"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

In autumn and July, when the Ming Dynasty was in full swing to implement steam engines and pumping engines, and constantly restored the policy of agriculture and mining in the northwest and north, Kunlun Zhou, which was tens of thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, was full of cannons.

On the plains, dozens of heavy cannons were bombarding each other.

The two flags of "Ariake Korea" and "Ariake Japan" belonged to the two camps, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered in Wuyang.

In addition to them, there were tens of thousands of Kunlun slaves who were improvised by them.

Stone cannonballs flew across the plain and smashed into the enemy's camp, and the Kunlun slaves, who acted as servants, looked at the bloody images of their comrades in front of them, and couldn't help but tremble, and even tried to escape, but were killed on the spot by the Japanese samurai, who were much shorter than them.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate!"

When the news of Wang Zhao's death from illness reached Longchuan, Wang Xuan was encircling and suppressing the Tusi of Mengyang's rebellion, and when he learned of the court's reward, he immediately went to Zhu Gaoxu to thank him for his kindness, and Wang Kui, who was in Mengding, also thanked his father.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to change the land of Laos in advance, but he couldn't stand the Laotian toast and killed himself.

Their muskets were only counterfeits, and with the exception of an extra arquebus and an extended barrel, the rest of the function was still a musket.

"Naturally, the subordinates have already brought it, just outside the camp!" Kajii Yoshisei hurriedly responded.

Seeing this, Meng Ran instantly threw the military registration card on the ground, pretending to be angry: "The human and material evidence is conclusive, and you still don't admit your guilt?" ”

On the first day of October, after more than half a month of arguing, Zhu Gaoxu finally finalized Wu Gao's matter.

"Well, it's indeed North Korea's military card."

"Angel, we are willing to hand over these five thousand six hundred and seventy-two taels of gold." When Quan Xiangshan heard that he could keep some of it, he immediately admitted the account.

Meng Ran frowned and glared at Quan Xiangshan, Quan Xiangshan hurriedly lowered his head, while Kajii Yoshisei had a chuckle on his face, and then explained to Meng Ran.

"Wu Gao has changed the land and returned to the stream in Yongle, and it is difficult to reward him for many years, all because I take care of your emotions."

At the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Gaoxu announced this matter in the Chang Dynasty, and this is much more difficult to accept than the posthumous gift of peace.

In this battle, Mu Chun killed 20,000 native soldiers, beheaded more than 6,000 ranks, captured more than 8,000 people, drowned more than 3,000 people, and only less than 2,000 people escaped back to Lang Nanta City by luck.

Seeing this, Mu Chun was not afraid at all, and led 500 cavalry to ride into the formation, trampling its formation with four hooves.

Even if the Overseer team killed hundreds of people, it couldn't get this group of Kunlun slaves to come forward at all.

"Collect weapons, only the two of you can enter the account!"

Seeing this, Honglu Siqing immediately sang: "Scatter the dynasty!" ”

"Angel, I have an account book here to prove it!" Kajii Yoshisumi hurriedly interrupted and took out a ledger from his arms at the same time.

They came to a large tent and saluted: "Yoshinobu Kajii (Kwon Xiangshan), a courtier of the lower kingdom, see the angel!" ”

"Angel, this attack was privately ordered by the two of them, I didn't know about it, and besides, we didn't rob any gold!"

Under such circumstances, the Kunlun slaves under the command of both sides only killed hundreds of people in the battle, and then they had already broken and fled back to their own positions.

Their courage has long been exhausted in the perennial gold panning life.

After a brief burst of arquebus, the arquebuses in the hands of a thousand musketeers instantly burst out of loaded ammunition.

It's just that his merits are there, whether it is the training of troops to quell the rebellion during the Hongwu period, or the land reform and return to the river during the Yongle period, for Daming, he has merit.

"Xiachen ......" Quan Xiangshan breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the angel was on his side, he hurriedly said: "It was indeed attacked, but we did not grab the six thousand taels of gold he said, and only got three thousand taels, of which one thousand taels were prepared to contribute to the Celestial Empire." ”

They were either killed by Wu Gao's brothers, or their father and brother were killed by Wu Gao, and they hated Wu Gao to eat his flesh and destroy his bones.

That's 60,000 kan, which is almost equal to one-tenth of the shogunate's income, so Kajii Yoshisho naturally won't swallow this breath.

"Angel, the minister is wronged!" Kwon Xiangshan knelt on the ground and cried: "Japan has 12,000 soldiers, and I, North Korea, are only 9,000, how can we rob them who are stronger than us." ”

He began to assemble an army with Kunlunnu, to give the Koreans a good look here!

Under his command, the Japanese musket team began to move forward, and the muskets they used were imitations of the Ming army's arquebuses, but they only learned the form, not the essence.

After the first round of tentative shelling, the two armies began to press on each other.

Wang Zhao led the three guards of the headquarters to the south, and after meeting with Mu Chun in Pu'er Mansion, he got out of the car south.

Zhu Gaoxu thought that the group of guys in Jiangnan would say a few words for Wu Gao, but they closed their mouths and lowered their heads, like quails.

Shortly after Chen Mao left the town of Hami, Wu Gao fell ill and died in Lanzhou.

Hundreds of North Korean soldiers were shot and fell, just as hundreds of cavalry on both sides of the North Korean flanks began to charge.

Meng Ran's father was Meng Zhang, the Duke of Liao, who was the commander of the Daning Metropolitan at the time and the Zuodu Governor of the Later Military Governor's Mansion.

Seeing this, Meng Ran could only suppress his temper, turned his head and said to Kajii Yoshikoi:

"I asked them to return what they had stolen, and as for what wasn't in the accounts, I couldn't do anything about it."

"This ......" Kajii Yoshikomi's face is not good-looking, more than three hundred taels of gold is not a small amount, and it can raise hundreds of ashiba, not to mention that they have suffered a lot of casualties in the battle today.

A few hours later, Quan Xiangshan took more than a dozen guards to carry eleven small boxes to the camp and put one of them in front of Meng Ran.

Half an hour later, the camp of the Ming army had been set up, although there were only more than a hundred people, but in the face of these tens of thousands of troops, they did not pay attention to it at all.

At night, the military camps of both sides were filled with wailing.

On the frontal battlefield, the infantry of the two sides collided, and the flesh and blood flew in hand-to-hand combat.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but sigh.

Although firearms cannot be used during the rainy season, Mu Chun is not only good at firearms.

In the past few years, he has been constantly conscripting Kunlun Nu and capturing Kunlun Nu to mine gold, but during this time, he has inevitably become more and more friction with North Korea.

The Tang cavalry on both sides detected them, and they originally intended to scold, but when they saw the "Xi" character banner coming out of the firelight, they dismounted and knelt on the ground.

He set his sights on Quan Xiangshan, obviously if Quan Xiangshan couldn't say anything, then he couldn't do anything.

Therefore, the power and range of the arquebuses in their hands were far inferior to the arquebuses of the Ming army.

Qu Yu, Qu Tao and Wang Zhao fought left and right, He Fu's son, Ningyuan Marquis He Si slashed the knife line of Daxu, and the local soldiers saw Daxu falling, and they jumped into the Lancang River to flee for their lives, drowning a lot.

Seven days later, the sword and line sent an envoy to surrender, offering ten elephants, twenty pairs of ivory, six rhinoceros, ten chests of spices, and two chests of gold and silverware.

When the news reached Beijing, Zhu Gaoxu rewarded Muchun with a copper mine, Mu Sheng Cheli Hou, Wang Zhaozhen Kangbo, Qu Yu, Qu Tao, and He Ji Cai coins 300 pieces, and three products, and the first general Zhaoyong.

"Okay, you can step down." Meng Ran was still not satisfied with Quan Xiangshan's calculations about his own affairs, and Quan Xiangshan couldn't say anything when he saw this, so after respectfully saluting back, he turned around and left with everyone.

On the fourth day of the first month of June, the Lao Xuanxuan envoy led 20,000 territorial soldiers to attack Cheli Province and engaged Mu Sheng stationed in Cheli Province.

"Nonsense!" Kajii Yoshikoto's Chinese language was very good, and he said to Meng Ran: "My lord, he clearly wants to be greedy for ink and gold. ”

Relying on the complex terrain of Cheli Province, the knife line took advantage of the rainy season to drive the elephant soldiers to fight with the Ming army, and the Ming army's firearms were difficult to use in the rainy season, so it caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

Although they are only the officials of the Celestial Empire, for the two of them, they are more powerful than their own lords.

After they left, Meng Ran looked at the box containing the gold and chuckled, and a clerk next to him also laughed: "Master, this must be at least five hundred taels, right?" ”

"Posthumously presented Wu Gao as the Duke of Jiangguo, buried in Purple Mountain, nicknamed Wu Lie, and his son Wu Sheng attacked the lord!"

