Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Siege

When Li Ying pulled Hu Cheng to inquire about what benefits Liang Shanjun wanted to give him, Lin Chong had already led his troops to the forest less than three miles away from Zhujiazhuang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The scout cavalry kept coming back, and after reporting the situation, they kept leaving with Lin Chong's orders.

At this time, more than 4,000 Liangshan troops had already surrounded the entire Zhujiazhuang like an iron bucket, and they could launch an attack just after Ling Zhen's Shenji battalion had assembled the catapult.

Attack on all sides and break the city in one fell swoop.

"Haha, until now, Zhu Chaofeng still doesn't know that he has been surrounded by us on all sides, I really don't know if this old man will be scared to death directly when our more than 4,000 troops suddenly appear."

Lu Fang rode a horse and followed Lin Chong, and he couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this.

Lin Chong also smiled and said, "It's better not to, otherwise he will be scared to death, so how can we capture him alive?" ”

On the day Zhu Biao was captured alive again, Lin Chong sent someone to give Zhu Chao an ultimatum, asking him to immediately and unconditionally release Luan Tingyu, and then surrender together with Zhu Long.

He let go of their family and only killed their father and son, otherwise they would definitely set foot in Zhujiazhuang, and the Zhu family would not be left behind.

With such harsh conditions, Zhu Chaofeng and Zhu Long naturally refused to agree, but Liangshan was powerful, and the Zhuangshang Zhuangke had already lost their courage, and they couldn't beat it.

Zhu Chaofeng had to order the able-bodied descendants of each family to gather in the Zhuangzi and strictly guard the city, which could be delayed for a day.

After that, for several days, Lin Chong sent two or three teams of cavalry to shout in front of Zhujiazhuang every day, so that Zhu Chaofeng would surrender as soon as possible, and Zhu Chaofeng did not dare to send troops to attack.

So outside Zhujiazhuang Zhuangzi, Liangshan Army was allowed to come and go, unimpeded.

For the past three days, Lin Chong sent people to various small villages outside Zhuangzi every day to talk to the villagers.

At the beginning, these people were quite afraid of the Liangshan army, and when they saw the Liangshan army coming, many of them hid in advance.

But gradually, they found that these Liangshan soldiers were actually quite kind, and sometimes they would send them things from door to door.

And the doglegs of the Zhu family were also so frightened that they hid in the Zhuangzi and didn't dare to come out.

Slowly, these villagers began to take the initiative to contact and talk to the soldiers of the Liangshan Army.

When I heard, especially later, I heard that hundreds of recruits of the Liangshan Army who were originally guests of Zhujiazhuang told them that the Liangshan Army's attack on Zhujiazhuang this time was only to punish the evil, only against the Zhu family, and the dogs of the Zhu family;

Moreover, Liang Shanjun is a team that is the master of the house for the people and is here to rescue them this time, and after breaking Zhujiazhuang, each family can divide the food and land.

These villagers, who were mainly old and weak, women and children, became excited at once, and expressed their willingness to contribute to the Liangshan army's attack on Zhujiazhuang.

Naturally, the Liangshan army didn't need them to make any effort, but just hoped that they would keep the Liangshan army's actions secret;

The other is that on the day of the attack of the Liangshan army, some people can be sent to the front of the battle to shout, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties after each family is strong.

In short, Zhu Chaofeng couldn't shrink out, and now he didn't know that the Liangshan army of nearly 5,000 had surrounded his Zhuangzi;

I don't know if Lin Chong will launch a surprise attack on the fourth day without waiting for the end of the ten-day ultimatum.

At the end of the hour, the Liangshan army was all ready, the ten battalions of soldiers and horses were surrounded on three sides, the soldiers were under the city, the war drums were beating, and the horns were blowing.

Zhu Chaofeng, Zhu Long was still holding a cup of good tea as usual at this time, sighing in the room, discussing whether to give up the millions of family property and run away in the middle of the night.

Hearing the faint sound of war drums beating outside, the two of them couldn't help but be startled.

