Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

The Yellow River is full of harm, but only benefits.This refers to the fact that during the Han Dynasty, there was a large-scale immigrant to the Hetao area, and the reclamation was carried out in the warm Yellow River Hetao, and the garrison could be self-sufficient.

In the Ming Dynasty, the impact plain of the Yellow River on the Ordos Plateau, due to climate change, has formed the Mu Us Sandy Land in the center of the Hetao. This was once the land of Henan in the Qin Dynasty, with lush forests and grasslands.And the south bank of the Yellow River is already the Kubuqi Desert with rolling yellow sand.At the northwest corner of the Yellow River, the Ulan Buhe Desert and the Kubuqi Desert in Houtao gradually become a hand-in-hand situation across the Yellow River.

The wind blows the yellow sand down the Yellow River, and finally deposits in the river downstream.

The fundamental purpose of Zhu Youxiao's visit to Ningxia Wei is to prevent the Northwest Frontier from needing to increase its military strength and investment within three to two years, or even within three to five years.

His plan is to let Ningxia Town block the gap between the Helan Mountains and the Ulan Buhe Desert, which is the line connecting Dengkou, Wuhai to Shizuishan, and drive this line five hundred miles west. All became barren land, and the possibility of the Mongols going south from here was absolutely impossible.

Because of Tatar's nomadic habits, if there is no grass for the horses to graze within three or five days, they must not dare to take risks.

Then it is time to cross Helan Mountain.The west side of the Helan Mountains should also be burnt into a land without green grass for [-] miles, completely eliminating the possibility of the Mongols taking advantage of the advantages of light cavalry to plunder back and forth in Hetao, an area suitable for both reclamation and nomadism.

This is also when the national power is limited and the military power is not strong, there is no way to do it.

Because of the current climate conditions in Ming Dynasty, Hetao can only be planted for one season, and the grain output cannot meet the needs of the garrison.The imperial court did not have enough strength to send enough food from the south thousands of miles away to the isolated garrison across the Mu Us Desert.

What I am most afraid of is that there will be natural disasters in the grain-producing areas in the south. At that time, even if we want to send food to the army stationed in Hetao, we will not be able to do it.

Repeating the set and keeping the set can only be a dream.

Instead of investing too much and making this borderland between farming and nomads a springboard for Tatars to invade the northwest town, it is better to simply re-plan the Hetao.

After the front set of Dongtao cleared the organic power of Tumochuan, Du Wenhuan was able to complete the plan in the north of Yinshan Mountain.Then the front set can become the land of Yulinwei of the Ming Dynasty and the new racecourse of the Ming Dynasty.

He wants to deal with the Mongolians who are farming and nomadic in the Bayannaoer area of ​​Houtao. All he has to do is to make a round trip from Ningxia Town, and take a detour from the West Tao of the Yellow River to the north, just to make it clear to the commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town The general situation, and the specific follow-up methods.

Xitao, where Ningxia is located, is a place where the Hui people are the main residents.This was formed when the Ningxia Wei was established in the Ming Dynasty.Ningxia's folk customs are tough, and the Mongols rarely take advantage of Ningxia's bandits.But last year, there were frequent emergency situations.Ningxia Town also has [-] imperial guards sent from the capital.

When Wu Jinzhong, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia Town, received the imperial envoy, he was so surprised that he could stuff a child's fist into his mouth.He touched his forehead and rubbed his eyes, but his eyes were not dazzled, and there was indeed a big living person standing in front of him, holding his identity certificate to convey the emperor's oral order to him.

He stammered and said, "Today is the Lantern Festival."

Fengchenghou couldn't help laughing, and Du Hongyu, who was sent by Xininghou to come with Fengchenghou, also laughed.

Du Hongyu took a step forward and introduced himself first: "Wu Zongbing, next to me is Du Hongyu, the deputy commander-in-chief of the Yulin Guard, with the word Kaizhi. You can just call the last general to open it. My father is the Yulin Guard Zongbing above. Xiahuan."

Wu Jinzhong regained a little sanity, he had never seen Du Hongyu, but he had heard of it.If you take a closer look, it is indeed very similar to Du Wenhuan who likes to pretend to be a literati.

"How is your father?"

"Thanks to your old man, it's fine. You can still get on the horse and swing the knife to teach the boy a lesson."

Wu Jinzhong smiled, "You are also the deputy commander now, and Marshal Du is also a successor."

Du Hongyu said shyly: "It all depends on the support of the elders."

Li Chengzuo raped Du Hongyu. In the army, he felt that this kid could talk, and he followed Xininghou every day in front of the emperor to make fun of him. There was no such kid who didn't know about it in the past 5000 years.These ten days and a half months all depended on his chatting and answering with the emperor in the imperial tent.

Now facing a person whom he has never met, he can bend down and call him an elder who supports him.Can you make it up?

Wu Jinzhong chatted with Du Hongyu for a few words, and then stared at Li Chengzuo with good eyes, as if trying to find something out of his face.After a long while of disappointment, this purpose was dismissed.Li Chengzuo's face does not have the slightest shadow of the old Marquis of Fengcheng.

"You are Marquis of Fengcheng? I have met your father, why don't you look like the old Marquis of Fengcheng?"

Li Chengzuo shyly said, "It's only been a few months since Xiaohou inherited the title. I look like my maternal uncle."

Wu Jinzhong nodded, and said, "No wonder." Li Chengzuo, Marquis of Fengcheng, who had just been enshrined as a prince, should have been wearing crotch pants when he entered the capital last time.

