Xiao Ruxun could understand the Northwest Army's eagerness to fight.
Moreover, ever since the incident of breaking the law, the Northwest Army had lost face among the eight major armies in the country. Zhao Hu had even lost his title of Pillar of the Nation and was so ashamed that he wanted to commit suicide.
After learning that the war preparations were complete and they could start at any time, he had repeatedly submitted petitions to Xiao Ruxun to lead his troops into battle to avenge his humiliation. From the fifth year of Longwu to the sixth year of Longwu, he had submitted ten petitions, but Xiao Ruxun had rejected them ten times.
In the third month of Longwu's sixth year, he submitted his petition for the eleventh time, saying that the Northwest Army's eagerness to fight had reached a certain extent. He begged His Majesty to allow them to attack Hetao, recover Hetao, and annihilate Qinghai Tumut to avenge their humiliation.
After receiving his eleventh petition, Xiao Ruxun finally considered it carefully.
After infiltrating and investigating the Hetao and Qinghai regions, combined with the duplicated strategy of Zeng Xian, the commander of the three armies during the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty, the General Staff Headquarters realized that the traditional strategy of using light troops to destroy the nomads' war potential was no longer useful.
The nomads had made some progress. Their nests had been destroyed by the Han people for thousands of years, and they had lost countless wives and children. How could they not have made some progress?
Therefore, what they needed to do now was not to destroy their nests, but to directly confront them with force, destroy them with force, and directly annex them. This was also Xiao Ruxun's strategy.
The Qin Army used a large number of artillery, crossbows, muskets and other firearms. In the previous Ming era, Xiao Ruxun had used firearms to defeat the direct attacks of the Northern Barbarians' cavalry. He had accumulated a lot of experience in fighting against cavalry, and it was not difficult to use cavalry to fight cavalry.
Therefore, the duplicated strategy proposed by the General Staff Headquarters was to use 30,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry, a total of 50,000 troops to launch an all-out attack on Hetao, directly destroy the main force of the Northern Barbarians in the Hetao region, completely destroy them, and restore control of the Hetao region.
To attack Qinghai Tumut, they needed to mobilize the main force of the Northwest Army. Qinghai Tumut occupied a large area, and it would take some time to attack.
To restore Hetao and conquer Qinghai before the Northern Expedition, they could not only gain a greater strategic initiative, but also suppress the threat of the entire western region to Daqin. It could also boost the morale of the entire army and greatly stimulate the fighting will of the Northern Expedition.
There was no doubt that it would be beneficial to be able to take down these places first. This would prevent the Central Imperial Court from overloading itself when the time came for them to advance at the same time.
After Liu Huangshang submitted his report and stated his opinion, Xiao Ruxun went through three days of careful consideration, and finally decided to approve the Northwest Army's strategy of recovering Hetao and Qinghai. She decided to let them go into battle first, and first recover the He Tao region and Qinghai region, to serve as an example for the rest of the Northern Expedition.
Therefore, he immediately issued a decree, ordering the General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of War, and the Cabinet to immediately take action and make all kinds of preparations. At the end of the third month of the sixth year of Longwu, the order to dispatch troops was issued.
With the Northwest Army's Vice Commander Qi Dayong as the main general, he led 50,000 men and horses to attack Hetao.
The Commander-in-Chief Zhao Hu was appointed as the Commander-in-Chief of the marching army, and the Right Assistant Minister Huang Guang of the General Staff Headquarters was appointed as the Chief of the marching army staff. They commanded the new Eighth and Ninth Field Armies and the new Second Cavalry Field Army, a total of 90,000 troops, to go on an expedition against Tumert.
Their goal was to recover Hetao and control Qinghai.
He wanted to regain control of the Hetao region and turn it into a sharp blade for the Daqin, controlling Qinghai and taking the initiative.
The troops would be deployed from the end of May to the beginning of June in the sixth year of Longwu, and the planned duration of the battle would be three to five months.
This order reached Zhao Hu at the end of the fourth month of the sixth year of Longwu. Zhao Hu was overjoyed and immediately got to work.
And on the 20th day of the 5th month of the 6th year of Long Wu, this order was known to all the armies in the country, they all knew that the Northwest Army had received the Emperor's order, and would be the first to start the conquest, and would be the first to start the conquest, before everyone's official northern expedition.
