What?

The Hu army is heading south!

The news immediately shocked everyone.

For the Han people, almost every time the northern nomads went south, it brought war and killing.

Even if the Great Wall is a barrier, it is not foolproof.

There are very few dynasties in the past dynasties that can truly solve the troubles in the north.

And now, the news that the Hu people are going south again has cast an invisible shadow on the jubilant scene of Da Ming just defeating Li Tang.

"Don't worry, what's the details?"

Zhao Mingyuan's words seemed to have some kind of magic, and listening to his calm tone, everyone couldn't help but settle down.

As the messenger spoke, everyone understood what had happened.

It turned out that it was DTZ who went south this time, and it was also the largest tribe on the grassland today, and it was also the tribe where Wuzun Bi Xuan was the national teacher.

It seems that they have long known that there will be changes in Chang'an City, and they may have guessed what is happening, so they have been prepared for a long time.

Could it be that Jieli Khan already knew the final result of that battle, so he wanted to go south to avenge Bi Xuan?

Of course, as a political figure, revenge for Bi Xuan is just an excuse for Jieli to go south.

The truth is naturally that Jieli was terrified when he learned that Zhao Mingyuan had defeated Li Tang and was about to dominate the world.

He was afraid of the unification of the Central Plains, which would lead to the emergence of a strong Han Chinese empire.

After all, almost every powerful dynasty was bound to expel the Tartars and attack the Hu people in the north, without exception.

Therefore, it is not a good strategy to take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty has not really annexed Li Tang and attack in advance, thereby weakening the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

I have to say that they found a really good time.

Now that Zhao Mingyuan has just entered Chang'an City, many nearby cities have not really surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

"Where are they now?"

Zhao Mingyuan asked calmly.

"Back to Your Majesty, the time of the summons was three hours ago, when the Hu people vanguard had already entered Longyou."

"Impossible! Is there no one to resist? What are those border soldiers for? ”

Someone immediately refuted it, and it was one of Li Tang's subordinates.

Soon, some people raised the question of whether it was because the news of Li Tang's demise spread, so the border army defected. Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the Hu people came so quickly.

At present, the Hexi Corridor is not in the hands of Li Tang, so the Hu-Han border is only a few hundred miles away from Chang'an.

Therefore, although there is some cooperation with the Hu people, Li Tang will naturally not be defenseless, and there are a lot of people stationed at the border pass.

In fact, those people and horses at the border and even the materials were originally from the Great Sui, but they were just taken over by Li Tang.

Although Li Tang did transfer a lot of border troops because of the decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, even so, it should not be broken through so easily.

After all, the defenders relied on the city and occupied a favorable position, and it was difficult to break through.

What's more, most of the Hu people are cavalry, but the siege equipment is seriously insufficient, how can it be so easy to break through the border pass and fortified city?

Unless the border army really didn't fire a single shot, they would open the city and surrender.

But that's more like a fantasy.

The border soldiers and the Hu people have been fighting for many years, and they have long been as deep as the sea, how can they surrender to them?

What's more, those soldiers were originally Sui troops, although they surrendered to Li Tang, but to say how loyal they were to Li Tang, I am afraid that it is impossible to talk about it.

It doesn't make sense that they would do something to lure Hu people into the customs for the sake of Li Tang.

Just when the ministers were puzzled, an old eunuch came out of the apse, quietly came to Zhao Mingyuan's side, leaned over and whispered a few words.

This old eunuch was none other than Wei Lianxiang, one of the elders of the Yin Sect.

As an undercover agent of the Yin Sect, he originally waited by Yang Guang's side, but after the death of Sui, he came to Li Tang's harem and became Li Yuan's personal eunuch.

Because he was extremely familiar with the palace, Zhao Mingyuan handed over the affairs of the palace to him to manage.

It seems that he found out something.

Sure enough, with Wei Lianxiang's soft voice, Zhao Mingyuan understood the whole story.

It turned out that before Li Yuan committed suicide, he had secretly sent someone to send a few letters.

According to Wei Lianxiang's investigation, it was confirmed that three letters were sent out by Li Yuan's dead soldiers.

One of the letters seemed to be sent to Dou Jiande, while the other two letters were sent in the same direction.

One of them seems to have been sent to the general who guarded the city at the border pass, while the remaining letter was even sent to the grassland.

Now it seems that the letter was finally in the hands of Jieli Khan, which led to the unexpected southward movement of DTZ.

And the general who defended the city was the Li Tang clan, and the Hu people entered the pass from the city where he was stationed.

I see.

Presumably Li Yuan was unwilling to be defeated before he died, and his three sons were all killed by Zhao Mingyuan, so he had a heart of revenge.

In order to make this guard willing to lead the Hu people into the customs, I don't know how he exaggerated Zhao Mingyuan's brutality and ruthlessness in that letter.

Could it be that Zhao Mingyuan slaughtered all the Li Tang clans?

Or is it that this guard general was originally obedient to Li Yuan's words.

However, since he is such an important person as the border guard, he must indeed be a person that Li Yuan trusts very much.

