Chapter 67: The Storm is Coming

Zhaozhou City has been holding out for nearly a month under the attack of the Watt Spurs.

And this month's offensive has also greatly changed the topography near Zhaozhou.

About 200 steps outside the city of Zhaozhou, the mountains of earth are stacked up, even higher than the city wall of Zhaozhou.

A large number of tile spur soldiers, standing on the earth mountain, condescending, countless bows and arrows and fire guns, suppressing the city wall, while still beginning to pile up earth, this earth mountain, little by little close to the city wall of Zhaozhou.

This is also a conspiracy.

Push the dirt mountain directly under the city walls.

The Tile Warriors can go directly to the city without a ladder.

This kind of siege is much slower than the ant-attached siege, but it can greatly reduce casualties. Nowadays, there are many people in the tile thorns, but they are not afraid to do it.

After more than ten days of hard work, this earth mountain is close to the city wall step by step, which represents the day of the fall of Zhaozhou City, just one day in the morning.

Zhu Yi was on the head of Zhaozhou City, looking anxious.

In these ten days of fighting, the Ming army did not lose much, only more than 100 people were wounded, and less than 100 people died, which was of course because the tile spurs did not attack on a large scale, but also because of the protection of the Zhaozhou city wall.

Once you don't have the advantage of the city walls, you will be caught in brutal hand-to-hand combat. Not to mention whether he can win or not, Zhu Yi can't afford to consume it alone.

"Ten days." Zhu Yi silently estimated in her heart.

"When the earth mountain of thorns pushes up to the city wall, I can probably hold out for ten days."

"Where's the reinforcements?"

"Will there be reinforcements?"

The distractions in Zhu Yi's heart did not dare to show half a point.

He has always shown himself to be full of confidence to the outside world.

He was on his routine tour of the city tomorrow when he suddenly saw smoke and dust rise from the east. His heart moved, and he said secretly: "Is it the eastward Tile Thorn army that has retreated?" Or are reinforcements coming? ”

The transfer of tens of thousands of people is never a small movement.

So when he also left to go to Songyin first, Zhu Yi naturally found out.

Zhu Yi couldn't distinguish these two reasons for a while, and he couldn't distinguish them either, which was good or bad for Zhaozhou City.

It was in the place where Zhu Yi saw the smoke and dust kicked off from afar.

Boyan Timur and Zhang Zongzhou have already been stabbed by the generals, and they all came to greet them.

After a few words of greeting, he asked directly: "Where has Yang Hong been?" ”

also retreated from Songyin City first, of course, because he was unwilling to gamble this time.

Without him, you will lose if you gamble for a long time.

If you want to win in betting, you must have good luck on the one hand, and have enough capital on the other hand.

There is enough capital. It can withstand failure after failure.

And now the capital of Yexian is already very thin.

It's really hard to afford to fail.

More important is the movement of the Ming army.

Although Yang Hong's movements were secretive, tens of thousands of troops gathered. Still is

There are clues. So after getting the news first, the sensitive feeling is not right.

What made him even more unexpected was that the progress of the Ming army was beyond his expectations.

When the Ming army broke through Uliangha, the news came with a thorn in the middle of Uliangha. I also clearly felt a sense of crisis at first.

He immediately returned to Zhaozhou.

He was actually more worried that the Ming army would attack Mobei on a large scale.

This dealt the greatest blow to the prestige of the Wattspur.

Therefore, he is very concerned about Yang Hong's latest progress. Zhang Zongzhou immediately said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Yang Hong has come from Daning to Zhaozhou at this moment. ”

I also listened first, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Where has he been?" ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "It's also three days away from here. It's just that Yang Hong is fanfare, and the march is not too fast. ”

He also said first: "He is bluffing." Is there any change in Liaodong? ”

Zhang Zongzhou said: "No, at least there is no large number of cavalry gathered. ”

He also said, "That's right." This is an opportunity. ”

He had always wanted a victory, and now he saw the dawn of this victory.

Although the Ming army also has a total of 80,000 people, it is only this department that is really looked at in the eyes first. Uliangha is a figure in the eyes of Yexian.

also said first: "Suspend the siege and fight Yang Hong first." Ye Xian secretly said in his heart: "Chop off Yang Hong's head, I see if Zhaozhou City can hold on." ”

also gave an order first, and the tile spur immediately changed the siege mode of Zhaozhou from a mountain siege to a long siege. Only 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry were left to guard the movements in the city of Zhaozhou, and then led the army to the southwest.

