Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 1063 Unstoppable
"Report! Your Majesty, there is military intelligence!" The voice of one of Hu Jilin's trusted soldiers came from outside.

"Haha, let's summon him in. Let me guess, is it the news from the west? Has the bandit Nguyen Duofang surrendered?" Hu Jinyi showed off his prowess in front of Fan Julun and was in a very good mood. He was eating breakfast, but now he remembered that the bowl of rice in front of him was untouched, so he picked up the bowl of rice.

"This... Your Majesty, this is not news from the west." The general who was trusted by Hu Jilin looked a little unhappy and said to Hu Jilin, "It is military intelligence from the north."

"North?" Hu Jinyi raised his eyebrows, and his hand holding the rice suddenly froze. He asked, "Who is attacking the north at this time?"

Fan Julun, who wanted to leave, was also stunned. He stayed quietly and listened to the news.

"Yes, it's the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army has crossed the border and invaded our country." The general said with a trembling voice.

"Ming?" Fan Julun was stunned. He thought that His Majesty had just vowed that Ming would not send troops so quickly, but Ming did. His Majesty was slapped in the face so quickly. Where would His Majesty put his face? He glanced at Hu Jilin and saw that Hu Jilin's face was blue and purple.

Maybe it was just a small group of Ming troops? A small group of Ming troops was irrelevant to the overall situation, so your Majesty's judgment could not be considered wrong, and your face could be saved. Fan Julun thought about it and asked the general, "Do you know how many Ming troops came? Who is the leader?"

"The Ming army, the Ming army is everywhere in the mountains and plains, and there are at least 20,000 of them. As for the flags of the leaders, they are Li Wenzhong, Duke of Cao, and Lan Yu, Duke of Liang of the Ming Dynasty!" said the general.

20,000 Ming troops! Li Wenzhong! Lan Yu! These were clearly not cannon fodder troops, but the elite of the elite Ming troops!
Needless to say, Li Wenzhong, the nephew of Emperor Hongwu, was one of the most famous generals in the Ming Dynasty decades ago. Now that Xu Da has retired to the second line and Chang Yuchun has died in battle, it is no exaggeration to say that Li Wenzhong is the only surviving first general in the founding era of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Su and Zhu Di, the two newly rising twin stars of the Zhu family, belong to the second generation of generals and are not in the same echelon as Li Wenzhong.

As for Lan Yu, he accumulated military merits step by step from the bottom, and fought his way out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood to become the Duke of Liang. His gold content is not inferior to Zhu Su and Zhu Di. He belongs to the new generation of generals in the Ming Dynasty and sits firmly in the third seat. The reason why he is the third seat is not because Lan Yu is not good, but because the record of the two brothers of the Zhu family is too impressive.

The two brothers joined forces to destroy countless countries in the Western Regions, and even defeated the arrogant new generation of Tianjiao Timur the Great. Such a record was really too impressive. Although Lan Yu did not have such a brilliant record, even Hu Jinyi knew that Lan Yu's desire for merit was extremely strong.

He needs the credit of destroying a country!
It is obvious that Lan Yu is very hungry when facing Dayu.

"Ugh!" Hu Jin's face turned pale and he suddenly turned his bowl upside down on the table to hide his inner turmoil and embarrassment: "Ming Dynasty is a great country, but it actually started a war without declaring it. Shameless, shameless!"

The general complained in his heart that the ultimatums and letters sent by the Ming Dynasty had almost piled up into a mountain, and it could not be called an undeclared war. Then he heard Hu Jinyi ask: "This military intelligence... is it from Luzhou?"

"Luzhou wants to ask me for help?"

"No..." said the general.

Hu Jilin felt relieved, and immediately felt that the situation and face had been restored a little. That's right, Luzhou is a big city in the border area, with a large number of troops stationed there. Luzhou did not ask for help, which means that it is still able to handle it with ease for the time being.

As long as Luzhou can pin down the Ming reinforcements, he still has time.

Thinking of this, he regained some composure and calmness... Hu Ji's mind moved slightly when he saw the rice bowl turned upside down on the table. He was going to be a sage king, and it would be bad if this waste of food was spread out.

So he quietly turned over the rice bowl and used chopsticks to sweep the rice on the table back into the bowl.

"Luzhou...Luzhou has been captured by the Ming army. There was no time to ask for help." The general continued.

"You...what did you say?" Hu Jinyi was stunned. "Luzhou...Luzhou has fallen?"

"Your Majesty, yes," the general said. "The Ming army captured Luzhou City after only one day of siege."

"Ugh!" Hu Ji, who had just swept the rice back into his bowl, was shaken and furious again, so he turned the bowl over and dumped the rice on the table again. "What are those useless people stationed in Luzhou doing?"

"The Ming army took the city so easily!"

"Your Majesty, it's not just Luzhou." The general added fuel to Hu Jin's fire. "The Ming army has captured Xin'an Town and Lang Giang Town, and will soon be at the gates of Thang Long Prefecture."

"It's not Luzhou City that's asking for help, but Thang Long Prefecture."

"Ugh!" Hu Jilin suddenly overturned the table, and the rice on the table splattered everywhere. A lump of rice unceremoniously stuck to Hu Jilin's head.

The furious Hu Jinyao pulled a few handfuls, but ended up getting the sticky rice all over his head, completely losing all his dignity.

"Come on, pass the message, go back to help Thang Long, go back to help Thang Long!" Hu Jiyi said, hopping around without caring about the annoying rice. Thang Long was the capital of Dayu, the foundation of Hu Jiyi. Without Thang Long, Dayu would be in danger.

"Report!" Another confidant rushed in and was stunned when he saw the funny appearance of "Your Majesty" with rice all over his head and face.

"Speak!" Hu Jin'er's heart skipped a beat, fearing that it was extremely bad news again.

"Report, Your Majesty, there is a slave rebellion in Thanh Hoa Prefecture. The Deng family was killed and Thanh Hoa fell!" the general said hurriedly.

"...Get lost!" Hu Jiyi shouted. Compared to the threat of the Ming Dynasty to Thang Long Prefecture, he had no intention of caring about a small slave rebellion.

If the slaves rebelled, he could put them down with a snap of a finger as long as he had time... Could he even bury Dayu?
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"Oh, these so-called mighty cities of Annan don't have even one that can fight. Where does the Hu guy get the courage to go against the will of our Great Ming and usurp the throne to claim himself emperor?" Under the city of Xinxing Prefecture, Lan Yu looked through the telescope at the "Dayu Army" trembling on the city wall and spat with some disdain.

"Annan is so weak, yet His Majesty King Zhou wants us to get entangled with them. It would be better to just go all out and destroy Hu Jinyi."

Fighting back and forth with such an opponent would really damage the reputation of General Lan Yu.

"Ahem, ahem... Annan is naturally no match for the Ming Dynasty. But what Your Majesty wants is for the Ming Dynasty to recapture Annan from now on. So, it is imperative to use the Hu family to clear the obstacles for the Ming Dynasty."

Li Wenzhong was riding on his horse, his face was a little vicissitudes. Looking at the big city of Annan in front of him, his eyes were deep.

His health was deteriorating. The old injuries he suffered from traveling the world in his early years were getting worse, even though Xiao Wuer had specially sent a group of nurses to treat him.

Annan, it’s time for his final military achievement.

(End of this chapter)