The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 162 Master Ye turned out to be General Ye, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and terrified!
"Why don't you come up?"

"If you don't come up again, there will be no good show!"

Just as Wu Yong was heading towards a tower crane with a counterweight block, Shen Wan'er walked down the city wall and asked.

Only then did Wu Yong realize that he almost missed a big deal because he was eager to prove that he wasn't bragging.

The current Yanmen Pass can be said to be full of Beiyuan spies.

The key is to pass the news that Ye Qing wanted to tell Wang Baobao to Wang Baobao's ears smoothly, and their agents must deliberately let the fish slip through the net.

It would be a waste of money for those slippery fish to see him operating a counterweight block tower crane.

Thinking of this, Wu Yong walked back in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, said with a light smile: "After the war starts, you will know whether I am bragging, but by then, you should also return to Yingtianfu."

"Of course, whether I'm bragging or not has nothing to do with you."

"Come on, let's go to the city to see a play."

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could respond, Wu Yong simply turned around and went to the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood where he was, looking at Wu Yong's back, although he was annoyed, he could only nod helplessly.

"You are right, it really has nothing to do with us, who told us that we are Master Guo now!"

While Zhu Yuanzhang followed Wu Yong to the city, he still looked into the night from the corner of his eye, which looked like an elephant's trunk.

Since Mr. Wu didn't demonstrate it to him, he had to analyze by himself whether this thing has such a miraculous effect.

If the city wall was repaired quickly and well, it should be enough to prove that this thing really has the ability to lift tens of thousands of catties.

As for whether this thing can be used as a trebuchet, and whether it has a longer range than a cannon, you must see it to prove it.

It's a pity that he couldn't witness this scene with his own eyes.

If there is no accident, he should not wait until that time!
But it doesn't matter, when the time comes to fight, Xu Da will come to witness for him, and he can just ask Xu Da when the time comes!

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang stopped looking at the 'elephant's nose' in the dark night, and went straight to the gate tower!

But as soon as he got on the city wall, Zhu Yuanzhang felt something was wrong.

Not only did he feel that something was wrong, but even Mao Xiang felt that something was wrong.

In their eyes, the guards on this nearly four feet wide city wall did not meet the required requirements at all, and they were not well equipped.

Of course, the unsophisticated in their eyes refers to the fact that the equipment of these soldiers is the same as that of other Ming frontier troops, not produced by Yanmen Arsenal.

Not only that, but on such a long and wide city wall, there is not even a single cannon.

Immediately afterwards, the two immediately looked outside the city.

Although there are no bright lights outside the city, the terrain outside can be clearly seen through the full moon and summer stars.

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang, the natural mountain connecting the two ends of the city wall is a giant "eight" opening.

This Yanmenguan Zhongmen city wall is equivalent to closing the smallest opening.

But outside the city wall, there is an endless plain terrain, which is really flat without any slopes.

If you don't block it, the enemy's cavalry can close their eyes and rush under the city wall!
Of course, although there are no natural slopes, there are man-made buildings dedicated to blocking cavalry.

And this man-made building dedicated to blocking cavalry is the masterpiece of the first Yanmen Pass guard since the establishment of the pass in the Tang Dynasty.

It is these man-made buildings that make this place that is easy to attack and difficult to defend, so that it does not affect the passage of business travelers in normal times, and it also plays a role in preventing the enemy cavalry from driving straight in during wartime!

Zhu Yuanzhang also checked relevant historical materials, and he also wanted to know who the first guard appointed by Tang Taizong Li Shimin was.

What kind of talent is it that left such an impenetrable Yanmen Pass to future generations!
Yes,

Even so, Yanmen Pass was breached before, but it was definitely not that the pass city was not repaired well enough, but that the Yanmen Pass guards and defenders at that time were not good enough.

Of course, the most important thing was that the ruling court was not good at that time!

But he searched for a long time, but he couldn't find out who's name it was!

It's as if the first guard of Yanmen Pass had his name erased on purpose by the official historian. There are only his deeds, but not his name!
Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't find out who it was, he still admired this general, and even envied Li Shimin for having such a good general.

At that time, he still thought that it would be great if he had this kind of general who knew how to build military buildings and how to lead troops to fight.

It's a pity that the emperor has been in office for six years, but he still hasn't encountered such a talent.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang thought of Ye Qing again!

Ye Qing is a talent who knows how to make ordnance, but it's a pity he doesn't know how to command and fight!
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang had such an idea, he immediately frowned again.

"How can we regret that he won't lead troops to fight?"

"We want people who can secure the world with writing, and we also want people who can set the world with martial arts, but we absolutely can't want people who can both set the world with writing and use martial arts to determine the world!"

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After a while,

Zhu Yuanzhang came directly to the guard standing under the city gate.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked seriously: "In such a dangerous place, there are only so few people guarding it, and there is not a single cannon?"

