Li Xuan smiled and said: "If we ambush Boluo once in this residential area, I am afraid that thousands of Tatars will be killed and injured. By then, His Majesty's prestige will skyrocket."
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "That won't work. It's always one and two, not three and four. If Polo kills thousands more people, he will run away no matter what."
That is not in line with my original intention. What I want is to completely annihilate Polo's 20,000 troops and personally cut off the heads of the three Polo brothers.
The story of 'the new king broke the formation and killed the three kings' must be left in the history books. Only in this way can my prestige be raised higher, high enough to support me in ruling the world. "
Li Xuan heard this and raised his own question: "Your Majesty's idea is indeed very grand, but the Wara cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and they can disappear without a trace in a moment. It is easy to defeat them, but to annihilate 16,000 Man, Your Majesty still won’t allow us to attack the camp, I’m afraid it will be a bit difficult.”
Zhu Qiyu smiled faintly: "Huaiyi is right, so we still have to start with psychological warfare. On the one hand, we need to continue to alienate the relationship between Ye Xian and Polo, and Ling Ye first puts pressure on Polo to force Polo and us Head-to-head.
On the other hand, we need to catch Polo so that he can't escape and can only fight to the death with us. "
After hearing this, everyone looked at the new king curiously. Even He Yi couldn't help but ask: "How does Your Majesty plan to catch Polo? He seems to have no reason to fight to the death."
Zhu Qiyu pointed to the Beijing city wall under everyone's feet: "Let people build a high platform here. After three days, the four thousand heads we chopped off will be paraded through the streets, and they will all be built here to build a small Beijing temple."
Even if Polo wanted to run away at that time, his subordinates would definitely refuse. Then we will declare a challenge and ask the three Polo brothers to lead their men and fight for honor.
They won, captured the gates, and took everything back. They lost, all died in battle, and lost everything.
We made an agreement with Polo in advance that only one side will survive in the end, and whoever runs away will be a coward. I believe that the Mongolian cavalry still have a sense of faith and honor. "
He Yi continued to ask: "Can Polo agree?"
"Yes, if he doesn't agree, we will force him to agree. If he doesn't dare to accept the challenge, we will send troops to his camp every day to insult and ridicule him. One day he will not be able to bear it anymore.
And if we prod him again, he now has a total of sixteen thousand people. On our side, there are 8,000 Yingzhou Guards, 5,000 elite frontier troops in Yuantu City, and 3,000 elite Shenji Battalion, which adds up to exactly 16,000 people.
I can solemnly promise to Polo in the letter of war that I will only use these 16,000 men to fight his 16,000 men. Regardless of victory or defeat, the rest of the Ming army will not be allowed to participate in the battle.
In this way, the number of people is equal, which is very fair. If he still dares not to challenge, his reputation will be bad even within Mongolia in the future. "
He Yi heard this, shook his head and praised: "Your Majesty really understands people's hearts. I really admire you."
Although He Yi said this, what he was thinking in his heart was: This emperor of my family is really wicked. How can a human being be so wicked? Yeah, but I like this absurd monarch who is both immoral and trustworthy. He was much stronger than the overlord opposite who only put ministers in jail but did not dare to kill them.
He Yi's words seemed to come to the point. Hu Xi, Wang Zhi, and Yu Qian, who were now detained in the Wala Camp by the Supreme Emperor Zhu Qizhen, were all imprisoned by Zhu Qizhen.
The problem with Zhu Qizhen is that you lock people in, don't kill them, don't remove them, and then release them after a while and continue to use them.
What is this for? Isn't this just teasing others?
Maybe Zhu Qizhen himself wanted to play with power and use both kindness and power.
But the actual result can only be to make the ministers despise the emperor: either you can be good and don't bother others; or you can just stop doing it, dismiss from office and kill people. The most annoying thing is Zhu Qizhen, who is hard-working but not thorough, cowardly but not thorough yet, swinging back and forth, which only makes people look down on him.
While Zhu Qiyu and his cronies were discussing strategy at the top of the city, Zhu Qizhen was also in the Chinese army camp in Oala, and He was discussing the next plan first.
The scene in the tent was rather strange and counter-intuitive: Zhu Qizhen was talking endlessly about various combat plans and visions for the future. At first, he sat there with a dull reaction and continued to listen quietly without being rude. Festival nodded.
Ye Xian, who was originally dazzled by the previous victory, has now calmed down.
After calming down and thinking about the current situation, I realized one problem: this battle cannot be won no matter what. Originally, after the defeat of Tumu, people in the capital were panicked, and the Wala army was fully capable of taking over the capital in one go.
But by some strange combination of circumstances, they spent two months in Shanxi, giving the Ming court ample time to prepare for war. Now the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty personally deployed this night attack and killed more than 4,000 people.
With an army of 80,000 people, it was not a big deal for four thousand people to die in battle, but this defeat led to an extremely bad consequence: the people in Beijing stopped panicking. Although the people still lacked confidence in the new king, at least they were no longer so afraid of Wala.
Now that people in Beijing are at peace, it's their turn to panic first. Because next, as long as the Ming Dynasty adopts a shrinking tactic, relying on an army of 200,000 and sufficient supplies, even if all the lives of the 80,000 troops of Wa La are taken in, they will not be able to break open the big turtle shell of Beijing.
Ye Xian finally realized that he was wrong from the beginning, and he made a wrong step and every step. If I could have my life over again, the moment I captured Zhu Qizhen, I should have pressed all the young men in Oara and captured Beijing in one fell swoop.
It's a pity that life can't be repeated. Those who are already discouraged are the first. Listening to Zhu Qizhen's nagging and self-movement, he had to bite the bullet and flatter him:
"His Majesty was so powerful that he actually lured three important ministers, Hu Hui, Wang Zhi, and Yu Qian, to the camp and successfully detained them.
Now that the city is missing these three important ministers, it means that it is missing three pillars. Then the central command will inevitably be poor and it will fall into chaos. We can take advantage of the situation to attack. "
Zhu Qizhen became even more elated after hearing Ye Xian's flattery. The Supreme Emperor had indeed overestimated the importance of the three ministers in the new king's mind.
What Zhu Qizhen never expected was that his good brother Zhu Qiyu wished that Hu Hui, Wang Zhi, Yu Qian, Shang Ren, Peng Shi, Xiang Wenyao, Li Xian, Li Shi and others would stay as far away from Beijing as possible.
None of these people were loyal to the new emperor. Except for those who flirted with the Supreme Emperor, they were concerned about the military power in the capital. On the contrary, it was Yixian who seemed to be the most loyal to the new king, and he had been helping Zhu Qiyu from the beginning to the end.
In order to repay the favor, Zhu Qiyu decided to promote Zhencai and Jingcai.
(End of chapter)
