The death of King Han made Li Yuntian's mood a little heavy, King Han was the first heavyweight opponent he met in Daming, he was lucky to win half a move of King Han in Black Bull Town, otherwise once King Han arrived in the capital, the consequences would be unimaginable, this kind of sympathetic state of mind can only be experienced by him and King Han as opponents.

Under the wheels of history, the aftermath of the death of the Han King was soon drowned out by the noise of Emperor Xuande's personal expedition to the Tatar Ministry, and all the yamen in Beijing were busy preparing for Emperor Xuande's personal expedition.

The emperor's travel is extraordinary, in addition to the expeditionary army, there are accompanying honor guards, guards and palace maids, etc., a large group of people have to take care of eating, drinking and Lazar, which is a cumbersome and vast project.

As the date of the Northern Expedition to the Tatar Ministry approached, Li Yuntian went back and forth between the military cabinet, the cabinet and the six ministries, discussing various matters related to Emperor Xuande's expedition, and he didn't want to be so tired, but he had no choice but to participate in those deliberations as the chief instructor of the Jiangwutang, the scholar of Zuo Chunfang University, and the right deputy of the Imperial Palace.

The camp of the Xiaowu Army in the suburbs of Beijing is in full swing of training, and the Qinglong Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion stationed in the camp will all be dispatched, and their identities are equivalent to the forbidden army of Emperor Xuande.

It is worth mentioning that the Datong Battalion of the Blue Dragon Legion and the Liaodong Battalion of the Vermilion Bird Legion had recruited more than 20,000 people from local military households and civilian households in public a few years ago, and were conducting intensive training in an orderly manner.

In this way, Li Yuntian successfully expanded the strength of the Blue Dragon Legion and the Vermilion Bird Army Legion to the size of an army after the White Tiger Legion.

According to Li Yuntian's plan, the recruits of the Datong battalion and the Liaodong battalion will be on standby, and the Tatar department of the northern expedition will only be ready to use the recruits of the Datong battalion to fight with the Tatar department, and the recruits of the Liaodong battalion will be kept to deal with the Wuliang Ha Sanwei in the future.

Just when the affairs of the yamen of the various ministries and courtyards in the capital were busy in order, the day before Emperor Xuande set out on the expedition, the Liaodong Metropolitan Division suddenly sent an 800-mile urgent express report, and the Wuliang Ha Sanwei suddenly attacked Xiling City, an important western town near the Liaodong Metropolitan Division and the Daning Metropolitan Division, at night without warning.

In the frantic attack of the three guards of Wuliangha, the defenders of Xiling City collapsed after a day and night of resistance, the defenders and the prefect were killed in battle, and 20,000 Ming soldiers died and surrendered.

As soon as Xiling City was broken, Liaoyang City, the seat of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, was exposed to the troops of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, and there was no important town guarded by the Ming Army between Xiling City and Liaoyang City, so the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division hurriedly sent people to Jingshi for help.

According to the report of the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, the strength of the Wuliangha Sanwei attacking Xiling City was as high as 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the strength of the Ming army in Liaoyang City was only 20,000.

Although the Liaodong Prefecture had 120,000 troops, its troops were distributed in various garrisons in the Liaodong region, especially in the east, where 50,000 troops were deployed on the border with the Korean Kingdom, and only 30,000 troops were left in some areas.

It is worth mentioning that these troops are all numbers on paper, and in recent years, the number of soldiers in the Liaodong Metropolitan Division has reached 30%, which means that the total strength of Liaodong is only more than 80,000 people, which does not have much advantage in terms of numbers compared with the three guards of Wuliangha.

Moreover, even if the combat effectiveness of the army of the Liaodong Dusi ranked second in the Ming army, second only to the Beijing army, and had a strong physique that the people in the Guannai did not have, due to lax training and low morale, it was undoubtedly at a disadvantage in the face of the brave and warlike nomads.

