Ming Dynasty: Evolution from snake to national guardian beast

Chapter 117 Zhu Di, I want you to regret it for the rest of your life

"Report, General, Xiongxian County was suddenly besieged. Yan Ni personally led an army of 50,000 to besiege Xiongxian County."

"General, please go to the rescue quickly."

In the city of Minzhou, a soldier covered with dust spoke with great urgency about the war situation in Xiongxian County to Lieutenant-in-law Li.

As the left deputy general in this expedition, Li Jian can be said to have high hopes from Zhu Yunwen.

Before the expedition, Zhu Yunwen asked Li Jian to fight the enemy bravely and eradicate Yan Ni in one fell swoop. At the same time, he also told Li Jian to monitor Geng Bingwen at all times to prevent Geng Bingwen from becoming too big.

Zhu Yunwen had a natural distrust of generals, which was caused by the environment in which Zhu Yunwen grew up.

He grew up in the palace since he was a child. Because he was not the legitimate son or the eldest son, he was naturally not valued by others. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao would not let him have access to military power.

Only the eldest son has the need to be trained, and this was the case for Zhu Biao at that time. Although Zhu Biao had never fought in a battle, Zhu Biao's team was the most arrogant team in the Ming Dynasty.

Lan Yu was the most powerful military general of the Ming Dynasty at the time. Standing behind Zhu Biao, Lan Yu was the most powerful military general of the Ming Dynasty at the time. No one could shake Zhu Biao with "550".

Unfortunately, as time goes by, Zhu Biao eventually died young, and Zhu Biao's princeling lineage was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

Because Zhu Yunwen was too young at the time and was not qualified to accept his father's political legacy, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to bloodbath the entire court in order to prevent the young master from becoming suspicious.

Zhu Yunwen will naturally get closer to the civil servant group, and the generals have been killed by Zhu Yuanzhang.

The civil servant group would also continue to tell Zhu Yunwen's ears about examples of military generals who disrupted the country in the late Tang Dynasty to discredit the military generals.

Therefore, although it seems that Zhu Yunwen trusts Geng Bingwen very much now, in fact, Zhu Yunwen's chess pieces have always been placed next to Geng Bingwen.

However, although Li Jian is qualified as a chess piece, he is a bit hard to describe as a general.

Li Jian was shocked when he heard the words of the person asking for help, and then hurriedly led an army of 30,000 people to rescue Xiong County.

He neither discerned the truth of what the man said, nor informed Geng Bingwen of the situation, so he left the city directly for Xiong County.

In his mind, the 30,000 people on his side, plus the 30,000 people in Xiong County, the total of 60,000 people can definitely stop Zhu Di's 50,000 people.

Therefore, along the way, Li Jian urged the troops to speed up, march quickly, and march forcefully, for fear that they would not be able to rescue Xiongxian in time.

But when Li Jian passed by a dense forest, a large army suddenly came out of the forest and cut off Li Jin's army in the middle, so that Li Jian could not see each other.

Then smoke and dust billowed in front and behind, and one could tell at a glance that a large force was approaching.

Li Jian was shocked and immediately abandoned his army and fled to the west for his life.

In the end, with Li Jian taking the lead in escaping, Zhang Yu led 30,000 Yan troops and completely annihilated the 30,000 Southern troops. Even Li Jian did not escape and was caught by Qiu Fu.

Later, Zhang Yu led the army, escorted the prisoners, and returned to Xiong County to join Zhu Di.

This trick of concealing the truth from the sky and surrounding the area to call for reinforcements was very brilliant. The defeated soldier who went to the rescue was naturally pretended by someone sent by Zhang Yu.

Zhu Di and Zhang Yu met halfway, and they joined forces, with a total of 80,000 troops, and headed directly towards Minzhou.

Now that Minzhou was empty and there was no general to guard it, when Zhu Di's troops came to the city, the city was in chaos. When Zhu Di started to attack the city, the city gate was opened on his own initiative.

Geng Bingwen's general Zhang Bao chose to open the door and surrender.

There is nothing that can be done about this. After all, Zhu Di has an 80,000-strong army, but there are less than 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city. In addition, the general is absent, and the morale in the city is low.

If the resistance arouses Zhu Di's anger, I am afraid that the people in the city will suffer disaster.

