"The officers and men of the battalions took turns to go up to the city to defend as I commanded; How many horses are still in the city, all the horses are transferred out, and the cavalry is set up to garrison the four cities, and one is saved, and immediately the flying horses are sent to the command of the envoys, and the officials will divide the troops to rescue; Rolling wood and stones, distributed in four cities, every hundred steps under the city wall, bury a large urn, listen to the movements of the Yan army, in case the Yan army rats steal the hole" Governor Shengyong promulgated the decrees one by one in an orderly manner, and the generals from all walks of life took orders one after another.
On the streets of Jinan, Tie Xuan led a team of political envoys from the Yamen to inspect, looking at the situation in the city, and also giving orders: "Check the grain storage in the city, set up porridge sheds in the four cities, and give relief to refugees; Ask the squires of the house to preside over and call on large households to donate grain to help the people; The weather is about to get hot, and if you are not careful, so many people will have a plague, so you should set up a refugee resettlement place in an open and spacious place, and requisition the city's medicine dealers, pharmacies, and Langzhong, and prepare the medicinal soup to prevent the plague and distribute it to the people."
Tie Xuan stood still at an intersection and looked at the alleys, which were occupied by refugees as their temporary residence, and if they wanted to go over, they couldn't even put their feet in, Tie Xuan frowned and ordered: "Mobilize people to clear the streets." ” A servant beside him said with a bitter face: "Lord Counselor, so many people poured in into the city at once, and we can't take care of our manpower at all." ” Tie Xuan thought for a while and said: "I will send the political envoy Si Yamen to come forward, recruit young and strong people from the people who have fled into the city, establish a street patrol team, and maintain law and order in Jinan Prefecture, so as to prevent someone from taking advantage of the fire to rob and run rampant.
Then recruit some people from among the refugees, set up sweeping teams, and clear the streets, and make sure that the main streets are not occupied by the people as dwellings, otherwise the mobilization of troops and horses, and the transportation of ordnance will become a problem. ” "Yes" Tie Xuan looked up at the sky and sighed, "Fortunately, it's already in May, otherwise these people would have frozen to death on the streets."
He thought for a while, and said: "However, when the weather is hot, there is also the problem of heating up, so many people, and they are sleeping on the streets, they will not be so rude-by, littering, excreting everywhere, it is inevitable, so if it goes on, within three days, Jinan City will stink, and the cleaning team will be responsible for this matter." ” "Yes" Tie Xuan inspected the city of Jinan for a long time, his officials have counted the number of grain stocks in the city and reported it, relative to Dezhou, Jinan is the rear, a large number of military food has been transported to Dezhou, and the Texas garrison is hundreds of thousands, actually broke the city overnight, millions of loads of military food, are occupied by the Yan army, Jinan City has gone through a winter, has just entered the spring and summer, this autumn's grain is not ripe, the grain in the city is extremely limited, fortunately Tie Xuan escorted to Texas The hundreds of carts of grain and rice were brought back by him, and the treasury was slightly fuller, but once the Yan King refused to retreat, but to besiege the city, these grains, at most for a month and a half.
As soon as he heard the news, Tie Xuan became nervous, and hurriedly rushed to report the news to Sheng Yong, who also looked heavy when he heard it, and said after a long time: "Since the king of Yan started his army, he has rarely attacked the fortifications, he has fought Datong, and he is also a dip away, according to the governor's opinion, he may attack my Jinan, but if he can't attack it, it may not be a long-term stalemate, and besides, the court will always send troops to break the siege." ” Although what Sheng Yong said was not inappropriate, he was now the supreme military leader in the city, and if he wanted to defend Jinan, he would either hope for reinforcements from the imperial court or on King Yan to take the initiative to withdraw his troops, which was a bit discouraged.
If you talk about defending the city and transferring troops, Tie Xuan is a civilian official, far inferior to him, but after all, Tie Xuan has been a judicial officer in the army for a while, and he has a bit of a taste of political work cadres, but he knows how serious the consequences will be if the commander of the army himself cannot strengthen his confidence.
Seeing that Sheng Yong was a little unconfident, he couldn't help but say in a loud voice: "Sheng Dudu, why bother to grow the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige."
Defend a city, defend the world, fight millions of soldiers, cover the Jianghuai, and frustrate its momentum.
The immortality of the world, whose merits are also Tie Xuan, is willing to work with the general, follow the example of Zhang Xun of the Tang Dynasty, and die with the city to repay the country" In fact, it is no wonder that Sheng Yong has these concerns, Geng Bingwen, Wu Jie, Guo Jie, Li Jinglong, all of them are officials with much higher military positions than him, and they have more soldiers and horses than him, but they are all defeated at the hands of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, of course, he has little confidence in himself, but seeing that Tie Xuan, a civil official of the political envoy, can speak such heroic language, he can't help but feel ashamed in his heart, and he hurriedly said solemnly: "What Lord Tie said is that no matter how strong the enemy is or how weak the enemy is, we should defend Jinan to the death to repay the country."
Tie Xuan said happily: "There are so many words from the governor of Shengdu, my Jinan civil and military are of one heart and one mind, and it is difficult for Yan to bargain."
Tie Xuan is willing to make a bloody alliance with the general, people are in the city, people are dead in the city."
Sheng Yong just hadn't taken on such a heavy responsibility before, so he was apprehensive, and was provoked by Tie Xuan's words, and his arrogance surged up, and he immediately asked someone to bring a big bowl, filled it with spirits, and the two of them made an alliance with blood and swore to defend Jinan together.
