Chapter 263: Self-deception
Many people in the Liu family are not optimistic about Liu Chengfang starting a war with Zhang Zhicheng at this time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Before Zhang Zhicheng rebelled, he was a smuggler of salt, and he made a wide range of acquaintances, including three religions and nine streams, and everything. And he has always regarded money as dung, very generous, like Liu Chengfang, he is also a member of four brothers, and his reputation has been in full swing before the uprising.
Moreover, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are already rich, and Zhang Zhicheng's power is already very wide at this time, and Liu Chengfang cannot be compared with him at all.
The most expensive thing to start a war is silver, like Liu Chengfang, although he was forced to revolt without being able to do so, but after he had people, the most headache was grain and grass.
I think that when the attack on Jiqing was carried out, when everyone crossed the river, many people proposed to rob the grain of Taiping and go back to their hometown directly. If it weren't for Liu Chengfang's firm will, Xu Qing's strict management of the army, I was afraid that Jiqing City would change hands.
But Zhang Zhicheng is different, he has two thousand miles of fertile soil in his hands, and he is definitely rich when he pulls one out at will. Besides, the people in everyone's hands are not the same.
At this time, the number of people in Zhang Zhicheng's hands was many times that of Liu Chengfang.
But if you don't go to war, you can't do it, the previous battle of Changzhou doesn't count, Zhang Zhicheng has already attacked Changzhou three times, Liu Chengfang wants to negotiate peace with the outside world, Zhang Zhicheng simply ignored it.
They are all hot-blooded men, and they can't hide at home as a shrinking turtle as soon as others beat them.
As soon as the war began, Sun Dixia made up his mind, "Jiqing is only afraid that it will fall into the hands of Zhang Zhicheng!" ”
It's no wonder that his heart is unbalanced, Dingyuan and Jiqing are not comparable at all.
No, all cities can't be compared to Jiqing.
After all, this is the former capital of the first dynasty, and it is of great significance to any person.
Sun Dixing had already made a wishful calculation, if Liu Chengfang asked for support, he would first put forward the conditions, cut half of the city over, plus a certain amount of gold, silver and jewelry every year, he would reluctantly agree.
If you want to wait left and right, Liu Chengfang insisted on not speaking.
Sun Dixing even hoped more than the emperor that the officers and soldiers could surround Haozhou and pick up the ancestral grave of the Liu family!
Of course, these words are only thought about in the heart, and they cannot be expressed, not only can they not be expressed, but they also have to make a worried appearance.
At the beginning of the war, the most anxious thing was the Gu family, Hongying's relatives had already chosen a date, and if they wanted to change it, they didn't know when the war would stop!
In case Liu Chengfang is defeated and returns to Haozhou, it is better to say, if there are three long and two short, Sun Dixing will not marry Hongying, where will she put her face.
The top priority is to marry off her daughter.
But if you want to get married, your father and brother have gone to the battlefield, and your daughter is already easy to be criticized when she gets married, not to mention that it is a fanfare, but if she doesn't do it, wouldn't it be a waste of so many things she worked so hard to prepare?
Besides, there is such chaos everywhere at this time, if someone takes advantage of this time to rob, wouldn't they do something bad with good intentions?
The Gu family weighed it again and again, and finally asked the Niu matchmaker to go to Sun's house to discuss what to do about this matter.
Sun Dixing learned that Hongying had so much dowry, so he naturally wouldn't find fault with anything else, but said: "Why don't you get married first, and keep the rest of the ceremony for later?" ”
Although Gu was not happy, he had to accept it.
Fortunately, the officers and soldiers had not yet crossed the Huai River, and there was a prospective son-in-law of 100,000 elite soldiers nearby, and the Gu family was not only not afraid, but also felt very safe.
For Hongying's wedding, the Liu family and others all returned to Haozhou from Jiqing. Marrying from Jiqing, after all, is too far.
Wang Jing was no exception, and returned to Haozhou with everyone.
After all, everyone is back, and she can't just be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
Wang Jing wants to go back to Haozhou, so naturally she has to bring her brother who is only a few months old with her.
Liu Yongan was not worried about his daughter-in-law and children, so he took the initiative to take over the security work of Haozhou City.
The news that the Liu family was going to marry at this time was transmitted back to the enemy camp, and everyone was overjoyed, "It seems that this time we will not only dig up the ancestral grave of the Liu family, but also directly capture Liu Yongan alive."
The emperor once personally decreed that if Liu Yongan was captured alive, he could be promoted to the third level of official rank, rewarded with 1,000 taels of gold and tens of thousands of taels of silver.
The officers and soldiers deliberately chose this day to besiege the city of Haozhou.
It's best to be able to capture Liu Yongan alive, but if not, robbing Liu's daughter's dowry is also a small achievement.
Liu Yongan had received a tip early and knew that the city would be attacked on this day, but he and his subordinates did not panic, but the most panicked was the Gu family.
She felt that in terms of leading troops to fight, Liu Yongan's experience was definitely not as good as Liu Yonghui; What's more, there were 100,000 officers and soldiers outside the city, and only 5,000 defended the city; Most of the property of the Liu family's guest room has been transferred to Jiqing, which is just the old mansion, but the second room is because of Hongying's marriage, and all kinds of jewelry, field shops, and furniture are ...... It's piled up everywhere, just waiting to be sent to Sun's house; She and Zhao Yanran have done so many things to be sorry for Wang Jing, Liu Yongan cares so much about Wang Jing, maybe he will declare a personal vendetta at this time, let the officers and soldiers enter the city, and rob Hongying's dowry. You must know that this money is more than half of the property of the second room, and if she is robbed, it will be difficult for her to come up with a decent dowry to Hongying.
Gu thought about it, it was better to rely on himself than to ask for others, and it was better to let Sun Dixing solve the crisis in Haozhou City than to ask Liu Yongan. First, this property was meant to be given to their husband and wife, and second, Sun Dixing was about to become her son-in-law, seeing that the mother-in-law and the wife who were about to pass through the door were in difficulty, how could they ignore it?
But Sun Dixing seemed to have disappeared, and he never appeared from beginning to end.
Hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers surrounded Haozhou like an iron bucket, not to mention people, even a fly could not fly.
The Liu family's brigade is fighting with Zhang Zhicheng, and it is impossible to cross the river and come back to save them at this time, even if they want to come back, there is not enough time.
The destruction of the city seems to be inevitable.
Many people began to advise Liu Yongan: "If the third master is here, he will definitely choose a place where the guards are slightly weaker to highlight the crowd and deal with them in the Jiushan Cave." That place is directly connected to Dingyuan, and when we get to General Sun, we will be safe. ”
Liu Yongan: "I'm afraid that General Sun won't stick to Dingyuan at this time." ”
When Gu Shi heard this, he inevitably began to slander again: You are just afraid that my good son-in-law will steal your style. Anyway, your wife and children are here, I don't believe you don't care if they live or die!
The officers and soldiers were bent on capturing Liu Yongan alive, and although they besieged the city, they encouraged the people in the city outside the city to tie up Liu Yongan and hand him over.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yongan got a lot of black and smelly black oil out of nowhere, poured it on the officers and soldiers under the city, and ignited the oil.
Officers and soldiers burned and trampled to death countless people.
It didn't take a single soldier at all, and the enemy retreated.
It wasn't until Liu Yongan and the others were able to communicate with the outside world that they knew that Sun Dixing took this opportunity to take advantage of this opportunity to take a large area of Haozhou to the east of the territory that originally belonged to Zhang Zhicheng.
Gu: "It is estimated that he had already guessed that Chang'an could win the battle, so he went to attack Zhang Zhicheng." He attacked Zhang Zhicheng, and on the other hand, he rescued the Liu family. ”
In fact, when she said this, she just deceived herself, maybe she couldn't even deceive herself. Sun Dixing's move was full of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and by the way, he took advantage of the fire to rob. (To be continued.) )