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

Chapter 424: Duoyan Three Guards
The Mongol fugitive order had been issued for two years. At the beginning, almost no Mongols were willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. However, with the defeat in Yingzhou and the loss of Hetao, and Zhu Houxun sending the better-reformed Mongols to the Mongolian grasslands for connection, small tribes continued to move south to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

The current situation between Ming and Mongolia has made the survival of small tribes even more difficult. Coupled with the lobbying of the reformed Mongols who returned from Ming, many small tribes have decided to surrender to Ming.

By the autumn of the 13th year of Zhengde, there were more than 30,000 naturalized Mongols, and with the arrival of winter, more and more Mongols defected. Although the majority of these people were old and weak, their defection was already hollowing out the Mongolian grasslands.

A large amount of living and production necessities needed by the Mongols were rewarded to reassure the naturalized Mongols.

As for the 50 mu of land promised to each person, Zhu Houxuan gave two options. One was to go to Liaodong for reclamation, where each person could get 50 mu of land; the other was that if they wanted grassland, they could wait for a while before getting grassland outside the border town.

Most of the Mongols chose to take pastures because Liaodong was far away and they were not good at farming.

Moreover, they knew that the vast grasslands captured by the Ming army were all empty, and the Ming Dynasty was fully capable of fulfilling their promise.
In the spring of the 14th year of Zhengde, 30,000 cavalrymen of the Ming army attacked in three routes. One route attacked Duoyan Wei from Xuanfu Town, and two routes attacked Ningtai Wei and Yufu Wei from Liaodong.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the three Doyan guards surrendered, and Zhu Yuanzhang established the Daning Regional Command and asked Prince Ning to lead these Mongolian tribes - in order to rebel against the ancestor of Prince Ning.

Zhu Di led his army to quell the rebellion, but fearing that he would be betrayed by Prince Ning, he went to Daning alone to negotiate. When he returned, Zhu Di emptied out the Han army of Sigui, the governor of Daning, and even took away the ambush troops set by Prince Ning.

As a result, the Daning Guard no longer had Han troops to suppress Mongolia. The three Doyan Guards became the masters of Daning, and the Daning Dusi was moved to Baoding.

After Zhu Di became emperor, the three guards of Doyan were given the merit of following the emperor and officially obtained the territory of Daning Guard. Fearing that Prince Ning would learn from him, Zhu Di threw Prince Ning to Jiangxi, and the court completely lost control of Daning.

Zhu Di hadn't even died yet, but the three guards of Doyan started to rebel.

Zhu Di was furious and led the army in person, winning several victories and causing the three guards of Doyan to surrender. However, Zhu Di ordered that all those who surrendered should be released and not be killed.

During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the three guards of Doyan rebelled again.

Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty personally led 3,000 cavalrymen to pursue the enemy and fought fiercely at Xifengkou. The emperor ran directly to the front of the battle and shot dead three of the Doyan vanguard. Then the two wings launched attacks at the same time, and the three Doyan guards were defeated, and they all knelt under Emperor Xuanzong's dragon flag.

Until the Battle of Tumu, the three Doyan guards had been harassing the border, being beaten by the Ming army and then surrendering, and this cycle repeated itself.

During the Hongzhi reign, the Tatars rose up and beat the three guards of Doyan so badly that they could not take care of themselves and were forced to submit to Dayan Khan. They had been harassing the border of the Ming Dynasty for many years. In the tenth year of Zhengde, they were severely beaten by the Ming army and had no choice but to surrender to the court. Then they surrendered and rebelled again. In the eleventh year of Zhengde, they followed Dayan Khan to invade Datong and were beaten again.

The Ming Dynasty hated the indecision of the Three Guards of Doyan, and the same was true for the Tatars.

After the Battle of Yingzhou, the three guards of Doyan had been very peaceful. They did not dare to invade the south and did not surrender to the court again. They probably thought that the Ming Dynasty would not accept their surrender so quickly.

At this time, the three guards of Doyan were not as strong as they were in the early Ming Dynasty. The total number of soldiers in the three guards was no more than 10,000, and the total number of their troops was no more than 100,000. Don't think that this number is small. The total number of Mongols in the Ming Dynasty was no more than 1 million, and until the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were only about 2 million. The three guards of Doyan had a very hard time in the past few decades, and they were caught between the Tatars and the Ming Dynasty.

Facing the attack of the Ming army, the resistance of the three guards of Duoyan was very weak. First, the number and combat effectiveness of the Ming army far exceeded theirs; second, their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened at this time of early spring; third, they had always had a tradition of surrendering to the Ming.
Therefore, the Ming army captured the three guards of Doyan without much effort.

Hua Dang, the governor of Doyan Guard, even tied himself up and asked for surrender.

Other Mongolian nobles followed suit.

They all knew that this time the Ming Dynasty would probably punish them severely as they had done before. After all, according to the tribute policy that the Ming Dynasty had implemented on the grasslands in the past, the Ming Dynasty still needed people like them to help rule and restrain the Mongolians.

But what they didn't realize was that this war was very different from previous ones.
In previous wars, they always went south to invade the Ming army and were defeated by the Ming army on the Ming border.

In this war, the Ming army attacked directly at their doorstep, when their people were gathering together to spend the winter. As a result, after their army was defeated by the Ming army, their people and livestock were also controlled by the Ming army.

The Ming army, which controlled the entire Duoyan Sanwei, conducted a simple screening and more than 2,000 Mongolian nobles were screened out and escorted to the interior.
After the victory of this war, the Ming Dynasty pushed northward 200-300 miles on a battle line of more than miles from Yansui in the west to Tieling in the east. However, this battle line was not as stable as the Nine Borders Battle Line because the cost of stationing troops on this front to maintain the Ming army was too high. It was necessary to continuously transport food and grass from the rear to maintain the consumption of the garrison.

Therefore, it was impossible for the Ming army to maintain a large number of military forces on the front line all the time. However, the unrest within the Tatar tribe had already shown signs of being unable to be suppressed, and they had no time to look south and had no intention of breaking this front line.
Tangshan Industrial Zone, Kailuan Coal Mine.

Kailuan Coal Mine covers a vast area and has many mining areas, but one of the coal mining areas is the most special.

Jiang Jiangong brought a group of staff to the mining area.

"Chief of Staff Jiang, why did you come here in person?" a Guards officer in military uniform saluted.

Jiang Jiangong's eyes lingered on his military uniform for a moment, and he saluted, "General Tong, I am here on orders from His Majesty for an important matter. I hope you can cooperate with me."

"Of course, I will cooperate with you!" Tong Lin put away his smile and said seriously.

"Then take me to see those Mongolian prisoners!" Jiang Jiangong said.

"Okay, please follow me!" Tong Lin walked in front and led the way.

Zhu Feng, who was following Jiang Jiangong, was curiously observing the scenery around the mining area. This was not his first time to come to Tangshan Industrial Zone. He had previously been in Tangshan for many weapons and equipment production projects and had to work with local manufacturers. This made him familiar with Tangshan Industrial Zone, but this was his first time to come to this legendary mining area.
(End of this chapter)