Chapter 528 Dilemma
Time passed quickly, and half a month passed quietly in the blink of an eye.
In the afternoon of that day, Zuo Wangfeng, the prince's first general, finally led a large army to Dujiang Town.
Everyone in the Jiangnan area now knows that the Crown Prince has sent a hundred thousand troops south to clean up the Second Prince's Party and completely control the Jiangnan area.
Therefore, everyone in Dujiang Town was naturally very scared and did not dare to easily provoke these tens of thousands of soldiers.
Zuo Wangfeng had no intention of dealing with the common people. After leading his army to Dujiang Town, in order to avoid causing panic among the people in the town, he ordered his soldiers to camp on the plain outside the town, while he took a team of personal guards with him. I rushed to the town and found an inn to stay at.
In the evening, while he was still having dinner in the lobby downstairs of the inn, Shuiyue came to the inn alone and sat at the table opposite him.
King Zuo didn't raise his head and only focused on eating.
Shuiyue whispered, "General, what are the prince's instructions now?"
"There is a fart instruction. The Ninth Prince is making trouble at the border, forcing the Emperor of the Earth and Moon Kingdom to send envoys to Kyoto for peace talks. Now he is worried about this matter. He has no time to control the Jiangnan side. Zuo Wangfeng said angrily.
"Then what should we do now? My people have been floating on the Tiancang River for more than 20 days. Is the waterway still blocked?" Shuiyue said dumbfounded.
She really didn't expect that the Ninth Prince Xuanyuan Qing was really powerful. The prince was targeting Gu Chan on the Jiangnan side, and he was causing trouble on the border, forcing the Emperor of the Earth and Moon Kingdom to send someone to Kyoto for peace talks.
Now that the prince is temporarily in power, he naturally wants to put the peace talks between the two countries first. And to put it bluntly, if the peace talks go well this time, the two countries will be okay. A comeback, and when the two countries fight again, some princes will have a headache again.
Therefore, Xuanyuan Qing's move directly helped Gu Chan take a lot of pressure off.
Zuo Wangfeng was not in the mood to eat anymore, and threw his chopsticks on the table. Then he stretched out his hand to wipe his mouth and sighed, "It is really not easy for the Crown Prince to secure the throne! Forget it, the Ninth Prince, Now a seventeenth prince suddenly appears, but these two are difficult to deal with. They are looking for trouble for him from the south to the north, and he doesn't care about either end. I don't know what to do now. "< br>
"What the general said is that I have fought against Gu Chan before. This kid is also extremely powerful, and he has spiritual beasts to help him. We don't dare to really attack Jiangnan City, otherwise if we cause civil strife, The emperor who is hiding in the dark will definitely order Nan Xingkuang to send troops to stop it," Shui Yue said helplessly.
Zuo Wangfeng nodded quietly.
Shuiyue added, "General, when I fought with Gu Chan before, he damaged more than a dozen warships. The loss was not small."
"It doesn't matter if there are no casualties. The warships don't matter. What I'm concerned about now is that you have been blocked for more than 20 days. The border relief money raised by Gu Chan has not been transported to the border by water, and I have been transported by land all the way. When I came here, I didn’t see any convoy transporting the relief money. Where did he send the border relief money?” Zuo Wangfeng said with a stiff face.
He and Shui Yue led their troops over land and water respectively. Their first priority was to intercept the three billion taels of border relief silver that Gu Chan had raised. But until now, they had not seen even half a copper plate, let alone silver. , this had to make him confused.
Shuiyue speculated to herself, "General, is it possible that because of our blockade, he didn't have time to send away such a large sum of money, and now this money is still stored somewhere in Jiangnan City?"
"If this is the case, then the most likely place to hoard silver is the Jiangnan camp. After all, Nan Xingkuang only obeys the emperor's orders, so this silver is the safest place to put it there." Zuo Wangfeng also guessed secretly. "Then what are the arrangements next?" Shuiyue asked.
Zuo Wangfeng thought silently for a while, and then sneered and said, "If we want to capture the Jiangnan area without causing civil strife, Gu Chan will be second, and Nan Xingkuang will be first. At the moment, we can only temporarily let our soldiers, We are standing on the Tiancang River and at Dujiang Town, cutting off both water and land routes. Then the two of us will go to the Jiangnan camp first and visit Nan Xingkuang.”
"General, how powerful is this Nan Xing Kuang?" Shui Yue asked curiously.
During this period, she had been leading more than 20,000 soldiers under her command, occupying waterways and floating on the Tiancang River. She had no time to visit Nan Xingkuang at the Jiangnan camp.
The most important thing is that she has never met this Jiangnan general before, so she naturally doesn't know how powerful he is.
Zuo Wangfeng said with a solemn expression, "This man is extremely powerful, intelligent, and strategic. It can be said that he combines all the advantages of the Crown Prince and the Ninth Prince, and his methods are also extremely powerful. If it weren't for this, , the emperor would not trust him like this.”
"Hey! It seems that if the prince wants to sit on the throne, he must first surrender to Nanxing Kuang!" Shuiyue Gangui said.
"Okay, don't be impatient, let's go! It's getting dark soon. We're going to the Jiangnan Camp in secret now. We won't be back tonight. It just so happens that I have a good time catching up with him." Zuo Wangfeng waved his order.
Shuiyue nodded noncommittally.
Then the two of them stopped talking. After Zuo Wangfeng ordered the guards to rest and wait in the inn, he and Shui Yue left the inn, took a boat across the river and rushed towards the Jiangnan camp.
On the way there, Zuo Wangfeng saw the ships on the Tiancang River dressed in red and colorful, showing their festive mood. He couldn't help but ask, "Have there been any happy events in the Jiangnan area recently? Why are the ships on the Tiancang River dressed in red and colorful?"
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"Back to General, in three days it will be the day when the Jiangnan Poetry Society, an annual event in the Jiangnan area, will be held, so the ships coming and going are all decked out in red and colorful to celebrate the upcoming event." Shuiyue said back to Bing.
"Hmph! This Gu Chan is really shrewd! Taking advantage of this juncture, she also held a poetry meeting. This way, it will be even worse for us to lead troops into Jiangnan City, otherwise we will disturb the poetry meeting. , she went to Jiangnan Camp to complain, Nan Xingkuang was forced to send troops to stop her! She is quite smart," Zuo Wangfeng snorted and muttered angrily.
Shuiyue smiled awkwardly, not knowing what to say.
Anyway, they are now in a dilemma. Without the prince's order, they dare not retreat. They want to lead their troops into Jiangnan City and take over the Jiangnan area! I dare not enter rashly.
For a moment, she didn't know what to do.
After that, the two of them just stood at the bow of the boat, both embarrassed and silent.
On the other side of the Jigong Temple, Gu Chan was sitting in the Buddhist hall, looking at the fold in his hand with a confused look on his face.