Zhu Gaoxian took a wolf hair from the pen holder, dipped it in cinnabar, and drew a curve on the map that was as arc as a blood-colored waning moon. Diaphragm

"This line, from Ningxia Wei to Liangzhou Wei, Suzhou Wei, Shazhou Wei, across Shaanxi Xingdu Division, with the Great Wall as a barrier and Jiayuguan as a henchman, can gradually spread and encroach on the western part of Hanhai step by step."

Zhu Gaoxian explained, "We threw the King of Han to the mountain to take the lead, and if he hit down a little, we will chase a little behind." ”

Zhu Di frowned and said, "You mean, let King Han give us a day job?" ”

This does sound like a white prostitute, the king of Han fought hard in front of him, and laid a little land, and the imperial army stole a little bit from behind the buttocks, which can be described as shameless.

However, in the face of the interests of the country, this cannot be called shameless prostitution, this is called strategic advancement.

Zhu Di saw blood for a while: "Can King Han agree?" ”

If he were the King of Han, if he was prostituted for nothing, he would definitely be unbearable and fight to the death with King Qi. Diaphragm

"I have already said before, he has no choice, if he doesn't go forward, there is only one way to squat in prison."

Zhu Gaoxian put his finger on the Gansu town of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, "We have 400,000 troops in the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and we can assemble troops in Gansu Town at any time. If the King of Han does not go forward, then we will send troops directly from the Dapan Road Pass of Heli Mountain, take down the King of Han, and approach the Tatar Department! ”

Zhu Di raised his hand to interrupt: "Wait a minute, where did we get the 400,000 troops from Xingdusi in Shaanxi?" ”

Including the Goryeo Metropolitan Division, the Yingzhou Metropolitan Division, and the Annam Metropolitan Division, there are a total of 18 metropolitan divisions and Xingdu divisions in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the army of Liaodong Dusi is the most abundant, with 300,000 elite soldiers and horses.

As for the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, although it is also a military town, the total strength is not comparable to that of the Liaodong Division, after all, the military center of gravity of the Ming Empire has always been in the northeast, not the northwest. The three eastern provinces of Liaodong, Jianzhou, and Goryeo accounted for nearly half of the total strength of the 18 capitals.

Zhu Gaoxian said: "Dad, the pattern is small." ”

Zhu Di: |??? w??)??? Diaphragm

……

"Why the Ming Dynasty has always regarded the Northeast as an important town, this is because the lessons left by the former Song Dynasty to us are too painful, and the Northeast Military Town is used to defend the sixteen states of Yanyun, if the land of Yanyun is lost, the country's ridge will be broken. At the end of the day, we still have a fixed mindset, but we don't realize that the way of the world has changed. ”

Zhu Gaoxian said in high spirits, "Now is not the situation where the enemy enters and I defend, it is the situation where I enter the enemy's defense, and the people who should be afraid of being invaded should be the enemy in our north!" ”

Zhu Di's military foresight can naturally understand the strings in and out of King Qi's words: "Are you saying that you want to transfer the center of gravity of the Ming Dynasty in the border towns from the northeast to the northwest, and migrate the elite garrisoned in Liaodong to the Xingdu Division in Shaanxi?" ”

"That's exactly what Erchen said."

Zhu Gaoxian said, "The main task of the Liaodong garrison is to guard against the Jurchen tribes and the Goryeo Kingdom, and occasionally go to the coastal area to crusade against the Japanese invaders, and the hundreds of thousands of troops have nothing to do. The army of Liaodong was originally used to prevent the Northern Yuan, but now the Northern Yuan fell apart into the three major forces of Warat, Tatar and Uliangha, and Warat and Tatar were successively attacked by our troops, and curled up in the north of Hanhai and did not dare to trespass, and Wuliangha was afraid of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, and shrank his neck to be a dog for the Ming Dynasty. ”

"In this situation, if the center of gravity of the army is still in the northeast, it is actually a waste of military resources, and the sons know that the father wants to move the capital to Shuntian, and the Shanhaiguan and the three eastern provinces will be the barrier of Shuntian at that time, and the arch will defend the national capital, but has the father thought about a question, why is our Ming Dynasty strong, and we have to garrison to defend?" Diaphragm

"Kou can go, I can go too!"

"We will put the main force in the northwest, drive straight into the mountains without piercing the mountains, cross the Hanhai Sea and approach Mobei, and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop, isn't it once and for all?"

Since ancient times, the Central Plains has been facing the enemy in the north, and it has always been the center of strategy to defend.

Mainly because even if the place of Mobei is defeated, there are no resources to harvest, and it costs a huge amount of military money to knock down a place where there is no fart, what is the picture?

Figure: A whole car of cactus?

From a military point of view, the northwest and eastern Liaodong each have advantages:

Putting the military focus in the northwest is equivalent to casting a spear for the empire, but there are flaws in defense. Diaphragm

Placing the military focus on Liaodong is equivalent to creating an impregnable shield for the empire, but losing the mobility of the attack.

However, the country's resources are limited, and there is only one choice between the spear and the shield.

The kings of all dynasties have chosen to seek stability, but Zhu Gaoxian put forward contradictory ideas.

Instead of defending with offense, you can kill all the enemies with a spear, and you don't need to build a shield.

