After you think about it.

Zhu Xiongying took a deep breath slightly.

Suddenly, dozens of doppelganger phantoms appeared in the surrounding area.

The divine consciousness locked onto the other mineral deposits marked on the map, and one by one the clones moved away.

…………………

Time, little by little, passes.

In the blink of an eye, the beginning of May, it has arrived.

Zhu Xiongying's death was on May 10.

Forbidden City, by the Taiye Pool.

The warm sun and wind make the two fishing rods move the quiet surface of the lake, creating a slight ripple.

Supreme Emperor Lao Zhu and Emperor Taishang Ah Biao, the two emperors, father and son, sit side by side on the side of this pool to fish.

At this time, both of them frowned very tightly, obviously in a bad mood.

Since Zhu Xiongying's retreat, although Lao Zhu and Ah Biao don't really want to take care of the affairs of the court anymore, this is the so-called lying flat, once a person lies flat for a period of time, it is impossible to roll up again.

But it is impossible to completely ignore it, and every once in a while he will still come to the court meeting in person to judge political affairs and deter the ministers.

"I don't know how long that kid Xiongying will have."

Lao Zhu sighed.

In the current court, there are some problems that he really can't solve.

For example, in a letter recently submitted by Xuantian Eunuch, the main core appeal of Xuantian Eunuch Sacrifice Wine Daoyan is to hope that the imperial court can approve different assessments for Xuantian Eunuch's prisoners from the level of qualifications, and at the same time carry out different resource allocations.

But, here's the problem.

Daoyan did put forward the plan, and it was done in detail, with different definitions for each qualification and corresponding resource allocation.

However, the cabinet members could not understand it.

The cabinet couldn't understand it, so it naturally continued to mention it, but Lao Zhu and Ah Biao couldn't understand it after receiving the medal.

Cultivating this kind of thing, only the Xiongying Grand Master has a rod and scale in his heart in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The concert of the country, the major affairs of the court, it is naturally not okay to reply indiscriminately, and everyone knows the importance of Xuantian Prison, this is the foundation of the future Ming Immortal Dynasty, this first batch of Xuantian Prison prisoners, will be of great use in the future.

Therefore, I can only temporarily suppress the chapter and wait for Zhu Xiongying to come out.

This is just Xuantianjian's recital, at least the text on it can understand what is probably written.

But the piece handed over by the superintendent of heaven is a different one, and I can't even read it.

Lao Zhu and Ah Biao called all the members of the cabinet together, and a large group of old men stared at this recital, staring at it for a day, but they didn't understand what was written in this recital.

What is the "Thermal Efficiency Improvement Scheme for Internal Combustion Engines" and what is the "Rail Balancing Principle"?

"We're all old."

Lao Zhu let out a sigh of emotion.

He never thought that he had been an emperor for more than 30 years, and at the end of the day, he couldn't even understand the music.

Ah Biao also sighed, he has been the prince for more than 30 years, assisting the government and government, and he is well organized, but he didn't expect to be sick for so many years, and he didn't even know how to approve the folds.

It turns out that if you don't keep up with the trend, you can't keep up with the times.

"How's the fourth?"

Lao Zhu changed the topic and asked.

Obviously, I don't really want to mention the government again, because the concerts presented by the yamen such as the Zhangtianjian and the Qiankun Prison are also half a catty and eight taels.

"The fourth brother arrived in the north seven days ago, and is now consolidating the remaining forces in the north to build a second line of fortifications."

After Ah Biao finished speaking, his brows furrowed.

"Father, judging from the battle reports sent back from the front, the Timurid vanguard army has been fighting outside Jiayu Pass for more than ten days, and there is no sign of retreat or repair."

Lao Zhu nodded.

"Well, it's not normal."

Fighting this kind of thing, Lao Zhu, who has been fighting all his life, is naturally familiar with it.

Therefore, he is very aware of the current situation in Jiayuguan.

Generally speaking, this kind of thing is a siege, and it has to be repaired after a few days, after all, soldiers are also people, and it is impossible to fight at high intensity day and night.

According to the battle report from Jiayuguan, the vanguard army of Timur was like a drug, and the soldiers were completely tireless, attacking frantically without stopping at all.

"No news from Sapphire?"

Lao Zhu asked again.

Since the news of the last blue jade came seven days ago, the surprise attack army of blue jade has not been heard from again, as if it has disappeared out of thin air.

"Nope."

Ah Biao shook his head.

"Additional manpower has been dispatched, and the backbone of the Dragon Shadow Guard and the Jinyi Guard have been dispatched."

"Hmm."

