"Fu Shuai, let's demolish the house." Li Zongxue persuaded.

Xie Xuelong's face was full of sorrow: "The thief didn't demolish the house, but the governor actually demolished the house, which official am I?" ”

Generally speaking, the defending troops will take the initiative to demolish the houses outside the city, and even burn the woods near the city walls. This is to make it more difficult for the besieging side to obtain materials for making siege equipment, and it also makes it more difficult for the besieging side to set up ambushes.

But Zhao Han guarded the city and didn't demolish the house, just to leave it to Xie Xuelong!

Ji'an has not been fighting for many years, and even under the city walls, there are many illegally built houses.

If Xie Xuelong wants to attack the city, he must demolish these houses. Otherwise, Zhao Han threw a torch below, and as soon as it was burned, it would be a large piece, and the offensive and defensive battle would inevitably become a barbecue meeting.

And after the house is demolished, the wood can be used to build siege equipment.

But does Xie Xuelong really dare to demolish the houses?

Li Zongxue said: "Fu Shuai, the prefect and the prefect are dead, they are martyred in the city and the country. The city fell, the court asked for the guilt, and Fu Shuai bore the brunt. It is also a big crime to guard the eunuchs, but the eunuchs are far away in Nanchang and did not participate in the war here. In order to pass the blame, the eunuch must throw all the blame on Fu Shuai's head. If you don't recover the city as soon as possible, it will be light to dismiss the official and go to prison! ”

There are several governors' staff, but now they are all gone, and only one Li Zongxue is left.

Including Zuo Xiaocheng, who defected a few days ago, learned that Fucheng had fallen and immediately disappeared without a trace.

"Wait, wait." Xie Xuelong was in a dilemma, he really didn't dare to demolish the houses.

Inside and outside the city, they fell into a state of confrontation.

When Zhao Han was defending the city, he still had time to train recruits in rotation, and every morning and afternoon, 500 soldiers were each assigned for drills.

And Xie Xuelong's side, if it weren't for the soldiers in Bailuzhou, which was surrounded by the water of the Ganjiang River, it is estimated that Xiangyong would have run out.

This time it's a decisive battle, not an encounter.

The decisive battle was in no hurry, and both sides were patiently preparing.

Zhao Han was busy training recruits, and Xie Xuelong was also training. The governor, while sending people to the next state capital to collect grain, asked the gentry to recruit the villagers, because it was impossible for him to break the city with this little soldier.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Hundreds of villagers who had just been recruited mutinied before they reached the riverside, and they knocked out the officers in the middle of the night and ran away.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Xuelong's warships also ran away, and the townsmen of Bailuzhou began to jump into the river and escape. Knowing that the siege was hopeless, they were unwilling to follow the governor to death, so they lost one-eighth of their troops in two or three days.

Faced with such a dilemma, Xie Xuelong was still calm and sent his henchmen to prevent the soldiers from escaping. At the same time, the soldiers were given additional meals and rewarded for their good performance.

Deserters remained, but the momentum was finally contained.

Xie Xuelong still had illusions at this time, and he had a good relationship with He Yingrui, the political envoy of Zuobu. He was able to recruit troops to Ruijin smoothly before, so he Yingrui's help, and I hope that this time I can also increase his troops and food.

However, as soon as he wrote a letter to send someone out, he suddenly received a secret letter from He Yingrui.

There are only ten words in the letter: Eunuch slander, hope that the king will do it himself.

Xie Xuelong put down the secret letter, his face was like ashes, and everything was over.

On the surface, this letter said that the eunuch wanted to sue Xie Xuelong and let Xie Xuelong prepare as soon as possible. The subtext is, you're dead this time, and I can't help you.

During the Chongzhen period, the emperor kept urging taxes, but Jiangxi Province was the only province that dared to disobey the emperor's order to suppress taxes every year.

What is Pressure Levy?

It is that there are various disasters in the local area, and this year's taxes will be collected next year.

