"Zhang Shicheng has sent someone here. How should we deal with it? Let the two gentlemen come up with an idea."
Since Jia Lu was still in Dingyuan and had not come, the only ones who could give Lao Zhu advice were Li Shanchang and Zhang Ximeng. This time, Li Shanchang was very honest and said directly: "I have been dizzy and confused when I have been dealing with prisons these days.
Let Mr. Zhang talk about it!"
It is obvious that Li Shanchang has become more and more into his role. Although he is nominally the first civil servant, he is mainly responsible for administrative affairs. These general military and political decisions still depend on Zhang Ximeng, and this young man does have some unique features.
Facing Luo Guanzhong who is about to meet, Zhang Ximeng has no trouble at all. What can he expect from a bad guy?
snort!
"My lord, let's talk about Zhang Shicheng first. In fact, as mentioned before, he started his career with eighteen poles. In terms of work, he is still behind my lord, but he is lucky. His salt workers are hard-working and have the same relationship as Yuan Ting.
Unforgettable hatred and great combat power. Only then did he easily defeat Gaoyou, attack Taizhou, and Yangzhou. But don’t forget, when Sesame Li captured Xuzhou, Tuotuo immediately gathered an army and destroyed Sesame Li. Only then did Peng Dahe
Zhao Jun fled to Haozhou to avoid disaster. The canal was the lifeblood of the Yuan Dynasty, and anyone who touched the canal would definitely die. What's more, Zhang Shicheng also founded the country and became king. If the Yuan Dynasty could still endure it, he might as well hand over most of his capital and retreat to the grassland.
"
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "Sir, what do you mean, the imperial court will definitely send out a large army to attack Zhang Shicheng?"
"My lord is wise, Zhang Shicheng has violated two taboos in a row, Yuan Ting will definitely not let him go."
"So, Zhang Shicheng will make the same mistake as Sesame Li?" Lao Zhu asked. It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang looks down on Zhang Shicheng. It's actually that the Yuan Dynasty currently has millions of soldiers, and they are all well-equipped elites.
If the Yuan army makes a desperate move, even Lao Zhu himself has no confidence that he can stop the Yuan army. Even if Zhang Shicheng's strength on paper increases tenfold, it will be useless.
There is no need to think too much about the difference between strength and weakness, victory and defeat.
Zhang Ximeng understood Zhu Yuanzhang very well, and he believed that even Zhang Shicheng himself thought so.
But who knew, history can be so interesting.
When Tuotuo was about to capture Gaoyou, he didn't know whether it was the blessing of Yue Fei's heroic spirit or the possession of Emperor Wanyan Gou of the Yuan Dynasty... but he did a stupid thing of changing generals before the battle.
The million-strong army collapsed, and Zhang Shicheng won a victory in vain.
In fact, among the three main forces in the southern region at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Lao Zhu's situation was the worst... After Chen Youliang devoured the master, he inherited the basic structure of the Tianwan regime. Due to the early uprising, he moved to many places and had strong influence.
He had the largest number of soldiers and horses, so Chen Youliang was able to bring out an army of 600,000.
Zhang Shicheng won a vain victory in Gaoyou and obtained supplies and supplies for a million-strong army. His troops expanded rapidly and crossed the river to occupy Suzhou and other places. Since the territory was the richest and rich in products, Zhang Shicheng had strong financial resources and was able to stabilize Zhu Yuanzhang.
When it comes to military affairs, he is not as good as Chen Youliang.
In terms of money and food, he is not as abundant as Zhang Shicheng.
Lao Zhu was in such an embarrassing position, and yet he was allowed to break out of the encirclement. It can only be said that it was a fluke.
But with Zhang Ximeng here, it will naturally be much smoother and more stable.
"Lord, this matter is not about whether Zhang Shicheng wins or loses... but regardless of victory or defeat, we are bound to face a formidable enemy. But if Zhang Shicheng wins, we have to face Zhang Shicheng. If Yuan Ting wins, we have to face Yuan Yuan.
It’s just Ting!”
Lao Zhu took a deep breath and fell into silence. He thought carefully and couldn't help but nodded secretly.
To capture Chuzhou and drink from the Yangtze River, he could no longer hide behind others and had to have the courage to face Yuan Ting directly. Of course, if Zhang Shicheng withstood Yuan Ting's offensive and defended Gaoyou and Yangzhou, although the probability is not high,
But it seems to be more troublesome than Yuan Ting’s victory!
There is a fierce tiger beside me!
Li Shanchang frowned, thought again and again, and then said: "So, no matter who wins, our situation will not be better?"
Zhang Ximeng nodded, "That's true, so I think we must make preparations."
"How to prepare?" Li Shanchang asked urgently, and Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhang Ximeng.
"What I mean is to capture Liuhe as soon as possible and block the road from Yangzhou. In this way, we can attack when we advance and defend when we retreat. We can not only support Zhang Shicheng, but also defend against the Yuan army. We can accomplish multiple things with one stone. Furthermore, we should take the opportunity to capture Hezhou.
, occupy the land north of the Yangtze River. It is best to capture Wuwei Prefecture. In this way, we also have depth and can advance and retreat calmly. We will not have to hold on when the Yuan army comes. Furthermore, if the Yuan army is defeated, we have
The long river bank makes it easy to cross the river immediately. No matter what, we cannot let Zhang Shicheng take over Jiqing!"
