Chapter 1507 : Defeat
Geng Bingwen had completely understood Xiao Yun's intention at this moment. He heard that this man nodded. Pingjiang City was not big, with an army of 200,000, and the eight city gates attacked the city at the same time. It was under great pressure on them. Deep in his heart, we must have been a little panic. We fired fire from time to time, and they also had concerns about me. In this way, the brothers from the other eight city gates did not have any complaints about us. Is this a good way?"
"What good method is a wonderful method? I'm afraid that only Zhuge Wuhou and the military advisor can come up with such a good method?" He Wenhui, who came over, said with a smile.
"So, the two generals have used this method?" Xiao Yun looked at Geng Bingwen and He Wenhui said.
The two met and saw each other, nodded, and said, "This method can be achieved by three goals in one go, why not use it?"
"No, not bad, such a good method, why not use it?" He Wenhui said.
Xiao Yun nodded and said, "Okay, pass the order and 30,000 elite soldiers will immediately practice the counter-strike elite outside the city gate!"
"Yes!" He Wenhui and Geng Bingwen both folded their fists and took the order away.
Xiao Yun didn't know that he had been playing as a counter-strike elite for more than three months.
Over the past three months, Xiao Yun has witnessed this former salt dealer's resistance that refused to give in.
Xu Da launched an army of 200,000. When the eight city gates attacked the city, Zhang Shicheng relied on the 60,000 Wu troops in Pingjiang City, and Chang Yuchun's attack. Taking advantage of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun's breathing, Zhang Shicheng personally led the army out of the city to attack Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and others, but in the end, because he was outnumbered and unable to win, he retreated to the city. Suzhou City was solid. Under Zhang Shicheng's defense, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun launched several attacks, but failed.
The capture was followed. Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a letter to Zhang Shicheng, advising him to surrender, and promised to use the story of Dou Rong of the Han Dynasty and Qian Chu surrendering in the Song Dynasty, promising to maintain wealth forever. However, Zhang Shicheng was unmoved and continued to hold on. For the last time, in despair of the whole city, he led his army out of the city to attack the Huqiu Gate of Chang Yuchun. After a fierce battle, many casualties were killed and injured. In the end, Zhang Shicheng fell into the water in shock and was rescued to return to the city. He retreated back to Pingjiang City again and continued to hold on.
It is the end of the year. The small Pingjiang city was besieged since the beginning of the year, and has been besieged for ten months. The food and grass were exhausted early, and Luo Ju was poor. Most of the soldiers in the city were cooked to satisfy their hunger by eating leather shoes, boots, saddles, etc. They had not eaten enough for many days, but no one complained.
On the city, Zhang Shicheng looked at the soldiers falling from the city with tears in his eyes. He killed Qiu Yi and some of the rich men who often bullied them. In anger, he set fire to burn his houses and decided to gather the young and strong salt deers in the nearby salt farm to seek an uprising. It was thanks to them that he defeated the army of Pingzhang, the political affairs and Fushou in Huainan Province, and took the opportunity to occupy Taizhou, Gaoyou, Xinghua and Tongzhou. Since then, he called himself "King Cheng" in Gaoyou, the country was called "Dazhou". How powerful was it to change the reign to "Tianyou"?
Come on, he defended Gaoyou to the death, defeated the millions of Tartars army, and became famous in the world. He relied on them to occupy most of Suzhou, Huzhou, and Hangzhou, and changed Pingjiang to Longping Prefecture. He used this as the capital and was still called King Cheng. He used Chengtian Temple as the palace, established six departments of the Provincial Court, set up bachelor's staff, and opened Hongwenguan to recruit talents; Li Xingsu was the prime minister; his younger brother Shide was the Pingzhang to promote military and horses from various counties, Pan Yuanming was the left prime minister to Wuxing (Huzhou), Shi Wenbing was the head of the Privy Council to guard Songjiang; Zhou Ren was the prefect of Longping Prefecture. How powerful was that?
Thinking of all this, Zhang Shicheng's eyes burst into pride, but he soon became sad.
If it weren't for his short-sighted eyes and his lips were not clear, the reason why he had lost his lips and had a cold teeth, in the battle of Poyang Lake, he sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, watching Chen Youliang's defeat and died of Poyang Lake without help, and he only knew how to be greedy for pleasure and not enterprising for the past few years, he would definitely not end up today. But they have been following, whether it was Zhang Shicheng who had nothing at the beginning, Zhang Shicheng who later had most of the Jiangnan, and Zhang Shicheng now, they have been following, silently following without complaints, no grudges, and no regrets. Today, I, Zhang Shicheng, still want them to suffer such suffering, which is really a sin!
Zhang Shicheng walked silently to the center of Pingjiang City, his eyes swept across the faces of everyone, and a feeling of guilt arose. He took a long breath and said to the crowd: "Sirs, this is the case. I have no good plans and am ready to tie myself out of the city to surrender, so as not to be slaughtered by your city." He was confident. His words were heard through his internal force. Although there were many people on the city wall, he could hear them clearly.
The people with a confused look on their faces were stunned at first, then looked at Zhang Shicheng and everyone was crying. The sound was like thunder.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty - I am not afraid of death, I am willing to die with Your Majesty."
"Yes, I'd like to die with Your Majesty." The people who cried stood up and said in unison.
Zhang Shicheng's eyes were filled with tears, and swept to his ministers, saying, "The heavens don't wait for me. Now the food and grass in the city have been exhausted. It won't take long. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun will lead a large army to attack the city. I, all of us, were ambushed and killed. I am the king of a country. If the country is destroyed, I will die. How can I implicate all my brothers?"
"Brothers, the city is still broken now. You can surrender quickly. Zhu Yuanzhang is a cunning person, but he is also a kind and righteous person. If you surrender, you will not make things difficult for you!"
Speaking of this, he looked sad and said, "You have been with me for many years. I originally wanted to be the king of Jiangnan and accompany you all to be rich and powerful. How could you know that you will not be able to protect yourself today and will also affect your brothers. The people are suffering here. I, Zhang Shicheng, can't bear it. Please surrender?"
A confidant of Zhang Shicheng cried forward and said, "Your Majesty must not be able to bend and stretch. If you lose today, you may make a comeback. As long as we follow Your Majesty and rush out, your Majesty will have a great reputation in Jiangnan. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are grateful to Your Majesty. Your Majesty can recruit old subordinates and raise them again."
Zhang Shicheng looked depressed and shook his head, "I still stick to it when Tutuo led a million troops to attack, but I still stick to it. It was this belief that made me keep defending it all the time. But now Pingjiang City has been besieged for a year. The people in the city have suffered because of me. I can't even protect them. Why don't you talk about Xu Tu again? Zhu Yuanzhang is ambitious, how can I allow me to rush out alive? Since I am defeated, I will not be him. I just hope that the people in the city will not suffer because of me? Brothers, go?"
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Chapter completed!