Chapter 286: Tongue War

"Wait!"

Gu Cheng stopped Zhang Bao's stupid movements, his eyes froze, and he said to Xia Xun: "What do you mean?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Xia Xun's god sè was more calm, and said with a smile: "The county lord of Xiǎo went south with the Xie family, and he was trapped here, and you also met by chance, how did I know before you?" ”

Gu Cheng's face changed, and Xia Xun said lightly: "As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, winning a hundred battles, His Royal Highness King Yan's eyes and ears are pervasive, all the movements of the imperial army, and even the actions of various places in Hebei, are all under our control." Geng Bingwen knows himself but doesn't know the other, even if the soldiers are strong and strong, what are the chances of winning? ”

Gu Cheng's eyes flashed, and he said suspiciously: "Impossible, King Yan hastily raised his troops and risked making trouble with only eight hundred people, but there was a mistake in one place, and he was already in a different place, how could it be possible to be safe everywhere, shaped like a net of heaven and earth?" ”

Xia Xun smiled and said: "It turns out that the general doesn't believe that King Yan has long been against him, so do you also understand that the imperial court is imposing a 'trumped-up' crime on King Yan's body?" ”

Gu Cheng snorted and refused to answer.

Xia Xun said: "Yes, King Yan is indeed in a hurry, but he can take the nine cities of Beiping with only 800 people, conquer Jizhou, Zunhua, Miyun, and Juyong Pass with thousands of troops recruited in a hurry, defeat Song Zhong's 40,000 soldiers and horses with 8,000 foot soldiers, and capture Song Zhong alive. Of course not, although King Yan is brave, it is impossible to defeat the crowd with outnumbered, especially among the widowed soldiers, most of them are still surrendered soldiers who have just been attached, you are all people who lead the troops, you should know how difficult it is.

There were two defenders in Jizhou, Ma Yi fought to the death, Máo surrendered, and the guards of Zunhua and Miyun surrendered without a fight. Song Zhong met the 8,000 soldiers of the King of Yan with an army of 40,000, but it was his own soldiers and horses who rebelled, so that they hurriedly fled back to the city and hid in the toilet to escape. King Yan has this support, why is it difficult for us to control your every move? ”

Zhang Bao said unconvinced: "This is because King Yan often guards the border and has been commanding troops for a long time, and he is popular in the Northern Army, and those generals are all brought by him!" ”

Xia Xun nodded and emphasized: "Yes, it was brought by King Yan, and it was brought by King Yan for the imperial court." Only in wartime, they are under the control of King Yan, and they are all dispatched by the court in peacetime, and eat the court money, isn't it because of the injustice of the court, their hearts are towards King Yan? Is it because the border soldiers are outnumbered but cowardly and afraid of death? Why did the king of Yan raise troops with only 800 people, but they did not surrender or flee in the face of the king of Yan, and had no intention of fighting? Didn't the two generals think about the reason? ”

Geng Cheng smiled faintly: "Now that the soldiers and horses of the Marquis of Changxing are all from the south, they are not the soldiers that King Yan once led, and there will be no more such good things." ”

Xia Xun said solemnly: "The soldiers are divided into north and south, but the hearts of the people are not divided into north and south. What's more, the soldiers are naturally southern soldiers, what about the generals? will be the soul of an army, if the general's heart is towards King Yan, who will have any objection to the soldiers under his command? The two generals thought that the generals of the Southern Army were monolithic, and they were dedicated to the imperial court? Hehe, Yang can calmly take away the prince of Yan and the two county kings in the city of Nanjing, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the court can't find any clues when it lays a net, do you think it can be done with the strength of Yang alone? ”

Xu Ming'er has been listening and watching from the side, a pair of smart big eyes sometimes glance at the boastful Xia Xun, sometimes look at Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao, who are changing, and said in her heart: "This guy is starting to deceive people again!" ”

Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao's faces changed, and Zhang Bao said suspiciously: "In the imperial court, there are still your comrades?" ”

Gu Cheng was more concerned about the generals of the Northern Expedition, and blurted out: "There are already people in the army who secretly defect to King Yan?" ”

Xia Xun smiled and said nothing, Gu Cheng thought for a while, and said, "Could it be Jiang Yiyi Hou Wu Gao!" ”

This time, the imperial court dispatched 300,000 troops, and there were three marquis generals in command, and the main general of the Chinese army was Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, with 130,000 imperial soldiers. The main general of the right army, Marquis Wu Jie, had 80,000 imperial soldiers, and the main general of the left army, Jiang Yin Hou Wu Gao, had 90,000 imperial soldiers. If Wu Gao really reversed, attacked the heart of the Chinese army from the left flank, and then Yan Wang broke through head-on, Geng Bingzhong's originally foolproof defense would collapse and be vulnerable.

Gu Cheng asked, and Zhang Bao's face also changed. Jiang yīn Hou Wu Gao is the father-in-law of Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, his biological nv is the princess of Xiang, and the nv son is closed in the palace, if this old man really takes refuge in King Yan, it is very possible, and the two of them will lose their sè for a while.

Xia Xun didn't know who Princess Xiang's father was, so he didn't intend to lead the spearhead to Wu Gao, what Fang Cai said was just a suspicious formation, but he didn't expect these two people to sit in the opposite seat, Xia Xun neither admitted nor denied it, only said: "Don't be suspicious, in the army of rebellion in the court this time, there are many people who are unhappy for King Yan, and there is more than one person who wants to throw himself into King Yan, in addition to because they are unhappy for King Yan, and more importantly, they see a more long-term view than the two generals......"

