On the east bank of Baishui Lake, a tall arrow tower made of wood and bamboo stands at the entrance of a large camp, and a soldier sits on the top floor.
At this time, he was descending from a high place and saw dust rolling on the road, a team of horses from far to near.
The sergeant looked at it for a while and stood up and straightened his waist.
The people who came were the Duke of England, several generals, and some entourages.
After a while, someone came out of the camp outside the camp one after another and stood on the road waiting to greet him.
British Duke Zhang Fu came to the camp and shouted without getting off the horse: Come in and take a look.
This is a huge campsite, the newly built one has not been completed yet, and many people are still digging soil to repair walls and sheds.
The military camp is very strange because there is a deep ditch behind the earthen walls and fences, and the structure is a bit like the fortifications built by the rebels outside the city. The strange thing is that the defense is facing inside...
Because this is a prisoner camp.
There were several troops stationed outside, fully armed; inside, there were a large group of prisoners, unarmed.
Almost all of them were surrendered by the King of Han, and the people from several battalions should have been almost more than 15,000.
The people who had just welcomed Zhang Fu reported that they had attacked Hukou County more than a month ago, and after being surrounded and died, they surrendered four or five thousand people at once. The Hukou water battle was defeated, and after they got ashore, thousands of people surrendered or were captured one after another. Recently, our army attacked the fortress outside Jiujiang City several times, and captured a lot of people, and some of them crawled out in the middle of the night to surrender.
Zhang Fu only paid attention to the observation that these people were very obedient and showed no sign of resistance.
The generals in charge of the camp continued: After the destruction of the Han King, these people were not considered a serious crime... Staying here would consume a lot of food every day. Fortunately, there was a shipment from the Yangtze River, otherwise it would be a big burden in the army.The last general thought that the British Duke might as well submit a memorial to the court, asking the imperial court's dukes to find a place to draw a piece of land, change these people to the guards, and let them go to farm in the military.
With so many people, how many troops will be divided to send them away?Although we have many people, the military strategy says it is all about surrounding him. How many people are needed to surround Jiujiang? There are casualties and losses every day, and the soldiers are not that surplus.
Zhang Fu said.
He turned his horse's head, kicked the stirrup, and chose two thousand people to come out, and sent it to the eastern front at the fifth update tomorrow... and put on Xuan Dabing's clothes.
The general asked: Where can I find so many clothes?
Zhang Fu said: Change your people with them!What is the same when wearing Jiujiang Jun’s clothes, can people change?
yes.The general replied.
Zhang Fu thought for a while and said in a low voice: Tell the prisoners to put on the armor of the government army and change the place to "train" us.Don’t tell them that they are going to the front line. This is a military aircraft. Rumors come out and you are asking!
Yes, yes...
……
At the east gate of the city, the sound of cannons was rumbling early in the morning.
When the smoke of gunpowder subsided, there were only a large number of people gathering outside the barriers and slowly approaching the city wall.
In front of them was a large group of soldiers who were not in the camp. They had no weapons and most of them had no armor, just like a group of defeated soldiers carrying sacks of sandbags.
They were driven to the city wall by several armoured troops behind them.
The mother and guns of the cavalry and children on the city walls roared together, and then the muskets fired again and the arrows flew out.
The soldiers under the city ran away with their heads in their arms, and soon the troops driving them from behind were fired in a row. For a moment, the soldiers were seen like rats turning into the bellows, tragic.
Some people finally carried sandbags to the moat, threw them at the river and turned around and ran away.
Zhang Fu was silently watching the situation outside behind the barriers, and then he heard someone sighing behind him.
He turned around and said to the generals: If we don’t need prisoners to fill the river and dig the walls, we have to use our own soldiers to go on the road. What’s the difference between killing us?Do we still dare to drive away the powerful men? The soldiers are not Tartars. As long as someone participates in a memorial, I don’t have to be in charge.
Zhang Fu said again: The King of Han first raised an army with the King of Han, and then surrendered to the Huguang rebels and continued to rebel. The crimes of the rebels are difficult to forgive. Helping our army to attack the city today can also be considered as a merit.
