Compared with the Daqing City at the foot of Daqing Mountain, which has not yet been built, but everything is already on track.

The hundreds of thousands of troops who walked out of the Great Wall and entered the grasslands outside the Pass seemed to be a little unlucky.

Such misfortune requires comparison.

If the army advanced hundreds of miles in half a month without encountering any obstruction by Tatar troops, it would be considered a success.

However, as the army continued to penetrate deep into the grassland, it could not find the main force of the Tatar tribe, so it was extremely unsatisfactory.

The supply lines in the rear are getting longer and longer.

The three armies led by King Jin, King Yan, and King Dai respectively began to focus more on consolidating the military and food supply lines behind the army.

The three armies are ready for a protracted war.

In order to prevent the grain roads from being attacked by Tatars who did not know where they were hiding, starting from the Great Wall, the three grain roads were heavily defended.

The officials from the Ministry of Works who were sent to Jiubian almost had their heads shaved off these days.

In order to meet the requirements of the three armies, they can be said to have mobilized the entire force of Jiubian day and night to build forts along the grain road so that people from the Ministry of Revenue could transport grain to the front line and have a safe place to store it.

Then, using these forts as the core points, the transportation will be advanced northward in sequence.

On the vast grassland, the sun is already far in the west.

The golden sunset shines on the prairie, shining on the endless grassland, emitting a dazzling and bright light.

Behind a leeward slope, an army numbering more than ten thousand people was setting up camp.

Tie Xuan led a group of civil servants and generals from the camp to the slope, looking at the desert wasteland in the north where there was only grass.

This Grand Scholar of Wuyingdian, who had decided to become a lonely minister of the Ming Dynasty, had a serious look in his eyes, even a little angry.

"The construction of the garrison in Guangwu Town has been delayed for three days. According to the plan, 30,000 stones of grain and grass should be stored there for the East Route Army and the Central Route Army. Now they are all blocked in Lingji Spring Fort."

Tie Xuan's voice spread calmly across the grassland.

However, everyone present could tell that there was already a ball of anger building up in the heart of this imperial massacre.

"Back to the Grand Master, the soil on the grassland has just become a little harder after the cold winter. However, the cement, stones, etc. behind are all heavy objects. Repeated rolling will always make the road muddy..."

"This is no excuse." Tie Xuan said calmly and looked back at the Ministry of Industry official who spoke.

The other party immediately lowered his head.

No one dared to offend the bad luck of this cabinet bachelor.

Tie Xuan sighed: "The Northern Expedition has just begun, and I don't want to kill people for crimes. But you should understand that in front of us are the three princes of the Ming Dynasty, who are leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers to search for the Tatars.

people.

The supply of food and grass must be guaranteed. If anyone lets the soldiers starve and thereby hinders the Northern Expedition, I will not investigate him, and the court will definitely punish him severely."

A doctor who was the leader of the household department here couldn't help but raise his head, with some hesitation on his face.

Tie Xuan quickly caught the opponent's movements.

"If you have anything to say, just say it."

The doctor from the household department immediately nodded and bowed: "The lower officials are discussing whether we should recruit civilians from Shanxi and Hebei. We should use manpower to carry the burdens on our shoulders, and also transport food up."

The officials on the slope were silent for a while.

Now outside the entire Great Wall, the total number of the three armies has exceeded 200,000, and the number of civilians mobilized has already exceeded 500,000.

If we continue to recruit civilians from within the pass, I am afraid that this year's farming in the north will be completely delayed.

"Zheng!"

Tie Xuan, however, made a prompt decision and decided on the matter.

He then narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Issue a notice to inform the people in Shanxi and Hebei that anyone who transports one stone of grain to the outside of the customs will be rewarded! After the war, they will be rewarded with cattle, sheep, money, and salt."

The officials immediately started whispering.

The officials present at the scene immediately hesitated and said, "Should this matter..."

"Draft a document and send it to Daqingshan, and ask His Highness the Grand Sun to seal it."

Tie Xuan spoke immediately.

This great scholar of Rentu had already wrested the decision-making power of the entire Northern Expedition from the hands of the emperor's grandson.

This is already an open secret within the Northern Expedition Army.

The officials present were already aware of this.

Seeing that Tie Xuan had made a decision, everyone stopped talking.

It was not their turn to comment on the matter between Tie Xuan, the great scholar of Tu, and his grandson.

The grandson didn't speak, and the court didn't speak either, so they had no right to speak.

As for how the imperial court will respond to the civil and military rewards and punishments for the Northern Expedition after this battle, we have to wait for discussion after the war.

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"If we don't completely defeat the Tatars this time, we will all be criminals of the country after this battle!"

As night falls, a little light lights up on the grassland.

The Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition Eastern Route Army, inside the Chinese army's tent.

King Zhu Di of Yan, wearing heavy armor, stood in front of the Kanyu in the tent, and slapped his palms on the wooden frame next to the Kanyu.

Cao Xing, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, stood in front of the generals, looked at King Yan in front of Kan Yu, frowned and said solemnly: "The scouts in the army have gone hundreds of miles, but they still have not found the main force of the Tatars. In the opinion of an experienced minister,

, it is better to attack slowly and advance slowly, waiting for Ying Guogong and others to detour to the north and drive the Tatars to the south before the decisive battle."

Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan on the other side, immediately said: "What if Duke Ying and others can't find the Tatars?"

Cao Xing's brows became more and more frowned. After pondering for a long time, he said again: "Unless the Tatars leave this grassland!"

It is impossible for the Tatars to leave this steppe.

Nowadays, on the grassland outside the pass, the west side is occupied by the Oara tribe. According to recent news from the DPRK, the Oara tribe is also preparing for war, trying to occupy the entire grassland after the Tatars are wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

To the east is Liaodong.

Liaodong!

Zhu Di's frown relaxed a little.

He turned around in front of Kanyu and looked at the generals in the tent: "I originally thought that my three-pronged army would join forces and attack the Tatar lair. But now it seems that maybe

It is possible that the Tatars fled eastward."

"Then our army should deviate from the planned march route to the east, approach the Onan River, and set up military formations on the east side in advance to block the Tatars!"

Huaiyuan Hou Cao Xing's eyes widened and he clapped his hands on the table in front of him.

Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, also nodded and said: "According to the past, if the Tatars want me to extend the food road towards the army, they will flee eastward along the Onan River.

As the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expedition, it is understandable that our troops deviated slightly from the route eastward and blocked the Onan River. Even if we cannot block the Tatars, we can continue to move westward and sweep across the entire grassland.

.

The general can’t believe that these Tartar wolf cubs can still hide under the grass!”

Zhu Di did not continue to draw a conclusion.

Instead, he turned back to look at Kanyu behind him.

After a long time, he slowly spoke: "The fort in Guangwu Town has not yet been built, and the food and grass needed by the army are now stored in Lingji Spring Fort.

As for the journey from Guangwu Town to the Onan River, there is also the Linqu River blocking the way. The water in this river is very fast, and it will be summer in just over a month.

Even if our army can cross the river, I'm afraid the supply of food and grass behind will be delayed."

"Then let's eat the enemy!"

Cao Xing, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, had murderous intent in his eyes: "Anyway, Tie Xuan also said that all the Tatars who can wield a knife are within the scope of our army's expedition this time.

Don’t all the wolf cubs on the grassland say that the Luqu River is their mother river, and large tribes gather here.

Our army is coming, we just need to steal their food rations!"

Following Huaiyuan Marquis Cao Xing's murderous words, a low laughter sounded in the tent.

With the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the grasslands for so many years, these generals in the army who had fought against the Yuan people since the founding of the country were naturally aware of all kinds of rumors on the grasslands.

Zhu Di also smiled slightly.

He thought of the rumors he had read when he was a child.

The Ququ River is the hometown of Genghis Khan and the location of the imperial mausoleums of the former Yuan emperors.

Zhu Di couldn't help but clapped his hands: "Instruct all battalions to set out early tomorrow morning and cross the Luqu River to the Onan River. I would like to see if I can ride on horseback to the Yuan Emperor's Mausoleum!"

…

"Niu Dafu."

"arrive!"
To be continued...