Chapter 103 Wu Rumeng sat firmly in the dangerous city, and the governor sent troops to help

Taiyuan, Shanxi.

When the Liukou soldiers forced Taiyuan, Liu Ce sent people to Beijing with 600 miles to expedite, and Beijing also sent 600 miles to send the will. The content of the holy decree began with a relief to Liu Ce, telling him that the imperial court had urged Wu Sinan, the governor of Xuanda, Yang Yishan, the governor of the three sides, and Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, to lead troops to Taiyuan to join the bandits. You don't have to worry, they'll be there soon. However, the words in the back were more severe, telling Liu Ce that the city is in the people, and the city is lost and killed. As for the Lu'an prefect who escaped from the battle, he was cut directly.

After receiving the will, Liu Ce was trembling, because he had not yet found the shadow of Wu Sinan, the governor of Xuanda, sending reinforcements, and this excerpt for help had been sent to Yanghe for not a day or two, and it had already been sent out when the Liukou attacked Qinshui, why hadn't it come yet. The news of reinforcements was not received, but the Liukou army was getting closer and closer to Taiyuan, and it was reported that there were less than thirty miles to reach Taiyuan.

Thirty miles is how far it is, hurry up, and you can reach it in half a day. Sure enough, he received the holy decree in the morning, and when he arrived, the rogues were killed outside Taiyuan City.

The soldiers and horses were already in place, Liu Ce hurriedly led the civil and military forces in the city to check the city, and looked down at the city, almost scaring Liu Ce to death. I saw the sand and dust outside the city, and I could vaguely see that it was densely packed with people, and there were hundreds of thousands.

The main force of Shanxi was transferred to Shaanxi, and now it has not returned, and there are not many soldiers in Shanxi who can fight. Liu Ce now has more than 15,000 people on hand, and these soldiers and horses are basically just transferred from the surrounding areas, and there are also defeated soldiers from Lu'an Mansion.

Fifteen thousand people, used to defend the city is already a lot, but it also depends on how many enemies there are, the Liukou army can see that there are hundreds of thousands of people, and more importantly, the first fierce general under his command, Wu Jiaxing, is not in the city, Liu Ce seems to be missing the backbone.

There were more than 200,000 Liukou before, and along the way, there were many people, and there were hundreds of thousands of crooked melons and cracked dates. Seeing that Liukou was getting closer and closer to Taiyuan, and when there were still two miles away from Taiyuan, the soldiers and horses scattered and slowly surrounded Taiyuan City.

After the siege, there were three teams of men and horses outside the south gate to force towards Taiyuan City, when there were more than 400 steps away from Taiyuan, they made a loud noise, "The defenders of the city listen, open the city gate at this time, Rao Er will not die, if it is a moment late, when the city is broken, you will be called to wait for your head to be in a different place!" ”

"Hurry up and surrender!" "If you don't surrender, when the city is broken, kill Guanger and wait for the door!" ……

The shouts under the city came and went, shaking the heavens and the earth, Lord Liu's age is not young, they all belong to one leg stepping into the coffin, such an age, where can I stand this, "quack" to the ground, and fainted.

The officials and soldiers standing beside him were stunned when they saw this scene.

Fortunately, at this time, a person stood up, only to hear this person shouting: "Don't panic, take Lord Liu to rest in the city tower!" ”

Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was none other than Wu Rumeng, the prefect of Taiyuan.

At this moment, in the city, there are several officials who are bigger than Wu Rumeng, there are political envoys and envoys according to the inspection, and there are general soldiers in Shanxi, but Wu Rumeng's voice is really good, and everyone immediately echoed, "Quickly help Lord Liu into the city tower to rest." ”……

Don't look at Wu Rumeng as just a prefect, but at this juncture, there is really no one who speaks better than him. In addition to the fact that he is a person promoted by Lord Yue, it is still because of the system of the Ming Dynasty, the political envoy manages the administration of a province, and the judicial department of a province is in charge of the procuratorate, but the matter of guarding the city is not under your control. The prefect is different, if a foreign enemy attacks the city, the prefect can mobilize the troops and horses in the city to command the resistance. At this time, many people were frightened, and naturally no one would compete with him for command.

Then, I heard Wu Rumeng shouting loudly: "The court has a decree to behead the Lu'an prefect who escaped from the battle on the spot to boost the army's heart!" Come on, bring me up Lu'an Mansion! ”

As long as there is a leader, the army's heart will be stabilized immediately, and some soldiers will go down to the city and escort the Lu'an prefect, who has been tied up with five flowers, to the city.

"By order, the prefect of Lu'an will be beheaded on the spot! Kill! Wu Rumeng was unceremonious, and when he saw that Lu'an Mansion was brought over, he directly gave an order.

"Spare your life...... Spare your life......"

As soon as he heard that he was going to be beheaded, Lu'an Mansion hurriedly cried and begged for mercy, but the soldier didn't care about this, he knelt on the ground and cut off his head with a knife.

"Lord Qiyu, the execution is complete!" One of the soldiers shouted. With that, present the head.

Seeing the bloody head, many civil officials were terrified, but Wu Rumeng was calm and said loudly: "Hang the head on the flagpole and spread it all over the three armies, but whoever escapes from the battle will be killed immediately!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

Wu Rumeng then looked at the civil officials around him and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the city is dangerous, you all go to the city tower to accompany Lord Liu." ”

"Yes, yes......" A group of civil officials hurriedly ran into the city tower as if they had been granted amnesty.