...A general on the city tower said: You must not be the official army's own, so how could you force him to shoot him?
Yu Qian said: It’s not a civil servant who was expeditioned. Zhang Fu dared not do that. He would be unable to escape if he impeached him with a memorial.
Zhang Ning next to him then said: The person who drove up was the prisoners of the Jiujiang army, but he changed his clothes... Sure enough, Ci Wu was in charge of the soldiers.
A civil servant said: If you want to blame, you will blame the King of Han’s soldiers for not protecting their own king. Now you will be regarded as cannon fodder wherever you go.
Zhang Ning immediately called a military general and explained a few words.
After a while, the general brought some soldiers of the Suzaku Army to shout on the city wall: Brothers from Jiujiang Army, the puppet court army will not treat their brothers as human beings, and will drive you up to die.
Don’t help the official army fill the river, jump into the river to hide, and the King of Xiang will put a ladder to pick you up to the city later.
Let the dog days fill it out by yourself!
After shouting for a while, countless people jumped directly into the moat. Most of the soldiers from the south could swim, and those who could not swim could escape their lives even if they could lie by the river.
It’s just that after entering the river in October, the water is so cold that it goes without saying.
Some people take the lead, and more and more people follow the example, because the government army ordered that the river was not filled with death, and they would definitely die when they returned. It would be better to jump into the river to see their luck.
After the official army retreated, Zhang Ning really did not break his promise. He put a ladder and let a group of rioters go to the city one after another, and then sent it into the city to make a fire to keep warm.
Some of the weak on the river surface have been frozen to death, and they are very miserable when floating in the water.
Two days later, it rained lightly and the military operations inside and outside the city were silenced.
Because this kind of weather attack is not worth the cost, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and it is easy to get sick if it gets wet; and there will be no results. If I can capture the city in one go, I will have to wait until this time?
Zhang Ning ordered the rescued prisoners to be re-armed and sent them to various fortifications outside the city in three groups.
Let them tell the remaining Jiujiang army about their experiences after surrender, that is, they were driven up to fill the river as cannon fodder, and set up firearms and swords behind them. Retreat is death; in front is attacking on the city wall, and advancing is death.
Fortunately, the King of Xiang saw through the tricks of the government army and did not massacre prisoners.
The next afternoon, Zhang Ning came to the earthen castle in the east of the city in the rain and began his speech.
Because it was drizzling, he ordered the soldiers to stay in tents near the castle and temporary shack buildings.
He himself stood on the wall of the castle, with the sky above his head, and his entourage wanted to help him hold an umbrella but was drunk.
Zhang Ning said loudly in a straightforward and sincere tone: Rebellion has been the first-class crime since ancient times, and the nine clans were killed in the past!You followed the King of Han in the past and rebelled against the pseudo-dynasty of Xuande. Now that the King of Han is defeated, do you think you can be easily forgiven?When a rebellion is launched, no matter whether it succeeds or not, will it be the time when thousands of people are about to die?If all the brothers of Jiujiang Army thought that they would be forgiven for rebelling with the King of Han, and turned against Emperor Jianwen this year, it would be unforgivable for the Xuande pseudo-District!
What will happen if you surrender to the puppet dynasty official army?
Brothers who come back can tell you that they are just asking you to die!
If I didn't die on the battlefield, I can tell you that at least I will exile you to the wilderness, and it will be a life-threatening death.
Those who seek to live will die, and those who seek to live will live.
Are you willing to let others slaughter, or follow me to fight the country?
Our soldiers are clearly rewarded and punished, and we will never treat food, clothing, military salaries. From royal relatives to civil and military officials, we will not treat the soldiers who are fighting bloody!
This king received a report from Wuchang that Wuchang had recruited and mobilized 200,000 troops, and would go south to rescue the siege soon and fight to the death with the puppet dynasty official army!
We just need to defend Jiujiang City and wait for reinforcements, and the outcome has not yet been decided.
Last month, Wang Zhiyuan's incident happened. The thief was an undercover agent of the pseudo-department. This incident really caused some misunderstandings between the king and the Jiujiang Army brothers.
