The cavalry of the two Yan armies rushed from the left and right, riding on this evil and abnormal demon wind, and crashed into the crowding southern army infantry formation with an indomitable momentum like a mountain torrent.

At this time, the hearts of the people of the world generally have a deep fear of the gods of heaven and earth, seeing the two armies when this sudden, in an instant, the wind that made the heaven and earth change color actually made those neighing and impacting horses and knights in the wind and dust turned into a demon like a terrible, the southern sergeant generals all suspected that this Yan Wang Zhu Di used the demon method in front of the two armies, and the army was scattered, and they threw down their weapons one after another, trampled on the enemy's war horses, and turned around and fled in the pursuit of the sword.

When Sheng Yong, the governor of the southern army, was about to lead the army to meet the battle, the wind blew in his face, and the war horses of tens of thousands of cavalry saw that the sky was dark, and the power of heaven and earth in the wind was also in turmoil, and the war horses were frightened and neighed. After waiting for Sheng Yong, Ping'an and the others reluctantly opened their eyes with red eyes, and more than 100,000 foot soldiers of the Southern Army fled half a mile away, and the tragic situation of the oncoming impact was immediately displayed in front of them.

The two infantry phalanxes of the southern army totaled no less than 150,000 people, mixed with more than 20,000 Yan cavalry, like the tide of the Qiantang River, swept in with a momentum of thousands of miles. Not far behind them, there were about 100,000 people, and the imposing Yan army infantry chased and killed. ”“

Seeing that there was such a defeat in an instant, Sheng Yong's eyes were dark, and he was angry when he stepped down, and after opening his mouth and spurting out a mouthful of blood, his brain was slightly sober, and he rode forward when he boarded, leading a group of cavalry to rush away from the battlefield in front of the chaotic army.

Tens of thousands of cavalry of the Southern Army, led by Ping'an, turned their horses' heads one after another, and there were more than 200,000 enemy troops behind them.

The Yan army took advantage of the victory to chase and kill dozens of miles, and the casualties of the southern army were close to 100,000.

In the spring and March of the third year of Jianwen, General Pingyan and Licheng Hou Shengyong led 200,000 troops to meet Zhu Di in Jiahe and returned defeated. Well, to be precise, he was not defeated by Zhu Di, but by a sudden wind.

In the dark night, the candles in the tent of the Yan army marshal were bright, Zhu Di stood up and laughed loudly: "The sky has eyes, and I don't want to make trouble in the court, so I especially help this king to Fengtian today, turn the tide, kill the husband Shengyong, and escape safely, it's really fast." ”

Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and other generals heard the words and all of them responded to the promise, smiling happily and with high morale. It turned out that the southern army was in turmoil under today's strong wind, and many soldiers could not raise the slightest resistance in the face of such a strange scene of the changing world and the world, and they were defeated all the way, not only suffered heavy casualties, but also were captured by the Yan army tens of thousands of people. Zhu Di was open-minded, and immediately set up a banquet in the handsome tent to show his reward.

Zhu Quan drank all the wine in the cup and sat down, turned his head to look around, and saw that everyone from Zhu Di and below was dancing with their eyebrows, and no longer saw the decadent Tang Dynasty of last year's Dongchang fiasco, he couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, and quietly said: The sky has eyes? Don't want to be traitorous in the DPRK and China? Hehe, I think that people like Zhu Laosi will not believe in the Mandate of Heaven, but as long as the generals believe it and all the soldiers believe it. Recalling the strange and extremely violent wind when he defeated Sheng Yong today, although Zhu Quan still didn't believe in the false theory of ghosts and gods, he still had a trace of indescribable awe in his heart for this unfathomable power of heaven and earth, just because he knew that in this decisive battle between Zhu Di and himself that he couldn't afford to lose, this wind of flying sand and rocks not only changed the fate of Zhu Di, himself, and thousands of people, but even changed the history of China.

If the Yan army suffered another crushing defeat under Dongchang City today, Zhu Quan estimated that even if he could escape his life, he would never return to Beiping, but quietly turned back to Daning and ran away immediately with his wife and children. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling of impermanence and indescribable impermanence.

After the defeat of Jiahe, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen surprised Zhu Di, and Zhu Quan did not change the general again, except for the strict reprimand of Pingyan General Sheng Yong in the decree, he did not punish and demote, but still let him lead the imperial army to suppress the rebellion as always.

Sheng Yong was grateful to Dai De for considering that the Yan army was strong, and it was difficult to rush to the next level, so he simply adopted the strategy of clearing the wilderness and sticking to the fortified city, so as to avoid forming a situation of a large army in the wilderness with the Yan army again.