Zhu Di said solemnly: "Do you know, if you follow your idea, how much manpower and material resources need to be consumed, this is not a simple transfer, but a change involving the entire Ming frontier!" ”

He thought that what Zhu Gaoxian was going to say today was just about the King of Han, but the more he listened, the more wrong he became, from the vassal state of the King of Han, to the later Shaanxi Xingdu Division, and now the entire border defense of the Ming Dynasty is involved!

King Qi is going to deploy the army of the entire Ming Empire for a big change! Diaphragm

"The ancients often said that soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, if we blindly respond to the changing situation according to the eternal thinking, how can we survive forever?"

Zhu Gaoxian said sternly, "If you blindly seek stability, how can you create such a good river and mountain?" If there is only a 100% chance of winning a war, then it is even better to be a good general, and any beggar pulled out of the street can be the commander of the three armies. ”

Zhu Di tapped the map on the table with his finger and warned: "You are gambling on the fate of the army, the fate of the country, and using the entire Ming Dynasty's border defense as a bargaining chip to gamble, if I am a general, I am naturally willing to fight, but I am the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, how can I hand over the lifeblood of the dynasty to you, and let you bet the fortunes of the dynasty on the gambling table on this gambling table with the world as a chessboard?" ”

For the first time, there was such a heated argument between father and son.

Zhu Di trusts and likes King Qi very much, and he is willing to leave everything to this impeccable heir, but he can't accept King Qi to make such a risky layout and gamble with the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty.

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In his eyes, King Qi is Zhu Di, the king of Yan fifteen years ago.

Fifteen years ago, Zhu Di was so confident Ling Ran, he believed in himself, as long as he wanted to do it, there was nothing he couldn't do, whether it was the battlefield of nine deaths and a life, or the situation of life and death, Zhu Di believed that he could face difficulties and easily cross the abyss of endless darkness. Diaphragm

But now Zhu Di can't do this.

Even if he is a hero of the world, there is an old day, the older a person is, the more stable he is, Zhu Di is not a person who is afraid of taking risks, he just doesn't want to take the Ming Dynasty to make a gamble, even if the odds of winning are big, he is not willing to gamble.

"Dad, you're wrong, I'm not gambling."

Zhu Gaoxian closed his eyes lightly and said, "I can't be more familiar with this map, I remember every province, every prefecture, every county, every capital, every guard, even every pass, every fort, in my eyes, this is not a map, but a lifelike river and mountain." I've deduced countless times in my mind how to fight this battle, how to fight to win, how to fight to minimize the damage of the battle, and after countless deductions, I have come to the conclusion that—"

"10% chance of winning."

He closed his eyes and swiped his finger across the map and said, "Here, it's Jiayuguan." ”

"This is the Zhenyi House." Diaphragm

"Here, it's a high platform."

"Here, it's Gansu Town."

"Here, it's Shandanwei."

"Here, it's Muyangchuan Hexi Fort."

"Here, it is Bailing Mountain, which the locals also call Snow Mountain."

"Here, it's ......"

Even with his eyes closed, he could still mark every point on the map, even the small forts that were not marked on the map, as if he were there. Diaphragm

Without exception, he was right.

Even if Zhu Di deployed these locations, he didn't even know more about this mountain and river than King Qi.

In the end, Zhu Gaoxian opened his eyes, and his eyes were like a sharp blade that could tear apart his soul, piercing people's hearts.

"Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures?"

"Do you have any regrets?"

"You have no regrets."

…… Diaphragm

Zhu Di's lips moved slightly, and he sighed: "In this life, after experiencing everything, I feel that I am omnipotent through wind and frost, thinking that I have something in my hands, thinking that Jiang is still old and spicy, and the young man is immature after all." ”

"But if it hadn't been for a gust of wind that woke me up, I wouldn't have known that I had stepped into the quagmire with my feet and thought I was a hero, but I didn't know that there was cowardice in my heart, which was really ridiculous."

"I'm too old to do anything."

"There is cowardice in your heart, you can't be the sword-wielder of the Ming Dynasty, King Qi, it's your turn."

Zhu Di turned around and walked to the depths of the hall, leaving only a sentence that echoed in the empty hall: "The Tiger Talisman of all the guards of the eighteen capitals of the Ming Dynasty is in this Qianqing Palace, and the jade seal of the Ming Dynasty is also here, you take it, how the Ming Dynasty should go, you have the final say." ”

His back was depressed until he was completely immersed in darkness.

He is still old after all, with white hair and hunchback, and he is already nearly sixty years old. Diaphragm

He has been a Daming knife bearer for fifteen years, and the height is unbearable, and he is a little tired.

Zhu Gaoxian bowed to the back of the gradually Mohu and hugged his fists:

"The son must do his best to the strength of the humerus, and he is willing to repay him with death."

The old man said: "I take heaven and earth as coffins, the sun and the moon as the joints, the stars as pearls, if his life floats, if he dies, if he dies, he is a dream, and he dies for sleep, and there are no regrets." You are still young, and if you want to have what you don't have, you have to do what you have never done before. ”

"Just do it."

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"Brute!" Diaphragm

"King Han, this brute, how dare he!"

"Change the fief to divide the land, he dares to do this kind of lack of morality, the king of Han is really damned!"

After the Han King was released from Zhao Prison, he not only restored the prince, but was also endowed with great power, and he couldn't wait to swing his sword at the clansmen.