strictlysupreme Chapter 169
Chapter 169
Chapter 0169 Zhu Di: Planning the Northern Expedition, he is actually making wedding clothes for others!
Seeing that the target area five hundred meters away was directly blown out of a big pit, rising into billowing smoke, Zhu Yuanzhang's shock can be imagined!
The moment the explosion occurred, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the ground under his feet was trembling violently, which was even more powerful than the siege cannon!
No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang had such a big reaction!
Because the principle of this mortar shell is not a simple iron bullet like Daming's siege cannon or Shenwu cannon!
This is the effect of a solid chemical explosive explosion!
In addition to the single role of killing and blasting, smoke bombs, incendiary bombs, lighting flares and much more can be specially made!
It can be fully adapted to different scenarios and match the right shells!
After being shocked, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but personally fill a cannonball!
He found that this was a completely foolish operation, basically after adjusting the angular distance, he threw the shell directly into the barrel!
The fuse at the bottom of the shell hits the striker at the bottom of the barrel, and it is automatically fired!
After testing a mortar with his own hands, Zhu Yuanzhang was satisfied, but the excitement in his heart was that he couldn't calm down for a long time!
The power of this thing is not weaker than any siege cannon, and with such a light volume, a person can ride a horse and run around, which is completely effortless!
With this mortar, why did Daming need to bring any heavy artillery on an expedition?
With this thing, when facing the Tartar cavalry charge, directly at the enemy camp, then not a single shell to fly a large area?
And even if the tartar turns around and runs, it is useless, the side can completely chase directly from behind with a mortar!
Combined with the flintlock gun that was just equipped, then to fight the tartar, is it not twice as effective with half the effort?
"Okay! With this mortar and flintlock gun, the pacification of Mobei is just around the corner! "
"The day of the Northern Expedition should also be set as soon as possible!"
"When will your flintlock and mortar be all ready?"
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed at this time, and asked Zhu Li.
"There are currently 10,000 flintlock guns equipped, but they are enough!"
"Mortars, these twenty that the father has seen at present, and there are also a thousand shells!"
"The children estimate that with these ammunition, they will be enough to go to battle!"
"If you need to supplement it in the future, you can send a batch to the front line every month after it is produced!"
Zhu Li pointed to a row of mortars in front of him and smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang.
Only ten thousand flintlock guns and twenty mortars?
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, but it should be enough to deal with Mobei Tatar, right?
Just like Zhu Li said, even if it is not enough, the follow-up production will be sent to the front line!
"In fact, Father Emperor, it is easy to win those tartars, the key to the problem is that Mobei is not like the Western Regions, and there are strong cities that can be garrisoned for the army!"
Zhu Li reminded at this time.
Mobei is different from the Western Regions, there are strong cities in the Western Regions where garrisons can be placed, but the Mobei side is sparsely populated, either desert, grassland or mountainous, but there is no city that allows you to fight, let alone use it for defense after capture!
Those tartars are running around everywhere, if you can't beat you, you will run around, you can't do anything with them!
drove them away, and after a while, they swaggered back again, the same still eat and drink what should be eaten!
"It's really not possible, let's establish a few military strongholds in Mobei specifically for garrisons!"
Zhu Yuanzhang also understood the truth of what Zhu Li said, pondered for a moment, and couldn't help gritting his teeth and saying.
The key is that such a large-scale construction project, and it is still in the barren land of Mobei, the materials and money that need to be consumed are not a small amount!
"No, if you want to build, simply build the city in one step!"
"Moreover, these cities must also be open to ordinary people in Mobei, so that these nomads can settle!"
Zhu Li shook his head and said his thoughts.
Mobei is the same as Daming, and not all the tartars are armies, most of them are ordinary herdsmen, and not all herdsmen are militants!
When Blue Jade was in the Northern Expedition, he had hacked and robbed many local civilian tribes!
"If you build a city, the cost may not be large, but the transportation cost can be large!"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately frowned.
Just transporting the materials needed to build the city to Mobei is a big project!
After all, in the barren land of Mobei, there are not so many ready-made materials that can be used to build a city!
Especially the shortage of wood!
"Erchen has already thought about this question!"
"You can first establish five cities in Mobei, and these five locations have already been thought of!"
Zhu Li said directly.
"What's the place?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he asked curiously.
"Ulaanbaatar, Wolf Juxu Mountain, Mandahan, Akdoushan, Hohhot!"
"As long as you firmly control these five places and place garrisons, you can rule the Mobei region for a long time!"
Zhu Li directly listed these five places and said with a confident face.
"If it can really be done once and for all, even if it costs a little price in the early stage, it will be worth it!"
"If Mobei also has a large city, it would be logical to seal the clan king over to guard the side!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded thoughtfully.
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhu Li suspiciously, and said in his heart, shouldn't this kid be just to prepare for the old fourth relocation?
"Your Majesty, the twist sent by King Yan of Beiping!"
At this moment, Jiang Ying suddenly appeared in front of the father and son, and handed a letter directly to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"What are we talking about? Datong Mansion is making such a mess, the fourth must be the first to sit still! "
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at Zhu Li while taking the letter.
