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Chapter 3 Chaos (Part 2)

"Oh, yes, yes" the crisp sound of horse hooves shattered the jingling. At the city gate, a knight with a tiger-backed and wolf-waisted waist rushed over, not Zhang Zhengxin. The horse was circling, and Zhang Zhengxin reported the fist on it and whispered: "Master, the prince, please come to the Central Army to discuss matters quickly. The situation is urgent. I will go back and report my life first." After speaking, he rode away.

They looked at each other and laughed, everything was silent. Wu Anguo flew on his horse and did not say goodbye to Liu Ling. He thunder and four hooves disappeared at the city gate like a black lightning.

"What an urgent matter? I didn't beat the drums and gathered the generals, but instead sent someone to send orders." Liu Ling suppressed his doubts and turned over his white horse and slowly walked into the city. Although he was a princess, he was only a martial arts instructor in the medical camp in the army. He was not qualified to attend when the generals were discussing matters. Although she talked to the prince several times, the prince was much more rigid than his brother and refused to let go. It seemed that he had to think of other ways, and Liu Ling thought unconvincedly.

When he arrived at the Central Army, a guard soldier had already come to meet him and helped Wu Anguo take his horse to the stable for maintenance. A personal soldier made a gesture of invitation and said nothing, leading Wu Anguo to the back hall. Wu Anguo looked around with confusion, and the busy figures of the officers who were usually coming and going in the yard disappeared. As the entire prince of the Central Army, the headquarters was silent, and only a group of warriors in the Northern Army guard camp were inspected.

When he walked into the back hall, the prince and the King of Yan had been waiting inside for a long time. Tang He was dressed in casual clothes, obviously also came in a hurry, shaking his gray head and sighing. Cao Zhen's face was solemn, Chang Mao was furious, and Xu Zengshou stood up and down, wishing to tear the person in front of him. On the ground in the middle, a civil servant was curled up and down under the glare of everyone, trembling as he kept calling for justice. Next to him, there was an eleven or two-year-old child, who was spreading his big eyes, looking up and down at Wu'anguo.

"I have met the prince, King Yan, King Shu," Wu'anguo bowed his fists and saluted. He knew that little guy, Zhu Yuanzhang's eleventh son, Zhu Chun. When he was in the capital last year, he was pestered by this little guy for several days and talked about his heroic deeds of defeating the Mongolian cavalry, making him as big as his head every day. If you look closely, you will be familiar with the one on the ground. It was Chen Ning, the imperial envoy who was teased by Chang Mao in public outside the hall last year.

When the prince Zhu Biao saw that the core generals had arrived, he sighed and told the whole story. On the morning when Wu'anguo and others left the city to see the scenery, the imperial envoy Chen Ning and Shu King Zhu Chun came to read the imperial edict, and praised the navy and the Zhenbei Army. The generals each rewarded silver and a few more annual salary. The prince received the imperial edict and sent someone to send Chen Ning down to rest. He said that his father wanted the King of Shu to come to increase his knowledge and brought Zhu Chun to the back hall to talk about his brotherly friendship. Unexpectedly, when there was no one, Zhu Chun said that he had passed the secret edict of his father and tore out a copy of the edict from his belt, which said that Prime Minister Hu Weiyong colluded with ministers to rebel, and the Zhenbei Army quickly returned to the army to quell the rebellion. When the prince saw the edict, he sent people to take Chen Ning down, and while recruiting the core generals to discuss the matter.

Before the prince finished speaking, Wu Anguo's mind was blank with a bang. He had been in Beijing last year, carefully planning, and doing his best to regain Liaodong, in order to divert the court's goal and focus on external and not internal strife. Who knew that such efforts were due to the delay of the internal strife, and the disasters that should come in history were inevitable. In the past ten years, countless dukes and marquis were involved and died in a bad life.

.The civil and military officials and their families were involved, and more than 70,000 people were involved. In the end, even the ministers who maintained the country's operation could not be collected, so they had to be temporarily recruited. The person who was recruited actually had to buy a coffin and said goodbye to his family before taking office. How cute is such a country? The demise of the country two hundred years later had already been planted at this time. (In history, the Hu Weiyong case occurred in the early thirteenth year of Hongwu. The case was delayed by more than half a year because of the emergence of Wu'anguo in this book)

"Your Highness, my uncle is wronged. Although I have a good relationship with Nas, the minister of Hu, I don't know anything about his rebellion." Chen Ning saw that everyone was silent for a moment, so he found an opportunity to shout for justice. The law of the Ming Dynasty, the clan of those involved in the rebellion was executed. Although he was not in harmony with the generals, he now didn't care whether he was embarrassed. He looked at everyone, and his eyes were full of begging.

