286 Defend Beiping

Xu Huizu's 100,000-strong army besieged Beiping for more than 20 days, and Xu Miaoyi, the princess of Yan, personally supervised the battle, stuck to the city gate, and the battle was in a stalemate.

Zen Master Daoyan sat in the formation and commanded, Xu Huizu's army attacked the city wall several times, but they were all besieged by the Yan army, and the city wall changed hands several times, and the battle was very dangerous.

In desperation, Xu Miaoyi decided to form a death squad to attack and recruit elite soldiers.

A team of fifty people, a total of nine teams, four hundred and fifty people.

In front of each person was a bowl of wine, a piece of dried meat, and a steamed bun.

Xu Miaoyi said: "This is your last meal, after eating this meal, in the middle of the night, when the southern army is sleepy and tired, you will be roped down under the nine gates of Beiping, there are no horses, no supplies, no support, you can only move forward to fight, not retreat." ”

The death squad silently drank wine, ate steamed buns, and left all the dried meat.

The captain said: "Leave the meat to the children in the city, Princess Yan, can they see the day when King Yan is victorious and the king's flag is planted / in the capital?" ”

Xu Miaoyi held back her tears, "They will." ”

The captain said, "That's enough, we go down to meet death so that the children can embrace hope." ”

The death squad took advantage of the night to go down to the city tower, scattered in the dark, and in the nine days that followed, every night when the southern army was sleeping and resting, there were death squads who attacked and burned the military food supplies, and disturbed the southern army so that they could not sleep, and when the death squad fought to the last man, the sky was bright.

After nine days of repeating this, the unbearable Southern army is going crazy!

Marshal of the Confederate Army, battalion.

"General Xu! More than half of our war horses have been slaughtered, and the reinforcements and food promised by the Korean king Yi Sung-gye are gone! If this continues, Beiping City has not yet been conquered, and our people will starve to death! ”

Li Chenggui established Korea, bowed to the Ming Dynasty, and was one of the vassal states. Emperor Jianwen issued an edict from King Qin, and the king of Joseon, Li Chenggui, immediately responded and said to Zhu Yunwen, saying that the Korean Congress would go all out to quell the rebellion.

North Korea borders Yandi, and Emperor Jianwen ordered Li Chenggui to send 50,000 troops to cooperate with Xu Huizu to besiege Beiping City, and was responsible for supplying Xu Huizu's 100,000 army of grain and grass.

Li Chenggui promised and said that it would definitely be done, but Xu Huizu had besieged Beiping City for almost a month, not to mention the North Korean reinforcements, and he hadn't even seen a grain of grain!

Xu Huizu was furious and asked the official in charge of grain and grass, "Why hasn't the grain arrived yet?" ”

The official shuddered: "The lower officials send people to urge them every day, but this Korean king Li Chenggui is hospitable every time, and he also agreed, saying that he will leave tomorrow, and tomorrow will be tomorrow, but he will not come." ”

Xu Huizu roared: "Then go to coach Li Jinglong to borrow a little food to resist first!" ”

The official said: "Li Dashuai refused to borrow it, saying that their 500,000 troops were not enough to eat, so how could they lend us surplus food." ”

Li Jinglong actually has surplus food, but he just refuses to borrow it, because he has always been jealous of Xu Huizu's good fighting, and his reputation is louder than him. Li Jinglong easily got the opportunity to be the coach, how could he be easily stolen by Xu Huizu?

"Bastard!" Xu Huizu slapped the table, "It's all this time, what else do you and us have." ”

The official said, "This ...... Why don't you write an urgent letter urging Marshal Li? ”

Xu Huizu has never looked down on Li Jinglong, who talks on paper, but he had to bow his head under the eaves, so he had to write an IOU and order his cronies to send it to Li Jinglong's camp.

The official asked, "General Xu, do you want to urge Li Chenggui again?" ”

Xu Huizu shook his head, "No need, Li Cheng Guiyang of the Korean State is in violation of Yin, I'm afraid he has already communicated with Yan Wangfu." Now there is no grass for the war horses to eat, and if they are raised, they will die, so they will all be slaughtered. ”

The official's face was embarrassed, "General Xu, we have a total of 100,000 people, even if we feed on the war horses of the whole army, even counting the horse skins, at most we can only hold on."

Three days. And the Yan army sent death squads to harass the camp for days, and our army was already tired and demoralized. ”

Xu Huizu didn't say a word, walked out of the camp, and dissected the corpse of a Yan army on the spot! Xu Huizu cut off his stomach, cut it with a dagger with his own hands, and took out the undigested bark and chaff with his bare hands and said loudly: "Look! We still have horse meat to eat, and the defenders of the vanguard of Beiping are all left with these pigs to eat! It can be seen that the seemingly unrelenting Beiping City has run out of food for many days! ”

As soon as these words came out, the morale of the southern army was boosted and launched a fierce attack on the city wall!

Another day and a night without closing his eyes, Xizhimen was crumbling and was about to be captured by the Southern Army.

Once the city was broken, Beiping was completely lost.

Xu Miaoyi wiped off the blood splattered on her face and shouted, "Kill!" We don't fall! The walls are not dead! ”

Seeing that Princess Yan took the lead, all the old, weak, sick and disabled took up arms, fought against the water, swarmed up, and fought to the death with the southern army on the city wall!

The battle lasted until dusk, when the corpses of the city wall were piled up on a hill, and only then did they barely keep Xizhimen.

Xu Miaoyi was so tired that she couldn't even hold the knife tightly, she tore off the placket of her clothes, tied her wrist and the handle of the knife firmly together from the piece of cloth, and tied a dead knot in the palm of her hand.

