Zhu Yuanzhang's last concern was whether Zhang Wuji would take the opportunity to crusade against him.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Although this plan is good, Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding have made it clear that they will take refuge in Mingzun. If we attack them now, will it cause Mingzun's jealousy, if the three of them join forces to attack us, then we will be very passive. Besides, everyone is under the command of the righteous army, and it is difficult to convince the people that this division is nameless. ”

Hu Weiyong looked at Li Shanchang at this time.

Li Shanchang comprehended, and then felt something from his sleeve robe, and then handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang said after reading it: "Okay! As long as the two of them are not honest! Good! As long as these are there, then it can be said that Xu Changer will go to crusade. ”

So Zhu Yuanzhang immediately began to deploy, and he said to everyone: "Tang He, you lead our own brothers to defend along the river, in case Zhang Wuji's little boy takes a vacation." Li Wenzhong, you lead Zhu Wenzheng to the front line of Hongdu City, if our army and the Ming army are engaged, then you will recapture Hongdu, and then cross Xiangshui to the west to capture Jingnan. In the middle of the war between Mingzun and the Mongols, Xu Da sent a message to him to the south to attack Chen Youding. The book is often passed on to Chun, and Fang Guozhen colluded with the Mongols to hand over the evidence against Mingzun to him. ordered him to lead the Mingjiao army to defeat Fang Guozhen. ”

Li Shanchang wrote down Zhu Yuanzhang's deployment one by one, and then everyone stood on the wall of Jinling City, overlooking Jiangbei, where the fate of the world was about to take place.

Everyone planned to watch the fire from the other side, waiting for this big battle that would decide the fate of the world.

On the dragon boat, Zhang Wuji and his party sailed past Jinling City.

Su Mengqing stood on the deck, looking at Jinling City behind her, she said: "Although the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is the most in Suzhou and Hangzhou, this beautiful scenery of Jinling is also rare. Isn't the emperor interested in going to Jinling City? ”

Zhang Wuji heard Su Mengqing's voice, and he said: "Now is not the time to clean up Zhu Yuanzhang, he may be waiting to see whether he succeeds or fails, if we defeat the Mongol army, he will definitely surrender to us." ”

Su Mengqing shook his head at this time and said, "The emperor's words, the concubines don't dare to agree. Although the concubine did not have deep contact with Zhu Yuanzhang, I could see from his eyes that he was ambitious. He would never be willing to live under others for a long time. According to the investigation of the concubines, Zhu Yuanzhang still has at least 300,000 soldiers and horses. There is also half of Koto. If I were him, I would not surrender to others. ”

Zhao Min asked, "Sister Su is saying that he will definitely rebel?" ”

Su Mengqing shook his head and said, "I don't dare to guarantee this. It's just that I have never done things that I am not sure of, and there is such a big trouble behind, if I am the emperor, I will not be able to survive this battle. This cunning fox doesn't know when it will bite. ”

Zhao Min looked at Zhang Wuji, who was standing beside her, and said, "Brother Wuji, I agree with Sister Su's opinion. Although I have never been on the battlefield, I came from a military family, and when I was young, I also learned some art of war with my father and brother. Now our deployment has committed a military taboo. I think it's better for us to turn around and eliminate Zhu Yuanzhang first. ”

Su Mengqing took the sunset binoculars he bought from Western merchants, looked at Jinling City in the distance and said, "Now with our military strength, it is easy to take that city. The emperor should think about it. If we fight with Meng Yuan to a critical moment, and Zhu Yuanzhang takes the opportunity to turn against the water, then our supply and demand lines will be cut off, and the grain and grass will not be able to arrive. Therefore, the concubine felt that it was better to eliminate the hidden danger first. ”

Zhang Wuji took the monocular from her hand and looked at it, and he said confidently: "I didn't expect him to have the courage to do it directly to us!" If he does do something to us, then I can also free up my hands to kill him first. ”

"Now if we want to destroy the three feudatories, it is just a matter of raising our hands to unify half of the south of the Yangtze River. It's just that you can't lose the hearts of the people in the world. What keeps Zhu Yuanzhang and them now is not our lack of military strength, it is just a paper covenant against the Yuan in Butterfly Valley. As the Son of Heaven, I naturally have to be true to my word. If you lose your trust in the world, then you will lose the hearts of the people. ”

Zhang Wuji put down the binoculars at this time, turned his head to the two and said, "Even if we lose this time, even the whole army will be wiped out." As long as the hearts of the people in the world are still there, and the prestige of Mingzun is still there, he can make a comeback at any time. Besides, we still have Minmin. ”

Zhao Min pointed to his face at this time and said, "Me? I can help you deal with government affairs or something, but I don't have the strength of you and Sister Huojia, how can I help you turn things around? ”

Zhang Wuji smiled at this time: "If we are defeated this time, then we will have our Shaomin County Lord as an envoy to sue for peace." When the time comes, I will only have to accept the contract of the Yuan Court. Then my father-in-law will help me get rid of these bed bugs. Why do we need to do it? It can be said that it has been a game between me and my father-in-law from beginning to end, Zhu Yuanzhang, Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding, Zhang Shicheng and other generations, but they are just clowns. ”

After saying that, Zhang Wuji returned the telescope to Su Mengqing, then flicked his dragon robe, turned around and returned to the cabin.

Zhao Min and Su Mengqing both looked at each other and smiled. Then the two of them also followed Huo Jia and others to enjoy the scenery on the river.

In the evening, the wind direction changed, and the fleet lowered its sails one after another under the command of Zhao Pusheng and dropped anchor on the spot.

Although the warship was constantly rising and falling along the river. But it still stands firmly on the river.

Zhang Wuji's fleet stopped on the river in this way, confronting the Yuan army on the shore.

Originally, the land of Huainan before, Zhang Wuji gave it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

But because of Zhang Wuji's cutting incident, Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang reached a cooperation.

That is, Zhu Yuanzhang ceded the land of Huainan occupied to Zhang Shicheng.

If it was before, Zhu Yuanzhang would never agree, but now Zhang Wuji is the main enemy. Then the land of Huainan is a burden, rather than holding on, it is better to shrink the military force back. So Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Shicheng for 300,000 taels of silver for military expenses and threw the land of Huainan to him.

Now that Zhang Shicheng is united with the king of Ruyang, the entire north of the Yangtze River has been occupied by the Mongol army.

As it darkened, a bonfire lit up in the Mongol camp.

The people who were staying on the warship looked at the Mongolian camps scattered according to the "Tianmen Array" from afar, and they all showed surprise on their faces.

Because the fire of the Mongolian camp is like a sky full of stars, one after another, from here you can not see the edge, as if it stretches for hundreds of miles. I don't know how many troops the other side has.

Although the camps are connected, but the layout is quite orderly, if Uncle Liu Huang used this array to deal with the Eastern Wu army, how could there be a defeat of Yiling burning the camp for 700 miles?

Huo Jia said at this time: "Your Majesty, I have also fought with the King of Ruyang. Judging by the size of his camp, it seems that he had at least five or six hundred thousand troops under his command. And because we have divided our troops to all the commanders, we only have more than 200,000 now. With such a huge disparity in strength, are you sure we have to fight? ”

(End of chapter)