After learning that Chen Hansan had sworn to defect to the Yanlu and sent troops out of the city to attack the Huaidong Army, King Yuan Hancheng of Chu slumped down on a sandalwood chair and murmured to himself: "Chen Hansan, this thief is really making a fake show."
!" Sitting there in a daze, lifeless and motionless, as if dead. The generals such as the palace chief, the chamberlain, and the commander of the guard camp were also panicked and helpless for a moment.
Chen Hansan was really about to surrender, and they were trapped in Xuzhou City, unable to escape even if they had wings.
The Donghu rebelled in the name of killing the people. Since the invasion of the south, they have given preferential treatment to officials and scholars, but they have always treated the Yuan clan with the word "kill". They were very bloody and never left any room.
Yan Hu wanted to settle down the place as soon as possible, stabilize his rule, and adopt policies to win over the gentry and wealthy people. However, in the Northland, which was devastated by the war, it was difficult to restore production to the same scale as before. Large areas had to reduce taxes and recuperate.
, but if Yanhu wants to maintain huge military expenditures, it must have a group that can be drawn out to attack and plunder.
There is no more suitable candidate than a descendant of the clan.
Over the past two hundred years since the founding of the Yuan clan, the clan has reproduced for twelve generations. There are tens of thousands of people bearing the surname of the Yuan clan, making it the largest clan force in this land.
Although many clan members are living in poverty, in total, the amount of wealth and land occupied by clan members is also an extremely astonishing figure.
When Zhang Xie kidnapped Yanjing and defected, almost none of the officials and gentry were harmed. However, more than 50,000 people, including palace maids, eunuchs, and descendants of the royal family, became the targets of the most thorough plunder since Yan and Hu invaded the south.
Except for a dozen people with royal titles who were dragged to Dongshi and executed in the name of harming the people, almost all others, without exception, were demoted to slavery and driven to western Liaoning to raise horses and reclaim wasteland. Over the past year or so
, these people who were driven to western Liaoning as slaves died of starvation, freezing and disease, nearly tens of thousands of them. It was so miserable that life was worse than death.
By plundering the royal family, Yan Hu not only obtained millions of acres of fields and large houses, but also plundered tens of millions of gold, silver, pearls and jade. Yan Hu relied on these to support the huge military expenditures in the early stage.
After the Huaisi War, the palace of the King of Chu also declined and lost its former glory. Even the son-in-law of the King of Chu was killed by Lin Fu and his family property was confiscated. There was nowhere to redress his grievances, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.
The Prince of Chu's Mansion also has more than 2,000 hectares of paddy and dry fields in Wangzhuang outside Xuzhou City. There are still more than 100,000 stones of rice stored in the granary. There is not much silver in the silver kiln, only more than 100,000 taels. It is quite different from the famous Prince of Chu's Mansion.
It doesn't match the situation. But the royal palace has more than a hundred people, as well as servants, maids, guards and family members. The total number of people is nearly 3,000. It is easy to plunder everything and get a million taels of gold and silver.
Regardless of Yan Hu's consistent attitude towards the clan's children, Chen Hansan openly rebelled and surrendered. How could he let the big fat sheep of the Chu Palace go?
Yuan Han was heartbroken. He opened his eyes and looked at the people around him. He said with a face like a dead tree: "There are many undesirable places over the years. Please be lenient. Now the situation is lost. You all run for your lives."
Go ahead, don’t follow me and be buried in Prince Chu’s Mansion…”
Chen Hansan controlled the whole city, so the clan members would not be able to escape, but if the generals, servants, and maids of the guard camp escaped, Chen Hansan would not be bored enough to hunt down the whole city and kill them.
Yuan Hancheng was one of the few virtuous figures in the clan. He had presided over the clan's palace in his early years and was generous to the people in the palace. Some people originally had the idea of escape. Yuan Hancheng said that he was a long history and a chamberlain.
The commanders of the guard camp howled loudly and vowed to live and die with the Chu Palace. For a while, no one was willing to escape from the Chu Palace.
