Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 471 Do it Well

As soon as he finished speaking, the Wang Dehua Lakeman next to him smiled darkly, and then said to him: "Now that we are in urgent need of military rations, our family has a suggestion to the governor, why not go and steal those grain stores in Nanjing City, and levy them for military use. Pay back the food."

"..." Ma Shiying frowned immediately and said, "Isn't this bad? If I really do this, it will definitely cause panic. Ordinary people in Nanjing can't buy food, and they will suffer in the end."

After hearing this, Wang Dehua didn't take it seriously, and replied to Ma Shiying: "If Zhang Xianzhong and the bandits broke through because of the ration problem affecting the war, what do you think will happen to me?"

After saying this, seeing Ma Shiying's face change, he continued to say: "Nanjing's local affairs are naturally taken care of by local authorities. Your Excellency Governor enters Nanjing, and this traitor can't afford to lose. And if Huang Degong If we live up to our expectations, we can solve this crisis without using the military rations collected by the Governor-General. At that time, they can be returned to the grain merchants to quell the food chaos in the city. The most important thing is..."

"What is it?" Ma Shiying asked involuntarily after listening.

After Wang Dehua heard this, he didn't look at him, but looked at his fingernails, as if he was studying what was in between the nails, but he said: "You can also take this opportunity to announce that hoarding of food is strictly prohibited, and our family can do it later." Help you, if you find someone who violates the ban, you can also collect their food to make up for the loss this time."

Hearing this, Ma Shiying took a breath in his heart.For Wang Dehua, who usually smiles, he has a new understanding, he really deserves to be the master of Dongchang!

After thinking for a while, Ma Shiying finally shook his head and said: "The most important thing for me is to deal with the thieves and rectify the place. Let's forget about this extra-complicated matter!"

Wang Dehua was not annoyed when he heard this, as if the person who made the idea just now was not him at all.

However, when he and Li Ruolian walked out of the lobby, he said lightly: "When it comes to loyalty to the emperor, it depends on us!"

After hearing this, Li Ruolian just smiled and said: "The governor also has his difficulties, we can just do what we have to do, as for what he does, we don't care if it doesn't violate His Majesty's will!"

After hearing this, Wang Dehua nodded casually, as a response.

For him, there is actually no loss. It can even be said that if this matter is listened to by Datian through Li Ruolian's secret performance, it can also gain a wave of Emperor Chongzhen's favor.

Wang Dehua's remark kills two birds with one stone, can be described as cunning and cunning!

On Ma Shiying's side, in the end he only listened to half of Wang Dehua's suggestion.

He sent troops to collect grain from half of the grain stores in the city for military use.As for appeasing the local government, he left it to the local yamen and ignored it himself.

Those who can open a grain store in Nanjing must have someone behind them, and even most of the grain stores have something to do with Nanjing's nobles.

Ma Shiying's operation immediately attracted attacks. Both honored officials and Nanjing officials expressed condemnation of Ma Shiying's barbaric behavior, and they all wanted to impeach him.

If it weren't for the presence of the army, it is estimated that civil uprisings would have occurred immediately.

However, Ma Shiying didn't care about these, so he was busy dispatching troops and generals.

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Near noon, the bandits under Zhang Xianzhong left another pile of corpses and retreated, and the fighting in Liu Liangzuo's camp came to a temporary halt again.

Although it was useless, Zhang Xianzhong was quite excited.Because he was watching the battle from the rear, he found that Liu Liangzuo's firearms, whether it was the cannon or the musket, were already weak.

As an old thief who has fought for so many years, according to the intensity and time of the battle, he guessed that Liu Liangzuo's gunpowder was almost consumed.

What troubled him the most was Liu Liangzuo's superiority in firepower. Now it was all right. If it was just a hand-to-hand fight, the army had the upper hand, and Liu Liangzuo's defeat would be in the afternoon.

The development of the matter was not unexpected, making Zhang Xianzhong speak a little louder.I heard that he recruited Zhang Kewang and told him: "You have almost rested here. Next, cooperate with the infantry to attack. Remember, defeat Liu Liangzuo as soon as possible, and we will be able to break out of the encirclement sooner!"

Zhang Kewang was also observing the battle situation. He and Zhang Xianzhong expected the same, so he was confident in his heart, and immediately responded: "Father, don't worry, the child knows it well!"

"That's right, your temperament is the most like mine, work hard!" Zhang Xianzhong listened and praised him, and before he could speak, he saw a few horses galloping towards him.

Suddenly, he stopped talking.Years of battlefield intuition made him feel that Tan Ma might have something urgent to report, and it might not be good news.

Sure enough, after a while, Tanma came to his side. The leader of Tanma, without waiting for the horse to stop, immediately got off his horse and hurriedly reported to him: "Your Highness, the imperial court army is found in the next five miles. Judging from the banner, it should be Huang Degong's troops."