The big city could not be captured, the small city was gained and lost, and the Yan army was always blocked in the north of Shandong, and it was difficult to make a strategic breakthrough.

The autumn wind is bleak, the yellow leaves are falling slowly, in the backyard of the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping, Zhu Quan sat under the pavilion, looked carefully at a letter handed by Zhu Di, and couldn't help frowning and muttering. It turned out that this secret letter came from the Forbidden City of Yingtian, the current master of the Ming Dynasty, and it was the eunuch Bai Zheng, who had served Zhu Yunwen since childhood, quietly teleported to the dead soldiers under Zhu Di who was secretly in charge of Yingtian, and came to Beiping.

With a slight sound of footsteps, Dao Yan, who was wearing a black monk's robe, slowly walked to the front of the pavilion, and asked Zhu Di and Zhu Quan together, "I don't know what happened to His Highness seeing the summons?" ”

Zhu Di waved his hand and asked Dao Yan to sit down opposite the bluestone table, gently pushed Bai Zheng's letter down in front of Dao Yan, frowned and asked: "Although the imperial army is unable to go north at the moment, but I am cramped in a corner of the enemy The momentum of the world is difficult to break. ”

Dao Yan was also silent after reading the letter, and for a while the three people in the pavilion were silently facing each other, only the tea stove on the stove next to the table was "gurgling" in the slight fire, and a wisp of tea fragrance came out.

Zhu Quan thought back to the current situation, and secretly thought to himself: Although Zhu Laosi and I seem to have some gambling books in our hands, we have always dealt a fatal blow to Zhu Yunwen, the dealer. The northern land, on which we are now based, is far inferior to the imperial court in terms of troops, financial resources, and population. No matter how flattering our rhetoric is, rebellion and rebellion are always rebellions, and they are not as justifiable as the imperial court's rebellion and rebellion. If a protracted war of confrontation between the north and the south is formed, I am afraid that as time goes by, the war-weariness in the hearts of those soldiers and soldiers who followed us in the battle of Jingjing will gradually develop, and the situation will become more and more unfavorable to us.

Dao Yan put the letterhead on the table and asked softly, "I don't know what His Highness's difficulties are?" ”

"Jinan, Shandong is difficult to capture, Xuzhou, Jiangsu is the key to the north, the gateway to the south, and the heavy troops of the fortified city are not comparable to Jinan. When Zhu Di talked about Jinan, he couldn't help but think of the Shandong governor Tie Xuan, who led the army and civilians to resist the 200,000 army in Jinan, and swore to die despite the turbulent waves of the Yellow River, and couldn't help but have a headache.

Zhu Quan recalled the experience of almost dying in the hands of Tie Xuan under the city of Jinan, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously flashed a wry smile.

Dao Yan smiled and said: "When Xia Yu ruled the water, I divided China into Kyushu, Xuzhou is one of them, it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, and all dynasties have been heavily armed here even if they have not been in war. ”

Zhu Quan secretly thought in his heart: The land of Xuzhou is close to the Yellow Sea in the east, the Central Plains in the west, the Lunan Mountains in the north, and the Jianghuai Plain in the south. It can supervise the four provinces of Sulu, Henan and Anhui. From there, it marches to the east, west, north and south, all like mountains and flowing water, unstoppable. It can be said that the time of the conquest to the north, the throat of the south, from ancient times to the present, and then to the next hundreds of years, around Xuzhou broke out of the two armies of the decisive battle countless, it can be seen that its strategic value is seen, although this city is not as majestic as the construction of the sky, because of its geographical location is extremely special, like a huge rock horizontally placed on the throat of the north-south artery.

Dao Yan took down the teapot and filled it for the three of them, and suddenly smiled: "Your Highness is in the heavens, aiming to come to Beijing and punish the traitors in the court." Why do you abandon the basics? Do you have to go all the way to Jinan, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou? If we move south so steadily, I am afraid that before we can cross the Yangtze River, our army will be dragged down by the endless army of the imperial court. ”

Zhu Quan couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, he had been fighting for a long time, and he naturally understood in his heart that Dao Yan said that the Yan army was not a lie, and it must be known that the protracted battle between the two armies was not just a battle, a place, or even a city's gains and losses. At present, the Ming Dynasty's taxes come from far more from the south than from the north, and in terms of grain production and population, the north cannot be compared with the southern provinces. The disadvantages of the protracted war for the Yan army, which were cramped in the northern corner, were self-evident.

