"Fushuai, let's demolish the house." Li Zongxue advised.
Jie Xuelong's face was full of sorrow: "The rebels did not demolish the house, but the governor demolished the house. What kind of official am I?"
Generally speaking, the defending troops will take the initiative to demolish the residential buildings outside the city, and even burn the woods near the city wall. This is to make it more difficult for the siege party to obtain materials for making siege equipment, and also to make it more difficult for the siege party.
It is difficult to set up an ambush.
But Zhao Han defended the city and refused to demolish the house, just to leave it to Jie Xuelong!
There has been no war in Ji'an for many years, and there are many illegally built houses even under the city wall.
If Jie Xuelong wants to attack the city, he must demolish these houses. Otherwise, Zhao Han will throw torches down and burn a large area, and the offensive and defensive battle will inevitably turn into a barbecue party.
And after demolishing the house, the wood can be used to build siege equipment.
But does Jie Xuelong really dare to demolish residential buildings?
Li Zongxue said: "The commander-in-chief, the prefect, and the county magistrate are all dead. They sacrificed their lives for the city and the country. When the city fell and the court questioned the charges, commander-in-chief bore the brunt. Guarding the eunuchs was also a serious crime, but the eunuchs were far away in Nanchang and did not participate in the war here. The eunuchs wanted to evade the crime.
, I will definitely put all the blame on Fushuai. If you don’t take back the city quickly, it will be easy for you to be dismissed from office and go to jail!”
There were several members of the governor's staff, but now they have all left, leaving only Li Zongxue.
Including Zuo Xiaocheng, who had defected a few days ago, immediately disappeared without a trace when he learned that Fucheng had been captured.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Jie Xuelong was in a dilemma. He really didn't dare to demolish the houses.
There was a state of confrontation inside and outside the city.
While Zhao Han was defending the city, he still had time to train new recruits in rotation. Every morning and afternoon, 500 soldiers were assigned for training.
As for Jie Xuelong, if it weren't for the troops stationed in Bailuzhou, surrounded by the water of the Gan River, all the Xiangyong would have probably finished their run.
This time is a decisive battle, not an encounter.
There is no need to rush into the decisive battle, both sides are preparing patiently.
Zhao Han was busy training new soldiers, and Xie Xuelong was also training. The governor, while sending people to the next door state capital to collect grain, asked the gentry to recruit local warriors, because it was impossible to break the city with the few soldiers he had.
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
Several hundred village warriors who had just been recruited mutinied before they even reached the riverside. They knocked out the officers in the middle of the night and ran away.
Immediately afterwards, two of Xie Xuelong's warships also fled, and the Xiangyong from Bailuzhou began to jump into the river to escape. They knew that there was no hope of attacking the city, and they were unwilling to follow the governor to die. In two or three days, one-eighth of their number was reduced.
Faced with such a predicament, Jie Xuelong actually remained calm and sent his confidants to prevent the soldiers from escaping. At the same time, he also gave the soldiers extra meals and rewarded those who performed well.
Deserters still existed, but the momentum was finally curbed.
Jie Xuelong was still harboring illusions at this time. He had a good relationship with He Yingrui, the governor of Zuo. He was able to successfully recruit troops to Ruijin before because of He Yingrui's help. He hoped that he could increase his troops and food supplies this time.
However, as soon as he sent out the letter, he suddenly received a secret letter from He Yingrui.
There are only ten words in the letter: I am slandering and slandering, I hope you will take care of yourself.
Jie Xuelong put down the secret letter and looked ashen, everything was over.
This letter stated on the surface that the eunuch was going to file a complaint and asked Xie Xuelong to make preparations in advance. The subtext was that you are dead this time and there is nothing I can do to help you.
During the Chongzhen period, the emperor kept pressing for taxes, but Jiangxi was the only province that dared to defy the emperor's orders and impose taxes every year.
What is pressure sign?
