Daming: From the end of Hongwu

287 Chapter 285 - Big Showdown

In the following days, as winter went to spring, the north wind gradually weakened and gradually turned into a warm spring breeze, but the city of Beiping became more and more lively.

Gradually, all the people in the city heard that a madman had come to the city. He brazenly asked the king of Yan to commit suicide and apologize, and he also collectively referred to all the 30 soldiers and civilians in Beiping as criminals.

Criminal?

This title is too heavy, no one can bear it.

Moreover, all the people in Beiping never thought they had any sins. They lived their lives according to their duties, guarding the border of Ming Dynasty and resisting the iron cavalry from the nomads in the north. He also responded to King Yan's call and did not hesitate to bleed and die. How could he become a criminal?

For a while, the people in Beiping City were excited.

In teahouses, restaurants, houses of various households, and any corner of the street, shouts from the masses began to sound.

They were wronged.

It can be seen that King Yan was also wronged.

Just like what King Yan told the soldiers and civilians, there are traitors in the court, intending to cover up the sky, deceive the emperor, mutilate the loyal and good, and cut off the royal descendants.

How can this work? !
If Lang Lang Qiankun is not there, how can they still have a healthy life.

All the people in Beiping City, regardless of whether they were related or not, began to ask someone to inquire with anger, wanting to know when King Yan would send troops to the capital to fight against traitors. They must have money to donate and contribute.

At this moment, the hearts of all the people in Beiping City were twisted together, and the cohesion that erupted was unprecedentedly strong. Ren Nanjing's court officials and Zhu Yunqi, no matter how they thought about it, they would never have imagined that such a united force could be achieved in a single city.

What is a family?

Living together in Beiping Mansion is a family.

People don't care how the news spread, and they don't think about whether there are people who are behind the scenes to fuel the flames, or tamper with some words to add fuel.

When everyone is united, anyone who does not support it is a reactionary heretic and must be cast aside and isolated.

This kind of atmosphere is a little manic and unstable, but now that Zhu Di and the others have come to this season, no matter what drastic measures they use, they can't be too exaggerated.

If Zhu Yunqi is overthrown, the situation can be stabilized again. If Zhu Yunqi is overthrown, even if Beiping City becomes a powder keg, it has little to do with them.

Seeking the world is not talking about scriptures.

How can there be less fanatical believers if you want to practice ****.

Master Daoyan smiled with satisfaction after listening to the report on the situation in the city. He and Zhen Wu had a talk about public opinion before, which gave him a lot of benefits.

Just like what Zhen Wu said.

Public opinion is public opinion.

The will of the people is the heart of the people.

People's will is uncontrollable, but public opinion can be controlled and guided.

Thinking of Zhen Wu's words, Dao Yan couldn't help but shook his head with a smile, and lamented that Zhen Wu was a strange person in the world. Then he fixed his eyes and thought in his heart: "Zhen Wu's eldest son's master, he is determined, who will come?" I can't stop it either."

He really wanted to see what kind of brilliance the boy he and Zhen Wu had cultivated would shine in the future.

It's a pity that he doesn't seem to live that long.

……

The liveliness in Beiping City gradually spread to Zhen Wu's house, whether it was in the farm or in the shop, they were all inquiring about it from the family stewards.

After all, they all know that their patriarch is one of the best figures under King Yan.

If there is any inside information, it must be known immediately.

This is also the reason why many outsiders ask them.

But no matter how much they inquired, the servants in charge of the mansion never said a word to anyone outside the mansion other than whispering to each other.

Even for those who are also under the Zhen family to make a living.

The strict family rules have paid off.

However, this matter greatly increased the interest of the third child. Today, he came to Zhen Wu's study and asked Zhen Wu if there was really a crazy student in Peking.

Zhen Wu was flipping through the Book of Poems, thinking about choosing a good name for his son, after listening to the question from the third child, he closed the book, looked at the third child with great interest, nodded and said: "If you are talking about the one rumored in the city, There is such a thing, and I personally ordered people to throw out of Peiping."

"what?"

The third child was surprised, and asked in disbelief: "Is there really such a naive person in this world? Is he stupid in studying? He dared to go to Beiping to have His Highness commit suicide."

