The emperor drove out of Zhangjiakou and onto the Bashang grassland.
Above your head is the flawless blue sky, below you are the fields dotted with wild flowers, and the endless green sky stretches as far as the eye can see.
Groups of cattle and sheep grazed leisurely on the grassland.
"These cattle and sheep belong to Your Majesty."
Huaihuang Zhangbei Pasture is a royal pasture. The herders who graze for the emperor are rugged herdsmen. Many are Mongolians, Jurchens, and Han Hui people. But now they are all herdsmen for the emperor, and some are still royal slaves.
identity.
They rode horses, waved their whips, and drove the cattle and sheep with the crisp sound of whips.
The royal army composed of tens of thousands of people slowly drove on this beautiful grassland.
Many of the accompanying ministers who were visiting Bashang Grassland for the first time could not help but praise him.
"What a beauty."
“Are all Mongolian grasslands so beautiful?”
The minister who was familiar with the grasslands smiled and explained to them, "The scenery on Bashang is unique. Of course, there are many beautiful grasslands on the Mongolian Plateau."
On the dam, it vividly depicts the terrain formed by the sudden rise of the grassland, and the meadow-style grassland is formed due to climate and vegetation reasons.
"Two hundred miles north of Zhangjiakou to two hundred miles north of Chengde all have this kind of terrain, which can be collectively called Bashang. Of course, if it is subdivided, it can actually be divided into Fengning Bashang, Weichang Bashang, and Zhangbei Kangbao Dam
On and Guyuanba.
We are currently on Zhangbei Bashang, where His Majesty's royal Zhangbei Ranch is located. In terms of scenery, Kangbao Dam is the most distinctive, where the Chao River and Luan River originate.
When you go there in midsummer, the grass is clear and the clouds are clear, and the flowers are everywhere. In the vast blue eyes, it feels like the sky is pressing down and the clouds are about to brush against your shoulders. There is no heat in summer, so it is a good season to escape the heat."
However, the emperor's trip was not to escape the summer heat, and it was not yet a hot season. The emperor, who was originally going to Shaanxi-Gansu in the northwest, or even Dunhuang, instead left the Great Wall at Zhangjiakou and headed north to the Bashang grassland.
There is the North China Plain on one side and the Mongolian Plateau on the other. At the intersection, the stepped Bashang grassland is formed, with unique and beautiful scenery.
Most of this large area is now under the jurisdiction of the newly established Xuanhua Province, and its eastern part is under the newly established Chengde Province.
In the north of these two provinces, many scattered herdsmen were recruited and resettled, and further north of them were the Sunit tribe and other Monan tribes.
This time the emperor came, to put it bluntly, he came to show off his military power and show off his national prestige.
The sky is blue and the grass is green.
The picturesque grassland on Bashang was tranquilized by tens of thousands of royal guards.
The herdsmen who were looking at their cattle and sheep in the distance couldn't help but stand in a daze on their horses when they saw the majestic army that suddenly appeared on the dam.
The imperial army in fiery red uniforms came from a distance, with countless flags flying above the troops.
Armor, cavalry, muskets, cannon.
There was an extremely strong murderous aura exuding from a distance.
The emperor who was in this large army was very leisurely and calm. He didn't even wear armor. He was dressed in a dragon robe, with a sword on his waist, and two flintlock muskets.
He enjoyed the beautiful scenery on the grassland very much. He also discussed the history and culture of the grassland with the ministers around him, and even asked the bachelors accompanying him to write poems on the spot.
The terrain on Bashang is mostly hills, plains, densely networked rivers, and abundant water ponds. Bashang grassland is a typical arid grassland, which is called grassland by locals. It is mostly composed of dry grasses. In summer, various wild flowers bloom.
The rivers on the dam are mostly inland rivers with strong seasonality and often dry up. During the rainy season, mountain torrents and rivers gather together to form a river.
The water in the depression is clear, the grass is shoulder-length, and there are flocks of yellow sheep.
We can even often see marmots, standing on their legs far away, staring at the sudden intrusion of the army with wide eyes.
Zhu Yihai thinks this thing is very friendly. Isn't it just a woodchuck? There is a classic image on the Internet! Although it is not the same species.
But in fact, this thing sounds more like a mouse, but its body is larger and it is good at digging. However, the herdsmen hate these guys. Every autumn, when the marmots are fat, the herdsmen will go around to beat the moles.
, their skins are very good and can be sold at a good price, and the fat on their bodies is also very useful when boiled into oil.
However, in addition to digging holes everywhere on the grassland, some marmots are also infected with plague. However, generally experienced herdsmen and hunters can spot sick marmots and will not touch them. But if they encounter some inexperienced or evil-minded people, they will not touch them.
Hunters only hunt rats and skin them to sell them for money, and don't care about them. Therefore, plague often occurs in the grasslands and northern parts of the Central Plains. In fact, many of them are infected from the skins of these things.
A night-time cavalryman rushed closer and shot the dazed woodchuck with an arrow before it could react. It struggled for a few times and then lay flat completely.
Herdsmen actually prefer yellow sheep.
Groups of wild yellow sheep are running around on the grassland. These are mobile delicacies.
"The sky is blue, the fields are vast, the wind blows the grass and you can see the cattle and sheep. I think this poem is more like a description of this place."
"That's the Chile River, the Tumo River in the Hetao Plain at the foot of the Yin Mountains. It's far away from here."
Wu Kai, a native of Taizhou, Zhejiang, looked at this beautiful scenery and couldn't help but sigh, "I used to think that north of the Great Wall were all remote and desolate places, deserts, Gobis, and large grasslands where no trees can grow. Now I know that the grasslands are so beautiful.
Why did I, the Huaxia, not control the possession of such a good place before, but let the nomads always occupy it?"
"Because there is no danger to defend, the Central Plains can certainly be occupied when it is strong, but once it weakens and Chengdu is not enough to defend, how can there be any left to defend on the grassland?" Wang Zhiren also worked hard in the Beijing camp and Liaodong before, and of course he has no idea about Jiubian and beyond the Great Wall.
strangeness.
Who doesn’t know that the Hetao Grassland and the Bashang Grassland are both good places?
The problem is to be able to hold on.
Wen Anzhi also said, "Actually, this place belonged to Shanggu County during the Qin Dynasty. In the pre-Qin era, when the Yan State was strong, this area and even the entire valley and hilly area in the northern part of Yanshan Mountain, all the way to the west Liao River, were included in the Yan State.
, and also built the Great Wall of Yan, all the way to Liaodong.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the Western Han Dynasty, this was the northern border. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it became a nomadic land for the Xianbei people during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The Northern Wei Dynasty also started as nomads, so the Northern Wei Dynasty was established here.
Yuyi Town and Huaihuang Town in Jingliu Town.
The Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, which were nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples outside the Great Wall, came to dominate the Central Plains. Emperors of all dynasties liked to spend their summers here. The dressing building of Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Dynasty has gone through thousands of years of vicissitudes and still stands by the Lightning River.
Jing Mingguan of the Jin Dynasty, Chahan Naoer Palace of the Yuan Dynasty, and Shangdu, one of the four capitals of the Yuan Dynasty, are all located on this Bashang grassland." As the chief assistant, Wen An is comparable to Wu Kai, a hereditary military attache. If you are literate, you can easily talk about the history here.
Yanzi City in the Liao Dynasty and Jiulian City in the Jin Dynasty.
It is not only a pasture for nomads, but also a summer palace and hunting ground for those dynasties.
Genghis Khan once commanded the Jin-Yuan War here, and the Battle of Yehuling ruined the Jin Dynasty.
Emperor Wuzong of the Yuan Dynasty built his palace in Baichengzi and established the palace as the central capital. The capital and the palace were built imitating Dadu. Together with Dadu, Shangdu and Helin, they were called the four major capitals of the Yuan Dynasty.
All of them are in Dolonor by the Lightning River, the land of the seven lakes.
However, the former Shangdu of Yuan Dynasty had long been destroyed and burned by the Red Turban Army’s Northern Expedition, along with Jiulian City.
At this time, this area was a nomadic land for the Keshiketeng Tribe, Kalaqin Tribe, Wengniute Tribe, Abaga Tribe, etc. However, since Sunit's southern expedition to the west, the place was no longer peaceful.
The Tengjisi brothers sent troops to plunder the surrounding tribes again and again, and the tribes suffered greatly. The Ming envoys once again appeased the tribes, but the leaders of each tribe hesitated again and again, and finally decided that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was too weak to recover, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, let alone them.
After receiving a promise from the Ming Dynasty that as long as they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they would no longer have to worry about Sunit's plunder. They finally changed their flags and petitioned the emperor of Ming Dynasty to surrender. They also sent their women gold and silver and their sons to the court as pledges.
After the emperor waited in Zhangjiakou for the surrender of Wengniute and other tribes, he immediately issued an edict and canonized them. At the same time, he once again asked Sunit to stop crossing the border and not to plunder the tribes again.
But they didn't pay attention.
So now the emperor officially sent troops after receiving requests for help from the leaders of the Ongniut tribe, Sundu Leng, Dongdaiqing and Karma.
When the emperor left Zhangjiakou, he had already sent many envoys to summon all the tribes to meet at the old site of Yuan Shangdu in Duolonuoer for an alliance.
The emperor led tens of thousands of elite imperial troops to the Ulanbutong Grassland in Dolenor.
When the emperor arrived at the old site of Shangdu in the Yuan Dynasty, on the banks of the Shangdu River (Lightning River, the upper reaches of the Luan River), more than half of the twenty-five Mongolian tribes in Monan had already arrived, and Zasak Tuhan from the three Mongolian tribes in Mobei Khalkha had arrived. Tuxietu Khan and Chechen Khan also led princes and princes to personally come to join the alliance and make pilgrimages.
When the emperor arrived, all the ministries greeted him.
When they saw the arrival of tens of thousands of Ming Forbidden Army troops, they couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts. In fact, these Ming troops were far superior to the early Manchurian soldiers in terms of equipment and morale.
"With such a beautiful grassland and a natural martial arts arena, it would be a pity not to practice military training."
"Old Wangge."
"I'm here!" Wang Zhiren stepped forward wearing gorgeous armor.
Zhu Yihai smiled and thought about Sunit Khan, Chahar Khan Abnai, Ordos Khan Ephochen, and Outer Mongolia Khalkha Chechen Khan Shuolei, Tuxie Tuhan Gunbu, Zhasak Tuhan Suba He said this to the sixth Mongolian Khan who he personally canonized, and he also said it to the newly canonized Wengniute Jinong, Karaqin Nuoyan, Abaga Huitaiji, etc.
"I accept my order."
Wang Zhiren retreated, got on his horse, ran to the front of the army, drew his sword and gave orders.
"Line up for review!"
Following the order given by the second assistant, one by one the guards ordered the officers to gallop on horseback to deliver the order.
Under the surprised gazes of all the foreign and domestic Mongolian princes, the Ming Dynasty Forbidden Army that had just arrived quickly spread out in formation directly on the grassland in front of them.
The cavalrymen in flaming red cotton armor mounted their horses again, urged their horses to run, and formed a formation on the grassland. They just jogged at first, and then ran quickly. They were like the wind blowing the waves. The waves were small at first, but soon they were galloping.
The roar of filial piety overwhelmed the sky and the earth.
They are like wild waves and like an iron wall.
The cavalry roared and charged back and forth.
The infantry also quickly formed a queue, and the musketeers launched a series of musketry tactics, constantly loading and shooting. After one row was finished, they reloaded in place, and the row behind moved to the front. They continued to advance alternately in this way, and the guns fired in unison.
Keep moving at a fast pace.
The artillerymen also quickly pushed the artillery carriages, quickly built artillery positions on both wings of the infantry, quickly loaded them, and then gave an order to fire countless artillery pieces.
The three-pound battalion artillery and the twelve-pound field artillery roared one after another, and clouds of smoke and gunpowder smoke rose from the grassland in the distance.
There was an endless barrage of guns and artillery.
The cavalry was still rushing back and forth, roaring and charging.
The engineers even quickly built camps on the grassland, dug trenches and fortifications. They took off all kinds of equipment carried on the carriages, assembled the camp fence, built arrow towers, threw iron pears in front of the camp, and set up tents inside the camp. Everything was so...
Skilled and understanding.
Some people are even assembling horse guns, some are digging horse pits, some are even digging toilets, and some are digging stoves.
What made the princes and princes holding telescopes even more outrageous was that there were actually people unloading various large pots and ingredients on the carriages and starting to cook, and some people started slaughtering cows directly in the camp.
On-site slaughtering and cutting of meat.
Over there, the cavalry charged, the infantry fired, and the artillery fired. Over here, the engineers set up camp and the cooks cooked.
These Mongolian princes and princes never expected that as soon as the emperor arrived, they would directly engage in martial arts training, let alone such a spectacular momentum.
They are all leaders of nomadic tribes on the grassland, and they are all heroes on horseback.
But who would have thought that the Ming Dynasty's martial arts performance was not a slow formation, not a gorgeous but innocuous formation, but a scene that shook the earth as soon as it happened?
Many Mongolian princes were so shocked that their faces turned pale, and some had sweat all over their backs.
Some people even had cold hands and feet, and some had their hearts pounding so violently that their organs couldn't bear it.
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Their cavalry was superior to the Mongolian warriors, especially since they charged on horseback while firing muskets.
The continuous volley fire from the infantrymen was even more impressive.
You can fight continuously for so long without even taking a break.
Some people feel as if the sky is falling.
Many people were so shocked by the cannon that their ears were ringing and they could no longer hear anything.
After a long time, the sound of gunfire finally stopped.
The Ming cavalry also quickly returned to their original place to collect their troops and dismount.
The grasslands that were once full of flowers and fresh in the air were filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder. The green grass beside the Lightning River had also been plowed thoroughly by cannonballs, leaving holes everywhere.
A large camp over there has begun to take shape.
The campground was even more fragrant.
The soldiers in the camp have stewed beef and mutton, cooked rice, and cooked kelp soup.
The emperor sat there with a calm expression and put down the telescope in his hand.
"Well, there was a lack of preparation. The drill was a bit simple. I was in such a hurry that I couldn't bring in the heavy artillery of 18 pounds, 24 pounds and 32 pounds. Otherwise, I would have put out 1200 of them.
Then there will be a salvo of hundreds of bullets, and when thousands of heavy bullets plow through, it will be even more spectacular."
After hearing the emperor's words, many Mongolian princes were already trembling.
The emperor sent a message asking them to come here for an alliance. Then they set out from Zhangjiakou ten days ago and traveled more than four hundred miles to get here in just ten days.
This speed may not seem fast, but the emperor is marching together with infantry, cavalry, artillery, artillery and auxiliary troops. An army of tens of thousands of people not only marched more than 400 miles in ten days, but the key is that it can be so neat and orderly when it arrives here.
It would be extraordinary to be able to directly give them another martial arts performance.
If the emperor were to attack a certain tribe on the grassland, which tribe could withstand such a thunderous strike?
Even if the tribe ran away, they could not run as fast as the Ming Emperor with the herdsmen's family papers and livestock.
"Where are Sundu Leng, the leader of the Wengniute Tribe, Dorji, the leader of the Abaga Tribe, Omubu, the leader of the Sizi Tribe, and Gurushi Qibu, the leader of the Haraqin Tribe?"
The emperor's voice fell.
Sundu Leng and others immediately came out of the procession, knelt on the ground directly in front of the emperor, and shouted to pay homage to His Majesty the Great Emperor, the Holy Khan.
"I am in Zhangjiakou, and you sent an envoy to tell me that the Sunit tribe attacked your tribe, plundered your livestock, and robbed your population. Now that I have come, Sunit Khan Tengjisi and the princes of his tribe, Taiji, also
If you are all here, you should confront each other face to face, say whatever you say with gongs and drums, and I will deliver justice."
The leaders of various tribes immediately complained to the emperor about the Sunit people's crimes.
He complained with blood and tears, and was very aggrieved.
Sunit Khan suddenly thought that he was quite proud to be sitting there dressed in a python robe, but who knew that a gun was suddenly pointed at him? He was shocked and frightened at the same time.
Seeing the power of the imperial camp just now, Teng Jisi came out of the queue, came to the front of the emperor, and knelt down with a plop. He acknowledged the command of each department in public, kowtowed to the emperor repeatedly to express his repentance, but at the same time, he also expressed that because
In the past, the various ministries had always mistakenly relied on the Manchurian captives. They did not know that the ministries had abandoned the dark side and surrendered to the imperial court, so they were still fighting against the rebellion for the imperial court. It was really a misunderstanding and so on.
"Misunderstanding?"
Zhu Yihai laughed.
Zhu Dadian came forward and accused Teng Jisi of lying, saying that when they were in Zhangjiakou, the chief minister Wen'an had specially summoned them and repeatedly stated that they were not allowed to cross the border and invade other tribes.
Later, the Wengniute tribes surrendered, and the imperial court conferred officials and titles, and once again sent envoys to notify Sunit and told them not to cross the border again.
But they didn't pay attention at all and turned a deaf ear to the emperor's will.
In the ten days after the emperor set out from Zhangjiakou, Sunit also sent troops to attack and capture other tribes several times.
"How do you explain this?"
"Your Majesty, I am temporarily confused."
Regarding this explanation, the emperor laughed with great disdain.
Of course, he came to the Duolun Guild specifically not just to hear such an explanation.
Zhu Yihai ignored Teng Jisi who was kneeling on the ground to plead guilty, but said to Wang Zhiren, "In the past ten days since I left Zhangjiakou, who are the people who Sunit still crosses the border to attack and rob his tribe?"
"Jin Yiwei has records."
"Okay, since that's the case, let's trouble Wang Cifu's imperial cavalry to pass the order to me and let them make a hard trip to bring back all Sunit's men according to this list. Anyone who disobeys will be killed on the spot.
"
"Go and bring them all back. I want to hear their explanations in person, and also let all the Mongolian princes and princes listen to it together."
"Your Majesty, I am guilty..." Tengjisi panicked, and Tengjite also came over and knelt down to plead guilty, but the emperor ignored the two brothers at all.
