Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 273 - Chapter 271

Outside Daning City.

Zhen Wu traveled all the way and finally arrived here the day before. Zhang Yu, who had been in charge of the overall situation outside the city, was relieved to see Zhen Wu. He discussed, what is more important is the Jingqi of Duoyan Sanwei brought by Zhen Wu.

The strength of the troops has been strengthened, and even if there is a flaw in the plan, it can be remedied as much as possible.

However, it was obvious that what Zhang Yu was worried about did not happen.

Zhu Di did not disappoint everyone.

Zhang Yuzhenwu and others have been paying attention to the movements in the city. When they learned that Zhu Di and King Ning were coming out of the city, they all immediately cheered up, and then quickly let the elite soldiers, as planned before, hide around.

Today's weather is a rare good weather.

The cold brought by the snowfall in the past few days has also slightly warmed up. After the pieces of withered and yellow vegetation have brushed off the snow on the top of their heads, they also reveal the hard land frozen by the sky and the earth.

Neither Zhu Di nor King Ning rode horses, probably because they thought they could chat for a while on the road, so King Ning asked someone to prepare a carriage, and they rode with Zhu Di and headed out of the city.

They had a carriage in front, and a group of King Ning's personal guards were behind them, and they galloped quickly on the streets of Daning City.

Soon.

The carriage came to the outside of the city, and after the groom drove forward for a certain distance, there was a high-pitched voice. After Zhu Di and King Ning in the carriage heard this, they stopped the topic they were talking about.

King Ning asked, "Are you there?"

The groom's voice sounded from outside the carriage: "Report to Your Highness, we have arrived."

King Ning lifted the curtain of the carriage and let Zhu Di come down first, and then he got off the carriage. He looked at Zhu Di with emotion, and said, "Fourth brother, I will send you off for thousands of miles, and I will have to say goodbye at the end. I will send you here. …after…"

As he said that, King Ning thought that there might be no future, so his tone paused, and he could no longer say the following words.

Zhu Di smiled, shook his head and said, "Seventeenth Brother, you don't have to be so sad. My brother invites you to sit down in Beiping. In the future, we will have plenty of time to get along well."

As soon as Zhu Di's words fell, the elite soldiers of the Yan army who were ambushing nearby had all rushed out.

King Ning's personal guards were all taken down before he could react, and King Ning was so shocked that he couldn't believe it when he was shocked by the sudden change.

"Fourth brother, what do you mean?"

"It's nothing interesting. The main reason is that your sister-in-law also cooked a table of delicious dishes in Beiping, and she wants you to come to my house as a guest." Zhu Di said with a sigh.

King Ning pulled out his knife, gritted his teeth and said, "Peking? How could I go to Peiping with you?"

When the soldiers of Yan army saw King Ning drawing his sword, a group of soldiers quickly surrounded King Ning.

Zhu Di looked at this scene expressionlessly, and asked King Ning, "Do you think you still have a choice?"

King Ning looked around, with grief and remorse in his heart, he was at ease in Daning, how could he still be free when he went to Beiping.

The current situation is only because he trusts Zhu Di too much.

Zhu Di suddenly couldn't bear it, and couldn't help sighing again: "Seventeenth brother, you understand the situation now, so the fourth brother has to wrong you a little bit, but you don't have to worry, the fourth brother will not kill you, and if you wait until On the day we are done, Fourth Brother will definitely not treat you badly, even if the world is divided equally, it is not impossible, now you still don't have to struggle any more."

Divide the world equally?

Only ghosts believe that.

So what if you don't believe it?
King Ning looked at the soldiers surrounding him, no matter how brave he was, it was impossible for him to break through the encirclement, on the contrary, he knew his importance, if Zhu Di was pushed into a hurry, his life might be killed instead.

After thinking this through, King Ning let go of his hand, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Di was very satisfied. He came to King Ning and took off King Ning's personal jade pendant.

When Zhu Di turned to face the generals of Zhenwu again, Zhu Di's previous weakness and grievances in Ning Wang's mansion had all disappeared, and he became the resolute and resolute King Yan once again.

"Zhu Gaoxu." Zhu Di said coldly.

