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Chapter 266

Chongzhen 15th year, November [-]th.

The history of future generations will remember this day, because this day is the day when the Shen family army, who was besieged in Chen County, will take the initiative to fight against the invading army.

Early in the morning, just after dawn, the soldiers got up and ate the morning food, and then assembled at the school grounds, waiting for the instructions of Master Futai.

The soldiers ate pancakes made of corn flour mixed with white flour. Of course, the corn noodles were grown by the local people in the Huguang area after the popularization of corn in recent years.

In addition to the noodle cakes, each person also has a little hard-boiled eggs or salted fish, which is considered meaty.

In addition, each can always be divided into one or two cured chickens, ducks or pork legs, boil a large pot of soup, and let the one or two hundred soldiers under the command share food. The meat is not divided into a few pieces, some with oil The broth is very good.Drinking two bowls of heat in winter is very encouraging.

In order to be busy with all this, Shenfutai's internal affairs staff and military supply officials began to organize civilians to prepare in the middle of the night.Anyway, the civilian husband doesn't need to go out to fight in the city, and it's okay to stay up late with a little physical strength.

Soldiers should sleep well, wake up at [-]:[-] pm, wake up after washing, eating and drinking, listen to a speech to digest food, and then they can leave the city.

All these strict arrangements are in stark contrast to the Chuangjun on the opposite side who have no meal every day, eat whatever they grab and get what they get, and lack of city houses to keep out the cold in winter, so they can only pile up straw in tents to keep warm.

After tens of thousands of people finished eating, they came to the school grounds in a dense crowd, but there were not many conversations, only the collision and friction of footsteps and armor and weapons could be heard endlessly.

And after all the soldiers stood still, the sound of footsteps and friction and knocking disappeared, and the most violent sound in the arena was the turn of hundreds of flags being hunted by the winter wind.

Between the movement and the stillness, there was a frightening silence, obviously everyone knew what to do today.

However, the next thing Shen Futai did was beyond everyone's expectations.

I saw that Shen Shuren asked people to carry a few things similar to memorial tablets, which should be used for commemoration, and then burned incense in public to pray.The people below were a little confused at first, but soon realized that Shen Futai should be paying homage to something, and it is very likely that it is a warrior who died in the previous battle.

This kind of behavior of paying homage to the fallen soldiers was also done by ancient generals, but there are relatively few sacrifices before the war, unless it is to exaggerate the deep hatred with the enemy.

If it is another time traveler, I am afraid that even the "Martyr's Shrine" has been established long ago. Shen Shuren is still of low status, and he is not the emperor, so it is not easy to presume to do such things, so he is relatively restrained in this regard .

But today he paid homage with great fanfare. Obviously, there was a reason for the incident and deliberate deliberation.

After pretending to be silent and attracting everyone's attention enough, Shen Shu began to speak at the top of his voice with a large wooden speaker.

This way of acting is also a reason to use a frightening silence to harvest all the attention before speaking to the head of state.

"Soldiers! Today we are about to go to war. Although I, Shen, was admitted to the second list of Jinshi, but I don't like to drag words with you straightforward people, so I will be more direct.

You must be curious about the origins of the hundreds of soldiers who died for the country that I paid homage to just now. That’s right, they are the sailors responsible for breaking through the blockade of Yingchuan by the Chuang army and transporting food for us when our army was huddled in Chen County. brothers!
Everyone knows that for more than half a month, the intruders have nothing to do with us!The siege failed several times, and Li Zicheng was persuaded!Don't dare to take human life anymore!Because he knows that as long as he comes to attack the city, the city that I, Shen Shuren, dispatches and defends, he will definitely lose!
Therefore, for the past half month, he has only picked our grain fleet to start, trying to pick the soft persimmons.But our sailors are also brave and fearless, fighting fiercely and never retreating. They can repel the Chuang army every time, and cause at least several times the damage to the Chuang army!At most, they were burned and sunk some grain ships!

