10,000 cavalry of the Beijing battalion and 5,000 rebels launched a chase outside the city of Bazhou, and at the same time, military orders were issued from the camp of the Chinese army and rushed to the various Jinyi guards in Beizhili, and the Jinyi guards in Beizhili were dispatched with an order from Qin Kan.

That night, 200 army archers shot sharp arrows into the city of Bazhou, and the sharp arrows were tied with the letters of persuasion and letters of surrender copied in the army's Chinese books, and the sharp arrows shot by the strong bows flew over the city and into the city.

Tang Zihe was slightly shocked when he heard the report, but the letter of complaint to the people has entered the city, and many people must have picked it up and circulated it at this moment.

There is a large army besieging the city outside, and there is turmoil in the hearts of the people inside, Tang Zihe feels that he is in a situation of internal and external difficulties, Qin Kan is really not light, and on the first day of the siege, he used the technique of attacking the heart at the same time, which made the Bazhou rebels instantly passive.

Occupying Bazhou for more than two months, Tang Zihe unconsciously had feelings for this city that belonged to her, no matter from an emotional or practical point of view, she did not want to lose the hearts of the people, if it was really irretrievable, she was willing to choose to leave.

Just as he was going to go around the city, listen to the voices of the people, and see how the people reacted to the court's letter to the people, the guards came to report that the people in the city had recommended several respected elders to see the marshal.

Tang Zihe groaned slightly, and personally walked out of the Marshal's Mansion and welcomed several elders in the city into the front hall of the mansion.

Several elders were obviously a little flattered, and they didn't dare to do it. After the guards served tea, Tang Zihe spoke first.

"You are all respected predecessors in the city, since the righteous army occupied Bazhou City, the Ming court's Li Bao system has been abolished, and the civil affairs in the city rely on the elders to discuss and ruling, Zihe is young and unsophisticated, but he can share grievances, thank you for this old man."

After speaking, Tang Zihe got up and gave a man-like fist salute to the elders.

Several old men jumped up from their chairs in fright, bowed in return, and kept saying "torment the old age".

Tang Zihe's feelings for Qin Kan are a bit muddy. But being a person and doing things is very neat. After thanking him, Tang Zihe went straight to the topic.

"Today, a few elders came to give up, but because of the persuasion letter and the letter of peace that the Ming court shot into the city?"

All the elders nodded in unison.

"Marshal Tang, Ming Ting's method is extremely vicious. After the arrow book entered the city, it was picked up and circulated by hundreds of people. The words in the confession are conclusive. It is said that the emperor has issued a benevolent decree, and the imperial court will widely practice benevolent government after recovering Bazhou, and the common people who had to obey the anti-army because of the anti-army occupation of the city in the past will not be held accountable. And from then on, the Bazhou Ma Zheng will be abolished, and the taxes of Bazhou will be reduced or exempted for five years......"

Tang Zihe smiled faintly: "How did the people in the city react?" ”

An old man stroked his beard and smiled with a little coldness: "It's just nonsense, how many people will believe it?" Hasn't Bazhou been tossed by the imperial court badly enough over the years? In the early years of Hongzhi, the imperial court specially sent officials to say that it was the implementation of horse politics, at that time, each family only needed to bear the burden of two adult horses per year, and then it became more and more intensified, two horses became three, four horses became five, a poor family income geometric, how to bear the burden of five horses? If you can't hand over the five horses, you will be imprisoned and ransom with silver, which is obviously driving our people into a desperate situation......"

Su Lao said with muddy old tears in his eyes, and another old man explained to Tang Zihe softly beside him: "Old man Qi's grandson was taken into prison by the government because he did not hand over enough horses, and he didn't have enough money to ransom people, as a result, his grandson was starved to death in prison by the jailer, and even his family didn't know about it after his death, so he only threw the corpse into a mass grave outside the city, and the old man Qi got the letter five days later, and ran outside the city to see, his grandson's corpse was gnawed away by wild dogs, and the real bones were gone......"

The old man surnamed Qi took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and then said: "The court is not benevolent, don't blame me and other people for being unrighteous, this is not the idea of the old man alone, so your righteous army occupies Bazhou City, although the old man and others are old and decrepit, but they also spare no effort to help the righteous army, the old man wants to see your righteous army overthrow the imperial court and sit firmly in the Dragon Court, the people are all laborers, there is only food and clothing as far as the eye can see, as for who fights the country, who sits on the Dragon Court, it does not mean anything to us, the Zhu family can sit in the Dragon Court, and the Tang family can also sit!" ”

Tang Zihe was taken aback, she knew that the people of Bazhou hated the imperial court, but she didn't expect the people of Bazhou to hate the imperial court so much.

