Walking into the Han Palace, the weather changes from the quiet Shen family garden, and the flat and wide brick floor and magnificent palace come into view. Zhu Gaoxu was in the gatehouse when he saw several civil and military officers coming out of the government office and were bending down to avoid the side of the road.

He passed in front of those people, turned to look at Zhao Ping among them, and asked, "Where is the maiden home of King Annan, does Chen Xingwang know?" ”

Zhao Ping immediately hugged his fists and said: "If you go back to the prince's words, I don't know." The last general asked Chen Xingwang about this, but he didn't know. ”

After saying that, he stepped forward and followed Zhu Gaoxu's side, saying, "But it is not difficult for a person like the queen to find out where her family is. Today, Pei Boqi, the former minister of Annan, was arrested at Yuqin Station, and he only had to wait for the army to arrive in Annan, and he would find out when he caught the demoted official and asked. ”

Zhu Gaoxu nodded after hearing this, thinking so.

Zhao Ping came back from Laos to comfort the envoy, but found nothing, and reported the incident to Zhu Gaoxu. Zhao Ping said again: "Don't worry, Lord Wang, now that Chen Tianping is dead, the queen has returned home several times, but she is alive and well." ”

"Oh?" Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and said, "Mr. Zhao thinks so?" ”

Zhao Ping was stunned for a moment and said, "What does the prince mean, there must be something untrue in this matter?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but say as he walked towards the study: "The news we have heard from Chen Xingwang's mouth and Mengsaowa City, Laos, is unreasonable in itself, how can people believe it?"

According to Chen Xingwang's news, the mother and son of King Annam were detained on the ground in Laos by Chen Tianping's people because Chen Tianping bribed the king of Laos with a lot of money. Because Chen Tianping wants to be the king of Annan, he wants to endanger the lives of his mother and son; So at the request of the queen, Chen Xingwang took the little prince to Yunnan Mansion.

When General Zhao arrived in Laos, he learned that the queen's family had bribed the temple monk and the two guards with money to redeem the queen...... Since the king of Laos already knew that Queen Annam was in the city, how could a monk let Queen Annam go without the king's consent? ”

Zhao Ping hurriedly said: "At that time, the last general also felt that this matter was strange, but when he turned around, he couldn't find the monk. The last general had to guess that perhaps the temple monks and guards were greedy for money and let the queen go privately. ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "General Zhao met with the king of Laos. Then the king himself said that he made a deal with Chen Tianping? ”

Zhao Ping said with a look of shame: "At that time, the language was not very fluent, and it was difficult to talk, so the general could not ask about this matter. The last general is ineffective, please surrender the king! ”

Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand: "That's it, there is another point of confusion." The queen was able to go back to her parents' home, why didn't she entrust Chen Xingwang to take the little prince straight back to her parents' home, but sent it to Yunnan Mansion? ”

Zhao Ping bowed and said: "What the prince said is extremely true, the last general will be dull!" ”

At this time, Zhu Gaochu was accompanied by several generals and eunuchs, because the affairs of the Annan clan were not secrets, and there was no need for Zhu Gaochu to avoid the people in the palace. So when everyone heard his words so keenly, they all showed awe...... Obviously, King Han is not easy to fool!

A group of people walked to the door of the study, Zhu Gaoxu raised his right hand slightly, and everyone stopped outside the door. Only the eunuch Cao Fu followed up and waited with tea and water.

Zhu Gaoxu sat down on his mahogany chair and was stunned for a while.

The army was about to depart, but he was very concerned about the whereabouts of King Annam. The whereabouts of the queen today are really related to the overall situation, and they are related to the stability of the situation in Annam after the war.

If you can't find the little prince's mother, what is the use of a four or five-year-old child, how can you prove his identity and be convincing?

Chen Xingwang's account and the words of the queen were relayed to Zhao Ping, and the people of the Lao Propaganda Envoy told Zhao Ping...... Zhu Gaoxu did not overturn and doubt everything. He only thinks that as long as it is relayed from people's mouths, most of them are true and false, false and real; There is always a bit of truth, and there is inevitably a bit of adding oil and vinegar.

Now Zhu Gaoxu is most worried that the entire Annan Kingdom is controlled by the Hu family and his son, can the queen's family really keep her?

…… In Shen Yuan, Zhu Gaoxu said a word to Mu Sheng, he was already a prince, and military exploits meant nothing to him.

The implication is that there is no room for the prince to be promoted, and the one below the emperor and the highest status is the prince; If it weren't for the imperial court's choice of him, he would not be willing to go to Annam, and it would be unprofitable.

Mu Sheng didn't have any doubts about this sentence, but Zhu Gaoxu lied to Mu Sheng.

Zhu Gaoxu really wants to win this battle with a high probability of winning, and he wants to win it cleanly!

The Hu father and son killed the envoys and soldiers of the suzerainty in front of the Ming army, and killed the king of Annan who had been decided, and the government and the opposition were shaken, and everyone in the world was paying attention to this matter and dressing up. If Zhu Gaoxu can take this opportunity to prove his martial arts to the world again, the benefits will be very great.

