"Kill!!"

"Yan Wang Zhu Di is here!"

"Run!!"

In the night, amid the shouts of killing, panic continued to spread, and many Hu soldiers thought of the last battle of Jilin, and immediately began to flee.

Haragu was still leading his troops to chase and shoot at Zhu Quan, but he saw that nearly 20,000 light soldiers in the rear began to flee.

"What's going on!"

Harawu didn't dare to pursue Zhu Quan anymore, and hurriedly grabbed a thousand households beside him and asked him to go to the rear to find out the situation.

It's just that before Qianhu moved, thousands of light soldiers rushed to the rear, and they spread the news that Zhu Di attacked the camp from the rear and the formation had collapsed.

"Impossible!"

When he heard the news, Harawu's first reaction was impossible, because according to the information he had, Zhu Di should be on the way to the hometown of Qi Wangcheng (Hailar) at the moment, which is more than a thousand miles away from here.

"Great Khan, it's true, Zhu Di has already killed in the rear!"

The thousands of households who fled reported to Haragu again, but Haragu still didn't believe it, he pretended to be calm and said, "Have you seen how many of them there are?" ”

"At least no less than 10,000 people!" While explaining, Qianhu begged Harawu: "Withdraw!" Sweat! ”

"Withdraw!"

"Yes, if Zhu Di comes, then there should be more soldiers and horses rushing here."

"That's right, if we get entangled, we won't be able to leave!"

"Withdraw ......"

It's not just Qianhu who is persuading Haragu to retreat, but all the nobles who have experienced the original battle of Jilin and suffered heavy losses are persuading Haragu.

The sound of exhortation came from all directions, causing the already tired Halagu to have a splitting headache.

"Withdraw!!"

In the end, Haragu still couldn't resist them and chose to retreat directly.

"Beep-"

For a while, the Mongolian wooden whistle sounded on behalf of the retreat, and more than 9,000 Tanma Red troops began to flee north with thousands of light soldiers.

When Zhu Quan saw Harawu running away, he pretended to pursue him, creating enough time for Zhu Gaoxu.

"Kill them all, not a single one will be left!"

In the midst of the chaos, Zhu Gaoxu saw the retreating Harawu main formation, and immediately ordered to start chasing and killing the Wuliangha light cavalry.

The Bohai navy with sufficient horsepower was constantly chasing and killing those Uliangha light horsemen on the grassland in the night.

Viewed from the sky, the fires on the prairie are rapidly decreasing to the extent that they are visible to the naked eye.

Shouting, begging for mercy, and the sound of horses' hooves became one of the few voices on the grassland.

Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to the north, and later joined Zhu Quan to chase Haragu together.

From Zishi to Maoshi, they chased all the way away, during which there were constantly light horsepower and Tanma Red Army left behind, and were hammered to death on the grassland by the pursuing Ming army.

It wasn't until there was a touch of fish belly white on the horizon that Haragu could see the situation behind him clearly.

There were no tens of thousands of Zhu Di in the rear at all, and some only had the same number of Ming troops as yesterday.

At this time, Haragu didn't know that he had received false information.

"Zhu Gaoxu !!"

"Great Khan!"

Hara's angry face was red and his ears were red, and he almost fainted, but fortunately the red army of Tanma around him protected him, otherwise he would have fallen off his horse and might have been trampled to death by ten thousand horses.

Halawu, who came to his senses, hurriedly looked around, only to see that there were nearly 30,000 teams yesterday, but now there are less than one-thirds.

"Removal ......"

Haragu had cramps in his chest, unable to expose the facts, so he could only flee all the way north under the pursuit of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Quan.

When the sun rose, Zhu Gaoxu took the lead in reining in his horse and raised his hand to stop the pursuit of the army.

"Beep-"

A hurried whistle sounded, and the two chasing men and horses stopped one after another.

