What kind of person is Zhu Di, he has always been the only one who bullies others, how can he allow others to bully like this After the news of the Tatar killing of the Ming envoys reached Jinling, the Ming court reacted with the fastest speed and the toughest response.
Zhu Di did not comment on the Tatar atrocities, and his answer was very direct: send troops The holy decree was transmitted to Yanjing at an expedited speed of 800 miles, appointing Qiu Fu as the general of the conquest and serving as the commander-in-chief of the northern Saibei armies, and ordered Wucheng Marquis Wang Cong and Tong'an Marquis Huozhen to be the left and right deputy generals, Jing'an Marquis Wang Zhong and Anping Marquis Li Yuan as the left and right generals, a duke and four marquises, and led 100,000 cavalry out of the fortress to crusade against the Tatars.
Qiu Fu is a veteran of the national dynasty, and now Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng have passed away one after another, in terms of qualifications and ability, Qiu Fu should be swept away from the desert, and no one opposes this will.
Zhu Gaoxu, the second son of the emperor, was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately sent his cronies to send a secret letter to Qiu Fu.
In fact, Qiu Fu received the holy decree, and he still needs to make some preparations, and he also has to give an explanation for the defense of Beiping, he will not get out of the jam so soon, Zhu Gaoxu is a strong general in the army, and these common senses naturally know, and there is no need to ask his cronies to hurry so urgently.
It's just that such an opportunity is too rare, Zhu Gaoxu keenly felt that this was the best opportunity for his faction's forces to rise again, so he immediately repaired a letter and told Qiu Fu that this battle must be fought beautifully, and he must make great achievements, then, not only can Qiu Fu return to the center of the imperial court with his military exploits and control the power in the army, but also through this military exploits, he can also pull many nobles led by Wang Cong, Huo Zhen, Wang Zhong, and Li Yuan into his camp.
And Zhu Di was furious under the anger, and after making the will, he looked back and felt a little uneasy.
Among his three dukes, Zhang Yu is resourceful, Zhu Neng is good at fighting, Zhang Yu is resourceful and brave, Zhu Neng is good at fighting and steady, Qiu Fu is worse than both of them in this regard, he is also good at fighting fierce battles, but it is far less stable than Zhu Neng's surname, Qiu Fu's strength lies in commanding the generals.
Every time he wins a battle, the generals will rush to offer capture, but after Qiu Fu often falls behind, he is very kind to his subordinates, does not fight for the merits of his subordinates, and does not forget his subordinates when he has great achievements, he will always bring them with him and carry them up, so he is very popular with the army.
This time, the Tatars took advantage of the opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to be attacked on both sides to provoke, and they must have overestimated the possible reaction of the Ming Dynasty in advance.
Moreover, the Tatars were oppressed by Warat, and were encroached upon by Liaodong, and their strength was much inferior to that of the previous years, so the possibility of using a plan to take risks must be very large, and these, Qiu Fu may not be able to consider it, in case he was angry with himself, Zhu Di immediately issued another secret order to Qiu Fu, and the secret order said: "Military affairs must be cautious."
Since the north of Kaiping, the Tatars are uncommon, and it is advisable to be cautious at all times, and not to be stubborn.
If the Tartars are easily defeated, it may be a ploy, so don't be gullible."
Zhu Di's secret order left Jinling almost at the same time as Zhu Gaoxu's secret letter to Qiu Fu and was quickly sent to Yanjing.
At this time, Xia Xun did not know what happened in the Central Plains, and he had already rushed to Zhangye accompanied by Song Ying, the third son of the Song family.
Gansu Town, Pingqiang Marquis Song Sheng's Mansion.
Early in the morning, Song Sheng got up, and Song Hu, the son of the master of the horse, rushed to his father's room to greet his father, and saw that Song Sheng was wearing a military uniform under the service of the maid, and couldn't help but say: "Father, the family sending team will go to the city today, and the son will go to greet him, although Princess An Cheng is a royal nobleman, now she is married to our family, she is our daughter-in-law, and her father is her father-in-law, how can she surrender her identity and greet her in person."
General Song smiled faintly and said: "It is not the princess who welcomes the husband, but the auxiliary prince, don't be verbose, go and prepare, and go out of the city with your father in a while."
Song Hu replied respectfully: "Yes" Today's weather is not very good, the wind is a little urgent, the weather is already very cold, and then it is blown by the wind, and it is cold to the bone.
Outside the town of Gansu, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, covered with snow, on the white snowfield, the wind direction is uncertain and the snow foam flies to the sky, even if you wear it tightly, the snow foam can also follow all the gaps, drill into your neck, feet, neck, sleeves.
The horses are singing in the wind and Xiaoxiao, the sky is cold and the snow is like a knife, the horn suddenly whines, the war horses neigh, the armor is sonorous, the flag is flying, a team of soldiers gallops out of the city gate of Gansu Town, and quickly arranges a neat line on the snow field, fast, neat, and orderly.
