In the south of Shangqiu City, one side of Yuan Zongdi's siege camp was already a sea of fire at this moment.

Thousands of corpses were littered with broken trees, and the surviving cannon fodder soldiers had been driven to the west and north.

There is nothing worth dwelling on in this short and tragic battle. Of course, Yuan Zongdi's tens of thousands of thieves and soldiers could not be dealt with because of this battle.

In the previous battle, Huang Degong came suddenly, relying on the advantage of cavalry and the advantage of rapid attack, he concentrated his forces to attack one place, and naturally formed an absolute superiority in strength on the local battlefield.

However, Yuan Zongdi's original deployment was to prepare to surround and attack the city on all sides, and the troops were scattered in the four directions of Shangqiu City, and they could not quickly support each other at the first time.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the troops of the camp on either side of the camp were taken out alone to face Huang Degong and were beaten to collapse and collapse.

After suffering a loss, Yuan Zongdi was worthy of being one of the five famous generals under Li Zicheng, and his reaction was very appropriate.

While collecting the defeated troops in the south of the city, he drew inferences from one another, took the initiative to withdraw the men and horses in the east of Shangqiu City that had not been disturbed, and concentrated all the troops in the west and north of Shangqiu City.

After shrinking the defensive line, and relying on the offensive of the camps built up in the past few days, it will be difficult for Huang Degong to attack and take advantage again.

Huang Degong is also a person who knows the soldiers, so after breaking the Nanying, he just tried to wait and see further, and found that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, so he accepted it when he saw it.

Yuan Zongdi was willing to give up the southeast side, which was equivalent to giving up the plan to completely encircle Shangqiu and prevent the soldiers and people in the city from abandoning the city and breaking through.

Before Huang Degong came, he received Yuan Shizhong, the general of the Chuang army, and obtained false information from Yuan Shizhong that "Li Zicheng has information that King Lu and King Fu and other vassal kings may be in Shangqiu, so he sent Yuan Zongdi to attack Shangqiu and create the crime of trapping the clan for Shen Shuren", so he strengthened his determination to hold Yuan Zongdi back.

So now that Yuan Zongdi has given up on the complete siege, Huang Degong, of course, also knows the priorities, and decided to go to the city first, exchange news with the defenders, and confirm whether the kings are there, who are there, and whether they are willing to break through under the escort of the Shen family's army.

After this is done, it is better to further explore how to deal with Yuan Zongdi.

Liang Yizhang and Zhu Changshu were anxious to see Huang Degong, and Huang Degong also persuaded them to break through.

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Half an hour later, the battlefield was roughly cleaned, the army was reorganized, and after the two sides had obtained mutual trust and confirmed the formalities for confirmation, Liang Yizhang cautiously opened the city gate and let Huang Degong and his party enter.

Huang Degong's 12,000 cavalry, after the battle just now, there are still more than 10,000 people who have maintained their combat strength and mobility, and all of them have temporarily entered the city and stationed, and they have no intention of setting up camp outside the city at all.

In Huang Degong's opinion, he won't stay for a long time anyway, so there's no need to do more.

"Where is Mr. Huang? Did Shen Futai come in person? The lower officials returned to the prefect of Germany, Liang Yizhang, and thanked the generals and righteous men for their rescue. ”

Liang Yizhang's posture was very low, and he didn't care about the dignity and humility of the martial arts, so he waited directly at the gate of the city, and casually saw a military attache above the level of a garrison or a capital division, so he clasped his fists and saluted, and made a statement.

Shangqiu City is dilapidated and withered, and the materials are not abundant. can only hastily gather hundreds of jars of spicy and sour bad wine, and there are also a few small animals that have been temporarily looted and caught, and dozens of pots of sacked soldiers have been boiled casually.

The city is besieged, and the cattle and sheep will definitely not be available, and no one can raise cattle and sheep in the city, and there is nowhere to find fodder.

The rich families in the city still have a bit of small animals, but under the food control, feeding these small animals will obviously squeeze the rations of the poor, so Liang Yizhangcai is very humane and forceful in the name of the government to defend the city, and requisitioned all the domestic animals.

