The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 208 Preparation
Arslen Khan asked Gu to sit down again before returning to his seat.He asked with a pleasant face: "The general is the chief general of Miyun, so he must know the defense of Miyun very well. I wonder what the general can teach me?"

Gu Xu was flattered at this time, and thought that the Tatars would be ruthless, and he might lose his life.I didn't expect that the Great Khan not only didn't blame him, but treated him with respect and courtesy.Although he knew it in his heart, it was because the other party believed that he still had value to use.But after the fear just now and the huge difference from now, Gu Xu couldn't help being excited.

Hearing the Khan's question, he got up quickly and said, "Khan, I know the defense of Miyun well. There are not many soldiers in the city, and there are many shortages of equipment. As long as the Khan leads the attack, he will surround the city on all sides and attack together." , Don’t give Miyun a chance to breathe, the opponent’s soldiers are not many, and they are scattered on the four walls, so that each wall has only one to two thousand people, as long as the sweat is not stingy with troops, the city can be broken within three to five days.”

Arslen Khan was a little puzzled by what he said, so he asked bluntly: "Miyun is an important city in the north, how can there be only such a force? Why is there such a shortage of equipment?"

Hearing Arslen Khan's question, Gu Xu couldn't help feeling a little hot on his face, and murmured, not knowing how to answer, and finally he could only murmur: "It's because the imperial court doesn't have enough food, and the soldiers below have to live. , so the generals under me can only eat empty pay to maintain everyone's combat effectiveness." After speaking, his face felt hot, and finally he lowered his head and dared not look at Arslen Khan, fearing that the other party would be disappointed with him.

Arslen Khan is also a genius, you can tell what's going on by looking at his expression.The evaluation of Gu Xu has dropped to the extreme. If it is not the time for employing people, he would have been pushed out to kill him long ago.What such a person wants in the future is to become the leader of his own tribe, so his own tribe doesn't know what kind of abuse he will receive.

Gu Xu also knew that the Tatar Khan's evaluation of him would definitely decline, so he felt that he should make up for his mistakes, so he handed over to Arslen Khan and said, "Khan, there is a serious shortage of arrows in Miyun City, only about [-] to [-]. As for the rolling wood and lightning stones, there is even a shortage, even if the opponent's new general is extremely capable, he can't defend Miyun City, the Great Khan can just send troops to go there tomorrow, and it will take a few days to break through."

When Arslen Khan got the details of Miyun's arrival, he no longer had any doubts about capturing Miyun and going straight to the capital. He now thought it was a matter of time, and he had to reach the capital in the shortest possible time before starting to plunder.Otherwise, when the soldiers of King Qin from all over the world arrive together, the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty are weak in combat effectiveness, but once the number reaches a certain number, it is enough to drink a pot by themselves.

Arslen Khan sat upright, and said to the generals below: "Now start building the siege equipment. It must be ready within three days. After three days, the whole army will attack the city without giving them a chance to breathe. In the shortest time Take down Miyun."

All the generals under the tent heard Arslen Khan's order, and they bowed their hands together and said: "I will obey the order of the Great Khan."

Arslen Khan then asked everyone to disperse their tents. Gu Xu still had some uses, so he arranged a tent for him alone.And promised to return to the grassland will be rewarded.

Although Gu Xu was a little apprehensive, he planned to take the intact Miyun City and thousands of people to join him, but he didn't expect people to be as good as God, and something went wrong at the last moment.Now that he was living alone in the Tatar camp, thinking about it, he might as well resist desperately, maybe he still had some chance of survival, Gu Xu couldn't help but feel regretful in his heart.

Let's talk about what happened in Miyun City. It turns out that although Zhou Wu is Gu Xu's confidant, he has done many wicked things for him.Like reselling military rations, withholding military pay, and smuggling weapons to the grasslands.These are things he often does.Moreover, this person secretly did a lot of things to bully men and women, Zhou Wu's name has become synonymous with villains in Miyun City.

