Puyang City, the tenth day of the siege.

Hong Chengchou never dreamed that Fu Zhichun would refuse the conditions given by the imperial court!

Ten days ago, Qu Ruzheng came to Henan with Zhu Youzhen's approval, and Hong Chengchou was very obedient and recruited Fu Zhichun according to Zhu Youzhen's order, but the result was that Fu Zhichun refused!

It's just a Puyang general soldier, Fu Zhichun is not satisfied, he opened his mouth to ask for a political envoy from Henan!

"A traitor to the party, open his mouth and dare to ask the imperial court for a province, this is not nonsense!"

Where could Hong Chengchou get used to Fu Zhichun's problem, he immediately tore Fu Zhichun's request to pieces, and then mobilized the three armies to storm Puyang City.

Fu Zhichun's power is not strong, only seven or eight thousand people, but it is these seven or eight thousand people that let Hong Chengchou see what it means to be indestructible!

His 50,000 Shaanxi soldiers plus Cao Bianjiao's 40,000 Beijing camp Ruijian, he was stunned that he had not defeated Puyang with 8,000 people stationed in ten days.

Hong Chengchou didn't believe it himself, but he didn't understand the reason when he came to the front of the battle.

On Puyang City, the dense human heads and the ragged people pierced Hong Chengchou's heart.

Fu Zhichun is only 8,000 people, but there are 100,000 people in Puyang City!

These 100,000 people have become a large army, a military force that cannot be ignored against Hong Chengchou.

At first, Hong Chengchou thought that Fu Zhichun was stubbornly resisting and forcing the people of Puyang to defend the city, but when he sent people to shout in front of the formation, and promised to divide the land and grain, he planned to shake the people in Puyang to 'abandon the darkness and turn to the light', only then did he know that Fu Zhichun did not have any coercion, and these people went to the city completely voluntarily, holding sickles and kitchen knives against the court!

"It's the other way around, it's all the other way around!"

Another day of siege to the city was fruitless, Hong Chengchou, who touched a gray nose, was furious, and as soon as he returned to the tent, he threw his helmet on the big case: "Ignorance is a thief and a rebel, and he is bound to be killed." ”

Cao Bianjiao also had a worried face.

"Just one Puyang stopped us for ten days, and the entire counterinsurgency was carried out."

Qu Ruzheng said cautiously on the side: "Inspector, General Cao, I'm afraid it's not the best strategy to attack hard." ”

Isn't this nonsense?

can recruit An, how could Hong Chengchou be willing to attack hard.

In the past ten days, the imperial court has already lost 3,000 people in the siege battle!

Although Fu Zhichun's casualties were even more severe, at least 10,000 or 20,000, but 3,000 officers and soldiers exchanged for 10,000 refugees who couldn't eat enough?

Hong Chengchou felt that his face was swollen!

He exterminated Gao Yingxiang in northern Shaanxi, killed and annihilated 200,000 Liukou before and after, and his self-damage was less than 3,000!

The tactics of dividing and dissolving and annihilating made Hong Chengchou play superbly, why did he get to Puyang and Fu Zhichun, it was useless?

"If you attack for another ten days, Ben Shuai will not believe that he will not be able to break through a Puyang City."

Hong Chengchou said ruthlessly, but was stopped by Cao Bianjiao.

"Inspector, if you continue to attack in this situation, what if you capture Puyang?"

"What do you mean?"

Cao Bianjiao sighed: "Storm and take Puyang, our army is afraid that it will also suffer heavy losses, if it is really a loss of ten thousand troops in Puyang, not to mention Your Majesty, can you explain, just in Henan, can we still succeed in countering the rebellion?"

Puyang rebels and the whole city are united, vowing to fight the court to the end, and even have the determination to burn the jade, can we slaughter the entire Puyang city?

When the time comes, it will spread throughout Henan, seven or eight million people in the province, let's not talk about 90,000 troops, even 900,000 troops are afraid that they will not be enough! ”

It is a well-known fact that the army has a casualty ratio that breaks through the proportion of casualties that it will collapse.

The miscellaneous army may be one percent, and the slightly more elite ones can reach two percent.

The army composed of veterans of the border army, who often fought and saw death, was in the range of 30 to 50 percent.

That's the number at the top.

Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, trained the army in the way of the 'Thirteen Killing Method', and trained an army that almost regarded death as home, and 3,000 cavalry could break through the Turkic army of 50,000 or 60,000.

The Mamluk cavalry raised by the lame wolf Timur annihilated the 20,000 troops of the Mongol Empire, which was invincible at that time, with 5,000 people.

