Once the soldiers come to the city, many people will change, and the people who have shouted the original slogans may be the ones who open the city gates and surrender.

Hue outside the city. At this time, Hue is actually still called Fuchun, but in order for everyone to know where it is saying, I will pick a familiar name.

After a few days of fighting on the periphery, the South Central Army had conquered all the fortresses and stockades held by the Nguyen army outside Hue City. The walls of Hue have become clear in people's sight. In the clairvoyant lens, Shouhan carefully observed the state of the soldiers at the head of the city.

At the head of the city, the soldiers of the Ruan army were armed with swords and guns, trying to cheer themselves up, but the vaguely seen cannons in the distance made them understand that no matter how much they cheered up, this city would be rushed in by those Ming troops outside the city, just like more than a hundred years ago, and it was easy to beat Annan back to its original shape. And himself, it is estimated that he will become the first batch of Jingguan building materials.

Looking at those guys outside the city who were their comrades not long ago, now, Niu coaxed under the banner of the Ming Dynasty to rebel against the army, and took the military salary of the Ming Kingdom, not only saved his life, but also made a small fortune, why, it wasn't me who was the prisoner in the first place? !

"How many people are there in the New Army now?" Shouhan is also very curious to know the number of his cannon fodder troops, oh no, the number of vanguards.

"About five thousand people! This is based on their food consumption! The battalion office on the side will run Chen Tianhua and report to Li Shouhan the number of the New Army.

"Isn't it just over 3,000 people? Why is it that after this battle, the number of people has increased a lot? ”

"My lord, I don't know," Chen Tianhua is in charge of the battalion office, and all kinds of things such as official documents, ordnance and food, and soldier supplies have to pass through him, so he is naturally well aware of all kinds of things.

"When Rili recruited them, there were indeed only more than 3,000 people, but all the way east, they recruited rebels all the way, and the attack a few days ago contained a lot of remnants of the Ruan army. When many officers of the Nguyen Army heard that our army had this battalion, they came with their troops to surrender and asked to join the New Army. There were about 1,000 of these people, and nearly 1,000 people were incorporated into the camp according to the procedures of the new army after conquering the fortress outside the city. ”

Shouhan nodded, the so-called procedure of the new army, that is, if the body is qualified, the officer has to kill another officer, and only after accepting the petition is allowed to join. As for those who come with their own teams, needless to say, they are often the officials who are in charge of you, but the team is not your one.

"Nguyen Chengda is not there?" Ruan Chengda was the first to kill his colleagues that day and swore allegiance to Guan Qi Ruan Chengda, who peed his pants, and now, he is also the commander of the New Army. However, he is also self-aware, knowing that a person like himself is a general who specializes in dirty work, and Shouhan convened the various battalions to discuss today, so he naturally did not dare to go too far ahead. so as not to let the lord see the eyesore.

Far away, he found a seat and hid there honestly with a few of his battalion officers.

Hearing Li Shouhan's summons, Ruan Chengda immediately jumped up and knelt on the ground as if a spring had been installed under his buttocks, "My lord, Ruan Chengda, the commander of the New Army, is here to standby!" Please announce it! ”

Li Shouhan looked at the seven or eight people kneeling in front of him, and felt a little awkward in his heart, in the past, he would not contain the so-called self-renewing army at all. However, nowadays, as the leader of an army and a group, he has a lot to think about, and he wants to obtain the maximum benefit at the lowest cost.

"You have also made a lot of contributions since the return of the sun, defeating 17 enemy fortresses and persuading the enemy to surrender 5 enemy villages. Our army has always been strict in rewards and punishments, and meritorious service must be rewarded. Come on, record! ”

"Since the people of the New Army, the commanders, battalion officers and others, each recorded their merits once, rewarded 1,000 mu of Jiulongjiang Tianmu, team rate and others, each rewarded 10 taels of silver, 100 mu of land, soldiers, etc., rewarded 5 taels of silver, 50 acres of land, and 50 acres of land!"

"I am willing to die for the Lord!" When Ruan Chengda and the others heard this, they all smiled, their families were all masters who were not short of money, so they naturally didn't care about the silver money they were rewarded, but this merit showed that Li Shouhan had treated them as his own troops.

"Our army is about to launch a general attack on Hue in the near future, you are familiar with the city of Hue, do you have something to say?"

"Since the lord asked, then the last general will know everything." Ruan Chengda stood up, "Please move your body." ”

When they arrived at a place with a wider line of sight, everyone stood still, and Nguyen Chengda pointed to Hue, "My lord, the west of Hue is the peaks of Chang Mountain, which has become a barrier to the west, and the Ngoc Ping Mountain under our feet is the nearest one. There is a river in the city that leads to guò from outside the city, which has become a natural moat, and this Qianchang River will cause a lot of trouble for our army when attacking. About fifteen miles to the east is the sea, which has been blocked by our gunboats. ”

"About ten miles along the Qianchang River, it is the Tianmu Temple, the Confucian Temple and other places, our army has conquered these strongholds one by one a few days ago, and marked the courage to build yì, if the city is attacked, the lord can move the line to the Tianmu Temple to sit in the town, and the heavy ammunition needed by the former enemy will be hoarded here, or the wounded soldiers in front will be sent to the Confucian Temple."

"Hue city is divided into inner and outer cities. The city is square, each side is about five miles long, and the Qianchang River water is poured into the moat around it, forming another moat. The city wall is three zhang high and about six or seven zhang thick, all of which are blue bricks. There were ten gates, each about five feet high. There are four gates in the south of the city, three gates in the east of the city, and two gates in the west and north of the city. There are 24 large and small forts on the city wall, and there are more than 100 guns of various types. In the city, there is an area where the officials of the Ruan family belong to the office, as well as the so-called inner city of the Ruan family. The inner city is the palace built by the thieves of the Ruan family, and it is said that it is built in imitation of the Forbidden City in Beijing, and there are the Qinzheng Palace where the Ruan thief usually handles government affairs, and there is the Qiancheng Palace where he lives, the Kuntai Palace where his wife lives, the Guangming Palace where his eldest son lives, and the Shunhui Courtyard where other concubines live. There are also flags, Taihe halls and palaces and temples dedicated to the ancestors of the past dynasties in the city. ”

After listening to Ruan Chengda's introduction, Li Shouhan was a little apprehensive, this was his first real urban battle. The siege warfare of this era still stayed at the battle for the city wall, and it was often the attacker who climbed the city through a ladder, occupied a section of the city wall, attacked the city gate, and after opening a city gate, a large army poured in, announcing the fall of a city. Obviously, there are many gates in the south of the city, and it seems that it is easy to break through, but if the troops are invested in the south gate, then they will have to face the barrier of the two water systems of the Qianchang River and the moat.

"Ruan Chengda, let me ask you, if I appoint you as a vanguard when I attack the city, do you still have the courage to spare?" Shouhan didn't think about where to use as the main breakthrough, he had to choose a vanguard to attack the city. Of course, he is also the unit with the most dead.

"My lord, mark it willingly!" Ruan Chengda knows the danger of this task, but if it is dangerous, it is not his own commander. It was the soldiers who died.

"My lord, Tianhua has a word." Chen Tianhua, who didn't speak for a long time, frowned and stared at Hue City.

"Say!"

Chen Tianhua pulled out the saber at his waist, slashed a few horizontally and vertically on the ground, and began to say what he thought.

"There are ten Hue city gates, the most in the south, and twenty-four forts, although they are evenly distributed on the east, west, north and south, but, according to the report of the Tanma, the artillery is the most near the south gate, followed by the east gate! The west and north gates are the least. Therefore, Tianhua thought that if our army attacked the city, it would follow the sages' tactics of encircling three and missing one, and only attack the east gate, the north, and the west, leaving the south. To the south, as Commander Nguyen said, there is a moat and a river to block it, which is not good for our army, but it is also bad for the enemy. I left a battalion of men and horses to pin down the enemy, so that he did not dare to move his artillery to other gates. ”

"With the sea to the east and the river flowing into the sea, our warships and ships can go upriver along the river and harass the defending enemy in the east with artillery fire, and at the same time, attack the city with about two battalions of soldiers and horses."

"The main force is at the West Gate!" Shouhan will represent several small flags of the main force, and they will be fiercely planted in the west. "Let's take the two gates on the west!"

"Does the lord know who the guards of the west are?" A smile appeared at the corner of Chen Tianhua's mouth, with a hint of disdain in his words.

"Who is it?"

