Chapter 97: Leadership (1)
Driven by soldiers, the people in Hongze Town gradually became accustomed to using spears to stab the enemy troops that were attached to the city.
Even so, the crisis continues to spread due to the losses of the backbone.
With a bang, another stone shattered and exploded, killing several guards of the city to the point of blood. Almost at the same time, several enemy soldiers on the ladder had climbed onto the city wall.
"Kill!" Du Ran stared at a dark red vision, plucked up his remaining energy, and led his personal soldiers to pounce on him.
The two teams collided fiercely, and immediately raised blood. At this moment of fighting, they stabbed and stabbed everything. Even if they had armor, they were still stabbed by swords from time to time, splashing blood.
Du Ran was brave and powerful, even at this time, she was still unstoppable. Wherever she went, the sword light suddenly swept down. She finally kicked an enemy soldier out of the city and screamed and threw him into a meat pie.
At this moment, the enemy retreated again.
The pressure in front of Du Ran was gone. Du Ran gasped and looked around and saw that he had lost half of his own troops. The original personal military camp was only thirty left, and each of them was covered in scars and forced to support himself.
The smoke rolled, and the sound of killing gradually stopped. I saw enemy corpses piled up into a small slope under my feet, and the flowing blood gathered into a stream and spread to the distance.
Hongze Town is not easy, and Wei Cundong is even worse. Ten thousand people have been killed in the city, although most of them are driven away.
However, now everyone is in trouble.
Suddenly, a group of soldiers wearing leather armor were intact, and they were surrounded by one person.
But it was Du Gongzhen. His face was solemn, and he patrolled the surroundings. He saw his nephew covered in blood, gasping, and resting with a knife for a while. There were corpses around him.
Just asked, "How is the situation?"
Du Ran opened his throat, but the yeast was hard to make a sound. At this time, someone handed the water bag and took a few big sips before he recovered: "Uncle, it doesn't matter, I can still hold on, but there are not many people."
There were only five or six hundred people, and now there were only five or six hundred people still on the city wall, all of whom were lying tiredly on the wall, and even the general could not move them.
Du Gongzhen looked at it and said nothing, and had to face up to the questions raised by the previous planner Zhu Xin.
At this moment, a man rode his horse in front of the formation, raising the flag and showing that he was a messenger.
Du Gong was so calm that he asked someone to hang the man up with a hanging basket. After a moment, a letter came to his hand.
"Send this kind of thing, the person who comes to drag the messenger down and behead him and show his head to the public!" After reading the letter, Du Gongzhen was angry and burned more vigorously than the last time: "Old thief Wei, even if this city is gone, I can't even give it to you!"
The letters in his hand were torn apart violently, and the cry of the messenger gradually drifted away came to his ears.
"Master, this time Wei Cundong attacked Hongze City at all costs. I am afraid that he will not be able to defend it for another ten days. At that time, there is no possibility of turning around. At this time, you must make a choice at this time to save yourself." Zhu Xin, who rushed over, persuaded Du Gongzhen again when he returned to the hall.
"You want me to surrender to the Wei thief?" Du Gongzhen narrowed her eyes and asked with murderous intent.
At this time, black clouds outside covered the sky, covered with haze. After a moment, the raindrops gathered together and hit them down.
It was already April.
At this time, there was a lightning flash in the sky, and the hall was no longer dark, followed by a thunderclap. Zhu Xin said calmly in the tone of the thunderstorm: "Master, I have been with you for twenty years. At this time, I really have something to say."
Du Gongzhen was furious, so angry that his hands and feet were cold. He felt murderous intent in his heart, but instead calmed down and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhu, you have no choice but to teach me, tell me!"
Zhu Xin glanced at Du Gongzhen and suddenly realized from his expression that he was in great danger. He was an extremely smart person. He knew that he could not give in at this time. He almost didn't even think about it and said, "As for your order!"
He bowed and said, "The three counties in Chengdu are hundreds of miles of fertile land. Even so, Wei Cundong has already put all his strength into the transfer of 50,000 troops."
"The siege of half a month was lost, and more than 10,000 yuan was lost. It can be said that all the soldiers in the wing have been completed, and even the regular soldiers have lost a lot. Such losses are impossible even if Wei Cundong's prestige for decades, it is impossible to suppress them."
"Now Hongze Town has been surrounded. Although it seems that it can be used to go out, it is actually okay to defend the city. Once we leave the city, we still have four or five thousand remaining soldiers. I am afraid we will not be able to support it for a day and there is no way out..."
"Master, even if we guard the city, how much time can we support for four thousand? Wei Cundong's losses are so huge. Once the city is broken, can you surrender? Can his family be avoided?"
"Even if we wait, can we avoid disaster? I can assert that once Wei Cundong breaks the city, he will be in charge of troops to slaughter the city to stimulate morale and appease the soldiers. None of us can survive!"
The massacre of cities here does not mean all massacres, but refers to a large plunder of troops. Of course, there are also burning and killing. The people will die, but none of them survive.
Zhu Xin's words painted this terrible picture, and Du Gongzhen felt an irresistible chill in his heart. Thinking carefully, Zhu Xin's words were all problems he thought about every day.