Shaanxi and Shanxi have become that kind of ghost, and the political envoys dare not suppress the levy every year, but the rich Jiangxi dare!

He Yingrui, as the political envoy of Jiangxi Zuobu, has been criticized by Chongzhen several times. It's not that he's bold, it's not that he's too greedy, it's that Jiangxi's taxes can't be collected at all.

The land was occupied by the gentry, and there were few small landlords and yeoman farmers, so how could the government expropriate the land?

Only this one, there is no semicolon, at the end of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangxi, there was no year to collect taxes.

Until now, Chongzhen thought that Jiangxi had been plagued by disasters for many years......

He Yingrui couldn't give Xie Xuelong more troops, he had to take out every penny of food and send it to the emperor obediently. How much can be sent, anyway, Emperor Chongzhen has long been used to it.

"Well, withdraw your troops." Li Zongxue said.

Xie Xuelong said with a bitter face: "The anti-thief is in Fucheng, how can I withdraw my troops?" Once the troops are withdrawn, I am afraid that they will be beheaded! ”

Li Zongxue asked rhetorically: "Just look at it like this?" ”

"It can only be like this," Xie Xuelong sighed, "even if there is only one soldier left, you must stay in Bailuzhou, and if you leave, you will abandon the city and flee." ”

Zhao Han didn't do anything, just guarded the city, and Xie Xuelong was already at the end of his rope.

Who told him to send troops to suppress the thieves?

If Xie Xuelong doesn't do the right thing and stays in Nanchang honestly, Ji'an won't have to carry the cauldron if it falls.

Do more wrong, do less wrong, don't do good.

Whoever does the work, who is unlucky!

Standing on the shore of Egret Island, Xie Xuelong looked at the Fucheng opposite, and his whole heart was like ashes.

He couldn't attack or leave, so he could only watch stupidly.

In the whole of Jiangxi, no one wants to help him, he is fighting against the thieves alone.

Zhao Han, the thief, should have been surrounded and suppressed, but the world was bizarre, but it seemed that the governor had been surrounded and suppressed, and Xie Xuelong had been overwhelmed.

Li Zongxue came to Xie Xuelong's side: "Fu Shuai, you can't drag it out any longer." Even if we are bound to lose, we have to find an opportunity to attack the city, otherwise our countrymen will have to run quietly. ”

"Mu Zong, what do you say is wrong with this Da Ming?" Xie Xuelong looked up at the sky.

Li Zongxue was silent.

Xie Xuelong pointed in the direction of the south wharf of the city: "Just because the thieves no longer loot, those gentry and merchants outside the city are as normal as usual." Instead of helping me to kill the thieves, they blamed me for starting the war. Is the old man a thief, or is Zhao Yan, who took the city, a thief? ”

Li Zongxue said: "They actually know in their hearts, they are just waiting. ”

"Wait-and-see?" Xie Xuelong sneered.

"Yes, they are waiting," Li Zongxue said, "Now that the Zhao thieves are powerful and can go out of the city to kill people at any time, they are in danger, so they naturally complain about Fu Shuai." If the soldiers in the hands of Fu Shuai are not just a few thousand rabble, but 10,000 elites of the court. Then Fu Shuai is powerful, Fu Shuai has the power of life and death, and they will help Fu Shuai kill the thief. ”

Xie Xuelong shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said, "Mu Zong, you can still see it thoroughly, people's hearts are like this." This is true of the court, and so of the place. ”

Li Zongxue said in a low voice: "It is also the imperial court that has lost its majesty, and Jiangxi is huge, and even a few hundred regular soldiers can't be gathered." Otherwise, how can you allow that little thief to make trouble? ”

Xie Xuelong suddenly pressed the hilt of the sword, and said, "Mu Zong, if I die, you will go to the thief." ”

"Why did Fu Shuai say this?" Li Xuezong didn't understand.

