Chapter 523: A traitor in troubled times, still a desperate gambler at heart
Zhu Wen's voice echoed in the hall, and the generals present could not help but tremble in their hearts. After all, over the years, the emperor they served has not only become more and more absurd, but this time he went to fight for troops, he often killed people when he was angry.
Your Majesty's confidant adviser Jing Xiang would hardly follow the army to fight in the past. He was better at handling political affairs. After all, there were important officials under his own rule to preside over the stable situation... Then, except for Jing Xiang, who would make Zhu Wen a little unhappy now, then the butcher knife that Zhu Wen called to kill would fall on his neck at any time.
"Li Tianqu occupied our Central Plains. Now the Wei State is strong and powerful. Therefore, our army went east to Tongguan. He personally led the army to come without any scruples. When he divided his troops to attack, all the troops should be sent. I am now fighting against the main force of Li Tianqu's enemy with Hongnong. I believe that Li Keyong will arrive here in a few days. Our army will have no help. If we want to defeat the enemy, we will have to take risks..."
Zhu Wen said, while squinting his eyes again and looking at the faces of everyone present:
"So I have decided to take advantage of the past few days of confrontation and watching, so that the location of Li Tianqu's camp will be roughly determined... Our army should attack the camp at night and create chaos everywhere in the Wei army camp, and then take the opportunity to attack Li Tianqu!"
As soon as Zhu Wen said this, most generals in the hall changed their expressions. Since the Emperor of Wei was personally present, the defense must be very strict. Moreover, if the other party had been prepared for a long time, the night attack would not have been unexpected... Then the generals who were responsible for the heavy responsibility of attacking the camp would be no different from jumping into the dragon pond and tiger den.
Your Majesty is becoming more and more paranoid every day, and it is not appropriate to attack the camp at night. I don’t know who is going to receive such a call, but I’m afraid it will be a lot of danger...
When some generals present were slandering, Zhu Wen suddenly sank his face and shouted sternly, with a bit of murderous intent in his tone:
"What? When you sent troops that day, you kept saying that you would regain your lost land and fight to the death with the State of Wei. You would rather fight to the end to repay my great emperor's kindness, but you would not regret it now!"
When many military generals heard this, they were so shocked that a layer of cold sweat suddenly oozed out of their bodies. Unconsciously, their faces turned a little pale. No one dared to question Zhu Wen, and they had to show their loyalty. Even if they claimed His Majesty's order, they naturally did not dare to disobey them.
Although Zhu Wen looked at the generals in front of him and his tone slowed down slightly, he then said:
"You don't have to worry about who will be ordered by me to go to the dangerous land. Today, I will be sending more than a group of troops. In addition to leaving 20,000 troops to guard Hongnong City Pass, the rest of the ministries act according to my will.
The troops will be advanced and they will break into the Wei army's battalion to create chaos. Then send a group of elite cavalry to attack the enemy's tents. Be sure to search for Li Tianqu's traces as soon as possible to find the heads of his head. Even if a group of cavalry fails, I will personally supervise the army, and I will send a second and third... until the commander of the entire army covers the killing, and the soldiers will only focus on attacking Li Tianqu, my lifelong enemy!"
There are many examples of wars in the past and present, but the size of the troops in the night attack camps is often not very large. After all, if the attack camps are to be successful, they must not only be familiar with the terrain, identify the road, the execution and organization of the army, whether the night war drills of the troops are sufficient, etc., and the most important point is whether the enemy will be prepared for it.
However, according to Zhu Wen's plan, he was not only prepared to send surprise troops to attack the camp, but also prepared to put 70,000 or 80,000 troops into the night attack. Zhu Wen didn't care about how many enemy troops could be wiped out and how much price would it cost. The only purpose of his plan was to take Li Tianqu's life.
Because Zhu Wen also realized that the most important reason why he could not fight Li Tianqu as soon as possible was that this mortal enemy was younger, and his descendants were probably not his opponent... However, as long as Li Tianqu died, the hidden danger of Wei's successor would be more serious than that of Liang.
