Daming: If I find a great-grandson, I will teach an emperor through the ages

Chapter 231 Lan Yu is furious! burn one's boats!

"Li Jinglong is a murderer, he really deserves to die!"

After hearing what Cao Wei said, Zhu Xiongying resisted the urge to settle the score with Li Jinglong, but he couldn't stop cursing and felt regretful that he had made a mistake.

"If Liang Guogong and others are short of food on the front line, why continue to fight? If the front line fails, I will definitely take down Li Jinglong's government! Send it to the Ministry of Punishment for trial!"

Cao Wei stepped forward and patted Zhu Xiongying on the shoulder, comforting him and saying:

"Actually, Your Majesty, there is no need to worry too much. Liang Guogong has experienced hundreds of battles. What kind of war has he never encountered? Besides, the Ottoman Kingdom was just founded by the Turks who were defeated and fled to the local area. They were our defeated generals in the Central Plains before. Now I will definitely not be able to defeat Duke Liang."

The chief eunuch on the side looked at his toes very wisely. His Majesty the Emperor's shoulders must not be touched by ordinary people, but Grand Master Cao, he can...

"Furthermore, the Ottoman country is rich, and the important towns of Bianchui will certainly not be short of supplies and supplies. The Liang Kingdom's army has our Ming Dynasty's muskets and artillery. As long as we strengthen our faith and attack one or two cities with all our strength, we can block the supply of supplies." If there is a hole, everything will be fine.”

Zhu Xiongying felt a little better after hearing what he said. Also, when Zhu Di went around to the back and cut off Nao Hujia's food and grass, how could Lan Yu not know about it and captured the city to replenish food and grass supplies?

Thinking about it this way, the situation is not serious at all.

...

When Cao Wei left the palace, it was already dark. When he returned to his house, he saw Li Jinglong still waiting in the lobby.

With the urgent letter in his sleeve, Li Jinglong came to the door of Fengtian Hall tremblingly. Others who spoke to him only nodded and did not hear what was said.

"The grand master met with your majesty, what did your majesty say?" Li Jinglong stood up quickly, walked towards Cao Wei, and said humbly.

"I'm not helping you this time, I just don't want to make this mess bigger. The severity of your guilt is irrelevant to me. What's important is to quickly prepare the food and grass and send them to the frontline army."

After hearing this, Li Jinglong looked happy, raised his sleeves and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, then bowed to Cao Wei and said:

"I'm here. Thank you so much, Master Cao, for helping me. Master Cao is a great kindness. I will never forget it."

After secretly sighing in his heart, Li Jinglong clenched his fists in his sleeves and stood up.

The reason why Li Jinglong wanted to take less detours and transport grain and grass from the desert area was for the sake of the court, but in fact it was to save some military expenses and finally put some in his own pocket.

"Yesterday, yesterday... Yesterday, there was an urgent report from the military supply team, and the team transporting grain and grass..."

"Qi, Qi, Your Majesty, I have something to report."

Li Jinglong stammered and told the contents of the urgent letter. Suddenly, the whole hall was in an uproar!

"The food and grass have been destroyed, what should we do?"

Originally, it was on the edge of the desert, and the entire journey to the sand was only about ten miles. How could he be so unlucky that he would encounter a sandstorm so easily?

Feeling lucky, Li Jinglong changed the route of transporting grain and grass without authorization.

Fortunately, he has not tampered with military expenditures at this time, and the crime will not be too serious. If he has pocketed the saved military expenditures, after Zhu Xiongying finds out, he may be chopped off with a knife!

At this point, he didn't dare to delay anymore. He trotted out of Cao's Mansion and rushed to the military supplies department. After working all night, he finally completed the dispatch of grain and grass from various places and gave them orders to follow the first planned route. Delivering food and fodder to the front line.

But I didn't expect that it was really bad luck, just in time for the raging sandstorm, which directly destroyed the food and grass and ruined the big event.

"Say!"

Cao Wei glanced at him sideways, walked to the main seat and sat down, then slowly said:

The next day,

"Your Majesty was furious when he heard about this. He wanted to punish you as a crime, but the war is not over yet, so he will leave you to continue to serve as the general manager of food and fodder. You must deploy the next batch of supplies in the shortest possible time. In addition, this matter You can't hide anything, so you must submit this report to the court tomorrow."

He worked around all day yesterday and didn't even change out of his bare clothes tomorrow, but he saved the cost of changing them today.

Li Jinglong, who hadn't slept all night, had a pair of panda eyes as he left the munitions office and headed directly to the palace.

