Chapter 258 Siege of Zuo Menggeng
After a while, Qingzhu walked out the door: "Lord, that girl is no longer in danger of life. We stopped her blood, but she had multiple fractures on her body and needed some time to recuperate. We asked her what her name was, but she refused to say it."
Zhao Peng walked into the tent and sat on a stool in front of the collapse. He looked at the girl lying on the collapse. He suddenly thought of someone, remembering that among the eight beauty of Qinhuai, Li Xiangjun is the shortest, with a round face and a slightly fat, and a small and exquisite type. So he asked, "Girl, are you Miss Xiangjun?"
Li Xiangjun was surprised: "The little woman is just a brothel girl, but I didn't expect that my uncle actually recognized the little woman."
Zhao Peng laughed: "Miss Xiangjun is one of the eight beauties in Qinhuai who are famous all over the world. How can I not know about it?"
"But uncle has never seen a little girl before, how do you know?" Li Xiangjun asked in confusion.
Zhao Peng can't say that he found it on Baidu in later generations, right? So he replied: "Does Miss Xiangjun know about Miss Yuanyuan? Uncle Ben also heard from Miss Yuanyuan that Miss Yuanyuan mentioned Miss Xiangjun's appearance, so I recognized it as soon as I saw the girl."
Li Xiangjun tried hard to get up from the sickbed, but with a slight movement, the wounds and fractures all over her body would be insufficiency. But she still looked at Zhao Peng with tears in her eyes and begged: "Brother, the little woman only wants to be uncle. If Boru defeats Zuo Menggeng, she only wants Boruther to let Houlang go."
Zhao Peng snorted: "It's just a scumbag who puts you underneath as a meat pad to protect himself and throws you away. Why should the girl plead for him? My uncle has heard of it for a long time. When this thief was in a downturn, it was all the girls who supported him with their own money! A scumbag who only knows how to make a fuss, why should the girl take care of her life? My uncle's Jinyiwei has long been inside news. Zuo Menggeng surrendered to the enemy and treason, which was caused by Hou Fangyu and Huang Shu's instigation behind the scenes! Since he is going to surrender to Jiannu, can the girl know how to punish the crime of treason?"
Li Xiangjun burst into tears: "I just want my uncle to let my husband go and have a way out. No matter what my uncle wants the little girl to do, the little girl is willing."
"Miss Xiangjun, please recover from your injuries. First, let's talk about it. As for Hou Fangyu, whether he can come out of the chaos army depends on his own luck!" Zhao Peng said a last sentence and walked out of the tent.
After walking out of the tent, Zhao Peng turned around and said to Qingzhu: "Take good care of Miss Xiangjun, make more bone soup for her to replenish. If you have any delicious food, give it to her first. This girl is very pitiful, and you must treat her well."
Chunlan said: "This girl Li Xiangjun is so stupid. Hou Fangyu has treated her like this. She is still wholeheartedly treating this scumbag."
The new term for scumbag is regarded as a woman by the Zhao Peng church. A big man is not a scumbag if he is polygamous, and he is called a scumbag if he is not responsible. So, in Zhao Peng's heart, the principal in his previous life was not a scumbag. Although the principal read countless women, every time he found a woman, the money was in place. Both parties were in love and the principal did not deceive him. How could he be called a scumbag?
A person like Hou Fangyu who is a soft-hearted person must be called a scumbag. What’s even more hateful is that this scumbag is still a traitor.
Zhao Peng had already made up his mind secretly. Hou Fangyu must not let him go. This person still has certain military talents. Once he goes to the Qing Dynasty, it will cause considerable trouble to all heroes who resisted the Qing Dynasty.
The 120,000 Zuo Family Army troops had already hid up the mountain. The auxiliary soldiers of the Zuo Family Army dug trenches on the hilltop, laid wooden fences, built cities and villages, and piled up wooden rocks on the top of the hillside to resist the attack of the new army.
Zhao Peng stood at the foot of the mountain, picked up the thousand-mile mirror to observe the Zuojun fortifications on the mountain. Seeing that the hillside was full of rolling wood and stones, the Zuo family army built a solid Tucheng camp. He also knew that if he wanted to attack for a strong force, his side would inevitably suffer heavy losses, so he ordered the mountain to surround the mountain and adopted the method of surrounding but not attacking.
