Zhu Quan smiled dumbly and said: "If you lose, you will be dismissed, and if you win, you will be reinstated. The imperial court, a high-ranking member of the imperial court, and the secretary of the military department in charge of the world's military affairs, has made such a child's play, and the methods of His Majesty the emperor are really a little young and vigorous in the eyes of this king. "It turned out that the six Shangshu were from the second product during the reign of Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen listened to Fang Xiaoru's words after ascending the throne and raised the six Shangshu from the second product to the first product, and added a position of servant between Shangshu and Shilang. This change in the system elevated the six Shangshu to the same level as the capital division. Since Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, the rank of the capital is higher than that of any civil official. Therefore, the authority and status of the six Shangshu in the Ming Dynasty are completely different from those in the Hongwu period.

Zhu Di recalled this secret letter from the Forbidden City, serving Zhu Yunwen all day long, and the eunuch Bai Zheng, and couldn't help laughing: "The order of the dynasty is changed every day, in the eyes of this king, this son is just a hairy child who doesn't know the etiquette of the court and the affairs of the military." ”

Dao Yan took two sips of hot tea and did not put it down, while feeling the warmth on the teacup with both hands, he smiled lightly: In the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, everyone in the world thought that Zhao Kuo was a soldier on paper, and it was purely self-sufficient to fight against Bai Qi, who won a hundred battles against the Qin State. I have long forgotten that if it weren't for the stupid and useless King Zhao to change generals, replacing Lian with Zhao Kuo would definitely greatly shake the morale of the army, otherwise how could Changping be defeated? Therefore, even if Sheng Yong knows how to fight well, the poor monk thinks that the final victory or defeat of this war in the world is still decided by His Royal Highness and Zhu Yunwen. ”“

Zhu Quan has been on the battlefield for a long time, and in the past, he had followed Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu and other famous generals, and his knowledge was very different from the past, and he knew that when the two armies were fighting against each other, the practice of changing generals in battle was such a taboo for soldiers, and the shaking of the morale of the army was undoubtedly at the bottom of the kettle. Everyone in the world is happy with the clouds, and after doing that, Zhuge is the same. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promoted Changping Hou Weiqing, and the champion Hou Huo went to illness and beat the Huns, didn't he have no experience in battle? It's a pity that the battle is just a hero who has always been judged by victory or defeat. When he said this, he secretly thought to himself: The famous generals of the ancient times are not the same, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, who has never led the army to fight but can beat the prosperous Huns all over the ground, and they are indeed geniuses without defeat, but more famous generals start from the pawns, and they are lucky not to be taken away by God when they are mixed on the battlefield, and they become famous after accumulating enough experience. Any inexplicable fiasco with a huge advantage is blindly commanded by a mediocre top decision-maker. Any famous player must have a decision-maker who does not mix things up and give them enough support in order to make the most of their talents.

Winter goes to spring, and everything recovers. At the beginning of March of the third year of Jianwen (1341), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, led an army of 120,000 to the south. The governor of the southern army, General Pingyan, and Hou Shengyong of Licheng mobilized several armies totaling 200,000 to go north, and the two armies faced each other on the north bank of the Jiahe River.

The sky was clear and cloudless, and a horse with a black body and four hooves like snow lowered its head from time to time to nibble on the tender green grass on the ground.

Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who was wearing armor, looked at the crowds of people outside Li Xu on the opposite side, and knew that the southern army had at least tens of thousands more troops than his own army, and his heart couldn't help but feel like a heavy lead. It turned out that after the defeat of Dongchang last year, the Yan army suffered heavy casualties, this time Zhu Di only left a small number of troops to guard Beiping, and he had already poured out his nest, and could no longer withstand the defeat of Dongchang.

The southern army is divided into three parts of the array, in the shape of an inverted "pin", the left and right two convex front are all a phalanx composed of about 70,000 foot soldiers, the peripheral soldiers hold shields, resist the arrows of the Yan cavalry, the inner layer is densely packed with strong bows and crossbows, fire marksmen, the center is more numerous, holding up to eight feet of spears of foot soldiers. All the cavalry, under the command of Du Commander Ping'an, lived about half a mile behind the infantry phalanx.

Sheng Yong, who was wearing armor and armor, stood in front of tens of thousands of cavalry, calmly looking at the cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Yan Army in the distance, and the formation of foot soldiers in the middle. Originally, with such a battle in the wilderness and flat land, as the main general, he should try his best to avoid being struck by the surging cavalry of the other side with foot soldiers, but since the victory of Dongchang last year, which severely damaged all the cavalry such as Zhu Di's Yanshan guards, Sheng Yong firmly believes that with this strong force, the phalanx of spears and spears is enough to resist the impact of the opponent's cavalry.

Zhu Di rode his horse and stood under the banner of Shuai, looked at the enemy's dominant position from a distance, gritted his teeth and waved his hand to order.

In the continuous sound of horns that shook the sky, Zhu Quan led 10,000 cavalry on the left flank to ride out, and gradually accelerated to rush forward. At the same time, Zhu Neng, the general of the Yan army, led more than 10,000 cavalry to rush out from the right flank. The two cavalry wings of the Yan army launched at the same time and attacked forward.

Sheng Yongyao saw that Zhu Di really launched an offensive with cavalry as he expected, and immediately ordered the phalanx to raise a shield to meet him.

The outermost soldiers of the huge phalanx of the Southern Army tried their best to hold their shields high under the scolding and restraint of thousands of households and hundreds of households, blocking their vision. At this time, although the Yan army galloped forward, but it had not yet entered the range of bows and arrows, and the shield was not only to defend against the arrows fired by the enemy's galloping troops, but more importantly, it was to cut off the sight of their own soldiers, because the scene of thousands of horses galloping was really like a landslide and tsunami, which was too terrifying, and it was very easy to make a group of foot soldiers panic in fear.

The rapid sound of horses' hooves converged into a huge sound like a storm crashing on the shore, and there were constantly soldiers in the phalanx of the infantry of the Southern Army who collapsed because of the touching tremor under their feet, or fell to the ground, or howled and cried, and in an instant, they killed the thousands and hundreds of households who roared and slashed down with knives, so as not to shake the hearts of the army.

Zhu Quan, who came on horseback, leaned over the horse, and saw that the place he was in was already close to about 200 paces, and under the angry roar, he suddenly rode his horse and leaned out, no longer rushing straight towards the huge formation of the enemy.

After all, the horse's foot strength is limited, so controlling the speed of the mount is very important, and the Yanshan escort cavalry saw the military flag behind King Ning to guide them, and immediately rode their horses and followed them.

Thousands of troops galloped towards the right flank of the enemy's large formation, like a torrent suddenly changing direction.

Almost at the same time, the archers in the Southern army array struggled to open their bows, and the archers who were ready to shoot released their middle fingers that were clamping the wings at the end of the arrows at the sound of the horn of the command. Countless feathered arrows flew diagonally in an instant, the whizzing sound of the arrows cutting through the air and the sound of the bowstrings vibrating into a continuous one.

Under the leadership of Zhu Quan and Zhu Neng, the cavalry of the Yan army, which was divided into two wings, invariably diagonalized and rushed towards the two flanks of the enemy's large formation, avoiding a frontal assault on the enemy.

Although Zhu Quan suddenly led the army to run diagonally, the enemy's arrow rain covered a wide area, and it was difficult to avoid more than 10,000 cavalry speeding down.

The galloping cavalry of the Yan army rushed diagonally, like a huge giant python from dozens of steps away from the right flank of the southern army's large array.

When the two armies staggered, dense arrows flew staggered, and there were constantly Yan army knights or southern sergeants in the array who were killed by arrows.

"Dark clouds cover snow" came at a gallop, Zhu Quan leaned over the horse, opened his bow sideways and released arrows, and there were arrows that were unreachable to the naked eye around his side.

Although the cavalry of the Yan army did not directly charge into battle, the momentum of galloping thousands of horses at such a close distance was terrifying, and there were finally hundreds of soldiers at the rear end of the two southern army formations who could not bear this huge visual and hearing impact, and turned around and fled backwards in embarrassment.

General Pingyan, who was standing on horseback, saw the defeated army rushing in, waved his hand with a calm face, and the cavalry of the southern army behind him saw the defeated and fleeing army approaching, and immediately opened their bows and arrows. Random arrows rained down, and in an instant, these robes were shot and killed on the spot.

Zhu Quan led the cavalry behind him to run diagonally in the gallop, and turned around outside the range of the bow and arrow of the cavalry brigade of the Southern Army.

Sheng Yong knew that Zhu Di was good at cavalry combat, so he went to the winter to train the infantry phalanx in order to restrain the Yan cavalry. If at this time he needed to face the Yanshan guard cavalry with 40,000 or 50,000 people before the Battle of Dongchang, of course, he would not use his foot soldiers to shake the strong Yan cavalry in the wilderness. In his opinion, whether it is a foot soldier or a cavalry, his side has a clear advantage in terms of strength, so he only needs to hold his own position, and when the enemy's horse strength is exhausted after two rounds of impact, he relies on his strong forces to counterattack and go up, so that he can kill this Yan Shun Zhu Diqian, who is surprisingly good at winning, has poor skills, and is defeated and lost.

Zhu Di saw Zhu Quan and Zhu Neng both of them returning with the army in vain, looking at the other party's still crowded and not scattered military formation, although his face was still calm, but he sighed secretly in his heart.

After a group of cavalry lined up slightly, Zhu Di rode out of the horse, took the position of the main general of Zhu Quan's right flank, led the army to attack and disturb him, and tried to repeat the old tricks, forcing the enemy army to scatter with bows and arrows, and taking the opportunity to break into the huge phalanx composed of the enemy's foot soldiers, and break it in one fell swoop.

