I Am the Grandson of the Second Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Earning 100 Million Taels at the Beginn

Chapter 236 My prairie, my horse, I can do whatever I want, if you dare to control me, I will bite you to death!
"Have you seen where the other party came from?"

Before dawn, behind an unnamed snow mountain on the border of Daming.

Zhu Zhangui led the soldiers on the expedition, staring at the opposite side vigilantly.

Hu Yu quickly reported beside him.

"I didn't see clearly. The other side also sent spies to explore the road, and the two spies directly bumped into each other."

"At first, our people wanted to catch the other party, but the guy on the other side was very slippery, turned around and ran away."

"Our people didn't catch up very far, and found the other party's marching legion!"

"The number cannot be determined, but it is conservatively estimated to be no less than [-]!"

Zhu Zhangui touched his nose and asked with some doubts: "Where is the army coming from behind?"

Just now, Zhu Zhangui, who had fought a few ambushes, felt that there was no opportunity to take advantage of the Tatars' vigilance, so he took people back.

when approaching the border.

The scout who was exploring the road ahead suddenly came back to report in a panic, saying that a team was coming from the opposite side.

"Could it be someone from the camp?"

Hu Yu guessed with some uncertainty.

Zhu Zhangui gave him a blank look.

"Do you think they would come without my order!"

Hu Yu nodded, also feeling that this was impossible.

"Is that the legion supported by Nuer Gandusi, who learned that you brought people over for a surprise attack, and came to support you because they were worried that you would be in danger."

Zhu Zhangui thought for a while, then shook his head uncertainly.

"Probably not. The people we sent to urge them have just arrived at the place at most. Even if they don't bring Jing Nan's orphan and march over in a hurry, and travel day and night, the distance will at least be the day after tomorrow."

"Besides, with this group of guard officers and soldiers, do you think they are so active?"

Hu Yu scratched his head.

It seems so.

It's not that he looks down on the officers and soldiers of the guard, but that compared with the main force of the three major battalions, the combat effectiveness and spirit of discipline of the officers and soldiers of the guard are really much worse.

It was neither the reinforcements from the camp, nor the reinforcements from Nuer Gandusi, and it was even more impossible to be supported by the imperial court.

If it was supported by the imperial court, the old man would definitely send news in advance.

Now Zhu Zhangui was a little confused, where did this come from?
And they are all wearing white cloaks, which shows that they have rich experience in snow combat.

Otherwise, you will be like the Tatars. What you wear in other places, you can still see what you wear in the snow from a long distance.

"Someone is here!"

Just when Zhu Zhangui was puzzled, the front row sentry suddenly let out a low cry.

The soldiers who were hidden for a moment took out their weapons and aimed at the bottom of the hillside.

"Don't rush to do it, as if it's really ours!"

Zhu Zhangui looked down with a binoculars, and a man who took off his white cloak and wore a military uniform designed by Zhu Zhangui for the Ming army slowly climbed up the mountain pass.

"Your Highness is from the Navy!"

Hu Yu at the side suddenly shouted in surprise.

He recognized the other party's identity from the armband that was a soldier.

Zhu Zhangui patted Hu Yu.

"Making sure!"

Hu Yu nodded, moved aside, and shouted at the bottom.

"Which team of the Navy is the brother below, report your name!"

Following Hu Yu's shout, the soldier who was vigilant about climbing up the mountain quickly hid himself.

"Which battalion of the army are you from?"

The soldier didn't answer, but instead asked about Hu Yu's identity.

If you don't know the identity of the other party, you will expose your army establishment, you are either a fool or a fool.

Hu Yu glanced at Zhu Zhangui, Zhu Zhangui gave him a wink, and pointed to the general of the Shenji Camp who followed him this time.

The general twitched his mouth when he saw this, but didn't say much.

Hu Yudian shouted at the top of his voice.

"We belong to the Second Legion of Shenji Battalion, and our regiment commander is called Lu You!"

The person who was waiting on the opposite side looked blank.

"Isn't the commander of the second army called Shen An, and he is still in the Wagua country, why did he come here?"

After a moment of bewilderment, he understood.

The other party didn't know his identity, so he deliberately reported an error to confirm his identity.

"Stop fucking nonsense, the commander of the Second Army Corps is called Shen An, and he's overseas, so he's pretending to be something, tell me quickly which part you belong to, or we'll attack."

Hu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and confirmed that the person on the other side was one of his own, and also someone from within Zhu Zhangui.

