Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 171

Jingjiang King Zhu Shouqian died?
This was something Zhu Chu didn't expect.

"I haven't heard any news, and I haven't even met this eldest nephew, right?" Zhu Zhen himself was actually not sure whether he had ever met Zhu Shouqian.

In fact, when Zhu Chu was crowned king in the 24th year of Hongwu, Zhu Shouqian had already been called back from Yunnan by Zhu Yuanzhang and placed under house arrest.

Maybe he was present at that time?Or maybe not?
Who knows?

But there is one thing Zhu Ming knows very well, that is, Guangxi seems to have no vassal king to guard it now.

Zhu Shouqian used to be the vassal king of Guangxi, and his fiefdom was Jingjiang, King of Jingjiang.

And this Jingjiang was Guilin, which was later renamed in the fifth year of Hongwu.

Now that Zhu Shouqian is dead, even if one can be found among his descendants to inherit the throne, he must be young and probably still with Zhu Yuanzhang, the capital master, right?
After all, no matter how old Zhu Shouqian is, he is still Zhu Chu's nephew. How old can his child be?

As a result, I'm afraid there is also the danger of unrest in Guangxi?

"How many troops does Nong Zhenyou have?" Zhu Zhen asked after thinking about it.

"Your Highness, there are about 8 people, and it is said that there are tens of thousands of cavalry in the army," Mu Shenghui reported, but he didn't seem worried at all. Instead, he was very excited. Why?

"Tens of thousands of cavalry? This old boy is very powerful," Zhu Zhen was surprised.

So far, this may be the largest cavalry unit that Zhu Zhen has ever encountered. Even the hundreds of thousands of troops sent by Silun have the cavalry divided up and distributed according to the affiliation of each chieftain officer.

If tens of thousands of cavalry were to charge on the plains, even the bravery of the Ming army would be difficult to resist.

So Zhu Ming frowned and warned: "Don't leave the city easily to fight."

They originally brought several thousand cavalry with them this time, but in order to seize the [-]th village of Weimo Prefecture as soon as possible, they sent out many of them, so the cavalry in hand was not enough to fight the enemy head-on.

What's more, these Zhu Chu are treasures. Each of them is a veteran who is good at fighting. They have experienced the hardships of the battlefield and are loyal to Zhu Chu. He is reluctant to exchange them with others.

But seeing that the enemy is approaching, and not planning to leave the city to fight, can we only defend the city and wait for the enemy to attack?
In this way, Zhu Zhen did not rush to respond, but sat and waited in the Qiubei County government office until the evening when soldiers came to report.

"Your Highness, the enemy has arrived ten miles away from the city, and someone is calling for formation," the messenger said before retreating.

Zhu Ming was moved in his heart and shouted quickly: "Wait a minute, is that kid Mu Sheng in the city? Don't let him rush out of the city impulsively."

"Your Highness, who do you think I am, Mu Sheng?" Mu Sheng walked in from outside. It turned out that he had not gone to the city at all.

"Brother Wang Fu, too, acted like I was a fool and wouldn't let me guard the city," Mu Sheng complained continuously.

Zhu Zhen smiled, I'm afraid that you, a stupid young man, don't know the importance of giving up the advantage of the city wall but ran out to fight with the enemy. Isn't that taking advantage of your weaknesses and avoiding your strengths?
But Zhu Ming remembered at this time that Mu Ying had asked Mu Sheng to guard the city in the first place, and Mu Sheng did a good job.

It seems that Muying still knows his own son very well.

Zhu Ming nodded and said: "Okay, stop complaining, come with me to the city wall to take a look. By the way, where is my Aqiu?"

Listen, it's from my house.

Mu Qiu happened to come out from behind and said, "Your Highness, A Qiu is here. I just took advantage of my spare time to help you sort out the government accounts."

Zhu Ming glanced at Mu Qiu approvingly and said in a soft tone: "Don't look too busy now. The enemy has already arrived at the city. Let's go together and see how to kill these guys."

Since he dared to rebel, Zhu Zhen thought of the death penalty.

However, the enemy also has [-] troops, including [-] cavalry troops. This is a force with strong military quality and cannot be underestimated.

Zhu Ming knew very well that carelessness would lead to losses. Haven't you heard of carelessness and loss in Jingzhou?

So, surrounded by Mu Sheng, Mu Qiu and others, Zhu Zhen immediately rushed to the city gate and climbed onto the city wall from one side.