Zhu Gaoxu hurried out and looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di threw King Ning's jade pendant to Zhu Gaoxu: "You go to Prince Ning's mansion, call your Seventeenth Aunt and the others, and let them come back to Beiping with us as guests, remember to be polite, and..." Zhu Di couldn't help but look back Glancing at King Ning, seeing that King Ning was expressionless and indifferent, he said cruelly in his heart: "Take all the money and treasures of your Seventeenth Uncle, as their family will live in Beiping for a while, and they can't do without these things." money."

"Ah?" Zhu Gaoxu resisted, he didn't want to do such a trivial and unskilled job, so he couldn't help but said, "Let me do it?"

"Is there anyone more suitable than you?" Zhu Di glared at Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Zhen Wu.

After Zhen Wu noticed it, his face turned black.

What do dog things mean?
Can niece and son-in-law compare with nephew? !
Zhu Di's face also sank, and he reprimanded: "If you are told to go, go, what nonsense."

Zhu Gaoxu was reprimanded, and immediately became honest, nodding and accepting the order.

"Zhang Yu."

Zhu Di spoke again, and when Zhang Yu came out, he ordered: "Go to the city and contact the three guards of Yingzhou, and tell them that King Ning has planned to accompany me to calm the disaster, and let them assemble the whole army, and all of them will follow me to help Beiping. By the way, take over Daning City Defense and make some arrangements."

"Yes."

Without another word, Zhang Yu waved his subordinates and headed towards Daning City.

After Zhu Di dealt with these matters, he brought everyone back to the military camp again. He first settled King Ning properly, and then Zhen Wu followed Zhu Di to his military tent.

"Did you encounter any danger this trip?" Zhu Di asked Zhen Wu casually.

Zhen Wu replied with a smile: "No, Tuolu and the others have always had something for His Highness, but this time they met Alutai."

Zhu Di rubbed his hands to keep warm, as if he heard the words Arutai, which made Zhu Di's face turn cold a bit: "That guy Alutai is capable and ambitious, so I have to guard against them. You should be very anxious. You met him this time to inquire about the situation of our Daming. Unfortunately, the imperial court does not trust me. Otherwise, this and next two years will be the best time to send troops to the grassland. It will definitely give the grassland a heavy blow. , it's just a pity."

Zhu Di couldn't help sighing, Zhen Wu could see that Zhu Di was really sorry for this.

Moreover, Zhen Wu had also read information about the grasslands, and he could speculate that the Tatars would gradually grow bigger during their civil war, but as Zhu Di said, Zhu Yunqi didn't trust Zhu Di, so it was impossible for Zhu Di to lead the army.

Even Zhu Yunqi would not let anyone lead troops to go out, even if Zhu Di couldn't afford to fight, judging from Zhu Yunqi's various policies after he came to power, the Tatars would still grow bigger, and Zhu Yunqi was probably busy restoring Zhouli.

There is no way for this kind of thing.

Zhen Wu said: "Your Highness, there is no need to worry. The grassland has not regained its vitality. When we solve the problem of the imperial court, I would like to ask for orders to enter the grassland. I will definitely give us Ming Dynasty a hundred years of stability."

"you?"

Zhu Di snorted: "It's your turn?"

Zhen Wu's face turned black from being suppressed, as a military commander, there was no one else to meet such a boss. It's good to fight some battles, but it's a bit shameless for the boss to compete with them.

He was thinking, when Zhu Di was in power, he had to persuade Zhu Di to be his emperor honestly in the capital.

While Zhen Wu was thinking about it, there was an announcement outside the door that there was news from Chen Heng. Zhu Di and Zhen Wu were both startled, and quickly invited the messengers in.

After the messenger came in, Zhen Wu looked familiar, and after thinking about it, he realized that it was the soldier of the third child in his family.

At this time, the messenger said: "Your Highness, Daning was besieged. They commanded Liu Zhen and Chen Heng to lead [-] soldiers from Songting Pass to rescue them at night. When they arrived in Huizhou, they commanded Chen Heng's troops to raid Liu Zhen's troops at night. We won the first battle, Liu Zhen broke out without knowing where he was going, and the rest of the army surrendered, and now we just wait for His Highness to inspect it."

"only…"

Zhu Di and Zhen Wu were just about to be overjoyed, but when they heard that the messenger had something to say, the expressions of joy on their faces stopped immediately, and they all looked at the messenger.

The messenger was taken aback, thinking that his words could easily be misunderstood, he quickly said: "It has nothing to do with the military situation, but I don't know if I should say something or not." After speaking, the messenger looked at Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu's heart sank, and he faintly had a bad premonition.

