prosperous age

The north gate of Bansheng City, defended by the guerrilla general Xu Qin of Datong Town, was finally opened by Li Zixin's surprise attack at any cost. Li Zixin rushed to the north gate with cavalry and opened the north gate that had been closed by the Ming army.

Before that, he was also ordered by Yu Dayou to set fire to the houses in the city, but Xu Qin, who was greedy for the property in the houses, only set fire to the houses near the city gate, and did not continue to burn the houses inside, and there were not many enemy troops here. , Most of the Bansheng soldiers were sent to Nancheng to resist the enemy.

It was because of greed for money that the Ming army in the Northern Expedition missed one of the most important military exploits, capturing or killing an important bandit leader of the White Lotus Sect.

Although the cavalry led by Li Zixin successfully escaped from Bansheng City, there were only 20 cavalry around him at this time, and the thing that worried him most still happened.

The Ming army was broken through the city gate by them, but as the Ming army on both sides of the city walls continued to come to support, the passage was quickly blocked again, and the family members and other subordinates behind them were unable to rush out, and they were all blocked in the city .

At this time, there was still a fierce battle in Beimen City, and as Yu Dayou led his troops to kill, the battle ended quickly.

Looking at Xu Qin who committed a felony, Yu Dayou just shook his head, "Set fire to these houses, and you lead people to guard the north gate, and if someone leaves the city, you will end it yourself."

Although Liu Han has confessed to the famous generals who followed him here, but as a prisoner, Yu Dayou is actually very difficult to punish the generals in Datong Town at this time, let alone enforce battlefield discipline.

Perhaps, if this was Zhejiang when he was the commander-in-chief, he would not hesitate to kill Xu Qin on the spot who refused to carry out the military order.

When Yu Dayou led his troops to kill, many rebels fled into the houses on both sides. Naturally, the Ming army would not bother to clear them up, and set fire to them simply and rudely.

After arranging this place, Yu Dayou immediately took people back to the palace, and began to count and transport the belongings in the palace.

The bulky ones are naturally not easy to take away, and of course they will not be left intact. Only those that are easy to carry and can be carried by pack horses are the things they need to take away.

In the end, it was to set another fire and turn the entire Bansheng City into a sea of ​​flames.

The Ming army still patrolled the avenues and city walls in the form of small groups, and set fire to any houses that had not been lit. In short, Yu Dayou did not intend to leave here with the remaining rockets and torches.

After moving the supplies overnight and counting the harvest, it was only then that they faced up to the results of the raid on Bansheng City.

Very disappointed, no leader of the White Lotus Cult was found captured or beheaded.

The identity of the person who rushed out of the city in the end was also confirmed. What can Yu Dayou do but sigh in regret?

When Yu Dayou was beating people to death in Bansheng City, Wei Guangde was chatting with people in a restaurant thousands of miles away in the capital, having a good time.

"I thought that His Majesty's plan to sneak attack Hetao was left behind, but I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it."

Gao Gong raised his glass to respect Wei Guangde, then drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, wiped the corner of his mouth with his hand, and said with a lot of meaning.

"Ha ha."

Sitting on the side, Wei Guangde smiled and said: "There has been no news about the memorial, and I think the same as you."

"If you want to say that this strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao is ingenious, as the memorial said, as long as the Jizhen army firmly guards the Great Wall in the line of Juyongguan, and the Xuanfu army keeps the walls and clears the fields, and guards the city, even if the Tartars completely overthrow the Xuanfu, as long as they can take the Hetao It's not a loss if the area is swept away by him.

You hit yours, I hit mine, if you come to my Xuan Mansion to rob, I will sweep the loop for you.

Our family in the Ming Dynasty has a big business, and Xuanfu is a town. We can still afford it. The Tartars in the north have no cattle and sheep in Hetao. Let’s see how they spend the winter this year, haha, okay. "

Yin Shizhen laughed and said, obviously admiring Wei Guangde's strategy.

"The most important thing is that after this battle, if the Tartars want to be so aggressive again in the future, they have to figure out where to hide their sheep, haha."

Chen Yiqin also clapped his hands and said with a smile, Wei Guangde's strategy is good, fortunately he found a counterattack strategy to deal with the surprise attack of the Tartar army.

If you hit me on the East Road, I will send troops from the West Road to attack the grassland. If you want to attack me on the West Road, I will go to the East Road. Whether it is Liaodong Town or Xuanda Town, you can enter the grassland to attack the opponent.

As for the small fights of hundreds or thousands of people on the border, it is nothing to the officials in the capital.

In their eyes, as long as the Tartars didn't gather tens of thousands of horses to attack, which was not enough to threaten the safety of the capital, they didn't have to worry about it.

"Early this morning, when I was still on my way to the Yamen, I was stopped by the cabinet and took me to the cabinet to meet Mr. Xu Ge. He said that his majesty still attached great importance to the previous memorial to Xiyuan. Called Jiuqing for court discussion, but was stopped by Mr. Yan Ge.

It is said that the reason he said was the same as you and I said. Whenever military affairs are involved in the court, it is best to be cautious and avoid spreading the news. "

Speaking of this, Gao Gong glanced at Wei Guangde, and then continued: "So His Majesty just sent Da Sima to Xiyuan to learn more about the length of the countermeasures and his complementary methods, and finally decided to follow this strategy. do it.

The actual executor was Da Sima, who asked Mr. Yan Ge and him to assist. "

"In other words, His Majesty, the two elders and Yang Shangshu were the only ones who knew about this matter before this?"

Chen Yiqin asked.

"It should be like this, but the effect is really good. At least when the news came this morning, everyone was very surprised, weren't they, ha ha."

Gao Gong seemed to be laughing heartily, but Wei Guangde felt that it was a bit fake, and the hint of a superficial smile was very strong.

"Haha. Indeed, at noon, I heard that the men from the Ministry of War rushed to the yamen last night and saw the note that Yang Shangshu handed back. They were still arguing, and some people planned to go to Xiyuan to meet His Majesty. Fortunately, it was suppressed, and the quick writing was sent out overnight."

Yin Shi said with a smile.

Just early this morning, the news that the Ministry of Defense announced that the Xuanfu had seized customs three days ago began to spread in the capital. At the same time, there were also multiple official documents issued by the Ministry of War last night and early this morning.

Different from the news uploaded by the court before, the Ministry of War did not order the army of Jizhen and the two towns of Yansui and Ningxia to rush to help Xuanfu, but ordered the army of Jizhen to guard the Great Wall of Juyongguan and not to go out to help the battle.

At the same time, it took [-] miles to rush to send orders to the two towns of Yansui and Ningxia, and immediately dispatched troops to the north to sweep up the Tartar tribes in the Hetao area.

It should be said that it has been many years since the Ming Dynasty issued an imperial decree to border towns to enter the desert to recruit captives. It seems that after the civil fortress, after the Ming Dynasty switched from attacking the northern Tartars to defending, there was almost no such order. issue.

Although there were generals who took the initiative to attack when they saw the opportunity, or harassed them for the purpose of leaving the customs, they all fought on their own and were not conducted under the command of the imperial court.

The last time someone proposed the Northern Expedition was the former Xuanda Governor Zeng Xian.

At this time, it seemed that everyone's instinctive thought in the face of the Tartar attacks was to fortify the walls and clear the country, just stick to the city, and they didn't even think about whether they should also fight out, just like they did in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, decided to destroy Beiyuan in the Northern Song Dynasty because the Beiyuan had been staying in the border areas. In view of the lessons learned from the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in the Northern Song Dynasty, he decided to destroy the Beiyuan within two years. This opened the second consecutive Ming Dynasty. More than ten Northern Expeditions.

During Zhu Yuanzhang's reign alone, he launched thirteen consecutive Northern Expeditions in an attempt to completely wipe out the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the most famous of which was the Seventh Northern Expedition.

In the 21st year of Hongwu, the Ming army detected that Tianyuan Emperor Tuogusi Timur was fishing in the sea, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lanyu to lead an army of 15 people to take the opportunity to make a northern expedition, trying to destroy Yuanting.

Lanyu marched straight to where the Emperor Yuan was, launched a surprise attack, and defeated the Yuan army. Tugusi Timur was killed by his generals when he fled. Lanyu captured more than [-] people under the Northern Yuan clan. With countless seals and supplies, the Northern Yuan court had basically disintegrated. From then on, Mongolia began to fall into continuous internal strife.

After that, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di also went north to Mongolia five times. Although the results were not great, but because of his initiative to defend against the enemy, it still had a very positive impact on the Ming Dynasty.

Once upon a time, after so many years in the Ming Dynasty, there was no such order for the Northern Expedition.

Although the decree this time was completely different from what it was back then, it also caused a great commotion in the court.

Although civil servants have to discuss it in private, they think it seems inappropriate to let the frontier army go to the Northern Expedition, which will re-increase the arrogance of nobles and generals, because the Northern Expedition means military merit, and the court cannot treat the city of meritorious service harshly.

For so many years, the emperor was unwilling to send troops to the north, and the civil servants also collectively opposed the initiative to use troops to the north. Not only because the Ming army after the Tumubao was no longer the same as it was back then, the combat power is really not so reassuring, but also because They are worried that the Wu Xun Group will revive and take the opportunity to grow.

