What followed was the endless siege.

At the beginning, the soldiers and civilians in the city were still happy for a few days when they learned that the Chuang army had sent Liu Zongmin's army to save Yongcheng. Liu Chao even recruited hundreds of daredevils to drop down the city in the middle of the night with hanging baskets, trying to sneak attack the Ming army camp, and the target they chose was the section of the Nanjing army's defense.

The combat effectiveness of these dead soldiers is not bad, at least much stronger than the Nanjing army. As soon as he left the city, he broke through a long siege and almost broke the Nanjing army.

Fortunately, Leng Ying, the new cavalry corps defender, happened to patrol here with thirty cavalry, and with a countercharge, he left these hundreds of enemy troops in the open land between the long encirclement and the city wall.

This Leng Ying seems to have suddenly changed a person since Ma Muji's first battle, contrary to his cowardly and depressed appearance in the past, he will charge forward in every battle, and he has made a lot of contributions. Sun Yuan was never stingy with the rewards of his warriors, in addition to vigorously promoting, he also filled in his name on the high body of the defending officer and sent it to the military department for reporting.

For this kid who suddenly didn't like to talk and couldn't beat a fart for a long time, Sun Yuan was still very disgusted at first, thinking that this person was a green-headed turtle. However, slowly, his opinion of Leng Ying changed.

Not to mention, this kid is a good hand at leading soldiers, and his martial arts are also surprisingly high. When he was fighting in Ma Muji, if he hadn't stabbed Liu Zongmin first, he really wouldn't have been able to make up for Liu Thief.

After coming down, some warriors in the army also studied martial arts with him in private, and as a result, many people were defeated by his lightning-fast mandarin duck double sword.

For talents, even if his private life is despicable, Sun Yuan is also promoted and reused.

Seeing that the morale of the thief army was not bad, Sun Yuan piled up the heads he had obtained from Ma Muji's beheading outside the city, thinking that Jingguan would deter Liu Chao's thief army.

The captured flags and weapons were stacked into several hills, and the thieves in the city knew that there was no hope for reinforcements, and the army was depressed, and they were unwilling to go out of the city to make senseless sacrifices.

Seeing that the thief army did not dare to go out of the city, the hearts of the Nanjing army and the Lufeng army also stabilized, and it is estimated that the dead people were numb from seeing too much, and gradually became a bit of an army

。

The situation has changed dramatically.

Moreover, after Sun Yuan's strong implementation of the health system and the patient isolation system in the three armies, the plague was finally brought under control. The crematorium also gradually became less and less light. But the smoke and stench of burning corpses in the city grew stronger day by day, and it was clear that Liu Chao was already in trouble.

Gradually, some people in the city escaped, dragging their families and families to find a way to survive.

It's a pity that Liu Chao has already implemented strict military management in the city, and the old and weak women and children want to go out of the city, okay. but the goods, the bread, and the youth of the house were left behind.

He opened the south gate, and the drawbridge was put once a day, allowing 2,000 ineffective people to go out of the city to reduce consumption.

At the city gate, he arranged for several rows of soldiers to search his body, and all the food and property he had brought with him were confiscated. If there is resistance, it is a knife to cut down.

After these poor people left the city, because of Ma Shiying's strict order, there was no food, and no one was allowed to surround it for a long time, otherwise, it would be killed with an arrow.

For several days, thousands of hopeless people cried loudly in the open space between the Changwei and the city wall, and kept making arches, begging the officers and soldiers wearing masks to let them live.

Sun Yuan saw that more than 300 people came to his defense area to plead for mercy, and the people cried, and the soldiers of the Ningxiang Army were also crying. The military orders of the Kening Township Army are like a mountain, and since there are orders from above, they must be implemented to the letter. As a result, some soldiers secretly threw their rations to the people.

He really couldn't stand it anymore, and suddenly regretted his plan to Ma Shiying a little in his heart. So he went to Governor Ma to consult with him to see if he could let the people out.

As a result, Ma Shiying avoided it.

After waiting for him in Lu Fengjun for a long time, Sun Yuan didn't get any reply, so he could only go back depressed.

He has already decided: I promised Ma Shiying not to let the people in the city out of the city, but I was also angry for a while, and I hurt so many people. I can't go on like this anymore, otherwise, won't my Sun Yuan become a beast? Let's start opening up the earthen enclosure and let the people go.

But when he returned to the defense area, he saw that the troops had been withdrawn, and the section of the defense area under his control had all been replaced by the Lufeng Army. Ma Shiying's warrant said that the task of defending Changwei would be entrusted to the Lufeng and Nanjing armies, and the Ningxiang army would remain at the rear as the general reserve.

Sun Yuan was furious, and was about to turn around to find Ma Shiying again, when suddenly his heart hurt, sweat flowed out of his body, his face became pale, and he couldn't lift up any more strength

。

Looking for Garcia to come over and take a look, I learned that he was stabbed in the chest by Li Yan during the battle of Ma Muji that day.

That Li Yan was so angry that he pierced the cuirass he was wearing on the outside with one shot, but fortunately he was wearing a soft armor inside, otherwise he would really die in that battle.

At that time, there was only a large bruise on my chest, but it didn't hurt too much, and I didn't care.

But when Garcia came over to take a look, he said that it was estimated that he had injured his internal organs, because he had not been treated, and now it is estimated that the injuries inside have worsened.

That night, Sun Yuan had a high fever, and the whole person was as light as if he was about to float to the sky.

This lay down in the tent for half a month before he could get off the ground.

The time has come to the middle of June of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the battle of Yongcheng is still being fought endlessly, standing on the long fence, gritting his teeth and looking at the past, the scale of the Ming army's camp is much larger.

When I asked, I learned that during the half month that he was recuperating from his injuries, Ma Shiying recruited more than 30,000 people from Fengyang and Luzhou and mobilized mountains of grain. It is said that because of this, Huang Degong, the chief military officer of Luzhou, was greatly unhappy, and even went to Nanjing to sue Lao Ma, saying that he had almost sucked up all the blood in Luzhou. If Zhang Xianzhong suddenly went east to Luzhou at this time, he would not have much strength at hand.

Ma Shiying is so generous...... This old traitor is also fighting.

Sun Yuan looked at Yongcheng again, and it was still calm over there, with broken chops and pheasants everywhere.

As for the open space between the city wall and the long wall, the people who used to cry are gone.

Sun Yuan couldn't help but ask, "What about the people who fled from the city?" ”

"That's not it, they're all dead." Next to him, Huang You, who was thin as a vine, wrapped the big dan on his body, but on a hot day, he couldn't see a drop of sweat on his forehead.

Sun Yuan followed his fingers and looked over, only to see that the half-filled moat was full of jagged white bones and lime sprinkled on it for disinfection.

Huang You sighed sadly: "They all starved to death, more than 10,000 people...... No more than a hundred people have been left from this dead land with enough food...... Bones are exposed...... Hell on earth, that's about it......"

"Ten thousand people starved to death...... Sun Yuanhan's hair stood up, and he smelled the strong stench of corpse decay on the tip of his nose, he had been sniffing this smell for nearly a month, and he had long been used to it

。 But today I felt extremely strong: "It's my fault, I should have opposed Governor Ma's proposal in the first place, blame me!" ”

Next to him, Leng Ying said coldly: "The general doesn't have to blame himself so much, according to my Ming law, these so-called people have assisted Liu Thief to defend the city, even if they haven't been to the city." And the thieves lived in their houses, and it was a capital offense for them to know that they did not fight to kill the thieves. ”

"You ......" Huang You turned his head angrily and stared at his head: "The language of beasts." ”

Leng Ying was not afraid: "Now, the general should be worried that Liu Chao will use this matter to inspire the hatred of the defenders in the city against you." ”

"Get down!" Huang Youli sighed.

Leng Ying only arched his hand and strode down the long circle.

Huang You's eyes were filled with tears, and he sang in a low voice: "The armor gives birth to lice, and all surnames die." The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”

It is Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei's "Artemisia Lixing", and the situation described in the poem is so similar to today.

After coming down, Sun Yuan heard from his subordinates that in the half month that he was sick, the old and weak women and children in the city kept pouring out. Unfortunately, because there was no food, they could not return to the city, so they could only be trapped in this open space between the two armies, and one by one they died like autumn bugs.

All the dead people, without exception, had their bellies swollen, and in a few days, they would explode with a bang.

In the night, the sound came and went, and it never stopped.

In this clearing, almost everything that can be eaten is eaten by the hungry people, not even the grass is spared.

After the rainstorm, there was a lot of grass growing in the clearing, but now it was bare.

Sun Yuan no longer has the strength to regret it, what can he do?

Regaining his strength, Sun Yuan decided to take Yongcheng as soon as possible, so as not to make the people in the city suffer more

。 At the same time, he did not hesitate to send troops to dig a gap in a section of the earth fence and give it to the people who wanted to escape from the city.

But at this time, no one believed in Sun Yuan.

Liu Chao actually drove a group of people up the city wall and cried and scolded Sun Yuan. It turned out that these people were all young people who starved to death outside, and there were also relatives and friends of the more than 4,000 soldiers killed by Ma Shiying in Suzhou.

For a while, "Sun Yuan's thief must not die well", "Sun Butcher, you demon, God will accept you", "If you don't believe it, look up, who will be spared by the sky." ”

The cry was full of hatred, it was really the cuckoo crying blood, which made Sun Yuan's heart chill for a while. Whether it is to kill the soldiers or not allow the people to go out of the city to try to starve to death or die of disease, this is the idea of Ma Shiying, a bastard. He is the commander of this battle, why are all these atrocities on my Sun Yuan's head? After this battle, my Sun Yuan's reputation in Henan can be said to have stinked completely.

In a fit of rage, Sun Yuan made several more plans, allowing the Nanjing army and the Lufeng army to once again create a large number of siege equipment and put them into the fierce siege battle.

But in the end, it was still fruitless.

In the next half a month, Sun Yuan played all kinds of tricks, but none of the troops set foot on the head of Yongcheng.

The Lu Feng Army and the Nanjing Army were full of wounded soldiers and could not attack again, and at the same time, complaints began to spread in these two troops, saying that Sun Yuan did not hesitate to use our blood to dye his big red official robe for the sake of his own merits.

He Ningxiang army is so brave, why don't you attack the city. If the cavalry army had been dispatched, they might have taken Yongcheng long ago.

Such rumors made Sun Yuan's hands and feet tremble, the time had reached July of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and there were still two months before the fall of Kaifeng, and the time was already pressing.

There are still dead people and dead people everywhere, as far as the eye can see, and the flat and open plains of the past are full of tombs. Huang You began to sigh again: "Looking at it from a distance, it is the Jun family, and the pine and cypress mounds are tired", the military of the Ningxiang Army has become more and more sentimental in recent years.

The Lufeng army and the Nanjing army no longer had the strength to carry weapons to rush and kill, and at the same time, there was no strength in Yongcheng, and the enemies on the city wall were less than one day a day.

Ming Jun and Liu Chaojun are like two old wolves that bite each other, suppurated, and dying.

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