Usually you have to be loving, but during the siege, people can starve, and love a little animal with wool. Instead of slowly starving and losing weight without feed, it is better to use it to boost morale before losing fat.

Liang Yizhang personally toasted a few guards before finding Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen, so he hurriedly handed them a bowl each, and took the wine jar from the hands of Yan Zekong, who knew it, and filled it for the second general with his own hands, and asked the master to hand over a bowl of meat in front of him.

"Mr. Huang is really brave and champion of the three armies, righteous and thin, and the people of Shangqiu are all very virtuous! Xia Guan has already heard that Shen Futai did not come in person? This is also what it should be, Chen County and Yuncheng side, the battle must be more intense. ”

Huang Degong is also very useful, he is a person who is addicted to alcohol, and he doesn't care about the occasion, after drinking the bowl in one gulp, he dodges the jar where Liang Yizhang poured wine, and directly pours down with his neck.

After a while, the whole jar was filled, and then he grabbed a dog's leg to suppress the wine.

Liang Yizhang was dumbfounded, and hurriedly took another jar and offered it with both hands: "Mr. Huang is really massive!" He is worthy of being a well-known brave general in the world! ”

Huang Degong burped and said proudly: "What is this, I can drink several jars of wine in one go at the age of twelve!" Back then, my mother was a winemaker and salesman to make a living, and we were young and ignorant, so we drank all the wine at home, and we didn't pay the capital.

I had to grit my teeth and sneak into the army of Xiong Tingbi, who was the Liaodong Economic Strategy at the time, and killed a few Tartar cavalrymen while he was out of battle, and the head was exchanged for silver to pay off the debt! Eh, why is this dog meat a little sour? By the way, I heard that Yuan Zongdi besieged Shangqiu in order to trap the domain, is this true, is there a vassal king in the city? ”

Huang Degong is also proud of his addiction to alcohol, and has formed a habit, as soon as others praise his drinking, he will bring up the old things, boasting that he "drank well when he was a child".

Liang Yizhang took over the conversation: "It turns out that you know that there is a vassal king in the city, so you came so quickly?" That's really a coincidence, King Lu and King Fu are indeed in the city, and they are fortunately rescued by the army - this meat is indeed a little sour, just because it is eaten by ordinary families.

A few days ago, the city was going to raise food and meat to defend the city, and the little county lord of Luwangfu took the initiative to take the lead in donating all the cats and dogs she raised to the army, which can be regarded as a good start. Although King Lu repeatedly asked not to reveal his identity at that time, the lower officials also hinted that the wealthy gentry in the city, and the more prominent and powerful people took the lead in donating.

As a result, even the distant relatives of the former household department Shangshu Hou Sui's family had to pledge to donate, and other gentry with lower status pinched their noses and pledged to donate. ”

Huang Degong was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed, he didn't listen to the second half of Liang Yizhang's words at all, but when he heard that King Lu and King Fu were indeed there, he was eager in his heart, and secretly thought that this time he finally took the opportunity to make a great contribution.

And listening to what the Liang prefect said, the people of Luwangfu are quite knowledgeable about advance and retreat, they are not domineering, they are in danger, and they also know that they can lower their posture, and even the county lord is willing to set an example and donate cats and dogs, so they should be easier to speak.

Huang Degong didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Liang Yizhang to take him to meet the prince to discuss major matters.

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After a while, Huang Degong was taken to Zhu Changshu's temporary residence and also met the kings. He could only salute in armor, and Zhu Changshu didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly came over and said good things.

Zhu Yousong on the side also looked at Huang Degong with a little eagerness in his eyes, and said a lot of praise and praise, which made Huang Degong a little fluttery-

This is really not that Zhu Yousong has changed his temperament, but in history, after the little Fu King fled south and fled to Huang Degong's defense area, he was very flattering.

Later, the four towns of Jiangbei supported Zhu Yousong as Emperor Hongguang, and Zhu Yousong's fawning trust and winning over Huang Degong was also very important.

