Chapter 1142: The Way Home
"Lord Wang!" When Li Yuntian and Monte Khan were greeting, a happy voice came from behind Monte Khan, and he saw a handsome guard wearing the costume of Monte Khan's guard running towards Li Yuntian with an excited face.
"Nalsa!" Li Yuntian recognized it at a glance, the guard dressed as a man was Narsa, and there was a look of surprise in his eyes, he thought that Narsa would accompany Concubine Analie, but he didn't expect to come with Monte Khan.
"Lord, Narsa misses you." Narsa threw herself into Li Yuntian's arms, hugged Li Yuntian tightly, and said with red eyes, when Li Yuntian was fighting in Kansai, she was often worried about insomnia in the capital.
"This king misses you too." Li Yuntian's heart warmed when he saw this, and he hugged Narsa's slender waist with a look of pity.
"Why was Monte Khan so polite to that young man?"
"Who is he, who actually blocked the way of the Great Khan of Chagatai!"
"Did you hear that, that young man claimed to be the prince."
"When did we have such a young prince in the city?"
"He seems to be the King of Chungmu! I saw it the last time the officers and troops entered the city. ”
"You admit that you are wrong, how noble is King Zhongwu, how can he come here?"
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Looking at the scene in front of him, the people gathered on both sides of the street were talking in private, secretly guessing Li Yuntian's identity.
"Lord Wang!"
Soon, Li Yuntian's identity was determined, and a group of Ming cavalry rushed from the military camp in the city, and after getting the news, they came to greet Monte Khan, and when they saw Li Yuntian, the knight led by Li Yuntian hurriedly turned over and dismounted and saluted.
"He's the King of Chungwu!" At this moment, it suddenly caused a sensation among the people on the street, and the people subconsciously hugged forward, all wanting to see the appearance of the famous Ming Zhongwu King up close.
Seeing this, the cavalry dismounted one after another, and formed several human walls around Li Yuntian and Monte Great Khan to prevent the agitated people from approaching.
Soon, the Ming army in the city rushed over, cleared a road on the street to the camp in the south of the city, Li Yuntian and Monte Khan rode side by side, talking and laughing while waving to the people who gathered on both sides of the road and cheered loudly, it can be seen that Li Yuntian is very popular with the people.
When Li Yuntian and Monte Khan came to the military camp in the south of the city, Zhang Hao, Niu Shihao, Bai An and other senior generals of the Ming army had already washed up and greeted them in front of the camp gate.
Because Li Yuntian needed to ensure the surrender of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan army in the Hetao region, and at the same time to deter the Western Regions, he left the Northern Expeditionary Army to maintain a strong military deterrent in Guanxi.
After Wendu arrived at Hetao, except for about 20,000 soldiers of the Northern Yuan Oirath Department led by Yexian and Gu Chen, the soldiers of the Timurid Empire, the Great Horde and the remaining troops of the Northern Yuan all surrendered to the Ming army.
Ye Xian and Gu Chen realized that the situation was not good after Wendu arrived at Hetao, so they hurriedly fled to the north with their cronies and soldiers, wanting to go to Mobei through the Monan region.
In order to eliminate Yexian and Gu Chen, Wen Du cooperated with the Ming army to lead 30,000 Timurid Imperial cavalry and Mongolian cavalry to pursue, which would become Wen Du's last battle in the Ming Dynasty.
In Li Yuntian's opinion, only Wen Du could capture an opponent of Gu Chen's level.
In order to show his respect for the Great Khan of Monte, Li Yuntian held a grand welcome dinner in the evening, and since it was now the snow season in the Western Regions, the Great Khan of Monte Khan was ready to stay in the Blue Dragon City until next spring before returning to Beshi Bali City.
During this period, Monte Khan had to consult with Li Yuntian about the Ming Dynasty's assistance to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the establishment of the Jiangwutang Division, and the officials sent by the Ming to the Jiangwutang Division, all of which required Li Yuntian to make decisions.
The reason why Li Yuntian gained so much power was not only because of the trust of the Empress Dowager Zhang, but also because the officials in the court were unwilling to intervene in the affairs of the Western Regions.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family can only entrust Li Yuntian with important tasks, and she is not at ease when others do this, after all, this is the first time that the Ming Dynasty has intervened in the military and political affairs of a vassal country on a large scale, and she doesn't want to mess it up.
The officials sent by Li Yuntian to Beishu Bali City were divided into two parts, one was drawn from Qinglong City in Guanxi, and the officials in Qinglong City could adapt to life and work in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate more quickly than the officials in the mainland, and the other part was recruited from the local area.
In the spring of the fifth year of orthodoxy, the Great Khan of Monte set off and left Qinglong City, and Li Yuntian personally led people to send him outside the city.
Narsa accompanied Concubine Anali to Beswan Bali City, preparing to stay in Beshai Bali City for a while and then return to Qinglong City to accompany Li Yuntian.
Along with Monte Khan, there will be a military attache sent by the Ming to Beshbali City, as well as hundreds of Kansai soldiers in charge of security, who will establish the Daming Showutang Office in Beshbali City.
In April, another group of military attachés from the Wutang set out from Qinglong City and led more than 20,000 troops from the western part of the country to the Turpan area, preparing to take over the power of the Turpan area, which would become the new western border of the Ming Dynasty.
