Daming: From the end of Hongwu

At that time, they can stew all the ministries of the prairie randomly, until the prairie is no longer capable of invading the northern border.

time flies.

Under the busy pre-war preparations, it will be February next year in a blink of an eye.

……

On this day, Zhu Di returned to Beiping City from Nanjing, and also returned to the Yanwang Mansion that he was very familiar with. I still suddenly feel sad and want to cry.

He originally thought that he had already forgotten about Xu Miaoyun's departure, but at the moment when he was walking in the corridor of the palace, his thoughts came rushing over him, making him feel dazed for a while.

It seemed that Xu Miaoyun was still laughing in a courtyard.

Or they reprimanded their children in the dormitory.

She would wait until he passed by, then gently greet him, and said with a gentle smile, "The prince is back."

He will also tell him about various parents' short stories happily or resentfully.

But such days are gone forever.

Zhu Di avoided everyone's gaze, wiped his tears lightly, then turned around and came out of the palace again, taking Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui and Zhen Wu towards Changping.

All the way to the foot of a mountain.

Taking a deep breath of the cold air, Zhu Di stared at the mountain and said for a long time, "This mountain is called Tuhuang Mountain. I thought the name was ugly, so I changed it to Tianshou Mountain."

Zhen Wu was taken aback for a moment, but Zhu Gaoxu couldn't understand what he meant.

The corner of Zhu Di's mouth curved into a smile, as if he was looking at Xu Miaoyun: "The Ministry of Industry searched for a lot of places, and I finally chose this place. I want to build an imperial mausoleum here and place her here. She once said However, the scenery here is uniquely beautiful, and if you know that you can sleep here forever, you will be extremely happy."

Zhu Gaoxu and the two suddenly understood that Zhu Di was missing Xu Miaoyun.

And Zhen Wu was looking up at Tianshou Mountain carefully.

He couldn't help shaking his head secretly, no wonder he couldn't see anything at first, the difference between this place and the Ming Tombs of later generations was so different that even though he had been to the Ming Tombs before, he didn't realize it for a while.

At this time, Zhu Di's faint voice sounded again, his tone was weak, as if Zhu Di knew that Zhu Yunqi was going to target him, and he asked: "When Jianwen wanted to cut my title, I asked the queen, if I was demoted to a commoner , was moved to Yunnan and other places, will she regret marrying such a competitive prince like me, guess what the queen answered me?"

Zhen Armed Forces didn't hear it, so he didn't dare to answer those words.

Zhu Gaoxu scratched his head and was thinking about how to reply when Zhu Di's voice sounded again.

"She said, even if she was relegated to the dust, she would not have any regrets. Later, during Jingnan, whenever the war was frustrated, I thought of her watching me in Beiping, and countless beliefs arose in my heart. But now I will go out again, but I will never see her preparing clothes for me and waiting."

After speaking, Zhu Di let out a long sigh and fell into silence again.

It has been a long time.

Wait until the evening wind blows from the mountains.

Zhu Di seemed to have just exhausted the sadness caused by longing in his heart, when he turned around, he had turned back into that talented and bold Emperor Yong Le again.

This made Zhen Wu a little dazed, thinking that Zhu Di's sadness and weakness just now was just an illusion.

"Let's go."

Zhu Di urged the horses to move forward: "After the soldiers and horses are ready, some of us, together with our Great Ming army, will flatten this grassland!"

His voice resounded loudly in the heaven and earth.

It seems that it can be reverberated for hundreds of years, so that future generations can't help but yearn for it.

……

Chapter 410 - The confrontation between Benya Shili and Alutai

As we all know, there is a certain restraint relationship between arms.

Infantry armed with long spears and shields and equipped with strong bows and crossbows restrained light cavalry known for their speed and agility, while light cavalry restrained relatively clumsy heavy cavalry.

The many years of war history in the Central Plains, the restraint relationship between the various arms that emerged as the times require, has long become a clear card that both sides know.

However, because of the resources and the number of people, the Tatars could not be fully equipped with all kinds of arms, but it was also a blessing in disguise. Because they lived on the grassland, their entire nation would become good soldiers on light horses as long as they got on their horses.

Mongolian Qingqi has been famous for a long time.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Di naturally threw his clumsy heavy cavalry out of the battle sequence, and formed the entire army with light cavalry and infantry.

However, there is a problem with this.

