Starting from Comprehensive Martial Arts: Bu Dao Lu

Chapter 263 Northwest Grassland

Precisely because of the horror of the "Dragon Martial Sutra", Emperor Hongwu was extremely cautious in arranging the "Dragon Martial Sutra".

In the current Ming Dynasty royal family, apart from Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Xiaokang, and the kings of Qin, Jin, Yan, and Zhou Zhou, only the crown prince Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Shangbing, Zhu Jixi, and Zhu Gaochi, the four nominal disciples of Zhu Qi, are allowed to practice.

In addition, a few days ago, Emperor Hongwu, after discussing with Emperor Xiaokang, approved three princes, King Zhu Zhen of Chu, King Zhu Su of Qi, and King Zhu Zi of Tan, who were close to Zhu Qi and had achieved great success, to study the "Long Wu Jing".

Now, the strength of the Ming royal family is as fast as the territory of the Ming Empire.

With the "Dragon Martial Scripture" in hand, the Ming Dynasty royal family will definitely not lack land gods in the future.

Zhu Qi was happy to see the growth in strength of the royal family of the Ming Empire.

Zhu Qi did not mind supporting the Ming Empire as long as it did not threaten his own security and interests.

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In a few days!
The prince's car finally left Bianjing and headed towards the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

News came from the imperial capital that the emperor had begun to retreat.If the emperor goes into seclusion, the emperor's dragon disappears, and the prince who supervises the country also stays away from the imperial capital, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty will never agree to it.

The prince's departure had no impact on the war on the grassland.

Now, Wei Guogong unified the command of the Western Expedition army, advancing step by step, constantly squeezing the living space of the Khitan Empire and the Jin Empire.

The fate of the grassland is doomed.

In fact, the five grassland countries had already made speculations about the disappearance of the imperial land gods, but no matter how they guessed, they would never have thought that the five land gods had fallen in the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Even Nurhaci, who personally experienced the Imperial Capital War, could not be sure of the life and death of the five land gods, let alone outsiders?
Precisely because they did not know the situation of the five land gods, the Khitan Empire and the Dajin Empire, which had no land gods to rely on, were always less confident and timid in the face of the Ming Empire's army.

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Xiaokang 12 years.

The Khitan Empire and the Jin Empire were successfully annexed by the Ming Empire and became the northwest grassland of the Ming Empire.

After the Ming Empire occupied half of the territory of the western grasslands, its huge territory and vast national power almost made the Yuan Empire and the Qing Empire breathless.

However, when the Ming Empire annexed the northwest grasslands and destroyed the Three Grassland Kingdoms, both the Yuan Empire and the Qing Empire remained silent.There is no plan to send troops to intervene.

No one knows what the two great steppe empires are thinking.
But the anomalies in the Qing Empire and the Yuan Empire made the Ming Empire extremely vigilant.

Therefore, after the Western Expeditionary Army destroyed the Khitan Empire and the Jin Empire, Duke Wei quickly handed over the territories of the two countries to the King of Jin and the King of Yan for guarding and governance.

Then, the Western Expeditionary Army quickly moved south, crossed the grassland, and joined the border army led by Cao Guogong on the border of the Yuan Empire.

For a time, the Great Yuan Empire was in turmoil and large armies gathered.

In the northern grasslands of the Great Yuan Empire, the Western Expeditionary Army was like Mount Tai pressing down on the Chenjun Grassland, staring across the north with eager eyes.

In the east of the Great Yuan Empire, Chang Yuchun, who has long been sharpening his sword, is personally stationed at the eastern border of the Great Yuan Empire, ready to make a move.The imperial army's Northern Expedition and Western Expedition were so vigorous that Chang Yuchun, a warmonger, had long been exhausted.

If it weren't for Zhu Qi's strict order, Chang Yuchun would have started a war on the border of the Yuan Empire.

Although there are large armies gathered around the Yuan Empire, Zhu Qi has no plans to fight with the Yuan Empire now.The Ming Empire annexed four countries in two years. Although its achievements were brilliant, the northern and northwest grasslands still had to rule stably.

