"Drive! Drive! ”

In April, Rao is bitter cold in the northeast, but it is also frosty, the mountains and meadows are green, and occasionally the wind blows, but only some leaves and grass clippings can be blown away.

Such a good season will definitely attract many shepherds in the past, but it is difficult to see a few Hu people herding horses for hundreds of miles below.

As Wuliangha and other troops often come to herd horses, at the foot of Checher Mountain, at this moment Hu soldiers are not seen, only to see tens of thousands of Han people holding red flags, wearing mandarin duck battle jackets camped, stretching for more than ten miles.

"Appeal ......"

Hundreds of cavalry stopped in a big tent, and the leading general turned over and dismounted, and ran all the way into the big tent.

Inside the tent, a tall black man wearing armor caught the eye, and the general hurriedly made a gesture after finding it:

"Your Royal Highness, the last general commanded more than 3,000 ponds rode north to search for more than 200 miles and there was no trace of Hu soldiers, King Ning sent the last general to ask you, do you want to continue to patrol the north?"

The middle-aged Xiao general, who was nearly fifty years old, explained his intention, and Zhu Di, who was wearing armor, also hung his sword at his waist and picked up his helmet.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed his beard, and after a moment of silence, he continued to order: "This Hu soldier in the north is cunning, and seeing that there are many of us, he must have run to the north." ”

"They dare to go south this time, they must have cultivated well, and if we don't take the opportunity to hurt him this time, they will definitely go south next year."

"I know them, although they can run, but the cattle, sheep and horses have to graze in this season, even if they go further north, they will reach the Vulyangha Bald City at most."

"It has cost more than 100,000 stone of grain to come out this time, and if it doesn't work, it will suffer the people in the south."

"Bu Wan, you go and tell the seventeenth brother and ask him to lead the troops to the front and look for the city of Wuliang Ha in the north, and I will arrive later."

Zhu Di instructed Bu Wan, although Bu Wan was the commander of the Northern Parallel Capital Division, and he was able to control the guards and horses such as Daning and Quanning, but now that Zhu Di controlled the three divisions, even he had to obediently obey orders.

However, he has no objection to this, after all, Zhu Di's ability is obvious to all.

"The last general commands!" Bu Wan made a reply, turned around and withdrew from the big tent, mounted his horse and galloped north.

"Come on, let Zhang Yu and Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng, and Zhou Xing gather their soldiers and horses, and I want to review the army!"

Seeing Bu Wan leaving, Zhu Di also instructed the first two thousand-household officials.

The two received the order, and immediately went to inform the generals who participated in the northern tour.

In just half an hour, tens of thousands of foot soldiers who participated in the northern tour stood energetically on the grassland under Checher Mountain, and were inspected by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and the generals.

Zhu Di was wearing big armor, a phoenix-winged forehead helmet, and a sword, and he looked very heroic.

At this moment, he rode on a tall red-maned horse, circling with the tens of thousands of soldiers gathered around the generals, and watched each team of soldiers armed with guns and halberds with blazing eyes.

He stood in front of the army, and the soldiers lined up in front of him into the distance.

For such an elite of the northern country, Rao is good at archery, but he can only see the faces of dozens of rows of soldiers in front of him, and it is difficult for the soldiers behind him to distinguish their faces, and he can only see the swords, guns and flags like a dense forest in their hands.

Although the Ming Dynasty claimed that the soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division were the elite of the Northern Kingdom, Zhu Di knew very well that neither the guards of his Yanwang Mansion nor the soldiers of the guards under the jurisdiction of the Beiping Metropolitan Division had actually experienced too much actual combat.

Among the soldiers and horses in Beiping, Liaodong, Daning, and other places, only Zhu Gaoxu's Bohai Navy had fought in three years, and the last time the rest of the soldiers fought was four years ago.

Four years seems to be very close, but the current Ming Dynasty is only twenty-nine years old.

Four years without a war is enough to turn a group of soldiers into waste.

Zhu Di doesn't know anything else, but he knows very well how many old soldiers of Sandu Division have retired from the army and how many new soldiers have joined in the past four years.

This can be seen from the immaturity on the faces of most of the soldiers at the moment.

For this immature face, Zhu Di felt heavy.

He was about to take them to the vast wasteland to receive the cruel baptism of war, but he didn't know how many of these faces in front of him would disappear after this battle.

