"In that case, he doesn't plan to accept my kindness!"

On the slopes of the Tatar camp, Arutai sat on a fur, looking at the opposite peak, chewing jerky in his mouth, and asked casually.

Mao Li looked at Arutai and stopped talking, wanting to ask Arutai why he wanted to negotiate peace with Daming, but out of loyalty and respect for him, he just nodded in the end.

"Alas!"

Arutai was silent for a moment, and a sigh came out of his mouth.

"I wanted to settle this matter peacefully, so that the tribesmen could return to the grassland and continue to live a carefree life."

"It seems that this battle is inevitable!"

Looking at the opposite peak, Arutai muttered a few words.

"That's it!"

Standing up and sweeping the meat crumbs off his body, Arutai turned to Maori and said.

"Tell the boys, get ready for battle!"

"Yes, Master!"

Mao Li's eyes were resolute, and he answered in a loud voice, and turned around to leave.

"Wait!"

Mauri turned and bowed his head, quietly awaiting Arutai's order.

With a slight groan, Arutai said.

"You go to Zhu Di's side again and tell him that if you have the ability, you will have a real battle between men."

"It's boring to fight an offensive and defensive battle, you have the ability to lead the troops to fight in a dignified manner!"

"What do you mean?"

Maori looked at Arutai suspiciously.

Arutai smiled and waved his hand.

"Go ahead, Zhu Di, he will understand!"

Soon the Maori child passed the word to the old man.

"Little cub, do you understand what this old fox means?"

After the Mao Li child left, the old man stood at the door of the hall with his hands behind his back, looked at the mountain peak opposite, and suddenly chuckled, and asked Zhu Zhangui without looking back.

Zhu Zhangui thought about it and replied.

"My grandson thinks that Arutai may mean two."

The old man raised his hand and motioned for Zhu Zhangui to speak.

The generals also looked at Zhu Zhangui with a smile, looking forward to his answer.

Everyone present knew in their hearts that the emperor had already begun to take his grandson to the Tao.

Now it is just to express ideas and opinions, and the next step is to formulate the overall battle plan, and finally to take over the military command.

During the foreign naval war, although Zhu Zhangui commanded the operations of various departments, the real decision was still in the hands of the old man.

If the old man does not agree, none of the overseas troops will dare to move.

Don't look at Jianghuai and Li Hu are all Zhu Zhangui's people, but when Zhu Zhangui did not directly indicate the rebellion, Zhu Zhangui and the old man's orders, they must obey the old man first.

It's not about being faithful or not, it's about rules.

The two were first officials of the imperial court, and then followers of Zhu Zhangui.

The emperor is the helmsman of the power of the entire dynasty, and as a courtier, he must listen, unless Zhu Zhangui directly raises the anti-flag and rebels.

"First, Arutai's subordinates mainly rely on those cavalry, and they are not good at offensive and defensive battles."

"Whether we fight them or they fight us, under the suppression of various artillery attack weapons, they don't have any advantage at all except for constantly filling in!"

"And the field is different!"

"Although they are our opponents, we have to say that in terms of cavalry combat, without the blessing of muskets, we are still slightly inferior to them, and we are far inferior in horse archery."

"What's more, fighting on the wide upper plains, the mobility of our artillery is limited!"

"If Arutai chooses to attack frontally with infantry and cavalry flanks, it will be difficult for our artillery to quickly support other directions!"

"But the defense is different, it's a one-sided attack, and there are as many people as there are in Arutai!"

"One of the more important factors is that our army has come from afar, and it can be regarded as a tired army!"

"Although the Arutai army has been confronted with me for a long time, there has been no conflict between our two sides, and it can be said that we are at the peak of our mental and physical combat strength!"

"Compared to the two, we are at a slight disadvantage!"

Zhu Zhangui's first thought came out, and the old man and the generals present nodded slightly.

Several veterans stroked their beards with even more relief, and patted the young junior generals who were following them.

It's like saying.

"You little cubs are lucky, and you are an emperor who can fight well, and the military general group can still be in the limelight for at least a hundred years!"

Of course, there are happy and unhappy.

Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, who stood in the first place among the generals, had a stinky face the whole time.

The higher Zhu Zhangui's status in the hearts of military generals, the lower his status will be.

If one day the old man is gone, if he wants to learn from the old man to have a martyrdom, he may not succeed as easily as the old man.

The main reason why the old man was able to win easily was the cold sidelines of the military general group.

Otherwise, if Li Jinglong was replaced by other generals, even if he couldn't stop the old man, he would be able to drag on for a few years, and it would be hard to say who would win and who would lose in the end.

The old man smiled and nodded, leaning against the door frame with his hands in his arms, looking like an old farmer testing his grandson, and then asked.

