These words made Prime Minister Liu's eyelids jump. Fortunately, he was an old ginger after all. He nodded vigorously for the first time and said with great sadness.
"Well done, Your Majesty. I never thought that Ning Guo...that thief dared to offend the King like this. He should indeed be punished."
"The king personally came to the battlefield and encountered a small setback. I believe that as long as the whole country of Wu works together, we will be able to..."
"That's enough!" Zhu Meng raised his hand with a gloomy face to stop the old prime minister from continuing to talk.
He looked around the outside of the city with a gloomy look. At this moment, there were still many defeated soldiers heading towards Suzhou City.
Before, he left the cavalry around him behind, hoping to temporarily block the pursuit of the imperial army and buy more time to gather more remaining defeated soldiers.
Fortunately, it was getting dark now, and the pursuer still hadn't appeared.
As a result, although they were defeated on that battlefield and their morale was greatly damaged, fortunately, their strength still remained.
The other party is coming to help with cavalry. You can't use cavalry to attack the city, right?
What's more, Suzhou's walls are high and the city is thick, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack...
But at this moment, Zhu Meng couldn't help but regret if he had ignored Gao Zhang's son.
Instead, the army went south to relieve the siege of Xiuzhou. Maybe by this time, the imperial officers and soldiers outside Xiuzhou City had been driven to death.
As for the north, if they were more cautious, they might be able to detect the cavalry reinforcements sent by the imperial court, and this fiasco would not have happened.
But everything is just a if. Now, Zhu Meng knows that it is with the support of Suzhou City that he can stabilize the morale of the army.
But what should happen next? At this moment, the great Wu King Zhu Meng didn't know what to do.
"Liu Aiqing, in your opinion, what should my king do next?..."
Prime Minister Liu heard Zhu Meng's question, and after running through countless thoughts in his mind, he came forward.
"Since this is your question, your Majesty, Rong Chen, please give it some thought..."
Prime Minister Liu frowned and thought hard for a long time, until Zhu Meng frowned impatiently, and then saluted Zhu Meng.
"I have two strategies that I would like to offer to your Majesty."
"Oh, come and listen."
"My first policy is that if the imperial officers and soldiers are too strong, then please ask the king to lead the King of Wu Sheji to patrol Xiuzhou in the name of aiding Xiuzhou."
"Although Xiuzhou is not as prosperous and populous as Suzhou, Xiuzhou is closer to the sea and has many ports. If things go wrong, the king can still patrol thousands of miles of sea..."
Zhu Meng had a gloomy face, listening to Prime Minister Liu's first policy. It must be said that this policy still made Zhu Meng quite excited.
If Prime Minister Liu had dared to say this before the disastrous defeat, Zhu Meng would definitely give him a big reward.
But now, he feels that it has some merits, but Zhu Meng is reluctant to give up.
After all, he was engaged in rebellion. The Zhu family had been operating in Suzhou for many years. If he was defeated and ran away, abandoning his family and career, it really made Zhu Meng feel bad.
"What about your other plan, Mr. Liu Aiqing?"
Prime Minister Liu, who had been paying close attention to the changes in Zhu Meng's expression, heard this and immediately spoke.
"Another strategy is to use silence. The king first gathers his troops and horses, relying on Suzhou to resist the imperial troops.
At the same time, I sent envoys to the north, followed the example of Xixia and professed vassalage to the Liao Kingdom, and asked the Liao Kingdom to make the decision for the king..."
"Hiss..." Hearing these words, Zhu Meng couldn't help but take a breath of cold air and turned his head to look at Liu Aiqing, who was showing off his skills to the world.
He had to admit that Liu Lao Aiqing's coquettish actions really made Zhu Meng find everything new and refreshing, and he had never thought about those aspects at all.
But when I think about it carefully, I think it makes sense.
Think about Xixia, which was originally the territory of the Song Dynasty. The founding emperor of Xixia was also an official of the Song Dynasty.
As a result, they just established themselves as kings, and then knelt down and licked Daliao. As soon as Daliao stood up to support Xixia, the Song Dynasty immediately gave up.
If he followed the example of Xixia, he might actually become the second kingdom established on the territory of Song Dynasty since Xixia.
"Old Ai Qing is indeed my mastermind, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, but let me consolidate the city defense first and let me think about it carefully."
"Old minister, thank you for the compliment, your Majesty. This is just my duty..."
Prime Minister Liu had a humble smile on his face and smiled flatteringly at Zhu Meng. He almost wanted to spit on Xingzi. Do you really think of yourself as a person?
I didn’t even think that this was Jiangnan, the main tax and grain producing area of the Song Dynasty.
Even if the imperial court is risking its life, it is impossible for it to let go of an inch of Jiangnan soil to support itself, okay?
You, mother-in-law, had better think about it quickly. I just want to use this reason to take a boat to the north, away from Suzhou.
Unexpectedly, I originally thought that when a person reaches old age, he will meet the Lord of the Ming Dynasty. He originally wanted to imitate Jiang Taigong, serve the Lord of the Ming Dynasty, and gain great wealth.
As a result, unexpectedly, just a short time later, police alerts came out one after another in Xiuzhou in the south of the Great Wu Kingdom, and even court officers and soldiers appeared in Wujiang County, not far from Suzhou.
But this fatuous and incompetent king came to the battlefield in person, only to end up with a miserable defeat.
God knows how long he can hold on, but unfortunately, he is old and frail, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to escape. He can only hope that the imperial court will not have time to send heavy troops to the south of the Yangtze River.
And Zhu Meng could figure out how to send himself to Beiliao, otherwise, he might not know what would happen to him as an old man...
Prime Minister Liu looked at the horizon in the distance with a worried face. The afterglow of the setting sun was about to be completely swallowed up by darkness.
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"Your Majesty has gone too far. It was obvious that he and his elite troops were the first to escape."
"Brother Gu just saw the opportunity quickly and avoided the impact of the imperial cavalry immediately."
"In the end, a majestic general was killed with just one blow..."
"Return to your Majesty, bah! He Zhu Meng clearly felt that Lao Gu was not very respectful to him and wanted to deal with it a long time ago. This time, it was clearly just an excuse.
If I had known earlier, I would have continued to stay in Huaibei and be happy. Why would I have to come to Suzhou and suffer from Zhu Meng's arrogance? "
"Sigh... brothers, please be careful what you say. In my opinion, this King of Wu, haha... after being defeated, he only knows how to vent his anger on others."
"Such a character is definitely not a British master. It's just that a certain family was so blind that they actually thought he was a hero."
"Now I know that he is just a narrow-minded villain."
"It's a pity that our brother and he are now just grasshoppers on the same rope. If we want to run away, where can we run?"
"Stop dreaming. If Lao Gu dies, I'm afraid that Zhu Meng will become even more distrustful of us generals with foreign surnames."
A group of heroes who had either lost their lives or were involved in lawsuits. The reason why they defected to Zhu Meng's command was that they wanted to protect Zhu Meng and his son.
Occasionally, I helped the father and son with some dirty work, but I never thought that one day they would rebel.
The fifth update has been completed and will continue tomorrow
(End of chapter)