Lao Zhu let out a deep 'um' sound.

Originally, according to the strategic plan, Lan Yu integrated the army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, undertook the task of surprise attack, and directly broke through the rear army of Timur's vanguard army.

However, the Blue Jade army, which was supposed to arrive at the Jiayuguan battlefield five days ago, has not heard from them at all until now, and they don't even know where the Blue Jade is.

In the desert land, it is indeed easy to get lost, but that is for ordinary generals.

For Lan Yu, he has been in battle for a long time, and he has been a famous general in the world, and he has made several expeditions to Mobei.

In addition, more than half of Lan Yu's army are Northern Yuan cavalry, and they are familiar with the Mo North Pole.

It is impossible to get lost, naturally.

It can only be attributed to other reasons.

"Could it be that it was attacked by Timur's roundabout?"

Attack within attack, this kind of thing is not impossible.

"In the current situation, there is no way."

Lao Zhu shook his head.

"With the talent of blue jade, even if he is attacked, he can escape with his whole body, and he will never send back the slightest message."

Just as the father and son were discussing the war in the north, the old eunuch who had been following Lao Zhu stepped forward at a trot.

"His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, and the cabinet elders are here to see you outside."

As soon as the old eunuch's words came out, Lao Zhu and Ah Biao's brows furrowed more and more.

The cabinet gathered to meet the ministers, presumably something big happened.

"Spread the Heavenly Temple."

Lao Zhu said in a condensed voice, and then stood up with Ah Biao.

……………………

Meanwhile.

Jiayuguan, the sky is dark, and the air is filled with a chilling bloody atmosphere.

Although it was daylight, the cannonballs rained down on the city walls.

Geng Bingwen stood on top of the city pass, looking at the Timurid vanguard soldiers who rushed to kill like ants under the pass, and glanced at the rows of cannons, his brows furrowed.

He never imagined that there would be such an advanced artillery in Timur's army, and purely from the perspective of range and explosive effectiveness, it was not inferior to the red-coated cannon of the Ming Dynasty.

"Geng Shuai, these people are extremely wrong."

The deputy general of his cronies came to Geng Bingwen's side at this time, his armor was stained with blood, and his eyes were tired.

The guards of the city can still work in three shifts, but these generals can only take time to take a nap, and they are all extremely tired.

"Hmm."

Geng Bingwen nodded.

As a leader in defending the city, he is most familiar with the Sieger's mode.

Even with Geng Bingwen's experience, he has never seen a siege for more than ten days in a row, and the siege momentum has not diminished at all, and these siege soldiers are like crazy.

"Grab a few and try it for the first time."

Geng Bingwen looked at a Timur soldier who had just taken a ladder, and found that this person's eyes were blood-red, and his forehead was even more bruised, but the madness revealed was not attenuated in the slightest.

"Yes!"

The lieutenant was ordered to leave.

Boom Boom!

Suddenly, there was a dense and doubling rumbling sound.

Geng Bingwen looked at it subconsciously, Tong Kong shrank suddenly, what the hell is this?!

I saw that in the place outside the gate, there was a large group of white-skinned people in black robes, waving a fast boy who didn't know what it was, and one after another colorful pillars of light condensed from the top of these fast sons, and slammed towards the city wall.

The city wall, which was already under cannon bombardment, was in worse condition.

"Old General, what the hell are these people?!"

Zhu Ao, who had just finished inspecting the city defense, also came to Geng Bingwen's side with a dark circle under his eyes, and looked at those white-skinned people with a shocked face, and his words were full of disbelief.

Stationed in the border all year round, Zhu Ao has not seen this kind of white-skinned person, but it is the first time he has seen him wearing a robe like this and pointing around with a stick.

"I don't know."

Geng Bingwen shook his head, he had never seen it before.

However, his intuition told him that the reason why these Timurid vanguard armies were able to charge frantically without fear of death was most likely related to these white-skinned people.

Fortunately, the appearance of these white-skinned people only intensified the siege, and did not reach the level of being able to break through Jiayu Pass.

"I also ask the two highnesses to strictly order all departments to be stationed in their respective defense areas, and there must be no slackness."

"At the current Jiayuguan, there is no room for mistakes."

"Hmm."

Zhu Ao nodded, and then smashed another punch on the wall beside him.

"Lan Yu's reinforcements were supposed to make a detour to Jiayu Pass five days ago, but there is no news so far."

"If it weren't for Lan Yu's long-term arrival, we wouldn't have fallen into such passivity now."

Gritting his teeth, Zhu Ao couldn't help but scold.

