Jiaodong in December is still extremely cold, especially this year, it is said that Yunhai has frozen early.

Fortunately, Qingdao Kou is an ice-free port, and Yi Harbor is also the same, so Gu Jiaming can see Jiang'an again at Qingdao Kou.

The last time he came to the shore, he asked Huwei to stay in Denglai as the governor and observe the changes in the battle situation at any time before making a decision, but this time after receiving the news of the drastic changes in the battle situation, he had to go to Qingdao Pass in person to discuss with Gu Jiaming how to deal with it.

Lu Xiangsheng, died in battle!

Lu Xiangsheng, who was the governor of the military affairs of the world with the title of secretary of the military department, had no food and salary because of the small number of troops in his hands, and he did not achieve the results of deciding the surname in the Gyeonggi area, and Chongzhen had lost patience and intended to replace him with Sun Chuanting. Later, Xue Guoguan and Yang Sichang were prevented by "it is not suitable to be in battle with Yi Shuai", and they reassigned Liu Yuliang, a second-auxiliary cabinet scholar who had threatened Xue Guoguan's position as the first assistant (Liu Yuliang served as the first assistant in actual history), and took Lu Xiang's promotion to the title of Shangshu and changed it to a squire, and once again rejected his proposal to join forces to fight, forcing him to come to the aid of Zhending.

Not only that, Yang Sichang was afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would die quickly, so he once again assigned Lu Xiangsheng to Chen Xinjia, Lu Xiangsheng only had 5,000 weak divisions in his hands, and even the Tianxiong army he pulled out was taken by others. Yang Sichang also did not allocate food and salary to Lu Xiangsheng, forcing the 5,000 people to only use cold water to satisfy their hunger, Lu Xiangsheng asked for help from Gao Qiqian, who was only fifty miles away from him, Sun Lin heard the news and wanted to gallop to save him, but was stopped by Gao Qiqian by military law. Lu Xiangsheng bowed to the soldiers in grief and despair: "I have received the grace of the country with your generation, and I will not die if I suffer, and I will not live if I don't suffer!" ”

With these 5,000 weak, hungry and cold soldiers, Lu Xiangsheng fought with the Qing soldiers at the Haoshui Bridge, and the general soldier Wang Pu fled before attacking, and the general soldiers Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu were inspired by Lu Xiangsheng's loyalty and righteousness, and led his troops to fight. Day and night, the whole army was defeated because they were outnumbered. Lu Xiangsheng refused to break through, held a white blade in his hand, and personally killed dozens of people, but was killed by four arrows and three blades, and his horse was killed.

After the defeat of Lu Xiangsheng's army, Gao Qi escaped after hearing the news, but the eunuch fled in the wrong direction for his life, and threw himself into the encirclement of the Qing soldiers, and his people were defeated, Sun Lin led the Denglai soldiers to break the siege in a bloody battle, and when Gao Qi absconded and escaped, Sun Lin fought hard again and again, ran out of ammunition and food, and the Denglai soldiers suffered heavy losses, and Sun Lin had to retreat south.

At this point in the battle, Sun Lin finally regretted not being at the beginning. The little strength he has accumulated in Denglai has almost been consumed, and he has no strength to continue the battle!

"This is the case, now Jianyu is going south, Sun Lin has retreated to Dezhou, Yang Sichang will transfer all the troops to Dezhou, and Fang Jianyu will go deep into the east of the mountain, and Yan Jizu, the governor of the east of the mountain, will go to Dezhou, and the reinforcements from all roads will also gather here." Gu Jiaming pointed at the map with a small stick: "Jianyu is not ready to let us live a stable year, if we enter the east of the mountain, we will also be threatened!" ”

"Shhh

Shogan looked at the map and suddenly took a breath of cold air.

The map shows that the forces of both sides are clearly displayed, and although the Ming army is gathered, they are all cowering in the city, and the vast field is surrendered to the Jianju. The Jianyu could move around without difficulty, while the Ming army seemed to be encircled and unable to move an inch. He looked at the Texas that Gu Jiaming was referring to, and then at the Jianyu army in the north, and said with a solemn expression: "The east of the mountain only guards the gate of Texas?" ”

"Naturally, it won't work, but if Jianyu is ......" Speaking of this, Gu Jiaming's face also changed, and he couldn't continue.

