"His Royal Highness the King of Liangzhou, what's wrong, according to the reports from our army's spies, a large number of troops appeared outside Liangzhou City. They are dressed in strange clothes. They are the barbarians who are about to invade!"
In Liangzhou City, Zhu Tianyou, the county guard and the prefect of Liangzhou were drinking and chatting happily, without any sense of tension or anxiety before the war.
"No, no, no, I've got two sticks here. Please show me clearly. Don't drink too much. I was selling wine like crazy here just now..."
"I tell you, you must drink this time and stop cheating, otherwise, I will not cure you!"
"I am the great king of Liangzhou City. I was granted the title by His Majesty himself. My order is the greatest here!"
After three rounds of drinking, Zhu Tianyou started to feel a little confused, but the prefect kept cheating and playing tricks, and the amount of wine in his stomach was not even half as much as Zhu Tianyou's.
"Hurry up, drink quickly, I will personally watch you drink it!"
"Your Majesty, you can't do this. You have to let me drink with you. Didn't we agree that whoever loses will drink!"
And the prefect revealed the trump card in his hand. It was a bar, plus a dot, which happened to be Zhu Tianyou's head!
"King, look at the card in my hand. It's a team of seven. It's time for you to drink again!"
seven?
Why did I lose again?
Zhu Tianyou had no choice but to slam the cards on the table with helplessness and anger, then picked up the wine glass and drank down the glass of rice wine in one gulp.
Although the alcohol content of the rice wine was not high, he couldn't resist drinking a lot of it. Zhu Tianyou drank so much that he didn't even know how many glasses he had drank. He only knew that there were four large wine jars behind him.
And behind the Liangzhou governor and magistrate, there was only one.
"He, I am willing to admit defeat!"
They seemed to be only immersed in the pleasure of drinking and did not notice the soldiers who came to communicate.
"Your Majesty, Lord Magistrate, Lord Sheriff, enemies have been discovered outside. They are barbarians who came to attack Liangzhou City. You can't drink any more!"
This man was afraid that the three of them were too drunk to hear, so he yelled these words so loudly that the entire palace could hear his voice.
And this roar seemed to call the three people to their senses.
"Well, the barbarians are coming?"
"Come on, come on. Since there are mobile phones in the city, they won't be able to call in for a while!"
"Why fight? I think we should just surrender. With our strength, there is no possibility of resistance at all!"
Originally, when they received the news, they thought that these barbarians would send an army of about 100,000 to attack Liangzhou, so they were full of confidence and eager to try. They even imagined that they would defeat the enemy after they defeated them. , made great achievements in battle.
Zhu Tianyou even naively thought that his majesty had made him the king of Liangzhou, able to separate the feudal lords on one side. After repelling the invading enemy soldiers, he would rest for a few years, cultivate a good army, and quickly attack and capture the city. A large area of land in the north.
But reality slapped him hard in the face!
Because the enemy troops coming were not one hundred thousand, nor two hundred thousand, but three hundred thousand, a full three hundred thousand prairie cavalry!
They had lived in the Central Plains for a long time, so naturally they also had powerful siege equipment such as Han artillery!
But a small Liangzhou city, even if it is a military important place, can only mobilize 50,000 troops.
We only have 50,000 soldiers, so what can we do?
Put it in front of 300,000 people, and it’s not even enough to fill the gap between your teeth.
Even if we can piece it together and bring back all the soldiers from the surrounding cities, we can barely get together 100,000 people, but what are these 100,000 people? Many of the garrisoned border troops were old, weak, sick, or even temporarily recruited. Compared with normal well-trained soldiers, these people basically did not have much combat effectiveness.
As for the enemy army, there are 300,000 prairie cavalry, all of whom are the best of the best. I heard that they were jointly formed by five countries!
This lineup can already be called a national war, and it is not something that their small Liangzhou city can participate in.
And the 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers they barely scraped together faced off against the enemy's 300,000 elite troops?
How is it possible? Think about it, you are bound to lose!
They want to fight against 300,000 elites, unless they can recruit millions of people now!
Let a million temporarily formed troops fight against these three hundred thousand elites, and there is still a slight possibility of victory.
But now there are 100,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people who don't even have the courage to fight.
Ever since they found out that there were about 300,000 troops attacking in the direction of Liangzhou a few days ago, they already knew in their hearts that Liangzhou City would definitely not be able to be saved!
All his ambitions and lofty words fell to the ground at this moment.
Fighting depends on strength. How can they fight without this strength, and His Majesty also asked them to defend Liangzhou, how is it possible?
Although Liangzhou City now has very abundant grain and grass reserves, the number of living troops is too small. If we have to defend it, we may only be able to defend it for half a month.
Half a month later, almost all the young adults in the city were dead!
Because of the resistance against these 300,000 elite cavalrymen and the advanced engineering equipment provided by the other side, human lives can only be used to make up for it!
And after that, if you still want to keep it, you can only let the elderly, women and children take it!
And these people may not even be able to stay for ten days!
"Your Majesty, we can't let them in. Do you know what those barbarians will do?"
"Why panic? The worst case scenario is death. Anyway, it will be death in the end. It's better to die early and be reborn!"
The imperial edict from the capital told them to defend it, and with this configuration, they might be able to fight for their lives and defend it for more than twenty days.
But what happens after this?
Since the imperial court asked them to guard Liangzhou, it proves that the capital must have sent troops only after the beginning of spring!
Winter has just begun, and spring is still three months away.
If they were allowed to hold on for a month, they might still fight tooth and nail to hold on. After all, they could still see hope of living. But don’t even think about it for three months!
Let us reenact the feat of General Lan Yu guarding the city for 102 days during the Taizu period?
If anyone among us has Lan Yu's ability, I'm afraid the last emperor was not Zhu Di!
At this moment, they wish they were the blue jade. After all, who doesn’t want to live and have both fame and fortune?
escape?
Can they escape? Disobeying an order is a capital offense. If you run out of Liangzhou City and are caught by the enemy, will they spare you?
If you were just an official like the magistrate of Liangzhou, it might still be possible, but you are the king of Liangzhou personally named by His Majesty! (End of chapter)
