It was just after nightfall, and after deploying the defense, Zuo Liangyu convened a meeting with his subordinates at the former prefect's Yamen.
His first words were to warn his men: "The emperor has declared to the world that neither I nor you will be forgiven. Think about it for yourself, how many lives are in your hands, so don't expect it."
The court will let us go!"
After a pause, Zuo Liangyu glanced at the faces of his generals, and then continued: "Abandon your illusions and don't be naive. For us, this battle is a desperate battle. Either we die or we defeat the enemy in front of us.
Occupy the entire Sichuan land and enjoy the hot and spicy food!"
"The enemies outside the city are all chasing us here. There must be a problem with the food and grass! As long as we can hold on, we will have the last laugh!"
At this point, he found that the morale of his men was not very high, so he showed a mysterious look and said to these generals: "I can give you an explanation. After I established my position in Kuizhou Mansion, I secretly sent someone to talk to Li Zicheng
After the negotiation, he is under great pressure from Sun Gouguan and has a strong tendency to join forces with us to fight against the imperial court!"
Upon hearing this, the rebel generals in the lobby immediately became energetic. After all, this is good news!
"In this current situation, I have decided to give in and divide the Shu territory equally with Li Zicheng." Zuo Liangyu raised his voice and said, "Then Li Zicheng will definitely join forces with us! In other words, we are not defending the city alone.
,Reinforcements will arrive soon!"
Listening to him talking, Zuo Mengeng couldn't help but look puzzled. He had been by his father's side all the time. When did he send someone to contact Li Zicheng? Why didn't he know about it at all? Could it be when he led the troops to Chongqing?
It’s his father who is wise and has already thought of a way out! Zuo Mengeng thought so and couldn’t help but look at Zuo Liangyu with stars in his eyes: Every time there was a crisis, his father could save the day!
In the lobby, many people obviously had the same idea as Zuo Mengeng, and their spirits suddenly became high.
At this moment, there was a noise outside the city.
Hearing this movement, Zuo Mengeng quickly reminded: "Dad, the officers and soldiers want to steal the city!"
After Zuo Liangyu heard this, he immediately led these generals and rushed to the city. When they arrived, the imperial officers and troops had already retreated.
According to the report from the guard on the city, the imperial officers and soldiers really wanted to steal the city, but they were discovered and retreated!
Now that nothing was going on at the top of the city, Zuo Liangyu led his men back to the lobby of the former magistrate and continued the discussion.
Not long after the results were announced, suddenly another noise was heard outside the city.
This time, Zuo Liangyu did not rush over, but ordered Li Guoying to go over to see the situation.
Not long after, Li Guoying returned to the Yamen lobby and reported to Zuo Liangyu: "Commander, the imperial officers and soldiers tried to steal the city again and retreated after being discovered!"
"Oh?" After hearing this, Zuo Liangyu thought for a moment and then said with a trace of ridicule, "This is playing hard to get. I assert that the imperial officers and soldiers were deliberately exposed and exhausted the defenders on the city wall until late at night.
, is when he really steals the city!"
Li Guoying listened, nodded, and said with admiration: "The commander is wise, the general thinks so too!"
After hearing this, other people in the lobby also praised Zuo Liangyu for his brilliance and martial prowess.
So Zuo Liangyu began to mobilize his troops and generals to deal with the robbery of the city in the middle of the night.
After everything was deployed, he said confidently: "We have the entire city as a threat, so the imperial officers and soldiers will not dare to attack during the day. As long as they thwart the possibility of stealing the city, there will be nothing they can do to us. That's it.
If the stalemate continues, the imperial army will be out of food and grass, and we have reinforcements from Li Zicheng, sooner or later Shu will be ours again!"
After describing the prospects, he announced the end of the military discussion, but left a few close men such as Ma Shixiu and Li Guoying to continue discussing the military situation, and the others left.
After those who should leave left and those who should stay stayed, Zuo Liangyu turned to look at Li Guoying and said to him: "The side of the water gate you are responsible for has fewer torches and is darker, so that it is more convenient to do things."
, Do you understand?”
"I will understand!" Upon hearing this, Li Guoying immediately answered with clasped fists.
Then, Zuo Liangyu turned to look at Ma Shixiu and ordered him: "On your side, the noise should be as small as possible. Don't disturb other people. Secretly, you know?"
"The general will know!" Ma Shixiu heard this and quickly responded with clasped fists.
Zuo Mengeng was confused when he heard what they were talking about, so he interrupted and asked: "Dad, what are you doing? Are we going out from Shuimen to steal a camp?"
When Zuo Liangyu heard this, he felt a little unhappy. This son was not clever at all.
However, he knew that this was not the time to reprimand his son, so he whispered: "What kind of camp are you stealing? As before, I can't stay here for long, I have to leave!"
"Ah!" Zuo Mengeng was very surprised when he heard this, and said with a little hesitation: "Just now... Didn't dad just say... about stealing the city, and that... that reinforcement..."
