"Son of a bitch!"

At the end of April, with the arrival of summer, the Gobi in the western part of Mobei is also glowing with a slight greenery.

Of course, in this land, it feels more like a vastness.

On the Gobi, the sound of scolding and horses' hooves echoed, and from time to time there was the sound of wheels running over the Gobi.

"This Alitai has actually started to be a dog of the Han people!"

Several burly Warat nobles shouted and cursed on horseback, and most of the soldiers behind them were very thin compared to them, although they were also on horseback.

Mahamu, Taiping, and Bald ...... These are the three most powerful leaders in the Moxi grassland.

Warat is what the Han Chinese call them, but they don't really think of them as one race, and the three tribes are all working in silos, and they only come together when they are threatened, as they do now.

Sitting on horseback, Mahamu walked side by side with Taiping and Bald, followed by the thirteen-year-old son of Mahamu, Tuhuan, and the self-proclaimed Mongol Great Khan, Benjamli, who had been imprisoned for three years.

"Fortunately, the ghost power has been destroyed, and the Han people should not know this news yet, so we can catch them off guard."

Taiping looks ordinary, not very powerful, but now the words in his mouth are very powerful.

From the beginning of the year to learn that Zhu Di was preparing for the Northern Expedition, Mahamu and Taiping and the Bald Men were united, and took advantage of the warm spring to go south, and killed the ghost Lichi, who had only more than 10,000 troops, and incorporated his subordinates.

Now they are on the way to return to Hangai Mountain with more than 10,000 troops and 30,000 troops.

"It's the end of April now, and according to Zhu Di's previous time of cleaning up Arutai, he will be able to arrive in Hailaer in mid-May."

"Now there is news from the north, Alitai is like a mad dog, acting as Zhu Di's pawn, constantly searching for our traces."

Maham spoke to the peace and the bald man about the situation, and at the same time glanced at Benjamin.

When Taiping heard this, he said indifferently: "This time we have destroyed the ghost Lichi, and next time we will be able to go straight to the two towns of Gan and Su." ”

"That's right!" The bald man also added: "There is no need to fight him, anyway, from Hai La'er to the pasture of our three departments, at least more than two thousand miles, I don't believe that Zhu Di can fight." ”

More than 2,000 miles away, for the three people who were familiar with the supply methods of the Han people, they knew very well what it meant for Zhu Di to cross such a distance to carry out an expedition.

If Zhu Di dispatched 30,000 cavalry like last time, then he would need at least 400,000 people and 100,000 auxiliaries this time.

What's more, there is no way to grow food in Hailaer's place, and even if it can be planted, there is no way to grow a large area of food.

According to the Tatar Mongols they took in, Zhu Di mobilized more than 100,000 people only in the last time he sent troops to Beishan Gully.

Although it is rumored that the Ming Dynasty planted rice in the Jurchen land, and could transport grain north from the Bohai Sea in the Jurchen land, it was only a few hundred miles higher than that of Quanningwei.

These hundreds of miles, whether they can support the Ming army to fight Hulan and lose temperature is a problem.

Therefore, in this war, Taiping and what the bald man thought about was to avoid it as much as possible, and put the battlefield in the future Shaanxi Xingdu.

"I think the same way, but before we can do so, we have to deal with Alitai first, at least hit him hard, otherwise if we continue to keep him, he will become Zhu Di's hound and tell Zhu Di all our traces."

Mahamu had no idea of fighting the Ming army at Kulan Huwen, because the situation had changed.

Although Mahamu is arrogant, he doesn't have much problem with his brain.

Now he has Benjamin in his hands, and he has also destroyed the ghost power of Chi, and many small tribes who have fled from the Tatar tribe, and his overall strength has increased greatly.

It stands to reason that he could indeed have a touch with the Ming army, but the problem was that he had already learned from the Tatar Mongols who had fled the Ming army's firearms.

Therefore, now he wants to fight but does not dare to fight, and he is very worried that if he can't succeed in the first battle, he will be eaten by the wolves behind him.

In addition, he was very suspicious of the words of the Eastern Mongols, after all, in his impression, firearms were not so powerful.

"I heard that Shahru in the west has stabilized the tribe, and we have lost a chance."