Zhu Quan and Zhu Gaoxu were not far apart, and when they saw him stop, they immediately urged him forward, with doubts on his face in addition to sweat stains:

"Why don't you chase it, we still have enough horsepower, and we can still chase for dozens of miles, their horsepower is almost exhausted, and it is the best time to concentrate on annihilating them!"

"Uncle Seventeen, don't forget, the armor soldiers of Uliangha and other tribes have not appeared, you and I should be careful, so as not to go too deep and be besieged."

Zhu Gaoxu tried to explain, but he was very reluctant, in order not to make Zhu Quan suspicious, he spoke again: "Besides, the horses of the Hu soldiers we killed in front of us have not yet had time to be retracted, and it will not be good if they get lost." ”

"This ......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu say this, Zhu Quan also hesitated a little, and finally could only nod and agree to withdraw the troops.

Speaking of age, Zhu Quan is only two years older than Zhu Gaoxu, and his mind is not so deep, and he doesn't think about other places.

After all, with Xu Da Lanyu in front of the Northern Expedition, many generals of the Hongwu Dynasty did not dare to go too deep in the situation of insufficient supplies.

Even in the eyes of a veteran like Liu Zhen, Zhu Gaoxu's withdrawal of troops is just a steady way of playing.

After all, there are still thousands of armor soldiers by his side, and if he comes back to his senses and entangles, his own side will definitely be dragged down.

All kinds of factors were superimposed, and no one questioned Zhu Gaoxu's move to withdraw his troops for a while.

"Put away the flags." Zhu Gaoxu looked back at Zhang Chun with a smile, and Zhang Chun also grinned and put away the Yanfu banner left in the last battle of Jilin.

Seeing the flag lowered, Zhu Quan couldn't help but mock: "This Harawu, just saw a banner of the fourth brother and fled, and he dared to compete with you and my uncle and nephew with this guts." ”

"Hehe......" Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, just chuckled and turned the horse's head and raised the horsewhip: "Withdraw the army and go home!" ”

After Zhu Gaoxu gave the order, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition turned their horses and retreated, and the ranks were full of laughter.

"Great Khan, the southern soldiers have withdrawn!"

"Regardless of them, we withdraw ours!"

For a while, Harawu and the others couldn't figure out why Zhu Gaoxu withdrew his troops, and only knew to bow his head and flee north.

In a short time, the distance between the two divisions had widened, and Zhu Gaoxu also began to lead the army to retreat south, recording the number of Hu soldiers killed along the way, capturing their horses.

From midnight to noon, the Ming army was not in pursuit, and the Haragu and their men relaxed and scattered to collect the previously dispersed troops.

It was not until dusk that Haragu learned of their casualties.

"The various ministries gathered their subordinates, and at least 10,000 people were lost, including more than 600 Tanma Red Army ......"

Listening to the report of Tulu Kucha'er, the haragu on horseback had a cramping pain in his chest, and he grabbed it to his chest with his hand, and said sadly:

"Another 10,000 people, and in just two years, we have lost more than 20,000 men."

"Twenty thousand! How many years will it take us to recover! ”

"Immortal Heaven! Don't you care about your children at all?! ”

Haragu was still grieving and angry, but the Ming army in the south was happily closed.

"Along the way, counting the earlier battle between Wuliang Hashan and Wuliang Ha Bald City, 879 armor soldiers were killed, more than 9,000 Hu soldiers were killed, and more than 10,000 horses and more than 3,000 bags of corn were captured today."

Sitting in front of the bonfire, Zhu Quan, Zhu Gaoxu, Fu Rang, Liu Zhen and others quietly listened to Lin Su's report.

Knowing the results of the battle, Allah Liu opened his mouth and said, "If we count the Hulu we killed earlier, I am afraid that there will be no less than 15,000 Huyu killed in this battle." ”

Liu Zhen counted all the male and female Wuliangha men and women who had been killed earlier, but Zhu Gaoxu and them did not.

