I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After two days of rest, the weather had cleared up, and Wu Jun gathered under the city of Guangde.

Attacking Guangde did not waste much energy, because Fang Guoan had already withdrawn to Huzhou with the main force. The remaining miscellaneous cards surrendered after a symbolic resistance for a while.

If he can't fight and run, Fang Guoan is not stupid enough to fight with Wu Jun in such a small county, he can't afford it.

Even if they had to fight, they had to go to Huzhou, where the city walls were taller and stronger. In addition, there were some elite defenders in Huzhou, so there would be no shortage of troops to defend in Huzhou.

Fang Guoan's escape without a fight made Liu Hansan very helpless. He really wanted to gradually consume Fang Guoan's troops here, but it was a pity that Fang Guoan did not give him a chance.

In this way, the difficulty of his attack on Huzhou will increase by a few points, because the enemy army has gathered nearly 20,000 veterans in Huzhou, plus some temporarily recruited people, the defense of the city may be as high as 30,000.

And Liu Hansan's current total attack is only 18,000, and the soldiers who attacked the city have not yet defended the city. This is a big problem.

However, even if the troops are at a disadvantage, he is still ready to march to Huzhou.

Fighting more with less is already a tradition of Wu Jun. No one thinks this is a big disadvantage. It is just such self-confidence.

Compared with the lack of troops, logistics is their big problem.

They don't have much food left, and they need to wait for Xuancheng to deliver it and buy it from the surrounding area.

Thanks to this being the grain-producing area in the south of the Yangtze River, the grain is relatively abundant, and the purchase is relatively easy, as long as you have money. If this is in the north or other mountainous areas, money can't buy it.

In many wars, the outcome is often determined by logistics. In places with underdeveloped transportation, there are often more people in charge of transporting food than soldiers in combat.

Just like Zhuge Liang went out of Qishan six times, almost every failure was because of food problems. If there was food, he had already reached Luoyang, Chang'an.

Soldiers have no food to eat, and no matter how strong their combat effectiveness is, they are useless.

In order to raise food and grass, Liu Hansan stayed in Guangde for several more days, only to collect enough food for the army for half a month, and to wait for a batch of gunpowder.

Then Wu Jun set off for Huzhou. This section of the road still has no official roads, only various small roads.

This road was another difficult march, because they had been attacked before, and this time they marched more cautiously and couldn't get up to speed.

After a short distance of 100 miles, they took five days to reach Huzhou.

Before the siege could be launched, the envoys of the imperial court came to the camp of the Wu army.

After the court of the Lu Dynasty learned that Wu Jun and Fang Guoan were fighting, it could be said that the Manchu Dynasty was shaken.

This is simply ignoring the court and intending to rebel.

If this is put into the peaceful and prosperous world of great unity, this is a crime of treason, and it will punish the nine clans.

But now, the court of the Lu Dynasty could only swallow its anger.

They also wanted to punish Liu Hansan and Wu Changqing. However, without the strength to crush Wu Jun, convicting Wu Jun is a joke, and Wu Jun will definitely not pay attention to them.

At that time, the convicted and incapable of execution will make more people see the weakness and incompetence of their court, and at the same time, it will be equivalent to tearing up their face with Wu Changqing.

Therefore, even if they hated Wu Changqing and Liu Hansan half to death in their hearts, they could not tear their faces away. Instead, they wanted to give Liu Hansan a promotion and a reward to appease Liu Hansan and make him stop.

This is basically the basic operation of the court when the situation is weak. Just like Zuo Liangyu led the army eastward and threatened to take the side of the Qing emperor, even if the Hongguang court wanted to smash Zuo Liangyu's bones into ashes, the surface still wanted to add to Zuo Liangyu. Guan Jinjue, and then use the imperial edict to tell Zuo Liangyu that we are fine here, no problem, no need for the Qingjun side, you can fight where you come from or go back.

The tone used is almost like a prayer to each other.

Today, the court of the Lu Dynasty does the same.

An imperial decree was issued to Liu Hansan, and he was named the captain of Shangqingche, and then let him die and stop attacking Huzhou. As for Guangde Xuancheng and other places, the court tacitly agreed that it would be occupied by him.

Such a humble court only existed in this period.

"General Liu, the misunderstanding between you and Fang Guogong has been known to the court, and His Majesty has reprimanded Fang Guogong. Now that all of the former Li Chengdong's subordinates have surrendered to you, this is the end of the matter."

The messenger Wang Lifu used the tone of persuasion, and did not say that the court ordered him to withdraw troops. It's useless to fight with these big-headed soldiers, you can only persuade them with good words.

Liu Hansan's face was not very good-looking when he heard the words, and it was a bit difficult for him to handle the imperial decree.

After all, Wu Changqing has not officially rebelled, and he cannot ignore this imperial edict.

Previously, he originally wanted to occupy Huzhou before the imperial court had reacted, so that when the established facts were established, he could rely on it and not leave.

Who knew that there would be so many twists and turns on the road, delaying too much time.

And the response of the court of the Lu Dynasty was also very fast, and the imperial decree was made to mediate in time.

"Hmph, misunderstanding? He, Fang Guoan, was ambushing us on the road a few days ago, trying to kill us. Unless the court cuts his duke, we will kill him."

Liu Hansan's subordinates shouted that they had come to Huzhou fortunately.

"Isn't this because of a misunderstanding between the two sides. Now that Duke Fang has asked me to speak, he has no intention of starting a war with you, and is even willing to compensate you for some losses."

Wang Lifu said helplessly, in the face of such a group of rogues, he still can't point it out.

Obviously it was Wu Jun who made the first move, but now they look like they have suffered a loss. This kind of face made Wang Lifu feel sick, but he couldn't show it.

"Compensation for what?"

Liu Han asked three times.

Originally, he had planned to retire, but now that he heard that there is still a benefit to take it, he naturally refused to come.

"Grain, silver taels, beauties, these are all easy to negotiate. Now that everyone is an official in the same dynasty, we should still focus on fighting the Qing Dynasty, and don't hurt the peace."

Seeing that Liu Hansan was relieved, Wang Lifu felt a lot more at ease.

Although he doesn't know what to do with the relationship between the two sides in the future, it's fine as long as it can't fight right now. After that, talk about it later.

Now the two imperial courts in Nanming are trying to get along a little bit. They want to revive their glory, but they have more than enough power, so they can only watch the situation continue to deteriorate.

"Since this is the case, then we will draw up a batch of lists first, and then the envoy of the king will transfer them on their behalf."

Liu Hansan said, anyway, what Wu Changqing explained to them was to act by chance, even if they didn't win Huzhou, it didn't matter. Being able to take the opportunity to blackmail Fang Guoan ruthlessly is also a good deal.

If Fang Guoan doesn't agree, it would be better, just use this as an excuse, throw the responsibility for not agreeing to peace talks to Fang Guoan, and then start a war.