Chapter 311: The traitor is in charge, and the villain is misleading the country
311 traitors are in charge, and villains are misleading the country
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Chen Luo was expressionless and said, "Master Jia, since you know that our Shunde Mansion can't last tomorrow, is it too late to send someone to Lord Lu for help now?" ”
"You ......"
Jia Wenru was so choked by Chen Luo's big truth that he couldn't speak, and couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and said, "Chen Shoubei, what do you mean."
Asking Lord Lu for help, it's better than us sitting here and waiting to die, okay, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the hundreds of thousands of people in Shunde Mansion behind us! ”
Seeing that Jia Wenru was choked by himself and couldn't get off the stage, Chen Luo's originally stiff face eased slightly.
The reason why Chen Luo has a bad attitude towards Jia Wenru is mainly because Chen Luo has always proposed to Jia Wenru before, asking the government treasury to allocate funds to let him rectify the garrison of Shunde Mansion and build armor.
You must know that Shunde Mansion is a mansion, and the garrison in the city is less than 3,000 at this time, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.
Originally, the garrison of Shunde Mansion could reach 5,000 according to the imperial court establishment, but after Jia Wenru came to power, he blindly cut their expenses on them.
As a result, the number of garrison soldiers in Shunde Mansion has been reduced again and again, and even the 3,000 soldiers under him have not been paid for two months.
Looking at the weapons they were holding at this time, many of the knives and guns were already rusty, and the bows and arrows broke as soon as they were pulled, and the three of them could not share a piece of armor.
This time the Tartars attacked Shunde Mansion, if they hadn't temporarily forcibly requisitioned 3,000 people to help the imperial city, it is estimated that they would have been broken by the Tartars a long time ago.
It is precisely because of these things that Chen Luo's attitude towards Jia Wen is very unfriendly, and now that the Tartar is here, he knows that he is in a hurry, so why should he go earlier.
If Jia Wen had been so disrespectful to him as a prefect on weekdays, Chen Luo would have been furious a long time ago, and he would have to repair Chen Luo fiercely.
But at this time, the Tartar soldiers and horses outside the city had just been repulsed, maybe something would attack again, and he was still counting on Chen Luo to command the battle, so he held back his anger and didn't turn his face.
Jia Wenru also understood why Chen Luo was cold to him at this time, why didn't he want his own garrison to be sufficient!
However, who let the treasury of a dignified Shunde Mansion at this time be empty for a long time, and he can already run mice, where can he go to get silver to feed thousands of garrison soldiers!
After Jia Wenru came to power, although he was not a good official, at least he was not reliable with those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he also did a lot of practical things for the people, and his reputation was not bad.
Jia Wenru is at most a little greedy and supports his family, otherwise with the meager monthly money he received from the imperial court, it is impossible for him to support dozens of people in his family.
And Jia Wenru is also considered to be a Guqi, more than 7,000 Tartar soldiers of Abatai surrounded Shunde Mansion and sent people to recruit them, but they were directly scolded by Jia Wenru.
In terms of loyalty to the Ming court, Jia Wenru is still very firm, and decades of sage books have not been read on dogs.
Compared with some traitors who sell their ancestors for glory and are willing to be lackeys for the Tartars, it is much stronger.
Chen Luo also knew a little about Jia Wenru's difficulties, sighed at this time, and said, "My lord, the lower officials see that those Tartars can't capture Shunde Mansion."
Our entire Shunde Mansion is also a dignified city, the city is high and the river is deep, and even forced us, and even mobilized nearly 10,000 people to defend the city.
If the Tartars really want to capture our Shunde Mansion, they will at least have to pay a heavy price, and the siege of the city is still not too good for the Tartars.
Judging from the previous battles of the Tartars, the Tartars mainly captured small and medium-sized cities, plundering people, property and livestock.
They really intend to reduce their losses, so now that this Tartar is attacking our Shunde Mansion, there should be no real intention to defeat our Shunde Mansion.
They are using our Shunde Mansion as bait! ”
"Bait?" Jia Wenru asked in surprise, "What does Yi Shoubei mean by this?" ”
Chen Luo patiently explained: "Lord Jia, didn't you find out?
In the past two days, whenever the Tartars are about to break through our walls, they always have to slow down the speed of their attacks so that we have time to close the loopholes.
Moreover, their attacks these days are mainly based on those Mongols and Han Chinese minions, and the main forces of the Tartars have hardly been dispatched.
And even if these Mongols and Han minions attacked the city, they almost did not show the intention of desperate death, and at the same time, the casualties were pitiful.
Xia Guan counted the two days, and in the two days of the Tartar attack, the casualties are estimated to be less than 300, but under the blows of the Tartar archers, the casualties have exceeded 300.
