The national anthem was sung over and over again in the military camp, and it stopped after singing nine times.
Zhu Di took the imperial edict and looked at it carefully. It turned out to be Zhu Yunwen's handwriting. Then he faced the entire army, raised the edict high, and shouted loudly: "Go to war!"
There is no longer any need to mobilize anything by oneself, let alone anything to be determined by oneself.
Zhu Yunwen's imperial edict was more effective than any words he could say.
Tan Yuan, Duan Yun and others began to organize the soldiers to go out. Zhu Di, Xu Huizu, Tie Xuan and others welcomed Gu Sanshen, Yue Sihai and others into the big tent.
When Gu Sanshen told about the two palace rebellions, Zhu Di, Xu Huizu and others couldn't help but break into a cold sweat, and Tie Xuan, Yang Pu, Xuan Qingshu and others were even more frightened.
"This Zhu Yunxi has such ambition and energy, and actually uses the acting king to follow the strategy of the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind! It's really scary."
Xu Huizu never expected that behind the turmoil in Jinling would be an inconspicuous and seemingly non-threatening Zhu Yunxi.
Zhu Di was speechless.
I originally thought that Zhu Yunwen pretended to be dead to test his loyalty, but unexpectedly, there was actually a little tiger hidden in Jinling.
Zhu Yunxi, the man from the East Palace whom Lan Yu once supported, has never had a good impression of him.
But I never expected that it would be his younger brother who wanted to harm Zhu Yunwen!
This guy is hiding deep enough.
This means that if he falls into his own hands, he will die suddenly if he falls into his own hands. Such a sinister guy cannot be allowed to stay.
Tie Xuan calmed down and said, "This Zhu Yunxi is also a pitiful person. It is the same Zhu Zuzhao who has brought trouble to the imperial court for nearly twenty years with his conspiracy! Such a conspiratorial villain should be cut to pieces!"
Xuan Qingshu doesn't think so: "As long as there is a word of loyalty, how can he be persuaded to rebel by such evil women? In the end, it is not unfair at all that Zhu Yunxi is the person behind the scenes, and Zhu Lizhao also relies on his identity and With his influence, he summoned a group of people. Their purpose was not to help Zhu Yunxi usurp the throne, but to watch the royal family fight within the family."
Zhu Di's heart trembled.
Indeed, since Zhu Yunwen came to the throne, the kings of Zhou, Qi, and Dai all died at the hands of Zhu Yunwen due to conspiracy. Isn't this just internal fighting in the royal family and fighting between the same members of the family?
At the end of this, Zhu Yunwen killed his younger brother Zhu Yunxi again!
It has to be said that Zhu Zuozhao used his own methods to keep the royal family fighting and bloodshed!
When Dao Yan persuaded him to rebel, what was his purpose? Was he sincerely helping him ascend to the throne, or did he want to see the royal family fight within the family?
If he had really rebelled, he probably would not have been able to escape the outcome of the uncle and nephew fighting each other.
"The Emperor is fine, the Prince is well, the rest is up to us."
Peace spoke.
Zhu Di suppressed the doubts in his heart, put everything behind his mind, and said solemnly: "The emperor handed over the Tatars to us, and we will take the heads of Arutai and Benya Shili to pay tribute to the emperor! Let's go to war, come in Vast sea!"
The military tents were demolished, the camps were demolished, and the 200,000-strong army meandered for more than ten miles. The army in front had begun to enter the barren desert, and the army behind had not yet started.
There were cavalry walking slowly on both sides, and occasionally cavalry with orders galloped past.
Camels followed the team one by one, carrying the most water bags. Therefore, a large number of people were mobilized, and the Logistics Bureau had a stronghold dozens of miles away. The rations carried by Sergeant Shan were only designated for two days, but the water bag he carried was enough for four days.
After entering the vast sea and before finding a new water source, the sergeant must save water to maximize the safety of the march.
The vast sea is not a sea, but a desert, such as the desert in the vast sea. This is the biggest obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's northern expeditions.
During the Hongwu period, sergeants called the Northern Expedition an expedition into the desert rather than an expedition against the Yuan Dynasty. The reason was that it was far more difficult to conquer the desert than to conquer the Yuan Dynasty.
The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid of a decisive battle with the Yuan Ting, the Tatars and the Walas. Even if they died in battle, their skills were inferior to others, and they accepted their death. But dying in the desert was really worse than death.
It’s not like the Ming army has never conquered the desert, Lan Yu has conquered it
, but it also faced huge difficulties and paid a high price. Zhu Di also conquered, but it was only 800 miles away from the Hanhai of Xijiang Province.
The vast sea now is no longer eight hundred miles, but sixteen hundred miles. If you get lost and go astray, it may be two thousand miles!
Marching two thousand miles in the desert is an extremely terrifying thing.
Because in the vast yellow sand, it is difficult to fully guarantee logistics. Even if the imperial court mobilizes one to two million people, it cannot be said that it can guarantee that there will be no problems with the logistics of the 200,000-strong army.
You know, civilians also need to consume water and food.
The biggest advantage of this expedition is time.
Autumn is still late autumn.
This is an excellent time for the Ming army.
At least the desert during the day will not bake people as well as the desert outside Hami, especially at night, when the autumn wind blows, rolling in the yellow sand, bringing with it a refreshing feeling.
The army's marching speed was relatively fast at first, marching sixty miles a day. However, after going five hundred miles deep into the vast sea, the marching speed slowed down, and it could only march more than forty miles a day.
There is nothing we can do about it. The main force of the army is infantry, and the logistics cannot be deployed so quickly. Being able to ensure that the army can march thirty or forty miles a day is considered the limit of the logistics bureau.
Heping lay on the desert, looked at the stars, and sighed: "I used to hear people say that the stars in the grassland desert are extremely low, but I didn't believe it. Now that I'm here, I believe it."
Dai Bang dug a hole and took a look to calm down: "So, this is the reason why you are lazy?"
Ji Hong placed a basin in the dug hole and covered it with three layers of clean cloth. Then he looked at Ping An and said, "I don't know if this method will work."
"There will be no problem. We have done the condensation method in the Imperial College. Although this method does not yield much water, once it is popularized, it is not impossible to supplement the water source."
Ping Ping stretched his body lazily and looked at Dai Bang: "You can ask the commander to come over. This matter needs to be witnessed by them for it to be effective. If no one witnesses it, someone will say tomorrow that we poured water in... "
"That's true."
Dai Bang responded and went to invite Zhu Di and others.
It is not impossible to get water in the desert. Some water can be collected by condensation method, but this requires a certain temperature difference between day and night.
Now that it's autumn, it's the right time.
Zhu Di was worried that the water supply was replenished too slowly. Although there was mare's milk and camel's milk to supplement it, this time the 200,000 troops penetrated nearly two thousand miles into the vast sea. Drinking milk could not solve all the problems. After all, there were a large number of war horses and camels, which could not be used for a long time. Drink water.
However, the way for civilians to transport water sources is still to carry people on their backs and shoulders. A civilian man transports fifty kilograms of water, but less than half of it is left when it reaches the place, which is not enough for three cavalry.
Zhu Di came and looked at pots and cloths placed in the pits. He looked at Ping Ping and others without knowing why. Until the next morning, when the wet cloth was taken off, the shadow of water appeared in the basin...
