The 70,000 soldiers and horses of the Yunnan Guards participated in the battle this time, all of which were elite soldiers who had undergone routine training in the past three years, the oldest group had been trained for nearly three years, and the newest had also been trained for more than three months.

In addition, there are three guards and garrisons of the king of Han, totaling 30,000.

Si's toast is 50,000, Na's is 20,000, and the other toasts add up to 30,000.

The total army is 200,000, and the strength is quite strong, which is much stronger than when King Yan raised his troops.

Moreover, at this time, about half of the more than 30 guards in Yunnan and more than 100,000 guards did not join, and they would be stationed in various places and continue to strengthen training in turn.

Yunnan has a very large number of guards, according to the second record of the Ming Dynasty Soldiers, Dali Wei has 10,000 households, a total of more than 1,300 people, Erhaiwei has 6,000 households, more than 7,300 people.

After Zhu Gaoxu came, he asked the Marquis of Xiping, why did you send a guard to support Emperor Jianwen in the Jingjing.

Xiping Hou smiled bitterly, at that time he thought that the Ming Court could deal with Zhu Di, thinking about it, at the beginning of the Jing Dynasty, no one in the Ming Court would think that Zhu Di would succeed.

Looking at the full range of generals, Zhu Gaoxu was still very happy.

He looked at his brothers and waved his hand: "Go." ”

led everyone into the inner hall, and as soon as they entered the inner hall, all the generals showed a look of shock on their faces.

I saw that everything in the inner hall had been emptied, and there was nothing around, except a huge map of mountains and rivers piled up with sand and stones.

There are many small flags planted on it, which are clearly reflected in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Sichuan nearby provinces.

Sheng Yong and Ping An were also stunned.

Because this sand table is very large, about thirty paces long and twenty paces wide, it occupies the entire inner hall.

Everyone stood on the periphery, and it was not difficult to see what was inside.

Fortunately, you can still walk inside, Zhu Gaoxu said: "Everyone walk along the black official road, in this sand table, the place where you can walk is the official road." ”

The official road was blackened, and the generals could walk in it and see into the depths of the sand table.

Zhu Gaoxu said, such a big sand table, in fact, it is useless in the back, just let you see your marching route, and the enemies you may face, after arriving in various places, everyone can make their own sand table near the battlefield alone, all the maps, this king is ready.

The generals were solemn and admired.

Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the sand table road at this time, and Chen Wen, Zhao Gui, Cao Long and other generals on the left led 10,000 infantry, 2,000 cavalry, and another 5,000 native servants, entered Sichuan from Wuding Mansion, and first captured Sichuan, claiming to be an army of 200,000 to the outside world.

Chen Wen received the order, he could clearly look at the official road and the river on the sand table at this time, and know his approximate marching route.

Some of the generals around him had strange faces, and they only needed more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight Sichuan? The key is also known as 200,000, which is also too popular.

But everyone didn't say anything, but they felt that the Hanwang routine was much stronger than Zhu Di.

Zhonglu Shengyong, Ping'an, Wang Bin, Wang Xingguo (Gu Cheng's son Gu Xingguo), Sun Lin, Yang Yun, Si Renfa, Si Dingfa and other leaders led 50,000 Tusi soldiers, 20,000 Han troops (all cavalry), known as 300,000 troops to the outside world, from Qujing to fight Guizhou.

On the right side, Zhu Gaoxu led Zhou Hu, Song Meng, He Ruhu, etc., led 50,000 other Tusi soldiers, and nearly 70,000 Han troops, a total of 120,000, known as 50,000 troops to fight Guangxi.

Among them, Zhu Gaoxu also has 20,000 cavalry on this road, starting from Guangnan Mansion, as long as he passes the most difficult section of the road, he can enter the Daming Water Post Road.

But everyone is even more strange about Zhu Gaoxu's alleged troops.

In ancient times, when there was a war, 10,000 could be called 50,000, and 50,000 could be called 200,000, and the more people called, the better.

However, Zhu Gaoxu went the opposite way, and the left route army had only more than 10,000 people, called 200,000, and the right route army of 120,000 people, called 50,000.

And Zhu Gaoxu was not allowed to erect his own flag on all roads, like Chen Wen's side, erecting Wang Bin, Sheng Yong's road erecting Weida, his own way, erecting Sheng Jian, and the flags of other generals were not erected, and the banner of rebellion was erected in a unified manner. (In the text, Zhu Gaoxu called himself the rebel army, the generals called the puppet army, and Zhu Di called the puppet emperor Ming Xuan.) ）

In this way, the officers and soldiers did not know who the main generals of the rebel army were.

Wang Bin, Wei Da, Sheng Jian, the officials and soldiers probably haven't heard of it, and they don't know it.

Zhu Gaoxu explained to the sand table that the Sichuan side was the Left Route Army, and the main purpose was to capture Chengdu and Sichuan, and then gather medium and heavy troops to guard the front line of Kuizhou to prevent Huguang's soldiers and horses from entering Sichuan.

On the Sichuan side, the defense is the mainstay, of course, if the situation is very good, you can also attack Huguang.

Sichuan is a country of abundance, easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus Qu can operate for more than ten years, as long as Qu can help Zhu Gaochu hold Sichuan, let Zhu Gaochu steadily collect taxes in Sichuan, and set up an obedient political secretary, Zhu Gaoxu's career will be half successful.

Of course, it would be better if Qu Neng could give full play to his strength and further capture Huguang.

Guizhou is the same, defeated Xue Lu, the chief military officer of Guizhou, and the soldiers can immediately go to Huguang, and then they can send troops at the same time as Sichuan to fight into Huguang together.

As for how to fight in Guangxi, because Zhu Gaoxu led the team himself, there was no on-site commentary.

But everyone still saw that Zhu Gaoxu was different from Zhu Di in the war.

At the beginning of Zhu Di's martyrdom, he was thinking about a decisive battle with the official army, destroying the living forces of the official army wave after wave, and he did not occupy any territory, nor could he occupy it, so he could only firmly defend his Yongping, and the three prefectures of Beiping and Baoding were good.

Zhu Gaoxu is different, he started to occupy the territory.

One province after another, and then occupied, gradually encroaching on Zhu Di's territory, and gradually compressing Zhu Di's space.

How excited Zhu Di was when he ascended the throne, how desperate he would be then.

"The king's style of play is very stable, let's fight a province, occupy a province, and then dispatch officials to collect taxes, the strength will become stronger and stronger, even if it falls into a long-term war of strength, we can fight against Zhu Di." Sheng Yong said at this time.

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "Zhu Di also had more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in the later period, but he didn't dare to occupy a place, because he had fewer soldiers and had no courage to fight with the southern army, so he concentrated 200,000 troops to fight together every time." ”

But Zhu Gaoxu is not afraid, he is confident that the Third Route Army will fight more and more, and naturally dare to occupy territory.

And at that time, Zhu Di was unpopular in the north, and he could only occupy it by slaughtering the city, so he couldn't occupy too much territory at all.

On the second day of the discussion, Chen Wen set off with the Left Route Army.

Then Sheng Yong's soldiers and horses also gathered in Qujing.

At this time, the movement of soldiers and horses is different from going to Annan, and if there is still Jinyi Wei in Yunnan, it will definitely report the news.

But at this time, it was useless for someone to ventilate and report the news, and all the feasible passages in Yunnan to the outside were controlled by Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses, and they could only enter and not leave.

After Sheng Yong and Chen Wen set off one after another, Zhu Gaoxu was still in Kunming, he had the most soldiers and horses on this road, 120,000, and the assembly was slow, so he had to stay for a few more days.

Before sending troops, he was also thinking about staying behind.

In fact, the pressure on Beiping was not great back then, mainly the Liaodong soldiers in the direction of Fangshanhaiguan and the Ming army in Shanxi on the west side of Beiping.

At that time, Shanhaiguan and Yongping Mansion were in front, so Beiping supported Yongping Mansion more, while the Ming army in Shanxi only attacked Beiping once from beginning to end, and was repulsed halfway.

The only time to defend Beiping was also because King Yan took most of his soldiers and horses to find King Ning, causing Beiping to be empty.

Now the situation in Yunnan is completely different, the northern part of Yunnan is Sichuan, Sichuan Qu Neng is his own person, he can not be guarded, and Zhu Gaoxu has already arranged for Chen Wen to enter Sichuan.

In addition, Guizhou and Guangxi, which are adjacent to Yunnan, were personally attacked by Sheng Yong and Zhu Gaoxu, and they were on the offensive, and it was basically impossible for the official army to attack them, unless they were defeated.

Annan and Guangdong, in the southeast corner of Yunnan, are now all their own people, and these two roads are relatively easy to defend, like Annan into Yunnan There are only a few roads, he built forts on each road, dug trenches, and stationed heavy troops.

Therefore, before losing the battle, Yunnan basically cannot have the threat of being attacked.

In this way, Zhu Gaoxu could free up more troops for the attack.

After thinking about it again and again, Zhu Gaoxu stayed in Yunnan with Mu Xin, Zheng Xiang, Wei Da, Hong Zheng, Fang Yanping, Yan Qiang and other military generals, and the civil officials were assisted by Han Wangfu Diansheng, Li Mo, Li Xun, Hou Hai and so on.

Although Cao Yu was demoted, Zhu Gaoxu could not be fully trusted, so Hou Hai temporarily took the post of political envoy and let Cao Yu assist in running the Yunnan Political Division.

After determining the people who remained behind, Zhu Gaoxu summoned this group of people and gave them important orders.

In addition to ensuring the cantonment fields and food, it is also necessary to continue to train new soldiers and recruit soldiers and horses in the territory.

Anyway, from Annan's side, there will be a steady stream of silver.

Zhu Gaoxu has plundered tens of millions of wealth in the battle of Annam, which is enough to support his expenses for several years.

The second is to increase publicity, find people to tell stories in various prefectures and counties, and even in Tusi territory, publicize the righteous deeds of the Han King, denigrate Zhu Di's tyranny and cruelty, and nail him to the title of King Ming in the history books.

The third is to strictly investigate and meticulously work, there must be Jinyiwei in Yunnan, and we must find a way to find out one by one.

In recent years, Zhu Gaochu planted Ganshu in a large area in Yunnan, and after occupying Annan, he expanded sugarcane in Annan, and the sugar produced was sold to Daming and other countries in Nanyang by sea, which was an important source of income for the Han Dynasty.

Zhu Gaoxu compromised on all arrangements and set off with the vanguard army on 11 May.

The middle of May of the fourth year of Yongle.

Yongning Prefecture, Guizhou.

In addition to the side hammer, the Ming Dynasty in the southwest province of the most health area should be regarded as Guizhou, Guizhou now has 19 guards, more than 30 institutes, some of the Wei and Yunnan Dali Wei is the same, is 10,000 David, because Guizhou is an important province connecting Yunnan, the Ming Dynasty into Yunnan, generally must go to Guizhou, when Zhu Gaoxu and others entered Yunnan, are from Guizhou.

Early this morning, Xue Lu came to the wall of the Annan Guard City and looked to the west.

(End of chapter)