At this time, Zhu Yunwen had already checked that there were no weapons on his body, and Jiang Xinghuo had also put on armor and carried a knife when he landed on the island for safety before, so in this huge vegetable garden, it was just the two of them, even those dead soldiers of the White Lotus Sect were only scattered far away.

"Hate?"

"Emperor Taizu Gao, what do I hate? The mountains and rivers are dying, and the sun and the moon are reopened! Emperor Taizu Gao expelled the Tartar Gong in China, but it was you. ”

Jiang Xinghuo turned around, snorted coldly, and said without hesitation: "If you were my grandson, I would definitely hang you in the yard and whip you every day." ”

Zhu Yunwen smiled bitterly and asked rhetorically: "Born in the emperor's family and raised in the hands of a woman, what can I do?" ”

The conversation between the former emperor and the current national teacher was not very good for talking about from the beginning.

"These are not your excuses."

Jiang Xinghuo hadn't seen with his own eyes what Zhu Yunwen was like when he was the emperor before, but judging from his various not very smart actions, Zhu Yunwen's level as the emperor was seriously insufficient.

And Zhu Yunwen held the pile of "Ming Pao" in his hand, but shook his head resistantly, he just asked very calmly and slowly: "If you are me, what should you do?" ”

As he spoke, Zhu Yunwen seemed to fall into memory.

"I was born in the palace since I was a child, and my parents told me to listen to my husband and respect those who are learned, and only these people are loyal servants of the state."

"And these gentlemen who taught me were carefully selected by the imperial grandfather, they are all highly educated people, these gentlemen told me that the imperial grandfather was too strict in governance, and the common people complained bitterly, so we should lenient sentences and prisons, reduce taxes, and reduce redundant officials and redundant personnel."

With Zhu Yunwen's recollection, he frowned, he didn't seem to know what was wrong with listening to these words of his parents, grandfather and husband.

"When I become the emperor, I give the old people rice, meat, silk and other materials, and make the government adopt widows, widows, lonely and sick people, pay attention to agriculture, build schools, inspect officials, provide relief to disaster victims, and exempt me from taxes, is it wrong for me to do this?"

Zhu Yunwen looked at Jiang Xinghuo, he didn't seem to be questioning, but really fell into doubt.

yes, did he do something wrong?

Zhu Yunwen seemed to realize something, and blurted out and asked, "Or is it wrong to cut the domain?" ”

"No, there's nothing wrong with cutting the domain."

Zhu Yunwen immediately affirmed himself.

"At that time, the emperor's grandfather told me that he entrusted the great task of resisting Hu Lu to the kings, so that the border would not be chaotic and leave me peaceful. At that time, I asked rhetorically, 'Hu Lu is unstable, let the kings defend, but if the kings are restless, who will resist', this question was also silent Grandpa was silent, and came to ask my opinion, and I said, 'It should be treated with virtue and etiquette, and it should not be cut down, and it should not be changed to its people, and it should even raise troops to attack it', these are approved by the imperial grandfather. ”

Zhu Yunwen remembers this passage very clearly, obviously in Zhu Yunwen's heart, Zhu Yuanzhang's recognition is very weighty.

"Moreover, even if King Yan usurped the throne, wouldn't he also have to cut the domain? With his cruelty and narrowness, I am afraid that the cutting of the feudal domain is more ruthless than mine, and there is no room for it. ”

"If there is really a mistake, it is also wrong that I was born in the emperor's family, raised in the hands of a woman, I don't understand military affairs, I have no military service, and I mistakenly believed in Li Jinglong, an incompetent general, so that the country overturned, so that I became a king and was defeated."

Speaking of which, the first sentence and the last sentence are buckled, and Zhu Yunwen's logic has closed the loop.

This is obviously the answer given by Zhu Yunwen after thinking about his "why failed" for a long time.

Zhu Yunwen's conclusion is that it is right to cut the feudal domain, but the mistake is that he does not understand military affairs, and he uses people improperly, and it is Li Jinglong's pot.

Is this conclusion correct?

On the surface, it seems like nothing is wrong.

Zhu Yunwen was born in the emperor's family, he has never fought since he was a child, and he can't personally lead the troops into battle like his uncle Yan Wang Zhu Di, so what is wrong with sending the son of a famous general recommended by gentlemen, his assistant minister of the East Palace, and his cousin Li Jinglong (Li Jinglong's grandmother is Zhu Yuanzhang's own sister) to help him lead the troops to fight?