Therefore, Lin Su glanced at Zhu Gaoxu vaguely, and didn't know why His Royal Highness was not as exaggerated as Liu Zhen.

He naturally didn't know that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to raise his self-respect, but Fu Rang on the side seemed to have guessed something and didn't help.

"The horses captured this time will be divided according to the number of soldiers and horses of you and me!"

As if worried that Zhu Gaoxu would be difficult, Zhu Quan took the initiative to propose how to distribute the seizures.

Since he spoke, Zhu Gaoxu had no reason to refuse, so he explained to Fu Rang and Liu Zhen:

"Let's ask you two to work hard tomorrow and distribute the horses captured this time."

"The last general commands!" The two responded in unison.

Seeing that the distribution was decided, Zhu Quan took the initiative to say: "How about writing the good news this time?" ”

"Then I'll bother Uncle Seventeen." Zhu Gaoxu didn't have the intention of fighting for merit, but only suggested the withdrawal route: "How about our second division retreat south to Wuliang Ha Bald City, and then return to Daning and Bohai respectively?" ”

"Very good" Zhu Quan seemed to be happy with this seizure, and had no objection to Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement.

Seeing that he had no objection, Zhu Gaoxu also made bold arrangements.

Early the next morning, the army set out on its way south, and because of the overabundance of horses, all the 3,000 sacks of corn that had been captured were used as horse feed and fed to the horses.

At noon, Zhu Quan took the written good news and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu took it and looked at it, and Zhu Quan also asked him:

"On this good news, the number of cattle, sheep and horses captured by Gao Xu Ling in Uryan Hashan and all the way south and the number of Hu soldiers killed have not been written, but Gao Xu himself wrote it when he set up camp a little."

"Okay" Zhu Gaoxu responded with a smile, and then took the letter into his arms.

Seeing this, Zhu Quan chatted with him about Daning and Jilin, and Zhu Gaoxu also answered eagerly, the two of them looked like uncles and nephews, but the relationship between the two soldiers and horses was much closer.

Knowing that many military attachés in the Bohai Navy were going to come to Daning to serve in the coming year, Zhu Quan and Liu Zhen also smiled and promised to take good care of them.

Zhu Gaoxu responded with a smile, but what he was thinking in his heart, I'm afraid only Fu Rang behind him could guess one or two.

The army marched south and soon arrived at the city of Uliangha, where they saw the camp left by the Ningfu cavalry and the Uliangha soldiers.

Soon a new camp was erected before dusk.

When building the camp, Zhu Gaoxu took Zhang Chun and others into the city of Wuliang Havulture.

To be honest, the city of Uliangha is poorly built, and most of the corn fields outside the city are very shallow, and such cultivated fields hardly produce too high yields.

Walking on the solid Wuliang Ha Bald City, Zhu Gaoxu looked around, and basically did not find that this Wuliang Ha Bald City had any equipment to defend the city, which shows that the Halagu have never wanted to defend it, but this is also in line with the values of the nomads.

Standing on an arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu looked around the city of Wuliang Ha, and all he could see was a few small streams that were not wide.

"If this place is used for garrisoning, I'm afraid it will be difficult to feed even a guard and horses."

Zhang Chun looked around and was secretly speechless.

Listening to his words, Lin Su retorted: "I can't say the same, if I am willing to build a canal with cement and merge a few streams farther away with a few streams outside the city to form a small river, then we can nourish more arable land and feed more people." ”

After all, Lin Su had managed Tuntian alone in Andong City for a few months, and he still had his own opinions in this regard.

Regarding what he said, Zhu Gaoxu also bowed his head and continued:

"As long as you are willing to spend the money, you can also dig wells, build weirs in the upper reaches of the stream, and wait for the winter moon to melt to store a large amount of water, ensuring that the land can be harvested in drought and flood."

Farming, Zhu Gaoxu is the best at farming, and even he has always felt that he is not as good at fighting as farming.

The city of Uliangha, this place seems to be within the boundaries of the White City in the previous life.