Even if there are various disasters in the local area, this year's taxes will have to be collected next year.
Shaanxi and Shanxi are in such trouble that even the chief envoys dare not impose levies every year, but the wealthy Jiangxi dares!
As the political envoy to the left in Jiangxi, He Yingrui has been criticized several times by Chongzhen. It's not that he is brave or that he is too greedy, but that Jiangxi's taxes are not collected at all.
The land has been occupied by the gentry, and there are very few small landowners and farmers. How can the government collect land taxes?
Only this family had no semicolon. In the late Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi never collected all the taxes in one year.
Until now, Chongzhen thought that Jiangxi suffered from successive disasters...
He Yingrui couldn't add more troops to Xie Xuelong, so he had to dig out every penny of food and send it to the emperor obediently. As much as he could send, Emperor Chongzhen had long been used to it.
"Hey, withdraw your troops." Li Zongxue said.
Xie Xuelong said with a bitter face: "The rebels are in Fucheng, how can I withdraw my troops? Once I withdraw my troops, I'm afraid I will be killed!"
Li Zongxue asked back: "Just looking at it like this?"
"This is the only way," Jie Xuelong sighed, "Even if there is only one soldier left, we must stay in Bailuzhou. If we leave, we will abandon the city and flee."
Zhao Han did nothing but defended the city, and Jie Xuelong was at the end of his rope.
Who asked him to send troops to suppress thieves?
If Jie Xuelong didn't do serious business and stayed in Nanchang, he wouldn't have to bear the blame for the fall of Ji'an.
If you do more, you will make more mistakes; if you do less, you will make fewer mistakes; if you do less, you will make more mistakes.
Whoever does something will be unlucky!
Standing on the shore of Bailuzhou, Jie Xuelong looked at Fucheng opposite, his whole heart was filled with despair.
He couldn't attack or move, he could only stare blankly.
In the whole Jiangxi, no one is willing to help him, so he is fighting against the rebels alone.
Zhao Han, the rebel, was supposed to be surrounded and suppressed, but things were strange, but it seemed that the governor was being surrounded and suppressed, and Jie Xuelong was already overwhelmed.
Li Zongxue came to Xie Xuelong: "Commander Fu, we can't delay it any longer. Even if we are bound to lose, we still have to find an opportunity to attack the city, otherwise our country warrior will run away quietly by himself."
"Mu Zong, what do you think happened to the Ming Dynasty?" Jie Xuelong looked up at the sky.
Li Zongxue was silent.
Xie Xuelong pointed in the direction of the south dock of the city: "Just because the rebel thieves stopped looting, the gentry and merchants outside the city acted as if nothing happened. Instead of helping me suppress the thieves, they blamed me for provoking the war. After all, I am a thief.
Or is Zhao Yan who took the city a thief?"
Li Zongxue said: "They actually know it in their hearts, they are just waiting and watching."
"Wait and see?" Jie Xuelong sneered.
"Yes, they are waiting and watching," Li Zongxue said. "Now that the Zhao thieves are powerful, they can go out of the city to kill people at any time. They are in danger, so they naturally complain that Fushuai is too troublesome. If Fushuai has more than a few thousand soldiers in his hands, but a
There are thousands of elites in the court. Then Fushuai is powerful and Fushuai has the power of life and death, so they will help Fushuai kill thieves."
Jie Xuelong shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said in a waning mood: "Mu Zong, you still see clearly, the human heart is like this. The court is like this, and the place is like this."
Li Zongxue whispered: "The imperial court has lost its majesty. Jiangxi is so big that it can't even gather several hundred regular soldiers. Otherwise, how can we allow those little rebels to cause trouble?"
Jie Xuelong suddenly pressed the hilt of his sword and said sternly: "Mu Zong, if I die, you can surrender to the thieves."
"Why did Commander Fu say this?" Li Xuezong didn't understand.
