Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 296 You are not allowed to ask for leave, your vacation in Yangshi is over

Runing government office, hall.

Wu Shijun visited the city and returned to the government office. In order to thank the generals for their active cooperation these days, he specially set up a banquet and invited all the generals to eat and drink.

After drinking for three rounds, people were a little drunk and their faces were red.

Someone put up a thumbs up, praised Wu Shijun and said, "General Wu, you are the Zhang Liao of today! In the battle of Mengjiazhuang, the Ming army lost their helmets and armor, and the shit is gone. The general will be remembered in the history books!"

"That's right, without General Wu's plan, how could we drink and have fun here in peace?" Someone echoed.

Wu Shijun's face was smug, but he said modestly: "Everyone, after the Ming army outside the city retreats, it's not too late for you to flatter and praise this general. Now is not the time to take it lightly."

"Hey, General Wu is too cautious. The last general has been supervising the battle at the South Gate these days, and found that the Ming army's offensive is getting weaker and weaker, and the morale is getting lower and lower. If nothing goes wrong, the Ming army can at most persist Ten days and a half."

Wu Shijun nodded and said: "The morale of the Ming army is low, and this general can also see it. It's a pity that we have few soldiers in our hands, so we can't rush out of the city to fight. If a support soldier arrives at this time, and we come to attack from inside and outside, the Ming army will definitely be defeated. .”

The generals praised Wu Shijun one after another, saying that Wu Shijun was resourceful, and at the same time began to consider where to move the reinforcements.

"It's just that the Ming army surrounded the city tightly, and we can't send anyone out. How can we find reinforcements?"

Some people were even more pessimistic and cynical: "Don't even think about finding reinforcements. There is an army in Xiangcheng, but it is full of soldiers from the Eight Banners. The Ming army has been tossing in the Runing Mansion for so long. They must have had it long ago." So I have heard that we have come to rescue us long ago, why wait for us to ask?"

The words hit everyone's heart, and someone sighed: "Hey, after all, the Manchus still don't regard us Han people as their own..."

"Stop talking nonsense! I think you are all drunk, go back and rest." Wu Shijun interrupted everyone's discussion and broke up the banquet.

At this time, a soldier ran to the entrance of the hall and said, "General Wu, the Ming army did some tricks and threw a lot of things into the city."

"Ah, the Ming army threw things into the city, did the city gate fall?" Wu Shijun was anxious.

"No... no, there are many large Kongming lanterns flying from the sky. Ming army soldiers ride the Kongming lanterns around in the sky and throw things into the city." The soldier explained.

A general said: "I have heard people say that there is a strange and magical equipment in the Ming army, which can fly into the air. It is somewhat similar to the Kongming lantern. I think it must be this thing."

"Has our army been attacked?" Wu Shijun asked.

The soldier shook his head and said, "No, the Ming army threw down miscellaneous things, even food, and the brothers fought endlessly. After someone ate it, nothing happened."

This is strange, the enemy threw food into the city, did the sun come out from the west?
Wu Shijun knew that there was a fraud in it, so he hurriedly greeted the generals: "Go, go and have a look!"

The people left the government office and rode to the west gate, just in time to see the hot air balloon of the Ming army flying away, and many things fell from mid-air, and the soldiers started scrambling for them.

Wu Shijun opened his mouth, and someone came to grab a lot of things and held them in front of him.

Those things were wrapped in paper, some were pebbles, some were steamed buns, some were oil cakes, and some were odds and ends.

Wu Shijun was at a loss, and suddenly discovered that there were words written on these papers, and unfolded them to read, even more dumbfounded.

It turned out that there were many ways to teach the Qing soldiers to pretend to be sick and ask for leave, such as intentionally knocking their heads, intentionally suffering minor injuries, or claiming to be infected with pimple plague. It also wrote down the symptoms of pimple plague in detail and told the Qing soldiers how To hide it from Shangguan's eyes, and so on.

"What kind of tricks did the Ming army do?" a general asked.

"It's just a trick to attack the heart, it's just a trick, don't worry about it! They will throw these things down again, and they will all be confiscated, and the soldiers are not allowed to hide them privately." Wu Shijun didn't take it too seriously, issued a military order, and then returned home.

In the next few days, the Ming army stopped attacking the city and did nothing else. It just sent people to take a stroll in the air in hot air balloons every now and then, and continued to spread leaflets in the city.

At the beginning, everything was fine, Wu Shijun even laughed and said: "Ren Qi and Zhu Yujian are really useless, the two idiots think that the war is just playing tricks, and they make such a joke!"

But at this time in the city of Runing Mansion, pimple plague has not been completely eradicated, and people are infected from time to time.At the same time, the strong men who were captured everywhere in the past few days were frightened in the city. Many people thought of using illness as an excuse to escape from the battlefield. Many people in the army asked for leave.

Some things are afraid of thinking blindly, and the more you think about it, the more suspicious you feel.Wu Shijun believed that so many people who were sick and asked for leave must have been bewitched by the Ming army, and strictly ordered that no matter what the circumstances, they were not allowed to ask for leave.

This kind of one-size-fits-all management measures is very useful for those who pretend to be sick, but for those who are really sick, it is unreasonable and unreasonable, and the wounded and sick complained.

What's even more frightening is that people infected with pimple plague are under suspicion and cannot ask for leave, so they can only continue to serve in the army.As a result, the plague spread again, and the plague, which was about to subside after many months, broke out again.

The plague first spread in the army, and later the residents of the city were also infected, and even the mansions of the officials were not spared.

People kept dying in the city, and people tried every means to escape out of the city, crying in groups in front of various city gates.

By the time Wu Shijun realized that something was wrong, he was already powerless.Among other things, thousands of the [-] soldiers in the barracks fell ill, and corpses were being transported out of the camp one after another, which was horrible.

Just when Wu Shijun was struggling to deal with the outbreak of the plague, the Ming army launched a fierce attack.The artillery fire raged, shaking the sky and shaking the earth.

The Qing soldiers were in panic, and because many people were infected with the plague and could not defend the city, the originally small number of troops became more stretched and exhausted.

The artillery fire of the Ming army never stopped, fighting from day to night, and from night to dawn.The people in the city were worried about dying under the artillery fire, and at the same time they were worried about being infected with the plague. They were suffering unspeakably.

Finally, at dawn the next day, when the soldiers defending the city were exhausted, a man yelled cursingly: "If you stay in the city, you will die. Damn, you will die anyway, why don't you try to find a way to open it?" There may still be a way out of the city gate!"

As soon as this remark came out, many people were immediately incited. They seized the opportunity to seize the weapons of the guards at the west city gate, and creaked and opened the city gate.

The gate of the city was opened, and the Ming army immediately rushed in. Seeing this scene, the Qing soldiers knew that the city could not be defended, so they fled through other gates.

Wu Shijun was supervising the battle at the gate of Dongcheng. Hearing the news, he stomped his feet and sighed: "I was fooled. I accidentally capsized in the gutter!"

He was dragged by the soldiers and escaped from the east gate, and was surrounded by the Ming army.While fighting hard, he saw a Ming army general with a broken left wrist driving his horse, and laughed loudly: "Wu Shijun, you don't allow people to ask for leave and lift a stone to shoot themselves in the foot."

"Who are you?" Wu Shijun asked.

"The general's name is Ren and Qi, remember? This general announced that your vacation in Yangshi is over, and it's time to see Lord Yan! If you are not convinced, you can tell Lord Yan that I killed you with a trick. you!"

(End of this chapter)