Chapter 152 The establishment of the Ming Dynasty and the changes in the world structure [Please vote]

"Your Majesty, this Zhu Tiesuo is from Cangzhou. He was originally a powerful local family. His ancestors once fought with the Mongolian Mu Huali to conquer the Jin Kingdom. Later, he made great contributions and has been the head of Hejian Prefecture for generations.

Will."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he frowned.

He said with an unhappy face, "So, is this Zhu Tiesuo still a Han?"

Since the Mongols took over the Central Plains, many Mongolians who have lived in the Central Plains for generations have given themselves many Chinese names and surnames. Therefore, it is sometimes not possible to distinguish the identity of Mongolians or Hans just by relying on one name.

"Your Majesty is wise, Zhu Tiesuo is a Han from Hejian, but they have served the Mongols for generations, and they already feel that they belong to the Mongols," said the junior captain.

"So, this Zhu Tiesuo is a traitor. Hejian Mansion can't do it without beating him up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's personal campaign was almost without bloodshed.

I was already impatient deep down in my heart.

Now that Zhu Tiesuo of Hejian Mansion has jumped out to seek death, Zhu Yuanzhang will never let him off easily.

A hundred thousand troops led by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty soon arrived at the Hejian Mansion City. In order to prevent anyone from leaving the city and surrendering, the leader of Hejian Mansion, Zhu Tiesuo, had already blocked all the city gates.

Zhu Tiesuo planned to drag the whole city into jumping into the fire pit together!

Seeing the Ming army attacking the city with great momentum, the people and soldiers of Hejian Prefecture were all terrified.

But only Zhu Tiesuo, the stubborn traitor, was still arrogant.

"Zhu Chongba, you rebel, Dayuan will not let you go!"

"My Hejian Mansion is full of loyal ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. If you rebels want to enter the city, you have to kill us all!"

Zhu Tiesuo stood on the wall of Hejian Mansion and shouted loudly like a mad dog.

Hearing Zhu Tiesuo's desperate cries on the wall of Hejian Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a sarcastic smile.

"Zhu Tiesuo, how can this traitor deserve to be given the same surname as us? Now to be a traitor here openly and openly is to shame our ancestors."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Zhou Dexing next to him and asked: "Zhou Dexing gives you five days to capture Hejian Mansion. It is best to capture the traitor Zhu Tiesuo alive. Can you do it?"

Zhou Dexing heard this and immediately spoke up.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. It doesn't take five days. Three days are enough to break through Hejian Mansion!"

"Okay, then hurry up and prepare to attack the city!"

As the first battle of the Ming Emperor's personal expedition, Zhou Dexing's credit for this first battle cannot be escaped no matter what.

In order to fight this first battle perfectly, Zhou Dexing, the founding father of the country, personally went into battle to arrange artillery positions.

Today, the Ming army has a large number of newly minted artillery pieces.

These cannons are all made of the latest brass casting!

Although it is a little heavy in terms of weight, it is definitely a well-deserved king in terms of power.

To deal with rammed earth walls like Hejian City, Zhou Dexing deployed twenty heavy siege artillery pieces.

Rumble!

Rumble!

Amidst the loud noise, the rammed earth wall outside Hejian City collapsed like a shoddy project.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Dexing mobilized another 4,000 infantrymen to launch an encirclement and suppression campaign against Hejian Prefecture.

Because the firearms of the Ming army were really sharp.

Under such circumstances, it only took half a day to completely defeat Hejian Mansion's defense line.

After conquering Hejian Mansion, Zhou Dexing sent soldiers to clean up the city and search for the traitor Zhu Tiesuo.

There were a total of about 4,000 Yuan troops in Hejianfu City. After these people were defeated, they surrendered one after another. They were disarmed and not killed in accordance with the order of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to search Zhu's house in Hejian, and found a large amount of food and supplies inside.

At this time, the Ming army also discovered...

The traitor Zhu Tiesuo had already locked the whole family in his backyard and set himself on fire.

"If you are stubborn and consider a thief your father, you will deserve to die!"

Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty gave a twelve-character evaluation of Zhu Tiesuo.

Since the Hejian Zhu family surrendered to the Jurchens, they have been helping foreigners. Therefore, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty hated this family deeply. He immediately ordered that all the surviving Zhu family members be sent to Guangdong to guard the border and farm, and did not allow this family to

People continued to have the surname Zhu, but they were ordered to change their surname to Wei.

"Shameless!"

"When will people with a few surnames be able to report to the court and change their surname if they have a righteous man who serves the country and the people!"

After easily defeating the local snake in Hejian, the remaining action of the Ming Dynasty army was naturally to attack the local tyrants and divide their fields to benefit the local people.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to reward the three armies, and at the same time, each of the Cangzhou people who accompanied the army on the expedition was rewarded with one hundred catties of grain.

