Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"Your Highness, the best way now is to abandon Jiangzhou, plunge straight into Kyoto like a knife, and successfully get to Kyoto and win the throne. Then everything will fall into place."

Song Chengzhou said sadly.

Nothing has the best of both worlds. If you want to get another thing, you must give up one thing.

"Sir Song, it is too late to say anything at this time. If you give up Jiangzhou, you will give up the rear area. Then the continuous supply and retreat will be cut off. When the time comes, if you go deep alone, you will be ambushed by the enemy. It’s hopeless. From my emotional and rational point of view, Jiangzhou really can’t give up.”

After Ning Fan thought about it for a while, he finally decided to defend Jiangzhou.

However, there were disagreements over how to defend Jiangzhou. Song Chengzhou's method was to use all the troops in Tianjiang Province to intercept the imperial army, while Ning Fan led Huang Chao's 50,000 troops to directly attack Jiangzhou. Head north to Kyoto.

Song Chengzhou has not been idle in the past six months. He is also heavily armed in Tianjiang Province and has an army of 200,000 in his hands. However, the combat effectiveness of these 200,000 troops is far inferior to that of the imperial army.

However, 200,000 is enough to resist an army of 100,000, and it is more than enough to protect Jiangzhou. It's just that this 200,000-strong army was originally prepared by Song Chengzhou for Ning Fan. Now, in order to resist the imperial court's 100,000-strong army, it was just a last resort.

"Jiangzhou must be saved."

Ning Fan has made up his mind.

Jiangzhou is different from Kyoto. In the north, Kyoto is easy to defend and difficult to attack and is the political center. However, Jiangzhou is well connected in all directions and has many mineral resources around it.

In the future, building Jiangzhou into an industrial city will become the heart of Dakang. Using Jiangzhou to drive the industrialization of the entire Dakang is an indispensable step in Ning Fan's future blueprint.

"Your Highness, can you really guarantee that a hundred thousand troops can attack Kyoto? You must know that Kyoto is a monolithic city, and its city defense is second to none in Dakang."

It has to be said that Song Chengzhou was also a little disappointed with Ning Fan. Those who want to do great things cannot abandon a city. This made Song Chengzhou a little disappointed with Ning Fan.

But Ning Fan knew in his heart that with firearms, he had a huge advantage facing the army of the cold weapon era. Even if he only had one hundred thousand troops, a well-drilled one hundred thousand troops would be enough.

The power of thousands of cannons is still extremely astonishing. In addition, Ning Fan made a large number of grenades, landmines, etc., and the lethality of these things is inestimable. Facing the imperial army, Ning Fan has unprecedented confidence.

The reason why Ning Fan can't abandon Jiangzhou is that he has put too much effort into Jiangzhou. Once he abandons Jiangzhou, as Zhou Qun said, even in the next five or ten years, he may not be able to achieve what he has now. Jiangzhou was rebuilt.

"It only takes three days at the fastest for the imperial court's 100,000-strong army to go down the river to Jiangzhou. However, Jiangzhou's city defenses have been abandoned for too long. Even if they build a temporary city, it is of no use at all, because the imperial army has There are too many places to take a detour into Jiangzhou.”

Ning Fan stood in front of a map and began to explain the court's offensive route to the officers. According to Ning Fan's calculations, the court was most likely to enter Jiangzhou from three directions.

"But no matter which attack route the imperial court chooses, they will definitely pass through this place, so what we have to do now is to wait for work in this place, set up defenses here, and once the imperial army enters our housing area, we will immediately attack them head-on. .”

Ning Fan drew a red circle on the map. This place was called Jiangling.

Jiangling is an area 150 kilometers away from Jiangzhou. That place is a ferry. If the imperial army wants to gather again, it must use Jiangling Ferry.

There is the imperial granary nearby, and it is very reasonable for the imperial army to gather again.

"If nothing unexpected happens, His Majesty will be buried tonight, so this is also the time when the imperial army is at its craziest."

Huang Chao said coldly.

Huang Chao was a bit elusive to Ning Fan. Sometimes he really doubted that one could tell a person's life and death just through changes in the celestial phenomena.

Therefore, Ning Fan was skeptical about Huang Chao's words.

We can't believe it, but we can't believe it completely. At least it is an indisputable fact that Emperor Tian'an is seriously ill now, and the news sent by Yueying from Kyoto shows that Emperor Tian'an has indeed been seriously ill in the past few days, and has even entered a dying state.

"Your Highness, you can't wait any longer. I suggest you take the firearms battalion and go north overnight. As for Jiangling, leave the 100,000 imperial troops and horses to me. After I have dealt with the 100,000 imperial troops and horses, go up the river. Northern support.”

Huang Chao said very happily.

Ning Fan was a little skeptical. After all, although Huang Chao's 50,000 wolf soldiers were very capable of fighting, facing the imperial court's menacing army of 100,000 men, could Huang Chao, who only had 50,000 soldiers and horses, really be able to stop them?

"Your Majesty may not know who the person who led the troops from the imperial court this time is. This person is called Chen Congxin. If someone else led the troops, I really wouldn't take it seriously. But if this person leads the troops, then the ten people from the imperial court will Wan Dajun is just a faggot and poses no threat at all."

Huang Chao said confidently.

It was obvious that he despised this general named Chen Congxin and did not take him seriously at all.

Ning Fan carefully thought about the name, thought about it over and over, and finally settled on one person, the son of Chen Guogong Chen Mo. Chen Congxin was indeed a little Zhuge.

In terms of debate, Chen Congxin is hard to find an opponent in the world, but in terms of actual combat, this guy has never won.

No wonder Huang Chao looked down upon this boy so much. Even Ning Fan felt the urge to laugh when he heard that it was Chen Congxin who was leading an army of 100,000 people.

"It seems that the imperial court really has no one available, otherwise this famous paper general would not have been allowed to lead troops to sweep Jiangzhou."

Ning Fan let out a long breath and felt completely relieved.

As the saying goes, if one general is incompetent, the entire army will be exhausted. This Chen Congxin is a notoriously weak general.

If this guy can win the battle, then the sun will rise from the west.

"You will be left with a firearms battalion of 500 people. You can use it as you see fit. There are about 50 artillery pieces."

Ning Fan smiled charmingly and didn't explain much.

Huang Chao didn't know much about firearms. He knew that Ning Fan was secretly tinkering with something, but he hadn't found out what it was yet.

Everything was decided happily, but Ning Fan felt that there was still plenty of time, so he planned to stay for a few days to observe what Huang Chao's army had a chance of winning against the imperial army, in case they really couldn't resist. If he is alive, he can still be rescued.