"Troops!"

There was no solemn oath-taking ceremony, only the sound of Zhu Di raising his fist and shouting at the army.

After this sound, the patrol army continued to embark on the road of patrolling the north.

Zhu Di, surrounded by generals and a cadre of generals, rode a horse to walk in the middle of the team, and 30,000 patrolling troops and 120,000 people who were recruited from Beiping and Daning began to march.

The mighty army marched day and night, out of the Cheer Mountain Pass, and marched on the desolate Saibei Ancient Road.

A few days ago, these places were often infested by Hu horses, and some bonfires could be seen on both sides of the ancient road from time to time.

However, when the Ming army began to move north, those Hu soldiers began to flee north, and they rushed to the depths of Modong, far north of Checher Mountain.

Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who served as the former army, commanded Chen Heng and Ping'an as the vanguard, and at the same time let the thousands of Tang cavalry sent by Bu Wan explore, but from Checher Mountain all the way north, from the first day of April to the tenth day of April, they still did not encounter a trace of Hu Qi.

Faced with the current situation, Zhu Di began to be suspicious, but fortunately, when he was about to approach the city of Wuliang Ha, Zhu Quan sent back to Tangqi to pass the message, and Wen Ping'an and Chen Heng, the two pioneers, encountered Hu Qi, chased and exterminated Yu Naihuer Mountain.

After getting this news, Zhu Di left Zhou Xing and Zhang Yu to sit in the Chinese army, and he led Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu to lead more than 2,000 horsemen to the front line.

On April 11, Zhu Di arrived at the city of Wuliangha.

This stone adobe city was supposed to be a city for the Uliangha tribes to hide from the wind and snow and graze in the spring, but it was empty at the moment, only some blood stains outside the city that had not disappeared.

"Where have all these Tartars gone?"

Looking at the empty Wuliangha Bald City, Zhu Di felt a bad feeling in his heart, and urged the war horse to rush to the Ming army camp outside the Wuliangha Bald City.

After a short time, he led more than 2,000 horsemen to approach, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, also went out of the camp with Chen Heng and Ping'an to meet him.

For these three people, Zhu Di is very familiar with them, Chen Heng is old but thoughtful, and although he is young, he is brave and good at fighting, and is known as the first fierce general of the Northern Army.

"Fourth brother has worked hard!"

"Seventeenth brother, you have been in the north for five years, you have grown much stronger, and it is much darker, and you finally look like an iron-clad man!"

Turning over and dismounting, Zhu Di approached and hugged Zhu Quan, although Zhu Quan was not used to Zhu Di's rude way of meeting, but it was also a happy thing to see his relatives in this desert north.

At the moment, he is dressed in armor, adding a bit of heroism, just like Zhu Di said, like an iron-clad man.

"Hehe, the foolish brother is here on the orders of his father, and he has to prevent the Mongols from attacking all day long, so he naturally ages quickly!"

Zhu Quan smiled bitterly, he didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing, but Zhu Di patted him on the shoulder and turned his head to look at Chen Heng and Ping'an.

Chen Heng was Zhu Yuanzhang's old subordinate, who began his northern expedition with the general Xu Da from Haozhou, during which he guarded Dongchang.

At that time, far more than tens of thousands of soldiers came to the city, Chen Heng led the troops to defend the city, and more surprise soldiers went out of the city to fight, so as to hold Dongchang City.

Later, he guarded Datong, followed Xu Da, Feng Sheng, Lan Yu, and Zhu Di out of the fortress, and made many military exploits, and now he is sixty and five years old, but he is still old and strong.

"Old General Chen is old and strong, and he looks younger than me."

"Hehe, Your Highness praised ......"

Zhu Di complimented Chen Heng, and just like back then, Chen Heng also smiled and returned the gift when he heard the words.

The two said hello, and Zhu Di looked at the six-foot peace next to him.

Ping'an has a short beard, the whole person is burly and tall, serving under Zhu Di, often playing with everyone after drinking, the most exaggerated one lifted a stone pier of nearly 500 catties, famous in the army.

He was only in his twenties at the time, but now he is in his thirties.

"Ping Bao'er, don't you recognize me?" Zhu Di joked about Ping An, but Ping An barely squeezed out a smile:

"Where is Your Highness, the last general has been under you for ten years, and if you don't speak at the moment, I'm just afraid that you have something important to discuss with His Royal Highness King Ning."

