Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen, Li Banghua, Man Gui, and Hou Shilu were doing war games around a sand table map.

"Man Aiqing, how do you say you can pacify the pseudo-Qi?"

Looking at the sand table, Zhu Youzhen said calmly, since the fall of Jiangnan, he no longer has hope for those civil officials, those people will only fight for power and profit, frame each other, and want to rely on those people to recover the lost land, it is better to go to bed early and see if there is such a sweet dream in the dream.

"Your Majesty, now that the pseudo-Qi has become the climate, I am afraid it will be difficult to pacify the pseudo-Qi."

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Man Gui shook his head and said.

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was not angry, he had already prepared for Man Gui's answer, because he himself couldn't think of a way to pacify the pseudo-Qi, and now the pseudo-Qi has five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and it is not easy to pacify the pseudo-Qi.

"Then how does Man Aiqing think Daming should break the situation now?"

After being silent for a while, Zhu Youzhen asked again, although he no longer cares about the bad things in the court, it doesn't mean that he really doesn't even read the playbook, and now he still has read the playbook handed over by the cabinet, but he doesn't approve it and lets those people arrange it themselves.

Don't those people like to fight?

Now he doesn't care, let those people fight enough, anyway, now Daming lacks everything, except for those who want to be officials, and it is better to clean up a group of combative ones.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the only way to break the situation now is to reorganize the Beijing camp and organize a combatable army."

After thinking for a while, Man Gui said: "First put down the rebellion in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan, and then concentrate all your forces to fight to the death with the pseudo-Qi to regain the lost land." ”

Now the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty is that there are no soldiers to fight, those guards are simply useless, and there is no possibility to rely on those guards to recover Jiangnan.

Rectify the Beijing camp?

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen fell into deep thought, and he had also sent Li Banghua to rectify the Beijing camp, but in the end there was no effect.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Banghua and said, "Li Aiqing, I sent you to rectify the Beijing camp before, how do you think we can rectify the Beijing camp?"

Rectify the Beijing camp?

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Li Banghua couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, if he knew how to rectify the Beijing camp, why would he be impeached, and finally he would be demoted and dismissed.

But now that Zhu Youzhen asked, he couldn't say that he didn't know, after thinking about it, Li Banghua said: "Back to Your Majesty, today's Beijing camp has rotted to the bones, those Beijing camp officials drink soldiers' blood, eat empty salaries, and forming gangs has long become the norm, and it is impossible to rectify the Beijing camp." ”

"And most of the soldiers in the Beijing camp today are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the rectification is just in vain. Instead of thinking about how to rectify the Beijing camp, it is better to transfer all the young and strong people in the Beijing camp, reorganize them into a battalion, and then train them strictly. ”

The Beijing camp has rotted to the bones, the generals and relatives of the Beijing camp, the eunuchs, and the powerful all use their own servants to pretend to be strong men in the army, and pay a monthly salary every month.

If you want to rectify the Beijing camp, you can only say that you can just think about it, unless you can drive out all those Beijing camp generals and relatives, eunuchs, and heroes from the Beijing camp, there is no play at all.

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen fell into deep thought, this rebuilding a battalion is not a trivial matter, food, weapons, and all kinds of things are a huge expense, and the household department may not be willing to allocate funds, and his internal funds are not much left.

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Youzhen spoke: "Li Aiqing, if I hand over this matter to you, can Aiqing train a fighting army for me?" ”

Although he doesn't have much money left now, only more than a million taels of silver, if he can train a combatable soldier, it can be regarded as worth the money.

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Li Banghua suddenly became embarrassed, it is not difficult to train troops, but in this way, he will have to poach a lot of benefits from the Beijing camp, and with the character of those people, he will definitely not end well.

After all, after the young men of the Beijing camp were transferred, the entire Beijing camp was almost scrapped, and those people would definitely not sit idly by, and what awaited him would be endless impeachments.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Banghua still gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!" ”

After a pause, Li Banghua continued: "Your Majesty, it's just that this matter will touch the interests of many people, and I'm afraid those people won't give up." ”

Although Li Banghua's words were not very clear, he believed that Zhu Youzhen should be able to understand the meaning of his words.

"Aiqing, don't worry, I know this matter in my heart."

Hearing Li Banghua's words, Zhu Youzhen nodded and said, "Aiqing will do it freely, and I will bear all the consequences." ”

Now he has little patience for those people in the court, the matter of moving south last time has made him see clearly, those people don't care about the Ming Dynasty at all, they only care about their own interests.