What does this mean? This shows that the Tartars did not use all their strength to deal with our attack, and they deliberately besieged but did not attack. ”
"Ah, the Tartar hasn't used all his strength yet?"
Jia Wenru was a little dumbfounded, he was a civilian official, and he didn't know anything about this kind of war, of course he didn't have Chen Luo to understand.
"How does this house feel that these two days are like living like a year? Could it be that such a ferocious attack was really just a feint attack by the Tartars? ”
Chen Luo smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "Although the lower officials don't want to admit it, I'm afraid this is the truth." ”
"What a good thing that is!"
Jia Wenru stood aside and muttered to himself, "The Tartars are besieging us but not attacking, who are they planning to lure over?" ”
"If the lower officials are not bad, the Tartars are waiting to lure Lord Lu to lead the troops to appear, so that they can take the opportunity to destroy Lord Lu's team in the field in one go.
During this time, Lord Lu took his 20,000 Xuanda strong army to create a lot of pressure on the Tartars.
At this time, the Tartar desperately hoped that he could seize the opportunity in the field to defeat Lord Lu, and then take the opportunity to invade the hinterland of Shandong in one fell swoop and loot it! ”
"What? The Tartars still have such great ambitions, it's not enough to harm Zhili, and they want to kill Shandong, if that's the case, God won't bless me Daming! ”
Jia Wenru's strategic vision is far inferior to Chen Luo, in fact, this is just a bit of Chen Luo's bold conjecture.
In his heart, Chen Luo still didn't believe that the Tartar army dared to enter the hinterland of Shandong, after all, at this time, the Guanning Iron Cavalry sent by the imperial court and Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000 Tianxiong army were already eyeing the side.
If the Tartar army dares to continue to move south and enter Shandong, I am afraid that their back road will be cut off by the two elite Ming armies.
And as the Ming army that came to King Qin from all walks of life became bigger and bigger, when the time came, the back road was cut off, and the tens of thousands of Tartar troops who were trapped, no matter how strong their combat strength was, would not be able to escape the end of annihilation.
Chen Luo actually thought so boldly, he didn't believe that the Tartar generals would make such a big strategic mistake.
Unless there is a major mistake on the side of the Ming army at this time, such as falling into the treacherous tricks of the Tartars, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is heavily damaged by the Tartars, or Lord Lu is ambushed by the Tartars.
But although Chen Luo had never seen Lu Xiangsheng, he had heard of Lu Xiangsheng's name, and he didn't believe that Lu Xiangsheng would fall into the Tartars' tricks.
It can be said that Chen Luo's vision is very good, and his command ability is also very powerful, he was born in a family of down-and-out generals, and his ancestors have also produced several generals.
Originally, under normal circumstances, Chen Luo's analysis was actually more in line with common sense.
However, he must have heard the phrase 'one soldier bears, one nest of bears', a stupid general, even if he gives him a million strong troops, it is estimated that it will be difficult to win the battle.
At this time, the Ming army encountered this situation, the most elite Guanning iron cavalry, Chongzhen did not hand it over to Lu Xiangsheng, but handed it over to a eunuch Gao Qidive.
What kind of guts can you expect a eunuch to have, after all, there are not many eunuchs like Wang Chengen who have backbone and dare to accompany Chongzhen to the funeral.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops gathered on the land of Hebei, and there were two elite divisions of the Ning Tiecai and Tianxiong Army, but none of them dared to fight with the Tartars.
Seeing the Tartar army galloping, burning, killing and looting, the main reason was that there was a surrender faction in the court at this time.
Even Chongzhen already had the intention of making peace at this time, so that Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, and Tatar Zi could contact him in private.
And Yang Sichang, a university scholar, and Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the superintendent army, guessed that Chongzhen intended to negotiate peace, and obstructed Lu Xiangsheng, who had been fighting the main battle, in many ways.
At this time, Lu Xiang was promoted to the name of the governor of the world, but he couldn't mobilize other people's soldiers and horses at all, and none of the strategies he set for using troops could be realized.
Li Zixiao knows all of this, which is why he stayed in Linqingzhou for a long time and did not go north.
Moreover, Li Zixiao also knew that soon Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the supervising army, would give an order to hand over Lu Xiangsheng's 20,000 Xuanda strong army Tianxiong Army to Chen Xinjia under the command, and only give Lu Xiangsheng 5,000 old, weak, sick and disabled.
And when Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to Artemisia Bridge in Julu Jiazhuang, he encountered the main force of the Tartar army.
At that time, the eunuch Gao Qiqian, the commander of Guan Ning, had tens of thousands of iron cavalry, just in Jize, less than fifty miles away from Jiazhuang, Lu Xiangsheng sent Yang Tinglin to ask for assistance, but Gao Qiqian ignored it.
