Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 791: The main confrontation in the Hetao before and after the Mongolian army entered the surrender city

Since he wanted to be an ancestor, Zhu Qiyu became more and more interested in imitating Taizu in raising major cases. Using a major case, we will brutally kill a group of corrupt officials across the country, and at the same time cleanse the remnants of the Xuande and Yuanshou cliques.

Once the previous officials were purged, there would be reason to promote the Jinshi from the Jingtai Dynasty to higher levels.

But thinking back, according to the experience of the Hongwu Dynasty, important ministers like Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, and Lan Yu were needed to serve as introductions.

While Zhu Qiyu was living happily at home, Agabarji had led his army to the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain.

This grassland between Yinshan Mountain and the Yellow River roughly belongs to Houhetao.

The Ming army did not offer any resistance and simply abandoned this area.

Agabarji led 30,000 elite troops and reluctantly settled in the surrendered city.

There are three surrender cities in the Hetao area north of the Yellow River.

The westernmost surrender city where Agabarji settled in was built in the Western Han Dynasty to accept the surrender of the Xiongnu Commander Zuo. It was also the only 'surrender city' that was actually used for surrender.

Although Meng Yuan was not a Huns, they were still what Ming Dynasty called barbarians. It was strange that they liked the name Shoujiang City.

During the Jingtai Dynasty, Xihoujiang City was rebuilt, but now the Ming army did not defend it and abandoned the city and ran away, leaving Agabarji very confused.

It’s normal to say this is normal, and it’s not normal to say it’s abnormal.

At that time, he also invaded Shanxi first. Yang Hong's son Yang Jun, together with other generals, threw away more than ten cities such as Dushi and Maying without reporting to the court.

As a result, the orthodox emperor became Emperor Yuanshou.

According to this analogy, it is normal for the Ming army to directly abandon the loophole and run away.

Agabarji took his young masters Hutuketu, Wulingha and others to discuss whether to cross the Yellow River.

Wu Lingha, when Tuotuo Buhua was the Great Khan, served as a special envoy and went to Beijing many times to establish a secret agreement with Emperor Jingtai of the Ming Dynasty. After Ye Xian was defeated, Tuotuo Buhua sent him to pay tribute many times, so Wu Lingha was one of the Mongolians who had the deepest understanding of the Ming Dynasty.

Agabalji resisted the urge to eradicate the problem and instead entrusted Wu Lingha with an important task.

Wu Lingha also reciprocated the favor and actively made suggestions for the new Khan. Agabarji's original intention was to attack Ningxia, but under Wu Lingha's persuasion, he slightly changed his strategic direction.

Because the Yellow River flowing through Houhetao has extremely slow water flow, many rivers are scattered here.

It is most suitable to build a boat to cross the river from here.

The strategy proposed by Wu Lingha was to use Shoujiang City as the base camp and send the main force across the Yellow River to attack. It's best if you can make achievements, and if you are frustrated, quickly retreat.

Agabalji is very worried about this: "We can advance and retreat, and it is safe, but we go back and forth in the East and West Hetao.

The coalition forces we finally invited from several great khanates were not here to play games with us.

If tomorrow the emperor breaks the jar and cannot shrink out, then we will be hung in mid-air.

Anyway, no matter what, I will not rush into the hinterland of Shanxi again. There are definitely traps there. "

Wu Lingha persistently persuaded Agabarji: "There is news from Beijing that the emperor has been increasing his troops to Dongsheng recently, transporting large quantities of grain, grass, baggage, artillery and horses, in order to maintain at least an army of more than 100,000 people for a year's operations.

Moreover, a duke and a great scholar were sent to Dongsheng to command the troops.

Based on my understanding of the emperor, he will never do useless things, and he will definitely fight our army decisively. "

Hutuktu, the young master next to him, put forward a different view: "The emperor of tomorrow gathered a large number of troops in Dongsheng, maybe to imitate their Taizu and Taizong, and to attack our hometown."

Wu Lingha immediately denied this statement: "We have assembled two to three hundred thousand coalition troops on the western front. The Ming army dared to attack Hara and Lin from thousands of miles away from the east. The death of a Duke and the fourth Marquis of Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty in the battle was a lesson." In the Shanxi Battle of the First Grand Master, nearly 100,000 Ming troops were killed at Yanghekou and Yao'erling. As a result, the Ming army's combat power was greatly reduced, and then there was the Tumu Fort Incident.

If the Ming Army's 100,000-strong army in Dongsheng City were destroyed, wouldn't they be on the same path as the original Battle of Shanxi?

If he was besieged in the capital again, Emperor Jingtai would also lose his prestige. "

Hutuktu asked again: "What if the Ming army goes to capture the two lakes of Hulunbuir and the surrounding grasslands?"

"Then they should send troops from Kaiping nearby. Why are they gathering so many troops in Dongsheng?"

Hutuktu was choked and speechless.

Wu Lingha added: “Only when the main force crosses the Yellow River can the Ming army be attracted to surround our army and organize a decisive battle.

After we let the reinforcements from the khanates in the west capture Hami, they pretended to attack Gansu and Ningxia, but actually came here to rendezvous.

We join forces together, with 200,000 cavalry, to hunt down the main force of the Ming army, and decide the outcome in one battle. "

The other generals were all excited when they heard this, but Agabarji and Hutuktu frowned and remained silent.

I always feel that the war cannot be so simple.

The Yellow River is in the shape of a "ji". In the northwest corner of the word "ji", there is Agabarji's 100,000 Mongolian and Yuan cavalry; in the northeast corner, there are 100,000 Ming troops commanded by Xu Yongning and He Yi.

The main force for the war is already there, but where to choose the battlefield still requires repeated testing by both sides.

……

April 11, morning.

Wu'an Hou Liu Chang and his wife were walking back and forth at the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion while chatting.

More than a thousand Yingzhou guards also stood at the gate with them.

Wang Ying said with a smile: "Our Holy Majesty is really doting on these empresses. They just come to the gate, and they have to be guarded by more than a thousand personal soldiers. This does not count, our dignified Marquis Wu'an also has to Act as a bodyguard myself.”

"What do you know? With the capital being so chaotic recently, these empresses are the most likely targets of treacherous villains. If something goes wrong, we won't have to live.

Besides, don't look down on the guards. Others want to be the guards for the empress, but they don't want them.

Only Conglong heroes like me, who came from the old Prince Qi's palace and participated in the killing of civil servants at Fengtianmen, are qualified to serve as guards for the empress. "

While the two were chatting, Wang Lin led a hundred personal guards and walked out of the door surrounded by Lin Xiangyu and Ningxiang.

After the few people had finished the ceremony and chatted for a while, a group of personal guards escorted the carriage of the leader of Yongchang slowly approaching.

The carriage stopped at the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion, and a beautiful and quiet middle-aged woman stepped out of the carriage.

Lin Xiangyu and Ningxiang hurriedly stepped forward to help him from left to right.

After bowing respectfully, Lin Xiangyu apologized to Princess Yongchang: "It's all my fault for causing my aunt to suffer all these years. My mother and husband are also feeling very uncomfortable these days. How could I let my aunt suffer so much?"

Princess Yongchang smiled and waved her hand, pointed at her mouth, then took Lin Xiangyu's hand and patted it, indicating that she was mute and could not blame others.

(End of this chapter)