After saying this, the third child thought that Zhen Wu would agree, but to the surprise of the third child, Zhen Wu was a little dazed.

after awhile.

Zhen Wu reacted, turned his head to look at the bright weather outside the window, sighed and said: "I thought it was just a Confucian scholar who was stupid in reading and wanted to gain fame after him, but after investigation, I found out that there are some small things. Look at him."

Ok?
The third child looked at Zhen Wu suspiciously.

Zhen Wu took out a dossier from the shelf behind him and threw it to the third child: "Let's take a good look at it, and learn from this lesson just like me in the future, don't rashly give it to me just because of one incident, one impression or other people's remarks. One person draws conclusions."

The third child took the file and sat aside to read it.

Taking advantage of this moment, Zhen Wu stood up and stretched his waist. While stretching, he walked to the window and looked at a peach tree outside the window. Among the crisp green leaves on it, he did not know when it had grown. Tiny buds.

The weather is really getting warmer.

Zhen Wu sighed, then turned around and leaned against the window to look at the third child looking at the file. This file was recently found by Zhen Wu, and it contained some deeds about Gao Wei.

Generally speaking, this person values ​​loyalty and integrity more than life, but boldly opposes some Confucian traditions.

Is a more complicated person.

Zhen Wu could completely imagine what Gao Wei said to Zhu Di that day, if Gao Wei was in Zhu Di's position, he would definitely be able to do what he said.

This person is more respectful of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. When he was a child, his mother had been ill, and he took care of his mother until her death. Then he built a hut next to his mother's tomb according to the etiquette system, and strictly kept his filial piety for three years. From this point of view, Gao Wei is not only not a bad person, but also a filial person.

In politics, he also raised the importance of the benefits of fish and salt and metal smelting several times, and opposed some political opinions such as Confucianism's contempt for wealth. Adopting the Tweeting Decree of the Han Dynasty, the princes and grandsons of the northern vassals were changed to the southern land, and the princes and grandsons of the southern vassals were changed to the northern lands. After one or two generations, the power of the vassal kings will not be reduced but will be reduced.

It's just that Gao Wei's power is weak, and Zhu Yunqi's political views have been repeatedly rejected by Zhu Yunqi. On the contrary, Zhu Yunqi admired Gao Wei's character, and he was disgusted with Zhu Di when he chose this person to come to Peking.

Perhaps in Zhu Yunwen's heart, Gao Wei's character is Gao Wei's strength.

At this time, the third child also finished watching, and the third child also praised Zhu Yunqi: "This person's character is really good, at least he is a filial person. Although this kind of person attaches great importance to loyalty and integrity and doesn't know how to be flexible, such a person It really doesn’t make you feel bad.”

"Just these feelings?" Zhen Wu asked.

A look of bewilderment appeared on the third child's face.

Zhen Wu shook his head helplessly. Han people often have this problem. They place too much emphasis on the virtue of filial piety. A filial person like Gao Wei is easy to be filial in the eyes of others, which becomes his biggest highlight. People ignore his abilities.

Zhen Wu took the dossier from the third child, picked up a pen and made a mark on Gao Wei's political opinions, then blew on it, and handed it to the third child again when the ink was dry.

"Take it back and take a good look at the ones I marked, think carefully about the pros and cons of Gao Wei's political views, and ask me if you don't understand anything."

The third child let out an oh.

Zhen Wu waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go down."

The third child got up and went out with the file, but when he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Brother, are we going to send troops soon again?"

Zhen Wu thought for a while, finally nodded and said: "Well, come on, you should also prepare these days, and be careful on the battlefield in the future, don't be shot like a hedgehog like last time."

"I see, it has been changed, and Zhang Fu and I will stay by the side of the lieutenant general from now on, so there will be no more accidents." The third child smiled proudly.

Zhen Wu was thinking about something in his mind, and he didn't pay too much attention to what the third child said, so he responded casually: "If you know it, you can change it." After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu ignored the third child and returned to his seat at the desk.

His mind was a little active at this moment.

Can't help thinking, Zhu Yunqi has many capable ministers under his command, even if some excellent generals in the military were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Di didn't have any generals who were particularly famous during Zhu Yuanzhang's time, after all, Zhu Yunqi had a good hand, Beat badly.

