After King Yan left, everyone's mood immediately relaxed. The princess commanded, and the maids removed the feast, laid out a new tablecloth, put some snacks and dried fruits on the table, and everyone sat together and chatted about some family life.

Most of the time, Xu Huizu and Xu Yihua are chatting, Xu Yihua respects his eldest brother very much, the eldest brother is the head of the Xu family, although he is a princess, but in the long run, his descendants will ultimately rely on the Xu family. She has been familiar with the scriptures and history since she was a child, and knows that the vassal kings will not last long, and the so-called feudal vassal kings are just expedient measures, and after the imperial power is stabilized, they will take back their power, which is almost inevitable in history. The process was either peaceful or bloody, but the end result was the same. Recently, some of Yan Wang's practices have made her secretly worried, so she is even more enthusiastic about her eldest brother.

Xu Huizu saw that his sister was the princess, the eldest son had become the prince, and the second son had been named the king of the county. As for the acting king, he didn't take it to heart at all, the acting king's temperament has always been like this, at most he complained, Datong twelve guards, it would be good to be able to control one guard. But King Yan is different, if he rebels, then most of the guards in the northern Xinjiang will be involved.

Xu Huizu and his sister chatted about family life, and occasionally asked about King Yan, Xu Yihua was defenseless against him, so he naturally knew everything. Xu Huizu looked up at the window, his mood was like the dark night outside, getting heavier and heavier, did he really want to meet his brother-in-law? If there really is a day, His Highness lets himself go on the expedition, how will he choose? It is impossible to throw Yan, his father Xu Da fought all his life, and only then did he get the emperor's handwriting: "Breaking the captives and barbarians, the first in ancient and modern people; In and out of the phase, the talent is unparalleled in the civil and military world. How can you live up to such a reputation? I would rather die on the battlefield than do something that would disgrace my father. Even if the Xu family perishes in their own hands, they can't live with a reputation of disloyalty, otherwise how can they go to see their heavenly father?

Xu Huizu's abnormality attracted Xu Yihua's attention, Xu Yihua gently pushed him and said, "Big brother, what's wrong with you?" Isn't this tour too tiring? ”

Xu Huizu snorted a spirit, and just as he was about to speak, King Yan walked in and said, "Wei Guogong, the king of Ming Japan wants to visit the escort you brought, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

Xu Huizu paused for a moment and said: "This is no problem, the escort army has 15,000 Taisun guards and 5,000 guards of the government army, all of whom are stationed in the camp outside the city, how about I accompany the prince tomorrow?" ”

Zhu Di suddenly laughed out loud and said, "Tomorrow, the king will bring three guards over and make a surprise attack, how about it?" ”

"Surprise attack, how to surprise attack?"

"This king plans to send the king's three guards to attack the guard camp at three o'clock tomorrow, see the reaction of your guards and prepare for the war, and then this king will go to the camp to personally review it during the day, how about it?"

"This, I'm afraid it's not good, such an exercise, the general can't be the master, and I need to report to the emperor and His Royal Highness."

Zhu Di smiled, waved his hand and said: "It's okay, the responsibility is borne by this king, the emperor and His Royal Highness, this king is responsible for explaining, uncle, you don't have to worry." ”

Xu Huizu looked at Zhu Di's eyes, and his heart turned sharply, what is King Yan going to do? Do you want to show the strength of its three guards? The three guards are all cavalry, and King Yan has also selected elites from the Beiping guards to supplement his own guards over the years, which can be said to be the elite of the elite. The Taisun Guards were actually created less than a year ago, and although the avant-garde of the government army was known as the elite, in their own eyes, it was not as elite as the Taisun Guard. But when it came to this, King Yan couldn't refuse. Thinking of this, he smiled and said: "Lord Wang, it's okay like this, but at the moment under Beiping City, isn't it better to say hello?" Prepare the convoys? ”

"This is unnecessary, if the guards can't stay vigilant, how can they protect His Royal Highness Taisun?"

