The Most Powerful Man in the World

This city is well defended, with the city walls as its support, it is impossible for the Tartars to break through the city, and all fools know that fighting in the wild with the Tartars is to attack the enemy's strength with one's own shortcomings. Possibly wiped out.

After all, they also have to admit that when it comes to field warfare, the Tatars born on horseback are not comparable to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, whether it is horseback shooting or field warfare.

Of course, if the elite army that Taizu and Chengzu expelled from Mongolia and Yuan were still there, they would not be afraid of the Tartars even in field battles. They couldn't be more clear in their hearts.

Jiao Fang said to Zhu Houzhao, who had a moving expression on his face: "Your Majesty, it is absolutely impossible. There are thousands of cavalry in the Tartars, and I, the Ming soldiers, have no chance of winning. Just kidding about the lives of my Ming soldiers."

Speaking of which, Jiao Fang turned to Han Kun and Cheng Xiangwu and said, "The generals are all skilled soldiers. Don't they know that when they go out of the city to fight in the field with the Tartars, is it that they are short of oneself and long to attack the enemy? Even if you don’t read military books, you still know this, are the generals not even aware of this common sense?”

Han Kun and Cheng Xiangwu had embarrassed expressions on their faces. How could they not know this, and now they were stared at by Jiao Fang.

All I could hear was Cheng Xiangwu coughing lightly and saying to Jiao Fang, "I don't know what Lord Shoufu said."

Jiao Fang snorted coldly: "Since you know this, why do you confuse Your Majesty and persuade His Majesty to allow the army to leave the city? Are you going to hand over the city of Beijing to the Tartars?"

Seeing that Jiao Fang was on the line, Han Kun bowed to Jiao Fang and said, "Master Shoufu, didn't I wait to help the chief executive hold down the Tatars? Besides, we didn't want to send out a large army, just dispatched a A cavalry force of about ten thousand people left the city."

After speaking, Han Kun said again: "If you want a cavalry team of about ten thousand people to leave the city, it will not affect the defense of the city!"

Zhu Houzhao had a hesitant look on his face. He looked at Jiao Fang and others who looked disapproving, and then looked at Han Kun, Cheng Xiangwu and others who were justified.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao looked at Cheng Xiangwu and Han Kun and said, "Several generals, if the cavalry is allowed to leave the city, can you be sure that the army will not be destroyed by the Tartars?"

Zhu Houzhao obviously didn't want the cavalry on hand to be destroyed by the Tartars just like that, but when it comes to the power of the cavalry, even Zhu Houzhao never thought that the Ming cavalry could kill the Tartars.

Not only are the Tatars naturally qualified cavalrymen, but there are too many Tatars outside the city, and the number of cavalry they can handle is only more than [-] people.Compared with the tens of thousands of Tatar troops, not to mention other, this number alone is much worse.

Cheng Xiangwu and Han Kun looked at each other and saw that Cheng Xiangwu stepped forward and said to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, the minister will personally lead the cavalry out of the city, but after leaving the city, the minister will not fight head-to-head with the Tatar army, but will only seek opportunities to harass the other party. Drag the Tartars out of the city as much as possible."

Zhang Mao, who had been sitting there all along, slowly got up and said to Zhu Houzhao, "Your Majesty, I think that the general manager's strategy is very good. I should help the general manager. This cavalry must be dispatched."

Hearing Zhang Mao say this, Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up, and Jiao Fang and Chen Ding sighed slightly.

In fact, when Cheng Xiangwu and Han Kun said that they would only send cavalry out of the city, their original opposition was much weaker.

As Han Kun said, even sending cavalry out of the city would not affect the defense of Beijing City. The worst result would be the loss of more than [-] cavalry.

In terms of Daming's national strength, if more than [-] cavalrymen were really lost, it would indeed be very painful, but it would not endanger the country's capital, and this was directly related to whether Chu Yi's plan could go smoothly.

