King Ning didn't run far, because there were too many people on the street, he couldn't see Xu Huizu if he ran a few steps, and he couldn't see Xu Huizu.

At this time, he shook his head and sighed, and walked forward slowly, and after walking less than a dozen steps, he was stunned again.

I saw that in front of me was the newly opened Fuller House, and the gate of the courtyard was full of people, and a large number of men were coming in and out.

The Fuller House was photographed by Li Jinglong, and it is said that it cost nearly one million and a ten-year use period.

After being renovated, it is open again.

Just now Zhu Hu said that he was going to Fuller Theater, and he was joking, mainly because he wanted to leave the Daiwang Mansion as soon as possible.

King Ning wasn't interested in the Fullerhouse, but there were two acquaintances standing in the back alley on the left side of the Fullerhouse.

One is Xu Qin, the son of Xu Huizu, and the other is Li Zengzhi, the brother of Li Jinglong.

Li Zengzhi was holding a few boxes in his hand and stuffed them into Xu Qin's hand, Xu Qin thanked him and nodded from time to time.

Later, King Ning learned that in the box was a large meat dish that the guests of Fuller House had not eaten.

Originally, Li Zengzhi was going to throw it away, but he heard that the Xu family was poor, so he collected it for him.

Xu Qin worked in a restaurant, and when he returned home, he lied to his father Xu Huizu, which was not sold out in the hotel, and the boss gave it to him, and he ate a little and brought it back.

Because Xu Huizu definitely didn't want to eat other people's leftovers.

"Mother's." King Ning scolded secretly, then shook his head and turned away.

At noon the next day, several of their brothers received the news and applied to the imperial court to move to Nuer Gandusi on behalf of the king's family.

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On the boundless grassland, the long line of the Ming army stretched for miles.

Zhu Gaoxu, Zhou Hu, and Gu Xingguo walked side by side, surrounded by continuous sentinels, entering and exiting from time to time.

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to attack Shahru, so he tried to avoid being discovered by Shaharu's sentry cavalry, Zhu Gaoxu sent a large number of sentry cavalry to open the way for the Ming army, and placed the sentry cavalry twenty miles away.

The advantage of this is that if you encounter Shaharu's sentry horse, the other party will only think that it is the Ming army's sentry horse, and you can't think that the main force of the Ming army is behind.

From time to time, a large number of sentinels gathered news from the front to their side.

After a while, a sentinel rode back to investigate, and not far in front of him was the sea of dying.

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he said with a smile: "Back then, Mongolia destroyed Jin and Jin destroyed Liao, all of them were more with less, and today we will take 45,000 people to attack Shakharu, and in the future, perhaps, it can also be recorded in history." ”

Zhu Gaoxu's annihilation here refers to the Battle of Yehuling between Mongolia and Jin and the Battle of Dagang between Jin and Liao.

In the Battle of Hubu Dagang, the Jin State defeated the Liao army of 700,000 with 20,000; In the Battle of Yehuling, the 100,000 Mongolian army broke the 500,000 Jin army.

Both of these are classic battles with fewer hits.

Now that the 45,000 elites of the Ming army are fighting, less than half of Shaharu is still outside the pass, and most of them are servant troops.

Zhou Hu and Gu Xingguo glanced at each other, both smiling bitterly, the emperor was giving them confidence, but they were worried about the emperor's safety.

They have examples of winning more with less in both the Jingjing and the rebellion war, but the war at home is different from that on the grassland.

Once lost on the grassland, it may be pursued for thousands of miles and the whole army will be annihilated.

Just like the Northern Expedition of Qiu Fu's 100,000 army in history, it was annihilated by the entire army of the Northern Yuan.

Therefore, it is reasonable for the acting king to be worried in Beijing before, if Zhu Gaoxu loses on the grassland, he will probably not be able to come back.

"We still have an advantage." Zhu Gaoxu saw that both of them were worried about him, so he said: "This grassland, we are more familiar with it than Shaharu. ”

"Even if you lose, you have a chance to get out."

Zhou Hu looked dazed, obviously he was not familiar with the grassland, but Gu Xingguo's expression was excited, he had been to the neighborhood.

As they spoke, a pale blue water appeared in the distance.

The Ming army shouted one after another, and it was time to replenish the water.

"Gu Xingguo, do you know how to go into the sea of water?" Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the front and asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is the last place of the great battle of Jin Annihilation Liao." Gu Xing National Road.

In that year, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao led his troops out of Benjia Mountain, went south to Tongguanling, took Tiande and other states, attacked Wuzhou (now Wuzhai, Shanxi), and fought with the Jin general Wanyan Lou Room in the sea of water, the Liao army was defeated, and the gold was reduced. Emperor Tianzuo ran to Yin Mountain. In February of the following year, he fled to the east of Yingzhou Xincheng and was captured by the Jin general Wanyan Lou. Liao perished.

Gu Xingguo was still talking, Zhou Hu had already picked up a map and was looking at it, and after looking at it for a while, he said: "This side is dozens of miles away from the Great Wall, and the Hu people shouldn't have thought that we would go around it." ”

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and said, "Shaharu's people are also half nomads, so they have to go farther away, avoid their sentinels, pass the order, make up more water, and let's go around to the north." ”

Zhu Gaoxu must be taken by surprise, then he must stay away from the vicinity of the Great Wall, because he learned from Zhu Di in the Jingnan and the rebellion war, if he can surprise others in the war, it will be a very cool thing.

On the same day, the Ming army replenished fresh water in the sea of water in the sea, and then the whole army continued north, away from the Great Wall, until it reached the Heihe River, which was hundreds of miles away, and then went west along the Heihe.

On July 8, the Ming army came to the foot of Daqingshan, here more than 100 years later, by the Mongolian leader Altan Khan summoned the skilled craftsmen of all ethnic groups, imitated the Yuan Dadu, in the Yin of Daqingshan, on the shore of the Yellow River, broke ground to build a majestic and beautiful city with eight buildings and glazed gold and silver palaces. After the completion of the city, the Ming court gave it the name "Naturalization City".

At this time, the city of naturalization had not yet been established, and Zhu Gaoxu ordered the whole army to rest for a day.

July 9th.

Zhu Gaoxu led 25,000 cavalry to gallop under the stars and went south, leaving the infantry and people to follow slowly. (Zhu Gaoxu's infantry and baggage men also had 20,000 horses and mules, so the speed was actually not very slow.) ）

Before leaving, Zhu Gaoxu asked the whole army to engage Shahru's army, and after victory, each person should lead at least one more horse, reaching more than two horses per capita.

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Boom, in a powerful explosion, Shaharu's soldiers and horses flipped on their backs, and the scene was full of screams and wails.

Shaharu rode a horse and looked ahead, Shuozhou City stood still, as steady as Mount Tai.

They surrounded Shuozhou on the seventh day of July, attacked on the ninth day of July, and now on July 11, they have fought for two days without progress, and they have suffered a large number of casualties.

The firearms of the Ming army were too fierce, and there was another kind of artillery that was very close, but when the cannon came down, there were casualties, and it was the most powerful artillery Shaharu had ever seen.

In just two days, Shaharu's army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the situation was quite bad.

And as far as he knows, a city like Shuozhou in the Ming army has eight hundred, if not a thousand.

If you fight one Shuozhou, you will have 10,000 dead and wounded, and his 1 million army is simply not enough?

For a while, Shaharu faintly regretted the crusade.

His army swept through Central Asia, and no city could resist it, but here in the Ming people, first Zhuhu Fort gave him a lesson, and then the small city of Shuozhou also made him extremely ugly.

"Ulugh Beg", Shaharu called the eldest son.

"Father." Ulugh Beg stepped forward.

"How many of us have entered the customs?"

Ulugh Beg looked back and whispered, "As of yesterday, three hundred and eighty thousand." ”

"That's it?" Shaharu frowned.

It took more than ten days from the time they entered Fort Huhu, but they didn't expect to come in with 380,000 horses, an average of just over 30,000 per day?

"The fortress gate of the Ming army is too small, and it is not enough for us to demolish it, the key is to cooperate with a large number of baggage and horses and mules to come in." Ulugh Beg also has a point.

They can't just let the army be advanced, but also the logistics and supplies.

Therefore, they follow up as many soldiers and horses as they come in, so as to maintain their combat effectiveness.

If hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses poured in, it would obviously be very difficult to replenish by plundering the local area, because the Ming army had already prepared the fortified walls and cleared the wilderness.

"Or is it too early?" Shaharu sighed.

According to his original plan, he went to the border of the Ming Kingdom in June, and then slowly moved forward, looking for a breakthrough, and broke the customs in October, just when the grain of the Ming Kingdom was ripe, and then he could harvest supplies on the spot.

But the middle is too smooth, go a little faster, and now in July to Mingjing, the rice is not ripe.

Shaharu touched his forehead a little helplessly, he didn't have to think so much about fighting near Central Asia, just rush into the castles and grab it.

Now that I'm in the Ming Realm, I really have to think about a lot of things.

"Father, will the Ming Emperor Zhu Gaoxu come to war with the whole country?" Ulugh Beg asked.

Shaharu thought for a while: "Zhu Gaoxu is a belligerent man, he has experienced martyrdom and rebellion without defeat, this kind of person is empty-eyed on the battlefield, there is nothing he dare not fight, I heard that he is still a fierce general, I believe that he is now taking hundreds of thousands, even millions of troops, on the way to a decisive battle with us." ”

"As long as the main force of the Ming army is defeated, the Ming people will become tame lambs and let us slaughter."

"Order, withdraw troops." Shaharu said as he suddenly pointed forward.

Soon, with the sound of gold, Shaharu's army left Shuozhou City like ants, leaving only a large number of corpses and wails under the city.

The attack was fruitless that day, and Shaharu was not in a hurry, withdrawing his troops to rest, and at the same time sending reconnaissance cavalry to look for the main force of the Ming army.

He subconsciously thought that the Ming army would definitely come to him for a decisive battle.

Even if the Ming army does not come, as long as an important town is surrounded, the Ming army will come soon.

In the afternoon of the same day, Shaharu received news that the Ming army Datong was an important town, and there was a vassal king in it (in fact, the acting king was long gone), and he decided to abandon Shuozhou to attack Datong.

Early in the morning of the 12th of July, Shaharu left a small number of soldiers and horses to monitor Shuozhou, and the whole army headed for Datong.

Along the way, the army of Shahru razed everything like locusts, set fire to plunder, and slaughtered everywhere, and the people who did not have time to flee were mercilessly killed.

Almost at the same time as Shaharu's army retreated, Shuozhou City cheered, and Hao Ergou was caught in the crowd, and he also let out a long breath.

Back then, he took Widow Li to Shuozhou City, thinking that he could hide in a safe place, but after he came, he soon realized that something was wrong.

Chen Wen had previously concentrated most of his troops and horses and guarded three important places.

There were only about 1,000 Ming troops left in the city of Shuozhou, and then some of them were withdrawn from the forts, adding up to less than 2,000 people.

Fortunately, Zhizhou immediately recruited strong people in the local area, and some retired soldiers and officials in the city joined one after another.

Now is not the Ming civil war, everyone hated the enemy, and soon recruited seven or eight thousand people, and finally reluctantly built the Shuozhou defense line.

Although most of them were just ordinary people, Shuozhou City had a lot of firearms brought back from various forts, hundreds of enemies, etc., and there were many in the original city, which were very useful for defense.

Shengsheng blocked the attack of the first two days, but at this time, these powerful firearms in Shuozhou were also used similarly, and the next thing was to rely on human lives to block.

Unexpectedly, at a critical time, Shaharu withdrew his troops to Datong.

Hao Ergou They escaped death and were excited.

But this joy was not half a day, and the next afternoon, a horn suddenly sounded in the distance, and the Shaharu army outside Shuozhou City gathered again.

Boom, the sky suddenly sounded with bursts of thunder, thunder from far and near.

Hao Ergou's face changed greatly, it's not good, it's going to rain?

Shaharu's people outside the city clearly saw that it was going to rain, and felt that the Ming army's firearms could not be reconciled, and they were ready to attack another wave when it rained.

Woo, in the sound of a long horn, Shaharu's 20,000 soldiers and horses gathered and flocked to Shuozhou City.

And in the sky, the thunder did not stop, and it was not enough for a while, and the people of Shaharu had not yet gathered, and it began to rain lightly in the world, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the Ming soldiers at the head of the city even put away their bows.

Hao Ergou's face was gloomy, and a strong sense of uneasiness welled up in his heart.

(End of chapter)