That is, if the Tatar Qingqi do not want to fight, it is not easy to intercept it with the small number of Qingqi and infantry in the Ming Dynasty. This is also the disadvantage of the Central Plains facing the grassland nomads since ancient times, unless there is a large enough infantry to carry out flexible outflanking and interception.

But this is the crux of the problem. There is no shortage of massive soldiers, but there are not so many qualified elite infantrymen who can restrain Qingqi.

What is the important reason why the infantry can restrain and force the light cavalry back when facing the Tatar light cavalry coming and going like the wind?

In addition to spears and shields, the most important thing is the equipped bow and crossbow.

Because the Tatar Qingqi are on horseback, their shooting range is often only fifty to eighty paces, while the bow and arrow assessment standard for the elite infantry of Ming Dynasty is 120 paces. Carriage crossbow, etc., the minimum requirement is eighty steps.

Under such circumstances, when the immovable infantry phalanx met the Tatar Qingqi, arrows from both sides rained down, and the Tatar Qingqi could not take advantage of it, so they could only turn around and flee after being beaten.

But bows and crossbows are not something that can be used by just one person, especially the accuracy of the head, which requires long-term training, but how can there be so many elite soldiers in Ming Dynasty who are all qualified in various assessments?

It was really not.

But it can't stop the development and innovation of the Central Plains nation!

A new long-range unit came into being, the Shenji Battalion.

Compared with crossbows, this kind of tube firearm has two very obvious advantages. The first point is that the training is simple, and soldiers can master it with only simple training. The second point is to save energy.

In this way, it is no longer an extravagant hope for Zhu Di to gather an army of 50 and have a large number of infantry who can restrain the Tatar cavalry.

Moreover, firearms have been improved in the past few years. Among them, the most outstanding Zhongwu blunderbuss has a range of more than 200 steps, far surpassing the Erjiaoyi bow and crossbow in the army. The trend of replacing the status of bows and crossbows.

As for the downside of firearms...

The slow bullet speed has not been improved very well for the time being, but it is complicated to load, but it has innovated the way of use in the three-stage strike.

The soldiers are still divided into three rows. The first row only needs to shoot, and then pass the empty guns to the second row. First row to shoot.

In this way, Zhu Di only needs to practice the shooting accuracy of the soldiers in the first row, and he can also achieve the effect of uninterrupted shooting.

Sometimes Zhen Wu even suspects that Zhu Di is a time traveler.

Because Zhu Di's vision is too accurate, whether it is the emphasis on the ocean or the vigorous development of firearms, it is a very correct national policy in the eyes of future generations, and it is also a national policy that will definitely benefit future generations.

As long as these two persevere continue to develop.

In the future, no matter what kind of changes in the world the Central Plains will face, it will be able to stand proudly on the top.

Can…

There are always future generations who are not up to date.

Zhen Wu couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this point. After all, the establishment of the Daming Shenji Battalion, the uniform firearms and equipment, and the skilled use of the soldiers were about 100 years earlier than the Spanish Musketeers.

As the first country in the world to use firearms.

How ridiculous it would be to lose power and humiliate the country by being bullied with firearms in the future.

……

The tenth day of February.

The wind was clear and the sun was peaceful, and the dust was not moving. Zhu Di went out from Deshengmen, and led his army to the north to attack the captives.

Along the way, the army passed through Huailai, Xuanfu, and then to Xinghe.

On the way, Zhu Di's mood gradually improved, and sometimes he would introduce to the army clerks where Emperor Yuan Shun escaped from the north, which station or stele was built for the old Yuan or Liao Jin, or introduce Wanquan City to him with great interest. It was built under the supervision of the year, and proudly looked around at Wenwu and asked with pride: "Who can break through such a dangerous pass?"

When Zhen Wu heard this, he didn't even bother to think about Bao Zong again.

The army clerks felt Zhu Di's confidence in this battle, and even if it was the first time to join the army in the northern expedition, all of them let go of their uneasy mood for a while.

Even Jin Youzi and others, who were specially called by Zhu Di to record the details of the battle, were still in the mood to travel around the mountains and rivers, either riding a horse to chase rabbits, or watching the mountains and scenery, without the tension of the current battle.

This made Zhen Wu a little jealous, so one day after Jin Youzi managed to hunt a rabbit, Zhen Wu snatched it for him angrily.

After the robbing, Zhen Wu said shamelessly: "Remember to record the fact that I robbed your rabbit."

Jin Youzi quickly shook his head and said, "No, no, this rabbit should be filial to the Duke."

But who knew that this made Zhen Wu even more unhappy.

