In late June of the sixth year of Yongle (the first year of Hongxi, the capital), the Han Wangjun's Southern Route Army had almost gathered in Yunnan Prefecture and the Central Route Army Guizhou Dusi. Only some of the Northern Route Army's troops had not yet arrived in Guizhou Dusi because they were transferred from southern Sichuan.
Zhu Gaoxu decided to march towards the Guangxi Administrator's Office in early July at the same time.
After saying goodbye to the officials of the Han Palace and his reluctant family, Zhu Gaoxu took a team of people to Guizhou City.The central army had about 70,000 infantry and cavalry, and he would be directly commanded.
A group of people rode their horses along the post road to Guizhou City. It was the evening of the end of June...
Guishan to the north has now turned into a dark and undulating mountain shadow; the towering Guizhou city tower was severely damaged by Hui artillery and artillery when the Han Wangjun siege the city, and has not been completely restored yet.
The mottled cannonball marks on the earth-rammed city wall were mudded with mud and repaired, with varying colors and from a distance, they looked like a torn dress with many patches.
Wang Bin had arrived in Guizhou City before Zhu Gaoxu. At this time, he and Guizhou Commander Liu Ying and others were greeting Zhu Gaoxu outside the city gate.
The crowd stood outside the city gate and bowed with fists. Zhu Gaoxu slapped his horse forward and waved his hand: No need to be too polite.Let's talk about it when we get on the horse.
Everyone surrounded Zhu Gaoxu and entered the city.
The streets after the sun sets seem a little bleak, and you can encounter troops lined up from time to time.
Now there are more than 100,000 soldiers who have been mobilized to Guizhou City, and soldiers and their families account for a large part of the population.
Zhu Gaoxu came to Guizhou City again, and the war had subsided, but looking at the scene, it was still impossible to compare with the prosperity of cities such as the capital.
They came to the office of the Du Commander and Inspector Office, which is the largest building complex in Guizhou City. Guizhou has not yet established a province, and there is no provincial governing and inspector Office. The Du Commander and Inspector Office is the highest power yamen in the entire Guizhou area.
Inside and outside the Dusi lobby, more civil and military officials came to pay homage to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu greeted them and said that it was time to finish the next time, and told everyone to part.
Now he is focused on the war and has no intention of saying polite words to these people.
Zhu Gaoxu walked past the hall behind the lobby and asked Liu Ying, Wang Bin, Zhao Ping and others to come.Miaojin, who followed Zhu Gaoxu to Guizhou, wore a hat and also came in with a bag.
I wrote a letter to ask Governor Wang to prepare for the itinerary. The forward will start soon. Have you received the letter?Zhu Gaoxu turned to look at Wang Bin.
Wang Bin nodded with his round eyes and replied: I received it.His eyes were round and bulging, his skin was dark, his hair was hard, and his face was fierce. Zhu Gaoxu was used to seeing it all the time.
Zhu Gaoxu said again: On the second day after tomorrow, you will lead the forward to set off.I then led the army to follow him in batches.
Wang Bin clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you'll get the order!
Several people came to the signing room, and some maps of Liu Ying were placed on the wooden table.
Liu Ying walked up and pointed to a place on the map and said: The general had received Mr. Li's military order and prepared the food required by the army. This is Libo County, which is under the jurisdiction of Qingyuan Prefecture (near Hechi City), the Guangxi Administrator, but there are no garrisons. The last general sent a military general to occupy the place, and arranged a warehouse in Libo County to organize and organize 70,000 troops for two months of military rations.
Governor Liu did a good job!Zhu Gaoxu praised him.
However, such actions will inevitably make the enemy guess that the Han Wang army will march from Guizhou to Guangxi.
This is impossible. It is impossible to do a large-scale military operation of 200,000 people without showing any signs.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Wang Bin and then looked back at the left and right. The total strength of the Central Army was nearly 70,000. The first place to go was Qingyuan Prefecture.The march route follows the official road to Guangxi.Wang Bin's front army had more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry set out the day after tomorrow, and the remaining more than 50,000 main army was divided into four groups: the central army, the left whistle, the right whistle, and the rear whistle, and the next day was dispatched.
Several generals clasped their fists and said: The last general obeys the order!
