After the grassland blockade began, in less than half a month, a large number of grassland tribes began to unite.

It was the Ming Dynasty that forced them to unite.

The first and biggest impact of the Jiubian blockade was Bei Yuan.

Basically, most of the grassland territory that Beiyuan currently controls covers the borders of the Ming Dynasty, and the dependence of the Ming Dynasty here on the Ming Dynasty is also extremely strong.

Different from Uzang, that is, in the Western Region, the border area where the Northern Yuan Dynasty connected with the Ming Dynasty was directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty.

At this point, it seems extremely troublesome.

In fact, it is very difficult to completely close the blockade of the grassland. Smugglers can still enter the Western Region and then enter the grassland from the Western Region.

But this requires a detour to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. To put it simply, the distance is at least nearly three thousand miles.

Three thousand miles away, we have to detour through Uzang in the west and the Chagatai Khanate in the east. Which smuggler would be so brainless.

Therefore, it is difficult for Beiyuan to feel the danger at present.

In just half a month, 200,000 troops gathered south to attack the Ming Dynasty.

Liaodong Town.

It starts from Phoenix City in the east and ends at Shanhaiguan in the west, with a length of 1,950 miles.

Liaodong Town has the largest number of troops among the Nine Borders, and is also the place where the imperial court has the largest construction.

This is the front line of the fight against the grassland.

There is a complete defense system of the Liaodong Town Great Wall here.

The Great Wall of Liaodong disappeared during the Manqian period of the Ming Dynasty and is now an important defense against the grasslands.

The city defense system of Liaodong Town is divided into five levels: town city, road city, acropolis, suo city and fort city. There are two town cities, namely Liaoyang City and Guangning City.

There are five military garrison cities in the east, south, west, north and middle roads under the town, which is the road city.

Each city is in charge of twenty-five guards, with the full strength of each guard being 5,600 people. Some guards have established separate defensive acropolis, such as the famous Ningyuan Acropolis. There are 127 guards.

The city it relies on is Suocheng, which is small in scale.

The lowest level is the fort city, also called the fort, with one hundred and seven.

The total number of troops currently in Liaodong Town is about 200,000.

Just because this place is too important and the soldiers and generals are the most powerful, it is impossible for anyone to control it.

Even temporary restraint will be lifted immediately after the war.

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"This time Beiyuan's attack is quite menacing. There were 200,000 cavalry from the beginning. It seems that they really want to take over Liaodong Town."

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a bit of disdain.

Zhu Yingdao: "This time will definitely deal a huge blow to the grassland. It is also a lesson for the grassland. Let's see what happens in the future."

"But Sun'er guesses that Beiyuan will definitely ask for surrender from our Ming Dynasty, hoping to survive this cold winter in turn."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and then said: "That's what I think, but with his wild ambitions, we will never agree to surrender."

"According to the current situation, we only need to spend two or three years on Bei Yuan to severely weaken his vitality, and then destroy Bei Yuan. It will be a piece of cake."

Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was a little cold.

The Mongolian grassland has always been a worry for him, as can be seen from the guards on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that at Jiubian, nearly half of the Ming Dynasty's combat power was deployed there.

Countless labors are spent every year to repair the various fortifications on the nine sides.

So two hundred thousand cavalry sounds really scary, but can cavalry attack a city?

Especially the Ming and Liaodong Great Wall was a complete nightmare for the prairie cavalry.

The Great Wall of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty is actually not very high. In many places it is just a mound equivalent to two meters.

Basically, you can get through just by setting up a ladder.

But the defensive function of the Great Wall is not against people, but against horses.

How could the Mongols without horses compare with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty?

It was during the time when Zhu Yuanzhang and Da Sun were chatting.

Bei Yuan's attack on Ming Dynasty began.

The Mongols were naturally not fools. They would not use cavalry to attack the Great Wall. Instead, they would drive out a large number of slaves in advance to destroy the fortifications of the Great Wall.

