Chapter 25: Death of Chen He
The four of them hurriedly went to find Chen He who was lying on the bed. Along the way, Hongrui said that Chen He's handwriting was similar to Chen Hongyi, but he lacked strength, but ordinary people couldn't see it. As long as Chen He wrote a letter in the name of Chen Hongyi, telling the city-guarding soldiers that the reinforcements would arrive soon, it would be enough to stabilize the morale of the army.
When the four of them rushed to Chen He's bed, Chen He was trembling with a piece of silk cloth in his hands. Li Xiaofei leaned closer and said, "Is it a letter from General Cavalry?"
Chen He nodded: "It was my uncle's handwritten letter"
Hongrui laughed and said, "It turns out that Prefect Chen has prepared a long time ago. I guess the content of the letter has been waiting for for a long time. Don't tell us, we will pass it directly to the soldiers to watch." As he said that, he went to get the silk cloth in Chen He's hand.
Chen He pressed the letter under him and shouted with all his strength: "Can't show them, can't spread it, let's find a way to escape from the city."
The four of them pounced on each other, and Li Xiaofei reached out to take out a silk cloth from under Chen He and handed it to Hongrui.
Hongrui's face turned pale and trembled: "Impossible, impossible, this must have been written by the prefect Chen!" Hongrui's hands were shaking violently, and the silk cloth fell to the ground.
Xiao Qian picked up the silk cloth and looked at it, and she was dissatisfied: "How could this be the case? Does the prince want me anymore?"
Zhang Sheng took the silk cloth and saw that the content on it turned out that Chen Hongyi and Liu Jian led their troops to conquer Yingchuan and went all the way north. In the letter, Zhang Sheng and others could guard the rules. If they could not guard, they would retreat to Jinling. After Chen Hongyi directly attacked the court of the Black Flag Khan Kingdom, he would return to the army to recover Xinye Suizhou.
Li Xiaofei also murmured to himself: "How could this be the case? Are we just chess pieces that are discarded at any time?"
At this time, Chen He, who had been weak, stood up and talked: "My uncle has always been eccentric and cannot predict at all. They are really cruel and can abandon their relatives and lovers as chess pieces. These barbarians cannot fight them, but we will definitely die."
Li Xiaofei was inspired: "According to Lord Chen, the final victory must belong to us, so what else are we worried about? Just try our best to defend the city."
Chen He stomped his feet: "A general succeeded and his bones were woven. What are we? They have achieved great achievements, and we are here to be buried!"
Zhang Sheng snorted: "Since I joined the Chen family army, I have become dying. Moreover, the enemies outside the city cannot break through our city defense at all, so they can only waste here!"
Hongrui shook her head: "The Fire Dragon Clan will not be much worse than the Chen family's army when fighting, let alone the number of people they have. Today is just the first day, and there may be some situation waiting for us later."
Xiao Qian looked at them: "I don't care. If I die, the Xiao family will not let it go. I still don't believe that Liu Jian dares to leave me alone! If I die here, I will go to settle the score with him!"
Chen He put on his clothes and stood up: "I've gotten here, so I'll accompany you to have fun. Isn't it just a fun? This prefect will take people to charge to the battlefield and break the enemy camp tonight!" As he said that, he walked out. Li Xiaofei hugged Chen He: "Sir Chen, don't be impulsive. The enemy outside the city has been through the battle formation for a long time, so he will definitely think that we will go to the camp tonight, and we can't die in vain."
Chen He raised his head: "You haven't fought many battles, so how can you tell the enemy that we are going to rob the camp? If you miss the opportunity, how do you explain?"
Seeing that Li Xiaofei and Chen were arguing, Zhang Sheng stepped forward and held the two of them: "Mr. Chen and Prefect Li don't have to argue. We will try to see if the enemy is prepared. But when the person is ordered to beat the war drum and ignite a bonfire on the city wall, I led 500 cavalry at the gate of the city wall. If the enemy is very active, I will lead the army to fight. If the enemy does not respond, we will keep our guard down."
