Chapter 113 Ask the Ministry of Industry to redraw the territorial map of Liegan Empire
Everyone was confused.
no?
Is this changing too quickly? ?
To put it bluntly, everyone has to prepare white robes for these two days and prepare to cry.
The result...
Now it's not just the two of them who are fine...
Immediately afterwards, the two people went directly to fight Yili? ?
And...
Already beaten?
The Qing Dynasty's border troops have been mobilized to attack the two places. Are they already gone? ?
Everyone looked at each other.
You look at me, I look at you.
The border troops in these two places have no imperial edict...
It's Lu Yuan!
Designated to be Lu Yuan!
Although no one read this military report, and Emperor Yongle didn't say who it was, everyone knew that it must be Lu Yuan.
It's, it's, it's, it's.
It's just a false edict.
Everyone immediately looked at Emperor Yongle, wanting to see his reaction.
And Emperor Yongle seems to not think about anything else at all now.
After thinking about it for a moment, he looked at the cabinet and the Ministry of War people outside and immediately said:
"Come in!"
The prince knew what his father wanted to do.
Immediately, he looked at Emperor Yongle and said:
"Dad, you don't need to see this in person. You need to rest first.
We will go to the cabinet to discuss it and draw up the charter early tomorrow morning.
I'll show it to you before going to court. ”
Emperor Yongle was not an iron man.
Previously, Emperor Yongle couldn't rest at all because of his two grandsons.
Now I know that the two grandsons are fine, and they are clamoring to fight Yili.
This relieved, Emperor Yongle also felt exhausted.
Finally, Emperor Yongle went back to rest first.
The prince and King Zhao led the ministers from the cabinet and the Ministry of War outside the house to the cabinet for discussion.
No one wants to go home tonight.
Let's all stay together here.
Wait for the ministers of the cabinet and the Ministry of War to return to the cabinet, and then circulate this military report.
Everyone was confused.
Lu Yuan and Lu Qing...
Do you really need support?
Do you really want the court to help?
Are they really trying to take advantage of Yili?
This is what everyone who has read the report is thinking about.
Because this report seems to be conclusive and promising.
However, there is no telling what they plan to do later.
How can the cabinet and the Ministry of War cooperate with this?
I can't cooperate!
It doesn’t say which troops from the two provinces were mobilized.
They didn't say from what direction they planned to attack Yili.
This is the most outrageous.
This is like what it is.
It's like a person admitting his mistake to you, with a sincere look on his face, "I was wrong, I was wrong, I don't dare to do it again."
I really know I'm wrong.
You can see that he apologized proactively and sincerely.
You are ready to forgive him.
Then, ask him, where did you go wrong?
He said, "I don't know."
You said that after this military report was sent back, apart from reporting to the emperor that it was safe, what else did you do?
Didn't do anything, didn't say anything.
Neither the cabinet nor the Ministry of War knew how the next two people would attack.
Where to attack.
From what direction do you attack?
I don’t even know how to arrange this most important food and grass.
I don’t even know where to mobilize them from.
This also has a lot of border crossings with the Liegan Empire.
Are you entering from northwest Tibet, or from Qiansu and Qinghai?
Or should we enter Giljin first, and then turn into Yilibali from above?
This knows nothing.
How does this fit in?
Let me teach you.
Now when everyone looks at this military report, it feels like...
The two of them had no intention of cooperating with the court, the cabinet and the Ministry of War.
The general meaning of this military report is not to ask for food or soldiers.
The general meaning is...
We are very good, so you don't need to worry about it. You just know that we have to fight Yili.
From now on, you people in the imperial court will just be honest.
If you can transport some grain to us, transport it. If you can't transport it, transport it. We don't need you.
Just stay back and don't cause any trouble for us.
Although, no one wants to think so.
But the meaning of this military report is what everyone looks at.
This military report made everyone feel a little dizzy.
In particular, the characters on it are even more crooked, like ghost symbols.
Everyone has never seen such ugly words.
It must have been written by Lu Yuan.
Is it possible...
Did Lu Yuan forget?
Well...
wrong.
It can't be.
If it was half a year ago, everyone would definitely believe that Lu Yuan, a fool, must have forgotten it.
But now, it's impossible.
Lu Yuan was as smart as a monkey and could not miss the most important military information.