As long as there is a gap in the defenses of the Great Wall, a large number of cavalry will naturally be able to pass quickly.

But the Great Wall is a very complete defense system, with side walls, piers, and beacon towers.

It was impossible to hide the gathering of the prairie cavalry from the Ming sergeants.

Not to mention that the temporary Liaodong Commander-in-Chief who was appointed this time was Lan Yu.

Lan Yu was very familiar with these old friends. When Fenghuo appeared, he immediately dispatched an army to intercept it.

When the grassland attacks the Great Wall, it will not be said that it is just in one place, but it will destroy many places at the same time.

The sergeants of the Ming Dynasty will be reminded by the beacon fire and smoke, and begin to respond.

At this time, the effect of artillery will actually be relatively small.

Because the movement speed of artillery is too slow, in the early stage of the war, the gunmen will still be the main ones.

And the war that is starting now is the first battle of the Fire Gunmen in the true sense.

Since the Gunpowder Department developed the matchlock gun, it has been committed to mass production.

Zhu Ying also provided a lot of ideas in this regard, such as segmented assembly.

Since the Gunpowder Department's monthly output was only one or two hundred guns last year, it has continuously invested money in expansion. Now, there are twelve factories manufacturing matchlocks under the Gunpowder Department alone.

At present, the output of Ming matchlocks has reached 4,000 per month.

Now in Liaodong Town, there are already 30,000 musketeers, already using matchlocks.

In the cold weather, the matchlock gun will not be greatly disturbed.

After all, when winter comes here in Liaodong, there is rarely any rain. In addition to the extremely cold weather, many soldiers from the mainland can't stand it.

The Beiyuan cavalry also had to face the same situation.

In the winter on the grassland, large-scale wars do not actually occur, but this year Beiyuan has no choice.

If there is no fight, more people may starve to death, and even the rule of Beiyuan will be greatly challenged.

Therefore, as soon as he received the news, the current Beiyuan Khan, Elbek, did not hesitate to launch an offensive against the Ming Dynasty.

On a certain section of the city wall, looking at the dense crowd in the distance, the Ming Dynasty sergeant on the wall looked very calm.

These slaves who came running were all in ragged clothes and as skinny as wood, and they were no different from those who were sent to death.

In fact, he was driven to death by the Beiyuan cavalry.

Behind the crowd were densely packed prairie cavalry, just watching.

"We have this matchlock gun in our hands. We don't want to practice it on weekdays. After all, the gunpowder is limited, and what we shoot out is valuable money."

"Brothers, please don't hold back today. Let me shoot as much as you want. But I've said it first. Don't let me shoot you blindly. This is the best opportunity for you to practice shooting."

"I'm aiming at them one by one, don't waste a single bullet."

Baihu roared loudly.

The supply of gunpowder in the army is very strict, and each household has its own quota.

Especially during combat, these consumption must be calculated.

As the crowd got closer and closer, the sergeants also became nervous, but without receiving instructions, they just nervously took out the fire certificates and prepared them.

Although the gunpowder has been granulated, there are still some reforms such as formulas.

But now the effective range of the matchlock gun is already within a hundred steps, which means it can kill within 100 meters.

Generally speaking, the start of shooting will be controlled within 80 meters. If it is too far away, the lethality will be very small.

Baihu looked at the slaves who were getting closer and closer. These slaves were still very afraid of the dark muzzles of the guns, but with the crowd behind them, there was no chance of retreating.

Even if they retreat, they will be mercilessly slaughtered by the prairie cavalry. For these slaves, their only way out is to break down the low Great Wall in front of them.

As long as you rush over, you will be free.

The noble master will not care about them, and even the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will not pay attention to them.

After the war is over, they can stay directly with Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army will give them a certain amount of food to give them the strength to carry out migration and resettlement.

For a long time, the Ming Dynasty's absorption of the grassland's population was not small even in terms of slaves.

Therefore, those who rush over will not die, but will live.
To be continued...