Daming: From the end of Hongwu

310 Chapter 308 - Wind and Cloud Gather in Xuzhou City

After Zhen Wu and Zhu Di broke up, Zhen Wu returned to his house, tapping his fingers on the table, thinking deeply.

What he said to Uncle Liu before was not a lie.

Deep down in his heart, he was indeed more inclined to believe in Uncle Liu.

What's more, if the detailed dispatch of soldiers and horses in that letter was faked, it would not be easy. How could Zhu Yunqi waste so much effort to tell a lie that is easy to find out the truth, and this lie, they No one dared to confirm whether Zhen Wu and others would believe it.

The investment is too large and the risk is not small. This kind of thing is always unreasonable.

Zhu Yunqi was a little stupid, but he was not stupid enough to make people outrageous.

Da da da.

The sound of fingers tapping on the table resounded in the courtyard, as if it was also helping Zhen Wu to sort out his thoughts.

It wasn't until Zhen Wu sorted out the matter from the beginning to the end, and confirmed that there was nothing missing, that his eyes became slightly certain.

Since the public security referendum is credible, he must be allowed to play his best role.

The eunuch with the palm print of the imperial horse supervisor in the majestic imperial city can play a role, that is too great.

Then who will infiltrate the capital and be responsible for contacting Eunuch An?
soon.

Zhen Wu thought of one person, Cao Cheng.

Cao Chengcheng was a soldier of the Great Ning. When Zhen Wu saw that Cao Cheng was smart and clever, he took Cao Cheng under his command. Now that he was sent to the capital, Zhen Wu would not be disappointed.

Later, Zhen Wu asked Cao Xiaoman to notify Cao Cheng to come over.

Soon.

Cao Cheng came with Cao Xiaoman, and when Cao Cheng's visit was over, Zhen Wu asked Cao Cheng to sit beside him and talk.

Zhen Wu first had a friendly talk with Cao Cheng, and after a few words of encouragement, he explained the task of letting him infiltrate the capital and be in charge of contacting Eunuch An.

A surprise appeared on Cao Cheng's face.

Now that the Yan army is in a good state, no one wants to seek credit for standing in this turmoil. Now that Zhen Wu gives him a special task, it means that he has credit to make, and Zhen Wu let him perform a special task, which also means Zhen Wu's trust in him and recognition of his ability.

Cao Chenglang said: "General You, please rest assured, I will do my best to live up to the high hopes of General You."

Zhen Wu waved his hand: "No need to do that, I trust you if I let you go, but there are two things I want to tell you, and these two things are extraordinary, you should not say anything to others, once you say it Don't be strict, if you reveal the slightest bit, no matter how far you flee to the ends of the earth, I will take your life, do you understand?"

Cao Cheng nodded heavily, and said firmly: "Please order from the right general, if Cao Cheng makes any mistakes, don't use the right general, Cao Cheng will kill himself in front of you."

Zhen Wu nodded, then he stood up and pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "The first thing, I don't know Mr. An, and the matter you are going to conspire with him is not trivial, so you go to Beijing Finally, we must carefully explore his weakness, so as not to be unable to restrain him when necessary in the future, as for the second thing..."

Speaking of this, Zhen Wu looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he turned his eyes to Cao Cheng's face. He said to Cao Cheng softly and solemnly: "This second thing is that one day we will break into the After the city of Nanjing, you managed to sneak into the palace with Eunuch An, and stare at the emperor to death, if the emperor wants to escape, I will allow you to strike a thunderbolt if necessary!"

Cao Cheng's face suddenly showed horror.

Zhen Wu didn't speak, but looked at Cao Cheng quietly.

After a while, Cao Cheng came to his senses. Zhen Wu didn't know if Cao Cheng really wanted to understand the serious consequences of this incident. Anyway, Cao Cheng showed a firm face, and he didn't hesitate at Zhen Wu. Hesitantly said: "Don't worry, General You, I understand!"

Zhen Wu looked at Cao Cheng, thought for a while and said, "Don't worry, I've told you about this matter. If there are any consequences, I will take care of them for you. You just need to be at ease and act boldly."

Cao Cheng nodded.

Seeing this, Zhen Wu waved his hand and said: "Okay, you go down and get ready, it's best to leave as soon as possible."

"Yes." Cao Cheng replied, then stood up and retreated.

Zhen Wu looked at Cao Cheng's back and fell into deep thought.

Since ancient times, the king has not seen the king. If Zhu Di takes down the capital, he definitely does not want to see Zhu Yunqi. Otherwise, what capacity will he meet?The feudal king pays homage to the monarch?
joke.

Zhu Di raised his troops until now, did he just want to meet Zhu Yunqi to complain about his grievances, then kill the treacherous officials and return to Peiping again? !

Zhu Di was willing to do this, and Zhen Wu and other generals also disagreed with Zhu Di's doing so.

And now that the war has been fought, the common people may not know Zhu Di's true intentions, but all the officials know clearly that when Zhu Di entered Nanjing City, it was the time when the world changed hands.

But how to change the emperor requires careful planning.

