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

Chapter 543 The advantage is in me!

Zhao Min held his chin and said: "If you tell me, I'm afraid you won't believe me. I'm the emperor and the crown prince, and I'm here to ask for help."

"Ah?!" Zhang Wuji was even more surprised.

Seeing Zhang Wuji's expression, Zhao Min looked at Zhou Zhiruo and said, "How is it? What did I say? Brother Wuji's expression is the same as yours, right?"

Zhou Zhiruo also smiled and said, "I thought Brother Wuji had seen the world, but I didn't expect it to be the same as me."

Zhao Min replied helplessly: "Because my father's official residence is the Taiwei, and people in the court have high expectations. Although Polo Timur coerced the emperor to command the princes, he still dared not move the Ruyang Palace. So I became one of them. The savior. They asked me to use the emperor's edict to move my father back to save him."

Zhang Wuji thought for a while and said, "If I'm not wrong, you should have moved the old master Tuotuo back instead of telling the prince."

Zhao Min smiled and said: "Well! This, brother Wuji guessed right. After I analyzed the current situation, I planned to transfer Grand Master Tuotuo back. First, the old Grand Master and Boluo Timu who were escorted by King Qin If we fight together, we will reap the benefits of fishing. Secondly, we can solve the crisis in the south of the Yangtze River. I am afraid that Zhang Shicheng will thank me well. As for my father, I am afraid that he will not divide the army easily."

Zhang Wuji asked back: "Why is this? Could it be that the prince has the intention of becoming self-reliant?"

Zhao Min shook his head and said: "That's not true. In my father's opinion, the plague of Polo Timur is just scabies. The Han rebel army in the Central Plains is the real serious trouble. He wants to take advantage of the victory to fight across the Yangtze River Go, but General Li's defection has pinned my father here. If my father withdraws, we can go straight in. So my father can't advance or retreat right now."

After listening to Zhao Min's words, Zhang Wuji had a general understanding of the current situation.

Now not only the rebels are fighting each other, but also the Mongols.

The Mongols are roughly divided into three forces, one is Polo Timur who has the heart to usurp power.

One is King Ruyang, who is unable to get off a tiger.

The last one is Tuotuo, the grand master who is loyal to Dayuan.

On the side of the rebel army, they have already annexed the forces of Liu Futong and Chen Youliang.

As for Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding, Ming Yuzhen and others are not worthy of competing with him for the world.The only threats are Zhu Yuanzhang in Jiangdong and Zhang Shicheng who is entrenched in Suyang.

After comprehensive consideration, Zhang Wuji said: "Minmin, tell General Li and the others tomorrow that we give up attacking Chang'an City! Occupy the land of Longxi and defend it."

If it were someone else, they would definitely yell at Zhang Wuji for a reason.

But Zhao Min knew Zhang Wuji very well, so he just asked plainly: "The reason? If we don't contain my father's troops here, then my father can withdraw and go back to suppress the rebellion. Right now, the Yuan court is unstable. Although the situation appeared by chance, it is also a good opportunity for us."

Zhang Wuji asked: "Oh? Min Min is so sure that your father's troops will retreat, and the chaos will be quelled soon?"

Zhao Min said: "Naturally, my father's power is very strong now. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the emperor of the Central Plains. I personally checked it when I visited. Now my father divides Guanshan with troops, Jing Luo, heavily armed forces are stationed in Taihang, and the camps and banners face each other thousands of miles away. I feel that the father has at least nearly 60 troops under his command."

"Although Polo Timur seized the capital by opportunism and held the emperor hostage, he only has less than one hundred thousand soldiers under his command. If my father and king are free to go to King Qin, it will be wiped out in a short time."

"If the civil strife subsides, where do you think my father's next goal will be?"

Zhang Wuji couldn't help laughing when he heard the words: "It seems that you, Minmin, don't know how many troops we have right now."

Zhou Zhiruo replied at this time: "We now have 38 soldiers including General Li's surrendered soldiers, the Western Region soldiers recruited by Prime Minister Fan, and Mingjiao followers. However, most of the soldiers and horses are used to maintain and control the huge The land of the Western Regions, so we have 15 soldiers and horses available now."

Hearing this, Zhang Wuji shook his head and said, "No! Our current available force is 80!"

Zhang Wuji was full of ambition at this time, and said with his head held high: "80 vs. 60! The advantage is mine!"

"What? 80? Where do we get so many soldiers?" Zhao Min stood up abruptly, looking at Zhang Wuji in disbelief.

Zhang Wuji said: "Do you think I came back so late just to adopt orphans and widows? Compared with the situation in the north, the situation in the south is much better."

Then Zhang Wuji briefly told everyone about his past during this period, how he found Zhu Jiuzhen and others, and how he killed Chen Youliang and incorporated him into his army when he attacked Hongdu.

Afterwards, he made Wuchang his accompanying capital, and he lived there for a period of time. In order to win people's hearts, he also told Zhao Min and others all about the fact that many noble ladies were brought into the harem.

After hearing this, Zhao Min said: "So that's the case. So my father helped Brother Wuji by mistake. Although we lost the Central Plains, we also created opportunities for Brother Wuji to occupy the magpie's nest. "

Zhang Wuji nodded and said: "Yes, counting the soldiers and horses left by Chen Youliang, and Liu Futong's old troops. I can use soldiers and horses under my command, and the total number of horses, infantry and water troops is 65. Counting the Fan soldiers recruited by Fan Youshi, we have enough An army of 80 can be mobilized. Moreover, the land of Jingxiang and Chu has already belonged to us. We can completely move from south to north, and from east to west.”

Zhao Min stood up happily and said: "Okay! If the soldiers of Jingzhou can support it, then my father will be very difficult to resist. Right now, my father's army is defending Bolo Timur in the Taihang area. The soldiers and horses in the Central Plains are not That’s too much. If a 65 army marches northward, with my father’s personality, we must shrink our troops to the north of the Yellow River. We can easily take back the Central Plains.”

Zhang Wuji shook his head at this time and said: "No! I have other plans, and there is no rush to regain the Central Plains right now."

Zhao Min asked, "Ah? Why?"

Zhang Wuji said: "Zhu Yuanzhang and I are at odds. If we drive northward, he will definitely not stand by. Now that I have ceded the land of Huainan to him, he can advance and retreat. Although Hongducheng has the thorn in his back, But if all of our army goes north, it is not ruled out that he will take advantage of our emptiness and attack Jiangnan."

"At that time, our main force will be restrained by the prince in the Central Plains, and he will attack Jingxiang and cut off our food supply, then we will be completely passive. The hundreds of thousands of troops will be short of food supplies, and then we will become hundreds of thousands of mobs gone."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Min said: "That's true, this point has to be guarded against. Brother Wuji, what do you think?"

Zhang Wuji replied: "The most urgent task at the moment is to open up the connection between the Jingxiang Han army and the Western Regions. If our soldiers, horses, food and grass can be connected together, then we will be truly invincible."

(End of this chapter)