To be honest, Jiao Fang and others agreed with Chu Yi's plan to swallow up the Tatar army of Ballsborough.

As long as the Tatar army of Ballsborough can be swallowed up, the [-] Tatar army will be destroyed. For the Tatars, it will definitely be broken, and I am afraid that it may not be able to recover for decades.

One is more than [-] cavalrymen, and the other is a large army of tens of thousands of Tatars. The risks must be taken. After all, if you want to obtain greater gains, you must take risks.

Jiao Fang and several other patriarchs looked at each other, only to hear Jiao Fang say to the emperor, "Your Majesty, if you only send cavalry, the ministers and others have no opinion! But General Cheng must guarantee that unless it is a last resort, it cannot be the same. The Tatars are fighting hard!"

Seeing Jiao Fang and the others nodding, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing, his eyes fixed on Cheng Xiangwu: "General Cheng, since this is the case, then I will allow you to lead [-] cavalry out of the city and find opportunities to contain the Tatar army. My partner buys enough time, and this time I want to leave a Tatar army in Ballsborot on this Central Plains.”

Cheng Xiangwu took a step forward and bowed down with a look of joy: "The commander of the last general will live up to His Majesty's expectations."

However, Chu Yi, leading an army of [-] people, directly spared the city of Beijing and headed straight for Shanxi.

I have to say that the Tatars are too confident. Although there are some sentries scattered around the city of Beijing, these sentries are only around [-] or [-] miles away from the city of Beijing. .

Although Chu Yi and the others are numerous, tens of thousands of people, and the movement is not small at all, but from Beijing to Tianjin, the distance between the two places is not too close, but the Tatars are not aware of it at all.

As long as the Tartars take Tianjin City first, even if they can't stop the landing of Chu Yi's army, at least they can get the news in advance.

But right now, the Tatars don't even know the Ming side, an elite army of tens of thousands of people is rushing towards Taiyuan Town.

If the Tartars knew about it, they would definitely not dare to take it lightly. Even if they were arrogant and confident, they would never be able to sit back and be blocked by tens of thousands of troops.

From Tianjin to Taiyuan, the journey is not at all, and it is almost a thousand miles away. Thanks to Chu Yi's early arrangements and preparations, even so, it will take at least twenty days to reach Taiyuan from Tianjin.

If it weren't for this, Chu Yi would not be able to let the Son of Heaven cooperate with him to hold back the Tartars as much as possible.

If the Tatars under the city of Beijing say that the siege of the city is not smooth, once they choose to retreat, then with the speed of the cavalry, they can reach Taiyuan Town in at most ten days.

On the other hand, Chu Yi's subordinates were a group of infantry soldiers, and their marching speed was simply inferior to that of the Tatar cavalry.

This is a gap of at least ten days, so if the Tartars do not delay for ten or twenty days under the city of Beijing, I am afraid that by the time Chu Yi leads the army to Taiyuan, the Tartars have already left Taiyuan and returned to the grassland. .

The army marched, the smoke billowed, and when viewed from the air, it was like a long dragon lying on the ground.

A carriage slowly moved forward in the army, and it was Chu Yi in the carriage.

As soon as he rushed over, he saw Lin Pingzhi took a letter and said to Chu Yi, "General Manager, a letter from the capital!"

Chu Yi took the letter and opened it, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly. Needless to say, the letter was written by Zhu Houzhao himself. He explained the current situation in the capital one by one. Finally, he hoped that Chu Yi would be able to close the door and beat the dogs. The tar army, Jieshi Zhu Houzhao will personally go out of the city to welcome him back to Beijing.

Just looking at the letter, Chu Yi could even imagine how excited Zhu Houzhao was when he wrote this letter.

Putting down the letter, Chu Yi turned to Lin Pingzhi who was accompanying him outside the carriage: "Pingzhi, how long is it from Taiyuan City?"

Lin Pingzhi said to Chu Yi, "Return to the chief executive, there are still about ten days to go!"

