Chapter 257 Sending troops to the Northern Yuan Dynasty

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, grass is growing and doves are flying. In April of the 17th year of Hongwu, in the south of the desert.

Soldiers holding spears lined up to patrol around the huge camp.

Chen Si is one of them. He was originally just a civilian who followed the army to do mixed work.

However, because of his outstanding work and some family connections, he was transferred to a military household.

Now I have been struggling in the army for two years. I have been following His Highness the King of Liao before, but I still have never followed other generals.

There is no way, who has made His Highness the King of Liao the most popular in the beginning?

This time Chen Si followed the army to fight again, and he also knew that His Highness the King of Liao brought them here to completely defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Chen Si didn't expect that he would have such a moment to witness history.

If you joined the army before just to make a living, then after so many years of staying in the army, after the training of His Highness the Liao King and ideological training every night.

He already had a deep subjective idea, that is, to fight for the rise of the nation and for the country.

It's not the simple one, for a little salary every day.

Of course, this is also a place where the salary is sufficient to achieve such ideological awareness.

In this regard, Zhu Qi never stings with the rewards he gave to his subordinates.

Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to the military's salary and strictly eliminated the corruption of officers, etc.

There are quite a few people who think like Chen Si.

They formed the most basic composition in the army, and their daily training, when they were in ideological education at night, told them that their ultimate goal was to help the Ming Dynasty defeat the Northern Yuan Dynasty and unify the world.

So they all look forward to this battle.

However, unlike the expectations of these ordinary soldiers, Zhu Qi, as the main general, was now looking at the map in front of him in his military tent, with a look of worries.

There is no other reason, because there are differences among these famous generals.

Feng Sheng suggested taking the west road, because there are more road oasis in the west and more routes to choose from.

There are fewer deserts, and the danger is the lowest if you walk there.

But Lan Yu didn't think so. Lan Yu felt that soldiers were very fast.

Wang Baobao has already known about the Ming Dynasty's expedition in advance.

Xu Da’s previous attack on the Northern Yuan Dynasty was because he took the most conventional road, and the places along the way were under the control of Wang Baobao.

So if you want to achieve military achievements, you have to take an unusual path, and have never taken an unfamiliar path before.

Only by finding local people as guides and then attacking the royal court in the Northern Yuan Dynasty can you achieve the greatest victory.

Nothing wrong with what the two of them said, Feng Sheng took the safest path.

You may not be able to capture the royal court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but there will definitely be results.

It would not have been a worrying situation for the entire army.

However, because Lan Yu's words are bonused by the halo of history and his plan can achieve the greatest results, it also meets Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements, which is to annihilate the Northern Yuan in one battle.

However, this is a bit difficult for Zhu Qi, the main general.

After all, when Zhu Qi fought such a large-scale group war, he never had his own strategic policy.

After all, he knew his tactical level in his heart, and he must have listened to the arrangements of those famous generals.

However, Feng Sheng is a famous general, and Lan Yu is even more famous general.

I heard someone, I had a headache about Zhu Qi. In history, Lan Yu naturally led the Ming army to wipe out the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

However, the situation at that time was still very different from the current situation.

At that time, the tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were still very united.

Now most of the tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but it is very safe to go to the Western Front.

However, after listening to Feng Sheng's words, Lan Yu's tactics are really tempting. What should I do? I was a little confused all of a sudden.

Fortunately, in addition to the two famous generals Feng Sheng and Lan Yu, there is also the considerate famous general Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu could see the difficulties in our King of Liao at a glance, and then suggested that.

Since what the two generals said makes sense, it is better to divide the troops into two places and lead each of them to see who can achieve the greatest results.

The division of troops has been happening since ancient times. During the Han Dynasty, wasn’t Fenglangjuxu the result of division of troops?

However, if the troops are divided, if they are good, they will be Fenglangjuxu. If they are not good, they will be defeated one by one.

Just like Dorhaci defeated the last army of the Ming Dynasty one by one in the late Ming Dynasty and fought a great victory in Sarhu.

But tactical analysis cannot be discussed from a single tactical point, just like the matter of a division soldier.

So Zhu Qi was a little hesitant at once, but considering that Feng Sheng and Lan Yu are both famous generals, and the Ming Dynasty's strength is far superior to that of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Although there were famous generals like Wang Baobao in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, even Wang Baobao, just like Nurhaci in the history of the Ming Dynasty, I would like to point out the strategic policy of going all the way.

They can't beat Feng Sheng and Lan Yu. You should know that no matter which of these two people takes it out to fight Wang Baobao, they still have the power to fight, and it can even be said to be more than enough.

So after thinking so simply and Zhang Yu also proposed the proposal, Zhu Qi immediately decided to slap the table.

The Ming Dynasty army was divided into two groups, led by Feng Sheng and Lan Yu.

The two of them took the regular route, while Lan Yu went to Huanglong and went straight to the Northern Yuan Dynasty royal court to strive for the greatest victory.

Zhu Qi didn't think so much at first, but just wanted to let the two generals lead the troops and fight according to his own ideas.

Just wait for the result of the battle behind him, but Zhu Qi accidentally used a tactic, which was to attack the east and west.

Although the Han Empire often used the strategy of dividing troops during the Han Dynasty, it has not been very easy to divide troops since the Tang Dynasty.

First, division of troops can easily lead to a situation where they are surrounded and killed by the opponent's superior forces, and second, generals like Huo Qubing and Wei Qing are naturally a minority.

There are naturally very few generals who dare to divide their troops to deal with them in a decisive battle. If they can be stable, they will be stable. There are not many who dare to take risks.

Zhu Qi seemed to have naturally listened to Zhang Yu's advice, but in the eyes of others, His Highness the King of Liao had the style of a famous general of ancient times.

At this time, decisive division will definitely lead to the battle results.

At least Zhang Yu admires His Highness the King of Liao very much

Lan Yu was the same, thinking silently in his heart that the Liao King Zhu Qi was really decisive and had such a strategic policy in place.

It's amazing, His Highness the Crown Prince is definitely not an opponent in military terms.

The Ming Dynasty quickly divided its troops forward.

However, Beiyuan was just blinded at first sight. Wang Baobao knew that the Ming Dynasty dared to divide its troops at this critical moment.

You should know that before Xu Da led the Ming army to attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty and was defeated by himself because he made the mistake of dividing his troops.

I originally thought that a Ming Dynasty army would go to the end and go straight to Huanglong, but I didn't expect to divide the troops, so the only thing I could see in the Beiyuan side was Feng Sheng's troops in the west.

As for Lan Yu, Beiyuan has not much information.

Besides, Lan Yu did not walk the desert normally, but walked through the desert with a few guides and headed straight to the court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

Since the Beiyuan lost Zhongdu and Dadu, he has to be forced to go back to Shangdu.

But on the surface, there was a capital in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but in fact, the emperors of the Northern Yuan rarely stayed there.

After all, it was not a matter of fighting in the Ming Dynasty once or twice, and the Northern Emperor did not dare to stay there safely.

So the current location of Emperor Beiyuan is near the Fishing Sea, but not many people know about this.

Although the Jinyiwei on the Ming Dynasty had outstanding intelligence, he could not find a specific location, but could only give a general location.

However, it would be enough to have a rough location. Lan Yu could also roughly estimate the location of the Northern Yuan Dynasty royal court when he looked at the terrain of the shore of the Fish Sea.

This is also Lan Yu's outstanding ability, which other people can't learn even if they want to.

So Lan Yu led 100,000 troops to the sea of ​​fishing.

Feng Sheng, who was in the west, was facing the main army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

That is, the army of more than 100,000 led by Wang Baobao was circling there.

It is unlikely to confront the Ming Dynasty head-on, so Wang Baobao could only repeat the same trick and continue to delay in this way.

But I didn't know that Lan Yu had led his army to the place where Emperor Beiyuan was.

Although the current emperors of the Northern Yuan Dynasty are almost like puppets.

Most of the affairs in the court were finalized by Wang Baobao, but the Northern Yuan Emperor was still the leader of the Golden Family and the spiritual leader of the entire Northern Yuan court.

If something happened to the Northern Yuan Emperor, the situation can be imagined. Lan Yu knew this and did not dare to neglect the slightest.

Although I have always been worried that the great contributions of the Liao King Zhu Qi would affect the position of His Royal Highness.

But at this time, although he was the deputy general, the credit was made to His Highness the King of Liao.

And just as Lan Yu desperately urged the army to go to fishermen.

Zhu Qi was also waiting anxiously in the central army tent behind him.
To be continued...