But this time, when he heard that Gu Xu was going to surrender to the Tatars, he didn't dare to object on the surface, and he strongly supported him. In fact, he was already furious in his heart.

Although Zhou Wu has done a lot of bad things, he has a sense of pride in his heart as a person of the Celestial Dynasty, which is innate.If it wasn't for that, he probably would have been around forever as a badass.But ever since he knew that Gu Xu was going to join the enemy, he was determined to do something for this country.

That night, because Gu Xu was going out of the city to meet the Tatar generals, he asked Zhou Wu to take care of the captured families and important officials.

Zhou Wu saw the opportunity came, so he brought his centurion and quietly came to the defense mansion. First, in the name of changing defense, he gathered all Gu Xu's personal soldiers into the compound. Wu is Gu Xu's confidant.He also received an order to detain the prisoners, which Zhou Wu would be in charge of, so he didn't take precautions.

As a result, these more than 100 soldiers had just assembled, and countless arrows were shot from all directions. Before these people had time to react, they suffered heavy losses.Next, Zhou Wu brought his centurion to kill them. These people were now unarmed, and they were no match for the fully armed Zhou Wu. They were all killed soon.

After Zhou Wu dealt with these soldiers of Gu Xu, he went to the firewood room to rescue the officials and adults. Only by rescuing these people can the troops in Miyun City be mobilized.to resist the coming Tatars.

At this time, all the thousands of households and important civil officials have all woken up.When these people woke up and found that they were tied in the woodshed, they knew it was not good.Everyone knew in their hearts that they had been tricked by Gu Xu. Now that Gu Xu might have dedicated the city to the Tatars, the consequences for them would be disastrous.

Although these civil and military ministers wanted to communicate, but because they were all gagged, they could only stare blankly.When they were anxious, they suddenly heard a scream outside.These people couldn't help but tremble for a while, thinking that Gu Xu had already begun to eliminate dissidents.

Not long after the screams, the door of the firewood room was opened, and everyone saw Zhou Wu coming in from the outside. Everyone knew that Zhou Wu was Gu Xu's confidant.

Unexpectedly, after Zhou Wu came in, he ordered the soldiers to untie the ropes for everyone. While rubbing their wrists, everyone silently looked at Zhou Wu, wanting to know what the hell he was up to.

Seeing that everyone had been untied, Zhou Wu clasped his hands and said, "My lords, Zhou Wu has offended me a lot before. I know I am not a good person, but I still have some national integrity. This time Gu Xu defected to the enemy and betrayed my country, although I am not talented. , and absolutely can’t follow him. So I took my troops and killed those soldiers, please go back and mobilize your troops, and soon the Tatars will come to take over Miyun City. I’m afraid it will be too late.”

At this time, everyone looked at each other, not knowing whether they should believe him or whether Miyun Master Xie Wang had some prestige among them, so they spoke first: "Since you are sincerely for the country, you don't have to worry. When the Tatars retreat, I will definitely Show your merits to the imperial court."

Zhou Wu was already impatient at this time, so he said impatiently: "My lords, what time is it now? It's too late to be polite here. Please, my lords, hurry up and set up an ambush in Wengcheng. I'll delay them a bit first." Time, when the time comes, the safety of Miyun City will depend on you all." After speaking, he walked towards the city gate with a feeling of despair on his face.

Because Zhou Wu himself knew that no matter whether this trip was successful or not, it was impossible for him to come back alive. This could be regarded as being loyal to the country and leaving a good reputation after death.

Xie Wang looked at this situation and knew that Zhou Wu was sincerely for the country, but now the dragons in Miyun City have no leader, if there is no one to preside over it, I am afraid they will not be able to persevere.

