Chapter 863: Forced Landing

In the blink of an eye, days passed.

"Is this the method of King Yong?" Zhang Jing's face was pale, and his whole face was bloodless, as if he was alone in the wilderness of the cold sky.

For Zhang Jing, the situation he is facing now is more terrifying than the cold sky of Sanjiu.

He had a letter in his hand, which his father had written to him.

The worry that Zhang Jing had been worrying about all this time finally broke out.

In the Epistles, it is not important what is written, but what is important. His parents and family have fallen into the hands of King Yong.

"Yongwang Rende, how could he do such a thing, but Lord He Wenyuan, the governor of Zhejiang, does not have this heart." The envoy from King Yong's side said.

He didn't panic.

Indeed, this strategy is exactly what He Wenyuan offered.

He Wenyuan wanted to make a forced landing on Zhang Jing.

Zhang Jing is a hard bone. After he came to Ningbo, all kinds of means seemed to make Ningbo an impregnable wall. Ningbo City is much stronger than Funing City.

Needless to say, in the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols demolished a large number of city walls in order to eliminate the will of the Han people to resist. The Ningbo city wall was also demolished. But when Fang Guozhen was in turmoil, the Yuan Dynasty rebuilt the city wall again.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, an infrastructure madman, rebuilt the city wall on a large scale, and Ningbo was also among the reconstructions. The specifications of Ningbo City are above Funing City, and Funing City has only four gates. However, Ningbo City has six city gates. Of course, Ningbo City is not as good as Funing City, that is, Funing City was rebuilt once in the Zhengde period.

However, this point is not a matter at all in Zhang Jing's hands. At this moment, he called up all the people of the city, renovated the city walls, and when there were no materials, he began to demolish the houses in the city, in short, to strengthen the walls at all costs.

Zhu Houhuang was a little worried about Ningbo.

It is said that the Spaniards wanted to conquer the Ming Dynasty with 3,000 soldiers, but they explored and thought that all the cities of the Ming Dynasty had been castled, and it was not 3,000 soldiers who could fight it.

In Zhu Houhuang's view, this is just a joke.

But no matter how much it is a joke, it can also tell a problem.

Zhu Houhuang is unwilling, if the attack of one city at a time, if it is so big, even if the Yong army has millions of people, it will not be able to fight.

Therefore, Zhu Houhuang has always wanted to seek a decisive battle in the wild. But Yang Yiqing seemed to know what Zhu Houhuang thought, so he would rather lose ground again and again than fight with Zhu Houhuang in the wild.

Therefore, Zhu Houhuang adopted He Wenyuan's plan of forced landing.

"The meaning of His Royal Highness King Yong, I have understood, but since I have been reading since I was shackled, I know the meaning of loyalty and filial piety. I'd rather die than surrender to the thief, and the kindness of my parents' nurturing can only start to repay it. Zhang Jing gritted his teeth, eager to crush all his teeth, and said almost word by word.

Zhang Jing's heart was like a knife, hating King Yong and He Wenyuan to the bones, and continued: "King Yong's great rebellion, I know that there is no sense of loyalty and filial piety in my heart, but I don't know why I saw the first emperor underground under King Yong's nine springs. ”

Zhang Jing said: "Drive him out." ”

"Yes." Zhang Jing's personal entourage immediately drove out the envoy of King Yong.

"My lord, are you still patrolling the city?" Asked in person.

Zhang Jing raised his head, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and these bloodshots seemed to explode in an instant.

Zhang Jing said: "How can you mislead the country's major affairs because of private affairs." Continue to patrol the city. ”

Maybe some people are hypocrites, but for most of the Ming scholars, they have studied since childhood, and the meaning of loyalty and filial piety is poured into the bone marrow, and Zhang Jing is definitely a filial son.

But when the difference between being a filial son or a loyal minister was placed in front of Zhang Jing's eyes, Zhang Jing didn't know how to make a choice at all, he could only choose the righteousness of the country with pain, but the pain in his heart was not something that others could know.

"Let's go down." Zhu Houhuang listened to the envoy's report and sent the envoy down.

"Your Highness, are we really going to kill Zhang Jing's parents?" Li Liangqin was a little unbearable. Li Liangqin was born in the rivers and lakes, and his wife and children were not harmed, and he has gone deep into Li Liangqin's bone marrow.

After killing Zhang Jing, Li Liangqin would not frown, and even because of Zhang Jing's matter, Li Liangqin would not feel that there was anything wrong with Zhang Jing's family.

But if you threaten someone else with their parents. This is a bit out of line.

"How is that possible?" Zhu Houhuang said: "How can Lone do such a thing, Zhang Jing's parents are still in Fuzhou now, but they are only temporarily detained, Lone is just used to mess with Zhang Jing's mind, just like he really opened the city because of this, it is very good, but if he does not grit his teeth and surrender, Lone has no way to take him." ”

Zhu Houhuang may not have the idea of killing Zhang Jing's parents to vent his anger.

However, as a sane politician, Zhu Houhuang immediately understood that he could not do this.

First of all, morality is a big issue in this day and age. No, even in later generations, if you want to hit a person's point of view, it will generally turn into a personal attack.

Because there is an ancient logic in everyone's thinking, what a good person does is a good thing, and what a bad person does is a bad thing.

Zhu Houhuang is about to compete with Jiajing for the world. Just when he was about to make a good impression on the people of the world, how could he do such a thing, and he also understood. It's probably not going to be useful.

Just like Liu Bang, Xiang Yu used Liu Taigong to threaten Liu Bang, Liu Bang played a bachelor and wanted to get a piece of my pie, but Xiang Yu had no choice.

Just like Zhang Jing now, since he has made up his mind to kill someone, it will only make Zhang Jing more tenacious against Zhang Jing.

There are all kinds of harmful things that have no benefit, how can Zhu Houhuang be willing to do it.

"General Yu, how do you think this Ningbo City should be attacked?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

Ningbo City is located in Cixi, Fenghua River, Dongqian Lake junction, so it is called the mouth of the three rivers, the water system surrounds, the water of the moat is abundant, and there are waterways inside and outside the city are the same. If you want to attack Ningbo City, you must first get control of these waterways, but these waterways are extremely narrow, our army and sailors cannot enter at all, and there must be small boats to attack them, and there is the Ningbo city wall, and the waterways attack, it will leak under the blow of the city. Therefore, it is difficult to attack in such a defensive mode of land and water combination. Yu Dayou said.

Zhu Houhuang asked, "Isn't this city able to attack?" ”

Yu Dayou said: "Naturally not, but I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties." ”

Yu Dayou's words hit Zhu Houhuang's mind, and the four words of heavy casualties made Zhu Houhuang have to consider carefully. First of all, this Ningbo city is surrounded by water on three sides, and it is a place with abundant groundwater, even if Yu Dayou doesn't say it, he also knows that the method of collapse probably won't work.

There can only be artillery onslaught.

But the power of the artillery is not enough, and it will take a long time to break the city. Otherwise, it will be easy to break the city directly with artillery.

Zhu Houhuang said: "What do you mean? ”

Yu Dayou said: "The minister thought that there was no need to rush to Ningbo. The center of gravity of the defense of Zhejiang Province is in Ningbo and Hangzhou, and all parts of the south are empty. Maybe you can also attack the south of Shaoxing? ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Is this any use? ”

Zhu Houhuang understands very well that what he wants is not the territory, but the main force to destroy the opponent, as long as he can defeat the enemy's main force, then Jiangnan will let him act on his own. These places don't need to be hit, it's also him.

Yu Dayou said: "Losing the land again and again, does His Highness think that Yang Yiqing can really do it?" Even if he can sit still, can the one in Beijing make them sit still? ”

Zhu Houhuang immediately understood that Yu Dayou was simply forcing Yang Yiqing to fight.

Zhu Houhuang's thinking is limited to Ningbo City, while Yu Dayou's thinking is very broad.

Yu Dayou continued: "Even if Yang Yiqing dares to resist the order, it is a big deal to send a sailor into the Yangtze River, and if Yang Yiqing can still sit still, the minister will admire him." ”

Yes, Zhejiang and Fujian can give up, but Nanjing must not be given up, not only because Nanjing is a strategic place, but also because Nanjing is politically significant in the Ming Dynasty.

Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the filial piety tomb of Ming Taizu is outside Nanjing, if King Yong gets Nanjing, he will have the support of the legal system, and even have the confidence to rule the river with Jiajing.

This is something that Jiajing absolutely cannot allow.