"What about the second!"

Zhu Zhangui smiled.

"Second, it's very simple, if you move to the grassland to start a war, even if he fails, it's easy to run."

"Hahaha..."

The old man and the generals couldn't help laughing.

Laughter fell.

The old man looked at Zhu Zhangui.

"Do you think we're going to say yes to them?"

Zhu Zhangui didn't think about it and replied directly.

"We have no choice but to promise a quick fight with him!"

The old man nodded incomprehensibly.

"Why?"

"Logistics, two hidden dangers in the west, overseas territories!"

The old man's eyes showed a look of relief.

Arutai's challenge, Daming must accept.

Hundreds of thousands of troops are outside, and although they are fighting next to the border, the logistical pressure is also very great.

The grassland is not very safe, and the imperial court transports grain from Nuer Gandusi.

Summer and autumn are a little better, and in winter the roads here are a nightmare.

Coupled with the faint threat of the Western Regions in the west and the Wusi Zangdu Division, and the uncertain factors overseas, this war with the grassland, the Ming Dynasty must fight quickly, and it can't be delayed for too long, otherwise other places will be prone to problems.

Arutai is also sure that the old man will definitely agree to the grassland field battle.

Returning to his seat, the old man closed his eyes in contemplation, rubbing his habitual thumb and forefinger lightly.

None of the generals below said a word, silently waiting for the old man's decision.

Time passed, and the old man, who closed his eyes and pondered, opened his eyes reluctantly, and released two sharp mangs, shooting at the generals below.

At this moment, the old man seemed to have returned to the peak of the Jingjing martyrdom of the year, and stood up and said domineeringly.

"The first battle is the decisive battle!"

"Let's make a complete break with this old opponent and wipe out all the troubles of the grassland in one fell swoop."

"For our children and grandchildren in the future, create a Ming Dynasty that will no longer have the troubles of the north!"

All the generals present stood up straight, and those veterans seemed to have returned to the day of Jingjing, with fanatical worship in their eyes, watching the old man raise his hands and roar loudly.

"Kill!"

Then the old man gave the order for operational command.

Zhu Zhangui was responsible for commanding the Shenji battalion he brought out as the front army of the whole army, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, commanded the 3,000 battalions, and Liu Sheng, who was transferred to the fifth army camp, was responsible for commanding the five military camps in the middle army.

Two veteran generals were also assigned to lead the cavalry as the left and right rangers, responsible for protecting the two wings of the army.

Even Li Hu, who is in the navy, has arranged for the identity of an artillery commander-in-chief to command the artillery of the whole army.

As one order after another was arranged, a famous general stood up and shouted his orders.

After the battle was arranged, the old man looked at everyone, arched his hands and bowed slightly.

"Gentlemen, my father took your fathers to beat away Meng Yuan and founded the Ming Dynasty."

"Although there were many northern expeditions in the later period, the remnants of the Mengyuan Dynasty have not been wiped out."

"Since he ascended the throne, he has not dared to forget the teachings of his fathers, and has made many northern expeditions to clean up the remnants!"

"After decades of campaigning, he fought thousands of miles, annihilated Mahamu, and subdued Duoyan Sanwei."

"Now, the Mengyuan forces are left with Arutai alone."

"I hope that all the kings will work hard to fulfill the last wish of their fathers, so that Meng Yuan will completely turn into nothingness! Avenge the ancestors who have been violated by Meng Yuan. Open up a thousand years of peace for future generations, and never be disturbed by the forces of the northern grasslands again! For those children of the Han family who died tragically under the knife of Meng Yuan, ask for one, they have been waiting for justice for countless years! ”

The people below all had serious expressions, and raised their hands to hit the armor on their chests hard.

"Shame for the blood of our ancestors, revenge for our compatriots, and peace for our descendants!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

May 12 of the 16th year of Yongle!

It's a normal day that can't be on an ordinary day.

But in later history, it was an important turning point in the Ming Dynasty's domination of the world.

The Ming Dynasty and the grassland forces, the first real battle of a million troops, broke out on this day.

The war of a million armies, let alone in the history of China, and even in the history of the world, is a rare battle.

Every million-man war will leave a strong mark in the history books.

The victorious side will be passed down through the ages.

The generals who command this kind of big battle to win can also rank in the top 20 on the list of famous Chinese generals.

So in this war, the old man chose to command it personally.

After all, from ancient times to the present, there seems to be no emperor who has personally commanded millions of people to fight.

The old man has no other hobbies, but he likes to be the first to compare with those emperors in history.

For example, he most wanted to compete with the first territory, the second in the army, and the third in the economy.

As for political capacity.

Well, the old man never mentions this.

