"Your Highness, it seems that these Mongols are coming for Wild Wolf Castle?" Luo Guanzhong came to report to Zhu Han after some investigation.
It turned out that the Ming army's fortress tactics had worked. The Mongolian tribes around Wild Wolf Castle could not graze in peace and were worried about being attacked by the Ming army at any time. So they asked Wang Baobao for help and asked for 3,000 Mongolian soldiers and horses to unite with a group of Mongolians nearby.
The tribe wants to break through the Wild Wolf Fort.
After all, Wild Wolf Castle doesn't look that tall, and it seems that the Mongols can break through it with a single charge.
"Haha, the Tatars are here to die. How many troops do they have?" Zhu Han looked outside the fortress and saw the Mongols looking arrogant.
"Reporting to His Royal Highness, the Mongols who invaded this time totaled about 10,000 people. They were all equipped with Mongolian scimitars, bows and arrows, as well as shields, spears, and armor. They even had many siege weapons.
Ladder?" Luo Guanzhong said.
Zhu Han said with a smile: "Huh! They came just in time to allow us to train our troops."
Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing and others were secretly surprised when they saw Zhu Han being so confident.
This Wild Wolf Fort was only one foot high, and the Ming Dynasty's garrison was no more than a thousand people. Zhu Han didn't panic at all, but was full of confidence, which made them confused.
However, Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing and other generals did not ask, but chose to remain silent.
The general of the Mongolian and Yuan army outside the city was Wang Baobao's younger brother Alu Timur. When he saw that the Ming army's Wild Wolf Fort was only one foot high, he immediately ordered the Mongolian army to attack without giving Ming army reinforcements a chance to rescue.
The Mongolian army soon surrounded it from all directions.
And began to concentrate their efforts to attack the fortress fiercely.
But they underestimated the Ming army's defensive capabilities.
There were many artillery pieces inside the fortress. While the enemy was attacking, the artillery pieces fired at the Mongolian army.
"Bang bang bang..." There were loud noises, deafening, and the shells hit the Mongolian army one after another. Thick smoke spread out and covered the sky.
The front army composed of Mongolian herdsmen suddenly fell into chaos and was in chaos, unable to organize an attack at all.
At this time, the lookout post at the top of the fortress immediately shouted, and then a dense barrage of muskets was fired from the city wall, killing and wounding a large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses in an instant.
When Aru Timur outside the city saw this scene in front of him, his face suddenly changed color!
He never expected that this Wild Wolf Castle would be so powerful!
However, he quickly calmed down and decided to personally lead his soldiers to attack.
There were five hundred people around Aru Timur. These five hundred people followed Aru Timur in his expeditions north and south, and they were considered the elite among the elite.
These five hundred people rode on tall horses and charged with Aru Timur. They held scimitars in hand and galloped towards the Wild Wolf Castle. As long as they rushed to the bottom of the fortress, they could use ladders to climb up to the low level.
Low walls, capture this fortress.
However, when they were still more than ten meters away from Wild Wolf Castle, the Ming Army musketeers in Wild Wolf Castle suddenly raised their heads, raised their matchlocks, and fired at the cavalry on Alu Timur's side.
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Just bursts of gunfire were heard, and Mongolian cavalry kept falling in a pool of blood.
However, Aru Timur did not care about these casualties at all, and he continued to lead the cavalry to charge towards Wolf Castle.
Finally, Aru Timur led five hundred cavalry and rushed to a distance of only seven or eight steps from the city wall. This distance was enough for them.
Aru Timur led his soldiers to dismount and use ladders to climb towards the fortress.
When Zhu Han saw this, he smiled contemptuously. He waved his hand and ordered the defenders' artillery to start firing.
"Rumble..."
From the tower of Wild Wolf Castle, artillery shells continued to fly out one after another.
At this moment, the Mongolian cavalry truly realized the power of firearms. Cannonballs hit the Mongols one after another, leaving corpses scattered all over the ground.
"Retreat!" Aru Timur shouted.
