Hearing Liang Yizhang pat his chest like this, those local soldiers who did not dare to fight to the death because they were afraid of slaughtering the city no longer questioned it in unison for a while,

Song Quan saw it and realized that people's hearts had turned, and it was not good to fan those Qianzong at the moment, so he could only change to words:

"You said that reinforcements would arrive in ten days, but what if we have defended enough days and the reinforcements have not come? When the time comes, the grudge against the thief is not to be angry with the people! ”

Liang Yizhang gritted his teeth: "If the reinforcements don't arrive, this official will give you an explanation, you should defend the city now, otherwise you will be punished for collaborating with the enemy!" Now I can still pretend that I just didn't hear what I said, and pretend that you were worried that the people would be slaughtered! ”

Song Quan still wanted to make trouble, but secretly observed, knowing that at this moment, the people's hearts could not unite around him for the time being, and if he forcibly made trouble, he was afraid that he would be killed by Liang Yizhang's marching method, and his subordinates might not help him resist the law.

I had no choice but to resist for a day.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the military system of guards, so the soldiers and local guard generals all lived in the same place for generations and were locals.

Of course, the locals would be worried about the safety of the local fathers and villagers, and Song Quan quietly talked about the fact that the fathers and villagers might be slaughtered in retaliation because of their resistance, so as to arouse the general resonance of those thousands of generals in advance.

In contrast, civil officials are all examined, and they are all officials in different places.

At the moment of crisis, as long as the local military generals say that "foreign officials do not care about the lives of locals, and only use the lives of locals to fill in their political achievements", it is very easy to cause trouble.

But Liang Yizhang packed the ticket, and the situation was temporarily reversed and controlled. Song Quan was not sure, so he had to fight with the enemy, and at the same time, he also thought of another way to retreat in his heart, and he didn't seem to be too worried about offending the thieves.

……

Liang Yizhang temporarily controlled the hearts of the people, and Yuan Zong's attack on the first day failed to achieve any effect-

The most terrible thing about the invasion army is not the combat effectiveness of the hard battle and siege of the city, but the threat of using the defenders that "if the city is broken after fighting, it will be slaughtered by the whole city".

Once this intimidation is broken, the greatest advantage of the intruder army is temporarily blocked.

Relying only on real knives and real guns, the defender has the geographical advantage of the city wall, what is it to defend it for ten days?

Yuan Zong attacked for the first day, killed more than 1,000 people, wounded more, and returned with a feather.

Before leaving, he let a group of scolders put down the cruel words:

"Liang Dog Officer! Dare to resist the king of heaven, my army of 100,000 besieged the city, and the small Shangqiu will be broken sooner or later! Just because of your stubborn resistance today, on the day the city was broken, King Chuang vowed to slaughter 20% of the population in the city!

In three days, our army will come to attack the city again, and when the time comes, we will dare to resist, and when we break the city, we will slaughter half of it! The longer you resist, the more complete the slaughter will be! ”

After leaving these words, Yuan Zongdi left the panicked Shangqiu defenders and generals and retreated directly to the besieged camp.

The people at the head of the city were terrified, and it was clear that despite the victory, their morale was still affected. During the bloody battle just now, my brain didn't have time to think far, and after calming down, the more I thought about some things, the more afraid I became.

Liang Yizhang fought for a long time, and he also saw everything in his eyes, and he also knew what the fate of his blind promises would be.

After thinking about it, with the end of the defense, after he returned to the prefect's yamen, he found one of his confidants with a pale face, as well as his acquaintance Yan Zekong, and secretly confessed a few words.

"I don't know what the people of Futai have to say?" When Yan Zekong saw him, he was still very polite, although he was still besieging the city, he still maintained respect for the chief officer.

Liang Yizhang was bitter in his mouth, looked at Yan Zekong, and then looked at the master, and whispered:

"This official knows that if the soldiers' fear of their fathers and villagers being slaughtered and retaliated against is not dispelled, they will not really defend the city all the time. We've offended the thieves now, and we're sure to be retaliated against.

I see that below Song Quan, there are a few local thousand presidents, how to chong and others, but they are also righteous, but they are worried about affecting the small villagers, so they dare not fight to the death without distraction.

For the sake of today's plan, there is only some strategy - you also know that this official is at the head of the city today, and he has already made a promise in front of all the soldiers, and if the city is really broken in the future, the surrendered soldiers will definitely bite the official out.

As long as Yuan Zongdi knew that I ordered everyone to stick to it, he would not let me go, and the whole family would not be able to escape if he was killed. In that case, let's put some stakes on this official's life.

You find an opportunity in private, secretly bypass Song Quan, explain a trick to He Chong and a few other thousand generals, and say that when the city is about to break, if you are worried about Yuan Zongdi slaughtering the city, let him kill the official and vote for Yuan Zongdi with his head.

When the time came, it was said that the defenders and the people had already wanted to open the city to welcome Yuan Zongdi, but they were forced by the intimidation of the official and killed a few people who persuaded the official to surrender, and they were afraid of being killed, so they had to resist.

In this way, even if they are 'anyway' on the side of the thieves at that time, how can Yuan Zongdi kill the person who responded to the killing? Otherwise, wouldn't Li Zicheng's signboard be finished? In this way, the people of the whole city can be saved.