That is, the direction in which Yang Hong came.

At this time, in the capital, Zhu Qizhen was also restless in his heart.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen is a person with a strong desire to control. Zhu Qizhen wants to control everything in his own hands, perhaps this is a politician's occupational disease.

Overall, Zhu Qizhen can still restrain his inflated desire to control.

Now it is a restraint of Zhu Qizhen's desire to control himself.

In Zhu Qizhen's plan, it was already a great victory to assault Wuliangha and collect tens of thousands of soldiers. But next, Yang Hong went to the rescue of Zhaozhou City and fought a decisive battle with the Tile Thorn army.

This was beyond Zhu Qizhen's expectations.

Although Zhu Qizhen gave Yang Hong the right to act cheaply, he even guessed that Yang Hong would not stand idly by under such a victory. There will definitely be a move.

But he didn't expect that Yang Hong would do this.

On the one hand, he felt nameless in the face of Yang Hong's control beyond his own, but on the other hand, he used reason to control himself. He knew very well that he might be able to strategically make a strategy, but when it came to tactics, he was better off doing nothing.

Because doing more is wrong, and doing less is wrong.

But Zhu Qizhen is more worried about Maoerzhuang

The battle is repeated.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it several times whether to summon Yang Hong back.

But in the end, he gave up.

The reason is very simple, the war is ever-changing, and Zhu Qizhen doesn't know what kind of situation Yang Hong was in when his edict came to Yang Hong's hands.

If you can retreat, everything will go smoothly, but if there is a situation where you can't retreat.

His edict of withdrawal could even become the last straw for Yang Hong's defeat.

That's a big loss.

Therefore, even if Zhu Qizhen was worried in his heart, he tried to settle himself and did nothing.

Sometimes, he doesn't do anything. That's the biggest contribution.

It's just that even if he practiced more than a dozen characters in a row and copied Sun Tzu's Art of War twice, he couldn't hold back the worries in his heart.

Finally, Zhu Qizhen said: "Go to the cabinet to see if Scholar Wang is free, and if you are free, call him over." ”

Although Zhu Qizhen was himself, his tone was a little polite. But he knew that as long as he asked, no matter if Wang Ji was okay, he would definitely say that it was okay.

In just a moment, Wang Ji had already arrived.

Zhu Qizhen exchanged a few words with Wang Ji and said: "Yang Hong went on this expedition, what does Mr. think the result is?" ”

Wang Ji said in an old state: "What kind of person does Your Majesty think Yang Hong is? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know that Yang Hong is a good general, but he is just -----."

Wang Ji said: "Your Majesty still can't rest assured? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Exactly. ”

Wang Ji said: "Actually, the old minister hasn't slept well in the past few days, and he can't rest assured, but he didn't turn back when he opened the bow. This is already the case, and the imperial court can only urge the Haixi waterway reinforcements to hurry up, and in addition, it is to believe in Yang Hong. ”

"Your Majesty is in charge of the world's major affairs, but you need to have calm."

Zhu Qizhen smiled bitterly in his heart, although he heard that what Wang Ji said was almost meaningless nonsense. But somehow, Zhu Qizhen's heart has settled down a lot. It seems that there are some things that are useless to think about yourself, and you have to be clicked by others to feel comfortable. Zhu Qizhen said: "I am still young and knowledgeable, and I can't hold my breath. ”

Wang Ji smiled slightly and said: "Your Majesty, in fact, you have done well enough, but there are some things that cannot be passed on, otherwise it will be unfavorable to Yang Hong." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know, but I just bothered Mr. Qianqing Palace to talk to me more." ”

As the emperor's every move, word and deed, there are countless people who think about it, if anyone listens to Zhu Qizhen's opinions on Yang Hong. Even if Zhu Qizhen didn't do anything, Yang Hong would be affected.

Zhu Qizhen has known this for a long time.

It's just that the world is so big, and there is no one who can pour out his thoughts.

Now there is only Wang Ji like this, who is old, calm and sophisticated, and says a little half-truth.

As for any confidant, Zhu Qizhen couldn't even think of it.