The scholar who was caught by Wang Zuohang had already surrendered when Wang Zuohang entered the city, because he was literate and could come up with some crooked ideas, but he was also quite valued by Wang Zuohang, and it was very much the meaning of some people under one person and above ten thousand people.

However, the level is not as good as Wang Mingyu, who was lit with a sky lantern.

Hearing Wang Zuohang's question, the scholar smiled bitterly and said: "King Zuo, if you look at the current situation alone, I am afraid that the brothers Wang Er and Wang Mingyu have been destroyed. ”

Wang Zuohang angrily let go of the hand holding the scholar's collar and said angrily: "Damn it! The two brothers are both rubbish! Now that the army is besieging the city, you say, what is the problem? ”

When this scholar heard this, he was also extremely helpless.

It is said that it is the misfortune of three lives, and the county is attached to Guo; Three lives do evil, attached to the provincial city of Guo; The evil is full of evil, attached to Guo Jingcheng.

If the official is unlucky, the prefect and the prefect are in the same city, so his every move will be restrained, exhausted, and completely devoid of the prestige of his parents.

The provincial capital attached to Guo is that the prefect, the prefect, and the governor are in the same city. Needless to say, it is attached to Guo Jingcheng.

But what the hell is talking about the officials, isn't it about these ordinary people? How could it be the turn of this Yichuan county, that is, these ordinary people suffered from the plague and were unlucky?

A good county town of 20,000 or 30,000 people, since Wang Zuo hung up in the city, now he is dead and fleeing, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled in the entire Yichuan County are less than a few hundred.

In desperation, the scholar had no choice but to give up: "King Zuo, for today's plan, there are two ways to choose." ”

As soon as he heard that the scholar had two easy paths, Wang Zuohang was happy. Look, Lao Tzu is really right to take in this scholar, otherwise these scholars have good brains, and there are two ways in a blink of an eye.

Wang Zuohang, who was happy in his heart, urged repeatedly: "Tell me quickly, what are the methods?" ”

When the scholar heard this, he arched his hand and said: "It is good to teach King Zuo to know, one of them is that he can't hold out, after all, we still have food in the city to rely on, but the army under the city is all cavalry, and the food brought must not be much, but I am afraid that I will not be able to attack the city." ”

Hearing this, Wang Zuohang couldn't help urging: "How long can the grain in the city last?" And what about the second? Say it! ”

The scholar had no choice but to continue: "The food in the city is still enough for about ten days, but during these ten days, the cavalry under the city will either have to carry food from other places, or they will have to retreat first.

The second is that in the dead of night, King Zuo directly led the army, broke through from the weak defense of the army under the city, and less than a hundred miles to the northeast is the Python Mountain. ”

Wang Zuohang was about to speak, but when he saw the scholar, he sighed, and continued: "King Zuo, I'm afraid that today's things will not be good." Or prepare to break through. ”

Wang Zuo's heart was originally biased towards the dead county, there were cavalry on the left and right, and they couldn't attack the city, Lao Tzu was afraid that they would do the ball?

Now when he heard his military advisor say this, he said unhappily: "Why? ”

The scholar stretched out his hand and pointed to the city, and said to Wang Zuo: "King Zuo looks at the big banner with bright characters, and the people under it." ”

Wang Zuo looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see a reason, and said irritably: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't hide it!" ”

The scholar was helpless, so he had to say: "The dragon embroidered on the big banner with clear characters has five claws, and many of the people under it are dressed as eunuchs, but I am afraid that His Majesty is here today." ”

Wang Zuo's heart trembled, and asked, "The emperor is in person?" Damn, Lao Tzu just killed an official and rebelled, and he just occupied a county town if he died, why did he provoke this killing god? ”

To say that Wang Zuo is not afraid in his heart, it is pure.

The land of Shaanxi was originally close to Shanxi, and it was closer to the grassland, and Emperor Chongzhen built more than ten Beijing temples on the grassland, and who didn't know which one?

I really don't know, in the edict of Emperor Chongzhen to the world after his northern expedition to the grassland, it is also clearly stated.

If such a killing god suddenly surrounded this small Yichuan county town with a horseback, where would Wang Zuo be able to worry about it?

The scholar despised Wang Zuo without a trace, and secretly said that he was also blind, so he voted for such a thing! The saint has clouds, the big husband Taishan collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, this Wang Zuohang is really mud can't support the wall!

It's just that it's too late to regret it at this time, when the city was broken, he took refuge first, and helped this Wang Zuo hang up a lot of ideas, and the benefits were not less, that is, surrender anyway, I'm afraid that the emperor under the city can't tolerate himself, and now there is only one way to go to the dark.

Cheering himself up, the scholar continued: "King Zuo must make a decision early, otherwise when the emperor under the city mobilizes a large army and has siege equipment, I am afraid that he will really not be able to leave." ”

Wang Zuohang was silent for a long time, and he was speechless. Not only do I want to hold on to the city, anyway, I am now the leader of a large army, and I don't have to go into battle to fight, but on the other hand, I feel that I should really break through quickly.

However, when they went to the Python Mountain to eat some grass roots and bark, Wang Zuohang, who lived in brocade clothes and jade food for more than ten days, felt very heartbroken.

Before Wang Zuohang could make a decision, he heard the sound of horses' hooves under the city, but among the cavalry besieging the city, he split up and came to the city.

The knight looked at the head of the city and shouted: "Listen to the people in the city, Your Majesty has a decree: you will put down your swords and guns, open the city and surrender, except for the first evil and the leaders, the rest will not be investigated, you can follow His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty and His Royal Highness the Tang Dynasty to open up the country!" ”

However, in reality, this little lady still didn't give Emperor Chongzhen a good face, and slapped Emperor Chongzhen in the face again - the reaction of the scholar above the city was exactly the same as Wang Mingyu's, and he hurriedly persuaded Wang Zuohang to spread rumors.

In addition to this scholar who recognized Emperor Chongzhen, there was really no one on the city who recognized Emperor Chongzhen under the city, so he was fooled by Wang Zuohang and the scholar with people, but they all believed it.

The scholar, who was secretly relieved, saw that the knight was shouting a second time, and he was afraid of change in his life, so he said to Wang Zuo: "Why doesn't King Zuo order someone to shoot this fang?" ”

Wang Zuohang estimated the distance, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that I can't reach it, and even if I can reach it, I'm afraid that some people can avoid it." ”

The scholar smiled and said, "What does it matter if you miss a shot?" As long as King Zuo gave the order to shoot arrows, there was no turning back for everyone. ”

When Wang Zuohang heard this, he no longer hesitated, and ordered: "Release the arrow!" Hugh will listen to the thief's instigation! ”

When the rebels at the head of the city heard Wang Zuohang's order, they opened their bows and arrows from the Yichuan guard post one after another, and shot them with their bows.

The knights under the city also heard Wang Zuohang's order, and when they saw that the rebels above the city were all setting up arrows, they immediately cursed secretly, turned their horses' heads, and ran back to their own formation.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was also extremely painful.

Damn, no one can trust me! Do you really want me to come forward myself?

Thinking that this is not the Jinluan Palace in the capital after all, no one knows him even if he runs over, in case he is killed by an arrow from the rebels who have already opened his bow, wouldn't it be a big loss?

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen ordered hatefully: "Set up camp and surround Yichuan." ”

After the camp was completed, Emperor Chongzhen entered the big tent of the Chinese army. At this time, someone had already laid out a map of Shaanxi and its surroundings for Emperor Chongzhen's reference.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the map for a long time, but suddenly asked Zhang Zhiji: "How long is the food we have left?" ”

Zhang Zhiji thought about it in his heart, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, if you let the soldiers eat openly, I am afraid that it will only be enough for one day, and if it is rationed plus mare's milk or something, it can support five or six days." ”

Emperor Chongzhen snorted, and his fingers were drawn on the map for a long time before he raised his head and said, "Spread my will, and order Ma Weiqiu to raise grain from the surrounding area and transport it here."

Ordered Pingyang Mansion to transfer troops, draw a thousand households over, bring siege equipment, and quickly march to Yichuan.

Daning, Ji County, and Xiangning counties are not allowed to be transferred, and the three county guards are ordered to prepare for defense, if there is a loss, I want their heads! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Zhiji to reply, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Jinyi Wei General Banner standing next to him and said, "Send someone to the city to contact, I want to know the situation in Yichuan City." ”

At this time, the general banner of Jinyi Wei was not as demanding as Zhang asked to know Pucheng before, so he bowed down directly.

It's just that in the evening, after Emperor Chongzhen got the secret report from Jinyiwei, his face was gloomy as water, and he patted the case and said: "Bastard! ”

The next day.