It had been several years since Shahru ascended the throne, but now that Mahamu had only gotten the news, Benjamin was scornful.

With this intelligence ability, it is strange that they can defeat the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Benjamin couldn't help but worry about himself, and he was very worried that Mahamu would hand him over because of the unfavorable situation of the war.

Of course, it's okay to hand it over alive, after all, his identity as a descendant of Yuan is a good banner for the Ming Dynasty.

But Mahamu is not stupid, if he hands himself over alive, that day I know if Zhu Di will fight against Mongolia under the banner of the Yuan descendant.

Therefore, even if you want to hand over yourself, it is estimated that it will be more than lucky......

Benjamin's face was hard to look at, and the northward march of the Warat army continued.

While they were heading north, the sentinels of the Eastern Mongolian Tatar tribe also crossed the Kulan Hypothermia, probed the situation in Warat, and passed the news back.

Before May, they brought the news to Hailar City, and Zhu Di also led the main force of the Northern Expedition to Hailar.

At this time, a group of people surrounded a concrete city on the grassland.

They stood on the ground, leading their war horses and two riding horses, wearing mandarin duck war jackets.

Among the procession, there was also a team that stood out, dressed in coarse linen clothes and dressed in Mongolian clothes.

There were nearly 10,000 of them, and although there were many horses around them, most of them were relatively thin.

In addition to these tens of thousands of cavalry, there were tens of thousands of infantry armed with flintlock pistols and tens of thousands of auxiliaries with spears in their hands.

If it weren't for the banners waving in the wind in the ranks, as well as the simple battle jackets and sackcloth on their bodies, perhaps others would only think that the Han people were fighting with the Hu people, and would not think that this was an army.

The concrete city is two feet high, with a circumference of more than three miles, and many bungalows are built inside.

Standing on the arrow tower, a general looked at the east with a telescope in his hand, and after a while, he seemed to have found something, decisively put down the telescope, picked up the horn on his waist and began to blow.

"Woo... Woo... Woo......"

The melodious sound of the horn sounded, which in turn led to an endless stream of horns under the city.

When thousands of horns sounded, they gradually played a complete and deafening horn sound, which was transmitted into the distance.

"Buzz Rumble......

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the eastern hills, and thousands of armored cavalrymen rushed from afar with a large coffin.

As the procession approached, the Mongolian, Jurchen, and Han tripartite characters written on the Daxu also came into view.

Although it is a tripartite script, the meaning is much the same...... Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (Khan) is the Son of Heaven.

Under the Great Emperor, Zhu Di led the generals to ride horses, each with radiant armor and radiant faces.

They crossed the road left by the army, rode tall horses, and slowly slowed down their horses, as if they were inspecting the army.

"Hooray! Banzai! Hooray!! ”

In an instant, the army shouted long live, and the sound came and went, like thunder.

Zhu Di's face showed joy, he glanced left and right, his eyes were resolute and high-spirited, as if the emperor had descended into the world.

He pulled out the sword in his hand, the animal on the sword grid is an African lion, and there is a sword spine in the middle of the sword body to increase the strength of the sword, simple and classic.

"Da Ming is mighty!"

"Hooray! Banzai! ”

When tens of millions of people shouted in unison, the faces of the two people who followed Zhu Di were not good-looking.

They were the former Eastern Mongolian Taishi who was captured by the Ming army, the Ming Dynasty, and the Ning King Arutai.

and his younger brother, now the Taishi of Eastern Mongolia, Alitai, the king of Changning in the Ming Dynasty.

The more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry in the Ming army were led by Alitai, and there were more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry scattered in the Mobei grassland to collect intelligence for the Ming army.

Seeing Zhu Di and the generals enter Hailar City, tens of thousands of troops were disbanded on the spot, and only more than 10,000 cavalry on the periphery were put on guard.

"Sigh the law ......"

Le Ma turned over, and Zhu Di, who was dressed in armor, walked into the only courtyard in Hailaer City that used the construction techniques of Guannai.

The courtyard covers an area of five acres, divided into front and back yards, and is Zhu Di's temporary palace in Hailaer.

Walking into the main hall of the front yard, Zhu Di opened his hands, and the left and right servants immediately stepped forward to untie the knife and take the armor for him.