Seeing Zhu Di frowning and silent, Dao Yan said with a smile: "Your Highness, you have nothing to do today, why don't you talk about a game?" ”

Zhu Di's contented and resourceful teacher asked for a game at this time, and naturally it would not be because he had nothing to do, so he immediately turned his head and said two words to the maid standing on the side of the small pavilion.

After a while, the maid took a pair of chess pieces made of Nanmu and placed the chess pieces in the chessboard on the stone table between Zhu Di and Daoyan.

Dao Yan looked at Zhu Di after taking two sips of hot tea, and then looked at Zhu Quan, who was watching chess on the side, and asked lightly: "The ancients played a game together, and secretly combined the magic of the art of war." From the eyes of the two highnesses, what is the biggest difference between the battle between the two armies and this game? ”

Zhu Di and Zhu Quan didn't know what Yan Yan was referring to, so they were silent.

Dao Yan twisted a red "soldier" from his side with the middle finger of his right hand, and chuckled: "In the old man's opinion, soldiers, treacherous ways, and ever-changing, how can a small chessboard show its wonders." Even if the national player and the mediocre hand play against each other, they must follow the rules of one person's next step. After saying that, he put the chess pieces in his hand on the chessboard three times, and the red "soldier" had already crossed the Chu River and Han border and ate one of Zhu Di's black "pawns".

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment and heard Dao Yan's words, thought about it for a while, his chest was clear, and after walking a black "horse" under his hand for a "day", he seemed to feel that the other party's unreasonable soldier crossing the river was too dangerous, and suddenly the horse walked in a straight line and ate the opponent's red soldier.

Although Zhu Quan is not good at chess, he also knows that it is the basic rule of chess for horses to go diagonally, cars to go in a straight line, and to hit mountains with cannons. ”

For a while, Dao Yan and Zhu Di launched a tragic and abnormal battle with such a non-common sense play, but after a few rounds, the red rooks, horses, and cannons on Dao Yan's chess table were almost swept away by Zhu Di. It turned out that Zhu Di was originally an extremely smart person, and at this time, after the war, he had no shackles in his heart. It is often Dao Yan who eats one of his sons, and he even eats two or three sons of the other party when he walks a few steps.

Dao Yan looked at the opponent's chess pieces, which were far more than his own, and said with a smile: "If you attack the city and seize the land, and move forward steadily, how can I have so many troops under my command?" ”

Zhu Quan looked at the black "elephant" and black "soldier" on the chessboard that Zhu Laosi had crossed the Chu River and Han realm, and he couldn't help but laugh when he was pressed by a large soldier and wanted to swallow the opponent alive. I secretly thought to myself in my heart, Zhu Laosi is indeed an old rascal who does not follow common sense, and this kind of method is exactly what he wants.

Dao Yan twisted up his red "handsome" and smiled lightly: "Break the shackles in your heart, you have to be free, even if you fight for the camp step by step, your Highness, why not take a risk, and attack thousands of miles." Speaking of which, the red "handsome" who was holding his fingers in the middle of the food refused to sit at home honestly, and treated it as a "car" without stopping.

With a soft sound of "pop", Dao Yan's red "handsome" ate Zhu Di's "general", and the dove occupied the magpie's nest.

The outcome has been decided, Zhu Di, Zhu Quan saw Dao Yan's whimsical and traceless tactics, and looked at the chess table that there was no longer the slightest role at all, and the "thousands of troops" under the command of black chess, and couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

Zhu Di silently took a side from the Forbidden City of Yingtian, and the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen sent an order to dispatch the garrison of the guard near Yingtian to the north, and returned to the city to wait for Sheng Yong's command of the secret letter, and once again looked at it word by word.

Zhu Quan saw that Dao Yan was so unpredictable and difficult to understand the tactics of common sense, stared down at the small chessboard, had thousands of thoughts in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: In the battle of Jiahe, I can't wait to defeat Sheng Yong, but the soldiers and horses, grain and grass, population, and taxes in the hands of the imperial court are far from being comparable to us. Jingshi Ying Tianyuan was 2,000 miles away from Beiping, the army turned to fight thousands of miles, and the lone army went deep into the south. What's more, there is a moat-like Yangtze River on the way south, and Jingshi Yingtian is the first fortified city of the Ming Dynasty that Old Man Zhu ordered to build, how can it be easily conquered? After weighing the pros and cons in his mind, it was difficult to express any opinion on Dao Yan's surprise attack in a hurry, which was not in line with the common sense of the soldiers.

After sitting silently for a while, Zhu Di stood up, bowed to Dao Yan and said with a smile: "The teacher's words made this king suddenly open, just because the matter is big, and if it is not this king, he can make a decision in a hurry." ”