Comprehensive martial arts Ming Dynasty: Summon Li Hanyi at the beginning

The war continued, and before you knew it, another half year had passed, and winter had entered the Shenwu Continent, but the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Meng Yuan Dynasty was still going on.

Originally, Temujin thought that Zhu Houzhao's offensive would slow down in winter. After all, winter on the grasslands was not easy to bear, and it was a white disaster.

No one knows how many people will die every winter. This is one of the main reasons why the grassland population is small and they plunder the Central Plains countries.

This is going to kill people!!

If in the Central Plains, the war continued in winter, this would be more or less understandable, but now the battlefield between the Ming Dynasty and the Meng Yuan Dynasty has entered the grassland. If one is not careful, the Meng Yuan side will suffer, but the Ming Dynasty Over there, the whole army might be destroyed!

If Zhu Houzhao lost hundreds of thousands of troops due to the white disaster, then some Zhu Houzhao would cry.

Everyone believed that Zhu Houzhao would not do this. Moreover, Zhu Houzhao's subordinates all knew military affairs very well and could not do such an unwise behavior.

In fact, when it was decided to continue the war in winter, there was a lot of discussion within the Ming Dynasty. The risk factor was too great.

Even though this can delay Meng Yuan to death, for Ming Dynasty, this is a matter of injuring the enemy eight hundred and losing one thousand. Well, in their eyes, doing so will cause greater damage to Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is to destroy Meng Yuan, there is absolutely no need to do this.

But Zhu Houzhao still did it. After all, snow disasters and cold air were indeed scary, but Zhu Houzhao could prepare millions of woolen sweaters and cotton-padded jackets, just for the winter war.

The Ming Dynasty had woolen sweaters and cotton-padded jackets, but the Mongolian Yuan army did not. It was difficult for the ordinary Mongolian Yuan army to even keep warm. Under such circumstances, how could they fight against the Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, in order to start the war, Zhu Houzhao was fully prepared in terms of logistics.

Not only cold-proof equipment, but also food such as cattle and sheep were continuously transported to the front line under Zhu Houzhao's command.

Not only cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs are now being raised by the Ming Dynasty and ordinary people. As people's lives have become better, they are naturally willing to raise these poultry and livestock.

Today's Ming Dynasty cannot say that every household can eat meat, but there is no problem in eating enough.

At the same time, there is nothing wrong with eating a meal of meat during the holidays.

The funniest thing here is actually about Zhu Houzhao. I don’t know who broke the news. Zhu Houzhao likes to eat hairy crabs.

At first, hairy crabs were not taken seriously by people in the Jiangnan area. After all, there are plenty of them in lakes, rivers, and even rice fields, and everyone can eat them.

Even if you are not really hungry, no one will eat hairy crabs.

But since it was reported that Zhu Houzhao likes to eat hairy crabs, the situation has become different. Hairy crabs have suddenly become a delicacy sought after by countless people.

Nowadays, the money required to eat a meal of hairy crabs is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

However, the daily lives of ordinary people in Ming Dynasty are getting better and better, which is an indisputable fact.

And this time, Daming did catch Meng Yuan off guard.

In fact, not only Temujin was a little confused, but even Zhao Kuangyin and others were dumbfounded.

According to their original plan, it would take several years for Ming to defeat Meng Yuan.

For Meng Yuan, winter is a process of self-cultivation and rejuvenation.

After all, going to war with Meng Yuan in winter is still on the grassland. This is definitely a thankless task. If it fails, it will also be traumatic for Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, is Daming really that rich?

In order for the army to fight fiercely with the Mongolian and Yuan armies willingly, every meal must have meat. Is this food standard really something that an average country can afford?

If it is an elite army, then they will grit their teeth and persevere. (If you want to read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

After all, they are elites, so it seems normal for them to be treated slightly better.

They can barely afford this amount of consumption.

But what happened to Zhu Houzhao?

Just let all the armies have a lot of money. Aren't your treasury afraid of going bankrupt?

Please give me flowers.

If you do this, the consumption in one or two months is probably the same as the military expenditure of other countries for a year!

In this regard, Zhu Houzhao said that he didn't care at all. When it comes to money, the treasury of other countries combined are not as rich as the Ming Dynasty, and they are not even as rich as Zhu Houzhao's internal funds.

Zhu Houzhao's large-scale confiscation of homes and genocide was not in vain. At least one-third of the entire Ming Dynasty's property flowed into Zhu Houzhao's hands.

And all this money needs to be spent, and only money that flows is valuable.

There is so much money now, and this money is getting more and more, which is definitely not a good thing, and some need to be spent.

Just like this time, Zhu Houzhao spent 10 million taels of silver in one go to fight the war. Moreover, this was only the initial expenditure, and money would continue to be invested in this war in the future.

According to Zhu Houzhao's estimate, he plans to spend 80 million taels to 100 million taels in this year's war with the Meng Yuan, striving to completely defeat the main force of the Meng Yuan in this winter.

Anyway, isn’t it just money?

Zhu Houzhao said that he had plenty of money.

It was precisely because of Zhu Houzhao's money-spending behavior that the Ming Dynasty's advantage was getting bigger and bigger. Finally, in November of the fifth year of Zhengde, Wang Meng and Chen Qingzhi led Wei Yan, Jiang Wei and many other generals on the grassland. Defeat Wokuotai's 350,000-strong army.

At the cost of more than 50,000 losses on his own side, he completely defeated Wokuotai's army.

Less than three days later, Zhang Liao also defeated Subotai's army, beheading more than 50,000 people, and Cao Cao's army advanced layer by layer.

It also took Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei's army half a year to defeat the Mongolian and Yuan armies that guarded the original Xixia, and occupied Xingqing City, the original capital of Xixia!

Suddenly, the entire Shenwu Continent was boiling!

(The thing about hairy crabs is actually true. I heard from my dad that at that time, they would just go to the river and touch it and there would be something, such as eels and the like. They were not worth anything at that time and they could be caught casually. Look at the wild ones now. They are all sky-high prices. 7).