The southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, located in Tiannan Prefecture in the lower reaches of the Jiulong River Plain,

In Tiannan City, where there had just been a pouring rain, there was still a fresh smell after the rain, which finally barely washed away the high-intensity offensive for several days, leaving behind the heavy blood and stench that could not be dissolved, and also made the tired and painful defenders get a little respite again.

Although the arrival of the rainy season greatly reduced the power and effectiveness of the firearms such as guns, flying fire, and thunder of the rebel army outside the city, the river water that swelled at the mouth of the city not only allowed the boats collected by the rebel army to reach the water gate, but also built a floating platform on the spot, and the Chinese and Japanese artillery bombardment continued to roar, completely cutting off the last point of internal and external communication; As a result, the backflow caused a serious waterlogging in the city, polluted and destroyed most of the water sources, and led to a rather serious epidemic.

Almost every day, people fell, and truckloads of corpses were cleaned up every day, so that they could not be cleaned up due to the arduous manpower, resulting in some neighborhoods being cordoned off and blocked, even if there were still some people inside. What flows out of the ditch under the city wall is a muddy and swollen thing, and sometimes it is the blood color of a big beach.

Among the besieged walls and earthen ramparts built with civil engineering, the sound of cannons hidden under the canopy is still continuous, but the frequency has become a little sparse, and the flying iron balls and loose pills are also unexpectedly muddy and waterlogged everywhere, only the incomplete battlements and towers. However, when someone's hiding position is hit, it will bloom with a touch of blood in the extremely fierce and miserable scream.

Although the hoarded grain and grass are still sufficient, and the ordnance that was forcibly transported before is still enough, the morale and fighting spirit of the defenders have been declining with the intermittent heavy rain;

And among the mud and corpses under the city walls, the figures that run to and fro like rats are not shy away from people's eyes and ears even in broad daylight; Under the watchful eye of the lifeless defenders of the city, it is not shuttled through the camp of the besieging rebels.

And in the former part of the inner city of the former capital - Jiulian Palace, after a few months, the atmosphere of the building will be enveloped here again. For, the previous efforts organized by the city to break through the water gate again had failed;

Because, in front of the estuary bulwark in the outer city outside the water gate, at some point, a wooden stake has been laid, and a floating thunder that will explode when touched has been laid; As a result, not long after the daring man who rowed and dived before dawn came out of the cover range of the water gate, he suddenly ran into these underwater obstacles;

Then the thunder that blew up was only a few vanguard boats that overturned, and caused no casualties, but it woke up the enemy troops deployed nearby, and the open fire with a staff illuminated a large area of the river, and also brought into view these death squads that were blocked in the river and could not advance or retreat for a while;

Thousands of well-armed sailors dared to die, and under the combined fire of firearms, bows and crossbows, the heavens and the earth were besieged and slaughtered on the spot. The roar and screams continued until the sky was white, and outside the water gate, there were large expanses of ship fragments and stumps that had been floating in blood.

Therefore, Liu Yu, who looked a little haggard and bloodshot in the cabinet, Liu Yu, the deputy assistant of the cabinet of Tiannan ****** and the general convener of many party members in the city, no longer talked about any turnarounds and changes, but emphasized and assured the leaders of the various factions who were sitting in the city that they could hold out on to the question of how long they could hold out.

And now, he doesn't even care much about the small actions and tandem actions of these people who are privately self-righteous; As long as he still directly or indirectly controls most of the military power in this city, and controls the related dependents, there is no need to worry about these people with different minds being able to turn to the sky.

In fact, through the inner line in the army, he has secretly suppressed the movements of individual defenders several times, and scattered them into other troops, and used a false means of internal surrender to trap the besieging men and horses outside the city, so at least in the short term, there is no need to worry about any other changes.

Although he has always emphasized to his subordinates and cronies that as long as he persists long enough, he will be able to force those princes and vassals on the other side of the sea to make decisions and take substantive actions in the face of the benefits and losses of the cold lips and teeth; But at this moment, he had to secretly think about his plans and plans to flee again.

It's just that this time there is no support and echo from the sailors; Moreover, the biggest obstacle was actually on the Son of Heaven who was coerced by them, because he began to get sick because of fright and unadaptability, and openly stated that he would never go on the road again.

What kind of joke is this, if he and others have worked hard to escape, but there is no such thing as a banner and signboard for the emperor of the old country, then the efforts and plans of his own people have always been in vain.

Therefore, he also had to take some extraordinary measures, and he had a backup plan before, but it was too big for many people to know, and now it was finally time to come in handy;

While thinking so, he took the dead from his own family, through the Ouchi Nine Hole Gate held by his cronies, and crossed the ruins of Zhangxiantai, Yunying Tower and Huibi Palace.

Although most of the internal and external passages have been flooded by someone, he has at least mastered a secret passage to the west leading to the outside of the city, which is also the strength and confidence of his team to be able to sit firmly in Diaoyutai until now;

As long as you can take the Son of Heaven out, and then go all the way southwest to the other end of the Jiulong River Plain, if you haven't fallen yet, you can get the remnants of the former sailors who retreated there, and release the ship to sea again.

From a certain point of view, even if those island vassal princes of Xikaidao did not dare to openly accept them again, I believe that if they give enough attention and support, the Tianzhu Protectorate of Western Great Xia will not easily let go of such an opportunity.

However, what was surprising then was that when they went to stabilize the other party's cronies in return, they actually pounced, the Son of Heaven was not in their own dormitory, and the people on duty around were nowhere to be seen.

"Damn."

He couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and the worrisome thing was still born. I'm afraid that it will have nothing to do with those royalists of the Zhengding Society. He hurriedly shouted orders to his subordinates

"Stop, and then turn around and go back. Don't worry about the palace anymore. ”

After a few moments, he spoke again

"Stop again, let's go to Yunding Gate instead."

After another half an hour, when he passed through the unguarded Yunding Gate, the cronies who climbed the tower to look back once again confirmed his feeling that the Nine Hole Gate was surrounded by fire and noise.

Liu Yu exhaled heavily, and then said to a figure who had been carefully surrounded by them before entering the barracks that was still in the hands of his own people.

"From now on, you are the son of my beam."

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On another day off in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, in the back garden of a large official residence.

When 6 Wuguan and Xin Jiaxuan, two brothers and relatives in distress, sat together again, there was only a relative and bitter smile. How could they be ignorant of what had been born under their hands during this time?

But this kind of activity is more like a conspiracy to hide people's eyes or confuse the public, or simply to stir up strife and contradictions in order to disturb the internal affairs of Huaizhen.

And Xin Jiaxuan has been dormant and low-key for too long during this time, so that he has lost some kind of authority and influence, and the subordinates he faces are also a little strange and angry. The situation was better because he came back earlier and immediately devoted himself to observing the affairs that kept the yamen busy, but he also had to face the status quo after many personnel changes.

One of the most common characteristics of the officials under Huaizhen today is that they are young enough; It can be said that except for Li Gefei and Zeng Hua, who are nominally in charge of the Political Department and the Transit Department, the chief officers of other departments are basically not over forty years old; Not to mention that because of the frequent mobility and long-term part-time multi-ability of officials at all levels, it can be said that the young and vigorous twenties and thirties are the most basic mainstream.

This not only represents a certain vitality, enterprising spirit, and potential development, but is also a major reason why Huaizhen is most criticized by the DPRK and the central government for lacking old age and stability, and for being frivolous and impetuous and reckless. Therefore, in a sense, they lack the background and the city, and it is easy to be touched and provoked by the people's hearts floating;

This is also the problem that these two department chiefs have to face at this time.

(End of chapter)