After the urgent report of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division reached the military pavilion, the members of the military pavilion were taken aback, even if they added those nomadic tribes who were coerced, the total strength of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei was only fifty or sixty thousand, and now the strength of the Daning Dusi was still confronting the strength of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei outside the Great Wall, where did the enemy army attacking the Liaodong Dusi come from? It can't just come out of nowhere, can it?

Zhang Fu, the first assistant of the military pavilion, did not dare to slack off, and immediately entered the palace after receiving the urgent report of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division to inform Emperor Xuande that the Liaodong Metropolitan Division was lonely and hung outside the pass, and once there was a change, the shape of the northeast of the Ming Dynasty was unimaginable.

Emperor Xuande was taken aback after receiving the report, the Ming Dynasty did not put the Wuliang Ha Sanwei in his eyes before, and was ready to clean up the Tatar Department first and turn around and then deal with the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, never imagined that the situation in the Liaodong region had changed abruptly, which caught the Ming by surprise.

For Emperor Xuande, the situation in Liaodong was more severe than that in the Xingdusi region of Shanxi, where almost all of the people lived by the Han people, while the Liaodong region was dominated by nomadic people, and if it was instigated by the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, it would probably lead to a protracted war.

Therefore, on the afternoon of the day before the Northern Expedition to the Tatar Department, Emperor Xuande urgently summoned the members of the General Cabinet, the Cabinet and Jiuqing to the Qianqing Palace to discuss countermeasures.

Li Yuntian was able to attend the highest-level imperial meeting of the Ming Dynasty thanks to the grace of Emperor Xuande, and because of his shallow qualifications, he was ranked at the bottom, and listened quietly to everyone giving advice to Emperor Xuande there.

In view of the current situation, Emperor Xuande had two options in front of him, one option was to continue the northern expedition to the Tatar Division, and then send the Imperial Commander of the Imperial Court to rescue the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and the other option was to suspend the Northern Expedition to the Tatar Division, and send two troops to Shanxi Xingdu Division and Liaodong Prefecture to fight respectively.

It is naturally the cabinet members of the military pavilion who support Emperor Xuande to continue the northern expedition, after all, Emperor Xuande has already announced to the world, if the northern expedition to Tatar is stopped at this time, wouldn't he be smiling and generous, so that Emperor Xuande's face is?

Moreover, the cabinet members of the military pavilion believed that although the shape of Liaodong was urgent, it was far from affecting Emperor Xuande's northern expedition, and as long as the troops were gathered to rescue, it would be enough to suppress the three guards of Wuliangha.

The cabinet elders and Jiuqing hoped that Emperor Xuande would suspend the northern expedition to Tatar for safety, and sit in the capital to command the two troops of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Tatar Ministry and the Wuliangha Sanwei.

In the eyes of these civil officials, if the imperial court wants to rescue Liaodong, then it will inevitably draw troops from the 150,000 troops gathered by Emperor Xuande, which can be described as the elite of the Ming Dynasty, so that the strength of the army around Emperor Xuande will be weakened a lot.

Although the Tatar Department is only one of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, it is fierce and warlike, and its strength should not be underestimated, otherwise Emperor Yongle would not have repeatedly conquered the Tatar Department and the Warat Department in the north, and if the accompanying forces to guard Emperor Xuande are weakened, then it is very likely to give the other party an opportunity.

Due to the disagreement between the military cabinet, the cabinet, and the Jiuqing, the two sides engaged in fierce disputes and debates in front of Emperor Xuande, which made the imperial meeting last from the afternoon to the evening.

Faced with this complicated situation in front of him, Emperor Xuande was difficult to choose for a while, precisely because he had followed Emperor Yongle to the north to conquer the Tatar and Warat departments when he was young, so he knew the strength of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and once he divided his troops to reinforce Liaodong, he would lose a lot of advantages in terms of troops.

What particularly disturbed Emperor Xuande was that the Wuliang Ha Sanwei was suspected of echoing the Tatars in Liaodong at this time, which meant that the Tatars were likely to be fully prepared for this southern invasion, which made the situation extremely complicated.

