My Daming New Empire

Today I have meat, pick some wild vegetables, and make a pot of gnocchi, which is considered a good meal in this era.

Seeing a few eunuchs go up to help, a group of soldiers were not polite.Because what he wants to make Zhu Zhanji feel delicious, he also needs a group of eunuchs who are most familiar with Zhu Zhanji's preferences.

Zhu Zhanji handed his reins to Li Liang, and stroked the bloody horse's neck twice before it followed Li Liang to a river beach with lush water and grass.

In this small river in the desert and grassland, the current is very small, the water depth is less than one meter, and the width is less than 20 meters.In autumn, I am afraid that the flow will be cut off.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't know the exact location here, but according to the test of the sextant, it is about 46 degrees north latitude and 112 degrees east longitude.

Because there is a lake in the upper reaches and a small river in the lower reaches, it is used as the place where the big camp is stationed.

After greeting all the soldiers one by one, everyone trembled with excitement, which is also the normal state of most soldiers.For them, the grandson and them are the gap between heaven and earth.

Only Qianhu, the leader, was calm as usual. Zhu Zhanji saw that he looked familiar, and said, "Yunchuanwei is stationed in Yunzhong County, and Meng Yuan was changed to Zhenwu. The commander reminds me of Liu Zhu, right?"

"Your Highness has a good memory. The current commander of my Yunchuan Guard is indeed Mr. Liu. However, since the eighth year of Yongle's crusade against the Tatars, our border guards have moved to the left and are now stationed in Shengle Tucheng."

Seeing that he was neither humble nor overbearing, Zhu Zhanji asked: "I don't think you came from an ordinary family. Where is your ancestral home?"

He couldn't help becoming a little excited on his calm face, and he quickly lowered his head and cupped his fists and said, "My name is Xu Jingyan, my father is Dingguo Gong Zengshou, the second in the family, and now I am serving as a thousand households in Yunchuanwei."

Zhu Zhanji froze for a moment, looked at him with a frown and said, "So, you are still my cousin, but why have you never heard of you?"

Dingguo's mansion, Jing Zi's generation, is the generation of Empress Xu's nephew, who is a generation older than Zhu Zhanji.

Although Zhu Zhanji is not close to the people of the Xu family, he also has some contacts during the holidays.

Xu Zengshou, Duke Ding of the previous generation, has three sons and two daughters, and Zhu Zhanji has also seen them all. Now that someone he has never heard of suddenly comes out, it is inevitable to be a little suspicious.

Xu Jingyan hesitated for a moment and said: "The minister's mother is a sinner, so she is not allowed to enter the genealogy."

It was only then that Zhu Zhanji cleared up his doubts. In the early Ming Dynasty, the hierarchy was strict. It was already very rare for someone from Xu Jingyan's background to be recognized by the Xu family and to be assigned a position of a thousand households.

He said with relief: "Fame is only obtained from the horse. You are really a hero. Your ancestor Wei Guogong was a hero, and your father Ding Guogong was upright. I hope you will not fall into their honor."

"The minister will never disappoint His Highness' high expectations, and will fight for a future."

This is obviously wanting to take refuge in oneself.Zhu Zhanji smiled and nodded, but said nothing else.

No matter how nice the words are, it is not as good as a real fight.His elder brother Xu Jingchang has been getting closer to him, but he has no talent and mediocrity, and Zhu Zhanji doesn't like it either.

If he is really capable, Zhu Zhanji doesn't mind supporting him, but if he is not capable, he will not embarrass Duke Dinguo because of him.

After all, you still need to be able.

However, with the idea of ​​supporting him, and being a relative, Zhu Zhanji naturally treated him differently. During the meal, he deliberately let him sit beside him and introduced him to his guards.

This can be regarded as a shortcut for him.

Chapter 46 helpless

On March 15th, Liu Sheng led an army of [-] and [-] people from Zhangbei, marching northeast along the eastern prairie with abundant water and grass.

Except for the Shenji Battalion, all the military guards are composed of veterans from the Northeast Frontier Guard. Most of them also participated in the first Northern Expedition, and they know everything about the grasslands like the back of their hands.