Nothing to do with the military.

What else could it be?

And it looks like it's still about him.

Zhu Di said in a deep voice, "Say."

The messenger's throat twitched, he struggled twice, and then looked weakly at Zhen Wu and said, "My Zhen Baihu fought forward bravely in this battle, and they were seriously injured."

The third child was injured!
As soon as the messenger's voice fell, Zhen Wu's heart inexplicably clenched, and there was a burst of pain.

Zhen Wu has been dreading this day since the third child joined the war, but this day finally happened to him.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm down, but the words that came out of his mouth were still extremely cold: "How serious is his injury, let's be more specific."

The messenger was shocked, and quickly said: "At that time, I was anxious to report the news, and I don't know how to mark it. I just saw Zhen Baihu was shot by several arrows and sent to be treated."

"what!"

Zhen Wu couldn't hold back any longer at this moment, and his face changed drastically. He had been in the army for so many years, how could he not know that many people would not be able to survive the injury of counting arrows in his body.

"Your Highness." Zhen Wu anxiously turned to look at Zhu Di.

Now he only wants to go to Huizhou to meet the third child. It is okay for him not to see the third child for a day, so it is impossible for him to calm down.

"Why panic? Counting arrows in your body doesn't mean you will die, and didn't you say that the treatment has already started? What's the use of being anxious? Thanks to your life and death for so many years." Zhu Di reprimanded.

But Zhen Wu couldn't listen to this at the moment.

Zhu Di originally wanted to say a few more words, but seeing Zhen Wu's appearance, he knew the deep love between Zhen Wu's brothers, so he finally waved his hand and said: "Forget it, you can take people to Huizhou first, anyway, there is nothing like you here thing."

Zhen Wu responded, turned around and hurried out.

"and many more."

Zhu Di suddenly stopped Zhen Wu again, thought for a while and said, "This time you bring all your subordinates with you. I don't care whether you go to Huizhou first, but the rich people around Huizhou, Huichuan, Kuanhe, etc. land, maybe there are still resisters, you will take these places for me by the way, fight all the way to Songting Pass, and open up a way for me to go back."

The whole territory map of Daning flashed in Zhen Wu's mind.

Daning to Songtingguan is the shortest way back to Beiping, and Fuyu, Huichuan, Kuanhe, including Huizhou, are all on this road.

Now the soldiers at Songting Pass are basically under Chen Heng's control, so even if these places do not surrender in anticipation, there will not be much resistance.

After Zhen Wu figured it out, he nodded to express his understanding.

Afterwards, Zhen Wu got out of the army tent and asked Cao Xiaoman and others to notify Zhang Wu and others to set off with the whole army. Soon, Zhen Wu led his subordinates towards Huizhou.

On the way, Zhen Wu was very anxious, so he sent Xue Lu to lead the elite cavalry as the vanguard, breaking down the city and building a bridge when encountering a river.

When Zhen Wu knew that there was no city guard standing in Huizhou from where he was, he took Cao Xiaoman and a few military doctors with excellent medical skills, broke away from the army, and headed towards Huizhou first.

Zhen Wu rode on the horse, and flashed in his mind the reckless appearance of the third child when he was young.

Although there have been quarrels and awkwardness between brothers, these cannot stop the blood thicker than water.

He prayed in his heart.

The third child must survive.

……

I don't know if Zhen Wu's prayers are effective, but the third child in Huizhou City finally survived.

Chen Heng walked into the room, looked at the third child lying weakly on the bed, and said happily: "Thank God, you survived, otherwise how would I explain to your eldest brother."

The third child smiled bitterly.

Seeing the third child like this, Chen Heng didn't want to talk more about his condition. He was afraid of putting pressure on the third child, so he changed his mind and smiled and talked about their last battle: "Speaking of which, this time you took the lead in rushing into Liu Zhen's formation and killed Liu Zhen. The army was defeated, like chasing a dog, chasing him in the middle of the night, this record is enough for you to become famous in the army, how about it? Are you excited?"

A smile from the bottom of his heart appeared on the face of the third child, but it soon dimmed again.

He said: "I'm excited, but I'm not as excited as I imagined. Is it strange? I feel strange. After all, a small hundred households jumped out of the thousands of troops and became famous. No matter how excited and proud they are It’s true, but in fact, I really don’t have much trouble in my heart.”

