The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 413 The world is shocked
March of the tenth year of Zhengde.

The little Mongolian prince personally led 100,000 cavalrymen to conquer the right wing of Mongolia entrenched in the Hetao area, intending to achieve success in one battle. If the conquest is successful, a unified Mongolia will appear on the grassland!

Tang Hao, Marquis of Zhongshan in the Ming Dynasty, led his army to conquer Liaodong. After sweeping away the barbarians entrenched in Liaodong, he fought his way into Daning from the Liaoxi Corridor, and then marched to Kaiping. Wherever he passed, he slaughtered countless people, leaving no one alive.

An Guo, the Earl of Jinglu in the Ming Dynasty, led his army to conquer the Hetao area, supported the right wing of Mongolia and fought against the left wing of Mongolia, achieving considerable results.

Later, Marquis Zhongshan and Earl Jinglu joined forces and united with the right-wing Mongolians to fight against the left-wing army. The two sides fought at the foot of Yinshan Mountain. Marquis Zhongshan Tang Hao coordinated the overall situation and annihilated 50,000 left-wing Mongolian troops in one battle, captured the little Mongolian prince alive, and wiped out the decline of the dynasty!
After the imperial court received the news, it immediately publicized the urgent military information and dispatched a large group of postmen to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, with the intention of bringing this great victory to sweep away the Ming Dynasty's decline and bring about a new beginning!
And in fact, this is true.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's national power declined and it was no longer able to go out of the border to eliminate the Mongolian threat. It went from actively going out of the border to passively accepting attacks, which resulted in the Mongolian Tartars marching straight in, looting, harassing, burning, killing, robbing, and committing all kinds of atrocities. The soldiers and civilians in the border towns have suffered from the northern barbarians for a long time.

During the Hongzhi reign, a brave and warlike little Mongolian prince appeared on the grassland. He harassed the border and killed countless people all year round. The Ming army was weak and dared not to meet the enemy, causing the military and civilians all over the world to turn pale at the mention of the Tartars, which caused unrest among the people.

With the news of this great victory, peace was instantly restored.

No amount of human unrest could be as great as the nearly annihilation of the 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, or the capture of the little Mongolian prince!

The name of Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao also became famous throughout the world as the Ming Dynasty court made a big fuss about this battle!
After all, the threat from the northern barbarians has troubled the Ming Dynasty for decades!
Especially the military towns in the northern border areas, they feared the Tartars like a tiger!
The number of Tartars is less than a thousand, but more than a thousand is invincible. This has become an unbreakable curse in the disastrous defeats of the Ming army day after day and year after year!
But now, this curse has been shattered by this incredible victory!
Just like Han Fu, the Liaodong general commander who was stationed in Liaodong and was still cleaning up the battlefield, after receiving the news of this great victory, he was stunned for a long time and had not yet come to his senses.

The Mongol main force was completely annihilated?
Mongolian Dayan Khan was captured alive?
Are you kidding me?
Isn't this a fantasy?
Han Fu seemed to have some doubts about his life.

After all, there is a huge disparity in the military strength between the two sides. The Marquis of Zhongshan has at most 30,000 Beijing troops under his command, while Dayan Khan has 100,000 cavalry under his command!
This does not include the slave auxiliary troops!
But, we won just like that!

Thirty thousand soldiers against one hundred thousand cavalry!

Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao not only won, but also captured Mongolian Dayan Khan alive!

What a brilliant and glorious victory!
Han Fu recalled the behavior of the Marquis of Zhongshan and could not help feeling very happy, so he drank heavily.

"It is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty to have this Marquis of Zhongshan!"

Xianning Marquis Qiu Yue was very melancholy at this moment.

Because he seemed to have made a wrong choice.

When Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao was assassinated and fell into a coma, a group of Beijing army generals such as Tang Mu, An Guo and others were furious and led the Beijing army soldiers to mutiny. Qiu Yue did not participate in it, but instead tried to stop Tang Mu, An Guo and others.

