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Chapter 263

On the battlefield around Chen County, Kaifeng Prefecture, with a radius of one or two hundred miles.

If you want to say who among the military forces of all parties has the slowest response to sudden intelligence, it must be Shen Shuren.

After all, he was surrounded, so the slowness of the news is understandable.

However, Shen Shuren was not completely isolated from the inside and outside.

Earlier, when Huang Degong rescued Lu Wang and Xiao Fu Wang and sent them to Xiangcheng, he also wanted to report to Shen Shuren.It's just that the land is surrounded by water, and it is impossible to break through the encirclement and rush in, so let's do it temporarily.

But Huang Degong quickly thought of another way-while retreating, he got in touch with the next wave of Zhang Mingzhen's water army who was transporting grain to Chen County along the way.

He handed the letter to Shen Lian, a confidant of Zhang Mingzhen's, who has now been promoted to the capital, and asked Shen Lian to hand it over to Shen Futai the next time he transported food into the city with the army.

In this way, it was nothing more than three or five more days of tossing, but the delivery could still be delivered.

Li Zicheng lacked a navy, so no matter how he encircled and intercepted him, he could only block the land traffic in Chen County, and the Yingchuan waterway was temporarily blocked.

Yingchuan in the late Ming Dynasty diverted a part of the main stream of the Yellow River, which was many times larger than Yingchuan in later generations after the Yellow River was diverted to the north in 1855.

The narrowest part of the river is at least fifty or sixty feet wide, and the water depth is three to five feet. In such places, the space for small sampans is very small, and cavalry cannot directly wade across the river.

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Three days later, in Chen County.

Counting the days, the time has quietly come to the end of October in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

There are [-] to [-] fresh troops in Chen County City, including the direct troops brought by Shen Shuren from Shangcai, and the troops brought by Zuo Zixiong who were previously stationed in Ruyang.

Even if they were besieged by Li Zicheng, they didn't panic at all. Anyway, from Shangcai to Chen County, as long as Li Zicheng dared to attack the city and the city of Shen's army, he never won.

Shen Shuren's technical advantages in defending the city cannot be compensated by courage and numbers.In this era, it can be said that there is no solution——

This is not an exaggeration at all, because when the bastion first appeared in the western world, the advantage of the city defenders was suddenly pulled to a huge level.The advantage that the siege party once gained by relying on solid iron bullet artillery during the Constantinople period will soon be wiped out, and there will be crushing countermeasures.

It was not until Vauban's siege method appeared in the West that the siege party regained a little disadvantage in the use of artillery and breaking walls.

Although Shen Shuren's defense of the city is not up to the bastion tactics, but he has more flexible artillery, plus a small triangular fort that was temporarily built, which can eliminate the dead angle of side fire to a considerable extent.This semi-finished tactic is definitely enough to deal with Li Zicheng's siege force.

It's not too late to take out the complete bastion in the future when facing the Tartar army with hundreds of heavy red cannons.Good things must have a good rhythm, and there is no need to over-invest and expose them in advance.

In this way, the security of the Chen County guards was as peaceful as Mount Tai, but Zuo Zixiong and the other elders of the Shen family army were a little unmotivated. Seeing the other comrades in arms making meritorious deeds, they were also eager and wanted to fight.

But defending the city with Shen Futai, it was fun at first for a game or two, and then Li Zicheng couldn't afford to lose, so he didn't come to attack by force, and only spent time besieging the city. How can he get a chance to kill the enemy?
Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen outside must have been making meritorious service one after another. With the mobility advantage of cavalry, as long as they simply reproduce Peng Yue's tactics of scratching Chu and harass Li Zicheng's food-raising troops, they can get a lot of opportunities.

Although Zhang Mingzhen, Shen Lian, and Li Yu were only helping to transport food, they would definitely be intercepted by Li Zicheng, and they would also find opportunities to fight back and make contributions.

The troops living in the city are really miserable.

Early this morning, Zuo Zixiong spent another half a day patrolling the city, but he didn't catch any fighters, and birds faded out of his mouth.

It was finally afternoon. It was said that a fleet of Zhang Mingzhen's grain transport fleet would arrive this evening, but it didn't arrive at the beginning of Shenshi, which seemed to be delayed.

Only then was Zuo Zixiong a little alert, and he also reported to Shen Shuren, who asked him to organize a reserve team to guard inside the water gate, but don't act rashly.

Until the third quarter of Shenshi, shouts of killing and gunfire could be faintly heard from far away on the Yingchuan River in the south of the city. The generals of the Chen County garrison watched with binoculars from the gate tower, and saw that there was indeed a fight.However, there should not be many ships on the thief's side, and they can't stop them.When it was dark, the fleet finally broke through the barriers and came to the city of Chen County.

The bandits and troops wanted to chase after them, but Zuo Zixiong had already made all preparations and opened the water gate to let the reserve team enter the water village at the pier outside the city. They fought a fierce battle with the bandits chasing troops and killed more than a thousand enemies , the two sides are dark and scattered.

After three or four days of idleness, Zuo Zixiong finally felt a little more comfortable after such a small fight.

After the completion of the reception, he immediately found the generals of the navy who came to transport the grain. It turned out that Shen Lian and Li Yu were here. Chuangjun went around.

This is also what should be in the title. Zhang Mingzhen is now the chief of coastal defense, and he was seconded by the Nanjing household department to protect the grain roads for the army. It is impossible for him to perform daily grain transportation tasks in person.

