Beiping, Prince Yan's Mansion.
Zhu Di was reading the military book and nodded frequently.
The art of war is full of reality and reality, and is ever-changing. Only this "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu gives you new insights every time you read it.
At this time, Qiu Fu knocked on the door and came in. He handed over a document and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from people in Beijing that the emperor has ordered that the body of Qi King Zhu Su be burned to ashes and scattered into the mouth of the Yangtze River."
Zhu Di took the document, opened it, glanced at it twice, then threw it aside and said, "The emperor is really capable of crushing bones and scattering ashes. If I raise an army, I'm afraid this will be the end, right?"
Qiu Fu's cheeks trembled slightly and he said quickly: "The lives of my subordinates will always belong to the prince alone."
Zhu Di laughed out loud, waved his hand, and said: "I no longer have the ambition to strive for hegemony. I promised Taizu to protect the Ming Dynasty's borders, so I will protect it to the end."
Qiu Fu's back felt cold.
It is indeed impossible to start another uprising now. Zhu Yunwen has already established a foothold, and the capital has three battalions, one deputy and one deputy, as well as an invincible navy fleet. Even if Zhu Di has extraordinary means and conquers the entire Jiangbei area, he will not be able to defeat the enemy in the navy. With the fleet, they crossed the Yangtze River and captured Nanjing.
It’s scary to think about it. Zhu Shu’s more than 40,000 people were defeated miserably, and he himself was drowned. As a result, the Ming navy was not damaged. Rumor has it that the navy was equipped with a powerful firearm. I don’t know how powerful it is. , capable of defeating more than two hundred warships in one go.
"Is Chi'er still in Jining?"
Zhu Di asked.
Qiu Fu replied: "I received news three days ago that the prince was supervising the construction of the river and arrested a few officials who bullied the people and craftsmen. He seems to be learning to make something now, concrete slabs..."
"Concrete slab?"
Zhu Di squinted, as if thinking of something, and asked: "Who is responsible for building the concrete road outside Beiping City? Where does it extend now?"
Qiu Fu thought for a while and then said: "My subordinates have not investigated who is responsible specifically. But the concrete road in Peiping is divided into three directions, going south to Baoding, Hejian, Jinan, and leading to the capital. This section has just reached the new city. The west side faces Datong, and this section has just reached Baiyangkou. There is also the northeast direction, connecting to Liaodong. This section is under construction the fastest. I heard that it will be built to Shanhaiguan, and it has already reached Tongzhou. It is said that there are people there in Jizhou. Roads are being built.”
Zhu Di considered the directions of these concrete roads in his mind and asked, "Why is the northeast direction the fastest?"
Qiu Fu shook his head and said: "I heard that the concrete road from Beiping to Datong was initially built, but for some reason, more manpower was gathered in the northeast, and the progress was the fastest."
Zhu Di frowned and said, "Maybe there is no peace outside the pass. Is there any news about Prince Ning recently?"
Qiu Fu shook his head.
At present, Zhu Di does not have three bodyguards in Peiping. He is no longer the commander-in-chief of the northern army and has no access to military intelligence.
To control the safety of Beiping City, it is obvious that he does not have the consciousness to proactively provide intelligence.
Zhu Di kept pacing in the room. The emperor had publicly issued an order to abolish the feudal king's guards and officials. Listen, it was an open order, not a secret order. This shows that the abolition of the feudal king's guards has become the consensus of the court and has become a popular aspiration!
After the king of Zhou was executed and the king of Qi was crushed to ashes, I believe that no vassal king will confront the imperial court again.
After all, the strength of the imperial court is there, and Zhu Yunzhen is not a good person. Those who can be imprisoned will be killed directly, and those who are already dead will be burned to ashes. If someone wants to rebel, they must weigh it carefully to see if the end can be exceeded. Apart from these two...
But what is incredible is that King Qing, King Su, King Lu, King Shu and other vassal kings were all abolished, but King Ning was not seen. Zhu Di did not think that Zhu Yunwen had forgotten Zhu Quan. On the contrary, it was more like Highlight Zhu Quan.
The emperor is so deliberate. What did Zhu Quan do in Daning? He wouldn't really collude with Duoyanwei to separate the outside world, right?