At this time, the Mongolian army thought of retreating, but it was already too late. Hundreds of musketeers appeared in the Wild Wolf Castle and opened fire on the fleeing Mongolians.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Aru Timur turned around and wanted to escape.
But it was too late, a shotgun hit him in the back of the head, killing him instantly.
The rest of the Mongolian cavalry were not much better. Although they luckily escaped the musket fire, they were still blown up or shot dead by the Ming army's artillery.
The Mongolian army suffered heavy losses. In the end, less than half of the people escaped, and basically all the remaining people were killed.
At this time, the Mongolian troops outside the city saw this and immediately turned around and ran away.
Meng Yuan's sneak attack on Changfu this time originally wanted to pull out these Ming army's fortress strongholds on the grassland, but they never expected that the Ming army's defense would be so strong. Those inconspicuous fortresses had such powerful
The firepower not only caused them a bloody blow, but also killed one of the generals, Alu Timur.
After getting this news, the entire Meng Yuan was trembling with fear. No one dared to think that Yingchang Mansion would launch an attack. Even Wang Baobao could only endure it after knowing the situation. With such a bad breath, he ordered his generals not to attack.
It is easy to launch another attack on the Ming army in Monanglia.
As a result, the entire Mongolian tribes on the Monan grassland were almost abandoned by the Mongolian and Yuan court. They quickly changed their original stance and began to surrender to the Ming army.
After Zhu Han learned of this situation, he immediately ordered Luo Guanzhong, Zhou Dexing and others to quickly expand this kind of fortress on the grassland.
It's just that this kind of fortress requires a lot of soldiers and horses to be garrisoned. Each fortress must have at least two to three hundred people. If you want to build enough fortresses on the entire Monan Grassland, you must deploy enough soldiers.
A mere 10,000 soldiers were simply unable to meet Zhu Han's plan to completely control the grassland.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient soldiers, Zhu Han immediately wrote a letter to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang, requesting that some of the military households in the Huaixi area of Henan be allocated to the Peiping Dusi to serve. The conditions offered to these recruits were very generous.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, military households are stationed on the grassland, and it is impossible to have the land originally owned by each military household, so their military pay levels can only be greatly increased.
You must know that there are many children of military households in Huaixi, but they have not inherited the status of military households.
Their way out is a big problem.
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Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou Prefecture.
Li Shan is seventeen years old this year, and his father Li Sanming was once a member of Guo Zixing's Red Scarf Army.
First, he followed the commander-in-chief Guo Zixing in Haozhou, and later he joined the current emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. As Guo Zixing's old tribe was incorporated, Li Shan's father became a military household.
Unfortunately, less than a year passed.
Li Shan's father died gloriously in battle, and Li Shan's eldest brother inherited the position of the military household, which was the 150 acres of work land, 64 acres of tax land, and the rest of the mounts, pack horses, armor
The stomach, bow and arrows, etc. all belong to the elder brother.
Li Shan and another brother.
Except for a piece of clothing and two houses, I didn't get anything at all.
There is no other way. According to the laws of military households in the Ming Dynasty, the jobs of military households and soldiers are not allowed to be split and inherited.
Because a military soldier's job field is the source of most of his supplies when he is on an expedition.
If a soldier's land was split up, there would only be twenty or thirty acres left, and it would be impossible to support the expenses of weapons, grain, pack horses, and leather armor.
Therefore, according to the inheritance laws in the Military Household Law, Li Shan's elder brother became a wealthy military household soldier.
Li Shan and his second brother became ownerless.
On the outskirts of Xuzhou City, there is a garden with ten large houses, where Li Shan lives now.
This is the house of his eldest brother Li Zhong, who belongs to a hundred military households in Xuzhou.
Today, the eldest brother Li Zhong went to Xuzhou City.
I heard that I was going to listen to the latest military orders.
"Lao San, I can't survive this day!"
As soon as Li Shan lay down on the broken bed in his room, he heard a burst of shouting from outside.