At this moment, I saw several stewards running in in a panic, frightened, and stammered: "Too...... Taigong, Liangshan Jun...... It's time to siege the city! ”

The teacup in Zhu Chaofeng's hand fell to the ground and was shattered, only to see his face like ashes, and said in disbelief: "What's ...... What, no...... Isn't there still a few days left? Why doesn't this Liangshan dog thief be trustworthy? ”

Zhu Long was also so frightened that his soul was not possessed, and his voice trembled: "They are coming...... How many people came? ”

"Three...... In three directions, Wu Yang is full of people, at least four or five thousand! The steward was frightened and began to tremble.

"Ah......h

As soon as I heard that there were four or five thousand people, I thought that only two battalions of men and horses had killed the four battalions of soldiers and horses in the imperial court plus the sixty or seventy cavalry of Zhujiazhuang who had lost their armor and had no power to fight back, but now there were four or five thousand at once!

Zhu Chaofeng suddenly lost all his thoughts, slid onto the chair, and muttered: "I will die in heaven...... I ...... when God dies," the whole person was almost stupid.

However, Zhu Long still retained a little bit of reason, and when he saw his father like this, he quickly calmed down and said loudly: "Someone!" Tell all the bankers to go up to the city wall and hold me up!

Tell the order to go down, and all those who go up to the city wall will each have ten pounds of copper! Killing a Liangshan thief will reward 100 guan, and killing a Liangshan leader will reward 100 taels of gold! Go, go, go! ”

The two chief stewards went in a panic, and then Zhu Long asked the little steward again: "You said that there are three directions for the Liangshan thief, which direction is it?" ”

"Positive...... The main entrance is to the east, and there are also due south and north directions. ”

Zhu Long was overjoyed and said: "You mean that no one attacked the back door of the west?" ”

"Yes, yes......"

"Okay, call the Venerable Master, let's go through the back door!"

While speaking, Zhu Long had already asked someone to pick up Zhu Chao and bring him, and dragged him out.

In the direction of the east front, Lin Chong and Hu Sanniang rode on horses, silently watching Wang Yin command the battle in front.

It's not that Lin Chong is lazy or wants to pick up girls, in fact, Lin Chong is very clear about his identity, that is, the leader of the Liangshan Army, whether it is military or civil affairs, as well as the leader of ideological work.

What he needs to do is to do everything for the governor, put forward some programmatic and directional things, and let his subordinates do the specific work, he only needs to grasp the direction, inspect and supervise the checks.

Otherwise, now that Liangshan's stall is so big, if he has to take care of everything himself, then Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms will only be exhausted to death in the end.

It's like training soldiers, when I used to train in Bianjing, there was no way, no one was available around, and only I knew that set of training methods for later generations, so Lin Chong went into battle in person and ate and practiced with the soldiers.

Now that Lu Zhishen and a large number of training backbones have grown up, and they have mastered their own set of methods, Lin Chong simply let go and handed over to Lu Zhishen, Du Bai, Wang Yin, and Lu Fang to be specifically responsible.

Lin Chong himself rarely trains with the soldiers anymore, but more often eats with them, talks to them, and exists as a spiritual leader.

Commanding the operation is the same, Lin Chong set the goal, and worked out the battle plan with the officers and commanders at all levels, and when it was time to command on the spot, Lin Chong completely let go.

Let Wang Yin, Li Tianyan, He Ji, Fan Rui, Ling Zhen and others command by themselves, and then Lin Chong only watched from the side, while observing carefully, and secretly scored everyone's performance.

Wang Yin's Beiwei Army Infantry Battalion, as well as Ling Zhen's Shenji Battalion, and the first battalion of recruits were responsible for attacking the east front gate of Zhujiazhuang, and the commander-in-chief was Wang Yin.

Seeing Wang Yin's order, the two hundred Beiwei infantry and three hundred and fifty recruits had set up a loose and long arrow array in front of the moat, while the three hundred Beiwei infantry carried thirty long ladders, and one hundred and fifty recruits followed, ready to start charging at any time.

"Stop beating the drums and let the fellows come forward and shout! The whole army is ready, the shouting is over, and the attack is launched immediately regardless of the result! ”

Wang Yin ordered loudly.