"Adjust the itinerary of different troops according to the weight of the team, I personally led the cavalry, all of them were only equipped with long knives, and this came to Mengyang City first, and then the baggage team carrying grain walked at the rear, and you could go to Mengyang City a few hours in the evening." After thinking about it for a long time, Wang Ji finally made up his mind and put forward this plan.

"My lord, there are two major dangers in this way," the staff listened to Wang Ji's idea, and immediately replied: "The first danger is that there are only 2,000 cavalry under your command, and there will be many enemies at that time, and I am afraid that they will be outnumbered; The second danger is to march in this way, which will inevitably put the rear baggage in danger, and if something goes wrong, it will be the danger of running out of food. ”

Wang Ji listened to the reminder of the staff, and smiled casually: "Our attack on Luchuan was originally a war with a small number of people, relying on the power of my Ming soldiers to be ten of them, not to mention that if we can arrive as soon as possible, there are still many defenders in Mengyang City, who can meet us and will not fall into the enemy formation." ”

"The second thing is that I have decided that the Luchuan army will not send troops to intercept us," Wang Ji continued: "To intercept the main force of our army from the area of Jiangtou City, it takes a lot of manpower, and the Luchuan army has gathered a lot of manpower in order to attack Mengyang City, and there will be no more troops to sneak attack our reinforcements." ”

"To put it bluntly, the Luchuan army does not have the strength to attack Mengyang City on the one hand and our reinforcements on the other, so they can only choose to secretly gather and attack Mengyang," Wang Ji said here, with a faint smile on his face: "It's just that they never thought that their secret gathering had been investigated by the spies sent out by Meng Yangcheng. ”

"My lord, you have a point." The staff thought about it, but they couldn't find the words to refute Wang Ji's opinion, and could only admit that Wang Ji's analysis was indeed reliable.

"Thousands of brave cavalry battalions, thousands of fierce cavalry battalions, follow me out of the army." After speaking, Wang Ji walked to the groom who was leading his war horse, turned over and jumped on the war horse with a vigorous posture, and announced to the troops who were marching towards the camp on the road outside the camp: "The target is Mengyang City, and it will be there day and night. ”

Among the more than 30,000 people in the entire barbarian temple camp, 10,000 infantry troops and 2,000 cavalry were selected to participate in this battle, which can be regarded as the best of the best.

The 2,000 cavalry was personally commanded by Wang Ji, which was the Yunnan cavalry led by Wang Ji, and the 3,000 Chinese army was commanded by Wang Ying.

These 12,000 people, not to mention that they are only elite in the Mansi Zhai camp, even among all the 130,000 Ming troops who went to Luchuan, they are also a unit with the best military literacy and equipment.

Wang Ji's dispatch this time can be said to be a ruin, and if it doesn't succeed, it will become a benevolent.

He knew very well in his heart that this battle was lost, the most elite troops were injured, and the battle of Luchuan naturally could not be fought; But in the same way, if Mengyang City is lost, the 100,000 troops of the Ming army will become a lone army in the hinterland of Luchuan, and it will be the end of the Battle of Luchuan.

This battle can only be won, not lost.

Before the night clouds on the horizon gradually dissipated and the warm light began to slowly diffuse from the white of the fish's belly, Wang Ji personally led 12,000 people from the Mansi village camp in the north of Jiangtou City.

In the last history before Jiang Yugang did not travel to this time, in the fourteenth year of Ming orthodoxy, in 1449 AD, this army also set off from the barbarian temple camp, but that time, they did not have the current ambition and determination to save Meng Yang, but they were worried and uneasy, struggling to maintain the last military discipline, but there was still a situation that "the division was undisciplined, and 150,000 people marched on a day, trampling on each other." Each army bears six buckets of rice, Bazhi Valley, and there are many people who hang themselves".

At this moment, the two planes seemed to be bounded by the farthest skyline, and began to blend together at a very fast speed, and the faces of each warrior in the two planes overlapped, the panic of the past, the fortitude of the present, the fear of the past, the composure of the present, the despair in the eyes, and the hope of the present.

The expressions, eyes, and even the entire team were covered in an instant, and the changes that occurred in reality were just a fleeting light, and the time that flashed was so fast that almost everyone didn't notice it, except for Wang Ji and Jiang Yu, who was far away in Mengyang City.

They felt it, something had changed. Although the change has already taken place with the arrival of Jiang Yugang, it is subtle, slow, or it cannot affect some grand process.

Although the defense line of Mengyangcheng has not collapsed in the summer of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy because of the existence of Jiang Yugang, if it is defeated in the decisive battle with Mengyang of the Luchuan army, it will eventually usher in the collapse of Mengyangcheng.

Jiang Yugang even found this problem in horror when recalling the classics, he remembered that some classics did not clearly hint at the end of the Luchuan War, it seems that at the end of the thirteenth year of orthodoxy and the beginning of the fourteenth year, the battle of Luchuan ended, it stands to reason that the Guizhou Miao Rebellion in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy only occurred in April, if the battle of Luchuan ended early because of the collapse of the defense line of Mengyangcheng, Wang Ji should have been able to rush to Guizhou in time to quell the chaos.

