The route designed by Zhu Zaijing was consistent with the historical route of action before the Battle of Kuanhe River in Zhu Zhanji.
First go to Jizhou Town, where there is Ma Fang who is braver than anyone else, and there are also elite border troops.
After replenishing five thousand soldiers there, we arrived at Xifengkou.
In history, Zhu Zhanji also visited this area and happened to encounter Duoyan.
The good saint Sun followed Zhu Di to the battlefield when he was a teenager. As expected, he didn't give in. He went up with three thousand cavalry and just did it.
According to the actual records of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty and the historical records of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji personally shot and killed three people in this battle.
The Ming army won a great victory.
The three guards of Duoyan are also the three guards of Wuliangha.
Its core is Duoyanwei, and the other two can basically be ignored.
Therefore, Zhu Zaijing targeted Duoyanwei this time.
Sudden attacks are not exclusive to grassland tribes, the Ming army can do it too.
The bandits can go, so can I!
Zhang Yuangong left first with the emperor's handwriting and two thousand cavalry.
The remaining 3,000 infantrymen arrived at Jizhou Town a few days later.
Ma Fang, the chief military officer of Jizhou Town, took his deputy general Dong Yiyuan and a group of officials out of the city to greet the emperor.
Ma Fang is 50 years old this year, a time when a general's tactical literacy, psychological quality, and command skills are at their peak.
Don’t worry about your physical fitness.
After all, Ma Fang had a record of traveling five hundred miles overnight five years ago, when he was the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu in the 40th year of Jiajing.
Warm reminder: One mile in Ming Dynasty is about 550 meters...
"My lord, Ma Fang, is leading all the officers and soldiers of Jizhou Town to see your Majesty!"
Ma Fang took the lead, and the dense crowd at the city gate began to kneel down.
Zhu Zaijing stared at them coldly on the back of a tall black horse.
It's not that he is pretending to be cold and intimidating this group of people.
Instead, he was on horseback for three consecutive days, which was quite a physical burden on Zhu Zaijing.
He was very tired at the moment.
"No gift!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After entering the city, Zhu Zaijing did not interfere with other matters, and did not even have time to have a meal and fall asleep.
I slept until noon the next day.
By the time I got up, I was already hungry.
It took me a big bowl of mutton to calm down.
In the afternoon, Zhu Zaijing led people to inspect the granary, the Ming Dynasty Newspaper Office, and also visited several military households.
Zhu Zaijing was quite satisfied.
The effects of not receiving food from the military fields have begun to be seen. Military households no longer spend so much time and energy on the military fields and have more time to practice, and the burden has been reduced a lot.
When the harvest season comes, military households are expected to have about twice as much food as in previous years without having to submit food to the court.
Zhu Shitai then asked Zhu Shitai to arrange for a few royal guards to pretend to be common people to inquire. As expected, every policy of the imperial court was implemented.
The role of the Ming Dynasty Newspaper Company also began to be reflected. Almost every military household knew that their military camps were no longer receiving food, and the military camps that had been invaded in previous years began to be returned to their original owners.
Everything I saw was not fake.
Previously, Dong Yiyuan patted his chest and assured that there would be absolutely no problems in Jizhou under Ma Fang's governance. Now it seems that he has this confidence.
In the evening, a meeting was held with key personnel in the army.
"Ma Fang, come and tell everyone the arrangements in detail!"
"Yes!" Ma Fang nodded.
In the 42nd year of Jiajing's reign, Ma Fang was demoted, and the court ordered him to perform meritorious service.
After Zhu Zaijing ascended the throne, he immediately reinstated his official position and gave him a secret letter.
Ma Fang has lived on the grassland for a full 11 years, and he can be regarded as half Mongolian. There is no Ming Dynasty general who knows the situation on the grassland better than him.
"Everyone, during the first lunar month, His Majesty had already given me a secret order to spy on Duoyan Wei."
This was a task that Zhu Zaijing had already given him in a secret letter.
Hearing this, Qi Jiguang looked at Zhu Zaijing with a leisurely expression in surprise.
He originally thought that the news he had received about the alliance between Duoyanwei and the Tatar Association was false and was just an excuse to encourage the soldiers.
Unexpectedly, arrangements were made so early.
After that, he looked at Zhang Rong and the others with do-you-know eyes, but saw several faces that were as confused as himself.
"Anyone who knows me well knows that Ma was robbed to the grassland when he was young and lived there for many years!"
"So, I have some people selling information in the grassland. Of course, I also have my own soldiers who can pretend to be Mongolians to spy on intelligence."
"Of course, there are also some Mongolians who surrendered and were captured. The reason Ma said so much is to tell you that our intelligence is very accurate and comes from multiple sources."
Zhu Zaijing interlaced his fingers on the table and nodded with satisfaction.
Sure enough, professional matters should be handled by professionals.
"The Duoyan Guards can only fight with no more than 15,000 soldiers!"
"The remaining Taining Guards and Fuyu Guards combined will not have more than 3,000 fighting troops!"
"The three Duoyan guards combined can only take out less than 20,000 troops!"
The population of Duoyan Sanwei was not large to begin with, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses left.
The reason why Duoyanwei has always been the core of these three goods is that his population has always been relatively large, and he occupies the main road for the other two guards to enter the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, they live very close to the Great Wall, and you can meet them almost outside Xifengkou.
It is precisely because of this that during the Gengxu Revolution, Anda Khan broke through the Great Wall and came in under the leadership of Yingke, the leader of the Duoyan Guards.
It was supposed to be a strategic buffer zone, but it became a sword hanging over the head of the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, even if this guy united with the Tatars, he also had friendly relations with various Jurchen tribes in Liaodong, and it was not uncommon for him to harass the border with them.
This touched the nerves of the time traveler Zhu Zaijing.
Liaodong, Jurchen...
As soon as these two keywords appeared, the corners of Zhu Zaixing's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
It's not good for you to hook up with someone...
Do you think you should be beaten for being such a bitch?
"According to the information collected over the past month, the Duoyan Guards are stationed near the Nies!"
"Niemen? Is it so close to the Great Wall?" Qi Jiguang asked confused.
"This is normal!" Ma Fang explained, "First of all, Duoyanwei has been moving southward in recent years, constantly approaching the Great Wall!"
"The second is that at this time in previous years, they had almost finished their winter food. In order to facilitate the plundering of the Ming Dynasty border, they would also intentionally live close to the Great Wall."
"What's more!" Zhu Zaijing interjected, glancing at the generals, "My Ming army rarely goes out of the Great Wall and actively attacks them, so they don't have to worry and just stay here without any hesitation!"
Ma Fang nodded.
Even Ma Fang, who knew the various Mongolian ministries best, had taken the initiative only a handful of times in history.
Not to mention the frontier troops in other places would be so troublesome if they took the initiative to attack!
Today's Ming Dynasty is not Hongwu. During Yongle, he would go north to the grasslands and beat people at every turn.
