The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

"Victory!"

"Victory to the Ming Dynasty!"

Deafening cheers resounded throughout the venue.

Tang Hao, however, was somewhat dazed.

The Jianzhou Jurchens have since perished!

To this day, he still cannot believe it.

After all, the threat of the Later Jin Dynasty, which was under the wild boar skin, has troubled the Ming Dynasty for decades, until it finally replaced the corrupt Ming Dynasty!

Especially in the northern border, after the Battle of Sarhu, the military and civilians were even more afraid of the Later Jin Dynasty!

The Jurchens were invincible if they were less than 10,000, and they were invincible if they were more than 10,000. This had almost become an unbreakable curse in the Ming army's day-to-day and year-to-year defeats!

And now, this curse, under this great victory created by Tang Hao himself, was also shattered!

Or it can be said that the current Jurchens and the current Ming Dynasty have long changed because of Tang Hao's arrival.

Perhaps because he changed history himself, Tang Hao felt a little disappointed for a while.

But soon this different feeling was dispelled by him.

All that he was doing now was for the revival of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally had to change the order of the Ming Dynasty that was constantly falling into the abyss!

So, there was nothing to hesitate about!

The Jurchens were just the first, not the last!

The leader of the Mongolian revival was now carrying out his great cause of unification!

I don’t know what happened to An Guo, whether he had marched into Hetao and tried to contact Yibula and Mandulai.

When he thought of this, Tang Hao turned his attention back to the battlefield.

After this battle, all the young and strong men of Jianzhou Jurchens were gone, but there were still some old, weak, women and children in the tribe.

Tang Hao looked at Han Fu and said in a deep voice: "Our army will rest for three days, and then continue to sweep the Haixi Jurchens and the Wild Jurchens to the north until they meet up with Tang Mu and the Korean army!"

"The Jianzhou Jurchens will be handed over to you for the time being. Kill all the tribes and leave no one alive. All the captured spoils and rescued people will be sent back to Liaodong."

Han Fu nodded solemnly.

This actually gave him an opportunity to make merit.

Han Fu's personal achievements could have been made a marquis and prime minister, but unfortunately, due to the suppression of civil officials and gentry, he has never been granted a title!

After the Liaodong campaign, at least Han Fu can get an earl.

"In addition, during the battle just now, the scouts discovered that there were a large number of Mongolian cavalry scouts around the battlefield!"

"After you clean up the battlefield and slaughter the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe, send a message to all the Mongolian tribes in Liaodong to send troops to assist the Ming Dynasty to wipe out the Jurchens. Any tribe that dares to harbor the Jurchens will be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty with thunder and lightning!"

"After killing the chicken to scare the monkeys this time, these Mongolian tribes will be more honest and obedient. After we get rid of the Haixi Jurchens and the wild Jurchens, we will turn around and deal with them!"

Han Fu's scalp numbed and his back chilled when he heard this.

This Ming Dynasty Zhongshan Hou really had a strong killing intention towards the Jurchens. It was clear that he wanted to completely wipe out the Jurchens from the land of Liaodong and kill them all!

But Han Fu could understand it, after all, this was a good thing that would be solved once and for all.

If we don't take advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty still has the strength to kill all these barbarians, after a few decades, these barbarians will recover some of their vitality, and Liaodong will be in turmoil again!

Chenghua Liting is the best proof. It dealt a heavy blow to Jianzhou Jurchen twice, but failed to do its best. As a result, Han Fu, the general commander of Liaodong, has been guarding Liaodong for more than 20 years since Chenghua!

"Don't worry, Lord Tang, this time, we will definitely cut the grass and root it out!"

Hearing this, Tang Hao smiled and patted Han Fu on the shoulder, and then cast his eyes towards the direction of Hetao.

There is the battlefield that truly determines the fate of the Ming Dynasty!

The importance of Hetao is self-evident. If the Central Plains Dynasty occupies the Hetao Plain, it can not only obtain excellent horse farms and the "Sai Shang Jiangnan" agricultural base, but also form a proactive threat to the Mongolian grassland. On the contrary, if the nomads occupy the Hetao Plain, they will obtain an excellent pasture and an outpost that threatens the Guanzhong area of ​​the Central Plains Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty originally controlled the Hetao area. The founding generals Xu Da and Li Wenzhong eliminated the forces of Tolebe and Kongxing who occupied the Hetao area, and drove Kuokuo Timur (Wang Baobao) to the base camp of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Karakorum, and successfully seized the Hetao Plain. Later, the court set up Dongshengwei here to connect the guards in Ningxia and Shanxi.

After Emperor Yongle Zhu Di ascended the throne, because it involved weakening the vassal kings, he made a lot of adjustments to the Hongwu border defense and moved Dongshengwei to other areas, but the Yongle court still maintained control over the Hetao area.

The problem lies in the two dynasties of Hongxi and Xuande. Adhering to the idea of ​​living a comfortable life behind closed doors, the two emperors no longer expanded the territory to the north, the northern defense line continued to shrink, and the frequency of invasions by various Mongolian tribes to the south increased significantly.

Then there was Zhu Qizhen, the "Ming War God", who buried the elite of the Ming Dynasty in one battle and completely destroyed the northern border defense line of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the defense of the capital was won, the severe situation on the northern border was not alleviated.

After the Oirat Grand Master Yesen was killed in an internal struggle, the Oirat fell into division and had to withdraw from the southern desert. The Tatar forces took the opportunity to revive. Their leader Bo called himself the Grand Master and made Makgurghis, the son of the former Golden Family Khan Toghtobukha, the little prince. It was also from then on that the Ming Dynasty began to call the Tatar Khan "the little prince."

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in internal and external troubles. Zhu Qizhen also launched a "coup of seizing the gate". He had no time to care about the Hetao area. The Mongols continued to invade Ningxia and Yansui areas in the south. More and more tribes ran to the unattended Hetao Plain. This area with abundant water and grass undoubtedly became their new home.

After Zhu Qizhen's restoration, he was still as stupid and foolish as before. The three leaders of the Tatar tribe, Maolihai, A Luochu, and Boluohu, rushed to enter the Hetao Plain during this period and threatened the Shaanxi area. The Ming Dynasty lost control of the Hetao area for the first time.

Until the Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen ascended the throne, the most praised achievement of this rare hero was to take the Hetao Plain back from the Mongols.

Since the beginning of the Chenghua period, the Tatar leader Maolihai repeatedly invaded Guyuan, Datong and other places through the Hetao Plain, and requested tribute from the Ming court. The Chenghua court believed that Maolihai was cunning and untrustworthy, and refused him to pay tribute. As a result, Maolihai became angry and increased his invasion to the south, attacking Guyuan, Anding, Weizhou and other places. Because they did not attack cities and seize land, but robbed a handful of people and livestock and left, they were also called "Tao bandits" by the Ming court.

The Chenghua emperor and his ministers advocated the implementation of "suppressing the Tao", that is, after finding out the distribution and activities of the Mongolian tribes entering the Hetao, select elite soldiers and generals to quickly attack and wipe them out.

Zhu Jianshen was a true hawkish emperor, and he immediately agreed to implement the "suppressing the Tao" strategy, so he ordered the right deputy censor Wang Yue to send troops to "suppress the Tao". Wang Yue led two armies to attack. Although he gained a lot, the number of Ming troops was not enough to completely drive these Mongolians out of the Hetao.

In the next two or three years, people with long-term vision kept proposing to organize an army of more than 100,000 people to "suppress the Tatars", but due to the obstruction of civil officials and gentry, it could not be implemented.