There are only 600 people in the royal guard camp. Their armor is bright and neat. After all, it hinders the majesty of the palace. However, there is little training. Yuan Hancheng is also afraid of Ruolai's suspicion, so he does not dare to train the guard camp strictly on weekdays. The guards take out the soldiers to perform the guard of honor.
It can scare the people, but Yuan Hancheng is disheartened when he thinks about fighting against Chen Hansan's tiger and wolf army.
At this moment, there was a loud noise in the vestibule. Yuan Hancheng thought it was Chen Hansan's men who broke into the door and stood up with a pale face. He only hoped that Chen Hansan would take the sake of getting acquainted and avoid causing more killings!
"Prince Chu! What are you doing?" Zhang Yubo held a knife in his right hand. His crimson official robe was stained with a large amount of blood. The color was darker and the fishy smell hit his nose. When he saw Chu Wang Yuan Hancheng and others walking to the eaves of the corridor, they were in a mess without any order.
"Master Zhang, I didn't expect you to be Chen Han's three lackeys!" Yuan Hancheng said dejectedly.
"Prince Chu, you are confused. I, Zhang Yubo, would rather die in vain than join the bandits," Zhang Yubo said angrily and anxiously, "Chen Hansan, a dog thief, has openly defected to Yanlu, and Chen Hansan's men are about to
After attacking, where are all the guards and generals of the Chu Palace, and why haven't they been pulled out to resist the rebels?"
"Is it useful?" Only then did Yuan Hancheng know that Zhang Yubo did not defect to Chen Hansan, but led the crowd to fight to join the troops of the Prince of Chu's Palace, but he did not think that relying on the Prince of Chu's Palace and the hundreds of people under Zhang Yubo
Is there any room for struggle?
"As long as we rely on the palace to defend until tomorrow, we will definitely kill that thief Chen Hansan. Why would Prince Chu say these depressing words at this time!" Liu Xilin stood up and shouted loudly, with a sound like thunder, intending to kill Prince Yuan Hancheng and others of Chu.
Wake up! "Chen Hansan's betrayal plan has been revealed. How can you believe that he would conspire with Huaidong to plot against Hu Gou? What he did before was just to use the plan to defeat the enemy. My family has long made a plan to defeat the enemy. Prince Chu
Cheer up and see how this thief Chen Hansan dies tomorrow without a burial place!"
On behalf of Huaidong, Liu Xilin followed Zhang Yubo into Xuzhou City to communicate a plan to surrender and lure the enemy. There were 300 elite soldiers who followed Liu Xilin into Xuzhou City - Chen Hansan could not stop Liu Xilin from bringing 300 people into the city.
It seems that even if Liu Xilin brings 300 people into Xuzhou, nothing will happen.
After these three hundred brave soldiers entered the city, they stationed themselves in the Xuzhou government office. Although Chen Hansan sent two battalions of soldiers to station nearby for surveillance, they could not completely surround the government office before openly rebelling. This gave
Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin took the lead and broke out of the government office to provide an opportunity.
After Sun Zhuang led the front wing cavalry into Jiuli Mountain and before Chen Hansan publicly swore to defect to Yanhu, Liu Xilin and Zhang Yubo took action decisively, leading 300 brave soldiers and more than 100 yamen soldiers to charge out, not only killing
A battalion of soldiers who were watching near the government office retreated, and the soldiers who were watching outside the Chu Palace were defeated. Before Chen Hansan could react and sent reinforcements to suppress the attack, he entered the Chu Palace first.
On the other hand, the Prince of Chu's palace was filled with mournful sounds, and he had already planned to capture him without any defense.
As soon as the north-south waterway was cut off, the city of Xuzhou declined. During the Huaisi War, the strong men in the city were roped in to defend the city, resulting in heavy casualties. After the war, it was difficult for the people in the city to make ends meet. All these factors led to the decrease in the number of households in Xuzhou city.
Sharp decrease.