"Go to your grandma," Chang Mao kicked Chen Ning and rolled the ground. "If you don't rebel early, if you don't rebel late, you're really good at picking the time." While cursing, he rushed forward and made a move to fight again. Cao Zhen next to him quickly pulled him away. Everyone had just returned to the city and was about to change clothes to see the prince and offer Wu'an Guo's plan to destroy Goryeo. When he heard that the prince was ordering, he came in a hurry. He didn't expect that it was the case and was shocked. Seeing that victory was right in front of him, he had to return to the capital, and he was angry.

"Eight years of hard work is ruined, eight years of hard work..." Xu Zengshou couldn't help but sigh. His father was in the Northern Expedition, and the Goryeo people were betrayed and cut off food and grass in the back. Xu Da had never suffered such a big defeat in his life. After returning to Beijing, he was sick for half a year. Since then, Xu Zengshou has vowed to avenge his father and must see Goryeo's defeat in his lifetime. Now he has finally fought to the bank of the Yalu River, but he is ordered to stop. It is conceivable that his anxiety is imaginable.

Tang He's expression became more and more serious. This time, I don't know how many people he would have to kill. He had been fighting for his whole life. Could it be that the butcher knife would have to be cut off at his companions in the end?

Zhu Biao felt sad when he heard Xu Zengshou's sigh. But his father had something to do, so he could not help him. He ordered people to bring a few chairs to the generals and arranged for everyone to sit around the table in the middle of the back hall, lay a map on the table, and discuss with everyone how to defend Liao and how to return to the army.

"Your Highness, don't worry, the old minister is willing to stay and guard Liaodong. The Goryeo people have no warships. As long as they leave 10,000 troops and a few warships, even if the old minister is not talented, it will definitely prevent the Goryeo people from entering Liaodong." Tang He was the first to speak. In the battle of Liaodong, the cavalry that Goryeo had trained hard in Liaodong for many years was almost destroyed by the Zhenbei Army. The Goryeo's land is mountainous and does not produce good horses, so this time Li Chenggui brought almost all infantry. Without firearms, the infantry gathered together and used it as a target for artillery and spread it, and there was no impact, so 10,000 soldiers were left and there was more than enough defense.

Wu Anguo looked at Tang He and knew that the old general was unwilling to go back to Beijing to kill each other, so he wanted to leave behind the ground for defending the territory. He couldn't help but remember what Xu Da said before going to the fortress. Although Xu Da disagreed with the emperor's opinion, he still led his troops to fight in order to retain strength for the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the two, the level of the two was judged. On the other hand, the military generals in this era were dependent on the emperor themselves. Even Xu Da did not have the ability to stop Zhu Yuanzhang from killing indiscriminately, let alone military advice.

While I was thinking about it, I heard the prince sigh and say, "I am naturally relieved to defend the Liao Dynasty. But my father sent the King of Shu here to hide it from the treacherous party. Now we are back thousands of miles away. Even if we keep rushing day and night, and bringing all the horses along the way, it will take more than 20 days to arrive in the capital. The treacherous party knows that we will definitely move in advance when we come back, for fear that there will be changes in the capital by then."

When Wu Anguo heard Zhu Biao's concerns, he thought that Zhu Yuanzhang sent a child to mobilize troops in order to hide from Hu Weiyong. He was not careful. Since he was careful, he should have thought that the Zhenbei Army would leak the news after returning thousands of miles. "Is it possible that he has other means? With Lao Zhu's character, he will never take risks with his own life. Besides, the Hu Weiyong case itself is half the possibility of unjust cases in history. It is not clear whether the rebellion will be made in the future. It is better to bet a bet." Thinking of this, Wu Anguo stood up and said, "Your Highness, don't worry first. You might as well ask me a few questions to Lord Chen before making a decision."

Zhu Biao nodded and asked the warrior to come forward and drag Chen Ning up and throw it to Wu'anguo's seat. Wu'anguo asked someone to loosen the tie for Chen Ning first, then move a stool for him, and then ordered someone to pour him a cup of tea to calm down. Chen Ning thanked him, tremblingly took the tea cup, and half of the tea cup was poured into his mouth and half spilled on his body. Seeing that he was cowardly, Chang Mao couldn't help but snorted again, scaring Chen Ning's hand trembled and almost threw the tea cup to the ground. Seeing this, Zhu Di comforted him kindly: "If Lord Chen is really wronged, the prince and I will return to Beijing, and I will naturally argue with your father. You should answer a few questions from General Wu first and make a contribution, how about it?"

