Chapter 81: Runing City

Yang Wenyue has aged a lot.

Since the battle of Zhu Xianzhen, the form has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and this situation has kept Yang Wenyue awake day and night. First Kaifeng was flooded, and then Sun Chuanting was defeated. The thieves repaired for more than a month and went south. In early November, the division was dispatched. It will probably be able to go down the city of Runing in the middle of the month.

But he couldn't do anything.

During this period of time, Yang Wenyue has exhausted the manpower and material resources of Runing Mansion to supplement Hu Dawei and Zhang Dechang.

But how much manpower and material resources does Runing Mansion have now?

Repeatedly attacked by thieves, there is Zhang Xianzhong in the south, and the fifth battalion of Gezuo, Nanyang in the west has been standing for the camp, and Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang in the east, is preparing to join forces with the new governor of Henan Wang Han to exterminate Yuan Shizhong and Liu Chao in Yongcheng. If you can't draw troops, I'm afraid you won't dare to draw troops to fight a decisive battle with King Chuang's soldiers when they are sharp.

There are no reinforcements outside.

And the counties have repeatedly suffered from the disaster of military revolution.

The county seat has almost become an empty city, and there are no officials at all in many county seats, and even if there are officials in some places, they are just attached to the local earthen villages, surviving for a long time. There are hundreds of dock forts and cottages in the local area, each in its own way. Yang Wenyue's order didn't work at all as a thief.

It is near the city of Runing. In the area of Suiping and Xiping, there are two major bandits. for Liu Hongchao, and Shen Wandeng. They each have jurisdiction over dozens of earthen fort cottages, especially Liu Hongchao, and some of the cottages under his jurisdiction are not in Runing Mansion.

It can almost be said that it is across prefectures and counties. There are more than 10,000 troops under his command, and the cottage where he lives is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Yang Wenyue can't help him, so he only sends someone to make him the Xiping Inspector, hoping that he can serve the imperial court.

Under such circumstances, how can a mere city of Runing provide manpower and material resources to compete with hundreds of thousands of thieves.

"Your Excellency." Hu Dawei and Zhang Dechang came in to meet Yang Wenyue and said.

"Sit." Yang Wenyue didn't get up and said, "How is it in the army?" ”

Hu Dawei said: "The army is still safe, but the morale of the army is gone, and I am afraid it will not last long." ”

Zhang Dechang sighed, but did not speak.

When Yang Wenyue saw Zhang Dechang like this, he knew that Zhang Dechang was already disheartened. Zhang Dechang is an official fan, but for the sake of the Zhang family, or out of his own wishes, he has always been respectful to Shangguan, but at this moment, Zhang Dechang didn't even give Yang Wenyue face. It can be seen that there is despair in his heart.

Yang Wenyue frowned and didn't say, "Vice General Zhang, what do you mean?" ”

"The last general has no other intentions." Zhang Dechang said: "This Runing City must not be able to hold, if the adults are interested, they can use the name of escorting the king to flee to Fengyang, although the army of thieves is coming at this moment, but the east has not been blocked, once the army of thieves besieges the city, at that time."

, even if you want to go, I'm afraid you won't be able to go. Please make a quick decision. ”

Yang Wenyue said angrily: "Do you think this official is greedy for life and afraid of death? ”

Is Yang Wenyue afraid of death? Afraid of death, a few people patted their butts and said that they were not afraid of death, but since he escaped from the burning shop, he always had this pimple in his heart, and even dreamed that Fu Zonglong scolded him sharply at night and woke up in the middle of the night.

Not everyone who sells teammates sells without psychological burden.

Yang Wenyue always thinks that he wants to keep a useful body and be a thief to comfort himself. But at the moment, he was really desperate.

He first pinned his hopes on the battle of Zhu Xianzhen, but because of Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu, the battle of Zhu Xianzhen became a joke, and he pinned his hopes on Kaifeng City, but Kaifeng City was flooded by his own people, and he pinned his hopes on Sun Chuanting.

It's just the battle of Persimmon Garden, but it's vigorous. In the end, he was defeated.

Yang Wenyue, as a supervisor, was a little mediocre compared to Sun Chuanting and other famous ministers, but he was also the top group of people at that time. Have your own judgment about the situation. When Sun Chuanting was defeated, after Yang Wenyue saw the battle report, his first feeling was that the thieves could not be copied.

Having lost the hope of being a thief, Yang Wenyue didn't want to escape. Anyway, they are all dead, rather than abandoning the city and fleeing and dying in the laws of the imperial court, it is better to die under the city of Runing.

