"What a mighty army!"

Before setting out on the expedition, Zhu Di routinely inspected the three armies.

When inspecting the regimental battalion of Li Yunze's department, even if it was an old soldier, he was shocked by its momentum.

This is by no means a lie, even the Zhu Gaoxu brothers who are following behind him can't find a mistake.

As for the reason, it is also very simple, the whole battalion of soldiers and horses is arranged neatly, horizontally and vertically like a straight line. Even in the scorching sun, it doesn't move, like a huge piece of tofu. ŴŴŴ.BiQuGe.Biz

Compared with other queues that are loose and sloppy around, it is really in the cone sac, which is extremely conspicuous.

Since he was arranged in the barracks, as a 'good saint', he naturally had to allocate a team of soldiers and horses.

Zhu Di didn't give much, only a battalion of 3,000 soldiers.

During the few months he spent in the battalion, in addition to enriching himself, Li Yunze spent a large part of his energy on training this army.

Other regiments and battalions practiced every 10 days, and they practiced every 5 days.

But Li Yunze is here, but he is training with high intensity almost every day, and what's worse is that he also came out of the military posture queue.

Not to mention the actual combat effect, at least it looks like a strong army.

Zhu Di looked at Li Yunze with satisfaction, "The military training is good." ”

Li Yunze, who was expressionless, responded with a military salute.

It costs money to train well.

Everyone else practices every 10 days and every 5 days. Li Yunze's side is practicing almost every day, which is absolutely unimaginable in the cold weapon period.

If you do it every ten days, you can call it an elite soldier.

it every five days, it's all real elite.

What are the soldiers and horses that practice every day, special forces?

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not have a high consciousness, Li Yunze wanted them to practice every day, and there was no other way but to feed them.

One is that there are enough meals to be served, and there has to be meat for each meal.

If you can't eat enough food and meat, you can't bear this level of high-intensity training.

The other is that he does not eat empty salaries, and on the basis of giving the sergeants full salaries, he will pay a training reward out of his own pocket.

It is equivalent to giving the sergeants double salaries and double salaries.

After being fed with wine, meat, and silver, such an elite army of soldiers and horses can be trained.

Zhu Di was very satisfied with this, and specially spared the soldiers and horses around this battalion, and waited for a while to feel that everyone was indeed standing like a benchmark, and then he laughed and walked down.

"This big nephew, I really can't understand it."

Zhu Gaosui whispered beside his second brother, "If you write up, you can get money and settle Yang Rong." In the face of the old man's temptation and suppression, he should hold on without saying a word. Martial arts, it is possible to train such elite soldiers and horses. This can be written and martial, I really can't understand it

。 ”

Zhu Gaoxu, who had a black face, did not reply all the way.

has the ability to have vision, knows how to forbear, and knows how to please the old man.

If it were Zhu Gaochi like this, where would he have any thoughts of fighting for the reserve, he should have voted early.

'You must not let the boss take the position. ’

Zhu Gaoxu's only thought at this time was to prevent the boss from ascending the throne. If that were the case, he wouldn't really have the slightest chance to speak again.

In the autumn and July of the 21st year of Yongle, Zhu Di personally led an army of 200,000 to conquer Saibei.

The army was mighty, and the whole steppe was shaken.

"Junki." On a hill somewhere in the prairie, Zhu Di looked at the mighty army below, and was full of spirit, "How is the power of the Emperor Ming army?" ”

"The military is mighty." Li Yunze said truthfully: "If you are in the Central Plains, you should run rampant in the world and destroy the national unity." ”

"Huh?"

Zhu Di, who heard what he said, immediately turned his head and thought for a while, "You mean, you can't do it when you get to the grassland?" ”

"The matter of the steppe is not in the troops, but in the inability to find the enemy."

Li Yunze's face did not change color, and his heart did not beat, "The grassland is not big, almost no less than the Central Plains." There are cities in the Central Plains, and the army fights straight to the city. But there is no city on the grassland, as long as the tribe lives by the water and grass. We are unfamiliar with the place and come here to find people

Home, let alone 200,000, even 400,000 is salt sprinkled into the sea. If you want to find someone, it's pure luck. ”

Zhu Di looked back and was noncommittal, "How do you say to fight?" ”

"Of course, it is the champion of learning, recruiting herdsmen who are proficient in grassland geography as guides, and leading the elite cavalry to smash the Yellow Dragon for thousands of miles!"

In all dynasties, from Yan Zhao in the Warring States Period to the present, the most brilliant and capable of dealing with the grassland tribes is Huo Quzhi.

He really grasped the weakness of the nomadic tribe, and used cavalry against cavalry, attacking it to save it and destroying its main force in a battle, and the nomadic tribe that fought collapsed directly.

It's a pity that after a thousand years, there is only one Huo Quai.

Zhu Di stopped talking, rode his horse down the hill and went straight into the army.

Li Yunze asked for battle three times, and wanted to lead the army to attack alone, but Zhu Di refused.

Zhu Di is not afraid of any danger to him, after all, after going to the battlefield, he Zhu Di is not the emperor, but the commander of the three armies.

On the battlefield, anyone can die in battle, of course they don't care about this.

The reason why he disagreed was because he felt that Li Yunze wanted to follow Huo Qu's illness and take risks.

And the success rate of this kind of thing is too low, and it is more likely that it has completely disappeared into the vast prairie.