When Zhu Di thought about this possibility, his heart felt a little cold.
"No, go and call Ping An over."
Zhu Di was a little worried.
Among the many brothers, the only one Zhu Di could look at with pleasure, and the only one who looked at him levelly, besides the deceased Zhu Biao, was Zhu Quan.
Now the imperial court's strength is increasing day by day, and the Second Artillery Bureau has produced many sharp firearms. If Zhu Quan imitates Zhu Su and causes chaos, his end will be even more miserable!
After all, they are brothers, and Zhu Di doesn't want them to meet each other in a life-and-death battle.
One hundred miles north of Daning City.
Yang Cheng, Qianhu of the Security Bureau, hid on the side of the horse's belly. An arrow whizzed past the horse's back. Yang Cheng grabbed the reins and moved, almost completely lying on the horse's back.
"kill!"
Behind him, more than thirty cavalry Duoyan guards continued to pursue, and their bows and crossbows continued to shoot long arrows.
Yang Cheng spit out a mouthful of blood, gritted his teeth, took off the dagger from his waist, whispered "Sorry" to the horse, and then stabbed the dagger into the horse's buttocks. The horse ran away in pain.
Duoyanwei's Jingqi seemed determined to kill Yang Cheng, waving their whips constantly.
On a hill, Liu Changge was lying in the grass. When he heard the noise, he sat up, picked up the binoculars and looked at it, then whistled. From behind the hill, twenty cavalrymen slowly appeared.
"Leave no one behind!"
Liu Changge spat out the grass in his mouth, grabbed the reins handed over by the security bureau, jumped on his horse, and galloped down.
Yang Cheng wanted to control the horse, but the horse was obviously out of control. It ran straight up the hill and ran away with Yang Cheng in a flash...
Liu Changge ignored Yang Cheng, but held his long bow and aimed at the Duoyan cavalry who was rushing towards him. The Duoyan cavalry leader also saw Liu Changge and drew his long bow away to face Liu Changge.
The distance kept getting closer, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, but no one made the first move.
Seeing that it had been pulled within a hundred steps, the sound of bowstrings suddenly sounded.
Liu Changge's eyes narrowed, and as soon as he released his hand, the long arrow shot through the air. The three-edged arrows rotated in the air, and the arrows flew past one after another.
The Duoyan Guards cavalry looked at Liu Changge and others with a sinister smile. The Ming army was not good at cavalry. Moreover, they only had twenty cavalry, so they dared to confront their own thirty cavalry?
"shield!"
Liu Changge shouted loudly, stretched out his hand, and took out a small shield from behind. It was rectangular and just enough to protect his front body. The arrows were nailed on the shield. Liu Changge dropped the shield directly. The cavalry was not far away from the opponent at this time. To fifty steps.
"Fire, fire gun?"
The Duoyan Guards cavalry was stunned. Before the arrows they had just taken out were attached to the bowstrings, Liu Changge's cavalry was already holding a blunderbuss. When the blunderbuss was fired, a bunch of bullets flew over and hit him in the face.
It hurts and is a little warm.
This was the last consciousness of the Duoyan Guardsmen.
Liu Changge turned his musket upside down and aimed an iron "hammer" at the approaching Duoyan cavalry. With a pop, his head suddenly exploded. No one's head could withstand being hit by a hammer weighing more than 20 kilograms.
After three rounds of attacks, the Security Bureau destroyed all thirty of Duoyan's cavalrymen at the cost of slightly injuring three people.
At this time, Yang Cheng finally controlled the horses and rushed back. He said to Liu Changge who was cleaning up the mess: "The situation is not good. Duoyan Weitulu Hucha'er has colluded with King Hashiha of Wala. Hashiha raised troops from Hangai Mountain and led them. Fifty thousand fine cavalry are already on the way to the east."
Liu Changge drove his horse and looked into the distance. There was a group of cavalry heading towards here. There were at least five hundred cavalry. He turned back and said, "Take away the horses and bows and arrows, and cut off the heads. We must return to Daning City quickly."
Yang Cheng changed his horse and headed towards Daning City with Liu Changge and others.
