Li Yashi was also in the queue to watch the ceremony.

As an envoy, he is a special envoy of Taixi, and as an official, he is the general secretary of the Ming Siyi Pavilion, so he is qualified to participate in this viewing ceremony.

He had never felt Da Ming's violence so intuitively, and now he saw it.

The iron horse emitted white steam and black smoke that was not fully burned, pulling a series of chariots covered by canvas, which were the chariots of the Daming Che Battalion, and on each chariot, there was a sub-mother cannon, and every ten chariots would have a nine-pound cannon.

Canvas, is made of 4 to 7 strands of cotton and linen spinning line plain weave, the woven canvas is strong and foldable, and has excellent waterproof performance, this has approached the hard sail of the hard cloth, from the shipyard to improve the sail, the Ming hard sail can run the eight-sided wind, but too heavy, maintenance is not easy, difficult to retract, and the soft sail of Taixi, relatively lightweight, easy to retract, but can not line the eight-sided wind, the appearance of canvas, combined with the advantages of both.

Because of its excellent waterproofness, it is used in the march, and this fabric is extremely wear-resistant, made into clothing, it will not be broken for several years, and it is made into an upper, which has strong waterproofness and is very versatile.

Li Yashi saw that an open side carriage was in the arsenal, and the soldiers kept carrying the cart with flower shells and powder boxes.

Each powder box has 30 catties of gunpowder, a side box chariot has four powder boxes, two lead boxes, after the powder box and the lead box are put in, there are rows of gunguns, these gunners are fixed on the wooden frame, a row of twenty gunguns, a total of four rows, and then two leveling guns were lifted out and placed on both sides.

This one is mainly firearms, and the next one is armor and grain, iron armor, cloth armor, and military rations, there are two main kinds of military rations, one is fried noodles (flour), the other is light cakes, there are four boxes of military rations, each box is 120 catties.

Li Yashi watched it for a long time, until the soldiers in the Beijing camp disappeared into the sky and could no longer see their backs, then they returned to their homes in a bit of a daze, spread out the paper, took out the pen, and lifted the pen, but they couldn't put down the pen for a long time.

[Your Majesty finally couldn't help it, the heart of avenging his grandfather, after beating repeatedly, finally made a move on the northern captives, this is normal, no emperor can endure the existence of a barbarian tribe that can threaten the survival of his own dynasty five hundred miles away, just like your enemy sleeping outside your door. ]

[The conquest is very necessary, the barbarian king named Alta plundered in Beijing thirty years ago, just like the Germans burned and looted near Rome, and the barbarian king Alta attacked thirty years ago, the Ming lost not only the population, food, and property, but also the invisible but very precious cohesion. ]

[What is lost, naturally you have to get it back with your own hands.] ]

[Cohesion and dispersion, this contradiction that exists in any system, exists all the time, as long as I answer's Bansheng City still exists for one day, it is that the wounds in the heart of the Ming Dynasty will never be able to heal, and the cohesion of the Ming Dynasty will always be consumed, and it will tend to be more discrete. ]

[In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never reconciled with the Northern Captives, the Longqing Peace Conference is the only time, even if the emperor was captured, the Ming Dynasty has not compromised, the compromise of the Longqing Peace has made Zhang Juzheng suffer from criticism, the Ming people have some doubts, is the Ming really going to die? ]

[This campaign was not only a military conquest, but also a political war. ]

Zhu Yijun attaches great importance to Li Yashi, because Li Yashi is not stupid, on the contrary, he stands in the position of the Taixi people, looks at the problem, and can always bring a new perspective to the emperor, a bystander's clear perspective, the Ming Emperor must conquer Altan Khan, the original promise, the shame of the siege of the grandfather's city, and the cohesion of the dynasty, even if there is only one, the reason for war is very sufficient.