Zhu Gaoxu buried his head and looked at the map in front of him for a while. Because all the drawings are hand-painted and the sizes are different, the drawing methods are different.
However, there must be major post roads between provinces. The thick line in the picture is the post road from Guizhou to Guangxi.
Libo County is on a post road, located in the southeast of Guizhou City, with the length of the post road from Guizhou City about 600 miles; and Qingyuan Prefecture City is located in the south of Libo County.
A few hundred miles south of Qingyuan Prefecture is Nanning Prefecture, and to the east is Liuzhou Prefecture.
There is no terrain on the picture, but just by looking at the winding post road line, you can guess that the road along the road is full of mountainous areas.
Of course, some scouts have investigated the terrain along the way and reported to military generals at all levels through verbal descriptions.
That's why Zhu Gaoxu divided nearly 70,000 people into five groups, and marched between a certain distance from front to back.
He had marched into Sichuan and Guizhou before, and the road was also difficult to walk, so he summed up some experience and marched in the mountainous areas faster.
Zhu Gaoxu called on the people to come, picked up a brush, dipped it in the cinnabar paint, and put it on the map. Starting from early July, our middle army marched into Qingyuan Prefecture along this post road; as the southern army of Shengyong Ping'an, Yunnan, set off from Kunming City, and roughly took this road to the Tufu in Tianzhou, Guangxi (near Baise City).
Scouts and spies sent to Guangxi will focus on Wu Gaojun in Nanning Prefecture.Our two armies will wait for an opportunity to siege and destroy Wu Gao's troops first.Do you all understand?
Finally, I will understand.Everyone answered one after another.This strategy was informed of generals from all over the world before this.
At this time, Liu Ying said: The last general thinks that Wu Gao is very cautious. Will he defend Nanning Prefecture City to the end?
Zhu Gaoxu immediately shook his head: Jiangyin Hou is indeed timid, but after all, he has fought for a lifetime, so he will definitely not be willing to defend Nanning Prefecture City; that place is too far away and it is an isolated city that is difficult to reinforce.Besides, where Wu Gao is going, it is not up to him to decide, unless he dares to disobey the military order; in the view of the enemy commander Zhang Fu, Nanning Mansion obviously has no great value for this battle.
Wang Bin smiled and said: Wu Gao could not even deal with Governor Liu before. When he met our prince, he would have to end up with this battle!
In the previous battles, Wang Bin ordered to stay in Kunming City and later escorted the family of the Han Palace to Dali Palace. Now he finally got the opportunity to fight and was the vanguard of the Central Army, so he was very happy for a while.
The war is imminent, and the person in the best mood is probably Wang Bin.
Wu Gaojun is in Nanning Prefecture at this time, so let’s march according to the strategy.There will inevitably be changes on the battlefield, and you can only adapt to the situation at that time.Zhu Gaoxu said again, the time for our Northern Route Army to set off is not yet determined.Wu Gao's team is too far from the main force of the enemy in Huguang. No matter what he does, we can deal with it calmly.It's just a time-consuming and time-consuming process.
After Zhu Gaoxu said that, he glanced at the window and said: It’s getting late, so I’ll discuss it tomorrow.
Liu Ying clasped his fists and said: "I asked someone to prepare some simple wine and food, and then they sent it to the dining room to welcome the prince."
Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: Governor Liu has been stationed in Guizhou for several months, so he regards himself as a landlord!Since that's the case, I can't help but go for dinner together.
Everyone agreed.
Zhu Gaoxu stood up, held a red pen in his hand, and drew a thick vertical line on the map with force.From near Chenzhou Prefecture, Huguang, it was all the way down to Liuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi, and then stopped.
This line is when the army crosses the difficult Xuefeng Mountains.The mountains run north and south, blocking the east side of Guizhou; Huguang and northern Guangxi are blocked to the east side.
When Mr. Li and others formulated the strategy of the Eastern Expedition, the terrain was probably centered on the Xuefeng Mountains.
Two large armies traveled to Guangxi and detoured south of Xuefeng Mountain; one large army walked into Huguang Road and advanced eastward at Chenxi Road, which was on the northern foot of Xuefeng Mountain.
...The next morning, before the sun rose, the mountain in the east had just turned white, and the vanguard army of Wang Bin's troops left the city one after another.
Zhu Gaoxu stood on the city tower in the south city and bid farewell to Wang Bin.
The soldier came up with a wooden plate, and Zhu Gaoxu picked up a bowl and handed it to Wang Bin and said: With this fine wine sent from Maotai Village in Zunyi Prefecture, I wish Governor Wang a smooth journey.
Wang Bin took it with both hands, held up the wine bowl and said: The last general will live up to the prince’s important task!After saying that, he raised his head and drank it down.
Zhu Gaoxu also poured it into his stomach, and the taste seemed to be different from the later Maotai liquor.He put the wine bowl on the wooden plate and said: Governor Wang will go first, and I will then lead the army to come.
Wang Bin said: There will be a date later.Prince, I've said goodbye!
After saying that, he walked down the city tower.After a while, Wang Bin rode out of the city gate. He turned his head and looked up on the back of the horse, clenched his fists and saluted again.Zhu Gaoxu waved to him silently on the city tower.
The terrain where Guizhou City is located is relatively flat in comparison, and the official road after leaving the city is also very spacious.
I saw six parallel infantry columns, four rows of cavalry walking on the road, various donkey chariots and wheelbarrows; there was room for room on both sides of the road, and from time to time, riding horses were running back and forth, shouting and conveying the message.
But Zhu Gaoxu knew that if they walked such a spacious road for up to two days, they would enter the mountainous area, and the army could only march in a long formation like a dragon.
There were countless shadows of the mountain in the sky, and at some point the Han King Army could walk out of the steep mountains in the southwest and enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Zhu Gaoxu tried every means to have such an insider as He Fu in the official army, he was still prepared for a fierce battle.
The closest Wu Gaojun was just a partial division of the official army, and his troops were not much smaller than Zhu Gaoxu's main forces. This battle was undoubtedly very sinister.
But no matter how difficult the road ahead is, Zhu Gaoxu has already made up his mind to go out.Otherwise, you will be trapped in this thin population and lack of money and food, and sooner or later you will die.
Zhu Gaoxu stood on the city tower for a long time, his vision blocked by the distant mountains.He really doesn't like staying in the mountains.
Zhu Gaoxu decided to march towards the Guangxi Administrator's Office in early July at the same time.
After saying goodbye to the officials of the Han Palace and his reluctant family, Zhu Gaoxu took a team of people to Guizhou City.The central army had about 70,000 infantry and cavalry, and he would be directly commanded.
A group of people rode their horses along the post road to Guizhou City. It was the evening of the end of June...
Guishan to the north has now turned into a dark and undulating mountain shadow; the towering Guizhou city tower was severely damaged by Hui artillery and artillery when the Han Wangjun siege the city, and has not been completely restored yet.
The mottled cannonball marks on the earth-rammed city wall were mudded with mud and repaired, with varying colors and from a distance, they looked like a torn dress with many patches.
Wang Bin had arrived in Guizhou City before Zhu Gaoxu. At this time, he and Guizhou Commander Liu Ying and others were greeting Zhu Gaoxu outside the city gate.
The crowd stood outside the city gate and bowed with fists. Zhu Gaoxu slapped his horse forward and waved his hand: No need to be too polite.Let's talk about it when we get on the horse.
Everyone surrounded Zhu Gaoxu and entered the city.
The streets after the sun sets seem a little bleak, and you can encounter troops lined up from time to time.
Now there are more than 100,000 soldiers who have been mobilized to Guizhou City, and soldiers and their families account for a large part of the population.
Zhu Gaoxu came to Guizhou City again, and the war had subsided, but looking at the scene, it was still impossible to compare with the prosperity of cities such as the capital.
They came to the office of the Du Commander and Inspector Office, which is the largest building complex in Guizhou City. Guizhou has not yet established a province, and there is no provincial governing and inspector Office. The Du Commander and Inspector Office is the highest power yamen in the entire Guizhou area.
Inside and outside the Dusi lobby, more civil and military officials came to pay homage to Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu greeted them and said that it was time to finish the next time, and told everyone to part.
Now he is focused on the war and has no intention of saying polite words to these people.