In fact, with Wu Gao's ability, Zhu Gaoxu very much hoped that he could enter the court as a military attache in Beijing, but he followed the wrong person and killed too many of his brothers.

In such a situation, Zhu Gaoxu could only sigh in his heart.

Facing the generals' words, Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache and did not speak, but just glanced at the temple.

"If the angels don't believe it, they can thoroughly check the accounts of North Korea, and it is absolutely impossible for them to give an extra six thousand taels of gold!"

After he left, Meng Ran frowned and looked at Quan Xiangshan: "You honestly confess, did there be an attack?" ”

Quan Xiangshan said that the real number of six thousand taels became three thousand taels, and promised to contribute one thousand taels to the Celestial Empire, which actually meant filial piety to Meng Ran.

After rushing to the front line, Mu Chun took over the military power from Mu Sheng, restrained Wang Zhao and began to counterattack.

Therefore, he couldn't help but add to the officials: "By the way, in the two hundred taels of gold handed over to the imperial court, remember to attach the note of this matter, do you know?" ”

Kajii Yoshicheng is smart and knows to let Meng Ran check the accounts.

He sighed, and the ministers closed their mouths, and when he saw this, he also spoke:

"My lord, this is a gift to the Celestial Empire, please accept it."

In addition to firearms, they also learned the tactics of the Ming army, so they pressed with arquebuses at every step, while the North Korean side used bows and arrows against the enemy.

Meng Ran flicked his sleeves into the account as soon as he explained, and when Quan Xiangshan saw him walking into the account, he immediately glanced at Kajii Yoshinobu defiantly.

Because they had no armor, if they were stabbed with a spear, their lives would have to end there.

Zhu Gaoxu's voice fell, and he got up and walked towards the back of Fengtian Palace.

"Wu Gao and Er are personal grievances, now that people are going to tea and cool, why bother to force each other?"

Yoshisumi Kajii drew his katana and slashed at the air in front of him.

Even so, the busy government affairs and appeasement work also neglected the discipline of Meng Ran, but the eldest brother Meng Mao, who was five years older than him, was often taken by his own father by his side.

"Your Majesty, although Wu Gao has merit, he does not deserve this nickname!"

Originally, after "Hong Hee Draws the Line", the two sides maintained peace for several years, but with an attack by the Koreans half a month ago, the Japanese side lost nearly 6,000 taels of gold.

When Mu Chun learned of the situation at the front, he led 500 light cavalry to the south, and ordered Wang Zhaochi, who was stationed in Zhenkang, to help.

"That's it."

The ministers sang, Zhu Gaoxu shook his head when he listened, he knew that his move might break some people's hearts, but now he had to take care of the overall situation.

"Alas......"

Quan Xiangshan knew that Meng Ran was not very happy, so he secretly made a look.

After getting the gold, Kajii Yoshisei withdrew with his army in the early morning, and Kwon Xiangshan also withdrew his camp when he saw this.

"Go now, go back!"

"Back to Angel, it's because we have a sum that hasn't been recorded yet!" Kajii Yoshisei felt a headache, and Meng Ran frowned when he heard this:

At this moment, a team of more than 100 people galloped from the east on high war horses.

After suppressing public opinion, Zhu Gaoxu also had to consider who should take over Hami after Ping'an's death.

It is true that Zhu Gaoxu is also very disgusted with Wu Gao's methods in retrospect, but Wu Gao is a meritorious minister of the Ming Dynasty after all.

Perhaps because he was too old, Wang Zhao died of illness on the way back to Zhenkang at the age of 64.

Of the original six thousand taels, he only brought back five thousand taels, but Meng Ran's box contained five hundred taels of broken gold.

Wu Gao's tactics can still be recalled to this day, and they can't forget it even decades later, because it's too disgusting.

Perhaps considering the emotions of the generals of Yanfu, Zhu Gaoxu did not give Ping'an a nickname, but even so, the generals of Yanfu were still slightly dissatisfied, after all, in the Battle of Jingjing, Ping'an did not kill people from Yanfu.

This kind of thing can be big or small, if Emperor Hongxi gets angry, then North Korea is in danger of destroying the country, and he naturally does not dare to admit it.

Therefore, when Meng Zhang helped Zhu Gaoxu stabilize the world and then returned to Bohai, Meng Ran was already four years old.

"Your ledger can only prove that there is this gold, as for the remaining three hundred taels ......"

