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Chapter 1138
After that day, Yang Shiqi formed an alliance with Taisun, and Yang Rong soon joined in.The two have always acted as a bridge between the grandson and the government, and secretly won over many civil officials for Zhu Zhanji.In dealing with Wang Xian, they have also learned to be smart. They will never confront Wang Xian head-on, and will not give Wang Xian an excuse to attack and eliminate them.

But in private, they ordered people to secretly spread the secrets of the court, and those jokes about Wang Xian killing the king and killing the king, and having an affair with Xu Miaojin were all inspired by them.This kind of thing, just need to let the wind go out, it can be spread all over the city, and no one can find out who made the rumor first!
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Taisun Mansion, in the lecture hall.

Yang Shiqi told Zhu Zhanji about the Mongol invasion of the border.When the first emperor was there, the Mongols were all gutted, so they were naturally honest and did not commit any crimes.After more than ten years, the life of those Mongolians who did not belong to them was extremely miserable.They do not engage in agriculture, have no industry, and produce almost nothing except beef and mutton, cattle and sheep skins, and milk from cattle and sheep.

But you can’t just rely on cattle and sheep to live. Clothes on your body must use cloth, bed bedding must use cotton, sickness must have medicinal herbs, boiling water and cooking must use iron pots, and eating too much beef and mutton must use tea bricks to relieve greasy.And the stew has to be salted, right?Who can stand eating boiled meat all day long?

The Mongols did not have any of these things, and they originally obtained them by plundering the interior.After being maimed by Zhu Di, he had no choice but to go to the border market honestly and exchange precious furs for these cheap necessities of life.But not any tribe is eligible to trade with Ming Dynasty, it must be a small and medium tribe that is always submissive and does not pose a threat to Ming Dynasty.A powerful and ambitious guy like Alutai, who always wants to unify Mongolia and restore the former glory of Mongolia, is naturally always excluded.

It's not that Arutai didn't want to bow his head. He sent his son to the Xuan Mansion several times to ask for peace, but Zhu Di had already decided that he was an unfamiliar wolf cub, and he was determined not to be moved.The Tatar Ministry of Alutai has never been able to get urgently needed supplies, and life is already miserable.It is said that in their entire tribe, only Alutai and his sons have iron pots, and the rest can only use animal skins to make bags to boil water and boil meat.Because there is no cloth or cotton, they can only wear clothes made of animal skins, regardless of whether they are male or female, high or low.In summer, when animal skins were not allowed, men and women were almost naked, embarrassing their Genghis Khan.

Under Zhu Di's military attack and economic blockade, many small tribes attached to the Tatar tribe secretly moved inward and took refuge in the Borzigit tribe in Hetao.If it weren't for the strong suppression of Alutai and his son, the entire Tatar tribe would have fallen apart...

Just when Alutai was about to lose its hold and was about to surrender unconditionally to Daming, Emperor Yongle passed away.On the day when the news spread to the grassland, all the tribes of Tatar felt like they were celebrating a festival. Everyone sang and drank to their heart's content, celebrating that the boulders that had been pressed on the heads of the Mongolian tribes for more than 20 years disappeared in one day!
Afterwards, Alutai revived his zeal and began to tentatively attack those Mongolian tribes that belonged to Ming Dynasty.After plundering, he led the crowd to flee to the desert, and hid for a long time but did not see Daming's army coming to punish him.Arutai became more and more daring, and was not satisfied with plundering the Mongolian tribes who had no oil and water, and began to make up the minds of the people of Ming Dynasty.

During the Yongle period, many inland people either fled or followed the army, migrated to the border areas, established villages and towns, opened up wasteland and farmed, and the scale was already very large.The people in these border areas have forgotten the threat of Mongolian bandits, and many villages and towns are built in areas far away from the army's garrison... In this era, there is no deep love between the army and the people. The Ming's frontier army looted the people, no different from robbers.

When Alutai led his troops into these villages and towns, they didn't meet any decent resistance at all, and they could burn, kill and loot wantonly. After they returned with a full load and left for several days, Daming's army was long overdue.In fact, this is not entirely because of Zhu Di's death, the frontier army of Ming Dynasty put down their picks, but the generals of Xuanfu and Datong all responded to Zhu Gaochi's call and led the army to King Qin of Jing.The left-behind lieutenants were short of troops and unwilling to take responsibility, so how could they attack rashly?
News of the frequent harassment at the border soon spread to the capital.But at that time, everyone's attention was focused on fighting for the throne, and His Royal Highness, who was temporarily in charge of the government, only conveyed the news to King Qin's generals.And those generals didn't take it seriously. For so many years, the Mongols had been beaten into rabbits by them. As long as they took the soldiers back, Arutai would be scared and hide as far away as possible.

When the Chinese New Year turned, those generals of King Qin, who were rewarded by the emperor, returned with their troops contentedly.So he rolled up his sleeves, ready to teach Alutai, the grandson of the robber who took advantage of the fire, a good lesson.

So the next time after receiving the news of Alutai's banditry, the general officers of the Xuanfu and Datong each ordered [-] cavalry, and rushed towards Arutai aggressively.As expected, as soon as Alutai's army found that the Ming army had arrived, they left the looted loot and fled desperately.

