Eight hundred and sixtieth chapters image of false beings
When the various armies of the Tang Dynasty were preparing to launch a new round of large-scale offensive, the Ming Dynasty was also aware of it. It would be impossible not to notice it.
The Tang Dynasty made such a big move. Ship after ship of materials were transported to Xuzhou. In addition, almost all the Tang Army in the Huaihe River Basin were mobilized frequently. As long as the spies of the Ming Army were not blind, they were basically all
It can be judged that a new round of large-scale offensive by the Tang Army is about to begin.
For this reason, Emperor Zhengde also urgently mobilized troops to prepare for the battle!
And they sent people to contact Ada Khan's cavalry and asked them to continue going south!
After going south last winter, Anda Khan was still cautious at first, for fear of falling into the trap of the Ming army. The 20,000 cavalry dispatched were only near the border town at first, and did not dare to continue going south.
But later they became bolder, and gradually increased their troops to 50,000 cavalry, and gradually moved south to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, and then sent some troops south to the Shunde Prefecture area.
Now Emperor Zhengde sent someone to ask them to go south. Anda Khan, who led it personally, thought about it and decided to continue going south.
The main purpose of going south was naturally not to help Emperor Zhengde, but still had the mentality of fishing in troubled waters. On the one hand, he did not want to see Emperor Zhengde's army completely defeated by the Tang army. On the other hand, he actually did not want the Ming army to defeat the Tang army.
.
The best result is that both the Ming army and the Tang army will be defeated, and then he will lead the cavalry to sweep the entire field and directly kill the remnants of the Tang army and the Ming army. In this way, the situation in the entire north will be greatly beneficial to Anda Khan.
If this happens, he doesn't even plan to return to the grassland again, but directly takes over the north and seizes Youzhou. Who dares to say that he can't take over the Central Plains, establish a great dynasty, and repeat the glory of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty?
And before coming, he was fully prepared. When he went south, he not only brought the core tribal cavalry as the main force, but also took advantage of the side tribes. Basically, he took the elites from the tribes that had not obeyed him very much.
The main force was all brought along, and even if this time they suffered a disastrous defeat when going south, it was the side tribes that died first.
And he has already decided that no matter what happens when he goes south, his main force cannot be easily used or damaged.
In this way, he can ensure that no matter what happens after going south, he can control the power of the grassland. Even if the unlucky move south fails and he finally escapes in embarrassment, he will only bring back his direct descendants. As for those side branches, they are other things.
I hope I can make it back alive.
This time when they went south, Anda Khan was not prepared to let the cavalry from the side tribes return alive.
Most of Anda Khan's cavalry were one horse, two or even three cavalry, and their mobility was extremely fast. When he noticed that the situation in the south had changed, Anda Khan quickly led his troops south, marching hundreds of kilometers in a short time, and then the main force arrived in Shunde.
Mansion, and the vanguard of five thousand cavalry has arrived at Daming Mansion.
Going south along the way, there will naturally be plundering along the way!
Of course, Anda Khan will not attack those big cities. After all, he is still here at the invitation of Zhengde, so he can't do anything too ugly. But in some small counties, he will naturally not be polite and pass by.
Grab every piece of land, at least get the military rations.
You have to know that this time Ananda Khan went south, just like the previous Mongolian expeditions south, he did not bring food and grass. The food was looted along the way. For a time, the people in various places along the way were miserable.
However, in this troubled world, no one cares about the lives of ordinary people in the north!
Zhengde himself doesn't care anymore, and Anda Khan doesn't care even less. Some of the local officials care, but they have no choice but to stick to the city and prevent Anda Khan from entering the city. In addition, they also spend money to buy
In order to ensure peace, they actively donated food and property to prevent Anda Khan's cavalry from attacking their city.
And more officials pretended not to see it.
In fact, many Ming Dynasty officials in the north are now a little confused or even shaken.
If they all supported the annihilation of the Puppet Tang Dynasty a few years ago when the Puppet Tang Dynasty first rose, then Yangzhou, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Anqing and other important cities in Jiangbei fell one after another, and the entire Ming Dynasty fell into a huge crisis.
When they were about to fall, they were already shaken.
Many people have already thought that if, by any chance, the emperor's army is defeated miserably and the puppet Tang rebel army comes to kill them, they may also abandon the Ming Dynasty and join the Tang Dynasty.
As a rational and smart person, standing on the side of the winner is the most correct choice.
Besides, once you get to the Tang Dynasty, you can continue to be an official.
Although there are many things in the Tang Dynasty that they are disgusted with, especially the tax policy that kills a thousand people, but even if they are disgusted, for the sake of their lives and official positions, they still have to tolerate it!
Therefore, many officials from the Ming Dynasty in the north have already begun to wait and see!
If Zhengde wins, there will be nothing to say and everyone will continue to make money as officials.
If Zhengde loses, then they will seriously consider defecting to the thieves, no, it should be said to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
After all, both sides were Han orthodox dynasties, and they had no shortage of righteousness. If they defected to the Tang Dynasty, they would not have to bear the stigma of defecting to a foreign race. They would not have much psychological burden.
Otherwise, as the Tang Dynasty becomes more and more powerful, more and more former Ming officials in Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places will surrender.
Because they don’t have much psychological burden on it!
Emperor Zhengde may have noticed the strange thoughts of many officials. Recently, he has almost no longer used civilian officials to command the army, but only traditional generals and nobles.
In just six months, the nobles and generals who had been neglected for a hundred years finally regained their dignity and gained power.
However, can these nobles command the army to win?
This is going to be a huge question mark!
Since the Tumubao Incident, the noble class of the Ming Dynasty has almost completely decayed. Except for a few people, most of them are just waiting to die. While waiting to die, they did not forget to sabotage the imperial court.
foundation.
They have already fallen!
In fact, in the previous battles with the Tang Army, with the special exception of Yu Dayou, almost all the others were generals with civilian backgrounds. Although most of them failed, to be honest, they had done a good job.
If it were replaced by these nobles, would they be able to win?
Those nobles did not know the questions that outsiders had about them. In the past, a group of nobles who only knew how to bully ordinary people and were constantly pressed to the ground and rubbed by civil servants were now wearing bright clothes and angry horses, and they were high-spirited.
He became the commander-in-chief of the army.
Except for the eunuchs who supervise the army, they definitely don't have a good look towards civil servants.
The many changes in the Ming Dynasty naturally had no impact on the Tang Dynasty's established battle plan. After the Third Army was fully prepared, Hao Bainian officially issued the order to fight. On March 29, the troops in the Third Army
The 5th Infantry Division took the lead in attacking northward along the canal.
Of course, it is not correct to call it an attack, because when we set out on the first day, there was no Ming army on the opposite side.
The main force of the Ming army is now in Shandong and Henan, and there are only a few small-scale surveillance troops around Xuzhou.
Therefore, it is more accurate to say that the Third Army is attacking, rather than marching.
However, the Third Army moved, and Emperor Zhengde quickly got the news!
Emperor Zhengde did not think about it for too long, but quickly decided to take the initiative, and then marched westward with a 60,000-strong army stationed in Jinan, and then entered Anping Town, a small town in the north of Yanzhou Prefecture.
Anping Town, this small place is located just at the intersection of the canal and the Daqing River. It is a very important strategic stronghold in contemporary times. Going east can reach Jinan, going north can reach Dongchang, going west can reach Damingfu, and going south is Yanzhou
Fuzhou and Xuzhou.
Emperor Zhengde chose to garrison here instead of the capital city of Yanzhou Prefecture or Jeju further south. This was because he needed time to mobilize other troops, and also to allow Anda Khan's cavalry to help him share the pressure.
It can be said that Emperor Zhengde had already chosen the place for the decisive battle in advance and was just waiting for the Tang army to march north.
At this time, the Army of the Tang Dynasty, which had made many plans and preparations before, had not thought that Emperor Zhengde did not choose to stick to Jinan, but was preparing to come directly to fight them.
When the news came, everyone in the Third Army was very happy. Since Emperor Zhengde came out to fight on your own, they were not polite.
But then Chen Keqiao got the news that a large number of Tatar cavalry had been discovered in Damingfu area, and he immediately frowned!
Anda Khan went south. He had known about it for a long time, but as far as he knew, although Anda Khan went south, he had always been hanging around the border town and had not gone south in a big way at all. Now he actually appeared here.
Daming Mansion.
And in this case, all the plans made before the war will be useless!
It is one thing to defeat the tens of thousands of troops led by Emperor Zhengde himself, but it is another thing to defeat the tens of thousands of cavalry led by An Da Khan.
Immediately, Chen Keqiao sent someone to send a message to Hao Bainian in the rear, telling Hao Bainian that the main force of the Tatar cavalry had been discovered!
After Hao Bainian, who was still in Xuzhou at this time, learned the news, he took out the map and looked at it, and then said to the adjutant on the side: "Instruct the Fifth Infantry Division to act according to the original plan, capture Jeju and Yanzhou, and then continue to move north along the canal."
"Then order the third cavalry detachment to march into the Juye area to monitor and guard against the enemy cavalry!"