After listening to Liu Zongmin's words, Li Zicheng felt something was wrong in the atmosphere in the camp.
He directly said to the surrounding generals: "What are you afraid of! It's just Guan Ning's cavalry! Let's try not to meet them! Their main force is still guarding the Qing army outside the pass.
As for the rest of King Qin’s army, we will attack the city for another three days! If we still cannot capture the city of Beijing in three days, we will withdraw to Shaanxi! We will continue to plan for it slowly!"
After hearing Li Zicheng's words, many generals around him nodded. This was considered a better solution.
After all, the current situation is really not good for the army of thieves.
If the city of Beijing cannot be captured for a long time and you continue to fight here, you will most likely fall into an extremely passive situation.
In three days, even the fastest King Qin's army is unlikely to arrive.
If you retreat faster then, you won't have to face off against these King Qin's troops.
"Okay, let's all go and have a rest. In the afternoon, we will attack the city again! Follow the strategy of the military advisor!"
Li Zicheng said to the generals around him.
Just when Li Zicheng and his generals were planning.
At this time, on top of the city wall.
Zhu Cixiang was patrolling back and forth, and the corpses next to him were being carried down continuously. Zhu Cixiang looked at the corpse in front of him with a hint of emotion in his eyes.
"Please pay all the pensions to the soldiers who died!"
Zhu Cixiang looked at Wu Xiang and asked.
Wu Xiang nodded.
"Everyone has been given out! The surviving soldiers saw that they were actually given out fifty taels, and everyone's mood was very high!"
Wu Xiang smiled and looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him with admiration in his eyes.
He really admired the crown prince in front of him.
He originally thought that it was completely impossible to defend the city defense, but he actually managed to defend it forcefully!
They rely on some militiamen who are bought with money!
This kind of thing is simply incredible!
Wu Xiang looked at Zhu Cixiang in front of him with some emotion.
"Well! We should also pay attention to the pensions for the injured soldiers. If the soldiers are capable of continuing to fight, follow their wishes and let them continue to fight. If they don't want to fight, you can let them go home and pay different amounts of money according to the severity of their injuries.
, except that the injury is too minor and will not be allowed to leave, his injury will be in the range of 10 taels to 30 taels, and we will supply them with silver."
Zhu Cixiang said to Wu Xiang in front of him.
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Wu Xiang nodded.
He found that the crown prince in front of him seemed to know the situation of these people very well.
Many of what His Highness the Crown Prince said were in plain English, and they were very feasible orders. He did not use any empty words at all, which was completely different from those civil servants.
These orders are very experienced, but His Royal Highness is only fifteen or sixteen years old...
And growing up in the Forbidden City all day long, there is no chance to touch the lives of ordinary people!
How does he know so much??
A trace of confusion flashed in Wu Xiang's eyes.
Is there really a so-called person who is born knowing in this world?
Wu Xiang was a little unbelievable.
"Okay, Admiral Wu, go ahead and get busy."
With that said, Zhu Cixi walked towards another section of the city wall.
Wu Xiang looked at Zhu Cixiang's back with a dazed look in his eyes. He suddenly remembered the legend he had heard among the people in the past few days.
His Royal Highness the Prince is descended from the Ziwei Emperor Star! The reincarnation of a god!
If this rumor is true, then His Highness, who knows it from birth, seems to be able to understand it!
Thinking of this rumor, Wu Xiang shook his head and threw the idea of harmony behind him, and continued to arrange the city defense.
After Zhu Cixi inspected several key city walls.
Then he came down from the city wall, took a carriage, and went straight to the Hubu Yamen.
Because all the money and food he collected from several senior executives was temporarily placed in the Hubu Yamen.
When Zhu Cihong came to the Hubu Yamen.
The clerks who had received the money and food around him hurriedly left, and people came and went.
Zhu Cixiang was followed by several Jinyi guards.
Soon he passed through the front hall and came to the back hall of the household department lobby.
At this time, Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua were sitting among a pile of books, and a pile of accountants next to them were constantly calculating something.
When Zhu Cihong walked up to him, they didn't react.
"How is it? How long can our money and food last?"
Just as the two were settling their accounts, Zhu Cixiang's sudden voice interrupted their settlement.
Li Banghua and Li Banghua raised their heads and saw Zhu Cihong in front of them. At this time, they stood up quickly, and the accountants next to them also raised their heads.
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Everyone around them saluted Zhu Cixiang in front of them.
"No gift."
Zhu Cixiang looked at the people around him and said.
He looked at Li Banghua who was standing aside.
There was a hint of hesitation in Li Banghua's eyes, he pondered for a moment, looked at Zhu Cihong in front of him and said: "According to the current money and food consumption, it shouldn't last a few days... The food consumption can probably last three days, but in terms of money,
Because there were a lot of people killed last night, we only have about 100,000 taels of silver left in our inventory now, and there are still two thousand taels of gold left..."
“That’s all there is left??”
Zhu Cixiang looked at Li Banghua in front of him with some surprise.
Li Banghua had a look of helplessness on his face.
He glanced at Zhu Cixiang in front of him and said: "The pension of fifty taels of silver mentioned by His Highness is a bit too high. Last night's attack on the city caused at least two thousand casualties, and this sum alone cost one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Then, because the city of Beijing was defended, some poor people in the city also came to join the army. According to the price of 10 taels of silver per person you mentioned before, we recruited another 5,000 people, consuming 50,000 taels of silver.
Plus the consumption of buying meat..."
As he spoke, Li Banghua rubbed his forehead tiredly.
This consumption is really too great. His Royal Highness has never been a householder before, so he has no idea how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are!
However, this is a special period, and doing so is actually beneficial to defending the city. Therefore, although Li Banghua felt that the consumption was too great, he still did not say anything more.
After all, if you are holding on to the money and food now, if you can't defend the city, the money is actually meaningless.
"I see!"
Zhu Cixiang said with a smile on his face, looking at the tired Li Banghua in front of him.
"Master Li, there is no need to worry too much. Things like money should not be too simple!"
Hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Li Banghua was stunned for a moment. He looked at Zhu Cihong in front of him with a trace of confusion in his eyes.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and he quickly said to Zhu Cihong in front of him: "Your Highness, you must never do this kind of thing again! Zhu Chunchen and Wei Zaode were traitors to the country, so Your Highness ransacked their homes.
, it’s actually not a big deal, but if His Highness ransacks the homes of other dignitaries on a large scale, it will..."