Xie Xuelong said: "Da Ming is hopeless. I can only repay the king with death for my devotion to the king's deeds and loyalty to the king. But the thieves in the northwest and the Tartars in the northeast have no ability to rebuild. Anti-thieves everywhere are also short-sighted. Only the Zhao thief in front of him, after occupying the capital city, can restrain his subordinates and make Ji'an prosperous outside the city. If the Ming Dynasty is overturned, the person who succeeds will be this person! ”

Li Zongxue shook his head again and again: "I am a lifter, how can I be a thief?" ”

"Whatever you want," Xie Xuelong didn't bother to talk about this matter anymore, but said, "Tomorrow we will demolish the houses outside the city, step up the construction of siege equipment, and we must forcibly attack the city within ten days." ”

Xie Xuelong already has the will to die, he is not attacking the city, but going to hit the city wall to die!

Every year, Jiangxi is the only one in the country.

The governor cannot openly open the government and build teeth, and he cannot legally recruit pacesetters, and Jiangxi is also unique in the country.

Changed to other provinces as governors, how could Xie Xuelong be so aggrieved? He can train at least 2,000 governor pacesetters, and he has a formal army establishment, and the local government must honestly give money and food!

The next day, Xie Xuelong sent Xiang Yong to demolish the houses outside the city on a large scale.

The gentry and the people were furious, and the thieves came to have houses to live in, and the governor actually demolished their houses?

"Dare to corrupt officials, dare to harass my people!"

Zhao Han stood on the tower of the city and shouted angrily: "Ruhe, quickly lead the troops out of the city and protect the people's houses and property!" ”

"Okay!"

Fei Ruhe's heart was happy, and he immediately took 500 soldiers out of the city to kill the officers and soldiers who demolished the houses.

The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran, and Fei Ruhe chased after him.

Zhao Han ordered again: "Dashan, go out of the city quickly to help the people repair their houses!" ”

Jiang Dashan set off happily, and actually took soldiers and some carpenters with him to help the people repair their houses.

"Lord Qingtian!"

Countless low-level people knelt on the ground and shouted in unison, kowtowing to Zhao Han on the city tower.

Seeing this, Xiao Huan couldn't cry or laugh.

Exactly, who is the official and who is the thief?

Ouyang Steam is also in the city, and he is no longer bound, of course, he is not a thief. The thing was dumbfounded, and then in the direction of Bailuzhou, he scolded: "Solve the thief, you are in vain as an official of the imperial court, you are not as good as a thief!" ”

Xie Xuelong was also angry, feeling like a clown jumping off the beam.

"Come ashore with me and kill the thief!"

Zhao Han sent a thousand soldiers out of the city before and after, Xie Xuelong immediately seized the opportunity, he was afraid that Zhao Han would hide in the city and not come out.

"Blow the trumpet!"

Zhao Han ordered the trumpeter to blow the assembly horn with suona.

He led more than 1,000 soldiers to defend the city, and all the rest were released out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers.

Xie Xuelong was afraid that Zhao Han would hide in the city, and Zhao Han was still afraid that Xie Xuelong would hide in Bailuzhou.

The two sides seem to have reached some kind of tacit understanding, and they collectively gathered troops towards the north of the city, unwilling to start a war in the prosperous place south of the city.

Xie Xuelong's troops...... Uh, it's not good.

Because the boat came from Bailuzhou, in the blink of an eye, another boat ran away.

In particular, the recruited people, seeing that they were really about to fight, jumped into the river and fled despite the cold of the river.

There were also many military Chinese officials, who did not want to follow the governor ashore, and hid in the Bailuzhou Academy and refused to show their faces.

The two sides lined up.

The rebel army of 3,000 people was led by Fei Ruhe.

There were nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers, led by Xie Xuelong.

Both sides have no ranged troops, and are engaged purely by infantry, and both use simplified versions of the Mandarin Duck formation.

