April of the 11th year of Zhengde, Hetao, Shuofang Town.

The will of the imperial court has arrived, and it agrees to the series of matters that the governor Wang Shouren has previously submitted.

This time, Wang Shouren prepared to take Qiu Yue, the general of Ningxia, Han Shishilang and Pei Guangxun, the deputy generals of Shuofang Town, as generals, and led a total of 30,000 cavalry and 40,000 foot soldiers to go thousands of miles into the desert and drive away the Mongolian Warat Department.

This Pei Guangxun has only emerged in the past two years, this person was first recommended by Wang Shouren, he used to be a small flag officer, and he has been extremely brave in fighting in Shuo Fangwei's several patrols in the past few years, so he was promoted.

At present, Wang Shouren's town Hetao is unfolding in accordance with Zhu Houzhao's painting as a whole, with tuntian, cantonment, and horse herding as the cornerstone, and the main internal and external strategies of immigrating to the real border and preparing for war, and finally the idea of a large barracks has been initially realized.

It seems somewhat similar to the later Li Chengliang in Liaodong, that is, in terms of military strategy, the passive turned into the active, and the Ming army went deep into the desert with twenty or thirty thousand elite cavalry almost every year.

This is not like Zhu Di's expedition, with hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, after all, the emperor is in person and cannot take risks.

The current Hetao Ming army is actually learning the Mongolian combat methods, that is, training the soldiers' cavalry and archery skills, patrolling the border and expeditions in the way of elite soldiers rather than large armies, so as to do a good job in cost control, so as to continue to harass and not give the Mongolian departments the opportunity to recuperate.

After the fire sieve fled back to the desert, although there was still a remnant of some of the forces, but after five years of Zhengde, the Ming army gradually became stronger under the leadership of Wang Shouren, and in fact, Modong Mongolia was no longer suitable for them to survive.

Including the fire screening department, the original Tumut department and the Ordos department have gradually fled westward.

Historically, they had to flee westward after being defeated by Dayan Khan, because the west was Warat, and in order to avoid it, they fled south to the northwest of present-day Gansu and part of Qinghai, which is also one of the reasons why Hami was finally invaded during the Jiajing period.

Now there is a change of father, but the fate is even worse, because the Ming army is also strong in the northwest.

The nine sides of the Ming Dynasty in the eleventh year of Zhengde, the towns in the east almost did not have much defensive pressure, Wang Shouren was good at fighting, but the generals of Yulin, Datong, Xuanfu and other towns were not wine bags and rice bags, in the case of the overall rise of the Ming Dynasty's national strength and the continuous strengthening of the army by the Son of Heaven, these local generals were always dispatched.

So now, there is nothing that the Mongols do not commit on the side, but as soon as they hear that there are traces of the Mongol tribes, they must quickly raise troops to grab some credit.

That is, Warat is too far away from them.

At the end of the tenth year of Zhengde, the Son of Heaven issued another decree to Wang Shouren.

So after several months of preparation, Wang Shouren put forward the idea of gathering Ningxia soldiers, and under the leadership of the chief soldier Qiu Yue, now Ningxia's four guards and horses have also played a prestige.

Wang Shouren felt that it was best to win the battle by combining the two forces and concentrating forces, even if he could not break the royal court, he would drive west to Wara.

After the Ming Dynasty cleaned up the tuntian, the effect was remarkable, not only the number of grains supplied to the imperial court increased rapidly, but also the grain left in the local area also increased a lot.

In addition, Hetao, a large granary, Shaanxi's gradually restored official horse farm, and Wang Shouren, the man at the helm......

The power that dominates this grassland is now Da Ming again.

The sky is vast and the grass is blown by the wind and the cattle and sheep are seen.

The horses neighed, the flags fluttered, and Wang Shouren was drafting a text in the tent, the will of the Son of Heaven had been handed down, and he, as the 'commander-in-chief', should immediately inform Qiu Yue, the chief soldier of Ningxia, and ask him to act according to the plan.

