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Chapter 215 Restoration of Changsha
Zhang Xianzhong didn't have anything to worry about in the first place, so he could rely on the ruthless spirit of "If you win the world, you will own it, if you lose, you will destroy the nine tribes", and every time you make a decision, you will block everything you have.If you are unlucky, you will lose directly. If you are lucky, you will lose all your capital and your life is still there, then continue to block from the beginning.

It is precisely because of the mentality of these people that they come to this world to block their lives for a while until they lose, so in history, after losing everything, they have nothing left.

Shen Shuren obviously couldn't be so blocked - what kind of skill is Stud?With 99 gambling dogs and everyone playing stud, even if [-] people die, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong will always come out in the end. This is a random event, not a real skill.

Therefore, after Shen Shuren took Linxiang County, he had to proceed step by step, advance steadily, and concentrate his forces only after confirming the next enemy move.

Otherwise, if he directly rushes the whole army into the south and goes deep, but Liu Wenxiu in the west is suddenly not calm, and has the courage to counterattack along the south bank of Dongting Lake and break the grain road of the Xiangjiang River, which sinks the tree people, then the situation will be troublesome.

Zhang Xianzhong can slaughter cities to raise food, and he can also use the scorched earth policy not to leave food for Shen Shuren, but Shen Shuren can't slaughter cities to raise food. The combat patterns here are not equal.

This gap caused Shen Shu to thoroughly understand the real situation of Changsha two days after Zhang Xianzhong's main force left Changsha and went south from Linxiang County.

When going south, he had to replenish Shen Lian and Li Yu's [-] navy, and leave a little bit of [-] to [-] infantry to garrison Linxiang and control the waterways and grain roads around Dongting Lake and Xiangjiang River.He took the rest of the troops to Changsha.

Previously, when Shen Shuren's entire army went south, the total strength was about 3. After all the battles, the officers and troops also suffered a certain loss. Even though there were not many dead, there were definitely many wounded and sick.

Calculated, the total available troops today has fallen below [-], including the slightly wounded.Excluding the people who stayed in Linxiang to protect the back road, the total number of people going to Changsha was exactly [-].

Of course, it is 2 people who are fully loaded and have no wounded soldiers, full of energy and fighting spirit.

On June 21st, the day after the bandits broke through Hengshan Guard, and before Hengzhou City was captured, Shen Shuren's troops rushed to Changsha and began to besiege the city.

Because Zhang Xianzhong's army hadn't found a new base at that time, they were just continuing to attack indiscriminately southward, so the rogue defenders on the side of Changsha City didn't know that the king would abandon Changsha in the future.

The order they received was to stick to it and try to transfer supplies to the south. If it was too late and the city was at risk of being breached, Zhang Xianzhong also asked them to set fire to the city as much as possible, and use the scorched earth to destroy the supply of the Shenshu army's subsequent march.

After all, the end of May and the beginning of June is the harvest season for summer grain. Now in late June, the summer grain has been harvested for 20 days, which is almost the time when the dried grain can be put into the warehouse.

If Zhang Xianzhong didn't destroy the local economy, Shen Shuren could raise food anywhere, and he would have a lot of confidence in the pursuit, and he would not be able to delay Shen Shuren's actions.

The rogue defenders in Changsha City are mainly new affiliated troops, and Zhang Xianzhong is not willing to leave his brothers from the old battalion in Shaanxi and Henan to perform this kind of cannon fodder mission.

Among them, the one with the deepest qualifications has only been a thief for three years.It was Zhang Xianzhong who was coerced in Xiangyang and Yunyang when he surrendered and rebelled in Xiangyang and Yunyang for 12 years in Chongzhen.

Of course, there is still a small part of them who were surrendered by the guards in Xiangyang and Yunyang three years ago. Strictly speaking, these people have served in the army for more than three years, but they cannot learn from the corruption of the guards. What skills, most of the soldiers in the guards are actually farming.

After Shen Shuren besieged the city, he took the time to personally patrol the city for a week, and asked the generals around him about the situation in the city: "Have you found out how many troops are defending the city? Who is leading the army?"

Zhu Wenzhen, who was in charge of the cavalry unit, captured a small group of bandits transporting money and food from Changsha to the south because of a detour before.

"Reporting to Futai, I found out from the captives that Changsha's garrison general, Li Dingguo's general Liu Jinzhong, did not know the exact number of troops. After Ai Nengqi died, Li Dingguo was sent to follow him."

Shen Shuren nodded: "It's Li Dingguo's general again, and it's still this kind of miscellaneous army who has been kicked around. It seems that the so-called tens of thousands of people are also bluffing. Changsha doesn’t take it too seriously, and the defenders won’t be too determined to fight.”

The officers and soldiers immediately began to make preparations, but because the ships transporting the Hongyi cannons came slowly, it took a long time to load, unload and assemble them. It was almost evening that the cannons were in place, and then the bombardment began.

