The news naturally has to be reported to the capital, day and night.

Yang Shen was worried: "The cold winter wax moon is stuck outside the plug, and it is extremely dangerous!" Extraordinary! I replied that he wanted to capture the old man, and he was worried that the grain and grass of the Ming Dynasty would not be transported out of the border wall! ”

Zhu Houxi was happy: "No shot? So, I don't know how powerful the new cannon is? ”

In the shadow of the famous tree, Yu Dayou really took two or three thousand soldiers to answer my questions, but he didn't rush to attack.

It was a big mistake to give up Tucheng so easily. Probably he thought that Da Ming's appetite this time was not only Tucheng, but also to attack farther, and there would be a long grain road that could grab more things to make up for the losses of his own army.

It's just that Da Ming doesn't mean to eat fat in one bite. So many cannons have arrived in Tucheng, and Tucheng has already returned!

"I've figured it out." Wang Shouren commented, "If you just force Daming back to the side wall, even if he is captured, it will be more than worth the loss." Even if his prestige is more vigorous, after the ban on private markets in Ran Bian Town, as long as he does not really be able to unify the right wing, he will become poorer and poorer. On the contrary, if the Ming Dynasty wants to hold Tucheng, food and military funds must be sent there without stopping. In another half a month, when it comes to the New Year, the border army must also be rewarded and fed, and Tucheng must be a piece of fat. ”

Xia Yan was determined: "As soon as the fighter plane is lost, I have already lost the battle." It was originally a field battle to defeat my king's division, but now it is about to attack the city again. As long as the more than 30 miles of grain are not lost, I have nothing to do! ”

"How do you keep the grain from being lost?" Yang Shen, who had been transferred to the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, was upset, "After taking Tucheng, the defenders of the north did not lose a single soldier." Although the side of the dry horse platform was also taken down by the morning and night, there were still nearly 2,000 Tartars in the area of Maoerzhuang at this moment. If you want to keep the grain route, from the Broken Fox Fort in the west to the Zhenqiang Fort in the east, you must go out at least twenty miles in the heavy snow to sweep away the remnants or hidden Tartars in the south of the Tucheng! After that, it is necessary to defend the earth city and the dry horse platform, and the new defense line is not more than two hundred miles? No side walls yet! ”

This is the problem after the attack, the defense system will have to be rebuilt, and the money and food will be poured like flowing water.

Xia Yan laughed: "How to keep the grain from being lost, Yang Shangshu has already said it." Your Majesty, it was also arranged like this before, Guo Zongbing was already in Zhenqiang Fort, and since I replied that since he did not rush to attack, Guo Zongbing must have acted according to the policy. ”

Yang Shen couldn't help but open his mouth.

Kill me!

Isn't it just Yu Dayou out of the side wall? That in itself was probably only a matter of five or six thousand. Now that it's like this, the scale is going to exceed 10,000 again!

More than 10,000 troops were dispatched, but only to take the small earthen city and the horse drying platform.

The housekeeper Han Yang Shen fell into the calculus of only calculating economic accounts.

In the north of Datong, after Tucheng was taken, after the hinterland defenders came to change the defense, the Broken Fox Fort immediately went out to the east of the old side wall, and Yu Dayou moved to defend Tucheng.

A total of more than 1,000 generals from Zhuma Fort and Zhumen Fort walked out of the side wall and combed the grain road from Guimen Fort to Tucheng.

Although Guo Xun still did not go out, the defenders of Fort Resist and Zhenqiang Fort went out twenty miles to prepare to set up temporary camps on the west bank of the south of the Yuhe River to prevent Maoerzhuang Tartars from disturbing the west.

As for the drying platform, it was just Yang Hewei's reinforcements.

It was only later that I received the news that the Drying Horse Terrace had also been lost, and then I realized that the so-called movement on the side of the killing tiger was a pretense of the flag.

The purpose of the Ming Dynasty was only to push the defense line north of Datong thirty or forty miles outward. Needless to say, the next step is to connect from the mouth of the tiger to Daqingshan and Yutailing through Tucheng and Maoerzhuang.

Before the Jiajing year, there were no refusal of the door and the town of Qiang on the side wall, and they were the outer five forts that Zhang Wenjin, the governor of Datong in the past, asked to build. And the so-called outer five forts are only south of the side wall, close to the side wall.

Now, Da Ming has set foot outside the side wall to the north.

Based on my understanding of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that as long as it takes a year or two, there will be another fortress outside the Saiwai. Although it is impossible to hastily build hundreds of miles of border walls, this fortress will also be a difficult iron nail to gnaw.

More importantly, it was a move to encroach on the Tumut from the east. If it is not uprooted, there will be sharper soldiers from the Ming Dynasty in the east of naturalization in the future.

"Man Shou Ruo is back, let him immediately lead his troops to Maoerzhuang and recapture the horse drying platform!" I replied that the face sank like water, "Go around the sea of water and go to the north of Tucheng!" ”

Since I found that the Ming army did not have the idea of going further, I knew that Liangcheng was worry-free, but I must not let the Ming Dynasty achieve its goal like this.

Even if Saibei goes on the expedition, there must still be a tough battle.

The timing of this tough battle, as Yu Dayou expected, I am ready to choose it during the New Year.

At that time, the generals and men of the Ming army must have been busy for more than half a month in the cold winter, and the results of repairing the military village in the ice and snow were limited, but they were exhausted.

Since the Ming army wants to defend Tucheng, it must have enough food and grass to keep the generals confident and not cry bitter.

And the Chinese New Year season is the time when the mood of the Ming army is most likely to fluctuate: why can others spend the New Year peacefully at home, but they have to fight to the death in Saibei?

……

"Zhengdan Festival is their most important festival, and they will start to prepare from the middle of their lunar month, recover a lot of money, buy a lot of supplies, and get the greatest enjoyment of the year!"

"That is, now is the time of harvest!"

Hearing Alfonso's introduction, the mercenary coalition of Portuguese merchants became even more excited.

"So to speak." Alfonso said, "The envoys and mercenary contracts from the old dynasty and the new kings have already been seen, and in addition to the deposit of so much silver, and the tacit approval of the raids after the defeat of Thanh Hoa, it is only necessary for their army to enter Thanh Hoa to go all the way south, and help them play the role of driving us out and gaining the love of their people." ”

"Dear Alfonso, from today onwards, you are my most trusted friend! So, should we bring a little silk to the ship before we set off? It doesn't take up much space, and it's useless to leave this silver on your body. ”

"Of course, I'll go to His Excellency Wang Zhi, and it's enough for us to leave one or two small boats, and they can go back to Malacca directly."

The large caravan of the Portuguese naturally attracted the attention of Cochin, but fortunately, they left for the south after a short stay on Cat Ba Island to do their "business" and disappeared into the ocean.

When the news reached the palace in Thang Long City, Mo Dengyong became more and more anxious.

"Fourteen days left?"

“…… No, if you count the time for the minister to rush to Cat Ba Island, there are still nine days. Nguyen Van Thai corrected him with trepidation, but it was also a reminder.

"It's too much of a deception! It's too much of a deception! ”

The encirclement and suppression of Ruan Gan did not go smoothly, and it was too difficult to find them in the Ailao Mountain and eliminate them as soon as possible.

They are hiding in Tibet, but Mo Dengyong needs the head of Ruan Gan, and the head of the so-called descendants of the Li family!

To the north, the Guangxi chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, who had just broken the border of the Chen soldiers in the south of Pingnan Boqu Zhinan, who had just broken Mengmi in Waiyun at the beginning of the year, confirmed Yan Shifan's intimidation.

Nguyen Van Tai brought back the news that the navy of the Ming Dynasty had set off.

Mo Dengyong urgently needs to create a situation in which the overall situation of Jiaozhi has been decided, at least so that Yan Shifan and Wang Xueyi's excuse that they want to talk to the king of Jiaozhi Li Shi cannot find the right owner.

At least there will be no more troubles to deal with the possible arrival of the Ming Dynasty.

He didn't know that the war had started again in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to send troops at the same time at this time.

But six days later, the news from Qinghua made his eyes dark.

"What do you say? Not the Ming warship? Is it a Westerner? ”

"It's true, it's all yellow-haired ghosts, red-haired ghosts, and the natives over there in Manraka, and even the wild people who don't slip in the dark!" The one who fled back was the minister who governed Thanh Hoa, he was embarrassed, "Lost Thanh Hoa, the minister is guilty." It's just that General Chen took most of the defenders to mourn and suppress the bandits, and their ships and guns are ......"

Morden is like falling into an ice cave.

In the first two months, in order to deal with the threat of the Ming Dynasty, he dispatched troops to defend the north and the west, and the sailors were all deployed in Anxing to defend the Ming Dynasty, but he never expected to encounter Westerners who were so large enough to attack the city.

And they also went to Cat Ba Island before.

It seems that it is just a business, but now the development of the situation, do you still need to think about it?

What made him fall into an ice cave was not the destruction of the city by Qinghua, but the determination revealed under the "unscrupulous means" of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that Da Ming is still clean, but he doesn't recognize him as a "usurper minister" for the time being. For Jiaozhi, they are still doing business, and there are many big clans and even people in Jiaozhi who think that Daming is good, and they make money from Daming.

As for Thanh Hoa...... It was the Westerners who shot it, what does it have to do with the Ming Dynasty?

Can Mo Dengyong spew blood? Is there any evidence?

Inside and outside Thanh Hoa City, it can't be called purgatory, but what is the bottom line of mercenaries?

"Alfonso, it's time to contact them quickly, we don't want the leaders of the natives here to gather their troops again."

"Don't worry, no matter what, it will be difficult to mobilize soldiers to fight during their Spring Festival, so I will set off for Cat Ba Island. My servant is still here, and you can't swallow my share!" ”

"How so? We're going to be looking for a beauty here. They're short, but they're great, hahahaha! ”

Alfonso's involvement in this battle has led to a higher level of trust.

Now, he can slip away.

In the south-central part of Cochin, mercenaries from the West began to do evil with their muskets in hand, as expected.

Mo Dengyong was in a dilemma, and finally decided to agree to Yan Shifan's request.

As long as there is a justifiable canonization, Ruan Gan is no longer a problem. But if he sits back and watches the Westerners wreak havoc and ignore it, then he is really losing people's hearts.

Approaching the Spring Festival, the humble temporary propaganda envoy on Cat Ba Island ushered in three waves of people.

Yan Shifan smiled with one eye: "Brother Ruan, you're a little late." Let me introduce to you, this is the son-in-law of the Duke of Xingguo and the Duke of Yijun Zheng Jian of the Li Clan, he just arrived yesterday, and at the behest of the lord Li Weining, he asked the Heavenly Empire to help him sweep away the rebels. This prince and Wang Xuanjiao have just submitted a document to the capital, asking Your Majesty to call the shots. This is Tan Yong, the general of my Daming Sea Division, who just arrived today. ”

Zhao Jun's large army was behind, and in order to communicate well with this side, the vanguard sent only led a 500-material warship to arrive here in advance.

Ruan Van Tai's hands were trembling, while Zheng Jian scolded: "Traitor! ”

Zheng Jian, who was just 30 years old, was full of energy.

The younger Yan Shifan waved his hand: "Your rights and wrongs, this son doesn't care." Since you've all arrived, let's spend the New Year here first, and wait until Your Majesty's Holy Judge arrives. ”

"Wang Qin, Yan Gongzi!" Zheng Jian said loudly, "Yi people plundered Qinghua and poisoned my people, how can my king bear it?" The foreign ministers came with great difficulty, but they could not be caught, and I implore the warships of the Wang Division to send Qinghua to exterminate and expel them! ”

"Yan Gongzi, my king has selected elite soldiers and strong generals...... Ruan Wentai was suddenly shocked, and he didn't want things to go to the step where Da Ming actually helped the Li family.

Yan Shifan rolled his eyes: "Joke! General Tan Shen just arrived first, although my Ming warship is advantageous, how can I fight a hundred enemies? It's just that I didn't expect that the fleet of the Western-Yiren arrived on Cat Ba Island, and saw that my Ming still remembered that they had invaded Guangdong in the past and refused to trade, so they plundered along the coast on the way back so as not to find nothing. ”

In front of them, Yan Shifan first brushed off many things, anyway, he would beat them solidly later.

"If you want to fight, you will wait for Admiral Zhao to arrive! Not only is the Ming Dynasty the main, but the people of Jiaozhi are also the subjects of the Ming Dynasty. According to this son, at present, it is better for both of you to find a way to let this group of Westerners linger in Jiaozhi for another ten days and a half months, and then exterminate them in one fell swoop when Admiral Zhao arrives. Brother Ruan, are your sailors going to continue to stop at Anxing to guard against the Ming Dynasty, or to cut off the return of this gang of thieves? ”

“…… This. "How can Nguyen Van Thai be the master?

Do you want to let the precious sailor of Jiaozhi go to a dangerous place? What if it is exterminated by the Westerners and the Ming Dynasty?