"It's time to deliver food, everyone take a break!" The women and children came with a bowl of porridge buckets, and each of them was given a bowl of rice porridge with a clear bottom: in fact, it was not porridge, but rice soup, and a few grains of flowering rice symbolically fell at the bottom of the bowl.

The county lord of Yong'an was pleasantly surprised and handed his porridge bowl to Xu Miaoyi, "Mother, look! I've got ten grains of rice here! Half of it was given to the mother. ”

Xu Miaoyi's heart was sour, "Be good, eat it yourself." ”

But the county lord of Yong'an suddenly put down the porridge bowl, "Mother, the southern army seems to have retreated. ”

Xu Miaoyi took a look through the gap in the watchtower, "Xu Huizu has a tough personality, no less than my father Xu Da, he must be a fraud, don't take it lightly." ”

"Oh, I see, I'm not tired of deceitful again." The county lord of Yong'an ate the rice flower at the bottom of the bowl, especially if it was not enough, and began to lick the bowl with relish......

Xu Miaoyi turned sideways, and tears fell into the pile of corpses.

At night, not even a single fire was raised in the camp of the Southern Army, and the county lord of Yong'an was puzzled and asked, "Mother, don't they have to eat dinner?" Or are all the horses slaughtered, cooked, and eaten, and not even a grain of grain is gone? ”

Not only was there no light, but even the camp was dead silent, Xu Miaoyi even heard the long-lost sound of insects, "Yong'an, did you hear the insects?" Am I having auditory hallucinations? ”

The county lord of Yong'an smiled, "Me too, how can there be insects, maybe I'm so hungry that I'm hallucinating." ”

Xu Miaoyi said: "Hallucinations are different for everyone. ”

At this time, Zen Master Daoyan came over, "Miaoyi, I sent spies out of the city to explore the enemy camp. ”

"Huh?" Xu Miaoyi still didn't believe it, "Could it be fraud?" Xu Huizu was a foolish and loyal person, how could he give up the siege? ”

In fact, the reason why Xu Huizu retreated when he was about to win was because he was a foolish and loyal person.

Just when Xu Miaoyi was fighting in Xizhimen, the cronies of Li Jinglong, the generalissimo of the expeditionary army, came quickly and handed over an urgent order: "General Xu, Marshal Li was temporarily defeated by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in Baihegou, and retreated to Jinan, so I hereby ordered to transfer all the troops and immediately support Jinan!" Make no mistake! ”

Xu Huizu was incredulous: "The 500,000 army was defeated like this? Defeated at the hands of King Yan, who only had 100,000 troops? ”

The herald's cronies were a little embarrassed, "Bold! Marshal Li is only strategically retreating from Jinan, is regrouping his army, making a comeback, and it is by no means a failure! As a deputy commander, how can you slander the commander of the First Army like this? The commander instructed that when he saw the military order, he immediately stopped all actions, obeyed the command, and immediately went to reinforce Jinan! ”

Xu Huizu has lived for more than 40 years, and he prides himself on being a well-cultivated person, he was not angry with his eldest sister Xu Miaoyi, who was in the same stream as King Yan, nor was he pestered by nonsense, and his second brother Xu Zengshou, who did not distinguish between right and wrong, was not sick by Li Chenggui, the king of North Korea, who was double-faced and stabbed.

But he was so angry with coach Li Jinglong that he vomited blood on the spot!

Xu Huizu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and shouted: "One night, I only need one night, no!" It only takes until the middle of the night today to break through Beiping and win a big victory! ”

The herald's cronies secretly said: You turned the tide and won a complete victory, but Marshal Li was wiped out, if this matter reaches the capital, won't our Marshal Li lose face?

Win together!

Defeat together!

I can't let Xu Huizu eat alone! The herald raised the tiger talisman for transferring troops, "This is Marshal Li's token, and those who violate the order will be regarded as complicit and will be killed on the spot!" ”

Xu Huizu was so angry that he trembled, the officers and soldiers around him fought side by side with Xu Huizu, fought hard for a month, and formed a deep comradeship. Dare to be rude to us General Xu! ”

The official was inward-looking, "It's the other way around!" You're all reversed, aren't you? The Generalissimo's tokens didn't work? ”

The officers and soldiers were even more angry, "You spray people with blood!" So many of our brothers died in Yandi, and you still dare to slander us for rebellion? ”

"Shut up!" Xu Huizu clenched his fists, "As a soldier, it is your duty to obey orders and to be loyal to the emperor, have you all forgotten?" ”

The officers and soldiers bowed their heads, "The last general doesn't dare!" ”

Xu Huizu's eyes were red, and his fists smashed on the sand table, "Retreat!" Go to Jinan immediately and support Dashuai! ”

Xu Huizu's 100,000 troops finally retreated, marched to Dezhou, and were intercepted and pursued by the newly victorious Yan Wang Jingnan's army, Xu Huizu's morale

Depressed, he was suddenly defeated, and retreated to Jinan in embarrassment, where he would make peace with the coach Li Jinglong.

Li Jinglong was uneasy in his heart, seeing that Xu Huizu was also defeated, and he said that God would help me, so he hurriedly repaired a letter and played Emperor Jianwen, claiming that Xu Huizu had different intentions, betrayed the information, and cooperated with the king of Yan, resulting in the defeat of 600,000 troops.

When Emperor Jianwen saw the setback, he was immediately furious, and immediately ordered Xu Huizu's military power to be cut, and ordered him to immediately return to Beijing to report on his work and accept the joint inquiry of the Criminal Department and the Military Department. Xu Huizu was aggrieved and returned to the capital in despair. 166 Reading Network