After he had done all this, he turned around and sat down slowly: "Take a seat!" ”

Zhu Di leaned back on the chair, holding the armrest with one hand and touching his beard with the other.

He glanced at everyone, and the team of this northern expedition was not much different from the last time.

Despite the many things in Japan, Xu Zengshou still embarked on the return journey in March, went to the northeast of Liao, and caught up with the army of the Northern Expedition.

The civil officials were too slow, Zhu Di was too lazy to wait for them, and it would take at least three days for them to come slowly from the town guards.

In the past three days, he also had to prepare to gather information and send troops to pursue Warat.

Thinking of this, he stopped his gaze on Arutai and Alitai, who were in the first place on the left.

The two brothers were embarrassed, but they didn't dare say anything.

In the past few years, Arutai has learned about the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and this time he went north, he saw the layout of the Ming Dynasty in Modong.

The population of the three guards in Modong in Daning is two or three hundred thousand, and it is easy to send fifty or sixty thousand people to the north.

In addition, Hechengwei also has hundreds of ships carrying thousands of stones of grain every day, and the logistics of Daming have been developed to the extreme by Zhu Gaoxu.

Arutai has seen Zhu Gaoxu at many state banquets, and I have to say that after meeting Zhu Gaoxu, he began to believe the words of the former Uliangha's group.

Zhu Gaoxu, he is not a person, or he is not a person that ordinary people think.

Thinking of any glance of Zhu Gaoxu at the state banquet, Arutai can still feel the pressure of that glance.

"King Changning, tell me where the thieves of Warat have gone!"

As soon as Zhu Di opened his mouth, he asked about Alitai, the current lord of Eastern Mongolia, and Alitai also lived up to expectations and stood up and said:

"Back to Your Majesty, Mahamu, Taiping, and the Bald Three led their troops south a few months ago to destroy the ghost Lichi, recovered his people, and went north to the land of Moxi, which used to be the north of Hara and Lin."

"They should have about 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses, but if they go on an expedition, they can only have 30,000 or 40,000."

Alitai reported the general situation, and Zhu Di, who heard the words, was also satisfied: "This time I went north, your brother told me that you were not comfortable in Eastern Mongolia, so this time I brought 30,000 catties of cotton and 5,000 pieces of cloth, and now I will reward you together!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Alitai doesn't have Arutai's ambitions, and he doesn't feel ashamed of being a dog for Daming.

You must know that in the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has exchanged more than 30,000 sets of armor and weapons with the Tatar Ministry through trade and rewards, as well as tens of thousands of coarse cloths and hundreds of thousands of catties of cotton, hundreds of thousands of catties of tea, and tens of thousands of iron pots.

It is precisely because of these materials that he has been able to withstand the attacks of Warat for so many years and keep the battle line in the area of Kulan and Kulan.

"I have given you money and food, and I will give you office...... King Changning listens to orders! ”

"Obey orders!" Alitai knelt down without thinking, and this scene made Arutai's face tremble.

"Today, Yan Ran is set up to command the envoy, and you are appointed as the commander of Yan Randu, your eldest son Furong is the commander of the same knowledge, and your second son Fu Shou is the commander of the same knowledge."

Zhu Di said this reward very awkwardly, and this reward was not from his original intention, but from Zhu Gaoxu.

"Commander Wang Rong!" Zhu Di looked sideways at Wang Yi's back, and Wang Rong behind Wang Yi also stood up and said: "The minister is here!" ”

"Efeng Ling is Yan Ran's command of Tongzhi, guarding Hai La'erwei, and will soon send a scribe to accompany the king of Changning to the tribe, register his subordinates, and grant official positions to his tribal generals, and send them at the end of the year!"

"Thank you!" Alitai and Wang Rong thanked each other.

Everyone knows Zhu Di's approach, and he just wants to use interests to bind the Tatar Ministry.

However, once this approach is played, it will only make the Tatar department stronger, so this is not like Zhu Di's character, and it is no wonder that he has a few twists.

Since it was not arranged by Zhu Di, it was naturally arranged by Zhu Gaoxu.

Thinking that it was arranged by Zhu Gaoxu, everyone was relieved.

In the final analysis, Zhu Di is already fifty-two, and Zhu Gaoxu is only thirty-two, upright and prime.

If Zhu Gaoxu dared to give benefits to the Tatar Ministry, he was not afraid of the Tatar Ministry's resistance.

In this regard, Alitai and Arutai were very happy, they didn't care what Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu thought, they only knew that according to the official position of the Ming Dynasty, at least 3,000 generals under their command could receive it.

These money and grain can be used as capital for the future Tatar Ministry to make a comeback and get rid of the Ming Dynasty.

However, they seemed to have forgotten that Zhu Gaoxu dared to give them money and food, which showed that he had enough ways to clean them up.

Of course, at this time, the two of them were already carried away by the sudden surprise, and their minds were full of how much money and food the Tatar Ministry would be able to steadily obtain from the Ming Dynasty every year in the future.

"Duke of Liao, how long will it take to conquer Moxi from here?"

Zhu Di motioned for Alitai and Wang Rong to take a seat, and asked about Meng Zhang, the Duke of Liao, straight to the point.

In this regard, Meng Zhangzuo said: "At the speed of our army traveling seventy miles a day, it will take at least one month to reach Moxi, plus searching, at least one and a half months, and three months back and forth." ”

After Meng Zhang said that, Zhu Di asked again: "With the situation of our army, can we pursue Moxi?" ”

When his words fell, Meng Zhang continued without thinking:

"At present, there are still 100,000 stone military rations in the imperial court that have not been transported from the town guards, and these 100,000 stone military rations must contain at least 20,000 auxiliary soldiers and 50,000 people."

"Therefore, the number of baggage that the army can mobilize is 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, 130,000 people, and more than 76,400 carriages, and Hailaer has 120,000 stone of military rations and 200,000 stone of horse material."

"If 230,000 auxiliary soldiers and people are sent to transport grain and grass to Hulan and Kuwan, the distance is about 2,000 miles, and it will take 40 days to travel to the feet of the people, and 80 days to go back and forth, consuming nearly 90,000 stone of military food and more than 70,000 stone of horse material."

"With the transportation capacity of the carriage and the people, we can retreat after arriving in Moxi, and we can still leave 30,000 stone military food and 130,000 stone horse material for our army."

230,000 people and more than 70,000 wagons transported 320,000 stone of military food and horse material, and after arrival, there will be 160,000 stone of military food and horse material left, which is already very good.

The consumption is so small, mainly because they searched westward along the Yinma River and entered Moxi through the Selenge River.

However, the problem is that 30,000 stone army food is enough to feed 80,000 troops for more than three months, but 130,000 stone horse food is at most enough for 200,000 horses behind 80,000 troops to eat for two months.

Counting the forty days of withdrawal, it means that the time left for Zhu Di is only twenty days.

At that time, although the people will still have food, the horses will have no fodder.

Without fodder, eating grass will quickly wipe out the horses, and the 80,000 cavalry and horse infantry will become infantry.

"There is enough time, let the rear step up and transport another 100,000 stone horse materials to the north!"

In order to defeat Warat in one fell swoop, Zhu Di could only send more horse material to the rear.

You must know that the Northern Expedition army transported a total of 300,000 stone military rations and 500,000 stone horse materials.

300,000 stone military grain is 3 million stone grain, and 500,000 stone horse feed is 1.5 million stone bean material.

The largest northern expedition in history was only 300,000 stone beans and 900,000 stone grain.

The scale of this time can be said to be more than three times the largest in Zhu Di's history.

Because of this, Zhu Di was so high-spirited that he wanted to hit Warat hard, and even thought about killing Warat, because along the way, he was not only satisfied with the logistics, but also needless to say about the combination of flintlock pistol and bayonet.

Of course, the burden in his heart is inevitably a little heavy, and he always feels that the second child is really ready to abdicate after this battle.

"Alas, retreat, retreat, go home after this battle, I am fifty-three years old, and I can live for a few more years......"

Zhu Di sighed a few times in his heart, and Meng Zhang, who was asked to transfer 100,000 stone horses to the north, was bitter.

For this battle, almost all the beans in Daning, Liaodong, and Bohai have been exhausted, and now he has to scrape together 100,000 stones, which gives him a headache.