It seems that the veteran gradually withdrew, sitting in Xichuan, Qu Neng, who is specially responsible for passing through the snowy mountains, is also on the Zhishi, Zhu Gaoxu can not be retained several times, and finally agreed to his Zhishi, and adjusted Qu Yu to control the Sichuan Xingdu Division.

A young figure walked out, he was about twenty years old, and the official position he held was the head of Kunlun Xuanwei Sizheng Liupin.

Following the example of the Ming army, they used heavy armor to get past the rain of arrows from the Koreans, and finally raised their arquebuses twenty paces away from the Korean army.

As he expected, after Wu Gao died of illness, many Bohai generals went up one after another, constantly counting the things that Wu Gao had blocked the Bohai Navy from going south and caused trouble to the Bohai Navy.

"Ridiculous!" As soon as Kwon Xiangshan heard that Kajii Yoshisei buttoned his hat so big, he immediately stopped crying and retorted.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

On the fifth day of the ninth month, Zhu Gaoxu set up the Western Regions Metropolitan Division in Hami Mansion, and ordered Chen Mao to leave the town of Hami and serve as the commander of the Western Regions.

The knife line rebelled in fear and retreated, and Mu Chun personally led five hundred cavalry to pursue, and the knife line went to the Lancang River.

"I am Meng Ran, the director of the Kunlun Propaganda Division, who gave you the courage to meet in this place?!"

Thinking of this, Meng Ran couldn't help but smile, hoping that his father would look up to him after this incident.

Meng Ran shook his head when he heard this: "If the evidence is sufficient, then I can't help you, you should be careful." ”

After ordering someone to accept the box, Meng Ran informed Kajii Yoshinobu to take away the remaining ten boxes of gold.

"If there is really a mistake and a grudge, you should also put the resentment on the person who forced us to suffer."

In the temple, all military attachés in the age of 35 were impeaching Wu Gao, and even some young civil officials were also impeached.

Shirtless and armed with a spear, Kunlun Nu began to charge under supervision, and their fight was undoubtedly tragic.

From afternoon to dusk, a battle fell, and hundreds of soldiers were killed and wounded on both sides of Japan and North Korea, but Kunlun Nu was killed and wounded by thousands.

At his call, hundreds of Japanese cavalry charged, and the Japanese Ashgaru also began to charge.

On June 17, Mu Chun took advantage of the heavy rain to launch a surprise attack, smashed the Tusi military camp in Laos, and rode his horse into the military camp.

After Zhu Gaoxu learned the news, he posthumously presented Wang Zhao as the Marquis of Zhenkang, and he was loyal and Yi, and gave the shrine to Zhenkang, and his title was inherited by his eldest son Wang Kui.

His words let Meng Ran know that he had also been deceived by Quan Xiangshan just now, and in an instant he said with a cold face: "You agreed so decisively, it seems that there are really six thousand taels." ”

"Xia Guan understands, Xia Guan will handle it after he returns to Ma Lindi." The officials answered, and then Meng Ran also began to order the camp to return to the hemp woodland.

There are also people like him Li Jinglong, Xu Kai, and Liu Zhen, but they are all not allowed to enter the court for various reasons, and they can only be on the border.

"Have I given you permission to speak?"

Kajii Yoshikomi was going to wreak havoc on Korea in one fell swoop, and he believed that no one but the Celestial Empire would be able to meet the brave Japanese samurai in short combat!

Seeing this, Kajii Yoshisei could only helplessly take this dumb loss, staring at Quan Xiangshan with angry eyes.

The Ming army camped on the spot, and let the two armies go to summon their own commanders to come.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

Those Kunlun slaves had never seen a war of this scale, standing behind with a spear in their hands and cowering, not daring to come forward to fight at all.

"Kill!!"

When he finished saying everything, Meng Ran asked him: "Did you find any evidence left by North Korea at the scene?" ”

At this time, Kajii Yoshinobu walked to the tent with two shirtless men escorted by the Ming army: "Lord Angel, this is my evidence, this is their military registration card!" ”

"No, the minister only got more than 5,000 taels, and he dropped some halfway and was picked up by them."

"Almost." Meng Ran bowed his head lightly and said with a smile: "Take out two hundred taels and hand them over to the imperial court, leave three hundred taels and wait for my three-year term to return to Beijing to buy a birthday gift for my father." ”

"The minister is ......" Quan Xiangshan showed a smile on his face, and then hurriedly regained his worried expression when he heard the footsteps behind him.

They wanted to take advantage of the end of the Japanese shooting to surprise the Japanese army, and Kajii Yoshinabu had already prepared for this.

"Now, you've completely forgotten all these words."