These veterans were also the main force of the Northern Expedition, but now they were all sent to the Eastern Front to guard against the Tatars.

But as long as it can drive the Tatars to the battlefield and consume their strength, all this is worthwhile.

Alutai is old and cunning, this time he clamored to help Daming fight against tiles, and now Daming will do whatever he can, let's see how he responds this time.

However, Liu Sheng was well aware of Alutai's cunning.Although he surrendered to Daming now and accepted King He Ning, who was canonized by Daming, in the past four years, not only did he not help Daming contain Oirat, but instead he sat and watched Oirat gather the Zhansan tribe of Tatar under his command.

This time, he was reaping the fruit of his own accord. The rising Oirats drove them out of the lush pastures of the Tuci River, so he had no choice but to ask Daming for help.

But no matter how fierce their internal fighting is, they still have a common name, that is Bei Yuan.

They have the same living customs, the same way of life, and Daming, they will never be the same.

Since the fifth day of the Lunar New Year's Day, Liu Sheng has been marching with the highest vigilance. If he wants to use Alutai this time, he must also guard against the evil wolf of Arutai.

Five days later, the army arrived at Shangdu of Yuan Dynasty, which was originally the accompanying capital of Meng Yuan, but now it was under the rule of Ming Dynasty, and Kaiping Qiantunwei was set up.

After arriving here, the army headed north along the west side of the Ganno River.

Marching along the river bank not only does not worry about the water source, but also prevents the east side from being attacked by the army.

For this march on the East Road, safety comes first, not seeking meritorious service, but seeking no faults.

As long as he can drive the Tatars to the front of the battlefield to fight the Oirats, he has done a great job.

On April [-]th, Liu Sheng finally met Alutai, who led [-] cavalry, at the Sanhekou of the Yinma River and the Hannan River.

Like Liu Sheng, Alutai was also afraid that the Ming army would open their fangs to him.Behind him, Wala was even more aggressive.

The Tartars in the cracks are weak.Seeing the majesty of the 20 army and the [-] cavalry behind him, Alutai couldn't help feeling a little worried.

Although Daming's army moved slowly, it was unstoppable. Just counting on the less than 30 herdsmen under his command, it could not resist the flat push of 20 elite soldiers.

As long as these large armies stay in the grassland for one summer, his people will have nowhere to graze. In autumn, the number will be reduced by at least half.

Partly because there are no livestock to starve to death, most people will simply join other tribes.

"National teacher, are we really going to fight the Wala people? Isn't it cheaper for the Han people to fight back and forth?"

Although Arutai was conferred the title of King Hening by the Ming emperor, in Tatar, everyone still used to call him the national teacher, and in their hearts, they would never agree with a prince conferred by a Han emperor.

Arutai's eyes looked at the boundless dust in the distance, which was the ashes brought up by the marching army.

He sighed and said, "We can't do without fighting. We can only survive if we help the Han people defeat Oala. This grassland belongs to us after all. Even if the Han people win, they will not stay on the grassland."

In terms of hating the Han people, he is no weaker than Wahamu of Oala, otherwise, four years ago, he would not have bewitched Benya to oppose Daming.

But if they fail, they can only bear the consequences of failure.

Wahamu got the swords and guns provided by the Han people, so he could take advantage of their weakness and take away a large area of ​​grassland, and even killed the Great Khan Ben Yashili.

Now, he is just following the old path of Wahamu.

Borrow the strength of the Han people to attack the opponent's strength.If they don't resist, the Tatar alien race will have no grassland to survive.

However, he will not know that in the distance, there is already a scheming young man who is ready to dig out the roots of the Tatars directly.

Seeing that the vanguard battalion of the army had advanced within ten miles, Alutai said, "Wu Geqi, you lead a hundred troops, and then go to meet the Han division."

Wu Geqi said with some displeasure: "Grand Master, Astor, didn't Ji Lihuan and the others go to welcome them one after another?"

"Han people like to be polite. When we ask them for something, if we have more etiquette, they will be happier, and they will be more generous when it comes to terms."