Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 262

On the city wall of Huaiqing Prefecture, green battalion recruits in twos and threes patrolled it.

"Brother Feng, when do you think the Ming army from outside the city will come over? Our rice soup is getting thinner every day, and the dishes are getting less and less."

"If the siege continues like this, maybe we will all starve to death." A young green camp recruit said to the general-looking young man beside him.

In fact, Hauge had hoarded a lot of food in Huaiqing Prefecture before. After all, Mite Qing planned to use this place as a forward base for attacking Henan and Shaanxi, so he would naturally hoard a lot of supplies here.

But no matter how much supplies there are, there will be a day when they will be exhausted if they stick to the isolated city. In particular, Hauge has captured all the young and strong in the city and trained them as green battalion soldiers, so the consumption will naturally be even greater.

"Stop talking about that." The so-called Brother Feng slapped the Green Camp recruit on the head.

The green battalion recruit covered his head and said with a mournful face, "I'll just say, there's no one else around, what's wrong."

"You also said that if someone reports to the people of Chizhou, you will die. If you don't mention you then, maybe the master and I will die."

If Zhu Cihong were here, he would recognize this young man named Brother Feng as Du Feng, a servant of Du Ruhui's family.

When he went out of the city, he gave Zhu Cihong all the large assets of Du Ruhui and other Huaiqing wealthy families outside the city, worth hundreds of thousands of silver, which left a deep impression on him.

Unexpectedly, he actually returned to Huaiqing Prefecture and became the general manager of the green battalion.

"I really don't know when this day will end." Hearing Du Feng's words, the green battalion recruit complained.

The siege is a test of people's spirit and will, especially for those who are besieged.

It's okay if there are reinforcements, but if there are no reinforcements, it will be very difficult for people.

In particular, these green battalion soldiers are ready to surrender to the Ming army in case of a battle, and they are even more afraid that the people of Mizhou will know their intentions.

"Don't worry, it won't be long before tomorrow's soldiers will kill them. At that time, none of these Tuzhou Tartars will be able to escape. They will have to spit out as much as they eat."

"If you don't want to spit it out, then pay it back with your life." Du Feng comforted the restless Green Battalion soldiers around him.

Ever since the officers and soldiers of Mizhou entered the city a few months ago, they have extorted the rich households in the city from the capital. Now that the city is under siege, they are even more unscrupulous.

If these rich households with assets and status are like this, let alone ordinary people, who face the bullying of the officers and soldiers in Mizhou every day, and their lives are not as good as those who live outside the city.

Just after Du Feng finished speaking, the beacon tower on the city wall suddenly ignited the beacon, and a green battalion soldier hurried to Du Feng's side, gasping for breath and speaking to him.

"Brother Du, General Feng has something urgent to do with you, so hurry over there."

Seeing the smoke of the gas on the beacon tower, and thinking that Feng Hai had something urgent to ask him, Du Feng knew that the time had come.

"You guys come with me." Du Feng took the green camp soldiers who were patrolling with him and immediately rushed in the direction of Feng Hai.

The Ming army outside the city must have begun to attack the city. Feng Hai must have come to him to discuss how to surrender to the Ming army in the safest and most profitable way.

Sure enough, as soon as Du Feng arrived at Feng Hai's place, the anxious Feng Hai clasped his hands and asked, "The Ming army outside the city is ready to attack the city. I don't know if they are harassing or vowing to capture Huaiqing this time." "

"General, you shouldn't ask me about this. You are the general of the Green Camp. The lives of tens of thousands of brothers are in your hands. You should make a decision at this time." Du Feng replied.

Although he was sent by Du Ruhui, he could represent the gentry and wealthy households in Huaiqing Mansion to some extent, but Feng Hai is the general, and his words are decisive.

And at this time, only if he stood up and led the crowd, the green battalion soldiers had a backbone.

Hearing Du Feng's words, Feng Hai remembered his identity. He had never fought any decent battles, and he had never experienced tens of thousands of people attacking and defending. It was natural for him to panic.

"I'm not too anxious." Feng Hai argued.

"I see that almost all the Ming army has attacked this time. It seems that they are going to capture Huaiqing City with such ferocity. But I don't know whether the Ming army will arrive first or Hauge."

Feng Hai said with a worried face that he had actually been prepared long ago, as long as the Ming army came to kill him, he would lead the green battalion soldiers to fight back.

It's just that he was afraid that if the Ming army didn't come, Hauge would press down on the army of officers and soldiers from Mizhou to kill them first, which would be difficult.

"Then we can only take a gamble. It's impossible for so many of us to be able to stop the Mite Island soldiers for a while." Du Feng said with determination.

"You mean..." Although he didn't say it, Feng Hai already guessed what Du Feng meant.

"Okay, let's do this." Soon, Feng Hai made up his mind.

Soon, the green battalion soldiers came out of the barracks and came to the south wall and the east wall.

Meanwhile, Feng Hai and Du Feng each sat in a city gate tower, blocked the road leading to the city gate with various obstacles, and moved Juma to the side facing the city, preparing to rely on these things to resist the attack sent by Hauge Manchurian officers and soldiers guarding the city.

But before that, dozens of Manchurian officers and soldiers guarding the city gate first discovered their movements.

"What are you doing!" Niu Luerzhen pointed at Du Feng with his officers and soldiers.

I saw Du Feng was surrounded by Green Battalion soldiers, there were hundreds of them, some of them confronted the Manchu officers and soldiers with Du Feng, and the other part seized the time to move obstacles and build a line of defense against the Manchu reinforcements in the city.

"My lords, don't misunderstand, we are building fortifications to prevent the Ming army from driving straight in after breaking through the city." Du Feng answered them with a smile on his face when the Manchurian officers and soldiers asked him aggressively.

Na Zeng thought that these Mite Island officers and soldiers did not relax at all when they heard Du Feng's answer.

Instead, he pointed at Du Feng angrily and cursed, "You stupid Chinese pig, move the things away for me."

Although the people of Mizhou are not good at defending the city, seeing what Du Feng and others have done, even a fool should see that they want to block the reinforcements from Mizhou in the city.

"Huh, since you want to die early, then I'll let you do it." Niu Lu'erzhen originally thought that Du Feng would obediently follow his orders, but what they didn't expect was that Du Feng snorted coldly and then drew out the sword from his waist.

Then, Du Feng waved his hand, and the surrounding Green Camp soldiers surrounded him.

"Kill them all for me, don't leave any of them."

It's not that Du Feng is cruel, it's that these Chizhou people deserve to die, not to mention that they usually like to bully Han people, just to let the Ming army outside the city unimpeded, they should all be killed.

(End of this chapter)