Now, I would like to introduce the guard next to me—his name is Li Yue, and he is from North Korea, my vassal state of Ming Dynasty.Among you, the veterans who were rescued by our army from Liaodong should all know about this. They were forced by Kong Youde to fight with my Daming navy during the Bijiashan sea battle. In the end, they were defeated. .

This Li Shoubei brought a North Korean battalion of 500 men and served our army for more than half a year, which is very heroic.The previous time when convoy transporting grain, small boats were needed to explore the waterway. Li Shoubei took his battalion to explore the way, and shot at the intercepted intruders, and the arrows fell like rain. When he finally escorted the grain fleet into the city, the whole battalion lost 200 lives and injuries. many people.

In addition, when fighting with Zhang Xianzhong before, they fought unrelentingly for several months. So far, the whole battalion has killed 400 people in total, which is close to [-]% of the whole battalion.

Yesterday, everyone also saw that the Yingchuan River in the south of the city was full of flames, several large ships of our army were sunk and burned, and many sailors were killed or injured.

This official has always been sympathetic to the soldiers. If we can finish the battle with less loss of life, we will never let the brothers fight in vain. But now that the supply road has been cut off, we have no choice!In order to defend our fathers, fellow villagers and hometown once and for all, we must thoroughly punish the intruders!Let him dare not look south from now on!
I know that many of you may feel that beating trespassers is fighting for the court and the emperor, but I want to tell you today that you are fighting for yourself!

The intruder is from Shaanxi and Yan'an Mansion, but since he left Yan'an Mansion, has he slaughtered and plundered the fellow villagers in Shaanxi?have!After he arrived in Henan, did he slaughter or loot?have!And even worse!
What Chen County, Guide, and Yancheng look like, I believe some of you know better than me!Especially the troops under the command of General Liu in Xinyang Prefecture, or those who have recently turned from the dark to the bright, you should have seen what Chuangjun did with your own eyes!
Therefore, there is no such thing as robbing the rich and helping the poor, it is nothing more than massacring a city and robbing a city, using the proceeds from the massacre and robbery of the resisting city to lure the soldiers and civilians of the city who surrendered without a fight!Otherwise, just relying on the few rich and wealthy households in Henan, is it enough to support the Chuang army if they kill them all?
When he killed and plundered the Xi'an Mansion, the Henan people did not respond, because the Henan people felt that it was none of their business!It's just by chance!Later, when the army raided Luoyang and Kaifeng mansions, we Xinyang people and even Huguang people didn't think it was a problem, because we are not from Henan!

But if the intruder becomes bolder and more courageous, next time he wants to slaughter the people of Huguang, no one will stand up and fight with us again!Bribe Qin with land, bribe thieves with money and food, the salary will not be exhausted, and the fire will not be extinguished!Only from now on, cut off the claws of the intruder!Kill his greed and ambition!We can fight for ten years of peace with one battle!
That's why I took everyone to open the grain road when it was clear that there were still two months of food in Chen County. I didn't want to wait until the day when everyone was really hungry to make a decision.Today's battle, I will personally supervise the battle, Kaesong!Set off! "

"Swear to kill the intruder! Swear to kill the intruder!"

"Da Ming must win! Shenfutai must win!"

"Whoever backs down is not a man! Brothers kill him together and look down on him!"

Tens of thousands of soldiers were finally mobilized by Shen Shuren's down-to-earth words. Before, they had only heard civil officials say some great truths in a polite manner. This is the first time they saw two Jinshi, who reached the level of governor with a civil position, and they can speak directly strategic analysis.

There is no such thing as loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. It is nothing more than telling everyone: a robber who robbed once and was not sanctioned will have the courage to rob the second and third times.

This is the simplest truth. The meaning of sanctions is not punishment, but deterrence, so that people will not dare to commit crimes again, that's all.

Of course, some insignificant details were concealed in Shen Shuren's words, but it didn't matter.

