On the battlefield around Chen County, Kaifeng Prefecture, within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

If you want to say who among the various military forces has the slowest response speed to sudden intelligence, it must be Shen Shuren.

After all, he was surrounded, and it was understandable that the news was sluggish.

However, the Sinking Tree people are not completely isolated from the inside and outside.

Previously, Huang Degong had just rescued King Lu and King Xiaofu, and when he sent them to Xiangcheng, he also wanted to report to Shen Shuren. It's just that the land is surrounded by water, and it is impossible to break through and rush in, so be prepared to give up for the time being.

But Huang Degong quickly thought of another way - while retreating, he got in touch with Zhang Mingzhen's army along the way to the next wave of grain to Chen County.

handed over the letter to Shen Lian, a henchman of the Shen family under Zhang Mingzhen, who has now been promoted to the capital division, and asked Shen Lian to hand it over to Shen Futai when he enters the city with the army next time.

In this way, it is nothing more than tossing for three or five more days, but the delivery can still be delivered.

Li Zicheng lacked a sailor, no matter how he surrounded and intercepted it, he only blocked the land traffic in Chen County, and the Yingchuan waterway was still intercepted for the time being.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yingchuan diverted part of the water of the main stream of the Yellow River, which was many times larger than that of Yingchuan after the Yellow River was rerouted to the north in 1855.

The narrowest part of the river is at least fifty or sixty zhang wide, and the water depth is also three or five zhang, and in this kind of place, the space for the small sampan to play is very small, and the cavalry cannot directly cross the river on foot.

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Three days later, in the city of Chen.

Counting the days, the time has quietly come to the end of October of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

There are 40,000 or 50,000 fresh troops in Chen County, including the descendants brought by Shen Shuren from Shangcai, and the troops brought by Zuo Zixiong who were previously stationed in Ruyang.

Even if they were besieged by Li Zicheng, they did not panic at all, anyway, from Shangcai to Chen County, as long as Li Zicheng dared to attack the city and attack the city of the sinking army, he would not win.

The technical superiority of the Shenshu people in defending the city is no longer something that can be compensated for by courage and heaps. In this era, it can be said that there is no solution -

This is not an exaggeration at all, because when the western world, the fortress just appeared, and the advantage of the defenders was also stretched to a huge one at once. The advantage that the besieging side of Constantinople had won with solid iron artillery was quickly wiped out and countered with crushing countermeasures.

It was not until the Vauban siege method appeared in the west that the siege party was able to regain a little disadvantage in the use of artillery and the destruction of walls.

Although the Sinking Tree Man did not yet have the fortified tactics, he had more flexible artillery, plus a small triangular fort that had been improvised to eliminate the blind spots of the side fire. This kind of semi-finished tactics is absolutely enough to deal with Li Zicheng's siege force.

It's not too late to take out the complete fortress when it faces the Tartar army with hundreds of heavy Hongyi cannons in the future. Good things must be paced well, and there is no need to overinvest in early exposure.

In this way, the An Ru Taishan guarded by Chen County made Zuo Zixiong and other old people of the Shen family army a little unmotivated, and seeing the meritorious service of other comrades-in-arms, they were also eager to fight, and they wanted to fight.

But with Shen Futai to defend the city, it was cool for one or two games at the beginning, and then Li Zicheng couldn't afford to lose, so he didn't come to attack, he only besieged the city, how could he take the opportunity to kill the enemy?

Huang Degong and Zhu Wenzhen outside, they must be making meritorious contributions one after another, and they have the mobility advantage of cavalry, as long as they simply copy Peng Yue's tactics and harass Li Zicheng's food-raising troops, they can get a lot of fighters.

Zhang Mingzhen, Shen Lian and Li Yu, although they are only helping to transport grain, will definitely be intercepted by Li Zicheng, and they will be able to find an opportunity to fight back and make meritorious contributions.

The troops living in the city are really miserable.

Early this morning, Zuo Zixiong spent another half a day patrolling the city, but he didn't catch any fighters, and birds came out of his mouth.

It was said that a team of Zhang Mingzhen's grain convoy would arrive this evening, but it turned out that it had not arrived at the beginning of the Shen period, and it seemed that it was delayed.

Zuo Zixiong was a little vigilant at this time, and he also went to report to Shen Shuren, who asked him to organize a reserve team to be on guard in the Water Gate, but not to act rashly.

Until three o'clock in the Shen hour, on the Yingchuan River in the south of the city, there were faint shouts of killing and gunfire, and the generals of the defenders of Chen County looked through binoculars on the gatehouse and saw that there was indeed a fight. However, there should not be many ships on the bandit's side, and they can't stop it. When it was dark, the fleet finally broke through the barrier and came to the city of Chenxian.

The thieves still have troops who want to chase and kill, but Zuo Zixiong has already been prepared, opened the water gate to let the reserve team enter the water village on the dock outside the city, and fought a fierce battle with the thieves' pursuers, killing more than 1,000 enemies, and the two sides were scattered in the dark.

After three or four days of idleness, he finally fought such a small battle, and Zuo Zixiong barely felt more comfortable.

After the response was completed, he immediately personally found the generals of the navy who came to transport the grain, it turned out that Shen Lian and Li Yu came, Zhang Mingzhen himself did not personally take the grain, and he was also deployed along the Yingchuan River in the rear Xiangcheng area to prevent the army from bypassing the rear.

This is also the proper meaning of the question, Zhang Mingzhen is now the general army of coastal defense, and he was seconded by the Nanjing Household Department to protect the grain route for the army, and it is impossible for him to personally carry out the daily task of transporting grain.

