It's time to take a look at the situation in the capital again, according to the arrangement of the old fox's official document, while the Manchu army is fully preparing for a counterattack on Mancheng, it also organizes people to shout slogans outside the city, claiming that Zeng Guoquan is ready to abandon the city with the treasures in the palace and flee for his life, and persuade the soldiers of Wu to follow Zeng Guoquan's example and make a fortune and leave; On the one hand, he used bows and arrows to shoot a large number of arrows into Mancheng, persuaded the Mancheng banner people to rebel, and recaptured the city in response to the Qing army's counterattack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The level of marching and fighting is average, but in terms of insight into people's hearts, the old fox of Guanwen is a master among the masters, and several tricks are directly aimed at the hearts of the people of the Wu army and the people of the city, and they also immediately received immediate results, which seriously hit the morale of the Wu army, and also added countless immeasurable dangerous variables to the defense of the Wu army.

In terms of the Wu army, as mentioned above, the core backbone of Zeng Guoquan's army are poor mountain people from Hunan, and the main soldiers are mostly poor Henan people, all of whom are working hard for Zeng Guoquan in order to make money and make a fortune. Naturally, he no longer wanted to tie his head to the waistband of his trousers and die in vain on the mountain of gold and silver and jewelry.

In such a state of mind, I heard that Zeng Guoquan deliberately wanted to run away directly with the spoils of war, and the soldiers of the Wu Army, who were almost all from poor families, naturally raised their hands in support, and sincerely hoped that Zeng Guoquan would do it as soon as possible, accept it when he saw it, leave when he made a fortune, and stop fighting at the risk of losing his life.

The regular army of the Wu army, the main force of the battle, is still like this, not to mention the auxiliary soldiers of the Wu army, which is composed of homeless beggars and eight banners, and the homeless beggars who are so poor that they can't even afford to wear underwear can get something casually, they don't care whether the Wu army can hold the city and block the counterattack of the Qing army in Zhili. The Eight Banners not only want to take the opportunity to make a fortune, but they are also accustomed to being slaves to the Eight Banners Manchurians, and they are even more unwilling to really work for Wu Jun and fight to the end with the old masters of the past.

Therefore, just this hand, the official document made the morale and fighting spirit of the Wu army soldiers plummet a lot, and at the same time, the Qing army's large number of arrow books shot into the city not only made countless Eight Banners Manchu people have different intentions, but also made the Wu soldiers have to be on guard at all times The Eight Banners in the city suddenly stabbed themselves in the back, and they were even more unable to concentrate on defending the city. The old fox of Guanwen almost did not spend a single soldier, and completely reversed the psychological situation between the Wu army and the Qing army.

Even Zeng Guoquan was affected by the tactics of the old fox of the official text, when the envoy of the Qing army entered the city with a white flag in his hand, and handed over the handwritten letter of the old fox of the official text to Zeng Guoquan, although Zeng Guoquan saw at a glance that this was the strategy of the official text, but he was still affected a lot, and he was extremely worried that the army under his command was messed up by money, and he no longer refused to fight with his life, and could not stop the crazy counterattack of the main force of the Qing army in Zhili.

Things have come to this point, and it is naturally the turn of Zhang Zhidong, who is also good at psychological warfare, to step forward and comfort Zeng Guoquan and say: "Nine Marshal, don't worry, although the old fox of the official and literary cauldron is ruthless, it is not impossible to crack it, as long as we adapt measures to local conditions and fight-for-tat, we will not worry about stabilizing the morale of the army and boosting morale." ”

"Then how to adapt measures to local conditions and fight-for-tat?" Zeng Guoquan hurriedly asked.

"Immediately and completely block the six gates of the east, west and north of Beijing, and cut off the way out of the city for our soldiers!" Zhang Zhidong said viciously: "Only the three gates of Xuanwu, Zhengyang, and Chongwen are left to the south to be blocked, and they are left to the rebel army to attack!" ”

"Wonderful!" Zeng Guoquan, who became worse and worse the more he studied, immediately understood Zhang Zhidong's intentions, and applauded and said: "Blocking the six gates of the east, west, and north can not only reduce the pressure on our city defense, but also make our soldiers have nowhere to run if they want to run with the loot, so they can only break the cauldron and fight to the end with the chaotic party!" ”

After the praise, Zeng Guoquan asked suspiciously: "But why do you want to leave the three gates of the southern city unblocked?" Wouldn't it be better to block together? In this way, those restless auxiliary troops and the Eight Banners are full of people who die and have the heart to surrender in Kaesong? ”

"There are two reasons, one is that after all of them are blocked, the rebel army has no weak points to focus on, and it will definitely be scattered everywhere to find the weak points of the siege, lengthen our defense line, and disperse our main army, which is already seriously insufficient, but it is not easy to defend the city."

