Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 257
The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the grass is growing and the warbler is flying. In April of the 17th year of Hongwu, Monan.

Soldiers with spears lined up to patrol around the huge camp.

Chen Si was one of them. He was originally just a civilian who followed the army and did odd jobs.

However, because of his excellent work and some connections with his family, he was transferred to a military household.

But now it has been two years since he was in the army. He had been following His Royal Highness Liao Wang before, and he was still like this now and had never followed other generals.

There is no way, whoever makes the most recent is His Royal Highness Liao Wang who has the strongest ability in the limelight at the beginning.

And this time Chen Si went out with the army again, and he also knew that His Royal Highness King Liao brought them here to completely defeat Bei Yuan.

Chen Si didn't expect that he would still have such a moment to witness history.

If it is said that joining the army before was just to make a living, then after staying in the army for so many years, after the training of His Royal Highness King Liao, and the ideological training every night.

He already has a deep subjective idea, that is to fight for the rise of the nation and for the country.

It's not the simple kind, for a little salary every day.

Of course, this kind of ideological awareness can only be achieved under the premise of sufficient salary.

As far as this point is concerned, Zhu Qi has never been stingy with rewarding his subordinates.

Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the salary of the army, and strictly put an end to corruption by military officers.

And there are not a few people who think like Chen Si.

They formed the most basic composition in the army, and their daily training, and at night for ideological education, told them that their ultimate goal was to help Daming defeat Bei Yuan and unify the world.

So for this battle, they are all looking forward to it.

However, different from the expectations of these ordinary people and soldiers, Zhu Qi, as the chief general, was looking at the map in front of him in his military tent at this moment, with a troubled expression on his face.

There is no other reason, because differences have also arisen among these famous generals.

Feng Sheng suggested to take the west road, because there are more road oases in the west, and there are more choices of routes to take.

There are fewer deserts, and it is the least dangerous to go there.

But Sapphire doesn't think so, Sapphire thinks that soldiers are expensive and fast.

Daming's current expedition has been known in advance by Wang Baobao.

Xu Da failed to attack Beiyuan before because he took the most conventional path, and the places along the way were under Wang Baobao's control.

So if you want to gain military exploits, you have to take an unusual path. If you want to walk in the past, you have never walked an unfamiliar path.

Find a local person as a guide, and then surprise the royal court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to obtain the greatest results.

There was nothing wrong with what the two of them said, and Feng Sheng took the safest path.

It may not be possible to capture Beiyuan's royal court, but there will definitely be results.

It will not put the whole army in a worrying situation.

However, Lan Yu's words also met Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements because of the bonus of historical halo, and his plan could achieve the greatest results, that is, to annihilate Bei Yuan in World War I.

But this is a bit difficult for Zhu Qi, the general.

After all, when Zhu Qi fought this kind of large-scale group battle, he never had his own strategy.

After all, he knew in his heart how good his tactics were, and he must have listened to the arrangements of those famous generals.

But Feng Sheng is a famous general, and Lan Yu is even more famous.

Listening to someone, Zhu Qi felt a headache. In history, Sapphire naturally led the Ming army to destroy Beiyuan.

However, the situation back then was very different from what it is now.

At that time, the tribes of Beiyuan were still very united.

But now most of the tribes in the Northern Yuan Dynasty have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but it is very safe to go on the western front.

However, according to Feng Sheng's words, Lan Yu's tactics are too tempting, and he is a little confused about what to do.

Fortunately, besides the two famous generals Feng Sheng and Lan Yu, there is also Zhang Yu, a caring famous general.

Zhang Yu saw at a glance the difficulties in His Highness Liao Wang's heart, and then suggested to talk about it.

Since what the two generals said makes sense, it is better to divide the troops into two places, and let each general lead the other to see who can achieve the greatest results.

The division of troops has existed since ancient times, and in the Han Dynasty, wasn't the sealing of wolves and residences the result of the division of troops?
But divide the troops, if you fight well, you will seal the wolf and live in Xu, if you fight badly, you will be defeated one by one.

Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, Doerhachi defeated the last Ming army one by one and achieved a great victory in Sarhu.

But tactical analysis cannot be discussed from a single tactical point of view, just like the division of troops.