"Transfer all our auxiliary soldiers, build fortifications and trenches at the foot of the mountain, and surround the mountain, and not even a fly is allowed to be released!" Zhao Peng turned his head and asked his personal soldiers to pass the order.
The 50,000 auxiliary soldiers of the Nanjing Army were just ten miles away. After receiving the order from Zhao Peng, they arrived in just over half an hour.
After more than 50,000 auxiliary soldiers arrived, they immediately dug trenches at the foot of the mountain, built earthen cities, and built camps, preparing to siege Zuo's army for a long time.
Zuo Menggeng, who was standing on the top of the mountain, saw a dense Ming army appearing at the foot of the mountain. He was building fortifications and preparing to surround the mountain. He roughly estimated and cursed, "Zhao Peng has at least 80,000 people! It is said that there are only 30,000 people! It seems that this coach was defeated by this thief's plan to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger!"
But now it is too late to regret. In order to prevent being trapped to death, Zuo Menggeng ordered Zhang Yingyuan and Lu Guangzu to lead 20,000 infantry soldiers to attack, rush down from the mountain, trying to go down the mountain to harass the new army and prevent the new army from building a city.
"Lord, the left thief is going down the mountain!" The sentry found the Zuo family army rushing down the mountain and hurriedly reported to Zhao Peng.
"Just intercept them with cannons and muskets." Zhao Peng ordered.
Zhang Yingyuan and Lu Guangzu led 20,000 Zuojia infantry, shouted and rushed down from the mountain, but were hit by a head-on attack by various artillery of the new army. First, they started with solid shells fired by the field gun with the farthest range, then flowering shells fired by the mortar gun, followed by shrapnel shots fired by the howitzer, and then field guns replaced with shrapnel bombarded at close range.
Starting from one thousand steps away from the Zuo family army, the Zuo family army charged forward and was hit head-on by the new army. Finally, it was bombarded by a round of shotguns. Zhang Yingyuan and Lu Guangzu were defeated and retreated back to the mountain.
There was no water source on the mountain, only a small river flowed by the foot of the mountain. If you wanted to drink water, the Zuo family army had to go down the mountain to fetch water. However, Zhao Peng ordered the dispatch of a Qi family army phalanx and a Spanish phalanx to guard the water source, and sent a hundred light Franc aircraft to assist in the defense, completely cutting off the hope of the Zuo family army to fetch water.
After nightfall, in order to prevent the Zuo family army from sending people to steal water, Zhao Peng ordered a bunch of bonfires to light up the water source. Once someone came down from the mountain to steal water, light Francs and various muskets would hit the head-on.
After a day and a night of siege, the Zuo family army on the mountain was thirsty, but Zuo Menggeng ordered three attacks on the water source, and they were all repelled by the new army.
At this time, Zhao Peng asked someone to shout to the mountain: "Zuo Menggeng, you should take the entire army down the mountain and surrender quickly! If you surrender down the mountain, you will not blame the past for the past. Bo Zhongyong guarantees your life safety!"
Hearing the shouting at the foot of the mountain, Zuo Xianmei advised her brother Zuo Menggeng: "Brother, let's not be obsessed with it. Let's go down the mountain to surrender to Uncle Zhongyong."
Zuo Menggeng's wife and concubine also persuaded Zuo Menggeng and asked him to take his entire army down the mountain to surrender.
"What are you women doing about men?" Zuo Menggeng glared at his sister fiercely.
Hou Fangyu said: "Master, we must not surrender! Zhao Peng, the eagle clawed grandson, is cruel and ruthless. If it falls into his hands, we may all die without a complete body."
Zuo Menggeng gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "You can't surrender! If you fight with Eagle Claw Sun, even if you fight to the last person, you must not surrender! As long as we stick to it for four days, our Qing reinforcements will arrive!"
But Zuo Menggeng never dreamed that he would not have any reinforcements coming. If Hong Chengchou was still alive, the Qing army might have sent reinforcements to rescue him. However, Hong Chengchou had been captured and executed by Lingchi in Nanjing. It was absolutely impossible for the Qing generals of Luoyang, Haoge and Ajige, to send one soldiers and one soldiers to rescue Zuo Menggeng.
The lives of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers are much more valuable than these One-Qian Han. No matter it is Haoge or Ajige, it is impossible to risk the precious Eight Banners Army to save these One-Qian Han.
Chapter completed!