Chapter 55: Generals

Wu Shilian's thoughts, Zhu Qizhen didn't know.

I don't care if I know.

Because for the entire twenty-five years of orthodoxy, almost all of them were soaked in water.

He even sent Wang Yonghe, a cabinet scholar, and more than a dozen Hanlin scholars to visit the disaster. Other than that, all activities were temporarily suspended.

The war with Annam has evolved into a long-term confrontation between the two sides between Zhennan Pass and Lang Son.

The embarrassing thing is that the veteran Mao Sheng is gone. And the veteran Meng Ying did not recuperate at home for many days, and died of illness last year.

Zhu Qizhen mourned and posthumously crowned the king of the county. For the king of Zhending.

This year, the Meng family's development began with the next battle in Zhending City.

The old minister Wang Ji is also gone, which also makes Zhu Qizhen sigh a little.

Cao Yi, a veteran of Fengguo, died of illness in North Korea, and now Mao Sheng died of illness in Guangxi, and Ren Li, a veteran who has been guarding Gansu, is now also old, and he heard that his body bones are not very good.

Zhu Qizhen must prepare candidates to guard the northwest from the entrainment.

However, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, martial arts has cultivated a large number of qualified generals, and now although there are still many people who are among the middle-level officers, there are still few people who have emerged.

But over time. A general who was born in martial arts will definitely be able to occupy half of the Ming army.

Zhu Qizhen is not worried that he will be in a situation where he will be in a state of disconnection.

Now Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Yue to temporarily take the post of general of Zhengnan. Responsible for the war against Annan. But no order was given to attack again.

However, Zhu Qizhen is also planning to conquer the south.

Zhu Qizhen was ready to transfer Guo Deng back to Beijing.

Zhu Qizhen asked Guo Deng to guard Daning for a while, so it was because the Mongols seemed to be subservient to the Ming Dynasty, but their hearts could not be questioned.

Zhu Qizhen naturally wanted to send the most reassuring general to guard it.

Another reason that can't be said is to guard against Shi Heng.

Shi Heng is powerful and blessed in Dragon City, and he is the only one.

The court is almost out of sight. And the herdsmen of Mobei have no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, they only submit to the strong.

And in their eyes, Shi Heng, who can defeat Shi Heng, who is forced to die first, is a strong man.

Nature is willing to follow.

Shi Heng already has a tendency to sit on the big side. Shi Heng not only has the five guards of Longcheng in his hands, but also the garrison of Jingying, plus the various Mongolian tribes, if all the Mongols are called to join the army.

An army of 100,000 may not be absent?

With Shi Heng's ability, the 100,000-strong army may not be able to threaten Beijing City.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen sent generals to guard in Daning.

Of course, even if Shi Heng is skillful, among Shi Heng's subordinates, there are quite a few people who have their hearts set on the imperial court. After all, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he has not lost much morality, and he has been defeated, which makes the soldiers below respect and fear. Therefore, Shi Heng is a little arrogant, maybe it's okay, but he really has a heart of disobedience, it is estimated that Shi Heng has not moved, and Jinyiwei has received countless information.

Not to mention anything else, Zhu Yi, who guarded Dragon City, was absolutely impossible to rebel from Shi Heng.

However, Zhu Qizhen also knew that Shi Heng's good days were not numbered.

Because from Beijing to Zunhua, from Zunhua out of Xifengkou, to Daning, from Daning through the Horqin grassland, bypassing the Hanhai, and then from the east into the Longcheng galloping road, although thousands of miles away, but it is close to completion.

Once completed, a large number of materials were transferred from Beijing to Longcheng, but it only took more than ten days. At that time, the imperial court's control of Dragon City was not the same as it is today.

The construction of this gallop road can be described as extremely difficult.

The original plan was to cross the Hanhai Sea and pave a gallop road from the Hanhai, after all, the so-called Hanhai is more of the Gobi Desert than a desert.

So don't worry, the gallop is covered by yellow sand.

However, although there are some water sources in the Gobi, it is still difficult to supply a large amount of water for people and animals. In addition, sending people to run the post station is also a horse to be prepared.

It's all a problem.

That is to say, over the Hanhai.

Not necessarily, but there are many problems to be solved.

If the imperial court wants to build it as soon as possible, it will instead go northeast from Daning, cross the Horqin grassland, and merge with the water and land of Haixi and Songhua River, which is operated in the northeast of Daming, to form a water and land and then westward communication line.