For example, he referred to Li Yu as Li Yue, and said that the other party was defeated by the Ming army after a fierce battle, so he abandoned the dark and turned to the bright.This is also to protect the other party, so that after the news leaks out, it will reach the ears of the tartars in a year and a half, and then his father and military judge Li Shibai who stayed in North Korea will be finished.

In addition, Shen Shuren specifically singled out the North Korean Bird Battalion as a typical example (of course, there are also other naval soldiers who died in battle at the same time, just take this as a typical example), which is obviously also carefully designed.

Shen Shuren knew that when fighting against the Tartars, ordinary soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could still have a bit of righteous support from Hu and Han. It's fighting for the whole world with the surname Zhu. Everyone is Han Chinese. It's a civil war, and it's not worth fighting for.

There have been many dynasties since ancient times, so why be cannon fodder?

Therefore, Shen Shuren must point out that: Li Zicheng also often massacres and loots the whole city to support other cities. The harder it gets.This is the same as regional discrimination and local protection.

Therefore, Shen Shuren must make the Huguang people feel that they are fighting today to defend their hometown, not for the emperor surnamed Zhu.And to break the hatred between regions, it is obviously the most convincing to find some people from vassal states as examples——

As a native of Huguang, if you leave the border of Huguang a little bit and come to fight in Xinyang Mansion and Kaifeng Mansion, don’t you feel that you are defending the interests of your hometown?He is a North Korean who has traveled thousands of miles to Kaifeng to fight, and he still thinks he is defending his hometown!Because they knew that if Daming was wiped out by bandits, they would be looted sooner or later!

Although these subtle psychological hints will not be brought to the table, the effect is solid. In an invisible way, the morale and cohesion of the entire army are raised higher and higher.

Even if it is backwaters, they are not afraid at all.

Fight for Jiangdong's elders, for Shen Futai's love trilogy, kindness, righteousness and benevolence, and by the way for the Emperor of Ming!

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Shen Shuren almost concentrated all his strength and mobilized a total of 5 troops from Chen County to fight.

Only a few thousand wounded and sick were left, and more young and strong peasants temporarily defended the city.

At the same time, on the periphery, there are still 1 Zhang Mingzhen water troops who will go upstream along the Yingchuan River to join Shen Shuren on this day. Huang Degong, Zhu Wenzhen, and Yuan Shizhong's 1 cavalry will also follow Zhang Mingzhen worked together, advancing both land and water.

At that time, Shen Jiajun will go from Chenxian to Yingchuan, going down the river from northwest to southeast.Zhang Mingzhen and Huang Degong went upstream from the southeast to the northwest, rushing to rush the Chuangjun's position thirty miles southeast of Chen County to block the river.At that time, the total strength of the northern and southern armies will reach more than 7 people.

From this point, it can also be seen that what Shen Shuren said in the morning obviously deceived the soldiers a little bit-he did not say "Because the food road was temporarily cut off, even if he loves soldiers and does not want everyone to take risks, he is forced to Take up arms and go out of the city for a decisive battle."

Before the grain road was cut off, he had predicted that the grain road would be broken that day. Even if Li Zicheng didn't come to stop it, he would burn the boat and act as if it was broken.Because he asked Shen Lian and Li Yu to make an appointment with Zhang Mingzhen and Huang Degong in advance.

The departure of the Ming troops from the city was really unexpected. Li Zicheng was in the siege camp in the south of the city. He was unprepared early in the morning and was rushed to the vicinity by the Ming troops, so he hurriedly tried to organize the defense. The result was of course It was directly washed away and also occupied the camp.

For Li Zicheng, fortunately, there were not many people in that camp at ordinary times. The besieging troops were scattered in all directions outside the city, and a considerable number of them were assembled to camp on both sides of the Yingchuan River in the south, which was already a few miles away from the city of Chen County. The distance of ten miles is to better cut off the water transport of the Yingchuan River.

Therefore, Shen Shuren broke through the first battalion first, but actually did not kill many people. The total number of casualties and escaped prisoners was less than three or four thousand. The biggest gain was the victory in the first battle, which made the morale of the Ming army even higher.

