Chapter 104: The Dengzhou Army Retreats
Another night is coming, at this time Zhujiazhuang has experienced another day of hard fighting, everyone is repairing, bandaging, repairing, repairing, rectifying, many wounded are lying there moaning in pain, but compared to some other people who have never woken up, they are already lucky.
Although Zhu Biao was not injured, the day's battle also made him discouraged, and he was a master in the entire Zhujiazhuang, so he naturally had to fight fires everywhere, so he was definitely tired enough.
Not to mention him, even if Zhu Chaofeng is dragging his old body to supervise the battle on the front line at such an age, although his combat effectiveness is infinitely close to zero, it still has a great incentive for morale.
Zhu Biao glanced at the casualties around him, and complained to Zhu Chaofeng a little angrily: "Dad, this is the twentieth day, and our casualties today are almost in the triple digits, and there are less than one-fifth of the defensive materials such as arrows, rolling wood, stones, etc., we won't be sold by that Liangshan, right?" Let us fight to the death with the officers and soldiers, so that they can profit from it! ”
Zhu Chaofeng sighed and said: "I don't think so, I think that Ye Ling is a person who does big things, and he won't play this kind of trick, and the people from Li Jiazhuang and Hujiazhuang have also helped us a lot this time, and Li Jiazhuang is just that, the people in Hu Jiazhuang are Hu Cheng, that is Ye Ling's brother-in-law, if he wants to use our Sanzhuang as cannon fodder, it is impossible to send him too, right?" ”
At this moment, Zhu Biao had nothing to say, and only said after half a ring: "Even if Ye Ling didn't mean this, but now the officers and soldiers of this Dengzhou Mansion are menacing, we have lost four or five hundred people in the past half a month, but the officers and soldiers are twice as many as us, but that Yu Wanchun Bird Man has not the slightest intention of retreating, this is completely different from before, I doubt how long we can hold on?" ”
Zhu Chaofeng didn't speak, the father and son sat silently, and at this time, a villager suddenly came over excitedly to report: "Report to the old owner, the young owner, just now we received a dark arrow, which was sent by the heroes of Liangshan." ”
Zhu Biao suddenly jumped up, rushed over and snatched the letter in three or two steps, tore open the envelope and looked at it, only to shout excitedly after a second, "Dad, look, look!" ”
Seeing the excitement on Zhu Biao's face, Zhu Chaofeng also had a premonition in his heart, and took the letter and looked at it, with a few words on it - at most two days, the officers and soldiers were defeated, and the payment was Ye Ling.
Zhu Chaofeng suddenly laughed, like a fool, the people of Zhujiazhuang were stunned, and they didn't know what happened to the old owner, who was sad just now, and now he is happy like this.
Zhu Biao couldn't bear the excitement in his heart and yelled at everyone: "Brothers, the heroes of Liangshan have sent a letter, and they will come to rescue us in two days at most. ”
Everyone is overjoyed, the most feared thing about this defensive battle is isolation, this half a month of hard fighting has made everyone's morale low a lot, because they feel that they may be used as cannon fodder, but now seeing that the victory is in sight, the morale is suddenly restored, and everyone shouted: "Have confidence, young owner, don't say two days, even if it is twenty days, it will be no problem!" ”
At this time, the mood of Dengzhou Mansion Yu Wanchun Taishou was just the opposite, seeing that this Zhujiazhuang was about to be won, although the price paid by his own side was not small, but it was still worth it.
Just after he had boosted his morale as usual, he returned to his camp, drinking tea beautifully, and suddenly his own soldiers sent a letter with an ugly face, saying that an arrow had just been shot in, and the payment was made by Liangshan.
Yu Wanchun felt that a bad premonition was born from his heart, and hurriedly opened the letter to read it, and then directly petrified.
The above told him straight to the point, saying that Dengzhou City had fallen into the hands of Liang Shan, and asked him to withdraw as soon as possible, otherwise the safety of the hostages there would not be guaranteed, and give him a day to think about it, and it was Beichen Emperor Ye Ling who made the payment.
In this letter, I was afraid that Yu Wanchun would not believe it, so I stamped the seals of more than a dozen high-level officials led by Zheng You, the temporary Taishou, on it, it is too difficult to fake this thing, even if Liang Shan can buy or kidnap one or two, but it is impossible to get all these ten or so, right?
So the only explanation is that the Dengzhou Mansion was really captured by the Liangshan thieves, although Yu Wanchun really can't think of how these thieves' armies can hide themselves and attack the rear even if they want to break their heads, but now is obviously not the time to dwell on that, how to solve this problem is the key!
Yu Wanchun was helpless, so he had to send someone to call back the officers who had just been disbanded again, and the generals had just been inspired by Yu Wanchun's "merit and silver" reward and their morale was high, so they were ready to do a big job tomorrow, but they were just about to rest but were called back.
Everyone was wondering, and they were all shocked when they heard Yu Wanchun's words, and then looked at each other.
After a few hours of painful discussion, the sky was almost dawn, and in the end, everyone decided to vote to decide, and the result was almost unanimously agreed to return to Dengzhou Mansion first and take back their hometown from the Liangshan bandits.
After all, this Zhujiazhuang can't be beaten this time, and it can be played again next time, if the hometown lets it go, then what should their family and friends do?
It's just that their move was completely expected by Ye Ling, and they had already made arrangements, they were completely like a cunning fox, no matter how much they tossed, they couldn't get out of the hands of hunters.
The next morning, the people of Zhujiazhuang were shocked when they got up, according to the practice of this time, as soon as the morning dawned, the two sides were about to start a new round of offensive and defensive battles, but they saw that the outside was empty, and the hundreds of camp tents of the officers and soldiers were gone.
Zhu Biao and Zhu Chaofeng were also very surprised when they received the report, Ye Ling's letter told them that they could let the officers and soldiers withdraw in two days at most, but this was too fast, they still didn't believe it, and sent a few fine people out to investigate, but those people ran out twenty or thirty miles away in one breath and found no trace of the enemy, and the officers and soldiers really retreated!
The people of Zhujiazhuang were overjoyed, and at this time, Lijiazhuang and Hujiazhuang also sent messengers, and the people of Sanjiazhuang united to celebrate this great victory.
Yu Wanchun ran back with more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Mansion in a hurry, but when he just walked to a canyon halfway through, he was ambushed, and after a burst of drums, countless men and horses came out before and after, blocking them before and after, blocking them tightly, and the flag on the opposite side was waving, which was the Liangshan banner.