If you have to say that there is a mistake, it is also Li Jinglong's fault, the second generation of Zhao Kuo, lost his teacher and lost his land, so that his Zhu Yunwen's country is gone.

Hardly engaged in any manual labor, so much so that Zhu Yunwen, who was a little too white, spread his hands, with a slight banter in his eyes, and looked at Jiang Xinghuo.

All the indifference and tranquility shown by Zhu Yunwen are his disguise, and in Zhu Yunwen's bones, he still feels that he has the purest blood of the Zhu family flowing in his body, and he feels that he is the only legitimate heir of the Ming Dynasty.

He was just tired of running and tired of hiding, so he didn't want to hide anymore, and he couldn't do it, and he planned to let people give him a decent end.

- But what's wrong with me?

All parties are guilty, the sin lies with Li Jinglong, and it has nothing to do with me.

Don't look at Zhu Yunwen's appearance as a decadent monk now, don't look at him as if he has broken through the barrier of life and death, don't look at him like a cute fat house with no quarrel with the world, but from the bottom of his heart, Zhu Yunwen doesn't feel that he is wrong at all.

But Jiang Xinghuo only asked one question.

"I told you to hit the tree and die now, are you going?"

Zhu Yun was stunned and said with a wry smile: "If you force me with a knife, I'm afraid I will have to go." ”

"That's it."

Jiang Xinghuo's expression was calm: "In July of the first year of Jianwen, you sacrificed to the Taimiao, cut the membership of the Yan royal family, abolished it as a concubine, and decided to raise troops to attack Yan, and set up the Pingyan political secretary in Zhending, with Tyranny Zhao as the political envoy, and the battle of Zhending, elected Changxing Marquis Geng Bingwen as the general, Wuding Marquis Guo Ying as the deputy, Li Jian, the commander of the horses, as the left deputy general, Ning Zhong, the governor of the capital, as the right deputy general, and the hussar general Gu became the governor of the left army, leading the army of 130,000 to fight Yan. ”

"May I ask - Geng Bingwen, Guo Ying, Gu Cheng and others are all famous generals of the Hongwu Dynasty, with brilliant military achievements, and Tyranny Zhao is a cadre of the country who has the courage to do things.

Zhu Yunwen opened his mouth and stammered.

This set of configurations at the time of the war was naturally the best solution at that time, and the most capable Wenchen generals went into battle together, how could it be that someone else forced him to do it with a knife?

But obviously, the defeat of Geng Bingwen, Guo Ying, and Gu Cheng, the famous generals of Hongwu, could not be relied on on Li Jinglong, because Li Jinglong was still sitting at home at that time.

This is also the most obvious omission in Zhu Yunwen's seemingly self-consistent logic that leaks everywhere.

However, Jiang Xinghuo's questioning did not stop.

"On the tenth day of September in the second year of Jianwen, you took Licheng Hou Shengyong as the general of Pingyan, Ping'an and Wu Jie as the deputies, and at the same time Tie Xuan as the secretary of the military department and the political envoy of Shandong Bu to form the Dezhou battalion; With Tyrant Zhao as the secretary of the Criminal Department and the political envoy of Pingyanbu, the Zhending camp was reorganized; Xu Kai, the commander of the Sichuan capital (known as the 'Xichuan Shuangbi' with the fierce general Qu Neng who died in battle with Baigou River), led the troops of Songpan Jingcai to Cangzhou to build a city and try to establish a Cangzhou camp. Replaced these generals and established three large battalions to trap the Yan army, are these choices forced by others to do with knives? ”

"Or did you fall into the counter-plot, and the Liaodong guard Wu Gao was cut down and deposed, replaced with a new Liaodong guard, and eliminated the worries of the northeast direction of the Yan army, and someone else forced you to do it with a knife?"

"Or is it that with Ningyuan Marquis He Fu as the commander of the decisive battle of Lingbi, the fate is really determined, and the Texas battalion is pouring out of the nest to rescue Xu and Pei supply lines, is it someone else who forced you to do it with a knife?"

Zhu Yunwen's face was blue and white, his lips were pursed, and the "Ming Pao" in his hand was already trembling.

He couldn't even say the reason why Wenchen didn't know the soldiers, because whether it was Geng Bingwen, Guo Ying, Gu Cheng, or the establishment of the three camps of Zhending, Dezhou, and Cangzhou, although it was made under the advice of Qitai Huang Zicheng, this is the most correct and reasonable decision, who will make the decision, look at these cards in your hand, this is the best way to play, but the correct and reasonable decision may not necessarily bring victory.

