Chapter 30: Fame Moves the World
The soldiers who were running fast had already landed within the city walls, and there were one or two hundred people in total. These people looked vulnerable in the face of Zhu Changyuan's subordinates, who were like wolves.
There were Po Lu and Ma Hai taking the lead, and the two rushed into the enemy formation, as if they were in a no-man's land. Followed by nearly 400 soldiers, like chopping melons and vegetables, the enemy was wiped out in an instant. In this battle, Zhu Changyuan's policy of zero losses was thoroughly implemented with the advantage of fighting more and less, and the enemy was completely wiped out without the loss of a single soldier.
When Huang Taiji saw this, he angrily spat out another mouthful of blood and cut off the sorcerer's head on the spot.
Although there are many soldiers, but in the face of a small lonely city, even two attacks in a few days have failed, not to mention that no one has been eliminated, but his soldiers have lost three thousand inexplicably, and Huang Taiji, who has experienced a hundred battles, is also a little unbearable.
"If you don't fight, you will gather around him to consume, I don't believe that this small lonely city can have much grain and grass for them to consume. One month doesn't work for two months, two months doesn't work for four months, it consumes them. Huang Taiji was in a hurry, and he used his wisdom and finally thought of a way to wait for his work and never suffer in the future.
In this way, an army of 80,000 began to attack the perimeter of this small lonely city, and surrounded it like an iron bucket.
Seeing this, Zhu Changyuan smiled completely, play this game for me, and still besiege but not attack?
One day, two days, ten days passed.
Jingshi, in the imperial court, Emperor Chongzhen was sitting with a sad face, looking at the civil and military ministers sitting below, and asked worriedly: "What should I do?" Who can come up with a strategy to retreat from the enemy. ”
I asked three times in a row, but no one answered.
Finally, after a long period of silence, Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, stood up and knelt down to the emperor a few times, and said: "Back to Your Majesty's words, the minister thinks that the most important thing at the moment is to minimize the loss. ”
"How to minimize it?" The Emperor asked with a frown.
Emperor Chongzhen was only in his thirties, he looked frowning, his face was slightly old, his white hair was dyed with sideburns, and he was already showing an old state.
Wen Tiren said: "According to the old minister's humble opinion, it is better to shrink the defensive line, withdraw all the military camps around Jinzhou, shrink to Jinzhou City, and then order Ningyuan City to step up the defense and be ready to support Jinzhou at any time." In this way, once Huang Taiji raises troops to attack Jinzhou, we can gain the upper hand. ”
"Gain the upper hand, everyone has attacked the doorstep, you tell me to have the upper hand?" Chongzhen angrily slapped the case, but no one responded, and after a long time, he sat on the dragon chair again, and muttered decadently, "What about Zhu Changyuan?" Can it still be saved? ”
Wen Tiren was sweating profusely, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said, "Your Majesty, the lesser of two evils. This is the juncture of the rise and fall of the country, and it is really nothing to give up a small handful, and there are less than 400 people under him, even if he sacrifices his life for the country. ”
"Zhu Changyuan is the queen of the royal family, and he is in the same vein as me, and I can't bear it." Chongzhen let out a long sigh.
Wen Tiren said again: "There is no way to do that, Your Majesty might as well give him a posthumous seal after his sacrifice to show his merits." The minister concluded that within five days, the city would be broken, Zhu Changyuan would die, and when Huang Taiji got his daughter back, he would withdraw his army. ”
"Okay." Emperor Chongzhen nodded, "Order Ning Yuan and Jinzhou to guard the country, this is the only line of defense in the capital." ”
"Yes, Your Majesty." ……
Ten days later, another astonishing piece of news spread throughout the capital: it is said that the Mongol prince led an army of 50,000 men all the way eastward in the direction of Jinzhou, aiming directly at the Dalinghe military tun.
The little prince, who thought he was wearing a cuckold, couldn't bear it anymore, and he had to kill Zhu Changyuan to be ashamed. Outside the Dalinghe army, another 50,000 troops came.
The 130,000-strong army besieged a small military camp, and the city of Jinzhou, which was close at hand, did not dare to come to the rescue. What is even more ironic is that the 130,000 army, including the Mongols and Huang Taiji, did not move this small city.
The little prince of Mongolia was really drawn by Zhu Changyuan with great hatred, and just came over, he led his troops bravely and invinciblely to rush up, but the result was the same as Huang Taiji's troops, and he killed 2,000 people in a row before he stopped.
This barrier is insurmountable.
Of course, in addition to climbing the city wall, the little prince also came up with another vicious method, which almost scared Zhu Changyuan into peeing his pants, that is, digging a hole from the ground.
Fortunately, Zhu Changyuan's foundation is deep enough, and there are embedded steel bars in it. The soldiers who dug the hole in the ground did not dig very deep, and they were all electrocuted when they encountered the steel bar, which extinguished the 130,000 people outside to dig the hole. They thought there was an invisible spell on the top and bottom of the wall, preventing them from entering.
The soldiers outside didn't dare to dig holes, and Zhu Changyuan's heart was also in his stomach.
However, Huang Taiji and the little prince did not give up, but waited together, besieging but not attacking, waiting for the day when Zhu Changyuan could not hold on.
However, they were doomed to disappointment, because Zhu Changyuan not only let his troops eat meat every day, but also threw half a pig's head outside the city wall every day, and it was all fresh, and there was even blood on it.
After a day or two, Huang Taiji thought that Zhu Changyuan was deliberately holding on, but half a month has passed, and it is not normal to throw out a large piece of pork every day.
A month has passed, and the meat thrown out every day has not stopped, but Huang Taiji's heart has hanged, and now he understands that the people inside just want him to know that there is no shortage of food.
"Can anyone tell me where the hell they got their stuff? Could it be that those little houses are full of pigs they raise? In the face of Huang Taiji's roar, no one responded to him.
In the end, after using his ultimate weapon, the cannon, there was still no effect, and Huang Taiji finally couldn't hold it anymore.
Withdrawal?
That's impossible, Huang Taiji's old man's character is to never let go if he doesn't get a benefit, not to mention that this time he suffered a big loss, he decided to shift the target of the attack and go to Jinzhou.
At the same time, almost half of the people in China knew about Zhu Changyuan, and some of them were even speculating with interest, how long could Zhu Changyuan stay?
Some say two months, some say three months, some say six months, and so on. For Zhu Changyuan, it is also beneficial, in the discussion of many people across the country, the prestige value he has obtained is increasing at the same time, and the contribution value is also increasing. In a month's time, when there was almost nothing to do except defend the city, the contribution value actually increased by more than 2.3 million points, and now it is 4.2 million.
"Hehe, what's going on?" Even Zhu Changyuan himself didn't know that his deeds of resisting Huang Taiji's 130,000 army with 400 people had spread all over the land of China.