Chapter 21: The Prince Goes South

The emperor has a natural ability to play scoundrels.

Li Xian naturally knew that when the emperor spoke like this, he was actually prevaricating him.

But even if he knew that it was prevarication, Li Xian couldn't do anything.

What does Zhu Qizhen really want to do? Can Li Xian be the top?

Li Xian suddenly changed his mind, he decided not to give Zhu Qizhen too much resistance in the revision of the "Daming Huidian", after all, if the emperor's mind is not put inside, but put it together to fight an external war. It's even less of a good thing for them.

The emergence of civil strife in Annam eased the internal contradictions and gave Zhu Qizhen a new understanding, which will not be mentioned for the time being.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the prince's recital from the northwest, and he was already beside the prince.

Zhu Qizhen spent a lot of effort on the cultivation of the crown prince.

Whether his career can be inherited or not depends sometimes on how the prince is.

Looking at the prince's achievements in the northwest, Zhu Qizhen was also very satisfied.

He didn't care what the crown prince really did, but as an emperor, he had to understand the people at the bottom. It is also necessary to understand military affairs.

This time the southwest is likely to be a big move in a few years.

After all, after the withdrawal of the tile spur from Mobei, the direct threat to Beijing will be lifted. The focus of Zhu Qizhen's work has shifted from foreign conquest to law change.

Of course, this does not mean that there should be no war.

In fact, before the nuclear balance is reached, it is normal to go to war. Zhu Qizhen just wouldn't take the initiative to start a war.

And what Zhu Qizhen said to Li Xian was certainly a little perfunctory, but it was not wrong in essence.

If Li Yishan, who killed his younger brother and ascended the throne, could sit on the throne, Zhu Qizhen would not make a big move. As long as the law is changed and the national strength is greatly increased, only one brigade will be dispatched to reach Annan at that time, and Zhu Qizhen is not in a hurry.

However, Zhu Qizhen seems that this Li Yishan has endured for many years before a coup d'état in one fell swoop, which is a scheming method, but even so, take the opportunity to give the soldiers a few colors to see, so that Annan can spit out some benefits.

Zhu Qizhen has not forgotten that during the Luchuan Rebellion, Annan made small moves on the border.

Except for this battle, it is estimated that there will be no major wars for a long time in the future, and the crown prince cannot be outside all the time. After a few years of training, I still have to return to the center.

In such a big battle, it is better for the prince to observe one or two.

So, Zhu Qizhen sent an order to Yu Qian, ordering the prince to lead more than 1,000 soldiers south to Guangxi in the name of Lanzhou Wei Qianhu.

Thinking about it, Yu Qian also knew that the thousand households of the prince must be the elite horse team of Gansu, Ningxia and other towns, nominally a thousand households, but in fact the prince's guard. In addition, the prince also has Zhang Mao, the attendant of the general, and there will be no problems in safety.

Just think about it, Mao Sheng has eighteen courages, and he doesn't dare to let the prince charge.

But Zhu Jianjun didn't think so far.

After he got Zhu Qizhen's will, he was so excited that he could hardly sleep.

In the blood of the old Zhu family, there are still martial genes.

Not to mention, the imperial court even got Yan Ran's victory first, such a brilliant victory, not to mention the prince, even ordinary clan children, often want to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Yu Qian also understood the emperor's intentions.

The prince was under the Lanzhou Wei, and almost none of them were selected, but more than 1,000 cavalry were drawn from Xining, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia, or 300, or 50.

Coupled with the personal guards who protect the prince, there are more than 1,100 horsemen in total, all of whom are first-class elites. Even if he hedged against the Jingying cavalry, he dared to say that he was not weaker than the other party.

What's more important is one man, three horses. It is the latest weapon created by the Shaofu, and it is equipped with this army.

Even on the battlefield, it is okay to protect the prince from the encirclement.

The prince was naturally overjoyed.

But the real commander of this army is actually Zhang Mao.

Although Zhang Fu died early, Zhang Mao is also a rare general among the nobles.

If Zhang Mao didn't have any ability, relying on his father's afterglow alone, he would not let Zhu Qizhen value it and put it next to the prince. Accompanied by several generals in the British government. The elite of this Northwest Ming Army is firmly controlled.

So, the prince went from Lanzhou to Xi'an, from Xi'an through Wuguan Road, to Xiangyang, from Xiangyang by boat, all the way to Changde, and then went ashore.