It can also allow He Chong to defend the city without distractions when there is still hope for them to defend the city, anyway, in the end, they have a way to retreat to prevent the slaughter of the city. This is the only way to break the inhumane threat of slaughtering the city. ”

When Yan Zekong and his master heard this, they were taken aback: "Lord Futai is high-minded!" But how can my generation of scholars do such a thing of betraying friends and seeking glory! It's a big deal, just tell them that Yan is greedy for merit and instigated the adults to stick to it! ”

Liang Yizhang said anxiously: "If it was a day earlier, I wouldn't have made this decision!" But today we figured it out, if the city was broken, I would not have been forgiven.

In this case, let us take away some revenge when we die, and give the thief a step down. Don't be a person who sacrifices my life for righteousness, I just want to die more worthwhile and more vigorous when I have to die! Kill 10,000 enemies, if the hatred can be counted on my family, tsk, wouldn't it be heavier than Mount Tai!

Of course, things haven't come to this point yet, so don't be in a hurry to win over those thousands of presidents immediately, you must wait and see when they can't hold on because of fear one day, and then tell them, so that they can rest assured, so that they can last a few more days. ”

After hearing this, Yan Zekong and his master were completely speechless, Yan Zekong was stunned for a while, and just asked honestly: "Lord Nafutai, I don't know how many ......days it will take for the reinforcements you said today to arrive."

Liang Yizhang: "Of course I was in a hurry to follow the power and deceived them!" I don't know if the imperial reinforcements will come! ”

Yan Zekong and the others were shocked, and suddenly they couldn't say anything, and the prefect's yamen was shrouded in a gloomy cloud.

……

Just when a few people were lamenting and pessimistic, outside the prefect's yamen, someone suddenly asked to see them, but refused to reveal their identities.

Liang Yizhang was depressed, and when he saw that the other party was mysterious, he was about to reprimand him angrily, but the family member who reported it said:

"Master, the visitor said that he was a big head, and asked an attendant to take the token to the lord to see, but he refused to give the token to the small one. He also said that he was willing to take out some treasures to help the old man defend the city. ”

Liang Yizhang's heart moved, not greedy for money, but as if he remembered some possibility, he glanced at Yan Zekong and his master, and then nodded silently to allow the transmission.

Seeing the old man nodding, the family immediately let a middle-aged man with a white face and a little fat come in, still carrying a few tokens in his arms.

Liang Yizhang was a little alert just by looking at the other party's appearance, because it made him intuitively think of a kind of incomplete person.

"You ......"

Soon, the other party showed a token, and after Liang Yizhang confirmed it, his heart was bright, and he no longer had any doubts, and said in shock: "You are the father-in-law of King Lu's Mansion?" How could the prince be in Guide Mansion and in Shangqiu?! ”

In the Ming Dynasty, not only did there be eunuchs in the palace, but also the local kings' palaces also used eunuchs!

The Ming Dynasty had a large number of eunuchs and a high proportion of the population, and it was definitely in the forefront of all dynasties.

The eunuch saw that Liang Yizhang recognized the identity of the other party, and also made a long story short: "Our family is the eldest companion of the prince, and the prince has been breaking the Weihui Mansion by Liu Zongmin since two months ago, hiding in Tibet, and only bringing it soft.

After crossing the water to the south and arriving at the Guide Mansion, due to the chaos of the army, he did not dare to reveal his identity and go east and south, and at the same time, he was afraid that His Majesty would blame him for trespassing into the land of other vassal kings.

can not reveal his identity, and he can't dispatch soldiers and horses to escort him. At that time, after several counties of Defu, I saw that Liangfutai had a good official reputation, and he was the most diligent among the counties, and seemed to be able to win the hearts of the people to defend the city, so he hid his whereabouts and stayed temporarily, wanting to wait for the military disaster to recede, and then do the district.

Today, I heard that the Chuang army attacked with all its might, and was personally supervised and defended by Liang Futai, and the prince was still a little afraid, so he asked our family to investigate, and I also wanted Futai to protect the palace.

The prince has no other luxury, and he is willing to take out money to help the army in the war, and he can even issue it in the name of Liangfutai, without saying to the outside world that the prince is coming to return to Germany.

The prince only wants to be able to talk to the palace, and he also wants to know the battle situation at any time in the future, in case it is really time to not defend, the palace can inform in advance, and try to arrange a small team of guards to try to cover the prince's breakthrough. ”

The eunuch's words were too informative for a while, and the brains of Liang Yizhang, Yan Zekong and others were squeezed down.

To say a word of conscience, from these conditions, I can hear the humility and cowardice of King Lu, and his requirements are much smaller than those of the old Fu Wang.

The old Fu King was high-flying, and refused to reward the defenders of Luoyang, and was finally killed by the city. King Lu should have learned the lesson of the deceased now, and is willing to take out his family property to save his life like King Zhou.

Compared with King Gui's family who died in Hunan, this King Lu did not directly ask the defenders of the city to immediately cover him to break through, and he still hoped to defend the city if he could defend the city, and if he really couldn't hold it, he begged to break through.

From this point of view, he should also know how King Gui died in Hengzhou, and why he didn't treat He Yide, the chief soldier of Hengzhou, as a person, so as to force the other party to surrender directly to the enemy. He also learned the lesson of King Gui.

Of course, it is certain that this King Lu is weak and afraid of things, he is at least inferior to Kaifeng's King Zhou Xianming.

King Zhou is willing to work directly in his own name, and he is not afraid of the hatred of the thieves, but King Lu only dares to hide and secretly give money in exchange for his life, as if he can not offend people as much as possible, he is afraid of not offending people, even the enemy does not dare to offend.

This kind of cowardice and cowardice can be regarded as quite a degree.