The end result was that he was kicked out of the circle of military nobles in Beijing.

After Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao regained consciousness, he immediately resigned from his position as commander-in-chief of the Beijing Army and recommended Qiu Yue instead.

But precisely because he sat in this position, Qiu Yue could no longer go into battle and could only be placed on a platform in the court like a mascot, fighting with civil officials and gentry.

He was born a frontier general, and he hates these court factional struggles more than anyone else!

If you have this much free time, you might as well just fight the Tartars!
However, Marquis Zhongshan did not take him with him. Even Guo Xun, the useless Marquis Dingyuan who was neither good at literature nor martial arts, could have supervised the transportation of food and grass and done the logistics work, but Qiu Yue was left idle in disguise.

Looking at the terrified gentry from the south of the Yangtze River in front of him, Qiu Yue looked towards the northern border with disappointment.

The little Mongolian prince was captured alive and the main Mongolian force was wiped out in one battle, which meant that there would be no more war for the next twenty years.

When Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao returned to the court with this great achievement, it was time for Qiu Yue to return the position of the commander-in-chief of the Beijing Army.

How melancholy!

"Spare my life!" "General, spare my life!"

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are still crying.

Qiu Yue was already upset, and now he was even more upset.

"killed!"

The whole world was shaken and the court was in panic!
The Ming capital, which was originally undercurrents, suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

The chief minister of the cabinet, Yang Tinghe, and the minister of rites, Zhu Youlang, also found the stolen grain very smoothly, so smoothly that it was almost unbelievable.

Of course, in this process, all the officials of the four major granaries were massacred, and Xu Mengchun, Hu Wenchang and others had already been captured by the Jinyiwei. What awaits them will be... the execution of their entire family!
The granary theft case came to an end, and the recovered grain was quickly sent to the disaster area for disaster relief.

The case is over, but new problems arise.

That is the question of rewards for this battle.

How should Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao and the meritorious soldiers under his command be rewarded?

It is undeniable that the current military nobles in Beijing have long been a complete behemoth, which has indeed made the civil officials and gentry feel strongly threatened.

Whether it is the aversion to military generals interfering in politics, the infringement of their own interests, or the worry about military generals bringing disaster to the country...both publicly and privately, there are too many things that cannot be said.

After all, this time, Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao captured the little Mongolian prince alive. He is the legitimate Mongolian Khan!

Not to mention after the Tumu Campaign, even before the Tumu Campaign, Emperor Yongle had never captured the Mongol Khan alive!

This is an unimaginable and tremendous achievement!

How should the reward be given?

Rewards are obviously unavoidable.

No matter how many ideas the court officials had, they could only hold their noses and discuss how to reward the heroes of this war.

After all, if the imperial court does not reward such great achievements, what prestige does it have?

Not to mention that Emperor Zhu Houzhao also used a shady trick. On the night the victory report arrived in Beijing, he asked the Ministry of Public Administration to spread the news of the victory throughout the world!

So now the whole Ming Dynasty knows that Marquis Zhongshan captured the little Mongolian prince alive and wiped out the main force of Mongolia!

It would be unjustifiable not to reward you!
Of course, this was a battle of wits and courage between Zhu Houzhao and his court officials, and proposals for rewards were rejected by Zhu Houzhao time and time again.

His Majesty the Emperor is now in high spirits, walking with confidence.

There is no way, my barbarians are just so good at fighting, and they have made unprecedented contributions!

There must be no problem in making him a public official, right?
For the other generals of the Beijing Army, it wouldn't be too much to become a hereditary marquis, right?

For the meritorious soldiers at the next level, would it be okay to assign a few non-hereditary earls?
If it were not for the fact that the Ming Dynasty was not allowed to have kings of different surnames, Zhu Houzhao would have wanted to get the title of king for his beloved barbarian in one go!
Of course, this is impossible, and there is no need to disgust the world at this time.

(End of this chapter)