Drinking wine without talking about happiness will not tell you all the sadness.
Chang Yu and Zhu Shenxuan were drinking and singing in the palace of the Prince of Jin, but outside the city was another hell on earth.
In the afternoon, the plot against Chang Yu failed, and instead a general was narrowly missed. A subsequent trial battle ended with the troops not even making progress. The rebel army suffered setbacks one after another. Strangely, the morale did not drop but reached its highest point in history.
Because Li Zicheng is better at inspiring and deceiving people than Chang Yu. Don't forget that he started his career by deceiving people. After all, Chang Yu has to call him Patriarch. His Taoism is bottomless.
"The officers and soldiers are ruthless and inhumane. The heads of those brothers are the best evidence. Even if you don't kill the enemy to avenge your brothers, you will die without a whole body in the hands of the officers and soldiers. In short, you will not be able to kill the enemy to avenge your brothers."
If you kill all the officers and soldiers, you will have no chance of survival! Escape is death, and being captured is death. The only way to survive is to kill them all..."
"When the city of Taiyuan was destroyed, Yun Er waited for three happy days. He did not collect personal funds from the public, and did not correct discipline violations..."
Although he didn't say much, every word he said was taken to heart. The morale of the thieves was greatly boosted, and the intruders immediately mobilized their troops to attack the trench positions in a large scale.
Seeing Li Zicheng's massive investment, the first wave of about 20,000 troops attacked the position. Of course, there were many refugees who served as cannon fodder and laborers, filling in trenches under the cover of the rebels.
Zhou Yuji made a prompt decision and ordered Wang Yongkui's entire army to advance to the front of the trench position to snipe the rebels. When the battle began, the sound of killing soared into the sky, and the color of heaven and earth changed.
When half a stick of incense was not available, Li Zicheng mobilized two more groups of troops to attack from the east and west wings, trying to capture the trench position outside the city in one fell swoop.
In an emergency, the officers and soldiers outside the city were somewhat stretched, so the deputy general led his troops out of the city to provide support.
Nearly 60,000 men and horses were fighting in the trench position outside the moat in the south of the city. In the dark night, from a high place, few people could be seen, and the screams could be heard like ghosts weeping.
At the middle of Haishi (about ten o'clock in the evening), the sound of killing outside the city gradually subsided. In the palace of the Jin Dynasty, Zhu Shenxuan was drunk and lying at his desk. Chang Yu's eyes were red, he staggered up, opened the door, and the cold wind blew.
Shocked, he turned his head and looked at the man sitting at the desk in the room with a cold smile: "I sacrificed my life and blood for your family, and I am so petty when I flirt with your girl."
A servant of the royal family who was waiting at the door couldn't help but look up at Chang Yu when he heard this, only to see that the man had already strode away laughing wildly.
"Sir, you have drunk too much." Tu Yuan and Tie Zhu ran out of the side room to support Chang Yu: "I bear you my humble duty."
"It's okay." Chang Yu pushed Tu Yuan away and said, "Go to the city and watch the scenery."
On the city, Zhou Yuji, Cai Maode and dozens of other civil servants gathered together, discussing something with heavy faces.
The thieves attacked the defense line on such a large scale. Naturally, they did not dare to take it lightly, let alone run away drinking like Chang Yu, braving the cold wind and keeping an eye on the battle situation.
"Have the thieves retreated?" Chang Yu staggered over and burped with wine. Everyone turned around after hearing the sound and frowned when they saw his virtue.
"We have retreated, but the defense line has been breached for at least two miles."
Zhou Yuji said in a deep voice: "The bandits committed at least 30,000 to 40,000 troops and officers and soldiers to fight bloody trenches, charging several times and fighting fiercely for an hour."
With a large investment, the income was also very considerable. More than half of the trench array, which was more than five miles deep, was captured by the rebels. The rebels were only more than two miles away from the moat.
Chang Yu exclaimed, walked closer to the battlements and looked into the distance. There were sparks outside the moat, which were the formations of officers and soldiers. There were also fires two places apart, and the thieves were right in front of him.
"You can still advance two miles by relying on the trench. Commander Zhou, you have the responsibility," Chang Yu said calmly, but everyone couldn't help but shudder.
Why?
The reason is very simple. Chang Yu has the identity of a military governor. Just imagine that a military eunuch can accuse or even convict the general at will. What's more, in addition to the military governor, he also has the identity of the East Factory Admiral. Should he be charged at this time?
Zhou Yuji's expression was very calm. He knew Chang Yu's character well, and he just said this to understand the situation of the battle just now.
"The thieves' army is as powerful as ours, but they have refugees to help them, who are what the factory owner calls cannon fodder. They are really... miserable." Zhou Yuji gritted his teeth and shook his head with a bitter smile.
Refugees as cannon fodder really give officers and soldiers a headache. If they are used in a swarm, if you don't kill them, they will disperse your position in a blink of an eye. If you kill them, they will help the rebels attract firepower and consume munitions.
