My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 121 The army presses the territory
As the sky gradually brightened, the Yuan army in Daning City had nowhere to hide.

When the remaining people in the city learned that the Ming soldiers had already wiped out the Yuan army, they all burst into tears.

Then, they spontaneously organized themselves and searched for the remaining Yuan army together with the Ming army.

Soon, all the Yuan soldiers in the city were captured, and the angry people rushed forward and beat them to death with their fists!
But even so, they could not save their families. Li Wenzhong and Tang He did not stop the angry people. Let them avenge this blood feud themselves.

After eliminating the Yuan army and settling the people in the city, Li Wenzhong and Tang He organized the Ming army generals to set up camp and ordered people to send the battle report back to Songting Pass.

Due to the needs of the war, Zhu Yuanzhang gave priority to allocating radio handheld devices to the Northern Expedition Army. Xu Da then ordered people to establish several contact points between Songting Pass and Daning. In this way, the situation on the front line could be transmitted back to the Songting Pass camp in an instant.

Zhu Di cut off the heads of Batu and Wujir and ordered his men to bring them back to Yingtianfu as soon as possible. This was the achievement of his first battle, and he had to have someone take them back to show off and let Li Jinglong know the glorious achievements of the king of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty.

He was also the one who fired the shot that blew up Batu's head.

As for the title of God of War of the Ming Dynasty, let him give it to his nephew.

At this time, 50,000 Liaoyang border troops, led by General Guo Yuan, rushed to Songting Pass with their artillery battalion and joined Xu Da's main force.

When Xu Da learned about Daning's amazing battle results from the radio, he couldn't stop smiling. After more than half a year of high-intensity training, he finally saw the results at this moment.

However, Guo Yuan, the general of Liaoyang, was shocked. It was unbelievable that 6,000 people could wipe out 30,000 elite Mongolian cavalry!
Although he had heard before that Yingtian Prefecture had formed a new Musket Battalion, he did not take it seriously at that time. The Liaoyang Border Army also had a Musket Battalion, and in his opinion it was nothing special.

Unexpectedly, the Musket Battalion, in cooperation with the Light Cavalry, could achieve such a brilliant record without any soldiers dying in the battle. Guo Yuan was also tempted.

Looking back to the past, Marquis Guanjun went deep into the desert, defeated the Huns with a smaller force, and sealed off the Wolf's Lair. From then on, there was no royal court south of the desert.

Now with the support of the Musket Battalion, Guo Yuan will also be able to achieve such great achievements!

After the repairs were completed, Xu Da led the main force of the Northern Expedition and marched towards Daning.

The good news from Daning was relayed back to Yingtianfu, and the entire government was in an uproar!
In the court, all the civil and military officials were discussing the first battle of the Northern Expedition. The 6,000 Ming troops were defeated by 30,000 elite Mongolian troops who were five times their number. This was simply unbelievable!
But the heads of Batu and Wuzhir seemed to be telling the ministers how unwilling they were to die!

Many ministers even exclaimed, is this a miracle?

At this point, no one in the entire court questioned Zhu Yuanzhang’s industrial policy anymore.

After learning the good news in the court, unlike other ministers who were either shocked or ecstatic, Li Min was very calm, looking as if he was detached from the world.

According to the strange man, industrial civilization has all-round advantages over nomadic civilization. Once a war breaks out, it will be a dimensionality reduction attack that will completely crush the nomadic civilization!

He didn't understand what dimensionality reduction attack meant before, but now he has completely understood it.

However, he was secretly wiping away tears, but no one knew about it. The good news from Daning was the best reward for his efforts during this period of time!

This also made him more determined to make Ming Dynasty fully industrialized.

While they were shocked, some ministers were also dissatisfied, such as Li Shanchang, Fu Youde, and Feng Sheng and other nobles.

They had seen the power of the needle-fired gun, and were now training a new firearms battalion under Zhu Yuanzhang's order.

What they were not convinced of was that such great military achievements had given such old fellows as Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, and Tang He a great advantage. If they had led the Musket Battalion to the Northern Expedition, they would have certainly fought better than Xu Da and his men!
Of course, the one who was most dissatisfied was Li Jinglong, the first god of war of the Ming Dynasty certified by historians!

When he heard that the two great commanders of the Yuan court had both died at the hands of his fourth uncle, Li Jinglong felt both envious and jealous. It was a pity that he was the God of War of the Ming Dynasty, so why didn't his uncle let him go to the battlefield?
If he went there himself, all the brilliant military achievements would belong to him, Li Jinglong.

Of course, the one who felt the most emotional was Zhu Yuanzhang.

From the time he began to communicate with Li Han until now, the changes in the Ming Dynasty were visible to the naked eye. The industrialization process of more than half a year finally yielded results at this moment. He firmly believed that the threat from the north to the Central Plains for thousands of years would end in his own hands.

He now began to understand what Lao Li said. When powerful thermal weapons appeared, the nomadic people who were good at fighting would immediately become good at singing and dancing.

But this is just the beginning. He has a more ambitious goal. Conquering the ocean is the mission given to him by Lao Li!

In addition to the good news, Xu Da also wrote him a secret letter, which did not contain much content, just a lot of complaints.

The Musket Battalion is powerful, even invincible, but it has one small flaw - its bullets are consumed too quickly!

The almost miraculous victory of the Daning Victory was achieved by the soldiers of the Musket Battalion with their bullets.

One thousand musket battalion soldiers and two hundred sniper battalion elite soldiers were killed every night. In just one night, they consumed more than 100,000 rounds of bullets!
How could Zhu Yuanzhang not understand what Xu Da was up to? To sum it up in one sentence, if you want to achieve a greater victory, you need more bullets.

However, these are not problems. The assembly lines have been fully rolled out in the Industrial Department. The ammunition production workshop alone can produce tens of thousands of bullets a day.

There were more than one workshop like this, and the production of guns and ammunition never stopped for a single day, which was enough to meet the needs of the Northern Expedition.

He ordered people to organize a baggage train and sent a large number of bullets to Xu Da.

In the Daning Military Command, Xu Da led the main force of the Northern Expedition and successfully joined forces with Li Wenzhong, Tang He and others to plan the next combat operation.

The commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Mao Xiang, also rushed to Daning from southern Liaoning and brought important information about Goryeo!

Goryeo has sent several elite troops to join Nahachu's army.

Inside the military tent, Mao Xiang was torturing the Yuan army prisoners, with Xu Da and Li Wenzhong standing next to him.

"I like people who talk tough. You must not give in. I have a lot of fun waiting for you later!"

As he spoke, Mao Xiang pulled out the steel stick that was stuck in the prisoner's fingernail. The prisoner screamed in pain, but his sunken eyes glared at Mao Xiang fiercely.

Xu Da and Li Wenzhong were amazed to see Mao Xiangru torturing the prisoner beyond recognition by using all kinds of weapons.

I've heard that the methods of the Jinyiwei are terrifying, and after seeing it this time, I find that their reputation is indeed well-deserved!
No wonder those corrupt officials, no matter how tough they talk, would confess to things like peeking at a widow taking a bath when they were ten years old once they were sent to prison.

"As expected of a Mongolian noble lord, Captain Harba of the Cavalry, you are truly a man!" Mao Xiang was not in a hurry.

"But a man who knows the current situation is a hero. If you can tell me the specific deployment of Nahachu's troops, I can consider letting you retain the honor of a Mongolian warrior before you die."

Halba spat a mouthful of blood and glared at Mao Xiang fiercely, then looked at Xu Da and Li Wenzhong with disdain on his face.

"You traitors and traitors of the Yuan Dynasty, don't even think about using such shameless means to make me surrender. My Mongolian cavalry is invincible and will trample you lowly southerners into pulp!"

Xu Da and his companions were not angry at all. They just looked at Halba as if he were a fool.

At this moment, the radio carried by Li Wenzhong rang at the same time.

"Sir, there is a report from Long'an that Nahachu's main force is marching towards Daning. There are about 350,000 people, including heavy cavalry, light cavalry, musket battalions, and artillery battalions...

It will take about two days to enter the territory of Daning!"

(End of this chapter)