Chuangjun is nothing more than that!Whether we took the initiative to fight an offensive war or directly attacked the camp, we broke through the army once!The rest is nothing to fear!Even if the number of people is three or four times that of us!

After a hole was breached in the first-line siege camp, the Chuang army finally reacted, and the troops from other directions also rushed down like water, gathering at a rapid speed.

After all, it would take time for Shen Shuren to break through the first camp. This precious reaction time was used by Li Zicheng to gather troops.Otherwise, if the assembly cannot be completed, even if Li Zicheng claims to have 20 people, if he cannot rush to the battlefield at the same time and be defeated by the Ming army with a time difference, then he will not be able to exert his numerical advantage at all.

Li Zicheng's choice of the battlefield was also very prudent, and he chose directly near the position where the Yingchuan River was intercepted in the southeast of Chen County. After all, there were already many intruders there, and it was easy to gather troops from other directions.

After an hour and a half of marching, small-scale fighting, and scouts harassing each other, at about the end of the afternoon and the beginning of noon, the Ming army and the Chuang army finally arrived near the preset position acceptable to both sides, more than 20 miles south of Chen County. A section of the south bank of Yingchuan, set up a battle.

The Ming army had more than 5 troops, and they still formed a formation similar to the Queyue formation along the river. The formation alone stretched out for five or six miles.The head of the formation was already twenty miles away from the city, and the tail was only fifteen miles out of the city.

It is simply because of the large number of people, the arc of the formation is slightly smaller, and there are a large number of carts as cover. Calculated, nearly 500 soldiers can be lined up in front of each mile. Based on [-] people in the front of a mile, there can be [-] rows in front and back. depth.

Li Zicheng was also facing the enemy, he personally took Tian Jianxiu, Liu Fangliang, and even Liu Zongmin who was transferred by him a few days ago, to observe the formation of the Ming army and prepare to attack.Song Xiance also followed Li Zicheng step by step, sweating profusely.

Others in Chuangjun did not dare to underestimate Shen Shuren too much.But Liu Zongmin's department, who was just transferred from Kaifeng City, is a new force. As the number one general in the army, Liu Zongmin has never suffered from Shen Shuren's losses. After seeing it, he immediately laughed:

"This Shengou officer is very proud. How can he compare himself to Han Xin? Do you think that a single fight will make the soldiers fight to the death, and there is no way out? Let's teach him today that he is not Han Xin but Ma Su!"

After Liu Zongmin finished speaking, he was still very proud. Although he was uneducated, he had heard operas, and he knew the stories of Han Xin and Ma Su.

Didn't Ma Di also say "Put them to death and live later", so they went up to the mountain to camp, exactly the same as Han Xin's lines.

Liu Zongmin immediately called for a fight and asked Li Zicheng to allow him to charge and break through the formation first.

Li Zicheng thought for a while with a gloomy face, and nodded: "Don't underestimate Shen Gouguan, but now, the brave man wins when we meet on a narrow road. He wants to bet on our lives, so we have no reason not to bet with him.

The lion fights the rabbit with all its strength, and if it wants to rush up, it will do its best to smash the morale of the Ming army at once! "

"The last general has orders!" Liu Zongmin roared, and with a big wave of his hand, his subordinate officers waved their flags and signaled to beat drums and blow horns, and the Chuang army quickly launched an assault.

"Bang bang bang!" The Ming army leaned behind the car formation, and as the Chuang army approached, they also fired guns and bayonets on guard.

The crossbowmen and gunners on the warship behind were not at all worried that Jun Paoze would jump into the river and escape onto the boat. They changed their usual caution and moved the boat as close as possible to the shore so that they could shoot closer and kill the invaders better.

For a moment, the screams were endless, and the two sides seemed to be thrown into a grindstone of flesh and blood, and they were strangled tragically.

"Cut those who retreat! Kill the intruder!"

(End of this chapter)