[There is no objection to the crusade against the southwest, but who should be in charge has become another problem. 】
[All the elite military generals and knights were buried in Tumu Fort, and they have not been able to breathe again. Today, the court is strong in culture and weak in military affairs, and you are distressed that you cannot find a single general who can step forward. The two main pillars of Wu Xun are the British Duke Zhang family and the Dingguo Duke Xu family. There is no need to think about the British Duke lineage. This lineage has a very good relationship with King Qi. Therefore, you can only turn your attention to Ding Guogong's lineage. 】
[On the 23rd day of the sixth month of the 10th year of Jiajing, you ordered Duke Xu Yande to take the seal of Pingnan General as commander, lead an army of 300,000, and go south to attack King Qi. Mu Shaoxun, the Duke of Guizhou in Yunnan, was ordered to send troops from the east road to join forces with Xu Yande, the Duke of Ding, to attack King Qi together. 】
[You stand on the wall of the capital and look to the south. You believe that you will not lose. 】
[Before this battle, you dispersed your eagles and dogs deep into the southwest to explore the enemy's situation. Zhu Houxuan, the prince of the southwest, inherited the throne. The new king came to power, and the morale of the military was unstable. Today's Prince Qi's Mansion is at its weakest moment in decades. And in this year, the tenth year of Jiajing, you want to announce to the world that since the Ming Dynasty, there will no longer be a palace of Prince Qi who split the earth to form a country! 】
Zhu Di: "Oh my god!"
Whether the Imperial Army or the Southwest Army won this battle, Zhu Di did not want to see it.
If the imperial army wins, the Ming Dynasty will lose the barrier to defend the southwest. In the future, it will be troubled by the invasion of foreign tribes from the south, and the imperial court will continue to pour money into the southern region from the treasury.
Jiajing Dynasty may not be aware of this problem, because for so many years, Prince Qi's Mansion has been guarding the border at Subian, and there is no need for the court to worry about it.
But Zhu Di understood that because in the Yongle Dynasty, there was no King Qi who commanded 100,000 southwestern troops to guard the border. Today, King Qi is still supervising the country in Jinling City.
The Ming Dynasty needs to invest huge military expenditures in the Annan region every year. Those bastard chieftains and foreigners will give up if they can't defeat them. When the Ming army leaves, they will continue to be arrogant and domineering and come out to harass them, over and over again, like a fish bone stuck in the Ming Dynasty's throat.
This is because in the prosperous age of Yongle and the strong national power of the Ming Dynasty, it does not appear so prominent.
But the Ming Dynasty will eventually weaken. What should the Ming Dynasty do at that time?
But if the Southwest Army defeated the imperial army, this would make Zhu Di even more upset.
What will happen next?
King Qi led the Southwest Army, sent troops from Annan, conquered Jinling City, stabilized the seven provinces south of the Yangtze River, and then continued north to usurp the throne?
Although there has only been one example of unification from the south to the north throughout the ages, it is not impossible. This person is... Taizu Emperor Gao, Zhu Yuanzhang!
Isn’t it too much for future generations to learn from their ancestors?
It would be even more terrible if King Qi failed to replicate the achievements of his ancestors.
Because if that is the case, the situation will become... King Qi ascended the throne as emperor in Jinling City, and the emperor of Shuntian Mansion was Jiajing. One country and two emperors, the Ming Dynasty was divided and ruled!
This is the situation Zhu Di least wants to see!
[After the army launched its troops, Prince Qi’s Mansion, which was guarding the southwest, seemed to be sitting firmly on Mount Tai without any response. 】
[In July, the imperial army occupied Aizijiang and captured more than ten soldiers of the Southwest Army. On the 24th, the imperial army and the Southwest Army engaged in a small-scale battle. Both sides invested thousands of troops. The imperial army won a great victory in this battle, and the Southwest Army followed Withdrew more than ten miles. In September, the imperial army attacked the eastern capital of Annan with all its strength and achieved a great victory. After this battle, the Ming army had recovered the northern part of Annan and was very close to victory. It only needed to capture Prince Qi's Mansion in the western capital of Annan and the imperial army could return to the court. 】
[The imperial court was in a state of jubilation. They did not expect that Prince Qi's Mansion, which had such a great reputation, would be so vulnerable. The imperial army's offensive was retreating steadily. Some people say that hundreds of years have passed, and the southwest no longer has the demeanor of King Qi Wu in the past, and today's Prince Qi's Mansion is a mess. 】
[And you don’t agree with this sentence. As the imperial army advances, you feel more and more uneasy. 】
[The current King of Qi is Zhu Houxuan, the fifth generation King of Qi, and the great-great-grandson of King Zhu Gaoji of Qiwu. Do you still remember that in the tenth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houxu, who was still the crown prince of King Qi, led eight thousand southwestern troops to quell the Japanese pirates along the coast that troubled the court in a snap. Such a King of Qi was by no means a waste of money.
A disciple of fame! 】
[You wrote a secret message to Xu Yande, the commander-in-chief of the imperial army, Dingguo Gong: "I have heard in the army that the southwest is easy to capture. Be careful not to believe it. If you believe it, you will be defeated. Don't you see that the former Qi State Duke Qiu Fu's 100,000 troops were buried in Mobei. You should also try your best to fight a rabbit. Master Qi is not a rabbit but a ferocious tiger, so he should be more cautious. Only in this way can he be victorious in a hundred battles. Because King Qi is cunning, the current expedition to the southwest is thousands of miles away. How can it be done? Careless? You are the commander-in-chief. If you are careful, you will win. If you are not careful, you will lose. It is advisable to clean up the team, observe the movements of the soldiers, and make plans to achieve complete victory."]
[You want to use this to remind Xu Yande not to underestimate King Qi and to use troops with caution. 】
[Xu Yande listened to your words and began to slow down his march, act cautiously, and gradually advance the army. It was only in November that they marched dozens of miles north of Prince Qi's Mansion in the Western Capital. Xu Yande laughed and said, "This is a victory!"]
[And you also feel relieved and think about whether you have any military talent. Even the powerful Prince Qi's Mansion was defeated so easily at the doorstep. 】
Zhu Di, who has been on the battlefield for many years and has the experience of a top military commander, looked solemn: "There is a problem."
This scene is very similar to the strategy used by Mahamu when Zhu Di conquered Wala in the north!
Please enter the urn!
Zhu Di's intuition told him that the front of the imperial army was not the helpless Prince Qi's Mansion, but a trap that had been laid in wait!
"What's wrong?"
Yao Guangxiao looked at Zhu Di doubtfully.
"It's okay." Zhu Di waved his hand, "I was complimenting you on how well you combed your hair today."
Yao Guangxiao touched his shiny bald head and fell into deep thought.
You're deliberately looking for trouble, right?
Zhu Di had no intention of chatting with the old monk. He was focused on watching the plot simulation.
[At the end of November, while you were studying the art of immortality in the Qianqing Palace, you suddenly received a piece of news - the imperial army was completely wiped out in the Battle of Xidu! 】
[You froze in place for a long time, unable to believe the facts: The imperial army clearly had the upper hand, why was the entire army suddenly wiped out! 】
[You get furious and ask what's going on and whether someone is lying about military information! 】
[They tell you that Mu Shaoxun, Duke of Guizhou, suddenly led his army to mutiny from the rear, while the Southwest Army and the Western Capital rushed out, attacking from both sides, with fire dragons flying across the board. 】
[You are a little confused, what is a fire dragon? 】
[They tell you that as soon as the war started, there were blazing flames burning in the imperial army's camp, and the sound was like thunder and deafening. The Southwest Army held a kind of continuous fire blunderbuss and rushed into the imperial army's camp. This The fire gun fired not iron sand and lead pellets, but a strange cone-shaped copper shot, which was far more powerful than the Ming Dynasty's fire gun. 】
[Although you don’t understand what the cone-shaped copper pellet is, you now understand what the fire dragon is. Isn’t this the artillery of the Shenji Battalion! But why do the iron balls fired by the Southwest Army's artillery... still explode? 】
[No one knows what these strange weapons of the Southwest Army are. They only know that they easily captured the commander's camp of the imperial army and captured Duke Ding Xu Yande and 300,000 imperial troops. The commander's camp was taken over, and the 300,000 imperial troops were leaderless. They all surrendered and were captured. 】
[You don’t believe it. Duke Qian has been guarding the southwest border for the country for generations and is loyal to the imperial court. The Duke of Guizhou has guarded Yunnan for generations, which is also a restriction on the Prince Qi's Palace in the southwest. How could he rebel and surrender to Qi! 】
[And the cabinet tells you that this is entirely possible! 】
[The Duke of Guizhou is not loyal to the world, but to the Zhu family. At the beginning, the imperial court did use the Duke's Palace of Guizhou to check and balance Prince Qi's Palace, but they seemed to have forgotten that the Duke's Palace of Guizhou and Prince Qi's Palace had been adjacent to each other for hundreds of years, guarding the southwest side by side, and had already formed an alliance in a subtle way. After meeting Emperor Jiajing, they trusted their old neighbor King Qi more. 】
[You suddenly realize that perhaps the Duke of Guizhou’s Palace has become an ally with Prince Qi’s Palace a hundred years ago! 】
[After the Tumubao Incident, Qiwu King Zhu Gaojie led the Southwest Army to defend the capital and went on an expedition to Mobei. When King Zhu Gaojie of Qiwu left the southwest, the important task of guarding the border was entirely handed over to Mu Bin, the second generation Duke of Qian. What a trust! 】
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Because of the chaos at that time, few people noticed this matter. After the country was at peace, Qiwu King Zhu Gaojie was at the top of the sky, and under the bright light, the matter became obscure and not obvious. 】
[After decades, this secret relationship that had been submerged in the water surfaced, but by now it was too late to regret it! 】
[The imperial army was unwilling to attack the southwest, thinking that this was a battle that should not be fought. After being defeated, most of them chose to surrender to Prince Qi's Mansion, which had hundreds of thousands of troops, to attack and defend the aliens! 】
Zhu Di calculated that the imperial army might lose, but he didn't expect to lose so miserably!
In just the blink of an eye, the imperial court's 300,000-strong army was wiped out!
What's even worse is that the Southwest Army seems to have no intention of killing, but is focused on recruiting these troops. As for the defeated imperial army, they had no objection to the Palace of Prince Qi, who was also from the royal family. Everyone grew up listening to the story of King Qi Wu's power to conquer the sky. They were originally unwilling to attack the southwest. Now after being defeated, they simply Just...down?
This is not to conquer the southwest, but to send warmth to King Qi!
The Southwest Army, which originally did not have sufficient strength, received the hundreds of thousands of troops sent by Emperor Jiajing, and there was no suspense about this battle.
Emperor Jiajing impressed even Zhu Di with his power and scheming. He took over all the power and ruled the civil servants obediently. But in terms of military affairs...it’s okay not to mention it.
Mixing political tactics and military operations as the same thing was Emperor Jiajing's biggest mistake!
In addition, Zhu Di also noticed one thing keenly - weapons.
Weapons of the Southwest Army!
