Ming Dynasty Strategy Notes [Transmigration Book]

Zhu Chun specially chose a person who was sent to Beijing for help——Lan Yan.There are two reasons why Lan Yan made this trip: first, Lan Yan couldn't stay idle in the mansion, and wanted to disguise herself as a man to join the army. She has taken up the post of Lan Yan's nanny in the army; second, Lan Yan came to Beijing, so she can take care of several other things by the way.

Although he was not very satisfied with this less challenging task, after all Zhu Chun was not his father, Lan Yu, who pampered her and pampered her.Therefore, Lan Yan finally had to compromise, packed her luggage and rushed to Yingtian.

It will take at least two months for her to reach the capital. In fact, Xia Ziling and Zhu Chun originally thought of coming, and going to Beijing to ask for help was just a formality.Now the King of Shu has assembled 5 troops in Central Sichuan, including the royal guards. Besides, Zhu Chun is in command this time, so it shouldn't be a problem if he wants to take down the thousand-odd people.

Although Xia Ziling didn't have a close relationship with Zhao Xin, he felt that he had a submissive personality, and he was only following Zhang Jing's orders in everything, not just for generals.Presumably it was because of his constant resoluteness that he missed the opportunity of the battle, or he was caught in an ambush by some kind of people, so he ended up with the whole army wiped out.

Therefore, before arriving at Heiya Pass, not only the soldiers in the army, but even Xia Ziling and Zhu Chun felt that there was nothing to worry about in this battle. When they were thirty miles away from Heiya Pass, the inquiring soldiers ahead came to report——

"My lord, Heiya Pass... Heiya Pass is gone."

At that time, Zhu Chunzheng summoned Xia Ziling, Zhang Shou, and Tan Zhenggui, deputy commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Commander Division, and other Sichuan generals to discuss strategies to defend against the enemy in the big tent.

After hearing the sergeant's words, Zhu Chun was taken aback for a moment, and then asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean it's gone?"

"That's right... the entire Black Cliff Pass is gone, and only a pile of ruins remain."

The sergeant who came to report guessed that the shock he received was too strong, and his words were a little vague. It was difficult to ask what the result was after such a forceful question. Have you passed the Black Cliff Pass? But even if the city tower is burned down, the defensive city wall should still be there, right?"

"General, it must have been burned. There is only a large black ashes left at the Black Cliff Pass, but not only the towers, but even the city walls are gone, and there is no sign of any of our soldiers."

Tan Zhenggui frowned and asked: "A group of you went to investigate, why did you come back alone?"

"Huang Baihu saw that the situation was different, so he led people to investigate nearby. He had an extra mind and asked the little one to stay at a distance to wait for orders. If he didn't bring people back in half an hour, he would let the little one go back to the army to report. All the generals know. The little one has been waiting for nearly an hour, but Huang Baihu has not returned, so I hurried back to report."

Xia Ziling fell into deep thought when he heard the words. If it is true what the sergeant said, Heiyaguan has been burned down, and even the city walls are gone. Is it possible?Even if the city tower can be burned, how can the stone base be burned?Things like this don't feel like human effort.

Everyone was silent for a moment, but it was Zhu Chun who broke the deadlock: "It's getting late today, the army camped here first, and will march towards Heiyaguan tomorrow."

After receiving such weird battle reports, the soldiers in the army didn't know about it. After setting up the camp, they talked in twos and threes about annihilating the Fanren in one fell swoop after reaching Heiya Pass, and returned to camp early.However, several senior generals who knew about it were already preoccupied, and considering the annihilation of Xin Zhao's entire army before, this incident of alien invasion may not be as easy to deal with as imagined.

After nightfall, Xia Ziling sat quietly in Zhu Chun's tent, frowning, still thinking hard about the clues behind the battle report.

Speaking of why he lived in the Shu king's tent, Xia Ziling was still a little angry.On the grounds that Xia Ziling had no official position and was inconvenient to arrange tents, the king of Shu insisted on adding a bed to his tent and forced him to live in his tent.The anger in Xia Ziling's heart, who is it for that he has no official position?But Zhu Chun used this as an excuse to force himself to submit, which was completely unreasonable.

But during the march, it's meaningless to argue over such trivial matters. Anyway, it's not the first time he lived in Zhu Chun's tent, and this time the front line is not too far from Chengdu, so he should be able to go back soon. .

But... After today's battle report, Xia Ziling had to re-evaluate the enemy's strength.

At this moment, Zhu Chun asked, "What do you think of what the sergeant said today?"

Xia Ziling sighed, "I'm really at a loss this time. According to him, there are only two situations—one is that the sergeant was bought by the Fans, and the joint Fans framed other people in the team, and then returned to the army. The second is... this group of people know the magic of the sky."

"Then which one do you think is more likely?"

"This..." Although Xia Ziling was extremely unwilling to link the situation of the enemy on the battlefield with the strange power and chaos, but this time the situation was different from that in Mobei, and it was really difficult for him to explain, "I'm afraid the first possibility is unlikely. Tan The deputy commander has already investigated. The sergeant who reported just now is named Qian Wusi. His ancestral home is Chengdu. He has been in the army for many years. He has parents, wives and children at home. "

"Then...these people really know sorcery?"