Although he had followed Zuo Liangyu before, it was not that he had never run away before. However, just now Zuo Liangyu had mobilized his troops and punished the generals with a confident expression, as if victory must belong to his side, but in the blink of an eye, he was about to run away.
It's a bit difficult to turn around.
Seeing his son like this, Zuo Liangyu really didn't want to get angry, but he got angry anyway and shouted in a low voice: "Are you a pig? Have you not seen what the morale of the army is like? This city cannot be defended 100% of the time.
You don’t have any eyesight like this?”
Originally, he wanted to explain in detail that if it weren't for the fact that he had failed along the way, and Zuo Mengeng had also failed along the way, and even suffered a miserable defeat, then maybe he really still had the strength to fight.
However, now that the two armies have retreated in defeat and lost their troops and generals, where is the morale and morale of the troops? During the day, they were bewitched by the governors of the three sides again, and the soldiers under their command have even less morale.
Based on his experience, he could tell right away that it would be strange to be able to defend this city!
Since you can't hold on, of course you have to run away!
Bring your belongings, your trusted generals and your bodyguards with you, and you will have a chance to make a comeback!
It's not like he hasn't experienced this kind of situation before. And Li Zicheng was also beaten down to only 18 horses, but now he has more than 200,000 horses!
In troubled times, as long as you don't die, there are opportunities; if you die, there will be nothing!
Zuo Liangyu thought about this very clearly!
While they were talking, there was another noise outside the city. But it didn't take long before it became quiet again.
Zuo Liangyu was very disdainful of this. You can see through this kind of trick at a glance, so just play it slowly!
In fact, he had already thought about the speculation that the imperial army might steal the city.
It can even be said that he actually forced the governor to do this.
Because he knew that after he threatened the people of the city to speak out, generally speaking, civil servants would consider the consequences and weigh whether their opponents in the DPRK would make a fuss about this matter. Unless it was absolutely necessary, they would definitely not attack by force, resulting in
All the people in the city died!
In this way, it is either a continuous siege or an outwit.
And if the siege continues, with so many troops outside the city, the daily consumption of food and grass will be unknown. Normally, no commander will not consider the cost of this long-term siege.
As for outsmarting, it sounds nice, but in fact, there are not many choices!
Night raids and stealing the city are a possibility that naturally comes to mind!
Zuo Liangyu will not play with these things. What he has to do is to sneak away while the military morale is still good. Once the military morale is obviously not good, he will not be able to leave if he wants to.
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He prepared a total of five ships, three for transporting property, and two for him and his cronies and personal guards. He waited for the imperial officers and soldiers to sneak away in the middle of the night when they really started to steal the city and start a fight.
Zuo Liangyu said before that he sent someone to talk to Li Zicheng, and he was not lying at all.
He did send people to explore the situation downstream, and found that Li Zicheng's troops seemed to have withdrawn. However, the imperial officers and soldiers were in hot pursuit, and he could not continue to inquire about the situation downstream in Huguang.
In the current situation, the only option is to escape from danger first.
Time passed slowly, and the night became darker and darker. Just as Zuo Liangyu expected, the imperial officers and soldiers outside the city slowly became silent. This just showed that the imperial officers and soldiers were preparing to take action in the latter half of the night.
Only a fool would believe that the imperial army would steal the city in the middle of the night when the city was still asleep. Isn't that to increase the difficulty of stealing the city so that more defenders can reinforce it in time?
While Zuo Liangyu despised the intelligence of the imperial officers and soldiers outside the city, he rested for a while, waiting for the imperial officers and soldiers to start stealing the city and attract everyone's attention, and then escape.
In the main courtyard of the government office, boxes of belongings have been prepared, and the guards are resting, conserving their strength, and waiting for the signal.
Sure enough, in the middle of the night, shouts of killing suddenly rang out. Then, the noise became louder and louder, attracting more and more people's attention. The defenders in many areas immediately led Zuo Liangyu's deployment according to Zuo Liangyu's previous deployment.
Troop reinforcements.
But at this time, Zuo Liangyu took his son, his cronies, and property and hurried to Shuimen.
He arranged for Li Guoying to take turns here, and after reuniting smoothly, he immediately moved everything to the ship.
Everything went well, no one noticed, everyone was paying attention to Stealing City.
"Look, I just said it, the morale and morale of the army are no longer usable, and the hips are stretched!" Zuo Liangyu looked at the situation in the distance for a while, listened to the movement, then shook his head and said, "Under my targeted deployment,
Even the imperial officers and soldiers succeeded in stealing the city!"
Of course, the reason why the imperial officers and soldiers succeeded in stealing the city was also related to the fact that he took away all his close men. Those who were left behind were all his abandoned soldiers. Obviously, their abilities were definitely not very good, so there was no need to abandon them.
What a pity!
With this thought in mind, Zuo Liangyu did not hesitate anymore and immediately ordered the water gate to be opened and took advantage of this opportunity to escape!