Datong City.

Zhu Gaoxu is looking at a map.

Early this morning, news came from the front again that Shaharu's soldiers and horses were constantly coming in from Zhuhu Fort and breaking through the customs from Shanxi.

At this time, Chen Wendao: "Shaharu's army is gathering outside Hubao, and the next step may be to divide the troops, one to fight Shuozhou, one to fight Datong, and possibly to Ningwuguan." ”

Zhou Hu said: "He has a million soldiers and horses, plus so much materials, grain and grass, and he has to go for half a month when he comes in from such a small place as Fort Huhu?" ”

"It shouldn't all come in, and you must guard outside the Great Wall, thinking that it is a stronghold and a back road." Chen Wendao.

Zhu Gaoxu said at this time: "How far is this side from Zhuhu Fort?" ”

Chen Wendao: "Six or seven hundred miles." ”

"Chen Wen."

"The minister is here."

"You lead 20,000 people to garrison Datong, withdraw all the soldiers, horses, and food from the nearby small fort guards into Datong, and the weapons to defend the city, and the 100 enemies will all be used by Datong."

"Whoa."

"I led the eight guards of Beiping and the first guard of the Beijing camp out of the fortress, from outside the Great Wall, around behind the Shaharu fart."

"Ah" Zhou Hu and Chen Wen were shocked.

Shaharu's million-strong army, the emperor actually only brought more than 45,000 people, and the nine guards went out of the fortress.

Both Zhou Hu and Beiping commanded Gu Xingguo to kneel down immediately, asking him to lead his troops to attack outside the fortress alone, and ask the emperor to stay.

"I'm not old yet, you don't need to persuade me, you should understand me, what I decide, no one can change."

The generals are helpless.

At this time, the Ming army had only 100,000 people in Shanxi, and the emperor did not plan to recruit reinforcements.

He asked Chen Wen to defend the city, and personally led 45,000 horsemen out of the fortress and went around the back of Shaharu.

Zhu Gaoxu also thought that if he could not gather heavy troops to fight Shaharu, the territory of Shanxi would be wreaked havoc, and many small county towns would be breached.

But compared to such a loss, when he gathers heavy troops to come over for a decisive battle, it will at least take a certain amount of time and huge consumption.

At this time, it was almost the same as the entry of gold into the customs at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Gaoxu gathers troops and horses to fight a decisive battle like Chongzhen, first of all, it will take time, and a large amount of grain and grass will be adjusted, and secondly, Shaharu may not be willing to fight him, and he will definitely plunder and destroy everywhere.

Zhu Gaoxu was really wrong about this, Shaharu actually wanted to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming army, but Zhu Gaoxu was unwilling to mobilize the army and mobilize the people, so he sent too many soldiers and horses to join the battle.

To be honest, he still looked down on Shahru's million-strong army, and was even more reluctant to add difficulties to the household and the people.

The mobilization of 30,000 people in this battle would cost a huge amount, and if another 500,000 troops were raised to fight Shahru, the investment would be even more astronomical.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu decided to rely on tactics and equipment to win, not on the number of people.

If Shaharu's whole army enters the pass, he will be beaten, and if the soldiers and horses left behind are outside the pass, he will be beaten.

In short, the blood debt he committed against the Ming people will definitely be doubled to repay Zhu Gaoxu.

The plan was decided, and on the first day of the seventh month, Zhu Gaoxu took nine guards and horses and more than 45,000 soldiers and horses out of the north of Datong.

Among them, there were 25,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry battalions.

He brought with him 10,000 people, 5,000 new-style Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles, 20,000 horses and mules used to haul Wuhan Iron and Steel vehicles, half a month's worth of grain and grass, and 200 light artillery pieces.

Of the nine guards and horses, eight guards are the Beiping Division, and one guard is the Jingying Zhou Tiger Division.

On the third day of the seventh month, the whole army left the pass from Desheng Fort, entered the pass, and then walked thirty miles north along the Yuhe River, and then suddenly turned westward and went in the direction of Fort Hu.

At this time, news was coming to Datong Chen Wen.

On the third day of the seventh month, Harino led 50,000 people first, and after arriving in Shuozhou, he may have felt that Shuozhou was not easy to fight, and turned to Mayi County on the east side of Shuozhou.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, Mayi County was broken, and the Hu people started to kill and plunder everywhere.

On the seventh day of the seventh month, 150,000 troops surrounded Shuozhou and prepared to storm it.

Shaharu fought in a very orderly manner, while the army surrounded Shuozhou, the north side used a soldier and horse to guard against Datong reinforcements, and the south side ambushed tens of thousands of soldiers, preparing to ambush the reinforcements in the direction of Ningwuguan.

But the Ming army stuck to the big city, did not go out, and did not give Shaharu a chance.

However, as Chen Wen expected, because there was only one entry point to block Fort Hu, a million Hu soldiers walked for seven or eight days before more than 200,000 people came in.

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There are fires everywhere in Shanxi, but the Ming Jingshi is quiet.

The emperor suddenly disappeared, but the imperial court still functioned.

Of course, the six Shangshu and the cabinet secretaries all knew that the emperor had gone to the front, and as for whether the front line was in Shaanxi or Shanxi, there was no news yet.

When the emperor was there before, he often found excuses to rest and not go to court, and everyone was used to it.

Now that the emperor is gone, nothing seems to have changed.

It's just that everyone noticed that the last batch of the emperor in the past has now been changed to Huang Fu and Yang Pu.

Before the emperor left, he ordered Yang Pu and Huang Fu to temporarily act as the imperial approval, and when the two had differences and could not decide, they would wait for the emperor to come back.

After the other two approved the manuscript and the court partly decided, they would send the harem to the queen and Miao Guifei to read again, and then use the seal.

The courtiers noticed two details, one was that Huang Fu was going to be reused.

Huang Fu was in the rebellion war, as the political envoy of Jiaozhi and the envoy of the inspection, knowing that the king of Han was a little wrong at that time, but he did not make a sound, silently operated Jiaozhi, and supported a lot of grain and grass and wealth for the rebellion war, which can be said to be the victory of the king of Han, and also made great contributions.

At the end of the first year of Hongxi, the emperor summoned Huang Fu to Beijing, and then it seemed that Huang Fu was asked to do something, but the ministers didn't know.

Now Huang Fu has been working silently for more than a year, and everyone doesn't know what Huang Fu is doing.

Now that Huang Fu suddenly appeared, he directly participated in the final approval, and the future is simply bright.

Another detail is that some of the seals need to be used, and they actually have to be decided by the queen and Miao Guifei together.

It can be seen that Miao Guifei is quite favored now, thinking about the fact that Miao Guifei gave birth to the dragon son Zhu Zhanyu in the middle of last year, the minister feels that Miao Guifei's current status is almost equal to the queen.

At the beginning of July, a certain house in Beijing was brightly lit at night, and pedestrians came and went on the street at the door, which was a little more angry than before.

This is the new home of Zhu Gui, the acting king, in Beijing.

Zhu Gui sealed Datong in Hongwu, was abolished when Jianwen, and sealed Datong again in Yongle, and later Zhu Gaoxu entered Beijing, summoned the king of the world to Beijing for a meeting, and killed the king of Qi on the spot to establish his authority.

Since then, the grain fields of the Tibetan kings have been almost confiscated.

After Zhu Gui was in the aftermath, the remaining 2,000 acres of land were quite a lot among the kings.

The emperor confiscated all his villages, leaving only the Daiwang Mansion in Datong, and demanded that the number of houses not exceed the standard.

The king was angry, so he simply sold the king's mansion and sold 2,000 acres of land, and then brought a large amount of money to live in Beijing.

Because the emperor said at that time, now that they are free, they can live wherever they want.

The acting king moved his family to Jingshi, and bought 2,000 acres of land near Jingshi.

Not long after, King Zhou and King Ning also learned from him and all moved to Beijing.

Then the king of Shu also moved to Beijing at the beginning of this year.

The most bullish is King Su, this guy was originally fiefdom in Gansu, and he always felt that it was remote and hard, even if the emperor said that he could move everywhere, he asked the emperor directly, can I move to Dayuan?

The imperial court is developing a big member, and King Su knows it, this guy doesn't want to stay in the Central Plains, and he is annoyed when he sees Zhu Gaoxu, so he thinks of the big guy.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu agrees, now that you are free, you can go wherever you want? You can go overseas.

Su Wang Zhu Ao was also not polite, and moved his family directly to Dayuan.

Now the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have basically moved to Jiangnan and Zhejiang, and some have moved to Guangdong and Fujian.

Like Jingshi, there are now four old brothers: King Ning, King Zhou, King Dai, and King Shu.

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu is the fifth, Zhu Di is not there, he is now the biggest.

He likes medicine, and after he arrived in Beijing, he concentrated on studying medicine, and the emperor also specially sent the imperial doctor to assist him.

Today, the acting king suddenly invited his brothers to dinner, although Zhu Hu didn't really want to go, but thinking that when the emperor was there, he didn't mind their brothers meeting, so he still took a carriage to the acting king's mansion.

After three rounds of drinking, the four brothers were a little drunk.

Acting King Zhu Gui smiled: "I don't remember how many years we haven't gotten together like this, although Gao Xu is disrespectful to us uncles, but he gives us a chance to get together." ”

The corners of Ning Wang Zhu Quan's mouth twitched: "That's true, it was really difficult for our brothers to see each other before." ”

Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, said: "It's a pity that there are still many brothers who are not in Beijing. ”

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu stared blankly at the dishes on the table, still wondering if the newly planted herbs during the day were alive?

"In your opinion, will Gao Xu be defeated this time?" Acting King Zhu Gui said suddenly.

There was an instant silence in the room, four brothers, you look at me, I look at you.

I don't know how long it took, the King of Shu turned his head to look behind him, the door behind him was closed, and there were only four of them in the room.

"Don't worry, in this courtyard, there are only our brothers now." Zhu Gui said quietly.

"How can it be defeated?" King Ning said strangely: "The Ming Dynasty is thriving day by day, the national strength is strong, and the soldiers and horses are elite--"

"Gao Xu is a bit arrogant, I heard that there is no large mobilization, and what is it called sand or something, it is said that there are millions of troops." Dai Wang said: "At the same time, he is also in the east to conquer the eastern country, and Ping'an is fighting with Benjamin, and Nanyang is fighting again. ”

"This year has been very difficult for Gao Xu."

After the acting king finished speaking, the scene was quiet again, everyone was thinking about something, and the king of Zhou didn't think about his herbs anymore, but just looked at the acting king strangely.

The acting king has a tyrannical personality, and he used to kill in the fiefdom to make money, otherwise he would not have been named a concubine by Jianwen, and later he was reprimanded by order in the Yongle period.

Zhu Di summoned him to Beijing for the first time in history, and he dared not go, and he didn't take the emperor in his eyes at all, which shows how bold he is.

But the thirteenth brother, it's not as good as before, and there are not even a hundred people in the vassal king's mansion, what are you still thinking?

Seeing that all the brothers were silent, the acting king finally couldn't help it, and suddenly lowered his voice: "I have a hunch that Gao Xu will be defeated." ”

"Thirteenth brother, drink and drink." The king of Shu suddenly raised his glass and said: "After drinking in a while, go shopping on the street, there is no curfew now, and the evening is very lively." ”

"What are you afraid of, this is the best opportunity to put things right and recreate the will of Taizu." On behalf of the king, he stood up and said sharply.

(End of chapter)