I am the king of the dead

"Are there still people who are so eager to seek death?" Wang Fu laughed when he heard that there was a letter of challenge.

Kang Guo's army exceeded 18 people, while the Mamluk army in the hands of Yadigel of the Black Sheep Kingdom was only about 3 people.

Even if Yadigel tied the whole of Herat to the chariot and came to the decisive battle, the Kang army would not be afraid of him.

The cost of scrapping and maintaining armaments is much higher than the cost of firing arrow clusters, lead bullets, and gunpowder.

Kang's armaments follow His Majesty's principle of being lenient in anticipating the enemy, and the armaments can be more or less.

Boyan Timur, Gegan Taiji and others agreed with Wang Fu's point of view.

Wang Yue didn't object, and he was also a little surprised. Is Yadigel of the Black Sheep Kingdom a fool, going out of the city to die?
Relying on the city wall and still lingering for a while, what is the decisive battle if it is not death?
Wang Yue looked at the Kanyu map and sand table in front of him, thought for a moment, drew a line with the long pole in his hand and said, "He might want to take advantage of the chaos and escape."

"Presumably, he knew that the Ottomans he wanted to rely on would not come, so he planned to abandon the defense and wait until the army retreated before making plans."

After Yadiger knew that the Kang army was coming, he formed a group of slaves and gave all the men in the city simple training, intending to win by numbers.

And Wang Yue judged that this group of slaves was the main force in the decisive battle, and the elite of Yadiger would probably run into Khorasan Mountain and return to the Black Sheep Kingdom through the path Wang Yue judged.

"That makes sense." Pioneer answered, and the strong and bear-like answer was the first to answer this time. His father didn't hit him after Qiantaiji, and he obviously thought that Wang Yue was more transparent.

Wang Yue circled the sand table with a long pole in his hand for a long time, constantly planning Yadiger's escape route, and finally touched a valley and said, "No matter where you escape from, this is the only way to go."

is it?

King Kang carefully surveyed the map and asked himself, he didn't see it at all...

In fact, Boyan, Gegan, Dayi, and Ashinahehuo were all discovered when Wang Yue pointed them out, and they must pass through.

The performance of military talent in battle can probably be explained as finding key information among countless complicated information and making the optimal solution as quickly as possible.

If you ask him, why is this so?

He may not be able to answer it, but he will only be like what Yue Fei said when he answered Zong Ze: "Battle after formation, the art of war is common; the skill of using it is all in one mind."

Military talent is a kind of talent, and you will not be given any preferential treatment because of your reputation, status, or few military books you have read. Whether you are talking about soldiers on paper, Zhao Kuo, parachutist Li Guang, or Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi, they all use their own actions. practiced this principle.

There is no doubt that Wang Fu, Duke of Kang, who is very powerful in everything, is just like ordinary people in terms of military talent, but Wang Yue obviously has a strong military talent.

Some people are born to fight, and Wang Yue is like this.

Ashinahehuo asked a little cautiously: "How is the combat effectiveness of the Mamluk Legion in Yadiger's hands?"

Wang Fu thought for a while, then asserted: "Slave soldiers."

The Mamluk Legion originated from the Gulam military system of Sharia law. It was originally meant to be trained slaves. Usually, it was regarded as a professional elite army.

This kind of military system generally exists in the vast land of the Western Regions, such as the Saman Dynasty, the Ghaznavid Dynasty, the Kara Khanate, the Seljuk Dynasty, the Khwarazm Dynasty and the current Black Sheep Kingdom and the Ottoman Kingdom.

The prestigious Yeniceri Legion in the Ottoman Kingdom selected some strong boys from the Orthodox families of the conquered Balkan Slavs, and after conversion, they became the Janissary Legion.

The first batch of Mamluk legions were eunuchs for some reasons, but the eunuchs armed with no desires after being eunuchs were finally eliminated by history, and the current Mamluk legions are no different from the Janissaries. .

For example, the Yenicheri Legion fought for the throne by supporting the Sultan, while the Mamluk Legion simply overthrew the Ayyubid Dynasty and established their own kingdom.

For example, they all changed from slaves to masters. This sense of déjà vu not only happened to Ottomans and Egyptian Sultans, but also happened to Western Rome and Eastern Rome.

From ancient Rome to Eastern and Western Rome, to Eastern Rome, and then to Holy Rome, Ottoman, and Egyptian Sultan, they all seem to be practicing a truth, that is, if you do many unrighteous actions, you will die.

The result of engaging in slavery is that the slaves often end up climbing over their heads and dominating them.