Du Gong really knew that every sentence Zhu Xin said was the truth. The idea of ​​killing Zhu Xin "to use the police to guard the morale of the army" faded, but his own blessings and power have become a habit. It is a huge difficulty to make him surrender. After thinking for a while, he coughed and asked in a deep voice: "Zhu Xin, what do you think you should do?"
Zhu Xin smiled bitterly and said, "At this time, I'm afraid there are only three routes for you to choose. The first one is to surrender to Wei Cundong and hand over Hongze Town. But as I said just now, it's difficult to save your life on this road, I'm afraid I'll be killed afterwards, and even my descendants can't be protected."
When talking about descendants, Du Gongzhen's eyebrows jumped repeatedly.
After being against Wei Cundong for more than ten years, he knew that Zhu Xin's words were 60 to 70% possible, especially in this situation, he gritted his teeth and asked, "What about the second one?"
"Second, it's just that. Wei Cun's east circumference is now three quarry one. Although it is a way to release animals, if the general leads his own cavalry and leads his princes to break through, he will have some chance to escape. However, in this way, he will completely give up his foundation and never have a day to turn over. If he can escape the pursuit of Chengdu army, he can hide his name outside Shu..."
Seeing Du Gongzhen frowned, Zhu Xin continued, "...The second road is not good, so there is only the third road. Join forces with Wang Hongyi from Wenyang County and invite Wang Hongyi to send troops."
"Now, Liuzi County and Changshou County are close to Wang Hongyi. Liuzi County has fallen. Although Changshou County has not fallen, it has no meaning. If Wang Hongyi leads 20,000 people, how many days can Changshou County resist? Maybe it will surrender without a fight. This is destined to be lost, and there is no need to be a pity."
"The general wrote a letter in person, inviting Wang Hongyi to enter the county. Changshou County and Liuzi County will be given as rewards to Wang Hongyi. At that time, Wang Hongyi will be forced to come with 20,000 troops, and Wei Cundong dares to attack the city with all his strength. This will form a balance between the three families."
"At that time, there will be war or harmony, even if you surrender, you will have capital. It is best for you in name or reality." Zhu Xin said sincerely at the end.
When Du Gongzhen heard this, he fell into silence. After a long time, he spoke: "What you said is reasonable, hold my personal letter and send someone to contact Wang Hongyi."
Three days later, Wenyang Mansion Study Room
Wang Hongyi received a handwritten letter from the messenger. He just looked at it and handed it over to Zhang Youzhi and Yu Liangbo.
Both of them read the letter and put it down. Yu Liangbo said, "Lord, this is a God-given opportunity, you can fight."
The voice was not high and he spoke firmly, both of them were shocked.
"The battle is enough. Changshou County can be seized with a letter, but Liuzi County has been intercepted by Wei Cundong. Liuzi County has 3,000 soldiers. We have two problems." Zhang Youzhi's eyebrows were locked together and thought intently: "First of all, after we send troops, Wei Cundong will order Liuzi County to fight to the death to intercept the road, and will also attack the city with all his strength. Can we capture Liuzi County before Hongze City is captured?"
"If we are defeated, if we fight hard, then we will lose our spirits and we cannot use our strength to overcome our fatigue, and we will fall into a hard battle at that time."
When Wang Hongyi heard this, he smiled and his heart was overwhelmed.
The light green energy in the second county was originally reaching four-fifths before reaching the top. At this time, the light green energy was rolling, and it was running in waves on the top, which was a sign of development.
Wang Hongyi walked by, and the grudges and storms of decades of his previous life suddenly surged into his heart.
I remember in my previous life that when Li Chengye sent troops, he fought a war with Du Gongzhen and won. Wei Cundong was old at that time and was bedridden, watching his sons compete for the throne.
After defeating Du Gongzhen and forcing Chengdu, Wei Cundong was unable to fight again, but he easily swept through it. It is said that Du Gongzhen was killed, and Wei Cundong lived for only two years after he broke in Chengdu.
This laid the foundation for the King of Shu. In the next two years, Xiyi and Long Jian both subdued one by one.
Now I am raising the troops of two counties to fight. If I can defeat Wei Cundong in one fell swoop, I will be superior to Li Chengye in my previous life, because this is a dignified victory in the decisive battle.
In the future, you will take advantage of this and you will be able to sweep across Shu and free up time to strive for development to restore your energy.
Finally, he was about to reach the de facto position of King Shu. Wang Hongyi felt that his heart was boiling, and he was full of sadness and joy, but he was stunned and silent.
After a while, Wang Hongyi finally said: "The town has its own ideas to break the Liuzi County. It will definitely break the city in one day, not lose morale, and not exhaust the soldiers. At that time, Wei Cundong will attack for half a month, and the entire army will be exhausted. This is the so-called end of the strong crossbow and cannot penetrate the Lu silk. I will send 20,000 elite troops. With the elite troops, I will definitely break Wei in one fell swoop. The opportunity to succeed will be today. My intention has been decided, and there is no doubt that I will pass on my order and raise my troops immediately!"
"Yes!" The two people present responded immediately.
Chapter completed!