After Ma Cheng finished arranging Uncle Yue, he did not rest, but found his henchman Wang Xian to discuss with Chen Zilong what to do.

After Ma Cheng finished talking about the cause and effect of the matter, he asked, "What do you two think?" Can this be true? ”

Because Chen Zilong shared Wang Xian's rights, Wang Xian was very jealous of Chen Zilong, and now listening to Ma Cheng's question, Wang Xian said first on the side: "Master Hou, this matter should be asked about the middle brother of the people, after all, the middle brother of the people has worked under King Lu and is very familiar with King Lu!" ”

Wang Xian's words were very ill-intentioned, although he said it politely, but secretly accused Chen Zilong of being a second minister.

Although Chen Zilong disdains to engage in these conspiracies, it does not mean that it is okay to be ridden by Wang Xian and, Chen Zilong said with a smile: "Wang Xian, you don't seem to be qualified to comment on me as a showman!" ”

Wang Xian was polite to Chen Zilong on the surface, but Chen Zilong was not polite to Wang Xian at all, not only calling him by his name, but also saying that you are a showman, what qualifications do you have to comment on Lao Tzu? Chen Zilong is above Wang Xian regardless of age, fame, and official position, so Wang Xian can only be secretly angry when he is scolded, and he doesn't dare to say anything to refute.

Ma Cheng saw the two henchmen biting the dog, and did not stop it, in the past few years, Ma Cheng has not learned anything else with Ma Shiying, how to control it, but he has learned ten percent. Ma Shiying has many henchmen, and the struggle between the lackeys is not inferior to that of the court. This is also one of the means for the superior to control the subordinates, in order to maintain their own status and rights, and prevent their subordinates from becoming bigger.

Although Ma Cheng's methods are not as spicy as Ma Shiying's, he has learned the essence by following Ma Shiying's side, but the heat is still a little green and takes time to practice.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Wang is straightforward, please don't take Mr. Chen to heart!" Ma Cheng casually explained to Wang Xian, and then asked, "Mr. Chen, do you think King Lu has really surrendered or fake this time?" ”

Chen Zilong listened to Ma Cheng's explanation for Wang Xian, and he didn't know what to say, glared at Wang Xian and said: "Metropolitan Governor, King Lu is a man with great ambition and talent, and the lower officials estimate that it should be true that he wants to surrender Kaicheng this time!" ”

Ma Cheng nodded, what Chen Zilong said was similar to his own estimate. Among the emperors of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Ma Cheng only had an impression of the first Zhu Yousong and the last Zhu Youlang, and the other superintendents did not remember the emperor at all, and probably did not play a good role in history. I haven't heard of this Zhu Changshu, and his ability is probably stronger than Zhu Yousong.

"In that case, let's wait for three days to see what King Lu can do, and then make a decision on the spot!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he said to Wang Xian: "But we can't pin all our hopes on King Lu, we still have to prepare for the siege, which needs to be prepared by Mr. Wang!" ”

The logistics are under Wang Xian's control, and the manufacture of all siege equipment is also under his control, Wang Xian heard Ma Cheng say this, and quickly stood up and bowed down and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Hou, the lower officials have ordered the craftsmen to start working!" "Wang Xian is the long history of the Marquis of Zhenguo, and he is considered a subordinate official of Ma Cheng, and his title is a little different from Chen Zilong. Chen Zilong is a marching senator in Ma Cheng's army, so he has to call Ma Cheng's official position.

Since it has been decided to wait for King Lu to open the door, then tomorrow's siege will be stopped, Ma Cheng asked his soldiers to inform his generals that the siege will be suspended tomorrow morning, and then wave his hand to let King Chen and the two go down.

Ma Cheng does not attack the city, falls

It was to give Fang Guoan in the city some time to prepare, but because the contrast between the strength inside and outside the city was too great, Fang Guoan's efforts were useless.

Three days later, in the evening, Lu Wang Zhu Changshu changed into civilian clothes in the house, tonight is the time he agreed with Ma Cheng outside the city to open the city, for safety he has to take his henchmen to Genshan Gate, after all, it is safest to have the protection of the army.

When Zhu Changshu arrived at Genshan Gate, he found that it was brightly lit, and there were far more soldiers guarding the gate than usual. The Genshan Gate guard who was standing at the door saw King Lu coming, and hurriedly came over and whispered: "Your Majesty, I don't know why, Fang Dudu took over the defense of Genshan Gate with a large team of men and horses in the evening, and the last general has now been relieved of his command by Fang Dudu!" ”

Zhu Changshu was originally timid, but now when he heard that Fang Guoan was coming, he must have known his own arrangement, thinking that where Zhu Changshu dared to stay, he would take people back to the palace in the city. However, his brigade had already attracted the attention of Guoan above the city wall, and Fang Guoan sent someone to ask who the more than 200 people who came from the city were, only to know that the emperor had come in person.

Knowing that the emperor was coming, Fang Guoan hurriedly came down from the city wall, although Fang Guoan was very domineering, and he liked to plunder when he was a soldier in Xuzhou, but Fang Guoan was very grateful to this emperor Zhu Changshu.

Zhu Changshu is similar to his cousin Zhu Yousong, although he has no skills, he is a kind person. When Fang Guoan fled to Hangzhou, it was Zhu Changshu who appointed Fang Guoan to the important task and promoted him to the general army of Hangzhou, and now he has been promoted to the governor of the capital, Jiaxing Bo, this kind of kindness of knowing Fang Guoan is in mind.

Fang Guoan came to Zhu Changshu's horse, quickly knelt down on his knees and asked: "Your Majesty, the army of Zhou Rebellion outside the city will attack the city at any time, please go back to the palace and wait for the good news!" ”

Zhu Changshu saw that Fang Guoan didn't seem to have discovered his little secret, so he said with confidence: "Fang Aiqing, I don't have anything to do casually, Aiqing go and get busy!" ”

Zhu Changshu's idea was to take Fang Guoan away, and then see the opportunity to open the city gate. But Zhu Changshu didn't know that Fang Guoan had already regarded Genshan Gate as the main battlefield, where could he leave easily? And Emperor Zhu Changshu is here, as a courtier, Fang Guoan can leave without permission? So Fang Guoan said with a smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for being considerate of the soldiers, the minister just happens to have nothing to do, so I will accompany Your Majesty to take a look around!" ”

Seeing this, Zhu Changshu had no choice but to follow Fang Guoan to the city. It was the middle of the night, and the entire city wall of Hangzhou was brightly lit, and a large fire was placed every 100 steps under the city to prevent the army outside the city from attacking the city at night. However, a mile away from the city wall was absolutely dark, and the black hole could not see what was going on on the other side.

Fang Guoan pointed to the outside of the city and explained to Zhu Changshu: "Your Majesty, the minister decided to use this place as the main battlefield to resist Zhou Wei, the Wulin Gate in the north city is a canal water pass, and the river is dense, so the minister estimates that it is absolutely impossible for Zhou Wei to attack from anywhere!" On the other hand, the Genshan Gate is flat here, and there is still a fish market outside the city, which is convenient for the army to deploy, so this is the main battlefield of the Zhou Rebellion attack! ”

Fang Guoan has two brushes, there are a total of ten city gates in Hangzhou City, and the north gate is Wulin Gate, where the houses are dense and the water network is dense, so it is really not a good place to attack.

The Qiantang Gate, Yongjin Gate, and Qingbo Gate in the west are on the edge of the West Lake, and there is water outside the city, which is not suitable for the army to deploy. Hangzhou City Base

It is built with potential, the upper width and the lower narrow is an inverted triangle shape, and the bottom south gate is Fengshan Gate, which is the south gate of Hangzhou. Fengshan Gate was called Zhengyang Gate in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was the gate of the Son of Heaven, and the defense facilities were the most complete, so it was not a good place to attack.

Therefore, Fang Guoan's estimated attack locations were Genshan Gate in the northeast and Qingchun Gate, Qingtai Gate, Wangjiang Gate, and Houchao Gate in the east. Wangjiang Gate and Houchao Gate are on the edge of the Qiantang River, so there are only three city gates left in the attack location, among which the Genshan Gate, which is closest to Ma Cheng, has become the focus of defense.

Zhu Changshu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Fang Guoan say this, it turned out that it was not his own news that had leaked, but the Genshan Gate that Fang Guoan had chosen by himself. Zhu Changshu, who was relieved, didn't care whether he understood military affairs or not, and began to praise Fang Guoan's command ability.

Receiving the emperor's praise made Fang Guoan's face red, and he even opened the conversation box to talk about his experience of counterinsurgency in Henan, which was from midnight to dawn, which made Zhu Changshu yawn again and again.

As the sky brightened, the fire outside the city walls slowly went out, and the scenery outside the city was slowly visible. The soldiers at the head of the city stood all night, they were very sleepy, and one of the hundred households was yawning, and suddenly realized that something was wrong outside the city, rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, and found that there was a group of dark shadows standing two miles outside the city.

At this time, the sky was just bright, and the vision was still a little unclear, and after waiting for a quarter of an hour, the sky was bright enough to see, and the soldiers in the city realized what the group of black shadows were. It turned out to be thousands of soldiers dressed in black, standing two miles outside the city with knives and guns in their hands, motionless like stone statues.

Finding that there were ambushes outside the city, the soldiers on the city wall were completely sleepy, and immediately sounded the gong to warn. After Fang Guoan heard this, he stopped bragging and came to the city wall to watch.

It turned out that the thousand people outside the city were the elite led by Ma Cheng, and they were supposed to rush into the city at night tonight, but Ma Cheng was quite well prepared, but he didn't expect to be released by Zhu Changshu.

Ma Cheng sneaked into the city of Hangzhou with a thousand people from last night and waited all night. It was already very cold in August in Nanzhili, and Ma Cheng took these unlucky ghosts to lie outside the city and waited all night without news, and the anger in his heart can be imagined.

Seeing that the sky was bright, Ma Cheng scolded: "Zhu Changshu, this bastard, dares to fool Lao Tzu, and when he enters the city, Lao Tzu will kill him!" ”

Ma Cheng was furious now, and he couldn't care about much, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to raise the banner and change the order of the sneak attack to a strong attack. In order to siege the city, Ma Cheng had prepared the most elite 20,000 new troops two days ago, and now he was ambushed five miles outside the city, and now he heard the order of the commander and began to prepare for a strong attack.

Fang Guoan on the city wall of Hangzhou didn't know that Ma Cheng had been lying outside the city all night, but when he saw the banner outside the city, he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart, and Fang Guoan was defeated in the hands of Ma Cheng when he was in Suzhou. But Fang Guoan blamed Qi Biaojia for the failure of Suzhou, after all, Fang Guoan led a group of remnants of defeated generals at that time. But now it is different, after more than three months of preparation, Fang Guoan's subordinates are in high morale, and they may be able to block Ma Cheng's first wave of attacks.

The battle of Hangzhou was launched under this situation where both sides were not fully prepared, Ma Cheng was frozen half to death last night, scolded Zhu Changshu angrily in his heart, and said to his subordinates: "After entering the city, Zhu Changshu, the bastard, stripped off his clothes, and froze all night outside the city, and Fang Guoan's bastard, Lao Tzu must kill him!" ”