? In June of the 14th year of Shenwu, according to the history of the government, it is already August, which is the hot time in the north.Three hundred miles outside the Great Wall, Mongolian youth Chaolu was grazing.

Chaolu means stone in Mongolian, and his father also wished he could live like a stone.

Chao Lu is 15 or 16 years old, and he does not know how old he is, even his mother.Since the Mongols were quickly degraded into nomadic people after being ejected by the Han Chinese, Mongolian youths such as Chaolu simply did not recognize words.Chao Lu rode a brown Mongolian horse and was grazing sheep for the Taiji master of the tribe.

The small ice age has a great impact on the Central Plains agricultural civilization, but it has a greater impact on these nomads.These Mongols were so productive that they could freeze large flocks to death in a cold, and without them, the Mongols could only starve to death.But it is not a little way to live, after the cold snap in previous years, the Mongolian Taiji people will be transferred to the contradictions within the tribe, and the recruitment of young people to the southern Ming Dynasty began a looting.

Chao Lu's father followed Taiji to the south, but Chaolu's father was unfortunately, met the great emperor of ZTE in the Ming Dynasty, and Chaolu's father also died in the south in a battle.

After the death of Chaolu's father, his mother was robbed of news by other tribes the following year.Taiji in the tribe looked at the hands and feet of Chaolu, so let him feed the sheep for himself, so he had a mouthful of food for Lu.

This year, Chaolu has become an adult, according to the rules of the Mongols, if in the past, the DPRK Lu will take up the knife to fight for Taiji, either dead in the hands of the Mongols or dead in the hands of the Han people.However, in recent years, the powerful Manchus have been eliminated by the Han people, not to mention the lack of iron tools of the Mongols, so in recent years, the Mongolians outside the border have many, although their own internal fire has never stopped, but the full-scale war against the Ming Dynasty has not been carried out for many years.

Chao Lu so with the dream of killing and robbing things for the master of Taiji sheep, today he lies on the grass to sleep, at the same time, the dream of grabbing women to grab cattle and sheep.The sleeping Chaolu suddenly felt the vibration of the ground beneath him, and this vibration was familiar, and it was the footsteps of the army.

Chao Lu climbed up and looked south and saw a large amount of smoke on the horizon in the distance.Chao Lu lived on horseback as a child, was born a warrior, and was familiar with this soot, which is the dust that can be stirred up by the brigade when the horse marches.

Chao Lu looked at the size and size of the smoke, and the vibrations from the ground, estimated that the army had more than 100,000 people.It should be known that there are many large and small tribes in Mongolia, but there are not many tribes that can gather so many armies.

Chao Lu knew that the army must be sent far away, and now he looked at the army far away, and perhaps the rebuke was in front of him.The life-and-death under the next one did not hesitate, and hurried up to ride the sheep away from him, and ran back to report to his tribe to prevent the army from being attacked by these unknown troops.

This army outside the Great Wall is Zhu Hongsan led the Ming army, but there is no more than 100,000 horses estimated by Chao Lu, but these new troops carry a large number of artillery, many horses used to pull the car, so far away from looking like more than 100,000 people.

The front of the Ming army is the pioneer of the 5,000 cavalry, these people are Zhu Hongsan in the Zhangjiakou from the same tune, after all, to the Mongolian land or cavalry good use, these cavalry commanders are Zhu Hongsan's cheap son-in-law Zhao Hu.

Behind the cavalry are the muskets, the most elite Guard in the middle, and in the middle of the Guards is the emperor's coat of arms.Zhu Hongsan's royal body is naturally luxurious, even more than the car of Zhang Juzheng.

The royal tao said that the car is not to say that it is a moving house, the whole imperial stump is divided into three rooms, the outermost is a ten-square observation deck, which has a living room and lounge, and a mobile toilet for the emperor's convenience.

This royal stew is so luxurious and naturally large, there are 40 horses outside.Zhu Hongsan is now different from Guangdong time, when there is no horse breeding place with horses in short supply, now Zhu Hongsan has occupied the river cover area, natural horses are not lacking.

Zhu Hongsan sat in the dragon chair on the observation deck and looked at the scenery of the prairie.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the water and soil outside Zhangjiakou were well maintained, and there was no desertification, and small lakes could be seen everywhere.Blue sky and green water, coupled with the endless prairie, let Zhu Hongsan's mood is very good now.

At this time, a horse came to the Imperial Palace, handed a military newspaper to the commander-in-chief Han Sanqiang, Han Sanqiang later to Zhu Hongsan said: "Your Majesty, the cavalry rebuked the news, in the east of our army there are small shares of Mongolian cavalry action, there are probably hundreds of people, it is estimated that the Mongolians reprimand, General Zhao asked His Majesty to order to eliminate them!"

Hundreds of Mongol cavalry, presumably the tribe sent to search for information.Zhu Hongsan closed his eyes and said, "Don't worry about them, wait for more people to gather, let Zhao Hudo watch them!"

Han Sanqiang led the order to arrange, Zhu Hongsan said to the surrounding Li Chengen: "Zhu Shengdu and Zhu Yuan?“Where did the two boys go?”

"Return to the emperor, the two masters came to the grassland for the first time, to see everything fresh, just went out to ride away!" 」

Zhu Hongsan nodded, these two children after all grew up in the south, have not seen the endless grassland outside, curiosity is also appropriate, but the safety to ensure good, after all, here is not the country, those Mongolians are very wild.

"Old Li, send them a guard, and tell them not to run away, the surrounding Mongols are not good."Li Chengen received the emperor's order and hurriedly sent out two thousand brocades to protect Zhu Shengduo and Zhu Yuan's safety.

At this time, Zhu Shengdu and Zhu Yuan are riding outside the race, Zhu Yuan is 17 years old, Zhu Shengdu is only 12 years old, the heart is children, naturally curious about everything.

Zhu Shengduo followed those marigolds and guards in the palace to learn to ride horses, but it was the first time that today was an unscrupulous horse galloping.Zhu Yuan is also almost, the two people get this opportunity to naturally relax.

Zhu Shengdu riding a British imported Sharma, in fact, is the descendants of Zhao Hu's horse, this big horse as an adult shoulder height of two meters, riding on it is very powerful.Zhu Shengdu is Zhu Hai's own son, naturally and Zhao Hu close relationship, it is easy to come from Zhao Hu's hand a Sharma, but this horse is not yet an adult, but also much taller than ordinary Mongolian horses.

Zhu Yuan has received the support of the nobles in recent years, and has a lot of wealth on hand, and the natural horses can not be shabby.Zhu Yuan is riding a red Arabian horse, this * horse body slender, the best way to sprint.

Zhu Shengduo was riding on the horse angry, just now he and Zhu Yuan two horse races are he lost, the child's character is naturally very unhappy.However, this can not blame him, he rode the horse was not good at sprinting, coupled with this pony is not yet an adult, to Zhu Yuan's Arabian horse is naturally not an opponent.

Zhu Yuan saw Zhu Shengduo angry and smiled and said, "Boy, how, all of you have told you that you are not an opponent, your uncle's horse is bought from overseas!"

Zhu Shengdu saw that Zhu Yuan was full of satisfaction and was angry: "Uncle said that his horse price to the king is more than thousands of gold, why can't he run his uncle's pony?"

Zhu Shengdu's escort is very good, see Zhu Shengdu explained on the edge: "Lord, the horse given by the horse is indeed valuable, but the horse mainly plays in the battlefield, and the short sprint is not his long term, not to mention that the horse has not yet reached adulthood, so it can be lost to the general of the auxiliary country!"

Zhu Shengdu listened to the guard said very curiously, quickly asked: "I heard that my uncle was in Henan two thousand iron riding broke Wu Sangui's 50,000 Liaodong iron riding, is it true?"

The guard smiled and said: "These are rumors, when the big horse led two thousand heavy cavalry to charge, but the front battlefield still needs the cooperation of the two horses led by the cavalry, the big horse can defeat Wu Sangui's flank with very little force!"

Zhu Shengdu listened to the book and hurriedly asked, “Did I hear that my uncle was wearing heavy armor like a tower, and that those Qing army were killed by his uncle’s horseshoes, is it true?”

"This is true, at that time, those Qing army offensive momentum was blocked by the two horses, and the big horses were able to rush into the flank of the Qing army."So just now will say at the end, the horse speed is not very important, only the reasonable use of their own equipment can be unfavorable!"

Zhu Yuan listened to the head of such a guard, and even though he was very unhappy in the heart of the general of the auxiliary country, he asked, "You know how much, how can you come to my nephew as a guard?"

The guard immediately bowed and said, "At the end, it will be Zhu Ren, the vice-commander of the big stage horse, who was rushing next to the big camel horse, so know some!"

Zhu Yuan heard Zhu Ren say that he would never speak again, this Zhu Ren is Zhao Hu's vice general, Zhao Hu is now the king of the county, this Zhu Ren identity is not low, it may be that there is a knighthood in the body.Zhu Yuan really wanted to be right, this Zhu Ren was one of the more than 20 children adopted by Zhu Hongsan, and Changping Princess Zhu Luo, the relationship between Zhao Hu is good, because today Zhu Shengdu needs to be guarded, Zhao Hu can send his cronies to Zhu Shengdu as an ordinary escort.

Zhu Shengdu heard Zhu Ren say this: "Well, you are the vice general of the king's uncle, and you have time to tell the king about the things that were on the battlefield!"

At this time, I heard a sound of horseshoes not far away, Zhu Shengdu turned his head to see that a cavalry had been divided from the team and ran to his side.

The cavalry team had two thousand people, led by a jinjie-guard town caress, he rode to Zhu Shendor and Zhu Yuan and said: "Your Highness, at the end will be in the emperor's holy order to protect the safety of your two highnesses!"