So Xie Wang presumptuously gave orders to everyone: "The situation is urgent now, so I will temporarily preside over the military and political affairs of Miyun. The thousands of households immediately take their troops to the Wengcheng to ambush, and the Tatars must be driven out of Miyun. The houses were demolished, and all kinds of bricks, stone strips, and timber were transported to the entrance of the city, ready to defend the city. Do you have any objections?"

Everyone really didn't know what to do now. With a backbone, they naturally obeyed orders, so they quickly prepared.

That's when Gu Xu and Burigude were unprepared to enter the city, thousands of arrows were fired from the Wengcheng, and the Tatars were beaten out of Miyun City.

After the Tatars were driven out of Miyun, Xie Wang rushed to the city gate.Seeing Zhou Wu with his head in a different place, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that people can't be judged by appearances. Although Zhou Wu has done some bad things, he has not lost money in the interests of the nation, and he can be regarded as a man.So he ordered people to collect his body and temporarily put it in the Temple of the City God. After the Tatars retreated, they would show their merits to the court.

After sighing for a while, Xie Wang put these matters behind him, gathered all the thousands of households in Miyun City, and asked them to take turns guarding the city.And he called all the males over the age of 15 and under the age of 50 in the whole city, and issued weapons to them to assist the officers and soldiers in defending the city.If there are not enough weapons, cut wood into soldiers, at least let everyone have one weapon available.

The wealthy gentry in the city were dissatisfied with this. After all, these people have always been pampered, and now they are asked to go to the city to fight the Tatars. They are not willing, so many people resist.

Xie Wang was not polite at this time, but if anyone disobeyed, the whole family of Chao Mo was executed immediately, and all the property was used to reward the soldiers, and all the men and women of their family were driven to the top of the city as the first batch of resistance against the Tatars. As a result, no one in the city dared to resist.

In this way, Xie Wang managed to organize tens of thousands of people in just one or two days.Xie Wang sent experienced veterans in the army to conduct temporary training for these people, just asking them to have some basic combat concepts, so that few people will die by then.

Since he didn't know how long the Tatars would besiege the city, the second thing Xie Wang did after gathering all the young and strong was to collect all the grain in the city for unified deployment.And issued a decree, but whoever hides a grain of grain will be executed.So this once again aroused the opposition of those wealthy households, but with the lessons learned from the past, no one dared to resist this time.He could only accept it silently, and prepared to sue him in the court after the Tatars retreated.

The third thing he did was to publicize to the people in the city that the Tatars were barbaric and unreasonable.And the massacre at Gubeikou made everyone believe that if Miyun City was destroyed, everyone would not be able to escape the fate of being massacred.In order to arouse the will of the whole city to fight against the enemy.

There is no need for him to publicize this. Who in the city does not know the barbarism of the Tatars.If the city is broken, none of the women in the city can escape the fate of being raped.

So these women began to encourage the men who went to defend the city by themselves, telling them to fight desperately and not have to worry about their families.If the city is broken, they must keep festivals for them.

Under the influence of several aspects, Miyun City has now become a huge fortress, and everyone in the fortress has the determination to die.

　I saw in the book reviews that some readers think that what I have written in the past few days is a bit watery.I would like to apologize to everyone here.

　　As I searched for information in the past few days and saw many disasters suffered by the ancestors of the Chinese nation when they resisted aggression, I didn't feel like a stone was pressed in my heart, and tears always wanted to flow out of my eyes.Because I can't control my feelings, I can't help but want to write some sufferings suffered by the Chinese nation, as well as the people who sacrificed for the freedom and liberation of the Chinese nation, and their heroic deeds.

　　Sometimes I think that our nation has always been kind to others and always takes care of other nations as much as possible.Why?Why do other nations always point at us with knives and guns, plundering our hard-earned wealth?

　　In the process of the Chinese nation resisting foreign aggression, countless people gave up their lives, including women, old people, young and strong, and soldiers.Each of them has a family behind them.

　　What I want to say now is, long live the ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and liberation of the Chinese nation!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)