Chapter 34: Mu Ang's Halberd

Zhu Qizhen held ivory chopsticks in his hand.

These ivory chopsticks have gold threads embedded in them. This kind of chopsticks that should be placed in the museum in the future feels great, but it still makes Zhu Qizhen unable to whet his appetite.

for all he saw before him were locusts.

Although this time it was not raw, it was Wang Zhen who personally stared at and cooked the locusts.

They are fried one by one and golden, and there are various side sauces, and there is a feeling of eating prawns.

But as soon as Zhu Qizhen saw them, he remembered the feeling of swallowing locusts alive at that time, and he only felt a little sick to his stomach. He meant to suppress the feeling.

But I don't want to, the more I don't want to think about it, but I feel it clearly.

He couldn't help but spit it out, but he couldn't spit it out anything, only a stomach full of sour water.

Seeing this, Wang Zhen couldn't help but step forward, gently knocked Zhu Qizhen's back, and said, "Emperor, why do you have to do this? Just deal with it, and the slave will change a few dishes for you. ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said, "No need." Who do I care? Deception? ”

The reason why Zhu Qizhen wants to eat locusts is because of Beijing's grain, although Yang Shiqi can still keep the grain price below 600 Wen, but Yang Shiqi himself does not know how long it can last.

The so-called clever woman is difficult to cook without rice.

If the disaster continues to be serious, even if Yang Shiqi has great ability, he will not be able to plug this food shortage.

Therefore, after Zhu Qizhen and Yang Shiqi discussed, they issued an edict to encourage the people of the world to eat locusts. And in the palace, the six cabinets were invited, and all of them were all locust feasts.

Every time a person eats an extra bite of locusts, he can eat less food, save more food, and probably live an extra life.

So Zhu Qizhen should lead by example.

Even Yang Shiqi and other ministers have set an example, and the hundreds of officials below are at least on the bright side, and everyone has begun to eat locusts.

After all, Zhu Qizhen shouted that if the locusts don't go, the locusts can't be broken for a day.

Therefore, even if Zhu Qizhen has a bit of a psychological shadow on locusts, he still has three meals a day, locust millet and lean meat porridge, and a whole locust feast, and every dish is inseparable from locusts.

If you eat too much of one thing, you will get bored, not to mention that Zhu Qizhen has a psychological shadow, and it is absolutely difficult.

"It's all prawns, it's all prawns." Zhu Qizhen thought silently in his heart, as if with such a thought, the contents of the plate changed from locusts to prawns.

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen ate it hastily. But listening to the outside, a eunuch suddenly reported urgently: "Yunnan is eight hundred miles in an emergency, and General Mu is defeated." Several generals were killed in the battle, more than 20,000 soldiers were surrendered, and Luchuan marched eastward, directly to Jingdong, shaking Yunnan. And General Mu and the superintendent Wang Ji played the impeachment of Baoding Hou Mengying, sat and watched the success or failure, and did not save him when he saw death. ”

With a "snap", the chopsticks in Zhu Qizhen's hand fell on the red case, and Zhu Qizhen's face turned pale

Lividity. After a few steps, I grabbed the fold and took a quick look. Take a few deep breaths and try to calm himself down.

Because anger itself is of no use in judging things.

Zhu Qizhen read a few letters over and over again, and ordered Wang Zhen to take out all the battle reports and information about the front line of the Jinyi Weidong Factory.

After careful analysis, Zhu Qizhen came up with a clue.

Things have to go back a month.

It was when Zhu Qizhen was talking to the cabinet members in Beijing one by one, that Mu Ang went out from Jingdong and marched westward.

Mu Ang was provoked by Meng Ying. After taking the headquarters to Jingdong, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became.

On the second day of the second month of the fifth year of orthodoxy, Mu Ang led 50,000 Yungui soldiers and 30,000 Tusi soldiers to swear in Jingdong. 80,000 troops were sent to the west, and along the way, almost all the Tusi fell in the wind.

The prestige of the Mu family's decades of business in Yunnan is not for nothing.

Before, the Mu family was unable to move westward in a big way, and the various Tusi naturally had to do the grass on the wall, but now the Ming Dynasty has more than 100,000 troops marching into Yunnan, although it has not yet started, but this person's heart has been shaken.

Therefore, the local Tusi led by the Dao clan have taken refuge in Mu Ang and are willing to be the pioneers of the Ming Dynasty.

Mu Ang was naturally unified, and for a while, Mu Ang's army swelled, and there were more than 100,000 people.

The so-called trade-off.

There are a lot of toasts on Muang's side, and there are a lot of toasts on Luchuan's side, although Luchuan is known as 300,000 soldiers, which is almost comparable to a Western Xia.

