Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 239

Now, Duoduo really hesitated.

Will the Battle of Sanyo continue?
Shi Tu saw the hesitation in Duoduo's expression, and said anxiously: "Master, we can't retreat at this time, even if we take our lives, we must fill up Shanyang City! After breaking the city, we will slaughter all the people in the city. The old, young, women and children are not allowed to stay alive, only in this way can we avenge and avenge the dead clansmen!"

After a pause, Shi Tu said again: "Otherwise we will lose all face with the white flag!"

"Shut up!" Duoduo scolded, "Take your life to fill it? You said it lightly, how many lives do you plan to take? Fill in all of you Jiala, are you willing?"

"Eh?" Shi Tu suddenly became dumb.

He would definitely not want to fill them with Jiala.

At most one or two cattle records will be enough.

Tun Qi also felt reconciled, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, Minggou used the water boat to repair the gap opened by the red cannon. The speed is indeed fast, but the water boat is just a water boat after all, and its strength cannot be compared with Compared with the real city wall, as long as we go all out and let the packers carry the rams to follow up, we can still ram the tank boats away!"

"Yes, that's a good way to hit the wood!" Shi Tu said anxiously. The city walls have been blown away, how can a mere three-foot-high wooden city wall stop us Eight Banners warriors?"

"What do you know?" He Luohui reprimanded, "Do you really think there are only tank boats and wooden city walls?"

"What do you mean?" Shi Tu frowned and asked, "Master Gu Shan'er, what are you talking about?"

He Luohui said: "Can you really guarantee that behind the wooden city wall, there will be no second inner city wall? There will be no second urn city? Yan Yingyuan will not carry out another fire attack?"

"Ah?" Shi Tu lost his voice, "Impossible?"

"Nothing is impossible." He Luohui said in a deep voice.

"In war, you must expect the enemy to be lenient, and you must not be careless!"

"He Luohui is right. You must be lenient when fighting a war." Duoduo nodded, and said, "Our two white flags and the inlaid blue flag have already shed too much blood under Shanyang City, and we can't shed any more. .”

"But..." Shi Tu said angrily, "Let's leave it at that?"

"Of course I can't forget it." Duoduo said in a deep voice, "Forcing the attack won't work, just use tricks!"

"A plan?" Shi Tu, Tun Qi, A Shan and other nobles were taken aback after hearing this. What plan?

"Divorce!" Duoduo turned his gaze to Hou Fangyu and asked, "Hou Fangyu, you said before that you have no friendship with Yan Yingyuan, but you are a close friend with another scholar?"

"Return to the prince, that's right." Hou Fangyu hurriedly replied, "This person is called Maoxiang."

Duoduo continued to ask: "This king will ask you again, what is the relationship between Maoxiang and Yan Yingyuan?"

Hou Fangyu thought about it carefully, and said, "It seems that there is no contradiction, but it seems that they are not very intimate."

"It's done." Duoduo said happily when he heard the words, "You said before that the defense of Shanyang City is dominated by Yan Yingyuan, and Maoxiang is the second official. If you guard Shanyang this time, Yan Yingyuan should be the first Gong, Maoxiang can only come second, isn't it?"

"That must be the case." Hou Fangyu said, "It's just that Shanyang will definitely be captured by the prince's army in the end..."

"This is for later, let's not mention it for the time being." Duoduo waved his hand and said, "Hou Fangyu, this king has entrusted you with a secret mission."

Hou Fangyu was overjoyed, thinking that this is the opportunity?

At that moment Hou Fangyu knelt down and said: "I will obey the orders of the lord."

Duoduo said in a deep voice: "Maoxiang is young, so it is inevitable that he will be jealous of Yan Yingyuan. When the king's army is in Shanyang, the two of them can still fight against each other, but if the king's army retreats, there will be discord between the two. Look for an opportunity to provoke, and there will be internal strife between the two. When Mao Xiang is dissatisfied, you can secretly guide him and lure him to surrender to my Qing Dynasty. The city is at your fingertips!"

"Ah?" Hou Fangyu was taken aback when he heard the words, did he ask me to persuade him to surrender?

Seeing this, Doduo's expression turned cold: "Why, you don't want to?"

"Uh, no, the slave is willing, the slave is willing." Hou Fangyu shook his hands in fright, and said, "It's just, I just don't know what kind of benefits the prince can give Maoxiang?"

Duoduo said solemnly: "If Maoxiang is willing to donate Shanyang City, the king can give him the first-class duke title on the spot. After returning to Beijing, he will report to the emperor's father as the regent, and it is not impossible for Jin to become the county king."

Hou Fangyu said: "So, Xiaosheng is willing to go to the city to have a try."

Duoduo turned his gaze to Fan Chengmo and said, "You pretend to be Hou Fangyu's slave and go together."

"Hey!" Fan Chengmo responded immediately. He knew that Duoduo asked him to monitor Hou Fangyu. After all, Hou Fangyu or Shangqiu Hou's family returned to the Qing court for a short time, and Duduo didn't dare to believe it, but their Fan family was different.

Duoduo told the two of them again: "Don't rush into the city, wait until the army is far away."

After finishing speaking, Duoduo ordered He Luohui, Tunqi, and Ashan: "The army marched eastward overnight. I don't believe that Yan Yingyuan can also move two piles of salt farms into the city. Go and grab the salt farms first!"

