The Northern Expedition was very smooth, unexpectedly.

The battle in Shandong went very smoothly, the battle in Henan went very smoothly, and it also occupied Tongguan and locked the Yuan Dynasty to come eastward.

Then the army followed the canal and rushed to Dadu.

This is also the most critical battle.

The more you reach the last step, the more cautious you are.

Send troops to protect the canal and take three steps to the northern expedition. There is no problem overall, but there is a fatal flaw, that is, the canal.

The canal is the lifeline of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty. Once the Yuan Dynasty sent a cavalry south to cut off the canal, it only took three months to cut it off. The Northern Expedition Army would collapse due to lack of food and grass.

At the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang kept reminding the generals of all walks of life to continue to be steady and to continue to take steady steps. He warned the civil and military ministers that the way of generals was more important than being steadfast. He also emphasized that if the army drove to the city of Dadu and could not immediately break through Dadu, the food and grass would inevitably be difficult to sustain. At that time, reinforcements from all over the Yuan court came, and the army would not be able to advance or retreat, and would inevitably be destroyed!

In other words, as generals, you don’t need any strange plans or surprise attacks. You just need to be steady and good mistakes, and you will be the best victory.

The last step is also the most difficult step.

The winner is between five or five.

There will be three endings in the Metropolitan War.

In the first ending, the surrounding Yuan troops gathered and fought a major battle with the Ming army. The two sides fought together. The Ming army paid a huge price to defeat the Yuan Dynasty reinforcements and then capture Dadu.

In the second end, the Ming army marched straight into the city, facing the strong city wall, unable to conquer for a long time, lacked food and grass, exhausted soldiers, and low morale. The Yuan Dynasty army came to rescue, and the army had to retreat, and the Northern Expedition failed.

The third ending was that the Ming army besieged Dadu and could not attack for a long time. Then it was attacked by Yuan Dynasty reinforcements, and the entire army was destroyed. The Northern Expedition went completely bankrupt and could only be the Southern Song Dynasty.

All three endings are possible.

Zhu Yuanzhang was nervous and uneasy, so he could only keep planning and try his best to get closer to the Northern Expedition plan by relying on the first ending.

As a result, many people's eyes fell all over the ground.

Emperor Shun of Yuan ran away, left Dadu directly and ran outside the border.

Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless.

I thought that I would fight a Metropolitan War, but I thought that the Ming army would need to die in order to conquer the Metropolitan War; I thought that the Metropolitan War would be very hard to fight.

I thought that if a careless person was not careful, the Ming army would defeat the war.

As a result, before the war started, Emperor Shun of Yuan ran away, and the Metropolitan War had not begun, and they all ended.

What's this?

"Why did Emperor Shun of Yuan run away?" Zhu Yuanzhang said inexplicably: "The capital of the Yuan Dynasty is solid and can be held for at least one year! But Emperor Shun of Yuan, why did Emperor Shun of Yuan run away? I can't figure it out."

Xiang Yu said: "The Yuan army is corrupt and dare not fight tough battles. Emperor Shun of Yuan is not willing to do so, comparable to Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, and Jin Aizong!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said excitedly: "Once you occupy Dadu, use Dadu as the strategic fulcrum to attack Shanxi, attack Liaodong, or attack the grasslands in the north, it will be too beneficial to us... But this will kill Wang Baobao from Shanxi! The Yuan Dynasty was powerful in the internal struggle. If there was no internal struggle, our northern expedition would be much more difficult!"

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The capture of Dadu is not the end of the Northern Expedition, but the beginning.

There is the Yuan army in Yunnan, the Li Siqi Yuan army in Shaanxi, the Wang Baobao Yuan army in Shanxi and Gansu, the Huda Yuan army in Datong, the large Yuan army in Inner Mongolia, and the large Yuan army in Liaodong. These Yuan army are known as one million string control personnel.

These remaining troops of the Yuan Dynasty were mainly cavalry; the Ming army was mainly infantry and navy. Although there were some firearms, the power of the firearms was limited.