Seeing this, the Ming army became more imposing, and chased after them, rushed to the depths of the grassland, and found a small group of enemy soldiers.The Ming army cast all their anger on these hundreds of enemy soldiers, and surrounded and wiped them out in a blink of an eye.After interrogating the prisoners, it turned out that these Mongols did not dare to fight against Ming Dynasty and secretly escaped from the Tatar army.

These Mongols also told the Ming army that Arutai's army had been chased too far, and the morale of the army was sluggish, so they rested by the Tru River [-] miles to the north. At this time, the attack will surely win .

Perhaps he was too confident, but the generals of the Ming army had no doubts, and asked those Mongols as guides to lead them to attack the Tatar army ahead.

Under the leadership of the Mongols, the Ming army came to the Tru River and found the Tatar barracks, but there were only a full camp of supplies and a few hundred Tatar soldiers inside.The Ming army defeated these Tatar soldiers easily, and interrogating the captives learned that Arutai had just received a report from the scouts and fled with the army in a hurry. He should have just crossed the river at this moment.

The Ming army chased it for half a month, and finally caught the Tatar army's tail. The soldiers were so excited that they rushed to the river, screaming, and saw that there were still many Tatar troops crossing the river.The general of the Ming army who was dazzled didn't even think about it, so he rushed forward with the army.

The Tatar cavalry who were crossing the river were in a panic when they saw this, and desperately urged their horses to swim to the opposite bank.The cavalry of the Ming army rushed into the river like dumplings, only to find that the calm river was not as safe as imagined. Not to mention the extremely high water level, there was also a turbulent undercurrent.When the horse was not careful, it stumbled and was submerged in the river, and the cavalry on the horse were also overturned in the water.

But at this moment, the Ming army, who had already ignored it, didn't care about this trouble at all. In a blink of an eye, most of the army entered the river, and the broad river surface was densely covered with figures of Ming army officers and soldiers!
As soon as the leading troops landed, they rushed straight towards the fleeing Mongols without waiting for the troops behind them.Although the smoke and dust billowed ahead, there were a large number of enemy troops at first glance.But according to the usual experience, no matter how many soldiers the Mongols have, as soon as the Ming army arrives, they will all run away.

However, this time, they guessed wrong... When the smoke and dust cleared, what the vanguard of the Ming army saw was a Mongolian army waiting in full battle with bows and arrows!

Alutai, who was leading the army, drew his long knife, looked coldly at the deceived Ming army, and roared behind him: "Descendants of Genghis Khan, pay back the blood debt from the enemy, and the time has come to wash away your shame over the years!"

Pointing forward with the long knife, he rushed out first: "Kill!"

"Kill!" The Tatar cavalry rushed up like a tide, and they all drew their bows and shot arrows. Immediately, the arrows rained down and shot at the Ming army!

The soldiers of the Ming army were hit by arrows one after another, screaming and falling off their horses. Looking at the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, they couldn't help but turn their heads, wanting to see when the troops behind could catch up.

Who would have thought that upon seeing this, his soul would be dissipated immediately!I saw that the army behind him had become a mess!

It turned out that Alutai had ambushed the army on the other side of the river. When half of the Ming army crossed the river and the soldiers were in chaos, the Mongolian cavalry suddenly came out and attacked the Ming army soldiers from behind!

By this time, even fools realized that they had fallen into a trap carefully crafted by the Mongols.Those Mongolian rout soldiers caught before were the bait deliberately released by Alutai to lure them into the bait step by step!When they were finally fooled and started to cross the Tru River, the Tatar army who had been ambushing on both sides of the river for a long time came out and attacked them halfway!

In this battle, the Ming army suffered a terrible defeat. Although they still maintained the bravery and fearlessness of Zhu Di's era, they were too underestimating the enemy before, and put themselves in a desperate situation hastily. As a result, after the enemy launched a surprise attack, the soldiers could not be found. Will, will not find soldiers!They can only fight on their own like headless chickens...

The morale of the Tatars is at the peak of the sky, finally sweeping away the haze of the Yongle era, vaguely seeing the hope of restoring the former glory, so that they broke out with extremely strong fighting power, and launched wave after wave of shocks to the Ming army on both sides of the strait!

Soon, the leading troops of the Ming army who crossed the river first were killed and injured under the impact of the enemy forces that were far beyond their own.The soldiers in the river landed one after another, not enough for the Tatar army to squeeze their teeth!
Seeing this, the soldiers of the Ming army did not dare to cross the river again, and many people turned around one after another!However, he violated a big taboo of military strategists—the people who turned around collided with the advancing Ming army, the scene completely lost control, and the battle inevitably turned into a one-sided massacre!

In this battle, more than [-] of the [-] elite Ming troops died on the banks of the Tru River. Blood stained the river red, and the corpses of the dead Ming soldiers could be seen a hundred miles downstream.

The remaining [-] or [-] Ming troops desperately broke through, but were chased and beaten by the completely crazy Tatar army. After half a month, only more than [-] people fled back to the Xuan Mansion, and the rest were either killed or reduced to Tatars. Captives of the Tartars...

This was the worst defeat of the Ming Dynasty after the defeat of Qiu Fu in the seventh year of Yongle. The news spread back to the capital, and the government and the public were shocked!
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