Chapter Eighty-Three: Go and Take Nanjing
"That being the case, why are you still sure that your brother will succeed?" Hearing Zhu Song list so many conditions that were unfavorable to the Jingnan army, Zhu Di frowned. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"There are disadvantages and advantages!" Zhu Song grabbed a handful of ice cubes from the bucket, played with it and said: "The armies of the Qinwang from all walks of life are actually thundering loudly and raining little. At present, those who can dare to come to the aid of the imperial court, except for those who have already arrived at Ying Tianfu, there are only a few hundred thousand people left! ”
Is there less than 100,000 people? If you add Jurong's 40,000 army and Nanjing's 110,000 army, it is more than 200,000 people.
In comparison, with such a huge number, the Yan army is only 100,000, but it is far behind, if it really comes to that situation, the Yan army will definitely suffer a big loss.
However, these Zhu Di they have all considered, and it is not without a solution, hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded and intercepted before, and they were not allowed to play around, and the current situation is simply a heaven and an underground compared to the beginning.
"The Fourth Emperor Brother must also know about this situation, right?" Zhu Song saw that the expressions on Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao's faces remained unchanged, and continued:
"At the end of the day, it's just an estimate! But in reality? Zhu Shaoqian, the governor of the Zhenjiang Naval Army, surrendered with his army, and the Jingnan army had an additional 50,000 troops out of thin air, even if the 50,000 troops were left to stay in Zhenjiang, with Zhu Shaoqian there, tens of thousands of pursuing soldiers in Jiangbei would be difficult to cross the river! In this way, the 100,000 Jingnan army only needed to concentrate on dealing with the 140,000 army of the imperial court. In terms of strength, it is only a little worse than the imperial court, if the four emperor brothers still don't have the confidence to take Nanjing, then the younger brother is blind! ”
In the end, Zhu Song spread his hands helplessly and said: "Besides, Nanjing doesn't necessarily have to be attacked by force......
"Huh?" Yao Guangxiao's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What does Your Highness mean by this?"
To tell the truth, since the capture of Zhenjiang, Zhu Di and his advisers have never given up discussing how to break the city of Nanjing.
However, he has figured out no less than dozens of methods, but he always feels that something is wrong, if he wants to break the city, he will produce a certain loss no matter what, and this loss is something that the Jingnan army cannot afford.
Now, Zhu Di, Yao Guangxiao and others are having a headache about this matter.
Zhu Song smiled at Zhu Di and said, "The current situation can be said to be the most beneficial for our Jingnan army."
Zhu Diqi said: "Why? ”
"Fourth Emperor Brother, the younger brother has already compared the strength of our two sides before!"
Zhu Song said eloquently: "Regarding the current situation, Yunwen is actually more anxious than us!" Our Jingnan army went all the way south from Beiping, and there were many obstacles on the road to Jingnan, but none of them could stop the offensive of our Jingnan army, and the princes and nobles of Nanjing or the common people had already been panicking, coupled with the current situation, Nanjing was already in chaos. ”
Hearing Zhu Song's words, Yao Guangxiao's eyes lit up, and he said: "Your Highness means that if we attack the city at this moment, I am afraid that it will have the opposite effect, not only will we not take advantage of the chaos to achieve victory, but we will fall into a bitter battle, so that the civil and military officials and people in the city will have the same hatred for the enemy, and let my army fall into a bitter battle?"
Yao Guangxiao is Yao Guangxiao, worthy of being the number one military advisor under Zhu Di, and his head is turning fast.
"Not bad!" Zhu Song nodded and said, "What if my army doesn't move?" In terms of Yunwen's temperament, he will never let Li Jinglong send troops without authorization. Under the confrontation between the two armies, the most feared was the imperial army in Nanjing. ”
Zhu Song's words sound a little incomprehensible, but to put it bluntly, it is a kind of deterrence, people often say, a knife on the head of the color word, and the Jingnan army besieging Yingtian is the knife that is Xuan on the heads of the monarchs and ministers of Nanjing.
The blade flashes and can be dropped at any time!
Zhu Di understood and said, "Is it difficult to achieve such a consummation?"
Zhu Song raised his head and said, "How is this possible?" The army can stand still outside the city, but the brocade guards who were buried in the poetry meeting before are going to be busy! ”
"Oh?" Zhu Di's eyes moved, and he said, "Let them assassinate the ministers of the DPRK and China to create panic?"