This is the opinion of Kuaixiang to be edicted.

Zhu Qizhen adopted.

If you calculate the time, it may not be completed this year, but next year it will be about the same.

Once this line of communication is opened.

Not only is Longcheng far away, but it is also under the control of the Ming Dynasty, which will also be of great help to the construction of the Northeast Plain.

Zhu Qizhen can even imagine that on the Northeast Plain, the first batch of cities must have been built on this galloping road.

At that time, even if Shi Heng is domineering, what can he do?

He can resist the authority of the imperial court, but can he resist the grain and grass of the imperial court?

It is precisely because of this optimistic judgment, coupled with the connection between Daning and Beijing, that it is only three or five days for Jingying Pioneer to travel from Beijing to Daning.

In addition, Daning City has been repaired, and it can be said that it is a fortress on the Xiongcheng.

It's not something that can be broken overnight.

In addition, Zhu Qizhen has also carefully read the intelligence and details of the previous battle, and Annan is skillful in the use of firearms, the number of firearms, and the abundance of armaments. Hardly under the national dynasty. Unless Zhu Qizhen's artillery battalion is sent to the south, I am afraid it will be impossible to suppress Annan's firepower.

Coupled with Annan's military morale, Zhu Qizhen also asked Yang Hong, and the answer Yang Hong gave was that if Annan surrendered, it was already possible now.

After this battle, Annan decided not to despise the imperial court.

If you want to destroy the country of Annam, you have to have 600,000 horses. Among them, there are at least 200,000 people in Beijing.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen wants to put the battle of Annam on hold.

Let's talk about the generals first, among the generals of the Manchu Dynasty, the generals who can command an army of 600,000 to reassure Zhu Qizhen are none other than Shi Heng, Guo Deng, and Yang Hong.

Now that Shi Heng is domineering, naturally he can't make new contributions, and Yang Hong is in the center, which cannot be left lightly, and only Guo Deng can be used.

And 200,000 Beijing camps, Zhu Qizhen is not too enough.

Zhu Qizhen has been slowly recovering the number of camps in Beijing, and now there are as many as 400,000, but these 400,000 are not all stationed in Beijing, there are 10,000 or 20,000 in North Korea, 10,000 in Daning and Kaiping, 50,000 in Longcheng, and 50,000 in Guangxi. is so miscellaneous, it would be good for Jingshi to have 300,000.

If 200,000 Beijing camps are mobilized to march south, the Beijing division will be empty.

Zhu Qizhen knew one thing very clearly, the threat to Zhu Qizhen was always within reach. For other places, Zhu Qizhen can be put away, but for every grass and tree in Beijing, Zhu Qizhen is controlled by Jinyiwei and Dongchang layer by layer.

It can be said that Zhu Qizhen is the biggest snake in Beijing.

It's hard to hide anything from him.

And the protection of the Beijing camp is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen is relieved of the Beijing Division, so Zhu Qizhen is unwilling to send all the Beijing camps out.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen was ready to draw soldiers and horses from the outside little by little, and then recruit some elite border troops to participate in this battle.

As a result, the speed of this troop transfer is much slower.

In addition to the 200,000 Northern Army, the other departments are best used for local materials.

With the local army of two Guangyun Gui.

The recruitment and training of these armies takes time.

In this way, the action is big, and the preparation is not something that can be prepared in a year or two.

Zhu Qizhen is hanging Wu Shilian, of course, Zhu Qizhen is busy with disaster relief, and more importantly, there is nothing to say about this matter, and the monarch and ministers of Annan will wait for a few years before fighting again.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't want the news to be known to Annan Junchen too early, so it would be best to drag it out.

In addition, if before that, the land of Xuanda was the gate of Jingshi, and now Daning, Kaiping, and Dongsheng are the courtyards of Jingshi.

There's a lot of business.

Guo Deng wants to hand over affairs, and it is not too easy.

Since things are not too anxious, at least next year, Zhu Qizhen will give Guo Deng some more time.

Guo Deng will probably not be able to return to Beijing until around the beginning of winter.

Without him, before the snow in the north was in Beijing, it was winter weather for Beijing, and the north was already snowing heavily, and on the grassland, there were few troops in winter.

Because there are too many non-combat attrition.

After the heavy snowfall, there is only cat winter, and it can't be done at any time. We can only wait and look forward to next spring.

In this way, Guo Deng can hand over all affairs to Sun Bo. Return to Kyoshi.