Przemysh, the camp of the Ming army, the big tent of the Chinese army.

Zhu Zhanyan had already packed his things and was ready to return to Vienna.

However, the return here does not mean that the whole army has returned, he just has to bring less than 30,000 men to return first.

This has already reached the doorstep of the Kingdom of Poland, and if you try harder, you can destroy the Kingdom of Poland, and there is no reason to stop at this time.

He decided to return because time was running out.

Now that the New Year is approaching, he will leave at this time, and when he returns to Shuntianfu, it will be after the New Year at the earliest, and if he encounters any accidents on the way, he may not even be able to catch up with the birth of his child.

In addition, it was also because he received a message from Qian Yong's side, knowing that the war situation in the Kingdom of Poland was decided, and there would be no possibility of reversal.

Although he has not been able to meet Qian Yong yet, he has already made the following arrangements.

He sent a message to Wang Jinghong and asked him to go all the way north, firstly, to block the enemy army in the northern Greater Polish territory from moving south and gallop to help Krakow, and secondly, to let Wang Jinghong return to the sea as soon as possible.

After all, the fall of the Kingdom of Poland is imminent, and as long as Krakow is taken later, Qian Yong will be able to rush to the aid of Jian Xiao and Zhu Sanfeng, and then take the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Next year, the Ming army will have to face only the enemies of Western Europe.

Wang Jinghong returned to the sea, firstly, he was able to pave the way in advance and go to the English Channel to block the English, after all, the Kingdom of France is also one of Zhu Zhanqi's targets, if there is no Wang Jinghong in the English Channel, the Kingdom of France is afraid that it will be difficult to turn over.

In addition, Aachen, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, is not very far from the North Sea, and Wang Jinghong's fleet surprised the Holy Roman Empire when it passed by before, and even the fall of Vienna had something to do with this.

Therefore, the return of Wang Jinghong's fleet to the sea can also play a role in promoting the Central European battlefield to a certain extent.

After arranging Wang Jinghong, Zhu Zhanyan arranged the generals of the main army led by himself.

He asked Fan Zhong to lead the main army temporarily, but he didn't want Fan Zhong to lead the troops to fight, but to let him be stationed here, and when Qian Yong arrived, Qian Yong would take over the affairs here.

Let Fan Zhong lead the troops, the effect is definitely not very good, because Fan Zhong's status is not a little different from Qian Yong's, and even Liu Qingwen of a thousand households and Xing Kun of a hundred households are not as good.

But if it's only stationed for a short time, it should be no problem, and there is no need to worry about Fan Zhong having two hearts.

"What about you?" Zhu Zhanyan put away all the more important secret letters by himself, and at the same time asked Qian Zhong without raising his head.

"Me?" Qian Zhong was stunned for a moment.

"Your Royal Highness, I ......"

"Okay, I know," Putting away all the secret letters, Zhu Zhanyan looked up at Qian Zhong.

"In less than three days, your father will come over, and then study hard with your father."

"With this little ability, it's not a little bit worse than your father back then."

"Yes......" Qian Zhong was a little depressed, but he didn't complain.

Because he knows that his performance is indeed unsatisfactory.

During this time, Zhu Zhanyan continued to receive battle reports from all sides, all of which were great victories, and only the main force here lost hundreds of people in the attack on a small city like Przemyšl.

Of these, more than half of this number is his direct cause.

"That's it!" patting Qian Zhong on the shoulder, Zhu Zhanyan walked towards the outside of the tent.

"You're still young, your father is still in the prime of life, don't worry, you still have time."

……

Zhu Zhan's figure had disappeared into the tent, but Qian Zhong was still standing in the tent, staring blankly at the direction in which Zhu Zhan had left.

Previously, although he had never said it, he had always been puzzled, because he didn't know why his father was so desperate for Zhu Zhanyan.

No matter what era it is placed in, no matter who it is placed on, a person can do things for his benefactor without complaint or regret for more than 20 consecutive years because of a life-saving grace.

Among them, he has encountered life-threatening risks, encountered the risk of class change, and even made his family not feel like a family, but he has never complained.

Although it is difficult to repay the grace of saving lives, in fact, there is a limit.

Judging from what Qian Yong and the three of them have done for Zhu Zhanyan, even if they turn around and leave immediately now, I'm afraid that not many people in this world will say that they are not.

But they have never complained.

But now, Qian Zhong seems to understand his father a little.

Sometimes, some people, it is not unreasonable to be able to get the following of others, and there will always be one or several shining points in this kind of person that can make people be impressed.

Maybe it's human nature, or maybe it's something else.

In Zhu Zhanyan's body, Qian Zhong may not be able to find the shining point that can make his father follow him without regrets for twenty years, but he sees a shining point that can impress him enough.

For now, Qian Zhong seems to be unable to find anyone in a high position, but he still does his best to train the sons of his subordinates, teaching them hand-in-hand, and even makes some sacrifices for this.

"Daddy......" Looking at the direction where Zhu Zhanyan disappeared, Qian Zhong muttered to himself.

……

At the same time, Vienna.

Xing Kun stood at the head of the city, looking through the telescope at the enemy in the northwest direction.

It has been four days, and since the enemy arrived in Vienna, he has launched an attack for four consecutive days, and he has been fighting for most of the day, and even though he has suffered heavy casualties, he still has not given up.

This made Xing Kun very incomprehensible.

He knew that Vienna was the nest of the Habsburgs, but it was nothing if the house was stolen, right? Didn't His Royal Highness the Prince of the World still be forced to leave Ying Tianfu, and the result? Is it bad?

After eighteen years of planning, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World still took back the position that may not have belonged to him originally, but he was the most outstanding and meritorious position.

In contrast, the brainless attack of the Habsburgs was incomprehensible to Xing Kun.

What's the picture? Is this Vienna so good? Is there a hidden family in the city, or are you planning to rescue your family?

Don't be funny!

The Ming army is about to turn this place upside down, and the people in the city on the day of the fall of Vienna, whether they are nobles or commoners, have a corresponding way to deal with it.

Even if they take back Vienna, they take back an empty city.

"How?" Liu Qingwen went to the city and stood by Xing Kun's side.

"Unclear." Xing Kun put down the binoculars and shook his head slightly.

"I doubt that the enemy is pouring out of the nest and is ready to fight to the death, the number of this force is not right, some are too much, this does not match the number of enemies we encountered before and the speed of support."

"How many enemies can we destroy these days? Not to mention that there are seventy or eighty thousand, right? But they now have no less than 70,000 or 80,000 troops. ”

"When we were fighting in southern Europe before, they couldn't even get together 100,000 people, how can they get so many people out now? One is more courageous than the other, and he is not afraid of death at all. ”

"I don't know, but I guess there's a guess." Liu Qingwen took the telescope handed over by Xing Kun and looked at the enemy's position in the distance.

In fact, he could see nothing but moving figures, because the enemy was so far away.

But this is also normal, after all, this is not when the two armies are fighting, but during the truce.

The enemy's camp can't be under your nose, right? Aren't you still looking at it?

"Oh?" Xing Kun's eyes lit up.

"If there is no accident, I am afraid that we will not be able to capture many young and strong captives in the future, and the plan that His Royal Highness has made to disintegrate the enemy through human trade will probably not work in the Holy Roman Empire."

"Why?" Xing Kun didn't quite understand.

"Let's put it this way." Liu Qingwen put down the binoculars and turned his head to look at Xing Kun very seriously.

"If the Northern Yuan Dynasty makes a comeback, how many Han people do you think are willing to surrender to them, and how many Han people are willing to resist desperately?"

"Hmm......" Xing Kun frowned and replied with some uncertainty.

"There will definitely be no fewer people who resist, but there will definitely be those who surrender, but it is estimated that there are not many, at least there will be a lot less than at the beginning."

"That's it." Liu Qingwen spread his hands.

"After two years of conquest, the nobles and royal family of the Holy Roman Empire are afraid that they have rendered us as evil ghosts who do all kinds of evil and murder, and we belong to the kind of people who surrender and die faster, giving their people the impression that they will die if they don't resist, and even die with their whole family."

"This may be the reason why they were able to mobilize so many troops, and you should have also noticed that the enemy troops besieging the city in the past few days are uneven in terms of ability, and many of them seem to have never fought before, and they are completely inexperienced."

"Of course, that's all my guess." Seeing that Xing Kun still seemed to have doubts, Liu Qingwen explained with a smile.

"And, even if I guessed correctly, it wasn't necessarily going to be too bad."

"People are always afraid of death, and when the more people around them die, the stronger the sense of fear, and they will always reach a critical point."

"And that's not necessarily a bad thing."

"Report!"

While the two were talking, a scout galloped in from afar, heading in the direction of the city gates.

"Liu Qianhu! The figure of our army was found in the northeast, and according to the code of the prince's guard, it was determined that His Royal Highness the prince had brought people back! ”

Liu Qingwen and Xing Kun turned their heads to look at each other at the same time when they heard this, and they both got the same answer from each other's eyes.

"Let's go!"

……

At the same time, it was three miles northwest of the city of Vienna.

Albert, the Habsburg dynasty and one of the two counts of the Kingdom of Hungary, was making his final pre-war mobilization.

Most of the troops he brought this time were summoned by the Holy See in the name of holy war, so he did not cherish these soldiers, but let them die in waves.

Why? For from the Habsburg point of view, these forces would be those of Sigismund, not of the Habsburgs.

They did want to repel the Ming army and take Vienna back, but they also wanted to cut off Sigismund's arm.

In their opinion, with the help of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the eastern and northern battlefields could drag on for a year and a half, if not victorious.

At that time, the drawbacks of Zhu Zhan's division of troops too much will be revealed, and their opportunity will come.

However, they didn't know that because of the appearance of a Zheng He, their plans had been completely lost, and even the Kingdom of Poland was about to fall into the abyss, and the Kingdom of Denmark was too busy to take care of itself.

It can only be said that people who are hungry for power will not be overstated what kind of outcome they encounter.

(End of chapter)