"Ginger is still old and spicy, and the father emperor really has no strategy!"
Zhu Li gave a thumbs up directly to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at this fold, sure enough, it was the fold of Yan King Zhu Di asking for battle, this kid actually said that he would directly destroy Tatar!
"Fourth, this is stimulated by you!"
"Go back and give him a message back, telling him that we are going to drive our relatives to Mobei, and go to his fiefdom by the way!"
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and said to Zhu Li.
"Then count the fourth brother as well! The number of Hanzhong troops is not large, the desert north is sparsely populated, and it is good to bring more people! "
Zhu Li thought about it, and nodded at Zhu Yuanzhao.
"That grain and grass can be prepared to be sent to Beiping now, and the soldiers and horses will go first before the grain and grass are moved!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slowly.
It is nothing for general supplies to be sent to Peiping Province first, anyway, firearms such as flintlock guns and mortars can be carried with you, and there are not many, there is no need to transport them with the weight at all!
"How many people can be transferred from the fourth brother's side?"
Zhu Li asked at this time.
"If it's cavalry, Zhasha also has two or three strengths!"
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment and said an approximate number.
In fact, the soldiers and horses of Beiping must be far more than twenty or thirty thousand, after all, Beiping is one of the nine border towns, and the total strength must be quite a lot, but if it is cavalry, at most it is about twenty or thirty thousand, and the rest are basically infantry!
Even if Beiping has an army of 100,000, most of them are garrisons defending the city!
This Northern Expedition requires the speed of the soldiers, and at that time, it is necessary to divide the troops to fight a big interspersion, a big detour, and a blitzkrieg!
"The Hanzhong army is 30,000, if we add the 20,000 or 30,000 people on the fourth brother's side, then if we are combined with the fourth brother's soldiers, we can also have an army of 560,000!"
Zhu Li nodded slowly.
He didn't mind that the fourth man also followed the Northern Expedition to grab a piece of credit, so he should let him familiarize himself with his future fiefdom in advance!
Maybe after beating down Mobei, he will seal all the veins of King Yan to Mobei!
Didn't the fourth have three sons?
Counting himself, the five cities gave them one more!
Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded, since the fourth man wants to fight so much, then let him follow, it is impossible for him to sing a solo show, this time it is his old Zhu Yuchai personal campaign, he also thinks about going to seal the wolf Juxu!
It's not bad to be able to let the fourth man drink soup with him!
At that time, starting from Xi'an Mansion, you can also go to the third Lao's Taiyuan Mansion, and then to the fourth Lao's Beiping Mansion, just to inspect the status of their fiefdom!
"By the way, there are still 100,000 Yan Sanwei over there in Old Seventeen, do you want to use it?"
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly thought of Zhu Quan, the old seventeenth king of Ning, who had just joined the domain last year.
Daning Mansion is just north of Beiping Mansion, and if the army wants to go north, it must also pass through the fiefdom of Old Seventeen!
"If you can pull out tens of thousands of Yan Sanwei, then the number of soldiers and horses is enough, after defeating Mobei, you can garrison in place and start building the city!"
"When the time comes, those herdsmen in Mobei will be summoned, and the children can pay for the food, so as to save the need to send labor from Daming's side!"
Zhu Li pondered for a moment, but he felt that it was not a bad thing to bring more people into Mobei!
After all, such a big place, the tartar is gone, there must be an army of Daming to garrison!
"Since the seventeenth brother is also going to join, will the third brother also count him?"
"If you want to go to Taiyuan Mansion, it is estimated that the third brother will also ask for this lively life!"
Zhu Li reminded with a smile.
Although the military ability of the old third Zhu is not as good as that of the old fourth Zhu Di, he is also a good hand in fighting, and he still has some ability!
Zhu Yuanzhang wants to drive his relatives to conquer the north of Mobei, they have all passed through Taiyuan Mansion, and Zhu Hui should ask for a northern march together if he is still a little motivated!
"In this way, we have to take you, the third old, the fourth and the seventeenth on this northern expedition, that is the four lords!"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't expect to say that there were more and more of this person!
"Just annihilate the Tatar and let the Hanzhong army go up, and the other soldiers and horses are mainly used for defense!"
"This time, you can't let the tartar have a chance to make a comeback!"
Zhu Li smiled and nodded.
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he nodded thoughtfully.
Even if the remaining three clan kings followed the northern expedition, it was to defend the land that had been fought, and Zhu Yuanzhang really did not count on them in the frontal battlefield!
Just hand over the main forces of the tartar to the Hanzhong army!
10,000 flintlock guns plus a thousand shells for twenty mortars, even in the face of 100,000 cavalry of the tartar, they are not afraid at all!
However, Mobei is sparsely populated, and in such a large place, even if the 30,000 people of the Hanzhong army are divided into pieces, it will be stretched thin if they can hold it!
With the other three kings, the defense part can be handed over to them!
After returning to the Han King Mansion, Zhu Yuanzhang directly wrote several letters and sent them to Zhu Huan, the King of the Third Jin Dynasty, Zhu Di, the King of the Fourth Yan, and Zhu Quan, the King of the Seventeenth Ning!
