Of course, Zhang Fu noticed that Zhu Yang and Mu Sheng were observing him, and he could even guess that they were looking at themselves and whether they were worthy of His Majesty's trust.

Of course, he knew that there were rumors circulating in the army, and even among some civilian officials, about why he was able to become a general; I also understand that even those who are truly fair and objective will not immediately believe in the emperor's vision, and will secretly observe whether they can match His Majesty's trust.

He didn't care, though. After Zhu Di was captured in the Lu Xie Rebellion, most of the ordinary soldiers of Yanwang Sanwei were only blinded, and most of them were transferred to other places as soldiers, and there were no other sins; However, his father Zhang Yu, as a thousand households, also knew about Zhu Di's intention to rebel, and was convicted and exiled to Guangxi. Since then, there have been many gossips around him, and many people secretly said that it was Zhu Di's conspiracy that he came to Jiangwutang to go to school, so that he could get secret information from him when he rebelled in the future, completely ignoring that it was His Majesty who appointed him to go to school in the first place, and Zhu Di was unwilling; also completely ignored the news of Zhu Di's intention to rebel, and he became the target of key surveillance after the news came, although he could know some confidential things because of Yun Xi's trust, but he knew that as long as he had any move to deliver the news, he would be taken down immediately.

At first, he was very angry about this, although he would not explain it to others, but he often told others, but then he thought about it: it is useless to explain such things, and those who doubt him will find other evidence after listening to the explanation, and those who trust him will continue to trust him without explanation. The most important thing is that the emperor trusts him as always, and still makes him worry about giving up on people, and this year he even appointed him as a general. Since even the emperor who should have doubted him the most did not doubt him, what reason did he have to care about other people's opinions?

After Zhang Fu arranged for all the soldiers to light a fire and eat, he hurriedly pulled two mouthfuls of food, ordered the four commanders to know the same knowledge, and twenty thousand households to say a few words, and went to Zhu Yang and Mu Sheng's big tent with Sang Jing, the commander of the left guard of Yulin, and Song Xuan, the commander of the right guard of the government army.

After the prelude of several people, Zhu Yang sat on the main seat, Mu Sheng sat on his left hand, and Zhang Fu sat on Zhu Yang's right hand; Although Sang Jing is an earl, he is fighting at this time, unless it is a prince, everyone dare not be disrespectful, and the rest of the people are seated according to their military positions in the army, so he and Song Xuan sit under Zhang Fu; Mu Sheng sat down with several generals of the right army

Everyone exchanged a few more greetings, and Zhang Fu said: "His Royal Highness King Min, Marquis Mu, about the afternoon of the next day, Lan Shuai can lead the rest of the 90,000 horses of the front army to Baihe. ”

"Hmm. I know. But when they get to Hakutsuru, they'll have to set up their own tents, and I'm not going to let my soldiers work for them. Mu Sheng complained, and then said: "But this is something that has been known for a long time, even if he can't arrive the day after tomorrow, he can rush to Baihe the day after tomorrow." ”

"I wonder now, what is Lan Zhen's next move? As the pioneer he chosen, you should know it. Mu Sheng stared at Zhang Fu with his eyes fixed on him and said.

"Marquis Mu," Zhang Fu said after pondering: "Lan Shuai didn't want to wait for the middle army and the rear army to attack Duobang City immediately after the White Crane repaired for a few days, but he was afraid that he would not be able to attack it for a long time, so he decided to come here and make plans after looking at the terrain." ”

"Lan Zhen, this is a safe opinion." Mu Sheng nodded and said, "I've seen the situation here in the past two days. The Annamite people set a wooden stake in the middle of the Tao River and the Fuliang River for more than 70 miles, the boat could not cross, and the south bank of the river was full of thick and strong trees, only there was a beach in front of the city of Duobang and no woods, so it was not easy to attack. ”

"If this is the case, then you can only cross the river in the middle of the night, and if you cross the river in the daytime, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties." Zhang Fu thought for a while and said: "After dark, how about crossing the river with soldiers without night blindness in wooden rafts without draft, occupying the beach, and waiting for the daytime army to swim over and attack the city?" ”

"It might have worked before, but it doesn't work now." Mu Sheng glanced sideways at Zhu Yan, and then said: "Last year, His Royal Highness King Min commanded troops to march south to Ava, and the news of using 2,000 musketeers to break Ava's army had already reached Annan. ”

"Last night, in order to find out the loopholes in the defense of the city of Duobang, I ordered a guard to try to fight, but as soon as the wooden platoon reached the beach, it was bombarded by the artillery at the head of the city, and the casualties were heavy and the situation was in chaos; Later, Annam musketeers and archers took advantage of the disarray of our army to attack the city, and the whole army was crushed, and less than 2,000 people fled back in wooden platoons. ”

"This, but the Annan military general who surrendered to our army before didn't say that they also have muskets and artillery now?" Zhang Fu frowned.

The Ming Dynasty sent troops to Annam this time under the banner of avenging the Chen Dynasty, and Zhang Wen ordered to build many small wooden plaques before sending troops, on which the sins of Hu Jichen and Hu Hancang were written, and they drifted down the river; And Hu Jichen's Dayu regime was indeed unpopular at this time, not only the ordinary people were disgusted, but the big families were even more disgusted. Therefore, there are not many Annan troops who are willing to work for Hu Jichen along the way, and Ruan Xun and others take the initiative to lead troops to surrender, so that they can successfully hit Baihe. It stands to reason that these people who take the initiative to surrender should not hide such an important thing?

'Could it be Ruan Xun or Mission Impossible, Infernal Affairs? On the surface, he is honest and bright, but secretly he still works for Hu Jichen? Zhang Fu thought of two words that Yun Xi had inadvertently said before to guess Ruan Xun's behavior.

"They're not here to cheat." Mu Sheng guessed what Zhang Fu was thinking, and explained: "First, last night's temptation was not useless, the soldiers who escaped back captured one of the musketeers of Annan, and after interrogating this person, they learned that Hu Jichen's musket artillery was very hidden, and even his sons except Hu Hancang didn't know, these generals who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty could not be Hu Jichen's cronies, so it was normal not to know; ”

"Both, the Ming Dynasty is not Cao Wei, and Annan is not the Eastern Wu. Huang Gai's fraudulent surrender made Wei Wu have no strength to go south for several years after the Sun-Liu coalition army broke through Cao's soldiers, and later formed a strong momentum, so that Eastern Wu could survive for a long time; And now that the strength of the Ming Dynasty is far superior to that of Annan, even if Ruan Xun surrenders to defeat Annan, His Majesty can also recruit troops to conquer Annan, and Annan still has no chance of winning. The generals of Annam also know that even loyal ministers will only fight to the death, and will not do such a thing that has a false reputation after death. ”

"If the wife and children are detained by Hu Jichen...... Zhang Fu didn't finish speaking, he was interrupted by Mu Sheng: "Whether to live alone or the whole family is cut off, I believe they have their own thoughts." ”