For a strong city like Changsha, it would take ten days and half a month to break the gate by bombing the city, especially if the defenders can block the gate and fill the gate with rammed earth for reinforcement, so the storm will definitely be a protracted battle, the key Or hit morale and make the enemy surrender.

Previously, Yin Xianmin, the commander-in-chief of Changsha, surrendered in a few days under Zhang Xianzhong's attack. Could it be that Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates guarded the city and suddenly became death-conscious?

From the dusk until it was completely dark, the defenders still persisted. The officers and soldiers stopped firing because they had poor vision and it was inconvenient to observe and aim, and temporarily withdrew their troops to maintain the siege.

Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry, who had rested during the day, became busy at night and were asked to lead troops to patrol the various gates.

In the middle of the night, the south gate of Changsha City suddenly opened in the dark. Some people tried to escape and break through, but they were blocked by Zhu Wenzhen's trilogy. They came to reinforce one after another, killing the troops that broke through the siege.

Only a part of the deserters who scattered like birds and beasts succeeded in infiltrating.The remaining large group of deserters were driven back and wanted to return to the city of Changsha through the south gate, but the defenders had already closed the city gate and dared not open it again.These deserters were wiped out under the city by the officers and soldiers at their own peril.

Because the matter was not serious, Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen didn't disturb Shen Shuren to rest.It wasn't until after dawn that Shen Shu learned of the results of last night's battle, and he wiped out thousands of enemies, immediately summoned the generals who participated in the battle, and asked the rogue officers who had taken the prisoners to come.

Zhu Wenzhen looked smug, but he didn't dare to make a fuss when he arrived in front of Futai. He just couldn't help but said: "Thanks to Futai's prudence, the last general patrolled the night, and at least four or five thousand enemies were wiped out last night, but only two were beheaded, killed and captured. There are more than a thousand people, and the rest may have fled. It is difficult to hunt down in the dark."

Shen Shuren waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. After a big battle, it is normal for some people to flee. Many of Zhang Xianzhong's new affiliated troops are ordinary people. I hope that after fleeing, they can return to their hometowns to work in agriculture, so there is no need to be held accountable. I'm afraid some people will try When it comes to the sweetness of killing people and stealing goods, I can't hold back."

Shen Shuren praised the officers who participated in the war a few words, and then saw a bandit captain and several brigade commanders being escorted up.

Shen Shuren didn't bother to ask their names, just confirmed that Liu Jinzhong was not among them, felt a little regretful, and then tortured and asked:
"Zhang Xianzhong asked you to defend the city, which shows that he doesn't pay much attention to Changsha. Why do the heavenly soldiers still resist? Why didn't Liu Jinzhong surrender? Didn't he break through the encirclement and escape in advance?"

Those middle-level generals and officers didn't have any integrity, they just wanted to avoid death, and they kowtowed and said everything: "Master Futai! It's not that I don't want to retreat early, it's really the Eight Great Kings...

In fact, Zhang Xianzhong gave the death order and asked us to hold off the officers and soldiers in Changsha for a while.If you break through without defending for half a month, you will be punished by military law when you arrive in Hengzhou.We know nothing else. "

What these people said was actually the truth, because Zhang Xianzhong's purpose of continuing to attack Hengzhou in the south would not be told to the ordinary generals below. Telling it would only make morale collapse faster.

Shen Shuren: "Since he would be punished if he fled back, why didn't he surrender? If Yin Xianmin had abandoned the city, he would have been punished by the court's military law! But he also surrendered a thief! Could it be that Liu Jinzhong has more backbone than Yin Xianmin?"

The captured officers looked at each other for a few seconds, and then they kowtowed boldly and said, "We heard it when the officers and soldiers tried to persuade them to surrender yesterday, but we really can't believe that surrendering will save us from death...

Zhang Xianzhong went berserk a few days ago. Before sending troops south, he changed his promise not to massacre the city, slaughtered everywhere, plundered people's wealth and food, and we were all stained with the blood debt of the massacre of the city. We were afraid that the account of the massacre would be liquidated sooner or later. "

When Shen Shuren heard these words, his face turned livid.

Indeed, the troops who messed up the slaughter of the city cannot be pardoned immediately, especially if they have just slaughtered the city and surrendered a few days later.

Zhang Xianzhong is forcing tens of thousands of people to "accept a fresh vote" together!It can also be seen that he no longer intends to hang out in Huguang, and he doesn't care about popular support and reputation.

After this battle, we must publicize it well and produce ironclad evidence so that the guards in Huguang and even neighboring Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi can see clearly that Zhang Xianzhong has indeed slaughtered the city crazily, or he broke his promise and slaughtered the city after surrendering in Changsha.

In this way, at any rate, other generals and people will resist in the future, so that they will not surrender without firing a single shot.

"It seems that even if the surrender is pardoned, it can only be pardoned for ordinary soldiers. This kind of troop that has slaughtered the city, the bandit officers must all be executed! Even if the troop is to be retained, it must be completely dismantled and used as a death camp. , Fighting under supervision! Thinking of awe and atonement! Otherwise, what is the difference between me and Chen Qiyu and Xiong Wencan back then?"

Shen Shuren waved his hand, and didn't spare the lives of those captains and brigade commanders because they confessed truthfully. For this kind of massacre army, it is necessary to execute all captured officers.

Those rogue generals were ashen-faced, begging for mercy again and again, but it was still ineffective, and their heads were sent to the tent soon.

Shen Shuren also learned his lesson and told the generals: "Yesterday our army's slogan of persuading surrender was really not grounded, and we didn't fully understand the situation around Changsha.

Now that there is a massacre of the city, I will call out again today, only saying that ordinary soldiers can surrender, and officers are not allowed to surrender.Soldiers who kill their officers and sacrifice their heads can be exempted from entering the hard labor camp.If the officer kills the Shangguan and surrenders, I can avoid death!The rest will not be pardoned! "

Shen Shuren's captive policy is also the best way for troops with bad records who want to make forced landings to reform.After the tests of many generations in later generations, for surrendering troops with original sins, allowing the chief to surrender is the most trustworthy for them.

At the same time, after finishing the order, Shen Shuren also briefly discussed with Zuo Zixiong, Jin Shenghuan, and Zhu Wenzhen: "Since the reason why Liu Jinzhong dared not surrender or escape early, I have figured it out. Are you going to die together?"

Zuo Zixiong scratched his head, thought for a while, and said frankly: "The last general thinks...he has no other way, but to enjoy it before death, fight hard and wait for death?"

Shen Shuren shook his head: "Don't use the heart of a gentleman to save the belly of a villain. How can such an abandoned child be so determined? In my opinion, it's not that he doesn't want to break through, but he knows that after breaking through, he can no longer go to Zhang Xianzhong.

When he is really in a hurry, maybe he will want to escape from the city, or hide his name, or set up his own family.In this way, we can pretend to continue to siege with heavy troops in the south of the city to prevent him from breaking out and going south to join Zhang Xianzhong.

But in fact, loosening the outside of the city and tightening the inside, showing the enemy in vain, is actually hiding an ambush.Go west from Changsha, go southwest, and enter Luoxiao Mountain, which is enough for Liu Jinzhong to stand on his own, just guard this road. "

After hearing this, Zuo Zixiong, Jin Shenghuan, and Zhu Wenzhen all admired Master Futai's opinion. Indeed, from a geographical point of view, if you want to escape around Changsha, you can't go south but go west.

The Ming army immediately followed the new deployment, loosening the outside and tightening the inside, and then attacked the city step by step for two or three days.

As the defenders in the city felt more and more pressure and psychological offensive, some troops actually killed officers and secretly opened the door to surrender. The Ming army almost seized the opportunity to seize the city several times.

If it weren't for the fact that the guarding troops were all Liu Jinzhong's confidantes, fighting desperately to regain the city gate as soon as possible, I am afraid that Changsha City would have recovered.

Liu Jinzhong's troops were frightened overnight, and even with more than 2 newly attached troops, they did not dare to stay for a long time.

On the night of June 25th, the fourth night after the official army began to attack the city, finally another group of thieves who killed the officers rioted in the city anyway, and once seized the city gate.

This time, Liu Jinzhong's direct line troops finally failed to control the return to the city gate in the first place, and the official army flooded in, and the two sides launched a bloody and chaotic fight.

Liu Jinzhong's direct descendants had no choice but to follow Zhang Xianzhong's previous order and set fire to the city indiscriminately, trying to burn more supplies that could not be taken away.Then Liu Jinzhong led [-] deadly soldiers to open the west gate to take advantage of the chaos to break through. Sure enough, he did not dare to vote for Zhang Xianzhong, but wanted to go to Luoxiao Mountain to establish his own family.

Zhu Wenzhen had already been there waiting for work. When Liu Jinzhong passed by, he immediately rushed out with two thousand cavalry as the main force. Liu Jinzhong was in the rebellious army, and was shot by the pistol cavalry of Zhu Wenzhen's former army in turn. He turned into a hornet's nest and was killed on the spot.

Most of the rest of the troops were killed and wounded in the chaotic battle. In the end, two to three thousand people were captured, and only a few hundred escaped. This was also thanks to Shen Shuren's instructions several days in advance to set up an ambush at a dangerous place on the road west of the city.The officers and soldiers came prepared, so few escaped this time, basically falling into pockets and surrounded.

Changsha's thief defenders have been basically wiped out so far.

(End of this chapter)