There was a sudden power outage at home, so I'll make up for it later.

(Eat a full attendance first)

Mo Qian sent five of his cronies to follow Bai Yousong into the city of Nanjing.

When Li Ze heard that Mo Qian did not accept his surrender, he couldn't help but feel a little cold in his heart.

Bai Yousong saw that Li Ze was a little lost, and hurriedly continued: "Dashuai, although the King of Han did not agree, but he did not refuse, we suddenly asked him to surrender, the King of Han felt that we were cheating, so he did not choose not to agree, but the King of Han sent his cronies from Wuming District to follow his subordinates into the city.

Five days later, the king of Han asked me to send these five cronies back to the outside of the city, and then the king of Han knew whether to accept our surrender or not. ”

When Li Ze heard this, he knew it in his heart.

In fact, he also knew in his heart that a general defending the city was in charge of 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the general defending the city suddenly sent someone to say to the thieves outside the city: King, we want to surrender, please accept it.

It's a person who won't believe it, this siege battle has only been fought for a day, how can any officers and soldiers defending the city shout surrender the next day.

Moreover, the city of Nanjing is still strong, and it is not a matter of three or five days for the Han army to break through, at least it has to start on a monthly basis.

In a month's time, the Ming troops from all over the south will rush to reinforce and defend the city of Nanjing, which is naturally not a difficult task.

But in Li Ze's view, all parts of the south have long been the world of the Han King, where there will be reinforcements, even if there are reinforcements, they are also drawn from Nanzhili, Henan and other places.

Now Li Zicheng in Henan has become a climate, and the number of soldiers and horses in Henan exceeds 100,000, but there is no way to take Li Zicheng, so he can only retreat in Kaifeng, Luoyang and other cities.

The soldiers and horses of Nanzhili have already been cleaned up because of the entry of the Qing soldiers into the customs and the gallop to aid Henan, and at this moment, Nanjing City has long become an isolated city.

If there were really two or three hundred thousand people under the Han King, it would only be a matter of time before the city of Nanjing was broken.

Li Ze, who knew the details of the imperial court, of course felt that the Ming Dynasty had sunset, and he had no power to return to the sky.

At this time, it is better to find a new owner who has the opportunity to sit in the country and take refuge, and you can have a good future when you look back.

Bai Yousong introduced the five henchmen sent into the city by Mo Qian to Li Ze.

Li Ze was extremely friendly to the five people, ordered people to prepare first-class housing for the five, and even paid out of his own pocket to order several tables of wine and food in the restaurant in the city to entertain the five people.

At this time, in the city of Nanjing, the prostitute boats on the Qinhuai River have long been gone, but the green buildings in the city are still full of people.

Dignitaries and nobles have nowhere to spend their time, and the children of rich nobles have nothing to do all day long, so they wander around Qinglou and other places every day, and everyone will discuss women and discuss the current situation, especially the most lively discussion of the Han Dynasty.

In the Meixiang Building, Li Xiangjun, the top Qing man, is stroking the piano with his small hands, and his eyes are both charming and beautiful.

In his attic, there are more than a dozen young talents from the city of Nanjing.

One of the most handsome young men was the most aura.

Li Xiangjun couldn't help but keep his eyes drifting to the man.

I heard that this son-in-law is the son of Hou Sui, the former head of the household department, Hou Fangyu.

At this time, Hou Fangyu was just twenty years old, and he had just been driven to Nanjing City by his father to participate in the township test, but he did not expect to encounter Mo Qian's soldiers besieging Nanjing City.

As the son of Hubu Shangshu, Hou Fangyu has been familiar with the court situation since he was a child, and he is more familiar with the court.

Twenty-year-old Hou Fangyu is talking about it off the stage at the moment.

He said to everyone: "You don't have to worry, the thief Mo Wen will definitely not be able to attack it, this Nanjing city was built by Taizu himself, and the brick wall of the city wall is made of special bricks fired from Binjiang Town, Jiangxi, and it is as tough as iron."

You don't see, yesterday the thief bombarded with artillery for an hour, but the wall of Jubaomen was immovable, and there was not even a place to collapse, which shows the strength of the city defense.

If he wants to enter Nanjing, unless he has an army of millions, no matter how many people come to attack Nanjing, it will be in vain and in vain. ”

"Hou Gongzi said very much, I also think that it is impossible for the Mo thief to enter Nanjing, Nanjing has the Yangtze River and the city is high and deep, he Mo Mo is only 100,000 soldiers and horses, he wants to capture Nanjing defended by 150,000 troops, I really doubt that Mo Wen understands the art of war, has he read the Art of War."

"Then Mo Wen heard that he was only a talent from a show, and he was only a talent who could read a few books, how could he understand Sun Tzu's Art of War, wouldn't he, everyone?"

