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Chapter 283 Zuo Liangyu is ill, Hou Fangyu offers advice

Gao Mingheng sneered, "When the intruders retreat, you can take part if you want."

Ling didn't say anything more and sat down at the bottom.

Gao Mingheng immediately looked at the prefect Wu Shidao and the county magistrate Wang Xie and said, "To defend the city, we need to ensure food and grass first - how much food is stored in the city now?"

Wu Shi said: "The total amount of grain stored in the official warehouses and free warehouses is about 30 shi."

Gao Mingheng frowned even more tightly, "Only 30 dan? Too little. The grain merchants and large households in the city should still have a lot of grain. They need to find ways to collect grain and let the government control the rationing."

Kaifeng City usually has about 40 people, but when the intruders came, many people fled into the city, so now there are about 50 people in the city.

Chen Yongfu had the largest number of soldiers in the camp, with more than 8000 people; his Fubiao army had more than 3000 people; Su Zhuang made a road sign, with 3000 people; after the First World War in Zhuxian Town, Hu Dawei led The remnants of the army fled, numbering between [-] and [-].

Then there were the three thousand rural soldiers compiled and trained by Wu Shidao, and Wang Xie selected strong people from Kaifeng citizens who dared to fight and trained them as social soldiers.

Wang Xie currently organizes five main branches and 84 branches, with a total of 4000 and [-] people.

Based on this calculation, there are currently about [-] serious soldiers and horses in Kaifeng City.

To defend the city, the food rations of these soldiers must be ensured first. Otherwise, if there is a mutiny, no matter how tall and strong the city is, it will be difficult to defend it - Luoyang was lost because of the mutiny of some of the defenders.

At this time, Zhu Gongzhen, who was behind the screen, said: "I can provide 10 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver to defend the city."

Gao Mingheng immediately raised his hands towards the screen and said, "The king really understands the righteousness."

The official Huang Shu said: "The King of Zhou took the lead in donating money and grain to defend the city, and the rich households in Kaifeng City should do the same. Please mobilize the rich households in the city to donate grain and money!"

Gao Mingheng nodded, "Okay, Huang Tuiguan will be responsible for this matter."

"No!" Ling stood up again and objected, "Huang Shu is a greedy and immoral person. If he doesn't let this happen, he will take the opportunity to prey on the people!"

Huang Shu thought he would get a good opportunity to make a fortune, and he was very happy. Hearing these words, the Three Corpse Gods couldn't help but jump with anger, and shouted loudly: "Spewing at others! How can I be so greedy and immoral?!"

Ling said: "There are many people in Kaifeng Mansion talking about this matter. Is it false?"

"you···"

Seeing that the two were about to continue arguing, Gao Mingheng said impatiently: "Okay! Since Ling Xunjian is not at ease with Huang Tuiguan, he will supervise this matter as his deputy. How about it?"

Ling immediately cupped his hands and said: "I will accept your order!"

Gao Mingheng thought for a while and said: "Kaifeng City is too big. The existing soldiers and horses can defend the city for a short period of time, but over time there will be a shortage of people to rotate. Wangzhi County, can the recruitment of social soldiers be expanded? How many people can be recruited at most?"

Wang Xie said: "There are 84 villages in Kaifeng City, and now there are only fifty social soldiers in each farm. If we want to expand our recruitment, one farm can recruit up to two hundred soldiers."

Gao Mingheng nodded, "Then we will recruit another two hundred soldiers from each village, and they can be organized into a reserve team and trained first, so that the generals who defend the city can recruit them at any time."

The social soldiers do not need to be paid full pay, and at most they are given some food subsidies, so Gao Mingheng hopes to recruit more social soldiers.

Recruiting an additional 200 people per workshop is equivalent to increasing the number of social soldiers to 1000.

Later, Gao Mingheng discussed with everyone and decided on some other issues regarding city defense.

Finally, he looked around at the crowd and said, "If you have any other ideas, please feel free to tell me."

Liang Bing, the chief envoy from the left, said: "If the city is not defended, even if we can work together to keep the intruders out of the city, it is not an option to continue to defend it.

The most important thing is to ask for help from outside and ask the imperial court to send troops as soon as possible to drive the intruders out of Kaifeng Mansion and relieve us and others from our difficulties. "

Gao Mingheng sighed after hearing this, "How could I not know that I need to call for reinforcements? But where can the court still have troops available now?"

Liang Bingdao: "Last year, didn't the Holy One appoint Sun Chuanting as the governor of the three sides? The Qin army came quickly to fight, and Sun Chuanting had many victories in suppressing the bandits before. The court should urge Sun Chuanting to leave Tongguan as soon as possible to suppress the bandits."

