Chapter 427: Surrender to the enemy

The letter also went to Li Zhongwen's hands.

After many days of restlessness and a daytime battle, Li Zhongwen's suffering was no different from that of any leading general.

What reassures him today is that those rebellious troops are indeed not good at attacking the city, and with sufficient troops in the city, he can completely hold Jiexiu City and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

But he still can't sleep a little, mainly because Jiang Baoyi is too worried.

He really wasn't wrong before, this person's ability to lead the troops is really not very good, don't look at Jiang Baoyi's daily patrol of the camp, but his prestige in the army is shallow.

On the first day of the enemy's siege, he was able to climb to the east of the city, and when he heard about it, he broke out in a cold sweat.

At this time, he was thinking, should Zhang Lun be transferred to Dongcheng and lead the troops to defend Dongcheng on behalf of Jiang Baoyi?

The idea shattered when he got the letters that the enemy had shot into the city.

Looking at the scribbled letter of persuasion, Li Zhongwen actually understood that this was probably the enemy's countermeasure, otherwise, how could such a letter be shot into the city casually and easily come into his hands?

But that's the way it is, even if you understand it, you have to guard against it.

Zhang Lun is a native of Daizhou, and he was a general in Yanmen, these are not counted, there was a gap between the two before.

Even if he didn't worry about Zhang Lun's repetition and continued to reuse Zhang Lun, what thoughts would Zhang Lun have when he received this letter of persuasion? Under the suspicion of him Li Zhongwen, will he be moved by the letter?

Thinking of this, Li Zhongwen couldn't sit still, got up and wanted to ask someone to prepare a horse, and went to Nancheng to meet Zhang Lun.

But then he sat down again, and he thought of the words that his nephew had sent back to report.

There are more than 10,000 enemy troops under the southern city, the military appearance is very prosperous, and it is the elite, but there is no movement today, Zhang Lun is the general of the southern city, and his demeanor is leisurely, but he repeatedly has to divide his troops to defend the east and north of the city.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongwen was shocked.

Could it be that Zhang Lun has a different heart, and he has already failed to communicate with the enemy?

In fact, at this point, the rift between the generals in the city had expanded silently, and there was no possibility of repairing it at all.

And then it's a matter of course.

Li Zhongwen didn't dare to go to Nancheng again, and immediately ordered someone to summon Zhang Lun to see him, which was what he thought was the most normal temptation he made under his suspicions.

If you don't have a bad heart, then you will definitely come to see me, and after you do......

Naturally, he can't let his people lead the troops to defend the city anymore, whether to stay by his side to counsel military affairs, or take it directly, it depends on how Zhang Lun himself says, in fact, what he sees is not what Zhang Lun says, but his Li Zhongwen's mood.

It's hard to say who is right and who is wrong, Li Zhongwen feels that there is nothing wrong with what he is doing, but Zhang Lun doesn't see it that way.

Whether it was a temptation or something else, how could Zhang Lun dare to come at this time?

Zhang Lun is not a good person, and his loyalty is far worse than Li Zhongwen and Jiang Baoyi.

Now that he is being suspected of it for no reason, how could he come to Li Zhongwen and throw himself into the net?

That is, he was unwilling to surrender to the enemy at this time, so he just pushed the enemy army under the city to move repeatedly at night, and he couldn't leave, and he would come back tomorrow to see Yunyun.

He actually thought that he was worthy of Tang Gong, after all, he didn't listen to his confidants, Kaicheng surrendered, and sold all the Tang troops in the city.

Since you two bastards can't believe me, then I will defend the south of the city, and when the matter is urgent, I will lead my subordinates to fight for a way out, so who can blame us?

He thinks he's kind enough to stab someone else in the back.

But as soon as Li Zhongwen heard the report, he already decided that Zhang Lun had a ghost in his heart, and if he was still stationed in the south of the city, he and the others would die without a place to be buried.

So, this night in the city is lively.

Li Zhongwen first ordered Jiang Baoyi to sit in the north of the city on his behalf, guarding the city gates on both sides, and on the other hand, he led his henchmen and generals to gather soldiers and men and horses to the south of the city.

Li Zhongwen made a quick decision here, ready to kill Zhang Lun and nip the disaster in the bud, as for whether the killing was wrong or not, what would be the consequences of killing Zhang Lun in battle.

Li Zhongwen can't think about these anymore, even if he thinks about it, he just thinks that Zhang Lun is a cheap family, and if he kills him, he will be killed, as long as he can defend the city, who can blame him Li Zhongwen for killing a Zhang Lun in the future?

To be honest, the situation can only come to this point in the evening, in addition to the reason for Zhang Lun's early birth with everyone, I am afraid the most important reason is that he is not from a high background.

If Zhang Lun is also from a gate valve family, will Li Zhongwen be so decisive today? Of course not, even a waste like Jiang Baoyi can be used all the time, how can he not tolerate Zhang Lun?

Yes, in the final analysis, it was to kill a Zhang Lun, and there was no reason for the trouble.

Is Zhang Lun prepared?

That must be there, Zhang Lun has been hardworking since he joined the Tang Dynasty, no matter what grievances he has suffered, he has few complaints in front of people.