"Destroy the ministers of the old lord, and do not care about the life and death of the people! I hate my lord and the army of Jiayue, and they are surrounded and suppressed by traitors in the mourning prison, and they can't save the people from fire and water! ”

Yan Shifan didn't care and let them quarrel.

It is also a kind of stay for someone to cut off the back road, and it is also a kind of stay if there is no way to counterattack hastily, so that those thieves are tempted by unresistible interests.

What's more, those people are still worried about another part of the employment expenses of the so-called Li envoys, and went to take over Thanh Hoa City.

Anyway, Tan Yong said that Zhao Jun's army was only behind him for a maximum of six to eight days.

"In that case, don't fight." Yan Shifan said lightly, "Lord Wang, you see, the Li clan is weak, but it is the main master, and the Mo clan is also willing to surrender, and Jiaozhi is now adding external trouble. Now that General Tan has arrived, can he ask him to escort the warship with the Maritime Trade Company to the south of Thanh Hoa to cut off the road to the south of Thanh Hoa? ”

After all, Wang Xueyi still has the identity on the surface, he pretended to think about it, and then looked at Ruan Wentai and Zheng Jian: "You have been fighting for several years!" Now you can't obey the people inside, and you can't resist the enemy outside! Da Ming helped the people of Jiaozhi to avoid external humiliation, after His Majesty's holy will arrived, you must listen to Your Majesty's holy judgment, and you must not fight endlessly, harm others and yourself! Mo Dengyong usurped the throne, if he is still not satisfied, then I will ask Your Majesty to spread the word to the southwest to exterminate it! ”

Ruan Wentai's face changed again, and Zheng Jian also stopped talking.

Each of them, all they want is to have it all.

But listening to the current meaning, the Ming Emperor didn't think so.

Ruan Van Tai really refused to send another letter back to tell Mo Dengyong: Da Ming agreed to let him be the Xuanwei envoy of Jiaozhi, but it was only half of Jiaozhi.

Eleven days later, on the fifth day of the first month of the 11th year of Jiajing, on the port east of Thanh Hoa City, the Portuguese sailors who remained on the merchant ship had just woken up.

Rubbing his eyes, he pushed away the local woman who had been brought to the boat for their pleasure, grinned and grabbed two more, ready to climb the mast to see what was going on.

When he climbed to the top of the mast and looked into the distance with great difficulty, he wiped his eyes again and squinted them with some confusion.

After a while, his pupils shrank, and he raised his voice and shouted: "Alert! Alert! ”

The shadow in the distance was still small, but it was no ordinary civilian ship. After all, there are a lot of them, and they are faintly in battle formation, coming straight to this side.

Zhao Jun, who went south to Guangdong and participated in the Battle of Tuen Mun, stood on the only 1,200 flagship newly built by the Ming Dynasty that had been put into service, and he still held the best telescope in his hand.

"It's forty percent less than the number from the outside factory, that is, some of them went to the south to loot." Zhao Jun calmly ordered, "Since there are fewer enemies, and they should all be enjoying themselves in Qinghua City, just rush over and leave no one behind!" ”

The boat is not fast, and the sea is unobstructed. The Portuguese had spotted them in advance, but they also needed to prepare urgently.

And the cannons that could be used on such a huge battleship were much larger than the tiger squat cannons cast on land to facilitate the march.

"Boom!"

I don't know how many years later, the Ming warships reappeared in this distant South Sea, suffocating the tonnage of the Portuguese leaders who arrived in a hurry.

Alfonso didn't lie to them, Daming really had such a huge warship.

But fuck Alfonso lied to them!

Didn't you stand on the side of Daming and help them do things this time?

"Boom!"

For many years, there has never been such a large and dense artillery fire from the Ming army north of the border wall of the Ming Dynasty.

The first month of the eleventh year of Jiajing just began, and the north and south of the Ming Dynasty bloomed.

Yu Dayou stood at the head of the small and dilapidated city of Tucheng, looking into the distance with a telescope.

Beside him, behind him, were cannons.

Outside the low earthen wall in front of him, within fifty paces were mandarin duck formations, which encircled the earthen city in a circle and extended to two temporary camps on the left and right wings.

With more firing table data after the First Battle of Waiyun, this time in the city defense battle, the Ming Dynasty is the number of ways to dump artillery fire.

And the gunners in the mandarin duck array outside the city, and the bird gunners on the earthen wall, built a solid defense line.