[The ability to express words is too scarce, I can't use words to describe the strength of the Jingtang warriors, the Palatine warriors are just the legend of Tessie, but the Jingtang warriors are real, and there are a full 100,000 people, they have 70 guns for every 100 people, 30 parts of gunpowder and lead for each person, one cannon for every 100 people, a child and mother cannon, a tiger squat cannon, and a nine-pound cannon for every 500 people.] ]

[I can only use simple language and a stack of numbers, and the number of firearms to tell the horror of the Kyodo warriors.] ]

[Because from beginning to end, the most powerful of the Kyodo warriors has always been the warriors themselves, they are able to use these murderous weapons to the extreme, but they never attack the weak, or more precisely the civilians.] ]

[Occasionally, I wonder if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is too insecure, is this terrifying firepower going to hit Taixi from the ground?] In my opinion, this is completely sufficient, the envoy Shahmat from the Mughal Kingdom, the first arrival in the Ming Dynasty came from the Western Regions, and they are extremely weak, I am afraid that they will not be able to stop a round of cavalry shooting when they gather. ]

[The invincible Ottoman Empire, the sultan who usurped the authority of the Roman Empire, could stop the Ming Dynasty's westward expedition?] ]

[The reason why I have this idea is that, according to my long-term observation, for this war, the silver used for the manufacture of gunpowder can buy the head of the barbarian king Alta, and by the way, the robbers will be completely subservient.] ]

[The stingy Majesty, is so rich, maybe the door to wealth is the word thrift, Your Majesty is too thrifty, on such an important occasion today, Your Majesty still did not bring him those jade ornaments, because those jade ornaments are really expensive, and if you break one, Your Majesty is afraid that you will feel distressed for a long time. ]

What Li Yashi said is that Zhu Yijun only has big rituals, such as the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth to worship heaven and earth, suburban worship to worship ancestors and ancestors, Taimiao debriefing report, big weddings and other occasions will wear gowns, that body, there are dozens of bits and pieces on the body, and they have to walk in all directions, but if they don't walk steadily, they will jingle and jingle.

At the beginning, Empress Dowager Li tried her best to train the little emperor to walk, for fear that the little emperor would lose his honor at the big ceremony, which would make people laugh.

But now there are no such concerns.

Now His Majesty just threw those bits and pieces on the ground, and no one dared to laugh at the emperor, and the Ming Imperial Power no longer needed those excessively cumbersome etiquette to maintain the royal solemnity.

Li Yashi wrote about the reasons for the war in his travelogue and the strength of the warriors of the Ming Templar, and he wrote again:

[I really can't understand the stupidity of the barbarian king I answered, under what kind of circumstances did he choose to build the city of Bansheng, this is too convenient, so close to the Ming Dynasty, the elite of the Ming Dynasty can pounce on the city of Bansheng in a month, and the barbarian king I replied that he can't escape. ]

[That is his home, the capital of his kingdom of gold, that is his throne!] Once he escapes, will he still be the eagle on the grassland? The steppe people are the same as the barbarians of Tessie, they only recognize strength, and when you are weak, they will tear you apart like jackals. ]

[As a cocoon to bind itself, the spring silkworm spun silk into a cocoon, and bound himself in it, the barbarian king I replied to weave a cocoon for himself, he had no choice, either to defeat the Ming or die. ]

Li Yashi was quite satisfied with his travelogue, and then wrote a lot of things he saw and heard in the Ming Dynasty, because he lost the language environment, Li Yashi knew Latin, but he no longer had the habit of writing.

Li Yashi couldn't understand, how dare Altan Khan build a city in the grassland, didn't he set a target for Daming?

The Ming Dynasty mobilized more than 200,000 troops, such a scale of mobilization, can not hide the investigation of people with a heart, from Jingtang, to Xuanfu Datong, Kaipingwei, Shaanxi and Gansu three sides of the army transfer, the scale is too large, the Ming Emperor did not want to hide, this battle, is to let everyone know.

Altan Khan was no exception, and in the city of Bansheng, he summoned his ten thousand households, three ladies and lamas to discuss how to deal with them.

Altan Khan is really old, all his ambitions have been exhausted, and in the face of the three-way attack of the Ming Dynasty, Altan Khan at this time is slightly at a loss.

"Why use such a big battle, it's really too wasteful, the young man is really too vigorous, the iron armor of the Beijing camp is fifty-two taels of silver, and the 80,000 horses dispatched by the Beijing camp this time have 13,000 pairs of iron armor, which is completely enough to buy our Jin country, and we have to find a lot of money." The third lady was amazed, she was now in the mood to stay out of the matter.

