Chapter Seventeen Events
"What do you mean? Could it be that my Ming Dynasty once treated you very much?" Wang Chengen never expected that it would be the ending. If he had thought about it for a long time, he would probably not have done anything like this.
Li Mingxun shook his head slightly, poured himself a glass of wine, and said with a serious expression: "No, the Ming Dynasty is really too great."
"Do you know? For three years, I have been deliberately trying to take risks with my life, just hoping to have my own career overseas. In three years, it has begun to show results, but the words of a Ming official almost destroyed my career." Li Mingxun said sadly.
Li Mingxun, who put down the wine glass, told the story of the people's hearts that caused the rumor to scoop up the people of the community, and finally said: "I have tried hard to provide all the people in the community with a wealth of material and a fair environment. In the end, it is not as ridiculous as a true and false personal confession document of the Ming Dynasty court. So I can only use this inferior policy to let everyone know that in the considerations of the Ming Dynasty court, we not only have the ending of Zheng Zhilong, but also become Wang Zhi. Only in this way can the community be afraid and alienated from the Ming Dynasty, unite with me again, and continue my career and my dream."
Wang Chengen didn't know that the people in the club had a desire to be slaughtered. If he knew, it would definitely work slowly. However, he never thought that Li Mingxun's cracked it today. His pale hand grabbed Li Mingxun's neck and shouted in a low voice: "Why can't you behave like a good person, satisfy everyone's wishes, become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, the court has the intention, and your club has the intention, isn't this everyone happy?"
Li Mingxun's face turned up: "I am a businessman, and businessmen are all gamblers. I will never place bets on the losers..." As he said that, Li Mingxun saw the increasingly distorted expression on Wang Chengen's face, shook his head helplessly and said: "Honey Wang, I have no intention of arguing with you about the right and wrong of the Ming Dynasty. I, Li Mingxun, just don't want to ruin my career. In fact, if you want to recruit me, you don't need any high-ranking officials and generous salaries to break the land and be named king. As long as the emperor does something, it's enough."
Wang Chengen let go of his hand and asked, "What do you want the emperor to do?"
Li Mingxun smiled slightly, pointed to the bright starry sky in the south, and said, "Today, as long as you are willing to move the capital to Nanjing, you are willing to be servified unconditionally."
Wang Chengen changed drastically, looking at Li Mingxun as if he was looking at a monster. He wanted to speak several times, but he couldn't say anything at the end of his mouth. Li Mingxun said seriously: "Honey Wang, I promise a thousand gold. Whenever I want to move the capital to Nanjing today, I only need an edict, and I will be a vassal of the Ming Dynasty."
Early the next morning, Dengzhou Water Camp.
A map has been opened in the huge yamen lobby, which marks the route of the Donglu invasion in a scarlet color. From the map, it can be seen that the Donglu invasion for more than two months, the main force of the Donglu went south from Linqing to Yanzhou Prefecture, while another team of partial troops had landed in Laizhou Bay, occupied Laizhou and Changyi, and continued to go south, attacked Huai County and Anqiu, intending to open the southward passage, meet with the main force, and then plan to land on Lai.
Zeng Ying walked into the festival hall and looked around for a week. She found that the main officials and generals near Denglai, including Li Mingxun, were all here. Everyone was waiting for his orders. Zeng Ying knew that the arrival of the East Fan Yihui was a prosperous army and the morale was high. Many people could not wait, but Zeng Ying had a bad news in her heart to tell everyone.
Zeng Ying stood in front of the desk and said in a low voice: "Everyone, I just got the news that Yanzhou was invaded, and His Highness King Lu had... already..."
Zeng Ying's voice echoed in the hall, and the civil and military officials looked at each other, and the haze covered everyone's faces again. Some civil officials were already sobbing. Everyone already knew that the King of Lu was afraid that he was dead, and he couldn't help but give birth to the thought of the rabbit and the fox. Losing the vassal state was the most serious crime. Whether it was the glorious Yang Sichang or the former chief minister Chen Xinjia, they all lost their lives because of this crime. Although King Lu was killed, the responsibility should be borne by the governor of Shandong, everyone could not avoid the court's questioning. Moreover, even the heroic city of Yanzhou was lost. Can Dengzhou be defended?
