That night, Zhang Yu did not take off his armor and stayed up all night. He personally stayed on guard outside the Chinese army tent of Zhu Su and Zhu Di. When Zhu Su and Zhu Di woke up the next day, Zhang Yu was still in high spirits and greeted them. It wasn't until Zhu Su and others finished their meal and Di Meng and King Wu's guards came to change shifts that Zhang Yufang went down to rest.
Looking at his leaving figure, Zhu Di praised: "This man is like the old Tang Dynasty Wei Chigong."
"Fifth brother, although your method is a bit risky, the results are obvious. I think that Zhang Yu is already ready to die. When this matter spreads in the Jiangjun camp today, the tens of thousands of Jiangjun will come. I will return to my heart." Zhu Di turned to look at Zhu Su. "This plan of yours is very much like my father's!"
This strategy Zhu Su indeed picked up from Zhu Yuanzhang's old wisdom. In the past, when Lao Zhu was conquering the world, he subdued Chen Zhaoxian and his 30,000 surrendered troops. The 30,000 soldiers believed that they were not Lao Zhu's direct descendants, so they had doubts.
At that time, Lao Zhu asked the newly surrendered Chen Zhaoxian to stay outside the guard tent, and then slept peacefully all night.
This is equivalent to directly telling these surrendered soldiers: We trust you so much that we dare to entrust our lives in the hands of your general. What else do you have to worry about?
The 30,000 surrendered troops had all their doubts and were completely integrated into Lao Zhu's direct army. From then on, Chen Zhaoxian took the lead in every battle and did not avoid life or death. In the end, he even died in battle on Poyang Lake.
"Is it a risk? Dad dared to let Chen Zhaoxian sleep in the guard in the past, that was a risk. But this time, we are completely sure." Zhu Su calmly sat behind the desk and wrote on the fan, while answering casually. If Zhu Di's "absolute trust" performance last night was indeed somewhat "acting", then Zhu Su showed his true nature without the slightest worry that Zhang Yu would rebel.
History has proven that Zhang Yu is not a member of the Chao Qin and Mu Chu, so what does he have to fear? In the previous history, Zhang Yu had been involved in the Privy Council of the Yuan Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty, he generously died for Zhu Di in the Battle of Jingnan, which shows that he had no sense of belonging to the Yuan Dynasty.
But now before he surrendered, he was just a deputy general. At this time, Dayuan could be said to be neither kind nor virtuous to him. Is there any reason for him to return to the Yuan Dynasty?
Along the way, Zhu Su has become very good at analyzing and guessing the thoughts and actions of these historical figures through historical records, and relying on them to prescribe the right medicine and make decisions before taking action.
Although he never thought that his resourcefulness could surpass that of the "ancients", but relying on the vast amount of historical data in his mind to travel through Welfare, he could barely achieve "know yourself and the enemy, and be invincible in a hundred battles." At least until now, I haven't missed a beat yet.
Therefore, he is also very confident that his move of letting the surrendered army stay in the guarding army is a good deal that has no risk at all and can actually gain huge benefits.
The surrendered troops were in the middle army, and they were in fear all night. In their opinion, it was impossible for His Highness Ming to trust their former enemies so much. But after one night, there was neither "the Ming army deliberately set up an ambush to kill" nor "woke up early to find that they were under heavy siege".
When Zhang Yu, the commander-in-chief, came back and asked, he found out that not only had the two highnesses not escaped from the golden cicada to the front or rear army as they had guessed, but they had also fallen asleep unpreparedly under their heavy "surround". One night, even Zhang Tou'er stood outside the door of the two highnesses with his sword pressed, not even the slightest bit on guard.
The surrendered troops couldn't help but be greatly moved: It turns out that your two highnesses trust us so much, regard us as your direct descendants, and can trust us even with life and death!
As this matter spread among the army, in just one day, the morale of this surrendered army of 20,000 people was completely conquered by Zhu Su and Zhu Di.
A few days later, Cao Yuan of the former army temporarily retreated to recuperate. Zhu Di ordered Zhang Yu to lead 20,000 newly surrendered kings to replace Cao Yuan and confront Naha. Zhang Yu complied with the order, and the soldiers did not waver in the face of Naha's lobbying and threats to send troops.
"The front line is secure." In the Chinese army's tent, Zhu Su, Zhu Di, Chang Mao, Zhang Dingbian and other generals sat around the map and listened to Di Meng's report on the current situation.
"Nahachu began to disperse small groups of troops again, intending to rob the people's food. However, the people of Ji Town have been robbed several times, and I don't think Naha Chu will gain much this time. And the matter of conquering the Ming army in Ji Town The progress is going very smoothly, and driven by the wounded soldiers who have been cured, the recognition of us from the whole Ming Army in Jizhen is increasing day by day."
"I think in a few days, we will have enough troops to intercept the small force sent by Naha."
The success of regaining the morale of the Ming army in Ji Zhen was actually beyond Zhu Su's expectation. Originally, he thought that although he had taken away the military power of Gongchang Hou Guo Xing through strong means, Guo Xing had been operating in Jizhen for a long time, and he might use his influence to hinder or hinder him.
But after Guo Xing "recuperated" for a few days, he took five thousand trusted soldiers and generals and left here for Shuntian. It seems that Zhu Su and others will be annihilated, so they don't want to get involved in this quagmire anymore, and are preparing to work with Fu Youde of Shuntian Prefecture to pull up a second line of defense to block Naha's attack on Shuntian. pace.
Zhu Su also breathed a sigh of relief. Although Guo Xing took away five thousand soldiers. But without these Guo Xing's cronies, it actually helped him, directly vacating the position for him to install his own cronies, so that he could control the military power faster.
Seeing that the generals' expressions were relaxed, Zhu Su said: "You gentlemen, please do not slack off. It is not the time to relax yet."
"In my opinion, we still have two major dangers."
"The first one is Naha Chu and Shanyang Wanhu. Although we have successfully rescued Gong Changhou under their siege before, in real terms, Shanyang Wanhu's strength is not serious; although Naha Chu and Shanyang Wanhu are not The Ming army in Ji Zhen suffered both losses, but because it in turn devoured the supplies and grain stored in Jianchang, it gained the ability to fight for a long time."
"The two have not recovered yet, and they have not reached an agreement with each other. If they reach an agreement, they will definitely attack us with all their strength. At that time, the fierce battle will begin."
Everyone's expressions froze when they heard this. If Naha Chu was completely merged with Shanyang Ten Thousand Houses, it would be extremely difficult for people like him to resist.
Everyone in the tent was silent, thinking hard about how to defeat the enemy. But this is obviously extremely difficult. A group of people thought hard and couldn't come up with even a barely feasible strategy.
At this moment, Chang Mao said: "Then what is the second crisis?"
"The second crisis is... our army will run out of rations." Zhu Su spoke solemnly. "Our army's rations can be used until now because they are supplemented by the rations that were previously looted from Naierbuhua. But in the next few days, this part of the rations will be used up."
"We have nothing to do about this. We can only wait and see if Zhang He from the sea can transport military supplies in time." Zhu Su said.
(End of chapter)