Wu Sinan stood on the city with his chest held high, looking at the endless rogues under the city, he was not afraid at all, and said loudly: "Pass the order, take stones, sandbags to seal the city gate hole, and the soldiers and civilians in the city will fight to the death with the rogues, the city is in the people, and the city is lost!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

If you want to block the city gate hole, it is not a difficult thing, each city has a garrison, and you can also recruit messengers and people, take materials nearby, and demolish the houses near the city gate, and use the removed stones to seal the city gate hole. Moreover, the prefect's yamen also prepared a lot of sandbags in advance, and soon sealed the city gate tightly.

In this way, even if there are rogues who sneak in in advance and want to open the city gate with the inside and outside, they can't. Moreover, Taiyuan City and other big cities are divided into inner cities and outer cities, and the outer cities are all garrisons, and the people who come to help must be local goodness signed by the land protectors, and other idle people can only be in the inner city.

The city is busy sealing the four gates, the rogues are outside, that is, they are clamoring, they are not attacking the city immediately, they are coming from afar, in fact, they are quite tired, how can they start fighting immediately, they are camping behind, and the rogues who come forward are scaring and scaring and deterring the defenders in the city.

The camp is very simple, there are not so many ready-made things to camp, and there are not enough tents, so the main force has a tent to sleep, and the people who are coerced can only sleep in the open air. There are a total of 36 battalions, of which 33 battalions are all chaotic, there is no order at all, only three battalions, which can be described as scattered, these three are naturally Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong.

After a night of silence, early the next morning, Liukou launched an attack on Taiyuan City. To tell the truth, Liukou's siege methods are really not very good, there are no siege equipment, they just carry cloud ladders and send people to rush.

Taiyuan City is very high, it is easy for you to come up, the Tartars didn't attack it at the beginning, let alone you. Wu Rumeng commanded Ruoding, and cooperated with the Shanxi general army to repel several attacks by Liukou. If you have the intention to dig a tunnel, how can there be a moat on the edge of Taiyuan City, don't think about it.

When the Tartars came, they attacked the city with the exorcism, and the soldiers in the city would sympathize with those people, so now that you have become a rogue, the soldiers will not be soft, and the fight should be fought to the death, and the corpses under the city are countless. After there were more corpses, a fire was burned.

In a blink of an eye, the Liukou attacked the city of Taiyuan for four days, and none of them could climb up to the city, so the Liukou was a little anxious, so he simply used fatigue tactics and attacked the city in shifts day and night.

The rogues outside the city are in a hurry, and the defenders inside the city are even more anxious, no matter what, after all, there are few people, and the rogues can take shifts, but the officers and soldiers can't afford to stay up. Even though there are good people to help, it is still more difficult.

Wu Rumeng was calm on the surface, but he was also anxious in his heart, and prayed vigorously, the reinforcements would come soon.

The letter for help had already been sent to Yanghe, why didn't Wu Sinan, the governor of Xuanda, come with his army? It's not that Wu Sinan doesn't want to come right away, it's really more than enough to do it. It doesn't take time to mobilize troops and horses, besides, Xuanfu and Datong have just undergone some purging, most of the generals in each department have been replaced, and a lot of new recruits have been recruited, and the training has not been trained for a few days.

Wu Sinan thought that the recruits could not go into battle in a hurry, so they were all veterans, and the defense areas of the veterans were handed over to the recruits, and experienced generals had to preside over the defense of the border towns and cities to prevent the Tartars from sneaking up. Lord Wu doesn't know how to fight, and naturally he doesn't know the speed of soldiers, until Lord Yue's will to urge the soldiers is sent, Wu Sinan reluctantly mobilizes the troops and horses. At this time, the Liukou had already surrounded Taiyuan and began to storm it.

All the soldiers and horses were concentrated in Datong, Sima Qiaoyu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, led 30,000 elite soldiers, and Chi Wenjun, the chief soldier of Datong, also had 30,000 elite soldiers.

Wu Sinan ordered Chi Wenjun to be the front, and the 30,000 horses of the headquarters went first, and went straight to Taiyuan, but he didn't wait for Taiyuan, just after Xinzhou, he was discovered by the Liukou, and Wang Ziyong hurriedly convened an emergency meeting to discuss who to send to Xinzhou to resist the officers and soldiers. In the end, after drawing lots, it was decided that Gao Yingxiang, the king of the four heavens, Li Yangchun, the king of the four heavens, Liu Guoneng, Mantianxing, Qi Tianwang, Yingshanhong, Destroying Tiger, and Qilang led the army to resist.

How many people can there be in these eight families, among which Gao Yingxiang's troops are at least nearly 10,000, and the other seven are more than him, the Four Heavenly Kings Li Yangchun has more than 23,000 people, Liu Guoneng now has 15,000, there are 178 stars in the sky, Qi Tianwang and other four people, there are no less than 15,000 people, and the eight families together can have 1340,000.

How many people there are, but the quality is different, Gao Yingxiang's troops, that is the most elite, and the other ones, they are all far behind, like Liu Guoneng, who used to have a thousand people, but now he is coerced so much, and there are a few decent ones under his command.

All in all, collect chicken feathers and dusters, and overwhelm each other with numbers. Mightily drove to Xinzhou, and at the boundary of Yangxing Township, he met with the officers and soldiers who came to meet.

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