"Marquis Zhenwu, what do you think of this?" In the evening, after the palace maids served supper, Emperor Xuande, who looked a little tired, looked up at Li Yuntian, who was quietly eating pastries there, and Li Yuntian did not say a word from beginning to end.

Although Li Yuntian was able to attend such an important imperial meeting, he was self-aware, and the ministers and nobles at the scene were all high-ranking members of the imperial court, so he kept his mouth shut in interest so as not to take the lead.

Hearing this, the ministers at the scene couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian, and they remembered that Li Yuntian had not yet opened his mouth to express his opinion, and Li Yuntian, as Emperor Xuande's most trusted courtier, had an opinion that was very important.

"Your Majesty, the minister feels that the raid on Xiling City by the Wuliang Ha Sanwei is quite strange, and as far as the minister knows, the troops of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei are all confronting our army along the Great Wall, so the minister feels that it was not the people of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei who attacked Xiling City."

Hearing this, Li Yuntian hurriedly put down the pastry in his hand, bowed his hand to Emperor Xuande, and said in a deep voice, "If the minister is not mistaken, the enemy army that captured Xiling City should be Tatars." ”

"Tatar?" Everyone at the scene was taken aback, if they were not mistaken, the people of the Tatar Department were now confronting the army of the Shanxi Xingdu Division, and there was no such strong force to attack the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Liaodong Capital Division at the same time.

"Your Majesty, the minister suspects that the Warats have gone south and joined forces with the Tatars to invade my Daming." Li Yuntian hesitated for a moment, and said his concern with a solemn expression, "Otherwise, with the strength of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei and the Tatars, they will not be able to invade our Shanxi Xingdu Division and Liaodong Capital Division at the same time!" ”

"Aren't there enmity between Varat and Tatar?" Yang Shiqi, the first assistant to the cabinet, suddenly had a look of surprise on his face when he heard this, although Warat and Tatar both belong to Mongolia, but one of them dominates the western part of the Mongolian Plateau, and the other controls the eastern part of the Mongolian Plateau.

"Xia Guan is just guessing, and the specific situation is still unknown." Li Yuntian bowed slightly to Yang Shiqi and replied in an orderly manner.

In fact, Li Yuntian was almost certain that the enemy army that captured Xiling City must have Tatars, although he did not know much about the Tatar department, but he was very clear about the strength of the Wuliang Ha Sanwei, although the Wuliang Ha Sanwei could compete with the army of the Daning Dusi, but there was absolutely no division of troops to attack the strength of the Liaodong Dusi, so there must be an external force to intervene.

To the north of Liaodong is the Nuergan Division, to the southeast is the Kingdom of Korea, and to the west is adjacent to the Daning Division, and it is worth mentioning that the Daning Capital Division is a long oblique area from south to north, and its west is bordered by the territory of the Tatar Department.

Li Yuntian believed that it was impossible for the nomadic people of Nuergan to go south, because the land was vast and sparsely populated and there were many ethnic groups, and it was difficult to form a unified command.

It is even more impossible for the Korean Kingdom, how could it be willing to attack Xiling City in the west of Liaodong Prefecture in the southeast of Liaodong Prefecture?

Therefore, the only possibility is that the Tatars marched eastward and raided Xiling City while the Liaodong Metropolitan Division was unprepared, so that the Liaodong Metropolitan Division lost the western barrier.

In this way, the Tatar Department did not have enough troops to face the Shanxi Xingdu Division, but the Shanxi Xingdu Division was now under tremendous pressure, so the only explanation was that the Walla Department was also involved, so that there were enough troops to launch an attack on the Shanxi Xingdu Division and the Liaodong Division.

In other words, the offensive of Wuliang Ha Sanwei in Daning was just a cover, and the Liaodong Dusi was the real target.

The other party's hand wanted to cover Mizhang and play beautifully, not only deceived the Ming court, but also made the Liaodong Metropolitan Division defenseless, and then lost Xiling City in one fell swoop, making the situation of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division fall into trouble all of a sudden.