"What do you want to do?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's continuous questioning made the guard look confused.

If he didn't know that this middle-aged strong man was their Lord Ye's distinguished guest, he would definitely lift it up and throw it under the city wall to his death.

How dare a mere lowly businessman talk about military affairs?

I just wanted to die and couldn't find a place to reincarnate, so I came here to ask him to help reincarnate!
The guard just had sharp eyes and said: "After you put on the armor of a third-rank military general, come ask me again."

"If you are not Master Ye's guest, you are already dead!"

Behind Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma frowned as she watched this scene.

She knew that her family's Shigehachi had forgotten her current identity because she was in love with the scene.

But in the face of this situation, she was too embarrassed to speak.

From her point of view, as a woman like her, she climbed the city wall, it is considered that these generals have given Ye Qing face.

I'm afraid that if she opens her mouth, these generals won't even give Ye Qing face.

She had no choice but to wink at Mao Xiang and let Mao Xiang speak nice words to the guard.

But before Mao Xiang could speak, Wu Yong ran down to urge them.

In this way, a group of people followed Wu Yong and successfully arrived at the third floor of the gate tower of the Zhongmen Gate of Yanmen Pass.

After seeing Ye Qing, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had not yet dissipated, directly asked bluntly: "Master Ye, why are you so defensive?"

"This middle gate is a place that is difficult to defend and easy to attack. If it were not difficult to defend, the first defender of the Tang Dynasty would not have built the iron-clad gate."

"How can the defense be so loose in such a place that benefits the enemy but not oneself?"

"The cannon you built, there is not even a single one here!"

Hearing this, Ye Qing confirmed his identity again.

He is really a veteran who has been a soldier of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he can really see something.

Facing this question, Ye Qing thought to himself, 'I am the first defender of the Tang Dynasty, I designed and built the Yanmen Pass and the gates, how could I not know that this place is difficult to defend and easy to attack? '

Thinking of this, Ye Qing just said calmly: "The deployment of troops is the responsibility of the general of the guard, what has it to do with me?"

"It's my job to catch the spies, and it's none of my business to deploy the defense."

As soon as the words fell, Ye Qing went upstairs alone.

Looking at Ye Qing's back, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very angry, but he really couldn't blame him for anything.

It's really none of his business!

"Master, look quickly."

Zhu Yuanzhang followed the direction of Mao Xiang's finger, only to find that there are many good things hidden in the tower.

There are neatly stacked bows and arrows everywhere, standard military knives neatly arranged everywhere, and armor stacked on shelves everywhere.

Zhu Yuanzhang is too familiar with these weapons and armor.

"Is it all made by Yanmen Arsenal?"

"The good things are hidden inside, but on the surface, they are all equipped with previous weapons and armor, and the defense is still loose?"

"This general in charge of defense, did it on purpose?"

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After Zhu Yuanzhang realized this, he immediately had a bottom line in his heart.

Not only that, he even wanted to get to know the general in charge of defense.

Because he knows that those who dare to deliberately hide their clumsiness and sell their flaws must be the ones who have left behind.

He wanted to know what kind of backhand this general had left?
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang went up to look for Ye Qing, only to find that Ye Qing had climbed to the roof of the city gate and was sitting on the roof beam.

This kind of thing of climbing the roof is definitely not something that women can do.

Empress Ma and Shen Wan'er came to the corridor on the third floor, blowing the night wind from beyond the Great Wall, and looked at the unique beauty of the starry sky.

And Zhu Yuanzhang, Mao Xiang and Wu Yong climbed onto the roof one after another.

Under the bright moonlight,
Zhu Yuanzhang and Ye Qing sat on the highest roof beam in the city, with their backs to the outside, facing the lights of thousands of families inside the city wall.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked down at the lights of the Wanjia, and forgot to ask the guard's name for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the phrase "the son of heaven guards the gate of the country, and the king dies in the country", but he already had feelings in this regard.

But at this moment,

Ye Qing suddenly asked: "Old Guo, how do you feel about seeing the night view of the two Border Trade Streets and the county town behind from here?"

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, when Ye Qing asked this question, it could be said that his whole temperament changed.

rigorous!

Very rigorous!
If you give him a set of armor, he will really feel like a "general in a lonely city"!

Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang also became more rigorous, and he seemed to have found the feeling of being in armor!

"It's beautiful, majestic, and magnificent. I really want to protect the lights of thousands of families that have been hard-won!"

When Ye Qing heard such an answer, he directly threw a wine bag in front of him: "It's very uneducated, but it's also very good. This is my good wine, please drink it."

After Zhu Yuanzhang took the wine bag, he just smiled in satisfaction, finally he felt that Ye Qing was not annoying anymore.

But before he started drinking, he was stunned by the scene in front of him! .
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