In his previous life, Zhu Gaoxu had been to Baicheng, and although it was not an agricultural department, the geological department could sometimes see the potential for local agricultural development based on some information.

Zhu Gaoxu remembers more clearly that there are many rivers in the place under his feet, and the groundwater resources are very rich.

These conditions were mixed in ancient times, but if they were used properly, they could have been developed earlier.

If the Wuliang Ha Bald City can be mastered by the Ming army in the future, then the Ming Dynasty can open up a post road across the Great Xing'an Mountains, and use the Brain Wenjiang River and the Wuliang Ha Bald City in the future to directly intersperse with the hometown of Qi Wangcheng.

At that time, the army could transport grain in small boats through the Nan River, all the way to the southeast of Hulan and Husheng.

In this way, the logistical pressure of the Ming Army's Northern Expedition in the future will be much smaller.

However, there is also a premise for all this, that is, the Northeast region must be able to supply so much food.

Zhu Gaoxu is not worried about this problem.

As long as the Wuliangha in Modong is solved, and then Liaodong is arranged to remove the military cantonment and turn it into a private cantonment, and encourage the people to reclaim the land by themselves, then Zhu Gaoxu does not believe that Liaodong will not be able to supply grain and grass to the outside world.

The geographical environment of enemies on three sides was the root of the problem that Liaodong was difficult to develop in the Ming Dynasty.

Because wars often break out, no one wants to come to Liaodong at all, and there is no one who naturally cannot develop, and many problems such as water conservancy, flood control, and cultivated land reclamation cannot be solved.

It is unrealistic to want military households to reclaim wasteland by themselves while maintaining a large number of soldiers.

To develop the northeast, we can either take advantage of the strong national strength and follow the old path of Jilin City, such as directly distributing grain to the people and using grain from Jiangnan and Shandong to help Liaodong speed up the construction of land reclamation.

In this way, as long as it lasts for a few years, Liaodong will be able to be self-sufficient and feed back to Guannai.

If you don't take this route, you can only take the route of "breaking through the eastern part of the country" at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were two major factors that were very prominent in the success of this migration campaign.

First of all, the three plains of the three eastern provinces are fully open, the territory is vast, and immigrants can immigrate to the vast areas where Jilin and Heilongjiang are located, and they do not have to be limited to the Ming Dynasty Liaodong border wall or the Qing Dynasty wicker side, which the Ming Dynasty can not do, because the population in the Ming Pass is insufficient, and there is no such big population contradiction as the end of the Qing Dynasty.

But just because this factor can't be used doesn't mean that the second factor can't be used.

The second factor in the success of the Kanto region was that the secondary and tertiary industries were booming in the Northeast at that time.

For example, large-scale industrial construction in Northeast China has led to the emergence of typical coal-iron composite industrial cities and industrial and mining resource development cities such as Anshan, Liaoning Province.

The rise of these cities has led to the development of industries such as industry and commerce, transportation, and service industries.

These labor-intensive secondary and tertiary industries need to recruit a large number of young and middle-aged laborers, so they can only pay high prices to recruit people from other places to go to the local area.

Zhu Gaoxu can also follow suit in such a secondary and tertiary industry, after all, the developed iron-smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty made coal expensive, and the resources of the Northeast needless to say.

Whether it is coal or trees, the fuel resources in Northeast China are more abundant than those of the provinces except Shanxi.

Not to mention anything else, as long as Zhu Gaoxu set up an iron yard in Anshan in later generations, and used local low-cost coal to make iron, the iron price in Liaodong would definitely be cheaper than that in Guannai, and the profit margin would be greater.

Zhu Gaoxu can give all these profits to foreign workers to help them settle down in the northeast.

In the long run, the population of the Northeast will gradually increase, even if the secondary and tertiary industries wither in the future, Zhu Gaoxu does not have to worry, because the Northeast at that time may have exceeded his expectations.

