Chapter 1354 Nanyang wind and rain - their own thoughts
"Based on this, the official thinks that the first method cannot be used."
At this point, Cao Che paused, picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea, giving Zhu Gaoxu time to think.
Zhu Gaoxu also lowered his head and thought seriously. What Cao Che said did make sense. Wigrama Vardana believed that he was still young. Although his eldest son died, there would definitely be other children in the future, so he did not want to pass the throne to Wigrama.
There is always the possibility of passing on the throne to Bumi's son; with a wealthy family and a temple on his side, and with rules and regulations, Veerabhmi does not dare and has no need to get rid of Vigramavardana. In addition to losing his power,
Maybe he would be more comfortable than he is now. Of course, he would not be willing to lose power under normal circumstances, but his plan is obviously to make the situation fall into an abnormal situation. It is hard to say what Vigrama Vardhana will do.
However, "General Cao, this title is too harsh. Jiang Du is one year younger than me, so I will call you brother-in-law." Zhu Gaoxu suddenly changed his title. Seeing that Cao Che did not object, he continued: "
Brother-in-law, this is indeed a safe way to avoid future troubles, but this will lead to more wars and the wealth gained may not be able to make up for the losses."
"Your Highness is joking," Cao Che said with a smile: "Your Highness is good at fighting. I have heard of it before I became the commander-in-chief of Taiwan Town. Later, after enfeoffing Qian'an, he even fought in the north and south. In just a few years, he
The vassal state has been expanded several times. Now there are only two vassal states on the island of Sumatra besides His Highness's vassal state. How can we worry about war? How can we not win the war?"
"That's not what you said." Zhu Gaoxu didn't know whether he should explain to him. He was confident of winning the battle, but the loss was hard to say. From this siege, he began to collect information about Wigrama Vardhara.
The "decisive character" in the description gives an intuitive impression. If his second peace proposal is rejected, Zhu Gaoxu can imagine two decisions that Vigrama Vardhana will make: one is to immediately order the army to disperse and retreat from the mountains.
Zhu Gaoxu and his soldiers were not familiar with the mountain roads, and the local people who took refuge may not be completely trustworthy and did not dare to send troops to pursue them. Wigrama Vardhana would most likely be able to retreat safely. Although this would cause him to retreat in the next six months or even
Within a year, there would be almost no troops available and he would be unable to resist the Ming army's attack. However, if he joined forces with Willab, the war would be prolonged.
The second method that Wigramawardana would adopt is to order the entire army to launch a more violent attack on Pamalan or Semarang City, especially the Ming army camp in Pamalan. The combat effectiveness of the five vassal states coalition forces there is uneven.
They are not uniform, and they are not familiar with each other. As the general, Xu Zengshou does not know the generals and the soldiers, and he is not stationed in a strong city. It may not be broken by Vigrama Vardhana, allowing him to escape; even if he holds it,
If the camp is destroyed, the losses of the five vassal states coalition forces will not be small, and they may not be willing to continue fighting with the Majapahit people, which will result in fewer people on their hands.
Both situations will increase Zhu Gaoxu's losses. All vassal states in Nanyang, including Su Fan, are short of money, weapons, civil servants, farm tools, everything, but the most lacking thing is population. Every year, the court sends
There were not many prisoners in the country, and most of them were sent to Hanzhou after the discovery of the Hanzhou continent. There were not many people who voluntarily went to Nanyang, but most of them still kept their roots in their hometowns and returned home after making money in Nanyang. They cannot be counted.
The people under their rule can of course be forcibly detained. The officials in Guangdong, Fujian and other places will never dare to remonstrate on this matter, but in the future he will not want anyone to come to his rule voluntarily. In the long run,
It's not cost-effective, so they can't do it. But in this way, they will have fewer people and fewer able-bodied men under their rule. The losses will be too much and cannot be made up in a short time, even if they get more goods, they can't make up for it.
Even Zhu Gaoxu, a native of Nanyang in the army, could not give up easily. Although crops grew well in Nanyang, the population was not large. In the past, Srivijaya had been at war with the Majapahit people all year round, so the population was even smaller. Every strong man was useful.
of.
In this way, Zhu Gaoxu was unwilling to fight a battle that might cause relatively large losses; but according to Cao Che's thinking, he would fight tough battles in the future, which was not in his favor.
Of course, the more important thing is that he will not be able to occupy Java Island in the future. If he can occupy this island, he will have to pay more losses, but if he cannot occupy it, he is not willing to lose too many soldiers for the sake of wealth.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly woke up: "It couldn't be that Yun wanted to destroy Majapayi Kingdom and told Cao Che about his thoughts, so he has been encouraging me to destroy the two families of Wigrama Vardana and Veerabumi."
Soldiers, so that Yun can later send a few soldiers to occupy the island, and grant others the title of king to guard it.'
Now that he thought of this matter, Zhu Gaoxu became vigilant, carefully considering every word he said to Cao Che, and at the same time carefully testing it. However, Cao Che was not stupid, and acted impeccably.
"Forget it, this matter is of great importance, and the sending of troops to the Manchu Boyi Kingdom this time is not a matter of our Su Fan family. The kings of Song, Luo, Pu, Yue and other kings have also sent troops to participate in the war. I can't be alone. etc.
They go to Semarang City, or we go to Pamalan, and we will make plans after discussing with them."
"As for now, I plan to reward the soldiers who made great contributions to the attack on Semarang City and the defense of Semarang City. My brother-in-law would like to go and see it with his brother-in-law?" Zhu Gaoxu suddenly said with a smile.
Hearing this, Cao Che's mood fluctuated for a while, but it quickly disappeared. He stood up, stretched, and smiled at Zhu Gaoxu: "Okay, I've been sitting here discussing it for a while. Let's move around.
That’s fine; the reward for meritorious service cannot be delayed and must be done as soon as possible.”
"Then our brother-in-law will go and have a look with me." Zhu Gaoxu also stood up and looked at all the soldiers and people in the city. Looking at these people with faces full of smiles about surviving the disaster, he said with a smile: "The people in the city
Since the atmosphere is so happy, I just want to add more fuel to the fire."
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Different from the situation in Semarang City, the military camp of the Majapahit Kingdom can be said to be bleak at this time. Even the most ordinary soldiers know that the army must not stay in despair. Sooner or later, if this continues, the entire army will be destroyed.
Collapse. But the attack on Semarang City failed again, and the last way out could be said to have been cut off. If Wigrama Vardhana's prestige in the army was not high and his generals were loyal to him, some troops might have been killed by this time.
They mutinied. But even if they don't mutiny now, their morale has become extremely low and it is difficult to drive them to fight again.
The same was true in Wigrama Vardhana's tent. At this time, all the mid-level and senior generals were in this tent, but no one spoke. Everyone had expressions of frustration or fear on their faces. From time to time, someone looked up.
He asked Vigrama Vardhana to take it, but seeing that his face was expressionless, he could only lower his head again.
"Your Majesty," Ketanagala couldn't stand the atmosphere any longer. He stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, why not immediately send the entire army to attack Semarang City again? We will surely capture it. Now think back to the support troops entering the city just now.
It looks like the front army is completely different from the rear army. Most of the rear army are not elites, and may not have even fought before. They will never be our army's opponents. We will definitely win the city again!"
"It's too late." Wigrama Vardhana didn't say anything. **Jia Liang replied: "If you discover this during the siege and send a group of soldiers to stop it, and the others continue to attack the city, maybe you can break through the three treasures.
Langcheng; now that the support troops have entered the city, even if they have never fought in a war, they are all new soldiers, and they can defend the city competently. In this way, there are more than 15,000 people stationed in the city, and more than 50,000 of us can't do anything in a short time.
Can’t beat it down.”
"Then what do you think we should do?" Ketanagala asked angrily: "Can't we just wait to die like this?"
**Jia Liang was very familiar with him and knew that talking like this was not only a waste of words but also meaningless. He stood up and said to Wigrama Vardhana: "Your Majesty, I think that at this time, I can only send people to ask for peace from the Ming army again.
, beg them to be willing to get out of the way. No matter how much you pay, as long as you can keep the army, it is worth it."
"Even if you agree to hand over half of your troops?" Ketanagala said loudly: "If you hand over half of your troops, there will be less than 50,000 people left in the entire army, which is not enough to suppress Veerabhmi and the clans who have been obedient to His Majesty.
How can it be accomplished with a temple?"
"That's better than leaving everyone here!" Seeing that Wigrama Vardhana didn't speak, **Jia Liang turned to Ketanagala and said: "If you can't suppress it, give in to them. As long as you can
If we keep part of the army, we will have the possibility of rising again. If we leave them all here, there will be no chance of anything."
Ketanagala argued with **Jialiang for a while, but couldn't reason with him. He could only turn to Wigrama Vardhana and said: "Your Majesty, if you have to give up part of your army to get Zhu Gaoxu to accept the peace proposal, it would be better.
Let the whole army withdraw from the mountain roads."
"Withdraw from the mountain roads!" ** Jia Liang also shouted: "How many troops will your Majesty have available in half a year or even a year? It would be better to abandon half of the army."
Ketanagala was about to say something more when he saw Wigramavarda, whose movements had not changed since he entered the tent and sat down just now, moved his hand, and said in a low voice: "Ketanagala and*
*Jia Liang stays, and the others retreat."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Everyone agreed, turned around and left the tent.
After everyone else had left, Vigrama Vardhana said: "I have just heard what you said. Ketanagala, your intention is good, but at this time you can only ask for peace from the Ming army again, even if
Abandon half of the army. What I am more worried about now is that Zhu Gaoxu is willing to accept more stringent conditions for peace, not just asking me to abandon half of the army."
"Your Majesty," Ketanagala said in disbelief, "Zhu Gaoxu still dares to make the conditions more harsh? No, if the conditions are more harsh, he will never agree." He already found it unbearable to abandon half of the army.
Now the other party's conditions may be higher, and it is absolutely impossible for him to accept them.
"This is also what I mean." Vigrama Vardhana said: "** Jia Liang, I will send you into the city to ask Zhu Gaoxu for peace talks, and then tell him my conditions: any amount of wealth is fine, even if it means giving up the entire
It’s okay to evacuate Bitter Orange City; all the people who have been robbed from the island can be taken away. If there are any who are unwilling to be taken away, I can redeem them at the price of twelve taels of gold per person. If I don’t have enough
I can give him whatever money he wants."
"...There are other conditions that I can agree to. But there is only one thing. I can only give up half of the army at most, and I cannot give up more. If you are asked to give up more, and Zhu Gaoxu has no intention of giving in, we will stop the peace talks immediately.
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"You must also be careful after entering the city. You must not let Zhu Gaoxu delay for time. Once you find that he is delaying for time, you will immediately stop the peace talks and return to the army."
"Yes, Your Majesty." ** Jia Liang agreed. Seeing that he had no other instructions, he turned around and left. He was about to go back to his tent, change his clothes, and go to the city to sue for peace. Time is running out now, there is no time left.
can be wasted.
"Ketanagala." Vigrama Vardhana ordered again.
"Your Majesty." He agreed quickly.
"You go down and let the soldiers who still have morale prepare. Once Jia Liang returns from the city and brings the news that Zhu Gaoxu is unwilling to agree to peace talks, he immediately gives an order to the whole army: the soldiers will be divided into groups of ten and withdraw from the mountain road.
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"Your Majesty, this cannot be done." Ketanagala said immediately. Although he had said that it would be better for the entire army to withdraw from the mountain road when he was arguing with his brother Jia Liang, that was just a momentary indiscriminate decision.
What he said was not his true thoughts. His thoughts were still to fight a bloody road. "Your Majesty, the whole army can turn around and attack Bamalan. The Ming army in Bamalan comes from many places, and the generals under its command cannot be in command.
It is possible to defeat them and find a way out." He then added.
"What if it rains heavily again when we are trekking hard to Bamalan?" Wigramawardana asked in reply: "If it rains heavily for many days in a row, how can we attack the Ming army's camp? You also know that this is the right time.
It is the rainy season, there is a lot of rain, and it is very likely to rain. At that time, there is really no way to advance or retreat, and there is no way out."
"However, this will not allow the entire army to withdraw from the mountain road." Ketanagala said anxiously: "Your Majesty, there will not be many trustworthy troops in the next six months, whether it is the Ming army or Willa Bumidu
It’s unstoppable.”
"If you can't stop it, then stop it. Whoever wants to block it can go ahead." Wigramavardhana said this, and said to him in an aggravated tone: "Go and get ready!"
