Chapter 55                                                             �

Zhu Qizhen didn't know Wu Shilian's thoughts.

I don't care if I know.

Because the entire 25 years of Zhengtong have been soaked in water.

He even sent cabinet Grand Secretary Wang Yonghe and more than a dozen Hanlin bachelors to go out to see the disaster. In addition, all activities were temporarily stopped.

The war with Annan all evolved a long confrontation between the two sides between Zhennan Pass and Lang Son.

What makes people sigh is that veteran Mao Sheng is gone. Veteran Meng Ying has not been recuperating at home for many days and died of illness last year.

Zhu Qizhen mourned the emperor and posthumously named the prince of the county. He was the prince of Zhending.

This year, the Meng family's success began with the battle at Zhending City.

The old minister Wang Ji was no longer there, which also made Zhu Qizhen sigh.

The veteran general, Cao Yi, died of illness in North Korea from the past year, but Mao Sheng died of illness in Guangxi. Ren Li, a veteran who has been guarding Gansu, is now old and I heard that his body is not very good.

Zhu Qizhen must prepare the candidates to guard the northwest from the entrainment.

However, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, martial arts has trained a large number of qualified generals. Although many people are among the intermediate officers, there are still few who have emerged.

But as time goes by, generals from martial arts will definitely occupy half of the Ming army.

Zhu Qizhen was not worried about being in a state of disagreement.

Now Zhu Qizhen asked Wang Yue to temporarily take over the position of General Envoy Nan and be responsible for the war against Annan. However, he did not order another attack.

However, Zhu Qizhen was also planning to conquer the south.

Zhu Qizhen is ready to transfer Guo Deng back to the capital.

Zhu Qizhen asked Guo Deng to guard Daning for a long time, so it was because the Mongols seemed to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, but they should not ask in detail.

Zhu Qizhen naturally had to send the most reassuring general to guard it.

Another reason that cannot be said is to prevent Shi Heng.

Shi Heng is a heroic person in Longcheng, and I am the only one who is the only one.

They almost no longer took the imperial court seriously. The herdsmen in Mobei were not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and they only surrendered to the strong.

In their eyes, Shi Heng, who could defeat Yesen, was a strong man.

Naturally willing to follow.

Shi Heng has already tended to be big. Shi Heng has not only the five guards of Longcheng, but also the troops stationed in the Beijing camp, plus the Mongolian tribes, if all the Mongols are summoned to join the army.

A hundred thousand troops may not be missing?

With Shi Heng's ability, a 100,000 army may not be able to threaten Beijing.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen sent generals to guard the city in Daning.

Of course, even though Shi Heng was very good, there were quite a few people among Shi Heng's subordinates who were looking for the court. After all, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he had not lost many virtues, and he defeated Wasai, which made the soldiers below respect and fear. Therefore, Shi Heng was a little domineering, maybe it was okay, but he really had the intention of being unjust. It was probably not that Shi Heng had received countless information before he moved.

Not to mention anything else, Zhu Yi, who guards Longcheng, is definitely unable to rebel from Shi Heng.

However, Zhu Qizhen also knew that Shi Heng had a few days left.

Because from Beijing to Zunhua, from Zunhua to Xifengkou, from Daning, from Daning to Korqin grassland, bypassing the vast sea, and then from the east to the chaotic road of Longcheng. Although it is thousands of miles away, it is almost completed.

Once completed, a large amount of materials were transported from Beijing to Longcheng, only a dozen days later. At that time, the imperial court's control over Longcheng was incomparable to today.

This road is extremely difficult to build.

The original plan was to cross the vast sea and spread a way out from the vast sea. After all, the so-called vast sea is more a Gobi desert than a desert.

So don't worry, the road is covered by yellow sand.

However, although there are some water sources in the Gobi Desert, it is still difficult to supply a large amount of water for people and animals. In addition, people are sent to run the station and they also need to prepare horses for transfers.

These are all problems.

That is to say, cross the vast ocean.

It may not be possible, but there are many problems to be solved.

If the imperial court wants to build it as soon as possible, it will instead go from Daning to the northeast, cross the Korqin Grassland, and merge with the Haixi and Songhua River, which are operated in the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, to form a water and land line and then the west transportation line.

This is the opinion of Kuai Xiang’s attendant.

Zhu Qizhen adopted it.

Calculate the time, it may not be completed this year, but it will be almost done next year.

Once this traffic line is opened.

Not only is Longcheng far away, but also under the control of the Ming Dynasty, it will also be of great help to the construction of the Northeast Plain.

Zhu Qizhen could even imagine that the first batch of cities on the Northeast Plain must have been built on this road.

Then, even if Shi Heng is arrogant, what can he do?

Can he resist the authority of the court, but can he resist the food and supplies of the court?

It is precisely because of this optimistic judgment that the Daning is connected to the Beijing Chidao that it only takes three or five days for the Beijing Pioneer to go from Beijing to Daning.

In addition, the city of Daning has been repaired, which can be said to be a majestic city on the frontier.

It's not something that can be broken every day.

In addition, Zhu Qizhen also carefully read the information and details of the previous battle. Annan's firearms were so skillful, numerous, and abundant, and they were almost not under the national dynasty. Unless Zhu Qizhen's artillery camp was sent to the south, it would be impossible to suppress Annan's firepower.

In addition to Annan's military and civilian spirit, Zhu Qizhen also asked Yang Hong. The answer given by Yang Hong was that if Annan wanted to surrender, it would be fine now.

After this battle, Annan decided not to look down on the court.

If we want to destroy Annan, we must have 600,000 troops. Among them, the number of troops in Beijing is at least 200,000.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen wants to shelve the Battle of Annan.

Let’s talk about the generals first. Among the generals in the court, the generals who can lead 600,000 troops to reassure Zhu Qizhen are nothing more than Shi Heng, Guo Deng, and Yang Hong.

Now that Shi Heng is domineering, he naturally cannot make new contributions. Yang Hong is in charge of the center and cannot be separated easily, only Guo Deng can be used.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen is not enough for 200,000 Beijing camps.

Zhu Qizhen has been slowly restoring the number of Beijing camps, and now there are 400,000. However, not all of these 400,000 are stationed in the capital. There are 10,000 or 20,000 in North Korea, 10,000 in Kaiping, each of Daning and Kaiping, 50,000 in Longcheng, and 50,000 in Guangxi. It would be nice to have 300,000 in the capital.

If 200,000 Beijing camps were mobilized to fight south, the capital would be empty.

Zhu Qizhen knew very clearly that the threat to Zhu Qizhen was always close. In other places, Zhu Qizhen could put it aside, but Zhu Qizhen sent Jinyiwei and Dongchang to control every grass and tree in the capital.

It can be said that Zhu Qizhen is the biggest local snake in Beijing.

It's hard to hide anything from him.

The protection of the Beijing Camp was also the reason why Zhu Qizhen was relieved of the capital, so Zhu Qizhen was unwilling to send all the Beijing Camp out.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen prepared to draw troops from outside little by little, and then recruit some elite border troops to participate in this battle.

In this way, the speed of the troops dispatched was much slower.

In addition to the 200,000 Northern Army, it is best to use other troops locally.

Use local troops from Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

The recruitment and training of these armies takes time.

In this way, the action will be great, and preparation will not be ready for one or two years.

Zhu Qizhen left Wu Shilian alone. Although Zhu Qizhen was busy with disaster relief, more importantly, there was nothing to say about this matter. The monarch and minister of Annan were waiting for several years before fighting again.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't want the news to be made too early to let Annan's ministers know, so it would be best to drag it out.

In addition, if before this, Xuanda was the gate of the capital, and now Daning, Kaiping and Dongsheng are the courtyards of the capital.

There are many things to do.

It is not too easy for Guo Deng to hand over the matter.

Since the matter is not too anxious, at least it will happen next year, Zhu Qizhen gave Guo Deng some more time.

Guo Deng could not return to the capital before and after the beginning of winter.

Nothing else, before it snows in the north, it was winter for Beijing, and it was already snowing heavily in the north. On the grassland, there were few soldiers in winter.

Because there are too many non-combat reductions.

After heavy snow, there is only cat winter, and it can’t be done at any time. I can only wait and look forward to next spring.
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