Just as he was distressed, there was a sound of footsteps at the courtyard door, and a conductor walked quickly into the main hall and knelt down, holding an expedited copy in his hand.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Supervisor ordered the Shandong Political Envoy to make 50,000 stone of military food and 200,000 stone of horse material, which was shipped a month ago and arrived in Hailaer City on the first day of the seventh month!"

"Haha, good!" Hearing that the second child even guessed that he was short of food and horse material and prepared it in advance, Zhu Di also praised happily, and at the same time glanced at the generals.

Seeing that the Ming army was ready, Arutai also hurriedly got up and walked to the main hall and knelt down:

"Your Majesty, the Tatar Ministry is willing to send 20,000 cavalry for Your Majesty to drive!"

Arutai's approach made his eldest brother Alitai's face darken, you must know that Arutai is now just a puppet in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and he, Alitai is the Taishi of the Tatar Department.

Now that he didn't go through himself, he opened his mouth to mobilize 20,000 cavalry for Da Ming to drive, and it was strange that he could feel better.

"Oh?" Zhu Di was surprised, his eyes swirled back and forth between Arutai and Alitai, and finally asked, "King Changning, what do you think?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister is willing to serve Your Majesty!"

Alitai could only bite the bullet and respond, and Zhu Di smiled when he heard this: "Okay! ”

"In this way, this cavalry, as a sentry horse, is under the jurisdiction of Wang Yi, the Duke of Shen, and the king of Changning is the vice."

"Command!" Alitai's teeth itched, but there was nothing to be done.

"Since it's okay, let's disperse!"

Zhu Di got up and walked to the backyard, and the generals also sang long live, and then slowly withdrew from the courtyard.

After exiting the courtyard, Alitai stared at Arutai with uncomfortable eyes, but Arutai didn't say anything, until the two brothers walked away, Arutai turned around and said:

"I know better than you the rules of rewards and punishments of the Ming army, as long as you 20,000 people participate in the war, then you must have a share of the capture after the war."

"What if they don't give it?" Alitai got Arutai's idea, and although he was stunned, he still quickly questioned.

"Whether you give it or not, you have to fight, otherwise after this battle, the next time it is estimated that you will fight us."

Arutai has been in Nanjing for so many years, and he can't figure out anything else, but he can guess Zhu Di's thoughts for a minute and a half.

It's not that he is so powerful, but that Zhu Di often asks him about the customs of the grassland and the geography of various places.

Zhu Di's inquiry alerted Arutai, but he was very helpless.

Now the Tatars are already in charge of Alitai, although he is his elder brother, but his ability is too much inferior to himself.

If the Tatars wanted to survive, they could only keep their strength from growing, or wait for the strength of the Ming army to grow in Mobei.

"Why was the Ming army able to send so many Minfu troops to appear in Mobei?"

Alitai looked around vaguely to make sure that no one asked.

He also experienced the Battle of Yuerhai in his early years, when 150,000 Ming troops marched north, but less than 30,000 arrived in Yuerhai.

According to the proportion at that time, the Ming army was able to send 80,000 people to appear in Mobei this time, didn't it mean that they had sent at least 400,000 troops and more than 2 million people?

This amount is too exaggerated, and Alitai still can't believe it, so he specially asks Arutai.

When Arutai heard this, the picture of Zhu Gaoxu glancing at himself flashed in his mind, and he explained with fear:

"Zhu Di is a madman, but his son Zhu Gaoxu is not a human."

"In the east, there are already millions of Han people living in Liaodong and Nuzhi, and they can save manpower through waterways and move the army from Kaipingwei to the northern part of the former Wuliang Habal Mountain."

"It is precisely because of this that Zhu Di can appear here with 80,000 troops."

"This may be Zhu Di's last expedition to the north, but don't be arrogant, be deferential enough."

"I know you don't understand it now, but you have to remember what I mean."

"Specifically, you will understand in two or three years, and you will be very deferential without me at that time."

"I have to leave, there are people everywhere here, and there is a good chance that their conversation will be overheard, so go first."

As soon as the words fell, Arutai hurried out of the corner.

Although Alitai complained about Arutai, it can be seen that Arutai was so afraid of that Zhu Gaoxu, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

After a while, he also left this corner with his head down, but he kept thinking in his heart that Zhu Gaoxu had something to be afraid of......

(End of chapter)