Homicide?
The upper army is scheming, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is the siege.
Forcibly attacking the city is the next strategy, why do you have to see blood when you can use your brains these days?
"Fourth Emperor Brother, you misunderstood!" Zhu Song smiled bitterly and said: "At present, the people in Nanjing City are already panicked, at this time, if you let those brocade guards buried in various prefectures secretly buy those civil and military officials in the city, when the time is ripe, come to the inside and outside......
This...... Why didn't they think of it in the first place?
Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao glanced at each other, with a stunned look on their faces.
Yao Guangxiao, the old monk, kept touching his bare head, and saw that it was brighter than a light bulb, and then he snorted and said, "Your Highness, how to buy it?" ”
"Mr. Yao, this bribery is also divided!" Zhu Song smiled, treacherously like a fox: "Some people love money, some people love sex, some people love fame, and some people love rare things......"
"Do what you like!" Zhu Di said.
"Yes, yes, that's the word!" Zhu Song smiled even more happily, "Jinyiwei has been buried for so long, presumably those princes and ministers who are close to the Yan Army or the grass on the wall have already investigated it!" As long as you follow Jin Yiwei's investigation and do what they like, are you still worried that you won't be able to buy them?"
"Ahh Zhu Di clapped his hands and said, "Brother Song's plan is very good!"
"These guys have been in high positions for a long time, and they are very corrupt! For now, I will give them some benefits, and when the time comes, the army of the Four Emperor Brothers will enter Nanjing City, and let these guys return even the land with interest! ”
If you talk about black, Zhu Song is no worse than Zhu Di, after using others, he sold them with a shake of his hand, it's really black!
"But, Your Highness!" Different from Zhu Di, Yao Guangxiao began to pour cold water, "At the moment, we still lack a breakthrough!" ”
"That's not a problem!"
Zhu Song had already considered this problem: "The garrison work of Nanjing City was handed over to Li Jinglong by Yunwen. Li Jinglong, this guy is not a good bird, if he is a traitor, he is promoting him, this guy is simply a scumbag! ”
Zhu Di and Li Jinglong used to be childhood playmates, as the saying goes, from a young age to see the old, Li Jinglong's temperament when he was a child was selfish, which Zhu Di can see clearly than anyone else.
"In your opinion, start with Li Jinglong?" Zhu Di frowned slightly and asked.
"Not bad!" Zhu Song nodded and said: "At the beginning of the Jingjing, the Four Emperor Brothers were ordered by Yunwen to lead the army to suppress the bombs, but they didn't want to be defeated by the Four Emperor Brothers, and they fled!" A selfish, greedy and fearful of death, if the Fourth Emperor Brother takes the initiative to recruit him, what do you think this guy will think?"
"Good!" Zhu Di clapped his hands and said, "With his temperament, even if he hesitates, he will definitely turn his back on Yunwen in the end and surrender to the city!"
"That's it!"
Zhu Song smacked, threw the small iron bucket containing ice on the table, and said very proudly:
"I don't think it's better to be like this, Fourth Emperor Brother, you write a letter, Chen Ming is very powerful, when the time comes, the younger brother will find a suitable opportunity and send it to him!"
"Your Highness, isn't it a bit of a risk?" Yao Guangxiao was a little worried, "After all, these are our guesses, what choice Li Jinglong will make, we don't know the bottom in our hearts!" If Li Jinglong detains His Royal Highness and hands it over to Emperor Jianwen......"
"Yes, Brother Song!" Zhu Di's face was also a little worried, "Then Li Jinglong is selfish and impermanent, if he only wants immediate interests, ......"
"No way!" Zhu Song said categorically: "Li Jinglong has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, since the defeat of the army, he has long been afraid of the four emperor brothers like a tiger and a leopard, coupled with the letter written by the four emperor brothers, in Li Jinglong's opinion, with the relationship between the two of you in your childhood, after you enter Nanjing, you will not be embarrassed with him, if the four emperor brothers promise a high-ranking official in the letter, he Li Jinglong will not come to kneel and lick...... Ahem......"
Zhu Song said proudly later, and he became a little arrogant.
Low-key, damn it, low-key is king!
Besides, he couldn't tell Zhu Di that it was written in the history books of later generations that Li Jinglong surrendered to the Yan army and enjoyed all the glory and wealth during the Yongle period.
If you really say that, I'm afraid that Zhu Di will hang Zhu Song!