Through Yitian: Mingzun Zhang Wuji

Chapter 676: Mingzun’s glory fills Mobei

But this time we are not fishing in the sea, but in Kaiping City, the capital of Meng Yuan Dynasty.

But this starts with the surprise attack on the grassland by the three armies of Lan Yu, Chang Yuchun, and Li Siqi.

According to Zhang Wuji's plan, Lan Yu, Chang Yuchun, and Li Siqi's three armies reached Mobei, the hinterland of the Mongols, at lightning speed.

At present, the Mongolian and Yuan court still focuses on the Central Plains, and most of its troops are deployed on both sides of the Yellow River to guard against the attack of the Ming army in the Central Plains.

Yuan Ting wanted to use the Yellow River natural barrier and Zhang Wuji to fight for a year and a half to buy some time for the Yuan Ting clan to escape back to the grassland. When the time was almost up, Meng Yuan implemented the "scorched earth policy" to control the areas within the Great Wall. Take away everything that can be taken away, burn, kill, and destroy everything that cannot be taken away.To complete these requires a large amount of troops and transportation capacity, thus leaving their Mongolian home very empty.

Chang Yuchun and Li Qisi's troops initially fought mainly with the armies of the khanates supporting the Yuan Dynasty.

However, the armies of each khanate are the private property of each khanate, and the army is the bottom line for them to maintain national rule.They do not expend their own energy to protect other people's territory.

And once their own army is completely wiped out, I don't know whether the Han people will come to destroy them, but my compatriots next door will definitely take the opportunity to eat them.

Faced with this kind of troops, the army led by Chang Yuchun and Li Siqi defeated them without much effort, and released all the prisoners they captured, and told them that the Han people had no intention of becoming their enemies.If they promise not to be enemies with the Han people or the Ming Dynasty, then they can still preserve their territory.If you are willing to fall to the Ming emperor, you can even get Mingzun's protection in the future.

Compared with their barbaric compatriots, these Han armies were more civilized.Neither plunder nor kill them, nor even take the opportunity to eliminate them.So the armies of each Khanate also went back.

There is an emptiness inside, and the foreign aid has no fighting will, and they are doing their own thing.The three armies took over the Mobei Grassland without much effort.

But what really conquered the Mobei grassland was not the butcher's knife in his hand, but the "soft policy" from the Central Plains and Mingzun.

That is, everything is business as usual, grazing animals when they should, and herding horses when they should. After that, they are still governed by their own Khans. The Han people are not interfering in the Mongolian grasslands.

The Khanate only needs to respect the Great Emperor of the Central Plains, make offerings on time and in accordance with the rules of the vassal state, and maintain peace.

But similarly, the Great Emperor of the Central Plains will also reward his grassland people. The Emperor promised to send merchants with the food, tea, cloth, cotton, and salt that the grassland people need.Even during times of famine, tribute would be waived and money and grain would be sent for disaster relief, so that no one on the grassland would starve or freeze to death.

At first, these Mongolian herdsmen were still very scared, but as more and more Ming army soldiers arrived, they gradually put down their hostility and alertness.

Because the soldiers of the Ming army really didn't know how to rob or kill.And their women are safe too.Not robbed, not insulted.

They would not approach the herdsmen's yurts unless necessary.

Even if these Mongolian herdsmen attack them out of self-defense, they will not take his life easily.Moreover, the Ming army always went out in groups of three to deal with this kind of thing. In particular, each group was equipped with a Mongolian soldier as an interpreter to explain unnecessary misunderstandings.

During this time, the herdsmen had no shortage of cattle and sheep.Even if it is lost, the cavalry of the Ming Army will help them find it.It even happened that a Ming army soldier fell into a swamp and died in battle to save a herdsman's sheep.The Ming army supplied supplies on the Mobei grassland, but they did not rob them, but bought them.

The soldiers of the Ming army were either Mongolians, Semu people, or Han people.Under the leadership of Mongolian guides and translators, they exchanged the salt, tea, gold and silver they brought with them for cattle and sheep food with the Mongolian villagers.If his weapons are broken or his horses are sick, he will ask them for help.If they really have no money, they will help the Mongolian villagers work to pay off their debts.

After this period of getting along, and with the instigation of the Mongolian compatriots who had joined the Ming army, these herdsmen living in the desert completely defected.

After all, the Han court and Han soldiers were really kind to them.It has always been Qiu Wuwu.

In the end, it even developed to the point where these Mongolian villagers spontaneously began to serve as the "leading party" and led the Ming army to lobby other tribes to surrender.Some even joined the Ming army directly on the spot.And the Mongolian princes who escaped early, as well as the Mongolian officials who oppressed them, were captured and handed over to the Ming army for disposal.

After all, their lives were not affected. Compared with the cruel Mongolian and Yuan court, the Han court treated them better.

Just when Zhang Wuji and others were fighting a bloody battle in the Central Plains.

Li Siqi, Chang Yuchun, and Lan Yu's team, with Zhang Wuji's strongest trump card and the "soft policy" of changing people's hearts, completely conquered these people who were suffering on the grassland.

Even when the Ming army on the grassland marched south, these fellow villagers from the grassland came out to see them off in person, just like bidding farewell to their own troops.Some even hoped that the Ming army would not leave and expected them to come back to protect them.Don't let those cruel Mongolian princes come back.Some even packed up their belongings, put their yurts on their carriages, and followed the Ming army southward.

Chang Yuchun was stunned by this scene. For the first time, the invincible "Chang Shiwan" felt that his bravery was useless and was not even as good as Zhang Wuji's two promises.

In this way, the Ming army did not look like they were going to "steal a house" this time, but rather like they were going to help their Mongolian hometown move.

The biggest gain of the Ming army in this battle was not gold and silver, cattle and sheep, or how many enemy troops were destroyed.But there are thousands of Mongolian people around, dragging their families, driving their own cattle and sheep, following the Mongolian people around them.

The soldiers of the Ming army even gave up their war horses to some children and elderly people with handicapped legs and feet to ride on.And when the transportation capacity was insufficient, war horses were used to bring property to fellow villagers.

Moreover, they basically spent everything they had with them, as well as the military pay advanced to them before the expedition.But everyone was very happy.

But Li Siqi and Lan Yu are used to it.Li Siqi has long been accustomed to seeing this kind of scene of "eating a pot of pulp to welcome Master Wang".After the battle in Jinling, Lan Yu had seen even more magical things, and this kind of thing was nothing.

Therefore, when Lan Yu's troops took the lead in going south, the Mongolian army stationed near Kaiping saw these relocated Mongolian people, the cattle and sheep, and the Ming army soldiers who were guarding them. They thought they belonged to their own family. The army is coming.

He immediately opened the camp gate and the city gate, knowing that the other party had completely entered the city. After seeing clearly the flags they carried, he realized that they were the enemy.They were basically killed by the Ming army without any warning.

(End of this chapter)