When it got dark, Zhen Wu didn't insist on lighting the lamp to read, and returned to the bedroom after leaving the study.

Zhu Yuying probably also guessed that the time for Zhen Wu to send troops is coming soon, and in the last few days she has started to feel a little dazed again, often holding the child in a daze.

Zhen Wu, who was hurt, thought that Zhu Yuying had the symptoms of post-pregnancy dementia.

However, when Zhen Wu knew that Zhu Yuying was worried about him, he persuaded Zhu Yuying dumbfounded: "You, how did you learn to think wildly? I have been in the army for so many years. Think about it. Has there ever been a crisis? You must know your husband." Force is invincible in the world, not to mention one person, even a hundred-man formation, your husband still dares to break through, who can spare my life?"

Zhu Yuying buried her head in Zhen Wu's arms, and said sullenly: "I know my husband is powerful, I have known it since Yuying was a teenager, but this time I always feel uneasy in my heart, these days I always think about mountain torrents, sky collapse , earth dragons and the like, how can these manpower resist, I can't help but think wildly."

Zhen Wu couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "You were frightened by the house on the street that was blown down by the wind a few days ago, but why don't you think about how many years his house has been? It’s been 100 years. The beams and columns are aging. It’s not uncommon for them to collapse. Why do you scare yourself by thinking about these things every day? you promise."

"En." Zhu Yuying replied, but her expression was still a little worried.

Zhen Wu said unhappily: "I said, if you do this again, I will be annoyed. I cherish my life more than you imagined. I still want to live a long life with you and have a few more children."

But Zhen Wu didn't expect that Zhu Yuying would not be able to enjoy private talk like having a baby, which made him scratch his head in worry.

In the past, Zhu Yuying would have been shy after hearing this.

He thought for a while and said, "Do you still remember the hot spring village that His Royal Highness gave us? You have always wanted to take your family there to play. This year's situation is tense, so we didn't make it. When I come back next time, It’s probably winter too, so how about we take the whole family to soak in the hot springs there? Speaking of which, we haven’t tried it in the hot springs yet, maybe we can conceive a baby by then.”

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu laughed.

These words are obviously very lethal to Zhu Yuying.

Zhu Yuying couldn't care less about worrying anymore, her face turned red, and she hammered Zhen Wu's two show fists in embarrassment: "What nonsense are you talking about, I'm not afraid of being heard, how embarrassing it will be then."

Zhen Wu laughed out loud, not ashamed, but proudly said: "I don't care, anyway, you have to answer me when the time comes."

Zhu Yuying gave Zhen Wu a blank look, and boldly teased Zhen Wu: "You haven't decided on your son's name, and you still want to have a child. You can come up with the name. Don't have two or three backlogs at that time, and put your hair on it." Lost all sorrow."

Zhen Wu's smile suddenly froze.

"Take it, take it, don't worry, this battle is over, and when you come back, I will definitely give you a domineering name."

Zhu Yuying smiled, looking at Zhen Wu with big bright eyes, full of sweetness.

……

Time flies, and soon came April.

On the first day of April, Li Jinglong joined forces in Dezhou, Marquis Guo Ying of Wuding, and Marquis Wu Jie of Anlu marched into Zhending, once again aggressively trying to destroy Yan.

After Zhu Di heard the news, he immediately prepared the army and planned to enter Gu'an in advance.

Zhen Wu and the third child bid farewell to the whole family when the peach blossoms in the garden were in full bloom, and embarked on the journey again.

This time, the two sides assembled all the troops of each other from the beginning, intending to have a big decisive battle.

After Zhen Wu and others entered Gu'an, they learned that Li Jinglong's vanguard had not arrived, so they rushed to Baigou to wait for work. After three days, Li Jinglong's vanguard was led by the governor Ping'an to set up troops in Baigou River. Stationed in Sujiaqiao.

You can attack when you advance, and you can defend when you retreat. There is no worry about the back road, and you can occupy a favorable position.

Not a few more days.

Guo Ying and Wu Jie led the army to join forces with Li Jinglong's army, and they all reached Baigou River, with a total of 60 people, known as an army of one million.

