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

Chapter 653 How can I, the loyal Ming Zun, rebel?
Li Wenzhong did not listen to Lan Yu's words. After calming down, Hua Ji attacked again.

Li Wenzhong's martial arts skills were not as good as Lan Yu's. He failed in every move and his sharpness was gone.Even if he attacks again, it will be as strong as a child's, so there is nothing to fear.

Lan Yu respects Li Wenzhong's ability. Although he is in a different position now, he is still unwilling to take his life.

Li Wenzhong scolded: "You shameless kid, betraying the Lord and surrendering to the enemy is just betraying the Lord and surrendering to the enemy. How can you get so many high-sounding reasons!"

Lan Yu parried Li Wenzhong's attack, and then said while fighting: "Is it high-sounding? General Li said that I betrayed my master and surrendered to the enemy. Which master did I betray, and which enemy did I surrender to?"

Hearing this, Li Wenzhong couldn't help but be speechless for a moment.

After all, Zhang Wuji is the emperor now, and everyone in the world recognizes this.Now that Lan Yu is obeying the emperor's command, how can it be considered "surrendering to the enemy"?If he betrayed his master, Zhu Yuanzhang followed Guo Zixing and his son and swore an oath in Butterfly Valley that day, voluntarily respecting Zhang Wuji as the "King of Ming" and the common master of the world.Guo Zixing and his son were still members of the Ming Cult.Zhu Yuanzhang is also under the command of Mingjiao. If we want to calculate now, it is Zhu Yuanzhang who betrayed the master, not Lan Yu.

Lan Yu's momentum weakened a lot when she saw that Li Wenzhong was speechless.

Lan Yu continued: "My brother-in-law and I followed Guo Dashuai and Guo Shaoshuai back then. Guo Dashuai and his son belonged to Mingjiao during their lifetime and were loyal to Mingzun. Naturally, my brother-in-law and I are children of Mingjiao. Children of Mingjiao naturally respect Mingzun as their master. Now I am just returning to Mingzun. It's just under the banner, how can it be considered as betraying the master? I think staying with you is considered as betraying the master!"

"You!" Although Li Wenzhong was angry, he really didn't know what to say at the moment.

Lan Yu continued to finish the attack and said: "When it comes to betraying the master and surrendering to the enemy, I think he is Zhu Yuanzhang. Back then, he was just a begging monk. Marshal Guo took him in as his adopted son, and even married his adopted daughter to him. Give him a gift. His famous name is 'Yuanzhang'. If it weren't for Marshal Guo's support, how could he, Zhu Chongba, be able to tear apart the land and seal the territory and become the king and hegemony he is today?"

"But how did Zhu Chongba repay Marshal Guo? The young marshal and we were besieged by the Yuan army led by Tuotuo in Heishiji. I covered my brothers many times to break through and go to Jinling City for help. But he always stood still, so that the young marshal Hei Shiji died in battle, and then he pretended to come to rescue the remaining brothers."

"If we talk about betraying our master and surrendering to the enemy, Zhu Chongba was the first one. Marshal Guo was not kind to him during his lifetime, but in order to seize power, he killed Marshal Guo's only son. And those brothers who fought bloody battles with us also died because of him. Those who were ambushed by the Yuan army for their own selfish reasons died on the battlefield."

Lan Yu said with a slight complaint: "Humph! That means my brother-in-law has a bit of a brain. He just put down the wealth that is at his fingertips and is loyal to such an ambitious person. Just relying on the brother-in-law's sworn friendship with His Majesty, even if You can’t split the soil and seal the territory to get a king, but you can also be a marquis and worship a general to shine on the lintel.”

After hearing what Guo Tianxu said, Li Wenzhong lost all momentum and even felt guilty.

If the only thing they had ever done in their lives was against their will, it was to indirectly kill Guo Tianxu.

