Nanjing, a camp on the outskirts of Beijing.

Almost all the martial arts of the Five Military Mansions are here, of course, they are not here to go out with the army, they are just here to practice for Zhu Yunwen.

This time, Zhu Yunwen was determined to drive the expedition in person, and the 200,000 troops in the Beijing camp can be said to be pouring out, and the border troops who withdrew from the seven guards of Guanxi (Gansu) and Liaodong to change the defense and training will all go out of the southwest and Nanjing together, leaving only Tie Xuan's teaching guard and two reserve guards, a total of 30,000 people.

30,000 people, that's enough.

In order to ensure the security of the garrison in Nanjing, a section of the Fujian and Zhejiang naval divisions will be stationed at the mouth of the Yangtze River to prevent the Japanese from plundering from the sea.

When Zhu Yunwen arrived, a group of Ming generals had been guarding the gate of the barracks for almost an hour.

Standing at the front of the team was Geng Bingwen, as the only remaining veteran general in the Ming Dynasty, he was ordered by Zhu Yunwen to follow the army.

Zhu Yunwen doesn't know how to command, and he doesn't plan to give blind command on his behalf, he doesn't know how many miles a day to march, how to choose a place to camp, although it is in the country, but as soon as the army starts, he can't fool around because he is in the country, so he needs someone to command for him.

Geng Bingwen was the actual commander who was chosen.

When he arrives in Yunnan, Zhu Yunwen will also stay in Kunming with Geng Bingwen, after all, Geng Bingwen's age is here, and the front line is no longer suitable for him.

Geng Bingwen's task is to defend the center and be responsible for the defense of Kunming, and other command tasks will be handed over to Zhu Di.

As for Tie Xuan, a die-hard loyalist of the imperial power who has left a name in history, he stayed in Nanjing.

After Zhu Yunwen leaves Beijing, he will take 3,000 new troops into Hongwumen to garrison, and be in charge of the palace forbidden guards with the front army of the imperial palace and the Jinyi guard.

"See my Emperor's Holy Bow."

Dozens of generals bowed down in unison, Zhu Yunwen in front of the battle stepped on the stirrup and turned over and dismounted, came to the Ming Dynasty for more than three years, and rode horses in the palace garden, but it was not ashamed.

Behind Zhu Yunwen, Shuangxi also hurriedly turned over and dismounted, but he looked much more vigorous than Zhu Yunwen.

"Let's all be flat."

Zhu Yunwen in the sun, wearing the dragon-patterned gold and iron placket that Taizu wore back then, but it also set off Zhu Yunwen's heroic appearance.

"How's the army massing?"

Excluding the 30,000 troops who stayed in Nanjing, the army that went south with Zhu Yunwen this time was as high as 240,000, which was even higher than Lan Yu's Northern Expedition that year.

"Back to Your Majesty, all the troops are on standby."

Geng Bingwen's son, Geng Xuan, the leader of Zongxun's martial arts competition at the beginning of the year, took a step forward and hugged his fists: "Please move your majesty to the school." ”

Proofreading? Forget it.

Zhu Yunwen just tilted his head slightly, and saw that hundreds of steps behind Geng Xuan, there was a black oppression, and he couldn't see the end at all.

In this era, there was no megaphone, and the point general platform was nearly fifty steps away from the military formation, what did he say when he went to proofread?

Anyway, the troops can't hear it, so there is no need to talk about this kind of cutscene.

In fact, even if he pulls out the camp, Zhu Yunwen does not mean to go with these troops.

The imperial expedition does not mean that the emperor and the army are on the same marching line, because the number of troops is large, and not every road has a large open space like the suburbs of Beijing, which can allow the army to walk neatly.

Therefore, the army of more than 200,000 people will be divided into several parts, considering the safety of the emperor, Geng Bingwen set a day and eighty miles on the marching route, and this number is completely no pressure on the Beijing camp.

The front army will advance fifty miles, and then Zhu Yunwen and Geng Bingwen's Chinese army will pull out the camp, and the left and right flanks will be the cavalry of the Beijing camp, and they will be eighty to one hundred miles away from the Chinese army, so that the wingspan of the army can spread out for two hundred miles, and with the foot strength of the cavalry, it will only take more than an hour to report the Chinese army's exchanges, which is enough to ensure that there will be no hostile situation on both sides of the Chinese army.

The rear army was completely baggage, but it was not food, but weapons such as armor, knives and guns, etc., to prevent the army from rusting due to heavy rain during the march, so as to facilitate replenishment in an emergency.

Grain does not need to be carried at all, the official warehouses along the way from Nanjing to Yunnan will be provided, and Nanjing's central grain storage will also be transported directly to Huguang through the Yangtze River, and transported from Huguang to Guizhou and Kunming, in a word, no one can be hungry to the emperor.

The annual tax of the Ming Dynasty is more than 35 million stones, and the grain reserves in recent years are so extensive that they cannot be counted by numbers.

"Tell the camp directly."

As soon as Zhu Yunwen spoke, Geng Xuan took the order.

"The five military mansions and ministers have drawn up a marching plan, please ask Your Majesty to judge."

Geng Bingwen said: "The Chinese army went south to Huguang, first to Sichuan, and after arriving in Chengdu, they went south to Yunnan as appropriate. ”

Guizhou has not been stable in recent years, although there has been no big mess, but to prevent the slightest slight, the emperor's holy car is absolutely not allowed to go to Guizhou, so he can only give up the near and far, from Huguang to Sichuan, and finally settled in Chengdu.

If the war in the southwest is successful at that time, and then consider letting the emperor go south to Kunming for a turn, it can barely be regarded as reaching the front line, and the four words of the imperial drive and personal expedition will be realized.

In order to make every effort to ensure Zhu Yunwen's safety, the Fifth Military Mansion and Geng Bingwen can be said to have taken great pains, what about the extra half a month's footsteps, and how much food can be wasted?

Protecting the absolute safety of the emperor is the first task.

Zhu Yunwen also listened to the mirror, but he didn't have any opinions, as early as after he made up his mind to go to the southwest, he first communicated with Xu Huizu, and the things on the route were all decided by the Five Military Mansions.

Professional things are handed over to professional people to do, and it is impossible for Zhu Yunwen to interfere in such a thing as changing the route of the march, he has promised Geng Bingwen that he will not ask about all things.

"The old general is relieved, and I have no objections."

Zhu Yunwen patted Geng Bingwen's forearm and said with emotion: "The sideburns are like snow, and the walk is as fast as the wind." Not afraid to ride a raw horse, but still able to bend a hard bow. There is something wrong with the country, and there is General Lao. ”

Geng Bingwen was greatly moved, and was about to say something, when the sound of horns was already ringing in the barracks behind him, and the sound of armor rubbing and stepping on the ground in unison was already resounding, so he was no longer polite.

"Your Majesty, please."

"Old general first."

In this kind of thing, Zhu Yunwen has never taken the emperor's shelf once, and he can be said to have taken the four words of Corporal Lixian to the extreme for a veteran like Geng Bingwen.

"Ling Lang is not here, I should watch carefully."

This is because I am afraid that Geng Bingwen is old, and he has not been through the battle formation for more than ten years, and he was injured when he got on the horse.

Xu Huizu and the others were all shaken, regardless of what moths the emperor had produced in the past few years, and how he exploited the military power of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but for them, he has always been extremely respectful, and the emperor has also tried his best to take care of the army.

"Old general, please."

Seeing Geng Bingwen with tears streaming down his eyes there, Zhu Yunwen hurriedly smiled and said: "I am the emperor who is on the battlefield, that is the general who is in the battle array, not the emperor of the imperial court, the old general has been in the battle array for a lifetime, I just follow the old general to learn, the old general should not be like this, please get on the horse first." ”

solemnly hugged his fist at Zhu Yunwen, Geng Bingwen didn't say anything more, turned around and turned over to get on the horse with a vigorous pace.

Only then did Zhu Yunwen get on the horse and look at Xu Huizu and the others.

"I have left Beijing this time, and the affairs of the country depend on you."

"Wait, death is not worthy of grace!"

"Let's go!"

Turning the horse's head slightly, the guards behind him took out the order flag from his waist and waved it, and suddenly more than a dozen horsemen scattered out, holding trumpets, and blowing horns in the gallop.