Chapter 167: Success or failure is in Maolu Mountain

What are you scolding, old fellow!

Wang Wu was angry, but Mu Lima was embarrassed to have a seizure, and after sending Mu Lima to the designated place to be taken care of, he immediately showed his fierce face, and angrily dragged Zhang Changgeng, who had not yet brought him to his residence, to the Yangtze River, and asked, "Old thing, what did you mean just now?" You can't believe the Yangtze River or can't trust me! ”

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Zhang Changgeng looked at the Yangtze River and looked at Wang Wu with a fierce face, and he didn't dare to say anything.

He was afraid that the other party would impulsively feed himself to the river and feed the fish.

Seeing that Zhang Changgeng's attitude softened, Wang Wu's anger was also less, and he snorted slightly: "If you have any opinions about me in the future, you can mention them in person, but you can't scold me in person, you must know that you and I will be officials in the future, and we are both Shaobao's henchmen, if you and I hurt the harmony, how to repay Shaobao and serve the Qing Dynasty?" ”

Wang Wu is reasoning.

Regardless of whether Zhang Changgeng wants to or not, they are people in the same boat.

Who made you pledge allegiance to Shaobao.

However, it is necessary to point out a fact.

"In the future, even if Shaobao is not there, you and I will be difficult brothers, and the court will not be able to spare you, nor will it be able to spare me."

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Zhang Changgeng was speechless.

There is nowhere to complain about grievances.

That's pretty damning.

Aobai is about to be cleaned up by the pro-government emperor, how can he, Zhang Changgeng, be a party of Aobai, not be implicated.

Even if he is forced to be loyal to Aobai, he is still loyal.

In the eyes of the emperor, loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

The way to break the situation is either that there is no one, that is, he will secretly write a letter to the little emperor who has not yet been in power to explain the situation.

The problem is that this letter will not reach the little emperor.

Even if it is in the hands of the little emperor, the little emperor will think that you Zhang Changgeng is a speculative duplicity.

So, there is no solution.

Why is it that since ancient times, black and white words are the most terrifying and the most just.

Here's why.

Only Zhang Changgeng never expected that the "thief" in front of him would use the lowest method to deal with him.

He's a feudal official!

If you are more clever, you may feel better.

Now, I am really unconvinced and wronged.

A broken alliance forced him to do nothing, too aggrieved.

"I know you suspect that I don't really surrender to the Qing, but this is not important, the important thing is that the enemy of the Qing Dynasty is not me, but over there."

Wang Wu pointed to the southwest direction, and then asked Zhang Changgeng very seriously: "The governor thinks that once the king of Pingxi raises troops, can the Qing dynasty be saved?" ”

Zhang Changgeng still didn't say anything, but his ears still moved slightly.

It's hard to say.

As far as the waste of the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers, you said that the 100,000 iron cavalry under the command of Wu Sangui who could fight well could not defeat the Eight Banners, which is a bit self-deceptive.

You have to say that the Ming army can fight this last point, but they can't even beat Wu Sangui's "attached army" Sichuan Green Battalion!

Therefore, the idea is very reasonable - Wu Sangui really dares to rebel, this world will definitely not belong to Aixin Jueluo!

"After you go back, think about it, think about it carefully, think about it repeatedly, and think about the Yangtze River if you don't understand."

Wang Wu didn't need Zhang Changgeng to give an answer on the spot, and waved his hand to let Zhang Pengyu, the flag of the hand, send the governor back to the guest house, and then take a walk by the river with Tian Wen.

In the distance, at the west gate of Jingzhou, a large number of ships from Wuchang entered the city.

It was Wang Wu's water camp that was "bought" with a lot of money in Wuchang.

Now we are rushing to transport strategic materials in Wuchang City, grain, oil, salt, ironware, etc., cotton clothes and quilts.

In short, as long as you can use something, Wang Wu will use it all.

A mouthful of spit, a mouthful of nails.

said that Zhang Changgeng would leave an empty city.

The materials in Wuchang City can allow Wang Wu to not worry about food for five or three years, and it can also give him the ability to help the base area.

Zhang Tianfang was temporarily in charge of the water camp, because this was one of the few people in the Ming army who did not get seasick.

Wang Wu himself was seasick.

Jingzhou has an advantage that is different from other places, that is, the west gate of this city is directly connected to the Yangtze River by a waterway, that is, the west gate is actually a water gate.

As long as the enemy can't blockade the Yangtze River with water divisions, it doesn't matter if Jingzhou is surrounded for several years.

This is also the main reason why Wang Wu wants Jingzhou as a "basic plate".

Although Wuchang was more important than Jingzhou, it was the capital of Huguang Province and the residence of the governor and governor, and it was impossible for the Qing court to hand over Wuchang to him.

Then, Jingzhou, which has developed land and water, is of course the best base.

After the two used Manchurian captives to threaten the prefect Tong Dayuan to open the city, they immediately surrendered the weapons of the 2,000 battalions of soldiers in the city.

Tian Wen reorganized the disarmed green battalion, cut half and left half, and recruited a few hundred people from the people, so that the number of Ming troops in Jingzhou City reached 5,000.

However, the main force is still the more than 2,000 Ming troops who followed Wang Wu to break through from Xingshan, and the rest such as battalion soldiers and civilian men are not very useful, and they need to be trained for a period of time before they can barely go into battle.

On that day, Tian Wen once told Wang Wu that if the anti-Qing cause could not continue, he wanted to go back to his hometown to farm.

On that day, when Xingshan Wang Wu asked Tian Wen to take people to block the channel, he was also prepared for not returning.

Fortunately, Tian Wen caught up and was willing to continue to follow Wang Wu to resist the Qing, but Tian Wen was resistant to shaving his hair and lowering the Qing, and he didn't understand why the captain led everyone to die rather than surrender and even prepare to die and sacrifice, why the situation opened up today but had to fall.

This question is not Tian Wen's question alone, except for a limited number of people, I am afraid that everyone else has this confusion in their hearts.

Looking at the water of the Yangtze River flowing eastward in front of him, Wang Wu said in a deep voice: "On that day, we didn't even have the conditions to talk about it, but to fight to the death

Although the situation has improved today, the enemy is still strong and I am weak, if I don't surrender, how can I protect those tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians? Do you want to see them being slaughtered by the Qing soldiers? ”

Wang Wudao said that if Maolu Mountain had a chance to break through, he would not fall.

But now the tens of thousands of people in Maolu Mountain have no possibility of breaking through at all, and he can only make compromises in order to avoid the annihilation of Maolu Mountain.

That is, the success is also Maolu Mountain, and the defeat is also Maolu Mountain.

"But we are not surrendering, but armistice."

General Wang Wu roughly explained the resettlement conditions that Mulima was striving for, and decided that Wu Sangui would rebel, so they did not surrender, but an armistice.

He used the armistice to develop desperately for a few years, waiting for the general trend of anti-Qing Dynasty to really come.

"Whether you are a lonely loyal man in the Ming family who can't change the world, or a hero who forbears and waits for the recovery of Huaxia, you should know better than me."

Retracting his gaze from the Yangtze River, Wang Wu hoped that Tian Wen could help him run Jingzhou well and keep the flame of the anti-Qing cause alive, rather than a senseless sacrifice.

"If you can keep a few counties without shaving, the three old handsomes should be able to accept it."

Tian Wen nodded, the current situation is already the most beneficial to the Ming army, if it weren't for the captain leading everyone to fight hard and win one victory after another, how could the Qing army agree to a truce.