On the city wall, Wang Fu had already come here to preside over the city defense and other military affairs. When he saw Zhu Zhen coming in person, he hurriedly saluted.

But Zhu Ming said: "Don't bother so much. I want you to finish the ceremony after saluting. What's the situation now?"

Zhu Chu usually hated these tedious etiquette, but now he handled everything more simply.

Wang Fu stood aside in an obedient manner, making room so that Zhu Zhen could see the situation outside. At the same time, he said: "It seems that the enemy is planning to set up camp, and they are not in a hurry to attack the city immediately. Moreover, someone had shouted before, saying that on November [-] The leader of the village must leave the city immediately and surrender, otherwise he will use wolf soldiers to break into the city and massacre the people in the city."

Oh, this old boy actually used threats to open the city gate just like Zhu Zhen did yesterday.

It's a pity that what Nong Zhenyou didn't know was that Zhu Chu had already used this trick, and now it was not the leader of the Eleven Village who was defending the city, but Zhu Chu and his Ming army.

"Wait a minute," Zhu Ming suddenly thought. This Nong Zhenyou's intelligence is not up to standard. Did he not even know that he had annihilated the leader of the Eleventh Village?
"This seems to be a place that can be exploited," Zhu Zhen's mind changed quickly and he murmured: "Even I have heard that the Guangxi wolf soldiers are tough and fearless of life and death. If possible, I don't want to fight with them in the wild with a huge disparity in strength. They are fighting under such circumstances. Is it possible to trick them into surrounding them and kill them?"

In the Ming Dynasty, Guangxi's wolf soldiers were known as the most powerful in the world.

This is because Guangxi is located in the southwest frontier and has a harsh environment. In addition, it was mostly a place of exile in ancient times, which resulted in Guangxi's folk customs being fierce.

At the same time, Guangxi is also where the Zhuang people have gathered for generations, and because the ancestors of the Zhuang people were called Li people in the Ming Dynasty, they were called wolf soldiers.

Especially in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates repeatedly invaded coastal provinces, and the local military strength was weak and unable to resist them.

So the imperial court sent Mrs. Wa, a female leader of the Zhuang tribe, to lead six thousand wolf soldiers to support them, and even defeated the evil Japanese pirates in one fell swoop.

It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan guarded Ningyuan with [-] wolf soldiers, which was enough to scare Nurhachi's [-] elite soldiers from invading. They could only look at the city and sigh.

Of course, the main firepower in the Battle of Ningyuan was actually the red cannon. It is also said that Nurhaci was killed by the red cannon.

This shows the bravery of the Guangxi wolf soldiers.

Zhu Ming definitely didn't want to fight directly, and he was not stupid. He was facing an army of [-] people, and he only had [-] in hand. Why did he go out?

What he has to consider now is whether he can lure the enemy in.

"It should be difficult. Nong Zhenyou is very ambitious at first glance. He wants to engulf the land and military strength of the [-]th village of the Yi people, so he wants the leader of the [-]th village to surrender in order to control the strength of the [-]th village." Wang Fu shook his head and felt It's hard to do.

"It depends on people. Let's give it a try. He wants eleven village masters, so we will give them eleven village masters. Find eleven people in the city who are trustworthy and look more like the village masters," Zhu Mingzhuan said. The head ordered to go down.

Wang Fu was dumbfounded. Weren't the eleven village leaders killed by you?Where else.

and many more.

"Your Highness, are you trying to get eleven fake village owners?" Wang Fu finally understood.

Zhu Ming said proudly: "It seems that the Guangnan chief does not know that we have occupied this place, so give him eleven village leaders to surrender to him. If he believes it is true and dares to enter the city carelessly, then we will be there Ambush on both sides of the city gate and destroy them in one fell swoop."

After all, the city gate is not as open as the plain outside. Even if Nong Zhenyou has [-] troops, he cannot rush in at one go. His own troops will even block the cavalry behind them, causing them to lose their strength advantage.

What's more important is that, through mental calculation and unintentional calculation, if the ambush troops can really block the entrance in front of the city gate, they can even take advantage of the geographical advantage, which has the effect of one man blocking the way and ten thousand others unable to open it.

Moreover, when the time comes, the defenders on the city wall can also attack the enemy troops under the city gate outside the city. When the time comes, the enemy will be caught off guard and will suffer huge losses in panic.