Thinking about the emperor's gritted teeth for so much silver, she felt interesting, she must have been distressed, and she must be fighting the ideas of the major noble clans again, wanting to copy a few families to return to blood and fill the internal treasury.

That's right, the Ming Emperor's expedition has nothing to do with her naturalized city, she insisted on reconciliation, and the names of the cities built are called naturalization, and the Ming army is not a butcher who kills people when they see them, in order to maintain the military discipline of the Ming Jingying, the Beijing camp will not kill innocents indiscriminately, and the military discipline of the Ming Jingying Emperor attaches great importance to it, which is one of the emperor's confidence to do whatever he wants.

According to the proposition of hanging the people and cutting down the crime, reporting to the Son of Heaven, and rescuing the head of Qian, the border people of the naturalized city belong to the head of Qian.

Compared with Bansheng, Guihua City is a mixed residence of Hu and Han, and there are many Han people, and the Han people who can't survive in Daming and flee to the grassland.

"Three ladies! You need to make a face! The Ming army has come over, do you want to be a traitor?! Grow the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige! When Dong Fox heard this, he said angrily, because the Tuman Khan was unbearable to the Ming attack, he ran to the capital and surrendered, and the third lady, as the wife of Altan Khan, actually helped the Ming to speak like this!

The third lady raised her eyebrows, sneered and said, "Traitor? I'm a nine-year-old Warat woman who married Altan Khan, and you tell me a traitor? Who have I betrayed? I answer, you said something, when you wanted to marry me, did you ask me? ”

Traitor? His three ladies did not poison Altan Khan, because she cherished the poor coolies in her heart, and did not want to cause more trouble, otherwise it was those who suffered the most and the lowest people, she was the representative of the reconciliation faction within the Beiyu, she is alive now, and she will live for the poor coolies.

His third lady was robbed.

That's what she said, that's what she did, over the years, she went to Datong Xuanfu Jingshi, border trade, always brought back iron pots, salt, tea, and now there is an extra kelp, a little bit of silver, put it in the Yanxinglou trading house, save more money, and then there is a heavy snow disaster, and the grassland people can live more people.

The third lady has a very wide support in the steppe, but not only because she is the wife of Altan Khan.

borrowed cotton clothes last year, except for her, who can borrow cotton clothes from the stingy Ming Emperor?

The third lady leaned on the back of the chair, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, looked at the remaining few thousand households, and showed a smile, only Dong Fox scolded her, and the other five thousand households sat there without saying a word.

"That's it! Let's not say a word! Altan Khan stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to stop arguing.

Altan Khan looked at the third lady with slightly cloudy eyes, sighed, looked outside the big tent, and said slowly: "I regret it, I shouldn't let go of Ma Fang." ”

Ma Fang, the deputy chief soldier of the Beijing camp, the current Daming Martial Arts School Sacrifice Wine, is now old, and Liu Xian bragged to each other all day about his own achievements that year, how brave he was, all of them were the same as the gods descending from heaven, the key facts were no different from what they said, and the two used facts to speak, often arguing.

The thing Altan Khan regretted the most was to let Ma Fang go.

Ma Fang is a native of Ulzhou, Shanxi, nicknamed Ma San, is a border military household of Xuanfu, according to the Ming Dynasty border military household system, his father is a guard in the border, and the others plough the fields, Ma Fang was eight years old, and was taken away by Altan Khan who went south.

Ma Fang was indeed taken away by Altan Khan himself, and since the age of eight, Ma Fang began to raise horses for Altan Khan, Ma Fang was born with divine power, and is willing to endure hardships, at the age of ten he has been able to leap and control, tame the strongest horse in the grassland, bending wood as a bow, at the age of eleven, he can ride and shoot three arrows.

Zhu Yijun, as the emperor, can only do it at the age of fifteen under extremely sufficient training, Qi Jiguang said: Your Majesty's achievements in force today are all based on persistence, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Li Rusong, Ma Fang, Xiong Tingbi and other people are all talented, and their natural arms are three circles larger than others.

When he was thirteen years old, Ma Fang followed Altan Khan to hunt, and suddenly a colorful tiger roared out of the mountains and forests, and pounced on Altan Khan, and the horses became extremely uneasy under the smell and roar of the beast.

Ma Fang bent his bow and arrows, an arrow hit the tiger's eye socket, and another arrow, the tiger was completely frightened, and then the horse walked, constantly provoking the tiger, everyone finally reacted, the tiger was killed, Altan Khan gave him a good bow and arrow, a good horse, and ordered him to serve the left and right guards.

Altan Khan treated Ma Fang well, and at the age of eight he was taken back to the grassland, and at the age of thirteen he was already a member of the cowardly Xue guard.

In the sixteenth year of Jiajing, Ma Fang was nineteen years old, taking advantage of the opportunity of Altan Khan to hunt near Datong, under the night, Ma Fang escaped and fled back to Daming, Ma Fang was lucky and met Zhou Shangwen, the general soldier of Datong, and no one else, otherwise he would have been a sinner if he fled back to Daming.

Zhou Shangwen is in, then the north does not dare to intrude, there is a flying general, Jiajing 16 years, Ji Nang led 40,000 people to the south, Zhou Shangwen and his son Zhou Junzuo with 3,000 against 40,000, turned to fight 300 li, and finally repelled Ji Nang.

Altan Khan couldn't understand why Ma Fang wanted to escape! For eleven years, Altan Khan was not very good to Ma Fang, but since Ma Fang saved his life, he has always regarded him as a confidant in cultivation, but Ma Fang ran away, and Altan Khan felt that he was too careless, so he gave Ma Fang a chance.

After Ma Fang fled, his wife and concubine and two children in the steppe were all killed by the enraged Altan Khan.

"Ugh." After Altan Khan finished speaking, his eyes became a little more cloudy.

Time flies, his memories came to the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, that year, he was ambitious, led 50,000 elites, 70,000 followers, known as 500,000, forced Xuanfu, this is a feint, he only left 30,000 people to besiege Xuanfu, began to approach Juyong Pass, all the way to Juyong Pass under the city, no one dared to compete with him.

After Jiajing's 29th year of entering Gyeonggi, Altan Khan was ambitious! At that time, the Ming Dynasty was broken in courage, in the next five years of confrontation, Altan Khan even beheaded the Ming Dynasty three general soldiers, four deputy general soldiers, seven generals, sharp edge, Ming Jingtang even had the wind power public opinion to move the capital.

In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing, Altan Khan wanted to break through the Juyong Pass, interrupt the rescue route from the Beijing division to Xuanfu, completely take the Xuanfu as the gate of the Beijing division, and enter Kou Jinggi from Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass, constantly weakening the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty in order to achieve great causes.

Ma Fang was the deputy commander of Jiliao at that time, on the one hand, he attacked Altan Khan's army from the side, on the other hand, he and the general Ouyang An met the enemy at the mouth of the boundary ridge together, and repelled Altan Khan, in the same year, Altan Khan was unwilling to let his plot fail, and the Tuman Khan merged, the left and right wings attacked together, broke through the pass from Xifengkou, Zunhua, Yutian and other important towns fell one after another, and Wang Zhu, the governor of Jiliao, fled and disappeared.

Ma Fang once again hit the Tuman, I Tan coalition army in Jinshan Temple, Tuman and I have internal contradictions, when you win, naturally hello and I am good, after being hit hard by Ma Fang, Tuban Khan retreated, Altan Khan can only look at Jimen, in vain sigh.

The strength of the Tuman Khan was not strong, but as soon as he retreated, the army's spirit was scattered, and he could not continue to advance, and Altan Khan, who was good at military affairs, knew that he could not fight again.

Since then, Altan Khan has gone south several times, but was blocked by Ma Fang, who was promoted to the commander-in-chief of Datong, and in the twenty-five years of war, Altan Khan could not break through the defense line again to plunder Gyeonggi.

"Why should the Great Khan sigh? The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth! "Dong Fox is extremely optimistic, the Beijing camp is strong, and the strength of the border army has recovered, but Dong Fox has his own style of play.

