Ming Dynasty Strategy Notes [Transmigration Book]

After this episode, the army pulled out of camp and went south, embarking on the journey of returning to the imperial court.After the beginning of spring, the marching speed increased day by day. At the end of March, 5 people entered the Yanshan area and came to the territory of King Yan.

In the afternoon of a certain day, the army received a battle report that there were suspected traces of Yuan soldiers near the Xifeng Pass.

Xifeng Pass is one of the 32 important passes first built by General Xu Da in the Yanshan Mountains in the early years of Hongwu. It is an important part of Jizhen on the Ming Great Wall.Standing in the valley of the Luan River, with high mountains facing each other on the left and right, the terrain is very dangerous and has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

This battle report came very strangely.This place is far away from Mobei, so how could there be traces of Yuan soldiers?Bei Yuan is now fragmented, who else has the ability to lead troops to Xifeng Pass to intercept the Ming army?

Although this was a seemingly absurd battle report, Sapphire, who had always been cautious, did not dare to be sloppy. After getting the news, she immediately stopped moving forward and called a group of senior generals to discuss the matter.

As soon as King Yan opened his mouth, he brought a piece of bad news——

"This king led the northern army to go out. Due to the shortage of troops, we mobilized 500 soldiers from Xifeng Pass at that time. Now there should be less than [-] defenders staying at Xifeng Pass."

"Less than 500 people?" Lan Yu frowned when she heard this.

The architectural structure of Xifeng Pass is very unique. There are three gates, and the three gates are connected by solid brick walls.There are hollow enemy towers at the six contact points of the city wall, and the west city wall is connected with the main body of the Great Wall.

This ingenious design is a structure that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.However, due to the complex structure, at least a thousand people need to be deployed.Just as King Yan said that there are less than [-] defenders, the three checkpoints and the city towers can only be defended by less than a hundred people, and the troops are sparse. capture.

Moreover, Xifeng Pass is the only place to go south to return to Beijing. If the enemy captures Xifeng Pass and properly deploys defenses, even though our army has [-] people, they are like turtles in a urn.The Yuan army didn't know that Tianbaonu was dead. If they wanted to rescue the captured prince, this place would be a good place.

At such an important checkpoint, Yan Wang actually transferred 5000 people, which is simply embarrassing.

It's just... Who else in Beiyuan has such a scheme, thinking of setting up an ambush here?

After Lan Yu asked this question, Zhu Chun quickly replied: "I think of one person, the servant of the second son of Tuogusi Timur. If he joins forces with the Mobei tribes, chooses the shortest way to go south, captures Xifeng Pass first, and lays an ambush here, is it possible?"

Now among the Mongolian tribes in Mobei, no matter how small they are, there are tens of thousands of people under Ye Sudie'er alone.If the Dibao slaves unite ten thousand people, it will be easy to take down the Xifeng Pass guarded by 500 people.

Zhu Chun's words immediately got Mu Sheng's approval.In this way, in terms of time, Di Baonu and Xia Ziling and others quickly went south after saying goodbye, and just arrived at Xifeng Pass; While severely beating the Ming army, he waited for an opportunity to rescue Tianbaonu and Nuya.

After such an analysis, a piece of information that seems to be speculative and extremely absurd seems to have some credibility.

In fact, before Zhu Chun mentioned Dibaonu, Xia Ziling thought of this person.The reason why he didn't say it was because he thought of one thing——

Lanyu's crime is "illegal entry". Xia Ziling always felt that this crime was very strange.According to the history books, Lan Yu was extremely arrogant. When Yu Yuerhai defeated the class teacher, he went to a certain pass, and the guard sergeant opened the door late. Lan Yu was furious, and ordered his men to kill people to break through the pass.

It seems inappropriate to describe this behavior as "extremely arrogant" to kill one's own people and break through one's own barriers. In Xia Ziling's view, this is clearly a brain flood.It's a pity that Xia Ziling is not good at studying history, so he doesn't quite remember the name of the gate that Lan Yu broke through.Hearing the battle report just now, he was worried that the pass that Lan Yu broke through was the "Xifeng Pass"?But the source of this worry cannot be said to be known to Zhu Chun and others.

Reminiscent of this being King Yan's territory, Xia Ziling glanced sideways at King Yan Zhu Di who was sitting in the upper seat with a kind smile on his face.The future Emperor Yongle is definitely a conspirator full of bad things. There were some rumors about Lan Yu during the march. Xia Ziling always felt that Zhu Di was behind the instigation, but there was no evidence.

But this matter of Xifeng, Xia Ziling really had to think about King Yan.Just as Xia Ziling was thinking this way, King Yan spoke up——

"General, I am familiar with the terrain around Xifeng Pass, why don't I take 1000 people forward to find out first?"

Xia Ziling was a little surprised that Zhu Di took the initiative to invite Ying, and couldn't figure out what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.He went like this, no matter if there is indeed a Yuan soldier, or if it is groundless, the responsibility is his own, and he can't frame Lan Yu?

So, does this matter have nothing to do with the King of Yan? Is it because I judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain?