When Chen Ning heard this, he knelt down on the ground with a thud and shouted, "Thank you, Your Highness, to save my family, Chen should repay you with a weed." After that, he staggered and made a thud. Wu Anguo hurriedly helped him up, and saw that blood was already visible on his forehead, and his voice became more and more pity: "Mr. Chen, I don't know that when you left the capital, Lord Li Wenzhong, who was in charge of the imperial guards, was in good health."

"Return to the Marquis, Lord Li is in good health. He went to the suburbs with the emperor a month ago to shoot deer." Chen Ning replied with great care.

When everyone heard Wu Anguo ask about Li Wenzhong, they didn't know what he was selling in the gourd, so they held their breath and listened carefully.

"Do you know how far the new army trained by Lord Hou Muying of Xiping?"

"Marty Mu's new army equipment has not arrived yet, and is now stationed in Caishi. I heard that Ma'anshan outside the capital has not been able to produce good steel like Huairou. The equipment of the new army still has to be transported from Peking, which is very slow." Chen Ning said everything.

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up. Wu Anguo asked about the health of several ministers in the court again, and told people to place Chen Ning in another room to rest and not to treat him slowly. He turned his eyes to everyone.

Mu Ying was responsible for the defense of the southwest. At present, Yunnan was still in the hands of the Mongolians, so when Zhu Yuanzhang formulated an army dressing plan last year, Mu Ying's army was placed at the forefront, which was more preferred than the imperial guards. For the sake of transportation convenience, he specially ordered Mu Ying to draw more than 30,000 elite troops from the southwest to station near the capital, and the equipment was shipped from Tianjin, and the waterway went straight to the camp, and a batch of equipment came, and the equipment was trained while the equipment was trained.

Mu Ying is Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son, so he naturally will not assist outsiders in treason. These 30,000 troops are the elite among the elite and can be transferred to the capital at any time. It is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang had issued a secret order to Mu Ying long ago, and was waiting for the right time.

Li Wenzhong has always been in a quarrel with Hu Weiyong, so Hu Weiyong and his gang cannot control the imperial guards at all. If they really want to start in the capital, the emperor will probably have a greater chance of winning. When Zhu Biao thought of this, he breathed a sigh of relief together.

"Thirty fame, dust and soil, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon, don't wait for the young man to be idle, and be sad!" Cao Zhen sighed and thought to himself. He knew that there was nothing big in the capital, and he was very dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang. "What a wise and magical martial arts, a bullshit. When he encounters threatening his throne, he will ignore anything and delay the great warfare. Now, the combined total of nearly 80,000 troops of the Zhenbei Army and the navy are nearly 80,000, and such good equipment is enough to capture the entire territory of Goryeo. The King of Goryeo (now Kaicheng) is only one day away from the sea. If someone is sent to wear the suits of Goryeo soldiers, he will be able to capture all the civil and military officials of Goryeo in one battle. At that time, he can sign the contract as much as he wants. How many brothers can die? This time, he missed the opportunity and abandoned the capital. He doesn't know how many years it will take to fight."

The Zhu brothers blushed and also appreciated the depression in the poem Cao Zhen read, so they couldn't say much. They quickly spread the topic and wanted to assign tasks.

Wu Anguo stopped Zhu Biao and suggested, "Actually, I have a plan to not alarm the Hu Party or to break through Goryeo. I wonder if the prince agrees to our army's adventure."

"Look, please speak quickly." Everyone heard that they could not waste the fighter planes, so they all stood up. Xu Zengshou, Chang Mao and others wanted to hold Wu'anguo to their heads and worship him. They hated Goryeo for not only one or two days, but they cared more about fighter planes than Cao Zhen.

Wu Anguo pulled open his chair and pointed his finger at the map. He drew a circle in Anton and said, "Since the sea, there are still fifty or sixty merchant ships every day. Some of them transported us luggage, and some of them bought goods and spoils. If we send one or two warships and caravans to accompany us in the name of escort, it should not arouse Li Chenggui's suspicion."

"You mean, we set up an air camp and learn from the Qin Dynasty's plan to fight Pang Xuan in the tent of Meng Ao Kong," Zhu Di interrupted.

"It's not all, we can't use cavalry and artillery to fight back, so we let the cavalry and infantry abandon their horses, requisition or rent merchant ships to return to Beijing secretly from the water, and give Prime Minister Hu a sudden attack. The imperial edict said that the Zhenbei army would enter Beijing to fight back, rather than all the troops, that is, His Majesty originally wanted the navy to continue to deal with the Goryeo people. Since Marquis Mu and General Li were both in Beijing, Long Sui's intention was to use the momentum rather than the force, and to use our reputation for fighting for the few imperial guards who support Prime Minister Hu to avoid moving around, so as to avoid the need to use the war in the city. In this way, the soldiers we returned were not too strong, and more than ten thousand were enough. Once we arrived on the river, we would immediately send someone to send a letter to the palace. Long Sui would definitely transfer Mu Ying back. The two sides joined forces, and no one in the entire capital would dare to make trouble."

Wu'anguo used a pencil made in Peking to draw the marching route and drew a big fork on the capital. Seeing that everyone understood the meaning of his words, he continued: "Fifteen days are enough from Andong to the capital. The gods were not aware of the ghosts along the way. Long live the safety of the gods, so don't worry. Let's look here again." He pointed to the capital of Goryeo. "According to Mr. Zhu Er, the princes and ministers of Goryeo all lived here. The Zhenbei Army seized a lot of Goryeo baggage in Liaoyang. He found a group of people and disguised them as Goryeo. He checked from the port closest to the capital, blocked Xiaoxi, and arrested all the people close by. He arrived at Songcheng without knowing it. He tricked him away or used artillery to open the city gate, arrested the King of Goryeo and the powerful ministers, and signed a sword alliance with them."

"Most of the warships on Anton's side are there, and Goryeo can't cross the river. Even if we catch leaks from other places and keep the artillery and cavalry, we can almost deal with it. Although this division plan is risky, it is very likely to succeed."

Before everyone could finish Wu Anguo's words, they realized it. The soldiers of Goryeo were all on the other side of the river, and their defenses were extremely empty. There were so many merchant ships on the water every day, enough to transport more than 10,000 soldiers to land. After capturing Goryeo King, Li Chenggui was in a similar situation to Jiang Wei back then. The house swept away the melancholy just now, and immediately became lively, and everyone asked for a fight.

"I will take the navy and marines to search for the Goryeo lair," Cao Zhen asked the prince for his order. Compared to returning to Beijing to kill each other, it is obviously more attractive to deal with the Goryeo people.

"General Cao, don't rob it. We have not all the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army returned to the capital yet. I, Lao Chang, will definitely seek justice for the brothers who died in the past." Chang Mao pushed Cao Zhen and looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di pretended not to see it, let everyone be quiet first, and then asked Wu Anguo: "General Wu, do you think my father is really in danger."

"Wu is willing to guarantee his life," Wu Anguo agreed and said to himself: "I don't know whether this rebellion is true or not. How could Zhu Yuanzhang have any trouble? Besides, the power comes from the gun, why should Hu Weiyong be a civil servant?"

"The old minister also believes that the emperor will not be in trouble. For safety, try not to disturb the local guards. Prime Minister Hu has been selecting materials for the country for many years, and there will inevitably be one or two best friends. As long as His Highness returns to Beijing in time, the rebellion can be eliminated before it occurs." Tang He also stepped forward to guarantee.

Zhu Biao nodded. Wu Anguo said it very reasonably. With Mu Ying and Li Wenzhong here, the situation in the capital was at least controlled by his father. So the suddenness of returning to the army was the most critical. He looked at Zhu Di, and the two nodded to each other, made up their minds and made personnel arrangements.

Wu Anguo looked at the busy people and felt confused. When he went back, he didn't know how much blood was on his hands. The powerful combat power of Zhenbei Army and his unparalleled "invention" would eventually become a tool to maintain imperial power. In this era, do he really have no choice? At this moment, it was obvious that he was unwilling to participate in the internal struggle of the court. Xu Zengshou and Tang He fought for the errand to stay in Liaodong. Cao Zhen and Chang Mao led the elite troops of Zhenbei Army and the Navy and Marine Corps to attack Kaicheng. The only one who went back to Zhu Yuanzhang's murder knife was the only one who was the son. Is this trust lucky or unfortunate? He smiled bitterly. Seeing everyone's escape mentality, a famous saying could not help but sound in his heart:

“At first they were chasing the communists, I was not a communist, and I didn’t speak;

Then they chased the Jews, I was not a Jew, and I didn't speak;

After that, they chased and killed union members. I was not a union member and I continued not to speak;

Later they chased and killed Catholics. I was not a Catholic, so I still didn’t speak;

Finally, they came for me and no one stood up and talked to me again.”

"Wait, everyone, Wu wants to ask for something about you," Wu Anguo shouted loudly to everyone, his eyes swept across Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Chun, Chang Mao, Tang He, Cao Zhen, and Xu Zengshou.
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