Just as the magnificent scenery of the Northlands is, the men on the fort are also heroic.

Standing behind the battlement, a middle-aged man in armor and a stomach, waving a horsewhip in his hand and pointing at the grassland behind the mountains in the north, full of pride.

"In this life, this king will definitely step on the desert, and even the wolf dwells in Xu Mountain, and set up an altar to sacrifice to the heavens!"

Zhu Di, the king of Daming Yan, who has a few snowflakes floating on his shoulders, has his eyebrows peaking and is majestic.

Beside him were Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song Guogong, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, Wang Bi, the Marquis of Dingyuan, Sun Ke, the Marquis of Quanning, and Zhang Zhiyuan, the commander of the three guards of the Yanwang Mansion and the commander of the Beiping Metropolitan Division, and Qi Jian, the commander of the Kaiping Guard.

Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, and Fu Youde, the Duke of Yingguo, are no longer young now, and they are over fifty or sixty years old. But as the founding merit, the two of them were stationed in the Nine Sides all the year round, and they went out to the north to conquer the grassland with the King of the Nine Border Domains, even if they didn't say a word, they were also majestic.

Seeing that Zhu Di is so proud, he wants to do the old thing of the former Han champion Hou.

Feng Sheng opened his mouth and said: "The prince has stepped on the desert, and even the wolf lives in Xu Mountain, and the old man is designated as the prince's striker. ”

Fu Youde was also not to be outdone: "This forward general must be an old man, personally handsome my Ming Erlang, the thief who killed him fled in the wilderness, and he was terrified when he heard my Ming army!" ”

King Yan and the veteran generals were wantonly venting the heroism in their hearts, and the surrounding Hou Bo generals were also smiling.

In this icy and snowy land, no one is willing to be left behind.

This is the representative of the hundreds of thousands of border soldiers on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Bi, Marquis of Dingyuan, said on the side: "This year, the Warat Department in the west has sent envoys to the south to Yingtian to negotiate peace with the imperial court. Although in the eyes of the last general, I don't have to pay attention to these thieves who were driven out of the Central Plains.

However, the imperial court was concerned about the overall situation, and had already decided to discuss the matter of mutual market with the Warat Ministry. His Majesty also sent His Royal Highness the Taisun to the north, to personally go to the pass to discuss the exchange of markets with the Warat Department.

I think that when the northwest side is temporarily stabilized, the imperial court will be able to fully prepare for the northern expedition on our side. At that time, Your Majesty will definitely appoint the prince as the marshal of the army as usual, and take the last generals out of the customs and horses on the desert grassland! ”

The imperial court's military operations east of the Great Wall against Guanwai were carried out by the King of Yan or King Jin in every northern expedition over the years.

Now King Jin is there.

Think of the location of the Jin Palace.

Everyone on the fort looked at each other knowingly.

Zhu Di's eyes were deep, he naturally knew the thoughts of these veterans in the army, and he also knew more about the inside story.

He opened his mouth and said: "Huai'an Mansion has transported a lot of grain and grass this year, and it will be sent to the northwest when spring begins." There are a lot of things to do in the imperial court, and since the imperial court now has such a meaning, it can also take out its hand to eliminate those shortcomings at the beginning, we must do it in front of the imperial court, and don't let the soldiers in the northwest go hungry. ”

Zhang Zhiyuan spoke at the right time: "The prince is sympathetic to the border army brothers, and the last general will be respectful." The Beiping Metropolitan Division had already rectified the large warehouses in various places a month ago, and only waited for the spring to melt and the roads were solid, and then the grain and grass were shipped to the northwest. ”

Seeing Zhang Zhiyuan speak, the smile on Zhu Di's face became even richer.

For this person who was kicked out of Yingtian at the beginning, Zhu Di always felt that he was his lucky general, and he was the sharpest knife in his hand.

It was this Zhang Zhiyuan, who relied on his true skills to break out of the name of a small killing god outside the nine-sided Great Wall, where there are many heroes and generals.

Next year.

Wait until next year when the imperial court decides on the northern expedition, and when he returns triumphantly, Zhu Di has already thought about asking the imperial court for Zhang Zhiyuan.

The position of a commander of the Beiping Metropolitan Division is always indispensable.

If he operated it properly, he would let Zhang Zhiyuan lead the way as a pioneer general and get the first credit.

I can't say that I can ask for an earl for him to come down to the court.

Listening to Zhang Zhiyuan, before he had any thoughts, he had already arranged for the Beiping Dusi to start preparing for the grain and grass to be sent to the border army on the west side of the Great Wall.

Zhu Di's face was full of satisfaction: "If you have ambitions, this king can focus on the Northern Expedition with peace of mind." ”

King Yan loves the little killing god, which is no secret in Beiping.

Even Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng, who were taken under the command of King Yan and thought were confidants, often lamented that they had fallen out of favor, but they had to admire Zhang Zhiyuan's ruthlessness in the matter of leading the troops to fight.

He really dared to do the kind of thing that only took a hundred and ten people and rushed into the enemy formation of thousands of people.

In view of this, no one in Peking dared to say that Zhang Zhiyuan was not.

For King Yan's praise from time to time at this time, Zhang Zhiyuan has long been used to it.

He just smiled silently and said in a low voice: "It's just that my subordinates think that the imperial court may not have the intention of going north again next year." ”

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the meritorious veterans around Zhu Di.

Naturally, there was a hint of suspicion on people's faces.

You Zhang Zhiyuan is powerful in war, and he is a ruthless character. But the affairs of the imperial court, you can still be so clear, it is like you can guess the emperor's thoughts.

Zhang Zhiyuan was silent.

He didn't know what His Majesty the Emperor would think, but the news from Tang Keke's side from the secret guard was all up to date.

A trace of surprise flashed on Zhu Di's face, and in view of Zhang Zhiyuan's outstanding performance in military strategy, he couldn't help but say: "Why did Zhiyuan say this? ”

"Shanxi Road."

Zhang Zhiyuan just quietly replied.

Zhu Di's brows furrowed.

He knew about the affairs of Shanxi Dao, although he was only the king of the Ming Dynasty, and only when the imperial court had a will, could he command the border army except for the three guards of the Yan Wangfu.

But it doesn't mean that he doesn't know what happened in Beiping and even Hebei Province.

Zhang Zhiyuan said again at this time: "Taisun Xing is in Xingwen Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion, and the soldiers and horses of the guard station control the west road of the mountain. This alone is enough to show that His Royal Highness Taisun is going to take action against Shanxi Dao.

Once the Shanxi Road moved troops, the imperial court would inevitably temporarily stop the northern expedition in order to stabilize the nine borders and prevent the Yuan thieves outside the Guanxi from moving south.

Only when it comes to internal tranquility will the chaos not affect the nine sides, and only then will the imperial court reopen the northern expedition.

The last general was only a shallow learner, but he wanted to come to the imperial court to raise the matter of discussing peace with the Warat Ministry at the moment, in order to stabilize the situation in the northwest and prevent the situation of fighting on both sides of the nine sides. ”

Song Guogong Feng Sheng snorted and said, "What a mess can there be in Shanxi Dao. The Jin Dynasty vassal Taiyuan, these old men often lead the troops to the north under the command of the King of Jin, and there will be no big mess if the King of Jin is in Shanxi Road. ”

"No!"

Zhu Di's eyes were already solemn at this time, and he looked at Feng Sheng: "Brother Xi never fights unprepared. Even if he was criticized in the court for his arrival in Jiaozhi Road, it was also something he did with confidence.

This time, Brother Xi transferred to the Zhending Mansion and Baoding Mansion to the west. Want...... There are also fatwa texts on both sides of Datong and Shanxi Provinces. And Brother Xi is probably in Henan Province at the moment, where there are Lan Yu and Mu Ying, and the new Henan Commander Yu Ma, all of whom are familiar people. ”

As soon as Feng Sheng heard King Yan's reasoning and explanation, he finally understood.

He didn't know it before, but because he had been stationed in Xuanfu Town this year, he didn't know about the situation in Henan Province and Shanxi Province.

However, as the founding meritorious service of the Ming Dynasty and the title of Duke for his merits, Feng Sheng's scheming above the military strategy was the leader of the millions of Ming troops.

He immediately looked worried: "If His Royal Highness Taisun really takes such a lot of pains, it can only mean that the situation in Shanxi Province is likely to far exceed the old minister's imagination......

Fu Youde was on the side, and said with deep meaning: "His Royal Highness Taisun has mobilized local soldiers and horses on a large scale, don't you know Shanxi Dao?" The old minister was quite puzzled by this. ”

The wind and snow on the Great Wall suddenly became heavier.

The cold wind is biting, and the ice and snow slide down the collar of people's backs, slip into the body and melt the body temperature, making people shiver all over the body.

Zhu Di withdrew his gaze from the northern desert and turned to look in the direction of Shanxi Road on the southwest side.

"Maybe the thieves in Shanxi Province are not ignorant, but they are also doing ......"

It is completely impossible for the imperial court to conceal the large-scale mobilization of troops and horses.

The Central Plains is not a grassland outside the Guanwai, tens of thousands of people are scattered out, and in the boundless grassland, it is like gravel entering a river, which is impossible to find.

"How will the grandson decide?"

Quanning Hou Sun Ke said in a low voice.

They are all veterans who have been on the frontier for a long time, and they are away all the year round, and it is rare that they will be called back to Beijing for a period of time in a year.