By that time, Nong Zhenyou will no longer pose any threat.

But the premise of all this is that Nong Zhenyou has to be fooled, and he has to enter the city and ambush him accidentally.

So Zhu Chu asked people to go to the city to find eleven burly local men, dress them up a little, and let them wear some slightly better clothes, so they looked decent.

"Anyway, even if Nong Zhenyou wasn't fooled, we wouldn't have much to lose," Zhu Zhen said proudly.

At most, these eleven people died.So this is definitely a very feasible plan.

"But Your Highness," Wang Fu raised another objection: "These people cannot be trusted. If they reveal our plan to Nong Zhenyou, Nong Zhenyou should not use his tricks to break through our defense and occupy the city gate. Once this happens , [-] troops and [-] cavalry charge, we can’t stop them.”

"Then gather the people in the city, tell them the current situation, and let them make their own decision whether to surrender to Nong Zhenyou or follow me. I will give them the opportunity to choose," Zhu Zhen said suddenly.

Wang Fu was stunned, Your Highness, what kind of cool operation is this?

It turned out that Zhu Zhen was serious.

The soldiers who were guarding the city were left to keep an eye on the enemy's movements. After Zhu Chu came down from the city wall, he actually started to gather the people in the city who were supposed to be making dinner to the central area of ​​the city.

Many people looked confused and didn't know what was happening.

There were also people who looked frightened, thinking that Zhu Zhen was planning to settle accounts in the future.

There were also a small number of people who heard the news that enemy troops were attacking outside the city, and they didn't know what they thought.

Zhu Chu gathered people together, and there were tens of thousands of them. Even if there was not one person in the city, it was almost the same.

There are at least 12 villages in Weimo Prefecture, and together with Qiubei County, a total of [-] strong men can be gathered. I am afraid that the ordinary people combined, have a total population of hundreds of thousands to one million.

Zhu Chu took out a loudspeaker, not afraid that the enemy ten miles outside the city could hear it. Under Mu Qiu's translation, he briefly explained the current situation.

"The chieftain of Guangnan, Nong Zhenyou, heard the news about the uprising in the Eleventh Village of the Qin people. Now he is planning to reap the benefits. He just wants to take advantage of you, and he also plans to take advantage of you. Either kill or incorporate.”

"Why bother? You've been living a hard life to begin with, and you've gone through several wars, but you still don't want people to live?"

"But I care about the people, and I am not afraid to tell you the truth. There is a huge disparity in strength between my troops and the enemy. We cannot defeat them. We can only trick them into entering the city and then kill them all."

"But this requires the cooperation of your locals. After all, it wouldn't be like sending my people to pretend to be your village masters."

"I also know that your family, your men or sons were killed by me. It is reasonable for you to resent me. So I will not force you, it is meaningless."

"I have only one sentence. If you follow me sincerely, I will allocate land to you. I will no longer set up chieftains to oppress you, and let you have enough food and clothing to live a truly human life."

"You can also abandon me and follow the other group of wolves outside the city. But when they enter the city, they will not take care of you like me, and they will also give you food and land. By then, you will only become You have worked hard all your life for another group of people’s serfs and livestock, but you have only let them eat the ditches and the trenches.”

"So I called you all here and told you the current situation. I just want you to make a choice. Follow me, put aside your past grudges, and live a good life under my leadership."

"It is better to take the opportunity to take revenge on me, take refuge in Nong Zhenyou, and try to use his power to avenge me. You choose."

"Don't worry, even if you choose Nong Zhenyou, I will not go on a killing spree. I will also take the initiative to give up this city and let you give your home to Nong Zhenyou as a gift package."

All the people in the city were silent and looked at Zhu Zhen in even greater disbelief.

He actually said that he would withdraw from the city and give up the advantage of the city wall so that the people in the city could take credit for their work and join Nong Zhenyou?
Isn't he too kind?
After hearing this, Mu Sheng hurriedly approached Zhu Chu and whispered: "Your Highness, who said we are not opponents?"

"Shut up," Zhu Zhen glared at the stunned young man angrily, and said angrily: "The lives of each of your soldiers are gold to me, no, they are more valuable than gold. When we fought It was a helpless move when Silun made the announcement. Now I will not use 2 people to fight against 8 people. I am not a fool."

"Then there's no need to evacuate the city," Wang Fu said with some disapproval.