"It's an old acquaintance of our army! The commander of the Battle of Rili, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen's third son, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen, led about five to six odd troops to guard the western wall. It is said that after he returned from the defeat of Rili, he tried to enter the city several times, but was scolded by his father Nguyen Phuc Nguyen and ordered him to be stationed outside the city. A few days ago, our army attacked outside the city very urgently, Yuping Peak and Tianmu Temple were conquered one after another, he begged bitterly, so he was allowed to enter the city to defend the palace, but it was the west that faced our army the most. It is said that he has not been allowed to enter the inner city until now. ”

These internal struggles for power and profit in the court, bullshit and bullshit, Shouhan has seen a lot in all kinds of braid dramas, not to mention anything else, at this moment, the wild boar skin family that is looting everywhere in Liaodong will soon stage a wonderful live drama, but unfortunately, he has no skills, otherwise he must go to see how he died. Was he killed by Yuan Dushi's cannons, or was he killed for some other reason?

Shouhan himself thinks that the old ** Hachi is very likely to be killed by his eighth young master.

From the perspective of human nature, the eighth child has this ruthlessness. From another point of view, when Lao ** Hachi died, the first to arrive was the eighth. Moreover, the eighth is the biggest vested interest, so he is naturally the biggest suspect.

He shook his head diligently, letting these nonsense thoughts get out of his head, and then asked the battalion officers to go back and prepare to accept the operational documents from the battalion office and carry out their respective tasks according to the instructions.

Naturally, seven or eight battalions of men and horses from the Forces nouvelles were transferred to the west, ready to act as the first wave of troops for the siege.

That night, Ruan Chengda sneakily came to the Tianmu Temple where Shouhan was stationed, asked to see Li Shouhan, and said that there was a very secret military intelligence report!

"Congratulations, sir!" Seeing Li Shouhan, Ruan Chengda immediately knelt down and kowtowed, saying New Year's greetings in his mouth.

"Less nonsense, there is something to say, there is fart!" Shouhan gently kicked Ruan Chengda with his foot. "I don't have time to listen to your nonsense!"

After taking this kick and listening to Shouhan's shouting, he couldn't help but make Ruan Chengda's bones lighter by two or two, this is obviously taking me as his own descendant! In the past few days of surrender, Ruan Chengda has been deliberately trying to become the upstart of Shouhan, and he heard that Shouhan is very casual with his first group of people, and he adopts different attitudes towards those who are invested later, in short, the more raw and polite he is.

"My lord, the villain has a relative who acts as a team leader in the Ruan army opposite, and he is bent on taking refuge in Wang Shi, abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, so as to achieve a positive result."

"Say what matters."

"His Guan Qi is Nguyen Phuc Wei's henchman Le Duan. According to him, Nguyen Phuc Ao intended to surrender the city, just to save his life. ”

"That's all?"

"Of course, the person who came said that if the adults could agree to let Ruan Fuyuan inherit Ruan Fuyuan's official position, it would naturally be the best!"

Lose that mother! I'm all in your city, and you still want to inherit your official position?

Shouhan scolded in his heart.

With the flickering candle flame, Ruan Chengda saw that Shouhan's expression was uncertain, and he was also secretly worried in his heart. If Shouhan investigates it, I am afraid that his good head will not be able to be saved.

"Lao Ruan," Shouhan called Ruan Chengda, "you call back to the comer, tell him, everything can be discussed, but, on the day of our army's siege, he, Ruan Fuyu, must open the city gate, give up the city wall, and lead the team to wait for our army to enter the city under the city wall." After entering the city, I guarantee his personal net worth and life, which is one thing. Second, as he said, he would discuss with him in detail about inheriting his father's official position when I entered the city. ”

"Also, you have done your work hard, and you have also made some contributions during this time, I promise you, after entering the city, your troops can be stationed in the city and rest for a few days. Tomorrow, the camp office will have paperwork for you. As a basis for the future! ”

Hearing this, Ruan Chengda was ecstatic in his heart!

After entering the city, can you stay in the city and rest for a few days? This is clearly for me to spread out in the city and plunder!

Ye Qi, the commander of the guards battalion and commander of the Middle Route Army, who sent Ruan Chengda away, walked in, "Lord, do you really believe that he Ruan Fuyu is going to surrender?" ”

"The devil believes he's going to surrender! However, everything is prepared with both hands, on the one hand, he is ready to fight, and he will exchange his life for this city, and on the other hand, he is ready to accept the surrender of the third young master of the Ruan family. Also, I will go back to Hoi An tomorrow, and the affairs here will be left to you, and you must handle these things like this. ”

In the dead of night, Li Shouhan lowered his voice and explained to Ye Qi.

A few days later, something earth-shattering erupted.

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