"Why?" Chen Heng was a little puzzled. In his mind, if he had achieved such a result when he was young, it would have been worth bragging about for many years.

The eyes of the third child also dimmed a little at this moment, and he said softly with some disappointment: "My brother was just a tester back then, and he killed the general and captured the flag when he first entered the battlefield, but I didn't kill the general, and the second didn't capture the flag. But it ended up like this... What's more, my brother was much younger than me now, and I have been practicing skills under my brother's teaching all these years, but I didn't expect that I was still inferior to my brother when he first entered the battlefield .”

Chen Heng was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said, "How can you compare with your brother? What is the comparison between two brothers?"

The room fell into a moment of silence, and then the third child's voice sounded faintly.

"No comparison, but I used to think that what my brother can do, I must be able to do it, but now thinking about it, I feel naive."

Chen Heng was taken aback again, he looked at the third child, and inexplicably remembered that when he was young, he had been madly not paying attention to anything, thinking about it, Chen Heng consciously smiled with a hot face.

Who didn't have childish absurd ideas when they were young.

If not, how can we grow.

……

When Zhen Wu rushed to Huizhou City and saw the third child, he finally let go of his worries all the way, and then he scolded the third child angrily, until even Chen Heng couldn't stand it anymore , only to give up under Chen Heng's obstruction.

But even so, Zhen Wu still felt terrified, thinking that after the third child recovered from his injury, he must give the third child a serious blow.

If he is not obedient, then don't blame him, the big brother, forcibly throwing the third child in Beiping City, and let him live in an obedient manner.

After thinking this through, Zhen Wu breathed a sigh of relief, and then he was in the mood to discuss military affairs with Chen Heng.

……

In the next few days, under Zhen Wu's instruction, Xue Lu fought all the way from Huizhou back to Songting Pass. He won consecutive battles and completely cleared the way for Zhen Wu and others to go home.

When Xue Lu returned to Huizhou, Zhu Di took the army and took Ning Wang's family hostage, and finally came to Huizhou.

At this moment, all the soldiers in Huizhou knew that King Ning was going to join hands with King Yan to resist the imperial court, and the few remaining soldiers in Daning Dusi commanded Chen Heng, and Fang Kuan had already demoted King Yan, so these soldiers were very simple. They all agreed to accept the dispatch of King Yan.

Zhu Di's army strength increased to 18 for a while.

And with 18 people, naturally they could no longer command as before, so Zhu Di summoned all the generals in the hall of the Yamen in Huizhou City, and set up the Five Armies in public.

This move is of great significance, which means that Zhu Di already has the strength to fight against the imperial court, and he is no longer a small fight like in the past.

Zhen Wu and other generals also listened to Zhu Di's arrangement excitedly.

This time.

Zhang Yu will be in the middle army, with Li Bin and He Shou as his deputy.

Zhu Neng led the left army, with Zhu Rong and Li Jun as his deputy.

General Zhen Wu led the right army, with Zheng Heng and Meng Shan as his deputy.

Xu Zhong led the front army, Chen Wen and Wu Da were deputy.

Fang Kuan was the general and the rear army, and Yunzhong and Mao were in charge.

Among them, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, and Zhen Wu each commanded an army for Yan Wang's cronies, Xu Zhong was Kaiping's surrendered general, and Fang Kuan was Daning's surrendered general, and each of them commanded an army again.

Among the armies, Zhu Di made another deployment. The three armies of Zhang Yu, Zhen Wu, and Zhu Neng added a large number of soldiers from various places based on their original guards, and Xu Zhong and Fang Kuan also had three guards. Those who were born were placed in the two armies as generals.

In this way, the Five Armies were formally established.

Afterwards, Zhu Di inspected the five armies outside the city of Huizhou. After some swearing-in, the army began to rush to help Beiping City. Satisfactory completion of all strategic objectives.

However, at this moment, Beiping City is under the siege of Li Jinglong's army, like a lone boat on the sea, which may capsize at any time.

Standing at the top of the city, Zhu Gaochi wiped the sweat off his face, his brows were deeply frowned, and his eyes were filled with sorrow. He looked in the direction of Daning, wishing to have a pair of clairvoyance, so that he could see that Zhu Di had succeeded and led the army The back screen.

But he didn't have clairvoyance after all, and he was bound to miss Zhu Di's army.

He watched for a long time.

In the end, I turned around again disappointed.

……

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