After Zhu Di asked, he stared expectantly at Zhu Su's face.
"If Shanhaiguan can be captured so easily, it cannot be called a great pass." Zhu Su was still staring at the map drawn on the ground. "We have women and wounded soldiers here...there are so many issues to consider. How can we come up with a plan so quickly?"
"Just take it one step at a time, and there will be a road before the car reaches the mountain."
"What, you don't have a plan yet?" Zhu Di was surprised. "Then you were so confident just now..." At this point, he himself was suddenly alert. My younger brother is not really confident, but has to act like he is confident.
Today, although he has his second brother and his two older brothers above him, he is still the undoubted "coach" among this group of people. If the coach panics, wouldn't they be defeated without a fight?
Even though the road ahead is difficult and dangerous, this brother still wants to find a truly feasible way out for people like him.
"Fifth brother, fourth brother is not as good as you." Zhu Di said sincerely. "When I was analyzing the situation just now, what I actually wanted was to go straight to Jinshan to make great achievements and surprise my father in Beijing. I didn't care about the lives or deaths of other people."
"If you listen to me, I'm afraid we will all die here..."
Zhu Di's expression was a bit bitter. Ever since he found out that he was the so-called "Yongle Emperor", although he was frightened that he would do such treacherous and unethical things as "Jing Nan" in the future, to be fair, Zhu Di was once complacent about his future achievements and regarded He regards himself as a "special" existence.
And this complacency indirectly led to his impatience at this time. Just now, he didn't pay attention to Naha's appearance in his heart. He blindly believed that if he led an army to attack, he would definitely be able to clean up the enemy's lair. Jinshan, made great achievements that impressed his father Zhu Yuanzhang.
But he never thought about the risks of rashly attacking the enemy's lair. It was not until his fifth brother Zhu Su awakened him that attacking Jinshan was a dead end.
Zhu Su raised his head in surprise. Zhu Di was suddenly so serious, which made him uncomfortable. After thinking for a while, he said: "Fourth brother encountered adversity and still wanted to turn defeat into victory. I admire this courage."
"As for saying that you are inferior to me... I don't agree. Fourth brother's ability to lead troops is far superior to mine. I just have more knowledge, so I am slightly better than fourth brother now."
"Fourth brother has lofty ambitions and is talented. When he grows up in a few years, he will be an indestructible sword for my Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Su said this from the bottom of his heart. Zhu Di's talents are obvious to all in the history books. Even though Zhu Su had the memory of two lifetimes, he did not dare to claim to be on par with the famous Yongle Emperor. Zhu Di now is just an immature child in his teens. Moreover, a prince like Zhu Di will undoubtedly be the pillar of the Ming Dynasty in the future. If he fails here, it will be the biggest fault of himself as a time traveler.
Traveling through time and making China greater is almost the only obsession deep in Zhu Su's heart that he cannot let go of. If Emperor Yongle died early because of his butterfly effect, wouldn't he become a sinner of history?
"Lao Wu..." Zhu Di patted Zhu Su on the shoulder: "Good brother, I can't lose too much to you."
"If you are in trouble in the future, even if you are at the end of the world, my fourth brother will definitely come to help you."
"Haha, okay." Zhu Su smiled slightly, but did not take these words to heart.
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To be fair, Zhu Su now also hopes that someone can give him a definite plan. He does not need to make plans, he only needs to be an executor. However, among the people present now, Chang Mao and Zhang He can be generals but not commanders; Ru Taisu is old but not good at military affairs and often has a Confucian spirit; the second brother Zhu Xi has no great talent and it is difficult to take on a big responsibility; the fourth brother Although Zhu Di was smart, he was still young and unsteady. Zhu Su had no choice but to rush to the shelves and use his brain to come up with a perfect plan.
This made him miss Yao Guangxiao who had left Japan far away.
On the third day, Shaobiao successfully found Ye Wang, the commander of Dingliao Guards. Coincidentally, Ye Wang's scouts happened to see the beacon fire burning on the Zhenyi Platform that day, so Ye Wang, who had finally gathered 10,000 defeated troops, hurriedly rushed to rescue him, and happened to run into them and went to look for them. Their darling is the probing horse. With these ten thousand more people stationed at Zhenyitai, the morale of the Ming army was immediately boosted.
"General Ye Wang, I have met your three highnesses!" After verifying the identity of Zhu Su and the others, the sturdy man with an arrow scar on his face made a half-kneeling salute with a loud sound.
"Commander Ye, there is no need to be polite." Zhu Su helped him up and said. "You have been waiting to seize Liaodong for a long time, why were you defeated by Nahachu? How many troops does Nahachu have in Liaodong now?"
Ye Wang then told what he knew. Generally speaking, the analysis by Zhu Su and Zhu Di was not bad. After successfully attacking the military supplies of Ding Liaowei, Naha went out of his way to be cautious. Suddenly the army came out in all directions, and actually captured many places occupied by the Ming army in northern and western Liaoning. Seeing Naha's great power, many small forces that had already joined the Ming Dynasty also joined one after another. Suddenly, Naha had the potential to unify Liaodong.
Ye Wang hurriedly gathered the Ming army in Shanhaiguan, preparing to counterattack while Naha's foothold was not stable. Unexpectedly, because Yuanting had never built the Great Wall in a hundred years, and Shanhaiguan was also in disrepair, the Naha Bureau actually bypassed Xiongguan from a collapsed place of the Great Wall, and launched a pincer attack on Shanhaiguan from the east and west at the same time. Ye Wang's Dingliao guards were unable to stand alone and had no military rations, so they had to take the initiative to open the door and flee, looking for opportunities to fight again. Nahachu left a force to guard Shanhaiguan, and by the way used Shanhaiguan as a stronghold to sweep away the surrounding Ming army's fortresses and beacons, intending to trap their remnant army in Liaodong Pass so that they could completely establish a foothold in Liaodong.
"There are about 40,000 soldiers guarding Shanhaiguan. There are still 30,000 soldiers, but they are guarding Jinshan, a stronghold that has been operated by Nahachu for a long time." This is no different from Zhu Su's analysis.
"Why are Your Highness here?" Ye Wang looked at Zhu Su and the others and the beacon, and was surprised and surprised: "The general saw that there were only a few thousand soldiers here, but they were able to successfully repel more than ten thousand people who were sweeping around. Gao Ba thinks of Timur's bandit army? Can he still teach the bandit army not to dare to invade again?"
So Zhu Su also told Commander Ye about the situation of the past few days, focusing on the part where he and his group used the trick of suspecting soldiers to scare the Yuan soldiers in Shanhaiguan.
In fact, the day after Shaobiao set out to contact the remnants of the Dingliao Guards, Shanhaiguan sent some sporadic exploration cavalry to investigate the reality of Zhenyitai. Zhu Su used a monocular telescope to see clearly at the beacon. Fortunately, he had captured dozens of war horses when cleaning up the battlefield. With the war horses, the Qin Wangwei, who were originally elite cavalry, had a place to use. If the sentry sent by the enemy Since the number of detectives was small, the cavalry of King Qin's guard took the initiative to attack.
In addition, Zhu Su asked many flags to be set up on the Zhenyi platform as suspicious soldiers, and even took the initiative to send troops, pretending to intend to regain the surrounding beacons. Seeing that this Ming army dared to be so rampant and unscrupulous, the Yuan army in Shanhaiguan became even more aggressive.
Even because they were worried that Shanhaiguan would be lost, they did not dare to send out large armies to attack these beacons for several days.
(End of chapter)