For a while, both sides lined up and waited.

Zhu Di looked at the opponent's camp and found out that the opponent was leading a guerrilla attack with thousands of cavalry troops. He felt very difficult. Thinking that in the past, his cavalry troops were cruising around and causing trouble for the opponent. Today, he was harassed by Li Jinglong in this way, and he couldn't help being furious. : "Pingan Shuzi of Gou Ri, used to follow Lao Tzu out of the fortress, and knew Lao Tzu's use of soldiers, so he dared to be the vanguard. Today, let Li Jinglong's cavalry rest and let Li Jinglong's cavalry rest."

Following Zhu Di's remarks, Zhu Di took Qiu Fu and led the cavalry to act first.

Unexpectedly, Ping'an was very brave, and the lieutenant general Qu Neng and his son also forged ahead bravely and were invincible. On the first day of the first day of the junior high school, the Yan army was killed and retreated again and again, which made Zhu Di furious.

Qu Neng and his son in Gou Ri were beaten by Zhen Wu alone in the city of Beiping and fled. This time they even dared to be brave.

Zhu Di shouted wildly, once again encouraging the army to fight.

Li Yan, an internal officer next to him, nicknamed Gou'er, saw Zhu Di furious, and his blood rushed to his head immediately. He led Qianhu Huaju's troops and rushed towards Qu Neng and his son.

"Grandma, my brother's name is Zhen Wu, and the three thieves of the Qu family are going to fight."

Gou'er shouted and broke into the opponent's formation, gathered with Qianhu Hua, Baihu Guyun, and beheaded many people in a row, making the Yan army's momentum great. Zhu Di was overjoyed when he saw this, and quickly led his army to attack.

Immediately, the two sides fought vigorously together.

They fought until dark, and it was inconvenient to fight again, so the two sides agreed to withdraw their troops, and said "wait for tomorrow".

After one day's battle, both sides suffered injuries. On the second day, the cavalry of Zhu Di and Ping An fought each other again, but this time Zhu Di was at a disadvantage. After careful identification, he took the army back to the camp.

Zhu Di was troubled in his heart, there was no one in the peace formation, it was his mother's trouble.

Since this is the case, then let's not be stubborn and mobilize the army.

On the third day, Zhang Yu led the central army, Zhu Neng led the left army, Zhen Wu led the right army, and Qiu Fu led the cavalry as the vanguard.

After a while, the armies of the two sides began to fight. Zhen Wu was buried in the vast sea of ​​people, and kept charging, but no matter how he charged, he couldn't make it to the end.

But at this time, the cavalry army led by Pingan showed off its prestige again, and directly circled the formation and smashed the rear army led by Yan Jun Fangkuan. Zhu Di was so frightened that he quickly retracted the front line and dispatched the Chinese army to fill the hole, for fear that the entire front line would collapse.

But this made Zhu Di miserable. He safely gathered all the elite soldiers of the Southern Army, and he was familiar with Zhu Di's cavalry tactics. It was really difficult to deal with. You can only bite the bullet and encourage the soldiers.

When Zhen Wu heard that Fang Kuan was defeated in the right army camp, he was also anxious. He wished he could leave the right army now and lead the cavalry to block Ping'an. But the right army had tens of thousands of horses in his hands, so he couldn't let it go.

But what should I do?

Gou Ri’s Ping’an, I was not familiar with it before, I didn’t expect such bravery to make them unable to deal with it, speaking of their Yan army, no one can stop Ping’an, Zhen Wu, Zhu Neng, Zhang Wu, Xue Lu can all stop Ping’an However, Li Jinglong's army has a large number of horses, which is a greater threat than safety, and Zhen Wu and others have to focus on Li Jinglong's army.

But this makes Ping An feel a little unstoppable.

Zhen Wu was in a hurry in the formation.

He remembered that the Yan army would defeat Li Jinglong twice in history, but since Li Jinglong would lose, how could he beat them like this?

Where is the connecting flight?
Where is the winning hand?

Zhen Wu was thinking anxiously while killing, because he knew that if their army was defeated this time, the morale of the army would be lost, and the great situation accumulated before would no longer exist.

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(End of this chapter)