People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 453: The Ming army wiped out tens of thousands of aliens with only one hundred casualties! !
Seeing that no one was talking, Zhu Di was not polite and shouted, "Execute!"

Just as the executioners were about to raise their knives to cut off the men's heads, a man suddenly ran over from the parade ground below.

“Your Highness, although it may seem very rude of me to say this, I still have to say that the Horqin grassland tribe has just surrendered and has lost three leaders one after another. If these leaders are also beheaded, even if all the soldiers dare not resist now, there is no guarantee that they will not resist in the future.

Therefore, in order for these soldiers to be of use to the Ming Dynasty in the future, I would like to ask you to show some mercy."

This old man is truly a rare cultured person among the Mongolians. He even knows how to speak in a very elegant way.

But not many people appreciated what he said.

Because many people think this is really shameful.

This old man is now over seventy years old, and his background is not simple.

He actually served as an official in the Yuan Dynasty court at that time, which made him one of the few educated people.

Now seeing this situation, he immediately stood up.

After hearing his words, Zhu Di was stunned for a moment.

Yao Guangxiao next to him said, "According to what you said, whether or not to punish those who disobey military law depends on their status."

Yao Guangxiao was also very powerful: "Since you are also a well-educated and polite person, don't you know that a prince who breaks the law is guilty of the same crime as a commoner? Not to mention that these four people attacked in the middle of the night just for revenge, and the one they retaliated against was your leader, isn't that adding crime to crime?"

The old man was speechless after hearing this.

Then he made another plea: "Your Highness, the incident has already happened. Please spare the lives of the leaders because we have surrendered."

The four leaders who had just finished speaking also began to beg for mercy.

"Your Highness, we were just excited at the moment and didn't think about anything else. Please spare our lives for the sake of our first offense."

"Your Highness, please spare your life!"

"Your Highness, if you can spare our lives, we are willing to pay any price."

"Yes, Your Highness. We are still of some use. If Your Highness can spare our lives, we will definitely repay you."

Zhu Di doesn't need their reward.

The most important thing now is how to take these people's lives.

Now these people are a considerable threat to him as long as they are alive.

Only when these leaders are dead can Zhu Di truly rule the country.

From then on, these surrendered Mongolian Tartars, without a leader, could only be slaughtered by themselves.

Zhu Di then said with a smile: "My fellow warriors, I know that many of you want them alive, but I want to ask you one question, what is a true warrior? Is it to attack the unarmed leader with a dagger in the middle of the night?"

The warriors below immediately changed their expressions when they heard this.

Zhu Di had led troops in battles for many years and he knew very well what the soldiers charging into battle on the battlefield cared about most.
Death is not very important to them.

But the face issue is something they are very concerned about.

Maybe educated people can't understand it.

Why would some soldiers risk their lives just to save their reputation?

Because for a real soldier, death is just a matter of time, but face will always be remembered.

If you do something cowardly, it may be remembered by countless people even after you die.

When you meet this kind of people in the future, you will become an example for others to teach others a lesson.

Therefore, soldiers would rather die than be looked down upon.

With such stimulation from Zhu Di, the soldiers below immediately became excited.

"Your Highness, please kill them. We can't afford to lose face."

"Chief, if you are truly our leader, you should die with your head held high."

"I'm really ashamed for you. How can you still have a reason to live after doing such a disgusting thing?"

"If it were me, I would have just hanged myself somewhere alone."

The soldiers became more and more excited as they spoke.

Upon hearing this, the four leaders turned pale.

Then someone else shouted, "Mr. Haji, please don't beg for mercy for these people. If they are really our leaders, they should understand that dying like this is the way to be a real man."

"If you are really our leader, then die bravely and don't let us look down on you."

"Yes! Go to hell!"

"Go to hell! Don't let us look down on you!"

"If you are a man, you should challenge them to a duel. It won't be shameful even if you die under their sword."

"You will gain nothing by doing this except being looked down upon by us."

"That's right! Go to hell!"

The four leaders' faces turned even paler as they listened to what the soldiers said.

Finally, one of the leaders couldn't stand it anymore.

"Come on! Cut me down! I also think this is a cowardly thing to do."