As for the decisive battle of Lingbi, this tragic strategic decisive battle that is hardly mentioned in history, but actually determines the final ownership of the Ming Emperor's throne, is a little more complicated.

On the second day of December in the third year of Jianwen, the Yan army decided to bypass the clamp of the two large battalions of Dezhou and Zhending, and went south from the middle to attack the Xuzhou battalion, the general supply line of the weakly guarded southern army.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the fourth year of Jianwen, the Yan army crossed the Yellow River in Guantao; On the 14th day of the first lunar month, the Yan army captured Dong'e; On the fifteenth day of the first month, Dongping was trapped; On the seventeenth day of the first month, it was trapped; On the 27th day of the first month, trapping Pei County; On the thirtieth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Gaoxu led the Yan army to Xuzhou.

The Xuzhou battalion hoarded all the supplies transferred from the south, which was the general supply line for the two battalions to be transported forward to Dezhou and Zhending, and it was also the main artery of the Southern Army. At that time, Hebei and Shandong were already empty, and the southern army there had no ability to supply on the spot, and losing supplies meant that they could only wait for their collapse without a fight.

The Jianwen court had no choice, and after discussion, Zhu Yunwen on the one hand let Mei Yin serve as the chief military officer, guard Huai'an, and set up a second line of defense in the rear of Xuzhou, and on the other hand, order the main force of the southern army in the two large camps of Dezhou and Zhending to come back to help.

It is not possible not to return reinforcements, because compared to the embarrassment of the southern army on the front line, the resources here in Huanghuai are sufficient, and the Yan army can completely rely on breaking through those small cities that have no defense to do the local plunder and supplies, but what about the southern army? If the stalemate continues, Xuzhou has not been captured by the Yan army, but the supply line has been cut off in fact, and if you don't return to help and eat up the stored grain, you will have to wait for yourself to collapse, and the situation in Xuzhou is not optimistic, on February 21, after the Yan army defeated the army of the Xuzhou battalion, Xuzhou, which had no reinforcements, could only close the city and defend it.

The Southern Army, with the veteran Ningyuan Marquis He Fu as the commander, led Nanjing's last general reserve that had just been reorganized and trained to the north, and at the same time dispatched Sheng Yong and Tie Xuan to return from Dezhou to help, Ping An and Chen Hui to return from Zhending, and Zhu Di took advantage of the difference in the distance between the two battalions in Dezhou and Zhending to defeat Sheng Yong, who set out from Dezhou, and continued to go south to Lingbi.

At this time, Zhu Di had achieved all his strategic goals, Zhu Di's strategic purpose was not to capture Xuzhou and cut off the supply line of the Southern Army, but to force him to be a shrinking turtle in the two camps of Zhending and Dezhou, trying to use the method of long-term siege to consume the peace of the Yan army, Sheng Yong to come out of the strategic decisive battle, and Zhu Di used the method of encircling the point to send reinforcements, wanting to eat two plates of dumplings in one go.

In Lingbi, the last general reserve of the Southern Army led by He Fu was also the only mobile unit in Zhu Yunwen's hands, surrounded by the heavy corps of the Yan army, He Fu followed the example of Lian Po in the Battle of Changping that year, and held on to the high base in the deep ditch of Lingbi, at this time Sheng Yong's Dezhou army had been heavily damaged by the Yan army's return rifle, so it could only wait for the 60,000 reinforcements to deliver supplies to meet it.

He Fu and his heavy army showed amazing resilience in the decisive battle of Lingbi, and under the attack of the "Mangu Gang" tactic that the Yan army learned from the Mongols, while maintaining a dense formation of marches, as soon as they encountered an attack, they unequivocally built civil fortifications, and despite casualties and exhaustion, they forced themselves to move closer to the vicinity of Ping'an.

Then with the arrival of Ping'an with supplies, the two sides launched a decisive battle in Lingbi, and the key factor in this decisive battle is whether He Fu and Ping'an can meet smoothly, once He Fu and Ping'an converge, then the best result of the Yan army is also to return after losing the army, and the worst result will be that the main force will be fully defeated in Lingbi.

At the critical moment of the decisive battle, He Fu and Ping'an's two divisions had already entered the east and west to encircle and block the Yan army was about to break through, and when he saw that the encirclement and blocking line that was about to be supported by the Yan army was completely torn apart, Zhu Gaoxu led the Yan army to cut off the joint between the two sides, and then turned around and completely defeated all the main forces of the southern army, and won the decisive battle.

