Shi Tu saw the hesitation in Duduo's expression and said anxiously: "Master, we can't retreat at this time. Even if we risk our lives, we have to fill up Shanyang City! Once the city is broken, we will massacre all the people in the city.
None of the old, young, women, and children are allowed to be left alive. Only in this way can we avenge the dead tribesmen!"
After a pause, Shi Tu said again: "Otherwise we will lose all face with the white flag!"
"Shut up!" Duduo scolded, "Take your life to fill it? You said it easy, mother-in-law, but how many lives do you plan to take to fill it? Are you willing to fill it with all of your armor?"
"Uh?" Shi Tu suddenly became speechless.
He would definitely refuse to use them as armor.
At most, one or two Niulu will be enough.
Tun Qi also felt unwilling to give in, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Minggou used the cannon to repair the gap opened by the red cannon. It is indeed faster, but the cannon is just a cannon after all, and its strength cannot be compared with that of the cannon.
Compared with a real city wall, as long as we go all out and let the soldiers follow up carrying the bumping wood, we can still knock the canal away!"
"Yes, this is a good way, use the wood to hit it!" Shi Tu said urgently, "I don't believe it. Minggou can repair the city wall faster than we can hit it. The wall is six feet high and three to four feet thick.
The city walls have been blasted open, how can a mere three-foot-tall wooden city wall stop us Eight Banners warriors?"
"What do you know?" He Luohui scolded, "Do you really think there are only city walls made of Cao Chuan wood?"
"What do you mean?" Shi Tu frowned and asked, "Master Gu Shan'erzhen, what are you talking about?"
He Luohui said: "Can you really guarantee that behind the wooden city wall, there will not be a second inner city wall? There will not be a second urn city? Yan Yingyuan will not launch a fire attack again?"
"Ah?" Shi Tu lost his voice, "Isn't it possible?"
"Nothing is impossible." He Luohui said in a deep voice.
"When fighting a war, you must anticipate the enemy and show mercy, and you must never be careless!"
"He Luohui is right. In war, you must be prepared to keep the enemy wide." Duduo nodded and said, "Our two white flags and the blue flag have already shed too much blood under Shanyang City, and we can't let it go any more.
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"But..." Shi Tu said with an angry look, "Is this the end of it?"
"Of course we can't forget it." Duduo said in a deep voice, "If a strong attack doesn't work, then use tactics!"
"A plan?" Shi Tu, Tunqi, Ashan and other nobles were all stunned after hearing this. What plan?
"A divorce plan!" Duduo turned to Hou Fangyu and asked, "Hou Fangyu, you said before that you have no friendship with Yan Yingyuan, but you are a close friend with another scholar?"
"My lord, that's right." Hou Fangyu responded hurriedly, "This person's name is Mao Xiang."
Duduo then asked: "I would like to ask you again, what is the relationship between Maoxiang and Yan Yingyuan?"
Hou Fangyu thought about it carefully and said, "There seems to be no conflict, but it doesn't seem to be very close."
"It's done." Duduo said happily after hearing this, "You said before that the defense of Shanyang City is led by Yan Yingyuan, with Maoxiang as the second officer on the left. So if Shanyang is defended this time, Yan Yingyuan should be the leader.
In terms of merit, Maoxiang can only be ranked second, right or wrong?"
"That must be the case." Hou Fangyu said, "It's just that Shanyang will definitely be captured by the prince's army in the end..."
"This is something to talk about later, let's not mention it for now." Duduo waved his hand and said, "Hou Fangyu, I now give you a secret mission."
Hou Fangyu was overjoyed, thinking that this was an opportunity?
At that moment, Hou Fangyu knelt down and said to Qian: "I will obey the prince's orders."
Duduo said in a deep voice: "Since Maoxiang is young, it is inevitable that he will be jealous of Yan Yingyuan. When my army was in Shanyang, the two of them could still share the same hatred. However, if my army retreats, there will be discord between the two of them. At this time, you will not
If you look for an opportunity to provoke, there will inevitably be internal strife between the two. When Maoxiang becomes dissatisfied, you can secretly guide him and induce him to submit to our Qing Dynasty. At that time, I will lead an army to kill another horseman, and Shanyang will
The city is at your fingertips!"
"Ah?" Hou Fangyu was stunned when he heard this. Are you asking me to persuade you to surrender?
When Duduo saw this, his expression turned cold: "Why, you don't want to?"
"Uh, no, I am willing, I am willing." Hou Fangyu was so frightened that he shook his hands and said, "It's just that I don't know what kind of benefits the prince can give Maoxiang?"
Duduo solemnly said: "If Maoxiang is willing to give up Shanyang City, I can give him a first-class dukedom on the spot. After returning to the capital, I will report to my father, the regent, and it is not impossible for him to be promoted to a county prince."
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
Hou Fangyu said: "In this case, Xiaosheng is willing to go to the city and give it a try."
Duduo turned to Fan Chengmo and said, "You dress up as a slave of Hou Fangyu's family and go together."
"Hey!" Fan Chengmo agreed immediately. He knew that Duduo asked him to monitor Hou Fangyu. After all, it was only a short time before Hou Fangyu or the Hou family of Shangqiu surrendered to the Qing court. Duduo did not dare to believe it, but the Fan family was different.
Duduo warned the two of them again: "Don't rush into the city first, wait until the army has gone far."
After saying that, Duduo ordered He Luohui, Tunqi and Ashan: "The army left camp overnight and headed east. I didn't believe that Yan Yingyuan could move two piles of dozens of salt fields into the city, so I went to rob the salt field first!"
