Although Wang Xian was not an expert in military affairs, he was still familiar with the map of this expedition. Qinhu Mountain was located in Mongolia in later generations. It is said that Mahamu's lair was in the more distant Hulan Huwenwen.
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, is a place that future generations would consider far away even by plane, but half a million Ming troops had to walk there and defeat powerful enemies. Just thinking about it, it’s incredible, but this similarity
This crazy move was repeated again and again by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, no less than five times.
Without such a chapter of the Long March that transcends the epic, without this kind of courage to march thousands of miles to Huanglong, how can we subdue the rebellious Mongols? Let the Outer Xing'an Mountains become the slaves of the Ming Dynasty?
Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers did it, and Zhu Di and his soldiers also did it. That's why the Ming Dynasty has this prosperous era when all nations come to court and the four seas are united.
"During the emperor's last expedition to the north, he left an imperial inscription on the mountain. The Hanhai Sea is the barge, the Tianshan Mountains are the hoe, and the dust is swept away, and the desert is forever clear. It is so majestic that your highness should pay homage to it." The one who spoke.
He is a eunuch with a duck voice. There is no shortage of eunuchs around the grandson, but this eunuch is very different from the other eunuchs. He is tall, with copper skin and iron bones. He wears a battle robe and looks majestic. During the nearly two months of journey,
It doesn't seem to have any influence on him. Apart from the fact that he doesn't have a beard, he is simply more manly than Wang Xian and the others.
"Yes, you must go and see it." Zhu Zhanji was fascinated and said with a smile: "Uncle Bao, let's go up the mountain now."
It was unimaginable in any dynasty that the grand grandson actually called this eunuch his uncle. Only in the Ming Dynasty, it was a matter of course for Zhu Zhanji. Because this eunuch was an old friend of Zhu Di's, and his original name was Bao'er.
Not only have I watched him grow up since childhood, but during the Battle of Jingnan, he also fought with Zheng He and Wang Yan, and made great military exploits. After he became a king, Zheng He became an internal official, eunuch, and Wang Yan.
As the eunuch of Shang Baojian, this uncle Li Qian became the eunuch of Yumajian.
Before the Yongle Dynasty, the Yumajian was the one who raised horses. However, in the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Di ordered to select strong men from various military posts and Mongolian tribes to form a branch of the Yulin Army.
The forbidden soldiers of the Guard are not affiliated with the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, nor are they affiliated with the Pro-Army Commander's Office, but are under the supervision of Yuma
It is not surprising that the emperor handed over his personal guard to the supervision of the eunuch. Because the people Zhu Di trusted most were not the civil servants, the ministers who fought with him in the world, or even his sons, but these loyal eunuchs. This time
Although Zhu Di wanted to take his grandson on an expedition, he knew too much about the shady secrets of the battlefield. He was afraid that something might happen to his heir, so he sent his most trusted eunuch to serve as a supervisor in the young army to prevent anyone from cheating his grandson.
As soon as Li Qian arrived at the military camp, he replaced Wang Xian as the second-in-command of the young army. Moreover, this old eunuch may be incompatible with Wang Xian and was particularly difficult to deal with. Whenever Wang Xian spoke, he was criticized as worthless.
Xian saw that Taisun obviously believed in the old eunuch more, and he was really not good at military affairs, so he just shut up and let them make decisions. He only focused on taking care of the soldiers.
At this moment, Zhu Zhanji was aroused by Li Qian to climb the mountain, and he excitedly said to Wang Xian: "Let's go together?
"I don't have a body as good as His Highness's, so I can't stand still even when I'm moving." Wang Xian said with a wry smile.
Before he finished speaking, he saw Li Qian's sinister eyes sweeping over, and Wang Xian asked helplessly: "What did I say wrong again?"
"Who taught you the rules? You can call yourself 'I' in front of His Highness? You should call yourself 'Chen,'" Li Qian said coldly: "And in front of our family, you can't call yourself 'I', but a human being.
."
"Okay, the villain is wrong. I'm tired. Your Highness and your father-in-law should go hiking." Wang Xian had lost his temper by him, so he could only admit his mistake feebly.
Eunuch Li then let him go and went hiking with Zhu Zhanji. Looking at their retreating figures, Wang Xian shook his head helplessly.
"Don't mind, military advisor." Chen Wu, Zhu Zhanji's personal eunuch, suffered from horse sores and was lying on the cart unable to ride. Naturally, he did not follow him. He comforted Wang Xian and said: "Eunuch Li's name was Bao'er when he was in the dormitory, and Bao'er was Tai.
Sun is Lin'er. He has watched His Highness Taisun grow up since he was a child, so the relationship between the two of them is naturally extraordinary." He sighed and said, "I don't know if it is for this reason, but Eunuch Li doesn't like His Highness Taisun very much.
The military advisor obeys his advice."
"So that's what happened," Wang Xian said with a smile, cursing secretly in his heart, old man, give me back Xiaohei
After passing Qinhu Mountain for seven days, we arrived at Guangwu Town, which was the grain-harvesting base of Qiyang King Li Wenzhong during his Northern Expedition in the fifth year of Hongwu. The castle left behind from that time has been basically intact after the repairs of the Northern Expedition in the eighth year of Yongle. Here
It will also be the grain storage base for this Northern Expedition. Among the grain and grass transported from the rear, about 250,000 shi will be transported by 30,000 Wugang vehicles and march with the army. The rest will be concentrated and stored here for the return journey.
Use it, which can greatly reduce the burden on the army.
Moreover, after passing Guangwu Town, the marching speed of the army slowed down. They often marched in the morning and rested after noon. They even rested for one to several days on the way to allow the army to recover and recharge, because from this time on
, we have officially penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Oara people, and the battle may start at any time.
However, on May 23rd, the Ming army arrived at Yinma River, but they still had not met the Mongolian army. On May 26th, the weather suddenly became hot. When Wang Xian asked Wu Wei, he learned that it was the beginning of spring on the summer solstice.
We left Beijing on the same day and actually went all the way to the summer solstice
'The Long March of Ten Thousand Miles is nothing more than this...' Wang Xian stood by the Yinma River, with a boring thought floating in his mind. The arduous journey in the past three months has profoundly changed him, and all the vulgar philistines in him have been eliminated.
It was sharpened, revealing a man's original tenacity and courage. When he came to his senses, he asked in a hissing voice: "There are no more reductions, are there?"
"Three more brothers have gone..." Wu Wei said softly.
"Alas..." Wang Xian sighed: "It's over a hundred..."
"There is nothing we can do about the long journey, fatigue and illness. Plus the weather is getting hotter. I'm afraid there will be more attrition in the future." Wu Wei sighed.
"In any case, the soldier should have died on the battlefield, but now he fell on the march," Wang Xian said sadly, "It was my dereliction of duty."
"My lord, let's just talk about this in private. If it spreads and other generals hear it, I'm afraid they will be angry." Wu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "I have asked about other troops, and two out of ten thousand people died.
Hundreds of people have already burned high incense, and some have even exceeded five hundred." He said and sighed: "Including the civilians, thousands of people died on the march, this sacrifice is really big enough."
"I don't know when I can see the Wala people..." Wang Xian nodded and said gloomily: "Even a peace lover like me looks forward to fighting every day."
Just when Wang Xian was sighing that all the Oara people were hiding somewhere, Zhu Di and his generals were also frowning, worrying about the same thing... Now the army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Oara, but they have not encountered any resistance.
Zhu Di was not underestimating Qiu Fu's enemy, so he naturally realized that this was extremely unusual.
"This shows that Mahamu is either concentrating his strength and preparing to fight us to the death somewhere; or he is fleeing back to the northwest with his tribe." Anyuan Boliu Sheng said in a deep voice.
"Yes." Zhu Di nodded and ordered: "Invite Boluo Buha."
After a while, an Oara nobleman was brought into the imperial tent and knelt down to greet the emperor. His tribe was one of the five Oara tribes that came to surrender to the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Di's military parade in Shacheng. Because he was the first to come, and he brought the whole tribe together.
When he was brought, Zhu Di was very happy and ordered him to go out with the army as an adviser.
"Boluobuha, I'm here to ask you, is there any possibility of Mahamu withdrawing to the northwest?" Zhu Di asked in a deep voice.
The interpreter passed the emperor's words to Boluobuha, and then translated the latter's words to the emperor: "He said it was impossible. Before he came to abandon the darkness and surrender to the Ming Dynasty, Mahamu had already sent a message to all the ministries, saying that he would fight the Ming Dynasty to the last man.
I will never disgrace Genghis Khan”
Boluobuha added that it is said that the sudden and sudden hypothermia is the location of Genghis Khan's imperial mausoleum...
"So, it's impossible for him to escape back to the Northwest?" Zhu Di's eyes lit up.
"The big words have been spoken. If he can escape without fighting, what prestige will he still have?"
"That's right." Zhu Di was convinced and ordered in a deep voice: "Send an order to the scout camp to release all the scouting horses and expand the search area to a hundred miles."
As the saying goes, it takes no effort to find a place even if you wear iron shoes. Just two days later, on the third day of June, Liu Jiang, the commander-in-chief of the former army, reported that the vanguard had reached the Kanghari Sea and accidentally discovered the Oara army.
He immediately launched an attack, defeated the entire army, and captured prisoners. According to the prisoners' confession, Mahamu went to Hulanhu, a hundred miles away, to suffer from hypothermia and was unprepared.
After receiving the news, the civil servants and generals around the emperor were very excited. They had gone too far and really didn't want to go on meaninglessly anymore. Even if they had to fight, let's fight to the fullest.
However, after the news, Zhu Di was not happy but worried, and fell into deep thinking... He believed that Mahamu was right in front of him. But to say that the army had been deep in the grassland for several months, Mahamu
They were still defenseless and wouldn't believe it if they beat him to death.
Finally, Zhu Di judged that the Oara army was ready for a decisive battle and was waiting for the Ming army to crash into it, so he ordered the army not to move lightly.
After the generals received the order, they were all very frustrated, but who dared to question the emperor's decision? Let alone violate the imperial edict. But unexpectedly, not long after, Zhu Di changed his mind again and ordered the army to set off immediately and advance at full speed. The generals
Naturally, I was very happy, but I didn’t know why the emperor issued these two contradictory imperial edicts.