Tumeng: I am a national advisor in the Golden Family

The city walls of Chuzhou have begun to collapse under the continuous bombardment of the Guanzhong army, and many walls have tilted.

Although Li Fen summoned craftsmen to repair the city wall overnight, this could not withstand the crazy artillery attack of the Guanzhong Army. The Guanzhong Army's artillery fire seemed to be free of charge, and it was vented crazily into the city.

At this time, the residents in the city also began to panic. Although these northern people had been ruled by their own red coat army for so many years, they had no intention of working for the red coat army.

Recently, many residents have sneaked out of the city from some corners at night, which made Li Fen very angry.

Now his Red Turban Army had been forced into a desperate situation. The entire Shandong area had fallen, and there was no good news from the Southern Song Dynasty. Even the Chuzhou City was captured by the Guanzhong Army, completely cutting off his only connection with the Southern Song Dynasty.

"Alas! This Southern Song Dynasty is really useless. In just a few days, the city of Chuzhou was lost." Li Fen sat in his mansion, drank wine, and said with a sigh.

If Chuzhou City was not breached, then he had the last hope, which was to lead a group of elite troops when the city was breached, then break out and escape towards the Southern Song Dynasty, towards Chuzhou City.

But now that the entire Chuzhou has fallen, all hope of his final escape is gone. It is surrounded by Mongolian territory, and his land is not even connected to the Hebei army, so there is no place for him to escape even if he wants to.

You can't escape whether you run south or north. As for retreating east across the sea and escaping, it's even more impossible.

Dengzhou and other places have also been captured, and now he has lost even the capital to escape at sea.

"You all tell me, General Wen, I have supported you for so long. Now is the time for you to repay this general. Do you have any good ideas to defeat the enemy?" Li Fen looked at himself and asked a group of his subordinates.

"General! We have led the army to break through several times before, and even planned to sneak attack the Guanzhong Army's camp, but they all ended in failure. The Guanzhong Army came up with a very powerful gunpowder weapon. We are no match at all." Wen surnamed Red Jacket The military general spoke.

"Trash, a bunch of trash, this general has raised you for so many years. Now at the critical moment, you are of no use at all." Li Fen roared and threw the wine glass in his hand.

"General! Now there is only half of the food and grass left in the city. If we don't find a way, we will run out of food in a month, and then we will be really doomed." A civilian staff member said.

The situation in the city is now extremely dangerous. The entire city wall of Yidu Prefecture is in tatters, and only half of the food and grass in the city is left. It is now the time for spring plowing.

They all missed the opportunity near Yizhou City. There won't be any food production at this time next year. By then, just hundreds of thousands of mouths will be able to eat them up.

"Ordinary people, they don't need to eat so much. I will plunder all the food in the hands of the people in the city. Just let them drink a little porridge every day, as long as they don't starve to death." Li Fen said.

Now we can only suffer the hardships of the people in the city and collect the food and grass in the city to supply the army.

"General, no! If we rob the people of the food, we will completely lose the support of the people. Moreover, it is the spring plowing time. The remaining food in the people's hands has been used up, and there is probably not much food now." A civilian staff member hurriedly said.

Are you kidding me? This is what you come up with. Go grab the food in the hands of the people and let them drink one meal of gruel every day until they starve to death.

With this kind of operation, Yidu Prefecture will be littered with corpses within a few days, and now the people don't have much food left in their hands!

If the autumn harvest had just passed, the people would still have some food in their hands, but now it is spring plowing time!

If you rob the people of their food, you are cutting off your own roots.

"How could it not be? It's still spring plowing time, and there's still a summer to go! Even if we're farming now, we have to wait until autumn to harvest. Every household should still have at least half of its grain surplus.

Pass it on to my general to search from house to house and give them all the remaining food. Anyone who dares to disobey will be killed on the spot. "Li Fen said.

"General, think twice! General, please think twice!" This time, it wasn't just the civilian staff, some military generals knelt on the ground and spoke.

Among their troops, there are many locals. They have developed in Shandong for such a long time in recent years. It can be said that the Red Coat Army is all descendants of Shandong.

Let them rob their own food and grass, how can they do such a thing!
"General, we still have enough food and grass for a month. Maybe we can think of a way in this month. It's not a last resort yet, so it's better not to rob the people of their food and grass." A military general said.

"You all want to be a good person, right? Does this general want this? But if not, these people will eat a lot of food in a month. What the Guanzhong Army wants is to wear us down in this way. We can't Fall into the trap.

In addition to plundering the people's food and grass, I gathered all the men for me. All the men aged above fifteen and below sixty were sent to me as civilian husbands to repair the city walls and participate in the defense of the city. "Li Fen said.

There are still hundreds of thousands of people in the city. No matter how hard it is, he can gather 20,000 to 30,000 civilians. Plus his original troops, he will just play with Guanzhong.