Although Jiayuguan seems to be able to hold on to it at present, Zhu Ao understands very well that this is all supported by the sleepless three shifts of the soldiers, but this is not a long-term solution, and the soldiers will always have a moment when they can't support it.

At the moment, it is boiling.

Whether it is the defender of the city or the besieger, if anyone cannot hold on, and if anyone relaxes, then it is equivalent to the end.

Geng Bingwen ignored Zhu Ao's scolding.

Geng Bingwen had gone on an expedition with Lan Yu, so he naturally knew how superior Lan Yu's generals were.

If even Lan Yu can't lead the army to Jiayuguan, then no general in the world can do it.

"Lan Yu's trouble, compared to the current Jiayu Pass, I'm afraid it's only big and not small."

Geng Bingwen took a deep breath.

He knew in his heart that now he pinned his hopes on Lan Yu, and the probability was slim.

At the moment, he can only rely on these soldiers in the city to hold on.

……………………

The desert north is cold and sandy, and the sky is full of dust.

There is an army that stretches for more than ten miles, and it is marching with difficulty.

The blue jade armor was at the front of the army, and he walked forward on horseback, his brows furrowed.

Suddenly, he grabbed the reins of his horse and looked three meters in front of him.

"Familiar?"

He asked.

The lieutenant general who followed closely beside him subconsciously looked at a big stone on the side, and Tong Kongmeng shrank.

"Lan Shuai, this, this is..."

Gasped, a little unconvinced of what he was seeing.

"Well, that's the mark I left three days ago."

Lan Yu said in a condensed voice.

has been marching forward, but according to the original established marching speed, it should have arrived at Jiayuguan a long time ago, but after so long, it still hasn't arrived.

Not to mention the city wall of Jiayuguan, I didn't even see a shadow.

The farther west, the more the Gobi land.

There is a very remarkable feature of this Gobi land, that is, it is very similar everywhere, what it looks like at a glance, and it is still like that when you walk a hundred miles forward.

Therefore, Lan Yu didn't take it seriously at first, but thought that the marching speed was too slow and miscalculated the distance, so he kept speeding up the march.

It wasn't until three days ago that he discovered that the vegetation he had seen was faintly familiar, apparently five days earlier, that he aroused suspicion.

In order to verify, Lan Yu searched for a large rock in the place where he passed at that time, and left a mark on it.

Sure enough, after three days of marching, they returned to the land where the boulder was marked.

"Order, the whole army camped on the spot."

If it's just going around in circles and then moving forward, it doesn't make much sense.

The most important thing is to stop and figure out the situation.

Lan Yu had also heard of such a thing as 'ghosts hitting the wall', but it didn't make sense that the 300,000 army would follow the ghosts to fight the wall.

"Our rations will last a few days."

Lan Yu summoned the quartermaster and asked in a condensed voice.

Military food is the foundation of an army, if there is no food to eat, then this army will have to starve to death if it does not fight to death.

"Back to Lan Shuai, it can support for about five days."

In order to achieve the effect of surprise attack, it was a light riding army, and the army did not carry much food and herbs.

Lan Yu frowned.

"From this day onwards, cut the ration in half."

The quartermaster was stunned, but he didn't dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly bowed down to lead the order to retreat.

"Father-in-law, most of the soldiers are Northern Yuan troops, if the rations are greatly reduced, I am afraid it will..."

The word 'mutiny' was not spoken.

Lan Yu didn't speak, just hit the horse forward, he didn't have time to think about mutiny or not.

At present, it is a matter of trying to figure out what is going on, otherwise this army will have to die in this Gobi desert.

"Send out scouts and advance in different directions."

……………………

Ying Tianfu, Fengtian Temple.

Lao Zhu sat on the dragon chair, and Ah Biao sat on the side.

The collective cabinet members headed by Liu Bowen, including Sanyang and others, were all standing in the hall at this time, frowning one by one.

"Exactly the news?"

Lao Zhu's voice was extremely solemn.

"Back to the Supreme Emperor, this is the news from Xiao San, the commander of the Dragon Shadow Guard, and it is absolutely correct."

As soon as these words came out, Lao Zhu's brows furrowed even tighter.

He naturally knew that the Dragon Shadow Guard created by his eldest grandson was all talented, and his ability to find out the news was even higher than that of the Jinyi Guard, and it was the news that the commander of the Dragon Shadow Guard had personally confirmed, so there would be no mistake.

"Seven days."

Lao Zhu took a deep breath.

According to the news, Timur's lame army's million-strong army would only take seven days to reach outside the Jiayu Pass.

With the current situation of Jiayu Pass, once the main army of the lame man arrives, there is no suspense at all.