Let alone the name of the commander of the second army, the others are not even sure where they are.

"Your Highness is here."

After confirming that the other party was his own, Hu Yu stood up and shouted.

When the opposite party heard that they had found the right person, they quickly shouted in surprise.

"We are from the navy, and our chief officer, General Li Hu, is leading people behind."

"Just now he thought that you might be his own, so he asked me to come over to confirm, but he didn't expect that you were really his own."

Half an hour later, the two parties came together.

Many soldiers of the Shenji Battalion excitedly hugged their old friends from the navy when they saw them.

And the recruits formed by labor looked at the navy soldiers in awe.

They have been in the army for half a year, and they have heard veterans talk about the navy.

Such a saying has been circulating in the Ming army for the past few years.

The first-class Tianjiao is the navy, the second-class mud monkeys are the three battalions, and the third-class toads are everywhere, and no one cares about the guards.

The meaning of this sentence is to show the status of the Ming army in the emperor's heart.

With the opening of the sea in the past two years, the status of the Ming Dynasty Navy has gradually risen from a private army of Zhu Zhangui to the strategic position of the country's expansion of territory and overseas colonization.

Without the navy, let alone colonization and openness, even if the outside world is piled up with gold and silver, you can't pull it back.

Therefore, the number one position of the navy in the Ming army is almost certain.

Li Hu, the commander-in-chief, is known as the No. 1 in the openness of the Ming Navy, and the second is Zheng He, who has been away from home all year round.

The reason for the three camps of mud monkeys is because the three camps followed the emperor all the year round, and they were full of dust every day, just like the mud monkeys. Therefore, the army nickname of the main force of the Ming Dynasty was called the Mud Monkey Legion.

As for the third-class toad.

That's better to understand.

The officers and soldiers of the guards are all over the world, just like toads, and every time there is a war, there are three major battalions, and the positions of the officers and soldiers of the guards will move back.

And most of the time they are doing miscellaneous work, and when they go to battle and there is no shortage of manpower, they can't be remembered at all.

That's why there is the joke that there are third-class toads everywhere, and no one cares about the guards.

It was precisely because of the reputation of the Ming Navy that these recruits couldn't help being in awe.

"How many men and guns did you bring?"

As soon as he saw Li Hu, Zhu Zhangui didn't ask him how he came here, but directly asked how many people and how many guns he brought.

Li Hu stood at attention to answer.

"Except for the boat copyists, I brought everyone else, a total of 23000 people!"

"A mix of old and new rifles, 2000 new rifles and 8000 old-fashioned rifles."

"Due to the inconvenience of transportation, my subordinates only brought 50 light artillery pieces and 80 tiger squat guns!"

Zhu Zhangui pinched his fingers to make the final calculation, and clapped his hands.

"Enough!"

He ordered to Li Hu and Hu Yu: "Call the manpower, let's go back and fight him again!"

After all, he is a good command of his subordinates.

The two didn't even raise any objections, saluted and turned around to gather the soldiers to line up and set off.

"What, it's back again, and it's still a large army?"

Just after finishing his speech, Alutai, who mobilized his subordinates' hatred, widened his eyes when he heard the spies' report.

When Zhu Zhangui retreated yesterday, in order to prevent the other party from turning around and messing with him again, Alutai sent spies to follow him from a distance.

Later, when he learned that the other party had returned to the border of Daming, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really afraid that his opponent would keep doing this.

There are still hundreds of miles to go to the border of Daming. If the opponent comes here from time to time, it is estimated that when they arrive at the place, the mental pressure of their group will reach the extreme.

But before he could catch his breath, the spies came back in a hurry and told him that the enemy had joined up with new troops after they reached the border, and they came back without any concealment, as if they were going to go straight to the fight.

Waving his hand to let the spies continue to investigate, Alutai pondered for a while, making up his decision that he had hesitated for a long time in his heart.

By the time Zhu Zhangui arrived with his men, Arutai's camp was almost fully set up.

"A prairie barbarian, the camp is well established!"

Looking at the layers of defensive measures, Zhu Zhangui praised with a smile, and then ordered the soldiers to camp at the selected place.

The positions where the two parties camped were facing each other across the air.

The two sides each occupied an unnamed hill, and in the middle was a wide open space of rocks, enough for 10,000+ legions to start a melee.

The batch of recruits under Zhu Zhangui deserved to be of peasant origin.

