While Zhu Gaoxu was training soldiers and horses outside the city, King Yan's mansion was also busy.

The imperial counterinsurgency army is approaching, and Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and his henchmen are also very nervous.

Recently, King Yan has frequently convened all his henchmen to discuss matters, and finally decided on the approximate deployment today.

At this time, they were discussing how to distribute their forces.

King Yan only occupies the northern land and has a limited number of troops, while the imperial court has millions of troops and continuous support, so King Yan wants to use his limited troops to the fullest.

At this time, Yao Guangxiao took the lead in speaking, he said, according to the statistics so far, after the Yan King everywhere requisitioned, recruited, and surrendered troops, including the integration of the original Beiping guards, the current Yan Wang's entire army has reached 150,000 people.

Today, all the henchmen and generals are here, and the generals are all excited when they hear this, but they didn't expect that King Yan is already a little strong.

Only Zhu Di remained silent on the surface.

With so many people present, only he, Yao Guangxiao and a few other henchmen knew how many troops there really were.

There are only 140,000 people in total.

Among them, Chen Zhen, a subordinate of Song Zhong, led part of the flee to Shanxi and held on to Datong, while some fled to Shandong, Hebei and other places.

When Zhu Di raised his army, tens of thousands of people were killed before and after.

Therefore, the soldiers and horses in the hands of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who really belong to the original Beiping Dusi, should be less than 80,000, and he has recently recruited some new soldiers everywhere to defend the city, about 20,000.

Therefore, all the soldiers and horses in his hands are estimated to be about 100,000, but he deliberately reported to many places to boost the confidence of the generals.

These 100,000 soldiers and horses, he used them to be overstretched, and it was very difficult.

He needs to send people to guard the cities in various places, which is divided into nearly half, and the mobile troops that can be used in his hands are only about sixty or seventy thousand.

After all, only when there is land can there be resources, and if you can occupy the territory, you have to try your best to occupy it.

However, Zhu Di's life is really good, in history, except for Fang Sheng, who defended Texas, directly abandoned the city and fled after the official army came, and the rest of the cities were all defending with their lives, which led to the fact that the official army could not be attacked.

Therefore, the original history from Zhu Di's army to the final success, the three mansions of Yongping, Beiping, and Baoping that he occupied have always been impregnable.

Of course, this has something to do with the decision-making center of the imperial court at that time, which should be replaced by Zhu Gaoxu, he must have gathered a large army, knocked out all the cities outside Beiping one by one, weakened Zhu Di's strength first, and was not in a hurry to attack Beiping.

At this time, Yao Guangxiao had already said that the troops would be stationed in various places, and the guards would also be arranged.

Then Beiping City will keep 50,000. (In fact, there are only 20,000 regular troops and 10,000 recruits).

King Yan led more than 60,000 elite soldiers (in fact, more than 40,000) out of the city to find the official army for a field battle.

Like last time, they decided to defend the city by Yao Guangxiao, Guo Zi and other civil officials and princes, and this time they left the general Qiu Fu to garrison, because there were more soldiers and horses left behind than last time, and more senior military generals were needed to control them.

The rest of the generals Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and others all walked with King Yan.

After Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and the other soldiers and horses were distributed, he suddenly thought of something: "Why didn't my Gao Xu come?" ”

It turned out that before today's meeting, he had already sent someone to inform Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhang Wu next to him immediately said: "The little ones went to the Gaoyang County Palace, and learned that the Gaoyang County King was training outside the city. ”

"The last general asked the little ones to chase them out of the city to look for them, and there is no news yet."

The herald first went to the palace of Gaoyang County, then came back, went out of the city, and came back again, and it took a long time to go back and forth.

As soon as Zhang Wu's voice fell, Tan Yuan on the side said in a strange manner: "The king of Gaoyang County is so brave, and the soldiers and horses he trains must be elite." ”

"Hahaha." Some of the generals at the scene laughed.

