Bringing Military Supplies to Ming Dynasty

Yang Chendong went to Wang Zuo personally, and delivered the thick futon to the legs of the High Official of the Ministry of Households. Just this small gesture attracted this 65 The old man of years has tears in his eyes. Don’t underestimate this small action. No one of the accompanying officials dared to do it. They just didn’t have the ability to protect themselves, let alone help others.

“Crown Herald Yang, it’s not worth it for you to do this. Wang Zhen will definitely hate you when you turn back. I’m afraid that after he returns to the court, he will liquidate everything.” Wang Zuo kindly reminded Yang Chendong .

“No problem, respect the old and cherish the young is one of the virtues, even if he is held accountable to me, just defend him.” Yang Chendong didn’t care about laughed. But in my mind, is it possible for Wang Zhen to return to court?

When Yang Chendong talked about virtue, Wang Zuo was even more tearful. At this moment, he was really moved and didn’t know what to say.

Seeing the old man crying like a little child at the moment, Yang Chendong squatted down, took out a handkerchief and handed it over, “Lord Wang, you still have to take care of your body. The wind and sand are heavy, I will wipe my tears away, and it will be bad if the eye disease comes out.”

“Okay, okay, thanks to Crown Herald Yang.” Wang Zuo took the handkerchief and wiped his eyes with gratitude. Inexplicable.

Everyone says that we can see the truth in adversity. It’s not long after I left the capital, Yang Chendong has already begun to buy people’s hearts, and this is just the beginning, which can only be described by seeing the first experience. that’s all.

On the 19th day of the 19th, the army settled in Yongguan Pass, and came to Xuan Mansion. I have been to the south of Yanghe City on the 28th, and all the way, it should be said that the marching speed is still very fast.

Yanghe City is one of the seventy two castles of Datong, the important town of the Ming Dynasty. It is more than 4,600 meters long, the city wall is 11.6 meters high, and there is a ten meters deep trench. There is a city gate inside and outside the city gate. It was the Ancient Battlefield where Liu Bang encountered Baideng, which was called Baideng County during the Yuan Dynasty.

A dozen days before the arrival of the Emperor Yingzong army, on July 15th, the Ming army had a fierce battle with Yexian. A total of four Wanming army were defeated by the Ora army, even the Governor of Datong. Senior generals such as Song Ying, Prince Consort Du Wei Jingyuan, and Chief Military Officer Zhu Mian were all killed in the battle, showing heavy casualties.

When Emperor Yingzong’s army arrived here, the battlefield had not been cleaned. The Ming army corpses everywhere across the field. The corpses were filled with an unpleasant smell and an atmosphere of fear. A heavy blow was also formed, and some of the fainthearted began to desert.

Emperor Yingzong continued to move forward, trying to find the main force of Oala for a decisive battle, but at this time, he also shrank his troops and retreated outside the wall to avoid the edge.

On August 1st, the Ming army entered Datong, an important frontier fortress, and wanted to stand up to the armies of Wara.

Whoever thinks about it, not at all, choose frontal combat, but instead take the initiative to withdraw northward to lure the Ming army to deepen. Although Datong is an important town, it is simply unable to afford such a huge logistics supply. Seeing that the hope of a decisive battle is slim, the continued stay of the army here will not have the slightest effect, but the daily loss is not a small number. The ministers proposed to move back to the DPRK.

Yang Chendong not at all followed the ministers to petition His Imperial Majesty, and he watched all this with cold eyes.

Judging from the situation at the time, the decision to move back to North Korea was undoubtedly quite correct. Although this time the army has been mobilized and it has been ineffective, but at least the army has not suffered major losses.

At this time, not only Yang Chendong saw this, but Zhu Qizhen, the actual commander of the army, Wang Zhen, also saw this.

Before the Datong battle, it was under the instruction of Wang Zhen to start. He sent Datong general soldier Song Ying and the governor Shi Heng to fight Wara first. In his vision, relying on these two people is enough to clean up first, so when he arrives, he can pretend and swagger, without actually fighting.

Speaking of which, when it comes to fighting, I am afraid that Wang Zhen may not have the courage.

Wang Zhen is worried that Song Ying and Shi Heng dare not try their best, and arranges his confidant Court Eunuch Guo Jing to be the supervising army. Then, at the urging of this Court Eunuch, the two sides fought a battle. Because they were eager to fight, they were also ambushed first. Even because of Guo Jing’s restraint, part of Song Ying’s army was wiped out. Shi Heng and Guo Jing escaped and said Wang Zhen was really frightened by the fact that it was so powerful. This coincided with Civil and Military Officials all admonishing the class teacher, so he rarely chose to agree with everyone.

Now that I have decided to withdraw, it is not far from Datong at this time. There is no danger in withdrawing the army at this time. It’s all that’s all for 500,000 people to travel.

On the third day of August, the Ming Army decided on the class. Guo Deng, the deputy general of Datong, suggested that returning from Zijing Pass to Beijing can be far away from the possible route of Wala attack. It is relatively safe. It should be said that this route is more feasible. Yes, but Wang Zhen stepped up again and put forward different suggestions.

