Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 1 Hongwu 27 Years
"Dang...dang...dang..."

In the early morning, as the morning bells rang in the ancient city walls, a huge city lying on the south bank of the Yangtze River slowly emerged after the mist on the river dissipated.

When a high wall tamped with yellow-brown soil appeared on the bank of the Yangtze River, a yellow-brown city wall with no visible edges followed.

Like a Great Wall, it appeared in front of the sailors on the fishing boats passing by on the Yangtze River.

The main body of the city wall is made up of hills and earth. Bluestone city bricks can only be seen at the city gates and other areas. It looks extremely simple and incomparable with the majestic city walls built with blue bricks in movies and TV series.

But if it could be seen from the air, this simple city wall might be hailed as one of the wonders of the world in this era.

When the sun rises from the east, the water mist is completely dispersed, and the flags with the word "朙" fluttering in the wind on the city tower are finally displayed in front of this era, covering the entire land like the rising sun.

In this era, there was only one city that could be built on such a scale and existed on the south bank of the Yangtze River... and that was Yingtianfu Nanjing City.

Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty was the seat of Yingtianfu, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the capital of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

As the largest capital city in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty, its scale is so large that no other city in history can match it.

At the same time, it was also the largest and most populous city in the world at this time.

"clang……"

When the morning bell ends, people living in the city have already gotten up and started working, or they have gone to their fields to cultivate.

However, before they set off, the cathedral in the south of Nanjing City was already filled with soldiers wearing armor.

They stood in the cathedral, with hundreds of people in teams. Each one wore an iron helmet, a red fat jacket underneath, a bright set of armor on the outside, a waist knife and a long bow tied around his waist. Zhang, with a bow bag, in which there are two bow strings and thirty arrows.

In addition, everyone carries a regiment card on their backs, holds a three-foot-long spear in their hands, is covered in armor and weapons, and carries a load of no less than sixty kilograms. There are more than [-] such people. They are like a steel Great Wall, standing here like this. On top of the cathedral.

The reason why everyone is here is very simple. They only serve the one sitting on the school platform...

Among the soldiers, a young boy of fifteen or sixteen years old wearing heavy armor raised his head and looked up at the one sitting on the school platform.

The man was over sixty years old, with a round face, a white beard, and kind eyebrows. It was obvious that he was very majestic in his youth.

He is five feet five six inches tall. He wears a black gauze turban with folded corners upwards, a yellow robe with a coiled collar and narrow sleeves, and a belt around his waist made of gold, jade, amber, and rhinoceros. He is extremely luxurious.

On his left side, there was an upright young man wearing a red robe with a coiled collar and narrow sleeves, thick eyebrows, big eyes and a handsome face.

On his right side, there was a young military general in his thirties, more than six feet tall, handsome in face, and dashing, wearing heavy armor and robes.

From the left and right, there are many military attaches wearing heavy armor and robes, followed by some civilian officials wearing official uniforms.

Further outside, there are the Spanish soldiers wearing heavy armor but with short stature and dark skin.

The sixty-year-old man sitting in the middle is Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and now is the day he has set to test the martial arts of the children of military attachés in and outside Beijing.

March 27th, the [-]th year of Hongwu...

For this day, some people have practiced their skills for several months and are excitedly waiting for them to shine. Others have been drinking and drinking all day long for the past few months and are now sweating nervously.

The young man is very good. He is not one of the two, but is gifted.

"Your Highness, are you afraid?"

"I'm afraid of a ball head!"

One person asked in a low voice, and the young man who was looking at Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously yelled back. When he realized something was wrong, he looked up and sure enough, the superior Zhu Yuanzhang had already looked towards them.

Not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also the people around him also looked over. For a while, the young man became the most eye-catching person in the entire teaching hall.

"Damn it..." Looking at the people on the stage who were looking at him, the young man felt that he was suffering more than having eaten gall.

"That's the second son of the fourth family, right? Sure enough, nature is hard to change..."

On the stage, Zhu Yuanzhang looked unhappy, while the young general next to him bowed and explained to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Majesty, this boy has done a lot of good deeds since he joined the army. I think he was a little happy to see Your Majesty today, which led to his debauchery."

"Hmm..." Zhu Yuanzhang responded, then looked at the square formation where Zhu Gaoxu was, and couldn't help but frown.

In his eyes, this thousand-man phalanx filled with many military attachés' children was full of flaws. If he were young, he would only need a hundred-man spear team to defeat this group of military attachés' children.

"Wei Guogong, let's start..." Zhu Yuanzhang signaled the young generals to start, and the young generals responded quickly when they saw this: "I accept your order!" After agreeing, he turned around and walked to the school platform, and motioned to the people next to him with his eyes. The commanders of the four guards, and then the commanders of the four guards, raised red flags in their hands and called on the armies to disperse with flag language while waving their hands.

