Just as Wenyuan Pavilion was preparing for a new meeting, the prince Zhu Houzhao in the East Palace was using a sand table to deduce the war.

Zhu Houzhao grew up in the palace since she was a child. She had no brothers and sisters, and no young playmates. Even if she had eunuchs of the same age, she was just a slave and could not communicate with each other, so she seemed bored.

Zhu Houzhao is not old now. Even if Zhu Youzhang has great expectations for his son, he will not tell him too much. His daily tasks are to eat, study, play and sleep.

After entering adolescence, Zhu Houzhao hopes to show himself and gain more recognition from people. This is due to the teenager's character. Unfortunately, Mr. does not pay attention to the cultivation of the healthy psychology and personality of adolescents, nor does he take multiple measures to guide children's negative emotions, so that Zhu Houzhao's demands are often not satisfied, and the dissatisfaction in his heart accumulates more and more.

Gradually, this dissatisfaction turned into a rebellious mentality. Zhu Houzhao began to go against the people around him, and even refused to obey his father and mother's words. The only person he admired was Chen Xi.

The sand table used for war chess deduction this time is one of the "toys" prepared by Chen Xi for naughty children.

When Chen Xi was in Guangdong, in order to maintain an intimate relationship with the prince, he not only prepared martial arts novels and fun shadow puppets for the prince, but also carefully designed some "toys" that match Zhu Houzhao's personality.

Speaking of his understanding of Zhu Houzhao, Chen Xi can be said to be more thorough than Zhu Youzhang and Empress Zhang, because Chen Xi not only lived with Zhu Houzhao for more than two years, but he was also familiar with what kind of person Zhu Houzhao was in history.

Zhu Houzhao was naughty by nature, greedy for pleasure, advocated showing off and showing off as a hero, acted without restraint, and liked to take risks very much. When it comes to nonsense, let alone the Ming Dynasty, no one could surpass this person even if he added several dynasties. Since Emperor Hongzhi had only such a son, Zhu Houzhao lacked a sense of crisis since childhood, and his parents had never given him the correct guidance, allowing Zhu Houzhao to go further and further on the road of rebellion.

Chen Xi knew Zhu Houzhao's character, so he consciously wrote martial arts novels for him, subtly instilling in Zhu Houzhao's idea of ​​"the greatest heroes serve the country and the people". At the same time, based on Zhu Houzhao's nature of limelight, he told him some historical wars and taught him some military strategies, so that Zhu Houzhao himself could figure out whether he could achieve the achievements of Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Jing and others if he was put into history.

Zhu Houzhao would study hard every time, so when Emperor Hongzhi conducted random inspections, he suddenly found that his son actually knew military strategies. He was surprised and very happy. This was another important reason for transferring Chen Xi from the southeast to the capital.

Chen Xi specially prepared design drawings for the sand table for Zhu Houzhao.

The design drawings of these sand tables were compiled by Chenxi based on actual combat. Each grass, a tree, a small river, an ancient well and a road has substitutes. At the same time, in the accompanying books, the hydrological geography, mountains and rivers, the direction of troops, and the arrangement and mobilization of famous wars in history are clearly arranged.

Zhu Houzhao was in the Eastern Palace for a long time and finally found the design drawings provided by Chen Xi from the bottom of the box. Curiously, he asked the eunuch who was with him to draw the reed road to make the sand table. He was surprised to find that the "villain" in the sand table, or a square formation composed of villains, plus the terrain locations such as cities, mountains, rivers, and sand dunes, were a real world.

The war that took place in writing immediately became three-dimensional and intuitive through the sand table. Zhu Houzhao went from the initial curiosity of comparing the military books when placing troops in formation to the joy of mobilizing troops at will as if he was on the battlefield in person. He was addicted to it and could not extricate himself.

"Your Highness, it's not too early, it's time for you to have a meal!" Zhang Yuan stood beside him and looked at Zhu Houzhao for a long time, not knowing what was fun about this stuff made of soil.

A naughty child, who was splicing something like a scribble, was fiddling there all day long, holding a book in his hand at any time, and there were some patterns on it. Every time Zhu Houzhao would arrange the terrain according to the contents of the book, first place the terrain, then inlaid the plants, trees, rivers, cities, etc., and then arrange the soldiers and horses according to the description in the book.

What is recorded in the book is the different attack and defensive formations carefully designed by Chen Xi. Many wars have happened in history. Chen Xi cannot teach naughty children to actually fight, so he can only start with "talking about war on paper".

Chen Xi's talk on paper is different from those nerds in this era who have made a clear understanding of the random changes in the battlefield. Through logical reasoning, Zhu Houzhao made a choice.

For example, whether to attack or defend, whether to pursue or continue to defend when the enemy withdraws troops, Chen Xi will make different assumptions after each strategy, just like logical thinking questions that immerse Zhu Houzhao in this kind of brain power game where there are multiple choices each time and each choice will have different results.

If you make a mistake in your choice, you will only lose some of your troops at the beginning, or you will encounter trouble in some aspect of the battlefield. However, as the troops you have lost too much, Chen Xi will ask the virtual opponent to launch a "general attack" according to the timeline. At that time, if Zhu Houzhao did not annihilate enough enemies in the previous battle, he would fall into a great passiveness and eventually be defeated.

Zhu Houzhao was originally immersed in martial arts novels and did not notice such fun things. When he found out, he played so much that he was so interested, even more devoted than reading martial arts novels before. Even during class during the day, he wrote and painted on paper, calculating how many soldiers he could retain in each battlefield situation and what kind of offensive and defensive choices he made were the right ones.

Zhang Yuan originally asked Zhu Houzhao to have a meal, but when he found that Zhu Houzhao was studying military books in the sand table, so that he was in a daze, he felt incredible and thought:

"This is something Chen Xi prepared for him... Why can the prince be so addicted to the things that my nephew takes out every time? Are the toys designed by Chen Xi so charming?"

"I see!"

Zhu Houzhao suddenly became excited, stood up, and continued to demonstrate his thoughts on the sand table.

Zhang Yuan approached the sand table and took a look, but still didn't understand what was being demonstrated.

However, Zhang Yuan knew how to flatter and quickly praised: "Your Highness must have chosen the right choice."

"What do you know? This is the latest discovery of this palace. It turns out that this war is the original battle of Tumu Fort!" Zhu Houzhao glanced at the map in the book, waved her small fist excitedly, her face flushed and looked energetic.

Zhang Yuan was confused when he heard this. He didn't understand the relationship between the Battle of Tumu Fort at all. However, he had heard about one thing recently. The place where Chen Xi led his troops to station is Tumu Fort, and he was trapped in a heavy siege and had almost no chance to escape.

Because the whole court was talking, even the eunuchs in the palace were different. Zhang Yuan heard a lot of secrets, and he told Zhu Houzhao all the news he had found.

After all, Zhu Houzhao was no longer a child. He had a certain mind. He spent a long time in the tactical illustration book and finally found a chapter like Chen Xi stationed in Tumu Fort and was trapped in a heavy siege. At this moment, he seemed to replace Chen Xi and faced the army of tens of thousands of Tatars alone.
Chapter completed!