"Today, this Runing City is my place of death." Yang Wenyue said: "Those who dare to flee in the army will be beheaded. ”

"I know you're not." Zhang Dechang said: "In this situation, Runing City is destined to be undefendable, and the last general will ask the thief to gain an unstable foothold and attack the city." Victory will demoralize the enemy, and you can hold on for a longer time, but defeat is just death. ”

Hu Dawei was taken aback, and he suddenly looked at Zhang Dechang differently.

Because in the Battle of Xiangcheng, Zhang Dechang fled with Yang Wenyue for a while, and Hu Dawei always looked down on him. It's just that he never thought that Zhang Dechang actually had the courage to do so.

"The last general agrees with Vice General Zhang." Hu Dawei pondered for a while and said, "Attack and defend." ”

Hu Dawei knows the situation in the army better than Zhang Dechang. Whether it is the morale of the army or the city defense equipment, Runing City is not as good as Kaifeng City, the difference is too far, there are many others, and the city wall of Runing City is only two zhang high. Of course, compared with the general city wall, the two-zhang high city wall is not low, but for the thieves who have been attacking the city under Kaifeng City for half a year, the two-zhang high city wall is really a leap away.

It's not so much to attack and defend, but to say that you can't defend it, so let's fight.

"Okay." Yang Wenyue said: "I will entrust the soldiers and horses of the city to the general soldiers of the tiger. As soon as the thieves arrived in the city, the tiger commander decided for himself where to send the troops. I will entrust the lives of the people of the city and my life to the Tiger Commander. ”

Hu Dawei only felt that his blood was up, his face was flushed, and he said loudly: "Please sir, rest assured, if you don't win this battle, you will die." ”

After the explanation, Hu Dawei and Zhang Dechang jointly left the mansion.

"General Zhang, how about you and I go for a drink?" Hu Dawei said.

Hu Dawei has never had a deep conversation with Zhang Dechang, and this is the first time he has taken the initiative to invite Zhang Dechang to drink.

The two of them didn't find a restaurant, and there was no restaurant in Runing City in the past few years. Sit straight above the city, and let the cooks in the army bring two or three snacks.

As soon as it was dusk, the light of the torches slowly brightened.

Hu Dawei picked up the wine bowl and said, "Brother Zhang, I toast you, I didn't expect that you are also a man." ”

"Hehehe." Zhang Dechang touched a bowl with Hu Dawei and said, "I'd rather not be a man." ”

Hu Dawei said: "Brother Zhang, what do you think? To --- like this"

"Is it right to die like this?" Zhang Dechang said.

Hu Dawei nodded slightly, how could Hu Dawei not understand why he was unstable in breaking into the camp. After so many years of camping in the south and the north, the most basic camping is not good, he has died a long time ago, and now he is not a rogue ten years ago. It can be broken by thousands of cavalry in one rush.

Such an action is undoubtedly the same as sending him to death.

But I have to admit that this is also their only chance, otherwise they will either be trapped to death, or the city will be destroyed.

Zhang Dechang said: "My ancestor Zhang Gongchen has fought with the Western Thieves all his life. My father, Zhang Gong Chengyin, died in the Liao Incident. My eldest brother Zhang Yingchang fought more than 100 battles with Liukou, and died of illness, my second brother Quanchang, followed Inspector Lu, was hated by Yang Sichang, and sent to the frontier, and now there is no news. Even my nephew, Zhang Xing, died in Guide City. How can I be a thief? I must not surrender to the thief, make my father and ancestors uneasy, die early and die late, all of them are one death, why not die happily. ”

"It turns out that Zhang Quanchang is the second brother?" Hu Dawei had a bit of nostalgia in his eyes, and said: "I was also a colleague who followed Inspector Lu with your second brother, and today we will make a toast to your second brother, and wish him a natural appearance." ”

Zhang Dechang laughed and said: "Also, the eldest brother is dead, I am going to die again, and my Zhang family's court will rely on the second brother to support." I only hope that after I die, Your Majesty can remember my Zhang family and let my second brother come back. Let my Zhang family pass it on. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Dechang turned from laughing to crying.

Hu Dawei didn't know how to persuade him, anyway, this point was now above the city, and it had been cleared, and there was no one else, so he cried. Hu Dawei glanced at it, and suddenly found a little bit of starlight-like things, coming from the north, but after a while, it became more and more, dense and almost overwhelming, and you couldn't see the edge at a glance.

Zhang Dechang stood up abruptly and glanced at Hu Dawei. They all knew that the thieves were coming.

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