Liu Zhilun nodded and said: "Rao is like this, he will definitely not be able to afford to lose by attacking Zunhua Dongnu." But what tricks can they have at their disposal? ”

Huang Han said honestly: "I don't know, I don't want to spend that brain, anyway, no matter who comes to deceive the surrender, even if you let them come to the south gate where the lowly post is stationed, then the lowly post will make them regret it for a lifetime." ”

Ma Shilong said: "Lord Huang is reasonable, the reason why the fortified city in Liaodong of my Ming Dynasty was captured by those barbarians in the past was because many adults did not know how to fight.

They were deceived by the Tartars or the Ming army, and put the white-eyed wolves who seemed to be in danger of being pursued by the Dongnu into the city, and finally the Dongnu came to a big city in the Ming Dynasty, and the money, food, materials and weapons, population, etc. in the city became the capital of the Dongnu. ”

Liu Zhilun sighed and said, "Alas! It is true that scholars mislead the country. Rest assured, my lords, this official will not be so stupid, and it is absolutely impossible to fall for the treacherous scheme of the Eastern slaves. ”

The generals hurriedly patted their asses and said: "My lord is aware of everything, and our army is even lucky!" ”

At this time, there was a voice that was very harsh, "Don't be full of words, Dongnu is extremely evil, they do everything!" ”

Liu Zhilun saw that it was Huang Han who was speaking, and asked, "Why did General Huang say this?" ”

"If you find that thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty are crying and rushing towards Zunhua, and there are thousands of Jiannu behind them who are wantonly shooting and killing my Ming father, what should you do at this time?

It is obviously not advisable to let the common people into the city, which is obviously a treacherous plan of the Eastern Slaves. But the gates are still closed, and the people outside the city will be slaughtered by Jiannu one by one under your nose. In the future, where will the official imperial history give up? Have you ever been mentally prepared for this, my lord? ”

"This ......" Liu Zhilun opened his mouth and stammered, he glared at Huang Han fiercely, he really didn't know if he could still insist on not opening the city gate after watching thousands of ordinary people being chased and killed by Jiannu.

Liu Zhilun finally chose to avoid Huang Han's scathing question, and said: "General Huang, the situation under Zunhua City may not be as bad as it is, right?" ”

This time it was Ma Shilong who spoke, because he saw Liu Zhilun's hesitation, and this hesitation could be fatal.

Ma Shilong has been a general in Liaodong for many years, where do you not know the ghost tricks of Jiannu, he said: "Ci is not in charge of the army, adults must not have the benevolence of women, the reason why there are a large number of people who fled to Zunhua, is undoubtedly Dongnu deliberately."

There should be a lot of Han people in it who are Dongnu soldiers pretending to be soldiers, and the official thinks that not only can the city not be opened, but also have to fire artillery to bombard indiscriminately. ”

Wu Zimian didn't have ordinary people in his heart at all, he shouted: "Those who are coerced by Dongnu to attack the Daming city are all enemies, and our army naturally attacks indiscriminately, besides, if the enemy breaks through the city, who will pity us?" ”

Ma Shilong said: "This official has been in Liaodong for many years, and he has seen Dongnu use such means to deceive our army's forts. This time, the main force of Dongnu is here, presumably they will repeat their old tricks again, and Lord Liu must be mentally prepared. ”

The primary task of our army is to stick to Zunhua to ensure that it is not lost, and the city of Zunhua in hand means that it can protect the small 100,000 soldiers and civilians, and we must not lose the big because of the small.

Liu Zhilun could only give an order with a painful face, and when the main force of Jiannu was approaching the city, in order not to let anyone enter Zunhua just in case.

Fortunately, Liu Zhilun was vaccinated early, and in the afternoon of the next day, Mang Gurtai really drove thousands of people to the west gate of Zunhua.

Mang Gurtai knew that the Red Gangsters would withdraw their troops to the north in three days, and he thought that even then they should try to attack the city, and only by doing a fake show could they confuse the Ming army even more.

He also had an idea, in case Liu Zhilun, the chief general of the Ming army, was a person who ate the ancients, he couldn't bear to see thousands of people being slaughtered, and he was moved by compassion to open the city gate.

It is not allowed to make up and hide among the Han people, and the children of the Eight Banners will be able to enter the door, and if he gets the great merit of seizing Zunhua, he is bound to crush the red gangsters.

Mang Gurtai led the blue banner armor soldiers to plunder everywhere while deliberately not killing the ring, but deliberately gathered the Han people and drove them in the direction of Zunhua.

Iron hooves rumble, arrows fly wildly, the Han people who have been ruined have no choice, they can only follow the trend and flee, of course, the old and the infirm can't run away and are killed hundreds of people.

It can be seen that slowing down is the only way to die, and the men who escaped with their mothers and sons on their backs are doing their best, and it didn't take long for the elderly mother to refuse her son's escape on her back, and they chose to stay and wait for death to leave the hope of life to the next generation.

The people who fled blindly ran to the outside of Zunhua City in a daze, and when they saw the city fluttering the banner of the Ming Dynasty, the people flocked to the city gate without exception.

A middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt looked up at the gate of the West Gate of Zunhua and begged: "My lord, please open the city gate!" Jiannu is brutal and kills people when they see them, and hundreds of villagers have already made a bad mess! ”

A woman holding a child knelt down in front of the city gate and said, "Master Jun, don't enter the city, little girl, can you put down the hanging basket and save my child, he is only three years old!" ”

About 300 steps away from the city wall, Hou Jin Jun smiled and slashed at the defenseless old and young women and children, and in an instant, corpses were scattered all over the ground......

Liu Zhilun and a group of generals watched the people in the city in a panic and helplessness, and watched Jiannu holding up the butcher's knife and being powerless, and they were angry one by one.

Liu Zhilun commanded in a hoarse voice: "All the gunners enter the state of readiness, the Hongyi cannon is immediately loaded, the official order flag falls, and the artillery immediately fires a salvo, even if only one Jiannu is killed by ten cannons, the official will bombard those animals fiercely." ”

The Ming army at the head of Zunhua City was all in strict formation, and the guns had already been loaded, just waiting for Jiannu to enter the firing range, and the bed crossbowmen and archers were also ready to meet the battle.

Huang Han was not in Xicheng, and his garrison was at the South Gate, but he sent Song Pengfei to contact the guards of the West Gate and asked the guards to organize the Ming army to shout.

It means telling the people to stick to the root of the city wall and go in the direction of the south gate, when the south gate will be open for half an hour to let the people into the city to take refuge.

When the defenders of Xicheng saw that the "Red Flag Army" stationed at the south gate was about to let those poor people enter the city, they all took the initiative to shout in unison: "The people under the city listen, the south gate is about to open to accept everyone, don't be afraid to run to the south gate close to the city wall!" ”

Liu Zhilun looked at the people of Daming who were suffering outside the city, but he couldn't help it, he only felt that his heart was like a knife, and he had secretly wiped the tears from his eyes a few times.

He didn't know what Huang Han was going to do, but he believed that Huang Han would not sacrifice the city to the enemy, believed in the combat effectiveness of the "Red Flag Army", and he also knew that it would be beneficial for the people to walk close to the city wall.

So he gave an order to let the gunners and gunmen stand by, and as soon as Jiannu entered the strike range, they all fired.