"Slow" Gu Cheng stopped Zhang Bao's stupid movements, his eyes froze, and he said to Xia Xun: "What do you mean?"
"What do you mean?"
Xia Xun's expression was even more calm, and he smiled: "The little county lord went south with the Xie family, and he was stuck here, and you also met by chance, how did I know it before you?"
Gu Cheng's face changed, and Xia Xun said lightly: "As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, winning all battles, His Royal Highness King Yan's eyes and ears are pervasive, all the movements of the imperial army, and even the actions of various places in Hebei, are all under our control."
Geng Bingwen knows himself but doesn't know the other, even if the soldiers are strong and strong, what is the chance of winning?"
Gu Cheng's eyes flashed, and he said suspiciously: "Impossible, King Yan hastily raised his troops and risked his life with only eight hundred people, but there was a mistake in one place, and he was already in a different place, how could it be possible to put his ears everywhere, shaped like a net of heaven and earth."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "It turns out that the general doesn't believe that King Yan has long been opposed, so you also understand that the imperial court is imposing on King Yan with a trumped-up crime."
Gu Cheng snorted and refused to answer.
Xia Xun said: "Yes, King Yan is indeed in a hurry, but he can take the nine cities of Beiping with only 800 people, conquer Jizhou, Zunhua, Miyun, and Juyong Pass with thousands of troops who were hurriedly recruited, and defeat Song Zhong's 40,000 soldiers and horses with 8,000 foot soldiers, and capture Song Zhong alive.
There were two guards in Jizhou, Ma Yi fought to the death, Mao surrendered, and the guards of Zunhua and Miyun surrendered without a fight.
Song Zhong met the 8,000 soldiers of King Yan with an army of 40,000, but he rebelled in front of his own soldiers and horses, so he hurriedly fled back to the city and hid in the toilet to escape, the two generals still can't see that King Yan is the desire of the people, and the King of Yan has this support, we have to control your every move, what is the difficulty?"
Zhang Bao said unconvinced: "This is because King Yan often guards the frontier, commands the troops for a long time, and is popular in the Northern Army, and those generals are all brought by him."
Xia Xun nodded and emphasized: "Yes, it was brought by King Yan, and it was brought by King Yan for the imperial court."
Only in wartime, they are under the control of the king of Yan, and they are usually dispatched by the imperial court and eat the imperial court, is it not because of the injustice of the imperial court, is their heart to the king of Yan because the border soldiers are outnumbered by the crowd but are timid and afraid of death, the border soldiers will never fight to the death when facing the strong enemy of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, why is it difficult for the king of Yan to raise troops with only 800 people, but they are not surrendering or fleeing in the face of the king of Yan, and the two generals have not thought about the reason?"
Geng Cheng smiled faintly: "Now that the soldiers and horses of the Marquis of Changxing are all from the south, they are not the soldiers that King Yan once led, and there will be no more such good things." ” Xia Xun said solemnly: "The soldiers are divided into north and south, but the hearts of the people are not divided into north and south.
What's more, the soldiers are naturally the southern soldiers, and the generals will be the soul of the army, if the generals are committed to the king of Yan, who has any objections to the soldiers under his command The two generals think that the generals of the southern army are monolithic, and they are dedicated to the court.
Xu Ming'er has been listening and watching from the side, a pair of smart big eyes sometimes glance at the boastful Xia Xun, sometimes look at Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao who have changed their expressions, and said in her heart: "This guy is starting to deceive people again."
Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao's faces changed, and Zhang Bao said suspiciously: "In the court, there are still your comrades."
Gu Cheng was more concerned about the generals of the Northern Expedition, and blurted out: "There are already people in the army who have secretly voted for King Yan."
Xia Xun smiled and said nothing, Gu Cheng thought for a while, and said, "Could it be Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin?"
This time, the imperial court dispatched 300,000 troops, and there were three marquis generals in command, and the main general of the Chinese army was Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, with 130,000 imperial soldiers.
The main general of the right army, Marquis Wu Jie, has 80,000 imperial soldiers, and the main general of the left army, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, has 90,000 imperial soldiers.
If Wu Gao really reversed, attacked the heart of the Chinese army from the left flank, and then Yan Wang broke through head-on, Geng Bingzhong's originally foolproof defense would collapse and be vulnerable.
Gu Cheng asked, and Zhang Bao's face also changed.
Jiangyin Marquis Wu Gao is the father-in-law of Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, his biological daughter is the princess of Xiang, and the daughter and son-in-law are closed in the palace.
Xia Xun didn't know who Princess Xiang's father was, so he didn't intend to lead the spearhead to Wu Gao, what Fang Cai said was just a suspicious formation, but he didn't expect these two people to sit in the opposite seat, Xia Xun neither admitted nor denied it, only said: "Don't be suspicious, this time in the court rebellion army, there are many people who are unhappy for King Yan, and there is more than one person who wants to throw themselves into King Yan, in addition to because they are unhappy for King Yan, and more importantly, they see more long-term than the two generals."
Gu Cheng couldn't help but ask, "What's the long-term?"
