Everyone was holding umbrellas, but their boots and the hems of their robes were inevitably wet from the rain, and the brick floor at the entrance to Fengtianmen was damp.
Many people came this morning, including civil officials and military generals. The most surprising thing is that the official positions vary greatly, there are dukes, ministers, and seventh-rank officials like Geng Tong... However, if you pay a little attention, you will find that many people with high official positions are not here, and the people present have little to do with the level of their official positions.
These people are the trusted civil and military officials selected by the Hongxi court.
The Minister of War Jin Zhong took a quick look and could roughly understand that there were probably four types of people among them.
The first group was the trusted advisers of the old Yan Wang Mansion, including Jin Zhong, Yuan Gong, and Lu Zhen; including Yao Guangxiao who did n
In the middle of the twelfth month, it was already the twelfth day since the Han army set out from Chengdu, and the army entered the territory of Chongqing Prefecture. It was said that they would reach Chongqing Prefecture City by the evening of the next day.Tonight the army camped near a market called "Bashang", and the central military headquarters was set up inside the market.It is difficult for it to snow in Chongqing in winter, but it is extremely damp and cold. The fog sometimes does not disappear completely all day long, and the air is always foggy.As usual, Miaojin was wearing a dark gray coarse preaching robe and a curtain hat on her head. She followed the army on horseback and was gathering at the "Bashang" on the hillside.However, most of the sergeants did not have horses, so they walked more than 600 miles. They walked neither too fast nor too slowly, with neat steps. Most of them inhaled through their noses and swallowed through their
In the evening of the next day, Zhu Gaoxu's 23 infantry and cavalry guards, totaling about 120,000 people, arrived at Chongqing City.However, the army did not enter the city, but camped between the villages in the southwest; this was because the Han army would not stay in Chongqing for too long, and the river ferry was in the southwest.The city is like a peninsula, located at the confluence of two rivers, surrounded by water on three sides, and surrounded by the Dajiang River and the Jialing River. Zhu Gaoxu ordered the governors and guards to set up camp, and he led his men into the city to meet the vanguard Qu Neng. Qu Neng came out of the city to greet them and led Zhu Gaoxu and others to the vicinity of the East Water Gate.Qu Neng's vanguard army had more than 60,000 troops, almost twice the number of Mu Sheng's troops stationed in Chengdu.Although Mu Sheng's troops were responsible for guarding the rich western Sichuan plain and managing the d
Yunnan Provincial Administration. In the southern part of Mengzi County, Lin'an Prefecture, the road stretched along the hillside. Looking back, people could not see towering mountains, but extremely wide and long gentle slopes undulating between heaven and earth. The surroundings were barren, with only weeds and gravel in sight. Except for the endless military food carts, there was no sign of human habitation.Suddenly, a loud shout came from the hillside, "Enemy cavalry is attacking!"There was an uproar in the convoy. On the top of the hill in the distance to the west, a group of people on horseback really came over the hill and appeared in people's sight. The sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded, and the horse teams rushed straight towards them!"Prepare for battle!" the government army generals shouted hoarsely.On the long snake-like road, the soldiers following the grain carts shouted in unison to boost their morale!"Rumble, rumble, rum
The setting sun gradually fell towards the west mountain, and Kunming City alternated between light and darkness, with the rich color of light covering the ancient city walls. Large smog still filled the air, and the sound of cannons could still be heard sporadically, but the attacking troops had gradually withdrawn to the distance and returned to the siege works.Today, Kunming City's defenses were no longer in danger, so Sheng Yong left the city wall. He walked to the Duanli Gate of the Han Palace, patted the dust off his body, took off his helmet and held it in his arms, and walked into the gatehouse.The huge Han Palace seemed empty. The Han family and palace maids had already left, so it was probably time to go to Dali City.According to the original strategic deployment, once the enemy captured the Qujing Military and Civilian Mansion, the Han Palace, the Mu Palace and the families of the generals and soldiers would retreat to Dali Prefecture... Later,
In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu's reign, Bozhou's Xuanwei Division, which originally belonged to Guizhou Dusi, was changed to Sichuan's Chief Envoy Division.Now after Zhu Gaoxu occupied Sichuan, he ordered the Chief Envoy to send a decree to the Bozhou Xuanwei Division, but it had no effect for a while. It was not until Zhu Gaoxu's army of more than 100,000 troops arrived that the Bozhou Xuanwei Division was attacked by the forward. military occupation.Today is the last day of the fifth year of Yongle, which is the New Year's Eve, but the Han army is still marching. Zhu Gaoxu's central army will arrive at a small post station in the south in the afternoon before setting up camp.The mountains on both sides of the avenue are very large. Zhu Gaoxu estimated that it would take at least a whole day to walk from the mountain on the east to the top of the mountain on the west!Although Bozhou is in the south of Sichuan, the weather is even colder. The
Whenever Zhu Gaoxu felt nervous, he seemed to return to nature, naturally possessing the food and sex instincts that all living animals have.But tonight he didn't get his wish. There was only one meat dish on the table, which was said to be a local dish called smoked bamboo shoots stewed with meat. The hard bamboo shoots were smoked with herbs and dried and preserved. When eaten, they were soaked in water and then stewed with bacon... The taste was hard to describe, very strange, like a mixture of various smelly things, completely not to Zhu Gaoxu's taste.Night had just fallen. Listening to the crackling sounds of bamboo poles, the blasts of muskets, and the noise of soldiers outside, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Miao Jin's graceful figure and her full and round curves swaying in the light.In his mind, a very urgent and evil scene emerged. And in his memory, the night of New Year's Eve, in the flash of fireworks, beautiful pictures like slides appeared in front of
On the second day of the first lunar month in the sixth year of Yongle, the icy rain had not stopped and the roads were muddy.Zhu Gaoxu ordered the governor Liu Ying to lead the left and right patrols and the vanguard, a total of three armies, to leave the baggage behind and move on.After the advance army arrived at Guizhou City, Liu Ying would leave left and right patrols under the command of the deputy general to set up camp in Guizhou City first; while Liu Ying himself would lead the remaining vanguard troops and continue to march towards the Huguang Road.Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait for the rain to stop. The Ming Dynasty was too vast, and the weather in each province was likely to be different. It was raining in Bozhou, but it might be sunny over there.If Wu Gao’s army approaches Guizhou first, all previous strategies will have to be scrapped and we will have to think of new plans!...At that time, the strength of the three armies of the Han a
Unexpectedly, this early spring icy rain lasted for seven or eight days. It came and went, but the mud on the road never dried up.Originally, the Han army estimated that it would take six or seven days to complete the rest of the journey and reach Guizhou City; but until the eighth day of the first lunar month, Liu Ying's troops were still nearly a hundred miles away from Guizhou.That afternoon, the army requisitioned a village and set up camp around it. All the houses and eaves in the village were packed with people, but only a small number of people could stay. Everyone was covered in mud and exhausted, and built straw huts and tarpaulin tents in the camp, but they finally stopped.After inspecting the camps of various troops, although Liu Ying could see that the soldiers were tired, he believed that the morale of the Han army was still good and that the brothers could continue to endure for a while if they did not encounter any enemy attacks.It w