Although Li Wenzhong was a relative of Zhu Yuanzhang, he was the core figure of Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaixi clique.However, the Huaixi sect had previously been favored by Guo Zixing and his son.

When Zhu Yuanzhang stood still before, they all knew it well and pretended to be confused.But Li Wenzhong, Xu Da and other generals who valued friendship still couldn't bear it.

After hearing what Guo Tianxu said on the spot, Li Wenzhong lost all his fighting spirit.

After parrying a few moves with Lan Yu, he rode back.

Seeing the general's flag retreating, Wu Jun's soldiers suddenly lost their fighting spirit and followed the flag and retreated towards the rear, abandoning their helmets and armor.

But Lan Yu didn't take advantage of the victory to kill him.Because Lan Yu knew that there was no point in killing these defeated troops. The most urgent task now was to destroy the siege equipment that might threaten the city.

As long as these siege equipment are not available, no matter how many people the opponent has, they will not be able to capture the high and strong Suzhou City.Moreover, as long as they insist on holding on for a few months and wait until reinforcements from Marshal Liu of the Central Plains arrive, the situation will be reversed immediately.

Seeing Li Wenzhong retreating, Lan Yu immediately gathered his troops, waved his Overlord gun, and rushed towards the camp where the Wu army placed their siege equipment.

The general was defeated, the morale of Li Wenzhong's troops was low, and the infantry had a natural fear of the cavalry. Lan Yu took the lead and was invincible.It didn't take long for the infantry guarding these siege engines to be scattered.

Without the support of the infantry troops, the civilians and soldiers who used these instruments could not "put bayonets on the cannons". When they saw the charging cavalry, they immediately fled.

Seeing everyone fleeing, Lan Yu was not willing to fight, and immediately ordered the cavalry under his command to quickly destroy the siege equipment, and everyone took the leather bags carried on their horses.

Those skin bags were originally used by the cavalry to hold water and wine, but in order to destroy the siege equipment outside the city, Zhao Min purchased tung oil with strong burning power in the city and poured it into these skin bags.

The cavalry were blessed with the speed of war horses. They were very fast, so they sprinkled the tung oil on the siege equipment in a few strokes.Then he threw down the fire fold he was carrying.

When the tung oil encountered fire, it was instantly ignited, and then the black-smoking fire swallowed up these siege equipment in an instant.

After retreating and preparing to regroup, Li Wenzhong saw Lan Yu burning the siege equipment in front of his formation. He clenched his fists and shouted "It's over" in his heart.

As a top general, Li Wenzhong also knew the role of these siege equipment in this battle.Now that these siege equipment have been burned, even if they can take Suzhou City, they will probably suffer huge casualties.Moreover, without the help of these equipment, they would not be able to capture Suzhou City with Mingzun personally in charge in a short time.

What they lack most now is time.Because not all wood is suitable for making siege equipment.It would be very time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive to rebuild the equipment after it is burned.

Money and power don't matter, they really don't have much time.

Before coming, Zhu Yuanzhang also received information.

That is, the two main forces of the Ming Army in the Central Plains have also turned back south without stopping, coming to rescue Zhang Wuji who was trapped in Suzhou City.

Moreover, Li Siqi personally led his elite cavalry troops to arrive at the north bank of the Yangtze River ahead of the infantry troops to join Zhang Dingbian and Zhao Pusheng.

If it weren't for the cavalry's incompetence in attacking fortresses and their inability to break through the fortifications near Jinling City, they would have probably fought against Zhu Yuanzhang's troops.

Moreover, the main force of the Ming army led by Liu Futong has been slowest in returning reinforcements for nearly a month. If all the main forces of the central and western armies of the Ming army return for reinforcements, then it will no longer be Ming Zun who will be swallowed up, but them.

If they fail to capture the city of Suzhou within half a month and send reinforcements northward in time to consolidate the Yangtze River's natural barrier, then they will have no choice but to wash their hands and wait for Zhang Wuji to come and kill them.

(End of this chapter)