Empty City
Chapter 876:Empty City
“At the end of the day, you will see your majesty, long live my emperor!”Li You led the army into the territory of the Guanning Army, it felt that something was wrong, the soldiers and horses everywhere they went to are some old and weak, the core generals of the Guanning Army and the civilian personnel stationed here have disappeared, until they entered Ningyuan City, only a few low-status guests will come out to meet Li You, Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dahou and others are all missing.
“Get up, what’s going on?”Li You called the guests to the side and asked, and his soldiers and horses, led by Lu Xiangsheng and others, quickly took over the city defense of Ningyuan City.
"At the end of the day, your majesty will hear that the Nannu chief Hongtai once again led the army south, and the lord and the chief of the grandfather said that his majesty had urged them to meet the enemy in the north, and now it was a good time to fight against the slaves, so they led all the soldiers and horses under him to fight against the slaves, leaving only the last time to wait for the town to guard the city."They answered tremblingly.
Zu Dashou this excuse to find ah, I let them go north to fight against the slaves, they have not gone out to play, but I waited until I led the soldiers and horses to Liaodong when the war, if there is no problem, it is impossible, Li You successively asked such questions as Zu Dashou and other people, the emperor Taiji led the military and horses, etc.
“Sad, at the end of the day, all the warehouses in the city will be searched, and the grain and grass, the firewood, the armour, the gunpowder, etc. have all been emptied.”Only then did the man withdraw, and Lu Xiangsheng brought back the bad news, "Only when the defenders in the city saw that they would come to ask for grain and grass, but now the grain and grass brought by the army were only enough for us, for fear that they could not be supported."
Is it a hard time to play this hand, do you want to force me to automatically withdraw after the grain and grass are exhausted?If the surrounding several cities are stationed in the elderly and sick, but the number is a lot, if the Beijing camp grain is divided to them to enjoy, I am afraid it will not take long to exhaust, and even if the re-allocation of grain and grass from Beijing, there must be those court officials to obstruct, will not arrive on time, Zu Da Shou and others are a problem for Li You.
“The immediate statistics on the number of people in the surrounding cities, managed according to the accommodation, strictly checking the spies of the construction of slaves, and then daily rations according to the population, do not give local officials the opportunity of corruption.”But these are the people of Daming, and Li You absolutely can't prove that they are just to see them starve to death, but they will never release food without scruples.
"Also send a letter to Beijing and China, so that they can quickly bring the next batch of grain and grass."No matter how the civilian officials in the rear drag their feet, what should be done is always done, if you can get the best food as scheduled, if you can wait to go back to them and then calculate the account, then there will be a group of court officials to the ecludable prison guests.
“The end of the command!”Lu Xiang hesitated, but still did not speak out, because he could not do anything to make these people starve to death, only to ensure that the food can really be put into the hands of the people who need it.
"Send someone else to investigate the whereabouts of the Guan Ning army and the construction of slaves, I can't believe it, and more than 100,000 horses can disappear without a trace?"Liaodong is a cold place, if there is no city to keep warm, these people can not live in the wild for too long, so compared to them is not too far away from Ningyuan City.
“Yes!”Lu Xiangsheng was also so judgmental, he immediately went down to the command to arrange, and not often, a group of fine cavalry, led by a local guide, in addition to the city gate, spread out to all sides, and searched the enemy's movements in different directions.
And Li You stay in the city to carefully check the surrounding terrain, this Ningyuan city is located in the defense of the key to the construction of slavery, the city's defense common materials are also solid, and the previous stay in several cities are very different, presumably the construction of slaves will not come to hard to kill, then their plan is certainly to use the problem of grain and grass to force themselves out of the city decisive battle, and then their own soldiers and horses into their favorable terrain, and then before the decisive battle.
This is indeed a good way, the field of the construction of slavery is still quite good, and familiar with the climate, geographical environment of Liaodong, coupled with the help of the Guanning army, the situation and the original compliance war is much more favorable, look at the red cannon that should be placed in the head of Ningyuan City are all gone, perhaps they have been placed in the right place, ready to be used to deal with the Song army artillery, it seems that if the city will be led by the battle.
But everything is good and bad, leaving the city wall to resist the cold wind, Guan Ningjun can persist in the field for how long?And in this entry in the entry there is not much harvest, to give them the supply of grain and grass ordnance of the Jinshang group and Li Yu uprooted, the construction of slaves now how much food for the army to use?
At present, both sides have reasons to fight as soon as possible, but they are not willing to act in accordance with each other's rhythm, and the suzi and Guanning Army want to force Li You out of the city as soon as possible and enter their own ambush; while Li You wants to wait for a while, continue to consume the grain and grass of the slaves, and wait until they are tired.
"Wang, there is not much grain in the army now, and the emperor of the great Ming is staying in Ningyuan City and refusing to send troops, and if we wait any longer, we are afraid that we will cut off food!"Yueto played to the Emperor.
"Don't worry about this, they are more anxious than us, they have food, send someone to ask them for some, just say to the ancestral birthday, if they don't give, we will withdraw the army back to Shenyang."The emperor tai chi now took the thought of his ancestral life to death, knowing that they did not dare to give up this only life in any case, so he simply dragged the hope of food supply to the ancestors.
In any case, forgive them dare not give it, take out these grain they will save the hope of continuing to live, if this battle wins, they can still occupy Liaodong, enjoy millions of Liaodong; if the emperor Tai Chi left, they will face Li You alone in the anger of Li You, not only themselves, I am afraid that even their families will be uprooted by Li You.
In desperation, Zu Dashou and others had to agree to the emperor's request, a car of food from the Guanning army camp out, sent to the military camp of the construction of slaves, the two dead enemies who have been fighting each other for many years are even more closely related than the friendly army at this moment, if not seen with their own eyes, I am afraid who will not believe this scene?
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