It may be close to letting them go into battle to kill people, but asking them to dig the ground to build a house is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Although the soil in winter was as frozen as a stone, it became much softer under the scorching of the flames.

And those boulders were blasted away one by one by the blasters from Shenji Battalion and became part of the fortification.

With a bang and bang, the men wielded their hoes and shovels and started working in full swing.

"Your Highness, let me fight. I haven't fought a land battle for a long time. My hands are itchy!"

on top of the mountain.

The three idiots were holding up binoculars and drinking the cold wind, looking at the tense and alert Tatars opposite.

Li Hu put down the binoculars, and begged Zhu Zhangui as if my big knife was already hungry and thirsty.

Zhu Zhangui gave him a blank look.

A naval commander always wants to grab the army's job. Did this guy get drunk from the sea breeze?

"Hu Yu told him what our combat mission is!"

Too lazy to talk to this guy, Zhu Zhangui raised his binoculars and continued to observe the opposite side.

Hu Yu said with a cold face that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

"Commander Li, our combat mission is to hold back the Tatar Army and buy time for the main force to encircle!"

Li Hu sighed regretfully.

As a veteran who has spent half his life fighting on the battlefield, he has transformed into a navy, sailing on the sea every day, and fighting at long distances, which makes him miss the days when he used knives to kill people.

"Notice to go down, dig another line of defense at the foot of the mountain."

"There are more Tatars than us, and Alutai also knows that we are stalling for time, and we may have to face each other's storm next."

"Yes!"

Zhu Zhangui was looking at the situation on the opposite side, and Arutai was also drinking cold wind on the top of the mountain, looking at the Ming army on the opposite side.

Looking from a distance, seeing that the opponent's Ming army had already started to build a defensive camp, Alutai knew in his heart that the opponent was planning to waste time with him.

"Teacher, how about I lead some people to hold them back, and you lead people to attack from other places."

Arutai's most valued young general, Mao Lihai, frowned when he saw Alutai looking at him.

Probably wanting to understand his thoughts, he made a suggestion that he thought was very good.

Alutai glanced at him and shook his head.

"late."

"If the Western Region Legion is still there, I will take your suggestion."

"But now we have less than 20 troops, and we are no longer a threat to Daming!"

"Everything we do now is just to make our future losses less ugly!"

The Maoli boy looked at Alutai in astonishment.

"You mean we will lose?"

Arutai sighed.

"From the moment the Oirats left, we had one foot in failure."

"If I choose to launch an attack after the beginning of spring when we go deep into the grassland, we still have a slight chance of winning."

"But I was in a hurry, thinking that it was impossible for the Ming army to come over so quickly, so I thought of taking the opportunity to take down Nuer Gandusi first."

"But I didn't expect the Ming army to be more ruthless. They marched directly in heavy snow, rushing over abruptly to hold us back."

"If I had chosen to retreat during the first ambush, we would still be on the favorable side."

"Unfortunately, my heart is still too urgent, thinking that the enemy's sneak attack force should not be large, and the large army can crush the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"but…"

Having said this, Alutai sighed again.

Ying Xiao from the Western Region Corps directly shattered his last hope of victory.

What he has to do now is to wait until Zhu Di arrives, have a negotiation with him, return to the original state of the two, continue to lurk and wait for the opportunity.

As for whether Zhu Di will agree, Alutai is not sure, but he thinks the other party may agree.

From ancient times to the present, the power of the grassland has always belonged to the grassland, and the Han people have never stopped here.

The retention of Tatar forces can also allow the Ming army to understand its opponents.

Once the Tatars are destroyed, the newly rising power will become Ming's new opponent, and it will still be an unknown and strange opponent.

It's just that all of this is Alutai's guess, and the specific result depends on Zhu Di's choice.

If the opponent chooses to fight.

Alutai is not a person who is afraid of getting into trouble.

The big deal is to fight to the death.

The Ming army wanted to exterminate the Tatars. Under the desperate resistance of the Tatars, tens of 10 people would not be able to succeed.

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured, and Zhu Di would definitely be so distressed that he would not be able to sleep.

This is no ordinary people, but the elite army of Ming Dynasty.

Daming has been killed and injured for so many decades, and he will definitely not be able to recover.

In addition, Alutai has a deeper idea in his heart.

That is, Zhu Di is not young anymore, and he may stop breathing and burp at any time.

He was still in his prime, so he decided to learn from Sima Yi and boil Zhu Di, a warlike guy, to death.