In short, the decisive battle of Lingbi is a typical no problem with employing people, no problem with decision-making, and even no problem with tactics.

— but just lost.

Who can blame it?

Is Li Jinglong to blame?

can't blame him, but Zhu Yunwen can't throw the pot on Ping'an and Sheng Yong.

Although Ping'an and Sheng Yong finally surrendered, it was precisely by relying on this group of generals that they fought bloody battles in Dezhou, Dongchang, Gaocheng, Jiahe and other rounds, and won and lost with the Yan army.

Jiang Xinghuo smiled: "Since you have to say that, then let's talk about how incompetent Li Jinglong is." ”

"Geng Bingwen's army was defeated, you took over as the general with Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, in September, Li Jinglong rushed to Dezhou, Shandong, gathered Geng Bingwen's scattered soldiers and horses to reorganize and train, and transferred all kinds of troops and horses to coordinate the reorganization, a total of 500,000, arrived at the river and stationed, and then went north to Beiping, and ordered Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, to respond in the direction of Liaodong, and the Yan army was trapped in a corner of Beiping, and the destruction was only in the morning and night."

"When Li Jinglong cleaned up Geng Bingwen's mess, why didn't you say that he was an 'incompetent general'?"

"When Li Jinglong led 500,000 troops to besiege Beiping, why didn't you say that he was an 'incompetent general'?"

Zhu Yunwen was a little unconvinced: "But he still lost." ”

"It's a loss."

"But have you ever wondered why Li Jinglong didn't fight Beiping?"

Zhu Yunwen said as a matter of course: "Naturally, it is the ambition of the two wolf sons of Yan and Ning, and they converge together. ”

Jiang Xinghuo wanted to get to the bottom of it: "Then why did the two feudatories converge?" ”

"On September 28 of the first year of Jianwen, King Yan led the main cavalry of the Yan army out of Daning, on the sixth day of October, the Yan army arrived at the city of Daning through the path, and the king of Yan rode into the city to see King Ning, on October 13, the king of Yan said goodbye, the king of Ning saw off in the suburbs, and the army of Daning rebelled and attached to the king of Yan. This is the statement I saw in the archives, and then King Yan coerced King Ning to go to Beiping with Princess Ning and Prince Ning, but is this really the case? King Ning, who had been running a fief and army for ten years, was bewitched by King Yan in a few words? That King Yan's ability is too great, and these Ning Wang's army is too easy to fool. ”

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Zhu Yunwen's eyes: "I believe you actually know the real answer, can you tell me?" ”

Zhu Yunwen's face became gloomy for the first time.

I don't understand what you're saying."

"You understand."

Jiang Xinghuo didn't seem to see that the kind expression that Zhu Yunwen had been maintaining was about to disappear, and continued to say to himself.

"In August of the first year of Jianwen, Qi Tai and others were worried about the King of Liao and King Ning to help King Yan, and suggested that you recall these two kings back to Beijing, and the King of Liao returned to Beijing by sea and was immediately controlled by seclusion, losing his personal freedom, and King Ning did not obey, so he cut the three guards of King Ning, and transferred them from the station, and the one who was transferred from the station was the King of Yan, which is why the King of Yan had 100,000 soldiers across the northern frontier, but he had to take the risk of taking nine doors with 800 warriors when he got up."

"You know the answer, there is no hatred in this world for no reason, King Ning also knows that if he doesn't resist, he will be the next King Yan, but you will want his life, King Yan will not want his life, this is the reason why the Daning family once defected."

"Within a year, even the eight kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, Min, Yan, Liao, and Ning, and even Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty were not able to do it, may I ask, is this what someone else forced you to do with a knife?"

Zhu Yunwen said almost angrily: "Even so, then, is Li Jinglong's ability enough?" Which battle did he win? ”

"I didn't say that Li Jinglong is capable."

Jiang Xinghuo said matter-of-factly: "Li Jinglong's training and leading troops is enough, and he is just a second-rate general who is decent in battle. ”

"Then don't you blame him, but also complain!"

Zhu Yunwen suddenly broke out, threw the "Ming Pao" in his hand to the ground, and no longer called himself "I", almost hysterically roared.

Looking at the dust stirred up by the newspaper staining Zhu Yunwen's clean monk's robe, looking at his angry appearance with the tip of his nose leaning forward and his midriff slightly bulging.

Jiang Xinghuo can actually understand why Zhu Yunwen is so obsessed with losing his throne and falling into the black cauldron of his current situation to Li Jinglong's head.

