Ming Dynasty: Evolution from snake to national guardian beast

Chapter 125 Why stand afraid?

"With the addition of Prince Ning, our army's current strength has skyrocketed from the original 300,000 troops to 400,000 troops."

"Although our army is powerful, the imperial court also came out in full force this time."

"A total of 700,000 troops are coming, led by Li Jinglong. If you have any good strategies, please submit them as soon as possible. After defeating Li Jinglong, I will reward you heavily.

As soon as these words came out, Bai Guang on the side suddenly took a breath of air.

The imperial army, which was originally thought to be only 500,000, suddenly increased to 700,000.

This caught Bai Guang off guard. Once the two sides fought, regardless of who would win, the casualties would be extremely heavy.

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During the last battle under Zhending City, Bai Guang felt that Ming's luck had fluctuated, and his own cultivation was also slightly unstable.

If this battle were to be equally brutal, Bai Guang was afraid that if he did anything wrong, his realm would fall and he would fall into the transformation stage.

When the time comes, Bai Guang shows his true colors and scares his allies to death, then it will be fun to watch.

Bai Guang's mind was racing, and he finally came up with a good idea.

Although this move is risky, as the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get the tiger's cubs. As long as this move is successful, Bai Guang believes that the rewards will definitely far exceed the effort.

There were no empty seats in Prince Yan's palace.

After Zhu Di finished talking about the current situation, all the generals spoke enthusiastically and expressed their opinions.

As a frontline general who fought fiercely with Geng Bingwen for dozens of days in Hejian City, Zhang Yu naturally had the most say. He stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, I think the Southern Army's combat strength is not as strong as imagined."

"Except for the 400,000 elites from the Beijing camp, the remaining 300,000 guardsmen are not very determined to fight."

"If they are led by a general who is good at fighting, they can be united as one and reluctantly unite to fight."

"But now the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army is Li Jinglong. This dandy, the general thinks that he will never be able to exert the combat power of an army of 700,000."

"There is a huge difference between fighting with a large corps and fighting with a small force."

"Looking at the history of Li Jinglong leading troops, there is no record of leading troops with more than 50,000 troops. When he comes this time, he is destined to be defeated."

"The last general suggested that our army should lure the enemy deep into the city and fight to the death with the enemy under the walls of Beiping City."

"In this way, our army can wait for work at leisure, and the logistics supply line is short. There is no need to divide our troops to guard the rear supply line. If we fight Li Jinglong with all our strength, our army will win."

Zhang Yu is full of confidence in this battle.

Li Jinglong is just a dog. As long as Li Jinglong is defeated, the army of King Yan can march straight down and drink from the Yangtze River.

By then, no matter how bad it is, it will still be half of the Ming Dynasty.

He and others can be regarded as following the dragon's merits. Fame and fortune are right in front of them. Even though he is as calm as Zhang Yu, he can't help but tremble with excitement.

After Zhang Yu finished speaking, Zhu Neng stood up again and shouted:

"Li Jinglong is just a bidder, so what's there to be afraid of?"

"Your Majesty gives me one hundred thousand soldiers and horses. I will capture that dandy boy and offer him to my tent."

Zhu Di glared at the tough guy, then looked at Bai Guang and said:

"What do you think, Mr. Bai?"

Bai Guang was still contemplating a plan in his mind. When he heard Zhu Di's question, Bai Guang said slowly:

"Now that Li Jinglong is out of the nest, I think that the defense in the capital area is very empty."

"Can we take advantage of this opportunity, sneak in, and then go straight to Huanglong and capture Yingtian City? The 700,000 troops on the front line will definitely collapse without a fight!"

This idea can be described as wild and unconstrained, but it was rejected as soon as it was proposed.

"This is impossible. It is more than a thousand miles from Peiping to Yingtian." Qiu Fu retorted directly:

"In addition, we have to pass through Hebei, Shandong, and Nanzhili in the middle, and cross the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River."

"It is impossible that the imperial court will not discover it at all. Once discovered and trapped in the water network in the south, this lone army will probably be completely annihilated."

“The gain outweighs the loss, and there is basically no possibility of success.”

Ning Wang Zhu Quan also added:

"And the city can't be considered very empty. There are still twelve personal guard battalions directly under the emperor in Yingtian City, with a total of more than 60,000 people."

"These people are more than enough to defend Yingtian City. If they are trapped under the fortified city, I am afraid that the result will be a dead end."

Everyone is very optimistic about this plan.

Not to mention anything else, just the walls of Yingtian City can make people despair.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang, with the full support of Shen Wansan, built the extremely tall Yingtian City Wall using granite and glutinous rice bricks poured together.

It can be said that breaking through the city wall of Yingtian is as difficult as going to the doctor.

Now Bai Guang actually wants to go deep alone and then steal the house. It is really wishful thinking.

But Bai Guang doesn't think so, he has his own ideas.

He immediately said:

"If we take the sea route, we will start from Tianjin Wei, bypass Weihai Wei, and then change the route and continue south."

"Then you can go up the Shuo River from the mouth of the Yangtze River and reach Yingtian City in just one day."

"When the time comes, when our troops approach the city, how will Zhu Yunwen react?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this bold plan.

Although everyone doesn't know much about overseas, they have heard a thing or two about the route from Tianjin Wei to Yingtian City by boat.

Because in the beginning, during the Great Yuan Dynasty, this route was often used.

At that time, most of the wealth and food in the south were transported to Peking by sea ships.

The old monk said aloud at this time:

"Mr. Bai, this move is very bold."

"Mr. Bai, this move is very bold."

"Although we can go to Yingtian by sea, accidents will inevitably happen on the way. Once there is a strong wind, it is likely that tens of thousands of troops will be buried under the sea."

"In addition, sea ships cannot transport siege equipment. If we arrive at Yingtian City, it will be difficult to capture Yingtian City without siege equipment."

"Since Taicheng city is high and the river is deep, and it is guarded by tens of thousands of troops, it is as stable as a rock, so the poor monk thought this was inappropriate." Seeing that the old monks were all against him, Bai Guang was not angry. Instead, he asked:

"If we arrive at Yingtian City, who will open Yingtian City for us?"

"Do you think that we can invade Yingtian City and the Jingnan effort will be successful?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

If it is true as Bai Guang said, then the feasibility of this plan is "very high. After all, no matter how strong the city is, it will be vulnerable if it is broken from the inside."

Everyone's eyes fell on Bai Guang, who looked calm and calm, with a slight smile on his lips.

In fact, the reason why Bai Guang proposed this plan is very simple.

(End of this chapter)