Xie Xuelong said: "The Ming Dynasty is hopeless. I am deprived of the emperor's salary and loyal to the emperor, so I can only repay the emperor with death. But the bandits in the northwest and the Tatars in the northeast have no ability to rebuild the world. The rebel thieves everywhere are also short-sighted.
Others. Only the Zhao thief in front of me, after occupying the city, can restrain his subordinates and keep the prosperity outside Ji'an City alive. If the Ming Dynasty is overturned, this person will be the one who will succeed!"
Li Zongxue shook his head repeatedly: "How can I be a thief if I am the only one who can raise people?"
"It's up to you," Xie Xuelong didn't bother to talk about the matter anymore and just said, "Tomorrow we will demolish the houses outside the city and step up the construction of siege equipment. We must forcefully attack the city within ten days."
Jie Xuelong already has a death wish. He is not attacking the city, but is going to hit the city wall and die!
Jiangxi is the only country in the country that collects taxes every year and does not pay taxes according to the amount.
The governor cannot openly open a government office or recruit model soldiers legally. Jiangxi is unique in the country.
How could Xie Xuelong be so aggrieved if he went to be a governor in another province? He could train at least 2,000 governor soldiers, which is the kind of official army establishment, and the local government must provide money and food honestly!
The next day, Xie Xuelong sent out soldiers from the countryside to demolish residential buildings outside the city on a large scale.
The gentry and the common people were shocked and angry. When the rebels came, they all had houses to live in. But the governor actually demolished their houses?
"A bold and corrupt official dares to harass my people!"
Zhao Han stood on the city tower and shouted angrily: "Ruhe, lead the troops out of the city quickly to protect the people's houses and property!"
"okay!"
Fei Ruhe felt so happy that he immediately led five hundred soldiers out of the city to kill the officers and soldiers who were demolishing the houses.
The officers and soldiers were so frightened that they turned around and ran away. Fei Ruhe chased them.
Zhao Han ordered again: "Dashan, get out of the city quickly and help the people repair their houses!"
Jiang Dashan set off happily, actually taking soldiers and some carpenters with him to help people repair their houses.
"Master Qingtian!"
Countless people at the bottom knelt down and shouted in unison, kowtowing to Zhao Han on the tower.
When Xiao Huan saw this, he couldn't laugh or cry.
After all, who is the official and who is the thief?
Ouyang Zheng was also on the city, and was no longer tied up. Of course, he was not a thief. The guy was dumbfounded, and then he turned towards the direction of Bailuzhou and cursed loudly: "Jie thief, you are in vain to be an official of the imperial court, you are not as good as a
Rebel!"
Xie Xuelong was also furious and felt like a clown.
"Follow me ashore and kill the thieves!"
Zhao Han sent a thousand soldiers out of the city one after another. Xie Xuelong immediately seized the opportunity because he was afraid that Zhao Han would hide in the city and not come out.
"Blow the trumpet!"
Zhao Han ordered the trumpeter to blow the assembly horn with the suona.
He led more than a thousand soldiers to defend the city, and sent the rest out of the city to fight openly and openly with the officers and soldiers.
Jie Xuelong was afraid that Zhao Han was hiding in the city, and Zhao Han was also afraid that Jie Xuelong was hiding in Bailuzhou.
The two sides seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding, and collectively gathered troops toward the north of the city, unwilling to start a war in the prosperous area south of the city.
Jie Xuelong's military strength... well, it's hard to calculate.
Because we sailed from Bailuzhou, in the short distance in the blink of an eye, another ship actually ran away.
Especially the conscripted civilians, seeing that a war was about to begin, jumped into the river to escape regardless of the cold water.
There were also many civil servants in the army who were unwilling to follow the governor ashore and hid in Bailuzhou Academy and refused to show up.
Both sides line up.
The rebel army consisted of three thousand people, led by Fei Ruhe.
There are nearly three thousand officers and soldiers, led by Jie Xuelong.