"Hehe......" Seeing that Ping'an was deflated, Zhu Di smiled: "When you defeat Harawu, I want to see how your long lance is doing, and your skills are gone." ”

"Yes......" Ping An has long been accustomed to Zhu Di's bad taste, and he has not refuted it.

But Zhu Di looked at him like this, and he didn't smile with him, and turned his head to ask Zhu Quan: "Seventeen, where are the Tartars you encountered?" ”

"There are only more than 600 people who have been killed, and it seems that they will not leave if they stay in the city of Wuliang Havulture." Zhu Quan replied honestly.

"Only six hundred?" Zhu Di was suspicious, and asked again: "Can I ask them, where did Haragu go?" ”

"I scratched my tongue and asked." Zhu Quan replied first, and then explained: "The tongue said that the women and children had been driven back to the north for grazing, and when it was still snowing in February, Haragu took more than 30,000 horsemen to the south. ”

"To the south?" Zhu Di looked at Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng beside him, and the two also looked at each other, full of doubts.

So they went south, but they did not meet the 30,000 men of Khalagu.

"Could it be that this guy crossed the Haravin Mountains and threw people to the west?"

A thousand-household official spoke cautiously, but Zhu Neng vetoed: "The path of Hara Wen Mountain can't pass so many people, and since you want to take refuge, why don't you take your troops with you, but arrange them to go to the cold place in the north." ”

"This guy obviously asked his subordinates to take refuge in the north, and he led his troops to the south to seek trouble."

Zhu Neng's words were very insightful, and Zhu Di also analyzed in a deep voice after hearing this: "We didn't meet him, I'm afraid he took a shot in Daning and ran to Liaodong in the east." ”

"But right now, the snow in Liaoze is melting, and the mud is muddy, and there is no way to go to Liaodong through Liaoze."

Chen Heng said the key to the problem in time, but Zhu Di's face changed suddenly: "Ha Rawu, didn't you go to Gao Xu's side......"

When Zhu Di was suspicious, Lin Su, who had traveled down the river outside the Guanhai and finally arrived in Zhaozhou, frowned tightly on the boat.

Not only him, but it should be said that the three big ships flying the Bohai flag were nervous when they approached the Zhaozhou River Valley.

Plumes of cooking smoke fluttered in the sky above the Nenjiang River basin in Zhaozhou, and Lin Su just looked at it and concluded that the scale of the visitor was not small.

"Bad thing." Lin Su raised his hand and grasped the hilt of the knife on his waist, turned his head and ordered the two hundred households who came with him: "Stop here, let the artillery be ready to fire at any time, and send a few people ashore to spy on the enemy." ”

"Yes!"

He asked two soldiers to go ashore in advance to spy on the enemy, and the two hundred households also prepared according to what he said.

In a short time, everyone on the boat saw several shirtless brothers go into the water, shuttle in the biting icy water, and soon swim to the shore, put on the shoes hanging around their necks and run into the mountains and forests.

On the boat, everyone waited, and after half an hour, the sound of horses' hooves came from the forest, and Lin Su's face changed: "Prepare for the cannon!" ”

As he spoke, the soldiers on the ship began to aim the Hongwu iron cannons on the ship from the fortress hill to the dense forest, and the warship began to approach the river.

After a short time, several soldiers who had left earlier ran out of the forest in a panic, and the cavalry pursuing them could still be vaguely seen in the forest.

"Empty the cannon!" Lin Su responded calmly, and several gunners who heard his military order put down the stone bullets in their hands, and after igniting the fuse, they thundered on the ground not long after.

"Bang !!"

The four Hongwu iron cannons and bowl cannons rang out one after another, like thunder, startling the enemy troops in the forest back, and several soldiers who had escaped also swam towards the side of the boat.

Lin Su had them taken to the boat, and although they returned safely, their faces were terrified.

Before they had time to dress, they tumbled from the side of the ship onto the deck, and nervously faced Lin Su:

"Qianhu, it's the Wuliang Hahu soldiers in the west, we were discovered by their sentry before we got close, but judging from the felled woods, at least the scale of tens of thousands of people!"

"Tens of thousands of ......" Lin Su's face was ugly, he didn't expect the Wuliangha people to occupy Zhaozhou.