In the end, Lu Xiangsheng died in Jiazhuang, and Gao Qiqian led tens of thousands of Guanning iron cavalry, and was defeated without a fight.
With such pig teammates, it is to give him a group of heavenly soldiers and generals, and it is estimated that he will defeat the battle.
Li Zixiao every time he thought of this time, he would be worthless for Lu Xiangsheng, if he could have tens of thousands of Guan Ning iron horses in his hands at this time, he dared to guarantee that these Tartars would not come back.
Even if there are no tens of thousands of Guan Ning Iron Cavalry, as long as he can give Lu Xiangsheng 20,000 Xuanda Tianxiong Army, he can make the Tartars dare not be so unscrupulous and plunder all the way south.
In the final analysis, at this time, the Ming court was in charge, the villain misled the country, and under the internal and external troubles, the image of the country was already obvious.
And Li Zixiao knew that soon, the Tartar Army was going to fight Lu Xiangsheng in the area of Julu in Shunde, and this was also the place that Li Zixiao had chosen to let the White Dragon Army fight the second battle with the Tartars.
In the past nearly a month, through the convenient operation of the canal, Li Zixiao transported ten more artillery pieces from Baihu Village.
These ten cannons were not ordinary three-pounder guns, but all six-pounder guns, and the power was estimated to exceed all the existing guns in the hands of the Tartars.
This is also a big gift prepared by Li Zixiao for Tartar.
At this time, as soon as Chen Luo finished speaking, there was an exclamation from the accompanying sergeant: "My lord, look, the reinforcements from the Tartars are coming." ”
"What! The Tartars still have reinforcements! ”
Jia Wenruhe, who was taken aback, had already quickly poked his head out of the battlement, staring at him as if looking from a distance.
To the southwest, a force of more than 1,000 people was rapidly moving towards the large camp of the Tartar army outside the city, and behind them there was still smoke and dust, as if there was a large army following behind.
Seeing this situation, Jia Wenru immediately felt as if the sky was about to fall, and suddenly collapsed to the ground, his face was like earth.
He said in his mouth: "It's over, the Tartar reinforcements are here, and our Shunde Mansion is finished!" ”
Chen Luo also had a calm face, looking at the dust and smoke in the distance, without saying a word, the original black and thin face was even more heavy at the moment, as if it was about to drip ink.
The smoke and dust in the distance were getting bigger and bigger, and the group of people was getting closer and closer to the head of Shunde City.
Looking at the approaching team, both the soldiers defending the city and the young hearts of the city sank to the bottom, and slowly a big banner appeared in the eyes of everyone in the city.
"My lord, my lord, it's not the Tartar reinforcements, it's our reinforcements, it's our reinforcements that have arrived!"
At the head of the city of Shunde Mansion, when a group of soldiers and civilians were in despair, a sharp-eyed soldier pointed ahead and shouted, so loud that everyone in the nearby city heard it.
"What, our reinforcements! How is this possible, didn't you see that the Tartars had just returned? If there were our reinforcements, would the Tartars be blind, would they not be able to see them? ”
At the head of the city, a general of the Ming army thought that the soldier was dazzled, reprimanded the soldier loudly, and gave him a slap.
The soldier was a little aggrieved, lowered his head, and whispered: "Adult, the little one looks really good, and there is nothing wrong with it."
Although the villain is illiterate, the word 'Ming', the villain has been reading the city for three or four years, and he will never be mistaken. ”
"Huh?"
As soon as the soldier said this, Chen Luo and Jia Wenru also continued to widen their eyes and looked ahead.
After a while, several soldiers also exclaimed: "My lord, this kid is right, it is really our Ming reinforcements coming."
You see, aren't those people in front of us the banner of our Ming Dynasty? It's really our reinforcements coming, and we're saved. ”
Many of the soldiers showed excitement on their faces and shouted loudly, so that many people around them could hear them.
"Yes, that's right, it's really our Ming reinforcements! We're saved! ”
At this time, even Jia Wenru saw that the fat prefect was jumping up on the city with excitement at the moment, and he really couldn't see that his fat body could be so flexible.
It's just that Chen Luo on the side frowned and whispered to himself: "Behind the Ming flag, it is the "Li" flag.
Looking at the dust and smoke they raised all the way, there were thousands of people, not to mention Lord Lu's team.
They came from the east, could it be that they came from Shandong, but I remember that in Shandong, there seems to be no commander surnamed Li, or a general, or a guerrilla?
Could it be that the Tartars are trying to trick the city gates? Thinking of this, Chen Luo shook his head again.