However, the time of Wang Ji's rebellion in the historical records was in November of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, from April to November, where was Wang Ji during this period? When the country needed him, the secretary of the military department, the first general of the Ming Dynasty at that time, where was he? There was no him in the Northern Expedition, and in half a year, Wang Ji seemed to have disappeared from history, and with him, there was the exact end time of the Battle of Luchuan.

Looking back on that period of history, Jiang Yuxuan felt a little incredible, although the Tumubao Incident in August of the 14th year of orthodoxy was the most important event that happened in this year, but the history of the first half of the orthodox 14th year before the Tumubao Incident was vague to the point of being almost absurd.

To use the example of a game he is familiar with as a modern person, it is almost as if some plot has forgotten to be updated to the version, so that there is a large blank space in the dialog box for the latest story.

The Battle of Luchuan, the Ming Dynasty invested countless manpower and material resources, lasted for a whole decade, this is a war that is enough to affect the entire southwest of the Ming Dynasty and even the entire Indochina Peninsula, where countless people live, with countless resources and countless ports leading to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and this battle ended inexplicably, and in the hundreds of years of research in later generations, it was impossible to get an exact date of the end of the war.

The end of the Battle of Luchuan was itself one of the biggest bugs in history, and later generations took this perfunctory description for granted.

In fact, even if we don't dwell on the biggest mystery of the outcome of the Battle of Luchuan, there are many things that are difficult to understand when the later Tumubao Incident is linked to the Battle of Luchuan, including the selection of generals and the selection of troops in the Tumubao Incident.

It can be seen from this record that before the Tumubao Incident, the Battle of Luchuan should have ended, and the time was completely enough for the troops involved in the Battle of Luchuan to return to their original station, or to come to the northern front to participate in the war.

But neither Wang Ji, the strongest general in the Ming Dynasty or even the entire world, nor the 130,000 troops who went to Luchuan, have no record of them going to the northern front line of the Ming army against Wara.

Zhang Rui, the general of Xuanfu, undoubtedly had military power when he went to Luchuan, but when Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty resisted Wara, the general only went out as a personal guard. In the Yingzong period, the general was not a small official position, in the Ming Dynasty, the status of the general was equivalent to that of the commander, and he was in charge of a local capital, similar to the military officer who was in charge of the army of a province in later generations.

In the historical records, Zhang Rui, who was on the northern front, was not in charge of any army and went out as a personal guard, which can only show one result, his troops did not follow him, and the staff became a complete false title.

So where did the army go? In April of the 14th year of orthodoxy, the Miao Rebellion broke out in Guizhou, and it was not until November of the same year that Wang Ji was appointed as the chief soldier and was responsible for quelling the rebellion.

On the surface, all this seems to be very reasonable, because Wang Ji went to Luchuan, so he could not come back in time to quell the rebellion, but once the time of the Tumubao Change is added to this, everything becomes strange - the Tumubao Incident occurred on August 15, the 14th year of Orthodoxy.

If the Battle of Luchuan ended before the Tumubao Incident, then why didn't Wang Ji, as the first general of the Ming Dynasty at that time, go to the northern front to resist the Warats? And why was it only in November that he was ordered to quell the rebellion?

And the more puzzling thing is what happened after Wang Ji was ordered to quell the rebellion, Wang Ji did not immediately send troops, but chose to station troops in Chenzhou and Yuanzhou, until the first year of Jingtai, 1450 AD, Wang Ji sent troops to quell the chaos and exterminate the bandits.

You must know that Wang Ji led an army of 130,000 troops, all of which were elite guards from all over the country, and the materials and equipment were supplied by the whole country.

If such an elite army took the initiative to withdraw because of the cost of labor and money, shouldn't such an elite army directly launch an attack on the rebellious army and exterminate the bandits? Why do you still need to develop troops?

When he arrived here, Jiang Yugang once again remembered what Zhan Ying, the instructor of Huichuan Wei in the Ming Dynasty, said in his impeachment of Wang Ji: "The division is undisciplined, and 150,000 people start to act in one day, trampling on each other." Each army bears six buckets of rice, and there are many people who hang themselves in the Bazhi Valley."

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, this passage was used by Zhan Ying to attack Wang Ji's inability to govern the army, and was considered an exaggeration by some later people, because no other conclusive record can be found to corroborate this description of the situation, not to describe the actual situation.

However, Jiang Yugang synthesized the above speculation and judged that it was likely that what was described here was the scene when the Ming army withdrew at Luchuan, so it makes sense why the march was so hurried, because this was a big retreat.

The historical Ming army Mengyangcheng Bai Qianfan was longer than Jiang Yu thought to hold on to Mengyangcheng, and it was likely that he would hold on to it until close to November before the city was broken, and the fate of other Ming troops in Jinsha Jiangxi was even worse than he thought, hundreds of thousands of troops withdrew almost disorderly under the sudden encirclement, and the original Ming elite troops suffered heavy casualties to the point that they lost the ability to suppress bandits.