"Hey!" The eyes of the three people in He Luohui all lit up.
Robbing the Lianghuai Salt Farm? This is a good job.
Salt is silver!
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Yan Yingyuan was sleeping in a daze on top of the city when he suddenly felt that the whole world was shaking.
"Jiannu attacked the city?" Yan Yingyuan stood up in surprise, only to find that the ground was shaking. It was Wu Erdan who was shaking his body.
"Erdan, what's the matter?" Yan Yingyuan asked with a frown.
"Sir, look." Wu Erdan pointed towards the outside of the city, his words filled with irrepressible joy, "Jiannu retreated, Jiannu retreated overnight!"
"What, the Jiannu retreated?"
Perhaps because he hadn't woken up yet, Yan Yingyuan was stunned for a moment.
After he came to his senses, he turned around and looked outside the city, and found that Jiannu had indeed set up countless torches and was withdrawing from the cannon tower in the north of the city.
There were groups of bannermen, carriages and horses, and the end could not be seen at a glance.
Judging from this battle, this is definitely not a fake article. Jiannu actually retreated his troops overnight.
The sound of footsteps sounded, and Zhi Tingjian also rushed to the top of the city and said repeatedly: "Xian brother, has Jianu really withdrawn his troops?"
Zhi Tingjian's title for Yan Yingyuan changed again, from Jianheng to Xiandi, which meant that the relationship between the two was getting closer, which was indeed the case.
Yan Yingyuan also admired Zhi Tingjian in his heart.
Although this person was only a civil servant, he had a good official reputation and outstanding abilities. During the month of guarding Shanyang City, the two of them cooperated quite well.
"The troops have really withdrawn." Yan Yingyuan said, "It doesn't look like it was fake."
Zhi Tingjian climbed on the battlements and watched for a long time, then suddenly cried out: "Jiannu finally retreated, Shanyang City was finally defended, dear brother, we finally defended Shanyang City, and finally fulfilled our mission..."
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Seeing Zhi Tingjian crying, Yan Yingyuan also sighed in his heart.
It was not easy. The battle in Shanyang was really hard, almost at the end of the rope.
However, Yan Yingyuan still did not relax his vigilance and told Wu Erdan: "Erdan, although the slaves have withdrawn, no one can guarantee that they will not fight back, so we still have to seize the time to reorganize the city defense. In addition, we must
Send a few more spies outside the city to spy on the enemy, and report anything unusual to the city immediately."
"Yes." Erdan, the village hero team leader, has also been trained this time.
Yan Yingyuan then said to Zhi Tingjian: "Brother, let's go to Xicheng."
"Okay." Zhi Tingjian quickly wiped away his tears and followed Yan Yingyuan down the tower.
After arriving in Xicheng and meeting Fan Zhongjie and Mao Xiang, the four of them looked at each other with regret. They all felt the first-class happiness of surviving a catastrophe, and at the same time the first-class ecstasy of having made a great contribution.
If Shanyang cannot be defended this time, the Ming Dynasty is in danger of overthrowing.
So in turn, they defended Shanyang, which was a great achievement for the Ming Dynasty.
Fan Zhongjie said: "Jianheng, Pijiang, and Zhizhi County, I think we can report victory to Xuzhou and Nanjing at this time. I wonder what the three of you think?"
"It should be so." Yan Yingyuan and the other three looked at each other and agreed.
Fan Zhongjie immediately wrote two official documents, slapped his official seal on them, asked Yan Yingyuan and the others to sign them, sealed them with lacquer and handed them to couriers, and sent them to Xuzhou and Nanjing respectively.
Yan Yingyuan and others did not know at this time that Xuzhou had been surrounded by Jiannu from all sides, so the news was not sent to Xuzhou.
However, the Tang Bao sent to Nanjing was delivered to the General Affairs Department in the evening of the next day. After receiving the Tang Bao, General Affairs Envoy Liu Shizhen did not dare to neglect and hurriedly forwarded it to the cabinet for duty.
Shi Kefa and the others happened to have not yet descended.
Since the sales of bonds by the Ministry of Revenue were not satisfactory, the four cabinet ministers discussed countermeasures with Zhang Youyu, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue.
By the way, the market exchange run by the Ministry of Revenue is also on Chaoku Street, and it is located opposite the Ministry of Internal Affairs Market Exchange. This is clearly an attempt to seize food from the tiger's mouth, but the effect is really disastrous.
Of the 5 million bonds sold in the first tranche, only over 500,000 were sold.
Most of the more than 500,000 yuan was taken for the sake of the four pavilion elders.
In other words, the bonds actually sold were less than 200,000 yuan.
This is embarrassing. What can you do with two hundred thousand taels of silver?
One month's salary for Nanjing officials is not enough.
So when Liu Shizhen came in, the four cabinet elders and Zhang Youyu were all frowning.
"Pavilion elders, four pavilion elders!" Liu Shizhen couldn't hide the excitement in his expression and said, "Guard it! Guard it!"
"Shut up, what are you guarding?" Gao Hongtu stood up and reprimanded, "This is the direct room of the cabinet and the important place of the court. Besides, as a high-ranking political envoy, how do you behave in such a manner that you yell?"
"Mr. Ge." Liu Shizhen didn't care at all, and his joy was beyond words, "Shanyang was defended! Huai'an Prefecture was defended! The Jiannu army attacked Shanyang for more than a month, losing countless soldiers and generals, but they could not advance anywhere!"
