Although Wang Xian was not an expert in military affairs, he was still familiar with the map of this expedition, and the mountain was located in the territory of Mongolia in later generations. It is said that Mahamu's nest is more distant in Kulan, which is the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. Later generations even felt that they were in a distant place by plane, but the 500,000 Ming troops had to rely on foot to get there, and they had to defeat powerful enemies, just thinking about it, it felt incredible, but this almost crazy move was repeated again and again by the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, no less than five times

Without such a chapter of the Long March that surpasses the epic, without this kind of courage that smashes the Yellow Dragon for thousands of miles, how can we suppress the unruly! Mongol? Let Wai Xing'an Ling become the slave of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers did it, and Zhu Di and his soldiers also did it, so the Ming Dynasty has today's prosperous era where all nations come to the dynasty and the four seas are one

"When the emperor went on his last expedition to the north, he also left a stone inscription on the mountain, Hanhai as a fang, Tianshan as a gong, a sweep of dust, Yongqing desert, majestic spirit, His Royal Highness should go to pay respects." The one who spoke was a eunuch with a duck's voice, and there was no shortage of eunuchs around the grandson, but this one was very different from the rest of the eunuchs, he was tall, copper-skinned and iron-boned, wearing a battle robe, majestic, and the journey of nearly two months did not seem to have any effect on him. In addition to having no beard, he is even more man than Wang Xian.

"yes, then I have to check it out." Zhu Zhanji was leisurely fascinated and said with a smile: "Uncle Bao, let's go up the mountain." ”

The grandchildren actually called this eunuch an uncle, it is unthinkable in any dynasty, only in the Ming Dynasty, it is natural in Zhu Zhanji. Because this eunuch is Zhu Di's old man, originally called Bao'er. Not to mention watching him grow up since he was a child, in the Battle of Jingyan, he also fought with generals like Zheng He and Wang Yan, and made great achievements. After sitting in the country, Zheng He became the eunuch of the internal official, Wang Yan was the eunuch of Shangbao, and the uncle Li Qian became the eunuch of the imperial horse.

Before the Yongle Dynasty, the Imperial Horse Supervisor was a horse breeder, but in the Yongle Dynasty, Zhu Di ordered the selection of strong men from various places and the Mongolian departments to form a Yulin Army, and the duty was to 'change the uprightness, and serve as the Su Guard, the forbidden soldier in the forbidden army is not subordinate to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, nor is it subordinate to the Command of the Pro-Army Commander, but to the supervision of the Imperial Horse

It is not surprising that the emperor handed over his personal guard to the Tai Supervisor. Because Zhu Di trusts most not civil officials, not ministers who fight the world with him, or even his son, but these loyal eunuchs. This time he took his grandson on the expedition, although he had the intention to train him, but Zhu Di finally knew too many shady scenes on the battlefield, and he was afraid that his heir would make a mistake, so he specially sent the most trusted eunuch to the young army as a supervisor, in case someone cheated the grandson.

As soon as Li Qian arrived at the barracks, he replaced Wang Xian as the number two person in the young army, and this old eunuch may be at odds with Wang Xian, and he is particularly difficult to deal with. Whenever Wang Xian spoke, he was criticized as worthless, Wang Xian saw that the grandson obviously believed in this old eunuch more, and he was indeed not good at military affairs, so he simply shut up about everything, let them make decisions, and he only took care of the soldiers wholeheartedly.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji was aroused by Li Qian's interest in climbing the mountain, and said to Wang Xian excitedly: "Go together?"

"I don't have such a good body as His Highness, so it's better to be still." Wang Xian smiled bitterly.

Before the words fell, he saw Li Qian's gaze sweeping over, and Wang Xian asked helplessly, "What did I say wrong?" ”

"Who taught you the rules? You can call yourself 'I,' in front of Your Highness? You should call yourself 'minister,'" Li Qian said coldly: "And in front of our family, you can't call yourself 'me,' but a human being." ”

"Okay, the villain is wrong, the minister is tired, Your Highness and father-in-law should go climb the mountain." Wang Xian had lost his temper by him, so he had to admit his mistake weakly.

Gonggong Li let him go, and went to climb the mountain with Zhu Zhanji, looking at their distant backs, Wang Xian shook his head helplessly.

"Don't mind, military advisor," Zhu Zhanji's personal eunuch Chen Wu had a horse sore, and he couldn't ride a horse while lying on the cart, so he naturally didn't follow, and comforted Wang Xian: "Gonggong Li's name was Bao'er when he was in the palace, and Bao'er was the grandson of Lin'er. His Royal Highness Taisun has watched him grow up since he was a child, and the relationship between the two is naturally extraordinary," he said and sighed: "I don't know if this is the reason, Gonggong Li doesn't like His Royal Highness Taisun to obey the military advisor very much." ”

"So that's the case," Wang Xian smiled and scolded in his heart, the old thing is still my little black

After capturing Hushan for seven days, we arrived at Guangwu Town, which is the grain base of Hongwu five years, Qiyang King Li Wenzhong's northern expedition, and the castle left behind in that year, after the repair of the Northern Expedition in the eighth year of Yongle, it is basically intact. This will also be the grain base of the Northern Expedition, and about 250,000 stone of grain and grass transported from the rear will be transported by 30,000 Wugang vehicles and march with the army. The rest will be hoarded here for the return journey, which will greatly reduce the burden on the army.

Moreover, after passing through Guangwu Town, the march of the army slowed down, often marching in the morning and resting after noon, and even resting for one to several days on the way, so that the army could recover its strength and recuperate, because from this time on, it officially penetrated into the hinterland of the Warat people, and the battle could start at any time

However, on May 23, the Ming army arrived at the Yuma River, but it had not yet met the Mongolian army. On May 26, the weather suddenly became hot, and Wang Xianyi asked Wu Wei, only to know that it was the summer solstice, and he set off from Beijing from Lichūnrì and walked all the way to the summer solstice

The Long March of 10,000 miles is nothing more than that...... Wang Xian stood by the Yinma River, a trace of boring thoughts floated in his heart, the arduous journey of the past three months has deeply changed him, and all the vulgar philistines in him have been sharpened, revealing a man's original tenacity and courage. When he came back to his senses, he hissed and asked, "There are no more attritions, right?" ”

"Three more brothers have gone to ......," Wu Wei said softly.

"Alas......" Wang Xian sighed: "It's a hundred ......"

"Long journeys, fatigue and illness, this is something that can't be helped, plus it's hot again, I'm afraid there will be more attrition in the future." Wu Wei sighed.

"In any case, a soldier should have died on the battlefield, but now he is falling on the march," Wang Xian said gloomily, "It was my dereliction of duty." ”

"My lord, it's just a matter of saying this in private, if it gets out and other generals hear it, I'm afraid I'll be angry." Wu Wei smiled bitterly: "I have inquired, in other troops, two hundred died out of 10,000 people, and they have already burned high incense, and there are even five hundred." He sighed and said, "With the addition of the people, thousands of people died on the march, and this sacrifice is really big enough." ”

"I don't know when I'll be able to see the Warat people...... Wang Xian nodded, and said gloomily: "Even a peace lover like me is looking forward to fighting a war every day."

Just when Wang Xian sighed that the Warat people didn't know where they were hiding, Zhu Di and his generals were also frowning, worrying about the same thing...... Now the army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Warat, but has met no resistance. Zhu Di is not Qiu Fu, who is rash of the enemy, and naturally realizes that this is extremely unusual in itself.

"This shows that Mahamu is either concentrating his strength and preparing to fight us to the death somewhere; Either flee back to the Great Northwest with the tribe. An Yuan Boliu said in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Zhu Di nodded and ordered: "Invite Borobha." ”

After a while, a Warat nobleman was brought into the imperial tent and knelt down to greet the emperor. His tribe was one of the five Warat tribes who came to surrender to the Ming Dynasty after the military parade in Zhu Disha City, because he came the earliest and brought the whole clan, Zhu Di was very happy and ordered him to go out with the army to prepare advisers.

"Borobha, I came to ask you, is it possible for Mahamu to withdraw to the Great Northwest?" Zhu Di asked in a deep voice.

The interpreter passed the emperor's words to Borobha, and then translated the latter's words to the emperor: "He said, impossible, before he came to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, Mahamu had already spread the word to all the departments, saying that he would fight with the Ming Dynasty to the last one, and he would never lose Genghis Khan's face."

Borobha added that the legend of Kulan Hypothermia is where Genghis Khan's imperial tomb is located......

"So, there's no way he's going to escape back to the Great Northwest?" Zhu Di's eyes lit up.

"The big words have been spoken, if he runs away without a fight, what prestige does he have at all?"

"Not bad." Zhu Di thought so, and ordered in a deep voice: "Order the scout camp to release all the scout horses and expand the search range to a hundred miles."

As the saying goes, there is nowhere to find when stepping on iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, only two days later, on the third day of the sixth month, Liu Jiang, the governor of the former army, reported that the advance had reached the Kanghari Sea, and accidentally discovered the Warat army, he immediately launched an attack, defeated the whole army, and captured the prisoner, according to the prisoner's confession, Mahamu went to Hulan for a hundred miles here, and suddenly lost his temperature, and was unprepared

After getting the news, the Wenchen generals around the emperor were very excited, they had already gone too far, and they really didn't want to go on meaninglessly, even if they wanted to fight, just fight happily

However, after Zhu Di heard this news, he was not happy and worried, and fell into deep thought...... He believed that Mahamu was right in front of him. But to say that the army has been deep in the grassland for several months, Mahamu and they are still defenseless, and they don't believe him to kill him.

Later, Zhu Di judged that the Warat army was ready for a decisive battle and was waiting for the Ming army to collide headlong, so he ordered the army not to move lightly

The generals were all very depressed when they received the order, but who dared to question the emperor's decision? Not to mention disobeying the holy decree. Surprisingly, it didn't take long for Zhu Di to change his mind again, and ordered the army to start immediately, and immediately marched forward, the generals were naturally very happy, but they didn't know why, I don't know why Emperor Lu Dao would issue this two contradictory decrees.