After Fu Youde and Tang He conquered Sichuan, Mingsheng was escorted by Tang He to return to heaven.

For this surrendered soldier, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him, but rewarded him with an official position and a title called: Marquis of Guiyi.

The reward land is near Nanjing.

Placing him in Nanjing is somewhat meant to prevent him from running away. After all, he does not belong to his camp. To be prepared for him, if one day this guy gets a brain cramp and wants to engage in conspiracy and rebellion, he can kill him immediately. Got him.

However, Ming Sheng should be happy. After all, he, a deserter, was not killed and still got an official position. He should be considered a blessing in misfortune.

Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely benevolent to Ming Sheng.

After solving Mingsheng's problem, Zhu Yuanzhang began to shift his attention to another place.

For those other small places that have not yet been pacified, this is the eternal pain in his heart.

If Ming Sheng is a dead fish, then this guy is a thousand-year-old bastard who can't survive no matter what.

He is the real worry.

Their existence is like having a sword of Damocles stuck in their heads. As long as they don't pay attention to the other party's attack on their foreheads, their lives will be completely over.

If he didn't get rid of them completely, he would never be able to sleep peacefully.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already pacified most of the southern areas, made up his mind after Tangping pacified Sichuan and led his troops back. This time he would completely solve this problem.

His name is: Bei Yuan.

Their coach has two really great characters.

One is called: Aiyou Shili Dara (Ashou),

The other one is called: Wang Baobao.

The two of them are colleagues, monarchs and ministers, and close comrades-in-arms.

Wang Baobao has been working with Ah Shou since he was the prince, and he is the real backbone of the Communist Party.

It has never stopped until now.

Now that Ah Shou has become the emperor, Wang Baobao is determined to assist him in achieving hegemony.

The place they occupied at this time was located in the north, with a vast territory and tough characters. They had a hobbies of terror, massacres of cities.

Once the city is destroyed, no humans or animals will be left, no chickens or dogs will be left.

It is also for this reason that the people gave them a terrible title.

Steppenwolf.

A jackal that eats people without spitting out their bones!

Since Wang Baobao fled north from Gansu and joined Ashou, the two of them have only done one thing.

Expansion of staff.

In order to increase their troops as quickly as possible, they tried every means.

Soon their troops expanded to 100,000.

At this time, Ah Shou, who felt that his waist was getting hard again, decided not to sit still and wait for death. He had been living in the grassland for more than a year and suffered from the northwest wind. He decided to take the initiative.

This time, Ah Shou, who had learned his lesson well, did not take the stupid approach of going straight into Peiping last time, but instead focused on the northern border fortress.

He wanted to practice here first.

Practice and practice these new recruits.

This group of recruits who are wailing all day long to go into battle to kill the enemy and show off the majesty of the prairie wolf are basically obtained through deception. Many of them have never been on the battlefield and have no idea how cruel the battlefield is.

It would undoubtedly be suicide to let this group of complete new recruits penetrate the tightly defended Peiping.

For their safety and for the sake of my own grand revenge, let them practice their skills first.

So they took care of Zhu Yuanzhang's business from time to time, either to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang's autumn wind, or to visit Zhu Yuanzhang's place.

In short, if I don’t have a good time, you, Monk Zhu, can’t have a good time either.

But they didn't know that they thought they were just making a small fuss and couldn't get into Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes. They never escaped Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in Nanjing, had long been eyeing them.

And I began to make detailed plans in my heart.

In the fifth year of Hongwu (AD 1372), Zhu Yuanzhang, who could no longer endure it, issued Emperor's Order No. 001 this year.

The second Northern Expedition begins.

Target: Beiyuan.

Mission: Ah Shou, Wang Baobao.

Final goal: complete eradication.

In order to completely eliminate this stubborn problem, Zhu Yuanzhang chose Xu Da, who had already dealt with Wang Baobao several times.

After the combat mission was confirmed, Zhu Yuanzhang must have had a heart-to-heart talk with Xu Da.

Interfering is similar to talking about family matters.

For example, brother, how are you doing recently? How young is your daughter? If you can get married, then marry her. If you want to marry, marry my son. Is your mother's asthma better recently?

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I will definitely not forget to improve my relationship and say: This Northern Expedition will have to trouble you again, brother. Those who can do more work, so please bear with me more.

After the final draw was almost completed, Xu Da was asked how many men were needed for this northern expedition [How many troops would be needed for the expedition]?

Xu Da's reply was that one hundred thousand is enough.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head.

One hundred thousand is too little, I'll give you one hundred and fifty thousand.

At first, Xu Da was afraid that his boss, who was always stingy, would not approve. Unexpectedly, not only was there no shortage, but there was an increase of 50,000 yuan. This must be happy for him.

From the conversation between Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang, sharp-eyed people have already heard something different.

Xu Da's words were more or less underestimating the enemy.

Maybe he wants to be Han Xin this time, or maybe he wants to be his old partner Chang Yuchun who has passed away due to illness.

He also wanted to taste what it was like to have a hundred thousand soldiers and horses roaming the world.

However, there is often a big difference between the general and the powerful in nature, and they are not completely equivalent.

After confirming Xu Da as the main general, Zhu Yuanzhang told everyone the action plan he had finalized.

He first divided the 150,000 soldiers and horses into three parts, each led by three people. They were Xu Da as the general who conquered the captives, starting from the middle road and passing through Yanmen Pass in Shanxi to attack and Lin (verbally becoming a rush soldier, but in fact

This is a bit of a joke, their speed is actually the slowest among the three armies).

The middle route (east route) was led by Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong as the left deputy general, leaving Juyongguan and passing through Yingchang Mansion to attack Helin.

The last West Route Army, with Song Guogong Feng Sheng as the right deputy general, went out from Jinlan to attack the Gansu area, acting as a suspect to induce the Northern Yuan Army to disperse its forces.

The three of them each led 50,000 troops and attacked Ashou in three groups.

Before setting off, Zhu Yuanzhang must have been full of confidence when facing these 150,000 troops. Ever since he joined the army, he had never been so eager to kill someone.

Whether it was Chen Youliang or Zhang Shicheng, they were killed step by step by themselves. Only this Ah Shou, or rather the real protagonist behind him, Wang Baobao, was the real thorn in the flesh.

So many people have been recruited this time, and they are all elite soldiers. Each of them is a veteran who has crawled out of the blood and the dead. All of them have experienced hundreds of battles. I believe that relying on their strength can completely

Get rid of the hidden dangers that constantly harass the northern frontier.

Zhu Yuanzhang was full of confidence.

He believes that he can defeat the opponent completely.

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's watchful eye, the three armies set off one after another.

The first to set off was Xu Da's middle route army.

In order to cooperate with Xu Da in the battle, Zhu Yuanzhang assigned him an assistant before setting off.

The name of this deputy is: Lan Yu (please remember this person, this guy is an outstanding person regardless of his origin or military exploits).

Name: Sapphire;

Nationality: Han;

Gender: Male;

Occupation: general;

Identity: Chang Yuchun’s brother-in-law;

Another identity: Prince Zhu Biao’s father-in-law;

Official position: General of the Conquest, Prince and Tutor;

Nationality: Chinese, Ming Dynasty;

Birthplace: Dingyuan, Haozhou (now part of Dingyuan County, Anhui Province);
To be continued...