In the festival, everyone looked ugly, and everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, and the atmosphere was extremely depressed.
Li Mingxun stood up, walked to the map, and smiled and said, "My lords, Shen Youlong, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, once said something to me. Now is the autumn of survival and death. The people of the world hope that each of us will do our duty. My lords, the people of Shandong are looking forward to it, and they all want to watch us kill the enemy and protect the country."
"Yanzhou is located in southwest Shandong, beyond your reach. Let's focus on the present and do our duty." Li Mingxun said solemnly.
Zeng Ying focused on her head and said, "Mr. Li is right. We should not take into account the matters in Yanzhou. We should do our best to do the current situation. The Eastern Barbarians divided their troops and advanced. In the end, they would still attack me in the land of Denglai. General Huang, let you introduce the situation."
Huang Fei responded and walked to the map and said, "The purpose of the Donglu's attack on the border this time is to plunder Shandong. Now the main force of the Donglu is still in southwestern Shandong and will surely advance east along southwestern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. If you want to advance to Dengzhou, you either follow Jiaozhou and Jimo, or go north from Juzhou to join forces with the Donglu in Laizhou, and then talk about advancement and retreat. This also gives us a chance to eliminate the partial army led by the deputy commander of the Donglu before the main force of the Donglu arrives."
As he said that, Huang Fei drew a circle around Huai County and said, "The next step of Turge's plan must be Huai County, because only by capturing Huai County can you attack Dengzhou, and retreating can also retreat from north and north of Shandong. Turge's command was more than 3,000 elite white flags of the East Liberation, Kong Youde, the Han flag, led more than 4,000 troops, and thousands of Western Liberation and Mongolian Tatars, and the cooperation of the Korean navy at the sea, with a total of more than 13,000, and a unit of the navy."
The strength of our side is not inferior to the partial division of the Donglu Turg. You should know that at the beginning of this year, when the defeated prime minister was first revealed on the Songjin battlefield, in order to prevent the Donglu, who received support from the Korean navy, the Denglai Governor's raid from the sea, had received a lot of support from the Denglai Governor's land. In addition to Dengzhou, originally had 6,000 battalions and 3,000 naval troops, there were also Longwu Camp in Liao Town, Tianjin Navy, and soldiers from all over Shandong, such as the birdslingers sent by the Shandong Governor, who belonged to the former Shandong General. Now, the Denglai Land has more than 15,000 troops, and the Dongfan Yi Brigade also had a large fleet and two new military camps, which led to the number of Dengzhou defenders exceeding 20,000.
Of course, the reason for concentrating so many people was because of the strategy of joining the joint efforts of Xian to make slaves when Chen Xinjia was in office. At that time, Chen Xinjia believed that it could concentrate Tianjin and Shandong navy sent troops to North Korea to restrain the forces of the Eastern Seizures to relieve Songjin's pressure. However, North Korea was not interested in this plan. Even though Li Yiyuan represented Shen Qi to go on a mission to the Ming Dynasty, he gave up because there was no foreign aid and there was not enough food and troops.
"The problem now is that our army lacks food and salary. Lord Li, what's wrong with your two new military camps?" Zeng Ying asked.
Li Mingxun shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know that my new military camp soldiers mainly come from Guangdong and Guangxi, the natives of Dongfan and the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea. Except for the Jurchens in the East China Sea, the rest are not adapted to the bitter and cold climate of the north. Although the military soldiers have arrived in Denlai, due to limited transportation capacity, many horses and mules in the camp have not been carried, and the horses and mules that have been brought have also had problems and need to rest for at least half a month."
Zeng Ying nodded slightly and said, "The same is true for the soldiers of Denglai. The Governor Biaoying was newly defeated in Laizhou a month ago, and his morale was greatly lost. Now he lacks food and pay, so it may be inappropriate to send troops. However, in more than ten days, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Lord Shen, will send military wages of 200,000, and Fujian General Zheng Zhilong will also provide military food for 100,000. At that time, the troops will be considered to be ready."
