After saying this, people couldn't help but believe it, Zhu Ao suddenly felt that his prestige had been greatly damaged, and subconsciously looked around at the generals to see if they were secretly laughing at him. Fortunately, the generals are also old fritters who have been immersed in officialdom for many years, and they all stand solemnly and quietly.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was breaking into the head wind, and when Zhu Ao was angry about the green thing in his head, a small colonel rushed straight in and shouted: "Report, tighten the military situation!" More than 60,000 thieves from Hami, Shazhou and other Western Domains have joined forces to invade our country, and have now broken through Jiayu Pass, and the troops have reached Jiuquan City. "According to the Ming system, if there is an emergency military intelligence envoy, he can go directly to the palace without notification, so what this little colonel said is reasonable, and there is no such thing as the palace maid's resignation.

The military situation is like fire, every general here has experienced the battle formation, they understand what it means for 60,000 enemy soldiers to besiege Jiuquan, Geng Bingwen only has a few thousand soldiers and horses, if he does not rescue immediately, then Changxinghou can not resist even if he has three heads and six arms. Once Jiuquan (that is, Suzhou) is breached, the next one is Zhangye.

Zhu Ao couldn't help but feel his heartbeat suddenly speed up, although he had fantasized about experiencing the war countless times before, but when this day really came, his heart was still difficult to calm down, excited, exciting, and of course, afraid.

Zhu Ao is not a fool, although he and Geng Bingwen do not deal with each other, but the Ming soldiers in Jiuquan City are his robes, and he will not ignore them for the sake of his personal grudge with Geng Bingwen; What's more, Jiuquan is his own land, is the support of Jiayuguan, and its strategic position is quite important, he doesn't feel sorry for anyone, and immediately shouted: "Qu Neng, you have been on the battlefield for a long time, how should you deal with today's battle?" ”

The prince was the first to ask him, it was the importance of his Qu Neng, Qu Neng was very excited, fought out of the queue, hugged his fists and said: "Back to Your Highness, I have three guards in Zhangye City, a total of 16,800 soldiers, plus the prince's 10,000 guards, up to 25,000 people, and the rest must stay in the city to ensure law and order." These people are not enough to relieve the siege of Jiuquan, and they must wait for the arrival of reinforcements from Shandan, Yongchang, Liangzhou, Zhuanglang, and Xining before they can act, otherwise it will be a tactic of adding fuel and letting the other side break through one by one. ”

Zhu Ao thought so, they were all two shoulders and one head, not because you were a Ming soldier, the other party would be afraid of you, if you want to defeat the opponent, you must first have enough strength to match it, 25,000 people fight more than 60,000 people, that is not brave, it is a lack of heart, nodded heavily, and said: "The soldiers of those guards will not be able to come until noon, but they also have to defend their own cities, each guard post can only dispatch a maximum of 2,000 people, a total of 10,000 people." This was Zhu Ao's greatest weakness, facing the enemy on three sides, with Warat in the north, Qinghai and Mongolia in the south, and the Uighurs in the west.

Qu Neng frowned, and said very embarrassed: "Ten thousand people is a bit less, but it is better than nothing, and now it can only be like this." ”

Zhu Ao suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "No, we still have an army that is useless. ”

Qu Neng and the generals were very puzzled, they couldn't be more clear about how many families Su Fan had, where was there any army?

Zhu Ao gave an order to Wei Yansheng and said: "Wei Changshi, you immediately draft a warrant for this king, the enemy is current, all the prisoners of my Su country who are willing to join the army, immediately exempt themselves from slavery, if they can behead one level on the battlefield, they can be exempted from the slavery of the whole family, and if they can make meritorious contributions again, there will be another heavy reward." ”

Hearing Zhu Ao's words, everyone suddenly understood, they still have tens of thousands of prisoners in their hands, these people are all criminals in the Lanyu case, the Lanyu case killed all the generals of the imperial court, and their families also have some military foundation.

As for the people who defected to him, Zhu Ao didn't think about it at all, there is no difference between people who have not been trained to go to the battlefield and send them to death, Zhu Ao has always pursued a policy of elite soldiers, and would rather lack than abuse. It's better to partner with your pig teammates than to go it alone.

Wei Yansheng didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took the order and left. After arranging this matter, all that remained was to wait for the army to gather at noon, and then go to relieve the siege of Jiuquan. Next, it's time for Zhu Ao to solve Lan Youcheng's matter.

Zhu Ao's eyes lit up, and he said to the generals in a very majestic tone: "Generals, please wait here for a while, and this king will come when he goes." Then he turned to the guard and said, "Bring your people and come with this king." ”

At this time, where did Che Gang dare to slack off, the string in his head collapsed tightly, and he clenched his fists and said to Zhu Ao: "Obey orders!" Then he waved his hand and took a dozen guards with Zhu Ao.

Zhu Ao's current mood is not bad, nor is it very bad, but very, very, very bad, frankly he still likes Lan Youcheng very much, although he is more fraternal, but he is at least sincere to each of his women, and has never had the idea of playing, since he has possessed it, he should be responsible for her life to the end. But what I never expected was that Lan Youcheng would do such a thing? This king is really blind, why didn't he see that she was this kind of person before?

When did the two of them hook up? Could it be that when this king entered Beijing? It can only be this time, this little girl, I really don't know whether to live or die, this king saved your and your mother's lives, you keep saying that you want to repay this king, is this how you repay it?

It is easy for people to lose their minds when they are angry, and Zhu Ao is also a human being, so in the face of this situation, he naturally thinks about the worst things.

Zhu Ao led people to Lan Youcheng's room, where many palace maids and eunuchs had gathered, and Huai En was leading people to maintain order there. Che Gang is Zhu Ao's chief of guard, and naturally bears the responsibility of opening the way for the leader, shouting: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, the prince is here!" ”

Everyone saw Zhu Ao coming with a fierce guard, knowing that there would definitely be blood today, and the virtuous concubine was afraid that she would not be able to eat and walked around, so she knelt on both sides without daring to make a sound, and kowtowed in unison: "Slaves and maids see the prince, the prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

Zhu Ao was still in the mood to care about them at this time, and he didn't even bother to say anything about being polite, and walked straight to Lan Youcheng's room, which was the scene of the crime.

Zhu Aohu looked inside with a face, and the scene inside was exactly the same as the palace maid described, Wang Xianrong's body was lying on the ground not far from Lan Youcheng's bed, and there was a very obscene expression on his face. Lan Youcheng, on the other hand, sat on the bed like a fool, motionless, without a trace of blood and vitality on his face.