These battles, including the Battle of Huangshui, which is an allusion to the grass and trees, are all about the willpower of the army.

And since ancient times, the people's rebel army is not even as good as the miscellaneous army, and their endurance is not worth mentioning at all.

As soon as they came into contact with each other, the dead people immediately dispersed and collapsed.

What is the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Yellow Nest Uprising, and the countless uprisings in the Song and Song dynasties, why did not they beat the court officials and soldiers.

It's because the tolerance is too poor.

Hong Chengchou didn't look down on Puyang or Fu Zhichun in his heart, but he never imagined that the latter could cause him so much trouble.

And the root of this trouble lies in the 100,000 people who are guarding Puyang City.

Suddenly not afraid of death, I have to fight the court to the end.

With this kind of will to see death as home, women, children and children can exchange one for one with an adult soldier!

If you really bite hard, you can't even say who will collapse first!

Hong Chengchou took a few deep breaths and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

He knew that what Cao Bianjiao said made sense, and attacking hard was not the way.

"But Zhao'an can't do it!" Hong Chengchou slapped the table angrily: "The imperial court promised to divide the land and distribute the grain, but the thieves in this city are the kings who eat the scales and have an iron heart, they don't believe it, they have to go against the court, and that Fu Zhichun, how dare he open his mouth and ask the political envoy of Henan?"

Why doesn't he want a Cabinet First Auxiliary University Scholar! ”

Cao Bianjiao shook his head and sighed: "The matter here, it is better to give it to Your Majesty, and ask the Holy Judge." ”

Hong Chengchou's face changed alternately with yin and yang, and finally stomped his feet with hatred.

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Beijing, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen got the military information sent by Hong Chengchou, but there was a smile on his face, this smile, Wang Chengen's back spine was cold.

The emperor is still happy?

"Your Majesty, I didn't expect that Fu Zhichun to be a wolf with ambition like Zhang Xianzhong."

Fu Zhichun is about Jinyiwei, of course Wang Chengen knows, so he is very worried about Zhu Youzhen's mental state.

"No, I made him do it."

Zhu Youzhen's words almost shocked Wang Chengen's eyeballs.

"I just want to see if the idea I gave him can make him completely win the hearts of the people, whether the people of Puyang can follow him to fight against the court, whether they can have the courage to burn jade, and now I have seen the result, I taught him the right way to rebel, it is to let the people have the courage to oppose the court, and then swear to defend their homeland."

Wang Chengen was completely stunned, and he didn't understand how peculiar Zhu Youzhen's brain circuit was.

"Do you know why Hong Chengchou's division and recruitment can't succeed?"

Zhu Youzhen glanced at Wang Chengen: "Because the credibility of the imperial court has disappeared, no matter how generous the recruitment policy Hong Chengchou promised to the people who defended the city in Puyang City, no one will believe it!"

A court without credibility is doomed, understand?

I don't know how much credibility our Ming Dynasty still has, so I want to try, and now I have tried, which is a good thing, and I will not hesitate to sacrifice some people for it. ”

Zhu Youzhen said casually, but Wang Chengen was shocked when he listened.

That's tens of thousands of lives!

I just tried it and didn't have it!

"A court without credibility will never succeed in top-down reforms!" Zhu Youzhen suddenly raised the door and frightened Wang Chengen, and involuntarily bent down.

"And if my reform does not succeed, then in the future, 50 million, or even 100 million, people will die in this world!

I can't accept this failure, our country, this nation can't accept this failure either, therefore, I must regain the lost credibility for the imperial court, and recruiting An Fu Zhichun is the first step to regain credibility.

Let the people trust the court, first let the people have a trustworthy leader!

It is a pity that I am not that leader, at least not now, no matter how wise and merciful I am, no matter how much benevolent government I procede, the common people will not believe me, because if they do not believe in this rotten court, they will not believe me.

Fu Zhichun wants to be the political envoy of Henan is a condition for recruiting peace, which is also what I taught him, tell Hong Chengchou, agree to this condition, let the people of Puyang spread the word of mouth, spread the victory they have achieved, and spread how they chose a satisfactory leader of the rebel army to be their parent official in Henan by fighting hard!

In this way, in the future, my reform policy will be transmitted to Henan, and it will be transmitted to the people of Henan through Fu Zhichun's hands, and this lost credibility will be picked up and pasted back on the face of this already rotten imperial court! ”

Wang Chengen knelt down and kowtowed and sobbed.

"Sorry, Your Majesty!"