"Then send troops in half a month, recover the lost territory, and attack the Eastern Barbarians!" A voice sounded, and everyone looked at it. It was Wang Chengen.
When Wang Chengen spoke, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this eunuch, the Sili Supervisor, is not only an observer of the Eastern Bandits, but also a supervisor of the Denglai Army. If he urged the advance, even Zeng Ying would not be able to refuse.
Wang Chengen said loudly: "Everyone, the defeat of Song Jin is because the criminal Chen Xinjia urgently urged the army to advance. The situation in Shandong is now critical, but all the hopes are on us, so we cannot take risks. Please go back and prepare for war. I strongly advocate the march in half a month, just hope that the king's army will not fight unprepared battles. If anyone is afraid of war and afraid of fighting, don't blame me for being rude."
Everyone stood up and said yes. Everyone knew that according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen was already considerate enough and gave enough face. Naturally, they would not ask for anything. However, Zeng Ying said: "Yanzhou fell, Shandong was poisoned, and the morale of the army was unstable. If there was no record of war, the emperor would not be able to explain to the emperor, and the subordinates could not appease the military and civilians. Do you have any questions?"
Huang Fei and the generals looked at each other. They knew very well that since the Donglu Bandits entered the pass, they had to plunder all the way, no one could defeat them or resist them. If there was no victory inspiring people, even if they went to war, it would be a risk. Huang Fei, as the leader of the generals of Denglai, knew that he could not escape. He said: "Governor, colleagues, the Donglu is in the limelight. If the war starts rashly on land, it is difficult to win. It is better to drive the navy out of Laizhou Bay. If he can defeat the Donglu Navy, he can cut off one way of retreat or destroy his morale. How about it?"
"The last general thinks what the general is saying is very reasonable. The Donglu Navy is mostly a Korean ship and is not familiar with the Bohai area. The Yili Navy of the Dongfan has arrived and has such strong support, it is not difficult to win." A general of the Tianjin Navy said.
Everyone looked at Li Mingxun and thought that his hope was still on the young adult. Li Mingxun smiled and said, "Since I am here to come to Denglai, I will naturally have no choice but to fight the Donglu, but I have two conditions."
"Please speak with Lord Li." Zeng Ying said first.
Lee Mingxun said: "This time I go to the battle, this is one of them."
"Haha, if Lord Li is willing to lead the main force to fight, we will naturally obey your command, and there is no other word." Huang Fei took the lead in his statement, but there was also a hurdle in this sentence. Only when the community fleet is the main force are they are willing to obey the command. If Li Mingxun wants to drive away the tiger and swallow the wolf, they will not be with him.
Li Mingxun smiled: "Of course I am the main force."
"That's the second thing. I'll take 70% of the ships to seize when I go out to fight, and I will choose the ships at will." Li Mingxun said again.
Zeng Ying smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Li, this is for immigration."
This matter is no longer a secret, but because of the court's face, neither side has been given to the table. Since Zeng Ying said it, Li Mingxun naturally would not hide it and said: "That is, for the community, many ships are not enough."
Zeng Ying nodded and clasped her fists and said, "The East Fan Yiyou came to Shandong and took the initiative to resist the enemy without asking about money, food, and military pay. I am very impressed. I have agreed to your two requests. If you have any results, I will naturally not treat you unfairly."
"Thank you for this. I will return to Temple Island and lead the navy to fight." Li Mingxun stood up and said.
Huang Fei was a little surprised and said, "Mr. Li, don't panic. There are hundreds of Donglu ships in Laizhou Bay. If you go out to fight rashly, you will be defeated. Why not wait for me to gather in Denglai and Tianjin's second-district naval forces to fight together!"
Li Mingxun smiled: "Now the north wind is fierce, and the Donglu ships are all stuck in Laizhou Bay. They have become a trend of closing the door and fighting dogs. How can they not win? Haha, General Huang just leads the navy to follow."
Chapter completed!