"Great Khan, I have a plan, this is to avoid its edge, the Ming Dynasty three ways to attack me, the Beijing camp is unstoppable, that Qi Jiguang we really can't beat, but we bypass the Beijing camp, raid the Xuan David army, if not, then withdraw to the Hetao, repel the Shaanxi and Gansu trilateral border army, in this way, the enemy comes and I go, the enemy walks and I come, the Ming Dynasty uses force, 200,000 troops at every turn, the grain and grass are tossed and turned, and the cost is quite heavy, and the drag can drag him to death!" Dong Fox put forward his own ideas.

Can't beat the Beijing camp, it's not a shame, that Qi Jiguang is fierce and fierce, just avoid its edge, Da Ming likes to divide troops, Altan Khan's main force can go west, the border army on the three sides of Shaanxi and Gansu, the strength is not strong, and the number is not much.

"What about Bansheng City?" Sonam Gyatso shook his head and asked, Dong Fox's tactics are indeed good, but in doing so, Altan Khan's Bansheng City, which has been carefully managed for decades, will definitely fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, so won't Altan Khan become a lost dog?

People's hearts are scattered, how can you still communicate with Daming?

Dong Fox's tactics are nomadic tactics, his thinking, his response, are not wrong, because the ancestors all did this, the Ming Dynasty retreats when it is strong, and the Ming Dynasty fights when it is weak, and it has been repeated for two hundred years.

Now the problem is that Altan Khan has built the city.

"Then give up, what else? The eagle must be soaring between the sky, how can it be bound by the nest? Dong Fox said with great certainty.

Dong Fox defected to Altan Khan as a last resort, he was stronger than Altan Khan's will to resist, not because of anything else, because he killed Miyun's general soldier Tang Kekuan, and Da Ming killed the captive, Dong Fox's nephew Bu Hachu.

Altan Khan was defeated, and it was possible to go to Jingshi to get a Shunyi palace and discuss with King Huaiyi who was a traitor on the grassland.

But if Dong Fox is caught, there is only one end, and that is to solve the courtyard.

Da Ming pays attention to the past, and the negotiation of peace is the end of the phase, the previous thing, Da Ming is not as good as others, and naturally he will not turn over old accounts, so Altan Khan may still have a good death, but who let Dong Fox kill Tang Kekuan? That was the Ming Dynasty commander in the Wanli period! It's His Majesty's people.

This doesn't apply to the past.

Therefore, Dong Fox clamored Altan Khan to resist to the end.

"Dong Fox, look at my old bones, where are you going?" Altan Khan sighed, he was too old to move.

"Is it really stupid to build a city? It's not, before the grassland snowed heavily, countless people froze to death, since there is Bansheng City, at least the herdsmen in the city will not freeze to death in winter. Altan Khan said a little confused: "According to my original estimate, since the peace negotiation, Jingtang should be trapped between the party, who would have thought." ”

"Who would have thought."

Altan Khan fought all his life, won more and lost less, and even said politely, except for suffering losses in the hands of Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang, he never lost, he ordered the construction of the city, and he also seriously considered it again, the Ming Dynasty has declined, and the Jingtang Party can be said to be life and death.

No matter how strong Zhang Juzheng is, he won the party battle, and he still dares to raise his strength? If you win the political battle and still master the force, aren't you afraid that the queen mother and the emperor in the palace will go crazy?

According to Altan Khan's thoughts, there is only one Zhang Juzheng, and it is true that he cannot save the Ming Dynasty, but with the addition of an emperor who does not want to die, it is completely different.

"Lady, you went to Beijing to see the emperor, didn't you persuade him not to use force?" Altan Khan looked at the third lady and asked suspiciously.

"Persuaded, persuaded not to move, I persuaded to go to the dragon bed, who knew that Bo Qinglang bet with me, saying, whoever can't get out of bed will be counted as losing, and I lost, alas, it's all to blame me, it's all to blame." The three ladies are simply talking nonsense! She put gold on her face, and she still climbs the dragon bed? His Majesty didn't even look at her more.

The emperor didn't let her be a ghost, a traitor, she couldn't be poisoned, so she wanted to be angry with Altan Khan.

The words of the third lady are full of resentment, all these years for the border trade, her scandals can be said to be everywhere, making her like a prostitute who can be a husband, the rumors have a nose and eyes, first Wu Dui, then Wang Chonggu, and then the emperor, the third lady is too lazy to deny, and now, she also spreads rumors in person.

