Although the income may be much less by then, it will not be the same situation as today.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Listening to Zhenxi Timur's words, Polo Timur suddenly burst into laughter. His face, which was blackened by the smoke, looked quite strange when he laughed like this.
"Your Majesty...why are you laughing?"
Zhenxi Timur looked at Polo Timur in astonishment and said.
"I laugh at Mu Ying's lack of strategy, and I laugh at Xiao Han's young wisdom."
"In such a big mountain forest, there are many strategies that can be used, but Xiao Han only used the lowest-quality one of setting fire to the mountain. It is obvious that he has exhausted his skills and put all his talents on the battlefield of Xia Kingdom."
"At this time, my talents are exhausted and I can't think of any good strategies at all."
"Otherwise, if he is really smart enough, he will be able to severely damage our army this time, instead of only causing me to lose 60,000 troops."
"Prime Minister, shouldn't you be happy about this?"
Polo Timur grinned and said boldly.
Timur:? ? ?
No, why don’t I understand your joke?
Prime Minister Cao laughed at Zhou Yu for his lack of plans and Zhuge Shaozhi. This was because he was inspired by the situation and had a plan.
Are you laughing here because you were beaten to a semi-crippled condition instead of being severely crippled?
Youxiao Fair?
"In any case, I have retained the main force. At this time, I just need to fight steadily and hold back the Ming army. The advantage lies with me."
"Besides, this place is quite dangerous. Xiao Han doesn't have the ability to pull an army to ambush in advance. Isn't it Shaozhi?"
Polo Timur also seemed to feel that his statement was somewhat untenable, and he immediately patched it up in embarrassment.
"Your Majesty Ying..."
Whoosh whoosh!
Before Zhenxi Timur finished his compliments, the next moment, arrows shot through the sky in the morning light with a cold light.
"His Royal Highness Prince Liang, you besieged my brothers and me in the mountains and forests before. Did you enjoy the siege?"
"With Mr. Fengxue's tips, after the war is over, my brothers and I are waiting here especially for you!"
A faint voice sounded, and in the middle of the silence, the crossbows of the Ming Dynasty's mountain jungle combat troops continued to fire, and in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of arrows were poured out.
Not only that, although there was no artillery in the rush, countless rolling stones and thunderwood were still swept over with dust and smoke.
After all, Ming Dynasty's mountain forest exploration combat troops were equipped with homemade masks specially arranged by Xiao Han, so they were still much less affected than Liang Jun. At this time, after a brief period of revenge, they were in a very excited state.
The remaining three thousand crossbowmen were pouring out their crossbows like they were free of charge.
On Liang Jun's side, there are 120,000 people, and the names have not yet been counted. Even the number of people has been roughly gathered and roughly calculated.
For a moment, they couldn't help but be beaten by the more than 3,000 jungle exploration combat troops who were ambushing the jungle. Even though they had a huge numerical advantage, they were unable to organize an effective counterattack and could only continue to escape towards the interior of Liang Kingdom without their lives.
Throwing up a trail of dust and smoke, Polo Timur finally stopped after running wildly for an hour.
"Hoo ho ho!"
"Prime Minister, Prime Minister, where are we? How many of us are there?"
Polo Timur gasped and asked Zhenxi Timur.
"Probably, less than 100,000 people."
"I have counted our officers at all levels. The number of troops that can still be found in the establishment will not exceed 110,000 at most, and the remaining troops will not reach 100,000."
Zhenxi Timur smiled bitterly.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
When Boluo Timur heard this, he burst out laughing again, and even the fatigue on his face became much less intense.
Timur:? ? ?
"Why is Your Majesty laughing again?"
Zhenxi Timur asked Polo Timur with a confused look on his face.
"I still laugh at Mu Ying's incompetence and Xiao Han's lack of wisdom."
"Even if we lay an ambush, I can still have a hundred thousand troops. And as long as we pass through the jungle in front of us, our border city will be ten miles ahead. With this, dragons will enter the sea and eagles will strike in the sky."
"Isn't he Xiao Han as resourceful as a demon?"
"The resourceful near-demon used several tricks and failed to catch me, right?"
"How dare you brag about Mr. Feng Xue, I feel ashamed for him."
Polo Timur stroked his messy beard with one hand and pointed to the jungle in front of him with one hand, laughing.
