Hong Chengchou shook his head slightly and said: "Emperor Tianqi was addicted to wine and sex, and his body was already hollowed out. It was only a matter of time before he died, but he didn't expect it to come so soon."
"Fortunately, I heard that King Xin is a strict self-discipline. After he ascends the throne, he will definitely not act like Emperor Tianqi and Emperor Taichang." Liu Heng said with a smile.
After hearing this, Hong Chengchou looked up at Liu Heng and said immediately: "King Xin's ascension to the throne may be a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, but it is not a good thing for the Tiger Flag."
King Xin's performance made many civil servants optimistic, and Hong Chengchou himself was one of them.
If he had not already joined the Tiger-Character Banner, he would probably be like most of the courtiers now, glad that King Xin had taken over the throne.
"Mr. Hong, do you think Daming can still be saved?" Liu Heng asked.
Hong Chengchou hesitated for a moment, then said immediately: "It's hard to say, it may be better, or it may be able to maintain the current situation and accumulate strength."
"Then let's see how King Xin will govern the world after he ascends the throne." Liu Heng, who is familiar with the trend of history, believes that King Xin Zhu Youjian will never become a prosperous king just because of his own existence.
Hong Chengchou added: "No matter what happens to King Xin in the future, now is an excellent opportunity for our Tiger Flag. The Lord can take this opportunity to capture Ningxia Sanwei and Shanxi Xingdusi."
"It's time to harvest the autumn grain in one month. It's time to take action. Then we will capture all of Shaanxi." Liu Heng made the final decision and then said, "Zhao Wu, please issue a document with the attendants and order them to station in the first battle." The military division and the personal division will send out troops."
After waiting for so long, it is time for Shaanxi to be captured, otherwise the Tiger Flag will not be able to enter Sichuan, Henan and other places.
"Yes." Zhao Wu left and went to the attendant team to give orders.
Liu Heng stood up from his seat and walked to the map on the wall.
There are two maps hanging on it, one is the map of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the other is the grassland map that Zhao Wu hung up in the morning.
"Then we'll see if the Second Battle Division can bring back good news." Liu Heng looked at a location on the grassland map.
Far away on the grassland, the Second Battle Division and the Cavalry Division, as well as the Mongolian cavalry of the Tumut Department, were on a high ground on the grassland.
In a large tent in the camp.
Zhang Hong of the Second War Division, Ma Yunjiu of the Cavalry Division, Halbala of the Tumote Division, and several deputy division chiefs and chiefs of staff were gathered around a table.
"Have you found the whereabouts of Chahar's troops?" Zhang Hong asked Harbala.
Although the Tiger Banner has been operating on the grassland for many years, the people who are most familiar with the grassland are the Mongols themselves, and Harbala, as Taiji of the Ulut Tribe, is very familiar with this grassland.
Therefore, the search for the Chahar army was left to the Mongolian cavalry of Harbala and Tumote.
"The people sent out have not sent back the news yet," Halbala said.
Although he commanded the Mongolian cavalry of Tumut's tribe, he knew that his status could not be compared with that of the generals in the army such as Hu Ziqi.
Many of the Tumut Mongolian cavalry brought out already had their hearts set on the Tiger Flag.
After the Tiger Banner's governance of the Tumut tribe over the years, the life of the Mongolians has been much better than before. Most of the lower-class Mongolians have accepted the rule of the Tiger Banner.
Zhang Hong looked at the map in front of him and said: "The Chahar army is in this area. Send all your people out to search for it. Don't miss any place with a water source."
"I am arranging a group of people to find the whereabouts of the Chahar army." As he said that, Halbala was about to leave the big tent and arrange the task of searching for the Chahar army.
At this moment, a man walked in from outside the tent, raised his right arm and saluted, saying: "Reporter, Batu Erdeni is back."
"It was the person I sent out to look for the Chahar army. He came back and said that he had found the whereabouts of the army." Harbala's eyes lit up when he heard Batu Erdeni's name, and he hurriedly said to Zhang Hong and others .
Zhang Hong said to the guard who came in: "Bring him in."
The guard turned and exited the tent.
Soon, Batu Erdeni was brought in.
"Batu Erdeni has seen Shizheng." As soon as Batu Erdeni came in, he first saluted Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hong waved his hand and said: "No need to be polite, just tell me your situation."
"Yes." Batu Erdeni bowed and said immediately, "After leaving the camp, I led people to search along the water source, and found a large number of horses in a place seventy miles away in the southeast. When I followed the traces of passing by, I found a large army more than ten miles away, with about five to six thousand horsemen and a large number of cattle and sheep."
Zhang Hong searched the map with his eyes, and then found a place marked with a lake. He pointed with his hand and said to Batu Erdeni: "Come over and see if this is the place?"
Batu Erdeni came over.
After looking at the map for a long time, Yao Yao shook his head in embarrassment and said, "I can't tell, it should be about this place."
"You can't do it, you have to be sure." Zhang Hong frowned, and then said to Harbala, "In the future, you will also need to be able to read maps. It is best for centurions and above to be able to read military maps."
"I will do it in the future, I will do it in the future." Halbala looked embarrassed.
It took him a long time to figure out the map of the Tiger Flag. He was not surprised that Batu Erdeni didn't know the map, because the maps they used before were very simple and not as complicated as the map in front of him.
Zhang Hong looked sideways at Ma Yunjiu and said: "Ma Shizheng is going to make a trip with your personal soldiers. Send a few cavalry to follow Batu Erdeni and go again."
"This is easy. I'll send a small team of cavalry over." Ma Yunjiu agreed.
Zhang Hong looked at Batu Erdeni again and said, "Batu Erdeni, can you still ride a horse?"
"No problem, we Mongolians are born to live on horseback." Batu Erdeni assured.
After running for seventy or eighty miles, his butt almost split into several pieces. In order to have a place in the Tiger-Character Banner Army in the future, he was willing to run hard again.
"Let's set off now and try to come back tomorrow." Zhang Hong explained.
It was more than a hundred miles back and forth, and it was already halfway through the day. It was impossible to get back before dark.
Ma Yunjiu's guards accompanied Batu Erdeni out of the tent.
"The troops from the Chahar Department should be in this area."
Although Batu Erdeni did not give the specific location, he gave the general direction. Based on this, Zhang Hong drew a circle with charcoal on the map.
"Leave this battle to our cavalry division!" Ma Yunjiu said.