Soon, more than [-] of the most elite heavy-armored elites in the cathedral dispersed and retreated to the edge of the cathedral, leaving only an empty venue and the thousand-person crowd. The son of a military attache.

Later, the thousands of military attachés' children were divided into ten teams and dispersed. Each team had a hundred people, each standing in the position determined by the team during training.

However, many people could not tell which team they were in during the process, so that the order of the teams was messy, and Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he saw it on the high platform.

What took the elite four guards a few minutes to disperse, took twice as long to get to the military attache's children.

When everyone finally stabilized their position, more than a hundred strong warriors on the high platform shouted the content of this assessment in unison.

In the audience, the young man took a deep breath and looked around at the stumbling military attachés. The secret joy in his heart almost overflowed from his face.

"Today is the first day that I, Zhu Gaoxu, change my appearance!"

Looking at the people around him, Zhu Gaoxu excitedly grasped the gun barrel in his hand, even the more than [-] kilograms of armor on his body no longer seemed heavy.

Since he adapted to this body three months ago, he has known that he has arrived in the 27th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and that his identity is still a future prince.

This identity made Zhu Gaoxu grin from ear to ear with joy, but when he learned in the memory of his predecessor that his father was the famous Yan King Zhu Di, his mood fell to the bottom.

Based on the memory of his previous life, if nothing unexpected happens, he will be canonized as the Prince of Gaoyang by his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang a year later, and then be left in Nanjing to continue his studies.

In a few years, his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang will pass away, and his "eldest brother" Zhu Yunwen will start to reduce the vassal status a few months after his grandfather's death.

King Zhu Zhu of Zhou, King Zhu Bai of Xiang, King Zhu Su of Qi, King Zhu Gui of Dai, King Zhu Ming of Min...

In less than a year, a quarter of his nineteen uncles who were still alive were killed at once, and his father was forced to pretend to be crazy and act like a fool, and was finally forced to surrender.

As for me, although I was lucky enough to run away and return to Peiping, I was led by my father on the road to rebellion, and staged a world-class performance called the "Battle of Jingnan" on this land.

Later, when the fight for the heirloom failed, one of his subordinates was killed, and he was imprisoned by his eldest nephew after the death of his father and good brother.

Afterwards, he tripped over his eldest nephew, who then made him the "Xuande Barbeque" that was one of the three specialties of the Xuande period.

"Straight bitch..." Thinking of his fate, Zhu Gaoxu cursed secretly.

He looked up at Zhu Yunwen, the "duty man" with thick eyebrows and big eyes on the high platform, and wished he could tell Zhu Yuanzhang what Zhu Yunwen did next.

However, judging from the memories left by his previous life, if he dared to slander the emperor's grandson like this, he would probably be imprisoned under the Fengyang High Wall.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu took a few deep breaths and recalled what he had done in the past three months.

He first moved out of the place where the kings studied noisily, and then shamelessly pestered his uncle Xu Huizu into the military camp, where he practiced hard for three months.

Until today, as the son of a feudal lord, he was hanging out with a group of military attachés, and there was only one thing he had to do.

He wanted to show his grandfather that he had changed his appearance and that he wanted to defend the country and defend the border, so that he could send him back to the north in advance.

Zhu Gaoxu recalled the life of his predecessor in history. Except for Qiu Fu, a veteran general who was in trouble, and Tartar officials, who were naturalized from northern Mongolia, there seemed to be few literati who chose to support him, so that it was impossible for his father to choose him.

If he lives in Nanjing as he did in history, he will only be able to participate in the Jingnan War alone five years later. Even if he performs as well as his predecessor in history, he will be nothing more than a pioneer official.

But if he can get the opportunity to leave the town, then he can join his father as an original stock.

There seems to be no difference between the two, but the difference is the difference between Zhu Gaoxu, king of Han, and Li Shimin, king of Qin.

Without his own team, the end result left to him is to become the three major characteristics of the Xuande period.

With his own team, even if he can't sit on that chair in the end, he can still retreat to his place and save his own life.

With the thoughts in his mind put into practice, Zhu Gaoxu tightened his grip on the Zhangsan spear in his hand. While making up his mind, he also cast his gaze on the scattered open space...

　New book is open. From today on, I will not watch dramas, travel, or get sick.

　　I won't play games or social groups
　　I will burst into code, life and death are like this

　　I am the keyboard in the dark, the guard on the Great Wall of Internet literature

　　Against the cold flames, the dawn light

　　I dedicate my life and glory to code words, tonight and every night
　　
　
(End of this chapter)