The fate and nightmare that he would be burned alive made Zhu Gaoxu always worry that the fish would die and the net would be broken! When that day comes, his prestige and ability will be recognized by the world, which is a great advantage.

If a man is doomed to defeat, who would want to follow him to risk his death? People want to fight, all to win!

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu worked very hard to prepare for this war. He even extended his own cohort training to all 100,000 horses under his command to improve military prestige.

…… In late June of the fourth year of Yongle, the army was deployed as planned.

Zhu Gaoxu said goodbye to his family, first put on his uniform and went to the temple in the southeast of the Han Palace, and after the sacrifice, he changed his armor and ordered the army to go out of the city.

Countless people gathered on the side of the crossroads in the city of Yunnan and near the city gates, and Zhu Gaoxu suspected that the people of the whole city had come out to see them off. This battle is related to the honor and disgrace of the Ming Dynasty, and people are all looking forward to the victory.

There are four words written on the banner of the Chinese army: hanging the people and cutting down the crime. Then there are military flags with the word "Ming" written on them, and there are flags with the character "Han". The iron armor on the road is like a torrent, the flag is like a cloud, and the battle is very large.

The Eastern Route Army led by Zhu Gaoxu had 105,000 soldiers and soldiers, more than 300 civil officials and eunuchs, and tens of thousands of people; War horses, mules, donkeys, and wheelbarrows are not counted. There were more than 100,000 people, known as 500,000, and they came out of Yunnan Mansion City one after another from the four city gates.

Heading south from the capital city of Yunnan, the roads in the Ming Dynasty were more rugged, and Zhu Gaoxu divided the whole army into four roads and went south from different post roads to avoid congestion. Large armies marched within the borders of the country, and there was little threat, and it was easier to obtain local supplies by marching by separate routes.

Wang Bin was the vanguard of the Han Palace's guards, and led 5,000 troops to go out of the city from the south gate at the earliest, and all walks of life marched later.

The march road is mountainous in Yunnan and goes south to the Red River Valley; When we arrived at Jiling Pass along the Red River, the terrain and road were flattened.

In the early stage, Wang Bin's vanguard captured Jiling Pass, and then all walks of life gathered in Jiling Pass......

Zhu Gaoxu has been haunting various battlefields since he was more than ten years old, and has experienced countless battles for more than ten years, during which he has not stopped for too long, and he is also quite accustomed to marching and camping, living in tents, eating and sleeping in the open. However, on the way, occasionally the Chinese army will be set up in the village of the Turen, and at this time they can sleep comfortably in bed.

Although there are Lin'an, Yuanjiang and other prefectures in the south of Yunnan Prefecture, there are very few Han people; In the vast area of Yunnan, there are less than a million Han Chinese, and most of them are concentrated in a few large cities and nearby areas. The south side is full of Tusi and Turen villages.

The rest of June has not yet reached the battlefield. Zhu Gaoxu was also happy to be there, and saw villages with different customs along the way, and lived in tiled houses, wooden houses, and grass houses, which were very strange.

The Ming government could hardly directly manage the city, and even the inland government was almost no lower than the county seat, and there were few Han officials on these native territories.

However, most of the natives were still very hospitable, after all, there were a large number of soldiers in the Ming army, with weapons in their hands.

When people found out that the officials and soldiers were just passing by, and did not burn, kill, loot, or plunder, they also gave them kind hospitality. At night, the soldiers often watched the natives light bonfires and sing and dance, and everyone drank wine and sang songs, which was also very joyful.

Zhu Gaoxu did not wear the clothes of a prince at all, only wore military uniforms and armor, and wore a wide-brimmed iron hat, and the local people along the road could not recognize him as a prince. Because he was always guarded by a group of people, the people only knew him as a military general with status. This eliminates some of the risks.

The Ming court did not distinguish between the people and the people, only the Han barbarians, so Zhu Gaoxu did not know what people he had seen, only knew that they had the names of the tribes such as the Fear Department, the Zuo Neng Department, and the Tile Slag Department.

When the army arrived in Yuanjiang Province, many tribes were dressed in similar languages, with cloth wrapped around their heads and homespun clothes. A local official of a tribe had some insight and saw the gold and gems inlaid on Zhu Gaoxu's scabbard, as well as the brightly colored glutinous ice jade and jade pendants, and introduced his daughter to him.

Zhu Gaoxu saw another kind of dress, it turned out that the rich and noble people of the Turen did like silver jewelry, no wonder Meng Yang Sisi only needed silver and even copper coins to settle for the second. The little lady's hat was almost all silver, and she was dressed in white fur, which was a little delicate and lovely.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu felt that he thought that the native woman was not good-looking, which was a prejudice. I have almost never seen beautiful women along the road, but because many local girls are exposed to the wind and the sun, and the living environment is not very good, so the skin is dark. Zhu Gaoxu, like the rest of the world, likes white-skinned girls.

Zhu Gaoxu and the little lady in silver jewelry communicated for a while, the language barrier, I can only look at me, I can only look at you. He didn't ask the little lady to sleep, after all, she was the daughter of a local official, an ordinary local official's family, and the marriage was unnecessary, and there was nothing to do if it was ruined. Of course, there can be no feelings, and even communication is a problem, just a one-sided relationship.