Most of the Jiujiang Army was transferred to the city to garrison, and I was forced to worry that a second Wang Zhiyuan would appear.
Therefore, there is a difference in closeness and distantness to subordinates. This king is indeed unfair; but it is better than the puppet dynasty official army, right?
After this battle, if you want to go home to farm, I will never force you to stay. I will send you money to your hometown. If you want to stay voluntarily, you can try to take your family to the south of the Yangtze River. We will reorganize this part of the soldiers and the Zhuque Army and let you become the generals and soldiers of the Zhuque Army. From then on, there will be no difference.But now you can't leave. The city siege is dead, and you will be captured when you go out, and you will die.We can only work together to overcome difficulties, this is the only way to survive...
Zhang Ning walked through three fortresses in the rain all day long and promoted almost all the remarks three times. He did not memorize all the words, but just repeated them according to his intentions, with roughly the same meaning.
When he returned to the city to take a shower and change his clothes in the evening, he was exhausted. In addition, his old injury to his left leg was hurt and his body and mind were in a state of weakness.
He sat on the chair and said to Xin Wei: The tith killing order does not work, but this time the method should work... Although most of the soldiers are illiterate, they are also living people with brains. Now they are not fighting hard and want to surrender. Then the Jiujiang Army is really useless and useless.
Xin Wei did not respond. He was busy adding charcoal to the stove and said: I'll go to the kitchen to see it. I'll cook a bowl of ginger candy water for you. After raining all day, please don't get caught in the cold.
Zhang Ning nodded, leaned on the chair and closed his eyes to rest, and was in a daze between half asleep and half awake.
Gradually he remembered the beautiful scenery beside the Baishui Lake I saw on the city wall one day, the clear weather, the clear water, and the beautiful pavilion.
Perhaps there is also a certain waterside place in Wuchang, where there are water pavilions, with beautiful mountains and rivers and quiet; when you can let go of the world and worry, stay there without thinking or doing anything, sleep until you wake up naturally, and you can also write poems and listen to music.
At this moment, he suddenly became a little decadent.I feel that any achievements, power and wealth are meaningless. The greatest joy of life should be to have food and clothing without worrying about food and clothing and sit and eat and wait for death.
At this time, he was descending from a high place and saw dust rolling on the road, a team of horses from far to near.
The sergeant looked at it for a while and stood up and straightened his waist.
The people who came were the Duke of England, several generals, and some entourages.
After a while, someone came out of the camp outside the camp one after another and stood on the road waiting to greet him.
British Duke Zhang Fu came to the camp and shouted without getting off the horse: Come in and take a look.
This is a huge campsite, the newly built one has not been completed yet, and many people are still digging soil to repair walls and sheds.
The military camp is very strange because there is a deep ditch behind the earthen walls and fences, and the structure is a bit like the fortifications built by the rebels outside the city. The strange thing is that the defense is facing inside...
Because this is a prisoner camp.
There were several troops stationed outside, fully armed; inside, there were a large group of prisoners, unarmed.
Almost all of them were surrendered by the King of Han, and the people from several battalions should have been almost more than 15,000.
The people who had just welcomed Zhang Fu reported that they had attacked Hukou County more than a month ago, and after being surrounded and died, they surrendered four or five thousand people at once. The Hukou water battle was defeated, and after they got ashore, thousands of people surrendered or were captured one after another. Recently, our army attacked the fortress outside Jiujiang City several times, and captured a lot of people, and some of them crawled out in the middle of the night to surrender.
Zhang Fu only paid attention to the observation that these people were very obedient and showed no sign of resistance.
The generals in charge of the camp continued: After the destruction of the Han King, these people were not considered a serious crime... Staying here would consume a lot of food every day. Fortunately, there was a shipment from the Yangtze River, otherwise it would be a big burden in the army.The last general thought that the British Duke might as well submit a memorial to the court, asking the imperial court's dukes to find a place to draw a piece of land, change these people to the guards, and let them go to farm in the military.
With so many people, how many troops will be divided to send them away?Although we have many people, the military strategy says it is all about surrounding him. How many people are needed to surround Jiujiang? There are casualties and losses every day, and the soldiers are not that surplus.
Zhang Fu said.