In mid-June, Narsa rushed back to Qinglong City from Beshbali City to reunite with Li Yuntian and assist Li Yuntian in handling the affairs related to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.
Since marrying Li Yuntian, Narsa began to learn the course of the martial arts hall, and when she was in the capital, Lei Ting tutored her again, so now she can help Li Yuntian.
As Li Yuntian's woman, Narsa knew that she was going to take a completely different path from ordinary women, and she had to take on the corresponding responsibilities, not only for Li Yuntian, but also for the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and if she intervened, she would undoubtedly ensure the rights and interests of the Eastern Chagatai Khan's royal family, which was also what Monte Khan and Princess Anali wanted to see.
Letting Narsa intervene in the affairs of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate is not that Li Yuntian is too doting on Narsa, but a kind of appeasement to Monte Khan and Concubine Anali, and some things will be better communicated by Narsa and the people of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.
At the beginning of August, Li Yuntian led Zhang Hao, Niu Shihao, Bai An and other Ming troops in Guanxi to embark on the way home, returned to the capital to return to the orthodox emperor, and he would join Zhou Zheng, the Duke of Zhongguo, in Lanzhou and enter Beijing with him.
After learning the news that Li Yuntian was leaving, the alleys of Qinglong City were empty, and the people poured into the streets to see Li Yuntian off, and many people cried bitterly for it, reluctant to let Li Yuntian leave.
If it weren't for Li Yuntian, the people of Qinglong City would probably die in the war, and life after the war would not have been restored so quickly, everything was the result of Li Yuntian's strategy.
In fact, Li Yuntian originally wanted to stay in Qinglong City for another month to finish the affairs in hand, and then go to chase back Cheng's army.
However, his approach was opposed by Zhang Hao, Niu Shihao and others, Li Yuntian was the commander of the Ming army on this expedition, if he didn't leave, then how could the Ming army in Kansai leave.
In desperation, Li Yuntian could only follow the will of the people and leave with Zhang Hao and others, and he could not let the Ming soldiers in Kansai feel disappointed.
At the same time, in order to be able to control the situation in Kansai, Li Yuntian left Narsa, who was not only his concubine but also the princess of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, which was enough to deter some people with ulterior motives.
Although Li Yuntian was not willing to let Narsa show up in Qinglong City to deal with some things, for the sake of the stability of Kansai and the Western Regions, he had to leave Narsa here, even if Narsa did nothing, she could use her title of Loyal Warrior King's side concubine to calm the situation.
Just like Lei Ting sits in the Jingshi Martial Arts Hall, Lei Ting's official rank is actually not high in the capital, but even the governors of the five prefectures and the officials of the six departments have to treat her politely, which is naturally related to the fact that she is Li Yuntian's concubine and represents Li Yuntian in the capital.
The Ming army marched mightily along the way, and the people along the way prepared drinks and melons and fruits to see them off after receiving the news.
The soldiers had been away from home for several years, so the army marched faster than Li Yuntian expected, arriving at Jiayuguan two days early.
After more than a year of construction, Jiayuguan has regained its former majesty, and there is no indication that there has been an extremely tragic siege here.
It is worth mentioning that at the foot of a mountain outside Jiayuguan stands a tombstone several zhang high, the tombstone is written with three big characters of "nameless tablet", and the people and soldiers who died in the attack on Jiayuguan were gathered and buried at the foot of the mountain by the generals of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan.
Since it was no longer possible to distinguish a single skeleton, the Ming army had no choice but to build a mausoleum here and erect such an anonymous monument for the relatives of the deceased to pay respects.
On a hill in Jiayuguan Pass, there are rows of tombstones, the Ming soldiers who died in the war were buried here, Li Yuntian specially led Zhang Hao and other senior generals to pay tribute, without the courage of these soldiers to fight Timur Empire and the army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty would have already broken through Jiayuguan, so Zhou Zheng did not have time to arrange the Lanzhou defense line.
Li Yuntian also did not know how many people died in the Battle of Jiayuguan, but conservatively estimated it to be more than 150,000:
Although the casualties of the Ming army were known, the casualties of the besieging side had long been a mystery, because the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty used the tactics of filling the earth to siege the city, and many of the dead had been mixed with the soil, and there was no way to distinguish them.
However, it is difficult for Jiayuguan to encounter such a big war in the future, with the western border of the Ming Dynasty advancing to the Turpan area, and the strengthening of the Ming Dynasty's rule over the Guanxi region, Jiayuguan will become an internal pass of the Ming Dynasty in the future, and the possibility of encountering a major war is very small.
Unless there is internal turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, there are almost no countries that can reach Jiayuguan in hundreds of years with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.
After meeting Zhou Zheng in Lanzhou City, Li Yuntian and his entourage rushed to the capital non-stop, and the state capitals along the way naturally did not dare to slack off, and greeted these top nobles of the imperial court in front of their respective boundary monuments, especially Li Yuntian, who was ordered to inspect the world, but had the power to decide their future careers.
The people flocked to greet the triumph of the Ming army, and the deeds of Li Yuntian's defeat of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan coalition army in Guanxi had already spread all over the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, and its prestige had reached an unprecedented height.