This voice was none other than that of his second brother Li Yi.
As soon as the voice fell, a short, stocky man with a dark face pushed open the wooden door and barged in.
"Second brother, what's going on? Why can't you live your life so well?"
Li Shan stood up slowly and asked.
They were from a military family with mud-legged backgrounds, and there were very few red tapes between brothers.
Naturally, they are carefree in their dealings with each other.
"snort!"
When Li Yi heard this, he spat very angrily.
"What else can there be!"
"That woman who is not the boss is really hateful."
"Today's work arrangements have treated you and me like tenants, and they have to charge us for our meals!"
"Have you, this bitch, forgotten that our father founded this family?"
After Li Yi said this, he picked up the coarse porcelain bowl on the table and took two swigs of low-quality rice wine.
Li Shan frowned when he heard his second brother's words.
He was really in trouble.
Now in this family, the boss is already in charge.
No.
It cannot be said that he is the master of the house.
This family belongs completely to the boss Li Zhong.
Li Shan and his second brother Li Yi, according to the Ming Dynasty's military household laws, the children who have not obtained the inheritance rights of military households must all serve as auxiliary soldiers in the family if they want to continue to stay in the family.
Once there is a war, these auxiliary soldiers are used as 'cannon fodder' for the regular soldiers.
Moreover, it is difficult for auxiliary soldiers to get the opportunity to go into battle and gain military merit.
Even if there is a chance, most of the credit must go to the regular soldiers.
In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the military households of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang had long ago agreed to give very preferential treatment to their military households.
"Second brother, I told you, wouldn't this happen sooner or later? Do you deserve to be so angry?" Li Shan said with a nonchalant look.
His sister-in-law is the wife of his eldest brother Li Zhong.
She is just a woman in her twenties, seventeen or eight years old, with rough hands and feet.
She was originally the daughter of a butcher in Haozhou City. Although she had not read any books, she was very thoughtful.
Brothers Li Yi and Li Shan, although they have the title of two auxiliary soldiers in this family.
But I eat more and do less.
The boss's wife has long wanted to kick them out of the house.
However, the boss, Li Zhong, always refused due to brotherly feelings.
"We are all biological brothers. It is too much for the eldest daughter-in-law to do this!"
Li Yi said angrily.
"Biological brother?"
Li Shan sneered when he heard this.
"So what if we are biological brothers? Now the boss is a military household. He has errands, property, and the opportunity to be rewarded for his meritorious service in the future."
"What do we brothers have? We can only send our names here to avoid paying taxes for two quarters of the year."
Brothers Li Yi and Li Shan are called auxiliary soldiers in this family.
However, they neither wanted to farm cattle or horses, nor did they want to associate with the slaves at home.
It's almost like eating free rice.
Naturally, he was not welcomed by the eldest daughter-in-law.
"Oh, we brothers have to find a way out!"
Li Yi sighed and said.
"Whatever way out, this way has already been given to the boss."
Li Shan said depressedly.
"Our brothers are also skilled in martial arts, not much worse than the boss. It's just that we lack the reputation of a soldier. As long as there is a way, why can't we get a reputation?" Li Yi said, patting his chest.
"In this day and age, is there any good way out?"
Li Shan sighed, and then continued.
"If you want to get ahead, you can either study, take the imperial examination, and then become an official, or you can become a soldier and lead the army with merit."
"But we two brothers are not the seeds of studying at all. It is impossible to rely on studying."
"If you want to be a military household, there are already 100,000 military households all over the world. It's hard to be a military household even if you're overwhelmed."
When Li Yi heard this, he felt sad in his heart.
Today's military households in the Ming Dynasty are not the same as before.
In the past, as long as you joined the army, you would basically be a soldier with a household of at least 100 acres of land.
However, in the past two years, the number of military households and soldiers in the world has almost been reached.
If ordinary people want to become a military household, it will take a lot of effort, and it is not easier than taking the imperial examination.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Even the conditions for recruiting soldiers are very demanding.