"Moreover, the rebel army is far more familiar with the situation in the capital than we are, and after forcing them to find another place to attack, we will only be more unable to defend against it, so it is better to deliberately leave Xuanwumen, Zhengyangmen and Chongwenmen for the chaotic party to break through easily, and lure the rebel army to focus on these three positions, and it will be easier for us to defend it."

Zhang Zhidong explained carefully, and said with a cruel smile: "As for the second reason, the alleys of the outer city streets south of Xuanwu Gate, Zhengyang Gate and Chongwen Gate are just the essence of Beijing's outer city, not only are there many rich households, but also the people are the most dense. ”

Zeng Guoquan laughed, first praised Zhang Zhidong's insidious viciousness, shamelessness and despicability, and then asked, "What else can be done?" ”

"The second method is very simple, immediately arrest the whole family of the official text." Zhang Zhidong smiled and said: "Escorted to Zhengyangmen, tortured to death in front of the rebel army, the corpse was made into meat sauce, boiled soup and distributed to our auxiliary battalions, put it in a cauldron and mixed with the food, and forced our auxiliary soldiers to eat it!" If you refuse to eat, kill immediately! ”

"You're ruthless!" Zeng Guoquan gasped at first, and then said with a cruel smile: "But it should be effective, not only to force our restless auxiliaries to sell their lives, but also to warn those rebellious generals whose families are still in the city, forcing us to be anxious, and their families must also end up like this." ”

"The third way is to target the bannermen all over the city." Zhang Zhidong also said: "Send people to tell the people of the city banner one by one, saying that the remnants of the rebellious party in the city have ill intentions and try to continue to plot rebellion and rebellion, and accept the rebellious army into the city. Encourage the banner people in the city to whistle and denounce a remnant of the rebellious party, as a reward, the person who denounces can get half of the family property of the remnant of the rebellious party. ”

"At the same time as this decree is promulgated." Zhang Zhidong added: "Encourage a few more banner men to falsely accuse their enemies, and then immediately pull out their enemies and cut them down, and also fulfill the promised reward in public." After a few times like this, not to mention that those idle and accustomed banner people dare not have any dissenting intentions, it is impossible for the banner people in the city to unite and fight against us. ”

Zeng Guoquan listened to the cruel smile, immediately nodded in agreement, and immediately arranged manpower to act according to Zhang Zhidong's plan.

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As soon as he heard the report that Wu Jun was blocking the city gate, the old fox knew that he had met an opponent, and he was ready to use the plan to break the cauldron and crack his own salary plan at the bottom of the cauldron, but the official wen was not in a hurry, and said with a sneer: "Good blocking!" Block all the gates of the Inner Nine Cities, and you Zeng Guoquan will have to arrange soldiers on every section of the city wall and every arrow battlement, and dilute the main force of your thief army by yourself, and the old man will see how you defend it! ”

Of course, the next report made the official text gradually unable to laugh, Wu Jun blocked the six gates of the east and west of the city with earth and stone sandbags, but there was no action on the side of the three gates of the south city, and the official text gradually found that the taste was wrong, but for a while and a half he couldn't guess the reason why Wu Jun deliberately left the weak point of the three gates of the south city. After all, compared with the famous traitor Zhang Zhidong, who has gone down in history, there is still a certain gap in the degree of treacherous official literature of the old fox.

What shocked Guan Wen even more was still behind, when the scout suddenly came to report, saying that it was the soldiers of the Wu Army who suddenly put all his family members on the Zhengyangmen City, Guan Wen sat down on the handsome chair again, his old face was as pale as paper, without the slightest color. The monk next to him, the monk Lingqin, was gloating, and said hypocritically: "Official platform, go and take a look, maybe Zeng Guoquan rebel wants to put forward some conditions, if his conditions are not too harsh, we can't consider accepting it and exchange your family back." ”

"Yes, Xiufeng, let's go and take a look." Old Prince Hui Mianyu also kindly persuaded: "If Wu Thief really wants to put forward any conditions in exchange for your family, as long as it is not unacceptable, this king and Prince Gong can agree." ”

The devil six and the alcohol prince also persuaded him to do so, but the official text was full of tears, shook his head in pain, and said in a choked voice: "Old prince, princes, your good-intentioned slaves have it, but the Wu thief put the slave's whole family on the city, not to negotiate any conditions. Zeng Guoquan is not so stupid, he will count on using hostages to force the old man to give in to him. ”

"What is Zeng Guoquan a rebel for?" Devil Six hurriedly asked.

"Kill." Guan Wen cried out and said: "When things come to this point, Zeng Guoquan's rebel thieves will definitely choose to execute the entire slave family in order to stabilize the morale of the army, cut off the way back, put them to death and come back to life, and force the thieves under his command to fight to the end with us." ”

When the devil six and the others gasped, someone outside the door quickly came to report, saying that the soldiers of the Wu army first went through the official documents on the Zhengyang Gate to help the devil six and others to abuse the crime, and then executed the whole family of the official text by cutting off the limbs and disemboweling the heart. ”

After learning that his family was no longer safe, Guan Wen calmed down, wiped away his tears and asked the herald: "In addition to torturing and killing the old man's family, what else does the Wu rebel thief army do?" ”

"It's ......." The herald was too frightened to speak.

"Let's just say it, it's okay, the old man can stand it." The official text urged.

"The Wu thief also loudly threatened, saying that he would make the corpses of your family members into meat soup and distribute them to all their thieves, one ......, and eat them together." The herald replied with a shudder.

The faces of the devil six and the others changed color again, and the bodhisattva-hearted old prince Hui was still a little disgusted and wanted to vomit, but the official text shook his head in pain, and said even more painfully: "What a ruthless ruin, such a vicious and despicable method, Zeng Guoquan is a rebel thief, the old man is really impressed by you." ”

(Zeng Guoquan: ......, don't, don't be impressed, it's not that I'm modest, it's that I'm really not so ruthless.) ）

At this time, there was a sudden noise outside the door, and at the same time, a personal soldier came to report, saying that the generals under the official account jointly asked to see him, and he wanted to immediately send troops to attack the city to avenge the wife and children of the official document. Guanwen ordered the meeting with tears in his eyes, and after the indignant generals of Zhili entered the meeting, they also rushed to ask for the order to immediately launch a siege, but Guanwen shook his head and refused, choked up and said: "Generals, your good intentions are appreciated by the old man, but your army has rushed all the way from Zhengding to here, and the top and bottom are extremely tired. ”

"The old man's family is dead, and there is no need to rush to take revenge today, you should go back and rest, appease the soldiers, prepare the combat equipment, and tomorrow morning, the old man will send troops with you to attack the city to take revenge and recapture our imperial city of the Qing Dynasty."

After appeasing the generals who were impulsive because of anger and persuading them to return to the army to rest, the old fox of Guanwen said to Devil Liu: "Lord Gong, please immediately arrange three battalions of troops, let them bring more drums, gongs and firecrackers, and lurk in the alleys of Nancheng streets outside the three gates of Xuanwu, Zhengyang and Chongwen. ”

"The bureaucratic system is a clever plan." Devil Six immediately woke up and said: "In this way, it will be difficult for Wu Thief to get a good night's sleep, and when we launch another siege tomorrow, it will definitely be much easier." ”

Guan Wen nodded tearfully, and arranged for the person who sent the signal to explain the rules of action, and then lowered his head, quietly wept again, and said secretly: "The old man this time, he really cut off his children and grandchildren." ”

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At the same time, in the city, the Wu army had also begun to implement Zhang Zhidong's third plan, organizing a large number of useless auxiliaries to issue military orders one by one, declaring that the remnants of the rebel party were found in the city and preparing to make a rebellion, and planned to open the city gate to welcome the rebel army into the city, and asked the eight banners in the city to actively expose and enthusiastically inform, and promised to reward the whistleblower with half of the family property of the banner people who were exposed.