It is enough to leave these trivial matters to the military officer at the level of the capital. Zhang Mingzhen only played in the decisive battle.

"You guys have brought in the food. If you couldn't break through the siege just now, I would like to ask Mr. Futai to lead the troops out of the city to help."

Zuo Zixiong and Shen Lian didn't see each other, even though he was the chief soldier and the other party was only the captain, they still looked very familiar.He also knew that Shen Lian was from Lord Futai's servant, and he was one of his own.

Shen Lian also bowed his hands, and made a long story short: "When transporting grain today, I saw that the thieves were more wary than a few days ago. They were still dozens of miles south of the city, where the Yingchuan River was slow, and many iron cones and wooden stakes were laid. Block part of the channel and prevent large ships from passing.

Although this method is not new, we read in the playbook that in the last years of the Three Kingdoms, in order to prevent the Jin general Wang Junlou from disembarking, Dongwu used iron ropes to cross the river, and also used hidden awls and piles under the water.It's a bit of a hassle, but if you have the time to clean it slowly, on land and water, it's doable.

Today, it was due to the lack of friendly troops on the shore to assist the battle, and we did not dare to disembark and land on the shore. We worked slowly, so we were delayed for a while. We were entangled by the boats of the intruders and the archers and musketeers on the shore. We fought to the death before we broke through.

But this time it was possible to break through, at least it hadn't been a long time since the operation of breaking into the army, and the hidden stakes and awls were not dense, so they could break through quickly, and I'm afraid it won't be so easy next time. "

After Zuo Zixiong listened, his expression was a little dignified, but at the same time he was looking forward to it. He thought about it and said, "This is a big deal. You should report it to Futai personally. After the grain transport in the city arrives, it will take a month or so No more luck, in fact, they can hold on.

But it may not be good if it is delayed for a long time. If it takes another month, Chen County will not starve to death here, and the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City will probably starve to death.And the longer it drags on, the more fully prepared the fortifications will be to break into the army and block the river.We should also consider highlighting the surprise soldiers to sabotage and harass occasionally. It is not the way to stick to it. "

In Zuo Zixiong's heart, he also vaguely knew some combat strategies of "advance by water and land, and cover each other". He knew that in such a situation, as long as he sent the main force of infantry to cover along the river and act together with the water army, the fortifications on the river would be cleared. All destroyed.

In history, Soochow was the first to use dark cones and piles to deal with the Jin army's buildings, but wasn't it also broken by the Jin army in the end?Just because the Jin army has an absolute advantage, it advances both land and water.After controlling both sides of the river, whether it is to use a raft to sweep away the iron cones, or to burn off the iron chains in the sesame oil cabinet, there will be time to slowly dismantle them.

Shen Lian also took it seriously, and followed Zuo Zixiong to report to Shen Shuren, and he also mentioned that he brought a more important military message, which was conveyed by Huang Degong through Zhang Mingzhen, and the content was naturally related to the rescue of King Lu and King Fu related.

When Zuo Zixiong heard this, he paid more attention to it, and personally took Shen Lian to Shen Shuren's study.

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"Huang Degong rescued King Lu and King Fu? Are they actually in Shangqiu?"

When Shen Shuren confirmed the news, he was also shocked.Of course, his degree of shock was already the smallest among all of them.

Who let him know the history, that King Lu and Fu could indeed run quite well, but he didn't know that after the butterfly effect interfered, the rescue location would be specific to Shangqiu.

Then, Shen Shuren took advantage of the situation and turned his attention to the troubles Shen Lian described later, that is, the Chuangjun's attempt to intercept the Yingchuan Waterway, and today's small-scale grain transportation and robbery conflicts.

He immediately asked associatively: "In this way, Li Zicheng suddenly changed his previous strategy of simply besieging the city, and instead tried to cut off the Yingchuan grain road. Most likely, he also learned that Lu Wang and Fu Wang were rescued, and Yuan Zongdi raised grain. The army was defeated by Huang Zongzhen.

So on the one hand, Li Zicheng became angry with embarrassment, and on the other hand, he knew that he could not last longer. He wanted to force our army to have a final field battle, a quick decision, and then decide on the way forward?If our army does not fight, it will take another month for him, and he will probably leave by himself. "

When Zuo Zixiong and Shen Lian heard it, they both felt it made sense.

Seeing Master Futai recovering his composure so quickly, and reacting logically so quickly, they all admired him: He is worthy of being a hero who has done great things. Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without moving his face. Such a big thing is like a normal person. It is still the same as before!
But regarding Shen Shuren's statement, Zuo Zixiong said worriedly: "My lord's concern is indeed reasonable, but if it continues, the whole city of Kaifeng may starve to death.

Even if our army guards food along the river and is forced to fight against the Chuang army, it is not completely without chance-this year, the general has listened to the teachings of the adults, and has also studied some military books and war history hard.

According to historical records, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu was the commander-in-chief, and marched against the Yellow River to take the two capitals. The Northern Wei Dynasty harassed the Yellow River fleet.

The last general has fought for three or four years since he raised his troops in Huangzhou with his lord. This kind of waterway cooperation and fighting along the river has also been fought several times.The Chuang troops are all from the north and are not familiar with water warfare. The total strength of our army on land and water exceeds [-] to [-].

If we agree to act together at a certain time, even if the Chuang army gathers 20 troops to attack, there is no camp to rely on, and only relying on the formation of vehicles and boats, our army is not insecure in dealing with three or four times the enemy!It's better to think about it, can you fight early and have fun! "

(End of this chapter)