Looking at the peasant army outside the city, there are at least four thousand people. If these people are really determined to attack the city, whether they can hold it off for two days is a question. Hong Chengchou is not afraid of death, but he is really afraid that something will happen to Yang He.
If Yang He, the governor of the three sides, was captured alive or killed, the Ming court would be completely disgraced.
In desperation, Hong Chengchou quickly sent people out of the city to ask for help, and ordered nearby soldiers and horses to rush to Hancheng with all their strength.
Nowadays, the only ones with real combat effectiveness near Hancheng are the soldiers and horses of Liu Yingyu and Tie Mo who have high hopes. Now that Tie Mo and Liu Yingyu are joining forces, they are less than twenty miles away from Mabei Mountain.
When Han Cheng's request for help arrived, both of them were a little dizzy.
Tie Mo didn't understand what Wang Zuoguan wanted to do for a while!
In Yan'an Prefecture, Wang Zuoguan was strategizing and almost killed the border troops in three towns. Would a man like Wang Zuoguan, who was resourceful and thoughtful, send troops to attack Hancheng at this time?
There were doubts in their hearts, but Tie Mo and Liu Yingyu did not dare to ignore the matter. If something happened to Yang He, half of the Shaanxi officers and soldiers would have to move their heads. Since the ammunition supplies had not yet been delivered, Tie Mo's soldiers could only
It was a close combat with a bayonet, so this time Liu Yingyu took the initiative to volunteer and sent someone to be the vanguard.
Wang Zuoguan's peasant army did not attack Hancheng, and showed no signs of retreat. Now Tie Mo was really confused. Fighting or not, leaving or leaving? Waiting to be surrounded by officers and soldiers and wiped out?
Wang Zuoguan doesn't look like a fool no matter how he looks.
Under this situation, Liu Yingyu did not easily start a conflict, and his troops stopped at Ai Town, ten miles away from Hancheng.
Ai Zhen is a small town. It is strange to say that Wang Zuoguan besieged Hancheng but did not commit any crime against Ai Zhenqiu. Tie Mo asked someone to inquire and found that since Wang Zuoguan arrived in Hancheng, he has not sent a single soldier to Ai Zhenqiu.
A pawn. A group of peasant soldiers came to buy things, and finally gave them enough money.
Liu Yingyu and Tie Mo got together, drinking sips of boring tea. After pondering for a long time, they couldn't figure out what Wang Zuoguan was up to.
At the end of the hour, Li Wanqing hurriedly entered the room and said, "General, there is a man outside the town who calls himself Wang Zuogao. He said he wants to interview you."
"Huh?" Tie Mo and Liu Ying looked at each other in confusion. It was really weird that Wang Zuogao actually came to the door. This is his own territory, and Tie Mo had no reason to be afraid. "Haha, General Liu, please wait a moment.
Tie Mou goes to meet this person."
A moment later, Tie Mo saw this uninvited guest. He was wearing a blue robe, a silk scarf on his head, and a short beard. He was not tall and tall. At first glance, he felt that this man was an elegant scholar and could not follow him at all.
Contact the gangsters.
The two sat opposite each other. At this time, the other party had already revealed his identity, and Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing also confirmed this.
"Mr. Wang, I don't understand Tie. You clearly know that Tie and General Liu's troops are going to pass here, why did you choose this time to surround Hancheng?"
What Tie Mo asked was not Wang Zuoguan's reason for coming, but the biggest doubt in his heart. Wang Zuoguan smiled calmly and raised his hands, with a bit of freedom and ease, "Wang did this, naturally because he was waiting for General Tie, and so did Wang
It's a helpless move, if you don't do this, how can General Tie be willing to sit down and have a good talk."
Tie Mo was stunned for a moment, and then smiled. What Wang Zuoguan said was somewhat reasonable. Taking into account the safety of Hancheng, he would not act rashly. But if he was outside, if Wang Zuoguan came with his troops, he would probably
The two sides have been fighting for a long time. Without any support, Wang Zuoguan didn't have the courage to come over to talk. And Han Cheng was Wang Zuoguan's confidence and support.
"Mr. Wang has a good plan. When Mr. Wang planned it on the banks of the Sanchuan River, we suffered a lot."
This time it was Wang Zuoguan's turn to be surprised. He was a little surprised and said: "The general investigated so carefully."
"How can you not be more careful about an opponent who can make Tie Mou suffer a loss? The Art of War says, know yourself and the enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles." Tie Mo took a sip of tea and his expression became more serious, "Let's talk about it, Mr. Wang brought Tie Mou to Korea.
City, it shouldn’t be for chatting about family matters, right?”
"Before Wang tells his story, would the general be interested in hearing a story from Wang?"
"General, I have plenty of time. If the story is interesting, Mr. Wang might as well tell it!"
Wang Zuogao arched his hands, his brows furrowed, as if he was caught in some kind of painful memory. Soon, he told the so-called story.
"A few years ago, there was a scholar who traveled around northern Shaanxi. When he saw the miserable situation of thousands of miles of red land and people exchanging their children for food, he decided to let more people eat. When the scholar returned to his hometown, he left
I spent all my money to set up porridge shacks to save refugees. This lasted for about a month, but the scholar began to feel that he was a little powerless. Setting up porridge shacks could save hundreds of thousands of people, but there are millions of hungry people in northern Shaanxi."
"Finally, after persisting for half a year, the food was gone and the porridge shed could no longer hold on. He went to the county to find the grain depot officials, hoping that the government could jointly set up a porridge shed to appease the people. However, the county magistrate said that he intended to gather people to rebel.
He was thrown into the yard and beaten with twenty sticks."
"He was injured on his body, but his heart was even more injured. That night, the scholar lay on his bed and thought about it all night. The government had food, so why not help the victims? As long as there was enough food, many of the victims could survive. That night,
The scholar made up his mind, and the next day he threw away the pen in his hand, said goodbye to his wife and children, picked up the hatchet in the yard and left the house."
"Because he had been setting up a porridge shack for a long time, he was supported by many people. When he raised his arms, many people rushed to the county seat. In this way, the scholar who wanted to serve the imperial court became a rebel, but he did not
Regret, because he felt that he saved many people's lives, at least at that time he felt that he was right."
"Conquer the county and open up warehouses. Maybe good times are coming. But the high-spirited scholar never thought that this was just the beginning of a nightmare. There will always be a time when the food is exhausted. What will he do in the future? Later, he discovered
The rebel army he was in was completely different from what he had imagined. The kind-hearted people he was familiar with in the past became ferocious and terrifying when they picked up the sword. They looted the countryside and were even more ruthless than the officers and soldiers."
"Last year, the tragedy in Qingyuan City completely chilled the scholar. He realized that he had taken the wrong path. The rebel army should not be like this, and saving the people should not be like this."
"Later, he left Ganquan City and hid in Mabei Mountain, licking his wounds."
Wang Zuogao drank a cup of tea with tears in his eyes. He raised his head slightly and said with a bitter smile, "That scholar who claims to be extraordinary is me, Wang Zuogao."
"I came to see the general today for no other reason than because Wang wanted to surrender..."