NovelsAlex Chapter 923: Plan Failed
Chapter 923: Plan Failed
Chapter 923: Plan Failed
Ma Ye naturally did not get any news about Zhu Su's accident, and he did not send troops to inquire about the situation in Shuidong. Instead, he confirmed that Adu had sent troops to Shuidong, and his own death squad had mixed in... Then he began to prepare to force his way out of the city.
His death warriors were all brave enough to die, with poison sacs bitten in their back teeth, and they would never leave Zhu Su alive to use as leverage. Since there was no leverage, regardless of success or failure, this bucket of dirty water would be thrown on Shuixi's head.
When Shuixi raided Shuidong, some assassins tried to assassinate King Zhou... If this assassination wasn't done by Shuixi, how could it have been done by him, a commander of the Ming Dynasty who was far away in Guiyang City?
And the fact that the king was assassinated and the emperor was killed... this fact that had already happened was enough to prove that Shuixi did have rebellious intentions, and it was also enough for him to hide the truth from Emperor Hongwu.
What he has to do now is to hold up the righteous cause of "revenge for King Zhou" and, on behalf of the Ming Empire, drag Shuixi into the war thoroughly!
"General, something is wrong." Some of the three Zhou Wang guards who had been following the Guiyang guards had begun to discover something was wrong. One general came to Di Meng and asked in confusion, "Ma Ye's movements are very strange."
"Didn't he say that His Highness was attacked and that he was going to rescue Him? Why didn't he leave the city and head east to Shuidong, but instead headed straight to the Shuixi camp?"
"It's really weird!" Di Meng had also noticed something was going on. Ma Ye's shocking words just now had made him so concerned that he let Ma Ye out of the city without noticing. But now that he had come to his senses, he realized that there were too many loopholes in this matter. Now Ma Ye was even ignoring the east side of the river and heading directly to the west side of the river... How could this be like he was thinking about the safety of His Highness?
He was a cautious man, so after thinking for a while, he said to the general, "Go, take half of the brothers and go to Shuidong to check the situation."
"If His Highness is really surrounded, you must immediately come to His Highness' aid. Remember to send someone to inform me so that I can rush to his aid immediately."
"Yes!" The general clasped his fists fiercely, "But General, Ma Ye..."
"Your Highness's safety is the most important thing, go now!" Di Meng said. "Ma Ye is a thief with evil intentions... I'll go stop him!"
The general nodded, and then the Zhou Wangwei who were on the march immediately divided into two teams. The front team became the rear team, turned around on the spot, and went east; the remaining team, led by Di Meng, accelerated suddenly, trying to get ahead of Ma Ye.
"Stop! Stop!" Di Meng shouted loudly.
Ma Ye glanced at him and knew that Di Meng had seen through his flaw, so he simply chose to turn a deaf ear and just kept urging the soldiers to move forward quickly.
"Your Highness is in imminent danger, there is no time to delay! Go! If anything happens to Your Highness, we will all be sentenced to death!"
The Guizhou guards, who were originally hesitant when they saw Di Meng asking them to stop, did not dare to stop after hearing what Ma Ye said, and they all walked very quickly.
Di Meng was so angry that he even wanted to escape from the musket and shoot Ma Ye and other leading generals off their horses. But this idea only flashed through his mind, and he had to angrily let go of the hand that had already grasped the handle of the musket: no matter what, Ma Ye was still his comrade in the Ming Dynasty in name. No matter what the inside story was, fighting between comrades was absolutely not allowed.
He could only grit his teeth, choose to squeeze through the crowded army formation and come in front of Ma Ye.
"Tongzhi Ma keeps saying that he wants to rescue Your Highness, but he doesn't go to the east of the water, but instead goes to the west of the water. What does this mean?" Ma Ye asked.
"Ma has received the news that His Highness has been invited to Shuixi." Ma Ye spoke nonsense.
"Nonsense!" Di Meng scolded. "If that's the case, why did the Tongzhi just say he didn't know about the prince's situation?"
He drew the long sword from his waist and shouted, "Stop advancing! His Highness has ordered that the Guiyang Guards are not allowed to attack Shuixi West first. Do you want to disobey His Highness's military order?"
The success or failure depends on this move, how can Ma Ye give in? He frowned and shouted: "I don't know whether your highness is safe or not, but General Di won't let me rescue your highness... Is the general going to rebel against the Ming Dynasty?"
"If you want to help His Highness, go east. Why go west?" Di Meng scolded again.
"Forward! Those who disobey orders will be executed!" Ma Ye simply ignored him. He knew that even if he confirmed the Shuixi rebellion this time, he would inevitably become enemies with the Zhou royal family... Then why should he care about the commander of the Zhou royal guards?
Hundreds of Zhou Wangwei kept blocking the Guizhou Wei's advance. However, the number of guards Zhu Su brought with him was not large, and Di Meng sent half of them to "rescue" Zhu Su. At this time, the Zhou Wangwei, with only a few hundred men, was just a drop in the bucket among the nearly 10,000-strong army. Although a small number of soldiers were stopped by Zhou Wangwei, most people still chose to listen to their superior Maye, and the team continued to move forward, unstoppable.
However, Ma Ye's troops soon had to stop on their own initiative. He deliberately did not hide his tracks along the way, but deliberately flew flags and made a big fanfare. The purpose was to arouse the vigilance and hostility of the Shuixi West Camp and force them to fight with him.
And ahead, torches to the west of the water began to appear.
"There are traces of enemy troops ahead, stop! Organize your formation!" Ma Ye ordered.
"Order in formation!" "Order in formation!" The messenger began to pass orders around.
Di Meng was nervous. He ordered his troops to straighten their formation, which was usually the order given when preparing to charge. During the march, the formation would inevitably be chaotic. Therefore, experienced generals would first let their soldiers stop and straighten their formation before the two armies came into contact and fought, and then issue the final charge order.
As soon as he heard the order, Di Meng knew that Ma Ye was ready to order a charge without thinking twice.
"General, what should we do?" Seeing that the order given to him by His Royal Highness Prince Zhou was about to fail, some of the Wang Wei around Di Meng began to panic.
Di Meng also felt that the situation was difficult. This Ma Ye was really shameless. He didn't even try to test the water when they met, but wanted to charge directly... If he didn't want to drag Shuixi into the water quickly, what else could it be?
"Charge!" The deafening drums of war have already sounded.
The brave Guizhou guards shouted and followed the general's order, launching a fearless charge towards Shuixi in front. The Shuixi people on the opposite side seemed to be stunned, as if they had not expected that the Ming army would directly launch a charge as soon as they met, without even saying hello to each other. They hurriedly fired a sparse rain of arrows, knocking down three or two Ming soldiers, and then they were forced to fight with the Ming infantry who rushed up.
Di Meng was also caught in the Ming army formation. Although he stopped several Ming army square formations that were charging, he was unable to shake the overall situation. Looking at the Ming army soldiers who were already fighting with the Shuixi people, he knew that the hatred between Shuixi and the Ming army was completely established.
Your Highness's plan to conquer the southwest step by step has failed.
It's over, it's over.
Di Meng only felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
(End of this chapter)