Otherwise, with Huang Degong's qualifications as one of the four towns in Jiangbei and the earliest town to follow Shi Kefa, if Huang Degong is willing to completely take Shi Kefa's interests as the standard, the other towns may not be able to make waves.

At most, he is a thief and the most unruly Gao Jie, who may break his wrist with Huang Degong. The other two towns, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing, are not ruthless people who are willing to take risks at all.

Of course, history does not allow assumptions, and the main reason for the establishment of King Fu in history is that Shi Kefa is more rule-oriented and hesitant - Shi Kefa is still very different in character from other Donglin Party members.

At that time, other Donglin people only wanted not to set up King Xiaofu, so as not to settle their old accounts in the future when the Donglin Party blocked Wanli from establishing the old King Fu to replace the prince (Guangzong Zhu Changluo), so they did everything.

Shi Kefa is still face-saving, and he also pays attention to the distance of blood. He knew that King Lu's bloodline was indeed a generation farther than that of King Xiaofu, one was the bloodline that was divided in Wanli, and the other was divided in Longqing.

Therefore, Shi Kefa couldn't do the thing of "replacing the near with the far", and in the end he would rather go to Liangguang to meet Zhu Youlang, the king of Xiaogui, just because King Xiaofu and King Xiaogui are both the grandsons of Wanli, and the number of generations is the same.

But it took several months to go to Liangguang to welcome people, the nights were long and dreamy, and the country's throne was vacant, so he couldn't wait for a few months, which gave Ruan Dacheng and his ilk the opportunity to connect the four towns and support Zhu Yousong by force.

So strictly speaking, it can't be regarded as Huang Degong's betrayal of Shi Kefa, it's because Shi Kefa himself can't come up with a plan that can be used immediately, and Huang Degong can't fight against the other three towns by force for the sake of King Gui.

If Shi Kefa is more decisive, it is estimated that Huang Degong will still respect Shi Kefa's decision.

Of course, all these assumptions are no longer important. Because Huang Degong has now been completely subdued by Shen Shuren.

After getting along during this time, Huang Degong has admired his new boss Shen Futai to the extent that he has thrown himself to the ground. For Shen Futai's compassion for the military ministers, not seeing the martial artists, and not banning him from drinking in the army, they all don't want to taste it.

In contrast, Shi Kefa was a very straightforward and upright person, and he often banned alcohol in the army, which alone made Huang Degong actually only "awe" of Shi Kefa, and he couldn't talk about it.

After having a new boss like Shen Shuren, Huang Degong showed favor to Xiaofu Wang, of course, he didn't enter the oil and salt, but he just responded politely, but he didn't have the idea of being effective at all.

Everyone is a military general of the imperial court! How can you serve the vassal king! At this moment, Huang Degong didn't think about those directions at all.

No matter what happens in the future, that's what Shen Futai says! Our An Lujun only listens to Shen Futai's decision-making!

After Zhu Yousong said a few words, he found that Huang Degong was very upright and bright, polite and polite, and he could only stop some thoughts. After all, his imperial brother Chongzhen is still alive and well, and some of Zhu Yousong's thoughts are only fleeting, and he subconsciously feels that he needs to arrange an idle chess.

After Huang Degong dealt with King Fu, he turned to King Lu who was the master here - this order of dignity and humility is no problem, although King Lu is far away, but as a prince, his level should not be low. And he is an uncle, and he is the Fu King he contains, and the follow-up arrangements of this group should be listened to by King Lu.

Huang Degong asked respectfully: "Your Highness, this Shangqiu city is in chaos, although the last general repelled the first part of Yuan Zong, he only broke through the entrenchments on the east and south sides of the city.

And the last general was ordered by Shen Futai this time to crack down on the thieves and deviants, once Yuan Zongdi retreated, the last general must lead the troops back to the battlefield in Chen County, and it is impossible to stay here for a long time. If the thieves go and return at that time, Shangqiu will still be in danger. I beg the prince to show me, can the last general escort the prince and his party to a safe place? ”

Only then did Zhu Changshu have the opportunity to speak, and he hurriedly agreed: "Yes, willing!" How unwilling! In fact, a month and a half ago, King Fu's nephew persuaded Gu to go south to Shou County along Yingchuan and go to Fengyang Mansion.