The battle is about to begin, and the missionary officers mixed in the army are constantly mobilizing before the war: "If you kill the dog officer, everyone will have a field to cultivate, everyone will have clothes to wear, and everyone will have food." If we lose, our fields will be snatched away by the government! Recruit brothers, if you win this battle, Mr. Zhao will take everyone to divide the fields! ”

Xie Xuelong also shouted: "Sons, be loyal to the monarch and serve the country, defend Sangzi, and follow me to kill these thieves!" ”

"Knock knock knock!"

The drums of war beat and the troops marched slowly.

The Chinese armies on both sides did not move, and sent three sentinels to fight, and the left and right sentinels advanced and stood by.

What's even more nonsense is that neither side dares to go too fast, and once it accelerates, the formation is chaotic, and it is all a damn rabble.

Before the battle was engaged, each of them had his soldiers fleeing.

Xie Xuelong immediately sent a team of supervisors to kill the townspeople who fled from the battle.

On the side of the rebel army, it was the law enforcement team with sticks to stop it, and the mission group shouted frantically: "Old watch, if you escape, you will have no land, and if you escape, you will live a hard life!" Let's farm and eat! ”

The missionaries kept shouting, chasing after the deserters.

Shouting and shouting, the fleeing soldiers returned one after another, and Wow Wow shouted and charged again: "Farm and eat!" Farming and eating! ”

"Farming and eating!"

"Farming and eating!"

The rebels collectively shouted, as if possessed by a god, and rushed forward with no regard for life and death.

Except for the eight hundred veterans in Wuxing Town, the rest of the recruits were all in chaos. No matter what weapon you have in your hand, you have forgotten the skills you have mastered during training.

Wu Yong, who was born in the guard, has been found out, but Zhao Han did not expel him.

Wu Yong has been promoted to a senior at this moment because of his many meritorious contributions.

The old lady of the family can let the brother take care of it first. He wants to follow Mr. Zhao to the countryside to divide the fields, and if he meets a widow, he may be able to ask for a wife.

Wu Yong dreamed of having his own field and dreamed of begging for a daughter-in-law.

"Farming and eating, farming and eating!"

Wu Yong picked up his gun and rushed forward, he forgot to command his team of ten, and his team members would not listen to Shi Chang's command.

Anyway, it's all over the place!

Wu Yong even rushed out of the military formation, ran in front of the wolf soldiers, and did not want to break into the enemy formation, and only shouted repeatedly: "Farming and eating, farming and eating!" ”

The battle was quickly decided, the rebels were not afraid of death, but the villagers were all sparing their lives.

Most of these villagers are from good families, they have land at home, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing, how can they be willing to fight with mud legs?

Xie Xuelong's supervising team couldn't stop it, and the governor could only personally press the formation and charge with the middle sergeants: "Kill thieves to serve the country and defend Sangzi!" ”

"Farming and eating!"

"Farming and eating!"

The rebels shouted louder, and even the veterans lost their minds and gradually lost their proper formation.

Of course, there is no need to stay in formation anymore.

"Doodle, doodle~~~~~~, toot

"Doodle, doodle~~~~~~, toot

The sound of suona sounded on the battlefield, and the rebel army became completely fanatical, and even Fei Ruhe's Chinese army charged together.

Xie Xuelong's Xiangyong has collapsed across the board.

Xie Xuelong originally wanted to lead the Chinese army to hold down the position, but at this moment, he was scattered by the rout. His eyes were red, he suddenly drew his sword and crossed his neck, turned to look at the north and said to himself: "Your Majesty, the minister does not live up to the king, but the king can bear the minister?" ”

Xie Xuelong, who was supposed to jump into the river and die in Nanjing, killed himself outside Ji'an more than ten years in advance.

Knowing that Xie Xuelong committed suicide in defeat, Li Zongxue, a staff member who was far away in Bailuzhou, also resolutely jumped into the Ganjiang River to commit suicide. He was not martyred, but followed his benefactor, and the court had no affection for him.