These small things are enough to be handed over to the military attache at the level of the capital division, and Zhang Mingzhen only came on the field during the decisive battle.

"You can be regarded as bringing the grain, if you can't break through just now, I want to ask Lord Futai to lead the troops out of the city to help the war."

Zuo Zixiong and Shen Lian are not outside, even if he is already the chief soldier, and the other party is just the capital division, he is still very familiar. He also knew that Shen Lian was born in the family of Lord Futai and was his own person.

Shen Lian also gave his hand, and made a long story short: "Today's grain transportation, I saw that the thieves were more vigilant than a few days ago, and they were still dozens of miles south of the city, in the slow place of Yingchuan water, and a lot of iron cones and wooden stakes were laid, which should be to block part of the channel and prevent big ships from passing."

Although this method is not new, let's look at the record book in the last years of the Three Kingdoms, in order to prevent the Jin general Wang Junlou from going east, in addition to the iron cable across the river, he also engaged in underwater dark cone and dark pile. It's a bit of a hassle, but if you have time to sweep slowly and on land and water, you can still get through.

Today, however, because of the lack of friendly troops on the shore, we did not dare to disembark and land, so we worked slowly, so we delayed a while, and were entangled by the small boats of the intruder and the crossbowmen and musketeers on the shore, and fought to the death before we broke through.

However, this time it can break through, but it is still not a long time to break into the army, and the dark pile and dark cone are not dense, so that it can break through quickly, and next time I am afraid it will not be so easy. ”

After Zuo Zixiong listened, his expression was slightly solemn, and at the same time he was a little expectant, and he thought about it and said, "This is a big deal, you can report it to Futai in person." After the grain transportation in the city arrived this time, it was no longer transported for a month, but in fact, it could hold on.

But it may not be good to drag on for a long time, and in another month, Chen County will not starve to death here, and the soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng City are afraid that they will starve to death. And the longer it drags on, the better prepared the fortifications for the barrage will be. We should also consider highlighting the surprise soldiers to occasionally destroy and harass them, and blindly sticking to it is not the way. ”

In Zuo Zi's ambition, he vaguely knew some combat strategies of "advancing by land and water and covering each other", and knew that in such a situation, as long as the main force of infantry was sent to cover along the river and act with the naval army, all the barrage fortifications could be destroyed.

Historically, Dongwu was the first to use a dark cone and a dark pile to deal with the Jin army's building boat, and in the end, wasn't it also broken by the Jin army? Just because the Jin army has an absolute advantage, it advances by land and water. After controlling both sides of the river, whether it is to sweep away the iron cone with a raft or to burn the iron chain with a sesame oil tank, there will be time to slowly dismantle it.

Shen Lian also thought so, so he followed Zuo Zixiong to report to Shen Shuren, and he also mentioned that he brought a more important piece of military information, which was conveyed by Huang Degong through Zhang Mingzhen, and the content was naturally related to the rescue of King Lu and King Fu.

When Zuo Zixiong heard this, he paid more attention to it, and personally took Shen Lian straight to Shen Shuren's study.

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"Huang Degong rescued King Lu and King Fu? They are actually in Shangqiu? ”

When Shen Shuren confirmed the news, his face was also full of shock. Of course, his level of shock was already the smallest of all.

Who let him know the history and know that King Lu Fuwang is indeed quite capable of running, it is nothing more than that he does not know that after the interference of the butterfly effect, this rescue site will be specific to Shangqiu.

Then, Shen Shuren took advantage of the situation to turn his attention to the troubles described later in Shen Lian, that is, the attempt of the Chuang army to intercept the Yingchuan waterway and river, and today's small-scale grain transportation and grain robbery conflict.

He immediately asked associatively: "In this way, Li Zicheng suddenly changed his previous method of purely besieging the city, and tried to cut off the Yingchuan grain road, most likely because he also learned that King Lu and King Fu were rescued, and Yuan Zongdi's grain army was defeated by Huang Zongzhen.

Therefore, Li Zicheng was also annoyed and angry on the one hand, and on the other hand, he knew that he could not last longer, and wanted to force our army to fight a decisive battle in the field at the end, and then decide the way back? If our army does not go to war, it will take him another month, and it is estimated that he will be gone. ”

When Zuo Zixiong and Shen Lian heard it, they both felt that it made sense.

Seeing that Lord Futai regained his composure so quickly, and reacted logically so quickly, they were all admired: worthy of being a hero who did great things, Mount Tai collapsed in front and did not move, such a big thing is like no one, and it is still the same!

But for Shen Shuren's statement, Zuo Zixiong said worriedly: "What the adults are worried about is indeed reasonable, but if it drags on any longer, in Kaifeng City, I am afraid that the whole city will starve to death."

Even if our army is now protected by grain along the river and forced to fight with the intruding army, it is not without a chance - in the past year, the last general has listened to the teachings of adults, and has also read some military books and war histories.

The history books say that during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu was the commander, marched against the Yellow River to take the two capitals, and the Northern Wei Dynasty harassed the Yellow River fleet.

Since the last general followed the adults and raised troops in Huangzhou, he has been fighting for three or four years, and this kind of waterway cooperation and fighting along the river have also been fought several times. The troops are all northerners, and they are not accustomed to water warfare, and the total strength of our army on land and water exceeds 60,000 or 70,000.

If we act together at the appointed time, even if the breaking army gathers 200,000 to attack, there is no camp to rely on, and only relying on the vehicle formation and ship formation, our army is not unsure of dealing with three or four times the enemy! It's better to think about it, can you fight early and have fun! ”