Lord of the House: Chapter 38 Defend the palace

Knowing that Chen Hansan had sworn to surrender to the Yan prisoners and sent troops out of the city to attack the Huaidong Army, King Yuan Hancheng of Chu sat paralyzed on a sandalwood chair and muttered to himself: "Chen Hansan is really doing this **** and robbery. !" Sitting in a daze, sitting there lifeless and motionless, as if dead, the generals such as the long history of the palace, the internal servants, and the commander of the guard camp were also at a loss for a while, and they were helpless.

Chen Hansan was really about to descend, and they were trapped in Xuzhou City, and they could not escape with their wings.

Donghu rebelled in the name of killing the people. Since the invasion of the south, officials and scholars have been treated with courtesy and courtesy, but the Yuan clan has been treated with the word "kill". It was **** and never left room.

Yanhu wants to settle down as soon as possible, stabilize his rule, and adopt a policy of attracting scholars and gentry. In the north, which has been devastated by war, it is difficult to resume production at the same time as it used to be. Large areas need to reduce taxes and recuperate. However, in order for Yanhu to maintain huge military expenditures, he must also have a group that can pull out to open up and plunder.

There is no more suitable object than the children of the clan.

In the more than two hundred years since the founding of the Yuan clan, the clan has proliferated for 12 generations, and the number of those with the surname of the Yuan clan has reached hundreds of thousands, and they are already the largest clan power in this land.

Although many children of the clan are also living in desperation, in terms of total amount, the wealth and property occupied by the children of the clan is also an extremely astonishing figure.

When Zhang Xie surrendered to Yanjing, almost all the officials and gentry were not harmed, but there were more than 50,000 people, including palace maids, eunuchs, and children of the royal family, who had become the most thorough targets of plundering since Yanhu's southern invasion.

Except for a dozen people with titles of kings who were dragged to Dongshi and executed in the name of killing the people, almost without exception, they were demoted to slaves and driven to western Liaoning to raise horses and reclaim wasteland. Over the past year or so, nearly 10,000 people who were driven to western Liaoning as slaves died of starvation, freezing, and illness.

In plundering the royal clan, Yan Hu not only obtained millions of acres of fields and large houses, but also looted tens of millions of gold, silver, pearls and jade. Yan Hu relied on these to support the huge military expenditures in the early stage.

After the Huaisi War, the palace of the king of Chu also declined, and there was no glory in the past. Even the son-in-law of the king of Chu, Ma Fu, was executed by Lin Fu.

The Chu Palace in Wangzhuang outside Xuzhou also has jurisdiction over more than 2,000 hectares of water and dry fields. There are more than 100,000 stone grains in the granary. There is not much silver in the silver kiln, only more than 100,000 taels. for non-contrast. However, there are more than 100 people in the palace, as well as servants, maids, guards and family members, which together have nearly 3,000 people. It is easy to get a million taels of gold and silver after plundering them.

Regardless of Yan Hu's consistent attitude towards the clan's children, Chen Hansan has publicly defected, how can he spare the big fat sheep of the Chu palace?

Yuan Han's heart was ashes, he opened his eyes and looked at the people around him, his face was like dead wood, and he said: "There have been many things that you don't want to see over the years, please forgive me, now the general situation is lost, you all run for your lives Go, don't be buried with me in the Chu palace..."

Chen Hansan was in control of the whole city, so the clan's children could not escape, but the guards, servants, and maids escaped, and Chen Hansan would not be so bored that he wanted the whole city to search and kill.

Yuan Hancheng was one of the few virtuous people in the clan. He also presided over the clan's mansion in his early years, and he was generous to the servants of the clan. Originally, some people had the idea of ​​escaping, but Yuan Hancheng said this, the long history, the inner guard, and the commander of the guard camp all screamed, vowing to live and die together with the Chu palace, but no one was willing to escape from the Chu palace for a while.

There are only 600 people in the guard camp of the palace, and the soldiers are bright and well-organized. After all, it hinders the majesty of the palace, but there is little training. Yuan Hancheng is also afraid that if he comes to be suspicious, he does not dare to train the guard camp strictly on weekdays. The generals of the guard camp took out the guards of honor, which could scare the common people, but Yuan Hancheng was also disheartened when he thought about fighting against Chen Hansan's tiger and wolf division.

At this moment, the front court made a loud noise, Yuan Hancheng thought it was Chen Hansan's men who broke into the door, his face was ashen and stood up, and he only hoped that Chen Hansan would cause less killings for the sake of acquaintance!

"Lord Chu! What are you doing?" Zhang Yubo held the knife in his right hand, the crimson official robe was stained with blood, the color was darker, and the smell was foul. Seeing Chu Wang Yuanhancheng and the others walking under the porch, it was a mess without any rules.

"Master Zhang, I didn't expect you to be Chen Han's third minion!" Yuan Hancheng said in frustration.

"Lord Chu, you are confused. I, Zhang Yubo, will die in vain. How can I join forces with the thief," Zhang Yubo said angrily and anxiously, "Chen Hansan, this dog thief, has publicly defected to Yan's captives, and Chen Hansan's men are about to join forces. When the attack comes in, where are the generals of the guard camp of the Chu palace, why haven't they pulled out and resisted the rebels?"

"Is it useful?" Only then did Yuan Hancheng know that Zhang Yubo did not defect with Chen Hansan, but led the crowd to join forces with the Chu palace, but he didn't think he was relying on the Chu palace and the hundreds of Zhang Yubo's men. What is there to struggle.