The Northwest Army was filled with resources and had made proper preparations, the various armies were filled with fighting spirit. After receiving the news that the Emperor had finally allowed them to take the initiative to attack, the entire army celebrated as though it was the new year, and immediately started to prepare for battle.
On the 27th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Long Wu, the entire army was fully prepared.
On the 29th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Long Wu, Zhao Hu, Huang Guang and Qi Dayong held an assembly to announce the Emperor Xiao Ruxun's order to deploy the troops, and officially announced the start of the expedition.
On the 30th day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Long Wu, the Northwest Army was split into two, Qi Dayong attacked Hetao, while Zhao Hu led the main force to march into Qinghai.
On the 5th day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Long Wu, Qi Dayong encountered the first Northern Barbarians cavalry since leaving the fortress, they numbered around 20,000, and he immediately led his army to attack, destroying them and obtaining a good start.
On the eleventh day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Longwu, Zhao Hu led his army and encountered a Tumote tribe near Lake Qinghai. Zhao Hu led ten thousand cavalrymen and defeated them, beheading eight hundred and sixty-three of them, capturing more than forty thousand men, women, old and young. He also obtained countless cattle, sheep and horses, thus achieving a good start for himself.
On the 13th day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the Long Wu, under the guidance of a guide, Zhao Hu led 8,000 cavalry and launched a surprise attack on the Tumote Tribe at dawn, destroying them again, beheading 676, capturing over 50,000 men, women, old and young, obtaining a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and other resources.
On the same day, Qi Dayong destroyed another tribe at Hetao, capturing over 40,000 men, women, and horses, as well as over 30,000 cattle, sheep, and horses.
Qi Dayong's goal was to march straight to the old site of Dong Sheng Wei, which had been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty for over a hundred years. The Qin Army's goal was to rebuild the new Dong Sheng County here, establish a settlement, and regain control of this place, completely controlling Hetao, not just coming and leaving, nor was it purely for revenge.
Zhao Hu's goal was even more clear, that was to take root here, and turn this place into an area under the direct rule of the Daqin.
Therefore, when he learned that the Qin Army was invading on a large scale, the leader of the Qinghai Tumote, who was killing and pillaging everywhere, was greatly panicked.
His grandfather was La Lik, who was castrated by Xiao Ruxun and sent to Beijing to be beheaded in public. In the battle where Xiao Ruxun defeated La Lik, he was taken away by his father, Chao Tu Tai Ji, and fled all the way back to the Tumote Tribe in Qinghai.
At that time, Xiao Ruxun and the exhausted Ming Army did not have the strength to get rid of the Qinghai Tumote Tribe. They planned to recuperate and then set out again. This was Xiao Ruxun's idea at that time. In the end, Shen Yicheng had a mutiny, and he had another mutiny, delaying this plan for six years.
In fact, on the Qinghai side, after Chao Tu Tai Ji had settled down a little, he did not dare to think about avenging his father. Xiao Ruxun was too fierce, and he had no confidence in fighting against Xiao Ruxun.
Especially when they heard that Xiao Ruxun had killed 300,000 Northern Barbarians in the Northern Expedition, all the Tumotes in the Qinghai region and the Northern Barbarians in the Hetao region were scared to death, fearing that Xiao Ruxun would soon bring an army to wipe them out and clean up the remnants.
Many of the Qinghai Tumote tribal leaders were so scared that they even planned to leave Qinghai and return north. Although the road ahead was long, it was better than waiting for death here.
In the end, there was no news of Xiao Ruxun's advance, but there was news of civil strife in the Ming Dynasty.
Chao Tu Tai Ji was also unlucky. His body was not good to begin with, and he was injured in the battle to resist the Southern Expedition. Not long after he arrived in Qinghai, he fell ill.
When he heard that there was civil strife in the Ming Dynasty and the news of General Xiao Ruxun rebelling, he wanted to take the opportunity to win the hearts of the people and develop Tumote again, but his body did not allow him to.
When his body was slightly better, he was shocked to hear that Xiao Ruxun had attacked Beijing and overthrown the Ming Dynasty to become the Han Emperor, establishing the Daqin Dynasty. Chao Tu Tai Ji was shocked and had nightmares of Xiao Ruxun leading an army to attack every night. His condition worsened, and he died in a few months.
The entire Qinghai Tumote Tribe fell into a rhythm of panic again.
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