At this moment, in the city of Jinan, Zhang Bingwen, the political envoy of Shandong Chengxuan, was putting his hand on his waist, and he was panting with his back on his back.

In the political system of the Ming Dynasty, the politics of a province was divided into three parts: the political envoys of the Chengxuan were in charge of civil affairs, the judicial affairs were in charge of the judicial envoys, and the commanders were in charge of military affairs.

As for the governor, he is similar to the central commissioner in modern times, and can only be regarded as an envoy, so he is also called the minister. The establishment belongs to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, not in the locality, and its own position is the Imperial History of the Metropolitan or the Imperial History of the Imperial Capital, and the formal title should be "the governor of a certain province with the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Palace," which is different from the governor of the Qing Dynasty as a fixed title of Xinjiang official

。

Therefore, Zhang Bingwen should be regarded as the largest magistrate in Shandong.

However, he was not a local officer. And most of the Shandong soldiers have been taken to Dezhou by Governor Yan Jizu. There are only about 5,000 available troops left for him, and it is obviously impossible to hold Jinan with this amount of troops.

Therefore, these days, Zhang Bingwen is busy from morning to dark. It was to comfort the people, suppress the commotion in the city, to recruit new soldiers and people to go to the city to defend the palace, and to organize materials, and the whole person was so busy that he couldn't support it.

Up to now, he has not closed his eyes for four days and four nights, and both eyeballs are covered with bloodshots.

At the moment, he just wanted to find a place to close his eyes and sleep beautifully.

But he also knew that there was no possibility of this, and since the day before yesterday, Jiannu's offensive has not stopped, day and night. Fortunately, Zhang Bingwen is very good at miscellaneous learning, and he knows a lot of ways to defend the city, relying on the equipment prepared in advance and his own overall deployment, .cc [Marshmallow]

At the end of the battle, Jiannu, who was inferior to the beasts, even drove the captured people to attack the city. They are all descendants of Yanhuang and Miao, and they want to drop vicious defensive weapons on the heads of their compatriots, but the defenders in the city still hesitate.

Jinan is crumbling.

In the end, Zhang Bingwen hardened his heart and personally went into battle, pouring a pot of boiled lead on the heads of a common man who went to the city.

Seeing that Zhang Bu's political envoy was so resolute, the other soldiers and civilians also closed their eyes and began an indiscriminate attack on the people under the city.

In this way, the battle began to be anxious.

Zhang Bingwen also knew that Jinan could not hold for a few days, and in the past few days, one team after another of the young men in the city were requisitioned by him to go to the city, and only one face, a team of 100 people was left with less than ten people. The walls of the city in these four directions are like four huge millstones, constantly consuming human flesh, and once life is put into it, it will be crushed into powder in the blink of an eye.

The huge casualties made the soldiers and civilians in the city frightened and shaken, and some people even proposed to simply open a city gate and kill it to see if they could kill a way out. Even if you can't rush out, killing one is enough, killing two earns one.

Among them, the transfer made Tang Shixiong and Dewang Zhu Youshu the most powerful.

If you concentrate your forces, it is also possible to fight your way to the death

。 But what about the people in the city, it is impossible for them to rush out, and it is difficult to throw them all to the violent Jiannu. What's more, according to the national dynasty system, local officials have the responsibility of defending the territory and resisting the enemy. If you lose the city and land, cut it.

He, Zhang Bingwen, is the political envoy of Shandong, so it is naturally impossible to leave. Deng Qianji, Zhou Zhixun, deputy envoys of the Political Envoy Department, and it is impossible for the Jinan prefect to be good.

But if he wants to unite the residents of the city, he Zhang Bingwen cannot set an example.

Therefore, in the past few days, Zhang Bingwen ordered all the officials to guard the four gates, and he himself personally stood at the head of the city with a knife to supervise the battle.

Although he was a man of letters, he could not do anything on such a battlefield. But it is still possible to shout a few words and raise your banner high to boost morale.

Seeing Lord Zhang's fearless Yashi coming to the front line, the soldiers and civilians were all moved in their hearts.

Under everyone's desperate defense, the Jiannu outside the city finally retreated.

Zhang Bingwen gasped heavily, as if there was a fire burning in his throat, "It's finally retreated, Jinan can still hold on." ”

A political secretary handed over a sip of hot tea.

Ignoring the water, Zhang Bingwen poured a breath, almost burning his tongue and blistering, and his throat was better.

As far as the eye could see, the city was full of dense corpses, and there were fires everywhere, and thick smoke rose straight into the air, connecting with the snowy sky.

In the cold weather, those corpses were frozen solid, scattered as firewood as far as the eye could see, and no one restrained them. After watching it for a long time, people can't help but feel cold.

It has to be said that the fortifications of Jinan City are very complete. This defense system was built by Ping An at the time of the Jingjing, and it has been more than 100 years now, and it is still strong despite so many years of wind and rain.

I think that at the beginning, the eloquent Chengzu also had a bloody encounter under this city.

As long as the soldiers and civilians in the city twist their hearts into a rope, it should be easy to hold Jinan. In the past few days, Zhang Bingwen suddenly made a discovery that made him feel very magical.

That's right, those young men who are constantly being requisitioned to the city are still dying like flies, but the dozen or so people who are lucky enough to survive will not suffer any more casualties

。 It seems that they have seen blood on the battlefield and have become fierce veterans. There are thousands more such people, and it is not a problem to defend Jinan.

However, a piece of bad news hit the confident Zhang on the head like a blow to the head.

I don't know if it's because there are many people who died, or because there were hundreds of thousands of people crowded out of Jinan at once. Corpses were strewn all over the floor, and human blood and feces were all over the place.

Even in the cold winter of Count, the smell of blood and the stench of feces and urine still make people unable to open their eyes.

Something terrible happened, and a plague began to appear in the city.

Supposedly, the plague could only occur during the hot summer months. But one by one, the people of the city fell, and they could not take care of it.

The deceased all had the same characteristics: first a high fever that did not go away, then red envelopes and pustules appeared on the hands and faces, and then died in intense pain.

This is clearly smallpox!

It doesn't matter what season it is.

In this era, smallpox was a terminal disease, and there was no effective medical treatment at all. Moreover, the contagion is so rapid that if the patient wants to live, he can only carry it and resist it, and he will never have smallpox again in his life. But the people in these years are all weak, and a few people can survive. Ten out of a hundred people would survive in the end.

There were more than 100,000 residents in the city of Jinan, and as soon as Jiannu entered Shandong, almost the entire people of Jinan Province poured into the city. Today, there are about 300,000 people in the city. The city of Jinan is not large, and so many people are crammed in at once, so it can be said that there is no vacant land. If the plague is to spread, there is no possibility of isolation.

Perhaps, in a few days, this spring city will become a city of plague, a city of death.

Zhang Bingwen didn't know that in real history, after Jinan fell, the Qing army slaughtered the city, and killed 130,000 people, he suddenly found that there was smallpox in the city, and he had no choice but to withdraw his troops, not because of the pressure of the Ming army in the direction of Dezhou.

There was no place to bury the bodies of the sick and dead people, so they had to be burned in one fire.

The walls were littered with fire, and the stench of burning corpses was sick.

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