Chu Yi pondered for a while and said, "Send orders to Xu Tianzuo and Sun Qiu, and ask them to urge the army to march, and be sure to reach Taiyuan City within ten days."

Taiyuan Town

As an important military town, it is also an extremely important city in Shanxi. Taiyuan Town is adjacent to Datong Town, both of which are one of the nine major towns.

The fall of Taiyuan Town was conquered by the Tatars, and the Miao family in the city, as a great hero in welcoming the Tatars into the city, was naturally valued by the Tatars.

Ballsborough led his army straight to Beijing, but handed over the large and small affairs of Taiyuan Town to Miao Yuan, a great hero.

As for the [-] Tatar army stationed in Taiyuan Town, it is led by Hu Limu, the captain of ten thousand. Hu Limu is a reckless man. It is possible to count on him to attack the city, but it is extremely difficult to count on him to rule a city.

The Miao family, as the biggest contributor to the Tatars entering the city, plus several Taiyuan town families who also joined the Tatars, were barely able to maintain the operation of Taiyuan Town.

Because he was in a hurry to go to Beijing, Ballsborough did not search Taiyuan Town, but this did not mean that the Tatars let the people of Taiyuan Town go.

After Ballsborot left, Hu Limu, who led the army stationed in Taiyuan Town, was ordered by Ballsborot to loot food and grass in Taiyuan Town. It was transported to the capital to supplement the needs of the Ballsborough army.

After all, there are tens of thousands of troops, people eat horse chews, and the amount of food consumed every day is extremely amazing. What Ballsborough and the others carry with them are only a few days' rations. Plunder, just now did not cut off the food and grass.

In Taiyuan City, in the yamen of the original prefectural government, it has changed from a businessman to a person in charge of a city. Miao Yuan is frowning in the yamen at the moment, sitting opposite to several family owners who usually rely on the Tartars.

The head of the Lu family looked at Miao Yuan with a wry smile and said: "Brother Miao, General Hu Limu asked us to hand over [-] stone grains tomorrow, how long has it been, he forced us to hand over nearly [-] stone grains, and if this continues , I am afraid that our family will be hollowed out!"

The Lu family and several other families are not considered top-notch families in Taiyuan City. Their net worth is only tens of thousands of taels of silver. The family can have tens of thousands of stone of food, which is already a family business saved by several generations of talents.

I thought that I would take a chance and lead the Tatars to break the city. The Tatars would eat meat, and they would also be able to drink soup.

The result was good. Ballsborough first beheaded tens of thousands of soldiers, and even thinking about it now, they couldn't help but have nightmares.

Anyway, Ballsborough handed Taiyuan City over to them to take care of them, but Hulimu almost robbed them of their food and grass.

Hu Limu scavenged grain and grass from the people in the city, but it was not their grain anyway, but Hu Limu forced them to offer grain.

They wanted to learn from Hulimu to snatch food from the people, but after Hulimu robbed them, people in the city almost starved to death, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find much food.

However, in the face of Hulimu's request, they had to present the food on time. In this way, they could only use the food stored in their own homes to present to the Tartars.

Once, twice, several times, even if you have ten thousand family wealth, you can't carry it!

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Chapter 1 Is this taking us as dogs! 【[-] more】

Miao Yuan listened to the complaints of several patriarchs, and his face was also bitter. Compared with the Lu family, their Miao family was actually not much better.

In these days alone, most of their Miao family's long-term stockpile has been taken out.

The head of the Lu family looked at Miao Yuan and said, "Brother Miao, Ling Qianjin is the person in His Royal Highness' room. If you want to come to Brother Miao, if you can speak to General Hulimu, let him accommodate one or two..."

The other patriarchs stood up and said to Miao Yuan, "Brother Miao, please, please!"

Miao Yuan sighed lightly, with a look of embarrassment on his face, but looking at the expressions of the Lu family masters, he also knew that Hu Limu was really pushing everyone too hard.

Not to mention Lu Shi and others, even some people in their Miao family were very dissatisfied with this.

They took refuge in the Tatars because they wanted to rely on the Tatars to obtain greater benefits, not to give their own interests to the Tatars.

Now they welcomed the Tatars into Taiyuan City, but they didn't get much benefit, but they were forced to donate a lot of food by the Tatars.

In any era, food is the greatest wealth for a family.

If the gold and silver are gone, you can make more money, but if the food is gone, it will be dead.

The head of the family, Miao Yuan, has worked hard for the past few days to quell the complaints within the family, and now he has to face the complaints of the Lu family and other families.

Taking a long breath, Miao Yuan looked at the head of the Lu family and said slowly: "Forget it, since this is the case, this old man will throw out his old face to plead with General Hu Limu."

Hearing the words, the head of the Lu family and the others immediately showed joy on their faces and said to Miao Yuan: "Brother Miao will go out in person, and he will definitely succeed. I will thank Brother Miao first here."

In the Tartar camp, a leather robe with a braid tied on the wood, the exposed skin was red, and his face was ferocious. At the moment, he was sitting there drinking with his generals.

Several Han women accompanied several Tatar generals to drink with forced smiles on their faces, and a personal guard entered the tent and whispered in Hulimu's ear.

Hu Limu frowned and said to the soldier, "Bring Miao Yuan to see this general."

Soon, he saw that Miao Yuan was attracted by the personal soldier and walked into the big tent filled with the smell of wine.

Seeing Hu Limu, who was sitting there with the old god, Miao Yuan's eyes showed a hint of shame and anger, but it passed by in a flash, and no one noticed.

Miao Yuan took a deep breath and bowed to Hu Limu and said, "I saw General Hu Limu in Xia Miao Yuan."

Only then did Hu Limu lift his head from the woman's arms, put the woman in his arms, his eyes fell on Miao Yuan and said with a bit of disdain: "Miao Yuan, you came to see this general, but what this general needs Do you have enough food and grass?"

Miao Yuanqiang suppressed his inner embarrassment, cupped his hands and said, "General, Miao is here for this very thing."

Hu Limu looked at Miao Yuan and said, "Oh, is there something wrong with the food?"

Miao Yuan said: "General, in just a few days, the general has already ordered us to raise as much as [-] stone of food, and now the entire city of Taiyuan has been almost hollowed out, this time the general has ordered me to raise food and grass. Waiting is really powerless..."

"You bastard, you can't even do this, what's the use of asking you guys..."

Hearing a bang, Hu Limu slapped the table top with a slap, and saw the dishes on the table scattered all over the place, staring at Miao Yuan angrily.

Miao Yuan couldn't help being startled, and looked at Hu Limu with a bit of horror.

Hu Limu opened his eyes wide and stared at Miao Yuan, looking like he was going to kill someone.

Miao Yuan felt a bit of fear in his heart, gritted his teeth and said, "General, it's not that Miao refused, it's really..."

With a choking sound, the sound of the sword being unsheathed was heard, and then Hu Limu pulled out the machete beside him and slashed through it, only splitting the table in half, staring fiercely at Miao Yuan and said, "Mr. Miao If you can't see the food and grass that this general needs in the evening, then don't blame this general for being ruthless."

Miao Yuan pointed at Hu Limu with a stunned expression: "You...you..."

Hu Limu said with a sneer: "Don't give this general a go!"

With a loud shout, Miao Yuan stumbled out in fright, and there was a burst of insolent laughter from the camp behind him.

In the big tent, a group of Tatar generals watched Miao Yuan run out in embarrassment as if they were looking at a clown, and then followed Hu Limu to laugh.

A Tatar general with pigtails drank the wine in one gulp and said with a big laugh, "It's just a dog, we can look down on him, but he treats himself as a human being. If you want me to say, treat these people, either. Kill it, or capture it as a slave..."