"If you don't withdraw, are you waiting to be besieged to death? Wang Fu, have you become stupid? If you withdraw from the city, you can go back and set up defenses in Maitreya, and then contact Muchun in Kunming to ask him to send more troops. And we still have thousands more The cavalry has gone to other eleven villages, and when they come back, we will have 3 soldiers and horses. By then, as long as Mu Chun sends a force of 6 people, I will dare to give Nong Zhenyou a fight with [-] people."

"As for now, it's not a bad idea to let him be proud first. Don't be too reckless all the time. You can be reckless when you need to be, and you have to be smart when you need to use strategies. A man is a man who can bend and stretch."

Zhu Chu taught the two generals around him.

It turns out that Zhu Chu has his own plan. He just doesn't have enough troops now, so what's the harm if he can give in now?
When the cavalry from the Eleventh Village returned, he would have another [-] troops.

Then he wrote to Muchun, waiting for Muchun to come for reinforcements. Even if he could only gather [-] troops, with the bravery of the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhen was not afraid to fight with [-] wolf soldiers.

The wolf soldiers are brave, but the Ming army is not bad either.

In fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was extremely powerful in combat, and more than once defeated a large number with a huge disparity in strength. Even the Mongolian cavalry was chased to the ground.

The Battle of Yuerhai happened a few years ago. Lan Yu not only smashed Bei Yuanting to pieces and sealed the wolf in Xu Mountain, but even captured the Princess of Bei Yuan.

Then something like that happened.

Lan Yu is really seeking death. Originally he was the Duke of Liang, but in the end he became the Duke of Liang. If he doesn't, who will?

Is that what you can do with Princess Beiyuan?

It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang had any thoughts about Princess Beiyuan, it was Lan Yu who went too far. He had not yet made him a Duke, yet he dared to do that kind of thing to Princess Beiyuan. Even his own emperor didn't take it seriously. In.

Of course, it's not the time to talk about Lan Yu yet.

Although the Ming army was powerful in combat, Zhu Ming was reluctant to waste their lives. Each of these soldiers was Zhu Ming's most precious asset.

Even if we don’t mention the Madonna’s words about the preciousness of life, we also don’t mention the equality of life.

If Zhu Chun had wiped out all the troops in his hands, do you think Zhu Yuanzhang would raise another troop for him from the Central Plains?
I'm afraid if Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't called him to Huitian on the spot, Zhu Zhen would really be the commander-in-chief by then.

So Zhu Zhen had his own plan.

As the saying goes, different positions lead to different ways of thinking about things. Zhu Min has a very high starting point, so now he is looking at the overall situation and is not only considering whether he can defeat Nong Zhenyou in the immediate battle, but also considering the longer term. The problem.

Including these Yi people, this is a population of several hundred thousand, with great development prospects.

Of course, you can get a lot of force value by killing them all, but the question is, who will farm the land here?These populations will also become tax resources in the future. Although resources cannot strengthen military force, they are still indispensable.

Therefore, after the Battle of Dingbian, Zhu Zhen focused more on appeasing and winning the hearts of the people. He no longer mentioned "a betrayal will last forever", and he had the idea of ​​​​killing all betrayers.

Wang Fu and Mu Sheng showed thoughtful expressions and no longer raised any objections.

As for the people in front of them, after Mu Qiu translated Zhu Chu's meaning, after the initial shock and disbelief, they fell into a long silence and thinking.

They were indeed still resenting Zhu Ming, who had 12 sons and daughters, but in the end only 1 people came back alive, leaving more than [-] families in grief.

What a bloody feud this is.

However, after Zhu Ming led his army into the city, he has been restraining his headquarters and has always done nothing to the people.

In fact, since ancient times, the victor has had the power of life and death to dominate the defeated party, and will take the loser as his trophy, not to mention burning, killing, looting, and even slaughtering the city.

What's more, the two sides are not the same nation, so even if they are racist, it is not a bad idea.

Even among the various chieftains, they themselves were often in opposition, and they did the same thing, and they often plundered the Han people.

To be honest, the Han people actually have a blood feud with other surrounding ethnic groups.

Not to mention that they were the ones who rebelled first this time.

However, after Zhu Chu entered the city, he did not harm the people. He even promised to open warehouses to release grain, re-measure the land and redistribute it, and no longer set up chieftains.

Everything gives the people hope, and everything is the life they long for.

After a long time, some people finally shouted: "We are willing to follow His Highness."

(End of this chapter)