Xu Huizu thought for a moment and said, "Yes, the last general understands, then the prince will arrange it." ”

In the early morning of the next day, at two o'clock, on the outskirts of the southeast of Beiping, the guard army camped.

King Yan urgently called his three guards, and quietly went out of the gate of Beiping City, and quietly touched the camp of the guards. Zhu Di watched his army on the side of the road, the army was silent, stretching from under his feet into the distance, like a black dragon, opening its bloody mouth in the dark night, wanting to devour all the enemies in front of him. Zhu Di couldn't help but be full of pride, Temujin had 100,000 troops and ruled the world, how could he not take 100,000 under his command, such elite soldiers, such a world, how could he not take it?

But when Zhu Di arrived at the escort camp, he found that the camp opposite was already brightly lit, and his escorts were lined up a mile away from the camp, but he was at a loss, and couldn't help but call a few commanders over: "What's the matter?" Didn't this king let you raid the camp? ”

Several people looked at each other, and finally Chen Heng, the commander of the left guard, stood up and said, "Lord Wang, the large camp of the guard army is not suitable for cavalry night attacks. ”

"Why?"

"Lord Wang, please see, the perimeter of the guard camp is four miles, and a lookout post is set up every ten zhang, the lookout post is two zhang high, and it is surrounded by plains, and we were discovered as soon as we appeared."

"How is that possible? Who can see it when it's so dark? ”

"Your Highness, look at ......" Chen Heng pointed to a fireball not far away and said: "This is thrown by the guards, it seems that one will be thrown every two quarters of an hour, and the surrounding area is as bright as day, this fireball will be observed at the end, and it can burn for about a quarter of an hour." So I didn't get close enough to be discovered. ”

"Then you can wait for the fire to go out before attacking."

"Lord Wang, we didn't know these situations in advance, and now we know it, there is an iron thistle in front of this big camp, and the horses can't pass at all."

"Where is the thistle?" Zhu Di looked ahead, but did not see thistle.

"Lord, there is no law in the scattering of thistles, some are sprinkled fifty zhang away, some are in twenty zhang, we are injured a few people to find out, this is an unsolvable problem, if we go to pick up thistle, it will be discovered, if we don't pick it up, we can't get by. As long as it is discovered, there is no point in cavalry raids. ”

Zhu Di was a little distressed, even if he came by himself, there was nothing to do. The escort army solved the problem of the raid in a very stupid way, but this method is very effective, but this method is very expensive, just these fireballs, it costs a lot of money, anyway, they can't afford to equip themselves, is it possible that the escort army burned all the way? After coming out for more than three months, more than ninety days, at least thirty or forty of them were burned every night, and it would have to be close to four thousand fireballs.

Just thinking about it, Xu Huizu came up from behind and said, "Lord Wang, how is it?" ”

Zhu Di smiled bitterly and said, "Can't you see it?" Couldn't get in at all, the raid test was over. ”

Xu Huizu looked at King Yan and said: "Lord Wang, the guards are well-equipped, but they cost too much money and food, and His Royal Highness Taisun has always been troubled, the infantry consumption of the guards is about the same as that of cavalry, and the cavalry is equivalent to twice that of ordinary cavalry." ”

Zhu Di calculated, one cavalry is equivalent to the consumption of five infantry, these guards are equivalent to the cavalry of four guards, twenty guards of infantry, and the supply of 100,000 people only supports 15,000 people, and said: "Wei Guogong, does His Royal Highness Taisun want to equip the army of the whole country like this?" ”

"I don't know about this, Your Highness didn't say it." Xu Huizu said indifferently.

The general of the Yan King Guards next to him couldn't help but be dumbfounded after hearing this, this imperial grandson is really extravagant, much more generous than his own prince.

Zhu Di felt that his surprise attack was quite boring, so he pointed to the camp and said, "Wei Guogong, then open the camp gate, let's go in." ”

"Okay, but no more than 20 people can enter the camp at a time, this is a military rule formulated by His Highness himself."

Zhu Di said: "Okay. ”