After running all the way, the group arrived at Daning City late at night. After verifying their identities, they were hoisted into the city.
Liu Changge and Yang Cheng found Sheng Yong and reported the news of Ha Shiha's eastern expedition.
After Sheng Yong learned about it, he was also surprised. After confirming it again and again, he realized that the matter was true. He said with great solemnity: "Hashiha is the King of Wala, a veritable ruler of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and a man who is good at fighting. He If we lead our troops to the east, we will definitely join forces with the Tatars and Duoyan Guards to attack Daning. With the strength of the troops in Daning City, we can neither fight nor defend!"
Daning is far away from the city gate. Once surrounded, it will become an isolated city.
Liu Changge knew that Sheng Yong was right. There were currently only 40,000 Daning defenders. Even if they mobilized troops to assist the defense, Daning would probably not be able to defend it in the face of the elite troops from Beiyuan.
war?
Forget it, once the city's defenders appear in the wild, with this few manpower, they will definitely be torn to pieces like lambs by hunting dogs such as Wala and Tatar.
It is very difficult to defeat the elite Beiyuan cavalry head-on in a field battle.
Don't think that Zhu Yuanzhang beat Bei Yuan back and forth, just because Bei Yuan was not strong enough. Even with a large number of talented generals during the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang still failed to completely eliminate Bei Yuan during several Northern Expeditions.
And Lan Yu's success is partly due to "luck". If it hadn't been for that sandstorm, if it hadn't been for that banquet...
But Lan Yu was attacking the Tatar-dominated Northern Yuan orthodoxy. Hashiha was the king of Wala, and the Tatar Arutai and others had been recuperating for many years and had recovered their strength. Once they caused trouble, it would be difficult to deal with them.
"Send an urgent report to the court."
Sheng Yong knew that without the court's will, even if Daning was defeated, he would not be able to leave Daning. Otherwise, the crime of abandoning the city and fleeing would definitely make his whole family go to meet the great ancestor.
After Sheng Yong drafted the document, Liu Changge handed it over to Yang Cheng and ordered him to send the most reliable person to quickly report it to the capital. At the same time, he told Qu Neng in Guan Nei, Ping'an in Peiping, and Geng Bingwen in Jinan about the news of Ha Shiha's eastern expedition.
One move can affect the whole body. Once a big fight is going to take place in Daning, it will require full support from the relevant parties.
Mao Zheng, and Yunzhong looked at the nervous Dusi Mansion Office. They considered for a long time, but found that they didn't have much chance of winning.
Mao Zheng suggested: "Shengdu Division, in the past years when the barbarians invaded, King Ning led the elite cavalry and defeated the enemy for hundreds of miles. This time the situation is critical, why not follow the court regulations and hand over the military power to King Ning?"
Liu Changge immediately objected: "You are talking about the regulations of the Hongwu Dynasty, which have been modified by the Jianwen Dynasty long ago. King Ning does not have the right to command Daning's sergeants, including the guards in his hands, who have also been assigned to the capital. As a commander, this Isn’t it clear at all?”
When Mao Zheng saw this, he immediately shut up.
Although Liu Changge was not qualified to speak in the capital, this person's status was really special. He was the first commander of the Security Bureau. He held the most powerful power in his hands, and there would be no good consequences for going against him.
Sheng Yong could understand Mao Zheng. He proposed to let Zhu Quan lead the army in battle, not necessarily because he had an interest relationship with King Ning, but because King Ning was really fierce. He had led his troops to attack the enemy several times and danced with his hands. He killed the Hulu with his saber, and the enemy was frightened.
In the eyes of many sergeants, King Ning can be said to be an undefeated god of war.
It is only natural to think of Zhu Quan in such a crisis.
It's just that Sheng Yong didn't know what Zhu Quan was thinking, nor what Zhu Quan's intentions were. Although he stayed in Prince Ning's palace, he kept making small moves in secret. It was also when he participated in Tuulu Huchaer's After his birthday, Duoyanwei became closer to Tatar.
If Zhu Quan did not play a role in it, Sheng Yong would never believe it.
Sheng Yong thought for a long time and said slowly: "It is not impossible to let King Ning lead the troops to protect Daning."
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