Going north to the canal, across Zhili, Shandong, Hebei, thousands of miles of journey, a thousand-word essay arrived here, and there was only one sentence left in the end.

The imperial grandson no longer passed by, and he was quite brave and heroic.

This is the perception of Zhu Yunxi, the grandson of the emperor of the current dynasty, from the top and bottom of the nine sides today.

Of course, the border army's biggest understanding of Zhu Yunxi is that the law of military merit and knighthood that the imperial court is now implementing is promoted by this young imperial grandson.

Zhu Di was frowning and recalling the scene of the last time he met the young nephew.

It seems that the old man summoned all the brothers in the family back to the family banquet of the Jingshi.

Among the brothers, the crown prince brother is the most respected and convinced by the brothers. As the second generation of the Ming royal family, although some people are tyrannical, more of them have real skills.

They all followed the old man and came all the way from the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

From time to time, Zhu Di will think that if the prince's brother succeeds to the throne, the world will naturally be smooth sailing.

But what about the future?

The old Zhu family finally fought down, and the people were finally able to live a peaceful life, so they couldn't just disappear in just a few hundred years.

It's just that what Zhu Di didn't expect was that the nephew who was still calling for help from him at the beginning has now grown to such a point.

Zhu Di was a little dazed, but he was also inexplicably relieved in his heart.

"There is no news yet, which means that Brother Xi is working steadily, slowly trying to advance, and being old and serious."

As if feeling that what he said was not enough, Zhu Di said again: "I have a good emperor grandson in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Syllable!

In the wind and snow under the fort, there was a faint whip sound.

There was a scream.

Zhang Zhiyuan walked in a few steps to the direction where the whip sound came from, and looked down from the fort.

I saw that in the snow, the construction of the Great Wall did not stop because of this snowstorm.

Those who had been exiled here with shackles on their feet continued to contribute to the Empire's nine-sided defenses under the lash of the overseers of the Monolith.

The construction of the Great Wall has always been based on the principle of local materials, so as to keep the expenses of the imperial court to a minimum to the greatest extent.

Stone is produced in the mountains around the monolithic fort, so the construction of the Great Wall in this area is based on stone, and the sides and top are reinforced with rammed earth.

The stone is stacked without any adhesive, and the pieces of stone are polished into the desired shape, and then layered on top of each other, and under the weight of the squeeze, they can be tightly sealed.

And the entire Great Wall, not all sections of the Great Wall can be passed on.

The biggest role of the Great Wall has always been to prevent the cavalry on the grassland from charging south.

As long as there is this wall, it can stop the momentum of the steppe cavalry charge, and then drag these cavalry into the familiar combat methods of the Central Plains army.

The imperial court has had money in the past two years, and the construction of the Great Wall has received more money and food, so more people will be transferred to work on the Great Wall.

Under the fort, among the exiles who built the Great Wall, Zhang Zhiyuan saw a familiar figure.

That was Huang Xiang, who was demoted from Ying Tiancheng to Kaipingwei.

After so many years, he didn't even die.

Zhang Zhiyuan's eyes were a little more curious.

Obviously, in such a cold winter, it is natural that the ordinary people who are still working on the Great Wall cannot be those ordinary people who have been requisitioned by the local government.

The imperial court was not strict enough to allow the people under its rule to build the Great Wall in winter.

At this time, these people on the Great Wall were all prisoners of the imperial court, or people who were sent to the border as traitors and criminals.

Treat these people.

With Zhang Zhiyuan's understanding, it is a little better than those Japanese slaves who came back from Yingzhou.

Zhu Di also led people over at this time.

He also saw at a glance the shackles on his feet in the snowstorm under the fort, and his hands holding several smoothed stone slabs.

"That's Huang Zicheng?"

Zhu Di's brows furrowed slightly.

Zhang Zhiyuan nodded and said in a low voice: "This person committed an accident in Yingtian, but he was escorted back to Beiping by the prince. ”

"The king knows him." Zhu Di frowned and said in public: "Why is he still alive?" ”

Kaiping Wei commanded Qi Jian's face to turn pale, and he looked up at the prisoner named Huang Xiang under the fort.

He didn't know that the prince knew about this person.

And what the prince said just now was undoubtedly expressing the dissatisfaction in his heart.

Qi Jian said in a low voice: "Outside the North Gate, I am going to build a few more mountaintop watchtowers, which will be built before the beginning of spring next year, and I will personally watch this matter." ”

Since the prince is dissatisfied that this Huang Yu is still alive, let him freeze to death outside the pass for the defense of the nine sides.

Zhu Di's furrowed brows stretched again.

He had already withdrawn his gaze and turned to look at the people on the fort.

"The safety of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson is related to my Daming Society."

"Shanxi Dao may have an incident, and as a clansman, this king is absolutely impossible to sit idly by."

"In the affairs of the country, the Yan Wangfu is duty-bound."

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