Just let yourself get the chance to rush out of the city, or find a way to cross the sea, or find a way to go south.

"General! Otherwise, let's surrender to the King of Guanzhong. Even if we can't keep your title, at least we can save your life!" At this time, a military general gritted his teeth, knelt on the ground and said.

Now that they surrender to the King of Guanzhong, they might still be treated well.

Dengzhou, Mizhou, Haizhou and other places all surrendered, and the people in the city, as well as the officials, were not harmed.

"You bastards, you want to trap this general into injustice. If you surrender, you will be done with it. You can continue to serve under the King of Guanzhong and continue to be your general. Even if you fail to become a general, you can still save your life.

But what about me, General? There was no way I could surrender. If I surrender. The best result is that there is only one car, only a few servants, and even life is in danger. "Li Fen snorted coldly and said.

As expected, some of these bastards want to surrender. If you surrender, it will be over and done with. You can still continue to be an official, but what about me, General? I am the leader of the Red Coat Army!
How could the egg be finished under the overwhelming force? If he surrendered, the best result would be to be wiped out by the King of Guanzhong, and then be sent to Jingzhao Mansion, or the current Chang'an Mansion, to be imprisoned forever.

It is even possible that the King of Guanzhong would cut off his own head and everything would be fine.

Therefore, the people under him can surrender, but he cannot surrender!

"General, if you surrender to the King of Guanzhong, you can at least save your life, and with your ability, you will have great potential even as an official in Guanzhong."

"If you dare to say anything again, someone will drag this guy out and kill him!" Li Fen roared angrily and said.

Suddenly two red-coated soldiers appeared and dragged out the general who had just surrendered.

"General, general, don't want it! Ah!"

There was a scream outside the house, and soon, a soldier came to the main hall carrying a bloody human head.

"You all have to watch out for me. If anyone dares to delay again, there will be such people when they surrender. Tomorrow, one team of you will be responsible for collecting grain and grass, and the other team will repair the city wall.

Another man is going to catch young men for me. They must gather food and grass for me. At least 3 young men must be captured. Okay, let me go. "Li Fen waved his hand and said.

All the military generals and civil servants bowed to Li Fen on the stage with fear. They all felt chills running down their spines when they looked at the dead colleagues and their dead heads with eyes open.

Li Fen is exactly the same as his father Li Quan. They are both very power-hungry people. If he surrenders, although he will lose his current status, at least he can save his life!
In their current state, they are besieged here. Even if they steal the people's food and grass and capture enough strong men, the city will be destroyed.

At this time, several military generals began to think about whether they should be determined to work with the red-coated general. Now their red-coated army has reached the end of its rope.

"Old Zhou! We, we have to make plans early." A general from the Shandong Red Coat Army said in a low voice.

In this case, he would inevitably have some second thoughts.

"Old Wen, you don't want to die. If anything happens, we can talk about it when we get back." General Wen who was talking to him immediately said.

"Yeah!" Just as the two were about to leave, a servant quietly stopped them.

"General Zhou! General Wen, the eldest lady invites us." "Madam! The eldest lady invites us?"

"Two generals, please come with me to see the eldest lady. This is a matter of wealth and life." The Mongolian servant said.

I had forgotten that this lady was an authentic Mongolian, and she was also the daughter of Tuo Lei, but she didn't like Li Fen very much.

The lady looked down upon Li Fen, and Li Fen also looked down upon the lady from the grassland.

It has been seven or eight years since this Mongolian lady got married, and she doesn’t even have any children. (In the original history, this guy’s real wife was also an Eastern Mongolian princess, but her specific fate was not recorded.)
However, these two generals still came to the lady's house very honestly. Maybe the lady could really save their lives, or even save the whole city.

"Meet Madam."

"Okay, I'm here to find you two. Do I have anything to ask you? Do you want to die or live?" Tuo Lei's daughter asked.

"Madam, of course we want to live."

"Well! The entire cavalry unit in the capital commanded by the two of you only has seven or eight thousand people, right?" Tuo Lei's daughter asked.

"Reporting to Madam, the two of us have more than 7,000 cavalry." General Wen said.

"Very well, if you want to live, you can open the city gate two nights later and escort me north.

Pass through the Hebei area, and then go directly to Daxing Mansion in Zhongdu. Our cavalry from the Tuo Lei family will meet in that direction. "The daughter of Tuo Lei, the princess of Eastern Mongolia, said.

She didn't want to stay here with Li Fen waiting for death, and she would still fall into the hands of her father-killing enemy.

So she had already been thinking about her future. Just a few days ago, his brother Kublai Khan also sent her several letters.

He also told her that if she was besieged to the point where she was about to run out of ammunition and food, she could recruit a group of cavalry from Yidu Prefecture and let them escort her all the way to Daxing Prefecture.

"Madam, you mean us, can we go to your Torre family?" General Zhou asked.

"Yes, as long as you can escort me there and bring your own troops, each of you will get at least one thousand households, and your guilt will be exempted. It is not impossible for you to become a Han Shihou by then." The daughter of Tou Lei spoke.

"But madam, if so many cavalry troops rush out of the city, the troops in Guanzhong will definitely stop us. How are we going to leave?" General Wen said.

"Of course I can prevent the Guanzhong army from blocking it. I will send an envoy to the Guanzhong camp and tell them that I will open the city gate on the north side of Yidu Prefecture in two days. At that time, they will attack the city and capture Yidu Prefecture. , and I take you north, the two have nothing to do with each other.

Remember, I am also the daughter of Tuo Lei and the princess of Eastern Mongolia. No one can deal with me. "The daughter of Tuo Lei said.

The current King of Guanzhong is still a minister of Mongolia in name only. And my own. Brother, Kublai Khan has already greeted the King of Guanzhong in advance.

This time, if Yidu Mansion is given to him and he leaves with seven thousand cavalry, the other party will not say anything.

"Since the eldest lady has said so, then we are naturally willing to follow the eldest lady. Let's order the cavalry and horses. Two days later, we will open the city gate." Generals Zhou and Wen immediately knelt on the ground and said .

Being able to get the guarantee from the Mongolian princess, the eldest lady, gave their lives an extra layer of protection.

"Okay! Now send an envoy to the Guanzhong military camp to help them break the city in the name of the Tuo Lei family." Tuo Lei's daughter, the Princess of Eastern Mongolia, said.

Li Fen was destined to die this time. He could not die here. His brother Kublai Khan had specifically told him.

If the land of Shandong can be defended, then try to delay it for a while. If it cannot be defended, then let yourself find a way to withdraw as soon as possible, and do a favor to the King of Guanzhong when leaving.

Not only did he have to sell a favor to the King of Guanzhong, but he also had to bring a cavalry unit back.

At this time in the Guanzhong camp, a group of generals under Zhang Yong were also holding a meeting.

There were four generals leading the attack on Yidu Prefecture, namely Zhang Danshen, Liu Zhengfeng, Wang Xingzhi, Xu Haifeng, and dozens of other lieutenants who graduated from the Guanzhong Lecture Hall, as well as General Batt from Mongolia, and his subordinates. Thousands of households.

"Everyone, Chatuohua's side has already conquered Chuzhou City, and our side cannot fall behind." Battle looked at the crowd and said.

The early stage of their offensive was relatively good. They quickly occupied Dengzhou and Mizhou in Shandong, and captured Haizhou City.

Then they quickly occupied the entire Shandong, and now only Yidu Mansion is left unconquered.

On Chatuohua's side, the battle went more smoothly than on their side. Chuzhou was captured without blocking them for long, and the reinforcements from Yangzhou were also defeated by them.

The entire war in Shandong now depends on their last battlefield, so they cannot be negligent and must end the battle quickly.

"General Bart! We have been surrounding Yidu Mansion for more than a month, bombing him in various ways. Now all the city walls have collapsed in various ways, although the Red Coat Army has made some repairs. , but it’s of no use,” Zhang Danshen said.

"We can choose to continue the siege, or directly launch a general attack."

"News came not long ago about the assassin army in the city. It is said that there are now more than 4 defenders in the city. The people in the city are basically panic-stricken."

"Can we ask the assassins to open the city gate in the middle of the night and put our troops into the city?" Xu Haifeng asked.

"No! We have thought about this strategy before, but it doesn't work at all. The garrison near the city wall of Yidu Prefecture is still quite strict. There are only a few dozen of us sneaking in, so it is very inconvenient to move." Wang Xingzhi said. .

They had thought of this strategy before, but it was too difficult to implement, and the assassin troops who entered the city were unable to do so.

It is only at night that some news can be delivered from some corners. It was obviously inappropriate for them to capture a city gate.

"Can we send a dozen soldiers in every day, and then let them hide in the city. When the number becomes large, let them open the city gate directly at night." Bart said.

"It's not impossible. It only takes about ten days. There will be hundreds of our people in Yidu Mansion, but these people are also very easy to be discovered.

After all, it is not easy for these people to hide for more than ten days. "Zhang Danshen said.

"Report! Report to the generals, there is a messenger coming from outside, saying he is from the Tuo Lei family." A soldier hurried in and said.

"The envoy of the Tolui family? How could the envoy of the Tolui family appear here?" Zhang Danshen said.

"It's not impossible to appear here. Don't forget that Li Fen's first lady is Tuo Lei's daughter." Battle said.

"Go and invite the envoy to come in." Zhang Danshen said.

Soon the Mongolian envoy was invited to the camp in Guanzhong.

"Are you the messenger sent by the princess in the city?" Bart asked.

"Exactly! I am the eldest daughter of the Torre family and an envoy sent by the Princess of Eastern Mongolia. This time I came specially to help the generals capture Yidu Mansion." The envoy said. (End of chapter)