Others can ignore the development of the Northeast, but Zhu Gaoxu cannot.

He started with Jilin City, and in the future, he will take Liaodong.

Only by managing these places well will his position be stable in the future and gradually sit on his throne.

"This Wuliang Ha Bald City, sooner or later, we Han people will live."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the grassland and told Zhang Chun and others his thoughts.

While he was talking, Fu Rangye, who was in charge of the camp, rode into the city of Wuliang Ha and went up the city wall to find Zhu Gaoxu and them.

As soon as he came, he went straight to the point and said: "The camp is arranged, the army can rest, and we can return to Zhaozhou when the camp is pulled out tomorrow." ”

As soon as Fu Rang's words came out, the people around him showed smiling faces, and Zhu Gaoxu also instructed Zhang Chunlin Su and the others: "Go and arrange for the army to rest and bury the pot to make rice." ”

"Yes!" Everyone responded, and then turned around and left one after another, only Fu Rang did not move his steps for a long time.

Zhu Gaoxu was secretly puzzled, but he didn't want Fu Rang to step forward and say after Lin Su and the others had completely walked away:

"How are you going to write about the seizure of the good news?"

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes flickered, he knew that Fu Rang should have guessed something, so he didn't hide it:

"As far as I can, I don't want to give the cattle, sheep, and horses that the brothers have captured to others."

"That's good." Fu Rang breathed a sigh of relief, then stepped forward and whispered beside Zhu Gaoxu: "I don't know what you're going to do, but I still want to persuade you to think twice." ”

"Don't worry, I will." Zhu Gaoxu is not worried about Fu Rang's informing, after all, the Fu family brothers, except for the few in Yunnan, Fu Rang and Fu Zhong almost disappeared after Fu Youde's death.

They don't necessarily hate Lao Zhu, but they must hate Zhu Yunwen.

As long as Zhu Yunwen did what he had to do, Zhu Gaoxu didn't believe that Fu Rang would not help him.

"After this battle, it is estimated that there are many brothers who will be promoted, you should think about it yourself."

With a final reminder, Fu Rang turned around and went down the arrow tower, leaving Zhu Gaoxu alone.

Watching him leave, Zhu Gaoxu also stood in place and thought for a while.

For himself at present, every time he goes out on an expedition and obtains military exploits, it is an opportunity for the imperial court to weaken his strength and mix it with water.

In the last battle of Jilin, one-third of the military attachés left, and this time, I am afraid that there will be no fewer who will be promoted and transferred.

In fact, there is no need for Fu Rang to remind him, Zhu Gaoxu also knows that winning the battle is not conducive to his current self, but he is not worried.

The imperial court can mix water with the Bohai Navy, and he can also mix water with the imperial court through promotion and transfer.

Even if after this battle, the imperial court stuffed more military attaches into the Bohai Navy, as long as the attributes of the grassroots soldiers remained unchanged, Zhu Gaoxu would have the confidence to continue to master the Bohai Navy.

In history, Zhu Yunwen did not mix water with the three guards of Yanfu, and transferred the three guards of Yanfu to Kaiping, but what was the result?

When the soldiers of the three guards learned that their Royal Highness had raised troops, they resolutely ran back to Beiping from Kaipingwei, which gave Zhu Di the strength to defeat Geng Bingwen.

If the soldiers of Yanfu can do this, can't the soldiers of Bohai be not?

What's more, the soldiers of the Bohai Sea are not so easy to master.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the guards under the arrow tower, many of them were naturalized Jurchens, and although they began to learn official and Chinese characters last year, not many of them could speak official dialect fluently.

What's more, for these Jurchen soldiers, Zhu Gaoxu did not deduct at all, and all of them were treated according to the standards of Han soldiers.

If it were a different person, would he still be able to divide the hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land cultivated every year to them like himself, without retaining any of them?

Even if he dares, he has to be willing to do it by the guys in the court.