"Xiaguan knows, Xiaguan will do it overnight!" Li Jinglong nodded hurriedly and expressed his gratitude to Cao Wei again.

Cao Wei was extremely bored with his appearance and snorted coldly:

When the door of the main hall opened, Li Jinglong followed the team into the main hall in a daze. When he looked up, he saw Zhu Xiongying staring at him with a cold face and an aggressive look, which only scared Li Jinglong into a cold sweat.

"Who planned the route for transporting grain and grass? How could it pass through that desert?"

"Disasters from heaven cannot be counteracted by human beings. The blame for this incident does not lie with Duke Cao."

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Zhu Xiongying heard the bustling sounds below, and a surge of anger rose in his heart. The slow voice sounded, but it was extremely cold.

"Hmph! Mr. Cao Guo, please tell us why food and grass are destroyed by sandstorms?"

"Is this the way I gave you to transport food and grass?"

When Li Jinglong heard this, it was as if all the bones in his body were gone. He collapsed directly to the ground, kowtowed to Zhu Xiongying, and cried repeatedly:

"I deserve to die, I deserve to die! I said that I changed the route of food and grass taught by Your Majesty without authorization, which caused the food and grass to be destroyed by the storm. I hope Your Majesty will punish you!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall suddenly changed their expressions and glared at Li Jinglong on the ground.

"What? You actually changed the route of food and grass given by His Majesty without authorization? Li Jinglong, you are so brave!"

"Ignoring His Majesty's will and causing such a big disaster! Li Jinglong, you cannot escape the responsibility for your crime!"

"Don't think that because you are a hereditary Duke, we will be afraid of you. Your Majesty, I am impeaching Cao Guogong Li Jinglong. He knew the law and violated the law, and he violated the law. His heart is to be punished! Your Majesty, please put him in prison for questioning!" A royal censor was already angry. The people stood up and impeached Li Jinglong.

With this starting point, other Kedao officials were not to be outdone and asked for orders to have Zhu Xiongying convict Li Jinglong.

Li Jinglong lay on the ground, listening to the sound of impeachment in his ears. He was sweating profusely and almost fainted. He wanted to hit his head on the ground and die.

Zhu Xiongying listened to the advice of the officials and remained silent.

He didn't want to kill Li Jinglong with one blow, but Li Jinglong still needed to be busy with the food and grass management. He could only wait until the war was over before he could be held accountable!

"Li Jinglong, did you hear that?"

"Return...return to your Majesty, I know the crime!"

"If you weren't still needed to arrange food and fodder, I would definitely take off your official uniform! I will record the responsibility for this crime first. When the fighting in the west stops, I will question you again!"

That is to say, Cao Wei told Zhu Xiongying the news one day in advance, so that he could be mentally prepared.

If Zhu Xiongying suddenly heard the news that the grain and grass had been destroyed today, he might get angry and kill Li Jinglong with a single blow.

"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty..." Li Jinglong kowtowed as if pounding garlic. at the same time,

Thousands of miles away in the northeastern part of the Ottoman Empire, Lan Yu led an army of 20 people and had been fighting for more than several months.

Although the Ottoman country was extremely wealthy, the war with the Sun and Moon Kingdom in the Persian Gulf and the Ming army led by Lan Yu at the same time still made this rich country overwhelmed.

Coupled with the muskets and artillery in the Blue Jade Army, it absolutely suppressed the Ottoman army, so the northeastern frontier army was retreating steadily.

However, at this moment, Lan Yu gathered up the army formation and stopped attacking.

This move by the Ming army made Murad suspicious again, wondering what Lan Yu would do next.

But Lan Yu stopped the offensive, which really made Murad breath a sigh of relief.

It turned out that Guo Ying came to the Ottomans with 10,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, which led Murad to think that the Ming army was just in vain and did not take it seriously.

Later, the Ming Dynasty invited the Ottoman envoys to visit the Ming Dynasty. The news that came back confirmed Murad's conjecture that the Ming Dynasty only had a larger land area and a larger population, and other things were not of concern.

However, before he could finish taking care of the Sun and Moon Kingdom in the Persian Gulf, Lan Yu led his army and used long guns and short cannons to bombard the Ottomans indiscriminately, which directly knocked Murad into confusion.

Isn’t the Ming Dynasty weak in military strength? How could these muskets and artillery be so powerful?

Forget about the muskets and artillery alone. If the Ming soldiers were not capable of fighting, Osman would not be afraid. However, the 20 army led by Lan Yu was obviously completely different from the old, weak, sick and disabled led by Guo Ying. They enforced orders and strict disciplines. , can be called a steel team!

As a result, Osman lost any advantage and chance of winning, and could only passively defend without seeing any opportunities.

