Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 242 Why do you want to be an enemy of Ming Dynasty?

The army assembled by Bei Yuan did not directly attack Daming's bunkers or city walls.

Instead, gather near the Liaohe River, and then make a big attack.

Naturally, Daming will not neglect in the slightest, all preparations are complete.

But so far, there has not been even a single frontal large-scale conflict.

There are only two scouting teams of No. 30, who meet in the wild and so on.

And Daming also discovered that Bei Yuan didn't intend to confront him head-on at all.

Now that Zhang Yu knew this, he began to arrange tactics, and he did not intend to confront Bei Yuan head-on.

Anyway, there is enough food and grass on my side, and there are defense facilities waiting for work.

As for the city outside the prairie, that Zhang Yu was even more eager for the people from Bei Yuan to rush to attack.

Anyway, here in Liaohe, there is still a little distance from the border trade on the Yinaiji side, and the transportation line on the Yinaiji side is very safe. The tribes on the Beiyuan side have to go there if they want to buy supplies.

Most of the caravans on the road were from Beiyuan's side. Wang Baobao wanted to attack the border, so it was really hard to do business unless he wanted to make enemies with most of the tribal leaders.

And just as Zhang Yu expected, even if Wang Baobao of the Northern Yuan Dynasty had already entangled with the large army, he did not dare to go to Yinaiji to directly attack the border trade.

It's not that he was afraid of the defensive power of Daming's border trade, of course it was one of them, but what he was more afraid of was that he would offend all the steppe nobles. If that happened, he would be the target of public criticism.

If they directly attacked the border trade, it would be better to force those tribal leaders not to do business with Daming.

Anyway, the effect is the same as offending the nobles, that's why Wang Baobao gathered a large army, intentionally angered Daming, and asked Daming to cancel the trade on his own initiative.

This has nothing to do with him. Isn't it normal to fight a war?

When autumn and winter came, I went down to speculate in stocks and grab something, that's what grassland people do.

On the contrary, Zhang Yu got into a stalemate with him, which made Wang Baobao feel a little headache all of a sudden. If Da Ming couldn't shrink back, it might not be able to achieve the goal of annoying Da Ming.

After all, there are no casualties, and there will be no pressure from the people or the officialdom to the central court.

On the other hand, Zhang Yu knew his own advantage, so he didn't go out to fight Wang Baobao.

And he also knew that even if he went out by himself, this Wang Baobao would not fight head-on.

Although His Royal Highness King Liao invented a lot of powerful weapons, armors, etc., nothing can catch up with those war horses on the grassland.

Speed ​​has always been Wang Baobao's advantage, otherwise he would not have become more and more courageous in the past few decades, and he could escape every time.

The two armies here are still in a stalemate, while Zhu Qi in Liaoyang is busy with border trade every day.

Although he has arranged many students, and those who are proficient in mathematics and economics, to go to the border trade to deal with detailed matters such as tariffs.

But he still needs to make decisions on many big and small matters. Who asked Zhu Yuanzhang to hand over all these things to them.

Naturally, there is no need to mention the aspect of trade. There is a lot of trade volume coming in every day. In addition, more and more grassland leaders hope to come to do business with Daming.

Some tribal leaders in the grassland even told Liao King Zhu Qi that they wanted to join Daming.

Obviously, the border trade with Daming during this period has given them a taste of sweetness. If they can be idle lords in the Central Plains, who would like to go to a bitter cold place like the grassland?

What's more, most of them have experienced the last glory at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Although there were constant wars at that time, they were at least officials and nobles of the Yuan Dynasty.

What he enjoys is rich clothes and fine food, but after being driven out of the Central Plains, these things are naturally gone.

And Zhu Qi was naturally nice to these people, saying that there was no problem with each of them.

After joining my Ming Dynasty, they are all meritorious officials, but in fact, they have no intention of recruiting them here at all.

After all, the two parties are still fighting. If they are recruited at this time, no one can say what unexpected things will happen.

And the most important thing is that Zhu Qi doesn't trust these nobles on the grassland, and if they occupy the grassland in the future, they will definitely not be able to continue to be leaders.