It's just that such a voice was quickly suppressed.

Most of the high-ranking officials in the capital now have experienced the incident that the Ministry of Antiquity called at their door ten years ago. Thinking of that shock to the entire capital, these officials still have a shadow in their hearts.

The Gengxu Incident in the 29th year of Jiajing not only shattered the Jiajing Emperor's dream of a prosperous age, but also the courtiers.

In the next few years, although Emperor Jiajing had the idea of ​​taking revenge from the Northern Expedition from time to time, the fearful courtiers always pushed back and blocked, so that Emperor Jiajing had no choice but to give up his own ideas.

The courtiers didn't have the psychology of revenge, but the reality was better than people, and the most important thing was that they couldn't find a civil servant who could command the army.

Yes, in order to lead the Northern Expedition, it was necessary for civilian officials to be in command, leading military generals to go out, but the reality was that they could not find such a person.

Yang Bo could barely do it, but after looking through his pockets, he found that the court had no money, so let it go.

Forbearance a moment, calm, take a step back, a brighter future.

Along with the news of sending troops from two towns to sweep Hetao, of course, there was also information about the initiator of this plan.

It was actually Wei Guangde.

In the past few years, Wei Guangde can be regarded as a rising official in the court. Although his official position and rank are not high, he seems to have gained an unexpected favor from Emperor Jiajing, and the emperor always thinks of him in almost everything. .

This inevitably caused dissatisfaction in the hearts of other officials, but at this time everyone restrained very well and did not show it.

They were all obtained through the ten-year examination in the cold window, so why should you be the only one in the emperor's heart.

Since you, a stunned young man in his twenties, dare to think and act, then let you show off.

If you win the battle, you will be promoted to a higher rank, but if you lose, you will be ruined. At that time, we will step on your feet again and help your father teach you a few words.

Perhaps it is because they are used to ordering military households on weekdays, civil servants really generally look down on those submissive soldiers, they are all bloodless Qiuba, and they should be called around by scholar-bureaucrats like them.

Therefore, the current military households of the Ming Dynasty are not only despised by the Mongols, but even the civil officials are looked down upon by a hundred.

Naturally, in their view, how could such soldiers defeat the gang of vicious barbarians in the north.

As for Wei Guangde, he was drunk again tonight, lying on the carriage and letting Li San drive the carriage to his house.

At this time, Wei Guangde was still a little excited. Although the strategy was improved by Yang Bo, it remained largely unchanged.

As for the news heard during the day, and the so-called loopholes heard from Gao Gong, in fact, Wei Guangde did not think of it, but he still insists on his judgment until now, that is, the tens of thousands of people in Al Da Khan are not qualified. attacking the city of Beijing.

Just kidding, although the history is a bit idiotic, Wei Guangde still knows that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was commonplace to build slaves and hold customs. Every two or three years, they would break into the Great Wall and plunder around the capital. To Shandong.

In Wei Guangde's impression, it seems that the guy named Dorgon in the Qing Dynasty captured a prince in Shandong, but now there are three princes in Shandong, namely King Lu, King De and King Heng. Wei Guangde couldn't tell for a while. Who is so unlucky to be captured by the braided army.

Among them, King Lu is an important prince among the kings of the Ming Dynasty, because King Lu was the first batch of princes to be entrusted in the Ming Dynasty. The first generation of King Lu was called Zhu Tan, the tenth son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. He was born less than fifty days old and was still in his infancy, and his fiefdom was Yanzhou.

King De is a little bit worse. He is the second son of Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen and younger brother of Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen. He was named King De in the first year of Tianshun. The fief was originally in Dezhou, Shandong, but Dezhou was relatively poor, so he was changed to Jinan. The domain name remains unchanged.

King Heng is the seventh son of Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen of the Ming Dynasty. He was named King Heng in the 23rd year of Chenghua, and he became a vassal of Qingzhou in the 13th year of Hongzhi.

Think about it, how powerful the wild boar skin was at that time, and the number of people who entered the customs each time should be comparable to that of all the main forces of the Ida Department, ranging from tens of thousands to 10,000+.

However, in Wei Guangde's impression, Jiannu seemed to have never attacked the capital.

It seems that they really arrived under the city walls of Beijing, but they didn't withdraw dozens of miles away from the capital like Al Dahan.

Jiannu dare not attack the city of Beijing, so is there a chance for Ida Khan's troops?
But these, Wei Guangde can only think in his heart, but dare not say it out.

Just like that day, when Gao Gong asked him to talk about it, Wei Guangde only vaguely agreed to go.

How dare you talk nonsense about the future.