last will go."

"And lowly duties."

……

One by one, the leading generals stood up, and what was even more outrageous was that the vast majority of middle and low-level officers stood on Shen Yichen's side.

After all, compared with the pros and cons of the upper class, middle and low-level officers are more purely loyal. They only knew that after Shen Yichen came to Fujian to supervise the military affairs, the brothers in their guard no longer had to pay for food and wages, and they gained the dignity and glory of being soldiers!

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Zan didn't know what to say for a while, he could only sigh and say, "Prepare to anchor, land!" ”

"Yes, obedience!"

As the orders were passed down one after another, the crew of the treasure ship fleet began to slowly lower their sails and slowly sailed towards the dock of Dagu Haiphongkou.

At the same time, the officers and men of the Dagu Haiphong Mouth were simply stunned when they saw this scene.

Since the last time in the Xuande period, the Ming treasure ship has been sealed, and it is estimated that it has already decayed after more than 20 years. When will there be a Ming fleet, mighty in the Bohai Bay, if it weren't for the bright flag flying high on the mast, it is estimated that they would have thought that the enemy was coming!

"Someone, hurry up and report the situation at the Dagu Haiphong Pass to the Beijing Division, and say that there is an unknown Ming fleet to land!"

Mr. Qian, who was stationed at Dagukou, was still a little knowledgeable, and understood that when a Daming fleet of this size docked, a notice must have been issued early to greet him.

Without notice, it was either a secret military operation or a non-summons to Beijing.

Whether it is the former or the latter, it is not something that he, a small coastal defense guard, can always bear, of course, he has to report to the imperial court for decision as soon as possible.

After arranging for his subordinates to be informed, Mr. Dagu Qian led his sergeants to the dock to "greet", wanting to see who led such a Ming fleet.

Soon a steady pace, well-disciplined soldiers disembarked from the ship and lined up neatly along the docks. Then a huge handsome flag, escorted down from the flagship by the flag guards, with the word "Shen" written on it.

Does Daming have a chief military officer surnamed Shen?

Mr. Dagu Qian was full of doubts, it stands to reason that the commander of a fleet of this specification should have reached the level of a general soldier.

But the problem is that there are only a handful of commanders in the Ming Dynasty, and there are no generals surnamed Shen among them.

Soon a young man led a large number of people to disembark, and when he saw this person, Dagu Qian always stood in place, as if he couldn't believe his eyes.

Since the founding of the country, there has only been one person who can lead a party as a five-rank official, and he is still so young.

That is Shen Yichen of the Admiral Fujian Soldiers and Horses!

Shen Yichen did not stay in Fujian to deal with the follow-up matters of counterinsurgency, but led the army to Beijing, what did he want to do?

At this moment, no one can give Mr. Dagu Qian's answer, because the answer itself is in a dilemma!

After Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen decided to drive the expedition in person, he gave the Governor's Office of the Five Armies two days to prepare, and then when the grain and grass were not enough and the equipment was not complete, he hurriedly led more than 200,000 Beijing battalion followers to Datong to prepare for a decisive battle with the Tile Spur Department.

But as soon as I walked to Xuanfu, I encountered a thunderstorm, the heavy rain and the muddy roads, and there was no such thing as rain gear at all, so it was extremely difficult for the entire army to move forward, and the morale instantly fell into a low state.

Realizing that the situation was getting more and more wrong, after Ma Yu's death, Cao Nai, who was then the first assistant to the cabinet, resolutely stood up and led the ministers to dissuade the emperor from giving up the idea of personally conquering the Northern Expedition.

But at this point, he had already opened his bow and had no turning back, and Zhu Qizhen even began to dream of annihilating the Mongolian army and completing his martial arts that surpassed the previous emperors.

In addition, after the death of Sanyang, the successor of the first assistant has always lacked both qualifications and courage. Ma Yu took over for only a few years, and he died in a sudden storm, and Cao Nai was an official at the junior level, and he only joined the cabinet to participate in the aircraft after five years of orthodoxy.

How useful is it for him to stand up against it?

As a result, the ministers were not even qualified to give the emperor a look, and were directly dismissed by Wang Zhen.

However, with Cao Nai's leading ministers, the important ministers who accompanied the expedition also became more and more strongly opposed to the pro-conquest.

First of all, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, knelt down, Xiaozhi moved with emotion and reason, wanting to make the emperor understand that the current situation is turbulent, but it is useless to say for a long time.