"But I can't think of any sorcery that can have such great power." Xia Ziling thought for a while, and said: "My lord, no matter what the real situation ahead is, I think this incident of foreign invaders is very evil, you should go first." It’s better to go back to Chengdu and avoid it.”

Zhu Chun's eyes darkened, and he said: "You mean that this king hangs the banner of his own conquest, and now he wants to change the banner and flee back to the Chengdu palace, and hand over the 5 people to Zhang Shou or Tan Zhenggui?"

"..." Changing commanders in front of the battle is indeed easy to shake the morale of the army, but Xia Ziling's concern is Zhu Chun's safety, "My lord, you have a body of a thousand gold, so there must be no accidents. Let me stay in the army to help Tan Tan." Deputy Commander, that's enough."

Hearing this, Zhu Chun's face suddenly turned as cold as ice, and his tone became much harsher, "You mean, the situation is so dangerous that this king needs to leave you and hide in Chengdu alone?"

"My lord..." Although Zhu Chun seemed to care about him very much, which moved Xia Ziling's heart, but now is not the time to act emotionally, "I can't be compared with you, I'm just an insignificant grassroots."

Grassroots?Xia Ziling, do you know that you are a hundred times more important than anyone else in my heart.But Zhu Chun couldn't say that.

"Don't talk about this again! As a prince, how can I do something like escaping in front of the battle?" Zhu Chun turned sideways to hide his expression, and said, "Furthermore, if the Fanren broke through the Black Cliff Pass, After destroying the [-] troops, do you think I will be safe and sound when I return to Chengdu? I am afraid that before the imperial reinforcements arrive, these thousand or so people will enter Chengdu."

"..." What Zhu Chun said was true. Based on the travel time between the two sides, it would take at least two months for the imperial army to come to help. In these two months... Fans could go back and forth to Chengdu several times.

Xia Ziling sighed again, and said, "Okay, maybe the situation is not as bad as imagined. Since the prince has made up his mind, let's rest earlier, and we have to march tomorrow."

"Yeah." Zhu Chun glanced at Xia Ziling, but finally said nothing, turned around and lay down on the bed.

Xia Ziling didn't know, but in fact, he even had a slight expectation in his heart that he could die with Xia Ziling.Xia Ziling wanted him to live, but he wanted Xia Ziling to die with him. This kind of mood seemed very dirty.But... For this person who is close at hand but can't ask for it, deep down in his heart he feels that maybe the two of them just died on the battlefield of Heiyaguan, holding Xia Ziling in his arms and sleeping in the same hole , It can be regarded as a well-deserved death and fulfillment of one's wish.

On the second day, the army pulled out of camp, and the distance of thirty miles could be reached in one day if they marched hurriedly.But because the enemy was in the dark and we were in the light, Zhu Chun still issued a military order to march slowly, paying attention to all abnormalities along the way.Ten miles before the Black Cliff Pass, everything is still the same.It wasn't until the afternoon of the third day, when they reached the Black Cliff Pass, that the situation of the pass came into view, and everyone was really stunned.

As the sergeant said, Heiya Pass no longer exists.The cornerstones, walls, towers, and perhaps the soldiers who fought here are completely gone.In the entire place where the Black Cliff Pass is located, there is only a piece of black ashes left.

The ashes seem to be left after being burned by the fire, but it is not necessarily the case.If it is destroyed by a fire, there will always be some ruins left after the flames are extinguished.But at the current Black Cliff Pass, there is only a pile of black powder left.

And in front of the black ashes of the Black Cliff Pass, there stood a strangely dressed young man with a stern expression.

Seeing the arrival of the army, the young man shouted with his internal strength: "I heard that one of you who came this time is the king of Shu who is stationed in Shu? I want to see him!"

Tan Zhenggui rode his horse and stood by Zhu Chun's side. Hearing the young boy's outrageous words, he became furious and shouted: "Bold and unreasonable, who are you, and you deserve to see the King of Shu, Qiansui? Wait until I take your head off." , let you go underground to meet King Hades."

After Zhao Xin's death, Tan Zhenggui took himself as the commander of the Sichuan Metropolitan Commander, and he was really anxious to show his merits at this moment.In such a strange situation, he should have waited and watched the changes, but he was aggressive as soon as he spoke. It is also blamed that these Shu generals have lived comfortably in the middle of Sichuan for a long time.

After Tan Zhenggui finished speaking, before Zhu Chun issued the military order, he rushed out of the battle to kill the little boy.

The little boy just smiled "hehe", standing unarmed in front of the ruins, waiting for Tan Zhenggui to kill him.Seeing Tan Zhenggui sacrifice his sword, a dazzling silver light approached the young man's neck. Everyone thought that the young man was about to die, but they saw the young man lightly raised his right hand, and a black flame flashed out. Tan Zhenggui's right hand holds the broadsword.

In the blink of an eye, not only the broadsword, but also Tan Zhenggui's right hand turned into black powder.

That Deputy Commander Tan was arrogant and domineering just now, but now he has no combat power, clutching his empty sleeves, fell to the ground and wailed.

"This young man...is probably a survivor of ancient Shu." Xia Ziling whispered in Zhu Chun's ear after watching all the strange things.

Zhu Chun looked sideways and asked, "How do you know?"

"I seem to have seen his attire in an ancient book."