"What are you talking about." Zhen Wu stared and said, "I told you to record, you will record, don't let me beat you again."

amount.

Jin Youzi was a little dazed.

Zhen Wu thought for a while, then explained: "Leave a name in history."

Jin Youzi suddenly laughed and said, "With the previous achievements of the Duke, his name has already been recorded in history, why should this be so?"

"What do you know, the image of me, Zhen Wu, should not be more vivid in the history books?!" After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu took the rabbit he had snatched, and while the army was resting, he hurried to Xue Lu and Gu Bright place.

In the Youshao camp, as Zhen Wu expected, Gu Ming lit stacks of paper money at night, and the flickering flames in the night sky seemed to convey Gu Ming's longing for his son.

Xue Lu was very curious when he saw Zhen Wu coming.

Zhen Wu threw the rabbit to Xue Lu, grinning and said: "I beat a rabbit, it's tasteless to eat alone, you ask someone to find two pots of wine, let's have a few cups of roasted rabbit."

Xue Lu glanced at the sad Gu Ming, understood immediately, and immediately nodded to send someone to find wine, then he watched Zhen Wu looking for firewood everywhere, smiled, took out his dagger and went to deal with the rabbit himself.

That night, Zhen Wu, Xue Lu and Gu Ming chatted about the past for a long time.

……

After Xinghe, further down is the endless grassland.

On the ninth day of March, Zhu Di was stationed in Mingluan, inspecting the army and vowing to go to war.

There are historical records of this oath: the six armies lined up, stretching for tens of miles from east to west, with clear banners, halberds lined up, iron cavalry soaring, and drums vibrating.

It can be said to be the most powerful soldier in the world today, and no one dares to take the lead.

After the oath was over, the army set off again on the second day.

This time, Zhen Wu felt that Zhu Di had become more cautious, which reassured Zhen Wu a little. It seemed that Zhu Di was a veteran in the battlefield after all, and he didn't float up even though he had a great army in his hands.

Zhu Di has been the king of Yan for so many years, so he knows Mongolia very well. He knows that the hinterland of the grassland is the most scarce of water sources, so he ordered the construction of a city to store drinking water every ten days, in case the army could not find the water source. Continuously mobilize water sources from the rear for the army to drink.

The names of these villages are also very meaningful, either to kill Hucheng, or to destroy Hucheng, which shows Zhu Di's determination to complete the battle.

But also because of this, the army walked very slowly. It took Zhu Di a full [-] days to walk steadily for a distance that would have been covered by a horse in a few days.

On the first day of May, the army finally arrived at the Luqu River, the area where the Tatars had been active for a long time. Zhu Di Yinma River, so he changed its name to Yinma River.

Zhen Wu and other generals became vigilant at the same time, because they all knew that this place was not far from the Mongols, and they must be able to find traces of some Mongols here.

A large number of scouts, especially the vanguard of the left and right guards, continuously sent out elite cavalry to explore further.

And this time.

A splintering infighting was breaking out within the Tatars.

Arutai looked at Ben Ya Shili sitting on the throne of the Great Khan, and his heart became more and more angry, especially when he thought that Ben Ya Shili would send people to attack and kill the Daming Mission without saying a word, which made his eyes wide open. pissed off.

Benya saw Alutai's expression in his eyes, and snorted coldly with disdain: "What? The grand master is still dissatisfied with the people who attacked and killed Daming?"

Alutai snorted coldly, the meaning was self-evident.

Ben Ya lost his temper and said angrily: "What does the Grand Master mean? Could it be that I, the great Khan, can't kill a few people from the Ming Dynasty?"

Alutai was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

He and Daming are just mixing oil with each other now, they could have paralyzed Daming, and even developed with the help of Daming's support, but now luckily, Daming's 50 troops came to fight.

That's 50 troops.

What's more, Zhu Di personally led the army here. Didn't they have little dealings with King Yan at the beginning?

Zhu Di is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and everyone present knows it.

And listen to Zhu Di's camp again, Zhen Wu, Zhu Neng, Zhang Wu, Xue Lu, good guys, they have been able to fight well in recent years, they have gained fame, and they all came here just in their prime.

What is this for?

Alutai took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down the anger in his heart, and said: "Of course the Khan can kill, but since the Khan can kill and attract the Ming army to attack, the Khan must have a good way to deal with it. I don't know if the Great Khan can make it clear at this time."

"Good strategy?"

Benya laughed secretly inwardly, but she pretended to be confused: "No, where did I get the good idea from?"