After the tenth day of the ninth month, it is the middle of the month. The army in Yunnan had not yet been fully assembled, but Zhu Gaoxu's headquarters of 34,000 men was ready. He can lead this army first.

Mu Sheng's army of 17,000 people is mainly the guard army near Dali Mansion, which will complete the rectification in Dali Mansion City, and Mu Sheng can go north from the West Road after arriving in Dali.

The rest of the army is rushing to Kunming City one after another, plus the palace guards who stayed behind, and the total strength of the infantry and cavalry is about 22,000 people. General Sheng Yong led the main force of this army, plus more than 1,000 cavalry of Ping'an, and the two of them defended Kunming City and even the entire Yunnan political envoys.

The weather in Kunming City is sunny and the sun is very bright.

Zhu Gaoxu rarely accompanied Guo Wei and the other three to take a walk in the garden behind the front palace. He felt that his affairs in Kunming had probably been done, so he was waiting to go. When I think about it, there are still a lot of trivial things that I haven't done, such as saying goodbye to Mu Zhen and Shen Xu's family, which must be a trivial matter compared to a major military matter.

You can only write a goodbye letter, which saves time. If they meet, Zhu Gaoxu will have to leave the mansion after all, and the etiquette and greetings will be gone for a long time.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu finally admired the palace that he had newly renovated for a few years, the antique gorgeous buildings, and the garden scenery decorated with landscapes and plants. He felt the splendour, wealth, comfort and gentleness in between, and even looked at the corners carefully, just as he would carefully appreciate and caress the corners of the bodies of the women around him.

As they walked, they said some good things about each other's blessings. Even if Zhu Gaoxu is very close to each of them, but when they stay together, they must pay attention to their appearance, words and deeds, and many words are inconvenient to say.

At this moment, the sun gradually disappeared, and suddenly rained in the sky. Zhu Gaoxu glanced up and said, "In this season, it rarely rains. ”

Everyone hurriedly walked to a pavilion by the pool to hide from the rain.

Outside the pavilion was a brick and stone road, which had just been burned by the sun. Suddenly the rain poured on the masonry, Zhu Gaoxu smelled a very special smell, he turned his head and said, "Do you smell it?" ”

Guo Wei and the others nodded one after another.

Confirmed by others, Zhu Gaoxu confirmed that there was really a smell and there was no wrong smell. Very familiar, he returned to the distant summer in a trance, the millet basking on the stone dam encountered heavy rain, and people were busy harvesting grain, this is the smell! There was nothing wrong with it.

He subconsciously sighed: "The memory of the smell is really ......"

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu saw that the tendons on Guo Wei's hands were tense and she was pinching her wrists. He was slightly surprised, and bent down to look at her face, and saw that her eyes were red, and tears were already rolling in her eyes.

Yao Ji and Du Qianrui next to them were also sad and silent.

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that his casual words would make them cry. Maybe Guo Wei and others misunderstood what he meant, thinking that this was the smell of parting.

Sure enough, Guo Wei's voice choked and said, "When will the prince leave?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The sooner the better, now it's set for the morning after tomorrow." He stepped forward, patted Guo Wei lightly on the shoulder, and said kindly, "Okay, okay, we'll meet again soon." ”

Guo Wei didn't say a word, her chest rose and fell, and she inhaled a long breath, as if she was forcibly holding back her anger when she was very angry. Zhu Gaoxu glanced at her wrist, which had been pinched by her, revealing a few fingerprints.

He couldn't understand exactly why the woman was treating him like that. Even if you are a husband and wife, or someone who is very close, how can you fully understand each other?

This situation reminded Zhu Gaoxu of Duan Xue last night. She didn't come today because she had a wound on her face. At a certain moment, Duan Xue hated to ask Zhu Gaoxu to fan her hard and strangle her neck with a clothes belt. Zhu Gaoxu was very confused about this kind of request, and he also knew that there were some strange games in the later life, but he had never found Duan Xue to have this hobby before. How did she become like this?

In any case, this expedition, Zhu Gaoxu felt a lot of sadness in private. Maybe it's late autumn? As the words say: Since ancient times, there has been a lot of sadness and parting, and it is even more difficult to snub the Qingqiu Festival.

However, this time Zhu Gaoxu did not say anything, so as not to make Guo Wei and others more blocked.

The rain didn't fall heavily, and the surface of the small pool was rough and became like frosted glass. Zhu Gaoxu bent down, picked among the small stones on the ground, and picked up a flat stone.

He turned sideways and threw the pebble horizontally towards the water, and the pebble jumped out of the water. He seemed to be measuring the width of the pool. This kind of game is also very familiar to him, and he doesn't know how many times he did it as a child.

In fact, Zhu Gaoxu is a person who loves life very much, and he is not a war maniac at all, and it is not his wish to start a war.

…… The morning after the rain is very fresh. The drums on the tower of Duanli Gate sounded in unison, and the sound of horses' hooves and drums "rumbled" together, beating the whole heaven and earth.

Princess Han and other family members dressed in burlap stood next to the gatehouse and bowed to the street in the palace, their faces stained with tears. Zhu Gaoxu, who was wearing heavy armor and riding on a war horse, looked sideways, and there was a trace of reluctance in his eyes. But he immediately made an angry expression and shouted: "Avenge the king, and fight against the sin!" ”

All the soldiers shouted in unison, and the momentum seemed to spread throughout the city.

The white flags and the white cloth tied to countless helmets seemed to be snowing, and the crowd was full of murder. The armor and sword soldiers and filial piety cloth fluttered and poured out of the palace.

Zhu Gaoxu led nearly 400 guards and cavalry, and rushed out of the east city along the streets of the city. Mr. Li of the Governor's Mansion led the officials, Sheng Yong'an and other military generals to bid farewell outside the city gate. After Zhu Gaoxu said goodbye to his colleagues, he looked up and found that Mu Zhen was on the city tower with Shen Xu, silently watching each other. Mu Zhen is from Mufu, and it is still very convenient in Kunming City.

Zhu Gaoxu clenched his fists to the city tower, patted the horse and walked towards the road with the soldiers.

A large group of iron horsemen traveled eastward along the official road and ran for a while before catching up with the large army that had set off earlier.

The road out of Kunming City is relatively spacious, there is a memorial arch built of wood and stone on the main road, four columns of infantry are parallel, and they are passing under the memorial arch. The army in front of it was like a long dragon, far from its leader. More than 30,000 people marched together, and the battle was also very large.

"Click, click, click......" Footsteps of different rhythms from near and far resounded on the road, and everyone walked slowly; But it is not easy to maintain such a speed by walking for two or three hours a day.

Sometimes there is a burst of military music in the distance, but most of the time there is only footsteps and drums, or even drums.

From today onwards, such a dull sound and such a scene will be the situation that Zhu Gaoxu is most familiar with. The territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, and most of the content of the war is just marching and walking.

The army from Kunming City, to the boundary of Qujing Military and Civil Mansion, along the road post station city has been ordered by the Han Wangfu to provide grain supplies; Moreover, it is a march in the territory, and the encampment can be simple, and the daily walking time can be extended. In addition, the long-distance march of the Han army only carried firearms such as bowl-mouth guns, and did not have heavy weapons such as Hongwu cannons, so such a march could probably travel more than 50 miles a day.

In the past ten years, Zhu Gaoxu has gradually discovered that the two-mile road at this time is probably a little farther than one kilometer, so the daily marching speed in Yunnan is more than 25 kilometers.

If you encounter a big city in the future and need to attack the city, of course, you can't temporarily cast heavy artillery, but the Han Dynasty Governor's Mansion has found some people who can make back cannons, and the siege can only return to the level of the Yuan Dynasty at that time......

Once the army arrives at the territory of the capital of Guizhou, the terrain and military situation will be more complicated, and it will also have to carry a large number of supplies and baggage. According to experience, Zhu Gaoxu's men and horses can only walk about 40 miles a day at most.

Zhu Gaoxu was ready to attack the Sichuan Dusi, and he had to walk at least more than 1,400 miles on the Luzhou Road in Wusada and reach Luzhou before he could reach the main battlefield. If the route is particularly smooth, it will not be there until at least mid-October.

Striker Qu Neng would send messages back from time to time, sometimes every day, sometimes only every day. By the time Qu Neng wrote his last letter, he had already occupied Usawe.

Wu Sawei probably belonged to the Yunnan Metropolitan Division, but the Sichuan Metropolitan Division and the Guizhou Metropolitan Division had been in charge before, and Zhu Gaoxu did not move them at the beginning of the army. After Qu Neng arrived at the place, he surrounded the acropolis and persuaded Shi Xiao to surrender...... If Usawei resists the Han army, it can indeed delay time and cause trouble to the Han army, but there is no suspense if it is broken. The disparity in the number of troops is huge, and the acropolis in such mountainous areas are not well built, and the ability to defend against the siege of the army is very limited, so it is certainly impossible to compare with such large cities as Kunming and Guiyang.

Although Wu Sawei had received a non-French cross-border military order from Gu Cheng in Guizhou, asking them to hold on to resistance; But after the Qu Neng army had closed the siege, they surrendered the next day.

Qu Neng obtained more than 5,000 foot cavalry, left the soldiers in the barracks, and waited for Zhu Gaoxu to go to collect them; And the generals of Wusawei were on their way back to Kunming City.

Zhu Gaoxu fully adopted the experience of the "Battle of Jingyan", and the surrendered generals were sent back to their nests first, and the sergeants were dismantled and reorganized if they could use it.

Zhu Gaoxu had more than 300 and nearly 400 personal soldiers, who studied in the Han Wangfu Wenlou for several years, Qian Xun taught, and Wang Bin and others taught the formation of troops; Not only were they literate, but they also often followed Zhu Gaoxu on the march to fight and train in the queue. At this time, the personal guards can be directly appointed as the officers of the hundred households.

The quality of these pro-soldiers is not necessarily worse than that of the generals of ordinary guards. Zhu Gaoxu knew the situation, the officers of the guard station were hereditary, and many of his descendants had never fought in battle, and even practiced martial arts in peacetime; If it weren't for Taizu's reform in the middle and late stages, which required officers to pass an assessment before being hereditary, the situation would have been even worse. Zhu Gaoxu's personal guards, at least skilled in archery and horseback, have seen a lot of the world.

…… However, there was one sign that caught Zhu Gaoxu's attention. The weekday deployment of the Southwest Regional Health Center is seven points of Tuntian and three points of guards; However, after receiving Gu Cheng's military order, all of the sergeants of Wu Sawei had already been mobilized. It can be seen that Gu Cheng has begun to deploy troops and is ready to deal with Zhu Gaoxu.