No wonder after she occupied Bazhou, the people in the city did not have much malice towards the anti-army, and after being poisoned by the government for many years, the people obviously hated the court to the marrow, and wished that someone would overthrow the court and change the party.

"Lao Yu and others came to see the marshal today, just to tell the marshal, don't worry about the so-called letter of the imperial court, the people of Bazhou were too poisoned by Liang Hong, they really can't believe the court, and the marshal has led the righteous army into the city since we have not committed any offence in the autumn, love the people like children, although the people are humble, but also have eyes, ears and hearts of the living people, who is good to us, we will give up our lives to help him, even if there are so many little cubs in the city who want to be promoted and make a fortune, the old man and others beat them a few times, they will also be honest, the marshal only guards the city, In the coming year, we will lay a foundation and give our poor people a good hope. ”

Tang Zihe was moved, got up and solemnly saluted everyone: "Zihe will spare his life to protect the safety of the people of Bazhou, if ...... If the strength is not enough in the future, Zihe will open the city gate and let the people leave, the rise and fall of the past dynasties are the affairs of the temple, how can the people suffer from this ordeal. ”

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Jingying Shuai's tent.

"Master Hou, there will be a plan in the end, which can break the state." Fu Qiang Bo Mao Rui got up and clenched his fists, his eyes full of light.

In the Ming Dynasty, which will wither, Mao Rui is barely a good general, the title of Earl Fuqiang is inherited from his grandfather Mao Zhong, the ancestor is a native of the West, named Hara, and the surname Mao is actually the surname given by Emperor Yingzong during the orthodox period.

The reason why Mao Rui is barely called a famous general is because he has experienced dozens of battles and won many defeats. Moreover, Mao Rui's large and small battles have one thing in common, most of them are civilian rebellion, from the pacification of the Huguang civil rebellion, the Guangxi civil rebellion, to the pacification of the Sien Tuguan Cen Jun rebellion, and the Hexian ethnic rebellion...... Daming from Hongzhi to Zhengde, the civil unrest of all sizes did not fall all let him catch up, and he was killed so that it was called a wind and water, which can be described as eating cucumbers and splitting toads alive.

According to the words of the previous life, people like Mao Rui are typical feudal dynasty doglegs. Loyal thugs of imperialism. The object of the dictatorship of the working people, such a person should really be dragged to the court with a thousand cuts like Liu Jin.

Hearing Mao Rui say that there was a way to break the city, Qin Kan frowned first, not because he had an opinion on Mao Rui. It's that he knows the truth. The idea of breaking the city came from the mouth of Mao Rui, who had a lot of experience in civilian chaos. It's probably a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and it's extremely cruel.

"Fu Qiangbo has the idea of breaking the city, come quickly." Qin Kan still has a pleasant face on the surface.

Mao Rui said: "You can attack with fire." ”

"How to fire attack?"

"Put thousands of clay pots, and fill them with oil. Use a trebuchet to throw into the city, the tank will break and splash the oil, and then order the unauthorized shooter to shoot rockets into the city, and then the city will be on fire, and Bazhou will be broken. ”

Mao Rui grinned after speaking, as if the giant beast had opened its bloody mouth, but his eyes looked around and smiled, as if he was quite complacent about his idea.

The corners of Qin Kan's eyes twitched.

Sure enough, it was a vicious idea, he had thought of this method long before he set out on the expedition, and then when he thought about the lives of innocent people in the city, he decisively gave up this method.

"Does Fu Qiangbo know that there are still hundreds of thousands of people in Bazhou City?" Qin Kan asked lightly.

Mao Rui's eyes showed murderous anger: "Master Hou, the Bazhou anti-army has not surrendered for a long time, and most of the people in the city have rebelled, in order to avoid casualties among the soldiers, arson and burning the city is also a matter of current affairs, I believe that the officials in the DPRK and China can't say anything, after all, all the soldiers have seen the people of Bazhou moving stones and trees for the rebels in the city, obviously they are no longer the people, but a member of the rebels......

Qin Kan said in a deep voice: "Listen to what you mean, the so-called destruction of the city is actually the slaughter of the city, or the destruction of the city?" Do you know that your words can cost more than 100,000 people their lives? The reason why the kings of our court are upright is because we don't kill innocents indiscriminately, but we don't kill the people, why is it so difficult and hard for us to attack the city now? It is because we know that there are countless innocent people still in the city, and as long as they do not take up weapons to fight us, they are still the people of the imperial court and the people of His Majesty, and we have to throw a rat into the trap. ”

Staring at Mao Rui with a somewhat gloomy gaze, Qin Kan said coldly: "Uncle Fu Qiang, this idea of breaking the city, don't mention it, Ben Hou dares to kill Dongchang Fanzi, dare to kill the White Lotus Sect, but he doesn't dare to kill the people, and he can't bear this murder." ”

It was rare to say a heavy sentence, which made Mao Rui's face flush, but he didn't dare to show the slightest anger, on the title, on the official position, on the saints, none of which he Mao Rui could compare.