After all, among his own sons and adopted sons, Zhu Youwen took office to assist in military affairs very early, and his second son Zhu Yougui was over 20 years old, and his third son Zhu Youzhen was sixteen or seventeen years old... On the other hand, Li Tianqu had never accepted a single Yier, and his biological offspring were generally young and had little knowledge.
After struggling in such a chaotic world for most of his life, Zhu Wen did not believe that there would be any entrusted ministers who would support and cultivate Li Tianqu's descendants to revive hegemony. As long as he died, the powerful ministers of the Wei State would probably seize power for usurping the throne and would inevitably be in chaos within. Even if there were millions of powerful troops and were completely trapped in internal strife, all the generals holding military power would have to stabilize the country, or they would intend to support their troops as they did in the late Tang Dynasty... In that case, they would not pose a threat to Liang State in the short term, and there would still be a possibility of returning to the Central Plains.
As for the long-term consideration, Zhu Wen knew that even if he could succeed in taking risks, he would probably get his other mortal enemy, Li Keyong. He also heard that his son Li Cunxu was both wise and brave, and had the talent of a hero, which seemed to be far better than his descendants... But now, the two evils are less serious. Compared with Li Keyong and his son, Li Tianqu, who dominates the Central Plains, should be eliminated as soon as possible!
What's more, even if there is a great internal chaos in Wei, Jin State has an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to invade the Central Plains south... Then the alliance forces against Liang State will be completely disintegrated. Wei State has many famous generals in charge of a vassal state, and it will never allow Jin State to easily occupy the foundation they have built. At that time, the chaos in the Central Plains will be as good as possible, and the more people die, the better! Because at that time, Liang State will finally have the opportunity to reap the benefits!
Even when the vassal states were more loosely controlled by the vassal states, the people in the world had annexed the surrounding vassal states, and the livelihoods of the people in various places were at least much more stable than at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Zhu Wen knew that he would attack Li Tianqu in one fell swoop. If he got what he wanted, the world would inevitably cause bloody storms and ruin their lives... But if it was not the people under the rule of the Liang Dynasty of the Zhu family, how could he be sympathetic to the lives of the people in the world with Zhu Wen's character?
On the contrary, Zhu Wen suddenly felt a long-lost sense of pleasure, which made him feel his blood was shaking. This feeling seemed to be waiting for him to work as a servant at Liu Chong's family in Xiaoxian County, Xuzhou when he was young, but he was so angry that he stole the boss's pot and was anxious to make a comeback...
Zhu Wen knew that if the boss's mother had not come forward to plead with the mercy, he might have been punished and crippled by the crime of stealing the owner's property and placing a bet on the ground, and his mother and two brothers might have been expelled from the courtyard, and it would be difficult to find a livelihood... But he still wanted to bet, but the feeling of winning would turn the world around, and losing would have been in a slump. Even if Zhu Wen killed Emperor Tang Ting and was still playing money and gambling on the eve of ascension, he rarely could experience the extremely exciting pleasure.
Because when you are forced into a desperate situation, the stimulation of letting go will make Zhu Wen feel a sickly pleasure.
However, I only gambled in a few dozen or a hundred Kaiyuan Tongbao. However, the gambling money now is to win the whole world for my Zhu family...
Suddenly, the Liang generals standing solemnly in the front of the hall couldn't help but look surprised, and quietly raised their heads to sneak into Zhu Wen's expression, because they seemed to hear a strange laugh coming into their ears.
When the Liang generals carefully looked at Zhu Wen's expression, they saw that the Emperor Liang Dynasty they served not only had a gloomy and ferocious expression, but also had a bit of madness in their eyebrows... When Zhu Wen raised his head, the expression on his face seemed to be no different from those gamblers who were already jealous and crazy at the gambling table, who were willing to bet on their wife, daughter, and life:
"You are going to follow my orders and prepare to attack the Wei army camp tonight. It is necessary to take Li Tianqu's head. The military orders do not need to follow the orders. If there is any violation or failure to follow the battle, or if the supervision is not effective... not only will the head be protected, but all the family members will be killed!"
Chapter completed!