The small village of Wuling Village fell into silence again. The two parties withdrew, leaving messy hoofprints in the wasteland. The two sides, who were originally at war with each other and had their own evil intentions, finally reached an agreement.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty. Congratulations, Your Majesty. Taking Taiyuan City without a single soldier is the most popular thing since our Lord started the army!" Niu Jinxing congratulated Li Zicheng on horseback. Once the matter was completed, he
When you take the first place, the joy is uncontrollable.
Compared with Chang Yu and others, who hurriedly retreated north, Li Zicheng's troops seemed calm and composed. After all, he was the big winner.
"However, the great significance of this is not to win a city. First of all, Taiyuan is the largest city in Jinzhong. Secondly, the surrender of Jin Wang, Zhou Yuji, and Cai Maode was definitely a fatal blow to the Ming court, and its influence was simply worse than ever.
Ten cities can beat that faint king even more severely!" Gu Junen added his words, and the others nodded.
"I think those are just drizzle, but the most worthy of celebration is that the eldest brother has gained a strong general. Although the little eunuch has a nasty mouth, he does have real skills. I am not bragging for him. We can defeat him in a single fight in the army.
Very few!" Liu Zongmin said and covered his nose, there was still blood oozing out.
Everyone nodded, but their faces seemed to be smiling but not smiling. They knew that although this guy was telling the truth, he was just looking for a way out for himself.
"That little eunuch is no ordinary person!" Li Yan, who was drunk alone while everyone else, said softly with a cautious expression.
Everyone's expressions immediately froze, and Li Zicheng's eyes narrowed into a thin line. He pondered for a while and nodded slightly, "I thought he was unusual from the first sight. It was just because I was distracted by other things at the time and didn't think deeply about it. The more I think about it now, the more suspicious it becomes..."
!”
Suspicious! This word is unusual. Everyone was stunned.
"Eunuchs are royal slaves and the lowest people. They always maintain a lowly attitude and are extremely inferior. But have you ever seen this from Chang Yu? On the contrary, this person always has a calm face and is full of confidence.
"Li Zicheng said.
"Furthermore, I have observed carefully. Although he claims that Zhou Yuji is kind to him, treats him as a servant, and will accompany him to death, on the contrary, Zhou Yuji and even Cai Maode always look at his eyes and act inadvertently, and that Jin
When Wang is nervous, he will always look at him. All this... is really weird!" Li Yan shook his head slightly as he spoke.
Calling, Li Zicheng reined in his horse, and everyone stopped suddenly.
"Is it possible that this person is the mastermind behind the scenes and wants to play a big game of chess with me?" Li Zicheng asked doubtfully, "He said that he is the eunuch supervising the army. The eunuchs are all personally sent by the emperor. The emperor will never give him orders to negotiate peace.
Is this another false surrender?"
Li Zicheng's face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot, which made Niu Jinxing a little panicked: "Your Majesty, it's true that the supervisor army was sent by Emperor Ming, but many of us surrendered in the past. In view of our humble position, we can't be weird because of this little eunuch.
, it denies the entire overall situation!”
As he spoke, he winked at Li Yan.
"Your Majesty," Li Yan was silent for a moment and then said: "I only speculate that this eunuch is not simple. As for the matter of surrender, it cannot be judged based on this. This matter does not seem to be a fraud, but you still need to be careful in everything."
Li Yan is the kind of person who is naturally cautious.
"The matter has come to this, and we will see the results tomorrow. I think it is not deceitful, because what are the intentions of the officers and soldiers?" Gu Junen said again.
"I can't even imagine what it is about if it's a game of chess?" Song Xiance narrowed his eyes and agreed.
Li Zicheng smiled bitterly: "I can't think of it! You can't play such a big game of chess just to delay the time for a few days! That's really... it's just a waste of time, and everything the army passes by will be dust...
But as General Li said, be careful about destroying the Wannian Ship. Let’s make a good deal after we go back!”
Jiaocheng County Government
Chang Yu sat in the middle, staring at the simple sand table in front of him with a solemn expression. Beside him, Zhou Yuji, Niu Yong, Zhu Kongxun, Wang Yongkui, a commander and three generals had already arrived, while Cai Maode and King Jin had already hurried back to Taiyuan to prepare for the battle.
"Withdraw all the troops on the east road!"
After a while, Chang Yu stood up, walked to the sand table and waved his hand.
"Abandon the east road and let the thieves drive straight in?" Zhou Yuji frowned.
"The main force of the thief army is in front of us. That side is useless. The previous troops deployed were only to intercept the remaining flow, and there is no big city and high wall to defend there. If the thief army attacks by force, it can be achieved with one fell swoop. It is better to gather all the troops here and fight with all our strength.
Attack!" Chang Yu said and paused again: "What's more, withdrawing our troops at this time will also have the effect of confusing the enemy, making the thieves think that we are really going to surrender!"
Zhou Yuji smiled slightly: "You can confuse the enemy for a while, but tomorrow everything will be broken in broad daylight."
"That's tomorrow too!" Chang Yu walked to the door, looked up at the sky, and murmured to himself: "I hope God will appreciate it!"
Zhou Yuji, Niu Yong and others looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.
He was going to break up tomorrow, and he only had half a day to prepare. Chang Yu had no time to be pretentious and immediately activated the first level of preparation.