The atmosphere in the tent is a little heavy, all the generals are demon kings who kill people without blinking, and anyone has hundreds of lives in their hands, to be honest, Mao Rui suggested that the generals of the burning city actually have no resistance in their hearts, and they will definitely agree without saying a word, but this Marquis of Qin refuses to kill the people indiscriminately, but he is the commander of the first army, if he does not agree, the generals naturally can't say anything.

Strange, how did this Marquis of Qin's "fierce god" notoriety come about? Look, this school is simply a living bodhisattva of ten thousand living Buddhas.

Seeing the heavy atmosphere in the tent, Miao Kui, the supervising army, broke the silence and said, "Since Master Hou thinks that it is not suitable to attack by fire, how should Bazhou break it?" Seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, and it will snow heavily in a few days, the soldiers are afraid that they will not be able to endure the cold, and their morale will be much lower. ”

Qin Kan groaned: "At present, I don't know whether Tang Zihe led 5,000 people to break through, or whether the formation of suspicious soldiers is still in the city, and I don't know the whereabouts of the rebels, our army can't rashly attack the city, wait a few more days, and wait for the whereabouts of the 5,000 people who broke through to the city, and then launch an attack." ”

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The generals dispersed in twos and threes, and Qin Kan rubbed his sore eyebrows, his face full of bitterness.

Qin Kan is a person who pursues perfection, he has always wanted to achieve the best of both worlds, the soldiers of the Beijing camp are all born and raised by their fathers and mothers, and they are all living lives, so he wants to pay the minimum cost of casualties to break Bazhou, and he also wants to wipe out the rebel army in Bazhou City neatly, as for the criminal tiger who led the rebel army to Henan and Shandong to bloom in all directions, Yang Hu and others are not worried, without Tang Zihe, they are just an ordinary anti-army, the imperial court only needs to send generals to surround and suppress it, they can't become a big climate.

I want to have the best of both worlds, but I can't have it both ways. War is always cruel, either you die or I live, if you want to capture a strong city, the only way is to divide the sky, dig tunnels, deceive the city gates, etc., or simply set up a ladder with a knife and a gun to fight with the lives of thousands of people, and become a king or a loser.

Qin Kan really can't think of a good way, war is a violent act after all, what you want can only be seized by violence, and you can't take advantage of it at all.

"Master Hou, there are always a few small groups of rebels harassing the periphery of our large army camp at midnight in the evening, saying that it is an attack on the camp but not like a raiding camp, often flying away from the camp after a circle of disturbance, when we go to chase, the rebels have already taken advantage of the night cover to disappear, and it didn't take long for them to come again, and in Bazhou City, every hour or two I can hear the gongs and drums beating inside, our army thought that they wanted to break through again, and when they picked up their swords and waited for them, there was no movement inside, and they repeated it several times a night......" Ding Shun whispered in front of Qin Kan.

Qin Kan didn't raise his eyelids, and said lazily: "This is the enemy's strategy to exhaust the enemy, can't you see this?" ”

Ding Shun smiled bitterly: "Of course you can see it, but every time they make a fuss, we can't be unreal, what if one of the ten fake ones is true?" No one in the whole army dared to be careless, so the anti-army's strategy to exhaust the enemy really worked, and the soldiers were quite tired from being tossed by the anti-army. ”

"This is a trivial matter, quietly lay a big net against the rebels who attacked and harassed the camp, and slaughtered them once they were honest, as for how the rebels in the city harassed us, we thought of a way to harass us back, we are not at peace, and they don't want to stop, these things should be done by the generals in the army."

"Yes,...... Master Hou, this morning a Jinyi guard spy rushed back from Tianjin, and the ambush outside Tianjin that Tang Zihe said had a result......

"What result?"

Ding Shun smiled bitterly: "Sure enough, it was done by the West Factory, does Master Hou still remember the ambush on the official road in Dabai Town, Tianjin?" They are the same group of people who ambushed Tang Zihe, and the leader is the head of the West Factory, named Wu Hu, who is said to have been ordered by Liu Jin, and it is also Liu Jin's intention to provoke the White Lotus Sect to rise up in a hurry, the purpose is to muddy the water in Tianjin, and then take the ......life of the Hou Ye in the chaos" (to be continued......