In addition to Lao Zhu and himself, it is difficult for others to approve the continuation of the Bohai model, after all, the rapid development of Bohai is based on the continuous support of grain and grass from the imperial court.

Therefore, whether it is to stop the supply of grain and grass or stop the equalization of land, these decisions will make the military and civilians living in Bohai feel that they are far behind.

As long as he is good enough to the people of the Bohai Navy and gives enough benefits, it will be difficult for them to be rebelled, and this is Zhu Gaoxu's confidence.

Of course, he is not absolutely confident, so he asked Meng Zhang to recruit Jurchens in Blackwater City and forge cannons and guns.

"I don't know how he's going......"

Zhu Gaoxu thought of Meng Zhang, and the idea of returning to Bohai began to rise.

But before returning to Bohai, he still had to think about how to write the good news.

Walking down the arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu left the city of Wuliang Ha with his soldiers and returned to the camp that had been built.

When they returned to the camp, Fu Rang and Liu Zhen had already arranged for the whole army to eat, and asked the officers and men of the Bohai Navy to leave only three days' rations, and the rest of the rations were distributed to the cavalry of Ningfu.

There are also heavy ships of the Bohai Navy next to the Naowen River, and they don't have to worry about running out of food.

It is the Ningfu cavalry, they are still hundreds of miles away from returning to Quanningwei, in case something happens along the way, it can be said that the sky is not spiritual, and the earth should not be.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not have any opinion on Fu Rang's arrangement, but only solved his appetite in his own account, and casually took out the good news written by Zhu Quan.

In the vacated space in the middle, Zhu Gaoxu wrote down his seizures before he reached the city of Uliangha in the south, but this amount was less than a quarter of the actual capture.

"In this way, even if Lao Zhu asks me to distribute cattle and sheep to other capitals, my loss will not be too great."

Blowing dry the ink, Zhu Gaoxu muttered in a low voice, and after writing the good news, he took out the letter paper and wrote two letters to his family.

When he goes out, after all, he is a grandson and a son, and he sells miserably from time to time, and winning sympathy is the most important thing he should do.

In the past two years, he has sold Lao Zhu miserably, but he has not lost good things and good policies.

Therefore, under his hard work, a letter of thousands of words was written by him.

After this letter, he wrote another letter of several hundred words.

This one after the other, respectively, is for Lao Zhu and Zhu Di, for the former is to cry miserably, and the latter is to report safety.

After all this, Zhu Gaoxu shook his sour hand, and a smile hung on the corner of his mouth:

"Grandpa, you have to give your grandson something to encourage this time......

"Bohai Chronicle": Geng Xushuo, led 5,000 horses out of the Wuliangha ground, attacked Wuliangha Mountain and killed thousands of enemies, and went south, re-led 4,000 horses to attack the Yuan general Harawu, and killed the Yuan general Azashiri. At dawn, entering his camp, Haragu withdrew his army and fled. Shang and Ning Wang will meet his division, chase the enemy soldiers more than 200 miles in the north, and Ning Wang each leads his soldiers and horses to attack left and right, and then attack again in the night, the battle is urgent, the enemy is defeated, and Haragu fled north for 700 miles. It was to kill more than 10,000 enemies, get all their horses, and capture tens of thousands of cattle and sheep. The remnants of the Kharagu went to the Woods of Urliangha.

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"Ming Taizu Record": Geng Xushuo, sent the three kings of Yanning and Bohai out of the fortress, Ning and the two kings of Bohai out of Modong, the king of Bohai attacked Wuliang Hashan, and then attacked Wuliang Ha Bald City, and controlled the north of Ningfu to chase the Yuan general Harawu, and the king of Bohai personally shot the Yuan general Azashili and killed him. The officials fought bravely, killed the enemy and broke the chaos, and won a great victory, obtaining more than 20,000 cattle, sheep and donkeys, more than 8,000 horses, and more than 20,000 enemy ranks, and the rest were reported again.

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