Compared with the emperor and Wang Zhen, he also gave Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, the face of talking "nonsense" for a long time, and Kuang Yu, the secretary of the military department, and Wang Zuo, the secretary of the household department, did not even have a chance to speak, and was directly punished to kneel outside the camp tent for a whole day.

The emperor's insistence on going his own way, coupled with Wang Zhen's "acting for the tiger", led to the planting of contradictions between civil and military officials and the eunuch group before the war. Many subsequent fiascos were caused by the strong demand of the eunuchs of the prison army, and it is difficult to say that this has nothing to do with the power struggle.

Originally, things had developed to this point, and in the face of the fierce opposition of the civil and military ministers, Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong was still a little shaken in his heart. But immediately after the report came from the nine sides, the Mongol army in Datong and Xuanfu began to retreat, and they did not dare to face the front of the Son of Heaven's army.

The emergence of this situation greatly stimulated the utilitarian heart of Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong, who thought that it was the enemy's cowardice, and determined the idea of continuing to move forward to exterminate the Mongolian tribes!

A few days later, the 200,000 army led by Zhu Qizhen of Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty finally arrived in Datong and saw the corpses and bones of the Ming army left behind by the Battle of Yanghe.

Witnessing the scene of corpses all over the field, Zhu Qizhen finally truly felt the cruelty of war at this moment. In addition, Guo Jing, the eunuch guarding Datong, played the role of a "double agent", and brought the first master of the tile spur to pretend to retreat, but in fact, he had made careful arrangements and prepared to ambush the Ming army in the north of Datong.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen finally realized how risky it was for him to go out recklessly and continue the Northern Expedition. The heroic posture of the tough male lord has always been exposed, and when the real threat is coming, the weakness in his bones is exposed!

On the third day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen finally issued a decision to return to the court, and ordered Zhu Yong, the duke of Chengguo, and Wu Kezhong, the Marquis of Gongshun, to lead 50,000 of the most elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty to prevent the large army from being attacked during the return to the dynasty.

But what Zhu Qizhen didn't know was that it was too late to make this decision, and the first master of the tile spur had been waiting for a long time, and he would not let go of the 200,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty so easily!

At the same time, on the battlefield of Liaodong, Li Da led the remaining less than 1,000 brothers with a bloody face to fight a bloody way out of the weak point of the encirclement of the Tatar Mongols.

Originally, the 1,500 people of Liaohaiwei fell into the encirclement carefully prepared by Defu Buhua, and basically the end of the entire army was annihilated.

But many times the brave will eventually suffer from the Goddess of Luck, just in the process of Li Da leading his troops to break through, the soldiers and horses of Dingliao Wei galloped to aid Guangning City, and the two Ming armies completed the confluence, thus opening a big opening!

"Great Khan, Liao Haiwei and Ding Liao Wei escaped, do we want to continue to chase and kill?"

Balzi, the general of the Tokhtobu Army, came on a war horse to report the military situation.

"No need, Guangning City has been captured, we have achieved the set goal, and then we will continue to pursue Cao Yi, the general army of Liaodong, and ambush the Liaodong army that rushed to help."

The tone of the Mongol Great Khan is very calm, and he has been trying in vain to get rid of the identity of the puppet Mongol Great Khan of the Waspur Department after the death of the former leader of the Tile Thorn Department and Taishi Tuhuan.

Over the years, he has been scheming, and he has been "in different places with the monarchs and ministers, and often do not see each other", reducing the influence of the Taishi Yexian on the Tatars.

At the same time, as the emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, he launched a political and military offensive, on the one hand, he jointly won over the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, and on the other hand, he conquered the northern Jurchen tribes such as Nenjiang, Heilongjiang, and Songhuajiang, harvested a large number of strong and captives, and greatly expanded his pasture and space.

It can be said that although he is still a puppet sweat in name, his wings are gradually plumping up in his back, and he is no longer willing to be at the mercy of Yexian.

As the saying goes, the poor don't chase, rather than fighting to the death with the outlaws, it is better to pinch the persimmon softly.

In addition, minimizing the casualties of their own tribes and seizing the time to plunder the population and livestock of Liaodong is the most important thing to get rid of. Probably no one understands the importance of population better than the Mongols, and the people who control the strings are the foundation of the steppe!