In addition, the Ming army was mainly soldiers from the south, and in terms of physicality and combat effectiveness, they were not as good as soldiers from the north.

The same number of Ming army and Yuan army confronted each other, and the Ming army was not the opponent.

In addition, there were a large number of Han landlords in the north who were loyal to the Yuan Dynasty and determined to fight against the Ming army... The Northern Expedition was not as smooth as in history books.

In historical books, the so-called victory of the Northern Expedition is only a few hundred words.

But in real history, soldiers need to pay their lives one by one, and the blood will fight.

In the eyes of later generations, the most difficult thing for Zhu Yuanzhang to fight was the Battle of Poyang Lake, and then the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and destroy the Yuan Dynasty was easy.

But in the battle of Poyang Lake, winning depends on luck and luck;

But it is very difficult to win the Northern Expedition and destroy the Yuan Dynasty later. Every step forward requires a large number of soldiers to fall down, fight with blood and fight with their lives.

On the way to the Northern Expedition, too many Ming soldiers fell.

Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition was also the only successful one among the Northern Expeditions of all dynasties.

Those who say that Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition were easy to look down on Zhu Yuanzhang or those martyrs who failed in the Northern Expedition in the past dynasties.

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In Shanxi, Xu Da fought against Wang Baobao, defeated first and then won.

During the decisive battle, Wang Baobao's 100,000 troops were all destroyed, but he fled with hundreds of cavalry.

In this battle, Xu Da successfully occupied Shanxi.

When the news reached Yingtian, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed.

With Shanxi as a barrier, Peking has become stable.

But everyone ignored it.

Although Wang Baobao's army was destroyed, the Ming Dynasty also lost 150,000 troops and needed repairs in urgent need of war.

The Yuan army is not a waste, but has strong combat power.

The Ming army fought very hard.

In some battles, the Yuan army fought with the Ming army, and after the war, more soldiers died than the Yuan army.

But the Yuan army would find that if such victory was fought several times in a row, the Yuan army would fight all the best.

The Yuan army not only could not afford to lose, but even win.

The more you win, the greater your own losses, and the more you can't bear it.

"Wang Baobao is a strange man. If he comes to surrender, he will be a prince!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

But Xiang Yu muttered in his heart, saying big talk and empty talk.

It’s like, if you haven’t slept in front of that beauty, you will say that the beauty is so beautiful, one sweet, one sweet, but after slept in the beauty, you will slept in the bitch and kicked out of bed.

He began to enthrone many heroes.

At this moment, Xiang Yu came to say goodbye.

"Why don't you leave your own wealth together?" Zhu Yuanzhang said reluctantly.

"No!"

Xiang Yu said, "I want to live in seclusion in Mount Hua, don't think too much!"

Xiang Yu said again: "Even if the cavalry in the Yuan Dynasty is powerful and Wang Baobao is powerful, you have millions of military households as the foundation and no one is the opponent. Even if Bai Qi is reborn and Han Xin is reincarnated, he is not the opponent at all. This is the victory of the system."

"There are land in military households, so I will naturally support you. But as the number of people in my family increases and the land does not increase, it will inevitably lead to difficulties in life. The military household system will not have a big problem within a hundred years, but it is hard to say after a hundred years!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "It would be good if the military household system can last for a hundred years. These days, I thought about the Yuan Dynasty officials who joined forces to bully Wang Baobao after the death of King Ruyang; and Mao Gui was also good at governing the country and established the Shandong base of the Red Turban Army, but they were killed; Xu Shouhui did a good job, but was killed by Chen Youliang!"

"Now that I am the emperor, I can't sleep. I often worry about waking up the next day, Xu Da killed me and became the emperor; or in other words, Chang Yuchun killed me and became the emperor!"

"Thinking about my Ming Dynasty, I won't die in the second lifetime. As long as I can persevere until a hundred years later, it's great!"

"A hundred years later, naturally, there will be children and grandchildren who think about it, and I can't take care of that far away!"

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