As the second son of Meng Zhang, Meng Ran was born in the thirty-third year of Hongwu, just when the Bohai Navy advanced into Jianghuai.

"In the past, when the Qing monarch was on the side, I said that he and I were each their masters, so there was no fault, but a meritorious service to the Ming Dynasty."

Seeing that the winner could not be decided, the two sides each withdrew their troops and retreated five miles to camp.

Kajii Yoshisei presented the two North Korean military registration cards with both hands, this scene made Quan Xiangshan's face ugly, and Meng Ran took it pretending to be majestic although he was a little helpless.

Regarding Wu Gao's posthumous affairs, Zhu Gaoxu seemed to have a headache, after all, compared to peace, Wu Gao killed a lot of Bohai brothers.

Meng Ran closed the book and handed it to Yoshisei Kajii.

"Back to Angel ......"

After Zhu Gaoxu's will was publicized, Li Shi, Li Cha and others from the Bohai family exploded and expressed their opposition one after another.

On horseback, a slightly tall young general frowned and scolded, and he was the current king of Japan, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu's half-brother Yoshinori Kajii

"Your Majesty......"

Quan Xiangshan ignored his gaze and said to Meng Ran: "Angel, we will send the gold early in the morning." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks it's inappropriate!"

Meng Ran's face was not very good-looking, and seeing that the thousand taels of gold had been lost, he felt uncomfortable in his heart.

In two years, my father will be 50 years old, and the gold and silver I have accumulated in Kunlun Island is enough to buy a good gift.

The knife line ordered people to chop down trees, hugged driftwood and fled to the south of the Lancang River, and fled to Maoxin.

"This gold is the gold that the lord of the country specially asked me to transport to the Celestial Empire for tribute and trade, and what he grabbed was not gold, it was Japan's tribute to the Celestial Empire!"

Kajii Yoshisei hurriedly explained the reason for their battle, and Kwon Xiangshan also hurriedly excused himself when he heard this: "Angel, these are all his slanderous words!" ”

He became the shogunate's slave general in Kunlun, controlling the 12,000 soldiers and horses sent by the Kanto and shogunate.

Seeing this, Quan Xiangshan could only bow his head helplessly: "Angel, the people below did send a sum of gold, but it was only three thousand taels, not six thousand taels." ”

"Dog fights man!" Kajii Yoshisei scolded him in a low voice, Kwon Xiangshan's face darkened, turned around and walked out of the camp quickly.

The chief flag officer standing in front of the camp gate gave instructions to Kajii Yoshinobu and Kwon Xiangshan, and they willingly took out their weapons and handed them in, and walked into the camp wearing only armor.

"Wu Gao's merits deserve this treatment, if you complain, complain about me."

A few days later, two hundred taels of gold and Song Shu were sent to Beijing, while the city of Beijing was extremely busy.

Seeing this, Kajii Yoshisei also waved at Meng Ran in the tent, and then turned around and walked out of the camp.

Quan Xiangshan just bit it to death and didn't grab the gold, which made Kajii Yicheng angry enough.

At the same time as the camp was set up, Japan's Kajii Yoshisei and Korea's Kwon Xiangshan wore armor together and appeared in front of the Ming army camp with more than 100 guards.

"These Kunlun slaves, sure enough, can only be used as miners, and they don't deserve the title of Ashigaru!"

"Charge!!"

But even so, at such a close distance, they still made a good number of casualties.

For a time, the 20,000-strong military formations on both sides began to collide, the Japanese musketeers quickly withdrew to their own positions, and the Korean and Japanese cavalry began to entangle on the plain and continued to fight southward.

In mid-August, when he died of illness in Hami, Zhu Gaoxu posthumously awarded him the title of Haixi Hou, and only awarded his son Ping Yi Zheng the second rank of loose rank.

"Bring it on." Meng Ran motioned for him to bring things up, and Yoshisei Kajii hurriedly turned around to get evidence when he saw this.

It's just that Zhu Gaoxu suppressed these dissatisfactions.

After Ashikaga Yoshiji ascended to the throne, Japan and the Ming army often traded armor, so their armor was basically the small Ming army armor.

After he took the account book and flipped through it briefly, he frowned and said, "Why is there only five thousand six hundred and seventy-two taels of gold in this account book?" ”

If Wu Gao's exploits are not pursued, then what will the rest of the military attachés of Hongwu's relics think.

Walking out of the Fengtian Temple, Zhu Gaoxu glanced at the gloomy sky and sighed lightly......

(End of chapter)