To say that this Sheng Yong, who was born in the army, has led soldiers and horses for a long time, and dispatched troops to command the city defense, he is indeed outstanding.
Defending Jinan in history, in fact, the biggest role is him, later generations are too exaggerated Tie Xuan's ability and role, Tie Xuan was only a political envoy to participate in politics at that time, how can it not be his turn to preside over the defense of Jinan, not to mention the use of troops to defend the city These aspects are not a layman who can be proficient.
In history, the main general who defended Jinan was actually Sheng Yong, who held Jinan for three months, forcing Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to withdraw from the army, Sheng Yong's merit was the first, but Tie Xuan made a plan, and the credit was also great, especially he had two ideas, one was to hang the god card, and the other was to deceive the plan, which was very shining and quite talked about by future generations.
His greatest merit lies in the logistical support and motivation, and he plays a role similar to that of a political commissar.
However, defending Jinan for a few months, mainly relying on regular battles, commanding, dispatching, and deploying city defense, this is Sheng Yong's business.
However, the Battle of Jingyan lasted for four years, and Sheng Yong was later defeated and surrendered, which became a stain on him and did not conform to Confucian values, so his previous merits were also wiped out, and it was propagated for hundreds of years, as if all the officials who guarded Jinan were puppets at the beginning, and only Tie Xuan participated in politics and presided over the defense of Jinan.
The city of Jinan was overcrowded, full of fleeing civilians and groups of officers and soldiers hurrying back and forth.
Xia Xun was caught in the crowd of refugees and walked slowly on the streets of Jinan.
The city gate had been closed, and at that time, Sheng Yong, Tie Xuan, and Gao Wei were standing at the head of the city, and seeing that the Yan army was about to rush into the city behind the fleeing people, they had no choice but to make a decision and give the order to release arrows.
A dense rain of arrows went down, killing the fleeing people and the Yan army who were charging forward, and then forcibly closed the city gate.
The people who were blocked out had to flee to other states and counties.
Li Jinglong, defeated again.
He hurriedly mobilized more than 100,000 troops to stop on the spot, and wanted to set up several formations in a dense formation to meet the Yan cavalry, but the more than 100,000 troops had just run here, and in a hurry, they didn't have time to form several formations, but faintly formed a goose marching array, and the Yan army's iron cavalry arrived.
This is Duoyan Sanwei, led by Zhu Gaoxu, the second son of King Yan, and Qiu Fu, the commander of the forward battalion, although they are only three or four thousand people, but they take advantage of the opportunity of the confusion of the opponent's formation to forcibly break into the enemy formation, with the advantage of the cavalry as fast as flying, Yuer rushed to the east, Yuer hit the west, and suddenly all the way straight to the middle army, without waiting for you to react, and then obliquely hit the right road, and suddenly the cavalry was divided into two roads, cutting the two wings.
Li Jinglong is a man who has no ability to dispatch troops, and with an army of more than 100,000 troops, it is like driving a large flock of sheep to be slaughtered by a few ferocious wolves.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Jinglong's newly surging ambition immediately came to naught, and he immediately took out one of the most frequently used general orders when he personally commanded operations: "Withdraw" Li Jinglong retreated south, looking at this, he did not plan to come back, and this time he had to cross the Yellow River and flee back to Nanjing City.
Xia Xun was locked up in the city.
He chased the carriage that seemed to be carrying Xie Yufei all the way, because everyone was crowding forward, and the cars and horses that kept rushing up squeezed him more and more out, Xia Xun was in a hurry, so he simply jumped off the war horse, squeezed between a car, cattle and sheep, and pedestrians, and moved closer to the cart.
By the time he was about to catch up with the cart, the Ming army, under the command of the pig-like commander Li Jinglong, was already in a state of collapse.
Li Jinglong, who was in a hurry in the battle and was in a hurry, went to his death, and the army dispersed in a hurry, each running to the east and west, and the Yan army iron cavalry, which had risen up, under the leadership of Zhu Gaoxu and Qiu Fu, rushed directly to the city gate, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to occupy the city gate.
On the tower of the city, Sheng Yong, Tie Xuan and other civil and military officials saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the city to be closed, but the people flocked into the city, how could the city gate be closed, and in desperation, the arrows were like pouring heavy rain, and the dead and wounded pillows in front of the city gate flowed like a river, and the city gate was closed.
Xia Xun was under the city at the time, and as soon as the arrows rained down at the head of the city, Xia Xun knew that something was wrong, and immediately got under the bottom of an ox cart in front of him, and quickly crawled forward in the sound of a piece of frightened tuk tuk arrows shooting into the car board, and as a result, he rushed into the city at the last moment when the city gate was closed.
After all, war is war, either you die or I live, it is not child's play, and you must not be merciful.
Xia Xun, who escaped from the hands of death, still has palpitations when he thinks of Fang Cai's thrill.
When he came to his senses, he found that the carriage was gone, and the city was full of people in a mess, and God knows where the cart had gone, and the only thing that was certain was that the carriage must have entered the city.
In that car, thank you, how did she get here, such a chaotic place, she has a daughter's house, young and beautiful, in case Xia Xun felt a chill in her heart first, and then woke up Xie Yufei Now that Xie Yufei has arrived, Peng Ziqi must also be by her side, so she feels a little relieved.
But at present, there are more than one million people in Jinan City, and trying to find someone is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, Xia Xun can only search along the long street To be continued: