"Wang Shangli was sentenced to be in the chaos? Most of its main forces were annihilated? Okay, General Zhu of the Left General fought well! This result has exceeded the official's expectations, so let's talk about it in detail. ”

A day later, the officers and troops in the east of Hengzhou City besieged the camp. When Shen Shuren learned of Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen's good news of defeating Wang Shangli in Hengshanwei early in the morning, with his calmness, he couldn't help but jump up and swing his fist excitedly.

The one who came in to spread the good news was Jin Shenghuan, who was in charge of the specific siege task of Hengzhou City in the past few days, and for this kind of opportunity to show his face that could please Lord Futai, of course he didn't want to fake his hands to others, even if it was just to bring a word.

The main general of the siege force originally advertised by the Shen family army should be Zuo Zixiong, but Shen Shuren played a game of stealing beams and changing pillars a while ago, so he had the situation in front of him - saying that Zuo Zixiong personally commanded the siege of the city, it was not to let Zhang Xianzhong's army in the city believe that the main force of the official army was focused on Hengzhou, and would not be too wary of the back road.

This can also be regarded as an idle move to lure Wang Shangli to take the bait and rob grain and ammunition. In the end, Wang Shangli's hook, the specific factors played a few percent, and it is not easy to analyze, but in short, he is on the hook, and the result is good.

On Jin Shenghuan's side, the siege of the city in the past few days has also been in order, and later he pretended that the ammunition was low and the shelling was interrupted, so there was no pressure at all to act, and there was no need for any generals, people like him were enough.

At this moment, being carefully questioned by Shen Shuren, Jin Shenghuan also reported the lines he had just memorized.

It turned out that Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen joined forces, and the final result of destroying the enemy that day reached an astonishing 20,000 people!

At least 10,000 of them were killed in the Xiangjiang River Gorge near Hengshanwei, with more than 3,000 beheadings and nearly 6,000 wounded and prisoners.

In fact, when Zuo Zixiong cleaned up the battlefield, it was estimated that there were more enemy casualties, at least more than the number of slashing levels, but it could not be counted. Because they were all squeezed down the Xiangjiang River and drowned, or they fell to their deaths in the deep valley of Hengshan, it was impossible to search for the bodies one by one.

These stubborn thieves also don't have much skill and tactics, and they have nothing to cherish, so only those lightly wounded who will not be crippled and can continue to be used by the army will be treated simply. As for the seriously injured who will be crippled, just make up the knife directly, don't waste food and medicine.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the years when human life was like grass, there were countless people with intact hands and feet starving to death, how could there be so many surplus grains with intact people who did not feed the disabled.

What's more, these thieves and soldiers have all participated in murder and robbery, and they should have done this a long time ago, and when they saw the officers and soldiers replenishing the seriously wounded with knives, they didn't feel anything wrong, because they did it themselves, and it was even more ferocious.

After annihilating more than 10,000 people near Hengshanwei, the subsequent results of thousands of people were obtained in the afternoon of the same day, when Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen led the victorious soldiers to pursue and kill Wang Shangli's old nest in Hengdong County.

After the official army arrived in Hengdong County, they picked up Wang Shangli's helmet head, and prepared to attack the city.

Zuo Zixiong's main force was infantry, and he couldn't catch up with it, so he had to count on Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry troops to continue to cover up the killing. An afternoon of bloody slaughter that lasted until the evening. The cavalry troops, who had not slept and rested for nearly ten hours, were also exhausted, so they withdrew.

This afternoon's cover-up killing, at least one or two thousand more were beheaded, and more were captured.

In the end, there were only about 5,000 thieves, led by a lieutenant and several middle-level thief generals at the brigade level, who hid in the mountains and jungles east of Hengshan Mountain, and fled in the direction of southern Jiangnan. As long as you arrive at Chaling County, the easternmost part of Hengzhou Prefecture, you will enter the Luoxiao Mountains.

I believe that with the current strength of the Shen Shu people, these defeated soldiers will definitely lose their hearts when they encounter the Huguang army, and they will definitely not dare to stay in Chaling County to make trouble, and if they want to rob, they will also infiltrate the Jiangxi side of Luo Xiao Mountain, and the Shen Shu people will not be able to control it for the time being.

These are all diseases of ringworm, and they are not a big deal.

……

After having a thorough understanding of the situation in the rear, Shen Shuren's confidence in the decisive battle was even fuller.

Zhang Xianzhong originally felt that "the strength of our army and the enemy is three to one, and the advantage lies in me", but no, after a battle to lure the enemy to cut off the wings and break the horns, the ratio of troops was suddenly reduced back to two to one.

If this information is known to Zhang Xianzhong, he will still dare to fight with Shen Shuren, and there will be ghosts.