Chen Hansan had 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, so he had to set aside a large area of houses in the city as military camps and stationed them in the city. In this case, Zhang Yubo, Liu Xilin and the Chu Prince's palace guard camp totaled more than a thousand people.
It's really hard to do anything.
But to say that there is a place in Xuzhou city that is conducive to defending, it is the Prince of Chu's Mansion. There are more than a thousand soldiers to defend, and it is not impossible to hold on for two or three days.
Xuzhou is the seat of feudal lords and feudal lords, and the royal palace complex is the most spectacular in the city, and is all made to order.
The Prince's Mansion of Chu occupies an area of about one hundred acres and is as strong as a small fort. The outer protective wall is based on bluestone and is eight feet thick. It cannot be attacked without rushing. Above the base wall, the blue bricks are used as a body, and they are slightly tightened toward the middle.
The top should also be five feet thick, so that guards can stand high and fight back against the enemy's attached walls. There are also towers at the four corners for shooting arrows.
Furthermore, the palace is surrounded by residential complexes, and the streets are deep and narrow. Although Chen Hansan has strong troops in the city, there is not enough space for him to deploy his troops. If the residential buildings around the palace cannot be cleared, the palace will be destroyed in a short time.
There is a large space at the north and south gates for Chen Hansan to send troops to attack.
This situation is more conducive to relying on the palace for a short period of time.
If Lin Fu wanted to catch Chen Hansan, he had to let Zhang Yubo return to Xuzhou; by letting Liu Xilin accompany him, he planned to take advantage of the favorable situation of the Chu Palace in Xuzhou City to carry out a tight defense in a short period of time, at least to give Chen Hansan
This created the illusion that "here was deliberately using the Prince of Chu's Mansion to contain his troops."
Yuan Hancheng was full of fantasies that Chen Hansan could conspire with Huaidong to swindle the Yanlu soldiers and horses in order to achieve great success. Chen Hansan openly rebelled and surrendered, and he was in chaos. At this time, Liu Xilin said that Huaidong simply intended to take advantage of Chen Hansan.
Han San rebelled against the plan, and Yuan Hancheng didn't know why Huaidong had such confidence, but if a drowning person saw a floating straw, he would not care whether the straw could save him or not, and would only subconsciously reach out to grab it.
Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin looked calm and composed, but Yuan Hancheng cheered up and laughed loudly and said: "Okay, Lin Huaidong is good at using tricks, and he is really well-deserved. Let's see how the Huaidong Army will be called Chen Han tomorrow."
Those three dog thieves will die without a burial place!" He seemed to have forgotten that before this, he had a hatred for Huaidong and had the desire to drink blood and eat flesh.
That's the thing about morale. Without fighting spirit, even if there are thousands of troops and horses in hand, they will just wait and be captured without any intention of resisting. In these few words, these people seemed to be able to see that Chen Hansan would be there tomorrow.
In the situation of being defeated and killed, he cheered up like a shot of chicken blood.
Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin stole the first move and beat Chen Hansan to monitor the government office. The soldiers and horses of the Prince of Chu's Palace were caught off guard and rushed into the Prince of Chu's Palace. However, Chen Hansan's soldiers and horses reacted quickly, and they were able to rectify the siege at this time.
Attack the Prince of Chu's Mansion.
There was not much time to explain the matter, so Liu Xilin sent his generals to lead more than a hundred elite troops to block the north and south gates of the Chu Palace to prevent Chen and Han's soldiers from suddenly coming in while they were unprepared.
After guarding the two important points of the north and south gates, he asked King Yuan Hancheng of Chu to summon the generals of the palace guard camp to defend the walls to prevent Chen Hansan's troops from climbing over the wall and attacking. Finally, he gathered all the servants in the palace and fought with them.
Zhang Yubo's yamen soldiers were mixed together with more than a hundred elite soldiers around Liu Xilin as a reserve team, ready to make up for any leaks at any time.
The last step is to gather all the family members and ladies in the palace into the middle courtyard of the palace. Even if the outer protective wall is lost, we must be prepared to fight to the last soldier.