Seeing that he was able to talk normally, Du Hongyu reminded him: "The Son of Heaven ordered you to have an audience."

Wu Jinzhong lost his mind again.

"Let me tell you, because your father and I are colleagues, you can't come to make fun of me. How could the emperor come to Ningxiawei? It's the Shangyuan Festival. The road is blocked by heavy snow, which is the capital of Tatar. You will not come to Koubian. You also said that the emperor will arrive in Ningxiawei tomorrow, and you will come out to eat the northwest wind in the twelfth lunar month instead of staying in Beijing for the New Year?"

As he spoke, Wu Jinzhong began to look suspiciously at the two young men in front of him, wondering if they were sent by the Tatars to trick him away from Ningxia Wei, so that Ningxia Wei would take them into captivity?

snort!When I was a general, you were still peeing and playing with mud.

"I said what's not good for you two to play. This false statement from the emperor will also be beheaded. Go, put lights in the city tonight, you can have fun."

Neither Du Hongyu nor Li Chengzuo expected such a result, they looked at each other in blank dismay, until the housekeeper was called in by Wu Jinzhong to ask them to go out, Li Chengzuo stood up abruptly and shouted loudly.

"Wu Zongbing, do you want to resist the order?"

Du Hongyu rushed over to cover Li Chengzuo's mouth, and reprimanded him in a low voice: "What are you shouting about?"

Turning to Wu Jinzhong, he said: "If Zongbing Wu doesn't believe us, he will send a few confidantes to follow us to see if we are telling lies. But you will bear the consequences after the verification. Our identity certificate I've checked everything for you, do you have any questions?"

Wu Jinzhong refused to express his doubts, but he did not drive Du Hongyu and Li Chengzuo out of the house, and ordered people to look after them, even their guards.Then, hundreds of cavalry were sent out of Ningxia Town, looking around for a hundred or fifty miles around, to see if there was any sign of a change in the army.

These cavalry were all Wu Jinzhong's elite and confidantes, and there was nothing they could do about it.The recruitment system has led to the fact that the commanders guarding the border must have their own confidantes (servants), who are capable and willing to rush forward when the two armies are facing each other.Just counting on those military households who usually plow the land with hoes and have no strength, and those who can't ride horses and can only fight with the wind, they will die without knowing how to die.

Wu Jinzhong was worried, he didn't even have the time to think about watching the lanterns.In order not to cause panic among the people, he insisted on walking back and forth on the four walls for most of the night.It wasn't until the time for Zishi's curfew that he returned to the General Military Mansion in peace.

Zhu Youxiao's journey from Yulinwei to Ningxiawei was quite difficult.When the road conditions were the most difficult, they could only walk fifty miles a day.Fortunately, the chariots and horses were all top-notch, so they didn't suffer more crimes.

He didn't plan to enter Ningxia Wei, he just planned to meet Wu Jinzhong and tell him the matter, and then he took the five thousand forbidden troops of Ningxia Wei to the back of Hetao.There is another advantage of the heavy snow blocking the road, that is, it is difficult for the Mongols in the back to get the news.When the time comes when he leads the forbidden army to fight from the west, those Mongols will naturally flee to the east.

Cough cough cough, there is Du Wenhuan with [-] soldiers in the east.

He thought very well, but he never expected that Wu Jinzhong would doubt the authenticity of Marquis Fengcheng and Du Hongyu, and would not come to welcome them.

At this time in the capital, Cui Jingrong, Minister of the Ministry of War, got the great victory newspaper reported by Du Wenhuan.

Then Du Wenhuan also had his mind on it, he figured out what the emperor meant, and gave the governor Zhang Zhihou the task of sending the good news and cooperating with the emperor to encircle and suppress the Mongols in Tumochuan to the governor Zhang Zhihou.

But when Zhang Zhihou saw that the emperor had detained all the people who followed Datong, and had taken a full month's worth of supplies from Yulinwei, Zhang Zhihou handed over his own memorial and the matter Du Wenhuan had given him, and passed on the official documents as normal. Speed ​​to the capital to send.

The cabinet Fang Congzhe was shocked when he read Zhang Zhihou's notes, and immediately called Ye Xianggao and Han Yu.

"Come and see, the emperor did not lead Datong's imperial army to Tumochuan as planned. He went to Yulinwei and was besieged by more than 3 Tatar cavalry."

Han Yu was quite straightforward. He immediately snatched Zhang Zhihou's booklet, read it carefully, stroked his chest, and murmured: "My God. Fang Shoufu, you can't be so scary."

Ye Xianggao snatched the brochure from Han Yu's hand to read, and asked Han Yu impatiently, "Is the Son of Heaven safe?"

"Safe. Great victory. Tens of thousands of Tatar war horses were seized."

Han Yu chose to answer Ye Xianggao to a point, and Ye Xianggao breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down to read Zhang Zhihou's notes slowly.

After reading everything, he raised his head and asked Han Yu, "Did you hear that the Ministry of War has received news of Yulin Wei's great victory?"

Han Yu shook his head, and immediately murmured to himself in confusion: "It shouldn't be, shouldn't such a great victory be sent back to the capital in [-] miles?"

Fang Congzhe said on the side: "The person who was sent by Governor Zhang to deliver the memorial also said that he still has to go to the Ministry of War to deliver the document to Du Wenhuan, the general soldier of the Yulin Guard."