"Puchi... Lord Zhu said that the Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu are going to attack our Yingtian City?!"
"How is it possible? There are only more than 80 Japanese pirates left in Shangyu. They are like grasshoppers in autumn. It will only take a few days. Lord Zhu said that they will come to harass Yingtian City. This is really ridiculous. Think about it. More than 80 Japanese pirates come to attack the city. They can only set up two ladders at most, and only two Japanese pirates can come up at a time. But there are tens of thousands of our defenders on the city. One person's spit can drown them. Are they coming to die?! If you want to attack Yingtian, haha, don't even think about it without tens of thousands of soldiers!"
"Master Zhu, did you get this urgent military information from someone talking nonsense after drinking in a teahouse or restaurant?!"
"Haha, just now Lord Zhang said that Lord Zhu is knowledgeable about military affairs. Knowledgeable about military affairs?! Tsk tsk, the term knowledgeable about military affairs seems to be overused. Why does it feel like Lord Zhu is still far behind Zhao Kuo, who was only good at talking about military affairs on paper?"
"Is this what they call a knowledgeable soldier?! Hehehe... Sorry, I lost my composure a little."
After Zhu Ping'an reported the urgent military situation, the originally solemn meeting scene suddenly turned into a sea of joy.
Almost everyone present couldn't help laughing out loud, except for a few people who didn't laugh out loud.
Zhang Jing didn't smile, but his brows were slightly frowned.
Hu Zongxian did not smile. He sat there with a thoughtful look on his face, as if his thoughts were triggered. After a while, he shook his head again.
Yu Dayou didn't laugh either. He looked at Zhu Ping'an with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't quite believe that this urgent military information came from Zhu Ping'an's mouth. When Taizhou Prefecture was invaded by Japanese pirates, Zhu Ping'an, with less than a hundred yamen runners and soldiers, achieved the amazing achievements of defending the city, recovering the city, and killing more than 800 Japanese pirates under the siege of thousands of Japanese pirates. How could he have achieved such an achievement without his extraordinary civil and military skills? ! But how could Zhu Ping'an, who had extraordinary civil and military skills, report such an outrageous urgent military information? ! The Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu, with only more than 80 people, dared to set their sights on Yingtian City? !
Marquis Linhuai and Duke Wei did not laugh either. Their faces turned red with embarrassment and they wished they could find a hole to crawl into.
Just now they were all proudly praising Zhu Ping'an's literary and military talents to the people around them, but in the end, they were slapped in the face so quickly.
They are warriors.
They are laymen in poetry and painting, but they are experts in military operations and have a say in this regard. There is a sentence in "The Art of War" that says, "The method of using troops is to surround them if you have ten of them, attack them if you have five of them, divide them if you have twice as many of them, fight them if you are the enemy, flee if you have fewer of them, and avoid them if you are inferior to them."
If you want to attack Yingtian, the number of Japanese pirates as the attackers must be at least the same as the defenders of Yingtian, if not five or twice as many. Because the attackers are not in an advantageous position, if you are outnumbered by the defenders, then you are not attacking the city, you are courting your own destruction.
There are only about 80 Japanese pirates left in Shangyu. Do you think they will come to harass Yingtian? !
This emergency military situation is simply a joke.
A second ago, Marquis Linhuai and Duke Wei were bragging to the people around them about Zhu Ping'an's knowledge of military affairs, his talent in both literature and martial arts, but Zhu Ping'an reported such a ridiculous emergency military intelligence, which made them so embarrassed that they couldn't even raise their heads.
Especially, there were one or two commanders of the Beijing camp who were watching the fun and were not afraid of trouble. They deliberately embarrassed Linhuai Marquis and Wei Guogong, "Haha, Duke, Marquis, what did you just say? The top scholar knows both military strategy and military tactics?!", "Haha, the top scholar who is both talented in literature and military tactics is really an eye-opener."
This ridicule made the old faces of Linhuai Hou and Wei Guogong blush, and they wished they could lower their heads into their crotches.
Zhu Ping'an took in everyone's reactions. The reactions here were no different from those of the Neitai Yamen. He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
"My Lords, be quiet!" Zhang Jing looked at everyone with a serious face, maintaining order at the meeting. Then he turned his head, frowned and looked at Zhu Ping'an and asked, "Master Zhu, you said that the Japanese pirates from Shangyu are going to attack Yingtian. What evidence do you have?!"
"Your Excellency, I have inferred that the Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu were the vanguard spies of the Japanese pirates. The reasons are as follows..." Zhu Ping'an bowed and replied, repeating his inference at the Neitai Yamen.
"Hmm? Are the Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu the vanguard spies of the Japanese pirates?" Hu Zongxian muttered to himself and fell into deep thought again, but after a moment, he shook his head slightly again.
"A spy..." Yu Dayou also fell into deep thought.
After a few seconds of silence, the scene became noisy again, with people constantly criticizing Zhu Ping'an's inference.
"What? The Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu were Japanese spies? Mr. Zhu's inference is too far-fetched."
"This inference is unreliable and full of loopholes. Lord Zhu, you said that the reason why the Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu went westward and deep into the inland and fought with the officers and soldiers repeatedly, and then you concluded that they were Japanese spies. This inference is not rigorous and cannot rule out other situations. The reason why the Japanese pirates continued to move westward may be that they were unfamiliar with the place and did not know the direction and got lost, or they may have been deliberately led astray by the righteous people, and the reason why they continued to move westward later may be that they made a mistake; it is also possible that the Zhejiang Shaoxing Prefecture coalition forces were in urgent pursuit In order to avoid being hunted down, the Japanese pirates had no choice but to go west to Huizhou Prefecture to hide; it is also possible that the Japanese pirates felt that the western inland areas had not been robbed by them, there were fewer defenses and more wealth, so they went to the western inland areas to rob; in addition, aren’t they turning north again now? ! In addition, the reason why they repeatedly fought with officers and soldiers from various places is even simpler. This group of Japanese pirates is arrogant and domineering, and officers and soldiers from various places can easily track down the traces of the Japanese pirates. Officers and soldiers from various places have the responsibility to eliminate the Japanese pirates. With this responsibility, how can officers and soldiers from various places let the Japanese pirates go? "
"Master Zhu's inference is indeed novel, but no matter how much analysis and inference are made, it cannot be divorced from reality. There are only about 80 Japanese pirates left after they landed in Shangyu. How dare they come to harass the heavily guarded Yingtian?!"
"Lord Zhu's inference reminds me of Zhao Kuo, who was good at talking about war on paper. He only talked about theory, but it was out of touch with reality and made people laugh. Even if Lord Zhu's inference is true, and the Japanese pirates who landed in Shangyu came to harass Yingtian, I know this is impossible, but even if it happened, what would it matter? There are only more than 80 Japanese pirates, and we have tens of thousands of defenders in Yingtian. We can easily destroy this group of Japanese pirates. Why do we need to make a big fuss and waste people's money and resources to ambush them? Why bother?! If the Japanese pirates don't come afterwards, won't we become a joke to everyone?!"
Laymen watch the excitement, experts watch the doorway. Laymen can see the loopholes, and experts will see more...