Zhu Di looked at Haji.

"Old man, you should respect their choice!"

"Execution!!"

Zhu Di no longer hesitated and directly ordered the four men to be beheaded.

The executioner did not hesitate at all and chopped off the heads of the four men with a single blow of his knife.

dong dong dong...

The four heads were cut off smoothly.

hissing...

Blood was spilled.

Many people who saw this scene were stunned.

I never thought that something like this would actually happen.

This is our leader.

He died just like that.

And he died at the hands of the Ming army.

Really dead!

Died at everyone's hands.

The whole place was silent!

Deathly silence!

From now on, all the leaders of the tribes on the Khorchin grassland were wiped out.

From now on, who will you listen to?

They looked at Zhu Di who was on the high platform.

Some smart people have already sensed that something is wrong.

Although they knew that this matter was their leader's fault from beginning to end, it seemed that Prince Zhu Di did not play a good role in it.

Could it be that Zhu Di did this on purpose to provoke himself and others?

Now that they were leaderless, they could only obey them. And the situation was just as some smart people had expected.

Next, Zhu Di cleverly began to gradually divide the tens of thousands of people in the Khorchin grassland tribes, and soon a number of thousand households appeared.

These thousand households were not good people to begin with.

After being won over by Zhu Di, he immediately surrendered to Zhu Di.

With the continuous division, and the fact that these more than 40,000 elite troops were assigned to Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, and many were incorporated into Zhu Di's army, these more than 40,000 people were finally divided without even a splash, and many of them never saw each other again.

Zhu Di then set out smoothly all the way and rushed to the Khorchin grassland tribe.

Zhu Di moved all the people and cattle and sheep away and took them directly to the vicinity of Beiping Prefecture.

The construction of the Ming Dynasty now requires human resources everywhere, and these tens of thousands of people and cattle and sheep are quite abundant resources.

All the people and cattle and sheep along the way for thousands of miles were plundered by Zhu Di and brought to the vicinity of Beiping Prefecture.

If it was before, they would definitely find it difficult to digest, but now they don’t dislike it at all.

Moreover, Zhu Di also spread the word along the way that any surrendered personnel would be given reasonable arrangements, with food and accommodation guaranteed, and that cities and railways would be built on the grassland in the future.

If you surrender now, you may be assigned to the vicinity of Peking Prefecture, but it won't be long before you can return to your hometown by steam train, and at that time you will have enough money to support your retirement.

This kind of propaganda has achieved very good results, especially now that the Ming army has achieved an absolute victory in this war, it has made all the grassland tribes see how powerful the Ming army is.

So as Zhu Di and his army returned triumphantly, people from tribes along the way continued to join them.

So Zhu Di and his entourage originally set out with 40,000 people, but they accepted more than 40,000 surrendered soldiers. Together with the civilians who surrendered along the way, the total number was as high as 200,000.

When they arrived outside the Beiping Prefecture, the Han people were shocked when they saw this huge team.

Zhu Di first sold the spoils of war, cattle and sheep, to local merchants at very cheap prices, and then immediately arranged various cattle and sheep trades, allowing the people who surrendered to sell their cattle and sheep and obtain capital to settle down.

Then they were arranged to join the team building the railway.

These herdsmen are not good at farming, so it is best to let them work.

When the herders heard that they could get paid, they were overjoyed.

Although it is quite cold in Beiping, it is much warmer than the grassland.

And when they got here, they found that although Beiping Prefecture was also very cold, it was better than many places in one respect.

That is, this place is very close to coal-producing areas such as Shanxi and Henan, so coal is quite cheap, and using coal for heating is a very common thing in Beiping Prefecture.

Their wages were not only enough to cover their expenses but also to buy enough coal for heating.

Although they have no idea that their wages are actually much less than those of the locals, it is already very good for these herders.

……

Beijing.

When there was no news of victory in the war at the front, the civil servants in the court began to worry.

This is an old tradition since ancient times.

Civilians have never been optimistic about the war ahead.

I always feel that this is a waste of time and money.

Of course the most important thing is that soldiers die in battle and civil officials die in remonstration. Civil officials have nothing to do with war, so they don't like it very much.

But negotiation is the strong point of civil servants.