Therefore, Lu Yuan was not careless, he did it on purpose.
He did it on purpose, deliberately not saying anything, and deliberately not letting the court cooperate.
So...
This means...
He, Lu Yuan... wants to use 90,000 border troops and a thousand soldiers of the King of Han to attack Yili?
This is definitely not possible!
Qian Su, the frontier army on the other side of Qinghai...
I can't say he's weak, but he's not strong anyway.
Because the strongest frontier army of Liegan Empire is the frontier army of Liaodong.
Although it was said that some time ago, the emperor conquered the Gilded Dynasty in person.
Finally, a new king was canonized.
From then on, there was no fear of war between the Lieqian Dynasty and the Gilded Dynasty for at least ten years.
After the Northern Expedition, both the cabinet and the Ministry of War wrote to the emperor.
The Liaodong cavalry can change their defenses, and there is no serious danger in the north.
You can change the Liaodong cavalry to the northwest.
After all, looking at it this way, the only enemy that is dangerous to Lieqian Dynasty now is Yili.
But I don’t know why, every time I talk about this, the emperor disagrees every time.
No reply was given, as if the emperor could not hear or see at all.
No one knew what the emperor was thinking.
But anyway, as far as the empire's army is concerned, the combat effectiveness of the frontier troops in the northwest is really not strong.
The frontier troops in the northwest basically just stayed within the city walls.
Never go out and have a decisive battle with Yi Li.
In particular, in recent decades, except for the more than 20 years of Hongwu, this country also raised troops to attack once.
The frontier troops in the northwest have never fought.
And that time when Hongwu was more than 20 years old, there was no fight.
Their big man died on the way, so they went back.
Lu Yuan and Lu Qing, with their 90,000 border troops, want to attack Yili?
How is this possible...
And these 90,000 troops are not all combatants.
Since they don't want the imperial court to help from behind, they naturally need logistics among the 90,000 troops.
Therefore, 90,000 troops may also be 50,000 combat troops.
This...
This doesn't work, does it?
At this time, everyone looked at the prince helplessly.
See what the prince means.
If this is like an exam...
At the very least, you have to give the question first, right?
There aren't even any questions, so how can I take the exam?
When the prince looked at the eyes of everyone looking at him, he was speechless and said:
"What are you watching me do?
How do I know? ”
The next day.
It's around five o'clock in the morning.
Emperor Yongle had already gotten up.
While serving Emperor Yongle to dress, the eunuch said:
"Oh, Your Majesty, you haven't slept for the past three days and three nights, why don't you sleep a little longer.
Aren't there the Crown Prince and King Zhao watching over there? ”
Emperor Yongle frowned and said directly:
"Stop talking nonsense and show off the cabinet."
After Emperor Yongle rode the dragon to the cabinet.
As soon as I entered, I saw a group of ministers with their eyes red and their hair messed up.
Seeing this scene, Emperor Yongle frowned and said:
“Why haven’t this charter been drawn up yet?
Where is the plan?
Bring it to me! ”
This is related to my two grandsons, why are you so slow? !
At this time, the Crown Prince and King Zhao were looking at me and me at you.
Suddenly, he looked embarrassed and said:
"It's...it hasn't been worked out yet..."
Emperor Yongle was startled and was about to get angry.
However, the prince quickly said:
“Dad, I really don’t blame my son or ministers for this matter, nor do I blame these ministers.
It’s really...the military report from the front didn’t make it clear..."
Emperor Yongle had a question mark on his face, what does this mean?
……
At seven o'clock in the morning, the cabinet had breakfast.
The ministers gathered neatly in other small rooms, eating instant noodles or drinking mutton soup.
After staying up all night, I really can’t stand it without some heavy oil and salt.
Here in the main hall of the cabinet, the same is true for the Crown Prince and King Zhao.
He is eating with his head down.
Emperor Yongle was sitting crookedly on the chair in the middle, holding the military report sent back by Lu Yuan in one hand and studying it carefully.
Don't tell me.
It's true.
Emperor Yongle was too happy and too tired, so he didn't notice anything.
Now I can see that something is wrong with this military report.
You said, if your grandson really wants help from the imperial court.
Why didn't they even write down where they planned to attack?
If you don't even write this, what else can the court do behind the scenes besides staring?
Maybe you forgot?
Emperor Yongle could really only think so.
Speaking of which, this is also Lu Yuan's first time on the battlefield.
Maybe, I just didn’t remember it?
Anyway...
Never mind.
Immediately, Emperor Yongle said:
"Judging from the map, they are most likely to attack from the Western Guard or the Hami Guard.
Notify the grain road in Qiansu to supply the Hami Guard, and the grain road in Qinghai to supply the Xixian Guard. ”
In this case, we can only rely on guessing.
First transport the food and grass forward, and then wait for subsequent military reports to come again before making adjustments.
But when everyone in the court looked at Lu Yuan's unexplained military report, he was unable to respond.
Here in the northwest, the decisive battle has been over for several days.
Seventeen days have passed since the early morning decision in Prince Su's Mansion that day.
As early as twelve days ago, Lu Qing, who was riding in an armored vehicle, had gathered the entire Gansu and Qinghai border troops into the Western Guard.
There were even many royal guards among them. The total strength reached 120,000.
However, 120,000 were not used.
During the decisive battle six days ago, when the Western Vanguard had gathered more than 60,000 people, Lu Yuan led his army to launch the decisive battle.
In fact, it is not a decisive battle.
Because the people in Yili had been kept captive by the King of Han's troops for more than a week.
In particular, their coach, Adili, took advantage of the chaos and fled when the Han Dynasty's personal troops gathered in the Western Guard.
The 100,000-strong army of the Western Vanguard was already leaderless.
Therefore, when Lu Yuan launched a decisive battle and the 60,000 frontier troops charged, they basically did not encounter much resistance.
It was solved in one day.
Then nearly 80,000 people were captured in Yili.
That's right, 60,000 people fought against 100,000 people, and finally 80,000 people were captured.
These 80,000 people are a problem.
Opening your mouth to eat is a problem.
What to do...
Kill?
impossible.
There has been an extremely terrible curse since ancient times.
That is what is called, killing and surrendering are ominous.
Starting from the most famous killing god Bai Qi, all subsequent generals who killed and surrendered soldiers did not end well.
They all died miserably.
Therefore, Lu Yuan will definitely not kill the surrendered soldiers. If he wants to kill them, let your mother do it.
What to do with these 80,000 people?
It's very simple. Aren't there still 60,000 troops behind here who haven't come yet?
If you don't come, don't come.
It’s no longer time to rush.
Then the 60,000 troops will be responsible for the 80,000 prisoners.
Divide them up, and soldiers from each state capital adopt thousands of them to look after them.
Then he would hurry up and report the military report to the court.
Let my grandfather decide how to deal with it specifically, but I don't care anyway.
And then the next six days.
Lu Yuan and Lu Qing each marched in two directions with 500 soldiers from the King of Han's personal regiment, plus 30,000 border troops.
Lu Yuan went directly south from the Western Xianwei to wipe out the largest tribe in Yili, the Duohuoshiti tribe.
Lu Qing, on the other hand, went north, from Hami Guard to Besropali City, to find King Su.
Finally, the two of them set off for the royal city together.
Six days.
Both sides have advanced more than halfway.
We met little resistance on the way.
Although it is said that in this battle with the Western Guards, they killed 40,000 enemies and captured 80,000 prisoners.
Logically speaking, there are still 100,000 regular troops in Yilibaoli.
If the entire Yili force is mobilized, hundreds of thousands more can definitely be raised.
At this time, the farmer carrying the hoe is also a soldier!
Especially for this kind of non-agricultural civilization dynasty, it is a normal thing.
But, after Adili escaped last time.
Yili seemed to be completely frightened.
On Lu Yuan's route and the cities he encountered along the way, if the tribes hadn't fled directly, only the common people or empty cities would be left.
Otherwise, the tribal leaders would have knelt down outside the city gate early to greet Master Wang.
Lu Yuan had already wiped out the Duo Huo Ci tribe and was preparing to head north to the royal city in Yili.
As for Lu Qing, the advancement speed was not slow at all.
Lu Yuan saw from the "God of War" that Lu Qing's troops had already come out of Beishebali, and were now heading straight for the royal city in Yili.
Talk about it.
Lu Qing is really a good fighter.
It can be said that Lu Qing is truly worthy of his title.
Of the two of them, Lu Yuan was the simpler one.
Because of Duohuo's assassination, there were not many soldiers left.
This time we also sent out troops, most of them from the Duohuo Citi Department.
Lu Yuan basically encountered no major resistance along the way.
But Lu Qing's side was different.
Because the previously defeated troops all met up in Beslopali City.
These defeated soldiers gathered and lost eight miles, and had to rely on the city wall to resist again.
Lu Qing's route was more difficult than Lu Yuan's.
And now judging from the distance between the two sides.
Lu Qing is still four hundred kilometers away from the royal city, which is eight hundred miles away.
Lu Yuan, on the other hand, still has 700 miles to go.
Under all conditions, Lu Yuan had the upper hand, but Lu Qing was only a hundred miles behind Lu Yuan.
At this time, Lu Yuan, who closed "God of War" in the RV, secretly said that it was not possible.
As the saying goes, first enter Xianyang to become the king, and then enter Xianyang to support the imperial court.
The next second, Lu Yuan opened the window and said to the messengers riding horses outside on both sides of his RV:
"Armored troops and cavalry will advance at full speed and set up camp twenty miles southeast of Yilibaili King City before sunset tomorrow."
……
Seven days later, on the night of New Year’s Eve.
At this time, the entire imperial city was covered in silver and covered with snow.
There was a heavy snowfall three days ago, covering the entire imperial city.
It is said that in winter, a three-layer wheat quilt will be used, and in the coming year, a steamed bun will be used as a pillow.
However, the snow seems to be a bit heavier this year.
There was already a snow disaster in Liaodong, and so on.
It's hard to say whether this heavy snow is a good omen or a bad omen.
A loud "The Emperor has arrived" sounded at the gate of Prince Han's Mansion.
Everyone in the Han Palace quickly came out to greet him.
Emperor Yongle looked at Princess Han kneeling at the front, as well as Gu Qingwan and Su Liyan, smiled and waved his hands quickly:
"Get up, get up, the ground is cold."
Logically speaking, everyone goes to the palace for dinner on New Year's Eve.
However, this year is a little different.
In the Hanwang's Mansion, the King of Han is not at home, and neither is Lu Yuan.
In the King of Han's family, there are only the Princess of Han and the Crown Princess.
Therefore, this year’s 30th meal, Emperor Yongle brought the prince, King Zhao, and other family members to the Han Dynasty Palace.
Come and make the Han Palace lively and lively.
You can't let your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law guard such a big palace by themselves, right?
Princess Han was naturally very happy that the emperor could come to her home for dinner.
He quickly smiled and thanked him.
Everyone is in a good mood recently.
Ever since we learned that Lu Yuan was fine in Su City seven or eight days ago, everyone was completely relieved.
Although, Lu Yuan did not come back, but instead gathered an army to attack Yili.
But everyone is still relieved about this.
After all, it's not life-threatening.
As for whether this can be defeated or not, it is not that important to Princess Han and Gu Qingwan.
For the two of them, as long as Lu Yuan is fine, it will be fine.
This time Lu Yuan led his troops to fight Yili. Even if they couldn't defeat them, the war would be a failure.
With so many people from the King of Han's personal regiment here, they can definitely withdraw safely.
So, everyone is very relieved.
After all, the strength of the King of Han's personal regiment is now known to the world.
Seven days ago, the news came back, directly detonating the entire imperial city, and then spread completely throughout the Central Plains.
Lu Yuan and Lu Qing, together with a hundred soldiers of the King of Han, fought against King Su's thousands of troops for four days and four nights. No one died and thousands of enemies were wiped out.
Now in the imperial city, the Tianqiao storytellers of the generation in Haijin are almost spoiled for choice.
Emperor Yongle is also very happy now.
Although there has been no military report for the past seven days.
But from the very beginning, I thought something would happen to both grandsons in Sucheng.
Up to now, the two grandsons have wiped out King Su's rebels, and they are still vigorous and vigorous in attacking Yili.
Emperor Yongle naturally didn't care that these two grandsons did not discuss with the court, but acted arbitrarily and directly bypassed the court and the Ministry of War to assemble the border troops.
Of course, punishment is required.
Because, however, it’s a small punishment but a big warning, just give him a few words of instruction when the time comes and the meaning is fulfilled.
As for whether the two of them can fight, it's also a matter of strength.
Emperor Yongle and the Ministry of War are also studying these days, and they have come to the conclusion that...
A bit overwhelming, right?
After all, the combat effectiveness of the frontier troops in the northwest is not particularly strong.
Although there are still more than a thousand soldiers of the King of Han, there is a lot of desert in Yili.
It's not easy to get into this heavy armored vehicle further inside.
However, everyone still agreed that even with all their strength, they would not be able to knock it off.
That would at least keep Yili honest.
Perhaps, a better situation would be to expand the territory of the empire 200 to 300 miles westward to the desert?
Anyway, there won't be any big bad news.
Because the imperial court has sent troops for reinforcements in the past two days.
The court is already taking care of everything, so there won't be any big trouble.
Emperor Yongle looked at Princess Han and said kindly:
"This year, the King of Han and the Crown Prince will not be able to celebrate the New Year with you. I will bring people to your place to have a lot of fun, so as not to lose the spirit of the New Year."
Princess Han smiled and nodded her thanks.
final.
The New Year's Eve dinner is eaten on time at the Hanwang Mansion.
This was a serious family banquet, so neither Emperor Yongle nor the Crown Prince nor King Zhao mentioned political matters at the family banquet.
In the middle of the meal, King Zhao's two legitimate daughters stood in the middle and recited poems.
Everyone listened with smiles and clapped their hands.
"After dinner, you go and play mahjong somewhere else, right?"
When they were about to finish eating, the prince looked at the female family members in the palace and said.
This year is thirty, so naturally you can’t go to bed after the New Year’s Eve dinner.
No matter what, we had to spend the night, wait for the etiquette department to finish setting off the fireworks, and then everyone dispersed after watching the fireworks together.
It's still early in the morning, still two hours away.
Then let the female relatives go and play cards, leaving the main hall to Emperor Yongle and the others.
We were just discussing matters in the northwest.
Princess Han smiled and nodded repeatedly.
His son invented mahjong and he carried it forward, and it is now popular among the ladies of the imperial city.
The prince also looked at Princess Han and smiled:
"This thing was invented by your family. Princess Han, please be merciful and don't win against my family too much."
Regarding the Crown Prince's words, Princess Han couldn't help but rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
“Also, it’s true that Yuan’er invented this mahjong.
But no one can play mahjong like yours.
You just won seventy taels from me two days ago! ”
The princess sitting next to the prince couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, with a proud look on her face.
Afterwards, Princess Han stood up, looked at the Crown Princess and said with a smile:
"Then let's leave now?"
Immediately, the Crown Princess stood up quickly, and then took Princess Zhao and the children to the center of the hall.
They all knelt down and said:
"My son, my concubine, retires."
In fact, the Princess of Han and the Crown Princess were very difficult to deal with at first.
Because of their respective sons.
The two women belong to neither of them and look down on each other.
When they meet and talk, they are all yin and yang.
But a few days ago, their sons had an accident together in Sucheng.
Both men most likely lost their sons.
These two people became difficult sisters.
After all, of these two women's men, one was following the emperor in the cabinet every day, and the other was directly leading troops to the northwest.
The two of them help each other.
I have some gossip, let me tell you.
You have some gossip, tell me.
We usually get together and say words of comfort to each other.
After this back and forth, hey, the two women who had not dealt with each other before actually got together.
At this time, Emperor Yongle was in a good mood when he saw such a harmonious family scene in front of him and nodded repeatedly.
And just when the Han Palace and the Crown Princess and their entourage were preparing to retreat.
A young eunuch rushed in from outside, shouting loudly as he came:
"Your Majesty~~
Good news from the Northwest! !
Taisun, the eldest son of the Han Dynasty, went to the west to defend and defeat the bandit army.
Capture 80,000 thieves.
Now, Taisun is heading north to Bielse Bali City to pursue King Su.
The prince of the Han Dynasty went south to wipe out the largest tribe in Yiliba, and Duohuo stabbed the Ti tribe!
Both Taisun and the King of Han promised to completely recover the territory of Yili 1.6 million in one month.
The Ministry of Industry is specifically requested to redraw the territorial map of Liegan Empire and include Yili in the imperial territory.
Also ask the cabinet to draw up a list of rewards for generals! ”
(End of chapter)