I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 344: The Mongols' Fear
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and soon everyone's clothes were wet. It was already October, the beginning of winter, so every drop of rain was very cold.
Therefore, both the Ming and Mongolian armies chose to withdraw.

"Why is it raining so heavily in this season?" Dayan Khan's voice was heard in the Mongolian tent. His voice was louder than usual to cover the sound of rain coming from outside the tent.

Dayan Khan's eyes swept across the Mongolian generals in the tent.
All the generals started discussing it. It was indeed strange that it suddenly rained so heavily in this season.

"It must be that the Eternal Heaven is protecting us. When He saw his people being harmed by the Ming people's firearms, He sent down heavy rain to help us." Barsbrot was the first to stand up and speak.

The generals' discussion became louder.

Dayan Khan looked at his third son with satisfaction. Barsborot's speech was most to his liking and was also what he thought.

"But this heavy rain has also softened our bowstrings, making the arrows we shoot powerless. It has also made the ground muddy, weakening the impact of our cavalry." A Mongolian general expressed a different opinion.

The bowstrings of the composite bows used by the Mongols are made of animal glue, tendons and plant fibers. They become soft and their elasticity decreases on rainy days, which will seriously affect their range and power.

Dayan Khan's face became a little gloomy. His attitude just now was already very clear, but now there were voices of opposition. He knew that this was because this series of failures had caused his prestige to decline.

He silently memorized the general's name, preparing to settle accounts with him when he returned to the grassland.

When someone openly sang a different tune, the opponents instantly found their backbone. The people in the tent were not stupid. They knew that Dayan Khan still wanted to fight, but the losses caused by this series of battles had made them not want to fight anymore.

They clearly went south to plunder, and each tribe looted a lot of things. But now all the things they looted are gone, and the casualties were so heavy. Anyone would be resentful.

"Changshengtian has already gone to this extent, what else can you ask for?" Balsbrot shouted angrily.

"With such heavy rain, our bowstrings have only become soft, while the Ming people's firearms are unusable. Will our Mongolian warriors still be afraid of the Ming people who have lost their firearms?" said Barsbrot.

The Mongolian generals started discussing again, and everyone had to admit that the heavy rain had a much greater impact on the Ming army than on the Mongols.

"I know everyone is resentful, but you also have to understand that if we can use this heavy rain to defeat this Ming army, not to mention the Ming emperor, we can get a lot of weapons and armor, and then we can plunder the entire Datong Prefecture, and take back the spoils we lost before." Dayan Khan decided to make his words clearer.

"If this Ming army continues to exist, they will always follow us, and we will not be able to take away too much spoils."

Although the Mongolian cavalry was highly mobile, the large amount of spoils would greatly slow down the march. If they wanted to take away the large amount of spoils, they had to defeat the Ming army that dared to fight them in the field. Dayan Khan's words changed the attitudes of many opponents.

"And we can't just look at the present, we have to look further ahead like an eagle. If we can't seize this opportunity today, there will be endless troubles, and we will regret it in the future," Dayan Khan said with a sharp eye.

"This" everyone present was at a loss and did not understand what Dayan Khan meant.

"Don't you feel that the Ming army facing us this time is very different from before?" Dayan Khan looked at everyone.

That must be very different, otherwise there wouldn't be so many casualties. Everyone present understood this.

"We have never seen the Ming army with such weapons and equipment, and we haven't seen a Ming emperor who dares to go to the battlefield for a long time." Dayan Khan said in a low voice.

"It has been a long time since we have seen an emperor of the Ming Dynasty who dares to go to the battlefield and can make us Mongols suffer such a great loss. Not only have we not seen one in a long time, but even the Ming people have not seen one in a long time."

"The Ming emperor on the opposite side is not simple! The Ming army on the opposite side must be trained by him personally, otherwise we would not have never seen it." Dayan Khan sighed.

The faces of the Mongolian generals present all became gloomy, and they gradually understood what Dayan Khan wanted to express.

"We can imagine that if we retreat like this, the Ming emperor will return to the capital with this victory. What awaits him will be the support of countless people and great prestige. The Ming people will unite around him, and he will be invincible in the court."

"The number of people in the Ming Dynasty is dozens of times greater than ours, and their products and wealth are far greater than ours. If the Ming Dynasty produces a heroic emperor, it will be a huge disaster for us, just like a hundred years ago."

The Mongolian generals present were shocked and everyone understood what Dayan Khan meant.
What was it a hundred years ago? It was the era of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. That was the most miserable and darkest time for the Mongols, and also the most fearful memory for the Mongols.

At that time, the Central Plains dynasty in the south would send troops to sweep across the grassland every few years. The Mongols had to reluctantly flee from the most fertile grassland to the most remote, poorest, and coldest places in order to avoid the Ming army and save their lives.
In ancient times, long-distance migration was a very painful thing. Fatigue, disease, and disasters plagued the migrating teams. Cattle and sheep lost weight, and female livestock gave birth to their young, which had a huge impact on the normal production activities of the Mongolians and caused countless Mongolians to die.
No one wants to go through that again.
The Mongols now had Dayan Khan, the "second Genghis Khan" who was the leader of the revival of the country. So it would not be surprising for the Ming people to have an emperor who was also the leader of the revival of the country.

After such a leader of the Ming Dynasty finished training the army of the Ming Dynasty, the first to bear the brunt would be the Mongols. There had been a feud between the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols for hundreds of years, and half of the annual income of the Ming Dynasty was spent on the nine frontiers. No matter what the considerations were, a leader of the Ming Dynasty would definitely turn his attention to the northern grasslands.
The military proficiency displayed by this Ming army and the Ming emperor, especially the cavalry using short muskets, also proved that they really had the ability to sweep across the grasslands.
"And the Ming emperor across from us is only twenty-five years old this year, twenty-five years old." Dayan Khan exclaimed.

Yes, he was only 25 years old. He had enough time to integrate the various human and material resources of the Ming Dynasty, and also had enough time to bring great disaster to the Mongols.
(End of this chapter)