Recently, it was rumored in the army that Zhu Gaoxu was in Yongping Mansion and asked his subordinates to practice cavalry and archery.

A small half of Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses were new recruits, who used to be peasants and tenants.

I didn't learn this walk, so I started to learn to run, and everyone listened to it, so I could only have fun.

"The king of Gaoyang County is also doing his best for the king's affairs." Qiu Fu said quietly on the side.

You don't care how others train their troops, at least you are trying to find a way to contribute to the appeasement.

Of course, King Yan knew that his son was brave, so after thinking about it, he said, "Xu Zhong, you will ride five hundred steps and give me Gaoxu." ”

Xu Zhong immediately agreed.

Xu Zhong is very good at training, and his subordinates are all elite, known as invincible.

King Yan knew everything about him, so he just found a reason to divide his five hundred soldiers and horses.

Zhu Gaoxu came back after drawing a picture outside for a long time, only to know that King Yan was looking for him to discuss matters.

At this time, it was close to dusk, and the generals in the camp didn't know where he went out, so King Yan's people must have run away.

After Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, he didn't eat dinner, and took his own soldiers Zhao Qing and Sun Sheng back to the city on horseback.

When he arrived at the Yanwang Mansion, he happened to see the generals leaving the mansion one after another.

Many people greeted him when they saw him, and some people ignored him and left directly.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and responded to the generals one by one, and when he saw Li Bin and Xu Zhong, his eyes lit up.

Among these people, he had only seen Li Bin, but not Xu Zhong.

But I happened to see these two people come out and walk together and chat.

These two people can talk together, and it is really like a gathering.

He hurried over.

How do you know that someone on the side laughed and said: "King Gaoyang, I heard that your soldiers and horses are practicing riding and archery?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked back, and it turned out to be the Mongolian Huozhen.

What do these mean? Mock me?

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "The soldiers have nothing to do in the camp, so it is better to practice martial arts." ”

"Huh." Huo Zhen smiled, hugged his fist to Zhu Gaoxu, turned around and got on the horse.

Ni Niang's, Zhu Gaoxu secretly scolded in his heart, which was obviously mocking him.

"Gaoyang Wang Mo is as knowledgeable as him, and this Mongolian is a straight man." Li Bin greeted him at this time and smiled.

Huo Zhen and Li Bin have worked together, and their relationship is also good.

"Ahh Zhu Gaoxu had an innocent expression on his face and said with a smile: "No, no, they are all my own brothers, General Huo Zhen, they are temperamental, and if you make friends, you have to be this kind of person." ”

Li Bin smiled and nodded: "The last general introduced to King Gaoyang, this is General Xu Zhong." ”

"General Xu." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Xu Zhong with a solemn face: "General Xu is both civil and military, and he is a talented person. ”

Xu Zhong smiled faintly, and naturally regarded Zhu Gaoxu as a polite word: "Don't dare, don't dare, meet King Gaoyang." ”

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Xu Zhong and Li Bin, and Yu Guang found that there was no one else around, and suddenly sighed: "This king looks at the generals under my father's king, both of them are talented generals who can stand alone, and I hope that in the future, Gao Xu can cooperate and work with you." ”

Zhu Gaoxu originally wanted to say, "There are only two," but after thinking about it carefully, he still withdrew the word 'only', because if this word reached the ears of other generals, it would be very offensive.

The faces of the two people on the other side changed slightly when they heard this, and they looked at each other a few times.

Neither of them is King Yan's henchmen, they all surrendered, so they are naturally afraid that they will not be reused by King Yan.

But today, Zhu Gaoxu's words resonated with them.

It turns out that King Gaoyang is a discerning talent.

Xu Zhong was originally quite unhappy that he was swept away with five hundred soldiers and horses, so he grinned and said, "King Gaoyang, we have to cooperate." ”

immediately said that the five hundred elites were assigned to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu was overjoyed: "General Xu has 500 soldiers and horses, which is enough for 5,000 elites." ”

Xu Zhong was proud, and he felt that this should be the case.