But the prince didn't want to go directly to Guangxi, he heard that Xiang Zhong pursued Li Tianbao all the way, and he had chased Li Tianbao to the point that there was no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground.

Now Xiang Zhong has taken more than 10,000 soldiers and chased into Guizhou.

It seems that Guizhou Tusi really has people who respond to Li Tianbao. So these Yelang arrogant people. was pacified by Li Zhen, the chief soldier of Guizhou, and Xiang Zhong did not work at all.

It's just that Li Tianbao is stranded in Liping Mansion. It seems that only the final blow remains.

Zhu Jianjun hurried to catch up, but he didn't catch up with Li Tianbao's last liveliness. I could only see Xiang Zhong, and then I also saw Li Tianbao's head.

Only then did he go to Guangxi.

Liping Mansion is not far from Guilin. However, a day or two later, Guilin City was in sight, with Jinyi Wei there, even if Zhu Jianjun did not enter Guilin City, he still had a better understanding of the situation in Guangxi.

In terms of civil officials, it was headed by Ye Sheng, the governor of Guangxi. Zhu Jianjun heard the rumor on the way that after Xiang Zhong put down Li Tianbao's rebellion, he would be transferred to the governor of Liangguang and take over Han Yong's position.

Han Yong has already gone home to worry, and now the affairs of the Liangguang Governor's Mansion are temporarily represented by Ye Sheng.

In terms of military generals, it is naturally Mao Sheng, a veteran general, and there are generals from the imperial court below, who are famous

There are quite a few heads, but the number that is really worthy of battle is less than 50,000.

Many of them are sample goods.

The Guangxi battlefield is almost the touchstone of the Southern Guard of the Ming Dynasty, to see if you can fight, as long as you walk around the battlefield.

To tell the truth, the military and civilians of the Hou Dagou Department of Datengxia are counted together, but there are only hundreds of thousands of people, and it would be good if there were tens of thousands of strong men. Living in the mountains, although he is more vigorous than ordinary people, but it is too exaggerated to say that he can fight.

It can only be said that most of the Southern Guards are scum.

However, the various departments that were able to hold on to the battlefield in Guangxi had some combat effectiveness under the frequent tempering of people from all walks of life in Datengxia and the material replenishment of the imperial court.

In many cases, the army is fought, and no matter how weak the army is, it will have some combat effectiveness after a few victories.

Of course, there are some other armies that can fight, such as the Dian soldiers brought by Mao Sheng, all of which are elite Dian soldiers, after all, the Dian soldiers have experienced the tempering of the Battle of Luchuan, and they are much stronger than the ordinary guard army.

These 20,000 horses are directly under the jurisdiction of Mao Sheng. It is the supporting force of the Guangxi battlefield.

Of course, this is also the case that Jingying has not yet arrived. When Jingying arrived, it would be different.

However, in addition to these Daming Guards, there is also the army of Guangxi Tusi, which is naturally headed by Huang and Cen. The two families bring more than 10,000 people every year, and if you add the people and horses of the toasts from all walks of life, the toasts in the western Guizhou region can send 50,000 people to get off immediately.

Among them, the combat effectiveness is high and low.

The most powerful is the Guangxi wolf soldiers, that is, the personal guards of the Tusi, whose combat effectiveness is very strong, not much worse than the personal guards of the generals of the Ming army.

It's just that there aren't many of them.

Guangxi wolf soldiers originally referred to these soldiers and horses, but later generally referred to the soldiers and horses of Guangxi Tusi. In addition to the wolf soldiers, the other soldiers and horses of Guangxi Tusi are much worse than the wolf soldiers.

But on the whole, as long as you give silver, you can still fight.

After all, the people of the poor mountains and bad waters are black eyes and can't see the silver, in their eyes, human life is worthless, so for the sake of silver, dare to work hard, dare to die, many of their growth environment, may not be much better than the Datengxia Mountain.

In this way, their combat effectiveness is also considerable.

If you just look at the number, the Ming army has an overwhelming advantage over the chaotic army in Datengxia.

It's just that what can't be seen depends on the number of people, at least in the hearts of many Ming troops, all the Tusi departments may not be trustworthy, because the Tianjia rebellion was just put down last year.

It's a toast mess.

If it weren't for this chaos, the Great Tengxia Rebellion would have a chance to breathe. Perhaps, Han Yong would have pacified Datengxia a long time ago, and he would not have been in business for several years now, but when it was time to pick peaches, he had to go back to Jingding to worry. You can only give credit to others.

It's a bit of bad luck.