Until the ninth year of Chenghua, the Tatar leaders Mandulu, Boluohu and Qijiasilan set out from Hetao and invaded Ningxia, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. Wang Yue seized the opportunity to raid the Red Salt Pond where the Mongols were entrenched. He destroyed the opponent's nest and beheaded more than 300 people, winning the "Red Salt Pond Victory". Seeing the explosion of the base, several Tatar leaders quickly retreated northward and exited the Hetao area. The Ming army successfully recovered the Hetao Plain. Later, the Ming army won a series of victories against the Tatars, such as the "Weininghai Victory", which severely damaged the power of the Mongolian tribes and finally controlled the Hetao again.

However, after Chenghua, it was "Zhu Zhongxing". Dayan Khan revived Mongolia, but Zhu Zhongxing failed to revive the Ming Dynasty. The little prince Dayan Khan unified the southern desert area and became a new threat to the northern border of the Ming Dynasty. His looting on the northern border of the Ming Dynasty was more intense than that during the Maolihai period.

This leader of the Mongolian revival led his people to re-occupy the Hetao area, and successively looted hundreds of thousands of livestock and countless people in Gansu, killing and looting many soldiers and border residents.

Zhu Zhongxing could no longer bear it, and in July of the eleventh year of Hongzhi, he launched a large-scale "suppression" campaign. The funny thing was that under the control of civil officials and gentry, military generals and military merits were suppressed to only a few people. Zhu Zhongxing had to use the old general Wang Yue, who was over 70 years old, to come out of retirement. However, Wang Yue did not achieve any results, because the Ming border army was completely useless at this moment.

Then came Zhu Zhongxing's several "suppression" operations with much fanfare but little action. His own army had no combat power at all, not to mention driving the Mongols out of the Hetao. Beheading forty people could be turned into Zhu Zhongxing's martial arts under the whitewashing of civil officials and gentry. It is conceivable how outrageous the Hongzhi court was.

The Ming Dynasty lost the Hetao again in the hands of Zhu Zhongxing. This is also the most obvious gap between the two great masters of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia. The iron-clad facts are in front of us, and there is nothing to argue about.

Fortunately, Mongolia is not a monolithic entity, and now there is a hidden danger of division.

If An Guo can successfully delay Dayan Khan's steps to unify Mongolia according to Tang Hao's strategy, then the Ming Dynasty can seize the opportunity to recapture Daning and Hetao and build a northern border defense line!

Tang Hao looked deep in the direction of Hetao.

"An Guo, Wang Qiong, don't let me down!"

At this moment, at the old site of Hongwu Dongshengwei, An Guo and Wang Qiong had led 30,000 Beijing troops to arrive here and began the city construction plan without stopping.

"Hurry!"

"You must move quickly!"

An Guo kept urging.

Wang Qiong came to his side and spoke worriedly.

"General An Guo, the order of Zhongshan Hou asked us to start building a 1,500-li border wall from Dingbianying (Dingbian, Shaanxi) in the west to Huangfuchuan (northeast of Fugu) in the east. The old site of Dongshengwei is not in it!"

An Guo glanced at him coldly and said in a deep voice: "Dongshengwei is strategically located and plays an important role in connecting the various guards in Shanxi and Ningxia and controlling the Hetao!"

"Why did His Majesty Emperor Yongle have to abolish Dongshengwei back then? I, An Guo, have no control over this, but now that I, An Guo, Now that we are here, we must restore this fortress!"

"You have only one mission, which is to lead the Japanese to cooperate with me to repair the Dongshengwei Castle. When the castle is repaired, you can build the side wall mentioned by the Marquis!"

"General An Guo!" Wang Qiong was angry, "I have no obligation to obey your orders..."

"Only when Dongshengwei is restored and makes a gesture of marching into Hetao, Yibula and Mandulai will feel the pressure!"

An Guo spoke in a calm tone, giving Wang Qiong a reason that he could not refuse.

Finally, Wang Qiong stamped his feet angrily and roared: "Then let the soldiers repair the city together!"

Hearing this, An Guo laughed uncontrollably.

This Wang Qiong is indeed as the Marquis said, although he has no moral integrity, he has great talent!