Think about how they harmed the grassland when they led the grassland before.

What's more, they and the common people on Daming's side have blood feuds.

Continue to let them be nobles and Ming people agree?

Do the officials in Ming Dynasty agree?
Even Zhu Yuanzhang would not agree.

Naturally, it is impossible to keep the legacy of the previous dynasty until now, so Zhu Qi's ultimate goal is to kill all those dirty officialdoms in Beiyuan.

Of course, we still have to make peace with them now.

While this side was fighting, Zhu Qi on the other side was also arranging more trades.

There is a steady stream of purchases of various grains from Beiyuan, and if there is more grain purchased, there will be less grain.

What Daming sold to Beiyuan did not include food and other materials, iron ore and so on, but it was embarrassing for food, not a single grain of rice would be sold.

Because there are still so many Jinyiwei at the border, it is still very difficult for someone to smuggle food across the border.

Ever since, a child's play scene appeared on the border. The two sides were entangled with tens of thousands of people, but no one fought with the other, just trying to provoke the other.

Wang Baobao didn't see any results, and Ming's frontier trade continued to flourish.

He knew that the Liao king Zhu Qi must have seen through his plan, and it was clearly the intention of the old god to continue the trade.

Then he bought the grain from Beiyuan, intending to starve himself to death slowly.

Wang Baobao is very aware of the importance of these grains, even if he takes a basketful of Ming banknotes, so what?
Can these papers be eaten, let alone those metals, they must not be eaten.

And the forged weapons and armors are not at all the opponents of Daming's new weapons and armors.

It means that Daming exchanged some rubbish for his precious food and war horses.

The most important thing is that even if I see it, I have nothing to do, because this is already the general trend, and there is no way to stop the circulation of Daming banknotes in Beiyuan.

This is really a murderous conspiracy.

Even if he knew this, there was nothing he could do. Wang Baobao could only bite the bullet and think about whether the method could completely anger others.

And the best way, of course, is to massacre the people of Daming.

It would be best if the common people on the border no longer want to do business with the grassland.

It's just that he tried all kinds of methods, but he didn't have the opportunity to massacre the common people of Daming.

There is no other reason. Daming's current strategy is that as long as it occupies the territory on the grassland, all the residents of the towns will be withdrawn to the Great Wall, and the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness will be implemented on the grassland.

Except for a few important towns in the border trade, there were no civilians killed by them at all.

Even if there are some herdsmen who have not returned to the pass, they are those herdsmen who are unwilling to go back.

These herdsmen originally spoke the language of Dayuan, and they couldn't even speak Chinese.

In my heart, I also think that I am a person from the grassland, so killing them will not matter at all.

The common people in Daming would not have any rebellious psychology at all.

Fortunately, a turning point soon appeared, Wang Baobao decided to attack a city.

Forcing Daming to fight with him, of course it is impossible to fight, the main thing is to kill the opponent's vital strength.

It's just that Wang Baobao's idea is very good, and he knows that the commander of the opponent is a general named Zhang Yu.

He used to be a staff officer on Beiyuan's side, but later surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

From Wang Baobao's point of view, such a general, even if he is a little capable, should not be very powerful.

Although I heard that he guarded the Liaohe River as an impenetrable and airtight place.

But at that time his opponent just let him say such a mediocrity.

Wang Baobao originally thought that in field battles, even if he faced Zhang Yu, he would have a chance of winning.

What's more, he took the initiative outside, so Wang Baobao quickly sold a loophole to Zhang Yu'er. Zhang Yu did not disappoint him, and soon led a team of nearly ten thousand people across the Liaohe River to pursue him.

The two parties confronted each other on the south bank of the Liaohe River, and then began to charge and fight.

In terms of numbers, Wang Baobao's side definitely has the upper hand, and in terms of morale, Daming's side naturally has the upper hand.

And Zhang Yu also knew that there was no trickery in this battle. Since the opponent planned to fight a frontal war of attrition with him, it was a rare opportunity for Bei Yuan, so why not for him?
This is also the reason why Zhang Yu led the troops out to pursue Northern Yuan Wang Baobao.

What's more, Zhang Yu has already made all preparations, and has the confidence to win. That is the latest item produced by His Royal Highness King Liao - landmines.

This thing is so powerful that Zhang Yu was astonished when he saw the landmine for the first time.

This kind of killer appeared on the battlefield. To be honest, if he was Wang Baobao, he would not want to confront King Liao head-on at all.

This is not the beginning at all. It is really terrifying that a person can be blown to death thousands of miles away.

Naturally, Wang Baobao didn't know that Daming had already equipped Zhang Yu with such a powerful weapon as landmines.

He also thought about gaining an advantage by relying on two or three times the number of the Ming army.

Then let Daming become annoyed and close the border trade.

To completely intensify the conflict between the two countries, it is best to fight a big battle, and then go to rob or something by yourself.

Then, taking advantage of this wave of offensive, all Ming's banknotes in Beiyuan were forcibly banned.

As long as the war is too fierce, the nobles of the grassland naturally dare not say anything.

Wang Baobao's idea was very good, but he never thought that he really underestimated Zhang Yu's ability.

At the beginning of the battle, the two sides fought back and forth, but Zhang Yu quickly ordered the army to retreat.

Naturally, Wang Baobao would not let it go easily, and quickly ordered people to pursue him.

Only halfway through the chase, he had already entered the landmine trap Zhang Yu had arranged in advance.

No matter how clever and powerful Wang Baobao was, he couldn't have predicted that there would be such a thing as landmines, and he would be blown up quickly.

As for landmines, they are really things that have crossed the ages.

Bei Yuan didn't react at all, so he was beaten up and caught off guard.

Needless to say, morale, already low morale, is blown up by such black technology, and no one wants to fight at all.

The enemy didn't know where they were, and various explosions began to appear on the ground.

Some people even shouted loudly that it must be the Liao King Zhu Qi who has started practicing demon magic again. My good fellow, why is this Liao King Zhu Qi's magic so powerful?

Even if Wang Baobao tried his best to maintain order, there was no way to stop Bei Yuan's side from being defeated like a mountain.

And Zhang Yu didn't chase them. After all, although these people were beaten badly, they still ran very fast.

On the other hand, Daming didn't have a lot of cavalry, mainly infantry. Zhang Yu just cleaned up the battlefield, and then led the troops that had swung down and quickly returned to the original city defense.

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Beiyuan suffered a big defeat. Although Wang Baobao was not discouraged, it was very frustrating and hopeless for the tribes in the grassland under him.

Zhuoma was originally the leader of a small tribe, and it was an accident that he was able to go out with Wang Baobao.

After all, the many tribal leaders on the border outside the pass have unclear trade relations with Daming.

Wang Baobao obviously didn't trust them very much.

But Dolma didn't do any business with Daming, in fact, Dolma really wanted to do it.

But he didn't have enough gold, silver and jewelry on hand, and the territory was too barren.

It is also very far away from the border trade place of Ming Dynasty. After thinking about it, it is better to herd sheep and cattle on the grassland with peace of mind.

But I didn't expect that because of this reason, it was a blessing in disguise and was valued by the prime minister Wang Baobao.

Decided to win over their tribe and support their tribe to grow.

Therefore, Zhuoma is still full of confidence in this expedition, thinking that he can follow Prime Minister Wang Baobao to make contributions.

But the actual situation made Zhuoma completely unexpected. He originally thought that Beiyuan's combat strength would be superior, and the fight would be smooth.

Besides, Wang Baobao also said that he didn't intend to fight desperately with Daming. Dolma thought that as long as he put on a show, he would have inexhaustible glory and wealth when he returned.

But he didn't expect that Daming was so powerful, that the legendary Liao king Zhu Qi had such a spell that could take people's lives from afar.

Zhuoma was dumbfounded at the time, but the rumors were indeed true. If the other party was such a powerful wizard, there was no need to fight at all.

But it was too late for Dolma to leave at this time. When his horse stepped on a mine and was blown into the sky, the last thought in his mind was to go home.

What kind of insanity do you think I committed, and I want to be an enemy of Daming?

He thought so.

(End of this chapter)