Therefore, even if the officers and soldiers mobilized a large force to resist the attack, the rebels relied on the refugees to clear the way, attacking mainly in the middle and attacking from the east and west flanks, forcing them to advance more than two miles from the front.
"We also have refugees in the city, why don't we also pull them out to confront them?" A general next to Zhou Yuji suddenly shouted angrily.
Chang Yu looked sideways and saw a dark-skinned man who was furious.
"Ignorance!" Zhao Jianji angrily rebuked: "How can officers and soldiers imitate such a despicable act of killing innocent people? How is it any different from thieves? Wouldn't it be a cry of thieves? Furthermore, have you ever thought about it, if the refugees are really driven out of the way?
Those refugees will turn around and fight back soon, and then they will steal the chicken but lose the rice..."
"Master Zhao is right, there is no need to mention this again." Chang Yu knew that he was telling the truth, but a civil servant angrily rebuked the general in front of him, which made him unhappy! So he interrupted immediately.
"We still say the same thing. We have never thought of blocking the enemy with a few trenches, but we will never let them get over easily. Does General Zhou understand what we mean?"
Zhou Yuji nodded. No one in Taiyuan City was more sympathetic to Chang Yu than him, but then he said: "I'm afraid the thieves will mobilize troops at night to surround other gates and contain my current strength."
Chang Yu looked at the dark night in the south and was silent for a while, shaking his head slightly: "He is angry with me, and he will fight me head-on. At least tonight he will have this idea."
As he spoke, he suddenly burst into laughter and shouted towards the south: "Huang Lai'er is so angry with you, I'm going to bed!"
After saying this, he turned around and went straight to the tower to sleep.
Everyone was surprised and didn't understand what Chang Yu said.
Zhou Yuji raised his brows and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "Send the order, use half the city's troops to attack the thieves!"
Everyone was shocked.
Zhou Yuji, however, was confident and ordered one after another to mobilize the troops in the city and take the initiative to attack the rebels, vowing to regain the lost position.
What he was worried about was that the bandits were deploying troops at night to surround the other city gates, which would definitely constrain him and prevent him from using his hands and feet to snipe the enemy head-on.
But Chang Yu gave him a reassurance with just one sentence and decided to give it a try.
As for why I believe in Chang Yu so much, it is because my colleagues have accumulated trust in the little eunuch in front of me during this period and are fascinated by his talent.
He is capable of calculations and good at understanding people's hearts, and of course he is extremely cunning.
Li Zicheng is indeed fighting against Chang Yu. The fact that Zhou Yuji repeatedly sent reinforcements to rescue Chang Yu shows that the identity of this little eunuch is definitely not simple. He is definitely not just a supervisor. Recalling his previous performance, he lurked in the camp to assassinate Li Laiheng.
He was a hero who killed Zhang Linran, Xiong Tong, and Chen Shangzhi (both Xiong and Chen were not killed) and bravely fought against his subordinates during the period of pretending to surrender and negotiating peace. This person's status and ability suddenly emerged. Although the details are not known, he is definitely not an ordinary person, and he is Taiyuan.
The black hand behind the city at this time.
This is a powerful enemy. Wu Neng can torture all his subordinates, and Ji Neng can even play with the likes of Niu Jinxing, Li Yan and others like children. It is really terrifying!
However, as a hero, Li Zicheng has become arrogant. After more than ten years in his career, he has never failed to compete with any of the capable ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty. Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, etc. are all awesome and arrogant.
But now these talented people have long since died, but he, Lao Li, is still alive and kicking, and the more he lives, the more prosperous he is, and his business is getting bigger and bigger. He has just registered a company and is now preparing to go public.
But unexpectedly, a little eunuch appeared and teased him again and again. He was really ignorant and fearless, but it really aroused his pride.
His bravery can be seen by fighting against the heroes, and his deep scheming can be seen by arranging a series of false surrenders for the Taiyuan fortifications, one after another.
However, Li Zicheng firmly believed that in the face of absolute strength, any trick would be vulnerable.
In order to dig a few trenches, you have worked so hard, manpower, and material resources to stop me! Let you see how I swaggeringly leveled these trenches, reached the city walls and captured Taiyuan, and let you know that these are just trails.
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Therefore, he rejected the suggestions of Song Xiance and others and divided his troops to besiege the city during the night.
First of all, the siege tonight has no real significance, because even if there are no trenches outside the other city gates, there is a moat that is more than ten meters wide, and the siege equipment is not in place. The army has no ability to directly attack when it has just arrived.
conditions of the city.
Secondly, he needed to concentrate his forces to open the southern gate to Taiyuan City to boost morale.
Of course, after opening the passage to the south gate, he will of course divide his troops and besiege the city to contain the officers and soldiers, and attack the city in one fell swoop. But at this moment, he feels a sigh of relief in his heart, and I will attack it from the front openly and show you!
Little did he know that Chang Yu had taken his pulse again.
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