"Why did he burn himself to death?"
In the camp, Ye Mingsheng frowned and looked at Chen Yannian in front of him, and asked in surprise:
Under Ye Mingsheng's gaze, Chen Yannian said with some embarrassment: "It's like this. After conquering the royal city, the brothers immediately searched for traces of the old man Li Zaiyuan in the royal city, but... when we found his At that time, he had already set himself on fire in the Deshan Hall."
"Currently, the remains of Li Zaiyuan have been handed over to the people from the Supervision Department. After identification by the captured palace maids, it has been confirmed that the remains are Li Zaiyuan himself."
After saying that, Chen Yannian looked at the commander in front of him with some uneasiness, who was about the same age as his son.
Although Ye Mingsheng was also the seventh-grade commander who commanded him before, to be honest, Chen Yannian looked down on this incompetent person who only relied on the Zhaowu Camp sign without any real talent or learning.
It was just because the edges had been smoothed by all the officialdom that I had no choice but to maintain respect for Ye Mingsheng.
However, after recent contacts, Chen Yannian was surprised to find that the behavior of this incompetent person in his eyes suddenly became very ruthless and decisive. This made Ye Mingsheng re-establish some actions in Chen Yannian's heart. The majesty of being a leader.
Under Chen Yannian's gaze, Ye Mingsheng pondered for a while, and then said slowly: "Since Li Zaiyuan has been accepted by the Supervision Department, let this matter be like this!"
After Ye Mingsheng thought for a while, he continued: "Mr. Chen, although we have completely captured Liujing, we will still have many difficulties in the future. You still need to be more attentive!"
"I understand, I'm going to convey the Lord Commander's message, so brothers don't slack off." After understanding the meaning of Ye Mingsheng's words, Chen Yannian immediately took the initiative and said:
Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly, and Chen Yannian immediately said goodbye and left. After thinking for a while, Ye Mingsheng asked Ye Tie to bring over the map of the palace capital, and focused his eyes on a location on the map called Zhushan Port on the east coast of the palace capital.
According to Liu Shilin's plan, he has now completed 50% of the tasks in his plan. What he needs to do next is to defend Liujing City during the counterattack of the Gongdu army and wait for General Xu Zhaojie to arrive with his main force. Together, the situation was completely stabilized. According to Liu Shilin's plan, this process would only take five days at the earliest.
In other words, Ye Mingsheng has to rely on the more than two thousand people currently under his command to defend Liujing City for at least five days!
Counting from the time they entered the palace on the 25th, almost two days have passed. This means that under the most ideal situation, Ye Mingsheng still needs to hold on, and Liu Jing needs three days to be able to Wait for Xu Zhaojie's reinforcements.
As the most fortified city in the palace capital, Ryugyong Castle is the entire center of the country's politics, economy and culture. It is an out-and-out majestic city. From the perspective of city defense, if you want to defend this city with more than 2,000 people, It will be very difficult.
Although the situation is not particularly good, the only thing that makes Ye Mingsheng feel lucky is that the opponent he will face next is not very strong!
Theoretically speaking, there should be three groups of Gongdu troops that can counterattack Ryugyong.
The first group was the Luochuan Dao Granary and the surrounding palace troops, which numbered about 8,000. However, at this time, they did not know that they had been tricked by Ye Mingsheng, Wang Kangxin, and Li Wanshun. , has secretly attacked the Luochuan Road granary.
Therefore, the Gongdu army on Luochuan Road has too much to take care of itself, and its attention is on Li Wanshun and Wang Kangxin. In all likelihood, they will not counterattack Liu Jing.
Secondly, the second Gongdu army that can counterattack Liujing is the Gongdu army from the counties around Liujing that Ye Mingsheng has already experienced.
Although this palace army is said to have 5,000 people in total, it would be good to have 3,000 people after excluding those who live on empty wages, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. Although their number was not small, their combat effectiveness was very low. Ye Mingsheng did not take them seriously at all.
As for the third force, and the one that caused Ye Mingsheng the most headaches, it was the Gongdu Japanese soldiers stationed on the front line of Zhushan Port. This group was used to guard against the landing of the Dongdao Ronin across the sea. , although there are not many people and the equipment is very rudimentary
However, because he has rich combat experience in fighting with the ronin and pirates who came across the ocean from Dongdao all the year round, and the Japanese general Jiang Shouye is a rare general who is good at fighting in the palace army, so this preparation force Japanese soldiers can be said to be very capable of fighting.
Seriously speaking, if these Japanese soldiers are dispatched, and the Gongdu troops rushing to help from other places join forces to counterattack Ryugyong City, Ye Mingsheng asks himself that he really has no good way, how can he just rely on the more than two thousand people on hand? People, resist them and guard the huge Liujing City.
but···········
The only thing that gave Ye Mingsheng some comfort was that although the distance from Wanfeng Mansion to Liujing was a hundred miles longer than the distance from Zhushan Port to Liujing, the road from Zhushan Port to Liujing was rugged. The mountain road is very difficult to walk, but the road from Wanfeng Mansion to Liujing is relatively smooth, allowing the elite cavalry of the Iron Cavalry to pass quickly.
In addition, the Supervision Department had already informed Xu Zhaojie of the incident at the beginning of the operation. Therefore, as long as Mr. Xu did not harbor evil intentions, the Zhou army would definitely take action earlier than the people in Gongdu.
Therefore, purely from a probability perspective, the probability that Ye Mingsheng's reinforcements will arrive before the counterattacking Japanese soldiers from Gongdu is still very high.
Of course, although this is the case in theory, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and no one knows what will happen at the next moment. Ye Mingsheng is also prepared for the worst. If it doesn't work, he plans to abandon the outer city of Liujing and retreat to the royal city. As long as There is plenty of food and grass, and Ye Mingsheng has enough self-confidence. The people of Gongdu cannot attack his city!
···············
···············
"Kill!"
"Take back the granary!"
"Kill all the Zhou dogs!"
·····
·····
In the hinterland of the palace, under the granary of Luochuan Road, thick smoke billowed and the shouts of killing were deafening. Large swaths of palace soldiers in blue military uniforms, under the cover of artillery, trebuchets, and arrows, carried ladders, battering rams and other heavy equipment. Weapon, charge towards the scarred city in front of you.
I saw people crawling everywhere on the high city wall. Every moment, several soldiers screamed and lost their lives. However, under the scolding of the military attache and the machete of the military law team, the palace soldiers continued to rush forward, stepping on the corpses of their predecessors.