Xu Ming'er sighed secretly: "These two stupid guys, if you go straight down, there will be nothing, you have to chase and ask like this, ask, ask, you must be like me, he was deceived to sell, and happily helped him count the silver." ” Xia Xun looked awe-inspired, and said solemnly: "Feudal feudal domain, this is the legacy of Taizu, it is the ancestral training of the emperor to cut the domain, whether it is against the ancestors' custom to become the emperor, he wants to change, yes, the military power is cut, why kill all the feudal lords, divide their lands, govern their people, and lead their own soldiers."
This is the domain Cut its fiefdom and collect its vassal soldiers, then the vassal king is only a king, not a vassal king, the prisoner of the prisoner, the killing of the killing, the exile of the exile, why does this not make me bear the name of killing the uncle, the emperor's sentence as long as the fourth uncle dies, don't live the king of Yan's dictation, don't you know it" "Two generals, the world is first of all the world and society of the ancestors, and it is the world and society of the Zhu dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, not the current emperor's lineage.
The kings are the descendants of Taizu, the blood of the first emperor, born to be the royal family, enjoying the prince's salary, not the concubines, Fang, Huang, Qi Tai and others to divide the royal family and persecute the clan, King Yan wants to clear the monarch's side, isn't it the righteousness During the Song Dynasty, the suppression of martial arts and the promotion of literature often made the literati directly above the warriors, pointing fingers at them, and often fighting battles that should not be fought and defeating battles that should be won, resulting in the blood of heroes staining the battlefield and making it difficult to stretch their ambitions.
My Ming Dynasty territory is only twice as large as the Song Dynasty, the emperor is still at ease with his relatives, cut their military power and withdraw their vassal state is not at ease, I have to put it to death, just ask, after the kings are cut down, he will sit in Nanjing with peace of mind, so that the foreign surname military generals lead heavy troops to guard the border, galloping thousands of miles away At that time, how can you military generals deal with themselves If the Yan King is defeated and the kings are cut, the emperor's Xiucai court is not limited to a Jinling city, the central directors are all literati, and the military towns everywhere must also control the army with literati."
Xia Xun's voice was mentioned, and he said sharply: "Mobei Mengyuan still has very strong armed forces, and the Western Regions has the army of King Timur eyeing it, and when the time comes, under the indiscriminate command of a group of literati, can my Ming army regain the glory of the time of Taizu If you let Hu Lu re-enter the Central Plains, don't you want to help me abuse you to make my Han people become a fourth-class person again, and be a cow and a horse, a slave and a maid for the Hu people, and a sinner for the ages?"
Gu Cheng's voice weakened, and he said expectantly: "The emperor and the emperor sit on the world, Yan Wang's land is only a corner, and there are only tens of thousands of soldiers, what can be done?"
Xia Xun asked rhetorically: "How is King Yan now, compared to when Emperor Taizu raised his army?"
Zhang Baodao: "That's different, at that time, the hearts of the Mengyuan court had been lost, the world was in chaos, and the heroes rose together, but now the world is unified, and the four seas are one."
Xia Xun immediately said: "You are wrong, now the world is only a façade, it is the façade left by Emperor Taizu, the emperor cut the domain, not only cut the soldiers, but also cut the people, cut the four are empty, even if the kings refuse to obey the king of Yan to appease together, do you say they will stand on the side of the emperor."
The emperor is in power, in just a few months, he put two teaching gentlemen on the position of prime minister without a seal, those ten years of cold window, starting from a small official, conscientious, conscientious, hope to one day become the important ministers of the civil officials are convinced Two teaching gentlemen lead hundreds of officials and assist the Son of Heaven; Their ears, eyes, henchmen, and close ministers are all sour and rotten literati, who control the national weapons, and those princes and generals who have followed Emperor Taizu for many years to lay down these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, will they be willing?"
Xia Xun's scorching gaze swept coldly over Gu Cheng and Zhang Bao's faces, and said in a deep voice: "The unification of the world has been smashed by the current emperor from the inside, and the current emperor has made the monarch and the military detached from morality."
Zhang Bao glanced at Gu Cheng, and the blade that had been steadily pointing at Xia Xun's throat slowly fell down.
In fact, from the time King Yan joined forces, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court fell to King Yan in a systematic manner and surrendered without a fight, which shows how unpopular the military has been since Jianwen's pro-government.
King Yan has led soldiers, but this is not the absolute reason for them to fall to King Yan, their promotion, salary, non-wartime management and command are all in the court rather than King Yan, they fall to King Yan, who is still absolutely weak, is it not the court's own problem For Fang Huang and his ilk to point out the situation of the dynasty and Jianwen's bloody means of cutting down the vassal king, the military generals in the court have long been dissatisfied, especially Xu Zengshou and the generals around him, Xia Xun's words reprimanded his heart, and it was going to their hearts.
Xia Xun saw that the heat was almost over, so he added the last weight to their already wavering position: "Yang Mou said so, if the two generals feel that Yang Mou is wrong, they can do it now."
Yang came here to persuade the little county lord to return to Nanjing, but now that the two generals are here, Yang is relieved, and he has no regrets about dying."
As soon as Xia Xun's sentence "you can do it" came out, Xu Ming'er dodged in front of him, hearing Xia Xun's words, Zhang Bao was very puzzled, and couldn't help but ask again: "Why don't you go to Beiping with the county lord?"
Xia Xun said categorically: "Because, Nanjing, King Yan will definitely go" Gu Cheng's hand trembled, and the blade that pointed straight at Xia Xun also slowly fell To be continued: