My Daming New Empire

What he is most curious about now is why Zhu Zhanji is so close to Jin Yiwei, and what is he doing with Jin Yiwei?

It is not unusual for Zhu Zhanji to have four Jinyiwei guards, even he himself has a team of Jinyiwei guards.

However, since Zhu Zhanji came to Peiping, he had been to the other courtyard several times, and each time he was accompanied by a large number of people.

Being so close to Jin Yiwei, the father didn't care about it, which made Zhu Gaosui very puzzled.

He knew very well that his father, the emperor, had no father-son relationship in front of the imperial power.

Because the eldest brother, the prince, was praised by the civil servants, he had to beat him every now and then.

The second brother, the King of Han, was favored by generals, and for more than ten years after Jing Nan, he had no chance of gaining military power at all.

Jin Yiwei is a sharp knife in the hands of the emperor. He has never allowed anyone to reach out to Jin Yiwei. Why does this fledgling nephew dare to contact Jin Yiwei without any taboo?

Zhu Gaosui absolutely didn't believe it was just because his father favored his grandson, there must be some reason he didn't know.

It's a pity that the Jinyiwei guards beside him belonged to the Qianhu Office in Beiping, and they didn't know any news from Yingtian Mansion at all.Only Zhuang Jing and his gang from Yingtian Mansion knew about this matter, even Sai Hazhi didn't seem to know about it.

The more he couldn't find out, the more curious he became. He felt that he seemed to have discovered a big secret.

Zhu Zhanji didn't have the energy to guess the little thoughts of his third uncle, he had already been occupied by the busy military affairs.

Since February 600th, when the Ming Dynasty raised its account in Beiping, Zhu Zhanji began to get in touch with the military affairs of the Ming Dynasty. This was a [-]-year difference in different war modes, which made him have to adapt a little bit.

However, he is not a blank slate. Although the war patterns of the two eras are completely different, in terms of overall planning and management, they are actually just changing the soup without changing the medicine.

The purpose of war is to strike the enemy, and all preparations are made to serve this purpose.

On the battlefield of future generations, if an army can exert 50.00% of its combat potential, it will be an invincible elite soldier.

The composition of war is too complicated. In this backward era, today's 50 army, nearly 50 civilians, and a total of one million people, it is difficult to realize even [-]% of the war potential.

This is not an encounter, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.

This is a large-scale strategic battle. To achieve the goal, what is needed is to reduce one's own mistakes and seize the opponent's mistakes, so that a greater potential can be unleashed.

So, the principle of war is the same.

From the first day, Zhu Zhanji showed his macroscopic vision and analysis and judgment ability on the battlefield, which allowed the governors of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War, including the generals of the armies, to have a clearer understanding of him as the grandson, and also I respect this grandson even more.

Zhu Di was most satisfied with this situation, and even directly granted Zhu Zhanji the false title of General Left of the Northern Expedition, allowing him to have full contact with the Northern Expedition army.

Since six years ago, Zhu Di has been plagued by injuries and diseases accumulated in his youth, especially the severe rheumatoid in recent years. Zhu Di is often tortured by death.

Not to mention this era, even 600 years later, rheumatoid is not a curable disease, and there is no cure at all.

When he was not ill, Zhu Di still had countless lofty aspirations, but whenever he was ill, Zhu Di also had the melancholy of a dying hero.

On this expedition, after arriving in Peiping, he suffered from rheumatism again, which made him less involved in military affairs.

Although he did not have his father Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicion of the generals, he would rather kill all the meritorious officials than let them pose a threat to the rule of the Zhu family.

However, his taboo against military generals will not decrease at all, so seeing that his grandson can be recognized by the generals in the army, and he handles things with reason and evidence, he gave his grandson a false title to replace him as a military counselor.

This position is very suitable for Zhu Zhanji, because in modern times, he himself was not the commander-in-chief of several military operations by mercenaries.

He may lack experience in dealing with specific affairs, but he definitely lacks experience in dealing with the strategic goals of a war.

In later generations, sending troops from central Africa to Libya required dealing with various international diplomatic disputes, necessitating consultation and coordination with the European Union, the United States, the African Union and other countries and institutions.

At that time, Zhu Zhanji handled it properly, and now Daming doesn't need to deal with external affairs at all, so it's even easier.

He, General Zuo of the Northern Expedition Army, only needs to coordinate the cooperation between the various internal military guards, handle the supply of food and grass, and handle the construction of roads and bridges by the auxiliary army. These tasks are not too difficult for him at all. .

Because he has done such things in modern times. Although the models are different, the essence of war is the same.

However, these tedious tasks require a lot of energy and time, which has resulted in him having almost no free time recently.

And in this kind of busyness, he has established trust and tacit understanding with the five armies, the military department, and some generals. This is his greatest achievement.

For example, Marquis Zheng Heng of Wu'an, a famous general of the Ming Dynasty and the winner of Zhu Di's first Northern Expedition four years ago, admired Zhu Zhanji's strategic talent and ability to make overall arrangements.

From the casual socializing at the beginning of contact, to now he has completely become Zhu Zhanji's fan.

Zheng Heng is four years older than Zhu Di. He is 58 years old this year, but his long military career has given him a strong physique.

In the army, there are generals who are older than him, but there is no general who can be older or more powerful than him.

In the first year of Yongle, he guarded Xuanfu, in the fifth year of Yongle, he guarded Beiping, and in the seventh year of Yongle, he guarded Kaiping.

In the first Northern Expedition, Zheng Heng supervised the transportation of soldiers and salaries, and after leaving the fortress, he commanded the right post, chased Ben Ya and defeated Alutai, and ranked first in terms of merit.

Later, he was awarded by Zhu Di and entrusted with the important task of guarding Xuanfu.

In the Nine Frontiers of the Northland, Zheng Heng's achievements are unparalleled, and his name is Megatron Beiyuan.

Now that Zhu Zhanji has won his approval and support, it means that he has won over the largest force within the Northern Expeditionary Army.

On the first day of March, the last batch of Northern Expeditionary Forces set off from Beiping to Zhangbei.

Although Zhu Di's health has improved, he still can't ride a horse and can only go by car.

However, the road between Beiping and Zhangbei was smooth, and they were all cavalry. It took only three days to reach Zhangbei.

On the Zhangbei Grassland, Zhu Di raised a big tent, rewarded the three armies, and the army went out to fight.

The army of 50 was divided into two routes. Liu Sheng led the army on the east line, passing through the Xilingol League of later generations, and heading northeast to Qiaoba Mountain in the Hannan River.

There, Liu Sheng will join Alutai who is now surrendered to Ming Dynasty, and march towards Helin.

The army on the middle road marched towards Helin via Erenhot in later generations.

On March [-]th, the rested army led the way from the Qianfeng Battalion, followed by the head army, and started a mighty march.

It is indeed mighty, with almost 20 soldiers in the East Route Army and 70 soldiers in the Central Route Army, each with shoulders and hands.

If not everyone was wearing military uniform, it would not be like fighting at all, but like fleeing.

However, this is already the strongest military group in this era.

Although the Beiyuan people had stronger personal fighting power, their numbers were too small, with a total of less than 300 million horses, which was completely incomparable with Daming.

If they didn't run away and confronted Daming head-on, ten for one would consume all the Beiyuan people.

An army of 70 people formed an army formation about ten miles wide, heading north all the way.Fortunately, this is a grassland. If it is a mountainous area, it may be tens of miles long.

The grassland in March has just sprouted, but the grass is far from enough to feed 10,000+ army horses and draft horses. After entering the grassland, the army array became wider and wider, and finally formed a torrent hundreds of miles wide.