Therefore, Zhu Qi's order to Xu Da and Chang Yuchun was to avoid major wars and conduct large-scale, small-scale surprise battles.

Xixia Empire, Khitan Empire, Jin Empire and Song Empire.There are many military forces left over from the Four Kingdoms, as well as forces that disobey the Ming Empire's rule.

Although the Ming Empire did not hesitate to kill, Zhu Qi was not willing to kill meaninglessly in order to rule the new territory with long-term peace and stability.As a result, these military forces were reorganized by the Ming Empire to contribute to the expansion of the empire's territory.

This method actually works extremely well.

For example, after the original military power in the territory of the Song Dynasty, after the Western Expedition to the Three Kingdoms on the Grassland, countless Xiang army, forbidden army, border army, and bandit soldiers who made military exploits became the most loyal supporters of the Ming Empire.Now, many of the lowest-level managers in the Northern Territory come from these soldiers who have made military exploits.

This method can not only strengthen the Ming Dynasty's military power, but also transform the unstable factors in the new territory. Therefore, the entire Ming Empire strongly agrees with this policy.

The only disadvantage of this policy is that it costs a lot of money and food to reorganize the old army.But this little money and food was nothing in the eyes of the Ming Empire, which owned half of China and half of the western grasslands.

Zhu Qi asked Xu Da and Chang Yuchun to maintain high-frequency attacks on the Yuan Empire, which was consuming the old armies of the four countries.

The attitude of the Ming Empire towards the old army is clear from the results of the Song soldiers.Although the Ming Empire's intentions are obvious, the old armies of the four countries are not disgusted with it, and even agree with and yearn for it.

The politics of the Ming Empire were clear and clear, and the path for ordinary people to rise was extremely smooth.But the four countries are different. Taking these old armies as an example, it is very difficult for them to obtain promotion rewards as ordinary soldiers.Even if they make great achievements, the credit will be divided among their superiors, and the benefits will never fall into their hands.

The Ming Empire was different. The military merits of the Ming army were clearly written. If a soldier made a military merit, the military documents and the Governor's Office of the Fifth Army would review it many times. If a soldier had any doubts about the military merit, the review of the military merit would be handed over immediately.

In addition to being fair and strict in reviewing military merits, the Ming Empire also provided extremely generous arrangements for meritorious soldiers and their families.

Countless soldiers of the Song Dynasty who have made great achievements on the grassland battlefield are now living a very prosperous life.

Precisely because of the Ming Empire's generous treatment, even if the old armies of the four countries knew that the Ming Empire arranged them as cannon fodder, they would not complain much.After all, a fair and just opportunity is rare in the entire Chinese continent.

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Zhu Qi was extremely cautious about the Yuan Empire and the Qing Empire.

The first is the border between the Qing Empire and the Ming Empire. Zhu Qi transferred Jingjiang King Zhu Wenzheng to take charge.Moreover, Zhu Wenzheng was supplemented with a large number of soldiers and horses to keep him on guard against the Qing Empire.

On the Yuan Empire side, Wei Guogong Xu Da unified command of the Western Expedition Army and Chang Yuchun's border army.

Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong, three great master-level commanders, arranged dozens of troops and horses from the north and east directions of the Yuan Empire and started the offensive.

The grassland strategy of the Ming Empire is still to go north and then south, first to deal with the Yuan Empire, and then to destroy the Qing Empire.

At the end of the 12th year of Xiaokang's reign, the northern and eastern fronts of the Ming Empire had penetrated three hundred miles into the Yuan Empire.

But the strange thing is that although the defenders on the two fronts of the Dayuan Empire resisted fiercely, the elite soldiers and horses of the Dayuan Empire did not appear on the battlefield.

As old rivals of the Yuan Empire, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun are very vigilant!

As the overlord of the western grasslands, the Yuan Empire firmly suppressed the Qing Empire. The combat power of its army, the cohesion of the people, and the courage of the empire's top officials were all very terrifying.

(End of this chapter)