Traveling Through the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: The Ming Zun Zhang Wuji

Chapter 512 Negotiation or War

Zhang Wuji's two-handed preparation for Zhu Yuanzhang is "peace talks" or "war".

If Zhu Yuanzhang is willing to negotiate peace, then he is willing to give up the Shouxian County and other places that Liu Futong occupied before to Zhu Yuanzhang.Then switch back to Zhu Jiuzhen, Yin Yewang and others, and resolve the matter peacefully.

Zhang Wuji did this not because he lost his power, humiliated the country and feared Zhu Yuanzhang.

It's just that right now he has obtained Chen Youliang's Jingxiang land, and this will be his real base in the future.

Compared with the Central Plains presented by Liu Futong before, here is where you can advance, attack, retreat, and defend.And there are 60 troops who have really served themselves.

The Huainan area where Liu Futong is now entrenched is just a tiny place that is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

And the most important thing is that Runan and other places have been captured by King Ruyang and others, so the connection between Jingxiang and Huainan has been completely cut off.

The current situation is that Huainan, where Liu Futong retired, has now become an enclave.

If this enclave sticks to it, the gain outweighs the loss.It was surrounded by enemies on all sides, with Zhang Shicheng in the east, Zhu Yuanzhang in the south, and Mongolian Tartars in the north and west.

So the best option now is to abandon this "enclave" that is difficult to defend.Then Liu Futong's remaining main force was withdrawn to Jiangnan to rest.

The Huainan enclave has become a "bone" that everyone covets.

Zhang Shicheng, Tuotuo, and Zhu Yuanzhang all stared at this place.

Because there is an old saying, "If you guard the river, you must guard the Huai River".Now I have obtained the land of Jingxiang, and the natural danger of the Yangtze River has been shared with Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang.

And what I want is not to be defensive, but to fight out, to go to the Northern Expedition, to annex the entire Great Yuan.Therefore the land is useless to itself.For Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng, it can be said to be their own north gate.

If Tuotuo wants to attack Jiangnan, he must take down Huainan, where Liu Futong is entrenched.It will definitely become the focus of contention in the future.Especially this strategic location is the most important to Zhu Yuanzhang.It can be said that this is an important barrier to defend his capital.

If this piece of land is given to him, then he will be able to sleep well in the future.Otherwise, if it was taken away by Tuotuo or Zhang Shicheng, it would be like a knife hanging on his head.After all, Tuotuo and Zhang Shicheng are not as "kind" as Zhang Wuji.

Therefore, in Zhang Wuji's conception, Zhu Yuanzhang had no reason to refuse.And in this case, I can not only pick up Zhu Jiuzhen and others safe and sound, but also get rid of the useless burden of Huainan.And it's not enough to tear faces with the former brothers.

But Zhang Wuji won't suffer.Although the land of Huainan was given away, he would not return Hongdu City.

This is because Zhang Wuji doesn't want to repeat Guan Yunchang's mistakes.

At that time, the Shu Han and the capital Sun Wu used the Xiangshui River as the boundary and established an alliance of the Xiangshui River.Jiangxia, Changsha and other large counties will repay the half of South County that Sun Wu borrowed.

Originally, after the Xiangshui alliance was established, the Jingzhou dispute between Sun Wu and Shu Han should have ended.

But I didn't expect Lu Meng, the governor of the Eastern Wu Navy, to take advantage of Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, cross the river in white clothes to pretend to be a businessman, fight without declaring, and sneak attack against the alliance.

In the end, Guan Yu's main force failed to return in time, which eventually led to the capture of Jingzhou and the death of Guan Yu.

In the future, I will also use Jingxiang as my base for the Northern Expedition, and Zhu Yuanzhang's moral lower limit is not much worse than that of Sun Quan.It cannot be ruled out that this will happen in the future.

Therefore, in order to prevent this kind of thing, Zhang Wuji had to drive a nail into Zhu Yuanzhang's hinterland.

As long as Hongdu City is in his own hands, the waterway for Zhu Yuanzhang's westward advance will be blocked by Zhao Pusheng's warships, and no trouble can escape the eyes of the Jingzhou defenders.Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang dared to betray the alliance, so he could also use Hongdu as his base to destroy him by land and water.

Therefore, Zhang Wuji was also ready to go to war with Zhu Yuanzhang.

Most of the people that Ding Pulang took away were the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, or new recruits who had not been training for a long time.These people maintain local law and order, and it's okay to guard a city, but they may struggle a bit if they fight.And so many people are wasting food.

In Wu Mu's suicide note, there is a statement that "soldiers are more expensive than elite soldiers."

Now Zhang Wuji stayed in Hongdu City, the elite troops left by Xu Shouhui and Chen Youliang, as well as Zhao Pusheng's navy.

Now he has 15 horse infantry and navy in his hands.

Although the 25 army was less than half of the previous 60.But these soldiers and horses are enough to annex Zhu Yuanzhang and look down on the entire Jiangdong.

After Zhang Wuji waited in Hongdu City for a few days, Yang Xiao and others finally arrived.

Then Zhang Wuji didn't delay, and immediately called Zhang Dingbian and others to hold a meeting.

In this meeting, apart from asking Yang Xiao to get to know them, Zhang Wuji also arranged for Liu Futong and Yang Xiao's official positions.The discussion was on the issue of "peace talks" or "war" against Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhang Wuji looked at the crowd and said, "Okay, I've finished my words, what do you think?"

The first to speak was Privy Envoy Zhang Dingbian, and Zhang Dingbian took out a map from his robe.

This map was drawn by them before attacking Zhu Yuanzhang.It clearly shows the current situation of various forces.

After he hung up the picture, he pointed to the picture and said, "From our picture, I think it is feasible for His Majesty to abandon Huainan and exchange Huainan for the flood. As for the reason, His Majesty has already said it before, I won't say much here."

Fu Youde also looked at the map and nodded and said: "Yes! This way we can retract our fists without losing sight of each other. I also agree with His Majesty's holy order."

Zhang Wuji then looked around at the crowd, and no one had any objections.

Zhang Wuji said: "Okay! Now that the peace talks are over, let's talk about the fight. Although the overall situation is still uncertain and it's not the time for brothers to fight each other, if Zhu Yuanzhang is obsessed with his obsession, then we will advance by land and water and completely wipe out he."

Zhang Wuji looked at Zhang Dingbian and said: "General Zhang, Mr. Liu, you are my privy envoys and deputy privy envoys. And you are all people who have experienced many battles. You should discuss the specific marching plan with Governor Zhao. Although we plan to Peace is the most important thing, but you must also be prepared to go to war."

Zhang Dingbian, Zhao Pusheng, and Liu Futong all stood up and said, "I take orders!"

At this time Yang Xiao said: "But Your Majesty, there is something we should act on as soon as possible."

Zhang Wuji asked, "What's the matter?"

Yang Xiao replied: "Just as we came, the Bat King sent news that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be building a high platform in Jinling City. I don't know what he wants to do. But I suspect that this guy is building a 'shouchan platform' '."

"Receiving the Zen platform?" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

Zhang Wuji rubbed his chin and said, "Well! It's not ruled out that he has such a small trick. Now my prestige is in full swing, and now Hongdu City is in our hands. It is inevitable that he will jump over the wall in a hurry. Although Jiuzhen is a puppet, he can pass on the jade seal of the country. Both the gold seal and the gold seal are in her hands. If he wants to continue performing the trick, he must do so."

(End of this chapter)