Chapter 103: The Enemy Arrives
The news of Cheng Xiaolian's occupation of Xianli City was not concealed at all, and within three days, the guards of Mengyang City got the news.
At this time, Xianli City can only be regarded as barely settling down, not even settling down, but it is calm on the surface, and there is still a turbulent undercurrent inside, but thanks to this Xianli City, which was originally a city of the Ming Dynasty, there are more Han people in it, so the people in the city have no other emotions, but they feel that these people may not be able to hold this city in the hands of the Burmese, so they have no intention of contacting them.
Confucius looked helpless: "Kill all the people who should be killed, and it will be bad if you kill them again, but no one is willing to work for us." Even if you barely do your job, it's against the yang. ”
Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Second Uncle Kong, don't worry, they are afraid that we will not be able to take the city, if the city is recovered, they will have to be liquidated in the end, so it is normal that no one helps, we still have to defend the city." ”
Confucius was stunned for a moment: "The defenders of Mengyang City won't arrive so soon, right?" ”
Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Tammy is the wife and brother of the guard of Mengyang City, you must know that the power of this pillow wind is not small, it is not surprising that this guard will come so quickly, we now have to guard the city not only outside the city, but also the people in the city in tandem with them, so it is not easy." ”
Confucius waved his hand: "I don't know much about war, you still ask them if it's suitable, if you really can't do it, organize the militia to go up to the city tower to defend the city, in short, you have to keep the virtuous etiquette no matter what." ”
Cheng Xiaolian shook his head: "No, even if there is no one in the end, we can't organize a militia, we just came here and are not familiar with the place, those ordinary people will not agree with us, if they don't agree with us, even if they put it on the city, they will defect, and it will definitely be fatal to give us a knife at a critical time, so we must not be allowed to go to the city wall." ”
Confucius nodded: "Then I'll go and prepare the equipment to defend the city first, the grain and grass in the city are quite sufficient, but there are still a few people." ”
Besides, General Fu of Meng Yangcheng, he has been upset in the past two days, he heard that Meng Mi was in trouble, and he gloated for several days, it is best to exhaust those bastards, but he didn't expect things to come to his head so soon, and the most important thing is that his brother-in-law also let people chop up.
He was annoyed in his heart, did you say that you can't beat or run, for the sake of the old man who died in your family, no one will do anything to you, why did you die for the country? In the past two days, his wife has not done anything else, she has been inking in his ears, from twenty years ago to three months ago, in one sentence, if there is no their tower family, the gluttony will not be able to mix with the position of General Meng Yangcheng, and now her father's bones are not cold, and the old man's most beloved son will be chopped up over there, if he does not take revenge, he will be ungrateful.
There is no way to do it, his father-in-law has just died less than a year, and he can be regarded as taking over the family, if he can't get the approval of the whole family in this matter, his efforts this year will be in vain.
So even though all the troops in the rear were transferred to suppress the bandits, he still pieced together a lineup of 5,000 people to take revenge. The information he got was that Meng Guangcheng's defenders had opened the city, so he immediately sent a letter to ask what was going on, which led Meng Mi's partial general to go to Meng Guang to investigate.
On the seventh day of the fall of Xianli City, Fu Yu swore to go on an expedition, and this time his order was that all the soldiers in Xianli City surrendered, whether they were forced or excusable, and all of them were killed. Now that Tammy is dead, they all have to be buried with him.
After the army set out on the expedition, it took thirteen days to arrive at the foot of Xianli City, in Fu Yu's opinion, the guards of Xianli City were really not smart, and he was not harassed along the way, if the defenders of Xianli City just wanted to rely on a city to consume themselves, they could not help but think of themselves too simply.
Thinking of this, he immediately found his own people running over from Xianli City: "How much food is there in Xianli City?" ”
"I left with three months' worth of food."
"It's been too long, I can't wait so long, the siege plan has been canceled, if it is known that it took three months for General Ben to fight a group of rebels, General Ben's face will be completely lost."
Meng Mi had already replied, and the general who probed the news said that the defenders of Meng Guangcheng had rebelled and killed their general, and they didn't know where they had gone, so there was no doubt that this group of people was the rebels. Thinking of this, he sneered: "Go and shout, tell them that they are dead!" ”
As for the surrender, Fu Yu didn't think about it at all, even if he did, those people on the other side wouldn't believe it at all, since they dared to kill their own generals, it was a capital crime everywhere, and no one could save this crime, otherwise the whole country would be in chaos.
Cheng Xiaolian stood at the head of the city, looked at the sea of soldiers on the opposite side, and swallowed his saliva: "How many people are there?" ”
"About 5,000 people." Zhai Songjin found Cheng Xiaolian's nervousness on the side: "Your Highness, don't worry, we will definitely be able to hold it." ”
Cheng Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "It's not that I'm weak-hearted, but I've never seen such a big formation, and I'm a little nervous." Moreover, this is a regular Burmese army. ”
Yang Youcai said on the side: "It's okay, in Myanmar, it can only be regarded as a second-rate army, but it should be a little stronger than us." ”
Confucius pouted: "This hasn't been a war yet, why destroy your own prestige, what does it mean to be stronger than us, I don't think it's any stronger than us." ”
A cavalryman reached a distance of 100 zhang below the city and shouted loudly: "Listen to the rebels in the city, you killed General Udilong of Meng Guangcheng, the king has issued an order, there is no mercy for killing, if you lay down your arms now, you can still leave a whole corpse, and your family will not be buried with you, otherwise your family will be killed by you!" ”
At this time, there was a commotion at the head of the city, and the Burmese soldiers who defended the city were stunned, they were obviously a counterinsurgency team, how could they become rebels in a blink of an eye?
Zhai Songjin laughed and shouted loudly: "What the person under the city said is right, we are not a messenger sent by the king at all, nor are we here to quell the rebellion, we are here to rebel, but you have already boarded the thief ship, you can't get down, do you hear what you shout below?" If you fall into their hands, you will surely die. I've been a traitor all my life. ”
The commotion at the head of the city became louder, and Cheng Xiaolian sneered: "We are the army of the Ming Dynasty, this time we came to avenge your old king, he was slaughtered by his own brother, we killed the current king, you are the founding hero, otherwise you will be traitors for generations, and you will also affect your family, you can do it yourself." ”