If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 213 Sacrificing Heaven and Slaying the Dragon
Langjuxu Mountain is not far from Belan Huchanwen. Even if the army went there, it only took three or two days to reach the foot of the mountain.

Everyone in the Ming army was filled with great expectations and excitement regarding the matter of sealing the wolf to Xu.

This is Fenglang Juxu!The Han family has the best military exploits!This is the highest achievement a general can achieve since ancient times!
"Since ancient times, apart from the champions of the Han Dynasty, the only one who has led an army to this place is me, right?" Riding a horse on the top of Langjuxu Mountain, looking into the distance, Zhu Di couldn't help but feel proud. cloud.

Hearing what Zhu Di said, Zhu Zhanquan laughed in amusement and said: "If we talk about emperors, grandpa, you are the only emperor in the history of the ages who has won the title of Lang Juxu. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is one emperor throughout the ages."

Although there are various evaluations of the emperor of the ages, some say that Zhu Di is considered the emperor of the ages, while others say that he is not. There are also people who slander his five northern expeditions, calling them "team building" and "outings". .

What's even more shameless is that Zhu Di is a descendant of Mongolians and went to the grasslands to find his father. This is such a shameless statement.

But it still cannot be concealed that this emperor was the only emperor who led troops to the Langjuxu Mountain and Lake Baikal in the 500 years before the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the next 500 years to the present. Such martial arts have never been seen in history. !

When it comes to saying that there is only one emperor through the ages, Zhu Di definitely deserves it.

Kang Mazi, a later man of the Qing Dynasty, commented on Zhu Yuanzhang and said that he governed the country by ruling the Tang and Song Dynasties, while Zhu Di left a comment in history that was far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties.

In Chinese history, neither the Han Dynasty nor the Tang Dynasty had such a great advantage over the Huns or the Turks as the Ming Dynasty had over the Mongols. The Huns and the Turks could basically still engage in some battles with the armies of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

But in the Ming Dynasty, there was a situation where the Mongolian army was beaten to pieces by the Ming Dynasty army and fled. This was really a situation that had never happened since ancient times.

It can be said that it was Zhu Di's northern expedition to Mongolia that shattered the Mongolians' morale and the confidence and pride of the Mongolian cavalry that they had built up since the Genghis Khan era. Since then, the Mongols have never been able to become a major force.

Even if they were able to capture the useless prodigal son of Baozong later, they would never be able to sweep the world like their ancestors. They could only settle on the Mongolian grasslands, with no hope of spying on the Central Plains.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanchun's sentence "One emperor through the ages" is definitely a true evaluation from the heart.

"An emperor through the ages? I can't be counted. Compared with Tang Zong, Song Zu, Qin Emperor and Han Wu, I am not as good as them." Zhu Di seemed to feel that he was not as good as those ancient emperors, but he also had his own pride: " But just because I have fought here, even if future generations look down upon me, they should still have three respects when mentioning me."

"I'm afraid three points of respect is not enough. Our Ming Dynasty was civilized in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and our martial arts reached far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties. Future generations should have great respect for you when they mention Grandpa." At this time, Zhu Zhanquan thought of these two sentences that later generations would say about the Ming Dynasty. Then he placed it on Zhu Di.

Hearing Zhu Zhanchun's comment, Zhu Di burst out laughing, then tightened his grip on the riding crop in his hand, and first sighed in a low voice: "Feng the wolf to live in Xu, drink from the sea of ​​horses!"

Then he loudly ordered to the people around him: "Send the order to the whole army, build a platform of earth, I will go to the altar to worship the sky, and seal the wolf to live in Xu!"

"According to the order!" All the Ming army generals beside Zhu Di and the two brothers Zhu Zhanji and Zhu Zhanyu all clasped their fists and bowed, shouting in response.

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The emperor gave the order, and the army naturally moved accordingly, and a nine-foot high platform was quickly built.

Although the troops on this expedition did not carry any ritual vessels for offering sacrifices to the heavens, after Zhu Zhanquan took out a batch of bronze ritual vessels from the First Mountain on the spot, the preparations for the sacrifices to the heavens were completed.If you are worshiping heaven in the capital, there must be complicated etiquette.

Even if the emperor only ascended Mount Tai to enshrine the throne, the etiquette and regulations would be much more cumbersome than now.

However, the sealing of the wolf to Juxu has only happened once since ancient times. Huo Qubing only built an earthen platform and then offered sacrifices to the heaven and the earth. There was no etiquette passed down.

Not to mention his status as a general and a marquis back then, and there was still a level gap between him and the emperor.

Therefore, several generals in the army who knew a little bit about etiquette argued over what kind of etiquette should be used to seal the wolf's residence in Xu. In the end, Zhu Zhanqun made the decision and decided to use the method of sealing the wolf's residence to the heaven. Xu.

The big cauldron made of copper from Shoushan that Zhu Zhanqun took out was placed on the top of the high platform. Fireworks were set off to warn the heaven and earth. The descendants of the Han family worshiped God Haotian and the ancestors of the Zhu family here. The Ming army attacked Here, sacrifices are made to the gods and ancestors.

Zhu Di himself stood in the position of worship, knelt before the makeshift shrine, offered incense, and prayed sincerely.

A sacrificial message written on yellow silk was thrown into the cauldron and burned to present the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth. The jade bis and other sacrifices were enshrined in front of the shrine. The emperor personally offered wine and meat to God Haotian and the ancestors of the Zhu family. worship.

Along with their emperor, the 10,000+ Ming troops in the audience knelt on the ground and prayed sincerely to the heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, asking God to continue to bless the Ming Dynasty.

As the ceremonial officer presiding over the ceremony, Zhu Zhanquan was guiding Zhu Di to sacrifice to heaven. At the same time, he was also initiating the ritual he had arranged in advance, extracting the dragon energy from the earth veins that the dragon girl had told him before.

As the ritual started, the dragon energy of the grassland people here that had been accumulated since the ancient Qin and Han Dynasties was extracted, and condensed into an earthy yellow horned dragon above the altar.

Seeing this horned dragon, Zhu Zhanquan immediately loudly said to Zhu Di: "This is the dragon vein of the northern grassland people since the time of the Xiongnu. I respectfully ask my emperor to kill this dragon vein and end the fate of the northern grassland people!"

Zhu Di didn't know why, and was still shocked by the appearance of the horned dragon. But when he heard what Zhu Zhankun said, he without hesitation pulled out a sword that Zhu Zhankun had given him before the ceremony, and pointed it at the horned dragon in the sky. It was a false cut with a sword.

Immediately, the horned dragon's head was chopped off and rolled straight into the cauldron on the high platform.

"Congratulations to my emperor, congratulations to my emperor for slaying this evil dragon and ending the luck of the grassland!" Zhu Zhanquan took the opportunity to shout loudly, and the 10,000+ Ming troops below the high platform also cheered loudly.

Zhu Di still didn't know what the scene was about at this moment, but his instinct as a commander and emperor made him turn around immediately, raised the sword he had just used to slay the dragon in front of the 10,000+ army, and shouted loudly: "The Ming Dynasty is mighty. !”

Following Zhu Di's cry, the khaki dragon body without its head in the air immediately turned into a stream of light and converged on Zhu Di's sword, dyeing the entire sword golden.

The 10,000+ Ming troops immediately cheered loudly: "The Ming Dynasty is mighty! The Emperor is mighty!"

(End of this chapter)