Not to mention that their task of building the city failed in this way, why this group of Uliangha people came here alone is worth thinking about by Lin Su.

"On the way back, tell Your Highness about this first!"

"Release the boat again, and let a few brothers go to Andong City to tell Commander Fu the news that Hu Bing has arrived in Zhaozhou!"

Without hesitation, he turned around and ordered the warship to return to Jilin, from where it would take less than three days to return to Jilin.

Zhaozhou is the place where the emperor ordered to build a city, and now it is occupied by Hu soldiers, and the number of Hu soldiers far exceeds his own people, and there is no way to withdraw if he wants to.

Besides, the Hu soldiers occupied Zhaozhou and nothing, but if their target was the land of the Six Cities, or Jilin City, it would be bad.

He prepared for the worst, and at the same time declared his first failure to lead his troops to defend the town.

Perhaps he should have rejoiced that if he had arrived a few days earlier and started building the city, then they would have to be surrounded and suppressed by the Hu soldiers.

Lin Su led the people to retreat, but their news was brought back to Zhaozhou by the sentinels on the periphery.

At this time, the land of Zhaozhou was no longer as primitive, but was cut down by the Hu soldiers of the Wuliangha tribe, burned the shrubs, and forcibly opened up a piece of white land.

Tens of thousands of people are stationed on the white land and the Nenjiang river beach for several miles, and the simple animal skin tents are one after another, stretching endlessly.

Tens of thousands of Hu soldiers walked freely among the tents, each with horses and two or three sheep tied to each tent.

They were not worried that someone would steal sheep, because among the nomadic tribes, only the head and the Great Khan, Taiji and other powerful people could eat beef and mutton, and ordinary Mongols could only eat some millet and millet.

For example, at the moment, more than ten sentinels of the Ming army were found to rush to the big tent, and many Mongols could be seen on the way to put some millet into the stone mortar for grinding, and then casually put some goat's milk into it, and then put it next to the bonfire to wait for dinner.

Perhaps because of the long-term inability to maintain a source of carbs, many people have dark skin and thin bodies.

A dozen sentinels passed through a hundred tents and finally arrived at a tent large enough to accommodate dozens of people.

The leader of the sentry rider turned over and dismounted, and entered the big tent with the two hundred households.

In the tent, a pot of stewed sheep and a roast sheep are placed in the middle to cook, and the wafting aroma of meat makes the leader of the brand swallow his saliva.

"Tell me, how many Ming troops have been found?"

On the big seat, Harawu, who was eating meat, threw a piece of mutton on the table to the leader of the brand, and the leader of the brand who saw this hurriedly picked up the meat and ate it, and replied honestly while eating:

"Great Khan, we saw five or six Han Chinese, they swam into the river, there were four big rafts on the river, they bombarded us, we couldn't get closer."

"Big raft?" Harawu took a bite of meat unhurriedly and continued to ask, "How big?" ”

"Huge!" The leader of the sign replied, "It is one or two hundred paces away from us, and our arrows cannot shoot it, and there seem to be dozens or hundreds of people on board." ”

"......" Listening to the words of the leader of the brand, Haragu waved his hand: "You go down." ”

"Yes!" The leader of the brand grabbed the mutton and withdrew from the big tent, but after he left, the nobles around him asked Haragu: "Now that the Ming army has discovered us, do we still want to go to Jilin City?" ”

Faced with their doubts, Harawu did not answer immediately, but ate two pieces of meat unhurriedly before speaking:

"You also heard what you just said, four big ships, hundreds of people......"

Repeating the information, he slowly raised his head: "The emperor in the south has transported a lot of money and grain to Jilin City, instead of robbing Quanning City, it is better to rob Jilin City." ”

"After robbing Jilin City, I will snatch back the Buyan Fortress, and then return to the north by the waterway to the north, I want to see how Zhu Di will chase and block us."

"What if they chase after them?" A nobleman was a little worried, but Haragu took a bite of meat and said flatly: "Then retreat." ”

"Let's go to Jilin City this time, the Jurchen and small walled forts along the way can not be sealed, and they can be robbed if they can't be robbed of Jilin City, anyway, Xiyang Hana stupid guy is dead, and it's useless to keep Haixi."