It was Gu who felt that it was not in line with the laws of the imperial court to enter the central capital, so he hesitated. General Huang is willing to escort, I wonder if you have thought about where to go? Is there a place to go other than Nanjing and Fengyang? ”

When Huang Degong heard this, he was also in awe: "When the prince is in such a crisis, he strictly abides by the laws of the imperial court, which is admirable." If you can't go to Zhongdu, how about returning to Xinyang Mansion for the time being?

When Shen Futai played on his behalf, explained the situation, and only said that he had rescued the prince and others to Xinyang, please indicate how to settle it next, and His Majesty will naturally have an approval. ”

Historically, after King Fu of Lu followed the Yingchuan River and the Huai River to the east, he did not dare to stay in Fengyang, the central capital, so he continued to flow down the Huai River directly, out of Fengyang, and arrived at the adjacent Huai'an Mansion in the east.

Fengyang and Huai'an, and Nanjing, are only separated by a Yangzhou Mansion, which is just 300 miles away.

But now, apparently, there is a slight butterfly effect.

The people of Shenshu are still fighting, and it is impossible to divide troops to escort them far away, so it is also very logical to temporarily go to Xinyang Mansion to the west of Fengyang Mansion for a while, instead of going to Huai'an Mansion to the east of Fengyang Mansion.

Moreover, there is another reason why I can't go to Xinyang in history, that is, the situation in Jiangbei at that time was already very erosive-

In history, the five battalions of the left side of the revolution have not been completely wiped out by the imperial court, and even the original nest of the people of the time and space sinking tree in Huangzhou and Suizhou, the sixteenth year of Chongzhen in history was Zhang Xianzhong's territory, and Zhang Xianzhong almost all the way to Hefei with the five battalions of the left of the revolution.

Now, the security situation has improved considerably, and even if you still have to find a better place than Huai'an, close to both Fengyang and Nanjing, Hefei is obviously a better and more appropriate option than Huai'an.

Zhu Changshu thought about it, but he was a little worried about his safety, so he timidly confirmed: "Xinyang Mansion is still the front line of the battle between Shenfutai and the thieves, right?" Will it be dangerous? ”

Huang Degong hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "Your Highness, rest assured!" Shen Futai has now won several battles against the thieves! And how dare the last general send His Royal Highness to Shangcai and Chen County on the front line.

As long as His Royal Highness is willing to go to Xinyang temporarily, the last general will escort you to Rushui, Ruyang, Xiangcheng, and Xincai in the lower reaches of Yingchuan. When the time comes, it will enter the Huai River from Ruying, and then enter the Huai River from the Huai River, and finally it can stay in Hefei for a long time. Hefei is located between Fengyang and Nanjing, and it is absolutely very safe. ”

When Zhu Changshu heard such a thorough question, he finally had no doubts and accepted Huang Degong's opinion in its entirety.

He still has a conscience, and he is about to run away, but he suddenly remembered that the loyal prefect Liang Yizhang was still left, so he persuaded in the tone of a peacemaker: "Will the Liang prefect break through with us?" ”

Liang Yizhang smiled bitterly for a short time, and replied: "The lower officials have the responsibility to guard the land, how can they leave lightly?" General Huang relieved the siege of Shangqiu, which was the blessing of the lower officials and the people of the city, and the lower officials had better stick to it, no matter whether the thieves returned after General Huang left! ”

Huang Degong also sighed when he heard him say that he was tragic, he knew that if there was no external reinforcements, the thieves would really come back, and Shangqiu would not be able to hold it in the end.

He felt that this civil official was not bad, so he left a sentence: "Liang Futai is a loyal and righteous person, and when it comes to a moment of crisis, Shen Futai and we will still be able to take a hand." Liang Futai must also look at the situation, don't make mistakes and die in vain, how can you continue to serve the country? ”