Gu Cheng couldn't help but ask, "What's the long-term?" ”

Xu Ming'er sighed secretly: "These two stupid guys, if you go straight down, there will be nothing, you have to chase and ask like this, ask, ask, you must be like me, he was deceived to sell, and happily helped him count the silver." ”

Xia Xun said solemnly: "Feudal Ping, this is the legacy of Taizu, it is the ancestral training!" The emperor cut the domain, is it considered to be against the ancestral custom? Yes! He is the emperor, he wants to change, yes, he can cut the military power, why do you want to kill them all? What is a feudal domain? The vassal shall divide his land, govern his people, and lead his own soldiers. This is the domain!

Cutting down their fiefs and collecting their vassal soldiers, then the vassal king is only a king, not a vassal king, and the prisoners are imprisoned, killed, and exiled, why is this? "Don't let me bear the name of killing my uncle", don't you know the emperor's sentence 'As long as the fourth uncle dies, don't live King Yan'? ”

"Two generals, the world is first of all the world and society of the ancestors, and it is the world and society of the Zhu dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, not the current emperor's lineage. The kings are the descendants of Taizu, the bloodline of the first emperor, born to be the royal family, enjoying the prince's fortune, not the concubine, Fang, Huang, Qi Tai and others to divide the royal family and persecute the clan, King Yan wants to 'clear the monarch's side', isn't it the great righteousness?

During the Song Dynasty, the suppression of martial arts and the promotion of literature often made the literati directly above the warriors, pointing fingers at them, and often fighting battles that should not be fought and defeating battles that should be won, resulting in the blood of heroes staining the battlefield and making it difficult to stretch their ambitions. My Ming Dynasty territory is only twice as large as the Song Dynasty, the emperor is still at ease with his relatives, and he is not at ease when he cuts their military power and withdraws their vassal state, so he has to put it to death.

No way! No way! Suppressing military force with literature and suppressing military force with literature will inevitably intensify compared to the Song Dynasty. If King Yan is defeated and the kings are cut, the emperor's Xiucai court will not be limited to a Jinling city, the central principals are all literati, and the military towns everywhere will inevitably control the army with literati! ”

Xia Xun's voice was mentioned, and he said sharply: "Mobei Méng Yuan still has very strong armed forces, and the Western Regions has the army of King Timur eyeing him, and when the time comes, under the command of Hu Luàn, a group of literati, can my Ming army regain the glory of the time of Taizu?" If Hu Lu is allowed to re-enter the Central Plains, won't your actions today be aiding and abetting abuse? Do you want to make my Han people revert to a fourth-class person, a cow and a horse, a slave and a maid for the Hu people, and a sinner for the ages? ”

Gu Cheng's voice weakened, and he said expectantly: "Your Majesty...... The emperor sits on the world, and the land of King Yan is only a corner, and the soldiers are only tens of thousands, so he can ...... What can be done? ”

Xia Xun asked rhetorically: "How is King Yan now, compared to when Emperor Taizu raised his army?" ”

Zhang Baodao: "That's different, at that time, the hearts of the people of the Méng Yuan court had been lost, the world was great, and the heroes were rising, but now the world is unified, and the four seas are one!" ”

Xia Xun immediately said: "You are wrong! Now it's just a mén side that rules the world! It's the mén side left by Emperor Taizu! The emperor cut the domain, not only cut the soldiers, but also cut the people, cut the four major empty, even if the kings refused to follow the king of Yan to fight together, do you say they will stand on the side of the emperor?

The emperor was in power, and in just a few months, he put two teaching gentlemen in the position of prime minister without a seal, and those civil officials who had been in the cold window for ten years, started from xiǎo officials, were conscientious and conscientious, and hoped to one day become important ministers of the court?

Two teaching gentlemen lead hundreds of officials and assist the Son of Heaven; Their ears, eyes, henchmen, and close ministers are all sour and rotten literati, who control the national weapons, and those princes and generals who have followed Emperor Taizu for many years to lay down these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, will they be willing? ”

Xia Xun's scorching gaze swept coldly over Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao's faces, and said in a deep voice: "The unification of the world has been smashed from the inside by the current emperor!" This return to the heart of the four seas has been made by the current emperor to detach the monarch and the ministers, civil and military! ”

Zhang Bao glanced at Gu Cheng, and the blade that had been steadily pointing at Xia Xun's throat slowly fell down.

In fact, from the time King Yan joined forces, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court fell to King Yan in a systematic manner and surrendered without a fight, which shows how unpopular the military has been since Jianwen's pro-government. King Yan has led soldiers, but this is not the absolute reason for them to fall to King Yan, their promotion, salary, non-wartime management and command are all the court rather than King Yan, they fall to King Yan, who is still absolutely weak, isn't it the court's own problem?

For Fang Huang and his ilk to point out the situation of the dynasty and Jianwen's bloody means of cutting down the vassal king, the military generals in the court have long been dissatisfied, especially Xu Zengshou and the generals around him, Xia Xun's words reprimanded his heart, and it was going to their hearts.

Xia Xun saw that the heat was almost over, so he added the last weight to their already wavering position: "Yang Mou said so, if the two generals feel that Yang Mou is wrong, they can do it now." Yang came here to persuade the county lord to return to Nanjing, but now that the two generals are here, Yang is relieved, and there is no regret in his death! ”

As soon as Xia Xun's sentence "can do it" came out, Xu Ming'er dodged in front of him, hearing Xia Xun's words, Zhang Bao was very puzzled, and couldn't help but ask again: "Why didn't the county lord go to Beiping?" ”

Xia Xun said categorically: "Because, Nanjing, King Yan will definitely go!" ”

Gu Cheng's hand trembled, and the blade that pointed straight at Xia Xun also slowly fell......