Among the Northern Expedition team, there are two people who are very entangled, one is Duoyanwei Proton Boge, and the other is Tainingwei Proton Baodang.
These two people are quite peaceful in Beijing. They don't like to study, and they can't ride horses and practice martial arts, so they go to watch football leagues whenever the sky breaks out. Now they have become die-hard fans of two foreign races.
"What are your Majesty's plans?" Baodangzi asked.
Boge said: "How should I know?"
The child sighed and said: "My father is too confused, how can he marry the Khalkha Mongols? This is an excuse to send troops to the Ming Dynasty!"
Bo Ge sighed: "At least your father is still alive, but my father died suddenly."
The two of them were just unlucky and found themselves in an embarrassing situation.
Boge's father Huadang died of illness three months ago, and news of his death has reached the capital. Zhu Houzhao immediately decided to send troops in advance, on the grounds that he wanted to put down the Duoyanwei rebellion, because Boge's younger brother proclaimed himself the governor and ignored the hostages in Beijing.
Berg.
As for the Taining Guards, they were beaten by the Khalkha Mongols and kept moving south. In order to survive the tribe, Taining Governor Hua Da married his daughter to Archu's only son Hu Lahachi. The Taining Guards took the hostage as a child.
The son became the grandson-in-law of Dayan Khan.
Not to mention the uneasiness of the two protons, in August of the 20th year of Zhengde, Zhu Houzhao's troops divided into two groups for the Northern Expedition.
Zhu Houzhao led an army of 50,000, including the Beijing army, Jizhen army, and Liaodong army, and marched directly from Xifengkou to Kuanhe (Kancheng County, Hebei).
Wang Yuan, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites and the governor of Jizhen, commanded 13,000 troops, including Jizhen and Xuanfu troops, and went out from Gubeikou to conquer Xiaoxing Prefecture (southwest of Chengde).
Ma Yong, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town, was promoted by Lu Wan and almost lost his position due to Lu Wan's case. Wang Yuan stepped in to protect him at that time, and Ma Yong lived up to his trust. He has been training troops in the past few years, not only trying to restore the actual number of troops
, and the quality of soldiers ranks among the top three in the Ming Dynasty.
In mid-September, 50,000 troops marched under Kuanhe City, and the Emperor's banner fluttered in the wind.
A Mongolian warrior from the Leopard Fang rode to the outside of the city to persuade him to surrender: "The traitor Aza killed his father and usurped the throne. He blocked his brothers and established himself as the governor. Today, the son of Ming Dynasty is marching in person. The old governor Hua Dang's second son Boge is also here. You guys are still here.
Why don’t you quickly surrender to Kaicheng?”
If you want to impose a crime, why bother?
Hua Dang, the governor of Duoyan, died of illness. How could he kill his father and usurp the throne?
However, Hua Dang's eldest son is dead, and the second son Bo Ge should take over the throne. The third son Azamuli has indeed taken his elder brother's position.
Zhu Houzhao brought Proton Boge, which immediately made the Kuanhe garrison feel excited.
Kuanhe City was built by Feng Guosheng in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, Daning, Huizhou and Fuyu cities were also built together.
The city is surrounded by water on three sides. Although the city is not big, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack because it is for the enemies in the north. Zhu Houzhao led his army from the south, which happens to be the side not facing the water. The Ming army only needs to block this city wall to surround the Mongolian defenders. The enemy wants to
The only options to escape were to jump into the river or take a boat.
After the announcement, the Ming army did not attack the city immediately. Instead, they set up camp at the foot of the mountain and sent troops to sweep away the people south of Kuanhe River.
Some of these people are Mongolians who live herding on the grasslands by the river. Others are Han Chinese, some of whom were captured and some of whom escaped on their own. They make a living by cultivating land for the Mongols.
The Mongols, who are half-cultivating and half-grazing, have long lost their strategic mobility and are not as difficult to deal with as those on the northern grasslands.
"Remember to identify Han people," Zhu Houzhao instructed the generals, "Those who can speak Chinese are Han people, and those who cannot speak Chinese are not Han people, no matter what ethnic group their ancestors are!"
The generals immediately took orders and each led a small group of cavalry to sweep along the Kuan River.
After half a day like this, more than a thousand Mongolian herdsmen and more than 2,000 Han serfs and tenants were captured. All pastures and farmland south of Kuanhe River were temporarily occupied by the Ming army, and all the Mongolians who could fight retreated to the city.
The next day, thirty Franco machine field guns fired wildly at Kuan Henan City Gate.
Unfortunately, the power of the field artillery was too weak. It took a long time to destroy the city wall, but only blasted a few large holes in the wooden city gate.
The Mongolian defenders were so frightened that the nobles abandoned the city and fled, crossing the river by boat to the north. The remaining Mongolians opened the city and surrendered directly to welcome Proton Boge, who was supposed to be the heir.
There is no way to fight. There are not many Duoyan tribesmen in this city. There are only two or three thousand young men in this city. How can they dare to face tens of thousands of enemy troops armed with cannons? This is an old tradition of the Mongols. If you can't defeat them, flee immediately.
Looking for a good opportunity to fight back, the Han army cannot stay here forever.
A rich-faced nobleman, but hundreds of tribesmen knelt to welcome Zhu Houzhao into the city, and bravely asked: "Your Majesty, the Holy Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, where is Boge, the son of the old governor?"
Zhu Houzhao had already learned Mongolian and said with a smile: "Boge, come here."
Boge could only ride over and said to the nobleman Duoyan: "I am Boge. Azamuli killed his father and usurped the throne, and dared to make himself the governor. Anyone who submits to him will be a traitor and a traitor."
The nobleman Duoyan knew that this was nonsense, but he said angrily: "I have long seen Azamuli's ambition, and I will avenge the old governor this time!"
Zhu Houzhao said: "Bo Ge, these hundreds of surrendered people will be handed over to you to command."
Bo Ge quickly dismounted and knelt down: "I dare not, please lead it in person."
Zhu Houzhao said: "Well, then I will join General Xiao Shen."
Liaodong General Xiao Chu participated in the entire battle of Yingzhou and followed the emperor to deal with the young Mongolian prince. Although he is still a general now, his rank has been improved and his territory has become larger. The entire Liaodong East Road is under Xiao Chu's jurisdiction.
, is the most powerful person next to the Liaodong Commander-in-Chief and Deputy Commander-in-Chief.
After capturing Kuanhe City, Zhu Houzhao immediately crossed the river to march north and handed the city over to civilian officials.
In this expedition, military occupation is only one aspect. The more important thing is to immigrate to the border. Otherwise, once the Han army withdraws, those Mongolians from Duoyan Guard will come back.
The supplies needed for immigration were much greater than for the war, and the civil servants were about to explode.
Fortunately, there was enough money in the internal treasury and the state treasury, and there was not enough food for commercial purchases. Countless merchants took notice of this and wanted to get a share of the immigration business.
After Zhu Houzhao led his troops across the Kuan River, he found that all the Mongolians along the way had fled, leaving behind countless pastures and cultivated land. There were also green wheat seedlings that had just broken ground in the fields. These fertile fields and wheat seedlings are now owned by the Ming Dynasty, and the civil servants immediately assigned civilian workers to them.
Serve the crops.
In front is Huizhou City (south of Pingquan City, Hebei Province). The city wall is square, 900 meters long on each side, built of rammed earth, and has only four gates.
The city is empty!
There were only a few Mongolian and Han people, and Duoyan Wei Qingzhuang all evacuated early.
This time Yuan Da also led five hundred cavalry on the expedition and followed the emperor. He frowned and said: "Your Majesty, Duoyan Guard is trying to lure the enemy deeper."
"It's interesting." Zhu Houzhao smiled.
When tens of thousands of troops marched north, they liked the Mongols to defend the city. It was very easy to defeat them one by one. But the Duoyan Guards actually took the initiative to shrink their troops and stopped fighting the Ming army on the mountain plains. They seemed to want to gather cavalry to fight the emperor in Daning City.
Both the former Kuanhe City and the evacuated Huizhou City are located on flat land sandwiched between mountains, which is very unfavorable for cavalry to attack.
As for Daning City, which is farther away, although it is located on the edge of the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountains, it is relatively flat overall.
The Duoyan Governor, who had just become independent, seemed to be very clear-headed and knew what it meant to make the most of one's strengths and address one's weaknesses.
At this moment, our Minister Wang is leading troops to sweep Xiaoxingzhou.