Speaking his thoughts, he raised his glass made of wood and raised it to everyone: "Prepare to prepare, tomorrow it is time to cross the river to the land of the Six Cities." ”

Soon after the confession of the Hala Wu, the next day, more than 30,000 horsemen of the Wuliang Ha began to cross the river on sheepskin rafts and march to the land of the six cities in the south and Jilin City.

At the same time, Lin Su also returned to Jilin City by boat, and at the same time sent people to get off the boat to inform the enemy of the walled fort in the six cities along the Songhua River.

Some weak tribes got the news and immediately retreated to Jilin City with cattle, sheep and livestock.

At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxu promised the sixty-nine departments, and the sixty-nine departments could be protected by him, so they would sacrifice their servants and cattle and horses.

It's just that I didn't think that this condition, which I only agreed to last year, will be used by them this year.

In two days, more than a dozen and thousands of people moved to Jilin City, and the remaining tribes that did not migrate were big cities such as Futijin, who were self-sufficient in food and were reluctant to abandon their fields.

On October 13, when thousands of Jurchens moved to Jilin City, weddings were being held in Jilin City beating gongs and drums.

The imperial court prepared not only the silk and satin required for the wedding, but also the rewards given by Zhu Yuanzhang and the music class of the teaching department.

There are more than 30 people in the music class, and the atmosphere is set off by playing and singing.

In order to celebrate the wedding, it was rare for Yisha to be generous, and he deliberately had three hundred sheep and two old and unproductive ploughing cattle slaughtered in the city.

The long table banquet was once again staged in the city, and the soldiers skillfully tied their aprons and cooked sheep and slaughtered cattle in front of the palace.

At the gate of the palace, Hardy Zhu Gaoxu was also lost.

Because the palace is too small, those who can enter are basically officers above the small flag officer, even the officials with less than 100 people, and half of them have to sit outside.

Zhu Gaoxu had explained before the wedding that there was no need to pay the gift money, but even so, some military attachés still thought of ways to give gifts.

If there is too much gift money, I don't accept it, that is, I will stuff dozens of articles casually and talk about my heart.

If there are too many gifts, then send some chicken and duck meat, even if the palace does not eat it, it can be directly thrown to the soldiers in the square, so that they can clean up and add food to the people.

A wedding forced the entire Jilin City to enter the rest time half a day in advance, and everyone shouted for His Royal Highness.

Compared with the elation of everyone, Zhu Gaoxu was in the backyard study with Erlang's legs crossed, fiddling with the pipa he hadn't played for a long time.

"Here comes a music class...... It's good to come......"

Squinting his eyes and playing the pipa, Zhu Gaoxu was also happy for the music class sent by the Teaching Division.

It's fun to play the music by yourself, but if you play all kinds of instruments in unison, it's a lot of fun.

With Leban, the entertainment in Jilin City can also be enriched.

Thinking so, Zhu Gaoxu is ready to let the people in the city build a music platform in the future.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

Before the person arrived, the voice arrived first, Zhang Chun ran into the study from the outside in a hurry, looking at Zhu Gaoxu who was lying on the bed in a gown, Zhang Chun hurriedly stepped forward and hugged the nine crowns that were placed aside:

"Your Highness, it's time to get married."

"Got it......" Zhu Gaoxu sat up, put the crown on his head, got up and shook his robe.

Compared with the twelve chapters of the Great Crown of the Son of Heaven, Zhu Gaoxu is wearing the nine chapters of the crown.

Normally, the king of the county has to change three sets of clothes when he gets married, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't prepare a crown suit and a leather dress here, so a crown is the result of his reduction steps.

The palace is not big, so there is naturally no need to set so many rules.

Thinking like this, Zhu Gaoxu also walked to the front house with Zhang Chun.

It's just that before they can get out of the inner house, they see a soldier waiting for a long time in the corridor between the inner house and the front yard, looking very anxious.

"Whose general are you, how dare you come here?"

When he saw the soldier Zhang Chun, he began to reprimand, thinking that the soldier had gone the wrong way.

But he didn't want to take the soldiers to hear Zhang Chun's voice, and after seeing Zhu Gaoxu, he immediately knelt on the ground:

"Your Highness, it is a soldier under Lin Qianhu, and now I have come to report the news!"

As soon as the soldier spoke, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhang Chun realized that something might have happened, but they didn't expect what the soldier said next.

"The Wuliangha tribes have raised troops, and now they have occupied Zhaozhou and crossed the Nen River to Jilin!"

(End of chapter)