Chapter 296 Break the Siege

Many, many people have died, and when people are gone, what's the use of keeping those money and materials?

What does the Chang family rely on from a small dilapidated settlement to today? It is the continuous efforts of generations of outstanding children that have achieved today's great cause of the wealthy family. People are fundamental

Suddenly, Chang Yinxu felt a churn in his chest, raised his head, and exclaimed in pain, "It hurts me too"

Chang Yinxu glared at him, and the whole person fell straight back. The Chang family next to him was shocked

After this great change, the Yuci Chang family can be said to be a big injury. Since the rise of Tiemo in Zhangbei, the Chang family has become bigger and bigger, and now it has become the leader of the Jin merchants. After this drastic change, it is really unknown what kind of changes will be brought to the Chang family.

Chang Yin continued to be overly sad and went to half his life. The most serious problem of the Chang family has also been exposed, if Chang Yinxu is gone, who will call the Chang family? Chang Minteng's physique is too weak and he has no heirs so far.

The morning sun pierced the clouds and brought the dawn of dawn, but this light could not sweep away the haze of Yuci City, especially the Chang family, which was shrouded in gloom at this time. In the county office, Xi Jingchao and Zheng Chun were also frightened and uneasy, fortunately, the troops were dispatched in time, if something really happened to Chang Yin, it would really be difficult to clean up.

The people of Yuci County did not have time to grieve, nor did they have time to anger, because as soon as the day dawned, the peasant army launched a new offensive. Yuci City, which had suffered repeated blows, could only tremble under the onslaught of the peasant army.

Outside Yuci City, Sun Kewang looked at Yuci City from afar, with a little joy on his face. It is estimated that it will not be long before Yuci City can be taken. At that time, wouldn't it be beautiful for the Chang family to take their wealth and materials? Legend has it that a Chang family tops the entire Shaanxi, and although the rich rival country is a little excessive, it is definitely not an exaggeration to top the entire Shaanxi. With this achievement, his father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong can surpass Zhang Dashou.

In the city, Zheng Chun was already in a hurry, and he had been holding out for more than two days, but the reinforcements from Xuanhua Mansion were nowhere to be seen. Now that the defenders have suffered too many casualties, the most fatal thing is that the soldiers and horses of all units are on the verge of collapse, and Zheng Chun is already showing some signs of being out of control. The soldiers and horses of Shanxi cannot be compared with the border army, Yuci is just a small city, and it is too difficult for them to live and die with Yuci City.

Looking at Zheng Chun, who was flustered, Xi Jingchao had the mind to scold his mother, "Zheng Zongbing, no matter when the reinforcements come, we have to defend this Yuci City desperately." Don't forget, if Yuci City is breached and the court asks for guilt, others may be fine, but you and I will definitely not escape the involvement. Looking at the fate of Zhang Honggong's general soldiers, do you think the imperial court can let us survive? ”

Zheng Chun glared and kept swallowing his saliva. Originally, he still had some thoughts of escaping in his heart, but when Xi Jingchao said this, he suddenly sobered up. The guards under his command can escape, but he Zheng Chun can't escape, "What can I do here?" If the reinforcements don't come, we won't be able to last long, and those miscellaneous soldiers under Zheng can't be trusted."

"At this time, if you can't do it, you have to do it" Xi Jingchao gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "General Zheng Bing, you must go to the front and keep an eye on it, send your cronies to supervise the battle, if anyone dares to withdraw, there will be no mercy." How can there be mercy in the face of the great enemy? ”

"Huh? Zheng personally led people to supervise the battle? Zheng Chun immediately panicked, he was really afraid to go to the city, let alone fight, and his legs trembled when he saw that scene. Seeing Zheng Chun's reaction, Xi Jing was so angry that he choked. Even if the imperial court casually finds someone to fill the pit of the Shanxi General Army, there is no need to throw such a waste over, right? The dignified Shanxi general soldier, when he encounters a military incident, he is not even as good as a farmer.

"Zheng Zongbing, you are the chief soldier of Shanxi, you are their chief officer, if you don't go to supervise the war, is it possible that Xi, a small county commander, will supervise the war?" At this time, Xi Jingchao couldn't care about saving face for Zheng Chun, "We can't hesitate any longer, if these people collapse, we will definitely die." In short, Mr. Zheng, please let go of those unrealistic illusions, you and I, we must be ready to live and die with Yuci, not only for ourselves, but also for our families. ”

"Ah" Zheng Chun is not a fool, of course he understands what Xi Jingchao means. If you abandon Yuci County, you will not only be beheaded at that time, but also your family. If Yuci dies in battle, at least his family will not be implicated. Perhaps for the sake of his heroic death, the court will take care of his family.

I understand, but Zheng Chun really can't raise his fighting spirit, he trembled and held the handle of the knife, and looked at Xi Jingchao embarrassedly, "Xi Xianzun, Zheng has never killed anyone since he was a child, and he hasn't even killed a chicken."

Xi Jingchao grabbed his official hat and walked out, humming: "Zheng Zongbing, think about it yourself, even if you haven't even stepped on ants to death, you must kill them, if you don't kill people, then wait to be killed, if you want to die, don't stop the officials."

There are a bunch of bad things in Yuci City, and Xi Jingchao doesn't have the heart to talk to Zheng Chun. With that energy, it's better to do more meaningful things before the rogues break the city. Xi Jingchao gradually disappeared, leaving Zheng Chun alone in a daze. After a long time, Zheng Chun stomped his feet and scolded with a black face, ", Lao Tzu is more or less a master, what's so difficult about killing people, just cut it with a knife"

Zheng Chun finally mustered up the courage and went out in a huff. All the way to the north city with the guards, just a few steps along the steps, I saw a team of more than a dozen guards running over in a hurry.

Zheng Chun was suddenly furious, blocked the way, and asked loudly: "What are you doing, don't you guard the city wall well, what are you going to do when you come down?" ”

"A lot of battlements have been smashed by the chief soldier, there are more and more rogues, and the reinforcements have not yet come, this city can't be defended, let's run away, if we don't escape, there will be no chance."

A middle-aged man rolled his eyes and said with a panicked expression. Hearing this, Zheng Chun was furious, his hands trembled, his right hand held the hilt of the knife, and his eyes widened hard, "Give Lao Tzu back, if anyone escapes from the battle, military law will deal with it." ”

Military justice? Many of the old oil soldiers were stunned on the spot, and after a while, a few of them were so red that they were afraid of laughing. During this time, everyone knew what kind of goods Zheng Zongbing was. The courage is not as big as that of a mouse, and the strength is not as great as that of a rabbit, and he can only settle accounts in his life, and he doesn't understand how to lift a knife at all. Behind the scenes, the guards all called Zheng Zongbing the mother-in-law and aunt, and it can be said that Zheng Zongbing is the best general soldier ever.

Such an aunt and general soldier, he can kill people and scare people. Look, the words are ruthless, but the hands are trembling. So, no one paid attention to Zheng Chun's threat, and continued to drill forward along the gap on the side, Zheng Chun suddenly became anxious, "Go back to Lao Tzu, are you taking the words of the general soldier as a deaf ear?" I'm going to kill."

Zheng Chun roared twice, but no one paid attention to him. For a while, Zheng Chun only felt that a stream of blood was surging upward, and the whole person was going crazy, and when he saw the nearest guard, he let out a terrible roar: "Wow, you forced me"

Pulling out the knife, Zheng Chun slashed down almost with his eyes closed. The stone staircase aisle is so narrow that it's too close to dodge. The most important thing is that these old oil soldiers didn't expect Zheng Chun to really cut people, and in their consciousness, it was a question of whether their own general soldiers had the strength to get it. Therefore, when Zheng Chun really cut people with his eyes closed, everyone didn't react.

"Ahh Everyone was stunned, Zheng Chun actually really cut people

At this time, Zheng Chun slowly opened his eyes, and when he cut the first knife, he found that he was not so scared. Looking at the old oil soldier who was screaming, he was angry, and then slashed down again, the first knife was indiscriminate, but the second knife was solid towards the opponent's neck. If you kill people and suppress the old oil soldiers, you have to kill people.

"This general soldier hacked you to death," Zheng Chun roared, chopping down like a beast. snapped a knife and looked right, but the old oil soldier was not dead yet, and was still screaming. Zheng Chun's face became more and more ugly, he snorted coldly, and then slashed down with another knife, but what was disappointing was that the old oil soldier was still alive.

Zheng Chun swore to the sky that he really used all the strength in his body, but if he cut it down, the wound was not deep. Zheng Chun was depressed, but this knife was a kind of torture for the living, and he was not happy to die. The rest of the old oil soldiers who wanted to escape, their eyes changed, and at this time, Zheng Zongbing was no longer an aunt, but a devil. How can anyone kill people like this, isn't this torture? It's better to live than to die.

The screams became weaker and weaker, and Zheng Chun slashed several times, and he was tired enough. In the end, the old oil soldier died on the steps due to excessive blood loss, and his terrible screams left a shadow in everyone's hearts.

"Whoever dares to say that he will escape, he will be the end, and now he will give it to the general army to go back to defend the city"

"Yes, yes" The old oil soldiers dared to make a mistake, and they all rolled back. The person who died so miserably before that he would rather die in the hands of the rogue than let Zheng Zongbing do it.

Even Zheng Chun didn't know that his incompetence had a miraculous effect. In fact, if Zheng Chun is strong enough and kills someone with a knife, the effect is really not as good as a knife to bloodletting.

The offensive and defensive battle of Yuci County is in full swing, and at this time it has come to the end of May, and the old elm forest in the south of Yuci City is lush and lush. I don't know when, there is a group of people outside the elm forest, and they are the Xuanfu soldiers and horses who galloped to the aid of Yuci.

In fact, if Geng Zhongming was willing, he could attack Sun Kewang yesterday and relieve the siege of Yu. Zhou Dingshan planned to do so, but before sending troops, he was stopped by Geng Zhongming. Because of this matter, Zhou Dingshan was very dissatisfied with Geng Zhongming, and he still has opinions.

"General Geng, if something goes wrong in Yuci City, Old Man Chang will suffer, you and I can't afford this responsibility. I hope you've made the right decision, otherwise, we won't have the face to see the Overseer. ”

Zhou Dingshan's voice was dissatisfied, Geng Zhongming didn't take it to heart, looking at the elm forest in front of him, he said lightly: "General Zhou, you can rest assured, since Geng Mou ordered not to rush to send troops, it was also because Yuci City couldn't be lost for a while." Moreover, have you forgotten, before the Inspector came, he specially ordered that this battle is not only to relieve the siege of Yuci, but also to beat the Liukou to be afraid. ”

"Of course Zhou knows, so General Geng, do you think about how to fight next?"

Geng Zhongming frowned slightly, and said calmly: "It's very simple, General Zhou only needs to launch an attack from the north in two hours and drive the Liukou over, and as for the things behind, the general will arrange it himself." ”

"Okay, then sooner rather than later, let's act now!" Zhou Dingshan is really anxious, he is different from Geng Zhongming. In his heart, he must have saved the Chang family first. However, now I also understand a little bit why Brother Tie wants Geng Zhongming to be the commander. If it was mainly him, I am afraid that he would not be so calm.

On May 24 of the third year of Chongzhen, the peasant army Sun Kewang attacked Yuci City for more than three days, and finally attacked the city. Just when Yuci City was about to be taken, a horn sounded, and in the northeast of Yuci City, an ironclad cavalry swarmed. This cavalry came neither early nor late, and rushed to attack Sun Kewang when he was about to break the city.

Liu Wenxiu's face changed greatly, a few days ago, under the city of Yinzhou, he fought with the iron cavalry of Yunfu, and he could see at a glance that this was the cavalry of Yunfu. The reinforcements from Xuanhua Mansion finally arrived, Sun Kewang was unwilling, and Liu Wenxiu was even more unwilling, but at this time, the safest way was to retreat first, at least to block the opponent's offensive first. Otherwise, let this cavalry stir up trouble in the rear, and there will be no chaos.

Sun Kewang stomped his feet and roared fiercely: "Withdraw to the south, and notify the rear in addition, find reinforcements from the Xuanfu and ask for more troops at any time!" ”

Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu reacted very quickly, they let the back team be the front team and retreated in turn. Although the siege soldiers and horses were bitten by the opposing cavalry, the main force still retreated south safely. Zhou Dingshan waved his troops south, and naturally he would not let the peasant army leave easily, leaving some people to clean up the battlefield, and most of the rest of the men and horses continued to run south. Because of the almost all the cavalry under Zhou Dingshan's command this time, the speed was naturally very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it bit Sun Kewang's main army.

Now Sun Kewang has more than 10,000 people under his command, but even so, he still doesn't dare to stop and fight with Zhou Dingshan's cavalry. In Yinzhou Pass, I have already seen the terrible thing about the opponent's cavalry, and the plain is open to the opponent's cavalry, and the lack of a shield formation is tantamount to asking for a dead end.

If you don't want to do it, you will definitely be bitten by this cavalry and eaten away step by step. Liu Wenxiu rode a horse to catch up with Sun Kewang, and said urgently: "Brother Sun, go to the southeast, as long as you enter the ancient elm forest, the opponent's cavalry will lose its advantage, if they chase in, they will not be able to eat and walk around." ”

There is a way to enter the forest, especially the cavalry. When the cavalry entered the forest, it was equivalent to putting themselves in a shackle.