Chang Yu's mind would naturally not doubt Bai Wang just because he sent him a baby, and it would be better to use Wu Sangui's plan to make him retreat ten miles to test the truth.
Then people were sent to the rebel camp to report, and soon Bai Wang came with the news: This request was not what was previously discussed, not to mention that he had already fulfilled his promise and took his son as a hostage. The officers and soldiers should not temporarily increase the pressure and go back on their word. Secondly, if they retreat ten miles If the officers and soldiers turned against him and attacked him, he would be unable to resist. If he wanted to make him withdraw ten miles, the officers and soldiers must show some sincerity.
These words sounded like the officers and soldiers were being unreliable, which made Chang Yu and the others feel slightly embarrassed, but it didn't take long for them to decide whether it was a fake surrender or a real surrender.
However, Chang Yu didn't want to waste his energy on this matter. As Ma Ke said, he should be prepared for war and be able to calmly accept the move.
At the moment, he had something important to do. He went to the Tianjing Lake military camp outside the city to express condolences to the Nanjing soldiers. Chang Yanling went to the military camp to have someone send a message to Chang Yu. After several days of running around and the heavy rain just now, morale was extremely low and complaints spread everywhere. , I hope Chang Yu will go over to boost morale.
Chang Yu went, of course, not alone, but with the Dongchang Third Battalion and Wu Sangui's thousands of Guanning cavalry. The purpose was the most obvious. If morale was low, he could offer some favors and say some good words to encourage him, but he could complain. You have to be on guard when the situation arises. You can just say a few words of complaint. If you have other ideas, think about it after seeing the momentum of these thousands of cavalry.
When Chang Yu was rewarding the troops at the military camp in the north of the city, Wang Yi'en slowly put down his telescope on the hilltop ten miles south of the city and turned to look at Bai Wang lying in the shade of a tree next to him: "Commander, that castrated dog may not even believe that we will surrender. ?”
Bai Wang narrowed his eyes: "How can you see that? His scouting horse is already several miles away from our position. Isn't this a release of goodwill?"
"There are still people and officers and soldiers outside the city who are logging and building cars." Wang Yi'en snorted. Bai Wang stood up and held up his telescope to look at the slow defense line for a while, with a sneer on his face: "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, we will reinforce tonight." Must come, just need to relax for two days...hehe."
"But the commander-in-chief is not worried about the safety of the young master? In fact, why do you really need to send the young master to find a similar excuse?" Wang Yi'en looked sad, and Bai Wang's face turned livid, and he shook his head slowly: " That eunuch is very easy to be deceived, not to mention that both Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao have seen Xingfeng, how can they not distinguish the true from the false?" He said with a long sigh: "Since ancient times, heroes only have great careers, so why should they be afraid of leaving a small family? I think I am not willing to lag behind! And the eunuch may not be able to make things difficult for him."
Wang Yi'en couldn't help but tremble in his heart. People say that a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds, but Bai Wang actually has such a heart of stone! But he said: "The eunuch is a cruel person, and this gelding is the leader of the eunuchs, and he kills people like crazy. I'm afraid..."
"Then Mr. Bai will chop the eunuch into pieces to avenge Xing Feng!" Bai Wang gritted his teeth and said fiercely as he looked at Tongling City in the distance.
Seeing that the topic was a bit heavy, Wang Yi'en added: "Our reinforcements will arrive today and we need people and cannons. In addition, the steep mountain road will definitely prevent the officers and soldiers from going south..." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Bai Wang, who frowned and said: "To this day, you are still only in the stage of blocking the enemy?"
Uh... Wang Yien was startled and said quickly: "First block the enemy, then defeat it, and then besiege the city... surround Wei and rescue Zhao." Wang Yien chuckled, and Bai Wang snorted: "There is nothing we can do if the officers and soldiers stationed on this dangerous road, but if you want to It takes some effort to defeat the enemy."
"Didn't the commander have thought of this idea a long time ago?" Wang Yi'en said with a smile: "This guy is preparing to not miss the commander's plan."
Bai Wang hummed, stood up and looked towards Tongling City in the distance: "The officers and soldiers relied on their thousands of cavalry, and what they used was the Jin people's kidnapping horse tactics..."
"What is a kidnapping horse?" Wang Yi'en was startled. At this time, Yuan Sanzhong climbed up from the mountain to catch the question: "It is a cavalry tactic used by the Jin people in the Song Dynasty. The center is infantry, and the two wings are cavalry who can maneuver at any time to flank or outflank. The cavalry was fully utilized and the Song people were beaten so hard that they were unable to fight back. After that, the Mongols followed this tactic and swept across the world..."
