Bai Qianfan waited for a piece of news to arrive, which was the attack of the Luchuan army.

From the wall of Bilu Village, you can see the edge of the Indoki Great Lake, and the dense jungle around the Great Lake, where the Luchuan army is stationed, and not many people are there, because he can't see anything.

Unable to see all directions, Bai Qianfan has never been as powerless as he was at this moment since he was born.

He was so weak and powerless, but horrified to find that he had no way out.

When Bai Qianfan was born, that time was the era of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, it was a shocking era, although Bai Qianfan's Yunnan was under the control of the Mu family, and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was not particularly dealt with, but after all, there was no major conflict, and under peace and quiet, you can also feel the greatness of Ming Chengzu.

If Jiang Yufu analyzes Bai Qianfan's mentality, he will probably say that this is the pros and cons of ancient China, especially when it developed to the peak of centralization in the Ming Dynasty.

Relying on the huge authority of this emperor, the Tang Dynasty was able to achieve the feat of Tian Khan, and the Ming Chengzu era of the seven Western Oceans was not inferior to that era in terms of greatness, and there may be some advantages in influence and control.

Of course, at that time, the Ming Dynasty was also in ruins, after a long baptism of war, everything needed to be redeveloped, and many people's basic lives still needed to be improved urgently, and they may not be as prosperous as some prosperous times at the peak.

But that era, there is a prosperous era is coming, the vast territory of the Ming ushered in unprecedented unity, and beyond the vast territory, more vast and boundless distance, the army and envoys of the Ming Dynasty are running around, or war, or diplomacy, spreading the story of the Ming Dynasty on the entire continent and the distant ocean, the story of this great era, although his founder is controversial, although the era may not be prosperous enough because of objective conditions.

But his people, his soldiers, are full of confidence and expectations for that era, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are not afraid of anyone in this world, they are the most powerful group in the world, this is the essence of the Ming Chengzu era, in addition to greatness, Jiang Yu can't think of other languages that can be used to describe this era.

However, the language of later generations is far richer than that of Jiang Yu, a wandering antique dealer, and the historical knowledge is not as rich as that of a person who has received strict training in the so-called scientific class.

Ming Xianzong, Wang Zhi, Ming Wuzong, all those who made some achievements in the history of the later Ming Dynasty were erased into a unclear appearance, so that it was difficult to see clearly.

Therefore, Jiang Yuyan never believed in all later evaluations, he would only look at real facts, some indelible facts.

The traces of real wars, domination and diplomacy, these things are difficult to erase, they have happened, like a deep plough in the undried concrete field, which cannot be erased, cannot be concealed, he only believes in these.

Therefore, he believed in the greatness of the era of going to the West, expeditioning to the north and south, and subduing various forces to become a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and this, if Bai Qianfan could see what Jiang Yugang was thinking in his heart, he would probably burst into tears.

He also misses that era, and misses himself when he was a young boy.

At that time, Bai Qianfan was not the current commander, his father was Qu Jingwei's Qianhu, he took over the post of Qianhu after his father's death, and he had not yet made a contribution and became a commander. But at that time, he deeply believed that he could make a contribution and that he could win on the battlefield on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, although the pacification of Yunnan, the famous general Mu Ying on the Weizhen side had died, Bai Qianfan, who grew up listening to his stories since childhood, was still full of yearning for General Mu Ying's deeds.

Because of the war at that time, he had never been afraid, and this fear did not come from the fear of his heart.

Everyone is afraid of death, so they have a primitive fear of war as a deadly thing, but human emotions are not such simple things, they are composed of complex emotions, and there is a very important part of this, that is, his comrades and his rear.

If he has excellent and powerful comrades-in-arms, if he has stable rear support, all he can think of is meritorious service and reward, which is not only people's pursuit of interests, but also the yearning for glory.

As Yongle's warriors, they fight to win battles, and their abilities, their troops, also support them to win battles, even if they lose battles, it is temporary, when Yongle's war machine is driven, no one can stop their offensive.

In fact, this kind of war machine has lasted for many years, even in the end of the Ming Dynasty, he still has a powerful war mobilization machine and a large number of troops, but at that time the Ming Dynasty was as weak as a candle in the wind, and all the paper strength has become illusory, which is not enough to survive the brutal war fighting.

How to get to that point? In fact, the steps of each step towards the abyss are clear, but the people who walk in it do not react quickly enough to walk on it without knowing it.

It is very difficult for people to have a long-term strategic vision, even if they don't say long-term, most people don't have the sunshine in the near future, just like Zhu Qizhen of Ming Yingzong, if he has a long-term vision, then he should be able to see that he can fight against Warat, and he should not send troops to fight in such a hurry, so that the troops cannot be won; And if he has a closer vision, or judgment, he should be able to do it, even if he can't win the battle, he will withdraw the troops well.

But he didn't do it, why? Because he is an ordinary person and does not have enough abilities.

Is this a great sin? Maybe it is, because he is the emperor, in that imperial era, the emperor should not be such an incompetent person, but Jiang Yuyan feels that this statement is too subjective, because we must face an objective reality, that is, the vast majority of people are ordinary people, and the emperor is most likely to be, you can't expect him to be stronger than ordinary people, and ordinary, this is actually an ordinary degree with all kinds of evil, some people's ordinary, that is, worse than the vast majority of people, this is actually ordinary.

All living beings, in fact, this is the case, people are confused, confused, a lifetime has passed, time is wasted, people are also nothing, do not need, and have no ability to remember anything, or make something that can be remembered, because ordinary.

Maybe, if you do something too bad, you will be deeply remembered, just like Ming Yingzong's civil fort, almost lost everything that a Ming emperor could lose, the only thing that was not lost was the persistence of the emperor's position.

Zhu Qizhen is still a very persistent person, although he basically failed, but he persistently did many things, looking at the results, these are all wrong things, but if he is not so persistent, he may not finally return to the position of the emperor.

This kind of persistence is actually a manifestation of ordinary people, ordinary people don't want to be ordinary people, but they don't become those few people, in fact, they automatically become ordinary people.

Some people may say that this is an ordinary person, but a loser, a person who is inferior to others, and a so-called inferior person.

But these words, these statements, are too heavy for "ordinary people", because the vast majority of people in this world live like this, why do so many people have to carry so many heavy statements, why is it difficult to raise their heads and live?

It doesn't make sense, they are all ordinary people, so don't be a human being. The so-called subordination of people is nothing more than an ugly mask that ordinary people forcibly put on themselves, and it is a kind of self-abuse behavior that is constrained by face and bottom line.

And those who choose not to do this, even if they have lost their face, they can still live with their heads held high, and those who work extra hard to live, but Jiang Yuyan feels a little interesting, such as Zhu Qizhen.

The more you know about Zhu Qizhen, the more you can understand Zhu Qizhen, especially those who are frustrated and have been experiencing failure, can understand Zhu Qizhen the most.

They will also scold Zhu Qizhen, but they understand Zhu Qizhen, and even yearn for Zhu Qizhen, because Zhu Qizhen is an answer, an answer to the question: how can a loser survive in the world.

The answer is to live persistently, no matter how embarrassed, no matter how unbearable, no matter how weak, no matter how incompetent, no matter how ugly, no matter how pathetic, no matter how much hatred you bear, no matter how much infamy, but still live as a blind eye, because this is the choice, this is the answer.

Whether you are born humble or noble, whether you die from humble or noble, from birth to death, fate does not give you a choice, just like a one-way plot, given a pretentious choice, but still going to the same ending.

In this dead, decaying storyline, the only living self is the self-conscious, the self that exists in this world clearly, the self that has no choice, all that can be chosen is what else can be done, in this powerless world line, try to do something, see what else you can do.

This is Jiang Yu's story, and this is also Bai Qianfan's story.

Bai Qianfan has no experience of Jiang Yu, but he is also a frustrated and a loser, in the army, he may be successful, but he doesn't know how to define his own success.

Is it a success to become a commander from a thousand households? Perhaps, or maybe not, he managed a huge guard, in which people came and went, and there were many business favors, Rao was raised in the army with his father since he was a child, and he grew up in the war, and because of his identity, he had to know about these things.

And throughout his upbringing, he began to gradually become silent, gradually suspicious, and gradually did not know what to do.

He is no longer the young warrior of Yongle in the past, he no longer fights for glory, his rear is gradually empty, he begins to become isolated, his comrades die one by one, and his troops lose their former glory again and again in defeat after defeat.

The Ming Dynasty used to be able to represent many things, but the authority of the Ming Dynasty was gradually declining in the vast land under his watch.

Fortunately, Bai Qianfan didn't know the evaluation of this era in later generations, which was called Renxuan's rule, otherwise Bai Qianfan would probably laugh out loud first, and then fall into long-term sorrow.

He was sad and too much of himself, and Heinz was sad about himself at the moment, he only had 2,000 men, but he had to resist 20,000 enemy troops.