"Hahaha, Hou Gongzi is really insightful."

Li Xiangjun looked at Hou Fangyu's eloquent appearance, and couldn't help but feel that Hou Fangyu was handsome.

She secretly said in her heart: "Sure enough, he is the son of the Shangshu family, and he is really much more knowledgeable than those ordinary scholars." ”

Everyone present knew that Hou Fangyu was the son of the former Shangshu, and they respected him a lot, and they also complimented him a lot and praised him a lot.

Only a man in sackcloth said disdainfully: "Hou Gongzi's words are wrong, then if Mo Wen is really as incompetent as Hou Gongzi said, then he will not become the number one thief of my Ming Dynasty in less than three years." ”

When Hou Fangyu heard this, his expression immediately turned cold.

He turned his head to see who was a scholar from a poor family who had not sat down.

"This brother Tai has not yet asked for a name!"

"Ying Tianqu Xiwen." The man in sackcloth arched his hand.

"It turned out to be Qu Gongzi, disrespectful and disrespectful, I don't know where Qu Gongzi came from? What position does Ling Zun hold in the court? ”

Qu Xiwen heard the disdain in Hou Fangyu's words, but he still said without humility or arrogance: "My father died early, an ordinary farmer, I am a person who has been in Chongzhen for seven years. ”

As soon as he heard that Qu Xiwen was just a lifter and was still from a peasant family, Hou Fangyu's face suddenly became not so good-looking.

"It turned out to be Master Qu, I don't know where Master Qu is?"

Qu Xiwen's face turned red, and he replied with some confidence: "There is no official position for the time being!" ”

"It turned out to be a white body, Qu Gongzi, the person here today is either the son of the six departments and Jiuqing, or the descendant of the official eunuch family, you are a man with mud legs, who invited you in?"

Li Xiangjun saw that Hou Fangyu was embarrassed by Qu Xiwen, and quickly got up and explained: "Hou Gongzi also please calm his anger, Qu Gongzi is a friend of the slave maid, Qu Gongzi's poems and writings are famous in Nanjing, and today's discussion was invited by the slave maid on his own initiative." ”

Seeing Li Xiangjun, who was only fifteen years old, approaching him, Hou Fangyu's nostrils did not smell a faint fragrance.

It's a virgin taste!

Smelling the fragrance, Hou Fangyu couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: "Little bitch, sooner or later, I'll get you into bed and make you want to die!" ”

Hou Fangyu hurriedly put on a smiling face and said to Li Xiangjun: "It turned out to be Miss Li's friend, it's really abrupt here, Gongzi Qu, I offended just now." ”

Although Hou Fangyu apologized to Qu Xiwen, his attitude was extremely arrogant, and everyone could see that Hou Fangyu didn't really want to give Qu Xiwen face at all, purely because Li Xiangjun came forward and gave Li Xiangjun a thin face.

Qu Xiwen knew that Hou Fangyu, the son of Shangshu, looked down on a person like him who was born as a child of a peasant family, so he didn't think much about it in his heart, but just arched his hand and said to Li Xiangjun beside him: "Miss Li, there are still some things in the next family, so I will retire first, and we will talk about poetry and literature in the future." ”

Li Xiangjun gave Qu Xiwen a salute, "Qu Gongzi walks slowly, and the slave and maid will not be sent away!" ”

"If you don't send it, you can't send it, I'll go back by myself."

After Qu Xiwen came out of Meixianglou, he glanced at the signboard of Meixianglou, and couldn't help sighing: "The merchant girl doesn't know the hatred of the country, she still sings the backyard flowers across the river, the Ming Dynasty is going to die, these official eunuchs are still in the wind and snow, how can there be a little bit of the style of being a prince of the dynasty." ”

Qu Xiwen came to stay at home well, it was Li Xiangjun who sent the turtle prince of Meixianglou to the humble house where he lived to personally invite him to participate in today's symposium, Qu Xiwen didn't want to go.

But Gui Gong said that many powerful children came today, and Li Xiangjun also hoped to give this talented man a chance to see if he could meet a Bole and introduce him to the imperial court.

Qu Xiwen has always wanted to show his ambitions, but he has no way.

Moreover, the imperial court has a clear rule that non-Jinshi will not be directly awarded an official position, and if he wants to be an official, unless he spends money to buy it, he wants to wait directly for the officials to send him an official, and I am afraid that he will not be able to wait until he dies.

Qu Xiwen has taken the Jinshi exam once, but he didn't pass the exam, and the next exam is still next year.

But I didn't expect that the Han army in Wuchang would hit Nanjing City this year, and Qu Xiwen, as a scholar, was of course very concerned about the general trend of the world.