During this period, Murad also sought assistance from neighboring countries such as Persia, but those countries were not as powerful as him, the Ottomans. Seeing how ferocious the Ming Dynasty was, how could he dare to intervene so easily? Everyone avoids it.

Moreover, in the past, the Ottomans often relied on their strong national power to bully neighboring countries. Other countries hated the Ottomans, so how could they lend a helping hand?

Murad regretted that he should have been more polite to Ming Dynasty earlier, and he should not have sent those fools as envoys to Ming Dynasty to offend Ming Dynasty!

"What's going on over there in the Persian Gulf?" Murad asked the guards on the side as he hadn't slept well for many days.

"Report to the king that General Rohujia is still at war with the Sun and Moon Kingdom."

Murad sighed, and after weighing it in his mind, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Send the order for the Rohujia squadron to return to the court. Leave the Persian Gulf aside for the time being and secure the city to the east first!"

"But... Your Majesty, once the Persian Gulf is released, it will be difficult to reach heaven if you want to send troops to occupy it!"

Murad was upset, got up and kicked the man to the ground, shouting loudly:

"The country's territory can no longer be preserved, so why should we care about the bay? Do we have to wait for the Ming Dynasty's army to attack here?"

The soldier scrambled to his feet, responded, and hurriedly left the palace.

the other side,

Daming military camp.

In the large tent of the Chinese army, Lan Yu sat in the tent with a gloomy face, her eyes flickering, not knowing what she was thinking.

He has ordered the left and right armies to gather in. Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying, who are leading the armies respectively, should be back soon.

Just as Lan Yu thought, Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying brought the army back to the camp at the same time and headed towards the Chinese army's tent together.

"The fight was going well up front, why did it suddenly stop?"

"I don't know either. This matter is really strange. Let's see what the general says."

"Is it possible that we are running out of food and grass?"

"General Geng, don't be joking. If we don't have food and grass, then why fight?"

The two walked while talking, and soon arrived at the door of the Chinese army's tent. They directly lifted the curtain and walked in.

"General." Both of them bowed their hands towards Lan Yu.

Although Lan Yu is now in a state of decline and is no longer as majestic as he was a while ago, he still has the most basic prestige in the military camp because he has been fighting for a lifetime.

Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying were generals who were killed at the same time as Lan Yu, and their relationship was somewhat deeper than ordinary people. At this time, they did not look down on him as a general because of Lan Yu's decline.

"General, we are fighting well on the front line, why did we suddenly stop? Isn't this a missed opportunity?"

"Yes, although the Ottoman army has some merits, it is simply vulnerable to the Ming Dynasty's artillery and muskets. Why not just defeat it?"

Lan Yu shook her head, took out the urgent letter, threw it on the table in front of her, and said in a cold tone:

"This is an urgent report from the rear. This beast, Li Jinglong, changed the path of the grain and grass without authorization, causing a large amount of supplies to be destroyed. We can't wait for the next batch of grain and grass."

"What!" When the two of them heard this, their expressions changed and they rushed up to read the urgent report.

After reading it, Geng Bingwen threw the piece of paper to the ground, with a ferocious face, and gritted his teeth and said:

"God damn Li Jinglong! Li Jinglong mistook me! He has eaten the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard, how dare he..."

Guo Ying also clenched his steel teeth, but he knew that even if he scolded Li Jinglong bloody here, it would not help.

"General, what should we do? Without food and grass, how can we fight this battle?"

"Are we going to keep waiting for the supply of grain and grass from the rear to resume? But this is not an option. We don't have much grain and grass supplies at the moment. Our army can only last about ten days with the grain and grass transferred last time."

"The same is true for me over there. If we can't wait for food and grass, we won't even be able to wait for half a month. By then there will be no food and grass. As time goes by, the soldiers will definitely have no intention to fight. This will cause a big problem!"

Geng Bingwen scratched his head anxiously. Li Jinglong was to blame for the destruction of food and grass, but the military camp here was out of food and grass, and the soldiers mutinied. It was the generals who were responsible.

If you make great efforts at one go, it will decline again and again, and it will be exhausted three times, not to mention the lack of food and grass? 20 troops! Once chaos breaks out, let alone attacking the Ottomans, whether they can stabilize the morale of the army is a question.

Being implicated by Li Jinglong for no reason like this made Geng Bingwen want to kill Li Jinglong!

"This general knows everything you said," Lan Yu said with a gloomy face, revealing a hint of determination!

"That's why I, the general, have transferred you back to prepare to mobilize all the strength of the army to fight against the enemy!"

(End of this chapter)