Moreover, Zhang Bao had his own plans for surrendering.

He has important information to report to Zhu Di. He believes that if Zhu Di learns about it, he will definitely reuse him, and he will be able to get a good official position by then.

"I want to see His Highness King Yan!"

After Zhang Bao opened the city gate, he directly wanted to see Zhu Di.

When Zhu Di heard that someone wanted to see him by name, he couldn't help but feel curious. He then summoned Zhang Bao into the tent and asked

"I heard you want to see me? What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, I have important military information to report to Your Majesty. Please step aside." Zhang Bao held his head high and held his chest high, not at all humble as a surrendered general. Instead, he looked confident.

He believed that he could definitely impress Zhu Di and make Zhu Di accept him, and with this ability, it would not be a dream to become famous in the future.

But Zhu Di did not get used to this person, but said directly:

“Here are my close and beloved generals, no outsiders.

"If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Zhang Yu and others next to Zhu Di looked moved and looked at Zhang Bao with unkind eyes. This man really regarded himself as a person.

Zhang Bao looked a little embarrassed, but seeing Zhu Di's firm attitude, Zhang Bao stopped insisting and said slowly:

"Your Highness King Yan, although you have achieved one or two small victories now, it is just a fluke."

"Geng Bingwen still has more than 200,000 troops in his hands, but you have less than 100,000 troops. There is really a huge disparity in military strength."

"I have a way to help His Highness, Prince Yan, win quickly."

"Oh? I don't know how?"

Zhu Di's interest was instantly aroused and he asked curiously.

Zhang Bao said confidently:

"Now Geng Bingwen's 200,000 troops are on both sides of the Hutuo River. This is a great opportunity given to King Yan."

"As long as His Highness the King of Yan can lead the army to attack, Geng Bingwen will not be able to care about each other from the north to the south, and he will definitely be defeated by His Highness the King of Yan.

"What do you think, Your Highness?"

After saying that, Zhang Bao looked at Zhu Di with bright eyes, hoping to get Zhu Di's appreciation.

But after Zhu Di heard this, he curled up his lips.

I thought it was some clever trick, but this is it?

How could he not know that Geng Bingwen was stationed on both sides of the Hutuo River?

Now there are Zhu Di's spies around here. Most of these spies were originally Jin Yiwei, with extremely professional intelligence spying capabilities.

These people are all the elite team brought by Wu Feng's rebellion. Zhu Di incorporated them all into the army, and they serve as the army's night guard, specializing in spying on surrounding intelligence.

It can be said that every move of Geng Bingwen was under Zhu Di's surveillance.

Zhu Di had known about what Zhang Bao was talking about for a long time, but Zhu Di did not choose Geng Bingwen to attack. Instead, he chose Xiongxian and Zhengzhou. Naturally, he had his own ideas.

Zhang Bao was shocked when he saw Zhu Di's disapproval and asked in confusion:

"My lord, this is a God-given opportunity. Isn't the general interested in it?"

"If you miss this opportunity, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the prince to encounter such a good opportunity again."

"As the saying goes, if you don't accept God's gift, you will suffer the consequences. Please make a decision quickly."

Zhu Di chuckled and said:

"Your name is Zhang Bao, right?"

"Tell you, I don't care at all what you say

"I'm going to put you back now, and you go back and tell Geng Bingwen what you said."

"Then give me a few words."

"Tell him that I am waiting for him at the gate of Zhending City."

"The morning after tomorrow, the army will fight to decide the outcome."

"I hope Geng Bingwen will not disappoint me. Do you remember clearly?"

Zhang Baoren is stupid, what kind of trick is Zhu Di doing?

Even though he surrendered, he actually let him go back.

What shocked him even more was that Zhu Di didn't care about Geng Bingwen's flaw at all. Instead, he wanted to go back and reminded Geng Bingwen to quickly make up for this flaw.

What's the point?

Before Zhang Bao could react, he was already beaten out.

Zhang Bao finally realized that Zhu Di had not taken a fancy to him at all until he was outside Zhu Di's tent.

This made Zhang Bao instantly ashamed, and he vowed to make Zhu Di pay the price for his arrogance.

Thinking of this, Zhang Bao mounted his war horse and headed straight west to where Geng Bingwen was stationed. He wanted to make Zhu Di regret everything he did today?

(End of this chapter)