"Reasonable! Reasonable! Xiao Wenkui teaches his son well! Not only taught you to march and fight, but also taught you to talk to people like this, I thought that the generals in the world were all martial artists who only knew how to fight in battle formations and cut their mouths and beheaded geometrically, but I never thought that there were such generals. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhu Yijun's appreciation of Xiao Ruxun has reached a higher level.

Xiao Ruxun struck while the iron was hot: "My father often said that for the generals are not afraid of killing, and the war will not be immortal since ancient times, but for the generals, they should not kill innocent people, and they will kill more evil, and they will surely leave a disaster to future generations. ”

"Good!" Zhu Yijun put away his joking face and returned to a serious face: "If you can have such insight, then you are not a reckless man, I came to test you, if you guess the purpose of my call, not only will you be rewarded for this great achievement, but I will also give you another reward, Xiao Ruxun, guess, the purpose of my call." ”

Xiao Ruxun pondered the words, pursed her lips, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Your Majesty summoned the ministers, but for the sake of Japan and Korea?" ”

Zhu Yijun narrowed his eyes and said, "Why do you say that?" ”

"His Majesty sent the chamberlain to summon the minister, Zhang Neishou once said that His Majesty knew that the minister was in the northwest to destroy the enemy with firearms, so he wanted to summon the minister, and the minister thought that he was only the chief soldier, not an important member, even if he was summoned, he should be summoned together with Ye Gong and Mei Gong, why did His Majesty only summon the minister alone, or in such a late night, so thinking about it, the minister remembered the rumors he heard on the way from Ningxia to Beijing."

Xiao Ruxun said slowly.

"What rumors?"

Zhu Yijun immediately asked.

"North Korea and Japan are plotting against the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yijun's eyes flashed, leaned forward slightly, and then leaned back, and asked in a deep voice, "So what?" As you said, I want to consult with someone not to ask you for a mere general soldier, or a general soldier of Ningxia, why do you make such a judgment? ”

"The minister guesses that His Majesty wants to use the minister as the main general of the court!" Xiao Ruxun immediately replied: "The minister has just fought in Ningxia to quell the rebellion, and with the power of a great victory, he has an advantage, if Your Majesty wants to start a war against Japan, the main general is very important, and the minister has just pacified Ningxia and just arrived in Beijing, which is the best candidate in Your Majesty's heart." ”

The corners of Zhu Yijun's mouth outlined a subtle smile, realizing that he should have chosen the right person, but the investigation obviously would not end so easily.

"It's not all right, but it's not unreasonable, even if you say it, it's reasonable! However, I am very puzzled that North Korea is really uniting with Japan and trying to plot against my Ming Dynasty? ”

Zhu Yijun's eyes became sharp again.

"I think it's impossible!"

Xiao Ruxun gave an absolute answer.

"Why?"

"When the minister was a general in the northwest, he had heard the merchants who came and went to Ningxia and all over the country talked about the affairs of North Korea, they said, North Korea admired my Ming Dynasty very much, everything and my Ming Dynasty was the same system, the Manchu Dynasty context Wu to talk about poetry and song as elegance, to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters for glory, self-proclaimed Little China, self-proclaimed as the first Chinese vassal, is the closest vassal country of the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with Japan, the Ming Dynasty does not disdain to associate with it at all, and Korea, which regards itself as a small China and regards the Ming Dynasty as the orthodoxy of the world, also looks down on Japan, a group of foreign barbarians, how can it conspire with the foreign barbarians, and try to make my Ming Dynasty?

This is one of them, the other two, our dynasty Taizu once set North Korea as a country that will never be conquered, Xu Qi years to come to the court, every year to pay tribute, North Korea has always been quite deferential to my Ming Dynasty, the country is relatively stable, so in addition to the northeast corner and the Jurchen gap, three sides of the sea, three sides do not face the enemy, peace for hundreds of years.

So in addition to the army in the northeast still has combat strength, the minister thinks that most of the soldiers and horses of North Korea have no will to fight, will have no strategy, are vulnerable, and it is still worrying to defend it, not to mention foreign conquest and expansion of territory? It is because North Korea is not enough to worry about it, and those who are worried about the Ming Dynasty are also the Japanese Kou. ”

After speaking, Zhu Yijun was moved: "General Xiao, General Xiao, Xiao Pingyu!" I can tell you the truth, as far as I know, Korea has been basically defeated by the Japanese invaders, a thousand miles of collapse, the capital of the country has been lost, the king of Korea fled north in a hurry, I have ordered two guerrilla groups of Liaodong soldiers to attack the north bank of the Yalu River, once there is a change, immediately cross the river south to Korea to protect the king of Korea. ”

"Did Japan really defeat Korea?" Xiao Ruxun pretended to be surprised, and then hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the Liaodong Army is not enough to defeat the Japanese army!" ”

Zhu Yijun frowned and said unhappily: "Why do you say that? Where the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow arrive, can the Japanese still win? In addition, most of the soldiers in Liaodong are elite iron cavalry, and they have been fighting Mongolian slaves for a long time, and the soldiers are sharp, how can the Japanese people stop them? ”

"Your Majesty! That's the key! Xiao Ruxun explained unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, as the minister knows, there are mostly mountains, rivers and mounds in the Korean border, and there are very few plains, and there are almost eighty percent of the mountains in Korea, and only two percent of the plains suitable for cavalry combat. ”

Zhu Yijun's face froze, and he immediately said to Zhang Cheng: "Zhang Cheng, bring the map of North Korea." ”

Zhang Cheng immediately ordered someone to get it, and after a while, a complete map of North Korea was unfolded in front of the Ming Emperor, Xiao Ruxun sighed at the effectiveness of the Ming intelligence system, and walked to the map, looked at it, pointed to the map and said: "Your Majesty, please see, what the minister said is true, the entire territory of North Korea, more than eighty percent of the land is a land of mountains, rivers and mounds.

There are only two percent of the flat plains, and most of them are settlements, and the settlements must be reclaimed as farmland, and the farmland is soft and the ravines are vertical and horizontal, how can the cavalry be dominant? The Battle of Pyongwa was certainly dominated by siege warfare, street warfare, and mountain warfare, and there were very few suitable cavalry battles in Korea. ”

Zhu Yijun's brows furrowed.

"What's more, the minister came from the northwest to fight against the rabbit, and the minister introduced the cavalry of the rabbit into the city, and took advantage of the advantages in the city to break it with firearms and behead three thousand, so the minister knew quite well that once he fell into a trapped battle, the cavalry could not maneuver, and he would be a live target for the pawns, one shot or even two or three, and the disadvantage was great!

Moreover, as far as the minister knows, the lead bullet used by the gunner has lead poison, and the gunpowder has fire poison, which hits the human body and immediately invades the lungs, even if it is hit on the limbs, as long as there is a wound in the bleeding, if the amputation method is not used, the person will definitely die, once a horse is amputated, what is the difference between death and death? It only takes one month to train a pawn, and it takes three years to train a knight, so you can't do it for three years. ”

Zhu Yijun thought of this, gasped, and suddenly remembered that the Liaodong cavalry is the most elite cavalry unit of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most precious strategic resource, once there is too much loss in Korea, it will not be able to suppress the Mongolian Jiannu, North Korea is not suitable for cavalry combat, but the north of the Ming Dynasty can be everywhere suitable for cavalry to fight, and now listening to Xiao Ruxun say this, it is equivalent to sending cavalry into North Korea to die?

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