Although the details can no longer be studied, Zhao Mingyuan has already understood the general situation.

The most important thing now is not to investigate the causes, but to find a way to solve the problem.

Thankfully, this problem is not difficult to solve.

At least for Zhao Yuan, it's not difficult.

However, Li Yuan should also pay attention to Dou Jiande's letter, I don't know if Dou Jiande will also take the opportunity to lead the army south.

Therefore, Zhao Mingyuan immediately sent a summons to ask Li Jing to guard against the movement in the north, and then skipped this item and asked the ministers to report other affairs.

Although the ministers were a little strange, it seemed that Zhao Mingyuan seemed to have a solution, as if he had already had a solution, so he no longer insisted on it, and told him about the various problems he was facing one by one.

has just annexed Li Tang, and there are many things to do, so naturally there are many problems waiting for Zhao Mingyuan to solve.

By the time he had settled the main business at hand, it was already a few hours later.

After the ministers retreated, Zhao Mingyuan came to the military camp outside Chang'an City.

In order to prevent disturbance of the people, nearly half of the army was still stationed in the barracks outside the city.

Now that many political affairs have been solved, Zhao Mingyuan naturally has to solve military problems.

Fang Cai was silent above the court, naturally it was not that Zhao Mingyuan didn't care about the people of Li Tang and let the Hu people plunder. Instead, he was ready to personally lead the army to quickly solve this trouble.

The reason why he acted in secret, Zhao Mingyuan was naturally in case that after he left, Chang'an would be unmanned, for fear that someone would take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

In fact, some people may have already guessed Zhao Mingyuan's intentions.

However, smart people should understand that it is their best choice not to act rashly at this time.

Otherwise, even if it can cause some chaos and cause some losses for Daming. But when Zhao Mingyuan returns, those who remain in them will surely perish.

Unless, Zhao Mingyuan will never return.

But, is this possible?

Can those Hu people keep Zhao Mingyuan?

After such a long time of news spreading, most of the people who should know already know what happened in the Imperial City last night.

No matter who it was, when he learned that Zhao Mingyuan was so incredibly powerful, he could no longer raise the heart of a powerful enemy.

And if they don't even get this news, even if those people make a rebellion, they will not be able to make a big wave, and they will be wiped out by the defenders.

Thinking about this, Zhao Mingyuan could naturally leave with peace of mind.

However, on this trip, he did not mean to lead a large army, but only brought 3,000 cavalry.

This is naturally not an ordinary cavalry, in fact, they are Zhao Mingyuan's ace cavalry crossbowmen.

This army was originally carefully selected by Zhao Mingyuan from the elite of the three armies, and it was formed after rigorous training, and it was not just outstanding in riding and archery.

In fact, even without a steel crossbow in hand, they are still one of ten.

On this expedition, although Zhao Mingyuan only brought 3,000 of them.

But these 3,000 people were all one man and three horses, and they carried plenty of food, grass and ammunition, and even a lot of gunpowder.

This time the destruction of Tang was easier than Zhao Mingyuan had expected, so that many firearms had not yet had time to be used.

Since the Hu people of DTZ have suddenly gone south, let's use these extra ammunition on them!

The Hu people went south naturally mainly with cavalry, and the power of firearms for the first sight of cavalry is absolutely beyond the imagination of the world.

Although the main lethal weapon used by Zhao Mingyuan's cavalry was a steel crossbow, in terms of its combat methods, it was very similar to a light cavalry in history.

That is the white horse of Gongsun Chan at the time of the Three Kingdoms.

White Horse Yi has always come and gone like the wind, and he is invincible.

Gongsun Zhan once relied on his white horse to kill Wuhuan from outside the Weizhen Fortress, so that Wuhuan had to flee away.

Strictly speaking, the tactics of this class are fast and powerful, and they can only fight others by themselves, but it is difficult for others to hit themselves.

Even Zhao Mingyuan's crossbow cavalry is further advanced, with stronger attack power, denser crossbow arrows, and longer range, which is naturally more difficult to deal with.

If you want to resist the fire of crossbow arrows, unless you are wearing heavy armor or equipped knights, you will not be able to withstand the rain of hundreds of thousands of arrows.

But if you wear heavy armor, the speed of the heavy cavalry cannot catch up with the light cavalry.

Therefore, theoretically, there is no class that can restrain them.

The demise of the White Horse Yicong, but Gongsun Chan was too arrogant and fell to death, and was surrounded in a narrow place and could not be used, and he could not dodge, so he was broken by Lu Yi's 800 Xianden with a strong crossbow.

In fact, as long as Gongsun Chan was careful at the beginning, maybe the outcome of the Battle of Jieqiao would be rewritten.

Although history cannot be rewritten, but after learning the lessons of his predecessors, Zhao Mingyuan naturally will not make the same mistake.

Not to mention that the land of Longxi is a flat river, as long as a few key positions are avoided, no one can bring any danger to this army at all.

Therefore, Zhao Mingyuan won this battle, and he really couldn't think of how he would lose.

(End of chapter)