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Chapter 307
Although Wang Xian is not an expert in the military, he is familiar with the map of this expedition. Qinhu Mountain is located in the territory of the later Mongolia.It is said that Mahamu's lair is in the more distant Hulanhu, which is Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.Later generations would feel that it was a faraway place even by plane, but the 50 Ming army had to walk there and defeat a powerful enemy. Just thinking about it, it is incredible!But this seemingly crazy move was repeated time and time again by the soldiers of Daming, no less than five times!
Without such a chapter of the Long March that surpasses the epic, without this kind of courage to go straight to the Yellow Dragon, how can we subdue the rebellious Mongols?Let the Outer Xing'an Mountains become the slave Gandusi of the Ming Dynasty? !
Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers did it, and so did Zhu Di and his soldiers. That's why the Ming Dynasty had the prosperity and prosperity of all nations coming to court and the four seas returning to one!
"During the last Northern Expedition, the emperor left a stone inscription on the mountain, 'Hanhai is the tan, Tianshan is the scorpion, sweep away the dust, and the desert will be forever clear'. His majesty, His Highness should go and pay his respects." The one with the voice of a male duck is an eunuch with a voice of a male duck. There is no shortage of eunuchs around the grandson, but this one is very different from the rest of the eunuchs. , seems to have no effect on him.In addition to not having a beard, he is simply more manly than Wang Xian and the others.

"Yes, then you must go and see it." Zhu Zhanji was fascinated, and smiled: "Uncle Bao, let's go up the mountain."

It is unimaginable in any dynasty that the dignified grandson actually called this eunuch an uncle, but only in the Ming Dynasty, and in Zhu Zhanji it was a matter of course.Because this eunuch is the old man of Zhu Di's hidden residence, and his original name is Bao'er.Not to mention watching him grow up since he was a child, in the Battle of Jingnan, he also fought with Zheng He and Wang Yan, and made great military exploits.After sitting in the country, Zheng He became the eunuch of the internal officer, Wang Yan became the eunuch of Shangbao, and the uncle Li Qian became the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor.

Before the Yongle Dynasty, the Yumajian was the one who raised horses, but in the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Di ordered to select strong men from various guards and Mongolian tribes to form the Zhibalin Army. guard!The forbidden soldier among the forbidden soldiers!It is not affiliated to the Dudufu of the Five Armies, nor is it affiliated to the commander of the pro-military capital, but under the supervision of the imperial horse!

It is not surprising that the emperor handed over his personal guards to the Taijian.Because what Zhu Di trusted the most was not the civil servants, the ministers who fought against him, or even his sons, but these loyal eunuchs.Although he wanted to train his grandson this time, Zhu Di knew too much about the shady scenes on the battlefield. Fearing that his heir might make mistakes, he specially sent the most trusted eunuch to the young army to supervise him, in case someone cheated the grandson. Sun.

As soon as Li Qian arrived at the barracks, he replaced Wang Xian as the No. [-] figure in the young army, and this old eunuch might be incompatible with Wang Xian, and he was particularly at odds with him.Everything Wang Xian said was criticized by him as worthless. Wang Xian saw that his grandson obviously believed in this old eunuch more, and he was really not good at military affairs, so he just shut up and let them make decisions. Take care of your soldiers.

At this moment Zhu Zhanji was aroused by Li Qian to climb the mountain, excitedly said to Wang Xian: "Go together?"

"I don't have such a good figure as Your Highness, and it's better to be still than to move." Wang Xian smiled wryly.

Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Qian's gloomy gaze sweeping over, and Wang Xian asked helplessly, "What did I say wrong again?"

"Who taught you the rules? Can you call yourself 'I' in front of Your Highness? You should call yourself 'Chen'," Li Qian said coldly: "Also in front of our family, you can't call yourself 'I', but 'little people'."

"Okay, the villain is wrong, the minister is tired, your highness and father-in-law should go hiking." Wang Xian had already lost his temper by him, so he had no choice but to admit his mistake feebly.

Eunuch Li let him go and went climbing with Zhu Zhanji. Wang Xian shook his head helplessly as he watched their backs going away.

"Military commander, don't mind." Chen Wu, Zhu Zhanji's close eunuch, got sores on his horse and couldn't ride a horse because he was lying on the cart. Sun is Lin'er. His Highness was watched by him since he was a child, and the relationship between the two of them is naturally extraordinary," he said with a sigh: "I don't know if this is the reason, but Eunuch Li doesn't like His Highness's treatment of him very much. The military division will obey."

"So that's what happened," Wang Xian said with a smile, cursing inwardly, return the old stuff to me, Xiao Hei!
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Seven days after Hushan was captured, we arrived at Guangwu Town, which was the food storage base of Qiyang King Li Wenzhong during the Northern Expedition in the fifth year of Hongwu.This will also be the grain storage base for the Northern Expedition. Among the grain and grass transported from the rear, about 25 shi were transported by [-] Wugang vehicles and marched with the army.The rest will be hoarded here for the return journey, which can greatly reduce the burden on the army.