Sweeping the world? Hehe, in the end, hehehe... Wang Yien sneered, no matter what kind of horse he was, the commander had a way to deal with it, and turned him into a lame horse! Without the cavalry, what can the officers and soldiers do? It depends on how many people there are, and there are a lot of us!
"No." Bai Wang stared at Tongling City in the distance and sneered: "The narrow terrain in the south of the city is not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations. If they are defeated again, the officers and soldiers will have nothing to rely on and can only retreat to the city. At that time, it will be up to us. The means!"
It was already evening when Chang Yu returned to the city from the Tianjing Lake Military Camp in the north of the city to appease the soldiers. Because the weather was really hot, he took a cold shower and then sat on a stone bench in the yard to enjoy the coolness. He asked someone to call Bai Wang's son Bai Xingfeng to him: "Did you know Why are you here?"
"My father has an appointment with the court, and I am a hostage." Bai Xingfeng did not know that this young man who looked kind and polite years ago was the eunuch of Dongchang who frightened the government and the public.
"Do you know who your father is?" Chang Yu cut the watermelon and handed it to him. Bai Xingfeng reached out to take it but didn't eat it in a hurry: "My father is a great hero and the leader of the rebel army..." Chang Yu smiled: "You My father is at odds with the imperial court. If he is a great hero, then what is the imperial court?"
Bai Xingfeng was startled and blurted out: "The imperial court must be bad after all!"
"Do you, a child with a yellow tongue, know that you will be beheaded if you say this?" Li Muxian next to him glared at Bai Xingfeng, but the child was not afraid: "Many people in the rebel army die at the hands of officers and soldiers every year. One more of me is not much. , one less is more!”
"Hey, I'm a hero. Your father, Governor Bai Wang, won't comment on it, but you are a great kid. You will definitely be a figure in the future." Chang Yu admired Bai Xingfeng very much. A child of seven or eight years old has such a Courage is indeed rare: "Don't worry, play here, no matter what happens to me and your father, I will not kill you."
"Master An, I don't know that this is a life-saving technique that Bai Wang taught him." Li Muchian sneered. Chang Yu disagreed: "Even if it was taught by Bai Wang, there are few ordinary people who can be as calm and composed as him at a young age." .
"That's true." Li Muxian hummed. Bai Xingfeng took a bite of watermelon and looked at Chang Yu: "They call you Lord Governor. What kind of official are you? I don't think you are a bad person."
Chang Yu smiled, stood up and touched Bai Xingfeng's head: "The most unlikeable one is probably the worst one. If the governor captures and kills your father in the future, I hope you can still say that."
With a snap, the watermelon in Bai Xingfeng's hand fell to the ground, and he stared at Chang Yu blankly... "If you really kill my father, I will kill you to avenge him!"
"Aspirational." Chang Yu bent down and picked up the watermelon, washed it in the basin next to him, and handed it to Bai Xingfeng: "Don't mess with things." He asked someone to take it away, and then sat down with a sigh: "Eight-year-olds these days Nine-year-old child...Tsk, tsk, tsk, look at it three or four hundred years from now, hey."
Li Muchian looked confused: "What will happen to the child three or four hundred years later?"
"You have sharp ears." Chang Yu chuckled and changed the subject: "Tomorrow...the day after tomorrow, let's do it the day after tomorrow."
"Your Majesty, don't really ask what the court means. What if Bai Wang really surrenders?" Li Muxian took back his thoughts and looked at Chang Yu with a frown.
Chang Yu shook his head: "When Bai Wang said that he would be summoned by the imperial court within three days to make him a pillar, the governor knew that he had ulterior motives and was not sincere in his surrender. This place is thousands of miles away from the capital, so he sent people to the capital to inform him. The fastest is a day and a night, and it takes at least three days to go back and forth, and how could the court make a decision on such an important matter at that time, and how could it be possible for the court to give him the news within three days? He was just talking nonsense and had no sincerity at all. surrender".
Li Muchian exclaimed and chuckled: "But the Governor just agreed casually at that time, and he actually believed it..."
"Of course he won't believe it." Chang Yu sneered: "At that moment, both he and I were as clear as day. He knew that I didn't believe in him, and I also knew that he didn't believe in me. The so-called three-day appointment was just a matter of delaying time."
"Then why would he use his son as a pledge?" Li Muchian was puzzled.
"That was just his last bit of luck, and it was just an attempt to paralyze the governor. In addition, he had confidence in his son and thought it was just a near miss."
"I see." Li Muchian sighed and shook his head slightly: "Pindao now understands the difference between Bai Wang and other thieves."
Chang Yu chuckled: "What's the difference? If you surrender, you will be safe. If you don't surrender, you will die."
