Yanwang Palace, main hall.
High-end military conference!
With the successive victories of Yan King Zhu Di, his territory and military strength also increased sharply.
This time, he was shocked to hear that the imperial court had dispatched an elite army of 500,000 men, approaching Peiping. Zhu Di had to summon all the scribes and generals under his command.
The first is to discuss a charter on how to resist this half-million-strong army!
After all, they were the elite troops of the Ming Dynasty who had fought many battles. Many of them were veteran warriors who had followed ruthless men like Taizu Emperor Gao and General Xu Da on the battlefield!
Geng Bingwen's 130,000-strong army was nothing more than a makeshift garrison from neighboring provinces such as Shandong, Hebei, and Shaanxi. Their combat effectiveness could not be compared with that of these 500,000 elite soldiers!
Therefore, what Yan Jun is about to face now is no longer the mob under Geng Bingwen's command, but the entire Ming dynasty's heritage!
The second reason was to discuss the attack on Daning. Zhu Di wanted to race against time to conquer Daning before the imperial army arrived.
After all, only by capturing Daning's 200,000 elite border troops could Zhu Di have the confidence to fight against the 500,000 elite Southern troops!
Otherwise, with the Yan army's current strength of 130,000 to 40,000 men, they might really be hung up and beaten!
At this moment, the civil and military officials were each seated. However, compared to the few civil servants and counselors, there were many more military attaches and generals, and they had formed into a small, distinct group.
The generals sitting in front were headed by Chen Heng and Gu Zuo, including Zhang Xin, Chen Mao and other surrendered generals.
Although they are said to be surrendered generals, most of them have made achievements since they surrendered to King Zhu Di of Yan.
For example, Zhang Xin, the commander of Peking, not only contributed to the secret edict of the imperial court, but also later helped King Zhu Di of Yan to surrender the Peking garrison, defrauded Juyong Pass, and annihilated Song Zhong's army in one battle. It can be said that he has outstanding achievements!
Another example is the famous general Chen Heng, who played an important role in the battle of Songting Pass. After that, King Zhu Di of Yan was reminded by Su Yang and sent Chen Heng to take charge of Yongping Mansion to resist the threat of imperial forces from Liaodong.
This is not that Zhu Di does not trust Chen Heng, on the contrary, this is Zhu Di's absolute trust in Chen Heng!
Because Yongping Prefecture is the eastern gateway of Beiping, and once the Liaodong cavalry crosses the mountains, there will be no danger to defend, and a good general must be selected to take charge.
And Chen Heng is undoubtedly such a good general, and he is the only handsome man in the Yan army who is qualified to lead the army alone!
After Chen Heng took control of Yongping Mansion, he did not disappoint Zhu Di. Not only did he repulse Wu Gao who attacked Yongping Mansion many times, but he also captured many Liaodong soldiers alive and learned important military information from them so that the Yan army could Layout more calmly!
As for Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and the others, they sat honestly at the back.
This is not Zhu Di's arrangement, but their own choice.
The reason is very simple. Their current achievements are not as good as those of Chen Heng, Zhang Xin and others.
Moreover, we are all on our own side now, so there is no need to ruin the harmony over a dispute of temper.
Furthermore, Chen Heng, Gu Cheng and others were all famous generals who founded the country. In terms of qualifications and military exploits, they were not comparable to them.
If you want to sit in the front, you must show enough achievements!
This is the military discipline of the Yan army!
On the contrary, the civil servants are somewhat lacking.
There was only one monk, Dao Yan, Zhang Bing and Guo Zi.
As for Lu Zhen, because of Zhang He's affairs, he had been abandoned by Zhu Di and expelled from the core of power in Prince Yan's palace.
Somehow, because of Su Yang's arrival, Zhang Bing's fate changed, completely stealing Lu Zhen's fate!
As for Chang Shi Jinzhong, he rushed to Daning at starry night, preparing to use the current situation and the artifact Tudou to persuade His Highness Prince Ning to raise an army together to calm down the troubles and eradicate the traitors in the court!
Looking at the slightly sparse civil servants, Zhu Di felt a little unhappy.
When the hell are they going to let Su Yang sit next to them!
Su Yang, Su Yang, you are also a banished immortal, so why don't you have any vision?
People say that I, Zhu Di, "walks like a dragon and steps like a tiger, with the sun reaching into the sky, looking like an emperor of peace." How come I have become "the Prime Minister of the family" and "the Prime Minister of the house" in your eyes, Su Yang?
Are you really banishing an immortal?
When he thought of this, Zhu Di suddenly remembered one person, that is the great physiognomist Yuan Gong.
I haven’t seen this old guy for a long time. Where did he go?
Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaochi beside him and asked in a low voice.
Zhu Gaochi looked slightly strange and immediately gave the answer.
It turned out that after Yuan Gong met Zhu Di, Zhu Di was worried that the news would be harmful to him, so he sent someone to send Yuan Gong back to his hometown.
Zhu Di was dumbfounded when he heard this.
"Find a way to bring Yuan Gong back and make suggestions for this king!"
This Yuan Gong was a genius, and his physiognomy skills were unparalleled. It was Yuan Gong who recommended Jin Zhong.
Now Zhu Di was suffering from the lack of talented people, so he set his sights on Yuan Gong, hoping to catch this guy back and then recommend some talented officials to him.
It's a bit sad to say that the three counselors Zhu Di relied on the most were a monk named Daoyan who chanted sutras, a diviner named Jin Zhong who told fortunes, and a fortune teller named Yuan Gong... none of the three were normal people!
Zhu Gaochi nodded and kept this in mind.
Then the discussion officially started.
Facing everyone's gaze, Zhu Di dropped some bad news.
"There is news from Jinling that Zhu Yunwen has taken Cao Guogong Li Jinglong as his commander, named General Pingyan, and led an army of 500,000 to the Northern Expedition!"
"In addition, Zhu Yunwen also recruited Qu Neng and his son, who were brave enough to win the army, and Yu Tongyuan, the founding general of the country, as deputy generals. He also mobilized elite cavalry from the Northwest Army. Chen Hui and Teng Ju led the northwest cavalry to advance eastward; Zhu Yunwen also forcibly ordered the Shandong capital Commander Yang Wen handed over the Liaodong cavalry to the famous general Ping An, who has already assembled a large army in Shandong; finally, the Anlu Marquis Wu Jie, who is guarding Shanxi, has also organized his army to try to respond to the imperial army and form an outflanking trend against our Yan region!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole place was silent.
The expressions on everyone's face instantly turned extremely ugly.
They originally thought that what they were about to face was just Li Jinglong's main army!
But now it seems that this is not the case at all!
In addition to Li Jinglong's main force, there are also Chen Hui and Tengju's northwest cavalry in the southwest, Wu Jie's Shanxi army, and the Liaodong cavalry led by Ping An coming from Shandong!
This is a whole four-pronged army!
There are imperial troops in all three directions!
The total strength may be as high as five to six million people!
They are all elite soldiers from all over the world!
Yan Yan's army only has tens of thousands of people, how can he resist it?
For a moment, all the generals were a little frustrated!
Zhu Yunwen and his scholarly court seemed to think too highly of themselves and others!
This damn place is going to destroy the entire Northern Xinjiang!
Zhu Di had a clear view of the faces of the generals, and then he burst into laughter.
"Why are you panicking?"
"He Zhu Yunwen has good soldiers and generals, so what?"
"We, the Yan Army, have the Banished Immortal in command, are we still afraid of them?"
Everyone: "???"
What?
What does it mean?
Are you sorry?
Put all your hopes on Su Yang?
This is what you, King Zhu Di of Yan, should say!