"Twelve-Lang,"

"The last general!"

"In the decree of the imperial court, three thousand sets of cotton armor were mentioned. Because of the tight time, the production and the patchwork to get these out, although it is a drop in the bucket, but it is also used as an emergency, you take someone to get it. ”

"Cotton armor?"

"You'll understand when you see it." Wang Shouren looked like a Confucian general, "It's a cold thing, and I don't need it much now, but there will inevitably be casualties at the beginning of the war, bring it, and once the weather turns cold, give it to the wounded." ”

"Yes!"

"How's the situation going?"

Han Shishilang has also grown up now, he is different from most soldiers, he is very tall when he becomes an adult, what is a seven-foot man, Han Shishilang is about nine feet.

"Don't worry, Shuofang's soldiers won't have a bad seed! Now, they are all vying to make a contribution! ”

"Hmm."

Wang Shouren understands in his heart, he can understand what the Son of Heaven does. In recent years, the emperor has especially favored some military generals, and he likes to open up the territory, and from top to bottom he has set off a martial style in the army.

Otherwise, how could a person like Pei Guangxun be promoted, although he recommended it, but there were more than a few people he recommended, and the people who were finally recognized were all bloody men, this kind of person came out to lead the troops, could he still bring out a group of soft eggs?

As for Pei Guangxun himself, he is not as powerful and fierce as Han Shishilang, he is dark and fat, with a large belly and extremely broad shoulders, like that kind of Mongolian man who is tiger-like.

Wang Shouren didn't see him today, and was thinking about asking, but a soldier came outside to report, "Ministry, General Pei has returned to the camp and brought more than 100 prisoners." ”

"Captive?"

Wang Shouren put down his pen and walked out.

Sure enough, I saw a general who was a little sideways and like a wall stepped forward, and he saluted with a tiger head, "Ministry!" The end is coming! ”

Wang Shouren pointed to the dirty group of people behind his soldiers and horses and asked, "What is that?" ”

Pei Guangxun didn't care, "The captured Mongols, if they don't eat, they won't be able to live." ”

"Every time you kill indiscriminately, right?"

This guy looked at Heng, and he asked him very honestly, "The last general won't dare." ”

In the past, this guy was a bit murderous, and the so-called killing of prisoners was ominous.

This sentence may not be able to restrain Zhu Houzhao or a rough man like Pei Guangxun, but Wang Shouren still admits it.

In recent years, with the Ming Dynasty's squeezing of the grasslands, these herdsmen have actually had a miserable life.

The living conditions on the grassland are far inferior to those in the Central Plains, don't look at the scenery is good, in fact, the environment is bad, it is very cold in winter, a vast white snow, what do people eat? When the weather warms up, all kinds of mosquito bites are also tormenting, and most of them are arid, except for a few oases.

If you can rob a little bit of the Ming Dynasty, that day is okay, if you can't rob it, it will be more miserable.

Han Shishilang has been dealing with the Mongols from the military academy to the frontier all his life, and he understands this situation very clearly, "The grassland is strong, almost the limit, and our army will definitely be defeated with one blow when it goes out this time." ”

Wang Shouren has always been steady, "Don't have this thought, the battlefield will not know the result until the last moment." And this battle must be fought beautifully, there is news from Beijing, the emperor very much wants to drive the expedition in person, if our results are insufficient, no one in the court will be able to stop the emperor. The emperor's venerability, how can we let the emperor put himself in danger? ”

The people in Beijing are indeed thinking about this, and even Wang Hua himself is ventilating Wang Shouren.

In general, the emperor takes the overall situation into account, if the Tatars and Warat have been dispersed, then it is unreasonable for the imperial court to form a large army to march north, even if the Son of Heaven thinks about it again, but they believe that Emperor Zhengde will not do such nonsense.

So Wang Shouren is still a little under pressure.

Of course, there is also faith.

