"Your Majesty! Urgent military report!"
King Liang was discussing with his left prime minister Dade and right prime minister Lu Er how to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty envoy Wang Xi today.
Situ Pingzhang Dalima rushed in from outside. When King Liang saw him, he frowned, became annoyed and angry.
"What's going on? Why are you so flustered? Didn't you see that I'm discussing matters with the Prime Minister?"
Darima knelt on the ground and explained quickly, "Your Majesty, the scouts we sent to Qujing today reported that tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty troops appeared in the Songming area, right in front of Songming City. According to the scouts, the Ming Dynasty people seem to be planning to turn Songming City into a garrison."
"What?" King Liang's face changed drastically when he heard this. The left prime minister Dade and the right prime minister Lu Er were also a little panicked.
"Are you sure it's in Songming? Didn't Songming become a dead city a long time ago? The city walls are almost destroyed."
"How many troops could the Ming Dynasty send to establish a garrison in Songming? They dare to build a garrison so close to our army. What kind of negotiation is there?"
"Stop talking." King Liang frowned and asked Darima, "Did the scouts see clearly what the situation is like in Songming? How many people are there and where are they? Are there any troops?"
"The specific situation is unclear, but I have arranged a new group of scouts to investigate." Darima said seriously.
"According to the scouts who returned, there are troops training outside Songming City, with at least 20,000 men."
"Twenty thousand?" King Liang, Dade and Lu Er's expressions changed again. If there were twenty thousand troops on training, then there must be even more troops in the city.
Although Songming City is not big, it can still accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Once the Ming Dynasty people build a city garrison, it can be used for attack or defense, and it will definitely be built into an outpost for attacking King Liang.
The King of Liang, who had been wavering, suddenly seemed to have a decision. "If that's the case, then there's no need to talk to that birdman surnamed Wang anymore. Dade, go and make the arrangements. Kill all of the man surnamed Wang and his followers. Save one and cut off his nose and send him to Songming."
"Your Majesty is wise!" Dade and Lu Er were delighted when they heard the decision of King Liang. In fact, they did not agree to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, or rather, the Mongols in Yunnan and Yunnan basically did not agree to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Yuan Dynasty had been destroyed, the Mongols did not think they had lost to the Ming Dynasty. The Mongols in Yunnan and Yunnan were more inclined to fight a war with the Ming Dynasty and then make a decision based on the situation of the war.
"The Han people are cunning. They openly negotiate peace, but secretly commit such wicked acts. It's clear that they have prepared for both situations."
"Since Songming City can be crushed by my army once, it can be crushed a second time. Darima, send more people to find out how many people are in Songming, and then report back to me!"
"Yes, sir!" Darima bowed in agreement, then stood up and went out to make arrangements with murderous intent.
At this time, Zhu Chong had no idea that the territory he was planning to build had been targeted by King Liang.
He is now concentrating on studying the system mall to see if there are any useful products that can be directly used in the construction of Songming City.
Zhu Chong really cared about Songming City, and of course he couldn't help but care about it.
He now has tens of thousands of people coming to seek refuge with him every day, so he has to repair Songming City quickly. Otherwise, once it is discovered by the Mongols and the two sides go to war, they can still rely on the city walls for defense.
In ancient wars, as long as the defenders relied on the city walls and had sufficient defensive materials, ten thousand slightly trained recruits could defeat one hundred thousand well-trained infantrymen.
Zhu Chong's order to Yu Jin was to train at least 10,000 officers and soldiers within seven days to defend the city, because according to the information Fei Ju gave to Zhu Chong, the army under the command of King Liang had at most 100,000 people.
It is impossible for the King of Liang to drag out all his troops to attack him, so at most, the King of Liang discovered that the number of troops he sent to attack him could not exceed 50,000.
Ten thousand against fifty thousand, relying on the city walls and sufficient defensive equipment, Zhu Chong absolutely believed that Yu Jin could lead the army he trained to repel King Liang's troops.
Therefore, Zhu Chong specifically exchanged a large amount of cement for ordinary blacksmiths, carpenters and other talents.
I have to say that Songming is a good place, with many mountains and rivers, and rich mineral resources nearby.
According to Zhu Chong's understanding, there are many coal mines in Yunnan and Yunnan, and the distribution of mineral veins is more in the east and less in the west. Songming's geographical location happens to occupy many rich mineral veins.
Therefore, Zhu Chong assigned enough manpower to the exchanged talents according to their skills, and asked them to start building iron smelting workshops and other workshops as quickly as possible, and then began to arrange people to transport the ore back to Songming.
Zhu Chong now had few subordinates except for a lot of people. He sent all of them out to mine ore and transport the ore back to Songming. The entire Songming city became busy.
In this way, through Zhu Chong's overall planning, the city wall of Songming City was built to a height of nearly ten meters in the shortest time, and the soldiers under Yu Jin were trained so that basically everyone could be equipped with simple armor and weapons.
However, the weapons that Zhu Chong requested to be produced the most were city defense weapons such as bows and crossbows, and he also arranged for people to transport all the waste ore to the city walls.
So in just seven days, Songming City had basically reached the scale of a medium-sized defensive border city. Just when Zhu Chong was considering whether to add more defensive equipment to the city walls, bad news came.
"My lord, we have ascertained that a large number of cavalry and infantry are gathering on the east and west sides of Songming. I have personally investigated and confirmed that they have a large number of siege weapons, many of which are large-scale."
"Have you confirmed the other party's identity?" Zhu Chong's heart was pounding, and he already had some guesses in his mind.
"It can be confirmed that they are the troops of the former Yuan Liang King, and the general leading them is his Minister of Civil Affairs Darima."
Zhu Chong had been mentally prepared for this situation. He knew that this day would come sooner or later since he brought his men to Songming.
But Zhu Chong still didn't expect that King Liang's men would arrive so quickly. If he was given even one more day, he would be able to improve the city's defense even better.
But now, what is coming has finally come.
But apart from the strong city, Zhu Chong actually had no idea about the new recruits he had just trained.
"Yu Jin, you are the one who trained the new recruits. Based on your current understanding, what are our chances of victory against the King of Liang's men?"
"My lord, please forgive me for speaking frankly," Yu Jin said bluntly. "From what I have personally observed, the Liang prince's army, whether cavalry, infantry, siege equipment, or personnel and equipment, is far superior to ours."
"If we were to fight outside the city, I'm afraid our army wouldn't be able to hold out for even half an hour. But if we were to defend the city, with our current strength and preparation, the odds of victory or defeat should be fifty-fifty!"
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