The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

March of the tenth year of Zhengde.

The little Mongolian prince personally led 100,000 cavalrymen to conquer the right-wing Mongolians entrenched in the Hetao area, intending to complete the task in one battle. If the conquest is successful, a unified Mongolia will appear on the grassland!

Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty, led his army to Liaodong, swept the barbarians entrenched in Liaodong, and then marched all the way to Daning from the Liaoxi Corridor, and then marched to Kaiping, slaughtering countless people wherever he passed, leaving no one alive.

An Guo, the Marquis of Jinglu of the Ming Dynasty, led his army to manage the Hetao area, supported the right-wing Mongolians, and fought against the left-wing Mongolians, with considerable results.

Later, the Marquis of Zhongshan and the Marquis of Jinglu joined forces, united the right-wing Mongolians, and fought against the left-wing army. The two sides fought at the foot of Yinshan Mountain. Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan, coordinated the overall situation, wiped out 50,000 left-wing Mongolian troops in one battle, captured the little Mongolian prince alive, and swept away the decline of the country!

After the court received the news, this urgent military information was immediately publicized, and a large group of postmen were sent to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, with the intention of sweeping away the decline of the Ming Dynasty with this great victory and making everything new!

And in fact, it was so.

After the original landfall, the Ming Dynasty was in decline and no longer had the strength to go out of the border to eliminate the threat of Mongolia. It went from actively going out of the border to passively being beaten, causing the Mongolian Tartars to march straight in, plundering, harassing, burning, killing, and robbing, and doing all kinds of evil. The soldiers and civilians in the border towns have suffered from the northern barbarians for a long time.

During the Hongzhi period, a brave and warlike Mongolian prince appeared on the grassland. He harassed the border all year round and killed countless people. The weak Ming army dared not meet the enemy, causing the soldiers and civilians all over the world to change color when they heard about the Tartars, causing unrest in the hearts of the people.

Under this great victory military report, peace returned instantly.

No matter how unsettled the people's hearts were, they were not as good as the 100,000 Mongolian cavalry that were almost wiped out, nor the Mongolian prince who was captured alive!

The name of Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao also became famous throughout the world as the Ming court publicized this battle!

After all, the trouble of the northern barbarians has troubled the Ming Dynasty for decades!

Especially the military towns in the northern border areas are even more afraid of the Tartars!

The Tartars are invincible when there are no more than a thousand, and they are invincible when there are more than a thousand. This has almost become an unbreakable curse in the day-to-day and year-to-year defeats of the Ming army!

But now, this curse has been shattered in this incredible victory!

Just like Han Fu, the general commander of Liaodong, who was still cleaning up the battlefield in Liaodong, was stunned for a long time after receiving the news of this great victory, and he never came back to his senses.

The main force of Mongolia was completely annihilated?

The Mongolian Dayan Khan was captured alive?

Isn't this a joke?

Isn't this a fairy tale?

Han Fu seemed to have doubted his life.

After all, there was a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. The most Zhongshan Marquis had under his command was only 30,000 Beijing troops, while Dayan Khan had 100,000 cavalry!

This did not include the slave auxiliary troops!

But, they won just like that!

30,000 troops against 100,000 cavalry!

Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao not only won, but also captured Mongolian Dayan Khan alive!

What a brilliant and glorious victory! !

Han Fu recalled the style of the Zhongshan Marquis, and couldn't help but feel very relieved and drank a lot of wine.

"It is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty to have this Zhongshan Marquis!"

Xianning Marquis Qiu Yue was very melancholy at this moment.

Because he seemed to have made a wrong choice.

When Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao was assassinated and fell into a coma, a group of Beijing army generals such as Tang Mu, An Guo and others led the Beijing army soldiers to mutiny in anger. Qiu Yue did not participate in it, but tried to stop Tang Mu, An Guo and others.

The final result was that he was kicked out of the circle of Beijing army nobles.

After Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao woke up, he immediately resigned from the position of the commander of the Beijing Army and recommended Qiu Yue instead.

But it was precisely because of this position that Qiu Yue could no longer fight, and could only be placed on the court like a mascot, fighting with civil officials and gentry.

He was born as a frontier general, and he hated these court party struggles more than anyone else!

With this spare time, it would be better to fight with the Tartars!

But Zhongshan Marquis did not take him with him. Even Guo Xun, the useless Dingyuan Marquis who was neither good at literature nor martial arts, could supervise the transportation of grain and grass and do logistics work, but Qiu Yue was left idle in disguise.

Looking at the terrified Jiangnan gentry in front of him, Qiu Yue looked at the northern border with a look of disappointment.

The Mongolian prince was captured alive, and the Mongolian main force was annihilated in one battle, which meant that there would be no more wars in the next twenty years.

And when Tang Hao, the Marquis of Zhongshan, returned to the court with this great achievement, it was time for Qiu Yue to return the position of the commander of the Beijing Army.

Melancholy!

"Spare my life!"

"General, spare my life!"

The gentry in Jiangnan was still crying.

Qiu Yue was already upset, and now he was even more upset.

"Kill him!"

The whole world was shocked, and the court was in panic!

The capital of the Ming Dynasty, which was originally undercurrent, fell into a strange silence in an instant.

And the chief minister of the cabinet Yang Tinghe and the Minister of Rites Zhu Youlu also found the stolen grain very smoothly, which was a bit unbelievable.

Of course, in this process, all the officials of the four major granaries were bloodbathed, and Xu Mengchun, Hu Wenchang and others had already been captured by the Jinyiwei. What awaited them would be... the whole family would be executed!

The case of the theft of the granary came to an end, and the lost and recovered grain was quickly sent to the disaster area for disaster relief.

The case was over, but a new problem came up again.

That is the issue of rewards for this battle.

How should Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao and his meritorious soldiers be rewarded?

It is undeniable that the current Beijing military nobles have long been a complete behemoth, which has indeed made the civil officials and gentry feel strongly threatened.

Whether it is the aversion to military generals interfering in politics, or the violation of their own interests, or the worry about military generals ruining the country... There are too many things that cannot be said in public or private.

After all, this time, Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao captured the Mongolian prince alive, and that was the orthodox Mongolian Khan!

Not to mention after Tumu, even before Tumu, His Majesty Emperor Yongle had never captured the Mongolian Khan alive!

This is an unimaginable and tremendous achievement!

How should it be rewarded?

Rewards are obviously unavoidable.

Even if the court officials have more thoughts, they can only hold their noses and discuss the rewards for the heroes of this battle.

After all, if the court does not reward such a huge achievement, what prestige can it have?

Not to mention that Emperor Zhu Houzhao also used a trick, and asked the Tongzhengsi to spread the news of the victory to the world on the night when the victory report entered Beijing!

So now the whole Ming Dynasty knows that Zhongshan Hou captured the Mongolian prince alive and wiped out the main force of Mongolia!

It would be unreasonable not to reward him!

Of course, this was inseparable from the battle of wits and courage between Zhu Houzhao and the court officials. Zhu Houzhao rejected the proposals for reward again and again.

His Majesty the Emperor is now refreshed, walking with the wind, and full of confidence.

There is no way, my barbarians are so good at fighting, and they have also made outstanding contributions!

It must be okay to make him a duke, right?

It is not too much for the other generals of the Beijing Army to get a hereditary marquis, right?

For the meritorious soldiers of the next level, it is okay to arrange a few non-hereditary earls, right?

If it were not for the fact that the Ming Dynasty was not allowed to have kings of different surnames, Zhu Houzhao would have wanted to do it in one step and get a kingship for his beloved barbarian!

Of course, this is impossible, and there is no need to disgust the world at this time.