The cavalry of the Yan army saw Zhu Di personally go out, and couldn't help but be vigorous, but the southern army was strong, and after the confrontation, the panic in the hearts of the soldiers and generals gradually disappeared, and the morale was greatly boosted, and they guarded their own large array without entering, so that Zhu Di had no way to start. The bows and arrows of the two armies shot at each other, and each suffered a loss of thousands of men and horses, and the cavalry of the Yan army still could not disrupt the formation of the southern army by relying on cavalry shooting.

Zhu Quan rode his horse and stood in front of the Yan army's more than 90,000 foot soldiers, and looked at the Yan army's cavalry in the distance and did not directly impact the enemy's large array, and couldn't help but secretly smile bitterly in his heart: Under the confrontation between the two armies, Zhu Laosi and Sheng Yong were only equal, and the advantage of tens of thousands of troops in the imperial army was enough for Sheng Yong to firmly control the battle situation. He knew very well that the combat strength of the cavalry depended on the strength of the horses and feet, and at this time the two armies seemed to have suffered damage to each other, and there was no distinction between victory and defeat, but the enemy still had 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry troops under the leadership of the fierce general Ping'an, and the situation had unconsciously gradually tended to be more favorable to the southern army. If the imperial army only had 20,000 or 30,000, or even 40,000 or 50,000 foot soldiers, Zhu Di and Zhu Quan would have already led the army to charge into battle, relying on the impact of the cavalry to forcibly break through the enemy formation, but the two infantry formations on the left and right of the opponent had at least 70,000 or 80,000 troops each, and it was definitely not more than 10,000 cavalry that could be hard to shake.

Seeing that Zhu Di led the army to turn the horse's head and return to the main position, Sheng Yongqiang, the governor of the southern army, passed down the military order in a deep voice according to the impulse of giving an order to lead the army to pursue safely.

Under the banner of the handsome handsome, the war drums in the phalanx of the infantry of the Southern Army rose to the sky and resounded in the sky.

The commander of the battle armor commanded Ping An to raise his spear diagonally and rode in front of the southern army, and the cavalry of the southern army cheered up and prepared to fight.

Sheng Yong heard the war drums and horns rising to the sky in his ears, and said silently: "One drum is vigorous, then it declines, and three times it is exhausted." Zhu Di, you don't have any more chances. After that, he stretched out his hand and pulled out a three-foot long sword, and when the Yan army launched again, he wanted the whole army to counterattack and lock in the victory.

Seeing the great victory of the southern army in the distance, Zhu Di was not to be outdone, rode his horse and walked forward slowly, standing in front of all the cavalry and cavalry of the Yan army, and raising his long sword obliquely.

The more than 100,000 Yan soldiers, who were unable to rush into battle twice, saw Zhu Di, who was standing tall in sweat and blood, with a majestic and majestic posture, and took the lead in the posture of a soldier, and they all pulled out their swords, raised their spears and let out a heaven-shattering roar.

Seeing the scene of the two armies looking at each other angrily in the wilderness between heaven and earth, with a total of 300,000 soldiers and horses facing each other, just waiting for the commander to give an order, Zhu Quan couldn't help but be arrogant, and felt a cruel and abnormal beauty.

Sheng Yongyao saw that the enemy army was quite strong, but he was unmoved in his heart, just because he knew that Zhu Di had given everything he had in this battle, not to mention defeat, even if he won a miserable victory, he couldn't afford to win. Even if most of the imperial army is lost today, as long as most of the rebels can be annihilated in a tragic victory, but a few months later, when the imperial army will come to Beiping again, the thief Zhu Di and Zhu Quan will be unable to fly and be defeated.

The breeze came after itself, and as the wind grew stronger, the flags of the two armies were all hunted and danced. But in a moment, a northeasterly wind that blew stronger and stronger came after itself, rolling the grass clippings on the ground into the air.

At this time, the Yan army was arrayed in the northeast, while the southern army was in the southwest. Zhu Di felt the wind rushing behind him, and immediately cut off the long sword in his right hand and slashed down, riding his horse forward.

With the sound of the earth-shattering horn, Zhu Quan, Zhu Neng and other generals followed Zhu Di and led their respective military horses to dispatch. However, in a moment, the more than 100,000 troops standing against the wind were like a wave of anger coming from the wind, surging towards the enemy army outside the room.

Zhu Quan rode his horse and galloped for only a hundred steps, only to feel that the sky was clear and the sky seemed to have cast a demon spell on people, and suddenly the sky was dark, and there was a state of flying sand and rocks under the strong wind.

The dust and grass clippings came in the wind, so that the soldiers and colonels of the Southern Army who were ready to fight were all blinded by dust and sand, and the morale of the army was in great confusion, and the arrows shot by the archers barely flew out of the wind and landed on the ground with all their strength, and they could not form any effective damage to the oncoming enemy cavalry.