Chapter 154: The Battle of Texas
Zhu Song continued: "If we take such a large piece of land and recuperate, it will be much better than the original, the grain and grass in Liaodong will mature once a year, and it will not be possible to wait until the spring of the next year, but we can still get grain and grass and soldiers again in the Texas area." ”
"And the imperial court is not good at fighting in the north in winter, and this is our great opportunity, we can rest and recuperate until the spring of the following year."
"And in the cold winter, the Yuan people on the grassland eat almost the same amount of grain and grass, according to the habits of previous years, they will inevitably come to the border to plunder the people, whether it is Liaodong or Beiping, we don't care whether we are against the imperial court or not, but in this matter I think we should be responsible for the people on the border."
"So I think that this year, no matter what, we must protect the people on the frontier, and we must not let the people suffer because of our family affairs!"
Zhu Di thought it was true after listening to it, what Zhu Song said was very reasonable, since he rebelled, he had to find a way to win the hearts of the people, and if he could rebel at the same time, he could also worry about the safety of the people in the frontier, then this matter was undoubtedly an affirmation of his positive image, after all, the emperor who loved the people would not be too lucky.
"Okay, just according to the twenty brothers, this year we will take advantage of the victory to pursue, beat Li Jinglong's ass well, and then spend a winter to protect the frontier from harassing the people on the grassland."
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The next few days. The Northern Army pursued the victory, and kept biting the imperial army, and something surprising happened, Li Jinglong, this guy was forced to Texas City, and when he heard that the Northern Army was coming again, he was so frightened that he fled.
Run, run, he made that old mistake again, Zhu Di and Zhu Song led the soldiers to wait outside the north gate of Texas, and he, he took advantage of the chaos to escape from the south gate.
Li Jinglong led the troops, and there were few talents under his hands, and these guys could not unify all the soldiers, so they could only fight separately, but they fought separately, and they were not the opponents of the Northern Army.
So within two days, the city of Dezhou was breached, from Beiping to Dezhou, almost one-sixth of the land of the Ming Dynasty fell into the hands of Zhu Di, which is not counting the three times of Liaodong.
As a result, the whole world was in an uproar, and all the forces saw that King Yan had a great chance of winning, and he took Dezhou City before winter, and after taking Dezhou City, it immediately snowed heavily for several days in the north, and the southern army was not suitable for fighting in a cold environment, and now it was snowing so heavily. The combat power is even more incomparable, it can't be compared at all.
After taking Dezhou City, Zhu Di obtained a lot of grain, grass, ordnance, and prisoners, and Zhu Di was almost fattened.
The court faces the north, seeing that the north has entered the cold winter, can only be incompetent and angry, so angry that he stomps his feet, but there is no way to wave his army to the north, let alone select a good future commander from the court.
Speaking of this Jianwen, it is enough to say that Li Jinglong has been defeated in successive battles, and when he arrived at the Battle of Texas, he even left his soldiers and ran back alone.
Just this Jianwen also ordered Li Jinglong to think about it behind closed doors at home, if it was Zhu Di or Zhu Song, such a general would have been clicked with a knife.
Jianwen wants to show a benevolent image to the whole world, but this is too open-minded, not only showing his image as a queen, but also showing his stupid image.
No matter how much King Yan can fight, he has only one person after all, only the military horses of Beiping, but the result is that the imperial court spent nearly two years, and still did not take Beiping, did not quell the rebellion, and even retreated.
With this move, the imperial court has been lost for a while in front of thousands of people and subjects in the world, and the hearts of the people in the world are gradually moving closer to King Yan and King Han.
If there is only King Yan alone, then the rebellion is at most a rebellion by the vassal king, but if the four kings of Han, Liao, and Ning rebel together, then this matter is not so simple.
Whether it is officials or ordinary people, gossip is human nature, as long as they are given a chance, they will wantonly indulge in reverie, what happened, so that the four vassal kings rebelled, is it the benevolence of the court, or the four vassal kings are forced to be cornered.
In fact, if such a thing happened in the country, the people and subjects unconditionally stood on the side of the court, which is enough to explain the problem, and it can be said that there are endless troubles in the future.
However, no matter how anxious the court is, it has nothing to do with Zhu Di and Zhu Song, and the two of them can now be said to be relaxed and happy, and the cause of rebellion can be described as having a good future.
After taking the city of Texas, now Beiping can basically be said to be calm.
Zhu Di and Zhu Song will also take the three sons of King Yan and a group of generals to the suburbs of Beiping to fight in the wilderness, and return from the wild things that are full of them, and the Yanwang Mansion will rely on these wild meat to open meat at night.
Zhu Song has lived in Yanwang's Mansion in the past few days, and he has only one feeling, reunion, harmony and fullness, especially Zhu Gaochu seems to have gone through this battle of Jingjing, Zhu Gaochu doesn't seem to look down on his eldest brother so much.
As for Zhu Di, as a person who has become a grandfather, he naturally likes Zhu Zhanji, as long as he is idle every day, he will run to his son and daughter-in-law to rush to see the children.
Their family is harmonious and beautiful, but it makes Zhu Song also homesick and miss his princess, and Zhu Song and the princesses in Beiping have been writing letters in the past few days.
Everything is fine in the house, Li Gouzi is now officially named Li Mastiff in the army, and Li Mastiff is in charge of Kaiyuan City, Zhu Song is very relieved.
Li Mastiff had always been taught by Feng Cheng to take him before, how to fight on the battlefield, how to learn the art of war, including how to read and write, all brought out by Lord Yuezhang, but this Li Mastiff took a diametrically opposite path.
If you have to say it, this Li Ao led the troops to fight, quite like the king of Yan, and likes to take the lead, but he can also take the command in the middle.
Therefore, Kaiyuan City was handed over to Li Mastiff to guard, and Zhu Song's family was handed over to Li Mastiff for protection, and Zhu Song was very relieved.
In the past, when Zhu Song was alone, he had no family background, no wife, no children, he was full of food alone, and the whole family was not hungry.
Zhu Song stood in the middle of the courtyard, feeling the snowflakes falling from the sky, this year somehow, the snow in the north has been very abundant, although the snow is a good year, but this amount of snow, I am afraid that the people in the northern countryside are not doing well.