Chapter 1302: A Difficult Choice
Qian Qiaogong replied with a wooden face: "Yes." β
Shen Zhiyuan hurriedly corrected: "Wu Zheng gave this order, but it was not necessary, but he tried his best. β
Qian Qiaogong said: "There is an order, and doing your best is a must." β
Qian Qianyi couldn't help but be silent, he suddenly felt a kind of fatigue in his heart, did he really hate Wu Zheng, to the point of not sharing the sky?
Shen Zhiyuan glared at Qian Qiaogong: "Let a woman take risks, can you do this?" β
Qian Qiaogong said abruptly: "I don't know who it is, Cheng Tian said, in order to achieve the goal, unscrupulous means." β
Shen Zhiyuan gasped a few times, "...... Let me think again. β
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"In your heart, she ...... Is it really that important? β
Dong Gu looked straight at Shen Zhiyuan, and the resentment in his eyes was already revealed.
Shen Zhiyuan wanted to speak and stopped, he was really embarrassed, because he couldn't explain it.
"More important than me?" Dong Gu asked stubbornly.
Shen Zhiyuan was still silent.
After a long time, Dong Gu sighed faintly, "Even if I go to find out the location, but among the thrones, there are hundreds of palace guards, how do you save people?" β
Speaking of this, Dong Gu's voice trembled, "Today, General Qian is back in charge of the new army in Gongbei City...... Are you trying to lead an army to storm the palace of Amma? β
Shen Yangyuan said bluntly: "If Gege can find out the direction...... You don't have to attack, you just need to sneak in to save people. β
"You don't want to coax me...... How to sneak in? β
Dong Gu is not stupid, if the palace can sneak in at will, then Dolgon doesn't know how many times he has died over the years, and the people who want to kill him are not 10,000, but 8,000, among them, in addition to the Han people, there are also many Manchurians.
Shen Zhiyuan was in front of Dong Gu, there was no casual swaying in the past, he said slowly and dryly: "Ruogege is embarrassed...... Just because I haven't been here...... Leave. β
Leave?
Tungor felt a pain in his heart, this is your home!
"Wait." Dong Gu gritted his teeth and shouted to Shen Zhiyuan, who had already moved, "Can you guarantee it...... Won't you take advantage of this to rebel? β
Shen Zhiyuan was stunned, nodded and said, "I only save people, don't ...... Anti. β
"Okay, I'll help you find out."
In Dongguo's view, perhaps only in this way can Shen Zhiyuan be prevented from making a big rebellion against the palace, and only by fulfilling Shen Yangyuan's wish can Shen Zhiyuan live safely, and only in this way can she live up to Amma's entrustment and wait for Ama to return to Beijing.
It's a pity that Dong Gu is young after all, and she thinks too naΓ―vely.
This kind of thing, either not to do it, or to do it is to break up, how can it be stopped?
Even if Shen Zhiyuan and the others really just want to save people, what about after saving people?
Rescued people from Prince Rui's mansion, as soon as the morning dawned, isn't this capital chaotic...... No, how to get out of the city?
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At this time, a fierce battle had been going on for two days on the Yellow River section of Huai'an Province.
Dolgon's 60,000-strong army launched a full-scale attack on the south bank in four directions: Qinghe, Caowan, Chiyanmiao, and Andong.
I have to say that Dolgon is very bold, either he doesn't fight, or he fights a decisive battle!
It's a pity that this is along the Yellow River, if it is changed to the Yangtze River, this kind of offensive, as long as the gunboats of the naval division along the river are shelled horizontally, with the shore defense artillery, Wu Zheng can teach Dolgon how to fight in minutes.
But here, Wu Zheng couldn't do it, because there was no shore artillery, and the naval division battleships couldn't reach the river.
Fortunately, when Wu Zheng broke through Huai'an City, he reacted quickly, and three days before the battle, he began to order Wu Songwei and Taizhou Wei to be stationed in Qingjiangpu, Liu Lingtai and other places, otherwise, this kind of enemy army marched in all directions, Wu Zheng could only order the troops to shrink and stick to Huai'an City.
But even so, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which only had muskets and small artillery, fought very hard under the full force of the enemy.
Because of the suddenness of the enemy's attack, on the first day of the war, Liu Lingtai was once lost, and in the early morning, the 3,000 Northern Expeditionary Army stationed in Liu Lingtai, facing twice the size of their own enemy army crossing the river, resisted the enemy covered in leather armor with flesh and blood, and the battle was almost wiped out by the afternoon.
As soon as Liu Lingtai was lost, the north gate of Huai'an City faced the enemy's troops, fortunately, Lu Zhiyu transferred 6,000 people from the east gate in time to rush to reinforcements, although he did not have time to rescue 3,000 defenders, but after all, the gap was blocked, and it took an afternoon to drive the enemy back to the Yellow River to drink muddy water.
In fact, if Dolgon had not dispersed his forces in four directions, it would have been difficult to recapture Liu Lingtai once it had been lost.
But this sudden incident aroused Wu Zheng's vigilance.
What exactly does Dorgon want to do?
The truth that it is better to break ten fingers than to cut off one finger, will Dorgon not know?
Wu Zheng wandered around in front of the map for a while, and when his eyes inadvertently fell on Hongze Lake, he suddenly realized that no, the southern cavalry could be interspersed from Fengyang Mansion, so why couldn't the enemy army in Xuzhou attack from Hongze Lake?
This idea, let Wu Zheng cold sweat oozing, Jiang Quanyi's Taizhou guard the west and north two gates, because of the attack on Huai'an City, Taizhou Wei casualties are huge, the strength has been lost a lot, if the enemy really comes from Hongze Lake, then Taizhou Wei will definitely not be able to withstand it.
The safest way is to withdraw Taizhou Wei to the city.
But the problem is that once Taizhou Wei retreats from Qingjiangpu, Wu Songwei of Liu Lingtai will be unable to support it alone.
If Wu Songwei is also withdrawn, then Huai'an City, will be surrounded by the enemy on three sides, if the cavalry of the ancestor madman to the south encounters an accident, when the enemy cavalry goes north, Huai'an City will really become a lonely city, when the enemy besieges 100,000 enemies, I am afraid that the first army reinforcements will arrive, and the siege of Huai'an City will not be able to be relieved.
For a while, Wu Zheng fell into extreme embarrassment.
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Lu Zhiyu and Jiang Quanyi were urgently summoned by Wu Zheng.
After Wu Zheng recounted his guesses.
Looking at the tired faces of the two, Wu Zheng smiled bitterly: "After two days of fighting, the pit dug by Dolgon for me has basically shown the whole picture. In fact, the real butcher's knives are two, one is the garrison flag army on the other side of the Yellow River, and the other is the 80,000 horses in Xuzhou, which are flanked by the west and north, plus the Fengyang cavalry in the south and the firearms army in Yancheng in the east...... Our army is really embattled. β
Lu Zhiyu said in a sullen voice: "In this case, the last general thinks that when the shrinking forces are withdrawn to the city, no matter how bad it is, the second guard plus the original Huai'an and Dahe two guards will surrender to the army, and there will be more than 30,000 people, and it will be no ......problem to defend it for ten days and a half months, and it will be no problem to think about it." β
"No!" Jiang Quanyi immediately objected, "Huai'an City is newly attached, and the people's hearts are already unstable, and as soon as our army withdraws, it invisibly gives the people a hint that our army has been defeated and retreated, so it is even more difficult to defend the city." Moreover, there are two salients of Qingjiangpu and Liu Lingtai, Huai'an City can be safe at least temporarily, and when it comes to holding the city, it is hard to imagine that the people in the city will be surrounded on all sides, and they can still be as quiet as now...... Lord Wang, we must not withdraw, if we withdraw at this time, our army will definitely fall into passivity. β