Then, under the instigation of some well-intentioned people, soon a few rogue bannermen who eat, drank, prostituted, gambled and lost their family property jumped out, testified to each other and joined forces to falsely accuse the rich bannermen of being the remnants of the rebellious party who were ready to make a rebellion, and the Wu army auxiliaries were not polite, and immediately slaughtered the unlucky bannerman who shouted injustice, fulfilled his promise to reward the whistleblower with half of his family property, and also rewarded the wife and children of the unlucky bannerman to the whistleblower as slaves.

After several glorious examples were set up, the banner people in the city were of course horrified, and the hearts of countless banner people who had already begun to stir also stopped beating, and they rushed to close their doors without being forced by Wu Jun, and they did not dare to speak loudly at home, for fear of being caught by rogue neighbors and falsely accused, and they did not dare to go from house to house and secretly conspire against Wu.

At the same time as suppressing the Manqi people with the White Terror, the Wu army began to force the auxiliary army to eat a dinner mixed with the flesh and blood of the official and literary families, not to mention the result, after eating a special dinner without any scruples, the Wu army auxiliaries who knew what was added to these dinners were really much more stable, and they all knew that they might be settled by the autumn queen in the future, so they had to choose to further support the Wu army in order not to be held accountable in the future.

Although Zeng Guoquan did not force the main force of the Wu army to eat the meat soup of the official family, but just seeing Zeng Guoquan's ruthlessness, as well as seeing the six city gates in the east and west that had been blocked, the soldiers of the Wu army knew that Zeng Guoquan would never run away directly with gold and silver treasures.

It was night, it didn't take long for the sky to get dark, after the fire signal was sent out on the tower of Yongding Gate, the Qing soldiers who were ambushed in the complex streets in the north of the outer city immediately beat the gongs and drums, making noise, and intimidating the Wu army guards on the city wall.

Even Zeng Guoquan, who lived in Nanfu, heard the commotion, and after quickly getting up to understand the situation, Zeng Guoquan frowned, worried that it would affect the physical strength of his soldiers, and he was even more worried that the Qing army would suddenly come out of the ten fakes and kill Wu Jun by surprise.

But fortunately, when Zeng Guoquan came to Zhang Zhidong to discuss countermeasures, Zhang Zhidong immediately laughed and said: "The old fox of Guanwen, I have seen myself looking for death, I really have never seen you looking for death like this, I am in a passive disadvantage and still come to this hand, I have never seen how to write the word death." ”

After laughing, Zhang Zhidong said to Zeng Guoquan that he had come up with a countermeasure almost in the blink of an eye, Zeng Guoquan was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly sent people to use pressurized water dragons and a large amount of fire oil to go to the city to fight the fire, and ordered the soldiers of the Wu army to load the fire oil into the water dragon, press the lever and shoot it into the streets of the houses outside the city, and then didn't bother to use any arson rockets, and directly used a grenadier to shoot two picric acid shells into the streets of the houses. And then ......

"It's on fire! It's on fire! ”

"Rich! Brethren, here's your chance to get rich! ”

In the raging fire, the rich people in the area of Dashilar and Liulichang cried and fled, cursing the Qing army for lacking morality with the unique sharp mouth of Jingyouzi, disturbing their good dreams for no reason, and also inviting them to the disaster of war, the Qing soldiers lurking in the darkness of the streets and alleys took the opportunity to make a windfall, pretending to fight the fire, and rushed into the houses to loot and loot, during which there was naturally little chaos and the soldiers and people fighting, and then when the Wu soldiers shouted and fired in turn, pretending to go out of the city to rush and kill, Zhengyang Gate was naturally more chaotic outside the gate.

The situation was reported to the official document, and the official document, who was lying on the bed secretly wiping away tears, opened his mouth, and only after a long time did he order to stop the implementation of the plan to disrupt the enemy, send troops to extinguish the fire and stabilize the people's minds. At the end, Guan Wen still sighed weakly: "Zeng Guoquan rebel, I heard that after you followed Wu Chaoyue rebel, you learned to use your brain to fight, but the old man really didn't expect that you could learn so badly." ”