In the past year, he summoned Li Banghua and several people in order to build his own team, and at the same time learn the art of war.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will definitely bow down and die."

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's assurance, Li Banghua bowed down and said.

"Everything is up to Aiqing."

Zhu Youzhen said in a deep voice: "When the army is successfully formed, I will drive the expedition in person!" ”

Driving the Expedition!

Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Li Banghua and the others were not surprised, because Zhu Youzhen had shown this idea many times in the past year.

For Zhu Youzhen's idea, they are also very supportive, if it was a few years ago, they would definitely oppose Zhu Youzhen's idea, but now the Ming Dynasty has been in turmoil, a scene of the last years of the dynasty, if Zhu Youzhen can master the military power, maybe the Ming Dynasty can still be saved.

………

On the other side, Hu Guangbu Political Envoy Division, Jingzhou Mansion.

After receiving the order of the imperial court, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops from Nanyang Mansion and went straight to Jingzhou Mansion.

In the face of a famous general like Lu Xiangsheng, how could Hu Zhongwu's improvised young man be an opponent, in just two months, Hu Zhongwu lost Jinzhuping and Baihuguan, Nanjinkou three important places, Lu Xiangsheng's army approached Hu Zhongwu's hometown of Yiling Prefecture.

Yiling Prefecture, State Ya.

Hu Zhongwu sat in the first seat, Hu Qing followed, and Hu Dapeng and Hu Guiyou sat in the last seat.

Listening to the reports of his subordinates, Hu Dapeng and Hu Guiyou looked gloomy, the strength of the imperial army far exceeded their expectations, and the reason why they dared to rebel with Hu Zhongwu was mainly because the imperial court had done nothing in suppressing bandits in the past ten years.

Shaanxi's rebellion is more and more, from the beginning of Shaanxi to the current Shanxi, Henan, even their Huguang have been affected by the rebellion, as for Shandong's Daqi, not to mention, Daming even lost Jiangnan, there is the hometown of the old Zhu family.

Who knew that the army of the imperial court would be so fierce when dealing with them, Jinzhuping, Baihuguan, and Nanjinkou were all important places, and they had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses there, but under the attack of the Ming soldiers and horses, they only supported it for two months.

"Your Majesty, what shall we do now?"

Hu Guiyou looked at Hu Zhongwu, since the rebellion, Hu Zhongwu has been called the emperor, and the country name is the dragon god.

Hearing Hu Guiyou's words, Hu Zhongwu frowned, the three places of Jinzhuping are quite important, and if they lose these three places, they will lose control of Guizhou and Badong, but if they counterattack, they do not have this ability.

After all, the relevant Kakeshou on the Jinzhuping side were defeated by the Ming army, and if they met the Ming army in the wild, they would be even more vulnerable, but it was not a long-term plan to defend Yiling City, because there was not much food in Yiling City at all, and once they were trapped in Yiling City, they would not even have a chance to run.

"Zhongwu, do you want to ask the dragon god?"

At this time, Hu Qing suddenly spoke.

Ask for the dragon god?

Hu Qing's words made Hu Zhongwu stunned for a moment, because since ancient times, he had never heard of gods interfering in human wars, and the dragon god couldn't help them, after all, it was impossible for the dragon god to kill the Ming army directly, because killing someone was an evil god, and no one would worship an evil god.

Hu Zhongwu smiled bitterly: "Dad, it is impossible for the Dragon God to intervene in the war between people. ”

"Of course I know that."

Hu Qing shook his head and said: "I just asked you to ask the dragon god, when will the Yangtze River be flooded, if we know when it will be flooded, we can arrange to eliminate the Ming army." ”

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu couldn't help but wonder: "How could the Ming army be so easy to fall for the scheme?" ”

It is not an easy thing to lay out and eliminate the Ming army, and there are also signs of sending a big flood, how could the Ming army be so stupid.

"Alas!"

Hearing Hu Zhongwu's words, Hu Qing sighed and said: "Zhongwu, now we are not the opponent of the Ming army at all, if we can't use the Yangtze River to deal with the Ming army here, we can only flee to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi." ”

Now there is still a drought in Henan, and Daqi in Jiangnan, and even Daming is not Daqi's opponent, let alone them, so the only place you can go is Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi.

However, their foundation is in Jingzhou Mansion, and the families of their soldiers and horses are all in Yiling Prefecture, and once they leave, they will have to drag their families with them, which is very unfavorable to them, and there will even be many people who are unwilling to leave with them.

"I'll go ask the dragon god."

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu also sighed, turned around and walked out of the state office.

…

The moment Hu Zhongwu walked into the Dragon Temple, Jiao Ming, who was recuperating from his injuries at the bottom of the river, opened his eyes, and then turned into a human form and walked towards the Dragon Temple.

"Sage, I don't know why you came here to find me?"

Seeing Hu Zhongwu in the temple, Jiao Ming appeared and said with a smile.

"Xiaomin greets the Dragon God Master!"

Seeing Jiao Ming, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly saluted.

"A virtuous man doesn't have to be polite."

Jiao Ming said with a smile: "The sage is busy with military affairs now, why do you have time to come?" ”

"Master Dragon God, Xiaomin is here to ask for help."

Hu Zhongwu said the current situation with a wry smile.

"Alas!"

After listening to Hu Zhongwu's words, Jiao Ming sighed and said: "Sage, there is no way for this god, the gods can't kill people." ”

He has no choice about this matter, he smuggled into this world, usually stays low-key, plus there is a magic weapon to cover him, Heavenly Dao can't find him, once too much cause and effect is formed, he will definitely be discovered by Heavenly Dao.

What's more, with a small amount of cause and effect, his magic weapon can still cover it, but once there are too many causes and effects, beyond the limit of the magic weapon, and are discovered by the Heavenly Dao, then he will be finished, and then he will have no other choice but to escape from this world.

If this is not the case, why would he use Hu Zhongwu's power to turn into a dragon, if he shot directly, who would be his opponent in this world.

"Master Dragon God, the people don't dare to ask Lord Dragon God to kill people."

Hearing Jiaoming's words, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly said: "Xiaomin just wants to ask the Dragon God Master for guidance, whether there will be a big flood these days, and Xiaomin is good at arranging to deal with the Ming army." ”

"The wise man forgives his sins!"

Jiao Ming shook his head, he is not a real dragon god, how can he know where there will be a big flood, and even if he knew, it was impossible for him to tell Hu Zhongwu that once Hu Zhongwu really succeeded in ambushing the Ming army, he would also have a lot of cause and effect on his back.

Hearing this, Hu Zhongwu could only reluctantly say goodbye and leave.

…

Time passed day by day, and under Lu Xiangsheng's offensive, Hu Zhongwu could only retreat one after another, and finally retreated to Jingzhou Fucheng.

"Daddy, is the ship ready?"

Looking at the surging river, Hu Zhongwu was in a low mood, thinking that he had the destiny of the true dragon son of heaven and should have a smooth journey, but now he was driven around by a Ming army general, not only the emperor's Yiling Prefecture was lost, but finally even the only capital city was abandoned.

"Ready."

Looking at Hu Zhongwu's depressed appearance, Hu Qing shook his head slightly, this child has never suffered since birth, nor has he experienced any difficulties, and now he is depressed when he encounters a little difficulty.

However, Hu Qing did not persuade, because since ancient times, who has not been hit, if Hu Zhongwu can come out of the predicament by himself, then it means that he has the qualifications to become a hero.

If Hu Zhongwu falls, then it is good to be an ordinary person, anyway, with Hu Zhongwu's strength, being an ordinary person can also enjoy all the glory and wealth.

"Let's go, then."

Hu Zhongwu sighed, there was only the lonely city of Fucheng left on their side, and it was impossible to hold it no matter what, rather than wasting troops, it was better to avoid the Ming army.

According to their discussion, the decision was to withdraw to Guizhou, and now after An Bangyan's rebellion in Guizhou, the Tusi everywhere are ready to move, and with their strength, they can definitely confront the Ming army.

Soon, Hu Zhongwu crossed the Yangtze River with tens of thousands of troops and huge wealth looted from the capital and state cities and advanced towards Guizhou.

With a large amount of gold and silver opening the way, Hu Zhongwu's soldiers and horses entered Guizhou by the way, and then settled in Sinan Mansion.

…

On the other side, Lu Xiangsheng took tens of thousands of soldiers and horses all the way to recover the lost territory, but after being sacked by Hu Zhongwu, the rich families in each city were empty, so Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses fell into the predicament of lack of food.

(End of chapter)