"Hey!" The eyes of the three of He Luohui lit up.

Grab the Lianghuai saltworks?This is a beautiful job.

Salt is silver!
……

When Yan Yingyuan was sleeping in a daze on the top of the wall, he suddenly felt that the whole world was shaking.

"Jiannu attacked the city?" Yan Yingyuan stood up in surprise, but found that there was nothing shaking, most likely Wu Erdan was shaking his body.

"Bitch, what's the matter?" Yan Yingyuan asked with a frown.

"My lord, look." Wu Erdan stretched out his hand and pointed to the outside of the city, with uncontrollable joy in his words, "Jiannu retreated, Jiannu retreated overnight!"

"What, Jianu has retired?"

Probably because he hadn't woken up yet, Yan Yingyuan was stunned for a moment.

After reacting, he turned his head and looked out of the city, and found that Jiannu had lit countless torches and was continuously withdrawing from the gun platform in the north of the city.

The teams of flagmen, carriages and horses were endless at a glance.

Judging from this battle, this is definitely not a fake article. Jiannu actually retreated overnight.

Footsteps sounded, and Zhi Tingjian went up to the top of the city excitedly, saying repeatedly: "My dear brother, Jianu really retreated?"

Zhi Tingjian's name for Yan Yingyuan changed again, from Huanheng to Xiandi, which means that the relationship between the two is getting closer, and it is indeed the case.

Yan Yingyuan also admired Zhi Tingjian in his heart.

Although this person is only from Juren, his official reputation is not bad, and his ability is quite outstanding. During the month of guarding Shanyang City, the cooperation between the two is quite tacit.

"Really retreat." Yan Yingyuan said, "It doesn't look like a fake."

Zhi Tingjian climbed the battlements and looked at them for a long time, then suddenly cried out: "Jianu finally retreated, Shanyang City was finally defended, dear brother, we finally defended Shanyang City, and finally fulfilled our mission... "

Seeing Zhi Tingjian crying, Yan Yingyuan also felt emotional.

It was not easy, the battle of Sanyang was fought really hard, almost to the point of desperation.

However, Yan Yingyuan still did not relax his vigilance, and told Wu Erdan, "Dad, although Jiannu has retreated, no one can guarantee that they will not kill their carbine, so we still have to hurry up and rectify the city defense. Send a few more spies to spy on the enemy outside the city, and report back to the city immediately if there is any abnormality."

"Yes." Er Dan, a member of the Township Bravery Team, also worked out this time.

Yan Yingyuan said to Zhi Tingjian again: "Brother, let's go to Xicheng."

"Okay." Zhi Tingjian quickly wiped away his tears, and went down the tower with Yan Yingyuan.

After coming to Xicheng to meet Fan Zhongjie and Mao Xiang, the four of them sighed relative to each other. They all had the joy of surviving after the catastrophe, and at the same time, the ecstasy of making contributions.

If Shanyang cannot hold this time, the Ming Dynasty is in danger of overthrowing.

So in turn, they defended Shanyang, which was a great achievement for Daming.

Fan Zhongjie said: "Wanheng, Pijiang, and Zhizhi County, the government thinks that we can report victory to Xuzhou and Nanjing at this time. I wonder what the intentions of the three are?"

"It should be so." The three of Yan Yingyuan looked at each other and agreed.

Fan Zhongjie immediately wrote two official documents, stamped his official seal on them, and asked Yan Yingyuan and the others to sign them, sealed them with wax and handed them over to the messengers, and sent them to Xuzhou and Nanjing respectively.

Yan Yingyuan and the others didn't know that Xuzhou was surrounded by Jiannu, so the news was not sent to Xuzhou.

However, the Tang newspaper sent to Nanjing was sent to the Tongzheng Envoy in the evening of the next day. After the Tongzheng Envoy Liu Shizhen received the Tang newspaper, he did not dare to neglect it and quickly forwarded it to the cabinet to be on duty.

Shi Kefa and the others happened not to go straight yet.

Due to the unsatisfactory sale of bonds by the Ministry of Accounts, the four cabinet assistants discussed countermeasures with Zhang Youyu, Minister of the Ministry of Accounts.

By the way, the Municipal Exchange Office run by the Ministry of Household Affairs is also located on Chaoku Street, and it is just opposite the Municipal Exchange Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Of the [-] million bonds sold in the first phase, only more than [-] were sold.

Most of the more than half a million yuan is still for the sake of the four elders.

In other words, the bonds that were actually sold were actually less than [-] yuan.

This is embarrassing, what is two hundred thousand taels of silver enough for?
It is not enough to give Nanjing officials a month's salary.

So when Liu Shizhen came in, the four elders and Zhang Youyu were all frowning.

"Ge Lao, four Ge Laos!" Liu Shizhen couldn't hide his excitement, and said, "Hold it! Hold it!"

"Shut up, why are you guarding?" Gao Hongtu got up and reprimanded, "This is the direct cabinet of the cabinet, and the court is important. Besides, you are a dignified envoy, how can you be so polite?"

"Ge Lao." Liu Shizhen didn't care at all, and his joy was beyond words, "Shanyang has been defended! Huai'an Mansion has been defended! The Jiannu army stormed Shanyang for more than a month, and lost countless troops, but they couldn't make an inch!"

(End of this chapter)