Zhu Gaoxu walked past the hall behind the lobby and asked Liu Ying, Wang Bin, Zhao Ping and others to come.Miaojin, who followed Zhu Gaoxu to Guizhou, wore a hat and also came in with a bag.
I wrote a letter to ask Governor Wang to prepare for the itinerary. The forward will start soon. Have you received the letter?Zhu Gaoxu turned to look at Wang Bin.
Wang Bin nodded with his round eyes and replied: I received it.His eyes were round and bulging, his skin was dark, his hair was hard, and his face was fierce. Zhu Gaoxu was used to seeing it all the time.
Zhu Gaoxu said again: On the second day after tomorrow, you will lead the forward to set off.I then led the army to follow him in batches.
Wang Bin clasped his fists and said: I'm sure you'll get the order!
Several people came to the signing room, and some maps of Liu Ying were placed on the wooden table.
Liu Ying walked up and pointed to a place on the map and said: The general had received Mr. Li's military order and prepared the food required by the army. This is Libo County, which is under the jurisdiction of Qingyuan Prefecture (near Hechi City), the Guangxi Administrator, but there are no garrisons. The last general sent a military general to occupy the place, and arranged a warehouse in Libo County to organize and organize 70,000 troops for two months of military rations.
Governor Liu did a good job!Zhu Gaoxu praised him.
However, such actions will inevitably make the enemy guess that the Han Wang army will march from Guizhou to Guangxi.
This is impossible. It is impossible to do a large-scale military operation of 200,000 people without showing any signs.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Wang Bin and then looked back at the left and right. The total strength of the Central Army was nearly 70,000. The first place to go was Qingyuan Prefecture.The march route follows the official road to Guangxi.Wang Bin's front army had more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry set out the day after tomorrow, and the remaining more than 50,000 main army was divided into four groups: the central army, the left whistle, the right whistle, and the rear whistle, and the next day was dispatched.
Several generals clasped their fists and said: The last general obeys the order!
Zhu Gaoxu buried his head and looked at the map in front of him for a while. Because all the drawings are hand-painted and the sizes are different, the drawing methods are different.
However, there must be major post roads between provinces. The thick line in the picture is the post road from Guizhou to Guangxi.
Libo County is on a post road, located in the southeast of Guizhou City, with the length of the post road from Guizhou City about 600 miles; and Qingyuan Prefecture City is located in the south of Libo County.
A few hundred miles south of Qingyuan Prefecture is Nanning Prefecture, and to the east is Liuzhou Prefecture.
There is no terrain on the picture, but just by looking at the winding post road line, you can guess that the road along the road is full of mountainous areas.
Of course, some scouts have investigated the terrain along the way and reported to military generals at all levels through verbal descriptions.
That's why Zhu Gaoxu divided nearly 70,000 people into five groups, and marched between a certain distance from front to back.
He had marched into Sichuan and Guizhou before, and the road was also difficult to walk, so he summed up some experience and marched in the mountainous areas faster.
Zhu Gaoxu called on the people to come, picked up a brush, dipped it in the cinnabar paint, and put it on the map. Starting from early July, our middle army marched into Qingyuan Prefecture along this post road; as the southern army of Shengyong Ping'an, Yunnan, set off from Kunming City, and roughly took this road to the Tufu in Tianzhou, Guangxi (near Baise City).
Scouts and spies sent to Guangxi will focus on Wu Gaojun in Nanning Prefecture.Our two armies will wait for an opportunity to siege and destroy Wu Gao's troops first.Do you all understand?
Finally, I will understand.Everyone answered one after another.This strategy was informed of generals from all over the world before this.
At this time, Liu Ying said: The last general thinks that Wu Gao is very cautious. Will he defend Nanning Prefecture City to the end?
Zhu Gaoxu immediately shook his head: Jiangyin Hou is indeed timid, but after all, he has fought for a lifetime, so he will definitely not be willing to defend Nanning Prefecture City; that place is too far away and it is an isolated city that is difficult to reinforce.Besides, where Wu Gao is going, it is not up to him to decide, unless he dares to disobey the military order; in the view of the enemy commander Zhang Fu, Nanning Mansion obviously has no great value for this battle.
Wang Bin smiled and said: Wu Gao could not even deal with Governor Liu before. When he met our prince, he would have to end up with this battle!
In the previous battles, Wang Bin ordered to stay in Kunming City and later escorted the family of the Han Palace to Dali Palace. Now he finally got the opportunity to fight and was the vanguard of the Central Army, so he was very happy for a while.
The war is imminent, and the person in the best mood is probably Wang Bin.
Wu Gaojun is in Nanning Prefecture at this time, so let’s march according to the strategy.There will inevitably be changes on the battlefield, and you can only adapt to the situation at that time.Zhu Gaoxu said again, the time for our Northern Route Army to set off is not yet determined.Wu Gao's team is too far from the main force of the enemy in Huguang. No matter what he does, we can deal with it calmly.It's just a time-consuming and time-consuming process.
After Zhu Gaoxu said that, he glanced at the window and said: It’s getting late, so I’ll discuss it tomorrow.
Liu Ying clasped his fists and said: "I asked someone to prepare some simple wine and food, and then they sent it to the dining room to welcome the prince."
Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: Governor Liu has been stationed in Guizhou for several months, so he regards himself as a landlord!Since that's the case, I can't help but go for dinner together.
Everyone agreed.
Zhu Gaoxu stood up, held a red pen in his hand, and drew a thick vertical line on the map with force.From near Chenzhou Prefecture, Huguang, it was all the way down to Liuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi, and then stopped.
This line is when the army crosses the difficult Xuefeng Mountains.The mountains run north and south, blocking the east side of Guizhou; Huguang and northern Guangxi are blocked to the east side.
When Mr. Li and others formulated the strategy of the Eastern Expedition, the terrain was probably centered on the Xuefeng Mountains.
Two large armies traveled to Guangxi and detoured south of Xuefeng Mountain; one large army walked into Huguang Road and advanced eastward at Chenxi Road, which was on the northern foot of Xuefeng Mountain.
...The next morning, before the sun rose, the mountain in the east had just turned white, and the vanguard army of Wang Bin's troops left the city one after another.
Zhu Gaoxu stood on the city tower in the south city and bid farewell to Wang Bin.
The soldier came up with a wooden plate, and Zhu Gaoxu picked up a bowl and handed it to Wang Bin and said: With this fine wine sent from Maotai Village in Zunyi Prefecture, I wish Governor Wang a smooth journey.
Wang Bin took it with both hands, held up the wine bowl and said: The last general will live up to the prince’s important task!After saying that, he raised his head and drank it down.
Zhu Gaoxu also poured it into his stomach, and the taste seemed to be different from the later Maotai liquor.He put the wine bowl on the wooden plate and said: Governor Wang will go first, and I will then lead the army to come.
Wang Bin said: There will be a date later.Prince, I've said goodbye!
After saying that, he walked down the city tower.After a while, Wang Bin rode out of the city gate. He turned his head and looked up on the back of the horse, clenched his fists and saluted again.Zhu Gaoxu waved to him silently on the city tower.
The terrain where Guizhou City is located is relatively flat in comparison, and the official road after leaving the city is also very spacious.
I saw six parallel infantry columns, four rows of cavalry walking on the road, various donkey chariots and wheelbarrows; there was room for room on both sides of the road, and from time to time, riding horses were running back and forth, shouting and conveying the message.
But Zhu Gaoxu knew that if they walked such a spacious road for up to two days, they would enter the mountainous area, and the army could only march in a long formation like a dragon.
There were countless shadows of the mountain in the sky, and at some point the Han King Army could walk out of the steep mountains in the southwest and enter the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Although Zhu Gaoxu tried every means to have such an insider as He Fu in the official army, he was still prepared for a fierce battle.
The closest Wu Gaojun was just a partial division of the official army, and his troops were not much smaller than Zhu Gaoxu's main forces. This battle was undoubtedly very sinister.
But no matter how difficult the road ahead is, Zhu Gaoxu has already made up his mind to go out.Otherwise, you will be trapped in this thin population and lack of money and food, and sooner or later you will die.
Zhu Gaoxu stood on the city tower for a long time, his vision blocked by the distant mountains.He really doesn't like staying in the mountains.