Because for a hard-mouthed giant baby who has received too much love since childhood, it is absolutely impossible to admit that failure is his own problem.

People like Zhu Yunwen are full of a high sense of superiority, they can accept death, but they can never accept their own incompetence, and it is precisely because of their superiority that Zhu Yunwen will appear so incomprehensible.

Zhu Yunwen thinks that he is a person above ten thousand people, how can he be incompetent? How could he be unworthy? If he is really unworthy, then all his pride will be completely shattered.

So Zhu Yunwen must find a person to blame for his failure.

And Geng Bingwen's pot, Sheng Yong's pot, and He Fu's pot can't be thrown on Li Jinglong's head, so he can only bite to death from Li Jinglong's defeat.

"Li Jinglong didn't win, but did he really do something wrong?"

Unlike Zhu Yunwen, who was almost hysterical, Jiang Xinghuo was very calm, and he calmly analyzed: "Militarily speaking, Li Jinglong only conducted four military operations during his tenure as commander. ”

"1. Train the army to besiege Beiping for siege warfare; 2. Seeing that Yanning merged at Zhengcunba, the initial battle was unfavorable and the army withdrew; 3. After the Yan army took Ulzhou and went straight to Datong, the fiefdom of the king of Daiwang, in order to prevent the recurrence of the old incident of King Ning, the Yan army was sent to the rescue urgently, and finally the Yan army was from Juyong Guan, and Li Jinglong was from Bauhinia Guan; Fourth, after the ice and snow melted in the spring, the road was hard, and the Yan army fought a decisive battle at the Baigou River and besieged it with regiments. ”

"These four military operations, from a military point of view, if you change any general, you will actually make the same decision as Li Jinglong, the final difference is only victory or defeat, which is not fundamentally different from Geng Bingwen's decision in the Battle of Zhending, Sheng Yong's decision in the Battle of Gaocheng, and He Fu's decision in the Battle of Lingbi, the decisions are all right, but they are defeated."

There is no doubt about this, take the first operation as an example, when the Southern Army has a huge advantage, is it wrong to surround Beiping? That's right, putting aside the stereotype, is it really true that the more people you have, the better the chance of winning in the winter attacking a fortified city that is rare in the north? Siege warfare in the era of cold weapons, it is common for the defenders to defend for months or even years when they are well prepared, and these examples can be said to be numerous as long as they flip through the history books, Zhuge Liang was defeated in Chen Cang, Sun Quan was defeated in Hefei, and Gao Huan was defeated in Yubi. Even when the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were examples of Zhu Wenzheng defending Hongdu with a lone army to resist Chen Youliang's 600,000 army for 85 days.

Can you say that Zhuge Liang, Gao Huan, Chen Youliang and others are all military waste? This is clearly not true.

Later, after the second military operation, after the confluence of Ning Yan, Zhu Di led more than 100,000 troops with cavalry as the main force to the south, after the southern army intercepted the initial battle, as long as he was a normal commander, he would not make the decision to continue to besiege the fortified city, while dividing the troops to use an infantry as the main force, to fight with the opponent's cavalry army in the field, especially when the enemy is a battle-hardened border army, and the source of their own troops is extremely chaotic and there is no cooperation at all, this is the standard belly and back of the enemy, It is easy to cause a major collapse, and on the premise that the enemy's reinforcements have arrived, in the face of the fortified city that is no longer possible, it can only retreat.

As for the third military operation, that is, to rescue Datong, there is nothing to say, everyone is saved, this is the art of war to attack it must be saved, no one knows if Datong is not saved, no one knows if King Yan will eat the soldiers and horses of the king of Daibei, once the border army of Daibei is eaten, then there is no need to fight in the field.

The fourth military operation, the Battle of Baigou River, before Jiang Xinghuo had already understood the whole picture in Zhu Gaoxu's reminiscences, Li Jinglong did nothing wrong throughout the whole process, relying on superior forces to fight steadily and steadily, and at the same time ordered Songpan Jingcai, who had the strongest tactical execution ability, to attack the Yan army on the back, which directly led to the death of many fierce generals of the Daning system, the Yan army was surrounded by regiments, and the battle line was close to collapse. The main reason for the defeat of the Southern Army was that Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu made a desperate bet and took all the main elite cavalry to attack the rear of the Southern Army around their backs and defeat the rear of the Southern Army.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu defeated the rear army of the Southern Army, Li Jinglong led the Chinese army instead of moving, but instead of moving, he mobilized the Ganliang Iron Cavalry, the Upper Twelve Wei Elite Army, and the Xichuan Infantry Army, these three reserve forces, with the fierce generals Qu Neng and his son, Yu Tongyuan, and Teng Ju as the commanders, and Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu led the Yan Army to fight hard.