"Nonsense again." Altan Khan was not as eager as he imagined, but waved his hand lightly.

He knows Sanniangzi very well, she is a very strong person, she is really not happy, she is not happy to kill her, in the same way, Altan Khan also knows Da Ming very well, her Sanniang does not have the ability to climb the dragon bed.

Sometimes, the Ming Dynasty is conservative like an old stubborn, the third lady is a Hu man, and she is still the wife of the king, and she can't get close to the emperor within three zhangs.

"Alas, I want to be the queen, no matter who the emperor is." The third lady can't make a plan and has a plan, she really wants to be the queen, it would be good if Altan Khan could break through the Beijing Division, and now she is the queen, this is angry Altan Khan is now old, angry that his ambition has not been paid and he is old.

Altan Khan coughed twice, waved his hand to signal that the third lady didn't have to speak anymore, he stood up, the twilight on his body began to dissipate slowly, and said sharply: "I have never rebelled since I asked for peace, and today the Ming Dynasty has no way to attack me, I naturally want to raise the flag to fight!" He Qi Jiguang is strong, I promise that although he is old, I also want to personally verify what kind of ability this Qi Jiguang has! ”

"What does his emperor want to do, can't he wait for me to die of old age? In the past two years, if he wins, he will not win, and he will be powerless to bully me! It's not fair at all! ”

"Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second, order Erlang! Get ready to meet the enemy! ”

"Yes!" Zhuwanhu, you look at me, I look at you, I can only helplessly say yes, the Ming army is now different from the past Ming army, now the number of firearms in the Ming army is too much, the cavalry in front of firearms, really vulnerable, even the attack has become extremely dangerous.

At this time, Altan Khan seemed to have regained his youth, with a little contempt.

"The third lady stays, and the others retreat." Altan Khan said calmly.

After everyone had faded, the twilight that had dissipated from Altan Khan's body reappeared, his figure became more rickety, his eyes became a little more cloudy, he sat on the soft chair, coughed vigorously a few times, and then leaned back on the chair, gasping for breath.

"Third lady, after all these years, you are right." Altan Khan's breath finally stabilized, his expression could not see the change in mood, he was too old, and his face was crawling with age spots.

Altan Khan said a little weakly: "After I die, the grassland people will be handed over to you, and it is not a bad thing to reconcile with the Ming Dynasty and become a border citizen. ”

"Yo? At the end of the day, think I'm right? The third lady raised her eyebrows and asked suspiciously: "Ah, do you still want to clear the obstacles for the Ming King to turn into a Tatar?" ”

Altan Khan spat out a turbid breath and said abruptly: "I am the king of the grassland!" I agree to the peace negotiation! Didn't I indulge you, could you have today? ”

"Daming and the grassland have been fighting for almost three hundred years, after all, there will be a result, I want to think of a way out for my subjects, people can't always live for themselves, some of these subjects want to fight, then fight, some want to peace, then hide, wait for and, the emperor Xiao'er has a good saying, who is running for the people, who is the king of the people."

"Many times, fighting hard is to have better surrender conditions, and being tied down will only make Daming look down on us steppe people even more."

"I'm not convinced! Why does this emperor think that he can go to the grassland to spread wilderness after ten years of martial arts! Even if I die, I will also break this little er's front tooth and tell him that I am not so easy to bully as a prairie person! ”

"Fight! War! War! Kill him personally on his back! I answer, even if I die, I am also a king! ”

If it weren't for Ma Fang, this guy fled back to Daming, and Jiajing fought with Daming twenty-nine years later, he Altan Khan did not have the opportunity to enter the Central Plains, but no, no, probably the destiny of heaven is not in him, this Ma Fang He raised for eleven years, and finally trained a fierce general for Daming, who is going to reason with this.

When he arrived at the Yellow Spring, Altan Khan had to ask Ma Fang why he fled in the first place, and he had no place to be sorry for Ma Fang.

Ma Fang can answer this question very decisively, because he is a Ming man, and the answer is as simple as that.

Ma Fang also taught his children in this way, his son died on the battlefield, his five grandsons, four died on the battlefield, he is the prince of Ma who is 'father and son and brother and dies in the country'.

(End of chapter)