However, this time it was not in the fishing sea, but in the capital of Mengyuan, Kaiping City.

But this has to start with Lan Yu, Chang Yuchun, and Li Siqi's three-way army raiding the grassland.

According to Zhang Wuji's plan, Lan Yu, Chang Yuchun, and Li Siqi's three-way army slaughtered Mobei and the hinterland of the Mongols at a lightning speed.

At present, the Mengyuan court still focuses on the Central Plains, and most of the troops are deployed on both sides of the Yellow River to guard against the attack of the Central Plains and the Ming army.

The Yuan court wanted to use the Yellow River to fight with Zhang Wuji for a year and a half, to give the Yuan court's clans to escape back to the grassland to buy some time, and when the time was almost up, Meng Yuan implemented the "scorched earth policy" to take away everything that could be taken away within the Great Wall, and all that could not be taken away were burned, killed, and destroyed. It would take a lot of troops and transportation to accomplish this, so their Mongolian homeland was very empty.

Chang Yuchun and Li Qisi's troops initially fought mainly to support the armies of the khanates of Dayuan.

However, the armies of the khanates are the private property of the khanates, and the army is the bottom line for them to maintain the rule of the country. They don't expend their own strength to preserve someone else's territory.

And once their own army is completely wiped out, I don't know if the Han people will come to destroy them, but their compatriots next door will definitely take the opportunity to eat them.

In the face of such troops, the army led by Chang Yuchun and Li Siqi defeated them without much effort, and all the prisoners were released, and told them that the Han had no intention of making enemies against them. If they promise not to be enemies of the Han and Ming again, then they can still save their territory. If you are willing to fall to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you can even get the protection of Ming Zun in the future.

Compared to their own barbarian compatriots, these Han Chinese armies were more civilized. They do not plunder, nor kill them, nor even destroy them. So the armies of the khanates also went back to their own countries.

The internal emptiness, coupled with the fact that foreign aid has no will to fight, is again working in silos. The three-way army took the Mobei grassland without much effort.

But what really conquered the Mobei grassland was not the butcher's knife in his hand, but from the Central Plains, from Mingzun's "Huairou Policy".

That is, it was business as usual, the grazing of the grazing, the grazing of the horses, and after that they were still governed by their own khan, and the Han did not interfere in the Mongolian steppe.

The khanate only needed to honor the emperor of the Central Plains, make offerings on time according to the rules of the vassal state, and keep peace.

But in the same way, the Great Emperor of the Central Plains would also give his steppe people in return, and the Great Emperor promised to send merchants to bring the grain, tea, cloth, cotton, and salt that the steppe people needed. Even in times of famine, they will waive tribute and send money and grain for disaster relief, so that no one in the grassland will starve to death or freeze to death.

At first, the Mongol herders were scared, but as more and more Ming soldiers arrived, they gradually let go of their hostility and vigilance.

Because the soldiers of the Ming army really don't rob or kill. And their women are safe, too. Not snatched and not insulted.

None of them would approach the herders' yurts unless they had to.

Even if these Mongolian herders took the initiative to attack them in self-defense, they would not take his life lightly. Moreover, the Ming army went out in a group of three to deal with this kind of thing, especially with a Mongolian soldier as an interpreter in each group to explain unnecessary misunderstandings.

During this time, the herdsmen did not lose a single cattle and sheep. Even if they are lost, the cavalry of the Ming army will assist them in retrieving them. There was even a case where a Ming soldier fell into a swamp and died in order to save a sheep from the herdsman.

The Ming army was supplied on the spot in the Mobei grassland, but they did not use robbery, but bought.

The soldiers of the Ming army were Mongols, Semu, or Han Chinese. Under the leadership of the Mongolian guide translator, they used their own salt, tea, gold and silver to exchange cattle and sheep food with the Mongolian villagers. When their weapons are broken, and horses are sick, they will come to them for help. If they really don't have money, they will help the Mongolian villagers to work to pay off their debts.

After this period of getting along, coupled with the instigation of those Mongolian compatriots who had joined the Ming army, these herdsmen living in the desert completely defected.

After all, the Han court, the Han soldiers are really good to them. It's always been autumn and there is no offense.

In the end, it even developed to the point that these Mongolian villagers spontaneously began to become the "leading party", and began to lobby other tribes to surrender with the Ming army. Some even joined the Ming army directly on the spot. And the Mongol princes who fled back in advance, as well as the Mongol officials who oppressed them, were arrested and handed over to the Ming army for disposal.

After all, their lives were not affected, and compared to the cruel Mengyuan court, the Han court was better for them.

Just when Zhang Wuji and others were fighting in the Central Plains.

Li Siqi, Chang Yuchun, and Lan Yu's team, with Zhang Wuji's strongest killer feature, the "Huairou Policy" of changing people's hearts for people's hearts, completely conquered these people who were suffering on the grassland.

Even when the Ming army of the grassland marched south, these grassland villagers also came out to see each other off in person, just like saying goodbye to their own army. Some even hoped that the Ming army would not leave, and hoped that they would come back to protect them. Don't let those cruel Mongol princes come back. Some even packed up their belongings, put their yurts on the carriage, and set off south with the large army of the Ming army.

This face Chang Yuchun was directly stunned, and the invincible "Chang 100,000" felt that his bravery was useless for the first time, and it was not even as good as Zhang Wuji's two promises.

In this way, the Ming army did not seem to be "stealing" this time, but like helping the Mongolian villagers move.

The biggest gain of the Ming army in this battle was not gold and silver, not cattle and sheep, not how many enemy troops were destroyed. It is the thousands of Mongolian people around them, dragging their families and families, driving their cattle and sheep, and following them.

The soldiers of the Ming army even gave up their war horses to some children and old people with inconvenient legs and feet. And when the transportation capacity is insufficient, the war horse will be brought to the villagers to pull the family property.

And they basically spent all the money they had brought with them, as well as the military salaries advanced to them in advance before the expedition. But everyone was happy.

But Li Siqi and Lan Yu are used to it. Li Siqi has long been accustomed to this kind of "scene of eating pot pulp to welcome the king". And after Lan Yu went through the first battle of Jinling, he had seen more magical things, and this kind of thing was nothing.

Therefore, when Lan Yu's troops took the lead in going south, the Mongolian troops stationed near Kaiping thought that their own army was coming when they saw these relocated Mongolian people, and the cattle and sheep, as well as the Ming soldiers who were guarding them.

Directly opened the camp gate and the city gate, knowing that the other party had completely entered the city, and after seeing the flag they were carrying, he found that it was the enemy. They were basically unsuspected, and they were wiped out by the Ming army.

(End of chapter)