"What?" Zhang Xianzhong immediately jumped up when he heard it, the bloodshot eyes that had subsided a little, suddenly became full of eyes again, the eyeballs almost popped out, and he shouted sharply: "Say it again!"

In fact, he heard it clearly.The scout leader's report was loud enough.

However, he didn't want to hear the news.

At this time, Liu Liangzuo's army had not yet broken through, and Huang Degong's troops came behind, and after fighting here for so long, the morale of the army was exhausted.

Not to mention anything else, the arrival of imperial reinforcements would be devastating to his morale.

When deciding whether to fight this battle before, he had already anticipated the risks, but he thought that it was impossible for Huang Degong's reinforcements to arrive so soon.Therefore, in a desperate attempt, he wanted to take this opportunity to highlight the blockade and travel for nine days!

In the end, it turned out that he didn't expect that this time he put all his eggs in one basket and put himself in a dead end.

Didn't you agree to separate Huang Degong?Didn't you say that Huang Degong is also quite dissatisfied with Ma Shiying?

I thought those Nanjing Xungui were Ma Shiying's pig teammates, but unexpectedly, they are now his pig teammates!

Zhang Xianzhong didn't believe that those nobles from Nanjing would help Ma Shiying set this trap!If one really wanted to do this, then the Ming Dynasty would not be able to mess up like this!
But now, it's too late to think about anything.Thinking about anything else is superfluous.

What should I do now?
It was only five miles away, not far at all, and there was not enough time to take down Liu Liangzuo's barracks, and it was inevitable to be attacked by the enemy.

Once it really becomes a situation where the enemy is attacked from both sides, then the end of the entire army will be wiped out for sure.

At this time, if he could surrender, Zhang Xianzhong would definitely surrender.He has done this kind of thing more than once.

However, the key issue is that the dead emperor has already decreed not to accept his surrender.

In other words, he, Zhang Xianzhong, had no choice but to surrender.

That being the case, there is no need to choose, if you don’t want to die, you should escape first, as much as you can escape!
He has also experienced this situation!

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered that the whole army begin to assemble and prepare to leave.

Xu Yixian, the military adviser at the side, saw it, and reminded Zhang Xianzhong: "Your Highness, be careful of Liu Liangzuo leading the army to pursue and hold us back!"

When Zhang Xianzhong heard this, he turned his head and looked in the direction of Liu Liangzuo's barracks. After thinking for a while, he called Zhang Kewang and told him, "Lead the cavalry at the rear. If Liu Liangzuo leads the troops in pursuit, scare him. If you don't know the details, you will definitely shrink back!"

As for Liu Liangzuo, of course he didn't sleep all night. Ever since the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's troops arrived, he has persisted, at most he just squinted his eyes during the battle.

At this time, he was looking at the thieves outside, what kind of attack he was about to launch, when he suddenly felt something was wrong.

Based on his experience, he can naturally tell whether the bandit army outside is ready to fight or run away!

Therefore, when Liu Liangzuo saw that the thief seemed to be about to run away, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

As Zhang Xianzhong expected, his gunpowder was almost exhausted.Firearms troops, when gunpowder is available, their combat power will be strong, and without gunpowder, their combat power will immediately drop to a few levels.

Now that Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates stopped fighting the bandits, and if they were about to run away, it meant that he had persevered.

Afterwards, Liu Liangzuo's mind immediately became active again.

In the previous battles, it was just to stick to the camp, and it was his duty to keep it, so it didn't count as much military merit.

Seeing that the other general soldiers are all knighted, he is also envious!

However, the extermination of the bandits is just not the extermination of the Jianlu. If there is no great credit, it is impossible to confer a title.He is well aware of this.

Now, seeing that Zhang Xianzhong's troops were about to leave, he guessed with a high probability that Huang Degong's reinforcements were about to arrive.

Thinking of it, Liu Liangzuo immediately dispatched his troops: If you want to run, there is no way!

He was going to send troops to follow and pursue him, so that he would not let the thieves under Zhang Xianzhong's troops escape. When Huang Degong's troops arrived and the two sides attacked, they would definitely win a big victory!
However, when his generals heard his military orders, they reminded him: "Commander, could this be a trick of the thieves to lure us out of the camp?"

Upon hearing this, other generals also followed suit, feeling that there is indeed such a possibility.

After hearing this, Liu Liangzuo hesitated a little.

Let's get out of the camp, it may be a trick of the thieves, even if this possibility is not great, if it is true, without the support of the camp, and there is not much gunpowder left, it is likely to be defeated.

Don't leave the camp, in case the bandit really wants to run away, after fighting so hard, now you just watch the bandit run away?

For a while, he was a little embarrassed!

At this moment, Liu Liangzuo suddenly heard his subordinates shouting in that surprised voice.

　Ask for a monthly pass!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)