So Zhu Qi hesitated for a while, but considering that Feng Sheng and Lan Yu are both famous generals, and now Da Ming's strength has far surpassed Bei Yuan.

Although there are famous generals like Wang Baobao in Beiyuan, even Wang Baobao, like Nurhachi in the history of the Ming Dynasty later, has a strategic policy of letting Er come and go all the way.

He also couldn't beat Feng Sheng and Lan Yu. You must know that no matter which of these two people come out to fight Wang Baobao, they still have the strength to fight, and it can even be said that they are more than enough.

So after such a simple consideration, and after Zhang Yu made a proposal like this, Zhu Qi immediately made a decision.

Divide the Ming army into two groups, one led by Feng Sheng and the other led by Lan Yu.

The two followed the normal route all the way, while Sapphire went straight to Huanglong and then to the Northern Yuan Royal Court, striving for the greatest victory.

Zhu Qi didn't think so much at first, he just wanted to let the two generals lead the way and fight according to his own ideas.

As the coach himself, he just waited for the result of the battle, but Zhu Qi unintentionally resorted to a tactic, that is, to attack the east and the west.

Although the Han Empire often used the strategy of dividing troops during the Han Dynasty, it has not been so since the Tang Dynasty.

Firstly, the division of troops would easily lead to the situation of being besieged by the opponent's superior force, and secondly, generals like Huo Qubing and Weiqing were naturally in the minority.

There are naturally very few generals who dare to divide their troops to deal with it in the decisive battle. If they can be stable, they are stable, and there are not many who dare to take risks.

It seemed to Zhu Qi that he had listened to Zhang Yu's suggestion, but in the eyes of others, His Highness King Liao had the demeanor of an ancient famous general.

At this time, decisively divide, and the soldiers will definitely be able to achieve results.

At least Zhang Yu admired His Royal Highness King Liao very much.
The same is true for Lan Yu, thinking silently in her heart, this Liao King Zhu Qi is really decisive, such a strategic policy is well-planned.

Unfortunately, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is absolutely no match in terms of military affairs.

Daming's side quickly divided up and advanced.

But Bei Yuan was blinded by a single glance. How could Wang Baobao know that Daming dared to divide his troops at this juncture.

You must know that before Xu Da led the army of the Ming Dynasty to crusade against Beiyuan, he was defeated by himself because he made a mistake in dividing the troops.

Originally thought that Daming would go to the end with an army and go straight to Huanglong, but he didn't expect to divide the army, so all Beiyuan could see was Feng Sheng's army in the west.

As for Sapphire, Bei Yuan doesn't have much information.

What's more, Lan Yu didn't take the usual road to the desert at all, but took a few guides directly through the desert and went straight to the court of Beiyuan.

Since Beiyuan lost Zhongdu and Dadu, now he can only be forced to go back to Shangdu.

But on the surface, there is a capital in Beiyuan, but in fact, the emperors of Beiyuan seldom stay in Beijing.

After all, it was not just once or twice that Da Ming called, and the Emperor Bei Yuan didn't dare to stay there peacefully.

So the current location of Emperor Beiyuan is near Fishing Fisher Sea, but not many people know about it.

Although Jin Yiwei on Daming's side had excellent intelligence, they couldn't find out the specific location, but could only give a rough direction.

However, it is enough to have a general orientation. Lan Yu can roughly estimate the location of the Beiyuan Royal Court by looking at the topography of the fishing sea.

This is also Lan Yu's outstanding ability, and others can't learn it even if they want to learn it.

So Sapphire took 10 troops and headed straight to the fishing sea.

In the west, Feng Sheng faced Bei Yuan's main force.

That is, an army of one hundred thousand led by Wang Baobao was circling there.

It is impossible to confront Daming head-on, and Wang Baobao can only repeat the old tricks and continue to delay in this way.

Little did they know that Lan Yu had led the army straight to where the Emperor Bei Yuan was.

Although the current emperor of Beiyuan is almost like a puppet.

He, Wang Baobao, had the final say on most of the affairs of the court, but after all, Emperor Beiyuan was still the head of the Golden Family and the spiritual leader of the entire Beiyuan court.

If something happened to Emperor Bei Yuan, the situation could be imagined, and because Lan Yu knew this, she didn't dare to neglect in the slightest.

Although I have been worried that the Liao King Zhu Qi's great contribution will affect the status of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

But at this time, although he is the deputy general, the credit goes to His Royal Highness King Liao.

And just when Sapphire was desperately urging the army to return to the fishing.

Zhu Qi also waited anxiously in the big tent of the Chinese army behind.

At this time, he no longer cared about the question of who should get the military credit. Naturally, he didn't want to grab the military credit, but he hoped that this Northern Expedition could be used to determine the world in one fell swoop.

To win the imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, at the very least, it has to achieve a record in history, so that it can create an eternal foundation for Daming.

And this kind of waiting is naturally extremely anxious.

Zhu Qi wished he could be possessed by Wei Qinghuo Qubing, go to the battlefield in person, and achieve a good result.

But at this time, I can only choose to trust Feng Sheng Sapphire.

On the side of the West Route Army, Feng Sheng naturally didn't dare to neglect in the slightest, and it didn't take long for him to confront Bei Yuan's main force.

And Feng Sheng didn't flinch at all, he directly led Daming's army to meet Bei Yuan's main force.

Although Wang Baobao wanted to delay the time as much as possible, Daming's speed was really too fast.

Feng Sheng didn't care about the troops behind him at all, and led the cavalry directly to charge up.

Bei Yuan's morale was low, and he couldn't fight even if he wanted to, but a brave general like Feng Sheng naturally boosted Ming's morale.

Only 5000 cavalry broke up the 5 army on the north side, and the 10:1 army ratio was able to win a big victory.

Naturally, it goes without saying that it is extremely powerful.

And after this battle, Wang Baobao also knew that the morale of the army was useless, and he never dared to confront Daming's side head-on. Even if he was chased by the cavalry on the opposite side, he threw down his helmet and armor and only cared about escaping.

There is absolutely no problem with Wang Baobao's thinking, because there are very few towns on the grassland.

Even if Daming occupied those towns, it would not cause much loss to the Yuan Dynasty.

What's more, even if Da Ming planned those towns into powerful fortresses, it could only temporarily increase his control.

But wanting to control the grassland forever is the stuff of idiotic dreams.

After all, the Ming Dynasty had already done this in history, setting up various strong fortresses on the grasslands, but the range that things like fortresses could control was very limited.

Once occupied by the enemy, the things you manage will be wiped out.

And Feng Sheng also knew that his attack on Beiyuan this time was not to conquer the city, but mainly to solve the Beiyuan court.

To solve the Northern Yuan court, they must either capture their emperor or kill Wang Baobao.

And Wang Baobao was right in front of him, how could he let it go?
So he led the troops to continue the pursuit, and won three consecutive victories, all of which defeated the enemy, but Wang Baobao was too good at running, so he couldn't catch him.

Although the West Route Army has won three major victories, the results obtained are actually very limited.

It was just beheading more than 2 people from Beiyuan. Although it cost me more than 2 strength, it didn't hurt his fundamentals.

But on the other side, the Ming army led by Lan Yu completely killed the Beiyuan elders.

In July of the 17th year of Hongwu, fishing in the sea.

Chen Si rode a horse and followed the cavalry in front, carefully checking for information.

And not far away, someone came back to report the situation soon. There was a contiguous camp in front, which seemed to be very powerful.

Chen Si didn't know what Beiyuan Wangting looked like, and although their captain said he was very experienced, it was the first time he had fought so far.

These little soldiers don't know these things, they just know that they need to find the hostile target quickly and report it to the general.

Now that I saw a stretch of tents, it must be the place where the Beiyuan army was stationed, so I didn't care what it was for, so I hurried back and reported it to Lan Yu.

At this time, Sapphire led the army through the desert for more than a month, although there were some hidden oases along the way.

But it's been a long time since she met Bei Yuan's army, so Lan Yu is actually holding back her anger.

Now, after hearing that there was a continuous camp in front of her, Lan Yu didn't care about the general's image, so she hurried to confirm it.

He stood behind Xiaoqiu, looked down for a long time, and then said in a deep voice.

"Wang Ting, Wang Ting of Bei Yuan!"

(End of this chapter)