People who are familiar with history will probably think that Zhang Ximeng's worries are unnecessary. Zhang Shicheng won the battle of Gaoyou, and it is logical to seize Yingtian.
But standing at the moment, if the thing has not happened, who dares to make casual assertions?
Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with Zhang Ximeng's judgment, but he hesitated, "We have just discussed that we need to recuperate and not use troops casually. But now we have to send out troops again, I'm afraid it will hurt the people..."
Seeing Lao Zhu's worried face, Li Shanchang smiled and said: "It's not difficult to defeat the enemy without fighting if you are in the upper position. I think our Mr. Zhang must have a clever plan, right?"
Zhang Ximeng rolled his eyelids, you really think highly of me!
But speaking of it, he really thought of a way.
You said Zhang Shicheng sent someone bad, but he insisted on sending someone to write novels. If you don't lie to him, it will be a disservice to his profession.
As for what strategy to use, don't worry about it. It's all in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" anyway... Suddenly Zhang Ximeng realized something... It seems that the Three Kingdoms can use a lot of plots from the late Yuan Dynasty.
For example, Zhang Shicheng is very similar to the Yuan family, they are all withered bones in the grave. Chen Youliang devoured the master and killed Ni Wenjun and Xu Shouhui successively, just like Little Lu Bu at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
The most fun thing is the Battle of Red Cliff.
The historical record of the Battle of Chibi is very simple. The simplest version even has only one sentence, saying that Cao Cao went to Chibi and was not prepared for the war. So there was a great epidemic, many officials and soldiers died, so he led his troops back.
Soochow was not even mentioned.
Of course, the records about the state of Wu are much richer, mentioning the water battle that defeated Cao Cao, and mentioning the coalition forces of Sun and Liu burning the camp.
However, no matter which version, it is not mentioned that Cao Cao died of more than 800,000 people.
In fact, if Cao Cao really lost more than 800,000 people, these soldiers had families and relatives, and the number might be millions or more. Would these people remain indifferent? In an instant, Cao Cao would be finished. How could he still rule the world?
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Even in the novel, they only dare to send 70,000 Red Flame Army. Although this is outrageous and enough to ruin a country, it is still much easier than the Battle of Chibi written by Lao Luo.
Then someone has to say, could it be that the wonderful Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms was all fabricated by Lao Luo?
One thing to say here is that it is really not the case. The Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms has a prototype.
This prototype is the Battle of Poyang Lake between Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang...when Chen Youliang led hundreds of thousands of troops down the river to attack Lao Zhu.
Everyone was afraid and the morale of the army was in chaos... At this time, Liu Bowen stepped forward to encourage Zhu Yuanzhang and stabilized his fighting spirit. He also used Kang Maocai to fake surrender and ambushed Chen Youliang. Zhu Yuanzhang won the first game.
Defeated, Chen Youliang fled back to his hometown, built a warship, and accumulated strength. When Zhu Yuanzhang went to rescue King Xiao Ming, he mobilized all his troops and took advantage of the opportunity to attack. As a result, he stopped his troops in Hongdu and was beaten by Zhu Wenzheng into losing his temper.
When Lao Zhu arrived, Chen Youliang had a large ship. For safety, he connected it with iron ropes. Lao Zhu used fire boats to defeat the enemy tit for tat, burned Chen Youliang's army, wiped out 600,000 horses, and killed Chen Youliang. The next year, he annexed
The Chen Han regime...
Did you see that the false surrender plan, the serial plan, and the fire plan were all due to the confrontation between Lao Zhu and Chen Youliang?
Luo Guanzhong wrote these into the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As a result, because the Three Kingdoms were so famous and this section was so exciting, everyone took the content of the novel to be the real Three Kingdoms.
But the truly wonderful confrontation between Zhu and Chen in history has been forgotten by most people.
It's true that piracy puts the original out of business.
Zhang Ximeng doesn’t know whether to be happy for Lao Zhu or to sympathize with him: Everyone knows your record, but your record does not belong to you!
Let a coder steal it.
The writer’s highlight moment.
But since it is Luo Guanzhong who is here, let’s use Luo Guanzhong’s method to deal with him.
"Lord, we only need to forge a letter from Zhao Junyong, saying that he wants to invite the lord to attack Gaoyou together. After the event is completed, we will divide the world among the lord. Then at the banquet, just accidentally reveal this letter to the envoy.
.After seeing him, he must be very frightened. At this time, if we take advantage of the trend and send troops to Liuhe, Zhang Shicheng will be afraid and dare not stop us. After we win Liuhe, we can negotiate and cooperate with Zhang Shicheng, and we may be able to extort money!"
Zhang Ximeng said with a smile, obviously, in his mind, Luo Guanzhong is not a wise man with a feather fan and a turban, he should be positioned as the book thief Jiang Qian!
Li Shanchang frowned, but he didn't say anything about this plan... because Wu Datou's incident had told him that in this world, there was nothing he couldn't imagine but nothing he couldn't do.
Weird and strange things will happen.
People can only pull their hair and lament the lack of imagination.
Lao Zhu thought about it again and thought he could give it a try.
"Okay, let's follow Mr. Zhang's suggestion and prepare a banquet. Let's invite Luo Guanzhong to have a drink... By the way, call Wu Datou here and put on a good show for Luo!"