"Your Majesty, the reason why Timur the Cripple is called a neck is because he has a broken leg, but do you know how his leg is broken?" Hu Ye asked Zhu Di loudly, and when he saw that Zhu Di and Zhang Yu both shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know, Hu Ye continued.

"Actually, Weichen doesn't know." Hu Ye shrugged his shoulders, which attracted the collective disdain of Zhang Yu and Zhu Di, but Hu Ye didn't care and continued to speak.

"Although Weichen doesn't know how his leg was broken, I know that there was also a person with a broken leg in our history, although he only broke his toe, but he wrote a strange book like Sun Tzu's Art of War, so the sentence of being disabled Zhijian is very reasonable."

"The cripple Timur had a broken leg more than twenty years ago, but his whole career was also after he was broken, because he knew that if he didn't work hard, he would become a waste and be spurned by the world. So he worked hard, and in the second year after he broke his leg, he led an army of 100,000 troops to the west, and in one month destroyed Persia and captured the two river valleys. Sixteen years ago, he had already conquered Khorezm, fourteen years ago, he went north to conquer the Golden Horde, and for another five years, he marched south to attack India, which had blocked Genghis Khan, but he still captured it. Six years ago, he detained the envoys of our court, and he already had the heart of disobedience, but he was too busy with the appeasement at that time to take care of it. Now take a closer look, the ambition of the cripple Timur, I am afraid that it is not weaker than Genghis Khan, these years of expeditions to the east and west, has laid a large area of land, its territory has far surpassed my Ming Dynasty, this time the crusade is to destroy us, and then conquer Mongolia, to complete the great cause of restoring the Mongolian Khanate, its heart can be punished! Hu Ye said loudly, in fact, the deeds of the cripple Timur back then. Hu Ye didn't know much, there were ingredients mixed with his compilation, but most of his own, that product was really ambitious, if it wasn't for the sudden death of that goods, I was afraid that it would really have a great war with the Ming Dynasty.

After hearing Hu Ye's words, Zhu Di and Zhang Yu's faces became gloomy, neither of them expected that a cripple would be so powerful that he wanted to complete the task that Genghis Khan had not completed back then.

"Hearing you say that, he's invincible?" Zhu Di touched his chin. Then asked Hu Ye loudly.

"Your Majesty, there has never been an invincible person in this world, because everyone has weaknesses. For example, this time, do you know why he didn't go on a crusade himself, but let his grandson come to the crusade? Hu Ye smiled slightly.

"I remember you said earlier that the cripple seems to be sick." Zhu Di said.

"Yes, the cripple is indeed sick, but I don't know how many days I have left to live." Hu Ye spread his hands and said, "So his biggest mistake this time." It was to send his grandson to the East, and it was chosen in the summer, which did not take advantage of the right time and place, and was destined to end badly. ”

"You mean we're going to go all out?" Zhu Di asked again.

"Yes. Not only do they have to attack, but they also have to fight hard to wipe out all their army! Hu Ye said categorically.

Although the territory of the Ming Dynasty is very large, its prestige is not enough. That is, in East Asia and Southeast Asia, there is some prestige, and only some small countries come to pay tribute, which is far from the so-called grand occasion of all nations coming to court.

It's about making a name for yourself all over the world. The best thing to do is to take the strong one. Originally, this strong man was not easy to find, after all, there were no strong people around the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was already struggling, Korea and Japan were even more vulnerable, those small countries in Southeast Asia, a fleet could be destroyed, even if they were all wiped out, it was just a big bully for the small. As for the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the west, it had already been destroyed by Timur.

So now the strong enemy around the Ming Dynasty is only this cripple Timur. If you want to be powerful, you must leave behind this army of 250,000 people!

"Looks like you're agreeing to an all-out attack? So why do you just talk about taking a long-term view? Zhang Yu asked a little puzzled.

"I'm talking about the long term, because I want to make a perfect plan to wipe out all 250,000 people, and if you run away from one team, how can you stand up? Do you want to send back a troop to the cripple Timur? Let him continue to attack us? Hu Ye smiled, he knew that there would be a war after all, and he also knew that if the Ming Dynasty did not fight, when the cripple Timur died of illness, the army would also retreat.

But history has changed, and the neck is still there, which is a threat to the Ming Dynasty after all.

"What are your plans?" Zhu Di listened to Hu Ye's words, and he was also a little moved, his previous idea was to gather 150,000 people in the borderlands, and then mobilize 200,000 people in Sichuan, Henan, and Shanxi to fight an encounter with the invading enemy.

But he never thought of destroying all this army, but now when he heard Hu Ye's words, it actually aroused his competitive spirit, and he wanted to see how strong this so-called undefeated king's army was.

"Eh, Your Majesty, you don't seem to be asking me about this." Hu Ye smiled awkwardly, it was okay to let him come up with an idea, but it was really difficult for him to command an army of hundreds of thousands of people.

"Shimei, do you have confidence?" Zhu Di rolled his eyes, and said in his heart, you are talking nonsense, but you still need others to implement it.

"Your Majesty, most of the land in the Western Regions is the Gobi, if you stick to it, it is naturally not a problem, but if you want to take the initiative, you are only afraid of ......" Zhang Yu is a conservative, because he has passed the age of madness, and the battle of Jingjing has already made him die once, and some things must be cautious.

"There is no fear, even a lame man dares to attack, I will let him have no return!" Zhu Di waved his hand, obviously no matter whether Zhang Yu agreed or not, he had to take the initiative to attack.

"Shimei, this expedition, you are the boss! I will send you both the Duke of Cheng and the Duke of Qi, and all the 350,000 troops on the front line will be deployed by you, and the 5,000 Shenji Battalion will also be sent to you, as well as a hundred hot air balloons. By the way, boy, you go with you, and you can be Shimei's lieutenant, after all, you know a lot of things. Zhu Di made a decision to directly send the three major princes to the expedition, and also to pull Hu Ye along.

"The Emperor's ......"

Hu Ye's face changed, what kind of joke is this, he only went on the expedition last year, and now the doll can't call his father, why do you want to let yourself go on the expedition? Still don't let people live? We have to wait until our children grow up, right?

"Don't say much, if you don't go, you will be disrespectful, be careful that I order your home to be raided." Zhu Di's face turned cold, Hu Ye immediately shut up, this thing is talking so bluntly now, if you don't go, you will raid your house, this is the emperor's right, there is no way, people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads.

"By the way, boy, how is the ship you were talking about? Hurry up and build it for me, calculate the time, Zheng He has been at sea for half a year, and it won't be long before he returns, and the kind of ship you mentioned should come in handy at that time. Zhu Di asked Hu Ye loudly.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the key problem has been solved, and now it's a matter of time, or it won't be long before you can go into the water." Hu Ye said with a sad face.

"That's good, as long as that ship is really as powerful as you say, I will not only forgive you for your deception, but also reward you with gold...... One or two, you're not short of money anyway. Zhu Di thought about it for a long time before he came up with a number, which almost scared Hu Ye to death, this emperor is too picky.

"Thank you, Emperor Longen." Hu Ye was very helpless to thank him, to put it bluntly, what was rewarded was not gold, but the emperor's favor, and no matter how much money was spent, it could not be returned.

Of course, this is someone else's idea, Hu Ye doesn't think so.

"Okay, you go back and prepare first, tomorrow morning the court will announce in court, when the grain and grass are ready, you will lead the army to set off." Zhu Di waved his hand, and Hu Ye and Zhang Yu walked out of Fengtian Palace.

"Boy, do you really have the confidence to destroy those 250,000 troops? If it's really like what you said, then the army is a tiger and a wolf, so vulnerable? ”

After walking out of the Fengtian Palace, Zhang Yu asked Hu Ye with some dissatisfaction. Originally, he also thought that Hu Ye said that he was thinking in the long run, because he didn't want Zhu Di to take the initiative to attack, but he didn't expect that after a long time, he still had to take the initiative to attack, and he wanted to annihilate the enemy.

"Not only are they not vulnerable, but in terms of combat effectiveness alone, they are not at all weaker than our army. And as far as I know, they not only have cold weapons, but also muskets, but they are just like the muskets before us, and they are far inferior to our flintlock pistols. Hu Ye muttered.

"If that's the case, then why do you boast about Haikou, saying that you can wipe them out." Zhang Yu was even more angry, because he was the boss this time, if something went wrong, Zhu Di would be the first person to ask for the blame, and Hu Ye would pat his ass and leave.

"Uncle Zhang, I'm giving you a big gift, think about it, the feat of destroying 250,000 enemies is the grandest since the founding of the country, if it is completed by Uncle Zhang, wouldn't it be a supreme glory, and even the king with a different surname is unknown." Hu Ye said casually.

In fact, he is not completely sure in his heart, especially if he has to take the initiative, that is, the army will either cross the desert or climb over the snow-capped mountains, in short, it is not a good road.

"You're going to kill me this time."

Zhang Yu glared at Hu Ye viciously, but he didn't mean to blame Hu Ye, in his heart, he had long regarded Hu Ye as his own son, and if his son made a mistake, Lao Tzu would bear it.

Looking at the back of Zhang Yu leaving, Hu Ye's heart warmed, this is a good father-in-law, he can't say anything to let him have an accident, isn't it just 250,000 enemies? We still have 350,000 horses, and the Shenji Battalion in hand, and the hot air balloon to take the lead, who is afraid of whom, if we don't destroy you, we won't be surnamed Hu! (To be continued......)