Wang Yongkui was responsible for the withdrawal of troops from the east road, Zhu Kongxun went to the north of the city to inspect the river fortifications, and Zhou Yuji and Niu Yong gathered troops outside the city to start a mobilization meeting.
At this time, there were more than 50,000 troops stationed in Xiaoxiaocheng, which could be said to have attracted two-thirds of the people in Taiyuan. The purpose was to establish the first line of defense here and buy more time for Taiyuan behind to prepare for war.
At this time, these 50,000 troops gathered in the open space in the east of the city, and it was so dark that it was almost impossible to see the edges. These soldiers were not in high spirits, but they were definitely depressed. Everyone had different expressions on their faces, some were passionate, some were anxious, and most of them were in their eyes.
Shining light, staring at those cars.
Five carriages were pulling more than 200,000 pieces of silver, and they were walking back and forth around the soldiers in formation. From time to time, heart-wrenching words were heard: "In cash, kill the enemy with ten taels per person! If you have the ability, come and get it..."
Since the men from Dongchang and Jinyiwei were stationed, the military's atmosphere had swept away the previous sluggishness and loose discipline, and Chang Yu had perfected the reward and punishment mechanism.
Especially in the past few days, one thing has been widely circulated in the military, that is, the paychecks that are not collected at night have increased tenfold, and it is easy to get more than ten or dozens of taels of cash!
This is a completely different world from the days when I used to pay for free.
The motivation for morale is naturally different.
The battle in front of us showed that there was going to be a tough battle soon. The supreme commander Zhou Yuji rode a horse in the formation to mobilize.
However, the blades of these swords are licking blood. The soldiers who have no tomorrow after today are not most concerned about protecting their homes and the country. They rarely have this consciousness. They only care about those who have the most practical and touching money.
Chang Yu naturally knew this, so he asked people to pull the silver cart around the array!
He is conveying the most direct message: fight, win and get money, retreat and die!
Of course, surrender is still death!
The work Chen Shangzhi and Xiong Tong have been doing in various professional gangs in the military these days is not in vain!
Surrendering to the traitor army means death, cowardice and not fighting means death
There is only one way to survive: rush forward and make money!
On the city, Chang Yu was wrapped tightly, holding the telescope in one hand and looking around. He looked at the array of tens of thousands of horses, looked for the figures of Zhou Yuji and Niu Yong, and looked into the distance again.
Watching the horses running around in the wilderness from time to time, there was a sneer in his eyes.
"Reporter to the factory, starting in the afternoon, the number of bandit soldiers suddenly increased, and no less than ten groups were found in just one hour from the east road. "Li Xingzu ran up to the city panting to report that he had full authority to take over the delivery at this time.
There is no control over the city and territory at night.
Chang Yu frowned, something must be wrong if something goes wrong. The bandits suddenly acted like this. Are they cautious or suspicious?
He withdrew his men and horses from the east route. Firstly, the east route was like useless, and secondly, it was used to show off to the rebels, to paralyze them.
But it was not that simple to suddenly send out scouting horses so intensively.
If you are just being cautious and keeping track of the movements of the officers and soldiers, if you become suspicious, your plan to suddenly stab him tomorrow may be in vain.
God, this is the first battle in my life. Give me a face and a meal. Chang Yu raised his head and looked at the increasingly gloomy sky and thought to himself.
"Keep an eye on the thief, but you must exercise restraint. You must not fight with him before tomorrow, but you must not allow him to cross the Jiaocheng line!" Chang Yu turned his head and glanced at Li Xingzu.
Li Xingzu took the order and left.
"It's a shame that our arm is not healed, so we can't go into battle to kill the enemy!" Chunxiang clenched his fist with one hand and looked at Zhengnan with a look of resentment. Once upon a time, this little eunuch in the palace, following Chang Yu's subtle influence, actually started to kill.
heart!
"Blow the drums for me, brother, kill a few more for you!" Chang Yu smiled slightly and patted Chunxiang on the shoulder.
"Sooner or later, you and I, brothers, will charge into battle together, kill the enemy and serve the country!"
Chunxiang nodded heavily.
"Mr. Factory Gong" At this time, a military officer in Jinyi hurried over: "Mr. Factory Gong, Commander Wu is back and has just arrived in Taiyuan!"
Wu Mengming is back! Chang Yu was startled for a moment, then became happy, glanced left and right, lowered his head and leaned over and whispered: "The matter is done!"
Well, the captain nodded, and then whispered something to Chang Yu in a low voice.
Chang Yu's face immediately became solemn: "Get ready! Chunxiang, let's go back to Taiyuan!"
"Go back to Taiyuan? Brother, here, tomorrow..." Chunxiang next to him was stunned.
"It's too late," Chang Yu said and hurried down the city.
Wu Mengming is injured! Although Wu Mengming has taken care of things, he is full of shit. If he cannot wipe it clean, he is very likely to fall into the pit, and even take him with him!
"I can't stop worrying!" Chang Yu got on his horse and cursed in a low voice. He turned to look at Zhou Yuji who was holding a mobilization meeting in the distance, and then galloped northward, with three hundred palace soldiers behind him.
The generals followed, with Xiong Tong and Chen Shangzhi sandwiched between them. The scene in Jiaocheng was finished, and they were going to another crew, Taiyuan.
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