Chapter 31: The First Battle of King Yan

He Xi listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's advice.

Started teaching.

The most important thing for him is to negotiate with the few people in front of him to come up with a set of teaching materials that can not only reflect the knowledge system of this era, but also penetrate the knowledge form of later generations. Teaching is secondary.

After all, those noble sons were beaten with sticks one by one. You may not be able to learn much. And those top students selected by the national eunuch. You just need to let them know what to learn and put what they are learning in front of their eyes, and the rest does not need a teacher.

It's a slow effort, a fine effort.

Just when He Xi finally stopped. The war in the north is finally on the way.

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In the north, the south wind comes much later than the south wind. It seems like there hasn't been any southerly wind all spring. There is only a hula of the north wind, like the cry of a victor. And once the south wind wins, summer seems to be dragging behind, and Shi Shiran is coming.

In the north today, it is the south wind that lifts the curtain. Gently caress each person's face. And in the summer, when I was still shy and refused to show my headscarf.

It's also the best time to fight.

The mud from the melting of the snow and ice has faded slightly. The grass on the grassland is only slightly revealing its young leaves, which are not enough to make up for the fat lost by all the animals in winter. The fierce war has already begun.

If you look down at the sky with a satellite, you can see that hundreds of thousands of Ming troops are divided into three routes, from Beiping, Datong, Liaodong, to the southern region of Monan. But if you look closely, you can see that the seemingly huge three-way army is divided into more than a dozen small armies. Each army had thousands of horsemen, or ten thousand.

There is no way around it.

In this battle, nominally found an excuse for a Mongolian nobleman to go south to invade the border, but in fact, this Mongolian nobleman went south to fight a battle with the Ming Dynasty, and naturally there were. But Da Ming is scheming, not because of this trivial matter.

It is to take down the whole of Monan Mongolia.

And does Mongolia have a special station and a special city in southern Mongolia?

Naturally, there is none. Some are just tribes on the move. And these tribes, there are not many warriors either. This is because of economic reasons. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't.

The carrying capacity of a meadow is limited, how many animals can be accommodated in a pasture, and how many animals can be fed. It's all counted. It's not about doing whatever you want.

The ecology of the grassland is so weak that many people can hardly imagine.

It's a very simple example, if you dig a big pit south of the Great Wall, or in some places in the Central Plains, expose the soil layer, and then leave it alone. After a summer and a few rains, this big pit will be covered with plants, and after a period of time, it will be the same as the original surface of the land.

But if you do this on the steppe, his recovery time, will be long, long. Not even restored. The so-called non-restoration means that the land has gradually turned into bare ground like the Gobi Desert from this point slope.

Such a weak natural environment can only divide the herders into tribes. A tribe has tens of thousands of people, usually more than a few thousand people. Therefore, there are also a number of warriors in a tribe, that is, adult males. Thousands of cavalry were enough to deal with, and it was a very easy one.

No matter how many soldiers there are, it is useless.

It can be said that it is not so much a three-way army as three big iron brushes, which have been brushed from the grassland. Everywhere they passed, it was blood and fire.

On the one hand, the Mongols are all soldiers. Even Xiao Er can ride sheep and shoot wooden bows. On the other hand, although Daming's military discipline is good, it is to be compared with whom. In the country to the people, it's okay. But on the battlefield, the enemy may not be so particular.

On the whole, the war went smoothly and outrageously.

On the grassland, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, rode on a horse, rode on a high slope, looked below, three thousand horses divided into three roads, and killed into the big tribe below, shouting and killing, resounding throughout the entire tribe.

After a while.

A thousand households rode over, turned over and dismounted, knelt down in front of King Yan's horse, and said, "Your Highness, this is the head of Mongolian Taiji. The whole tribe has stopped resisting. ”

King Yan nodded and said, "Zhang Yu, you go and pass the order, since you have already won, then stop it, don't go too far." ”

Zhang Yu said loudly: "Yes." ”

He went down in person, and it took a long time to gather the army.

King Yan looked at it coldly, suddenly pointed with a horsewhip, and said, "Zhang Yu, take off the heads of these three people." ”

One of the generals said, "Your Highness, what do you mean by this?" ”

King Yan said: "I can see it clearly here, after I ordered the gathering, you still stayed in the tent for a stick of incense, I don't care what you do." If you don't obey my military orders, that's how it ends. ”

"Your Highness, you can't do this to me, I am the old department of the Duke of Wei. I am the old ministry of the Duke of Wei. A general said in a panic.

King Yan sneered and said, "The old department of the Duke of Wei, then it should be killed." You don't know who my wife is? If you don't give me face, you don't give face to the Wei Mansion. Betray the old master, kill without mercy. ”

Zhang Yu led people to kill these three people neatly.

When the three heads were thrown in front of Yan Wang's horse, the whole army was silent.

King Yan said: "Collect the troops, bring all the captives back to Beiping to sell, sell the silver, and reward the whole army." ”

Immediately, the soldiers cheered.

But isn't it, for these soldiers, who to fight is not to fight, just give money, of course, if you can fight, it would be better to give money to the generals.

Generals at all levels collected their troops, collected the spoils of war, and other affairs were not mentioned for the time being.

King Yan asked his guards to surround him, then turned over and dismounted, squatted down and vomited.

Although Zhu Di has fought many battles later, today's battle is still Zhu Di's first battle. It's not like he's never seen killing. But he has never seen so many people die, let alone seen the head so close to him.

I just endured it, but I dared to expose it in private at this moment.

"Your Highness," Zhang Yu said, "drink saliva." Rinse your mouth. ”

King Yan spit the water from his mouth to the ground and said, "Zhang Yu, what do you think of this battle of Lone?" ”

Zhang Yu said: "Your Highness's battle is clever, and the world's famous generals are nothing more than that." ”

"." Yan Wang said; "Don't I know what's going on? Wei Guogong is cautious, my third brother and I are both going into battle for the first time. I didn't dare to let us make any mistakes, and the target given was to send a thousand horsemen over, which was too much, but gave me a guard. It's a waste of troops. ”

Zhang Yu didn't know how to answer King Yan's words. I can only not speak.

King Yan continued to ask, "Zhang Yu, you tell the truth. How did Lone's battle go? ”

Zhang Yu said: "It's decent." ”

King Yan pondered for a moment, nodded, and said with a wry smile: "That's probably it." Zhang Yu, do you think Lone will lose to the third brother? ”

King Yan remembered that at the oath meeting, he made a private agreement with King Jin. Take a gamble and bet on who has the most achievements. The greatest success.

Zhang Yu said: "Your Highness, no matter whether you win or lose, we will return to the army." First, Wei Guogong only arranged this one goal for His Royal Highness, and we can't disobey the military order, second, as soon as the war started, the Mongols were not fools, and it is estimated that all tribes began to run away, and third, the enemy situation was unknown, and the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. It's not a good thing that the war went too well. ”

"Mongolia is Mongolia after all. It's better not to take it lightly. ”

King Yan sighed and said, "Don't worry, Lone is not a person who doesn't know the severity. Then hurry up and return to the army. It is necessary to return to the army earlier than the King of Jin. ”

At this moment, King Yan couldn't help but sneez, he didn't know that the independent arm of the second half of his life, the first strategist, was no longer his. On the contrary, he remembered that more than half a year ago, he was inexplicably punished by his father in the name of not being strict with his son, and now he has some butt pain when he thinks about it.

The thing that made him even more unclear was that.

He still doesn't know what caused him to be beaten. His son is only a child, even if he makes a mistake, what mistake can he make? He also asked the people around Zhu Gaochi carefully, and there was nothing wrong with it. It really didn't make him understand.

This incident is estimated to become a permanent mystery in his heart.