Zhu Yihai and his entourage hurriedly came to the head of Chaoyangmen City, and sure enough, they saw the enemy army outside the city, and they had no intention of attacking the city, but dug a trench and put on a posture of holding on."
Zhao thief is cunning!"
Zhu Yihai slapped the city wall and said hatefully, "That guy learned that the grain in the city was burned, so he put on this posture!"
”Yan Yingyuan said in a low voice: "Now that there is a shortage of food in the city, there is no way out for Nanjing, only hope that the Zhou army can send troops, so that there is a glimmer of life!"
”Zhu Yihai looked annoyed, "Lone has already sent several envoys to Guanzhong, but Wu Sangui has never moved!"
”At the beginning, Zhu Yihai decided to coup d'état, in addition to his own unconvinced, unwilling to see the Zhu family, and being stolen by Zhao Ming, there was also a very important reason, that is, there was the instigation and support of Zhou Guo behind him.At that time, Zhu Yihai's forces were all expelled from the imperial court by Zhao Ming, and some of his confidant generals and ministers were even driven to the distant Dongzhou by Zhao Ming.The refusal to accept the journey from Ningbo to Dongzhou, just going back and forth, took a year, which made Zhu Yihai completely lose contact with Ruan Jin, Zhang Huangyan and others.Zhu Yihai wants no people, no money, and the abdicated emperor is not even as good as an ordinary vassal king, he has no strength at all, and he has no confidence to fight against Zhao Ming.It was precisely because of Zhou Guo's money, helping him contact the previous deployment, and promising that Zhou would support his restoration, that Zhu Yihai had the confidence to resist Zhao Ming and launch a coup d'état.However, since the beginning of the Nanjing coup, Zhu Yihai asked for help several times, but Zhou Guo did not respond.Thinking of this, Zhu Yihai couldn't help but feel annoyed, feeling that he was being used as a gun by Wu Sangui.Then Zhao Ming bullied him, Wu Sangui actually used him.This made Zhu Yihai feel ashamed in his heart, he didn't expect that he would fall into this field, but he seemed to have no extra choice.That night, Zhu Yihai sent his henchmen to fall out of the city from the city wall, and under the cover of night, he went to Zhou to ask for help.The circumference of Nanjing City is more than 30 miles, Zhao Ming can only monitor the gates of Nanjing, and cannot monitor every section of the city wall, so the envoy carefully avoids the military camp and leaves Nanjing to the west.Guanzhong, King Jing of Zhou, Chang'an City.Shortly after Zhao Ming recovered Beijing, Wu Sangui completed his western expedition and returned to Guanzhong.In the end, the Zhou army was still one step late, failed to catch up with the Ming and Qing wars, and lost the best opportunity to suppress Zhao Ming.At this time, in the east of Chang'an City, on the south bank of Weishui, more than 100,000 Zhou troops were stationed in the wilderness, and the neat military tents were one after another, endless, stretching for more than ten miles.In the south of Chang'an, in the Qinling Mountains, mountain roads and valleys, there are endless grain caravans.Tens of thousands of people, pushing wheelbarrows, walked on the rugged and steep mountain roads to transport the grain from Bashu to the Guanzhong area.At this time, it was already August, and when Zhao Mingbing was in Nanjing, Wu Sangui, who had just returned to Guanzhong, had already decided to intervene in the civil war of the Ming Dynasty after a short rest.After all, Wu Sangui knew that a person like Zhao Ming must have the ambition to dominate the world, how could he allow him to divide one side.In other words, if Zhou Jun had Zhao Ming's current strength, Wu Sangui would not be able to let Zhao Ming go.Hundreds of years ago, Song Taizu had already said, "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch." ”This sentence alone has already clarified the mentality of the rulers of the past dynasties.Based on the current strength comparison, although the Zhou Kingdom actually hopes to be divided like Western Xia, Zhao Ming will definitely not allow it.Since stretching out and shrinking his head is a knife, it is better to take advantage of Zhao Ming's troubles to strike first and stab Zhao Ming.In fact, Zhu Yihai misunderstood Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui hurried back from the Western Regions to help him