Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

Ming Dynasty, the first year of Jianwen, July.

[The common people of Yan occupied Beiping, and the emperor appointed Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, as the general of the northern expedition, leading 130,000 troops to attack.]

The latest issue of the report arrived at Prince Yan’s Mansion.

Zhu Di had left Peking for several days.

Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui finally set out with the army.

Zhu Gaochi was still left behind to guard the city.

The common people in Beiping City did not react too much to the change of ownership of Beiping City. As Zhang Xin and the two princesses were still moving around outside normally, everyone continued to do what they were supposed to do.

The only difference is that there are more voices discussing state affairs on the streets.

"This new emperor is so unkind. Our King Yan is so good."

"Shut up! It's the people around the new emperor who are incompetent. They instigated the eldest nephew to attack the uncles! They are not human! My family said that they have forced one of my uncles to death."

"You've heard about it too! My maternal family is from the Xiang Wang family. Everyone in the entire palace was burned to death. It was so tragic."

"Seventy or eighty vassal kings are all ruined!"

"... Stop talking nonsense, where did seventy or eighty of them come from?"

"Doesn't the emperor have three thousand concubines? He must have seven or eight hundred children!"

"The old emperor is just like us. He was born into a common family and is very frugal!"

"Brother, I am from the capital. Can you tell me about it?"

"Yes, I heard that the old emperor often ate cabbage and tofu. A meal was no more than three dishes and one soup."

"Oh, isn't that the same as our King Yan?"

"Hey, did the prince really go to your house for dinner?"

"Really!!! I didn't dare to say it then, for fear that the capital would replace us with a bad prince. But now it's okay. The prince is eight feet tall and has a waist of eight feet. He is so majestic. He can finish a plate of tofu in three bites."

"Tsk! Do you think the prince is a cube?"

"Hehehe, I made this up. I hope our prince can win. OK, let's go back and burn some incense."

"Let's go to the temple together, Lingguang. Drive away all the bad guys around the little emperor, so that he won't go astray."

"It would be better for our prince to become the emperor directly!"

"That's not something you can talk about—"

"I know, I know."

Zhang Xin and Zhu Gaochi sat in a box on the second floor, listening to the discussions below and just smiling at each other.

Zhang Xin knew the result and was not worried.

Zhu Gaochi could guess the result and was not worried either.

The two of them ate and drank, and while others were out fighting, they actually felt a little bit of peace and tranquility.

Zhang Xin felt a little sorry for her father-in-law, so she suggested:

"Shall we go burn some incense too?"

"It's useless to do that. It's better to go home and have a grandson."

Zhu Gaochi smiled evilly. Zhu Zhanji was already two years old, it was time to have a second child.

It would be a beautiful thought to have a little girl like Zhang Xin.

"...You are really so sure about Dad."

Zhang Xin felt that Zhu Gaochi in this life was much more optimistic than in his previous life.

At this time in the previous life, the atmosphere in Prince Yan's Mansion was quite tense.

She had some suspicion that in her previous life, the Geng, Li and Xu families might not have openly discussed this matter with the Prince of Yan's Mansion.

That's why Zhu Gaochi was much more nervous because he was unsure.

"How can we not be sure? The one sent by the Geng family is the old man, one of the twenty-eight founding marquises. He was a subordinate of my grandfather. According to this theory, my father is the old man's eldest nephew and calls the old man uncle. If my father learned this theory from my grandfather when he fought, then my father calls the old man his senior brother. Old man Geng will definitely lose beautifully."

Zhu Gaochi raised his eyebrows and counted them out to Zhang Xin.

Ever since the Geng, Li and Xu families came knocking on the door, and finally Guo Ying showed up.

His father was almost certain to win.

If this fails, it means that their family is not destined to succeed. Everyone will be killed together, and after 18 years, there will be a group of heroes again.

Zhang Xin was silent.

Now we have money, food, the support of the people, and the morale of the army is extremely united.

What remains is the exhibition match among the four military forces.

Let's see who acts more realistically.

At the end of July, General Geng, who was expected by Zhu Yunwen to be the first to appear, did just as Zhu Gaochi had said.

Fought some particularly beautiful defeats.

The vanguard commander of the first battle was Yang Song. The battle took place near Zhending where Zhu Di's army was camped. There were 9,000 cavalrymen and the tactic was sneak attack.

At the end of the battle, eight thousand lively war horses fell into the enemy camp.

Well, what Zhu Di’s team lacked most was indeed horses.

This thing is not like food, which anyone can grow. It is also not like money, which can be circulated and become more and more.

Even if Prince Ning gave a part of it privately, the proportion of this cavalry in the army was still too small.

General Geng's act of sending the horse was quite a quick and easy one.

And, it’s just the first step.

Immediately afterwards, Governor Pan Zhong came to support, and both he and Commander-in-Chief Yang Song were captured.

There were only ten commanders and deputy commanders in the Five Military Commanderies, and they were captured just like that.

Zhu Di then struck while the iron was hot and took more than a hundred cavalrymen as the advance force to Ouzhou. However, before he could even open the city, the people there surrendered.

A first-rank governor and a commander-in-chief, with 40,000 soldiers under their command, all surrendered to Zhu Di's hundred or so men.

Finally, the most beautiful battle came on stage.

After the Yan army rested for eight days, Zhu Di led his army to Zhending, where Geng's army was stationed. The legendary Hutuo River is very famous.

Everyone deployed their troops and formed their battle array. Zhu Di's subordinate Zhu Neng first led twenty cavalrymen to charge into the battle array, and then Zhu Di also led the cavalrymen to follow.

The imperial court has an army of 130,000 strong!!

Although a lot of lives were lost before, the total number of people was definitely more than that of Zhu Di's side.

Zhu Di and Zhu Neng both joined the enemy camp, but a strong wind blew and the final result was that 90,000 Southern Army soldiers were missing or killed, and 20,000 war horses were lost.

With the addition of the 40,000 who surrendered earlier, the total army of 130,000 completed the feat of giving away lives.

[Gua Shuo: This is not a complete fabrication. There has never been an exact record of how many people Zhu Di brought with him when he set out from Beiping. Some say it was hundreds of thousands, while others say it was tens of thousands. But later on, he actually had an army of hundreds of thousands.

Old man Geng was very powerful. In the first battle, he sent more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of horses to Zhu Di.

If you are interested, you can check it out. In the Ming Dynasty's war reports, the number of casualties and prisoners were usually recorded. However, during the Jingnan period, many reports stated that the number of missing persons was recorded. 】