When Wuding Marquis Guo Xun came out of the palace, he looked worried and dignified and there was no need to act.
Later, he paid a visit to Yang Yiqing, general staff officer of the Military Affairs Council, Wang Shouren, secretary of the Ministry of War, and Li Quanli, chief military officer of the Beijing camp.
The long conversation with them also failed to cure Guo Xun's mental internal friction. Wuding Marquis Guo Xun then closed his door at home to thank guests for three days.
Three days later, he went to Beijing Camp, and Wu Dinghou raised the low price of the land next to the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth with one blow: He was crazy and insisted on grabbing a piece of land that the British public was interested in. Not only did he pay 300 yuan per acre, He acquired the more than twenty acres of land at a price of 20,000 taels, and commissioned the Construction Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to help him build a new residence with a huge sum of 30,000 taels.
You know, today's houses in the capital, small houses with six or seven rooms, only cost about fifty taels of silver depending on their location.
The cost of building brick and tile houses among the people is just there. Even if it is necessary to build dozens of main halls, wing rooms and courtyards on more than 20 acres of land, more than 10,000 taels of silver are enough, and it is impossible to build a palace like a palace. Regulation to build.
"It shows that the Li Fuda case made His Majesty extremely angry. I'm afraid that in Nanjing, Lord Guo also made a lot of money... he must have deliberately given up more money by arguing with the Duke's government."
"What a bad start... Do you think houses in the capital will become more expensive in the future?"
"... One yard is the same, and the houses in other places are just like the ones on the market?"
Guo Xun went to the capital camp, and it was Li Quanli who took him.
"Are you sure?" Li Quanli asked privately, "Although I have made some plans, this grand strategy is only for you, a general who is going to Datong. The battle situation is ever-changing, can you make those few moves well? , it all depends on how you behave after you go to Datong."
Guo Xun's mental internal friction was because of this.
To put it bluntly, what the emperor told him was just the strategic intention of this battle. So much content is nothing more than luring the enemy deep and creating fighter opportunities.
All these changes are just to see what kind of battle situation will happen on the front line of Xuanda University after Guo Xun goes to Datong, so we can make plans first and increase the pressure step by step.
How easy is it for Guo Xun, who is about to go to Datong to serve as the chief military officer?
Guo Xun faced the biggest test of his abilities, and the emperor finally gave him this opportunity.
So when Li Quanli asked him now, there were still many expectations in his eyes: If you think you can't do it, give up quickly!
"...I have my own opinion! Although you stay in the capital, you can recommend brave generals to me. If you train your troops well, you will be successful!"
It is not that Guo Xun has no old generals in the Beijing camp, but the ones he trusted when he was in the Beijing camp are all of high rank now. In addition to his own soldiers, he had to select 3,000 people to serve as craftsmen, and they had to be fresh faces in the army.
This matter can only be left to Li Quanli.
Seeing Guo Xun gritting his teeth and shouldering the heavy responsibility, Li Quanli could only sigh: "I have been paying attention to people for a long time. To be honest, after this plan was roughly planned at the military affairs meeting, I secretly transferred people to Miyun Shixia Fort .After last year’s exercise, I requested the key points of Shixia Fort, and I have been allowed to build a fort there, using soldiers from the Beijing camp.”
Guo Xun was overjoyed: "Good brother! Please take me there!"
Li Quanli had planned to be timid if Guo Xun heard about the plan, fearing that something would go wrong. If he gave up the idea, he would be here to ask for help; if he still insisted on going, it would be a credit to himself for being prepared in advance.
On the way, the two of them were still riding far ahead in private, and Guo Xun asked in a low voice: "Why didn't you persuade His Majesty..."
"What are you thinking about? Of course I'm trying to persuade you again and again."
"Then why can't we just defend and win..."
"Do you think your majesty is warlike? Now the Ming Dynasty is booming. If the new law is successful, the rich country has the law, and the weapons are getting new, we can just push it over in the future. But if the Beibei invaders continue to invade, how can things go as planned? Fight first and then talk, win. It will be easy to talk about opportunities to enrich the country and strengthen the army in the next few years. But now there are many hidden dangers in the border towns, and it is difficult for the generals to say that they will win. Apart from using tactics, what else can they do?"
"I mean Yujia..." He stopped here.
Li Quanli looked strange for a moment, then looked around and replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty said that the Civil War Incident broke the backbone of the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers who straightened up and looked north. If you want to straighten this bone back, you must also capture a captive chief." , or, the emperor of tomorrow will have to win three battles in the Northern Campaign. The late emperor...that only counts as the first..."
"……I see."
Guo Xun recalled the changes in the civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty after the Civil War, and he had nothing to say.