In the distance, several brown eagles flew in the sky, and they circled between the valleys, as if there was a special kind of euphoria.

Wang Shouren took a deep look, and then ordered, "Set off tomorrow!" ”

The iron hooves of the Ming Dynasty swept north again, and the boy's dream would eventually flutter like an eagle.

Before finally setting out, he gave the emperor a notebook.

It was not until the end of May that Zhu Houzhao was seen in the Qianqing Palace.

He muttered, "Wang Shouren has led the army for more than a month, and I don't know what the situation is, let alone whether he will go to Wolf Juxu Mountain." ”

"Wang Shouren has always acted steadily, and the way of using troops is both positive and strange, and if something happens, Your Majesty can rest assured."

You Ji stirred the ice on the side, and also fanned the emperor with some cool breeze.

"I'm not worried, I'm envious of him and want to go together."

You Di is not good at saying this, and he knows that the emperor has given up.

"Your Majesty, the slaves and maids heard that it is common for the grassland to be windy and snowy, so it is better to stay in the palace, and the slaves and maids are waiting for you, so it is comfortable."

Zhu Houzhao is indeed relatively leisurely now.

Yang Yiqing was sent to the northwest, Wang Shouren was sent to Hetao, and Yan Song was sent by Japan, these were not very large-scale wars, and the three of them were more than enough to cook.

There is only one matter of Qingtian's measurement, because it is too complicated, Zhang Xuan is afraid that he will not be able to do it.

However, Zhang Xuan is very sensible, and almost all of them solve the problem below, in terms of means...... Zhu Houzhao can only think that he doesn't know now.

In fact, many things are done in this way, and it is sometimes impossible to want to be happy and completely fair and just.

Too much indecision makes it difficult to make decisions in time, and in the end the cost is even greater.

Gao Huai has already made three urgent deliveries, all of which were Zhang Xuan who killed people with a knife in Shandong, and Zhu Houzhao was burned immediately after reading.

However, there is one thing that he is very strange, the panic in Shandong officialdom has been obvious, why there is no movement in the Beijing Division.

It's not that he's suspicious, it's mainly that under normal circumstances, someone will always come out to impeach Zhang Xuan.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhu Houzhao had summoned Zhang Yong, the supervisor of the internal guard, and Zhu Fu, the prince of Chengguo, respectively, and asked them to tighten the vigilance of the imperial city and the imperial palace.

Zhang Yong followed the emperor for many years and was one of the most trusted eunuchs of the emperor, and he also used to be in charge of the imperial horse guard.

In the evening, the sunset reflected the red sky.

The emperor waited for him, "How?" Is there anything unusual in the palace? ”

Zhang Yong shook his head, "The slaves and maids at each pass have been replaced, only those who are greedy for some money and receive some favors, and everything else is normal." ”

Zhu Houzhao has always done things without leakage, "The admiral of the East Factory is also done by Ling, and the scope of monitoring has been expanded, and no abnormalities in the Beijing Division will be let go in the near future." It's only May now, and in a few months, Zhang Xuan will offend more people, and it will inevitably be ambitious by then. ”

The other side of reform is to strengthen the centralization of power, and if power is not concentrated, things cannot be done.

"What does Your Majesty mean, a hundred officials in Beijing?"

"Don't be so rude." Zhu Houzhao thought of a method, "In a few days, I will ask the Beijing Planning Department to reorganize all the residential houses in Beijing, nominally because the population and houses in Beijing have increased significantly, and in order to plan in an orderly manner, you must understand the situation. ”

If you can't do a national census, you can do a Beijing division and check the head and background, even if nothing is found in the end, it can also disrupt the rhythm of some people and make them afraid.

And from a planning point of view, it is also necessary in itself.

"The slave and maid understand."

"Okay, there you go."

Zhu Houzhao lay down, closed his eyes and recuperated, and after a while, he ordered: "Concubine Xuanjing is here to sleep." ”

(End of chapter)