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Shuren's heart suddenly moved, and he asked:

"When will General Zuo and General Zhu be able to return to the division to join our army? Now in the besieged camp of our army, how many soldiers and horses are there? Is the news of General Zuo's victory currently the only one we know? Has it been kept secret, or has the whole army been notified? ”

Jin Shenghuan was stunned for a moment, not very convinced, but he still had to answer questions: "General Zuo took Hengdong County last night, and they have been fighting continuously for a day and a night, so they are extremely tired, and they will rest in Hengdong today." Tomorrow we will set out for us, and if we force the march, we will be able to join us in the evening.

Now there are about 12,000 men and horses in our battalion, and as for the news of the victory of the friendly army, it has not yet been spread - because the previous dispatch of Zuo Zong's troops back to guard Hengshan was originally a secret. Qu in the middle of the army didn't know that General Zuo had left, and naturally he wouldn't know that he had won the battle, and when they returned to the division in victory tomorrow evening, they would preach it. ”

Shen Shuren nodded: "That's good, that is to say, we have to rely on more than 10,000 people to maintain the siege front for two days, and we can't let Zhang Xianzhong realize this gap." Otherwise, although our army is not afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will dare to go out of the city to attack the camp, we must also beware of him immediately going out of the city to break through. ”

If Zhang Xianzhong dared to attack the camp in turn, Shen Shuren would not be afraid at all.

Don't look at the fact that he only has 12,000 people, half of the light firearms such as muskets have also been transferred by Zuo Zixiong, and the cavalry firearms such as double-barreled spray and revolver have all been taken away by Zhu Wenzhen.

However, as long as the Shenshu people had half of the birds, Lumi and turtledoves, plus all the cannons, they were not afraid of Zhang Xianzhong's strong attack on the fortified camp that had been reinforced for about a week - because the cannons were too heavy, Zuo Zixiong did not take them with him when he went to protect the grain, and all of them were left in the siege camp.

What Shen Shuren was really worried about was only Zhang Xianzhong seizing the gap in his insufficient strength and suddenly escaping.

Since Zuo Zixiong's troops needed two days to return to defense, the most critical thing was that Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry, which could shine the most in the pursuit battle, was not there. If Zhang Xianzhong runs away at this moment, it is really possible to immediately withdraw all the main forces of the old Shaanxi and Henan battalions safely, and even take away a little new annexed army.

With 12,000 people, the Shenshu people were absolutely not sure to take the initiative to attack and chase them down with infantry, so it was easy to be bitten back.

At the beginning of the battle, he chose to "encircle three and lack one", in order to hit the morale of Zhang Xianzhong's army, for fear that after putting on a posture of not leaving chickens and dogs, those new annexed troops were also forced to jump over the wall and fight to the end.

"Do you want to temporarily expand the siege camp, dig a trench in the west of the city, and set up a camp, and temporarily block the west gate in the past few days, first change the siege to three missing and one to encircle on all sides?"

Shen Shuren had such a thought in his heart, and then he felt that it was inappropriate, the troops were too scattered, and once he encountered Zhang Xianzhong's all-out breakthrough, he might not be able to bear it. It's better to make good use of the time difference in the delivery of good news and make another information difference.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Go, send someone to call all the generals who are thieves and generals, I will be of great use." ”

Jin Shenghuan didn't know why, but he did it immediately.

After a while, several middle and high-level generals at the guerrilla and garrison levels were led to the Chinese army tent of the Shen Shuren.

……

A bearded, sluggish hippopotamus-faced Shaanxi general cautiously came to Futai's handsome tent, and specially took off the felt hat he was wearing before entering the tent.

It was at the beginning of this year that he surrendered to Lin Chengcheng, the leader of the original thieves who surrendered to the Sinking Tree People. After Lin Chengcheng surrendered, he originally said that he would seal a guerrilla first, and then promote him to general when the time was ripe. The reason is that at that time, the generals of Shen Shuren's descendants were generally not very high-level, and if they were directly given to the generals, they would not be able to convince the public.

But later in April, the group of old people who followed Shen Shuren were generally promoted to the next level, and Zhang Mingzhen and Zuo Zixiong were also promoted from deputy generals to general soldiers.

Lin Yangcheng thought that he would always be able to fulfill his position as a general, but after two or three months, he was still a guerrilla. His descendants' troops were also dismantled and reorganized by Zhang Huangyan in the spring reorganization, and many middle-level officers who were loyal to Shen Shuren came in as sand, and the soldiers were also dismantled and mixed.

Now, even if Lin Chengcheng has different intentions, it is impossible to completely control his troops, so he can only obediently work for Shen Shuren. In this battle against Zhang Xianzhong, in the first half of the month's battle, Lin Yangsheng did not catch up.