It's just that Zhu Gaoxu's battlefield performance that day can be said to be straight into the land fairyland, regardless of fatigue and forcibly beheaded Qu Neng's father and son, the Yan army's elite cavalry was greatly encouraged, and all the generals such as Yu Tongyuan and Teng Ju were killed in one go, and directly kicked the horse's hooves in front of Li Jinglong's Chinese army's rejection of horses, and at this time, the southern army was responsible for commanding the peace of the frontal battlefield, and failed to break through the defense of Zhu Neng, who was responsible for commanding the frontal battlefield of the Yan army.

This is a repetition of the Battle of Beiping, and it was a bad attack and a house was stolen at the same time, and whoever was replaced by Li Jinglong's position had to be withdrawn.

What is the result of not withdrawing the head iron? The front attack cannot be broken, the side will be beheaded, and the final result is still defeated.

Therefore, when Li Jinglong was in charge of commanding the Southern Army, he made a total of four military decisions, retreating after Zhengcunba and starting from Zhending to rescue Datong, these two times there is no dispute, whoever comes has to choose like this, and the siege of Beiping Buke and the failure of the decisive battle of Baigou River, Li Jinglong must be mainly responsible, but from the point of view of the decision itself, there is no problem.

So what's wrong with his specific command? It may be different from the impression stream when you say it, that is, there is really no big problem, you can only say that you play decently, but you don't have spirituality, just like a little tiger in the world competition, you have no pot and no credit, and you lose in the end.

If you change Li Jinglong, his father Li Wenzhong, or Xu Da, Feng Sheng, and Fu Youde, even if you change to Lan Yu, who is slightly inferior to these people, you may win.

It's a pity that at that time, Sheng Yong'an had not yet emerged, He Fushang was in the northwest, and Li Jinglong was the best army commander of the Southern Army.

The best commander of the army, who led the army at the right time and place, made the right decision, and the final result failed, Li Jinglong really has to bear the main responsibility, because he really did not win, and he is indeed directly responsible.

But Geng Bingwen, Sheng Yong, and He Fu all made the right decisions, but they also failed in the end.

Li Jinglong's defeat was not an isolated case, and when this kind of war routine was repeated again and again in the southern army, it was obvious that Li Jinglong could not be blamed personally.

"I'm right, I'm right. The ministers are mistaken! The ministers were mistaken!! ”

Zhu Yunwen covered his white face in pain, the fat on his cheeks overflowed from his fingers, and his nails cut a few shallow blood stains on his forehead, as if he had lost his majesty as an emperor.

Now Zhu Yunwen does not blame Li Jinglong for the usurpation of the throne, but he still refuses to admit that he has a problem, but all his courtiers are responsible, and the rain and dew are all stained.

"Didn't you come into the world as an immortal? Tell me, what should I do? I don't know how to fight, I trust them, but they have failed me! ”

Zhu Yunwen stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Xinghuo's shoulder, shaking it vigorously, maybe the restraint just now was just his last sanity, this young man who had been on the run for a long time was also afraid of the arrival of death, and his performance at this moment, on the one hand, was refusing to deny himself, and on the other hand, he was stimulating Jiang Xinghuo to kill him quickly.

Jiang Xinghuo stared at Zhu Yunwen, who was already going crazy, and suddenly pushed his arms away with one hand, and then slammed it hard, and Zhu Yunwen staggered and fell under the locust tree.

"Qiang~"

The long knife on Jiang Xinghuo's waist came out of its sheath.

"You don't know."

Zhu Yunwen supported the ground with both hands, but immediately gave up and leaned against the trunk of the tree as if lying flat.

"I've been in this life. I'm so tired and killed. ”

But Jiang Xinghuo only unsheathed the knife and threw it to him in the air.

"That's what you're missing."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the scabbard smashed on his small belly, a little dazed.

"You believe in those scholars and doctors on the surface, and secretly make your own decisions, but you don't read history, you are too young, too angry, and you feel that the destiny of heaven is invincible, and when you wield the indestructible knife left to you by Emperor Taizu Gao, you never noticed that cracks have appeared in the blade, this knife, you have forcibly controlled him again and again, but you have never warmed it in the sheath!"

Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, and Jiang Xinghuo's words, like a sharp knife, cut through the defense that seemed to be completely surrounded in his heart.

