My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 480 Missing Things

Zhu Di finally looked better when he heard that Zhu Zhanhe was not here to persuade him to give up the Northern Expedition.

"You finally did not disappoint me. Whether it is your uncle or Xia Yuanji and others, they are all short-sighted. They only care about their immediate interests and fail to see the threat of the northern grassland!"

When Zhu Di said the last thing, he slammed the table angrily.

"I understand the emperor's hard work. Uncle and the others are not short-sighted. They are just lucky. They only think about how to defend, but they don't know that the best defense is to attack. They can only scare the Oara and Tatars in the north. Only in Ming Dynasty can I have peace!"

Zhu Zhanhe also expressed his opinion again.

"The best defense is offense! This sentence is well said, so well said, and it really resonates with me!"

When Zhu Di heard what Zhu Zhanhe said, he happily stepped forward and patted Zhu Zhanhe on the shoulder and said with a smile on his face.

However, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly discovered that Zhu Di was really old. Not only was the hair on his temples gray, but there were also more wrinkles on his face. Even the force of patting himself on the shoulder was much less intense than in previous years.

After Zhu Di finished speaking, he pulled Zhu Zhanhe to the map, and then said happily: "Zhanhe, they don't understand me, I don't care, as long as you understand me, we, the grandfather and the grandson, will make a plan to send troops together. !”

"Grandpa Huang, you think too highly of me. How can I know how to use troops? Grandpa Huang, please tell me how you plan to send troops?"

Zhu Zhanhe immediately said humbly.

Of course, what he said was true. Although he once led troops to eliminate Japanese pirates and even sent troops to attack Japan, others commanded the troops. At most, he was just a supervisor, helping to mobilize supplies. When it came to fighting, ten He is not as good as Zhu Di.

Zhu Di also became interested at this time. He immediately pointed at the map and explained his plan to send troops to Zhu Zhanhe.

In fact, Zhu Di's plan was not complicated. After Arutai defeated Wala, his strength grew rapidly, and all the grassland tribes surrendered.

Zhu Di's plan was to lead his troops to Huanglong and kill Alutai's lair directly. As for the tribes that surrendered to Alutai, he abandoned them.

Because Zhu Di was very confident, and based on the reputation he had gained during his previous northern expeditions to the grasslands, the tribes that surrendered to Arutai would be frightened when they saw the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and would not dare to jointly send troops with Arutai, so Zhu Di only needed Just target the Arutai headquarters.

Zhu Zhanhe nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Historically, Zhu Di targeted the Alutai tribe during his subsequent Northern Expeditions, but Alutai did not have the courage to engage in a head-on battle with the Ming army. Every time the Ming army arrived, he would lead his troops to escape, even if the Ming army took them. He didn't care if all his men arrested him.

As for the tribes on the grassland, they would hide whenever they saw the Ming army, because they had long been killed by Zhu Di.

Even because Zhu Di could not find Arutai, he directly killed some large tribes to vent his anger, and the remaining tribes still did not dare to show their faces. This shows Zhu Di's reputation on the grassland.

But thinking of Arutai, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he thought of something related to the other party, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember what it was?

"Zhan He, if everything goes well, I can prepare [-] soldiers and horses this autumn. Then you can follow me to the grassland where we will send troops, and we, grandson and grandson, will teach these barbarians a lesson!"

Zhu Di finally said again ambitiously.

"Huh? I'm going too?"

Zhu Zhanhe was stunned. Although he agreed with Zhu Di's northern expedition, he never said that he also wanted to go. "What, you don't want to go?"

Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Zhanhe. He finally found a like-minded person, so of course he had to take him with him. Moreover, he remembered that Zhu Zhanhe had never participated in the previous Northern Expedition, so he could just help him make up for it once.

"I want to go, of course I want to!"

Zhu Zhanhe did not dare to disobey Zhu Di, so he had to change his words immediately.

Just go, it's not like you haven't fought before, and there shouldn't be any danger in following Zhu Di, it will just be a bit harder at most.

It was getting late, and Zhu Zhanhe also said goodbye and left Wuying Hall.

But just after leaving the imperial city, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten to ask Zhu Di, what if Arutai avoids the battle and does not confront him head-on?
Historically, the reason why Zhu Di went on a series of northern expeditions in the last few years was because Arutai avoided the war. He fled when the Ming army came, and fought back as soon as the Ming army left.

Zhu Di was a very stubborn person and would not give up until Arutai was eliminated, so he went on three consecutive northern expeditions. In the end, he still failed to find the main force of Arutai, and finally died on the way to the northern expedition.

However, Zhu Di did not gain nothing. Every time Arutai escaped, he would leave behind many tribesmen. Zhu Di even took this opportunity to clean up the tribes that were close to Arutai on the grassland.

This caused Arutai's prestige on the grasslands to plummet and its strength to decline rapidly.

But this also led to the rise of Tuohuan. In the seventh year after Zhu Di's death, Tuohuan killed Arutai and became the overlord of the grassland.

The emperor at that time, Zhu Zhanji, sat back and watched the rise of Tuohuan, giving up the conquest of the grassland, which also laid the foundation for the future Tumubao Incident.

Thinking of the above, Zhu Zhanhe couldn't help frowning, and he wanted to go back to discuss with Zhu Di, but he felt that it was a bit too deliberate, and it was already so late today. Zhu Di was not going to send troops until autumn anyway, so he was not in a hurry.

So Zhu Zhanhe returned home, had dinner with his mother and Chang Sining, and went to Sun Ruowei's room to rest in the evening.

But while resting, Zhu Zhanhe still felt that he seemed to have missed something, but he couldn't remember what it was when he thought about it carefully. In the end, he simply put it behind him and took a good sleep first.

Early the next morning, Zhu Zhanhe woke up in a daze. At this moment, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, which made him think of what he had missed. This made him jump out of bed. .

"Husband, what are you doing?"

Sun Ruowei had just gotten up and was startled when he saw Zhu Zhanhe's appearance. He hurriedly stepped forward to support him and asked.

"No...it's okay, I just suddenly thought of something important!"

Zhu Zhanhe waved his hand at this time, but his face didn't look good.

Because Zhu Zhanhe suddenly thought that in history, Zhu Di's northern expedition to Arutai was not that Zhu Di sent troops first, but Arutai raised troops in a large scale and captured the Ming Dynasty's important border defense town of Xinghe in one fell swoop. They all commanded Wang Huan to swear to the death and refuse to surrender. In the end, Fight and die.

This Wang Huan is not an ordinary person. He was once a member of the Yanshan Zuo Guard. He followed Zhu Di in revolting against Jingnan. He can be said to be an old subordinate of Zhu Di. Although he was not granted a title, he was promoted to the post of commander of the capital due to his merit. He was regarded as a military officer. One of the backbone generals in the army and Zhu Di's most trusted old subordinate. His death in battle also directly led to Zhu Di's anger and sending troops.

(End of this chapter)