And on the wall of Shanyang City. Sun Ru, with a broad-minded and sharp-eyed expression, looked uncertain as he listened to the sentinel reporting news from outside the city, and watched the faintly rising smoke trails on the Huai River in the distance. In the end, he turned away. Made a sigh that cannot be denied.
After all, after the defeat in the next battle of Yangzhou City, he was the only one who was able to escape back to Shanyang City alone. With the help of the remaining subordinates, he searched the whole city and found more than a thousand defenders who had not had time to escape, and barely stabilized the turbulent situation in the city.
Then opened the warehouse and took out a lot of money and grain to buy people’s hearts. By the way, they raced against the clock before the Shouhao army came over by victory, and recruited and recruited 3,000 dingzhuang from the city’s civilians. This gave the initial confidence to hold on to the city. .
However, just as he desperately demolished the houses to build equipment and prepare materials, waiting for the Shou Hao Army who arrived outside the city to start attacking the city; the other side was silent, and a joint formation was about to be besieged for a long time. Situation.
However, this also happened to be the result he was looking forward to. He happened to join this reorganization of the ministries in the city, and organized most of the private households and their unemployed youths in accordance with the district, and set the daily quota of fresh water and materials as support and transportation to the corresponding city. The reserve force of the door and the wall.
While he was busy in the city, suddenly there was another change outside the city. After they got up overnight, they suddenly discovered that the Shouhao Army outside the city had abandoned the camp overnight and retreated.
Then through spies and exiles, he knew that Yang Hanzi of Shou Hao Army, after defeating Liu Hanhong and Bi Shiduo and others, unexpectedly went to war with the Taiping thief from Jiangnan non-stop for some reason.
This is undoubtedly a great piece of good news for Cai Zhou's soldiers, who can only curl up in Shanyang City and linger. Therefore, he once again sent people to the countryside to "raise" more grain and strong men as usual.
However, Chuzhou was the hardest-hit area where they, Caizhou soldiers, first landed and raged back and forth. As a result, the place was broken and empty and deserted. Except for the carrion-eating old bustards and wild dogs, there were no more living creatures on the road; let alone to find enough Ding Zhuang and food.
In Chuzhou, there are still a few other counties with concentrated populations. The local group of rich surnames initiated a counter-insurgency. They took the initiative to expel and kill a few generals who remained in the city to protect themselves. Just relying on this little strength in his hand will not be able to take it off for a while, or it will be a result of more than gain.
Therefore, Sun Ru can only send Jinbo treasures to Caizhou and ask for help with humble words; while maintaining the current situation by relying on the grain and grass gathered in the city's parliament, he sent more spies to infiltrate the surrounding area to find more wealthy people. And a suitable target for weakness.
When the Shou Hao Army successfully captured Yangzhou, it was defeated by the Taiping thief, and finally was trapped in Guangling City. The news came; he was ecstatic and immediately sent a messenger, wanting to be the same in name. Qi Xinchao's relationship, contact and test each other's attitude.
As a result, there was no news of his successive waves of messengers as soon as they were gone; and the Taiping thief’s men and horses also appeared in the territory of Chuzhou, after successively expelling and annihilating more than a dozen small food-carrying teams under his command, Sun Ru also He could only shrink his strength in pain, and return to the original situation in the battle avoidance city.
After all, relying on today’s widowed and weak teachers who are less than four thousand years old, even if they take the initiative to attack the waves and fight in the wild, they may not be pleased; on the contrary, they have exposed their confidence and reality, giving them an important role in defending the city of Sanyang. The Huainan base brings more unexpected risks.
But this time, the Caizhou reinforcements, led by the "three generals" Qin Zongheng, whom Qin Dashuai trusted, encountered ambushes and volleys in Mokou Town, but he was in a dilemma to choose one or the other. Boss problem.
If he can’t wait to send troops to rescue him, then there is a risk that Shanyang City will be emptied, and he may even be involved in a plan to lead the snake out of the cave to intercept halfway or encircle the spot to fight and rescue, and even the last bit of self-sustained capital will be reduced Lost.
But if he delays sitting and watching without saving, as long as some of the reinforcements can escape back, then it will be a terrible consequence that will not be allowed under Qin Dashuai's account. Although he was also from Dashuai Qin's township party and served in the old ministry of the Zhongwu Army, he could not guarantee that he could be let off lightly.
Thinking of this, Qin Zongquan was among their subordinates. After years of developing Jiwei, Sun Ru's pain and reluctance to lose his strength was weighed down, and he regained his face to the general Bian Ma Yin who was nicknamed "Carpenter" next to him:
"Tyranny, if you lead the cruising (horse) team and the Fighting Capital, you can go to Mokou Town to see the opportunity! Bring the flags and drums to think of the momentum, and remember that after encountering the enemy, don't get too entangled and reckless, you must Use more strategies..."