In the words of his good grandson, compared to the identity of the emperor, I think you are more like my father's general of the Northern Expedition.

The old man was deeply affected by this and beat Zhu Zhangui severely.

Later, this joke spread from the palace, and Zhu Chupang was trembling with fear on his face, but his heart was happy.

This stinky boy always likes to tell the truth.

What kind of general of the Northern Expedition, no matter how you say that your grandfather is also the emperor, you have to be crowned the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition.

Of course, this is also what he thought in private, and he didn't dare to say such dream words in his dreams, for fear that the old man would know about it and beat him.

Don't look at him as fat, but in terms of resistance, he is far from the second child and his son.

These two guys are genuine.

Every time I was beaten by the old man, I couldn't get out of bed miserably the first day, and the next day I was running around.

This resilience and anti-beating ability make Zhu Chupang envious when he looks at it.

"Woo woo woo~"

As soon as the sky was dawning, a trumpet sounded on the two hills.

Immediately after that, a trumpet and a loud command kept coming from the barracks.

The red sun in the east had just shown a little bit of the scalp, and the gate of the camp on the right was slowly pushed open.

A dark red inlaid with gold edges of the bright character atmosphere, and a yellow inlaid with a red character flag, one after the other took the lead out of the camp.

Immediately after the guns were on their shoulders, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, who were heavily armed, marched neatly to the beat of the drum and headed towards the agreed battlefield.

At the same time, the opposite camp also opened its gate, and the totem of Arutai and the banner of Meng Yuan also opened out of the camp.

Underneath the banner were heavy infantry wearing heavy armor rare in the steppe and carrying large shields.

With the study of the Ming Dynasty Shenji Battalion in recent years, Arutai found that the heavy wooden shield, or iron shield, can defend against the shooting of this weapon at medium and long distances.

Therefore, before the war with the Ming army, he allocated heavy infantry to the troops, responsible for dealing with the Ming Dynasty's Shenji battalion.

The two sides were separated by a wide canyon, and no one paid attention to the other, walking side by side towards the battlefield in the distance.

Zhu Zhangui rode a war horse and followed the team slowly.

On the left, Mao Lizi was also dressed in heavy armor, and followed the heavy armor troops without saying a word.

The vanguard troops of the two sides met at the exit pass.

The location of the mountain pass is a bit narrow, originally a few miles wide, only a mile or two here, and you can see the faces of the marching soldiers on the opposite side if you have good eyesight.

Zhu Zhangui stopped at the mouth of the valley and looked at the opposite side.

The Mao Li child on the opposite side also seemed to have a sense of a sense and stopped and looked at Zhu Zhangui.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and finally they arched their hands in unison, and drove their horses to the wide grassland with the team.

In the valley, the old man also walked out with the Chinese army dressed in a cloth.

He did not follow the team forward, but took some generals and escorts and walked to the opposite side.

On the opposite side, Arutai, who also came out from front and back, also came over with generals and guards.

Both sides stopped at a stone's throw away.

"I've seen His Majesty the Great Emperor!"

Arutai was the first to salute.

The old man nodded slightly, smiled and said hello.

"It's been a long time, I remember that the last time we met was at the end of Yongle 12! At that time, you were so frightened that you thought you were here to make a profit! ”

"Haha, His Majesty the Great Emperor said that it was funny, I, Arutai, didn't have the courage at that time, I really went to see you."

The old man raised an eyebrow.

"So, you've got the guts now!"

The smile on Arutai's face remained the same.

"I was also forced to be helpless, so many herdsmen under my command have to feed, although the grassland is wide, but I can't feed so many mouths!"

The old man nodded in agreement.

"You come back to Daming with me, and I'll send someone to feed them."

Arutai looked at the old man calmly with his eyes.

"His Majesty the Great Emperor's kindness, Arutai understands it, I can't get used to eating the food of the Central Plains, I can't adapt to the environment of the Central Plains, and I can't accept your doctor's slow healing, or the grassland is more suitable for me."

"Of course, if the Central Plains can be changed back to the Great Yuan period, I will definitely move over and live, and by the way, I will entertain you well."

As soon as these words came out, the old man and Arutai were not talking, looking at each other quietly.

The atmosphere between the two sides instantly became tense.

The generals and guards who were guarding the two of them put their hands on their waists, ready to break out at any time.

But just when the atmosphere was at its most tense, the two people who were looking at each other suddenly burst out laughing.

Then the two of them gave up their hands together.

"Then let's see the real trick on the battlefield, His Majesty the Great Emperor be more careful!"

"Hehe, okay, the sword has no eyes, and the sons of his men don't understand the rules, so you have to be careful."

With that, the two of them pulled their horses' heads in unison and ran towards the battlefield set in the distance.