fight against Zhao Ming, and the reason why he has not sent troops now is because of the limitations of Zhou's own strength.After all, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the family background of the Zhou State is far less strong than Zhao Ming.There are many things to do, this time the Bashu summer harvest was bumper, and Wu Sangui really couldn't send troops.Although the state of Zhou has been established for four years now, Guanzhong, Bashu, and Hedong are Taiping, and they have collected the Hetao, defeated Moxi, forced Yaerqiang to be a vassal, and the strength has been unprecedentedly developed.This is mainly the place controlled by Zhao Ming, which is far more prosperous than the Zhou State, and the transportation is convenient, which is convenient for concentrating strength, and although the territory of the Zhou State is wide, it is divided by the mountains, and it is difficult to raise military rations and military funds for the expedition for a while.This year, Zhou Guochuan and Shu Da Nim, grain harvest, but Guanzhong, Western Regions, Hetao grain is somewhat insufficient.If it was the Ming Dynasty, it could easily solve the problem of transportation and material scheduling by ship, but the Zhou State had to go over the mountains and mountains, rely on two legs to transport, and most of the harvest was wasted on the way.At this time, on the edge of the Wei River, the Zhou army built granaries one after another, and the grain transported by Bashu was stored here.In the warehouse, Wu Sangui and Zhou Guo's left and right sides strolled together.Wu Sangui asked, "How much grain has been transported from Shu?"
”Sun Kewang said: "300,000 stone grain has been put into the warehouse, enough for the army to go out!"
”Wu Sangui bowed his head with satisfaction, "In such a short time, so much grain has been transported, and the right minister has worked hard." ”Sun Kewang shook his head, "It's the people who are hard, in order to transport grain, many people have fallen in the plank road in Shuzhong, as well as in the Qinling Mountains!"
”When Wu Sangui heard this, his expression became solemn, "In this way, the lonely king is under a lot of pressure!"
”"Now that Zhu Ming and Zhao Ming are in internal friction, the army is gathered in the south of the Yangtze River, and Zhao Ming has newly acquired the land of Hebei and Shandong, so we should take a defensive position against our Great Zhou.The king will only have to ask how much he has won, and there will not be too much pressure!
”Hong Chengchou smiled.Zhu Yihai in Nanjing and Zhao Ming in Yangzhou both said that they were orthodox in the Ming Dynasty, and in order to make it easier to distinguish, Zhou called Zhu Yihai in Nanjing as Zhu Ming, and the territory and forces controlled by Zhao Ming were called Zhao Ming.Wu Sangui bowed slightly, "Yes, I didn't catch up with the battle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and I can't let go of this opportunity for the Ming Dynasty's internal strife."
We must take advantage of Zhao Ming's lack of energy to attack my Great Zhou to strengthen the strength of Great Zhou. ”Hong Chengchou said: "Between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, sooner or later there will be a war.Once Zhao Ming pacifies the civil strife in Nanjing, the next step will definitely be to destroy my Great Zhou.There is still a gap between the strength of my Zhou State and the Ming Dynasty, and we must prepare for war from this time on!
”Wu Sangui felt anxious in his heart when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "Time is not waiting for me!"
The two Shun kings of Luoyang, did you have a reply?
”Hong Chengchou shook his head, "There is no reply yet."
Compared with taking refuge in my Great Zhou and becoming the king's courtiers, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi naturally want to be kings in their hearts!
”Sun Kewang couldn't help but sneer, "The Manchu Qing Dynasty has been destroyed, what else do they think?"
”Wu Sangui's cheeks twitched, and he said in a deep voice: "It seems that these two old guys can't adjust their mentality for a while.Lone can't let them procrastinate, if they don't force them, they won't make decisions easily!
”After speaking, Wu Sangui immediately became serious, and ordered in a solemn voice, "Command the army, prepare to go on the expedition, and you must annex Henan first!"
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