Now the efficiency of the Ming court is still relatively high, and now it is the agricultural slack season, so by the 20th, the twenty guards to be mobilized in the forty-eight guards of the capital are completely ready to set off. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe other six guards who were transferred, Yangzhou Wei and Hezhou Wei near the capital are also almost ready.

Yun Xi decided to let Cao Zhen command the soldiers of the guards in the capital to set off first, and along the way, he could also take the Hezhou guard, Fengyang Zhongwei and the left-behind Zhongwei to Xuzhou by the way.

Yun Xi, the commander of the army, has already selected Cao Zhen and will not change again, and the military general Yun Xi at the bottom feels that these commanders are enough, and there are still a few princes sent out, which is almost the same.

However, the middle and low-level military generals Yun Xi stuffed a lot of people, all of whom were students of the martial arts hall, even if they were not arranged to enter the army as thousands or hundreds of households, and as decorations in the headquarters, Yun Xi also wanted them to go.

In addition, Yun Xi also stuffed two people into this counterinsurgency army.

One of them was Chang Sheng's eldest son, Chang Jizong. Chang Sheng's mother, Chang Mu, before she died, told Yun Xi to give the Chang family a chance to train Chang Jizong. Although Chang Sheng felt very sorry for his eldest son, before his mother died, he told him to let Chang Jizong go to war if he had the opportunity, and Chang Sheng himself also had other sons, so he still told Yun Xi about this matter after the counterinsurgency army began to organize, so that Chang Jizong entered the army training.

The second one who was stuffed into the army was Lan Zhen. As one of the most potential people in the younger generation of Ming generals, although Lan Zhen once commanded tens of thousands of troops to pursue the Mongols, he had already determined the position of the other party that time, and there was no possibility of hiding the terrain on the grassland, so he could only show Lan Zhen's talent in some aspects, and it was not certain whether Lan Zhen was a real general. So Yunxi asked him to study by Cao Zhen's side.

In addition, Chang Sheng was sent by Yun Xi to Fengyang to take charge of the logistics of the army. Yun Xi still thinks that his mother's maiden brother is still of some use.

As for another very important relative, that is, his father-in-law Xue Ning, Yun Xi also considered whether to let him go to war, but Xi Yao himself excused himself, and Yun Xi didn't think about it.

However, it is not without objections. Yun Xi's younger brother Yun Xi, the day after learning that Yun Xi asked Ji Ye and others to lead troops to fight, he found Yun Xi and said, "Brother Huang, why don't you let me lead troops to fight?" ”

Yun Xi said: "You are still young, study in the academy for a few more years, and the imperial brother will let you go to war." ”

Yun Xi said: "Brother Huang, I'm not young, I'm fifteen years old, and I have been crowned according to royal practice." ”

Yun Xi said: "Men are twenty years old, although according to the rules of the clan, everyone is crowned earlier than the people, but you are a minor and cannot go to war. ”

"Moreover, you are not even married, and you have no children, if there are any three long and two short, how can I explain to my father!"

The reason why Yun Xi actually didn't let Yun Xi go to the battlefield was that he felt that Yun Xi only liked martial arts, whether it was immediate kung fu or ground kung fu, but he didn't like military strategy. Then he can only be a person who leads the charge with troops, that is, he may die.

Yun Xi can't let his own brother die when he has no children. If Yun Xi died on the battlefield now, there would definitely be a lot of rumors about Yun Xi, and there would also be troubles about the good side of Confucianism that Yun Xi wanted to maintain.

In the end, although Yun Xi was still unwilling, he could only go back sullenly.

Another change was that on September 19, Gao Xu suddenly developed a fever, which is said to have been caused by drinking too much at night, and when he slept, he fell out of bed with his stomach down, and then fell asleep with a cold, and then he had a fever.

Yun Xi naturally couldn't let the sick Gao Xu go to war. Yun Xi asked Gao Xu about going to war after asking Gao Xu in person. Gao Xu himself was very regretful, grabbed Yun Xi's hand and said, "Brother Huang, when I get well, I will go to war immediately!" This is the opportunity I finally got to fight. ”

Of course, Yun Xi said: "Okay, well, the imperial brother will leave you a chance, as long as you are well, I will let you go to war." ”

But after coming out of the Gaoyang Palace, Yun Xi was thinking: 'Did Gao Xu get sick on purpose?' ’

Gao Xu's illness came so suddenly and so strangely, although it made sense logically, I always felt that something was not right. ’

Yun Xi then found Qin Song and asked him to conduct some investigations into the Gaoyang Palace, under the name of investigating whether someone in the palace had assassinated Zhu Gaoxu. However, Qin Song understood what Yun Xi actually meant.

On the morning of 21 July, a ceremony was held in the northern suburbs of the capital to see off the generals. Yun Hee doesn't have a good impression of cumbersome rituals, especially the rituals of passing through war. History has proven that engaging in too many bells and whistles in the army will weaken the combat effectiveness of the army.

Therefore, Yun Xi simplified the etiquette except for the two rites of conferring the festival in the Fengtian Hall and building a temple and a society, so he could complete the etiquette early this morning and let Cao Zhen go on the expedition.

However, when Yun Xi was talking to Cao Zhen, a person who looked like a messenger rushed to the vicinity of the platform, and then seemed to be saying something to the people nearby.

Then the man called Yun Xi's guard Li Bo over. Then Li Bo came to the stage and whispered to Yunxi: "Your Majesty, Shandong is in an emergency, Jinan was seized by Cheng Rebellion on the 14th. ”

Yunxi then said to Cao Zhen: "Cao Zhen, I just got the news that Jinan was captured by Cheng Rebellion on the 14th. ”

Cao Zhen was not surprised by this. He immediately said: "Your Majesty, Jinan City has fallen on the 14th, and Dongpingzhou will probably not last for the 18th. Although the three guards of King Lu in Yanzhou City are basically intact, the ministers do not think that they can defend the city for too long. ”

"The minister led the army north, and it took at least ten days to bring everyone to Xuzhou. At that time, it was estimated that Yanzhou and Jining had already been lost, so the minister thought it was better to be safe, and it was better to take the loss of Yanzhou as the premise. ”

But Yun Xi's confidence in Yanzhou City far exceeded Cao Zhen's imagination. Yun Xi said: "General Cao, Yanzhou City will definitely not be lost!" Make a plan with Yanzhou City without losing it! ”

Although Cao Zhen was very dissatisfied with Yun Xi's confidence, he didn't dare to show it on his face, so he just bowed his head and agreed.

However, after Cao Zhen officially led his troops to the battle, Cao Zhen still decided: make a plan from both perspectives, and not just make a plan under the condition that Yanzhou City is not lost.

Three days later, on the 24th, a horse galloped into the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and then still galloped through the city, until it was in front of the Gaoyang County Palace, and the people on the horse dismounted, and then immediately asked the gatekeeper: "His Royal Highness the King of Gaoyang County can be in the palace?" ”