And it is also the thing that can make them most meritorious.

So some civil servants made sarcastic remarks in the court.

"Your Highness, I believe that war is a great misfortune for the world. The people suffer greatly from it, the fields are barren, and the people are living in misery. Therefore, I implore Your Highness to put aside his warlike heart and value peace, so that our dynasty can be guaranteed long-term stability."

"Master Li's words are just those of a scholar. The dangers on the border are like wolves, tigers and leopards. If our dynasty shows weakness, won't it allow the foreign enemies to make further advances?"

"Lord Lan is right, but the disaster of war is not caused overnight. If our dynasty can resolve the dispute through diplomatic means, wouldn't it be the best strategy? It can not only preserve the peace of the people, but also show the benevolence of our dynasty."

Chen Han stood up and asked: "Where is Lord Li from?"

Lord Li replied: "I am from Tiantai, Zhejiang!"

"You can live frugally in Jiangnan, but have you ever thought about what will happen to the people in the border areas? If the imperial court does not strike hard at the northern foreign races, the people in the border areas will be slaughtered by them. What you say is just the opinion of a corrupt scholar!!"

After hearing what Chen Han said, many officials immediately lowered their heads.

Crown Prince Zhu Biao sat on the dragon throne. After hearing the discussion below, he said, "What Minister Chen said is very true. During the war, the people in the wealthy areas of Jiangnan were able to live frugally. However, if the people in the border areas did not have the support of the powerful court, they would have no choice but to be slaughtered by foreign races."

The civil officials still refused to give up: "Your Highness, we just want to say that once the war starts, it will waste people's money and money, and fighting against the northern nomadic peoples has never achieved much."

If Zhu Yuanzhang were here, he would definitely be very unhappy. Who the hell are you alluding to?

Because Zhu Yuanzhang's many northern expeditions were actually a waste of money and manpower and did not achieve much results.

Of course, it frightened the scoundrels, but in the eyes of these civil servants it had no effect at all.

What they call victory in war must be how many enemies they kill.

Just when they thought that Zhu Di's efforts were in vain, the soldiers outside who came to report the victory came running over.

"Report! Good news from Peking!"

"At the cost of 172 casualties, our army annihilated more than 70,000 nomadic tribesmen in the north and captured 43,200 people, including the father and son of the great leader of the Korchin grassland, four leaders, countless captains of thousands and tens of thousands, and recruited more than 120,000 civilians along the way, and seized countless cattle, sheep and horses!!!"

boom! ! !
When this battle report reached the court, everyone present was shocked.

Oh my god, what kind of damage ratio is this?

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who had fought wars all his life, did not dare to say that he could annihilate an enemy army of more than 100,000 with a casualty ratio of over 100.

This is a bit too powerful.

The civil servants murmured to themselves: "That's impossible, the casualties must have been falsely reported!"

"Yes! They must have falsely reported casualties!!"

……

When the news reached Yingtian Prefecture, the entire capital was shocked.

After all, this victory is unprecedented for the Ming Dynasty.

In previous years, it was difficult to achieve such a victory in wars heading north.

One reason is that there was not such convenient transportation in previous years and logistics could not be guaranteed.

Many times the reason why the war on the front line is not going well is often because food and fodder are not delivered in time, which leads to unstable morale among the soldiers.

Secondly, there were no such good weapons and equipment in previous years.

Now that we have fully replaced our troops with muskets, we will be even more powerful in the battle against the Mongolian Tartars in the north.

"You've heard that our Ming Dynasty won a great victory in the north. With only a few hundred casualties, we wiped out tens of thousands of northern Mongolian Tartars. We also captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners."

"So amazing!" Everyone was shocked when they heard it.

You should know that the news of this military expedition has spread throughout the capital.

Many people said that they were a bit overconfident in bringing only 40,000 people this time, and they might suffer losses.

But I didn't expect that with such a small number of people, we could achieve such fruitful results.

Just this one time, it inspired countless people.

"I never thought that our Ming army has become so powerful."

"Who said it wasn't true? When our Ming army marched north, everyone was worried that it would waste the people's money. But now they are fighting so well. It's amazing."

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(End of this chapter)