The soldiers and horses trained by Li Yunze are so elite that they can be thrown at will.

A large army just wandered around the steppe, trying to find the main force of the steppe for a decisive battle.

But people are not stupid, how can they take the initiative to send people's heads, they are all hiding far away, and they don't give the Ming army, which is dominated by infantry, a chance to fight a decisive battle.

After going around and around for a few months, there were not many results, but the losses due to various reasons were more than the results.

Zhu Di, who was holding back his anger in his heart, had to retreat and return to the border before the winter snowfall.

He did not return to the capital, because he could feel that his time was running out, and he was afraid that after returning to Beijing this time, he would never have the opportunity to go on the expedition again.

In the city, the Chinese army has a big tent.

"Don't ask the prince for silver in the future." Zhu Di, who was leaning sideways on the bed, closed his eyes and fiddled with the walnuts in his hand, "Take the silver from me." ”

Of course, the silver that Li Yunze gave to the double salary for military training was not forked by himself from the modern world in a forklift.

He asked Zhu Gaochi for it.

Even if there is a shortage of silver, Zhu Gaochi will not be short of his money for military training.

Zhu Di naturally knew about this for a long time, but he kept turning a blind eye.

Now that this matter is suddenly mentioned, there is naturally another reason.

"Expand your troops." Zhu Di, who was spinning with walnuts in his hand, spoke again, "Expand to 10,000, half a step and half a ride." ”

In addition to the 3,000 battalions, this is the highest proportion of cavalry in the Ming army.

Of course, Li Yunze understood what Zhu Di meant, this was after the last expedition was unsuccessful, and he moved his mind.

That is what Li Yunze said, doing the thing of the champion Hou.

Zhu Di was unwilling to leave before destroying the grassland, and was determined to make a last fight in the last time.

Since Li Yunze has shown his talent and ability, of course Zhu Di must give enough support.

The double salary of 10,000 people is not difficult for Zhu Di, who still holds millions of taels of silver in his hand.

"Train well, and in a few months you will go on a campaign. When the time comes, I hope your ministry can come in handy. ”

What else can Li Yunze say, he can only bow his hand, "Yes." ”

The emperor lived in Biansai, which was very close to the capital, but he was reluctant to return to Beijing.

From the crown prince to all kinds of ministers, they sent chapters to ask the emperor to return to Luan.

Zhu Di ignored all of this.

However, it was a strong demand to mobilize troops and horses from all walks of life to assemble in the border fortress, and at the same time constantly urged Beijing to supply all kinds of grain, grass and military materials.

In other emperors, civil officials can still delay and pass the buck.

But in the face of an immediate emperor like Zhu Di, the civil officials could only complain secretly while having to obey orders.

As time passed, more and more soldiers and horses gathered in the border area.

Zhu Di, who wanted to complete the battle in the last stage of his life, almost concentrated all the soldiers who could fight in the country here.

When the time came to the end of March of the twenty-second year of Yongle, not long after the spring flowers bloomed and the cold wind left, Zhu Di, whose body was becoming more and more heavy, couldn't wait to personally lead the army to Mobei again.

This time, the total number of soldiers and horses reached an earth-shattering army of 400,000!

In order to supply such a huge army, the Ming Dynasty mobilized millions of people to maintain logistics back and forth.

Just like Li Yunze said, a force of this scale is a proper war to destroy the country when used in the Central Plains.

The kind that can destroy anyone.

The strength of the country in the early Ming Dynasty can be seen from this.

At this time, Li Yunze, whose identity is just an ordinary general in the army, has nothing to do with himself.

He followed Zhu Di and worked hard to learn how to control such a large army.

After these years of study and practice, Li Yunze led 10,000 soldiers and horses alone, but 400,000 troops... Let's wash and sleep.

Zhu Di can do it, Li Yunze is watching and learning carefully, accumulating experience for himself.

On Zhu Di's side, he naturally saw it clearly.

Instead of scolding, he often took the initiative to solve his doubts and taught Li Yunze his experience in leading troops.

This made Zhu Gaoxu's eyes crack, and his teeth itched with hatred.

But he couldn't help it, because Zhu Di had a very strict control over the army, and no one could move except for the soldiers and horses in his headquarters.

This time, Zhu Di, who was ruthless, built a military station camp every hundred miles along the way, which was used to transport grain and grass and baggage layer by layer.

And he didn't care about anything, he just led the army all the way north and then north, as if he was going to fight to the edge of the sky.

It was also uncomfortable on the other side of Warat, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were surging, which greatly squeezed their living space.

The various tribes retreated again and again, and the loss of a large amount of pasture has already caused them to encounter an existential crisis.

has already retreated to Mobei, and if you retreat further, there is no way to retreat, you can only fight to the death.

On June 17 of the 22nd year of Yongle, the Ming army that had gone north finally arrived on the banks of the Taranamur River north of Hala and Lin.

Hala and Lin were the capital of the Mongols, and once gathered the world's gold and silver wealth, craftsmen and beauties.

And not far from the edge of the Tlannamur River is the famous North Sea, Lake Baikal!

On the banks of the Drinking Horse River, look around at the grassland and mountains.

Zhu Di, who rode a horse and raised his hooves, looked up to the sky and shouted: "It's been five hundred years!" The Han Iron Rider is back after five hundred years! ”

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