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

Chapter 974 The Second Brocade Box

When he left the main hall after attending the military meeting, it was already night. The night outside the pass was quiet, and the moon was always brighter than that in Yingtian Prefecture inside the pass. Zhu Xiongying had no desire to sleep, and on the way back to where he was staying, he saw a small pavilion on the side of the road, so he walked into the pavilion and looked up at the moon in a daze.

"Your Highness... How is the war going now?"

Fang Xiaoru and Xie Jin did not hold military posts and could not participate in the military meeting, but they waited for Zhu Xiongying outside the main hall for a long time. They wanted to ask Zhu Xiongying how the military meeting went, but seeing that Zhu Xiongying looked stunned, they did not say much and just followed him silently.

Now seeing Zhu Xiongying sitting down, Xie Jin began to ask.

Zhu Xiongying turned around and briefly explained the war situation to Fang and Jie. Fang Xiaoru was surprised and asked, "Is it so urgent?"

"In this case, Your Highness, why would you waste your time here admiring the moon? We should discuss this matter overnight and find a way for our army to successfully defeat the enemy."

Although Fang Xiaoru became a much more tactful person than in history after he became Zhu Su's apprentice, he still showed his scholarly temper when he saw Zhu Xiongying's dejected face, and he advised him with a serious face. However, Zhu Xiongying smiled bitterly, shook his head dejectedly, and said, "The entire Ningwei army was annihilated, and it was all because of me."

"If I hadn't had such wild ideas, and had gone to recruit the Taining Guards, my uncle wouldn't have rushed to save me. If my uncle had gone to save General Wang Yi first, General Wang might have survived, and the two bandit armies wouldn't have joined forces."

"The situation has deteriorated to this point because of my stubbornness. How can I have the face to talk about how to defeat the enemy?"

Fang and Xie looked at each other and realized that Zhu Xiongying was actually hit by the annihilation of the Quanning Guard. Xie Jin advised: "Your Highness, don't blame you for this."

"The Tatars and the Tainingwei rebels have long been in collusion with each other. No one could have expected this."

"General Wang Yi suffered because he didn't know the details of the thieves. It had nothing to do with Your Highness. On the contrary, if Your Highness had failed to incite many Taining herdsmen to rebel, allowing Azhashili to lead tens of thousands of troops to join the Tatars, the threat would have been even greater than it is now."

Fang Xiaoru also advised: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince and His Majesty have appointed you as the military supervisor in order to give you a heavy responsibility. How can Your Highness be so depressed?"

"According to the new military system, the military supervisor is also of vital importance to the army. Now is the time for His Highness to stand up for him. Why is His Highness standing here in a daze admiring the moon?"

"...You two gentlemen are right." Zhu Xiongying said. "But even a group of experienced generals have not come to a conclusion on this matter."

"I am still young, how dare I make comments casually? If I fail to make important military decisions and fail the expectations of my grandfather and father, I will die a hundred times without redemption."

The young man still felt guilty. He had been hit hard, and his former confidence was gone. Even though he saw that the Daning Dusi was in a state of panic, he did not dare to act rashly.

I'm afraid of doing more harm than good.

Fang Xiaoru and Xie Jin also knew what Zhu Xiongying was thinking, and the scene fell silent for a moment. Xie Jin suddenly thought of something and said, "Your Highness."

"When you came to Daning, His Royal Highness King Zhou gave you three brocade boxes and told you to open them when you encountered the corresponding situation."

“I wonder if there is any good way to deal with the current situation?”

Zhu Xiongying was shocked all over, and then he remembered this matter.

He had no confidence in himself, but he revered his fifth uncle Zhu Su, who was far away in Yingtian Prefecture, as an omnipotent god. When he wanted to leave the city, he opened the first brocade box and got the help of Yang Lu, which successfully allowed him to avoid Azashili's Hongmen Banquet and prevent him from falling into Azashili's hands, which proved the foresight of his fifth uncle.

At this time, the remaining two brocade boxes may really contain a good solution to the current situation.

"My fifth uncle gave me three brocade boxes. The first one is for entering dangerous places, the second one is for surviving in desperate situations, and the third one is for defeating the enemy and winning the victory."

"The enemy I'm referring to is the Tatar villain. Earlier, when I saw my uncle successfully ambush the Tatar with the bait tactic, I thought that the third brocade box was no longer useful... I almost forgot about the third brocade box!"

Hearing that Zhu Su had indeed left behind a method to defeat the enemy, Xie Jin was even more pleasantly surprised and said hurriedly, "Then what are you waiting for, Your Highness, quickly open the Fifth Prince's brocade box."

"Perhaps the brilliant plan inside can really deal with the current situation?"

Zhu Xiongying was also excited, and the three of them hurriedly went to get the brocade box and opened it in Zhu Xiongying's courtyard. Inside the box, there was a letter sealed with wax. Zhu Xiongying hurriedly took the letter out of the box, opened it, and held it in his hand to read.

"Your Highness, how is it?" Fang Xiaoru asked anxiously, "Does the Master have any good prescription?"

"Hahahaha." Zhu Xiongying started laughing, and in his laughter, he had regained his previous confidence. Zhu Xiongying laughed and said, "Uncle Wu, this method is really great."

"I never thought that I, the military supervisor, would actually have such a responsibility... If this method is followed, Tatar and Azhashili will have no choice but to surrender!"

……

Wudan City, where the Quanning Guards were originally stationed, is now engulfed in flames. The flames rising into the sky seem to indicate the wrath of Changshengtian, sweeping across and burning the city on the grassland.

"Grandmaster, in the city, a total of several thousand taels of gold and nearly ten thousand taels of silver were looted, and there were countless other carriages, horses, cattle and sheep. For a small border town to be so wealthy, it's really..."

More than ten miles south of the city, in the Tatar camp, a leader was reporting to Aluta about the "gains" in Udan City.

Alutai's eyes moved slightly, and then he nodded calmly, his eyes already flashing with greed, and said: "The Ming court has set up many trading posts on the grassland, intending to gain a firm foothold on the grassland through business profits."

"However, this is also our opportunity... In these trading cities, there are often huge amounts of cattle, sheep and wealth hidden."

"As long as we seize all this wealth, we will never lack supplies, and we will be able to become stronger and stronger until we can compete with the Ming court."

"Send the order to keep half of the cattle and sheep, and slaughter the rest as rewards to the warriors on the grassland."

"Don't be stingy. Once we conquer Daning City, we will have more cattle and sheep than in this small city."

“Don’t we need to leave some behind? After all…” The man was a little worried.

"If we lack cattle, sheep and wealth, we can go and ask the Ming people for them... Those weak Ming people cannot gain a foothold on the grassland. After all, the grassland belongs to us, the people of the grassland." Aluta said with his slender eyes narrowed.

The leader took the order and left. Alutai also stood up. He was the actual leader of the Tatar army and was very busy with various military affairs. Just as he was about to deal with the next matter, he saw the curtain at the entrance of the tent move, and the "Khan" Bayanchur walked in wearing a luxurious fur robe.

(End of this chapter)