Moreover, after passing through Guangwu Town, the marching speed of the army slowed down. They often marched in the morning and rested after noon, and even rested for one to several days on the way to let the army recover their strength and recharge their batteries. , officially went deep into the hinterland of the Oirats, and the battle may start at any time!

However, on May 23, the Ming army arrived at Yinma River, but they still did not meet the Mongolian army.On May 26, the weather suddenly became hot. When Wang Xian asked Wu Wei, he realized that it was the summer solstice!Starting from the beginning of spring and leaving Beijing, it went all the way to the summer solstice!

"The Long March is nothing more than that..." Wang Xianli stood by the Yinma River, and a boring thought floated in his mind. The arduous journey of the past three months has deeply changed him, and all the vulgar philistines in him have disappeared. Grind away, revealing a man's original tenacity and courage.When he came back to his senses, he hissed and asked, "There is no further reduction in staff?"

"Three more brothers have gone..." Wu Wei said softly.

"Alas..." Wang Xian sighed, "It's over a hundred..."

"Long-distance travel, fatigue and illness are all things that can't be helped. In addition, it's hot again. I'm afraid there will be more downsizing in the future." Wu Wei sighed.

"In any case, the soldier should have died on the battlefield, but now he is lying on the march," Wang Xian said sadly, "it was my negligence."

"Your Excellency, it's fine to talk about it in private. If it is spread and other generals hear it, I'm afraid they will be angry." Wu Wei smiled bitterly: "I've inquired about it. In other troops, 1 out of [-] people die." Hundreds, that's enough to burn incense, and there are even more than five hundred." He sighed and said, "Including civilian husbands, thousands of people died on the march, this sacrifice is really big enough."

"I don't know when I'll see the Oirats..." Wang Xian nodded, and said gloomily, "Even a peace lover like me is looking forward to a war every day!"

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Just when Wang Xian lamented that the Wala people did not know where they were hiding, Zhu Di and his generals were also frowning, worrying about the same thing... Now that the army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Wala, they have not encountered any resistance.Zhu Di was not Qiu Fu who underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, so he naturally realized that this in itself was extremely unusual.

"This shows that Mahamu is either concentrating his strength and preparing to fight us to the death somewhere; or he has fled back to the Northwest with his tribe." Anyuan Bo Liusheng said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Zhu Di nodded, and ordered: "Bring Borobha here."

After a while, an Oirat nobleman was brought into the imperial tent and knelt down to greet the emperor.His tribe was one of the five Wala tribes who came to surrender to Daming after Zhu Di's military parade in Shacheng. Because he was the first to come and brought the whole tribe, Zhu Di was very happy and ordered him to go out with the army as a consultant.

"Borobha, I'm here to ask you, is there any possibility of Mahamu withdrawing to the Northwest?" Zhu Di asked in a deep voice.

The translator passed the emperor's words to Borobha, and then translated the latter's words to the emperor: "He said, it is impossible. Before he came to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, Mahamu had already sent a message to all the ministries, saying that he would fight against Ming to the last man. Never lose Genghis Khan's face!"

Borobha added that the legend of Hulanhuhuhuo is where the tomb of Genghis Khan is located...

"So, it's impossible for him to escape back to the Great Northwest?" Zhu Di said with a bright eye.

"The big words have already been uttered. If he flees without fighting, what prestige does he have?"

"That's right." Zhu Di was convinced, and ordered in a deep voice: "Order the scout battalion to release all the scouts and expand the search range to a hundred miles!"

As the saying goes, "There is no place to find if you break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it." Just two days later, on the third day of June, Liu Jiang, the former military governor, reported that the forward had arrived at the Kanghari Sea and accidentally discovered the Oirat army , He immediately launched an attack, defeated the whole army, and captured the prisoners. According to the prisoners, Mahamu went to Hulan, a hundred miles away, to lose temperature here, and he was unprepared!
After hearing the news, the civil servants and generals around the emperor were all very excited. They had already traveled too far, and they really didn't want to go on meaninglessly. Even if they wanted to fight, let's have a good fight!
However, after the news, Zhu Di was not happy but worried, and fell into deep thinking... He believed that Mahamu was right in front of him.But if you say that the army has been deep into the grassland for several months, Mahamu and the others are still defenseless, and they don't believe it if they kill him.

In the end, Zhu Di judged that the Oirat army was ready for a decisive battle and was waiting for the Ming army to bump into it head-on, so he ordered the army not to move lightly!
After the generals got the order, they were all very frustrated, but who dared to question the emperor's decision?Not to mention violating the imperial decree.Surprisingly, it didn't take long before Zhu Di changed his mind again, and ordered the army to move out immediately and advance at the same time. The generals were naturally very happy, but they didn't understand why the emperor would make such a move. Contradictory edicts!
　It's the end of the month, ask for a ticket...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)