"Never mind him, no matter what, we brothers are here drinking and eating meat every day. Anyway, what we eat and drink is the boss's family wealth. He doesn't feel bad, and we are not worried!"
Li Shan said.
However, this kind of life is not a long-term solution.
It will probably become increasingly difficult to live under someone else's roof.
The two brothers just sat across from each other in the room drinking.
I drank until the sun was past noon and I was about to look for lunch before I gave up.
At this time, four large wine jars were already empty on the ground.
"Second brother! But in the house?"
While the two were lost in the lake, a soft female voice came over.
The sound came from outside.
"who?"
Li Shanmi stood up with wide eyes and walked out of the room.
I saw an eighteen or nineteen-year-old woman standing outside the door.
Although this woman is not a beautiful woman, she becomes more and more attractive the more you look at her.
Especially the plump upper body and twisted waist made Li Shan take one look at it, and his heart was beating wildly.
"Hey, Yueniang, why do you come to see us?"
Li Shan asked with a smile.
A pair of eyes kept looking at the woman's figure.
When Yueniang saw this, there was a look of disgust on her face.
She took half a step back, avoiding Li Shan's naked gaze.
"The master is back and wants you two to meet him."
"The boss is back?" Li Shan was surprised when he heard it.
In the past, the training of military households and soldiers lasted at least one or two days.
Why did you come back in less than a day?
Could it be?
Did he know that he peeped at Yueniang's bath the day before yesterday?
Anyway, no matter what the matter is, today is bound to be scolded by the boss.
Li Shan couldn't help but feel flustered, and the second brother Li Yi next to him was not much better.
The second eldest child, Li Yi, also looked extremely ugly.
You can tell at a glance that he must have done a lot of unscrupulous things.
The two came to the front yard and met the boss of the Li family.
The boss, Li Zhong, who was sitting in the front seat, had a panoramic view of the expressions of the two brothers.
Li Zhong couldn't help but burst into laughter and tears.
These two younger brothers are both naughty and rogue.
Especially after they inherited their father's military status, both of them gradually became more and more resentful.
"In the past two years, you two have worked hard in this family. It can be said that you have both merit and hard work."
When Li Yi and Li Shan heard this, they immediately felt uncomfortable.
Is the boss saying this to ridicule himself, or is he sincere?
"Brother, don't say that. Isn't that what you should do to contribute to your own family?!" Li Shan said pretending to be generous.
Li Zhong was not angry at all when he saw this.
"Yes, yes, you should give it to your own family."
"However, both of you are very capable. Unfortunately, there is no way to enter the army. It is really unfair to be an auxiliary here."
"Brother, what do you mean by this?" Li Shan's face fell.
"Boss, do you want the Dusi government to remove us from our status as auxiliary soldiers?" Li Yi looked unhappy.
When Li Zhong heard this, he shook his hand.
"Where have you two been thinking of going?"
"How could I ask the Dusi government to remove you two from your status? In that case, wouldn't it mean that you would be driven away by the tax corvee every day?"
Although the Ming Dynasty has risen, the lives of ordinary people have not yet become better.
Ordinary people pay taxes twice a year, and do corvée for dozens of days, or other miscellaneous labor.
This situation is the result of Emperor Hongwu's "recuperation" in recent years.
Compared with the life of military households in the Ming Dynasty, the common people had a much harder time.
"Then what do you mean?" Li Yi asked with a frown.
"Haha, of course it's a good thing."
The boss Li Zhong then told what happened today.
"You don't know yet."
"The British King's Peking Branch has issued a military order to set up twelve guards in Peiping and recruit soldiers from Henan, Huainan and Jiangbei. The imperial court will provide official salaries and all other military equipment will be allocated by the imperial court."
"Future military merit lords will all be the same as military households."
Hearing this, Li Yi and Li Shan were both surprised and happy.
I was shocked, why would we recruit troops for such a good thing? Shouldn't it have been crowded with people long ago, and it would be overcrowded?