The Ming army of the Central Plains has long been dressed as mandarin duck battle jackets, and the soldiers here are still wearing the early fat jackets, but the majesty is still a few points better than the elite of the Central Plains.
The swords and guns shining in the cold light, the flags fluttering high, the horses standing tall, and the soldiers sitting firmly constitute a majestic and mighty picture.
The cold wind was bitter, and in order to move quickly, it was impossible for the soldiers to wear too bloated clothes, and the hands holding the reins and blades of the horses had to be exposed to the wind and snow, and after a moment's effort, the weapons became as cold as ice, but their hands that were red from the cold held the barrels of their guns and knives tightly, and they did not relax at all.
The snow foam swirled and drifted into their sleeves and necks, and they remained motionless, as if they were made of steel, unaware.
This is more than 20 years of Song Shengli, set Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, Han elite to build a sweet and cool iron horse.
On the battlefield, it is not that a large number of troops will necessarily win, an elite army, can do it with less to win more, in history, with hundreds of elite cavalry to break thousands of enemy troops, with thousands of elite cavalry to break tens of thousands of enemy troops, is not how clever the tactical tactics are than the other side, it is completely the quality of the army is far superior to the other side, Ganliang elite cavalry is such a team.
The generals of the guards, Song Sheng, and the officials at all levels who supervised the line also came out one after another, standing left and right, waiting for the car of the Duke of Fuguo and Princess An Cheng, and the officials and lords did not have to pay attention to military discipline like the soldiers, they shrunk their necks, held their hands on their sleeves, and stomped their feet from time to time, and the snow foam was pervasive, so that many people were scratching, thinking that it was too early to come out of the cold and the earth.
At this time, two rows of Hu troops wearing red half-arm robes, holding red tasseled lacquer spears, and riding majestic horses suddenly came out of the city gate hole, followed by a white-bearded old general with a helmet and armor, accompanied by Song Hu, who was about to become a horse master, slowly galloped out of the city gate hole, and the officials at all levels were shocked when they saw it, and they all lowered their hands and stood solemnly.
Hou Ye actually came out to greet him in person Hou Ye has not been in good health in the past two years, and he has rarely attended public events, and many generals usually have no chance to see him, they did not expect that in such bad weather today, Xining Hou actually went out of the city to greet him in person.
Far away, on the snowy field, a team appeared, the generals bathed in the cold wind were suddenly shocked, Song Hu waved his hand, the flag waved, and nearly 10,000 cavalry slowly changed a formation, the angle tilted forward, and made a welcoming posture.
The team was getting closer and closer, and Song Sheng, who was over the age of old and gray-haired, shook the reins of his horse and rode forward, followed by Song Hu, and the generals immediately followed like the stars holding the moon.
Song Sheng stared ahead, and was riding slowly, when a pair of old but still sharp eyes suddenly looked ahead with some doubts.
I saw that the guard of honor on the road ahead was separated, the flag was hunting and flying in the wind, and a Dawan BMW galloped out in the middle, and a person was seated immediately, with a unicorn robe and a crown belt of a first-class duke.
Song Sheng was puzzled, the man turned over again, jumped off the horse, led the horse forward, and walked towards him, and the honor guard behind the man had stopped in time.
As soon as Song Sheng raised his hand, the left and right generals stopped their horses, and Song Sheng galloped forward more than ten steps alone, and the horse's speed became slower and slower, and finally stopped.
Song Sheng's beard fluttered in the wind, and his face was full of surprise, and he couldn't figure out the identity of the person opposite and the meaning of such an action.
I heard that the prince of Fuguo was about thirty years, but he was like the man opposite.
It's just that the Duke of Guo is above him, and the person he is waiting for has not yet met, so he has no reason to take the initiative.
Especially when he also led the horse to show his obedience, there were at least sixty or seventy marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and there were only a handful of dukes who could be ranked as dukes However, the person leading the horse on the other side was really Xia Xun.
Xia Xun's move was by no means contrived, but due to his sincere admiration for a true hero.
Along the way, he tried his best to collect all the information of Timur, and naturally he would not let go of his understanding of Song Sheng, the main general who had been guarding the Western Regions for more than 20 years, and the more he knew, the more he admired Song Sheng.
Song Sheng, who joined the army at the age of eleven and became a forward general at the age of thirteen, offered a plan to take Huizhou, an important town of the Yuan court that the righteous army had been fighting for a long time.
Since then, he has made many military exploits, and at the age of 20, he became the governor of the capital.
From then on, he was mainly responsible for the "aftermath work", often responsible for guarding the places he had just conquered, clearing out the remnants of hostile forces.
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In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the Lantern Festival, some meritorious sons pooled money to build a big war, and invited many friends to get on the boat, wandering around the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been very strict with officials and advocating frugality, was furious when he heard the news, and all the officials on the boat were severely punished.