It was true of Rome, it was true of Ottomans, and it was true of Egypt.

Therefore, when Wang Fu proposed to organize the people to organize households and divide the villages to live separately, the meat eaters in Samarkand supported Wang Fu's resolution and at the same time firmly implemented it.

The combat effectiveness of the slave army is definitely not the same as that of an army composed of good families with food and fields.

"How should we fight this battle?" Wang Fu asked with some doubts.

"Promise Yadiger, the decisive battle will be tomorrow!" Wang Yue said firmly.

In the early morning of the next day, when the morning light was breaking and the desert had just been sprinkled, and the wind was wrapped in flying sand and stones, the battle had already started.

Kang Guo agreed to the decisive battle the next day, so at dawn, a surprise attack on Herat was launched.

This is not a sneak attack without martial ethics. Everyone agreed to a decisive battle the next day, but the battlefield is Herat City.

Dozens of catapults attacked the weak point of Herat's defense, and the army carried out the military order of Wang Yue, the governor of the frontier army and deputy general Zhengyi.

Compared with the orderly state of Kang's army, the reaction of Yadiger's slave army can only be described as procrastinating. When the Kang army rushed to the city wall, the slave army guarding the city slowed down. Swallow ready to defend.

It is obvious that the dispatch of the slave army is far less convenient than that of Kang Guo's army.

When Yadiger heard the shouts of siege, he ran away immediately without any hesitation. He knew that he couldn't hold it. Kang's luggage was still behind him, and it was just a trebuchet right now.

With nearly a thousand direct descendants, Yadigel fled into Wang Yue's pocket through the gap in the perimeter.

After a whole night of fighting, Kang Guo's army occupied the entire Herat, gained all the control rights, and placed the fence that had been prepared in the city.

Herat does not have a wall, and the gate cannot be closed, but this large fence is enough.

After seven days of sorting out, Wang Fu, as the Duke of Kang, put on his military uniform, rode a tall brown-red horse, and began to enter the city.

The black-spotted rear mountain horse that was fighting was quietly grazing in the stable because it was not good-looking.

The first victory in this battle was naturally Wang Yue, but no one would deny that Wang Fu provided the prerequisites for victory in this battle.

Just as everyone recognizes the bravery and invincibility of the champion Hou Huo Qubing, but no one will deny the Han Wudi Liu Che who gave Huo Qubing all support and was a prerequisite for victory in the war.

Wang Fu rode a high-headed horse on the street proudly, accepting the kneeling worship of the people of Herat. Unlike the time when Shuchi conquered this place, the Ming Expeditionary Army and the twelve regiments of Kang State did not have large-scale activities. plundering, which gave a good start to the stable rule of Herat.

Herat is a beautiful city. In the morning, the Khorasan Mountains in the west emit a rose-colored light under the reflection of the morning sun.In the evening, the Eagle Mountain in the east turns purple under the setting sun.

Herat, "is like the fairy capital in the sky".

Herat's stepped palace is the royal palace built by Timur here. The royal palace is located on a high platform overlooking the northerly streets of Herat. It is a castle built along the middle of the mountain.

The top sky garden in the castle is full of shrubs, lawns and flowers.

Peacocks with their feathers cut off are active in the pond, and colorful fish swim freely in the pond.

All of these are Kang Guogong's trophies.

Did the bowing and worshiping of all the people and the support of civil and military officials cause some ripples in Wang Fu's heart, for example: stay in Samarkand, become the king of the Western Regions, and enjoy these worships forever.

Wang Fu is a human being, so naturally he had a little bit of a heartbeat, not only at the moment when he conquered Herat, but also at the moment when Heshuo invited him to the Kang Palace, and at the moment when he dropped the hammer in the dome auditorium of the Advisory Council, He has been heartbroken.

Wang Fu quickly stripped away from that kind of heartbeat, and stripped away the false names of Duke Kang, founder of the Kingdom of Kang, counselor, minister of protecting the people, and conqueror of Herat. The pier is far away, this is Wang Fu's true self.

His Royal Highness King Xiang once said that one who finds one's own goal from the mist of life and makes unremitting efforts for it is a person without self.

And without self first, there is still the true self.

If you can peel off the external "name" to find the real "reality", and clearly realize who you are, then there will be no more confusion in this life.

Wang Fu was able to strip away these false names and recognize his true colors.

"It's such a pity!" Wang Fu stood in the study, looking at the pond newspaper, and said helplessly, "I should have gone after Yadiger myself if I knew it earlier, but let him run away!"

It is not so easy for a king to become a prisoner.

The person who was in charge of chasing Yadigel was Geqian's eldest son, Duke Kang Fu's student, and the pioneer of the Kang army, Da Yi. lost.

It is very difficult to catch a king who can ride a horse and really drop everything and run away.

Like King Jili, when Li Xian, Yuan Bin, and Yang Han persuaded him to disguise himself and escape in the midst of the chaos, King Jili held the mentality of "I and Fanshu" and refused to escape. People, are rare.

What Wang Fu meant was that he was not good at commanding in front of the battle, but when he catches mice, he catches them accurately. If he pursues them, he will definitely capture and kill Yadiger, so that there will be no future troubles.

"When a slave owner loses his slave, he loses everything. Even though he is still called the Black Sheep Kingdom, the master has been replaced by someone else." All cons.

Like the Central Plains, a disciple of the clan who ran to the south can recover his strength with a single call, and can counterattack, and even successfully counterattack, which is impossible under the slave system.

Ashina Hehuo was a top student in the Samarkand University. He liked the culture of the Central Plains very much. He was talking about the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty.

Boyan Timur said seriously: "There is an ancient academy in Herat called Guovasha, and I think it should be rebuilt into a university like Samarkand to change customs."

"I agree." Ashina Hehuo immediately said, "But it is very difficult to invite a gentleman from the University Hall."

There are too few teachers in the college in Samarkand, and sometimes Chen Xun, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty and the former chief assistant of the cabinet, has to be invited to attend classes.

Chen Xun is an old master, he was heartbroken by the chaos in the Samarkand University, so he reluctantly agreed.

In front of a Confucian scholar, Chen Xun himself could not bear to make the university hall look like that, it was a humiliation to the context.

Wang Fu was in charge of Herat's government affairs, and the military conquest was just the beginning. According to Ming's requirements for victory, there would be phased victories such as political victories and cultural victories.

In the middle of the night, Wang Fu turned on his lime blowtorch. Compared with the shortage of light oil in Ming Dynasty, Samarkand and Herat did not lack these. Oil is roughly equal to black gold in Daming, but it is not in short supply in Herat.

He couldn't wait to share the news of his victory in Herat.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu's car had already left Fujian, along the official road post road, all the way to the range of Guangzhou Mansion.

Dianbai Port in Guangzhou Prefecture has been a very prosperous seaport since the early Tang Dynasty, but because the Ming Emperor avoided water, most of Zhu Qiyu's trips were by land.

At this time, Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian were chatting on the Dajia Yuren.

"Nikolaus translated Aesop's fables. I know a story called the fox divides the prey."

"It's talking about a tiger, a fox and a donkey. They went hunting together. The donkey divided the prey into three equal parts and said: King Tiger, please choose first!"

"The tiger was furious and said: You dare to say such a thing now, and I don't dare to think about what I want to do in the future. I killed the donkey with one bite."

"The tiger killed the donkey, and the donkey became part of the prey, so he asked the fox: how to divide the prey now?"

"The fox said: They belong to the Tiger King!"

"The tiger was overjoyed, and gave the fox some prey, and asked with a smile: Who taught you to divide like this?"

"The fox pointed to the donkey's carcass and said: It taught me."

"If maritime trade is compared to hunting, on the surface, I am a tiger, the merchants who go to sea are foxes, and the people who are exhausted are donkeys."

"But in fact, I am a fox, and these powerful people who go to sea are tigers."

"If you think about it carefully, Tai Shigong said that the prosperity of the world is all for profit; the world is full of prosperity, and everything is for profit. It seems that this is the case for all things that come and go in this world."

What Zhu Qiyu was talking about was Guangzhou Fudian Baigang. When the Guangzhou Shipbuilding Department was not restored, thousands of sails competed and were banned by the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court seemed to be the tiger.

But if you look closely, who is the tiger?

After listening to the story, Xing'an was silent for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, Nikolaoz's "Aesop's Fables" is currently being printed by the Sanjing Factory. Do you want to stop for a while?"

"I don't have any ideas, but I just think that "Jingtai Wenxuan" has been printed recently, so I shouldn't print these words."

Xing'an is temporary, I'm afraid I don't know when it will be temporary.

This Aesop's fable, a storybook, was told by His Majesty as a forbidden book.

Yu Qian looked at the scene cheerfully, and did not express his opinion. What His Majesty said about a fox pretending to be a tiger has the same meaning as Yu Qian has always mentioned that the artifacts are fake hands and overstepping others.

The Ming court should belong to the tiger, but the tiger's skin was ripped off.