"Lanyu, Fu Youde, Ping'an, and Li Jinglong are all under your command, Chitose. But secretly, they are clearly your constraints. You said that the person in the East Palace has a big picture, but you don't know
That person has unknowingly given you a conspiracy that you cannot get rid of!"
"To put it bluntly, little monk, if all the wealth in your hands is wiped out, the East Palace only needs an imperial edict to let any one of these people take control of the Liaodong capital and control the Peking Guard. What will Chitose have left in your hands?
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"When the time comes, I'm afraid you will be like a piece of meat on the chopping board, ready to be slaughtered by others!"
"A true man must not lose power for a day, otherwise he will have no foothold at all!"
Yao Guangxiao's words made Zhu Di look grim.
He slowly turned around and looked outside the tent, "You said that I know all this, but in my heart," he said, rubbing the wounds on his arms that had not yet healed, "so many sons have died, and I can't give them anything."
They only want to take revenge, but they also want to fight with the Tatars. When did I, Zhu Silang, become such a person?"
Speaking of this, Zhu Di's face was filled with a complicated wry smile.
Man, who doesn't want to be a man who is upright, flawless, and like a perfect man?
But as we get older, we realize more and more how helpless and ruthless the world is.
This world will never become equally upright just because of how perfect you are, or how heroic and heroic you are. This world wraps up all evils in great rhetoric, forcing people to pinch their noses and become hypocritical.
Become compromised, become inconsistent.
"Thousand years old!" Yao Guangxiao continued, "The world is like a chess game. Whether you want to be the one playing chess or the one being played depends on your thoughts!"
"Let the Tatars go?" Zhu Di thought about it and sneered a bit, "However, we can't let them go like this, it won't be an advantage to them. At least tens of thousands more lives must be sacrificed to be considered sincere!" As he said this, he frowned in thought.
He said, "Besides, let them go, where are Lan Yu and Fu Youde?"
Thinking of this, Zhu Di felt disgusted.
Not only Lan Yu but also Fu Youde, the King of Jin is also in the army now, and the King of Liao is also in the army. All of them are people who are proficient in military affairs. If they let the Tatars go, if they are not careful, they will definitely not be able to hide it.
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Suddenly, a cold wind blew outside the tent.
The wind fell on my neck, and it was cool. I stretched out my hand to touch the faint icy water stains. Then, the drifting wind was mixed with snowflakes as big as fingernails.
"Thousand years old!" Yao Guangxiao said with a smile, "God help you! It snowed for a few days before, and now it has started again. Heavy snowfall is inconvenient for military operations. Moreover, countless cattle and sheep will freeze to death on the Tatar side. It's the best of both worlds!"
Zhu Di raised his head and looked at the snowy sky without speaking.
In another military camp, Lan Yu looked at the falling snowflakes and said nothing.
Having spent half his life fighting in the North, he knows that this is completely different from the snow of the past few days. It was just snowing in the past few days, but now it is a sign of a blizzard. It is impossible to fight on this day, the wind and snow will make people blind.
If you can't open your eyes, you can't move.
A blizzard is like a coastal typhoon, roaring and swallowing everything.
In another military tent, Fu Youde also looked at the sudden drifting snow with a gloomy face.
When a blizzard comes, Ping An's cavalry will be in danger. If they cannot find a place to station before the blizzard, no matter how powerful the troops and horses are, they will not be able to withstand the raging blizzard.
"Find Ping Bao'er!" Fu Youde said softly to the guard beside him, "Let him rest first. If you have anything to do, wait until the snowstorm stops!"
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"The food can last for about fifteen days."
"There is no shortage of water, and the mountains are covered with snow!"
"You have to save on livestock fodder and bean cakes!"
"There is also a lack of firewood! My brothers went far out today and couldn't find any firewood."
In the old and dilapidated Liugenbao, Li Laowai squatted beside the fire and reported the accounts to Li Jinglong, who was huddled in furs and wished he was still cold in the fire.
The sudden arrival of heavy snow meant that the Ming army's logistics line had to suspend supplies. There was nothing we could do about it. Rushing in the wilderness on such a day was no different than courting death.
The latter, wrapped in thick fur, trembled like a quail in the cold wind.
"Kick-kick-kick!" Listen carefully and you can hear the sound of his teeth tapping up and down.
Outside the castle, the cold wind howled, and large snowflakes fell like cotton wool. Soon everything in sight turned white. The whiteness alone is not enough, the strong wind that can almost sweep people away is the most deadly.
It is said that there is not enough firewood in the army. Even if there is enough firewood, it cannot be lit in this weather.
"Hi mother, what kind of day is this?"
"Leng! Leng!"
"Head, damn, do you have any firewood? Light a few piles and let the brothers warm their hands. My claws will fall off from the cold!"
"Damn it, the officials are hiding from the fire, and we brothers don't even have hot water to drink!"
Leaning against the half-collapsed wall, Li Jinglong could clearly hear the complaints of the soldiers in the cold wind.
The firelight illuminated his thin, bearded face.
"Insufficient firewood is a big deal. It takes firewood to cook, boil water and keep warm!" Li Jinglong took his hands out of his fur and roasted them greedily on the fluttering flames. "Since you can't find it outside, you have to save some. From today on,
First of all, the charcoal must be carefully reserved for use. Even I cannot withdraw it at will to keep the fire warm!"
Having said this, he looked sideways at the other generals, "What about you?"
Others quickly said, "It all depends on Zhentai!"
"It's not up to me, but in difficult times, we have to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers!" As he said, Li Jinglong looked at Li Laowai again, "The livestock are not eating enough forage and bean cakes, right? In this case, there is no need to leave any
We have so many animals, pick some old and weak ones and kill them now!"
"Now?" Li Laowai asked, "This dark world is so angry!"
"Kill, just use the fire on this fire to make broth to warm the brothers!"
Outside, there was the sound of the wind like howling ghosts and wolves. If the weather was not so warm, I'm afraid someone might not be able to survive tonight.
"Hey!" Li Jinglong asked again, "You think it's hard for us here, but it's better for the Tatars? They don't use firewood?"
No one among the generals spoke, so Li Laowai said, "My master doesn't know something. The Tatars know how to look at the sky better than we do. There are many old veterans in their army who specialize in looking at the sky. If they saw that it was going to snow, they would bring them with them."
The Tatars are hiding!”
"Their tents are thicker and better than ours. As for the firewood you're talking about, what they burn is not firewood! It's dried cow dung!"
"When the Tatars send troops to fight, it's just like moving! Anyway, there are many horses, pulling carts, tying up tents, carrying pots and pans, and driving animals."
"Damn it, they treat fighting as a way of living!"
With that said, Li Jinglong stood up and threw the furs on his body into the arms of the soldiers beside him, "Go to patrol the camp with me!"
With a creak, he struggled to open the wind-blocking door. Li Jinglong, who had just stood up, was almost knocked over.
He stood a little awkwardly, letting the rough snowflakes like sand hit his face in the wind and snow, and went out.
Li Laowai stood behind him, looked at Li Jinglong who was walking into the snow, and suddenly sighed, "The old master was like this back then!"
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This chapter has been completed!