What we are talking about is spirit and dignity, so now His Majesty has to go through dangerous situations to boost the morale of the civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty. The heavy responsibility will be placed on the generals who command the troops in the front and know the temples, and also on the generals who create the situation and transfer the food and grass in the rear. On the ministers.
There is no guarantee of victory in a war. How well everyone implements the intention of this battle is the key to improving the victory rate little by little.
Guo Xu looked to the northwest: "I hope the Tatars don't be impatient and don't invade the border as soon as spring begins. I haven't arrived in Datong yet."
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What no one knows at this moment is that although the Battle of Heye Mountain still happened, An Da's judgment was also different because the emperor of Ming Dynasty had indeed "changed" someone.
Originally, the Tumote tribe did suffer a loss at Heye Mountain in the autumn of the fifth year of Jiajing, but it was only a small amount, which was nothing at all. Even so, the young and energetic Anda simply couldn't bear this kind of thing that might seriously damage his rising prestige, so in the first month of the sixth year of Jiajing, he ordered troops to invade the south. In this battle in the sixth year of Jiajing's reign, two generals from the Ming Dynasty were killed in the battle against the Beibei invaders.
Since the sixth year of Jiajing, there have been troops of this level in Beiyuan every year, and the scale has even gotten bigger and bigger, until they came to the capital more than 20 years later. The shame of Gengxu was that the Mongolian cavalry camped two or three miles outside the west gate of Beijing. Even though they were tired and sleeping soundly from fighting all the way, not a single soldier of the Beijing defenders dared to leave the city to rob the camp.
It can be said that after suffering a small loss, he took a big stick and hit Ming's timid soul hard every year.
But this time, because the emperor changed someone, Daming Border Town had Yang Yiqing to control the three sides of the Western Front earlier, with the uncompromising Ganzhou mutiny, and Wang Xian and others came to Xuanda.
I suffered a big loss last year, and I really need to spend a few more months to do it seriously.
Yes, of course he was going to do it again.
The Tumut tribe is just one of ten thousand households, and I don’t have a khan number yet. Bo'er, who is only 20 years old, has not been sleeping well in the past two months. I just feel that my heart is as unhappy as the sun in the winter on the grassland.
What a shame! Except for the old Dayan Khan who accidentally suffered a small loss in Yingzhou, in the past few decades, how had the good men on the grassland lost such a large number of people in the south?
The large army finally escaped, but not only did they leave behind more than 400 brothers, they also left behind many of the things they had captured in the initial breach of the fort, and instead brought back more than 600 wounded soldiers.
Since Dayan Khan, the status of the Golden Family on the grassland is unshakable! I'm still so young, and he also has the blood of Genghis Khan. How can I know that he won't be able to become the great khan in the future?
He felt unhappy in his heart, but he was very relaxed on the surface, and now he was laughing at the people in his tent: "The sons of the Tumote tribe have won great victories in recent years, and a small loss is nothing. This time, I have suffered a lot of baldness." We underestimated the enemy and were proud of ourselves once we destroyed one fort, forgetting how many hedgehog-like forts the Han people had built in the south."
There was also a Han Chinese in his tent.
At this time, the Han man bent down and said: "Khan, General Manshoutu has indeed underestimated the enemy. The villain has said that the Ming Dynasty's stronghold is easy to break, but if you encounter anyone who dares to meet the enemy outside the fort, at least Beware of the retinue and family soldiers of the opposing general."
There was a short but sturdy man in the tent who immediately glared at him, but an old man who was closest to Anda scolded him: "You are so bald!"
"Hmph!" The man with bald hands clenched his fist and pounded his heart hard, "Khan, please give me another three thousand... no, two thousand cavalry! This time, I will definitely win Datong!"
"Okay, what's the rush?" Ida waved his hand, "I told you many times not to call me that. If you get used to it, it won't be good for Bodie to hear it."
After speaking, he looked at the Han man and said, "Shi Tianjue, please tell everyone again what is going on with the Han army."
"Yes." Shi Tianjue bent down first, then straightened his back and said to the others, "I have lived in Xuanfu for many years. Even though the Ming Dynasty has so many soldiers in the border town, these soldiers usually They are like slaves here. They farm the land, build houses, and build forts for the superiors. Not only do they not get paid, but they also only get a little from working on the land. How can they fight if they don’t have enough to eat?"
"You humiliated me by losing to some slaves?" He was bald but couldn't bear it.
"No! What the general encounters must be the general's retinue. Nowadays, in the border towns of Ming Dynasty, the people who are most capable of fighting are the general's servants, servants, and private soldiers. They have the best weapons and armor, and they never have to fight for it. They are worried about their livelihood and well-trained. But the general thinks about it, these elite soldiers who are supported by the generals using their own money are the guarantee for them to gain a foothold in the border towns. There are not many generals who are willing to be as easy as the one the general met. Putting them in harm’s way.”
Man Shou Bald felt a little better. It seemed that he was very unlucky and met someone who was desperate for his life.
Shi Tianjue bowed to An Da again: "So when you go to the south to clear grass valleys, the strategy is actually not difficult. Those who have status and can get money and water will generally only stay in safer and stronger castles. The outermost Usually they have no say and cannot get enough oil and water to raise elite soldiers. Only destroying one or two forts on the periphery is a good thing for both sides. They can ask the emperor for money, but they will not come to pick it up easily. The enemy. If you have to leave the castle, then for the sake of your life, you will definitely take your elite soldiers with you. Why fight with them, they can't escape."
Ida nodded and looked at the other generals in his tribe: "Do you understand?"
Shi Tianjue continued: "If you see Ming troops coming out of the fort, it means they are urgently urged from above and they have to come out. In this case, there is no need to stay too long. If you grab more things along the way, at most Just rob one or two of the outer forts, and then you can come back with the harvest. For the Ming army defenders, the military order has been completed, and we have withdrawn. As for the forts that were destroyed, people died, and some property and people were robbed Ding, people in the Ming Dynasty, from emperors to generals in border towns, have actually been used to it for a long time."
"That's the truth!" I slapped my knees, "I'm so bald, think about the men under your command. Are they as majestic as when we Mongolians occupied the vast land? Do they have so many iron swords, armor, and arrows? We It is a gift from the Immortal Heaven that the Tumut tribe can station herders here! Now, we don’t have enough people and our weapons are not good enough! The Han defenders do this, and their land will only become easier and easier to fight. , the soldiers will only get better and better to win, so why are you anxious?"
"……I see."
I stood up and walked slowly outside the tent.
Looking at the grassland still covered with some snow in the distance, Anda's eyes flashed: "However, the emperor of the Han people also knew that there were these problems on the edge of his territory, so he was training his troops with great ambition. The Han people were afraid that we would attack in large numbers. It has been many years. If their emperor wants to change this, he must be taught a hard lesson so that he can learn to enjoy wealth and wealth in his palace like his ancestors! Ulruk, go to hell! Come to court. Tell the Great Khan that the best way to convince every household is to win a big victory from the Han people at once. And I am willing to be the vanguard!"
That elder Ulruk once traveled day and night to protect the young Anta from meeting his grandfather Dayan Khan safely. He was the confidant that Anda truly relied on.
Now hearing this, he asked solemnly: "Will Bodie follow your advice?"
"Why not? Doesn't he want me, Tumotwanhu, to rush in front and let my beloved Uncle Qingtaiji, who has a black umbrella, take advantage and stand more firmly on the right wing? My dear brother, doesn't he want me, Tumotwan Can Hu rush to the front so that he can command the right wing with greater prestige in the future?"
Man Shou Tu was extremely excited: "Let them see, our Tumut Department can flatten Datong Xuanfu!"
Shi Tianjue was also very excited: "Khan, since there is such a big plan, I have to contact more believers in the south."
Ida smiled and nodded: "Go ahead. I will pretend to be resting and won't disturb them for the time being. I believe those who secretly do business with us will feel free to come back with their goods."
He is no longer like himself in another time and space, who sent troops to retaliate again in this first month. But like Zhu Houcong, he took a long-term view and decided to give the opponent a hard blow in an attempt to destroy the opponent's will to fight.
On the grassland, the envoy set out from Fengzhoutan where the Tumut tribe was stationed as a herdsman.
Some go to the west, which is the direction of the Ordos tribe, one of the 30,000 households on the right wing and led by the leader of the right wing, who occupies the fertile Hetao area.
More, to the northeast. There, there are the three tribes of Asut, Yongshebu, and Karaqin under Yongshebu Wanhu, one of the thirty thousand households on the right wing, as well as Chahar, the central ten thousand households where Bodi Khan is located.
The current situation among the various tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is also delicate.
Now I am unconvinced after suffering a loss. I want to rush forward for revenge and at the same time I turn to Bodie for help. If I bring a big victory to Beiyuan, it will be a reflection of Bodie's prestige.
As long as I am willing to rush to the front. If you rush to the front, there will always be casualties. If the Northern Yuan army pressed the territory, how could the Ming army not be prepared to prepare for it? This pioneer will suffer more losses than usual when hunting grass and valley.
But I only need all other lines to put pressure on the south.
Behind that fragile Great Wall, there are loopholes in every line. The defensive strength is diluted and we dare not easily divide our troops to support other places. That is the opportunity for Anda to lead his elite troops to break through an opening.
It is also an opportunity for the grassland tribes to see clearly how strong the Tumut Ten Thousand Households actually are.
The prestige he wants to restore is not to the weak and timid Han people in the south, but to the wolves on the grassland!
(End of chapter)
