This was the end of the Battle of Ma Muji.

In this battle, the Ningxiang Army can be said to have played a majestic role. The Chinese pro-army led by Liu Zongmin retreated to Kaifeng after paying a huge price. After the three leaders of Xiao Yuan's battalion were killed, because of the lack of a strong commander, the 60,000 peasant army immediately split into more than a dozen groups of men and horses, attacked each other, and dispersed in a few days.

Now, the threat to the north of Sun Yuan and Ma Shiying has been removed, and they can finally free up their hands to continue attacking Yongcheng.

As for Li Zicheng over there in Kaifeng, he probably didn't have the heart to care about Liu Chao's life or death

。 After all, the Ningxiang Army is so difficult to bite, if you want to completely annihilate Sun Yuanjun, you don't know how much price you have to pay. Liu Chao and Li Zicheng are not related, so he naturally does not have the idea of sticking a knife in both sides. Yongcheng is important, but it is not cost-effective to die so many soldiers for this.

……

After a rainstorm, the yellowish earth seemed to be covered in green overnight.

The grass scrambled to sprout, new sprouts sprouted on the withered branches, and the wind blowing in it was not as hot as before, but with a cool moisture.

In a dry place two miles from the besieged causeway, the bodies of more than a hundred fallen soldiers were placed in freshly made coffins, the lids of which had not yet been fastened.

Sun Yuan and the others were dressed in neat military uniforms, and stood in front of those dead robed brothers with calm faces.

A soldier plays his flute quietly, and the mournful tune drags a long tail rhyme, fluttering in the wind.

In this battle, the Ningxiang army won a huge victory, and almost all the cavalry who came back had the enemy's head tied around their waists. One hundred and fourteen brothers, however, closed their eyes forever, and more than two hundred others lay in tents, suffering from pain and heat.

In this battle, although the Ningxiang Army was defeated and played a majestic battle, it also paid 10% of casualties.

Huang You's illness had already recovered, he stood in the crowd with a cane, shook his head, sighed again, and nodded after a long time: "You can start." ”

Several soldiers stepped forward, touched from the arms of their dead comrades, took out a handful of wheat, sprinkled it on the side of the coffin, and then fastened the lid of the coffin.

When he walked in front of Jing Ran's corpse, he touched it, but he felt empty.

A soldier shouted, "Brother Jing is a new member of our cavalry army, and he doesn't have wheat with him...... Who are Brother Jing's relatives and friends? ”

"I am." Leng Ying stepped forward, squatted down, stretched out her hand to smooth Jing Ran's clothes, tears fell, and then sprinkled a handful of wheat in her hand in the grave: "Big brother, I'm sorry for you, I'm a bad seed, I'm not a human being." ”

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and jerked himself vigorously.

He used all his strength in these slaps, and after only two blows, his face was swollen and his nosebleeds flowed out

。

"Brother Leng, you are not a bad seed, you are a good man, you have proven this battle. If Brother Jing has a spirit in the sky, he will also rejoice for you. Two soldiers grabbed him by the hand and dragged him out with all his might.

"Put!" Tang Wenxing ordered.

A platoon of cavalrymen drew their unloaded pistols and fired at the same time: "Bang! ”

"Put!"

"Bang!"

"Put!"

"Bang!"

The flute was still playing faintly, reaching out to the blue sky.

A voice shouted, "The Heroic Spirit is immortal, the soul is back!" ”

Most of these dead cavalrymen were men from Yan Zhao, and although they had been in Jiangnan for three years, they still loved to eat wheat from their hometown. During the march, everyone would carry a pound of wheat with them, and when they won the battle, they would grind it into flour and make a dumpling to reward themselves.

Now, they can no longer taste the new wheat of their hometown.

But these rations will be buried in the mud with their bodies, and by the winter they will be green, and by next summer, they will be brilliant.

The wind blows, the wheat waves roll, like melted copper juice and molten iron, that is the immortal military soul of the cavalry army!

"In this battle, our army has suffered a lot of losses, Li Yan, a thief!" Sun Yuan gritted his teeth: "Fortunately, the Li thief has been awarded the head, but this hatred arises because of Liu Chao, and the people of Yongcheng are co-thieves, so they can't be forgiven." Tell me the command, and do as the governor of Ma does. ”

"Yes!" The soldiers all shouted with red eyes.

Huang You's lips moved, wanting to say something, but finally he lowered his head and let out a low sigh.

The so-called Ma Shiying's strategy is very simple, that is, no one in the city is allowed to escape from the city, and they will use them to consume the military rations of Yongcheng, and Liu Chaojun will be starved to death inside.

In the past, when the people in the city wanted to escape from the dangerous city, the officials and soldiers would turn a blind eye and let them live

。

Liu Chao's old thief's ability to defend the city was unusual, and in the few days when Sun Yuan left Yongcheng and fought with Liu Zongmin, Ma Shiying threw out a lot of silver and organized the Nanjing Army and the Lufeng Army to attack tentatively. The result was very bad, the Lu Feng army was already tired of fighting, and as for the Nanjing army, it was a group of young masters, and in just one morning, they were frightened by the boundless flesh and blood and bombed the camp.

Ma Shiying also had no choice but to withdraw the army and continue to build a long siege and talk about a protracted war.

Henan has suffered from drought for more than a year, and this year's harvest has been lost. Although Yongcheng has a lot of military rations, according to Ma Shiying's calculations, it can only last Liu Chao's army for half a year. Also, with the war, the people of the entire Yongcheng poured into the city, and even the refugees from Guide and Kaifeng also came. With so many people crammed inside, if nothing else, the military rations in the city would not last long.

So many people in the city are the human resources that Liu Chao used to defend the city, if Liu Chao's army does not release food, his troops will not be replenished, and there may be civil strife.

Therefore, Ma Shiying came up with such a vicious plan, ordering the soldiers to surround Yongcheng with an earthen enclosure, standing on the earthen enclosure with a longbow, and shooting anyone out of the city, regardless of women, children, old or weak. For every civilian killed, it is counted as one beheading. These soldiers of the Lufeng Army and the Nanjing Army failed to fight, but they were extremely brave in killing the people.

Of course, if the people in the city want to go out of the city to survive, they have to pay one person 100 catties of food to buy the road. In this way, it can reduce the grain storage in the city in disguise, and cause infighting among the thief army.

As soon as Governor Ma's plan was spoken, it aroused strong opposition from the soldiers and soldiers of Ningxiang, people's hearts are long, and the people are now extremely poor, according to the calculation of a family of five, if a family wants to go out of the city to find a way to live, they have to pay 500 catties of grain, where are the people still so much food now. Moreover, there is already a plague in the city, and it is not permissible to see them die of illness in the city?

Now, Sun Yuan was carried away by hatred, and nodded in agreement with Ma Shiying's idea, is this to make the people of the city die?

Huang You felt sad in his heart: Now Henan is thousands of miles away, the thief army came to slaughter again, and the official army came to slaughter again. In the minds of the people, anyone with a knife in their hands is a gangster. As for the righteousness of the court or something, it means nothing to them. At least in the entire Central Plains, the hearts of the imperial court have been lost.

Is it really the end of the world when the rites are broken?

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