Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 148 Siege Camp
In ancient times when information was extremely underdeveloped, it was even more difficult to accurately know the number of an army.

It is not easy for Zhu Cihong to know how many there are. After all, there are many semi-independent warlords like Gao Jie, and how many troops they have in their hands can only be roughly estimated.

If you want to know an accurate figure, unless Zhu Cihong uproots Gao Jie's power from his army, and has [-]% control over the army.

Otherwise, he would never know how many people are drinking the blood of soldiers, and how many of them are ghost soldiers who only exist on paper in the ledger of the Ministry of War.

"Okay, I understand, go on." Seeing that the patrol leader was unclear, Shen Liangru didn't force him to speak.

"I heard from my brothers in the army that it is the general's troops that are attacking the city now. After fighting for a few days, Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing said that they suffered heavy casualties and did not want to fight. In my opinion, they are obviously lazy and don't want to contribute."

"Believe it or not, when the city is about to be breached, they must be faster than anyone else." The patrol captain seemed to have a lot of resentment towards Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing, and even complained in front of Shen Liangru.

"What about Master Shi Gebu?" Shen Liangru asked about Shi Kefa's situation.

After all, the highest-ranking military and political officer south of the Yellow River is Shi Kefa, a magistrate of the palace, minister of the Ministry of War, and governor of Yangzhou. His actions and performance are crucial to the war.

"Aren't you clear about this? As a supervisor, the Shi Ge Department only has one standard battalion. Although I heard that the brothers in it are very powerful, they are all good at fighting, and their morale is much higher than ours. gone."

"But I can't stand the fact that they are few. Those [-] people will go up and attack a wave of the city, and they will be useless when they come down. What's the use? Besides, if Master Shi Gebu kills even this little army, how can he suppress all the troops?" Send troops."

The patrol captain analyzed his opinions to Shen Liangru. After all, he had been in the army for a long time and had reached the position of patrol captain. Even Shen Liangru had to agree with his opinions.

"Oh, how could this be?" Shen Liangru originally thought that the city of Kaifeng would be a good situation. After all, now that the Son of Heaven is personally conscripting, it is only a hundred miles away from here. For the heavy.

Before, he thought that as long as he visited the barracks instead of Zhu Cihong, consoled the soldiers, and gave some rice and money, the soldiers would fight desperately.

But listening to what the little patrol captain said, Shen Liangru felt that it would be good for him to be able to protect himself in this chaotic relationship.

"My lord, here we are. The siege camp is ahead. After you go in, someone will take you to the general's shogunate. My status is low, I cannot enter the inner camp, and I have tasks to do, so I won't accompany you in. "

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the camp, the patrol captain said goodbye to Shen Liangru.

Because he was carrying Zhu Cihong's imperial edict, Shen Liangru did not dismount, and came all the way to Zhang Yong's shogunate.

Soon, after hearing the news of Shen Liangru's arrival, Shi Kefa also rushed over from his tent.

"Okay, since both of you are here, I can open the edict." Shen Liangru saw that his mission goal had finally arrived, so he wanted to take out the edict behind him.

When Shi Kefa and Zhang Yong heard the words of the imperial edict, they quickly knelt down on the ground and prepared to listen to Shen Liangru's lecture on the contents of the imperial edict.

"Two adults, please get up quickly. His Majesty sent me here to hand over the edict to you. You can just sit there and read it in your hands. There is no need to perform this ceremony." Shen Liangru saw the two kneeling down and asked. He stepped forward to pull them up, and then handed the edict wrapped in bright yellow satin to them.

Shi Kefa held the edict in his hand, and watched the content with Zhang Yong.

After looking at it for a while, Shi Kefa, who was still in high spirits, suddenly withered, and sat on the Eight Immortals chair and said to himself, "Why is your majesty still attacking the city?"

"The intruders in the city are so tenacious. If they continue to fight, they will probably kill everyone in the city."

Hearing what Shi Kefa was talking to himself, Shen Liangru's curiosity was aroused, so he asked him, "What's wrong? The intruders in the city are very tenacious, but their number should not be many, and I heard that they will The people pushed them onto the city walls to serve as shields and targets.”

"They are so perverse and unpopular. Coupled with the presence of the Holy Son of Heaven, I believe that the people in the city will definitely respond violently to us."

Shen Liangru was so naive that he thought without thinking that what the patrol captain told him just now was completely true.

"Master Shen has been in charge of civil affairs and doesn't understand military affairs. Although the number of intruders in Kaifeng City is small, the situation is far beyond your imagination." Shi Ke French said to Shen Liangru earnestly.

Shen Liangru is the Fujun envoy sent by Zhu Cihuang, and he will stay in the army for a long time in the future, so Shi Kefa did not hesitate to tell him the specific situation in detail.

"In Bianliang City, the false Ningling Bo, Tian Hu, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, and Lin Yi, the magistrate of the false Kaifeng Prefecture, commanded the troops. Although Tian Hu only commanded more than a thousand soldiers, all of them were brave and skilled warriors. They are all wearing iron armor or cotton armor, and they are not afraid of arrows and stones, comparable to the warriors in my standard battalion who have survived many battles."

After fighting for so many days, Shi Kefa had already figured out the situation in the city. Now the highest-ranking people in Kaifeng City were Ningling Bo, Jiedushi Tian Hu, and the prefect Lin Yi.

"How can such a small Jiedu envoy have such a strong sergeant?" Shen Liangru didn't believe Shi Kefa's words, but because of Shi Kefa's status, he didn't dare to express his doubts about Shi Kefa's words.

In fact, he didn't understand that Tian Hu's title explained everything, no matter in which regime, the level of official title might be related to various factors.

However, the level of the title is only related to your military exploits and military power. A few people are related to the relationship with the emperor, such as Zhu Cihong's cheap grandfather, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui.

But during the war period and the early years of the dynasty, at least nine of the ten who could be knighted had military exploits and military power.

For example, Yingbu and Han Xin during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, as well as princes from various places, as well as Xu Da and Chang Yuchun in the early Ming Dynasty.

Li Zicheng's Dashun regime is naturally the same. Being able to be knighted proves a person's combat effectiveness and military exploits.

"For more than ten years, although the government and army have won more victories and lost fewer defeats, they have never been able to wipe them out. Slowly, they have experienced many battles and grown up."

Although Shen Liangru's question made people feel speechless, Shi Kefa still patiently expressed some of his opinions.

(End of this chapter)