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Chapter 222 To fight a thief, you should understand the mentality of a thief

"Wang Shangli was punished by the rebellious army? Most of his main force was wiped out? Well, the left commander Zhu Shen fought well! The results of this battle have exceeded my expectations, please tell me more about it."

A day later, in the siege camp of the official army in the east of Hengzhou City.When Shen Shuren learned of the good news that Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen had defeated Wang Shangli at Hengshanwei in the early morning, with his calmness, he couldn't help jumping up and punching vigorously.

The one who came in to deliver the good news was Jin Shenghuan who was in charge of the specific siege mission of Hengzhou City these days. For this kind of opportunity to show his face to please Mr. Futai, he certainly didn't want to pretend to others, even if it was just a word.

The general of the siege force that Shen Jiajun originally advertised to the outside world should be Zuo Zixiong, but Shen Shuren played a trick a while ago, which led to the situation in front of him-the fact that Zuo Zixiong personally led the army to attack the city was not for the purpose of making the city Zhang Xianzhong's army believes that the main force of the army is focused on Hengzhou, and will not be too wary of the rear.

This can be regarded as an idle move to lure Wang Shangli into robbing food and ammunition.In the end, Wang Shangli took the bait, and the specific factors played a role in it. It is difficult to analyze, but in short, he was hooked, and the result is good.

On Jin Shenghuan's side, the siege of the city these days has also been done step by step, and later he pretended to be out of ammunition and interrupted the shelling, so the performance was completely stress-free, and he didn't need any generals, he was enough.

At this moment, being questioned carefully by Shen Shuren, Jin Shenghuan also recounted the lines he had just memorized vividly.

It turned out that Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen joined forces, and the final result of annihilating the enemy that day reached an astonishing 2 people!

Among them, at least 1 people were killed in the Xiangjiang Canyon near Hengshanwei. There were more than 3000 beheadings, and nearly [-] wounded and prisoners were taken in.

In fact, when Zuo Zixiong cleaned the battlefield, he estimated that there were more enemy dead, at least more than the number of cuts, but he couldn't count them.Because they were all squeezed down the Xiangjiang River and drowned, or fell to their death in the deep valley of Hengshan Mountain, it was impossible to search for the bodies one by one.

These thieves don't have much technical and tactical skills, and they have nothing to cherish, so only those lightly wounded who will not be disabled and can continue to be used in the army will receive simple treatment.As for the seriously wounded who will be disabled, just make up the knife directly, don't waste food and medicine.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when human life was like grass, there were too many people with intact siblings to starve to death. How could there be so much surplus food to feed the disabled without feeding the intact people.

What's more, these rogue soldiers were all involved in murder and robbery, and they should have done so long ago. They didn't think there was anything wrong when they saw the officers and soldiers repairing the seriously wounded, because they did it themselves, and it was even more brutal.

After annihilating more than 1 people near Hengshanwei, the follow-up results of several thousand people were obtained by Zuo Zixiong and Zhu Wenzhen leading the victorious soldiers to Wang Shangli's hometown Hengdong County in the afternoon.

After the officers and soldiers arrived in Hengdong County, they picked up Wang Shangli's helmet and prepared to attack the city. The defenders immediately panicked when they saw it.

Zuo Zixiong's main force is the infantry, and it is not easy to catch up, so he has to count on Zhu Wenzhen's cavalry to continue to cover up the kill without hesitation.An afternoon of bloody massacre, killing until the evening.The cavalry unit, which had not slept for nearly ten hours, was also exhausted, so they withdrew.

This afternoon's cover-up, at least one or two thousand levels of beheading, captured more.

In the end, there were only about 5000 bandit soldiers, led by a captain and several mid-level bandit generals at the brigade level, who hid in the night, hid in the mountainous jungle east of Hengshan, and fled towards southern Jiangxi.As long as you arrive at Chaling County, the easternmost part of Hengzhou Prefecture, you will enter the Luoxiao Mountains.

I believe that with the current strength of Shen Shuren, these defeated soldiers will definitely be discouraged when they encounter the Huguang army from now on, and they will never dare to stay in Chaling County to make trouble. If they want to rob, they will also penetrate to the Jiangxi side of Luoxiao Mountain. up.

These are ringworm mustard diseases, no big deal.

……

After fully understanding the situation in the rear, Shen Shuren's confidence in the decisive battle was even stronger.

Zhang Xianzhong originally thought that "the ratio of our army and the enemy's strength is three to one, and I have the advantage." No, after a battle to lure the enemy to cut off their wings and horns, the strength ratio was reduced back to two to one.

If Zhang Xianzhong knew this information, he would be a ghost if he dared to fight Shen Shuren.

As soon as he thought of this, Shen Shuren's heart suddenly moved, and he asked:

"When will Zongbing Zuo and General Zhu Can go back to join our army? How many soldiers and horses are there in the besieged camp of our army now? Is the news of Zuo Zongbing's victory only known to us? Have you done a good job?" Keep it secret, or have you notified the entire army?"

Jin Shenghuan was stunned, not very sure, but he still answered all questions: "Zuo Zongbing and the others took down Hengdong County last night. They have been fighting continuously for a day and a night, so they are extremely tired. They will rest in Hengdong today. They will set off tomorrow and come. If you force the march, you can join us in the evening.

Now there are about 1 people in our battalion. As for the news of the victory of the friendly army, it has not been disseminated yet-because the dispatch of the Zuo Zongbing back to guard the Hengshan Guard was originally kept secret.The central army didn't know that Zuo Zongbing had left, and naturally they didn't know that he had won the battle. When they returned to the division with victory tomorrow evening, they would announce it. "

Shen Shuren nodded: "That's good, that is to say, we need to rely on these 1 people to maintain the siege front for two days, and Zhang Xianzhong must not be aware of this vacancy. Otherwise, although our army is not afraid of Zhang Xianzhong daring to go out of the city to attack the camp , but beware of him going out of the city immediately to break through."

If Zhang Xianzhong dared to attack the camp in reverse, Shen Shuren would not be afraid at all.

Even though he had only 1 people, Zuo Zixiong also took away half of the light firearms such as muskets, and all cavalry firearms such as double-barreled guns and revolvers were taken away by Zhu Wenzhen.

However, as long as Shen Shuren has half of the bird blunderbuss, Lumi blunderbuss, and turtledove blunderbuss, plus all the cannons, he will not be afraid of Zhang Xianzhong's strong attack on the strong camp that has been reinforced for about a week. They didn't take away the food when they arrived, but left it all in the besieged camp.

What Shen Shuren was really worried about was that Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of his lack of troops and ran away suddenly.

Since Zuo Zixiong's troops need two days to return to defense, the most important thing is that the cavalry of Zhu Wenzhen's troops, who can shine most brilliantly in the pursuit battle, are not there.If Zhang Xianzhong ran away at this moment, it was really possible to immediately withdraw all the main forces of the old Shaanxi-Henan battalion safely, and even take away some of the new attached troops.

With 1 people, Shen Shuren was absolutely not sure that he would take the initiative to attack and chase him down with infantry, so he could easily be bitten back.

At the beginning of the battle, he chose to "encircle three and lack one", in order to hit the morale of Zhang Xianzhong's army, fearing that after he assumed a stance of nothing to spare, those new affiliated troops would also be forced to jump over the wall and fight to the end.

"Should we temporarily expand the siege camp, dig a trench in the west of the city, set up a camp, temporarily block the west gate for a few days, and first change the siege to three gaps and first to encircle it on all sides?"

Such an idea came to Shen Shuren's mind, and then he felt that it was not right, the troops were too scattered, once Zhang Xianzhong broke through with all his strength, he might not be able to hold back.It's better to make good use of the time difference in the delivery of the good news and make another message difference.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Go, send someone to call all those generals who came from exiles, I will be of great use."

Jin Shenghuan didn't know why, but he did it immediately.

After a while, several guerrilla and garrison-level middle and high-level generals were led to Shen Shuren's central army camp.

……

A bearded, listless hippopotamus general from Shaanxi came to the handsome tent in Futai cautiously, and took off the felt hat he was wearing before entering the tent.

He was the original bandit leader Lin Chenggong who surrendered to Shen Shuren at the beginning of this year.After Lin Chengcheng surrendered, he originally agreed to seal a guerrilla first, and then promote him to a general when the time is right.The reason was that at that time Shen Shuren's direct generals were generally not too high-level, and if they were directly given to the generals, they would not be able to convince the public.

But later in April, the group of old people who followed Shen Shuren were generally promoted to a higher level, and Zhang Mingzhen and Zuo Zixiong were also promoted from deputy generals to chief soldiers.

Lin Chengcheng thought that he would be able to fulfill his position as a general, but after two or three months, he was still a guerrilla.His direct line troops were also dismantled and reorganized by Zhang Huangyan during the reorganization in the spring. Many middle-level officers who were loyal to Shen Shuren came in as sand, and the soldiers were also dismantled and reorganized.

Now even if Lin Chenggong has a different heart, he can't completely control his troops, he can only obediently serve Shen Shuren with his life.This time the battle against Zhang Xianzhong, the first half month of the battle, Lin Chengcheng did not catch up,
But later Zhang Huangyan arrived in Wuchang and transferred some Huangzhou soldiers to the front line for reinforcements, so Lin Yangcheng was sent.He acted with the large army, and in the battle of besieging Changsha and Hengzhou, he also lost a little strength with the large force, and had no chance to perform well.

This time he was specially summoned by Shen Futai, which made him quite uneasy. This was the first time he was summoned by Futai since the second Zhao'an, and he thought that the other party was going to test his loyalty.

However, just as he walked to the entrance of the big tent, Lin Chengcheng noticed another general in embarrassment. It was a guard in his twenties, Liu Sandao, who was also the adopted son of the former bandit leader Liu Xiyao.

When they were in the Fifth Camp of Gezuo, although Lin Chengcheng and Liu Xiyao had no relationship, they could be regarded as brothers. Their friendship was similar to that between Erhe, close to close, but not without the idea of ​​annexing each other.

So he is very familiar with Liu Sandao, and has always been called "the good nephew".Now that the two generals are summoned under such circumstances, it is inevitably a bit embarrassing.Lin Chengcheng was not ashamed to ask: "My nephew just arrived too? Do you know why Futai summoned you?"

"I don't know either, I'll know when I go in." Liu Sandao didn't call himself "little nephew", obviously he didn't want to pretend to be "the adopted son of Liu Xiyao".

Not only did Lin Chengcheng not dare to get angry, but he felt a little embarrassed and ashamed: he had already turned his back on the dark side, how could he still be commensurate with the original relationship in the thieves camp!

The two entered the account nervously, and seeing Shen Shuren sitting in the middle in a leisurely manner, with two rows of elite guards standing closely beside him, they hurried up to salute.

"The final general will see Mr. Futai!"

Since Lin Chengcheng surrendered, Shen Shuren hadn't spent much time beating him. He had always handed him over to Zhang Huangyan, and occasionally listened to Zhang Huangyan's report on Lin Chengcheng.

In the past half a month, Lin Chengcheng was sent to the front line to fight a little battle. Shen Shuren observed secretly, but felt that his performance was quite satisfactory, and his stubbornness should have been wiped out, so he planned to give him an improvement Chance.

Shen Shuren stared at each other, looked up and down and remained silent for a while, just like before the head of state gave a speech, using the frightening silence to the extreme, and then spoke firmly and calmly:
"General Lin, before Zhang Xianzhong coerced you into rebellion three years ago, how was your relationship with him?"

When Lin Chengcheng heard this, he was dripping with cold sweat, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty Futai is a lesson! Even the rebellion three years ago was just because he was afraid that His Majesty would be harsh in employing people. Go back and forth to protect yourself!

Later, I learned that Master Futai has learned a lot, treats the descendants kindly, and never looks at people with old eyes. The last general will return to the imperial court again, and he will never dare to have second thoughts!The final general has no friendship with Zhang Xianzhong!He was the one who killed them in the first place! "

Shen Shuren waved his hand: "Even if he was killed by him, he would have told you something back then, right? Otherwise, you would be so smart and think to yourself, 'Because Zhang Xianzhong rebelled, Xiong Wencan was killed, we are the same as Zhang Xianzhong We were appeased by Xiong Wencan, so the court will also suspect that we have such a complicated reason?"

Lin Chengcheng remembered that his face was flushed and he was at a loss, but he had to admit: "Your Excellency, the words that Zhang Xianzhong used to intimidate us back then seemed to be the same as this. But other than that, we really don't have much friendship. forced."

Shen Shuren shook his head: "It would be boring if I expose a sentence and you admit it, I wanted to give you a chance this time.

Forget it, let me just say it straight, I hope that you and Zhang Xianzhong could have a deeper friendship back then, how to get close to each other, you can figure out a way for yourself——

Anyway, the ammunition inventory in our army is running out now, and the logistics fleet transported by Hengshanwei was intercepted by Wang Shangli again. Although our army repelled Wang Shangli, the loss of supplies was also very heavy, and we will not be able to shell again for at least five or six days The city is under siege.

I worry that after a long time, Zhang Xianzhong will see the flaw, or the scouts he sent from the east of the city will be able to detect the truth about Hengshan Guard and the Hengdong battlefield.

Therefore, I plan to preemptively attack the enemy, show weakness to lure him to attack, and fight a blocking battle with the only ammunition in the concentration camp, so that Zhang Xianzhong will suffer a bit, so that even if he finds out the military situation that is beneficial to him in the future, he will also be bitten. I was afraid, thinking it was another strategy of our army, and dared not venture out of the city again. "

When Shen Shuren said this, he stared at the eyes of Lin Chengcheng and Liu Sandao, his eyes alternated between the two of them, and then he threw the last hole card:
"Look, which one of you has a better friendship with Zhang Xianzhong, or whose adoptive father had a better friendship with Zhang Xianzhong before, you can send someone to contact him secretly.

Just say that our army is empty, afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will break through the siege in the past two days, so I sent you cannon fodder troops to temporarily go to the east of the city to seal the gap left by the original siege.

However, you feel that the temporary and hasty camping must be weak in defense and difficult to withstand the main conflicts in the city.Because of the lack of ammunition, I will not give you supplies, and let you only use swords, guns, bows and crossbows to defend against the enemy, and use your troops to die and consume.

That's why you want to reach a tacit agreement with Zhang Xianzhong, as long as he doesn't attack your camp, you will let him go.Or remind Zhang Xianzhong that if he is willing to attack the other sides of Hengzhou City to break through, you can all stand by and watch from the sidelines. "

When Shen Shuren said this, Lin Chengcheng and Liu Sandao came back to their senses.

Liu Sandao's status is relatively low, and he doesn't have so many scruples when speaking, so he took the lead in asking:

"Master Futai, do you want to lure Zhang Xianzhong to deliberately attack the strong camp and take the opportunity to kill a large number of enemy troops? Or do you want to ambush our troops behind the two sides and wait for Zhang Xianzhong to pass by our new line of defense in the east of the city? Then intercept with the main force Of?"

Shen Shuren kept a mysterious smile: "This is not what you should ask, just say if you can do it."

Seeing that Liu Sandao was the first to show his loyalty to the last question, Lin Cheng hurriedly answered this time:
"Of course! Master Futai tells the general to submit a letter to Zhang Xianzhong, and the general will submit a letter. If Zhang Xianzhong dares to break through from the side that the general is besieging, the general will fight to the death and delay until the main force of the lord escapes from the besieged city." The other three sides come!"

Shen Shuren couldn't help laughing: "General Lin, don't you think you agreed too hastily? Have you thought about how to convince Zhang Xianzhong that you will let him go?"

Lin Chengcheng was taken aback, and tentatively said, "Just think about the old friendship we had when we were in the chaos in Shaanxi, and how unhappy we were with you, my lord, and not promoted after surrendering? If not, tell Zhang Xianzhong that my troops Now it has been dismantled and reorganized, and the old ones don't listen to my command, causing the general to harbor resentment..."

As Lin Chengcheng was talking, he realized that he had said something wrong. Didn't he express all his real resentment?In the past six months, he was indeed a bit depressed.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren laughed more naturally when he heard this: "Idiot! How dare that Zhang Xianzhong trust you after saying such things? If he knows that your troops are already loyal to Daming, how dare he think you can let him go?"

Lin Chengcheng was scolded as a fool, but he didn't get angry at all. Instead, he seemed to be pardoned.

What he was most afraid of just now was that the topic stopped at that sensitive point, and the conversation suddenly became cold.But Shen Shuren scolded him for being incompetent so lightly and naturally, which on the contrary showed that Shen Shuren was absolutely sure of controlling him, and he was not worried about this kind of small fish and shrimp making waves, and even gently exposed the most embarrassing point.

Lin Chengcheng hurriedly asked for advice: "Master Futai, please give me advice!"

Shen Shuren stretched out a finger, scratched it casually on the table, and said solemnly: "You have to say this: you have seen through years of traveling experience that he broke through Changde, Changsha, and Hengzhou this time, and killed King Rong. King, King Gui, the income must be huge.

However, Zhang Xianzhong expanded his army and recruited soldiers after he broke Changde, but he didn't recruit more troops after passing Changsha. It can be seen that he must still have a huge wealth of no less than ten million taels.So, if you ask him to hand over [-]% of it, you let him go.

If he is willing to hand over [-]%, you will fight back and join forces with him. After the big deal is done, you will rebel again, going south and out of Guangdong and Guangxi.With such a huge fortune in hand, where is he not afraid that he will not be able to buy refugees and become thieves? "

When Lin Chengcheng and Liu Sandao heard this, they also felt a chill in their hearts: Mr. Futai is very familiar with the operation of the thieves!To be able to estimate the financial situation of the thieves casually!

Previously, other face-saving literati and bureaucrats would never try to figure out these dirty things in this direction!
If you really follow this idea and establish contact with Zhang Xianzhong, it is really possible to fool the other party. When the time comes, you will have a little more initiative if you want to fight quickly or slow down!

Lin Chengcheng and Liu Sandao looked at Shen Shuren, adding a little more awe to An Lushan's look at Li Linfu.

It is said that when Li Linfu was alive in history, An Lushan never dared to disagree. After Li Linfu died, An Lushan felt that he was stable.

Because every time An Lushan saw Li Linfu, the other party could easily tell what he was thinking in his heart at that time, this kind of mind reading made An Lushan extremely frightened.

Shen Shuren's understanding of the mentality of the thieves and chieftains is no less than Li Linfu's mind reading skills!
(End of this chapter)