In this era, one hundred pounds of grain is not a small sum of money.

Especially in this era, grain output was low, with the average yield per mu being only about one or two stones, equivalent to two hundred catties.

For a time, the people in Cangzhou Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty knelt on the ground with tears of gratitude, saying that the Holy King was merciful.

The southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, which was later known as Dalian and Lushun, is now the Liaonan Military Division of the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Dahai, the commander of the Liaonan Capital Division, had already led a large number of generals to wait on the dock.

Because the Daming East Northern Expeditionary Army, led by Zhu Han, had already crossed the sea from Shandong.

The Ming Dynasty's Eastern Northern Expeditionary Army was divided into two groups: the left and the right.

The branch led by Zhu Han belonged to the left route, mainly starting from southern Liaoning and attacking Fuzhou and Tokyo Prefecture in the north.

The other right wing, led by Mao Gui and Guo Zixing, attacked Baishan Huli Gai from Goryeo to the north.

As battleships sailed into the Liaonan Gulf one after another, the 50,000-strong army led by Zhu Han also began to land in Liaonan.

"The last general, Hu Dahai, greets His Royal Highness the King of England." Hu Dahai bowed.

At this time, Zhu Han, who was standing at the bow of the ship, heard the sound and saw Hu Dahai, "Okay! Thank you for your hard work, Hu Dusi."

"I don't dare." Hu Dahai agreed hastily.

Hu Dahai has been operating here in Liaonan for more than half a year, and it has begun to take shape.

After Zhu Han got off the ship, he inspected the interior and exterior of Liaonan Dusi and felt quite satisfied.

"Yes, General Hu has done a good job here in southern Liaoning. We are about to march into northern Liaoning, and southern Liaoning can already become our rear base." Zhu Han praised him.

"I am not worthy of being the last general. It is all thanks to Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the King of England that I can make great achievements here." Hu Dahai quickly replied.

Hu Dahai has indeed made a lot of contributions in Liaonan.

Many forts were built here in southern Liaoning, and they also guarded the border and cultivated fields, allowing the thousands of soldiers of the Liaonan Capital Division to be self-sufficient.

This time Zhu Han personally led an army of tens of thousands, with thousands of Liaonan Dusi soldiers under Hu Dahai as the vanguard, and launched a mighty attack on Liaoyang Prefecture, Tokyo of the Yuan Dynasty.

Alu Timur, who was stationed in Liaoyang Prefecture, immediately fell into panic when he heard the news that Zhu Han led the Ming army to attack.

Because the Mongols in Liaoyang Prefecture did not have many soldiers and horses at this time. Not long ago, Wang Baobao ordered all the Mongols to move to the grasslands in the north, and almost all the people and things that could be moved were moved away.

As for the Mongolians here in Liaoyang Prefecture, there are now only more than 5,000.

More than five thousand people were unable to withstand ten times the strength of the Ming army.

And the most important thing is that the Mongols looted a large amount of gold, silver, treasures, grain, grass and baggage in the Liaoyang area and still hoarded them in Liaoyang Mansion.

These gold and silver treasures and food and grass baggage that had not had time to be transported away were what Alu Timur was most concerned about.

Therefore, when Zhu Han led the Ming army to attack, the entire Mongolian people in Liaoyang City were panicked.

Fleeing in all directions, there was no way to organize a decent resistance.

Aru Timur looked at the gold and silver treasures all over the city and felt regretful that he had not moved them away earlier.

Facing the fierce Ming army, Aru Timur could not find many soldiers even if he wanted to rely on Liaoyang City to resist.

In desperation, Aru Timur could only lead his men to take away a batch of gold and silver treasures.

Then before leaving, he set fire to the treasury and granary in Liaoyang, hoping not to leave a grain of food for the Ming army.

Aru Timur was sure to miss and ran all the way, leaving the Ming army behind him far away.

However, there are still many people in Liaoyang City who are unwilling to go to the grasslands with the Mongols.

They immediately mobilized, put out the raging fire, and then opened the city gate to welcome the arrival of the Ming army.

Zhu Han led the army to occupy Liaoyang in one go.

After capturing Liaoyang, Zhu Han immediately sent Ming troops to take over local power in various surrounding small counties.

Since Liaodong became independent in the late Tang Dynasty, no Han government has been able to set foot here. In terms of history, Liaodong is actually more miserable than the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

During the Tang Dynasty, Liaodong was still under the jurisdiction of Lulong Jiedushi. When the Khitans rose, the local Bohai people defected to the Khitans. Later, when the Jurchens rose up and established the Jin Kingdom, the local Han people in Liaodong had been completely conquered by the Jurchens.
To be continued...