Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 474
Li Chengdong fled back to Zhangzhou in shock, and counted the troops. Most of the soldiers in the headquarters died, and he left his adopted son outside the city. He lost [-]% to [-]% of his strength at once. He really wanted to die.

Tong Yangjia and others came to see him, and saw that his head was wrapped in a white cloth, his shoulders were tied with bandages, and his face was extremely gloomy. Just when he didn't know how to comfort him, a Qing soldier ran in in a panic and said, "Duzhen, sir. The general is back."

Li Chengdong was startled when he heard the words, and then his face changed, and someone brought Li Yuanyin in.

After a while, Li Yuanyin entered the room, and everyone saw that he had no scars all over his body, and he had changed into a Han Chinese Taoist uniform. Tong Yangjia's face showed a trace of solemnity, which disappeared in a flash, and no one else noticed.

Seeing his appearance, Li Chengdong was slightly taken aback, then looked at the Qing generals in the room, suddenly grabbed a teapot at hand, smashed it on Li Yuanyin's head, the fragments flew, and the tea leaves instantly blurred Li Yuanyin's face.

Li Yuanyin hurriedly knelt down, not daring to wipe his face. The general in the room was stunned, but at this moment Li Chengdong stood up and scolded: "Nizi, how dare you betray me?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, Li Yuanyin kowtowed repeatedly, "The child was raised by his father since he was a child, how could he betray his father?"

General Li Chengdong saw that Li Yuanyin's head was bleeding. They were all snatched from the city by Li Yuanyin. I will never betray Duzhen~"

Li Chengdong squinted his eyes and glanced at Tong Yangjia from the corner of his eye. After Li Yuanyin's head was bleeding, he waved his hand after a while, "Take him down first to bandage him, and take good care of him."

After Li Chengdong finished speaking, he didn't say a word, and when Li Yuanyin was helped down by the generals of the Ministry of Li, although Tong Yangjia still wanted to see it, it made Li Chengdong feel that he didn't trust him, so he led his generals away.

After everyone left the room, Li Chengdong got up, quickly put on his coat, and went out.

After a while, he pushed the room away, and a maidservant inside was bandaging Li Yuanyin's forehead. When Li Yuanyin saw Li Chengdong enter the room, he waved the maidservant away quickly, then saluted and said, "Father!"

Li Chengdong sat down by himself, then pointed to the seat beside him, "My son will also sit, let me tell you about Wang Yankai's conditions~"

This time Li Chengdong was almost besieged and killed by Wang Yan. He gritted his teeth with hatred for Wang Yan, but he also got a lot of information from this battle. First of all, Zhang Cunren must have lost the reinforcements in the south of the Yangtze River, otherwise the Ming army would not have gotten so many War horses, as well as the armor and banners of the Eight Banners soldiers, and once the reinforcements were defeated, Zhangzhou would be dead, and he had to reconsider his situation.

Since Wang Yan had captured his adoptive son, not only did he not kill him, but he ate delicious food, took a bath, changed his clothes, and released him again. Obviously, he was showing his favor to him, so when Tong Yangjia left, He couldn't wait to know the conditions proposed by Wang Yan.

Li Yuanyin looked at Li Chengdong's expectant expression, but couldn't help sighing in his heart. Based on his understanding of Li Chengdong, he estimated that the conditions proposed by Wang Yan would definitely disappoint his father.

"Wang Xianggong ~ say ~" Li Yuanyin paused for a moment, and finally took a long breath and said: "Wang Xianggong said that if the father does not surrender, the three clans will be destroyed after breaking the city. If the father sacrifices the city, his life will be safe, but You must go to the mines in Fuzhou together with your followers and serve three years of hard labor to avoid your previous crimes."

"What? Let this town go to work as a hard labor?" After hearing this, Li Chengdong's eyes widened, he slapped his palm on the desk, stood up suddenly, and said angrily, "It's really unreasonable, Wang Yan actually looks down on me so much~Okay~ good~"

Seeing that Li Chengdong was in a hurry, Li Yuanyin said a few good words in a row. Obviously, he was extremely angry, but he also had a view on the current situation. Zhangzhou is a place of death. Compared with death, going to Fuzhou to dig mines for three years is nothing. After all, there is still a chance to make a comeback, but if they refuse to surrender, then they will really die quietly.

"Father, calm down." Li Yuanyin quickly grabbed Li Chengdong's clothes and persuaded him, "It's not worth it for thousands of brothers to be buried by the Manchus!"

Li Chengdong's anger remained undiminished, "My city is strong and full of grain, enough to hold on for half a year. He, Wang Yan, asked me to do hard labor. Why did I surrender?"

"Huh~" Li Chengdong broke free from Li Yuanyin's pull, "Since my son is back, let's take a good rest, Wang Yan used to be a subordinate of this town, yet he despises this town so much, this town wants to see how he came to attack Zhangzhou. After he has been unable to attack for a long time and has spent his troops, and has seen how powerful this town is, this town believes that he will raise conditions and negotiate with this town."

After finishing speaking, Li Chengdong walked away, leaving Li Yuanyin shouting in despair: "Father, Wang Xianggong has always kept his promises, father, think twice~"

Outside the city, after Wang Yan sent Li Yuanyin back to the city, he had been waiting for a reply from the city. As a result, the news from the city did not arrive, but the edict from Guangjing arrived at the camp first.

Wang Yan hurriedly bathed and changed his clothes, set up the incense table, and asked his servants to read out the imperial decree. Only then did he realize that it was a major change in the middle of Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong's envoy arrived in Guangjing, and Emperor Longwu urged him to return to the court as soon as possible.

After receiving the imperial edict, Wang Yan's time immediately became urgent. Since Li Yuanyin had no news, the army threw letters to persuade the city to surrender overnight. At the same time, all kinds of siege equipment prepared before were also transported to the front of the camp. Prepare to be multi-pronged.

On the second day, the Ming army was preparing to make a tentative attack, but before the soldiers left the camp, a bad news came suddenly. When the tunnel was dug under the moat, it suddenly collapsed, and the river water poured into it to form a whirlpool. More than 300 All the peasants drowned in the tunnel.

The Qing soldiers on the city wall also discovered the vortex formed by the collapse of the tunnel. Li Chengdong, who was confiscating the letter of persuasion to surrender, was in a cold sweat, and hurriedly placed a large tank near the city wall to monitor the underground movement.

Wang Yan frowned when he got the report, and Wang Shixiu on the side immediately suggested: "In order to defend the city from our army, Li Chengdong nailed sharpened moso bamboo and wooden stakes in the moat. Now that the excavation of the tunnel is blocked by the moat, The moat is also a trouble when attacking the city, it is better to drain the water of the moat first, then fill in a section, and then attack the city."

"The topography of Zhangzhou, can the water of the moat be drained?"

Wang Shixiu had carefully observed Zhangzhou's city defenses and terrain before, so he knew it well. He nodded and said: "The terrain of Bamin is high in the north and low in the south, and Zhangzhou is no exception. The moat draws water from Longxi. As long as the water intake is blocked, the moat will The water will be drained from the spout."

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