When Zhang Zhiji entered the tent and pointed out to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen directly ordered with a black face: "If Yichuan is surrounded, even flies are not allowed to enter or exit." When Kaesong surrendered, he slaughtered all these bastards. ”

Zhang Zhiji was shocked when he heard this, and arched his hand: "Your Majesty? ”

Emperor Chongzhen gestured to the Jinyi Wei General Banner next to him with his eyes, and ordered: "Tell Zhang Aiqing about the situation in Yichuan." ”

The general banner of the brocade guard bowed his hand to Zhang Zhiji and said: "In Yichuan City, except for the rebels, there are less than three hundred, and they are all thieves who followed the city when it was broken. The bread in the city is less than five days. ”

Zhang Zhiji was also shocked when he heard this, and said angrily: "There is such a beast trip!" ”

Zhang Zhiji was not ignorant of the situation before Yichuan County.

As the junction of Shaanxi and Shanxi, Yichuan County has a population of nearly 30,000 people, and in addition to the public mouths of towns and villages outside the city, it is the county itself, with a population of nearly 20,000.

Now they can be harmed by these rebels to less than 300 people, and the tragedy of their military disasters can be seen from this.

Zhang Zhiji also understood why Emperor Chongzhen ordered to slaughter the rebels in Guangcheng - this kind of cannibal person who led beasts and cannibals, even if he was assigned to work as a coolie and threw it under the command of His Royal Highness King Shisun of Tang, he was sorry for the nearly 20,000 people who died in vain in the epicenter!

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Zhiji arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, why don't you send someone to cut down some wood in the woods near the left, build a ladder first, and then attack the city immediately?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a long time before he said: "That's it, the people in the city are less than three hundred, and they are all thieves, even if they are attacking the city at this moment, they are just driven by these bastards to defend the city, how many people can survive?" At that time, it will only be a casualty of the Beijing battalion.

Spread my will, as long as it is strictly sealed. I don't believe it, can he really do cannibalism? ”

Facts have proved that the matter of cannibalism can be done not only by the black uncles in Africa, but also by these people in the Central Plains.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zang Hong killed his beloved concubine to eat soldiers, and during the Fu Jian period of the former Qin Dynasty, in a battle in Chang'an, the defenders beheaded 1,800 enemy soldiers who broke into the city, and then the corpses of these enemy soldiers became military rations. The officers also took the flesh home for their wives to eat.

Not only eat the enemy, but also your own people can eat at the last moment. The Tang Dynasty general Xue Rengui led 14,000 soldiers to attack Mobei, but returned in vain, and there was no food on the way back. Cannibalism among the whole army. When they finally entered the fortress, only one-twentieth of the original force remained.

The most shocking incident occurred during the battle of Zhang's guard of Suiyang. Zhang Xun used thousands of Tang troops to block the siege of An Lushan's army here. During the months-long siege, food shortages first occurred in the city.

After the grain was eaten, the soldiers began to eat horses, and after the horses were eaten, more than thirty thousand women, old people and children began to be eaten.

What is surprising is that although the Tang army knew that there were no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and they would die here, there were no mutineers. In the end, the city was broken, and only about 400 people survived of the 60,000 soldiers and civilians in the city.

In the sixth year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song army besieged the Jin army in Tangzhou, and the food in the city was exhausted. But the soldiers did not have enough to eat, so they vied with each other to kill the other wives and children of Ukraine, and when the city was finally broken, even the commander of the Jin army, Fucha, was killed by his own subordinates to eat meat.

However, these people are not the most awesome.

The most awesome is the Yellow Nest.

The Huang Chao who wrote "The Heavenly Incense Array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor" is the real awesome character.

In May of the third year of Zhonghe, when Huangchao's army was besieged in Chenzhou, this goods used mechanized methods to massacre the people of Chenzhou, put the corpses of young men and women into a special "mashing village", and smashed the corpses of people into "dried meat", which was distributed into military rations for the sergeants to eat.

The whole process is very efficient, from production to consumption, and it is like a killing machine that works around the clock.

Therefore, when the Pingyang guards transferred by Emperor Chongzhen arrived at the city of Yichuan Mansion with siege equipment, the entire Yichuan Mansion still did not surrender.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Yichuan Mansion in front of him, and the people in the city must have eaten people in his heart, otherwise how could he have survived so many days? Fortunately, the remaining hundreds of people all surrendered to the thieves early, and Emperor Chongzhen couldn't say how heartbroken he was.

After pondering for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said: "Siege the city, no chickens and dogs will be left!" ”