In fact, Zhu Di would take advantage of this matter in Datong Mansion to request the Northern Expedition, and Zhu Yuanzhang had already expected it!
How could he not know that this kid had directly given Zhu Xianqiu, the Yongwang, as a fief after seeing that the Western Regions were beaten down by Lao Jiu?
To put it bluntly, the fourth is stimulated by the old nine!
Zhu Xianqiu is still young, that is Zhu Li, who is the old man with the tube!
Zhu Yuanzhang had already announced this matter to the world, so even if many ministers in the DPRK were dissatisfied, they did not dare to say anything!
In fact, Zhu Xianqiu's sealing of the Yong King was only casually sealed by Zhu Yuanzhang, because he knew that this kid was the future Prince of Daming!
Although in the end, the identity of the prince will fall to the second eldest Zhu Xianyi, Lao Jiu can live so well, these two brothers will definitely not survive the day when they ascend the throne!
Moreover, he already planned to change the rules, just as Lao Jiu said, if there is no prince, the prince has a sage to oversee the country!
At that time, the edict will be directly placed in the Imperial Guardian Taoist Temple, and when Lao Jiu is alive, he can change it at any time, and only Lao Jiu can change it!
Can't give Zhu Xiangqiu the identity of the prince, and giving him a prince is not a great thing!
In addition, there are also the assessment standards of the Imperial Health Academy!
Many princes who have more outstanding abilities are completely assessed by the Imperial Guard Academy!
Only after passing the assessment of the imperial throne trainees, and then passing the level of the prison country, can they be eligible to inherit that throne!
Zhu Yuanzhang feels that such competition is also a good thing!
Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the Han King Mansion, while Zhu Li's side came directly to the military factory.
The nail stomach in Hanzhong was built here, and now it can produce 300 sets of nail stomach every month!
Today, there are thousands of craftsmen who specialize in making nail stomachs!
And each set of nail stomach is very precious, but these craftsmen are purely handmade!
What is the concept of producing 300 sets of nail stomach in a month?
If it is placed in the imperial court army, an army of 100,000 people, and more than a hundred people can penetrate the armor stomach, then it can be regarded as a regular army!
Think about the imperial court army, even if it is an officer of the level of a hundred households, it is only for half of the body!
However, the set of robbery armor that the old man bought with the national transport system last year has already been rewarded to Blue Jade!
After all, Lan Yu's official position is big enough, and there are not many things that can be rewarded, at that time, he also made great achievements in the battle of the Western Regions, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Li discussed, since Qin Wu and others were knighted, then simply give this set of battle armor directly to Blue Jade!
The Hanzhong army is still expanding, and the production of this stomach is also non-stop!
This time, the 30,000 troops who went to Mobei naturally brought veterans, and these who remained in Hanzhong were all recruits who had just joined the army!
For the training and equipment of recruits, Zhu Li also attaches great importance to (Li's), after all, in the future, there will be more and more places where the Hanzhong army is needed, the territory to be fought, the territory to be defended will also become larger and larger, and it is imperative to increase the scale of the army accordingly He came to the military factory to inspect, but also hoped that there would be no mistakes in this regard!
A few days later.
Beiping Yan Royal Mansion.
Zhu Di received a reply from Zhu Yuanzhang from Hanzhong Mansion!
"Why just a letter? Why didn't the father give a holy decree to this king? "
As soon as he saw that the old man just sent a letter back, Zhu Di's heart cooled a lot!
If the old man agrees to his northern expedition, then it should be a holy decree sent over!
"Your Highness take a look at what His Majesty wrote in the letter, and then ask before it's too late!"
Yao Guangxiao reminded on the side.
Zhu Di opened the letter with a look of excitement, and after just one glance, his eyes suddenly widened!
The old man is not not not going to fight Tatar, nor is he not letting him fight, but he wants to drive his own conquest!
And he, Yan King Zhu Di, can only follow the old man, the boss, as a general!
What made Zhu Di even more speechless was that the main force of this expedition was actually Lao Jiu and his Hanzhong army!
In addition, the old third Zhu Hui and the old seventeen Zhu Quan's Duoyan Sanwei also have to step in horizontally!
The opportunity of his hard-planned Northern Expedition was actually making wedding clothes for others, even if this person was actually his own son, Zhu Di felt unacceptable!
For a while, Zhu Di's old face turned red with anger, but he was helpless!
"Your Majesty wants to drive the royal family!"
After Yao Guangxiao learned of this situation, his face also became strange!
To recover the Western Regions, Zhu Yuanzhang is the imperial driving family, and the desert north also comes to this set?
This old man is addicted to the royal driver!
What is even more speechless is that there are three kings of Han, King Jin and King Ning, and the four clan kings accompanied the emperor to march north, so the final credit, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang, the boss, didn't they also want the four clan kings to share?
Not only was Zhu Di angry at this time, but even Yao Guangxiao was about to vomit blood in anger!
He worked hard to run the opportunity created by Mobei, and it turned out to be cheaper for others?!