You can't break into the imperial city and drive Zhu Yunqi out of the stage, that's too untechnical.

And Zhu Yunqi will not stay in the palace, waiting for Zhu Di to drive him out of power.

Zhen Wu didn't know if Zhu Di had made arrangements in private, and how they arranged them, but no matter what happened to Zhu Di, Zhen Wu had to guard against the disappearance of Zhu Yunqi, which caused a lot of trouble in later generations.

From Zhen Wu's point of view, Zhu Yunqi can disappear, but this disappearance can only be an explanation for them to the outside world, an explanation to avoid Zhu Di's notoriety of forcing his nephew to death.

But they must know Zhu Yunqi's life and death. Only by knowing Zhu Yunqi's specific life and death, they will not worry about someone using Zhu Yunqi's name to overturn the rivers and seas in the Ming Dynasty. Only knowing Zhu Yunqi's specific life and death is the end of their battles .

Zhen Wu sighed quietly. In fact, based on his understanding of Zhu Di, if Zhu Di knew that Zhu Yunwen was dead, he probably would not be afraid of taking the notoriety of forcing his nephew to death. in the palace.

But later generations did come up with a mystery about Zhu Yunqi's disappearance. It is estimated that Zhu Di's private actions were not in place.

Zhen Wu thought, it seemed that he had to find an opportunity to have a good talk with Zhu Di about this issue, and he also needed to inform Zhu Di of his arrangements for today.

There was no pressure for him to talk about this topic with Zhu Di.

Now that Zhu Di is with him, he has never concealed Zhu Di's true intentions, and to put it bluntly, Zhu Di brought Zhen Wu, Zhu Neng, Zhang Yu and others together to rebel. , even if he doesn't have any position, he can't receive the basic salary, and he will still get a dividend at the end of the year.

This counts as shareholders.

It is not an exaggeration to say that as long as Zhen Wu and others, including the descendants of Zhen Wu and others, do not make particularly serious mistakes, this bowl of rice from the Zhu family will definitely be eaten by Zhen Wu's descendants until the Zhu family closes down.

In particular, Zhu Di is different from his father, and Zhu Di's conditions do not allow Zhu Di to cleanse meritorious ministers.

……

A few days later, Zhu Di summoned the generals to discuss the military situation again. This time Zhu Di had confirmed that the capital was empty. When he told the news, the generals fell silent for a while.

The most spacious road between Jinan and the capital is from Huai'an, but there are 40 troops stationed in Huai'an, and it is reported that Xu Huizu is leading [-] to [-] troops from the capital camp to Huai'an.

Obviously Huai'an is a tough guy.

They originally wanted to slowly gnaw off this hard bone.

But if the capital is empty, then there is another way to say this.

If they go south from Xuzhou, they can bypass Huai'an and go straight to the capital, and He Fu in Xuzhou only has 10,000+ troops in total, which is completely inferior to them. Compared with Huai'an, Xuzhou is definitely easy to fight, but I am afraid If they were frustrated for a while, Mei Yin led an army of 40 to make dumplings for them.

In the past, the risk of fighting Xuzhou was not small, and even after defeating Xuzhou, the benefits were not great, so everyone did not support it, but now the capital is empty, and the temptation of a battle to determine the world is in the eyes of everyone, and no one can calm down up.

All the generals were calculating in their minds, the possibility of raiding Xuzhou, throwing off Mei Yin, and capturing the capital. After all the calculations, everyone's breathing became a little short.

At this moment, Zhang Yu couldn't help but cast a glance at the silent Zhen Wu.

He was a little suspicious. Thinking of Zhen Wu's proposal before, he couldn't help thinking, could Zhen Wu be able to calculate the family background of the court?Is it possible that the capital's troops were empty before?

But this is too scary.

Zhu Di knocked on the table and said, "I'm pretty much thinking about it, let's talk about it, should we hit Huai'an or Xuzhou?"

"Of course it's Xuzhou."

Zhu Neng said directly: "Your Highness, I have calculated carefully, as long as we defeat He Fu within half a month, we can march down to the capital, and Mei Yin's 40 army with less horses will definitely not be able to catch up with us. When we condemn the generals to stop Mei Yin again, we will definitely be able to buy enough time to take down the capital, which is empty of troops, Your Highness, that is the capital, we have to take a gamble no matter what."

Zhu Di didn't understand these truths, and he had more bargaining chips in his hands than Zhu Neng knew. Why did he need to buy enough time to attack the capital? As long as his army arrived at the capital city, someone would open the door for him.

But of course, there is no need to tell the generals about this point, and the test that is pressing on them now is whether they can defeat He Fu in half a month.

Zhang Yu also said at this time: "His Royal Highness, let's fight Xuzhou. Although He Fu in Xuzhou has heard of him, he has never heard of his extraordinary ability. What's more, our army is as powerful as hundreds of thousands of troops. Now, He Fu's 10,000+ troops are unlikely to stop us."

Zhu Di nodded and looked around at the others: "What about you? Do you have any different opinions?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Zhu Di smiled, then withdrew his smiling face, and said in a deep voice: "Then attack Xuzhou, the generals obey the order, and move the army southward early tomorrow morning."

"Yes." The generals responded

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At the same time, Xu Huizu led his army towards Huai'an, and he read all the war files and the latest war information in detail along the way.

After thinking for a long time in the carriage, he said, "Stop."

The carriage stopped suddenly.

Xu Huizu came out with a map in his hand, looking at the map while waiting for the lieutenant general to come over.

After a while, the lieutenant hurried over.

This lieutenant is Xu Huizu's confidant. Since King Yan raised his army, because of Zhu Yunwen hiding Xu Huizu in the snow, he only followed Xu Huizu once to help Li Jinglong's palace, and then stayed with Xu Huizu in the capital, watching others fight in full swing. .

Soldiers who do not aspire to meritorious service.

Now that Zhu Yunqi finally had to use Xu Huizu, he was gearing up for a big fight.

At this moment, after he came to Xu Huizu's side, he still asked with a hint of excitement: "Master, why did you stop suddenly?"

Xu Huizu tapped the location of Xuzhou on the map, and said, "Notify the army to turn around, let's go to Xuzhou."

"To Xuzhou?"

The deputy general was puzzled and said: "But the emperor asked us to go to Huai'an to assist Prince Consort Mei."

Xu Huizu put away the map, looked in the direction of Huai'an, and said: "Accordingly, the best route for the Yan army to go south is to go down from Huai'an, but now we are leading a large army out of Beijing, the capital is empty, and the Yan army doesn't know about this, you Don't you know about this too?"

The lieutenant was startled and said, "You mean that the Yan army might attack Xuzhou? No way, how dare they attack Xuzhou directly? Isn't he afraid that Prince Consort Mei will lead the army to cut off their retreat and surround them?"

"Whether they are afraid or not."

Xu Huizu said: "But there are some things we have to guard against. Concubine Mei has an army of 40, and it is impossible for the Yan army to break through in a short time. We go to Xuzhou. If Concubine Mei is in danger, we have plenty of time to react. It is urgent to support or think of other good countermeasures, but what if the Yan army is desperate to attack Xuzhou? He Fu is likely to be defeated by the Yan army in a short period of time. Our army is already very stupid, and then Yan The army sent out a group of men and horses to stop them, and then we could only follow behind the Yan army and watch them drive the capital."

Speaking of this, Xu Huizu paused, and continued: "If the capital has soldiers and horses to block the enemy, we can encircle the Yan army inside and outside, but at the moment the capital is empty and full of weak veterans, how can we defend the city? Unfortunately, it was captured by the Yan army in one go, so what's the point of you and I leading the army outside."

What Xu Huizu said made the lieutenant break out in cold sweat.

When the deputy general thought of this possibility, he couldn't help feeling a little scared. He took a deep look at Xu Huizu, and sighed: "The imperial court is fortunate to have a Duke."

"Stop talking nonsense." Xu Huizu waved his hand: "Go tell the army to turn around."

The lieutenant should have hurried to convey the military order.

For a while, Xu Huizu led the Beijing camp army and began to move towards Xuzhou.

the next day.

The Yan army moved vigorously, and they rushed towards Xuzhou with high momentum. Along the way, they broke through Pingyin, Dongping, Jining and other cities unstoppably, and rushed to Peixian like lightning.

Pei County is close to Xuzhou, and the Yan army took a rest here. He Fu of Xuzhou heard that the Yan army had captured Pei County, and almost fled Xuzhou without being scared.

He hastily sent messengers to ask for help from the imperial court, Huai'an and other directions.

At this time, Xu Huizu had arrived in Lingbi County, just in time to stop He Fu's request for help. He looked at Yan Jun's vigorous attitude along the way, thinking that Yan Jun must be proud, and suddenly a strategy to lure the enemy came to his mind. He quickly wrote A letter was sent to Xuzhou City.

At the same time, tens of miles behind Yan Jun, Ping An led the cavalry to appear here. They followed Yan Jun's ass all the way to here, Ping An gritted his teeth, and said angrily: "Yan Jun is really bold, he really wants to attack Xuzhou."

The lieutenant next to him said: "General, what should we do?"

Ping An's eyes flashed sharply and said: "It is said that Sheng Yong's defeat to the Yan army was because Zhen Wu attacked from behind and beheaded Sheng Yong, which led to Sheng Yong's defeat."

The lieutenant nodded and looked at Ping An suspiciously.

Pingan touched his broken arm, exuding a strong hatred and said: "If Zhen Wu can do it, I can do it too. You send scouts to inquire about the Yan army's movements. This time I will also go from behind the Yan army." Get out, kill Zhu Di, and completely bury the Yan army in Xuzhou."

The lieutenant was horrified.

But seeing Ping An's serious look, he didn't know how to persuade him for a while.

However, in the end he nodded heavily.

They have been with Ping An for many years. Since Ping An wants to do this, then they will accompany them. It is nothing more than going through the mountains of swords and fires, and the caves of dragons and tigers. At worst, they will die in this battlefield.

When they're together, there's nothing to be afraid of.

The lieutenant looked towards Xuzhou from a distance, and he knew that they were waiting there!

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