Huang Degong knew that such troops could no longer fight, so he immediately arranged to defend the camp and sent an urgent letter to Nanjing to request reinforcements.
As soon as this letter for help arrived in Nanjing, it caused an uproar in the entire Jinling City. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the war, a Ming army came to the rescue. The rebel army was so powerful! It was so terrifying!
So the two giants who were still in Nanjing summoned the chief officials of the Six Ministries of Nanjing for urgent discussion. However, as soon as the discussion began, a fierce quarrel broke out between the two giants.
The Minister of War in Nanjing thought: Since the rebel army is so powerful, let's focus on defense! Let Huang Degong find a way to withdraw the troops and defend Nanjing city.
He also believed that if reinforcements were sent out again, the city of Nanjing would definitely be empty. Besides, who can guarantee that after the reinforcements are sent out, the official army will be able to stop Liu Guo's troops? In case of failure, one official army will be missing, and another army will be lost.
With an army of reinforcements, and the city of Nanjing is empty, if the bandit army captures Jinling and Taizu's mausoleum is in danger, who will bear the responsibility? Don't steal the chicken but lose the rice!
However, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji believed that if Huang Degong's troops were withdrawn, Liu Guoneng's thieves would be completely freed.
Once there, Liu Guoneng's troops can cross the river, attack Lu Jiude's flanks, and completely defeat this most important mobile force in the Jiangnan region; they can also cross Chuzhou into Yangzhou and cut off this node on the Grand Canal. You know, soon
It’s time to transport autumn grain to the north. Should we let the millions of soldiers and civilians in Beijing and the hundreds of thousands of border troops on the nine sides drink from the northwest wind?
The most terrifying option is to invade Nanjing. Whether it was the Nanjing offensive and defensive battle or the rebel army bypassing Nanjing and entering the Jiangnan area, the Ming Dynasty's wealth center was destroyed. Who can clean up this mess? Is it possible for the imperial court to clean up the mess?
If you don't care about your head, how can you use the money to defeat the bandits in the Central Plains and reject the barbarians outside the customs?
Wei Guogong Xu Hongji didn't say anything. In the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing was like Beijing. Because of its huge population and developed commercial activities, Nanjing was no longer limited to the city walls. There were huge residents outside the city.
There are a large number of residential buildings and a large amount of Xu Hongji's property. If they are all destroyed by the bandit army, how can you compensate me?
In the final analysis, this is a struggle between the interests of exiled officials and local nobles.
Since no one can convince anyone, let’s compare the big ones! The three giants in Nanjing. The guarding eunuch represents the imperial power and is of course the biggest. But Lu Jiude is not here now, so he has to abstain.
Even though Wei Guogong Xu Hongji is a top-notch nobleman, he represents a military attache. According to the tradition of the civilized noble and the military humble, Nanjing's Minister of War has the upper hand. In addition, the chief officials of the six ministries are all civilian officials. Compared with Xu Hongji's head,
Hongji also suffered a loss, so the result of the discussion was one-sided.
But Wei Guogong Xu Hongji would never be willing to fail, but the officialdom could not fight, so what should we do? So Xu Hongji immediately mobilized the masses, created public opinion, and used the vast ocean of the people to completely submerge these civil servants who wanted to invite their names!
So under Xu Hongji's deliberate publicity, the news immediately spread throughout Jinling City. The entire Jinling City immediately became excited.
"Brother Chaozong, is Jinling in danger?" A scholar asked Hou Fangyu in the eyebrow tower. Although the military disaster is approaching, the recreational activities of the scholars cannot stop. They really have a demeanor that cannot leave the line of fire even if they are slightly injured!
"Can't a ten-foot-high wall stop the bandit army?" When talking about military issues, Hou Fangyu, a "military expert" among Jinling scholars, was very energetic. "Guide city wall is four or five feet high, and there are no heavy troops to garrison it. Back then, the bandits
The army invaded twice, but my grandfather and Jiayan tried their best to keep it intact, and Wu Changjing galloped to block it, encircling and annihilating the bandit army twice, which made the bandit chiefs feel frightened when they heard that they had returned to their country, and they fought when they looked at the Bao River."
As he talked, Hou Fangyu talked about the great achievements of his Hou family. The scholars on the side knew that if they didn't stop in time, Hou Fangyu could talk about this topic for a long time, and he could write three or five articles in the style of eight-legged essays, so they
He quickly interrupted: "Brother Chao Zong, do you think we should send reinforcements?"
In fact, the local scholars were also very conflicted. Like Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, they were afraid that the peasant troops would approach the city and their family's property would be damaged; but they also thought that the more officers and soldiers in Nanjing, the better, which would ensure their own safety.
"Of course we have to send them!" Hou Fangyu replied resoundingly, "Every time there is a war, the generals want soldiers and food. This is the old plan. Then General Huang has resisted the rebel army for more than two months, and he can still handle it with ease, so why is there a war?
Together, Hongyan is in trouble? It's not a fault of war, it's just nature. It's ridiculous that I don't know how to fight, and I was bullied by a warrior. It's really..." Hou Fangyu shook his head, looking like he still had something to say.
Of course, those scholars understood it well and commented in public on the gains and losses of the Minister of War. For scholars who wanted to join the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, they would not do such an unwise thing. Hou Fangyu's half-sentence has already been quite thorough.
However, the scholars were relieved. It seemed that the situation on the front line was not that bad, so someone asked: "Since the war is going well, why are we sending troops?"
Hou Fangyu despised the person who asked the question from the bottom of his heart. Isn't this simple enough? If the battle fails because reinforcements are not sent, wouldn't the officials in Nanjing have to suffer? How can such bookworms who study hard be compared?
The Guohou family is an official family and the origin of family education?
Of course Hou Fangyu didn't know that the reasons he analyzed were all wrong. The senior officials in Nanjing did have the correct information. Otherwise, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, who has been in the officialdom for many years, would not have thought of the thoughts of a young official like Hou Fangyu.
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However, this does not prevent Hou Fangyu from talking freely.
Hou Fangyu maintained an enigmatic expression and continued: "Just be careful! What if Mr. Huang is slightly defeated? Besides, before you realize it, there is a good opportunity to severely defeat the bandit army?"
Seeing those scholars, their ears pricked up, and Hou Fangyu closed his mouth proudly and started to show off. Li Xiangjun on the side heard it wonderfully, and she couldn't bear it immediately, and urged in a crisp voice: "Young Master, please hurry up.
Ah! My heart is itching!"
Li Xiangjun's words immediately attracted a burst of good-natured laughter. The beauty still had to give face, so Hou Fangyu continued: "As long as the official army blocks the rebel army and puts it in a dilemma, Runing and Wu Changjing can use all their troops to attack the rebel army."
After that, wait for the two armies to join together and then defeat the bandit army. Eunuch Lu is in charge of the tiger battalion in the capital camp, and the Wu and Zuo Second Divisions are elite soldiers who have fought in hundreds of battles. With the combined efforts of the three armies, can the bandit army stop them?"
The Hou Fangyu who said this is very high-spirited. Both Wu Shigong and Zuo Liangyu were discovered by Hou Fangyu's father, so the current Hou Fangyu is also very proud! (To be continued...)