"The subordinates can save... and ask the soldiers to rest assured..."
Ma Yin didn't hurriedly hugged his hands and led his orders: it was only after a group of people under his leadership rushed out of the east gate and left for dust. However, to the west of Shanyang City, a group of stumbling military horses came one after another, supporting each other and dragging flags and weapons.
And Qin Zongheng, who had survived in Mokou Town, was also mixed in, while looking at the Caizhou Army flag and the general flag with the words "Sun" and "Soldiers and Horses" still stuck on the head of Shanyang City, he spit out a mouthful. The saliva is full of sand.
In the southern part of Guangling City, where the atmosphere is tight and loose, Yang Xingyun also met in private the "elderly representatives" who were said to have escaped from the place where the Taiping thieves were ravaged. They were fighting for sumo to kneel on the ground, crying bitterly and crying:
"It's a good lesson to stay here, the Taiping thief is truly desolate, cruel, and cruel. It's the worst in the world..."
"My generation worked hard to endure the humiliation and stigma, stealing the right to live and dealing with it, just to protect the hometown in the future when the court recovers..."
"However, after these thieves came, they indiscriminately arrested and killed many people. How many good sons were either torture their heads to the market, or to take the shackles to remote places 1"
"I also used those humble tenants and slaves like dust and mud as a pretext to humiliate how many generations of loyal and benevolent families in the township, as well as the poor many innocent and innocent relatives and children, to the hands of the traffickers and pawns in public."
"Those who dared to disobey and resist during this period are those who have been slain by the gang of blood and blood, and the bones and bones are miserable; even if they are lowered and obeyed for the time being, they will not be able to please, and they will have to ruin the family Go to another place to live..."
"This residence will not only take away the land we have maintained for generations, but also rob us of the future of our livelihood. It will also dig out the foundations of our rich surname and the home of prestige. ."
"If you leave it alone after you stay, you will be afraid that the officers and soldiers will be restored to their hometown in the future, and you will never see any folks, but they will all be accomplices who follow the thieves to trap the land and house!"
. . . .
After patiently listening to all of this, and after Haosheng comforted the representatives of these petitioning elders to rest. Yang Xingyun rubbed his brows a little tiredly, and said to the guard's sword, Yang Xi:
"I will deal with them secretly when I look back, and make sure not to leak any wind!"
"After staying, I am afraid that something is wrong at this time. Anyway, it is a heart of fists who came to rush!"
Another general, Zhu Yanshou, couldn't help but lose his voice:
"Then have you ever thought about how this generation passed through the tightly sealed place of the thief army and entered the besieged Guangling city on all sides?"
Yang Xingzhen sighed helplessly:
"Isn't the thieves deliberately letting in? How could this generation be so kind, what is the so-called thing, is it not to take the opportunity to blow the morale of our army?"
"Then you are not afraid to remember the heart of the same enemy and the enemy of the soldiers who lifted the city? As long as you get lucky, it is also available for mourning!"
Zhu Yanshou frowned, but continued to persuade:
"Then once I get ridiculed and vowed to fight to the death with the thief army, will my generation allow it or not? Can you make sure that there is no traitorous traitor..."
Yang Xingyun sighed coldly:
"Since we have made up our determination to deal with Guangling for a long time, the established strategy should not be shaken by this generation, so why should it give them the opportunity to do more things? The truth, even if it’s all innocent, my generation must never take such a risk."
He then slowed down his voice, and said to the other Tian Wei:
"By the way, Dechen, our guards risked their deaths to retrieve some firearms abandoned by the thieves from the edge of the battlefield. You can ask some skilled craftsmen to take a look and see if they can be copied by the city's hardwaresmiths. One or two, it can also be used as a boost to our army's persistence, isn't it?"
—I am the dividing line —
On the square in front of the Shengyang Temple in Chang’an City, there was a large fair-embroidered gown, and Huang Chao, who was too thin and sallow-faced, was also accompanied by a group of civil and military ambassadors. Under the personal command, the latest batch of firearms sample use exercises.
"This thing is good, it's much lighter and more entrained than a bow and crossbow. What it consumes is just a little bit of gunpowder and lead... The weight of an ordinary Hulu arrow can probably make a firearm fire a hundred. Eighty shots..."
Meng Kai first picked up a few tubular objects that were similar to a mallet in front and back, and sent them to the corresponding people for closer examination.
"Children are most delighted by these three-eyed blunderbuss, which can both beat and radiate to kill the enemy. It is said that as long as three releases within ten steps, there are seven or eight infallibility, and it makes people defenseless and unprepared. It's blocked. And the penetration is very deep, not to mention ordinary cowhide armor, even iron armor has a certain probability to penetrate through." (End of this chapter)