Murder is also punished.

Maybe that's really the case

Zhu Yunwen's gaze looked at the fur with the slight turn of the scabbard without focus.

He was a man of extreme conceit and a sense of superiority.

He grew up in the most privileged environment in the whole world, and from the time when Zhu Xiongying died and his mother turned positive, Zhu Yunwen knew that he would be the heir to this huge empire.

In the end, he did it, and under the teaching of his mother, he hid his conceit, behaved filial piety, won the love of the imperial grandfather, and with the help of the imperial grandfather, cleared almost all obstacles to ascending to the throne.

Why almost?

Because there are still those uncles he hates, who are still alive.

So as soon as he ascended the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang's bones were not cold, and Zhu Yunwen couldn't wait to start cutting the domain.

Initially, no one dared to rebel against him.

Seeing that those uncles who were originally looked up to by themselves have become clay figure toys in their hands, they can handle it as much as they want, and they can step on it with their feet if they want to, Zhu Yunwen swelled.

He felt that his power was unlimited, and he could do whatever he wanted.

Until Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was martyred in the heavens, and raised troops to remove him from the throne.

But Zhu Yunwen never felt that he was wrong, or rather, he actually knew the answers, but refused to think about these questions.

Zhu Yunwen has never been an unassertive person.

On the contrary, he is very assertive.

It seems that he listens to Qitai Huang Zicheng's gang for everything, but in fact, he only listens to the part he wants to hear.

The suggestion of Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others was just Zhu Yunwen expressing his heart through their mouths.

And Zhu Yunwen also knew that what Jiang Xinghuo said was right.

Geng Bingwen hurriedly marched to Zhending, and after Li Jinglong took over, he led the southern army to attack the city in the cold and freezing, and ordered He Fu and Ping'an and Sheng Yong to join forces in one battle. In fact, the makers of these initial decisions were not these front-line generals, but Zhu Yunwen himself.

Even in the end, the Yan army's 200,000 iron horsemen marched south, and it seemed that the destruction was unstoppable.

But in fact, the Yan army had no ships, and it was impossible to pass the heavily defended Jianghuai defense line.

Therefore, as long as you calm down, let He Fu and Mei Yin defend the city and not come out, and let Ping'an and Sheng Yong rush over together, instead of being broken one after another by a distance difference, even if there is still hope of severely damaging the Yan army or continuing to drag on the war.

But every initial decision Zhu Yunwen made by himself was too anxious.

"If you can put the knife back into its sheath, bear with it."

Zhu Yunwen was a little stunned.

If he didn't push King Ning so tightly, if he could bear to slowly besiege the Yan army, if he could give Geng Bingwen more time, if he could let Li Jinglong wait until the beginning of spring before acting, if he could calm down and defend the Jianghuai defense line, everything could change.

But what's the use of saying that now?

"Maybe you're right."

Zhu Yunwen, who had already been punished, was silent for a moment, but simply said neatly: "Kill me, take my head and go to your majesty to ask for merit." ”

Jiang Xinghuo suddenly smiled, looked at Zhu Yunwen, and continued: "Is everyone who has become a big bloodsucker so self-centered? Regard hundreds of officials as domestic slaves, regard the treasury as private property, and win the hearts of all people with the heart of one person. ”

Zhu Yunwen leaned on the trunk of the tree completely, although he didn't understand the meaning of "big vampire" at the first time, but he quickly knew what it meant in connection with the context, but he was bored and said: "It was like this before, it was like this in the future, and the same is true when you sit in that position, that position is magical, and my uncle and I are no different." ”

"Your uncle is more suitable to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty than you."

Zhu Yunwen is a very strange person, he accepted his incompetence at this time, claiming that he had changed from "me" back to "me", but he refused to accept the view that "Zhu Di is more suitable to be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty than himself", and angrily reprimanded: "Nonsense! ”

"I am the only living grandson of Emperor Taizu Gao, and I am the heir to the throne designated by Emperor Taizu Gao!"

Jiang Xinghuo sneered: "If you don't believe it, I can't help it." ”

"You're still hating me for not being able to use you."

Zhu Yunwen seemed to have an inexplicable obsession with this issue, he lowered his head and was silent for a long time before he spoke.

"You're thinking too much."

Jiang Xinghuo calmly looked at the completely decadent fat house in front of him.

His mind and ability can't match his ambition at all, and it's not surprising that he ended up like this in front of Zhu Di, who has excellent mental toughness and ability.

