Chapter 10 Zheng Zhilong’s Ambition (2)

"Your Majesty, what is in front of us is that Zheng Zhilong will choose to send troops from land or from sea. According to the current intelligence analysis, the possibility of sea will be greater." After pondering for a long time, Zhuoba opened his tired eyes and said.

"Is the purpose of the more than 80 huge fleets led by Zheng Zhihu is to fight Zheng Zhilong's front station? The problem is that there is no extra army on his ship. If it is a front station, Zheng Zhihu will at least lead to landing troops of 4,000 to 5,000, but Hong Chengchou and the others did not find anything." Zhu Yinglong asked back.

"Maybe, the army sent by Zheng Zhilong will follow him." Similarly, Zhuoba didn't know much about a pirate person like Zheng Zhilong, so he could only make some so-called speculations. Naval battles are not a field that he is proficient in.

Zhu Yinglong shook his head. He did not agree with Zhuoba's judgment. Although there was no faster intelligence transmission method in this time and space, Zheng Zhilong would not have guessed that the court would suddenly send a partial army to raid Hangzhou Bay, and would not have sent an army to follow Zheng Zhihu. There was no need for this. Chen Guang, Hong Chengchou and the others encountered Zheng Zhihu in Hangzhou Bay. This unexpected encounter deeply affected the strategic plan for the southern expedition formulated by him and Yuan Chonghuan and others, which was exactly the same as the old saying that the plan could not keep up with the changes. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still caught off guard by this encounter, attracting almost all his attraction to this hero who started his career.

Zheng Zhilong, what exactly do you want to do? Zhu Yinglong couldn't help but ask such a question in his heart?

"Your Majesty, you haven't been asleep all night, so it's not too late to wait for the news that Mr. Hong and his friends have landed in before making a decision." Zhuoba looked up at the window. It was already dawn, and then he found that the king and his minister were just sitting in front of each other and discussing for the middle of the night.

"What Mr. Zhuo said is that even if I'm anxious now, it's useless. What should be come is still coming. Whether it's early or late, I can only have one winner, the pseudo-Ming and Zheng Zhilong." Zhu Yinglong was also quite tired. From the beginning of crossing the river, he had not had a rest within three days. The southern expedition was related to the rise and fall of the country and his own value and life. The string in his head was no less loose than the soldiers fighting bloody battles on the front line.

"If the emperor understands this, he is already invincible." Zhuoba had to admit that the young emperor in front of him was a talented and powerful monarch. At the age of less than 20, he controlled such a dangerous country, calm and wise. Although he had not yet achieved the collapse of Mount Tai and did not change his color, he could face it calmly, without being impatient, without panic, and a calm mind that ordinary people could not match. This would be even more difficult. If Wu Heimiao had half of the young emperor in front of him, perhaps Miaojiang in western Hunan would be a different scene.

"Old Zhuo, you have been with me all night and go back early to rest. There is nothing special about it. I won't be summoned by someone." Zhu Yinglong smiled and nodded.

Zhuoba left the study room, and Zhu Yinglong then turned off the candle, put on a coat and walked out. It was still very cold in the early morning of March in Yangzhou.

Zhu Yinglong is not sleepy yet. At least until now, he is in good spirits. He just wants to see through the outside and breathe the fresh air.

There is a small garden-style garden garden, rockery, strange rocks, and curved water corridors. The environment is quiet and spacious. Whenever there is free, Zhu Yinglong’s favorite thing is to come here. Of course, most of them are not here to enjoy the garden scenery here, because he has no leisure at all. The main reason is that it can give him a feeling of emptiness and openness, which can dispel the depression in his heart. This will help him think. There are even a few times when he thinks too fascinated. If it weren’t for the Hai brothers behind him to stop it in time, he could go straight into the pond in the garden. Because of this, as soon as he comes to this garden, the Hai brothers will follow closely, and a fence is also added to the edge of the pond.

"Li Niang, why are you here?" Zhu Yinglong looked at the beauty in front of him in surprise, with his resentful pretty face.

"Your Majesty, you haven't had a rest for another night?" Xiong Hu said with a worried and reproachful look.

"I'm worried about you, my beloved concubine." Zhu Yinglong stepped forward and hugged Xiong Hu's soft waist, giving her a comforting smile.

"Emperor, state affairs are of course important, but for me, the emperor is the most important thing." Xiong Hu is no longer the girl who was determined to go to the battlefield and make achievements. Since she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, she has changed a lot and her ideas have changed a lot. She is destined to lose a lot of women as an emperor. She has already seen this and has not even asked Zhu Yinglong to lead troops to the battlefield in front of Zhu Yinglong. Despite this, Zhu Yinglong still saw the trace of loss that was so strongly concealed in Xiong Hu's eyes, and the desire to go to the battlefield did not completely disappear from her heart.

"Li Niang, I know you really want to be a female general who has been famous in history, but..." Zhu Yinglong didn't know what he should say. As an emperor, he could not change the so-called rules or even laws that the court had lasted for hundreds of years. Although he wanted to change it, the time was not yet ripe. Those stubborn ministers and scholars could tolerate a female governor because they could not find a suitable candidate and forced a compromise, but it was absolutely impossible to let a concubine lead the army to fight. Even if she was strong by all male generals, it would not be possible. As a husband, of course, he did not want his wife to take risks on the battlefield, but he really wanted to help his wife realize this wish, provided that his wife had this ability. Of course, he never doubted Xiong Hu's ability. He was in this contradictory psychology.

Li Qing is relatively smart. Although she has a title and the imperial edict for enthroning her has been written, it has not been announced to the public yet. So she can lead Zhu Yinglong’s secretly established medical camp to Zhenjiang with the army, while Xiong Hu cannot. The establishment of the medical camp also has her contribution. The loss in her heart can be imagined when Li Qing left.

"Emperor, General Mangui is pressing for 800 miles!" Mao Xiang didn't know where he learned that Zhu Yinglong was in the garden and trotted all the way.

"Take it!" Zhu Yinglong's heart tightened. Could something big happened in Liaodong?

"I will avoid it first!" Xiong Hu knew the rules and turned around and left.

Zhu Yinglong didn't care about this, but just nodded his head a little, took the box full of folds from Mao Xiang, looked at the number on it clearly, and then ordered Hai Chengguan among the Hai brothers to go to the red place to get the key to the corresponding number.

After a moment, Hai Chengguan came back and had a golden key in his hand. Zhu Yinglong took the key, quickly opened the secret box, removed the tin seal on the envelope, pulled out the secret fold of the Gui, and just glanced at it, the content inside made Zhu Yinglong's face fade away.

"Let's go back!" Zhu Yinglong didn't care about Xiong Hu who was still standing not far away, closed the secret letter and left the garden.

Man Gui is an absolute soldier. His memorials have always been concise and clear, with no extra word, five words: "Mao Wenlong wants to rebel!" This news was enough to shock Zhu Yinglong.

What does Mao Wenlong want to reverse mean that North Korea will be defeated, otherwise Mao Wenlong will never betray the court at this time.

And in this time and space where communication is extremely underdeveloped, when the news reached Zhu Yinglong's hands, perhaps things had already happened there. In other words, he might not be able to stop the incident now. He could only hope that Man Gui could make a quick decision and take effective measures. Even if he killed Mao Wenlong now, he would not blame him afterwards. He was afraid that Man Gui would not have the courage, especially when Yuan Chonghuan was away, Man Gui was just acting on his power.

After the southern expedition began, Zhu Yinglong basically put his energy on it. Although the Korean battlefield was inquired, it was not detailed, and there was a time difference in the transmission of the message. Basically, the news in his eyes was a few days, or even more than ten days ago. The battlefield changed rapidly. Even if he is in Beijing now, it would be difficult to see the situation clearly, let alone Yangzhou, which was thousands of miles away.

If the news on Man Guimi's Memory is true, then Seoul is about to fall and North Korea may not last long.
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