He also understood that the next emperor, Zhu Pangpang, was a benevolent and tolerant monarch. He always wanted to let the people recuperate, and he didn't want to start a war with the outside world.

Moreover, he attaches great importance to civil servants, and his relationship with generals is not very good.

An emperor who doesn't like war, and who attaches great importance to civil servants like the Song Dynasty, such an emperor grassland is his favorite.

As for the warlike emperor's grandson Zhu Zhangui.

Alutai didn't think a prince could influence the emperor's thoughts.

If the crown prince can influence the emperor, it would be too useless for him to be the emperor.

As the leader of a faction, Alutai also has his own son.

His son is also good, and he also put forward a lot of ideas, but Alutai only focuses on consideration and will never believe it easily.

If his son dared to jump around and tell him what to do, Alutai would seriously tell the kid who is the father.

The two sides stood at each other like this.

The battle did not break out on the second day, because a new heavy snow fell again.

The Ming army has a lot of firearms here, and this kind of weather is not suitable for combat.

Alutai didn't want to increase the casualties in vain, and reduce the weight of negotiating with Zhu Di in the future, so it didn't launch an attack.

As for logistics, Alutai is not afraid.

He has already sent people back to the grassland, and moved the base camp not far away here.

He is ready to fight to the death, it depends on how Zhu Di chooses when he arrives.

One day, two days, three days in a blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.

Zhu Zhangui squatted in the fortifications, looking at the opposite side who also looked desperately waiting, he kept muttering in his heart.

"Which thing happened to Alutai, and he just stopped moving here. Could it be that he couldn't guess what the old man was thinking?"

Then he shook his head and rejected the idea.

Alutai is not stupid, and the wisdom of a person who can become a hero is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Arutai can definitely see Zhu Zhangui's procrastination, and Arutai can guess the general plan of the old man.

If the spies hadn't confirmed that except for the departure of a few messengers, the main army of Alutai hadn't moved at all, and Zhu Zhangui really suspected that he had been tricked by the opponent.

"Your Highness, Nuer Gandusi's Guard Corps has arrived."

While Zhu Zhangui was observing the situation on the other side and trying to figure out what Alutai was thinking, Hu Yu walked out from the outside and came in to report the news of the arrival of the Nuer Gandu Division Guard Corps.

"Hmph, how fast they go!"

Zhu Zhangui snorted coldly and sarcastically.

My order had been issued years ago, but these guys didn't arrive until the beginning of March.

This is the result of Zhu Zhangui's continuous order and urging.

If there is no order to urge, Zhu Zhangui doubts that these guys will not arrive until the beginning of next spring.

"let them…"

"Woooooooo..."

Just as Zhu Zhangui was about to order the main generals of the opponent to come over and have a good exchange with him, a loud horn sounded suddenly from the opposite side.

Zhu Zhangui slammed down on the observation platform and looked opposite.

Teams of Tatar soldiers came out of the camp.

All infantry, no cavalry.

In the front row of soldiers are heavy shield soldiers carrying tower shields as tall as a person, and behind them are rows of heavy infantry and archers in iron armor.

The pikemen pressed on behind them, followed by densely packed ordinary light infantry.

Zhu Zhangui conservatively estimated that at least 5 people came out this round.

"Damn, it's finally out!"

Zhu Zhangui cursed secretly, and immediately ordered Hu Yu.

"Notify all the troops to enter the position, and send people to closely observe the situation of the Tatar camp, and report any abnormalities immediately!"

A soldier quickly entered the position.

The artillery position on the mountainside, the artillerymen pushed the artillery to the firing position.

In order to prevent the situation at Tianciguan from happening again, the artillery entered a fixed artillery position like a bunker.

The soldiers on the defense line were loading ammunition, and stared warily at the Tatar army that was overwhelmingly approaching from the opposite side.

The newly arrived Nuergandu Guards Corps drove directly to the rear of the defense line, ready to support the front at any time.

Zhu Zhangui said it.

After a while, the battle performance will be good, and the lateness will be written off.

If the battle performance is not good, the old account and the new account will be settled together.

There is no pre-battle call, no duel between generals.

The battle broke out after the Tatar forward troops stepped on the boundary marked by the Ming army.

ps: Today I sorted out the follow-up outline and thought about the follow-up ideas. I already have a simple idea. I will try it tomorrow and see if I can continue.

(End of this chapter)