Gao Mingheng nodded, "We can only place our hope on Sun Chuanting."

Although Kaifeng City was besieged, it was still possible to send a few people to break out and ask for help from the imperial court.

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Nanjing.

Zuo Liangyu was discussing matters with his generals in the military camp.

When talking about the military situation in the past few days, everyone looked worried.

Lieutenant General Lu Guangzu said: "Uncle, the bandits captured Liyang yesterday, and today they attack Yixing. I am afraid they will take over the entire Changzhou Prefecture and make dumplings out of us."

Lieutenant General Li Guoying also said, "If we evacuate Nanjing now, we can still take the Grand Canal from Zhenjiang to Hangzhou. If we delay for a few more days, I'm afraid we will have to go out by sea from the Yangtze River."

Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Chang Deng, Wu Xueli and others also spoke.

"It will be too late if we don't withdraw!" "Please make a decision soon!"

"We are indeed no match for the thieves."

"···"

Zuo Liangyu really wanted to defend Nanjing this time, but he did not expect that all the generals under his command were afraid of being beaten by the Yi army, or it may be that bullying the weak and fearing the strong had become a habit, and they did not dare to fight against the Yi army with the strong city of Nanjing to rely on.

He frowned tightly, glanced at the generals, and asked, "If we escape to Hangzhou, won't the bandits stop coming?"

Wu Xueli said with a shy face: "If we can't hold Hangzhou, we can retreat to Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi or even Yunnan."

"Don't the thieves know how to attack Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan?"

Wu Xueli said bravely: "Even if the thieves are defeated, it will take time. Besides, the general situation of the world is changing, and the thieves may not be able to reach Yunnan..."

The more he spoke, the lower his voice became.

But he also knew in his heart that escaping all the way was just a matter of lingering.

"Ahem," Zuo Liangyu coughed a few more times and said solemnly: "I know you are afraid of fighting the bandits, but this time is different from the one in Xinye. We have the strong city of Nanjing to rely on, and we have plenty of money and food. In addition, there are 10,000+ friendly troops to help.

As long as we work together, we can definitely make the thieves return without success.After this battle, I will ask the imperial court for merits from you all, and I may not say that any of you can be knighted. "

After hearing these words, the generals who wanted to evacuate from Nanjing knew that it was difficult to persuade Zuo Liangyu now.

So everyone said "yes".

As for leading the army to escape alone, no one has the ability at the moment - if you want to do this, not only must you have enough soldiers and horses, but you must also have certain connections in the court or at the local level.

After the generals left, Zuo Liangyu immediately coughed violently.

After he finished coughing, he took the handkerchief away from his mouth and saw that there was blood in it.

Why did he not want to escape again when he arrived in Nanjing?

Of course it's not a sense of honor that's causing the problem, it's just that my body doesn't allow it.

He was suffering from tuberculosis, and according to the doctor, if he could rest in one place, he could live a few more years.But if you march for months and months, or even run away all the way, wandering around, you may not survive more than a year!
Therefore, even if he does not care about the interests of the family and the country, even if it is only for himself, he must stay in Nanjing.

"Report-"

There was a sudden call from a messenger, which made Zuo Liangyu's heart skip a beat.

Because in the past few days, whenever there is a battle report, it is not good news.Either the city is lost here, or the land is lost there.

Sure enough, when the servant sent the battle report in, Zuo Liangyu saw that it was Jiangpu County across the river that was missing.

Sighing, Zuo Liangyu said: "Forward the battle report to the Ministry of War."

"Yes."

The day after he forced his way into the Yamen of the Ministry of War, Shi Kefa seemed to have figured it out, and jointly decided with Zhao Zhilong and Han Zanzhou to order him to supervise the military affairs of the Nanjing armies.

It was also for this reason that he decided to stay in Nanjing.

If he was unable to command the numerous soldiers and horses in Nanjing, he would run away even if his body couldn't bear it.

After a while, another servant came in and reported: "Uncle, Hou Fangyu, the son of Governor Hou, wants to see you."

Hou Fangyu?
Zuo Liangyu was confused, wondering why this young man wanted to see him.

"Bring him here."

"Yes."

The servant left and soon brought Hou Fangyu to Zuo Liangyu's tent.

Hou Fangyu was a very talented person, with the temperament of a noble son and a bookish air. Zuo Liangyu seemed to have seen Hou Xun in his youth, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Hou Fangyu has met Ning Nanbo!"

Zuo Liangyu came to his senses and asked, "What's the matter with Mr. Hou?"

Hou Fangyu straightened up, with a confident smile on his face, and said, "I have a plan that may defeat the thief."

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)