Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chapter 855 3 Attacks on Hangzhou City

As for mobilizing the army stationed in Jiangning to recapture the city of Hangzhou, if Jiangning was taken advantage of by the Zhou Dynasty and fell as a result.

Zhang Liang only said that we would talk about it when the time comes.

If he loses the city of Hangzhou, if the incident is reported back to Chang'an, he will definitely be punished by His Majesty the Emperor, and he will probably lose his current favor because of this.

But if he relied on Jiangning's garrison to recapture Hangzhou City, he would defeat or even eliminate the group of pirates entangled in the Tang Dynasty waters.

This can be said to have eliminated a major hidden danger for Datang and restored peace to the waters of Datang. It can be said to be a great achievement.

Although the loss of Jiang Ning was a bigger one, he could definitely make up for it and use the credit of expelling and eliminating the pirates to offset the sin of losing Jiang Ning.

Even if they cannot completely offset each other, they will still be very different.

In the end, it is very likely that His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers will only criticize themselves a few words and fine them some salary.

And the most important thing is that after Zhang Liang and Fan Yi discussed it, they still felt lucky in their hearts.

That is, Da Zhou is currently using troops against Goguryeo and may not be able to move south.

Even if he knew that he had transferred Jiangning's defenders, he would not dare to start the war lightly. He would probably just watch from the sidelines and not dare to actually attack Jiangning.

After all, the Tang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty signed a treaty against invasion by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

If they take the opportunity to attack at this time, then Datang will have an excuse to start using troops against Zhou.

So after Zhang Liang and Fan Yi escaped from Hangzhou City, they quickly formulated a series of counterattack plans. When they reached Jiangning, they began to deploy troops and generals.

Zhang Shun led the fire gun army, and according to Chu Mo's plan, he captured the entire Hangzhou with almost no effort.

Originally, he thought that after his master captured Hangzhou, he would pursue the victory and directly capture several surrounding cities.

But beyond everyone's expectations.

After Chu Mo captured Hangzhou City, he simply looted all the treasury and the famous families in Hangzhou City, and then directly ordered the army to withdraw from Hangzhou City and return to the sea.

Then, he ordered the warrior Yu to gather a group of strong people locally, part of which was used to supplement his own army, and part of which was used to maintain public security in the city.

As for his own army, he only left a few people needed for management, and the rest all returned to the ship.

Seeing Chu Mo operating like this, spending countless manpower and material resources to build the city of Hangzhou, but ignoring it, Li Jing finally couldn't help it.

He directly found Chu Mo, blew his beard and asked with eyes wide open:

"Chu Mo, you bastard, do you know what you are doing now? Do you know how much the city of Hangzhou you conquered is worth?"

Seeing his father-in-law getting angry, Chu Mo immediately looked helpless and said:

"Old man, it's not that I want to evacuate. It's true that I don't have any management talents or generals to command the war. I have to do everything myself. It's really hard to escape."

The reason why I attacked Hangzhou City was just to vent my anger on you and my two children.

"I want to tell Zhang Liang, tell Li Shimin, and tell the whole world that not everyone in Chu Mo can bully me."

"As for the city of Hangzhou, to tell you the truth, I also covet it, but there is no one under my command, so I have no choice but to give up. I can only return the original thing when the Tang army comes to attack the city after it reacts. .”

"Besides, my fleet in Dengzhou is still confronting Da Zhou's fleet. The two sides may start a war at any time. I must go over and keep an eye on it."

Li Jing has long been accustomed to Chu Mo calling him an old man.

Now I heard that the other party said that the attack on Hangzhou City was to vent their anger on my grandparents and grandchildren, and I felt a little moved in my heart.

However, when he heard the other party saying that he could not manage Hangzhou City without anyone under his command, he immediately became vigilant.

Could this guy be trying to trick him into taking care of Hangzhou City?

However, as soon as the idea came to mind, I heard that the other party wanted to return Hangzhou City to the Tang Dynasty, and I couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

Such a good place, after spending so much manpower and material resources, it was finally conquered, but it still had to be given away.

But when he heard Chu Mo say that he was going to fight with the Zhou Dynasty after giving up the city of Hangzhou, his eyes suddenly lit up.

If you are not an enemy of the Tang Dynasty, you can go to trouble the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Although I don't like this fake son-in-law, he is also a pirate leader.

But this does not prevent me from using the other party's strength to find bad luck in Chu Xin's little girl.

He remembered that when his daughter was pregnant, that little girl took advantage of her and took her as a hostage.

In the end, if Chu Mo, that bastard, hadn't rescued her accidentally by some mistake, he would have lost a daughter and the two babies in her belly.

This incident has been lingering in Li Jing's heart, and it has even gradually become a worry for him.

I had been stationed in Tubo before, unable to find Chu Xin's bad luck.

But this time, Chu Mo wants to be the enemy of Da Zhou. He can take advantage of this opportunity to give Da Zhou a hard blow. This will not only avenge the past, but also effectively consume Da Zhou for the Tang Dynasty. With the strength, you can kill two birds with one stone, why not do it?

Thinking of this, Li Jing immediately looked at Chu Mo with a smile and said:

"Boy Chu, you said you have no one under you and can't control the city of Hangzhou. That's okay. I've been feeling itchy lately. Leave the affairs in Da Zhou to me. I'll help you deal with it. You stay here. What do you think about handling the affairs of Hangzhou City well?"

Hearing Li Jing's words, Chu Mo felt happy. Is his father-in-law ready to help him?

Although the other party is just looking for trouble for Da Zhou now, as the saying goes, if there is one, there are two. As long as he takes action this time, it means that the other party has boarded his own pirate ship. It will be difficult to escape in the future.