"As long as you rely on the palace to defend until tomorrow, you will definitely be able to kill Chen Hansan and the thief. Why does Prince Chu say such depressing words at this time!" Liu Xilin stood up and shouted loudly. Wake up! "Chen Hansan's plan to defect and surrender is so obvious, how can he believe that he will conspire with Huaidong to conspire with the Hugou? What he did before was just a plan. My family has long made a plan to defeat the enemy. Lord Chu, please cheer up. Come and see how Chen Hansan, this dog thief, will die without a burial tomorrow!"

Liu Xilin, on behalf of Huaidong, followed Zhang Yubo into Xuzhou City to communicate the plan to deceive and lure the enemy. When Liu Xilin entered Xuzhou City, there were still 300 elite soldiers. Chen Hansan could not stop Liu Xilin from bringing 300 people into the city. It seems that Liu Xilin brought 300 people into Xuzhou and couldn't do anything.

After the three hundred brave soldiers entered the city, they were stationed in the Xuzhou government office. Although Chen Hansan also sent two battalions of soldiers to be stationed nearby to monitor, but before the public mutiny, he could not really surround the government office. Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin were the first to act, and they provided an opportunity to get out of the mansion.

After Sun Zhuang led the front-wing cavalry team into Jiuli Mountain and before Chen Hansan publicly swore to defect to Yanhu, Liu Xilin and Zhang Yubo made a decisive move, leading three hundred brave soldiers and more than one hundred Ya soldiers, and rushed out, not only killing A battalion of soldiers monitored near the mansion retreated, and the soldiers and horses monitored outside the palace of the king of Chu were also defeated. Before Chen Hansan reacted and sent reinforcements to attack, he first entered the palace of the king of Chu.

On the other hand, there were mourning voices everywhere in the palace of the King of Chu.

As soon as the north-south Cao Road was cut off, the city of Xuzhou declined. During the Huaisi War, Ding Zhuang in the city was pulled up to defend the city, causing heavy casualties. After the war, the people in the city struggled to make a living. All these factors led to the number of urban households in Xuzhou. sharply reduced.

Chen Hansan had 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, so he had to set up a large house in the city as a military camp and stationed in the city. In this case, Zhang Yubo, Liu Xilin and the guard camp of the King of Chu had more than 1,000 people together. Hard to do anything.

But to say that there is a place in Xuzhou city that is still conducive to defending, it is none other than the palace of the king of Chu. There are more than a thousand soldiers defending it, and it is not impossible to defend it for two or three days.

Xuzhou is the residence of Wang Fan, and the palace complex is the most spectacular and solid in the city.

The Chu Wangfu covers an area of ​​about 100 mu and is as strong as a small fort. The outer retaining wall is based on bluestone, up to eight feet thick. It cannot be attacked by non-rushing vehicles. Above the base wall, the blue brick is the body, and it is slightly tightened in the middle. The top should be five feet thick, so that it can stand on guard and command a high position, counterattack the enemy's attached wall, and there are also Qiaolou at the four corners for archery.

In addition, the surrounding area of ​​the palace is surrounded by residential houses, and the streets are deep and narrow. Although Chen Hansan is strong in the city, he does not have enough space for him to deploy his troops. The north and south gates have more space for Chen Hansan to send troops to attack.

This situation is more conducive to relying on the palace to defend in a short time.

If Lin Fu wanted Chen Hansan to fall into the net, he had to let Zhang Yubo return to Xuzhou; to let Liu Xilin accompany him, he planned to take advantage of the favorable situation of the Chu palace in Xuzhou city to defend strictly in a short period of time, at least for Chen Hansan This creates the illusion that "this side intends to use the Chu palace to contain his troops".

Yuan Hancheng was full of fantasies that Chen Hansan could conspire with Huaidong to deceive and kill Yanlu soldiers and horses for great success. At this moment, I heard Liu Xilin say that Huaidong was deliberately using Chen Hansan's rebel design~www.mtlnovel.com~ Yuan Hancheng didn't know why Huaidong had such self-confidence, but if a drowning person saw the straw floating in the air , and it is impossible to care whether the straw can save people, and will only reach out and grab it subconsciously.

Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin looked calm, but Yuan Hancheng cheered up, laughing loudly, and said, "Okay, Lin Huaidong is good at trickery, he really deserves his reputation, let's see how the Huaidong Army will call Chen Han tomorrow. The three thieves die without a place to be buried!" He seemed to have forgotten that before that, he hated Huaidong and wanted to drink blood and eat meat.

That's how morale is. If you don't have the will to fight, even if you have thousands of troops in your hands, you'll just sit back and wait, and have no intention of resisting. Between these three words, these people seem to be able to see that Chen Hansan will meet tomorrow. The situation of being defeated and killed, cheered up like a chicken blood.

Zhang Yubo and Liu Xilin stole the first move, and they beat Chen Hansan's troops and horses who were monitoring the government and the Chu palace by surprise and rushed into the Chu palace. Fight the Chu palace.

There was not much time to explain the matter, Liu Xilin dispatched the generals to lead more than a hundred elites to block the north and south gates of the Chu Palace, in case the three troops of Chen Han would suddenly come in when they were unprepared.

After defending the two main points of the north and south gates, please invite Yuan Hancheng, the king of Chu, to convene the guards of the palace guards and guard them on the top of the protective wall to prevent Chen Hansan's troops* from attacking. In the end, all the servants and men in the palace were gathered, mixed with Zhang Yubo's yamen, and the more than 100 elites around Liu Xilin as a reserve team, ready to fill the leaks at any time.

In the end, the family members and waitresses in the palace were gathered in the courtyard in the middle of the palace. Even if the outer wall was lost, they had to be prepared to fight to the last soldier. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter