Changsha Mansion, Shen Yongzhong heard that the herald had brought Hong Chengchou's order. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Changsha must be held for half a month, if before the expiration, Changsha City is broken, Hong Chengchou will send someone to escort him to Beijing for interrogation.

Hearing the military order, Shen Yongzhong immediately scolded Hong Chengchou, and expressed cordial greetings to Hong Chengchou's three generations of women in his words.

Firmly, Lao Tzu brought out more than 4,000 green battalion soldiers from Yueyang, and escaped five or six hundred people along the way, and when he returned to Changsha, there were only a little more than 3,000 left.

Coupled with the original more than 9,000 guards on the Changsha side, it is just over 10,000.

Zheng Chenggong claimed to the outside world that he had brought 100,000 soldiers and horses to kill.

How to keep!

After losing his temper for a while, Shen Yongzhong sat on the Taishi chair panting, panting.

I am reluctant to wear this official uniform, and I don't want to be arrested and beheaded.

After Shen Yongzhong vented, he began to think about how to complete the task and persevered for half a month.

Relying on 10,000 soldiers and horses of the old, weak, sick and disabled, they held on for half a month.

Shen Yongzhong really didn't know the bottom of his heart, he personally wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou: "Hong Taishi Junjian: He led the army to fight fiercely with Haikou in Yueyang, and Zheng Haikou was outnumbered. The lowly battle was lost, and the losses were heavy, so he could only surrender to Changsha. Now there are few lowly soldiers, Changsha is in danger, and it is eager for reinforcements. I implore the Taishi to urge the bandit armies from all walks of life to march to Changsha and encircle Zheng Haikou. He was determined to live and die with Changsha, and swore to fight to the end with the Haikou. If the rescue is not effective, he is willing to live and die with Changsha and die. I never want to fall into the hands of the pirates and disgrace my ancestors.

After sending someone to deliver the letter quickly, knowing that this was a critical time, Shen Yongzhong asked his wife to take out all the gold and silver in the treasury and prepare to give a reward to the soldiers.

Mrs. Shen Yongzhong heard that she only took 5,000 taels of silver out.

When Shen Yongzhong saw it, he was immediately angry.

When is the time, I am still reluctant to pay money.

Shen Yongzhong went up and slapped him, and the lady who hit him stared at the stars.

Shen Yongzhong roared: "It's a matter of life and death, do you want money or death!" ”

After yelling, Shen Yongzhong no longer paid attention to his wife and went to open the warehouse in person. Let the henchmen pack all the gold and silver in boxes and carry them away.

At the head of the city, the generals, garrisons, and thousands of households guarding Changsha were all gathered.

Shen Yongzhong asked his henchmen to open the box, poured out all the silver, and piled it up into a mountain of silver.

Looking at the dazzling brilliance of gold and silver, the eyes of the soldiers of the Green Battalion Army were full of greed.

Many people couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of water, staring at the mountain-like silver treasure, and couldn't take their eyes off it at all.

Shen Yongzhong pointed to the white silver lake on the ground, and shouted: "Brothers, see it, this is Lao Tzu's savings for many years, and now I have taken it all out and distributed it to the brothers." Changsha is defended, all this money is yours, and if you can't keep it, it's those Haikou's. Brothers, I won't say those big words. If you want to get the reward, you have to fight with your life. When fighting, everyone must fight bravely and fight hard. Which son of a bitch dares to run away, Lao Tzu must have killed him. The general fled, the garrison killed him, and the garrison became a general. Thousands of households fled, hundreds of households were killed, and hundreds of households did thousands. Did you hear that? ”

"I heard you!"

Stimulated by money, the emotions of the Green Battalion Army were mobilized, and they shouted and vowed to coexist with Changsha.

Shen Yongzhong saw that the morale of his subordinates was high and the morale of the army was available, so he made more careful and meticulous arrangements for the city defense.

Capture the people to transport stones, cross wood, prepare gold juice and boiling oil.

After resting for two days, the pioneer general Zhou Quanbin led 5,000 men and horses towards Changsha.

On September 28, 1654, the forward battalion of the Zheng family army approached Changsha City.

"Shen Yongzhong, you are already in a desperate situation, and if you resist, you will die. Why not land as soon as possible? Zhou Quanbin raised the big knife in his hand, pointed at the city, and shouted.

Hearing Zhou Quanbin's persuasion, Shen Yongzhong fell into deep thought.

Shen Yongzhong knew that General An Yuanjing Kou was defeated, and more than half of the Qing army was damaged.

Now in the south, the Qing army is weak, only 50,000.

After Yueyang fought Zheng Jiajun for a short time, Shen Yongzhong clearly knew how powerful Zheng Jiajun was.

This time, Zheng Jiajun's attack, except for Guangdong and Jiangxi, other southern provinces are afraid that they will fall into the hands of Zheng Chenggong.

Now that Zheng Chenggong is strong, he will most likely have a chance to sit in that chair. The most unfortunate relied on the Zheng family's water division, and he could also rule by rowing the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Should I take refuge in Zheng Chenggong?

After surrendering, how will Zheng Chenggong's little child settle himself!

Shen Yongzhong hesitated for a moment.

Zhou Quanbin saw that the city did not respond, and shouted loudly: "The rebels in the city, listen, you can't wait for your strength, and you dare to resist my Zheng family's army, which is really your own destruction." When the city is broken, it will take your dog's head! Pass me the general, siege the city! ”

With Zhou Quanbin's order, 3,000 musketeers of the Zheng family's forward battalion pressed the formation, and more than 2,000 infantry rushed forward desperately carrying siege equipment such as ladders and crashing wood.

Seeing that the Zheng family army was attacking the city, Shen Yongzhong let go of his worries.

Even if you want to surrender, you have to defeat the vanguard of the Zheng family's army.

Surrendering without resisting anything will only make Zheng Chenggong look down on him, and he will inevitably not be reused in the future.

Hit Zheng Jiajun hard, so that Zheng Chenggong can look high and sell at a good price.

Thinking of this, Shen Yongzhong planned to take advantage of the fact that Zheng Jiajun was just tired and gave him a head-on blow.

Shen Yongzhong ordered the general soldier Zhang Guozhu and the guerrilla general Zhao Jideng to lead his 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to meet the battle.

One went out of the south gate and the other out of the west gate, attacking the position of the Zheng family's army.

Shen Yongzhong himself supervised the battle on the city wall.

Shen Yongzhong ordered the soldiers to beat the drums vigorously and cheer, and shouted loudly over and over again: "Brothers, rush forward, kill one and reward five taels of silver, and capture one alive with a reward of ten taels of silver." Rush to Lao Tzu! ”

Zhang Guozhu, who was ordered to attack the south gate, knew that Zheng Jiajun was powerful, but he was unwilling, why did this unlucky errand fall on his head?

Shen Yongzhong had no choice but to watch it from the city wall, so he had to rush up.

The green battalion soldiers shouted, held their guns, and rushed to the Zheng family's position.

Seeing that the Qing army was out of the city, Zhou Quanbin immediately ordered the charging soldiers to retreat, and the musketeers stepped forward.

As soon as Zheng Jiajun's gunshots rang out, Shen Yongzhong knew that he was wrong, very wrong.

This is not the troops of the Ming Army, nor the troops of the Great Western Army, this is the fierce Zheng Army.

The sound of crackling continued, and the green battalion soldiers didn't even see Zheng Jiajun's face, so they fell down.

Zhang Guozhu saw that a large number of his subordinates had fallen in a short period of time, and he even ignored the military order, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to withdraw.

It's good to reward silver, but you also have to take it!

Shen Yongzhong, who was watching the battle, gasped, and originally thought of going out of the city to attack it, so as to strike at the Zheng family's army, and if he could, the whole army would rush up and break the Zheng family's army's forward battalion. If it doesn't work, just withdraw when you encounter a counterattack.

I didn't expect the Zheng family's musket to be so sharp, and there were no hundreds of people at once.

After a few more attempts, his own garrison was finished.

Shen Yongzhong was really smart now, and ordered the troops to strictly guard the fortifications and not to go out of the city to attack.

Seeing that his subordinates had withdrawn to the city, the more Shen Yongzhong thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he had fought for almost twenty years, and he had never suffered such a big loss.

It's horrible!

If the main force of the Zheng family army attacked the city, it would not be able to hold it at all with the troops at hand.

No, Hong Chengchou must be asked to send troops to reinforcements quickly, if it is too late, he will not be able to hold on for half a month with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses! (To be continued.) )