He thought that this symposium would also see the high opinions of those eunuchs, but what he saw was a group of straw bales.

Each of them has only those good-looking prostitutes in their eyes, and where is there state affairs.

Out of Meixianglou, Qu Xiwen was disheartened, he wrapped the linen clothes on his body tightly and ran towards his Burrow.

.....

Early the next morning, the Han army continued to attack the city.

Mo Qian still used the tactics of artillery bombardment, but the intensity of the artillery this day was obviously much weaker than yesterday.

On the city wall of Jubaomen, seeing that the Han army was about to fire again, this time the Zhejiang soldiers learned wisely, first ran to the hole under the city to hide, and waited for the Han army to stop the shelling and then go to the city wall.

Today's shelling lasted less than a quarter of an hour, and the Han army launched a siege.

Chen Guangyu personally supervised the army at Jubaomen, and Li Ze, as the commander-in-chief, had no choice but to ask the brothers to go up and defend the city.

Simply today, the Han army did not fight as hard as yesterday, but attacked casually, and found that it could not be attacked, so it quickly retreated.

Chen Guangyu saw the Han army's fighting style on the city wall, and he couldn't help but wonder a little in his heart.

He called Li Ze to him and asked, "General Li, what's going on with the Han army today?" Yesterday, the Han army was still attacking, why did it fight so casually today, just now the Han army only killed a few people, and they quickly retreated, is there a deception in this? ”

Li Ze knew that the King of Han was releasing water to him, and by the way, he was letting his elite soldiers recuperate.

But in order not to expose it in advance, Li Ze had to lie to Chen Guangyu and said: "Yesterday, the Han army suffered thousands of casualties and consumed thousands of artillery rounds, as far as the last general knows, the artillery of the Han army was transported from Portugal, and the shells could not be manufactured in my Ming Dynasty, so they could only be shipped from overseas. ”

Chen Guangyu listened to Li Ze's explanation and was skeptical.

He didn't know what the Han army meant, but since the Han army was not dead, he was also happy to do so, as long as the city of Nanjing was not broken, the grain and grass in the city would be enough for the army in the city to eat for three years.

As for the people in the city, it is not about him to garrison, Nanjing City is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, even if the people die, he can't lose the national capital, otherwise his family is a great credit, and the title of Ningyang Hou, who is hereditary and reckless, will not be able to keep it, and the whole family will inevitably end up being beheaded.

Since the Han army did not attack the city, Chen Guangyu left in a hurry.

After sending Chen Guangyu away, Li Ze felt that his back was a little wet, and when he touched it with his hands, he was full of sweat.

In the evening, Li Ze returned to his camp and called Bai Yousong in.

"How?"

Bai Yousong knew that Li Ze was in a hurry, so he hurriedly replied: "Don't panic, don't panic, I took the five of them around the city today, first went to the imperial city and the barracks of the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili, showed them their details, and then took them to our barracks, and saw the details of our battalion, and the five of them now basically know the difference in treatment of soldiers and horses on both sides." ”

"It's not enough to know, they will think in their hearts that we are making a show for them, you have to make them believe it, otherwise, when the five-day period comes, we will miss this opportunity, and it will be difficult to gain the trust of King Han."

Bai Yousong nodded, "The last general knows, but we have to think of a way to convince them that we have a conflict with the soldiers and horses of the garrison!" ”

Li Ze thought about it, and suddenly had a plan.

He said to Bai Yousong: "At dinner tonight, you arrange for a few battalion brothers to make trouble for me, find the kind of trustworthy people, let them make trouble, and it is best to make trouble with those few garrisons, because the reason is that the military salary is not paid, and the promised food has not been fulfilled." ”

"Mutiny?" Bai Yousong's face turned pale.

"It's not a mutiny, it's a money fight, a food scene, how big a fuss can be, we have to let those five envoys know that we are sincerely surrendering, not fake!"

Bai Yousong immediately understood what Li Ze meant.

"The last general will arrange this, and this time he will definitely make a big splash!"

In the evening, it was time to eat again, and a quarrel suddenly broke out in the houses under the walls of Jubaomen, which were occupied by Zhejiang soldiers.

A few Zhejiang soldiers' soldiers suddenly overturned the dinner table, walked out of the house and scolded loudly: "Damn, Lao Tzu is desperately working for the emperor, this emperor Lao Er will give us chaff vegetables every day, not even a bowl of dry rice, no meat at all, Lao Tzu's salary has been owed for eight months, when can I get the money, Lao Tzu's family is still waiting for the silver to eat!" ”

This shout instantly resonated with hundreds of people, and everyone echoed it, saying that the court treated them unfairly.

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