Chen He and Li Xiaofei followed Zhang Sheng's suggestion. When everyone was about to light a bonfire and beat the war drum, they lit countless torches outside the city, and the shouts of killing were shocking. Suddenly, no one in the city could sleep peacefully, dogs barked and roosters cried all night. Everyone on the city tower was careful, sweating in their palms, and the sweat was dry and they came out again. After repeated several times, the enemy just shouted and shouted, but did not attack the city.
After a night of hard work, Chen He admitted defeat. Li Xiaofei was right, but Li Xiaofei said: "The most dangerous time has come. Now our military and civilians in the city are exhausted. The enemy will definitely attack the city at this time, and this time it will be very dangerous."
The enemy indeed launched an attack at dawn. At dawn, the enemy had already occupied the city tower. Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng were injured. Seeing that the city was about to break out, it started to rain heavily. The enemy under the city could not climb up the slippery ladder. Hundreds of enemy troops on the city tower were also killed. The Liang army barely saved the city.
Hongrui brought the military doctor to bandage Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng's wounds. Li Xiaofei asked his men to move all the large tanks in the city to the city to store water. As long as they could be carried until after the tenth day of the winter month, once the north wind blows, they can save the city by relying on ice and snow.
The enemy troops outside the city were not idle. They dug all the tombs outside the city and threw the bodies of humans mixed with pigs, cattle and sheep into the city with a catapult. When the people in the city saw their ancestors and relatives being dug up to the graves, they gritted their teeth but could do anything. What's even more fatal is that the weather was surprisingly sunny at the end of October. Many of the originally semi-corrupted corpses fermented in the city, and there was no time to bury them in the city. Soon, the people in the city began to fall ill, and Chen He began to shake, and asked Li Xiaofei, Zhang Sheng and others to discuss the matter of leaving the city to negotiate peace.
Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng flatly refused, and Chen He also got angry: "We negotiate peace and hand over Suizhou City, and the people still have a glimmer of hope. If we continue to waste this way, the military and civilians will die of illness here, and the city cannot be saved!" Hongrui slapped the table: "Peasy! Do you think the people in the city can survive by giving out the city? The army of the Black Flag Khanate will come to treat the people in the city with kindness? Lord Chen wants to discuss peace and not stop us. You will take a thousand sick people out of the city first to see how they treat it. If they really go to save these people, we would rather give out the city."
Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng continued to dissuade Chen He, but Chen He insisted on discussing peace, so he brought a thousand moving people out of the city to discuss peace.
When the Black Flag Khanate saw Chen He taking the white flag and leading people out of the city, he sent someone to pick Chen He up first. General Niujiao Helmet was very happy when he saw Chen He: "Sir, I know the current affairs. I am the left marshal of the Black Flag Khanate. The people brought by the Lord can help open the city gate to let our army enter the city." Chen He bowed: "All I bring are patients, and I also ask the marshal to send someone to help treat him." Hudu Mengke was surprised and replied casually: "I will save them. Please help me order the people in the city to open the city gate in front of the formation, so that I can save the people in the city." Chen He was very happy and asked Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng to open the city gate in front of the formation. The people who left the city were also shouting outside the city to open the city gate.
Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng ignored it, but the people in the city had already started to flock to the city gate to open the city gate. Soon the people in the city rushed open the soldiers guarding the city gate and opened the city gate.
Li Xiaofei and Zhang Sheng led their troops to stop them, but it was too late. Meng Ke of Hudu waved his scimitar, and the army of the Black Flag Khanate rushed directly from the crowd. The horse's hooves stomped over many people, and the cavalry's scimitar also killed all the people outside the city gate. At this moment, the army of the Black Flag Khanate finally rushed into Suizhou City. Chen He grabbed Meng Ke of Hudu and shouted: "Marson, you said you want to save these people, how could you kill them? You have no faith!" Meng Ke of Hudu overturned Chen He to the ground with one palm: "You fool, you Central Plains people are sick husbands, our cattle and sheep. We only have cities, as long as the property of the Central Plains, and your people are redundant!" After that, he cut Chen He to death with one knife.
Chapter completed!