Chapter 69: Before the Decisive Battle

An inn in Changsha Fuzhong.

Changsha City has changed from a government city to a Ming line, although the country is difficult, but there should be a hundred civil and military officials.

As a result, the city of Changsha was overcrowded, and the original yamen were requisitioned and hung up new signs, even the post station was no exception, so the place where Hu Tang was located was an inn, which was temporarily requisitioned and put under house arrest.

No matter how much house arrest is there, there is still the treatment that should be there.

However, Hu Tang doesn't care about any of this.

Although he couldn't get out of the inn, the information in Changsha City was continuously passed to Hu Tang's hands, a small part of which was the Xia army ambushed in Changsha City, this part was simply very rare, after all, Zhang Xuan didn't think of hitting Changsha City before the war.

There are not many fine works in Changsha City.

Although the ancients also used time for warfare, do not overestimate the level of business in this era.

Hu Tang's sources are more of the snakes in Changsha City.

Although Changsha City is now in the hands of the civil and military officials brought by Longwu, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake. Many big families who have been rooted in Changsha for hundreds of years may not be able to conquer the small court with the information they secretly have. Moreover, Changsha City went through the short reign of Zhang Xianzhong, the last general of Chang Chongzhen, and ushered in the small court of Longwu, and then ushered in the Xia army under the city.

If this is the case, these big families, even if they have children loyal to Longwu on the surface, they will also have some contact with Xia Jun in private.

After all, once you make a mistake, you will have to bet on both sides of the family for hundreds of lives. When Longwu still held control of Changsha, he didn't dare to do more blatant things, but it was okay to pass on some information.

Although Xia Jun had a detailed work in Changsha City before, the major families couldn't figure out who it was. However, Hu Tang was placed under house arrest in Changsha City, and instead became the target of the handover of major families.

When Hu Tang was under house arrest, he was still panicked. But later I found out that he was busier than by Zhang Xuan's side. For no other reason, many people didn't dare to show up on their own, and they all sent people over to have private contact with Hu Tang, and the number of people was so large that Hu Tang almost didn't have time to sleep at all.

Some even met each other.

In response to the words, people's hearts were scattered, and the team was not easy to lead.

The Xia Dynasty has the spirit of early prosperity, even if there are some difficulties, to make the middle force of Great Xia, that is, the old pawn of Cao Ying at the beginning, and willing to pay for Great Xia. And the Ming Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly, losing two places in a row, and being defeated as soon as they clash, although there are some loyal and good ministers, but there will not be too many.

In these years, whether it is a loyal minister or a great traitor, they are actually a minority, and the vast majority of them are just ordinary people.

Hu Tang was in the room, sorting out the papers.

These documents were all written in secret language, and only Hu Tang himself could understand them, and what they wrote was all information in Changsha City. Although there are not too many secrets, in Hu Tang's view, it is the most precious, at least Changsha's inventory, the people's grain storage, grain prices, and even the repair time of the city walls in various places, and the most important point is that Zhang Xianzhong gave up the destruction of Changsha at the beginning, swept the Jiwang Mansion with a fire, and also damaged a section of the city wall, the location of this section of the newly repaired city wall.

After reading it, Hu Tang lit the brazier and threw all the stacks of documents into it.

Secretly said: "I should go." ”

Sure enough, as Hu Tang expected, a moment later, Longwu sent someone over to drive Hu Tang away, and asked Hu Tang to bring a letter to Zhang Xuan, which was a war letter.

Facing the soldiers who came to drive him away, with a cold face, Hu Tang didn't care at all, after leaving the Changsha city gate, he pulled the reins, looked at the Changsha city wall, sneered, and said: "The Ming Dynasty is not dead, it is no heavenly reason." ”

The problem of the Ming Dynasty is by no means something that can be redeemed by changing one or two wise and martial emperors. It is an overall problem, there are problems in all aspects, if in the Chongzhen years, there is still a chance of recovery, but when it comes to Nanming, there is almost no way.

No matter how hard Longwu tried, he couldn't understand the imbalance between the civil and military imbalances of the imperial court, and he couldn't solve the suffering of the people. Hu Tang can be regarded as seeing through, Daming is really a dry bone in the grave.

When Hu Tang returned to the camp, Cao Zongyu also arrived.

Zhang Xuan was talking to Cao Zongyu and said, "Gao Yigong is also a mistake. It gave me more than ten days to recuperate. Now he has set up camp in the west, and he is forcing me to be in the east and west of Changsha. It seems to be a two-sided attack, but with the Xiangjiang River, it has never been able to form a joint force. Brother Cao, what do you think? ”

Thanks to Nanming's internal reasons, Zhang Xuan was given the most precious time to repair, with this period of time for repairing, although Zhang Xuan's headquarters has not yet reached the best state in Zhang Xuan's eyes, but on the whole, it is already worthy of a battle.

Cao Zongyu settled the men and horses behind him, and selected 30,000 soldiers, most of whom were drawn from the loyalty camp.

After all, in the loyalty camp, there are quite a few old people who have a good relationship with Cao Ying, and they have brought them over, with the help of the soldiers they have integrated, although they are not as good as the men and horses of Zhang Xuan's headquarters, but it is not much of a problem to pull them out and strengthen their courage.

Cao Zongyu said: "In the opinion of the last general, gather the whole army, guard the Xiangjiang River with General Zhou, leave a group of men and horses to guard one side, and go all out to attack the road, or Changsha, or Gao Yigong, and the last general tends to be Gaoyigong. ”

Zhang Xuan touched his chin and said, "Why? ”

Cao Zongyu said: "The people of the high school are unstable. ”

Zhang Xuan nodded. Since Gao Yigong rejected Zhang Xuan's olive branch. Zhang Xuan naturally would not let go of Gao Yigong because of his old feelings, first attack Gao Yigong, and then sweep the periphery and besiege Changsha City. This is the usual siege warfare routine.

"My lord, Mr. Hu is back." Lou Lei said.

Zhang Xuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "Please." ”

After a while, Hu Tang wanted to salute as soon as he came in, but was stopped by Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan said: "Why does Mr. Hu have to be like this, it's because I didn't think about it, Mr. Ti is in danger, Zhang is worried about Mr. Wang's safety every day, no matter what, just come back." ”

Before Hu Tang went, Zhang Xuan really didn't think about it?

These things don't need to be looked into in detail.

Hu Tang didn't mean to delve into it, but said: "General, Longwu has been the bone of the mound, this moment is the time to attack Changsha, Changsha City, there are more than 10,000 forbidden troops directly under the jurisdiction of Longwu, guarding the left and right, there are about 30,000 soldiers guarding the city, it is a soldier of Xiangdi, originally under the jurisdiction of He Tengjiao, and at this moment it is under the command of Yue Qijie. ”

"Yue Mou is Ma Shiying's in-law, so he has to be reused, good at poetry, but he is just an old man. Most of the soldiers in Changsha were newly recruited in the spring of this year, and they might be able to defend the city. Go out of the city to fight, but you can't. ”

"The 30,000 troops of Dian Jun Chen Xin are known as elite warriors in the city, but Chen Xin is just a scholar, and he doesn't know how to change the art of war."

"There is Wugang General Soldier, Liu Chengyin. People give the nickname Liu Tieba, although he is a scoundrel, but he is quite brave, and he Tengjiao values it, and there are many old pawns in the department. Coming from the south, the wall city was encamped. It's also a good fight. ”

When Zhang Xianzhong cholera Hunan, the gentry recruited troops to protect themselves, this is He Tengjiao's army, He Tengjiao gathered regimental training from all over the country, and accepted it as a soldier of the economic system, which was mostly under the jurisdiction of various prefectures and counties. But it's just a rabble. ”

"Although the city of Changsha is strong. Not without flaws, after Zhang Xianzhong left Changsha, he demolished a section of the city wall in the north and west of the city, and now it is just a new building. Purely ornamental. Just storm everywhere with artillery, you will be able to break it, and more importantly. ”

Hu Tang took a deep breath and said: "Longwu has the intention of going to war, if he sticks to the city, he will still have to survive." Since he has the intention of taking the initiative to fight and seek death, why not the general. ”

It seems that there really is a law of true fragrance.

Hu Tang used to think that Changsha City was not easy to fight, and he had to solve the problem first. Now attitudes are changing so quickly. It makes people feel unprepared.

However, Zhang Xuan also had a heart-pounding feeling when he heard it.

Taking Longwu can be said to be the ultimate goal of this southern expedition. Although Zhang Xuan was moved, he still didn't make a decision immediately, and began to ask Hu Tang some details about Changsha City. Hu Tang naturally has to answer all questions.

There are many questions that Hu Tang couldn't answer before.

But at this time, it was not difficult for him at all. The whole Changsha City was like on his tongue.