But later Zhang Huangyan arrived in Wuchang and transferred a part of the Huangzhou soldiers to the front line for reinforcements, and Lin Yangcheng was sent. He acted with the large army, and in the siege of Changsha and Hengzhou, he also made a little effort with the big flow, and there was no chance to perform.

This time he was specially summoned by Shen Futai, which made him quite uneasy, this is also the first time he has been summoned by Futai since the second Zhao'an, and he thought that the other party was going to test his loyalty.

However, just as he walked to the door of the big tent, Lin Chengcheng was embarrassed to notice another general, it was a twenty-something guard, Liu Sandao, who was also the righteous son of the original thief leader Liu Xiyao.

When he was in the fifth camp of Gezuo, although Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao did not worship their sons, they were also called brothers, and the friendship was similar to the friendship between Erhe, close to each other, but it was not that he did not have the idea of annexing the other party.

So he is very familiar with Liu Sandao, and he has always been called a "virtuous nephew". Now that the two generals are classified and summoned in this situation, it is inevitable that they will be a little embarrassed. Lin Chengcheng was not ashamed to ask: "The virtuous nephew has just arrived?" Do you know what Futai summoned you to? ”

"I don't know, I'll find out when I go in." Liu Sandao did not call himself a "little nephew", obviously because he no longer wanted to claim to be "once Liu Xiyao's son".

Lin Chengcheng not only didn't dare to get angry, but felt a little embarrassed and ashamed: he had abandoned the secret and turned to the light, how could he still be commensurate with the relationship in the original thief camp!

The two of them entered the tent nervously, and saw that Shen Shuren was sitting in the middle for a long time, and there were two rows of elite guards standing tightly next to him, and they hurriedly went up to salute.

"The last general will see Lord Futai!"

Since Lin Chengcheng surrendered, Shen Shuren has never spent much time beating him, he has always handed him over to Zhang Huangyan to handle, and occasionally listened to Zhang Huangyan's report on Lin Chengcheng.

In the past half a month, Lin Chengcheng was sent to the front line to fight a little battle, Shen Shuren secretly observed, but also felt that his performance was decent, and his ferocity should have been almost worn out, so he planned to give him a chance to improve.

Shen Shuren stared at each other, looked up and down and was silent for a while, just like before the Führer's speech, using the terrifying silence to the extreme, and then spoke in a firm tone and at a calm pace:

"General Lin, before Zhang Xianzhong coerced you into rebellion three years ago, how did you have a relationship with him?"

When Lin Yangcheng heard this, he was directly drenched in cold sweat, knelt down and kowtowed: "Master Futai Mingjian!" Even the rebellion three years ago was just because he was afraid that His Majesty would be strict in employing people, and he didn't distinguish for a while, and he was afraid that he would be implicated by Zhang Xianzhong, so he rebelled in order to protect himself!

Later, I learned that Lord Futai knew thousands of miles, treated people well, and never looked at people with old eyes, and the last general and others returned to the court again, and never dared to have two hearts! The last general and Zhang Xianzhong can't talk about friendship! He was all killed in the first place! ”

Shen Shuren waved his hand: "Even if he was killed, he always told you something back then, right?" Otherwise, you can be so smart that you think of 'because Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, Xiong Wencan was killed, and we were appeased by Xiong Wencan like Zhang Xianzhong, so the court will also suspect us against' Such a complicated reason? ”

Lin Chengcheng remembered that his old face was flushed, and he was at a loss, and he had to admit: "My lord, Zhang Xianzhong's words to intimidate us at the beginning are no different from this." But other than that, there is really no friendship, we are all forced. ”

Shen Shuren shook his head: "If you guys expose a sentence like this, you admit it, then it's not interesting, originally I wanted to give you a chance this time."

That's it, let me say it bluntly, I hope you can have a deeper friendship with Zhang Xianzhong at the beginning, how to get close, you can figure it out yourself-

Anyway, now there are not many ammunition stocks in our army, and the logistics fleet transferred by Hengshanwei was intercepted by Wang Shangli again, although our army repelled Wang Shangli, but the material losses were also very heavy, and at least five or six days can no longer bombard the siege.

I'm worried that after a long time, Zhang Xianzhong will see the flaws, or the scouts he sent from the east of the city will be able to detect the truth about Hengshanwei and the battlefield in Hengdong.

Therefore, he planned to strike first, but he was real, and took the initiative to show weakness to lure him to attack, the only ammunition in the concentration camp, to fight a blocking battle, and let Zhang Xianzhong suffer a little, so that even if he found out the military information in his favor in the future, he would be bitten and afraid, thinking that it was another strategy of our army, and he would not dare to venture out of the city again. ”

Shen Shuren said this, staring at Lin Yangsheng and Liu Sandao's eyes, his gaze wandering alternately between the two of them, and then he threw the last hole card:

"You see, which of you two had a better relationship with Zhang Xianzhong, or whose father-in-law had a better relationship with Zhang Xianzhong, you can send someone to contact him secretly.