If Wang Zhen can have his current status, there is indeed speculation. But because of this, he has the appearance of a small man intoxicated by success, and he is accustomed to showing it wherever he goes. Now that I know how powerful the Vala cavalry is, I also know that it can’t fight. But I went back like this. Some regrets, I decided to satisfy the temperament I was showing off everywhere, and proposed not to go back to Datong, but to return to Weizhou, Shanxi (Wang Zhen’s hometown) to use it to “get lucky” and show his majesty.

When he came out of Weizhou, Shanxi, Wang Zhen was still a shabby resident. Nowadays, the scenery is boundless and he is in control. He has to go back to his hometown and show off.

Because of Wang Zhen’s persistence and not knowing how to move Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen agreed, the army had to go to Weizhou, Shanxi.

But just when he was about to reach Yuzhou, four 10 li away from Zijing Pass, Wang Zhen suddenly changed his mind and was no longer heading to Yuzhou. He asked everyone to stop because he was afraid of the army. Trampled the crops in Yuzhou. Years ago, he got a lot of potato seeds from Yang Family Village and the Ministry of Households and planted them here.

In order to preserve this high-yield crop, the army must not move forward. This reason persuaded Zhu Qizhen again, and the army changed to Xuanfu.

In this regard, Yang Chendong remained silent. At this moment, what can he do with persuasion? With his current rank and status, his words are impossible and adopted by Emperor Yingzong and Wang Zhen, and rashly suggesting it will only arouse their resentment that’s all.

Ming’s army has already marched towards the Xuan Mansion, and those who have been following behind have also thought about it first.

Yesian’s main cavalry is about 30,000. Facing the Ming army’s 500,000 main force, it has no spectrum in its heart and is not sure to win a battle. It has followed the Ming army for more than ten days. , Watching Great Ming’s army writhe like a stupid caterpillar, gradually, it filled his heart with confidence. It seems that the battle strength of these 500,000 people is not strong, and it is impossible to withstand a single blow, so an offensive order was issued.

Wala’s elite cavalry raided the Ming army brigade in two directions. Wang Zhen, who heard the news, was very nervous and urgently contracted the army. He sent Hou Wu Kezhong and the governor Wu Keqin to lead troops to resist the battle. As the Fullback of the Ming Army, Wu Kezhong’s force should be more than 10,000 people, but it is still impossible to withstand a single blow.

After being defeated in World War I, they were dispatched to National Duke Zhu Yong and Yongshun Bo Xueshou to lead 40,000 horses to Yaoerling to fight with Ye first, but the entire army was wiped out.

The men and horses led by Zhu Yong are elites of the Ming army, mainly cavalry. After the defeat of this army, the Ming army has actually lost the capital of the first decisive battle with the same army. It began to fall apart. In this way, the day before the Ming army arrived at the Tumu Fort, it had already suffered heavy losses. The reduction in personnel should be more than 50,000. The actual strength (excluding transporters and civilian men used in the war) was already less than 200,000, and it had lost its elite cavalry.

When Zhu Yong led thirty thousand cavalry in an ambush, the news came that the armor would not return, Zhu Qizhen and Wang Zhen directly scared to pee, and Sa Yazi ran back.

On August 13th, the army moved into the civil fort.

When the army arrived at the Tumu Fort, it was still dark and the sun had not set. At this time, it was only a trifling 20 li away from Huailai County, and a quick march could arrive. Once the army enters the county seat and fights against the city, the Vala cavalry will be helpless.

At this time, it can be called a matter of life and death. Wang Zhen raised a moth again and ordered the army to stop and stop advancing.

It turns out that more than a thousand trucks belonging to Wang Zhen’s sole production have not arrived yet. These are all the things that the frontier army honored to Wang Zhen. The price is over one million taels. As the actual speaker of the Northern Expedition, Wang Zhen’s gift from the magistrate’s “Zhuangxing” was of course accepted.

The gifts from officials along the way were too generous, so Wang Zhen gave up his life and money and gave up the great opportunity to enter Jiancheng.

Wang Zhen asks everyone to wait for the car to arrive before walking together. So in this place of Tumubao, Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qizhen, hundreds of civil and military officials and hundreds of hundreds of soldiers waited here for a night.

By the time it was dawn, more than a thousand vehicles still hadn’t arrived. Wang Zhen couldn’t wait any longer. He knew in his heart that the car could not come, and he wanted to leave at this time. It’s a pity that at this time, I can’t go anymore. There is enough time for one night, and the 30,000 elite cavalry of Oara has divided the Ming army into several sides.

As a result, the huge army of hundreds of thousands was “surrounded” by 20,000 cavalry soldiers in the fortress without water.

To say that 30,000 surrounded by hundreds of thousands, it is usually impossible to do it, but after these days of tossing down, the army has long become scared, morale is completely lost, and most of the original battle strength has been completely lost.

Wang Zhen was also frightened by the rushing cavalry at this time. In a panic, he dug trenches and set up barriers to protect himself from the earthen fort.

It’s a pity that Wang Zhen doesn’t understand warfare or soldiers, and he doesn’t even understand terrain. The place here is high, and there is no spring or water, so it is not a place that can be kept. So in the following, dozens of Wanming troops were also surrounded and beaten for two days and three nights, and the worries of no water became more and more serious.

The Ming army could not dig a drop of water after digging the ground three feet. The morale of the army was lost and the army’s mind changed.

On August 15th, we also withdrew suddenly. He said that he would not fight, and sent a messenger to come and say that he wanted to make a peace. This is simply a tactic.