I'm glad that because of this method, my martial arts can have a future.
"Brother, where will the twelve guards be stationed?" Li Yi asked.
"Haha, they are all in Peiping. If there is a war in the future, they will be moved according to military orders." Li Zhong said.
Li Yi and Li Shan looked happy again when they heard this.
After the two looked at each other, they continued to ask.
"Great, Peking is a good place. If you work there, you can make a lot of money." Li Yi said eagerly.
"Yes, Peiping was the original capital of the Mongolian Tatars. What a great place! The surrounding job fields are very beautiful when you think about it." Li Shan also said.
"Ahem, you two may have misunderstood." Li Zhong cleared his throat in embarrassment.
"It's bad?"
"What's the mistake?"
Li Yi and Li Shan were both stunned.
"The recruitment of soldiers for the Twelve Guards in Peking is all provided with salary and official positions. As for the job fields, there is no job field." Li Zhong said.
"No job field?"
"How is it possible that there is no job field?"
Li Yi and Li Shan both refused to believe it.
"Oh, you two don't even think about it. The fertile land in various places has been divided up long ago, and the remaining wasteland also needs time to be cultivated."
"Besides, the surrounding area of Peiping is such a good place, how can there be any free land to divide the fields?"
"These twelve guards are all given generous salaries, which are actually no worse than job fields."
Li Zhong's words finally made them feel better.
"Brother, how much is the salary for recruiting troops for the Twelve Guards in Peiping?" Li Yi asked.
"Thirty yuan!" Li Zhong stretched out three fingers and said.
However, these words made his two younger brothers look confused.
"What? Thirty yuan?"
"What's round and square?"
Li Yi and Li Shan were both full of doubts.
"Thirty silver dollars, that is, thirty silver coins."
Li Zhong said.
He took out a money bag from his arms.
Wow!
With a soft sound, he poured out all the money in the bag.
I saw a pile of white flowers and round silver coins rolling out.
"See, this is the silver dollar."
Li Zhong raised a silver dollar and said.
"The Ming Dynasty discovered the silver mountain on the Japanese island. In the future, all the coins in the world will gradually be replaced by this silver coin."
"Oh, it's also called a silver dollar."
"One is one dollar, and the recruitment of soldiers in Peking is thirty silver dollars a month, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of dollars."
"If you think about it, it's much better than a hundred acres of Susukino fields."
"Besides, I don't have to worry about harvesting the crops in my field. I can always have thirty silver coins every month. Isn't it wonderful?"
“What’s great about working in a farm is that you not only have to manage planting and harvesting, but you also have to protect yourself from insects and rats, and you also have to protect your home from predators and thieves.
"
When Li Zhong said this, he suddenly felt a little bald and quickly closed his mouth.
"This is the silver dollar!"
"Sure enough, this silver coin is more comfortable to hold in your hand than copper coins!"
Li Yi and Li Shan grabbed a handful of silver coins one after another.
When they were in a gambling stall in the city, they heard someone mention that Yingtian Mansion had issued money.
Unexpectedly, not long after this, I would actually hold it in my hand.
"Hahaha, as long as you two like it, go back and tidy up today. In two days, you can go to Peiping with the people from Dusi Mansion." Li Zhong said with a smile.
"What? Going to Peking?"
"I haven't agreed yet!"
Although Li Yi and Li Shan like the free money, they haven't agreed yet.
After all, they thought they should take another look at whether this matter was reliable.
"Hey, you don't have to agree to this." Li Zhong said with a 'honest' smile.
"Now that my father is no longer here, if we miss this good thing called elder brother like father, it will be gone."
"So, I have agreed to the military mansion in Xincai City today on your behalf."
Li Yi and Li Shan were both surprised and their mouths widened.
For a moment, neither of them knew how to deal with this problem.
"Well, these silver coins in your hands are the settling-in allowances paid in advance by Dusi Mansion."
"Everyone has twenty silver coins. If they were exchanged for copper coins in Xuzhou City, they would have nearly ten thousand coins."
Li Zhong said and took out two more paper envelopes from his arms.
"Also, here are your military registration documents."
"You each take it. With this thing, when you get to Peking, you can be directly admitted to the Twelve Guards without having to assess your skills or family background."
Li Yi and Li Shan were stunned and took the two paper envelopes.
Then, each of them put the money into their arms.
He was so confused that he was 'sold' by his eldest brother Li Zhong.
When they heard that it had been registered in Dusi Mansion, they didn't dare to fall out rashly.
Who knows if it will cause big trouble?
Two days later.
When Li Yi and Li Shan took their luggage with them, they went to Peiping along with other Xuzhou warriors.
The Yinshan Mountains border the Yellow River to the south and the Great Wall to the north.
Tall mountains divide the north and south sides into completely different scenes.
To the north of Yinshan Mountain is endless grassland and desert.
In the south of Yinshan Mountain, in addition to grassland, there is also land suitable for farming.
What later generations called the fortress south of the Yangtze River was the two sides of the Yellow River south of the Yinshan Mountains.
A dilapidated city stands beside the Yellow River. This was Xingzhongfu, the capital of the Western Xia Dynasty.
"Xingzhong Fucheng is already so dilapidated. If we build it again, I'm afraid it won't be possible in half a year."
Xu Da looked at the broken city wall in the distance and said with some disappointment.
Since the end of the Western Xia Dynasty, the Mongols have been aggressively invading the south.
Later, when Xixia was destroyed, Xingzhong Prefecture was directly abandoned.
By the time Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty.
The Mongols established the Ningxia Prefecture here and began to slowly repair the city wall.
"Don't worry, Commander. We have captured so many Tatar prisoners this time and let them work as coolies to build the city wall. We can build a city in three months at the earliest." Deputy Commander Chang Yuchun said.
After Xu Da returned to the northwest, he led the Ming army to launch continuous attacks on the grassland. He led 30,000 Ming troops to divide into two groups and attack from Xi'an City. After sweeping away the Wanggu tribe near Yinshan Mountain, he had already captured tens of thousands of prisoners.
, as for cattle and sheep, there are as many as one hundred thousand.
However, these captured Wanggu people only knew how to herd and rob. If they were used to build cities, Xu Da would really not be worried about the quality.
"I don't know if these prisoners of Wang Gu tribe are qualified for the job. If they delay the construction of Ningxia city defense, I'm afraid it will delay important events."
In the spring of the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang sent an order from Yingtian.
The Ming Dynasty wanted to build a strong city in Ningxia to block the southward path of the grassland Tatars.
Because Wang Baobao, the Mongolian Taishi who was entrenched in the grassland, had entangled a large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses, he was ready for a war to break out at any time.
In order to ensure the success of the war, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Zhu Han and Xu Da to lead the army to act together.
Among them, the main force of the northward attack is still the Peking Dusi Army and the Liaodong Army led by Zhu Han, while the troops led by Xu Da only need to be stationed in the Ningxia Prefecture area to defend and cooperate immediately.
The order Xu Da received was to build a new city on the old site of Ningxia City as a base camp to intimidate the Mongols near Yinshan Mountain.
"If you dig the earth to build a city, you can't do such a simple thing, and there will be no need for those ancient Wang people to keep them." Chang Yuchun said.
Chang Yuchun has always been known to be cruel to prisoners of war.
If it hadn't been for Xu Da's decision this time, Chang Yuchun would have killed all the Wanggu tribe members long ago.
"Commander, your Majesty's intention is to use this new Ningxia city to intimidate the surrounding Mongolian tribes. If during the process of building the city, the tribes can be feared and convinced, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort." Chang Yuchun suddenly said again.
said.
"Do twice the result with half the effort? What do you mean?" Xu Da didn't understand what he said.
"We have captured too many prisoners of the Wanggu tribe this time. If we don't give them any strength and let them go, who knows whether they will be released."
Chang Yuchun exposed his ruthlessness with just one opening of his mouth.
His plan was to take advantage of the opportunity of building Ningxia City to consume at least half of these prisoners and reduce the Wanggu tribe's population as much as possible.
In this way, the city of Ningxia, built with the blood of captives, was enough to scare the surrounding Mongolian tribes into obeying orders.
Anyway, Chang Yuchun has already understood that the tougher the method to deal with these Wanggu people, the better.
Chang Yuchun's words really spoke to Xu Da's heart.
Although the imperial court re-established Xiliang Prefecture and Ningxia Prefecture.
However, these two places have been occupied by the Mongols for a long time, and Han people occupy a very small proportion.
Xu Da had to establish his prestige in the shortest possible time so that the surrounding ministries would not dare to act rashly.
"Okay, then bring all the prisoners up and let them dig out the soil. At least build the wall foundation of Ningxia New City before it rains."
Xu Da immediately nodded in agreement.
The tens of thousands of Wang Gu tribe prisoners who were captured by him are now following behind the army.
The horses of these Wanggu people have been confiscated, and there is no fear of them escaping.
Without horses on the grassland, it is like losing legs.
Even if they fled to other tribes on foot, the fate of these people was to become slaves of other tribes.
The grasslands are not a place for kindness.
Therefore, when Xu Da and the two men expressed to these Wanggu captives that they would spare their lives and not assign them to be slaves, but would stay here directly to build the city wall, almost all the Wanggu people burst into tears of gratitude.
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This situation was far beyond Xu Da's expectations.
They had already ordered their Ming troops to prepare swords and guns. If they encountered anyone who dared to oppose them, they would immediately kill them on the spot.
"Commander, besides asking us to build the city here, do you have any other orders?" A leading prisoner from the Wanggu tribe had the courage to ask Xu Da.
Seeing this, Xu Da said slowly.
"Building the city is the order now. Other orders will be given later."
When the leading prisoners heard this, they all looked surprised.
"General, is this true?"
"Of course it's true. What I said, the general, is certainly true." Xu Da's heart was full of doubts.
The leading prisoners immediately fell to their knees in surprise.
He kept shouting words of gratitude and kowtow to Xu Da to express his gratitude.
Xu Da looked confused and turned to look at Chang Yuchun.
Chang Yuchun also looked puzzled.
What the two of them had just imagined was that if these prisoners were to be used as coolies to die, half of them might have to be wiped out.
However, these Wanggu captives all looked grateful, which is really puzzling.
Chang Yuchun immediately sent someone to interrogate him, and then finally understood the whole story.
"These people turned out to be more afraid of other tribes than the Ming Dynasty."
"What do you mean by this?"
"These captives said that if they fell into the hands of other tribes, they would be completely slaves. Not only would their wealth and life be not guaranteed, but their wives and children would no longer belong to them and would be given to other people.
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"So, these Wanggu captives did not find it surprising that they were punished as coolies for building the city, and it was a surprise that their wives and children were not forced to separate."
These captives can still stay with their wives and children. With women and children tied to them, these captives will get into a lot of trouble even if they want to run away.
With these prisoners building the city wall, Ningxia City soon took shape.
Xu Da and Chang Yuchun built a strong fortress with Ningxia Mansion as the center, and the surrounding land for hundreds of miles was controlled by the Ming army.
In addition, Zhu Han won a great victory in Yingchang Mansion. Although the tribes in the entire Monan Grassland were dissatisfied with the Ming army, they could only express their submission honestly.
A large area of land from Ningxia City to the north to the foot of Yinshan Mountain was reclaimed by Xu Da and became army farmland.
These military farmland are sown with the latest high-yielding crop seeds provided by Zhu Han.
Xu Da had already estimated the fertility of these lands. After the autumn harvest, the harvest in Ningxia Prefecture alone could meet the food needs of 100,000 Ming soldiers.
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in Ningxia Prefecture no longer had to waste manpower in transporting grain and grass from the Central Plains.