Let's just say that our army is empty, and I am afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will break through in the past two days, so I sent you, the cannon fodder troops, to temporarily go to the east of the city to block the gap left by the original siege of three and one.

But you feel that the hasty establishment of camp must be a weak defense, and it will be difficult to resist the conflict of the main forces in the city. And because of the lack of ammunition, I did not supply you, so that you could only defend the enemy with swords, guns, bows, and crossbows, and take your troops to die for consumption.

That's why you want to reach a tacit understanding with Zhang Xianzhong, as long as he doesn't attack your camp, you will let him go. Or to remind Zhang Xianzhong that if he is willing to attack the other sides of Hengzhou City to break through, you can all see death and watch from the wall. ”

When Shen Shuren said this, Lin Yangsheng and Liu Sandao came back to their senses.

Liu Sandao's status is relatively low, and he doesn't have so many scruples when he speaks, so he took the lead in asking:

"Lord Futai, is this trying to lure Zhang Xianzhong to deliberately attack the camp and take the opportunity to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops? Or do you want to ambush our troops behind the flanks of our army, wait for Zhang Xianzhong to pass next to our newly established defense line in the east of the city, and then intercept it with the main force? ”

Shen Shuren maintained a mysterious smile: "This is not for you to ask, you just say if you can do it." ”

Lin Chengcheng saw that Liu Sandao took the lead in expressing his loyalty to the previous question, and this time he hurriedly answered:

"Absolutely! If Zhang Xianzhong dares to break through from the side of the siege of the last general, the last general will definitely fight to the death to block and delay until the main force of the adult arrives from the other three sides of the siege! ”

Shen Shuren couldn't help laughing: "General Lin, don't you think you agreed too quickly?" Have you figured out how to convince Zhang Xianzhong that you will let him go? ”

Lin was stunned for a moment, and said tentatively: "Let's just say that I remembered the old friendship with the people who made trouble in Shaanxi, and I was unhappy with you here, and I was not promoted after surrendering?" If it doesn't work, I will tell Zhang Xianzhong that my troops have now been dismantled and reorganized, and they will not obey my command in the past, which will cause the last general to have a grudge......"

Lin Chengcheng said and realized that he had said the wrong thing, didn't he say all his real grudges? In the past six months, he has indeed been a little depressed.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren listened to it, and laughed more and more naturally: "Stupid! If you say this kind of thing, do you dare to believe you? If he knew that your troops were already loyal to the Ming Dynasty, how dare he think you could let him go? ”

Lin was scolded as a fool, but he was not angry at all, but he was pardoned.

What he was most afraid of just now was that the topic stopped at that sensitive point, and suddenly became cold. But Shen Shuren naturally scolded him for being incompetent so lightly, which showed that Shen Shuren had an absolute grasp of controlling him, and he was not worried about this kind of small fish and shrimp turning up the waves at all, and gently lifted the most embarrassing points.

Lin Chengcheng hurriedly asked for advice convincingly: "Please give me advice!" ”

Shen Shuren stretched out a finger, scratched it on the table, and said: "You have to say this: with years of experience, you can see that he has broken Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou this time, and killed King Rong, King Ji, and King Gui, and the income will inevitably be huge."

And based on Zhang Xianzhong's expansion of the army to recruit troops after breaking Changde, but he did not recruit much more troops after passing through Changsha, it can be seen that he must still have no less than 10 million taels of huge wealth on hand. Therefore, if you ask him to hand over thirty percent of it, you will let him go.

If he is willing to hand over fifty percent, you will fight back and join forces with him, and after the big deal is done, you will also rebel again, and go south to the two Guangzhou. With such a huge wealth in hand, where are you afraid of not being able to buy off the homeless and thief? ”

When Lin Yangsheng and Liu Sandao heard this, they also felt a pang in their hearts: Lord Futai is very familiar with the operation of thieves! You can easily estimate the financial situation of the thief's side!

In the past, other face-loving literati and doctors would never figure out these dirty things in this direction!

If you really follow this idea and establish contact with Zhang Xianzhong, it is really possible to fool the other party, and if you want to fight urgently or delay the war at that time, you will have a little more initiative!

Lin Yangsheng and Liu Sandao looked at Shen Shuren's eyes, and there was a little more awe when An Lushan looked at Li Linfu.

It is said that when Li Linfu was alive in history, An Lushan never dared to have different intentions, and it was only after Li Linfu died that An Lushan felt that he was stable.

Because every time An Lushan saw Li Linfu, the other party could easily say what he was thinking at that time, this kind of mind reading technique made An Lushan extremely frightened.

Shen Shuren's speculation on the mentality of the thief chieftain is no less than Li Linfu's mind reading skills!