Both sides have no long-range troops and fight solely with infantry, and both use a simplified version of the Yuanyang Formation.
The battle is about to begin. The missionary officers mixed with the army are constantly mobilizing before the war: "Kill the dog officer, everyone will have fields to farm, everyone will have clothes to wear, and everyone will have food to eat. If we lose, our fields will be destroyed."
They will be snatched away by the government! My fellow recruits, if you win this battle, Mr. Zhao will take everyone to divide the fields!"
Jie Xuelong also shouted: "My sons, be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, defend your hometown, and follow me to kill these rebels!"
"Dong dong dong dong dong!"
The war drums were beating and the troops marched slowly.
The Chinese troops on both sides did not move. They sent three sentry posts to fight, and the left and right sentries moved forward to stand by.
What's even more ridiculous is that neither side dares to go too fast. Once they speed up, their formation will be chaotic. They are all a fucking mob.
Before the battle started, some of their soldiers fled.
Jie Xuelong immediately sent out a supervising team to kill the Xiang Yong who escaped from the battle.
On the rebel side, the law enforcement team blocked them with sticks. The missionary team yelled wildly: "Old man, if you escape, you will have no fields to farm. If you escape, you will live a hard life! We have to farm and eat!"
The missionaries kept shouting and chasing after the deserters.
Shouting and shouting, the escaped soldiers returned one after another, shouting and charging again: "Farm and eat! Plant and eat!"
“Farm and eat!”
“Farm and eat!”
The rebels shouted collectively, as if they were possessed by gods, rushing forward without regard for life or death.
Except for the eight hundred veterans in Wuxing Town, the rest of the recruits were all in chaos. No matter what weapons they held in their hands, they just rushed forward and had forgotten the skills they had mastered during training.
Wu Yong, who was a guard soldier, has been found out, but Zhao Han did not expel him.
Because of his many meritorious services, Wu Yong has been promoted to a very high position.
I can let my brother take care of my wife first. He will follow Mr. Zhao to the countryside to divide the fields. If he meets a widow, he might be able to find a wife.
Wu Yong dreams of having his own land and a wife.
"Farm to eat, plant to eat!"
Wu Yong rushed forward with his gun in hand. He forgot to command his ten-man team, and his team members did not know how to listen to the commander's command.
Anyway, just rush and that’s it!
Wu Yong even rushed out of the military formation and ran in front of the wolf soldiers. He risked his life and broke into the enemy's formation. He only shouted repeatedly: "Farm to eat, farm to eat!"
The battle was quickly decided. The rebels were not afraid of death, but the local heroes were all afraid of their lives.
Most of these country warriors are from good families. They have land at home and don't have to worry about food and clothing. How can they be willing to work hard with mud-legged people?
Xie Xuelong's supervising team could not stop him, so the governor had no choice but to hold down the battle in person and lead the charge with his sergeants: "Kill the thieves to serve the country and defend Sangzi!"
“Farm and eat!”
“Farm and eat!”
The rebels shouted louder, and even the veterans lost their minds and gradually lost their proper formation.
Of course, there is no need to maintain formation.
The sound of suona sounded on the battlefield, and the rebel army became completely fanatical. Even Fei Ruhe's Chinese army charged together.
Jie Xuelong's Xiangyong has completely collapsed.
Jie Xuelong originally wanted to lead the Chinese army to suppress the position, but at this moment he was scattered by the defeated troops. His eyes were red, and he suddenly drew his sword across his neck, turned to look at the north and said to himself: "Your Majesty, I can't disappoint you, but can you disappoint me?"
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Jie Xuelong, who was supposed to commit suicide by jumping into the river in Nanjing, committed suicide outside Ji'an more than ten years in advance.
After learning that Jie Xuelong was defeated and committed suicide, Li Zongxue, an aide who was far away in Bailuzhou, also jumped into the Ganjiang River and committed suicide. He did not die for his country, but followed his benefactor, and the court had no affection for him.