Because he is very able to put himself in the right position, he has never grinned with those big lords, this is actually a rare good general in the Tang Army.

If it weren't for Li Po instigating the storm, Zhang Lun would have done something in some wars in the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, although his reputation was not obvious.

There are so many heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion, either the Li clan relatives or the generals of the Qin Palace, to put it mildly, how many of them can live up to the name?

If Zhang Lun had voted for Li Shimin, the king of Qin, earlier, it would have been more than enough to occupy a position on it with his military exploits.

Of course, no matter what, at this time, Zhang Lun was also furious after hearing the news of Li Zhongwen's gathering of troops, and all the grievances surfaced in Zhang Lun's heart at this time.

And he is worthy of leading the army for many years, and he has not been carried away by anger.

Because Li Zhongwen attacked too quickly, his first thought was to lure the enemy into the city at this time, and it was no longer possible.

In the dark night, even if the army entered the city, there was no good fruit for him Zhang Lun to eat, and under the chaos of the army, maybe his Zhang Lun's head would be taken by someone.

Maybe when people enter the city, they only guard the city walls and gates, sit and watch the Tang army fight, and wait until dawn to clean up the mess.

Fight with Li Zhongwen?

Zhang Lun also shook his head secretly, although the soldiers and horses he led were elite, they were too few, if they were surrounded by Li Zhongwen in the south of the city, they would definitely be more than lucky.

At this time, he even regretted that he should not have repeatedly backed down before, and if he had more military power, he would have more choices at this time.

Being able to think of so much can only show that he is very sober, and in terms of talent, he is beyond the reach of Li Zhongwen and others.

So what he will do after that, it is very clear.

He immediately ordered someone to recruit his henchmen, and said in front of everyone: "I have served Tang Gong for several years, and I have made countless military achievements, but I have never been able to reuse, today Li Zhongwen has been repeatedly excluded from me, and I want to lead troops to attack at this time, what do you say I should do?" ”

So what else is there to say, these generals have been with him for many years, and they all follow him.

Hearing this, they immediately became noisy, some said that they immediately led troops to fight Li Zhongwen, and some said that it was better to open the city to lead the enemy into the city and kill Li Zhongwen's thief.

These people followed behind Zhang Lun, and they were no less angry than Zhang Lun, if it weren't for Zhang Lun's pressure, people's hearts might have dispersed long ago.

Now that Zhang Lun has a recurrence here, every one of them who wants to escape wants to kill and vent the wronged anger they have suffered.

Zhang Lun waved his hand vigorously to silence everyone before he said loudly: "In this case, are everyone willing to listen to my orders?" ”

The generals responded loudly, rubbing their hands, without any awareness of rebellion, but seemed to be justified.

After a hasty discussion, the first unlucky thing was that he had already received the order of General Li Zhongwen, and wanted to cooperate with Li Zhongwen to eradicate Zhang Lun's generals of the Nancheng garrison.

Their reaction was naturally not as fast as Zhang Lun, who had been prepared for a long time, and the result of their slow reaction was that except for those who saw the opportunity quickly and fled immediately, the rest of them were all killed.

Before the rest of the defenders of Nancheng did not move, Zhang Lun ordered someone to open the gate of Nancheng, led more than 2,000 soldiers, and rushed out of the city gate to join the enemy.

When Li Zhongwen led the troops into Nancheng, he only got the news that Zhang Lun had fled.

A fist hit the air, and more than a dozen lives were lost, Li Zhongwen almost vomited blood without anger, symbolically ordered people to strictly investigate Zhang Lunyu in the army, and let people close the gate of the southern city and let the henchmen lead the troops to guard it.

He inspected the military camp in Nancheng again, calmed the hearts of the army, and worked hard for half the night, but he had to face the siege army outside the city.

The rebellion began very suddenly and ended very quickly, and did not cause much actual damage to the Tang army.

But the hidden scars are shocking.

It's just half a night, when dawn comes, the morale of the Tang army who heard about this can be said to have plummeted.

Who is Zhang Lun? The Tang Army, which has been stationed in Jiexiu for more than half a year, is actually very clear.

Of the three deputy chiefs, only Deputy Governor Zhang has the most military achievements, to be honest, as long as Deputy Governor Zhang stops at the head of the city, the soldiers will also add a little courage.

This is Zhang Lun's prestige among the ordinary soldiers of the Tang Army, not to mention Jiang Baoyi, even Li Zhongwen, the general manager, is a few points inferior.

Zhang Lun's rebellion dealt a blow to the morale of the Tang army's soldiers, if it was said that the enemy army took advantage of the situation, took the lead and gave the Tang army a stick, this time it would be a hammer.

directly hit the morale of the Tang army to the bottom.

This is actually a very terrible thing in normal times, let alone in front of the two armies.

Someone is unlucky, and someone is beneficial.

In the middle of the night, the Tang army in the city was still dealing with the aftermath of chaos, and Li Po had already seen the bearded Zhang Lun in the big tent of the Chinese army.

This is still a very wonderful thing for Li Po, who has seen a lot of strange things, just used the anti-intermittent trick based on speculation, he never dreamed that the effect would be so amazing.

(Grass University strives for a monthly pass) (To be continued.) )