And Zhu Yunwen's personality is impossible for Jiang Xinghuo to do anything.

Zhu Yunwen didn't understand Jiang Xinghuo's scheme, nor did he know what kind of world Jiang Xinghuo wanted to build.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't plan to explain anything to him, he didn't need to vent the congestion in his heart today.

Jiang Xinghuo put down the knife, he was going to call Niu Zhen to come over and do it.

"My uncle, is there anything you want to say to me?" Zhu Yunwen suddenly asked.

"The two dragons don't see each other."

Jiang Xinghuo saw that he didn't understand, so he repeated it again.

Zhu Yunwen nodded in amazement.

Since Zhu Di told Jiang Xinghuo that "the two dragons will not meet", that is not to see him, but to kill him directly, and then send his head over.

In fact, this sentence is indeed what Zhu Di explained to Jiang Xinghuo.

"He still didn't dare to see me, he was afraid of me, he was afraid that I would go to my grandfather to sue him."

Zhu Yunwen closed his eyes, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and quietly waited for death to come.

He always seems to be able to find a psychological advantage for himself.

"What are you going to do with the body after you kill me?"

Zhu Yunwen seemed to have accepted his fate calmly, and continued to ask with his eyes closed at this time.

Jiang Xinghuo was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Cut off the head and put it in lime, you can also use salt if you like." ”

Zhu Yunwen sighed lightly and said, "Do you know? When I usually read "Ming Pao", you are very powerful, you are a rare talent in the world, the Ming Dynasty uses your methods, it is indeed able to be strong, but you will not have a good end, you have offended too many people, my uncle will not tolerate you sooner or later, one day, your head should be like me, cut off and pickled in lime or salt, just like Shang Yang was divided into five horses. ”

"No one can offend so many gentry and survive unharmed."

"I really can't use you, but my imperial grandfather won't use you either, you are a traitor who is against Tiangang and seems to be a loyal minister, cholera has disturbed the national order and shaken the foundation of the Ming Dynasty."

A long knife stabbed into Zhu Yunwen's stomach.

Zhu Yunwen was in pain and opened his eyes suddenly.

"What I am shaking is not the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, but the foundation of your Zhu family."

Jiang Xinghuo stirred the knife in Zhu Yunwen's stomach hard, Zhu Yunwen couldn't even make a sound in pain, he only felt that Jiang Xinghuo's eyes were looking at him like a deep pool of water, and no one could guess what Jiang Xinghuo was thinking.

"I said, you big bloodsuckers are all the same, you win the hearts of all people with the heart of one person, Zhu Di is stronger than you, but he is just one of the strongest big bloodsuckers, how do you know what kind of world I want to build? Why are you pointing fingers at me? ”

Zhu Yunwen coughed up black blood, but instead he endured the pain and squeezed out a smile, like a victorious general, and he was about to gradually get used to this sharp pain, and he could stumble to speak.

"Are you in a hurry?"

Jiang Xinghuo twisted the handle of the knife, and looked at Zhu Yunwen, who was still in the dust, and had to compete with others.

This kind of giant baby that combines a hard mouth and a sense of superiority is very interesting, and it really lacks a knife.

"I just think that for such a thing as killing a big bloodsucking worm, you have to practice first, otherwise you have no experience, and I think that people like you are a little more powerful than others."

"Sima, Yi, haha, good! Good! ”

Jiang Xinghuo, who has watched too many TV series, held the handle of the knife tightly with his right hand to prevent being counter-killed, broke Zhu Yunwen's head with his left hand, and whispered in his ear: "Okay? Do you think I'm just going to kill the Emperor? You are wrong, you are very wrong, the great bloodsuckers of the past and present cannot be killed, what I want to do is to depose you from the clouds and descend to the earth. ”

"No, but, can" A trace of horror appeared in Zhu Yunwen's eyes.

"Nothing is impossible, today's world is not yesterday's world, but tomorrow's world, you can't see it."

"Do you want to take the emperor and power against you?"

"What is imperial power? I'm going to slay the dragon! ”

After speaking, Jiang Xinghuo pulled out the knife from Zhu Yunwen's abdomen, and immediately put the long knife horizontally, holding the handle of the knife with his right hand, pressing the back of the knife with his left hand, and slashing Zhu Yunwen's neck with a single sword.

The blood in the cavity was like a fountain that muddled Jiang Xinghuo's body.

Under the old locust tree, Emperor Jianwen's body fell weakly.

Jiang Xinghuo threw the knife and looked at him coldly.

"The first."

(End of chapter)