He turned his horse's head, kicked the stirrup, and chose two thousand people to come out, and sent it to the eastern front at the fifth update tomorrow... and put on Xuan Dabing's clothes.
The general asked: Where can I find so many clothes?
Zhang Fu said: Change your people with them!What is the same when wearing Jiujiang Jun’s clothes, can people change?
yes.The general replied.
Zhang Fu thought for a while and said in a low voice: Tell the prisoners to put on the armor of the government army and change the place to "train" us.Don’t tell them that they are going to the front line. This is a military aircraft. Rumors come out and you are asking!
Yes, yes...
……
At the east gate of the city, the sound of cannons was rumbling early in the morning.
When the smoke of gunpowder subsided, there were only a large number of people gathering outside the barriers and slowly approaching the city wall.
In front of them was a large group of soldiers who were not in the camp. They had no weapons and most of them had no armor, just like a group of defeated soldiers carrying sacks of sandbags.
They were driven to the city wall by several armoured troops behind them.
The mother and guns of the cavalry and children on the city walls roared together, and then the muskets fired again and the arrows flew out.
The soldiers under the city ran away with their heads in their arms, and soon the troops driving them from behind were fired in a row. For a moment, the soldiers were seen like rats turning into the bellows, tragic.
Some people finally carried sandbags to the moat, threw them at the river and turned around and ran away.
Zhang Fu was silently watching the situation outside behind the barriers, and then he heard someone sighing behind him.
He turned around and said to the generals: If we don’t need prisoners to fill the river and dig the walls, we have to use our own soldiers to go on the road. What’s the difference between killing us?Do we still dare to drive away the powerful men? The soldiers are not Tartars. As long as someone participates in a memorial, I don’t have to be in charge.
Zhang Fu said again: The King of Han first raised an army with the King of Han, and then surrendered to the Huguang rebels and continued to rebel. The crimes of the rebels are difficult to forgive. Helping our army to attack the city today can also be considered as a merit.
...A general on the city tower said: You must not be the official army's own, so how could you force him to shoot him?
Yu Qian said: It’s not a civil servant who was expeditioned. Zhang Fu dared not do that. He would be unable to escape if he impeached him with a memorial.
Zhang Ning next to him then said: The person who drove up was the prisoners of the Jiujiang army, but he changed his clothes... Sure enough, Ci Wu was in charge of the soldiers.
A civil servant said: If you want to blame, you will blame the King of Han’s soldiers for not protecting their own king. Now you will be regarded as cannon fodder wherever you go.
Zhang Ning immediately called a military general and explained a few words.
After a while, the general brought some soldiers of the Suzaku Army to shout on the city wall: Brothers from Jiujiang Army, the puppet court army will not treat their brothers as human beings, and will drive you up to die.
Don’t help the official army fill the river, jump into the river to hide, and the King of Xiang will put a ladder to pick you up to the city later.
Let the dog days fill it out by yourself!
After shouting for a while, countless people jumped directly into the moat. Most of the soldiers from the south could swim, and those who could not swim could escape their lives even if they could lie by the river.
It’s just that after entering the river in October, the water is so cold that it goes without saying.
Some people take the lead, and more and more people follow the example, because the government army ordered that the river was not filled with death, and they would definitely die when they returned. It would be better to jump into the river to see their luck.
After the official army retreated, Zhang Ning really did not break his promise. He put a ladder and let a group of rioters go to the city one after another, and then sent it into the city to make a fire to keep warm.
Some of the weak on the river surface have been frozen to death, and they are very miserable when floating in the water.
Two days later, it rained lightly and the military operations inside and outside the city were silenced.
Because this kind of weather attack is not worth the cost, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and it is easy to get sick if it gets wet; and there will be no results. If I can capture the city in one go, I will have to wait until this time?
Zhang Ning ordered the rescued prisoners to be re-armed and sent them to various fortifications outside the city in three groups.
Let them tell the remaining Jiujiang army about their experiences after surrender, that is, they were driven up to fill the river as cannon fodder, and set up firearms and swords behind them. Retreat is death; in front is attacking on the city wall, and advancing is death.
Fortunately, the King of Xiang saw through the tricks of the government army and did not massacre prisoners.
The next afternoon, Zhang Ning came to the earthen castle in the east of the city in the rain and began his speech.
Because it was drizzling, he ordered the soldiers to stay in tents near the castle and temporary shack buildings.
He himself stood on the wall of the castle, with the sky above his head, and his entourage wanted to help him hold an umbrella but was drunk.
Zhang Ning said loudly in a straightforward and sincere tone: Rebellion has been the first-class crime since ancient times, and the nine clans were killed in the past!You followed the King of Han in the past and rebelled against the pseudo-dynasty of Xuande. Now that the King of Han is defeated, do you think you can be easily forgiven?When a rebellion is launched, no matter whether it succeeds or not, will it be the time when thousands of people are about to die?If all the brothers of Jiujiang Army thought that they would be forgiven for rebelling with the King of Han, and turned against Emperor Jianwen this year, it would be unforgivable for the Xuande pseudo-District!
What will happen if you surrender to the puppet dynasty official army?
Brothers who come back can tell you that they are just asking you to die!
If I didn't die on the battlefield, I can tell you that at least I will exile you to the wilderness, and it will be a life-threatening death.
Those who seek to live will die, and those who seek to live will live.
Are you willing to let others slaughter, or follow me to fight the country?
Our soldiers are clearly rewarded and punished, and we will never treat food, clothing, military salaries. From royal relatives to civil and military officials, we will not treat the soldiers who are fighting bloody!
This king received a report from Wuchang that Wuchang had recruited and mobilized 200,000 troops, and would go south to rescue the siege soon and fight to the death with the puppet dynasty official army!
We just need to defend Jiujiang City and wait for reinforcements, and the outcome has not yet been decided.
Last month, Wang Zhiyuan's incident happened. The thief was an undercover agent of the pseudo-department. This incident really caused some misunderstandings between the king and the Jiujiang Army brothers.
Most of the Jiujiang Army was transferred to the city to garrison, and I was forced to worry that a second Wang Zhiyuan would appear.
Therefore, there is a difference in closeness and distantness to subordinates. This king is indeed unfair; but it is better than the puppet dynasty official army, right?
After this battle, if you want to go home to farm, I will never force you to stay. I will send you money to your hometown. If you want to stay voluntarily, you can try to take your family to the south of the Yangtze River. We will reorganize this part of the soldiers and the Zhuque Army and let you become the generals and soldiers of the Zhuque Army. From then on, there will be no difference.But now you can't leave. The city siege is dead, and you will be captured when you go out, and you will die.We can only work together to overcome difficulties, this is the only way to survive...
Zhang Ning walked through three fortresses in the rain all day long and promoted almost all the remarks three times. He did not memorize all the words, but just repeated them according to his intentions, with roughly the same meaning.
When he returned to the city to take a shower and change his clothes in the evening, he was exhausted. In addition, his old injury to his left leg was hurt and his body and mind were in a state of weakness.
He sat on the chair and said to Xin Wei: The tith killing order does not work, but this time the method should work... Although most of the soldiers are illiterate, they are also living people with brains. Now they are not fighting hard and want to surrender. Then the Jiujiang Army is really useless and useless.
Xin Wei did not respond. He was busy adding charcoal to the stove and said: I'll go to the kitchen to see it. I'll cook a bowl of ginger candy water for you. After raining all day, please don't get caught in the cold.
Zhang Ning nodded, leaned on the chair and closed his eyes to rest, and was in a daze between half asleep and half awake.
Gradually he remembered the beautiful scenery beside the Baishui Lake I saw on the city wall one day, the clear weather, the clear water, and the beautiful pavilion.
Perhaps there is also a certain waterside place in Wuchang, where there are water pavilions, with beautiful mountains and rivers and quiet; when you can let go of the world and worry, stay there without thinking or doing anything, sleep until you wake up naturally, and you can also write poems and listen to music.
At this moment, he suddenly became a little decadent.I feel that any achievements, power and wealth are meaningless. The greatest joy of life should be to have food and clothing without worrying about food and clothing and sit and eat and wait for death.
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