Chapter 615 Shocking

A freezing rain fell on the autumn grassland.

The soldiers under Lothar put on their felt robes and quickly set up tents to avoid the cold. Although they were all strong elites, except for knights from the North like Stark, they had never experienced such severe cold. Many people were shivering with cold.

Hans rode a warhorse and came back with Eclipse, who had gone out for a walk. He held a black monster that looked like a bear and ape in his hand: "Sir, this monster has been spying around the camp for a long time. Fortunately, Eclipse discovered it in time."

Lothar looked at the monster carefully and couldn't recognize it. He called the flag officer Yebushou, but he just shook his head: "There are monsters everywhere on the grassland. I can't recognize what this beast is."

The most miserable soldiers in the army are the guards and Yebushou. Their enemies are not only the Tatars, but also these cunning and bloodthirsty beasts.

Losa had no choice but to let Hans abandon the beast, and sighed: "This nomadic life is not easy. There are monsters everywhere on the grassland. It's so cold just in autumn. No wonder the Tatars are so brave and fearless. Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes."

According to Ye Bu Shou Xiaoqi, ordinary herdsmen may not even be able to afford an iron pot.

Because an iron pot from the Ming Dynasty requires two pieces of silk. Originally, the Tatars relied on selling a large number of war horses to the Ming Dynasty every year, and they could afford these expensive necessities. Yesen was able to form a "Qiexue elite" with complete armor, which was also inseparable from this bilateral trade.

But the north has been peaceful for a long time. Since there is no war with the Tatars, the Ming Dynasty has no need to buy so many war horses. Raising horses is a big expense. The war horses bought at a high price can't be thrown away to pull carts, right?

Therefore, Wang Zhen cut the price of war horses by 80% in one go, and the originally balanced trade between the two sides was broken. If Yesen did not plan that his people could only afford bone arrowheads and eat raw meat and blood in the future, he had to mobilize troops against the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the Wala people's attack on the Ming Dynasty was actually an economic issue.

The freezing rain stopped, and the whole army set out.

Lothar sat upright on the horseback. Seeing that a soldier was shivering with cold, he simply took off his cloak and put it on the other person.

"My lord, this..."

"You have been tired on the march, wear it."

Lothar patted the other person's shoulder. The armor was frozen by the cold wind on the grassland, but this low temperature naturally could not do anything to him. The same thing happened to Baron Charles, the first dragon blood family member under Lothar.

In the cold weather, he felt a burst of heat with his bare chest. He could not control the dragon blood in his body. When he was stimulated by the anger, he was like a cooked lobster, and his skin became red.

When they got back to the Great Wall, the wind was not as cold as on the grassland.

They marched until dusk.

Losar summoned Ye Bu Shou to question him and learned that they could reach the target post in half an hour, so they sped up.

However, when they arrived, they found that the post had been burned into ruins, leaving only a few blackened pillars still standing on the ruins.

But at this time, it was no longer realistic to continue moving forward. Under Losar's order, the troops began to set up camps and set up checkpoints in the dark, not only to guard against the Tatars, but also to guard against monsters.

Nothing happened overnight.

They set off again the next day.

When they were about to reach Xuanfu City, the road was full of traces of the riotous army.

The fields of the guards were trampled and looted. The roadside was full of Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians who had been stripped of their clothes and all their belongings were robbed. They were piled up naked or lying in dry ditches and ridges.

The dead piled up into a mountain.

The wreckage of the carriages and horses was pushed to the side of the road.

As the team approached, mosquitoes and flies were startled like a black fog.

Such a tragic scene made Losa feel a little itchy. Ye Bu Shou's flag was also depressed and whispered: "This is Huai'an Guard. The army of the Beijing camp passed by this place when it came and when it returned."

Lothar said coldly: "A few dozen miles further east, it should be the place where our wise and powerful orthodox emperor's carriage is, right?"

Ye Bu Shou shuddered all over, and felt that Losa at this time looked even more majestic than the emperor he saw from afar at the beginning. He lowered his head and responded: "Your Excellency is right."

Lothar suddenly laughed and galloped on the road full of corpses. Ye Bu Shou couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. What kind of perverted and terrifying person could laugh out loud in the face of such a tragic scene?

Baron Charles rode up to catch up with some doubts, and asked: "Do you think this is funny, sir?"

"I think I am funny."

He shook his head, and without further explanation, he galloped away with his horse's belly. Baron Charles's horse was far behind the Eclipse, and was soon left behind.

Lothar's original plan was to choose only one of the two tasks.

Now after seeing this scene, he chose to do both tasks.

Task one was to prevent Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen from falling into the hands of the Wala people.

Task two was to kill the leader of the Wala army, Choros Yesen.

As long as he killed Zhu Qizhen himself, wouldn't he be able to prevent him from falling into Yesen's hands? Yesen had the dragon vein of luck, and Zhu Qizhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, would only be stronger with the dragon vein!

As for how much impact it would have on the Ming Dynasty in this world if he took away the dragon of luck - he felt that it would not be as big as the impact caused by people like Zhu Qizhen continuing to live.

Continue marching.

The corpses gradually decreased.

Many cities were flying the flags of the Ming Dynasty. The Tatars were good at field battles, but they also inherited the weakness of nomadic peoples who were not good at attacking cities. As long as the Ming army held the city and gathered all the surrounding people into the city, the Tatars could not do anything to them for a while.

In the evening, they had already passed through Xuanfu City and went south.

Losa began to see corpses again, but they still had a layer of clothes on their bodies, and there were no wounds on the surface. It seemed that they were hungry and froze to death on the roadside.

"How long has the Ming Dynasty been established? This is the end of the dynasty?"

Losa couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had a good impression of the Ming Dynasty. After all, it was "the mountains and rivers are all China, and the sun and the moon reopen the Song Dynasty." The dynasty that expelled the Tatars and restored China was much more legitimate than the Zhao Song Dynasty, which bullied orphans and widows to the throne.

But the moment he saw it, he still felt shocked.

At this time, how many years had it been since the Ming Dynasty was first established? Less than a hundred years, right?

"Your Ming emperor is really a strange man. If you want to eat the enemy, you can't do it to the nomadic people..."

Hans heard about Zhu Qizhen's great achievements in leading the army to march in less than ten days. He was puzzled and ran to the Yebushou flag officer to ask questions.

He was a Prussian, that is, a German immigrant on the Baltic Sea coast.

It is reasonable that he should not know Chinese, but as a one-star entourage, he naturally knows how to speak.

Yebushou flag officer smiled helplessly: "It's all because of the eunuch Wang Zhen's monopoly of power that harms the country! The court officials repeatedly advised and remonstrated, but were rejected by the eunuch."

"Come on, isn't Wang Zhen just a eunuch? Is he from a prominent family or a descendant of the royal family?"

Hans did not jump to conclusions.

The eunuch of the Eastern Empire can even be the great pastor, maybe he is really a big man who can influence the situation of the empire?

"Ah this..."

The flag officer was speechless for a moment.

Wang Zhen is a worthless noble family. He is neither a noble nor a civil servant who has passed the imperial examination. He wants to gain power only because of the favor of His Majesty.

"Wang Zhen's background... should be ordinary. Your Majesty is just deceived by him."

"Is your emperor so easy to deceive?"

So he is really just a eunuch.

Isn't he just a messenger of the emperor?

Hans rolled his eyes, wondering why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was so incompetent and his subordinates still made excuses for him.

If it was the head of the regiment or a duke, the king would have dared to do this, and the lords would have rebelled long ago.

Xiaoqi could only shut up in anger, thinking that these foreigners were indeed all those who had no king or father. Fortunately, their prince with the surname "Ha" was still loyal to the king. As the true emperor, could His Majesty be wrong?