He also thought of the terrible question of how to deal with the defense of Texas if the Jianyu bypassed the Texas line.

Jianlu bypassed Texas without attacking, with the surname Xi of the Ming army, he would never dare to go out of the city to fight, and at that time, the entire Shandong's East Peninsula would be allowed to gallop!

The two of them glanced at each other, and their expressions were not good-looking.

"It can't be that bad, can it?"

"It's often the case, and the worst you think of is the most likely scenario." Jiang An got up and straightened his hat: "You or I go to Ji'nan Mansion?" ”

"Naturally, I'm going to go, I'm the military commander!" Gu Jiaming said.

"Well, I'm here, I'll transfer all the troops that can be mobilized on Tamna Island, but fortunately, in order to maintain order on the island, the petty officials ordered me to set up an armed garrison, and the Tiger Guard will not be transferred to Jianguo or the Japanese to attack the island." Jiang An said: "If you can't do anything, you lead Zhang Buzheng to retreat to Qingzhou Mansion, and I will bring someone to meet you!" ”

The two of them made a decision and immediately took action.

December 20 of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Ji'nan Mansion.

Zhang Bingwen stood at the head of the city, worried, looking at the winter withering around him, he sighed.

He knew that this sigh could only show that he was incompetent, but he had to sigh. He has connected to the six stamps for help, but there has been no news so far. He also appealed to Texas, but no one responded.

The people in the city were panicked, and everyone knew that there were hundreds of thousands of captives and servants, and the total number of defenders in the city was ...... Less than three thousand!

"Gong Zhang, it's useless to sigh now, it's a battle or a defense, please make a decision!"

It was Song Xuezhu who spoke, it was the mountain 'east patrol', he heard that Jianlu was threatening the mountain's east, and rushed back to the south of the mountain from the starry night from other places, and before the people entered the city, he heard that Jianyu had bypassed the heavily guarded Dezhou, and entered the mountain's east territory from Linqing, Dongchang Prefecture.

"There were originally 3,000 pacesetters in the city, and they were taken to Dezhou by Governor Yan, and now there are only 500 old and weak township soldiers and 2,000 Denglai soldiers......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Bingwen looked a little depressed, he remembered that Sun Lin had complained when he passed through Jinan before King Zhiqin, saying that Yu Guozhen ordered him to leave 3,000 elite soldiers in Jinan, but he had insufficient troops in his hands, so he could only leave 2,000 here. If Sun Lin had left an extra thousand soldiers at that time, Zhang Bingwen would not have been so stretched.

With a population of 5 or 600,000 people, how can Ji 'Nancheng defend it with less than 3,000 people!

"Zhang Gong, when serving the country, Zhang Gong must not be cowardly!" Song Xuezhu said sharply.

"Yes, that's what Song Xun said." Zhang Bingwen responded, but the hesitation in his heart was not solved at all.

It is a simple matter to repay the country's kindness with death, and Zhang Bingwen is not afraid of death, but what about the hundreds of thousands of people in Ji'nan Mansion?

It would be nice if Yu Jimin was here......

As soon as this thought came to him, he saw a servant hurrying over: "Master, master, Madame, please!" ”

Zhang Bingwen is very respectful of his wife Fang Mengshi, after Fang Mengshi married him, he did not have children until he was more than 20 years old, but hired Yangzhou Chen as a concubine for him, and the wife and concubine were very compatible with each other, and the three sons born to the concubine were also regarded as their own. Hearing that Madame was invited, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Patrol and wait." ”

Song Xuezhu was not angry in his heart, when is it now, he didn't think about how to deal with the upcoming Jianjiao, but he was recalled by the woman immediately, what is the reason!

However, he also knew that Zhang Bingwen was in turmoil at this time, and he was afraid that he would have to explain the future when he went back.

Back in the mansion, Fang Mengshi asked: "The concubine also heard a lot of commotion outside the courtyard, saying that the Jianyu was coming, I don't know if this is really the case?" ”

"Madame, don't worry, it's fine." Zhang Bingwen said: "It will be disposed of by the husband." ”

Fang Mengshi has been married to him for decades, and of course he knows his Xi surname, so he sighed slightly and said: "Xiang Gongxiu wants to comfort me, when Chu Ziyi went south, he gave me a letter, saying that Jimin asked her to hand it over. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Bingwen was stunned.

"Ziyi said that my uncle is resolute and loyal, and if Jin'nan is in danger, my uncle will refuse to abandon the city and flee. Moreover, my uncle is a strict and upright person, and Jimin has something to say, so he left this letter. Fang Mengshi relayed Fang Ziyi's words, and then pushed a thick letter over.

"Jimin really has the ability to predict the unknown." Zhang Bingwen said lightly, took the letter and spread it out, and then his expression changed greatly.

Because the first sentence of the letter is, "Build a prisoner or commit a crime, and the city of Jicheng has few soldiers and is difficult to maintain." ”

This letter should have been left by Yu Guozhen when he went south in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and more than two years and nearly three years ago, he expected that Jianyu might invade Jin'an!

However, this was not too surprising to Zhang Bingwen, what surprised him even more was the back.

"If the Jianyu is in Ji, it must come from Gyeonggi, the imperial court troops are gathered in Gyeonggi, and the Jicheng army is empty, and it is not enough to fight!"

At present, Zhang Bingwen is facing such a situation.

"If you really misfortune to say it, for the sake of your uncle, Jimin asked Kexian to leave 3,000 soldiers in Jicheng, which should be useful."

Seeing this, Zhang Bingwen muttered in his heart, it stands to reason that Sun Lin's wife is Fang Mengshi's niece, and Yu Guozhen's wife is just a distant cousin, Sun Lin should care more about him. Now Zhang Bingwen understands why Yu Guozhen asked Sun Lin to leave 3,000 soldiers in Jinan, it is clear that Sun Lin has already estimated that he will go north!

"Does Jimin really have the ability to be an unpredictable prophet?" He looked at it with some suspicion.

The next thing is to explain how to defend the war, Zhang Bingwen is a civilian official, and he has not supervised the army, so he really doesn't know much about military affairs. But Yu Guozhen said in the letter in detail: Needless to say, it is needless to ask the rich households in the city to raise warriors in his heart, but how to talk about the king of moving, how to arrange the warriors to take turns to rest, how to stick to the help, etc., are all extremely detailed!

Zhang Bingwen couldn't help but think that when Yu Guozhen came back to Jinan, he looked around at the head of the city, inspecting the terrain everywhere, and thought that he was just looking at the scenery, but he never thought that he was thinking of a strategy to defend the city!

"Thinking of the younger generation, the city can be defended or not, only in the hearts of the people can be used or not, the hearts of the people can be used, hundreds of thousands of people in Jicheng are united, and the rush must not be broken. When the veterans of the division under the city are tired, the nephew will personally protect the loyal and brave guards to rescue. Therefore, cleaning people's hearts and boosting morale is the first priority! ”

Seeing this, Zhang Bingwen suddenly got up: "Jimin Guo has the ability to predict the future!" ”

He said three sentences in succession, and the sentences were exactly the same, but the tone was fundamentally different. Speaking of this, he glanced at his wife, Fang Mengshi smiled, and motioned for him to just leave, Zhang Bingwen walked to the door and looked back: "Madam has found a good nephew!" ”

Just came back from the city, and the most worrying thing in his heart was that the soldiers were small and outnumbered, the second was the fluctuation of people's hearts, and the third was that there was no way to deal with it. Now that he has this letter, he is not afraid, and he has a way to deal with these three things!

The number of soldiers is temporary, just in Denglai, Yu Guozhen left 2,000 elite soldiers, since Yu Guozhen wrote this letter, then he must have left them a secret order to come to help if necessary. People's hearts are fluctuating, Yu Guozhen has taught him how to clean up, and the countermeasures are written in great detail!

Now the first thing is to go to the king of virtue and cry with this clan who was enshrined by the king of the county.

(To be continued)