Chapter 33: The Yan Army is Mighty!
"Chitose Yan Wang!"
I don't know who shouted, all the people shouted, the mighty sound swept over the school field, and the red silk on the cannon flew in the wind, competing with the sun and the moon.
"The Yan army is mighty!" Zhu Di stood on the platform, his face was also full of excitement, and his eyes were shining like a pearl, dazzling like a red sun.
"Follow me to make meritorious contributions, there are traitors in the court, we are in addition to the traitors, we are staying in Beiping in order to screen my Ming Dynasty, to kill the Northern Yuan, and not to let them come back, now someone doesn't want us to live, we will use the swords, guns and guns in our hands to reason with the court!"
"Chitose Yan Wang!" The soldiers responded.
The army set out outside the city, and the people of Beiping City were accustomed to it, fighting in the north and in the south, it was the same for them, as long as it did not hinder their lives.
Zhu Gaoxian sat on the horse, and some people recognized him along the way and greeted him one after another, "Fourth prince, my family's sweet potatoes are a fist long, and the second girl next door asked me to turn around and give her some sweet potato seeds." ”
"Okay, it's a good thing, if you don't know how to plant, go to my Zhuangzi and ask. This season's sweet potatoes are harvested, and the vines are put in the cellar, and they may be able to be used next year. In February, I remember to put down the sweet potato chunks, the vines have grown, cut them and plant them, this will be huh? ”
"Yes, yes, the dealers have taught it."
"That's good, let's go!" Zhu Gaoxian saw that he was about to leave the team, so he grabbed the horse's belly and hurriedly chased after him.
Zhu Gaoxu tied a grenade to his waist, I don't know if his father was afraid that the grenade would go off the rails, implicate himself, and prevent Zhu Gaoxu from approaching.
On the contrary, it was Zhu Gaoxian, after rushing up, his father beckoned, "Finished talking?" Would you like to prepare a carriage for you? ”
Zhu Gaoxian was a little speechless, "Dad, if there is a carriage in the marching procession, what do you say the soldiers will think, will you think that Dad, you brought a concubine with the army?" ”
"you little cub, dare to entertain your father?" Zhu Di whipped Zhu Gaoxian's horse buttocks fiercely with a horsewhip, the horse galloped wildly, he couldn't resist it, and shouted "help" all the way, and the soldiers along the way laughed.
At the end of July, Zhu Yunwen personally watched Geng Bingwen set off in the city tower of Yingtianfu, Geng Bingwen, who was close to old age, bid farewell to his comfort nest, and his old body carried a heavy armor, and looked at the city tower of Yingtianfu for the last time, and his heart was already full of sadness.
I don't know if he will be able to take another look at the city tower of Ying Tianfu in his lifetime.
During the Hongwu period, the generals who once followed Emperor Taizu died and killed, and in the end, the only one left was Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing.
The reason why the Marquis of Changxing was named the Marquis of Changxing was because Geng Bingwen guarded Changxing for ten years, resisted Chen Youliang's attacks countless times, and bought a lot of time for Zhu Yuanzhang's early obscene development.
When it comes to defending the city, it can be said that none of the generals in the Hongwu period can compare to Geng Bingwen.
And Zhu Yuanzhang killed all the generals who were good at attacking, but left this Geng Bingwen, who was outstanding in defending the city, and the meaning behind it can be said to be extremely far-reaching.
Right now, this veteran who is good at defending the city will have to have a peak duel with a prime-aged prince who is good at attacking.
Geng Bingwen was a veteran, and Zhu Yunwen gave him 300,000 troops, but when he arrived in Zhending, the assembled troops totaled 130,000.
Among them, 9,000 were garrisoned in Xiongxian by Yang Song, 20,000 were garrisoned in Mozhou by Pan Zhong, and Geng Bingwen himself, with Xu Kai, the commander of the capital, led 100,000 troops to garrison Hejian.
There are a total of three lines of defense, which are in the shape of horns, which can echo each other and form a solid formation to block Zhu Di's southward movement, so as to consume Zhu Di's attack.
This is the wisdom of the veteran, he hopes to delay Zhu Di's footsteps, even if Zhu Di has taken Beiping City and its surroundings now, but it is useless, Zhu Di can't afford it, he lacks food and grass.
If it is said that before there were no cannons and guns, Zhu Di was indeed very passive, and he really couldn't afford it, but at the moment, Zhu Di was not in a hurry, and after leading a total of 60,000 troops to Zhuozhou, he ordered Zhang Yu to spy on Geng Bingwen's reality.
"Fourth, you go with Zhang Yu!" Zhu Di said by name.
Zhu Gaoxian jumped up, looked at his father blankly, and asked, "Why?" Dad, I don't want to be a general. ”
"I'll go, I'll go!" Zhu Gaoxu jumped up, "The fourth brother doesn't go, I'll go!" ”
He touched the grenade on his waist, and you can imagine how impatient he was.
Zhang Yu laughed, "Lord Wang, let's go alone, if the two princes follow and something happens, the last general will be to blame!" ”
Zhu Gaoxian liked to hear this, and he hurriedly said, "General Zhang, you wait, you go to investigate the military situation, this is for you!" ”
He got up and took out a telescope from his bag, made of wood with a polished convex lens embedded in it.
The lens of the convex lens was obtained by Zhu Gaoxian from the glaze factory.
After the Yuan Dynasty unified China, it began to build the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, which required a large number of glazed components, and requisitioned Haiwang Village at that time as an official kiln for firing glazed tiles.
This official kiln later became the official kiln of the Ming Dynasty, but because it was too far away from Ying Tianfu, the business here was not good, so Zhu Gaoxian used some means to change the official to the people and got it into his pocket.
He asked the craftsmen to optimize the structure of the kiln, and after raising the temperature of the furnace fire, he changed the recipe and made the glass into glass.
Zhang Yu held the telescope, he didn't know what it was, and he turned left and right, "Fourth prince, how do you play this?" ”
Zhu Gaoxian raised the telescope and put it next to his eyes, and the 40-fold magnification telescope can still extend the line of sight by a considerable distance.
"Just two eyes come here and look into the distance!"
Zhang Yu only heard the first half of the sentence, but did not hear the second half of the sentence, raised the binoculars, looked at Zhu Gaoxian, a finger-thick eyebrow, close in front of him, so frightened that he almost jumped up, "Ah, what is this?" ”
Zhu Gaoxian was speechless, and pushed the telescope with his fingers to turn in a different direction, "Look into the distance, what do you see me doing?" ”
What did Zhang Yu see?
Looking out, there is a vast wilderness, and the grass and trees in the distance are so clear in the eyes.
Overhead, a bird was chirping, and he followed the sound to see that the bird, which had only one black spot, was completely plumage.
Zhang Yu immediately understood what kind of good thing this was, he took away the binoculars and rubbed his eyes, "Lord Wang, this is a good thing, with this, it is too convenient to detect the enemy, this is the legendary clairvoyance!" ”
Zhu Di was already ready to move, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but snatch the telescope from Zhang Yu's hand, put it in front of him, and looked around, no matter how far away he couldn't see clearly, he could magnify it in his eyes, and he was shocked.