Chapter 9 Time

There is no time, and the most critical problem comes down to one thing, that is, there is not enough time for Tokhtar.

If the Mengyuan Imperial Court gave him a little more time and trust, Totok could completely consume the Zhu butcher alive, and Li Hanqing has always been convinced of this.

Huaidong has not been a grain-producing area since ancient times, last year Zhang Mingjian just created 600,000 victims for Zhu Butcher's side, and this year Tuotuo sent more than 1 million to Huaiyang, even if he only gave two bowls of gruel every day, it was enough to eat Zhu Butcher's little family clean.

And more than a million people need to solve not only food and water, but also the old and weak women and children need clothes to cover their bodies, need houses, even the simplest thatched huts to hide, and those young and strong people urgently need to find something to do to help the whole family get back on their feet and get rid of the embarrassing situation of relying on alms to get by.

As long as there is civil strife, Zhu Butcher will have to transfer troops from the front line to extinguish the fire, and as long as he aims his knife at the people, even if he has enough reason, the good reputation accumulated by his previous hard work will be ruined, and at that time, the 300,000 troops under the command of Tokh will be able to calmly cross the river and completely kill the Huai'an army.

Therefore, purely from the strategic level, Tokh has always had the absolute upper hand, if Fang Guozhen blocks the Yangtze River as promised and prevents the grain from the south from entering Huaidong, within three months, even the Huai'an army will have to face a desperate situation, and Zhu Butcher will not be able to shrink forever, and the increasingly tense shape will force him to cross the river to fight with Tokh, and once the protection of the Yellow River and the Huai River is lost, on the plain, even if the Huai'an army is strong, there is no hope of victory.

However, the imperial court refused to give more time to Tokto, even if it was just a month, it couldn't wait! In Li Hanqing's eyes, Tokh is a hero, proud and confident, if he still has a choice, he will never consider using assassination to solve the problem, it is not a conventional means at all, since ancient times, no famous general will use assassination to win the war, as long as this plan is taken out, it is equivalent to admitting that he can no longer defeat the opponent on the battlefield, and if the assassination fails, it will definitely bring disaster to the morale and morale of his side.

"Think twice, think twice." Thinking of the consequences of the failure of the assassination, Li Hanqing screamed emotionally again, begging with tears, "That Zhu butcher, known as Xiang Yu in the world, in case, in case you have a mistake, this, who will lead the 300,000 army, if even these 300,000 elites are lost, the court, the court can still support it for a few days." ”

"If you are told to write, you can write it." Totoh put his face on the board and scolded loudly, "Isn't it that you don't want to do things for the old man anymore, that's better, the old man is completely naked now." ”

He knew that Li Si was only loyal to himself, so he specially put cruel words to force him, and sure enough, after Li Hanqing heard this, his tears immediately stopped, "Okay, since the prime minister said so, Xiao Si wrote this letter for you, but in any case, when we meet, please also ask the prime minister to bring Xiao Si with you." ”

"Okay." Tokhtar didn't want to dwell too much on the same thing anymore, so he nodded without hesitation, "Then take you, our brothers will either build this miracle together, or go to the side of Hades Laozi to be a companion, and no one will leave anyone behind." ”

"Don't forget what the Prime Minister said at this moment." Li Hanqing gritted his teeth and responded, took a pen and paper from the bookshelf, lay on the ground, and waved the letter to Zhu Chongjiu.

"Wait for three more days, and after three days, you send someone to deliver it to Zhu Butcher, and then try to make an appointment with Zhu Butcher to meet before the end of this month." After carefully checking the letter, Toto's tone of voice slowed down again, "Before getting on the boat, the old man will entrust everything in the camp to the clams, since Xue Xue has already come, I believe that within a few days, the emperor will send other reinforcements, Tai Buhua, Yue Kuo Cha'er, and Hama are also generals who dare to fight, even if the old man really makes any mistakes, any of the three of them is enough to replace the old man in charge of the 300,000 army." ”

"Three straw bales that can only be used on paper." Li Hanqing muttered quietly in his heart, but he didn't plan to continue to dissuade Toto, and the Condor archers hired by Timur from the steppe had not yet arrived, and it would take some time to exchange letters with Zhu Tuhu.

In the midst of the busyness, three days passed, Li Hanqing was afraid that he would be suspicious of Toto, so he didn't dare to delay the time, so he immediately sent a person who could speak well, with a handwritten letter with a seal on Tomat, to write to Zhu Tuhu.

When the envoy approached the ship last month, he had already been to Huai'an City, and knew that as long as he did not deliberately seek death, Zhu Butcher would never kill the killer, so he did not hesitate to take the letter, got on the boat, and sailed leisurely to the south bank.

Because of the need to feed the sudden increase in millions of victims, the lower reaches of the Yellow River are close to the Huaidong side, and there are a large number of boats casting nets to fish almost day and night on the water, so the small boat on which the messenger is riding has not yet passed through the middle of the river, and it has already been given by the soldiers who organized the fishing.