The Mongolian cavalry was indeed brave, and the artillery fire was not enough to stop all the people, but the fifty-step defense line built by the mandarin duck array was like the last trench.

They just couldn't get to the bottom of the earthen wall, which was less than a foot high.

The Battle of Tucheng began on the third day of the first lunar month, and he thought he had chosen a good time, because he found that even as Chinese New Year's Eve approached, the Ming army was still urgently building the earthen wall.

In the cold winter, during the New Year, the ice was broken and the city wall was built, can the soldiers and the people not complain?

I can't even live a year under pressure, from Chinese New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month, it's time to go crazy, right?

But I didn't have a telescope, and he didn't know how the transfer was pulled by a horse-drawn sleigh cart directly from within the side wall to pull the prefabricated bricks and shoddy cement transferred from Huailai, and he didn't know how many shells and small tiger squat guns were included in the military materials transported by Daming.

Ma Fang, who had been in the heavy snow for so long, watched Meng Yuanjing ride in a daze, and then turned on his back.

This is still the grassland warrior he is familiar with, is it the cowardly and weak Ming border army in his impression?

The war developed like this, and Ma Fang couldn't find any good opportunity to escape.

He suddenly felt that learning to ride horses and shoot arrows on the Tartar's side seemed to be of little use.

"One! Two! Three! Put! ”

Although the group of artillery positions in the northeast corner of the city wall was blocked by a heavy earthen wall less than a foot high in front of them, the new guns placed on the stacked batteries still raised at a sufficient angle according to the firing table to throw the shells out of the city.

After a roar, someone nearby shoveled up the snow with a shovel and threw it on the barrel.

"Sir said, it's easy to crack the barrel!" The person who is responsible for the daily maintenance of artillery is distressed, he has studied at the military academy and knows some knowledge.

"What do you do with so much? Multipurpose! More! That's how we can keep improving! ”

The attaché of the General Armaments Department did not care, anyway, he had the impression that the money of the General Armaments Department was enough, and His Majesty had only one request for the General Armaments Department: let the Military Bureau, the Ordnance Superintendent, and the Baojin Bureau come up with more and more types, stronger and more practical firearms!

This is not just to fill in without life, but to create more demand so that Daming's firearms technology can continue to improve.

To the north of Tucheng, my heart is as cold as the weather is now.

He naturally saw that the power of Da Ming's firearms had risen to a new level, and now it was their best defense of the city.

In such a dilapidated small city, in such a short time, why could the Ming Dynasty transport so many artillery?

And that's just for now, but in the future?

"Blow the horn and go back."

I finally made a decision.

He didn't have so many craftsmen under his hands, he didn't have so many talents. On top of that, his Tumut ministry didn't have that much territory.

With his current strength, of course, he has the ability to break through such a small earthen city, but the price is too great.

"Khan, I'll lead the men to the south and surround them! They're alone! ”

It's only been more than two days, and my subordinates can't figure it out. The khan was obviously dispatching troops and preparing to completely swallow the army of the Ming people who dared to go out of the border wall.

"That's right, that's going to win!" I replied suddenly became furious, "The Tumut tribe can win this battle, but what about the future? How many sons and daughters are going to be left here? ”

I replied that I wasn't really speaking from my heart. In addition to not being able to block the main force of the entire Tumut Department in this matter, he also knew that as long as he was slightly blocked, he might be surrounded by the Ming army of Datong in that circle of more than 20 miles.

"Are they just letting them occupy the earth city for nothing?" The general's eyes were blood-red, and he was extremely unwilling.

Obviously, there is still a fight to be made, and we can win! He didn't believe in the inexhaustibility of the Ming people's shells, and he also noticed that some of the artillery in the Ming army blew themselves up.

"Retreat!" I knew this was not the place to speak.

In this battle, he just saw a helpless situation thoroughly.

The sound of the trumpets of the retreating soldiers echoed across the snowy field, and I looked back at the small earthen city, and when I looked back, my eyes were determined.

Only the stupid Khan court and his stupid brother did not understand how the time was pressing.

This is only another four years, and the combat power of the Ming army is so much stronger than that of Jiajing in the sixth year. Naturally, there are many wasted generals in their army, but there are also characters like Yu Dayou, and the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty dares to use him and is willing to use him!

Genghis Khan's descendants still don't understand that they should give up the little power they hold on to their last days, and as soon as possible welcome a lord who can truly lead them from this fate.

If you don't sweep away those insects, how can you resist the increasingly powerful Daming?

(End of chapter)