But among them, there are a little more than 100,000 people in the Luchuan headquarters. The rest are all local toasts.

In this way, Mu Ang greatly weakened Luchuan's strength.

After Mu Ang, he continued to advance westward and invaded Mubang. Around Mubang. Sijia didn't give an inch, because this already threatened their basic market, and the Fang brothers were in the north, Mu Ang was in the south, and the momentum of the flanking attack had already become.

Luchuan will fall into strategic passivity.

Therefore, Si Renfa didn't dare to let Mu Ang go.

Mu Ang fought hard in Mubang for more than a month. It was difficult to move an inch, and I felt the difficulty of Luchuan. Except for Mu Ang's 50,000 Yungui soldiers, the Tusi of each ministry can only fight a good battle.

After all, these Tusi soldiers are their capital, and they are all folded here, so how to control the power of the headquarters after they go back.

So for the enemy they can beat, they are naturally willing to contribute, but for the enemy they can't beat. Naturally, they want to preserve their strength.

And Luchuan is precisely the enemy they can't defeat.

Therefore, after a few battles, Mu Ang understood. To defeat the Luchuan soldiers, it is still necessary for the Ming army to go into battle.

Although compared with the Ming army in its heyday, the Yungui soldiers today are not as good as before, but compared to the guards who could not fight in later generations, I don't know how many times stronger.

At least fight with the Luchuan army, and win the battle, but it is still possible.

So in Mu Ang personally supervised

The battle, the generals of the various departments, fought to the death, and Luchuan finally withdrew from Mubang.

Mu Ang pursued vigorously and rushed straight to Hanlong Pass.

And the north of Hanlong Pass is only a few miles away from Luchuan City.

The terrain of Hanlongguan is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and several small plains near Luchuan are the fundamental place of Luchuan, Luchuan has a population of millions, all live in this area, and Sijia is the iron bucket that operates this area. Mu Ang couldn't attack, he really wanted to divide his troops to bypass this pass, but he didn't want Si Renfa to finally fight back, and there were hundreds of war elephants as soon as he shot.

War elephants attacked the Tusi camps at night.

The camps of each Tusi are quite simple, they have won successive battles, and they have already decided to win, so they are naturally distracted. was caught off guard by Si Renfa.

Suddenly, it was like stepping on the company camp, and it affected the entire camp of the Ming army.

It was a mess for a while.

At this time, Mu Ang's ability was revealed.

It was a tailwind battle before, and the average general can also fight. But to really look at how a general is, it also depends on the key decisions at critical times.

All kinds of toasts have asked Mu Ang for help.

A lot of people recommend standing still. But Mu Ang vetoed it, feeling that the Tusi of the various ministries were fighting for the imperial court, and if they didn't save it today, they would abandon people's hearts in Luchuan.

Therefore, Mu Ang sent people to fight to rescue the Tusi of various departments.

So this night attack became a night battle.

Luchuan came prepared, the Ming army was in a hurry to meet the battle, and Luchuan had already buried the shadows in the Tusi around the country, so when the battle was fierce, a Tusi suddenly rebelled and burned the grain and grass of the Ming army.

At this time, the general trend has finally passed.

Mu Ang had no choice but to gather his men and horses and retreat to Jingdong overnight.

It's just that where is it so easy for Luchuan to let him go, Si Renfa chased after him, and ordered not to blame the past of the Tusi, otherwise he would be killed, and the Tusi of all the Ministries surrendered one after another, except for the Dao Clan.

Let Si Renfa's troops be more abundant. Seeing this, the Dao clan could only follow Mu Ang and fled back to Jingdong from Mubang in one go.

After Mu Ang returned to Jingdong, count the number of people.

However, it was found that there were only 20,000 Yungui soldiers left, and as for the Tusi who followed, only the Dao clan remained, as well as some Tusi in eastern Yunnan, adding up to more than 10,000 people.

Thousands of households were killed in the battle, and there were several commanders, and it can be said that the elite of the Ming army in Yunnan was all lost in the First World War.

The above, Zhu Qizhen summarized from the news from all parties, although there may be discrepancies in the details, but they are generally not bad.

Zhu Qizhen's defeat against Mu Ang was shocked. But it's not bothered.

What he is annoyed with is that the people below are attacking each other. Mu Ang attacked the Marquis of Baoding and did not save him, saying that he asked the Marquis of Baoding several times to ask for troops, but the Marquis of Baoding never sent troops, and the attack on the northern road was slow, which was the main reason for the defeat under the Hanlong Pass.

What moved Zhu Qizhen even more was that Wang Ji actually echoed Mu Ang.