Under the muzzle of the black hole, the messenger did not dare to hold it up, and from a long distance, he took the initiative to stand on the deck, holding up the letter to explain his intentions, Chang Haoran saw it, and naturally he would not make it difficult for him, and sent a small boat to connect it to the battleship, and then sailed back to Huai'an City like a lightning speed to Zhu Chongjiu.

In addition to Chen Ji, Zhang Yi and Feng Guoyong, a large number of scholars who came to seek fame were also hired, among which Yang Bi, Zhan Shu, and Liu Shan, because they were ranked first, were directly sent to the staff headquarters to serve as staff officers in accordance with the precedent of talent arrangements after the last imperial examination.

Although there are few people who read in this era, those who can read some famous names must not have a low IQ, so everyone circulated the letter of Tokhta, and immediately guessed that there might be a murderous motive behind this move.

"Congratulations, Chief." The newly promoted staff officer Yang Bi was anxious to express his appearance, and was the first to stand up, and bowed his hand to Zhu Chongjiu with a smile, "Some time ago, the big manager's plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle must have worked, otherwise, with the old thief's ability to get rid of it, he would never make such a decision, its name is Hezhong Interview, but it is actually a hidden evil, as long as the chief manager is not fooled by him, it won't be long before the old thief will die at the hands of his political enemies." ”

"In the opinion of his subordinates, for such a trivial matter as reopening the canal and waterway, the chief manager directly replied with a letter and agreed to get rid of it, where is the need for the two sides to talk on the river?" Zhan Shu, another newly promoted staff officer, also arched his hand and gave Zhu Chongjiu an idea with a smile.

"Yes, the chief manager has every opportunity, how can he have the time to chat with the old thief, just reply to a letter and call." Staff Officer Liu Cheng smiled, his face full of pride.

Unlike the previous batch of scholars who participated in the imperial examination, this group of them was more optimistic about the future of the Huai'an Army, believing that with the current situation, Zhu Chongjiu would sooner or later settle on Kyushu, so they were full of confidence in their words, and they did not think that after rejecting the invitation to get rid of the army, it would have any adverse impact on the morale of the Huai'an Army.

"According to Wei Chen's opinion, the lord might as well agree first." Because of his deeper understanding of the Huai'an Army, Feng Guoyong's ideas are more or less different from Yang Bi and others, "Anyway, it is impossible for the two sides to share a boat, as long as there are no artillery on the ship, what tricks do you want to play, the final result may only be self-inflicted." ”

"No, the lord can't put his life at risk." When Chen Ji heard this, he immediately objected loudly, "The Mongols are cunning and untrustworthy, as early as when they went south to destroy the Song Dynasty, there was a precedent of murdering the general of the Song army at the time of the meeting, and Natokh even did the thing of blowing up the embankment and releasing water."

"The lord might as well plan it, that detachment is a pillar of Mengyuan Optimus, the sooner it is removed, the more I Huaiyang can counterattack and attack, and get rid of the current predicament." Zhang Yi and Feng Guoyong belong to the same radical faction, and they can't wait to kill Tokhoff immediately, so they think it's worth taking some risks for their own lord.

It was not that the two of them were not loyal enough to Zhu Chongjiu, but that the current situation facing the Huai'an army was not much better than that of the enemy, and a large number of victims were waiting to be fed, and a large number of goods were piled up in the wharves and warehouses in Yangzhou and Huai'an, which could not be trafficked to all parts of the river in time, and the goods in the workshop could not be transported, so the Huaiyang firm and the governor's office could not return enough gold and silver, and there was not enough hard currency, so they wanted to exchange grain from the black-hearted traders from the south

What's more, at present, four of the five armies under the jurisdiction of the Great Governor's Office are concentrated in Huai'an, leaving only Wu Yongchun and Chen De, who are armed along the Yangtze River with the Fourth Army, while on the north bank of the Yangtze River, there are four strategic points of Yangzhou, Taizhou, Jiangwan, and Haimen, which cannot be lost.

The two factions insisted on their own words, and neither could convince anyone in a short period of time, so they turned their eyes to Zhu Chongjiu unhappily and waited for him to make a final decision.

"You've all decided that you will take a risk." Zhu Chongjiu glanced at everyone and asked hesitantly, in fact, his own impression of Tokhtar was not so bad, although the latter had blown up the embankment and released water, committing a heinous crime, but at the same time, Tokhtar did not do any abuse to the generals of the Red Turban Army who were captured by him, on the one hand, because there was an example of the Huai'an Army freeing the prisoners first, and the old thief did not want to cut off the life of all the captured generals in the future, on the other hand, it shows that this person is proud of his life and is unwilling to do worse than the thief in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, in the judgment of the character of the detached, all the staff officers said in unison, "Hu Lu has never known what righteousness is, and the lord has to guard against it." ”

"Then bring a few more good players with Zhu." Zhu Chongjiu was slightly stunned, laughed and made a decision, "Let Fu Youde and Wang Fatzi accompany me, Zhu doesn't believe it, with the two of them present, who can get close to Zhu." ”

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