Tamerlane:…
Sure enough, Prince Liang's brain is still as strange as ever. If someone doesn't catch you, why don't you just say that he can't do it?
Da da da!
Whoosh whoosh!
Suddenly.
The sound of horse hooves sounded, and the ground shook. Countless arrows were shooting towards this direction from all directions.
In the jungle, Lan Yu slowly came out with the Ming cavalry.
"Prince Liang, there was a fierce battle in the mountains and forests last night. I didn't see Lan. Did you miss him?"
"We are all old friends. Are you surprised when we meet you today?"
Lan Yu held a spear in his hand, stared at Polo Timur, and spoke coldly.
It turned out that just last night when the Ming army entered the mountains to encircle and suppress Liang Jun, Lan Yu took the Ming cavalry to ambush here, just waiting for Polo Timur to come in and surprise this old friend.
It is said that it is a joy to have friends from far away. Naturally, Xiao Han cannot let down the friendship between this pair of old friends, and of course he wants Lan Yu to entertain him well.
"Blue, blue jade..."
Polo Timur's blackened face turned pale when he saw Lan Yu appear.
When he was unable to attack for a long time, he was deeply impressed by Lan Yu. If anyone in the Ming army wanted to kill him the most, there was no doubt that it was Lan Yu.
Now that Lan Yu is blocking the road, how can he still survive?
"The Ming Dynasty cavalry, charge!"
The blue jade gun was raised high, and with a command, the Ming cavalry shook the ground and launched a charge.
"My lord, stop looking and run!"
Zhenxi Timur was speechless, but he could only pull the reins of Boluo Timur's horse and run to the side together.
"Prince Liang, please leave!"
"Wait for Lan to catch up with you!"
From behind, Lan Yu brandished a big gun and kept charging. Liang Jun fell down one after another like cutting wheat.
Fortunately, Polo Timur's horse is a fierce horse from the grassland. It has followed him all the way to the north and south. It is also a good horse for thousands of miles, and its speed is not as fast as the blue jade horse.
In addition, Lan Yu was blocked by numerous Liang Jun troops and could not catch up with Polo Timur.
Da da da!
On the official road that had been in disrepair, Polo Timur and Zhenxi Timur led the remaining troops and marched in confusion.
"Prime Minister, how many of us are left?"
Polo Timur seemed a little weak. The sun was still rising when he met the mountain forest exploration combat troops. When he met the blue jade, the sun was already firmly hanging in the sky. At this time, it was the sun rising in the sky.
"His Majesty…"
"The number of officers we can find is at most 40,000, and the number of soldiers we can find is only 20,000 or 30,000."
Timur was about to cry.
"hehe!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
After hearing what Zhenxi Timur said, Polo Timur was not surprised but laughed again.
"Your Majesty, what are you laughing at this time?"
Zhenxi Timur forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.
Brother! uncle!
I beg you, please stop laughing, I'm scared!
"I, ahem! I still laughed at Mu Ying for being incompetent and Xiao Han for being so smart!"
"So what if Xiao Han has exhausted all his traps and even sent Lan Yu to ambush him from the beginning? It's better for me to escape."
"What does this mean? It means that Xiao Han is missing a move after all."
"Ahead, ahead is our first city on the border of Daliang. As long as we enter, we can rectify the soldiers, gather the army, and then recruit young men from Daliang. In the blink of an eye, there will be another hundred thousand troops. Why does Xiao Han destroy our Daliang."
"Time, time is our best ally, the advantage is on our side."
"Send an order for the army to enter the city for repairs and collect the remaining soldiers!"
At the beginning, Polo Timur seemed a little weak, but later he became more and more confident, and even his always clear logic began to be self-consistent.
"Open the door!"
"I am Liang...Liang Emperor Polo Timur!"
Under the city, Polo Timur raised his head, like a warrior returning from victory rather than a defeated general.
On the contrary, after Polo Timur finished speaking, a quarter of an hour later, the city gate was still motionless.
For a moment, the atmosphere was awkward.
"Mad! Are the defenders in the city dead?"
"Can't you hear me?"
"Come and open the door yet!"
Boluo Timur was furious. The Ming army bullied him. Now he even dared to make the soldiers guarding his own city feel uncomfortable. When he got in, he must implicate the nine clans with the guard!
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"His Royal Highness Prince Liang is really good at knowing things. I wonder, do you recognize a certain He Wenhui?"
But at this moment, a tall figure stood up on the top of the city. He raised his hand and threw a head out. Gululu rolled in front of Polo Timur, who was the original guard of the city.
It turned out that He Wenhui captured Duan Bao and arranged for his lieutenants to guard Shuzhong. After recruiting the Xia army and the Duan family army, he directly brought thousands of Qingqi and Duan Bao and the Duan Liang brothers, all the way south, relying on the two Duan brothers to brush their faces. , running thousands of miles.
In the early morning, they marched from west to east into the territory of Liang State, and captured the city an hour before Polo Timur.
Tamerlane:…
I knew it!
I knew it!
As long as this guy laughs, there will be no good results. What evil have I done to have such a master come to punish me!
"Hit us hard!"
He Wenhui shouted loudly, and suddenly arrows rained down again, pouring crazily towards the remnant army of Liang Kingdom below.
"Huhuhu! Xiao..."
Polo Timur still wanted to put down his harsh words.
"My Majesty, stop being embarrassed and leave quickly!"
Zhenxi Timur directly interrupted Polo Timur's words, pulled the reins of Polo Timur's horse, and ran out with great skill.
"Still want to leave?"
"Are you leaving?"
He Wenhui snorted coldly. His troops were all cavalry. As soon as Boluo Timur's remnant army was out of the range of arrows, he led three thousand light cavalry to kill them and chased after Boluo Timur. It was just a fierce pursuit.
"kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill Polo Timur!"
…
The killing sounds of the Ming soldiers were loud, but Liang Jun, who had been running for almost a day and night, was as panic-stricken as a bereaved dog. He could hardly care about anything except running towards the interior of the Liang Kingdom.
In this battle, Liang Guo lost completely and simply. If Duan Bao was killed with one blow, then Polo Timur was tortured repeatedly, unable to survive or die.
Da da da!
The sound of the horse's hooves seemed weak, and even the smoky blackness on his face could not conceal the paleness of Polo Timur's hastily running for his life day and night.
"Prime Minister...we still have..."
Polo Timur opened his mouth, turned around and took back his words. At this time, there were dozens of people left behind him. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire army was annihilated.
"I…"
Polo Timur opened his mouth, and for a moment he didn't know what to say to boost his morale which was almost zero.
call! boom!
"Your Majesty, I'm begging you, old man, please don't laugh, don't laugh!"
Seeing that Polo Timur was about to speak again, Zhenxi Timur immediately covered Polo Timur's mouth.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and a little further ahead was the royal capital of the Liang Kingdom. If we laughed again, even the royal capital would be gone.
boom!
"Prime Minister, are you afraid?"
Polo Timur knocked off Zhenxi Timur's hand.
"Your Majesty, I...I am not afraid, but the Royal Capital is ahead of us. At worst, will we laugh after we enter the Royal Capital?"
This time, Zhenxi Timur really wanted to cry.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
"The King's Capital is not one of those small towns. There are 20,000 troops training in the King's Capital. How could it be that he, Xiao Han, just said he would send people to capture them?"
"Other cities may be captured in advance, but the Royal Capital will definitely not!"
Polo Timur wiped the dust from his face and said.
Bang bang bang!
At this moment, there was a sound of applause.
"His Royal Highness, Prince Liang, knows things like a god, and he really ate Xiao to death."
"You're right, I really can't win this royal capital, so I have no choice but to lead us in here."
With the setting sun poking at the figures, Xiao Han and a group of Ming soldiers slowly walked out from behind the hillside where they were hiding.
"Prince Liang came quite quickly. I thought we needed to wait until dark so that we could catch up on our sleep before we met again."
Zhu Wenzheng also smiled and said.
"Prince Liang, do you surrender?"
Mu Ying looked at Polo Timur and got straight to the point.
Silence, a long silence.
Polo Timur looked at the dozens of people behind him, and then at the tens of thousands of people in Ming Dynasty. His lips moved, and finally he couldn't laugh at all.
"I...do I still have a choice?"
Polo Timur looked at Mu Ying in front of him and then at Xiao Han, and spoke with great bitterness.
In this way, after running wildly for a day and night, and fleeing thousands of miles continuously, Polo Timur finally chose to surrender, and together with Duan Bao, he was forced to Yingtian Mansion to accept the trial of Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang.
Ying Tianfu.
Kunning Palace.
"father!"
"We won!"
"Fengxue won!"
Zhu Biao ran in happily with the frontline battle report.
"What a fuss."
"Biao'er, you still need to learn the Qi-nurturing Kung Fu from your father."
"Isn't it expected that the Summer Congress will be breached by Fengxue?"
Zhu Yuanzhang tickled and then scratched his back. During this period, he and Queen Ma lived in Kunning Palace. Except for a few times when he went to court to support Zhu Biao, he never moved.
So much so that his news stopped at the time when Xiao Han went on the expedition, thinking that the war that Zhu Biao was talking about was still on the Xia Kingdom's side.
"No, dad!"
"It's Duan and Prince Liang, both of whom were captured by Feng Xue."
Zhu Biao was stunned for a moment, then said to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"is not it…"
"Who are you talking about?"
"Say it again!"
"We didn't hear clearly just now!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was so startled that he almost fell to the ground.
"Duan Bao of Duan family, Polo Timur, King of Liang."
Zhu Biao opened his mouth and explained to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"What...is going on?"
"Aren't Fengxue and the others going to attack Xia Kingdom?"
"Why did you arrest these two?"
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't react for a while. The Jin Yiwei was not in his hands, and he had not dealt with government affairs during this period, so he was a little confused.
"It's to attack the Xia Kingdom, but the Shu Kingdom was defeated by Feng Xue and the others more than a month ago."
"At that time, the child was worried about the situation in the Ming Dynasty and Feng Xue's health, so he told Feng Xue that there were more than two months until the imperial examination, and the situation would be unstable by then, so he signaled Feng Xue to come back first."
"In the end, Feng Xue told us that we would definitely win two parties in two months, so today, more than a month later, he has captured both King Liang and Duan Bao alive."
Zhu Biao held the battle report in his hand with shock in his eyes.
"hehe."
"As expected of our son, Xiao Fengxue can dominate the world. He has the same demeanor as I did back then."
Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and was quite impressed.
"After such a long period of continuous fighting, there is nothing wrong with Feng Xue's health, right?"
"Hurry up, let that guy arrange the border matters and come back as soon as possible."
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately frowned again.
"Well, my child has already sent a message. I believe Fengxue will return to Aurous Hill in a few days."
"In addition, Hai'er intends to let Brother Muying directly guard southern Xinjiang. I wonder what Father thinks?"
Zhu Biao asked Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Well, Mu Ying is indeed a good candidate. He has indeed gained experience in this battle. He is the only one. We also think he is good."
Zhu Yuanzhang touched his chin and finally nodded.
Liangdu.
"Cough cough cough!"
Xiao Han held on to his pen and wrote the last word on the official document about Southern Xinjiang and Shuzhong. Finally, he could no longer hold on and coughed violently, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"My lord!"
Outside the door, Tong Zhangshun, who was responsible for guarding Xiao Han all the way, pushed open the door and entered. Seeing Xiao Han, his expression changed greatly.
"Master, hold on, I'm going to find a doctor right now!"
Tong Zhangshun was about to turn around and leave.
"Brother Tong!"
"No, I'm fine."
Xiao Han wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shook his head.
"This is not the time to look for a doctor. I think the prince and his majesty will leave Brother Muying to guard southern Xinjiang in the end. Tomorrow, you can take my note and make arrangements for others to lead the large army back to Yingtian Mansion with me. "
"Remember, don't let anyone know that my old illness has relapsed due to overwork."
"If Brother Lanyu and the others ask me why I didn't go in person, just say that I worked all night and am catching up on my sleep."
Xiao Han looked at Tong Zhangshun and said very seriously.
At this time, Ming Dynasty newly conquered Shuzhong, Dali and Liang Kingdom. These places were all crushed by Xiao Han's wisdom. It is no exaggeration to say that half of Ming Dynasty's prestige in these places fell on Xiao Han.
If those chieftains and powerful people from aristocratic families knew that there was something wrong with Xiao Han's health, they would easily have other thoughts.
Therefore, at this time, the more important it is to be in a strong state and return as a winner.
(End of chapter)