King Yan is indeed familiar with this place, and since he is willing to take the initiative to take on this responsibility, Lan Yu is naturally happy to hear it.Immediately said: "1000 people are too few, the prince will take [-] elite soldiers to go, and report back immediately after finding out what's going on. Don't take risks without authorization."

"Yes." After Zhu Di took the order, he immediately took his generals Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, and five thousand soldiers under him and set off for Xifeng Pass.

The army was originally scheduled to be on standby, waiting for news from King Yan.I don't want to wait and see, until it gets dark, and King Yan still doesn't come back.

Sapphire was a little anxious at this time. Emperor Hongwu entrusted the two princes to him during this trip. It would be fine to say that he suffered a little injury on the battlefield without blinking his sword. What a mistake, I am afraid that no matter how great his contribution to destroying the Yuan court is, it will not be able to offset the crime of failing to protect the prince.Even... Those who are interested can charge him with intentionally killing the prince.

Lan Yuzheng couldn't sit still, but Zhang Yu brought even worse news——

Zhang Yu led 500 people back to report, and the king of Yan led the army to Xifeng pass. He showed the letter, and the guards of Xifeng pass immediately opened the door to welcome Yan Wang in.King Yan led most of his troops into the pass, and asked him to lead his team back to meet the Lanyu army.

Zhang Yu was concerned about the news that there were Yuan soldiers at Xifeng Pass before, and led his team to circle around for a while, seeing nothing unusual, and when he was about to return to report to Lanyu, he heard the sound of soldiers fighting inside the pass, and shouted at the pass However, there was no reply for a long time in the pass.

When Sapphire heard it, was it okay?If Yuan soldiers pretended to be soldiers of the Ming army, pretended to welcome King Yan in, and then acted, King Yan might have died by now.

Lan Yu immediately issued a military order: "The army quickly follow me to Xifeng Pass!"

Arriving at the Xifeng Pass, Lan Yu asked someone to ask about the door, but she hadn't seen the sergeant answer for a long time, her face was already grim.After a while, a shy soldier came out, took the ultimatum and entered, but it took an incense stick of time to come back.

The battle report of the army's triumphant return has been rushed to the Holy Front, and Emperor Hongwu has also announced the good news of the victory to the world.The guards at Xifeng Pass don't know why, if they deliberately obstruct, there must be dark ghosts.

Zhang Yu was so anxious that he repeatedly suggested to Lan Yu to break through.Xia Ziling was a little worried, and hurried to Zhu Chun's side, saying, "My lord, I'm a little worried."

"Oh, what are you worried about?" Zhu Chun looked at Xia Ziling strangely. When Lanyu called the generals to discuss matters in the afternoon, he found that Xia Ziling was very preoccupied.

"I'm worried that someone will deliberately frame the general and force him to break through." Since there is no evidence, he did not dare to say that he was worried that King Yan planned to frame Lan Yu.This worry stems from how he told Zhu Chun about the historical facts hundreds of years later.

"Even if the general forcibly breaks through the barrier, it's not a big fault. At most, the father and emperor will blame him, but if something happens to the fourth brother, who would dare to take the responsibility?"

What Zhu Chun said made sense, and Xia Ziling couldn't refute it at all.Yes, if he hadn't read history books, he would have the same opinion as Zhu Chun if he only analyzed the situation at this moment.However, Sapphire's major crimes are the accumulation of these little things. These small things will eventually become deadly butcher knives.

The bad thing is that there are only three generals on this trip, Lan Yu, Zhu Di, and Zhu Chun. Tang Shengzong and Guo Ying have already returned to the court ahead of schedule. The crime of "breaking through the barrier" cannot be established.The situation is different now, if Zhu Di had set up this plan, he would definitely shirk it without knowing it, Zhu Chun and Lan Yu are related by marriage, but it is inconvenient to say anything.

But even if Zhu Di deliberately framed him, Xia Ziling didn't dare to dissuade him, just because of the one-in-a-million chance.If Zhu Di was really framed by the Yuan army, Lanyu would be a death penalty if he stood by and did not save him. Some people would even explain that the king of Shu joined forces with Lanyu to trap the king of Yan to death and mutilate his brothers.

Such a crime is so serious that no one can bear it.So... If this is really a trap, the person who came up with this plan is quite clever, knowing that there are doubts, but he has no choice but to dig into it.

"Knock the pass!" Facing the pitch-black pass, Sapphire finally gave the military order.

The soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion rushed to the closed gate and launched four or five siege vehicles. The sound of "bang bang" hitting the gate was very clear in the dark night.However, there was still no movement in Xifeng Pass. With such a loud noise, it is supposed that our soldiers were there, so they should have boarded the tower to stop it.

"Fire the arrows!" Sapphire ordered in a deep voice upon seeing this.

A burst of arrows went down, but there was still no movement on the tower. Could it be that there was really no one in Xifeng Pass?

Such an undefended gate was actually very easy to break through. After a while, the closed gate was hit by a siege engine. With a "squeak", the leading sergeant pushed away the damaged first closed gate.