Xia Xun thought nervously. The person in front of him was not an innocent child like Zhu Yunwen. Fang Xiaoru drew Zhu Yunwen a beautiful blueprint for Zhou Yunwen's restoration and well field that was impossible to realize. Brother Wen became ecstatic, but
Brother Di is different. He is very shrewd. You cannot fool him by playing tricks. But now Zhu Di is facing ten times the enemy. What kind of strategy should he adopt?
Xia Xun slowly sorted out his thoughts and said slowly: "Beiping is the foundation of His Highness, and there must be no room for failure. Otherwise, the foundation will be gone, the morale of the army will be lost, and His Highness's defeat will be inevitable!"
Zhu Di nodded heavily and said: "Yes, that's the problem. You must hold on to Peking no matter what, but if I insist on holding on to Peking, defeat will only be a matter of time..."
Xia Xun nodded and said: "Yes, the disparity in military strength is really huge. Even if the imperial court's army of 500,000 people is filled with human lives, they can still create a broad road that leads directly to the walls of Peking. If His Highness insists on defending Peking, this city will
Sooner or later, the city will become a prison for His Highness."
Zhu Di's fists and palms met, and there was a "snap" sound. He gritted his teeth and said: "We have to defend Peking. If we persist in defending, we will fail. Wenxuan, do you have any clever ideas?"
Xia Xun said: "There is only one way to solve this problem. Beiping must be defended, but His Highness cannot defend the city."
Zhu Di was startled, thought for a moment, and said tentatively: "What Wenxuan means is to send people to defend Beiping, and I will lead the army to roam outside to contain the enemy? This...with the troops in my hand...if we divide the troops again...
,I am afraid……"
Xia Xun said seriously: "I know that as a result, there will be fewer soldiers and horses in Beiping City, and the pressure will be huge. It will be a hard battle, a miserable war, but..., it must be like this,
Your Highness's main army must not stay in the city of Beiping, waiting for Li Jiujiang to consume it bit by bit. Defending the city will be very difficult, but Your Highness must hand over this heavy burden. The plan depends on people, and the success depends on God. Your Highness,
There is no panacea, nor is there a surefire way to only take advantage without suffering any losses!”
Zhu Di lowered his head and thought for a moment. The muscles on his face twitched slightly. He slowly raised his head, looked at Xia Xun, and said: "So, what should I do when my army is abroad? What should I do before Beiping is lost...
What?"
Xia Xun said: "Destroy the peripheral troops of the imperial army as much as possible, cut off their wings, and delay time!"
"Delaying time?"
Zhu Di's eyes flashed, and he vaguely understood something, and asked: "To delay..., will there be reinforcements?"
"Yes! We have three major reinforcements!"
Xia Xun raised his finger habitually. Fortunately, Fatty Lin was not here, otherwise he would have thought of another dirty scene.
"The first powerful reinforcement is Tianshi!"
Zhu Di already understood, and couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face: "Yes, the imperial court's 500,000-strong army is mostly from the south and cannot withstand the severe cold in the north. But when Li Jiujiang sent troops, he was too confident, thinking that Peking could be conquered overnight.
To capture it, we still lack experience in fighting in the northern winter. We didn’t bring many winter clothes, and the tents were the thin marching tents used by the Confederate army. Once the ice and snow hit the ground and the biting wind blew, our combat effectiveness would be greatly reduced.”
Xia Xun said: "Our second most powerful reinforcement is the Southern Army itself!"
Zhu Di asked curiously: "How do you say this?"
Xia Xun said: "An army of half a million is certainly terrifying during a war, but how much supply does this behemoth need to feed its people and horses? Their front line is long, and the geography of the north is far more familiar to His Highness's soldiers and horses. As long as
Send troops to cut off their supply transportation lines. By then they will have neither food, grass nor clothing to keep out the cold, and they will collapse without a fight."
Zhu Di nodded repeatedly, and Xia Xun said again: "If Li Jinglong divides his troops to pursue His Highness, even if he divides his troops, he will still be far more powerful than Your Highness. Your Highness cannot attack forcefully. The Southern Army has entered the horse, and the Northern Army has more horses. Your Highness should use the strengths of the Northern Army.
When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we harass, when the enemy is tired, we attack, when the enemy retreats, we pursue, use guerrilla tactics to wear down the enemy, advance and retreat in large strides, lure the enemy deep, concentrate our forces, defeat them one by one, and destroy the enemy in mobile warfare!"
This tactic was not invented by that great man, but it was systematically organized and summarized by him, carrying forward the essence of ancient and modern guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. This tactic is exactly suitable for Zhu Di's current situation.
Ever since Zhu Di took command of Peiping, whenever he conquered Mobei, his military strength has never been as stretched as it is now. Therefore, in his usual combat thinking, it is difficult to break out of the shackles of many years of combat experience. However, his opponent,
Those Mobei tribes were masters of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. Although Zhu Di won many times, it was difficult to eliminate these enemies. Now that he was in a different place, it was easier to understand these strategies and tactics than ordinary people.
So he just closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and then he understood the essence of mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare. To put it bluntly, although Xia Xun told him about this guerrilla warfare and the essence of mobile warfare, his understanding and understanding was far behind Xia Xun.
He couldn't help but laugh loudly and said: "Wenxuan is resourceful and resourceful. He is actually the stronghold of the country. With this good strategy, Li Jiujiang's army of 500,000 people has nothing to fear."
Xia Xun said sternly: "Your Highness must not be careless. There is a premise for us to do this, and that is... Beiping must hold on, and it must be held! If there is a mistake in Beiping, nothing will happen!"
Zhu Di looked solemn and nodded slowly: "Yes! Beiping... must be defended! So... what is the third support army?"
Xia Xun said: "After all, the enemy army has 500,000 troops, which is ten times as many as mine. As the saying goes, if you kill one thousand enemies, you will suffer eight hundred losses. Even if Peking can be defended, His Highness will be delayed until the cold winter, and his own military strength will be almost
The exhaustion was exhausted. At that time, Li Jiujiang was short of food and clothing. If he wanted to retreat, would His Highness still have the strength to launch a counterattack and expand the victory? If not, let the Southern Army retreat calmly. Although we won the battle, we did not
If the enemy's vitality is damaged, what will His Highness do when Li Jiujiang comes back next spring? Therefore, this third support army is the real reinforcement, and we also need an elite army that is good at fighting!"
Zhu Di asked with bright eyes: "Where do the soldiers come from?"
"Prince Ning!"
Zhu Di smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Seventeenth brother, it's impossible! Wenxuan, I won't hide it from you. At the beginning of the war, I wrote a secret letter, enumerating the injustice and injustice of the court, and how my brother
The kings confided in him their embarrassment and hoped that he would send troops to help. However, this letter fell into the sea like stone and there was no reply at all."
Xia Xun thought to himself: "It turns out that King Yan also thought about joining forces with this brother who is so close."
, Prince Ning should agree, right?"
Zhu Di laughed and said: "Why did Wenxuan say such childish words? If the seventeenth brother borrows troops to fight with me, wouldn't that also become a rebellion against the imperial court? If he can borrow troops, he can take the initiative to raise troops to respond."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "Your Highness, there are literary and military loans. You can borrow them through negotiation or by force. It doesn't necessarily have to be willing to do so by Prince Ning, right?"
Zhu Di was startled, and his eyes suddenly turned black. He stared at Xia Xun closely for a long time, and when he saw that Xia Xun didn't seem to be joking, he said in surprise: "Wen Xun is really brave.
.Now that the imperial army is approaching, I have too much to take care of myself. If my seventeenth brother doesn’t come to trouble me, I will be thankful to God, and can I take the initiative to provoke him? If I invite this tiger again, my situation will be even worse.
?”
Xia Xun frowned and thought to himself: "It seems that King Yan has no hope of borrowing troops from King Ning. Could it be that I lent King Ning's soldiers to him?"
Xia Xun thought for a moment and said: "His Royal Highness once wrote to King Ning. Although King Ning did not respond, he did not show the letter to the court. King Ning's attitude is so ambiguous, which may not be unconvincing. The emperor wants to cut down the feudal vassal and cut down the vassal.
It’s not just His Highness, but also all the kings and brothers, imprisoned and imprisoned. Doesn’t King Ning have no resentment in his heart?”
Zhu Di smiled bitterly and said: "How can you have no resentment? Among the kings, although I, Zhu Di, am the most famous, it is actually because I am the oldest, now the leader of the kings, and have fought many times against the remnants of the Mobei Yuan people.
Because of the loudness. In fact, I am far less powerful than the seventeenth brother who really has heavy troops. The seventeenth brother's vassal state is in Daning (now part of Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia), in the ancient Huizhou area, east of the
On the left side of Liao, bordering Xuanfu in the west, it was an important military town with 80,000 armored men and 6,000 leather chariots. It was the leader among the kings.
However, because of this, he was also deeply jealous of the emperor. Last year, when the imperial court issued an order to reduce the military power of the kings, the seventeenth brother's military power was also forced to be handed over. In the first few months, the emperor issued an order to reduce the military power of his three brothers.
The guards and horses were also withdrawn, and last month the imperial court issued an order to summon him back to Beijing for an audience. Because there was a military attack here, I couldn't take care of him for the time being, so I just let the matter go."
Xia Xun was stunned when he heard this: "Prince Ning has been deprived of military power, but he has also been deprived of power like Zhu Laosi? This is not the same as my memory. It's broken. Could it be that I am a little butterfly?"
My wings are flapping too much, and history has changed beyond recognition, so what advantage do I have? I will also be blinded by everything in the future."
The next sentence of King Yan Zhu Di recalled Xia Xun's soul: "However, as the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The vassal state of the Seventeenth Brother is deep outside the Great Wall, and the imperial court's control is not very strong, especially the Seventeenth Brother.
I have three Mongolian guards under my command. They are all elite cavalrymen of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. They defected to our Ming Dynasty. My seventeenth brother is very good to these fortress men and has a close relationship with the leaders of the three guards. Those people are not so much my Ming Dynasty's.
Soldiers, rather, they are Seventeenth Brother's private soldiers. If Seventeenth Brother says something, they are still willing to listen."
When Xia Xun heard this, he couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, history was not too distorted. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know what to do.
In fact, this is just that Xia Xun didn't understand the detailed history. Xia Xun didn't ask for a detailed explanation when he read. He just glanced at the articles or stories he saw and got a rough impression. Many details were impossible to grasp. In his memory, it was
King Yan rode into Daning alone, deceived Queen Ning, took King Ning as a hostage, and brought back King Ning's army.
Therefore, in his understanding, when the imperial court reduced the vassalage, King Ning should not have been touched. Otherwise, how could King Yan deceive King Ning and recruit tens of thousands of his troops? In fact, Ning at this time in history
The king, like the King of Yan before he was forced to raise an army, was reduced to a mere commander, and all he had was a royal palace, and even the troops and horses of the three guards were taken over by the imperial generals.
Xia Xun said happily: "That's good. The imperial court cut off King Ning's troops and horses, even transferred the three guards of the palace, and ordered him to enter the capital. It can be seen that he has ulterior motives. Isn't there no resentment in King Ning's heart?"
No fear? I am willing to go to Daning for Your Highness. If I can successfully persuade King Ning to defect to His Highness, I can persuade all the guards under King Ning to join him, and Your Highness will be even more powerful."
Xia Xun had just presented to Zhu Di a countermeasure against the imperial army of 500,000. Zhu Di regarded him as a treasure and was not willing to let him take risks. Hearing this, he couldn't help but moved his face and said: "It's still a matter of debate whether my seventeenth brother is willing to join the army with me.
In the meantime, if you want to find out what he wants, there is no need for Wenxuan to take the risk himself. If the seventeenth brother refuses to tolerate it, it will cost your life. How about I write another letter to persuade him.
"
Xia Xun shook his head and said: "If there is only one letter exchange, it may be difficult to borrow King Ning's elite soldiers. I am here for a humble job. I can act according to the situation and explore his mind. If possible, I can tell him with emotion and move him with reason. King Ning and
Your Majesty's sympathy for the same illness may not necessarily mean that His Majesty's wishes cannot be fulfilled. If you only write a letter and send a small official, it will be difficult to achieve success. Your Majesty's caring heart is deeply felt in his humble duty, but to help His Highness achieve great things, this is a great peace, humble duty.
You must go there once!”
Zhu Di hesitated and said: "Well..., if the seventeenth brother wants to show his loyalty to the court, just one word can decide your life or death, Wenxuan..."
Xia Xun said resolutely: "Where is the current situation that is not dangerous? Is it in His Highness's military camp or in the city of Beiping? If you want peace, you must take risks now. I only ask for a token from Your Highness. Yang Xu is willing to fight for His Highness."
Break into King Ning's dragon pool and tiger's den!"
"Okay, okay..."
Zhu Di was full of joy and anger, and he was an easily impulsive person. Seeing Xia Xun put his personal life and death aside for himself, his eyes were red with emotion. Unfortunately, he was now in a precarious situation, and all his fame and future would be in vain. This official title
He couldn't say what he wanted to say. He also remembered that his third daughter was already ten years old and would be of marriageable age in two years. If he were to be his son-in-law, he would be considered a real relative, but he was married to his wife...
…
Opening and closing his mouth, in the end Zhu Di could only bury his gratitude in his heart, patted Xia Xun on the shoulder hard, and shouted loudly outside the check-in: Someone, call Saiha Zhi to see me!
"
After a while, a fierce general with a beard strode into the tent. This man had a leopard head with ringed eyes, a swallow's jaw and a tiger's beard. He looked like Zhang Fei. When he saw Zhu Di, he folded his arms and bent down, and said in a loud voice:
"Saihaji has met His Highness!"
Zhu Di said to Xia Xun: "Since Wenxuan is going, let my bodyguard Saihazhi go with you. He is a Mongolian. He is familiar with the geography of Daning and understands the Mongolian language. He may be able to help you."
help!"
"Sehazi..."
Xia Xun thought to himself: "There was Jigang in the past, and now there is Saihazhi... The third and fourth commanders of the Jinyi Guards are all seen now. The Jinyiwei and I are really destined..."
As soon as Saihazhi heard Zhu Di's words, he knew that he was going to follow this master on errands. He hurriedly saluted Xia Xun respectfully and said loudly: "Seyhazhi, who is of humble rank, is sent by Master Yang, and will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
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