And Song Sheng, who happened to be a guest invited to the ship, was demoted and demoted to Liangzhou, Gansu, where he became a guard commander.
Thus, the Western Regions that belonged to Song Sheng and the legend that belonged to Song Sheng began.
At that time, Liangzhou was suffering from internal and external troubles, which was extremely bad.
In the northwest and north, the Northern Yuan armed forces came to attack from time to time, and the Tubo tribes in the south rebelled and surrendered, often came to plunder, and sometimes, the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Tubo Tufan attacked at the same time, and the enemy was attacked on all sides, and the soldiers were plagued everywhere, and they were in a mess.
And the interior of Liangzhou is even more chaotic.
There are a large number of Mongolian tribes in Liangzhou, who are in constant conflict with the Han people, and the contradictions are very deep.
Before Song Sheng took office, Liangzhou had already changed nine commanders, four of whom died on the battlefield, three were removed from their posts for investigation, and two died in the mutiny.
When Song Sheng was demoted to Liangzhou, all his relatives and colleagues decided that his life was over.
However, after Song Sheng took over this mess, he befriended the Liangzhou departments, planted trees to resist the wind and sand, dug canals for irrigation, clarified the law and strict military discipline, and only three years, when the imperial envoy Shi Jiangxing inspected Liangzhou, it was already a vast array of fertile land, the people of all ethnic groups lived in harmony, the officers and soldiers of the guard were fierce and brave, and Liangzhou was completely changed.
In the fourth year, the time to test Song Sheng's martial arts came.
After more than ten years of recuperation, the Ming Dynasty decided to solve the northwest border troubles, the first knife was cut in the northwest town of the Yuan Dynasty Yiji Nai Road, the town guard here is the Northern Yuan Dynasty "Wu Guogong" to stab the red, can be good at fighting, and is respected by the Mongols as the "black general".
He sent troops to attack Liangzhou, Song Sheng avoided his edge, smashed his heart with 30,000 fine cavalry, and pulled out the Yiji Nailu, capturing the "Wu Guogong" and more than 20,000 Mongolian soldiers.
Song Sheng did not kill prisoners, and these Mongol soldiers either became peasants or were absorbed by him into the army, and eventually became a member of the elite unit "Ganliang Jingcai" that he was proud of in the Western Regions.
In this battle, Song Sheng was reinstated by Zhu Yuanzhang and promoted to the governor of the right army, and returned to Liangzhou as a feudal official to guard the northwest gate of the Ming Dynasty.
In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Song Sheng struck again, this time, his target was Hami, the throat of the Silk Road in the Western Regions.
Hami was the fief of the Yuan Dynasty vassal king Wu Nashri at that time.
Song Sheng marched thousands of miles in a hurry, took a small road through the outer defense line of the Mongolian army, and suddenly killed under the city of Hami.
However, Song Sheng detected the discord among the generals in the Unashri in advance, and boldly used the tactics of attacking the heart to force the defenders of the city to fight among themselves, and Meng tied up the prince, the princess and dozens of officials loyal to the Unashri to surrender the city.
Song Sheng's soldiers conquered Hami without blood, and Hami, which had blocked the westward road of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, was pacified.
Under the jurisdiction of Gansu, it starts from Jingtai in the east, obliquely to the northwest, passes through Minqin, Yongchang, Shandan, Zhangye, Gaotai, Jiuquan counties, bypasses Jiayuguan to the south, and arrives at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, which is more than 1,600 miles.
Among them, the main border to resist the enemy from the west is Jiayu Pass, and the important town of the north to resist Hulu is Gansu Town, if the north comes to Hu Cai, the west comes to break through Jiayu Pass, conquer Gansu Town, then the gate of the pass is opened, and the tiger and wolf drive straight in.
However, there is a tiger general Song Sheng here, so since the founding of Hongwu, the border of the Western Regions has never become a Ming abdominal disease.
For more than 20 years, Song Shengsheng captured or killed Hu Lu's princes, princes, and chieftains, not only did not have an enemy to get him, but he also managed Ganliang as a monolith.
Song Sheng is not only a military general, his cultural governance is also excellent, and many of his ideas and methods of internal governance and external warfare have a lot in common with Xia Xun's methods of passing through Liaodong.
However, the environment he faced at that time was far more sinister than Xia Xun's environment in Liaodong, and his power and prestige at that time, and the support he could obtain from the imperial court, were far less than Xia Xun's, but he created a miracle in the Western Regions After Xia Xun read Song Sheng's information, he thought that if he was the commander of Liangzhou Wei in Hongwu for 12 years, he would only die on the battlefield, be removed from his post for investigation, or die in an army mutiny, which would definitely not reach Song Sheng's achievements.
But to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yin Mountain Song Sheng's defense of the Western Regions is such a skill.
Xia Xun was convinced of Song Sheng, looking at the current dynasty, there was only one Song Sheng that he admired from the bottom of his heart, how could he not be respectful To be continued: