"Want a beautiful woman?!"

Yang Zhen is not the kind of person who indulges in food and drink, and his generals all know this.

So when they heard from Yang Zhen that their governor wanted a beautiful woman from Huang Taiji, they were all stunned for a moment.

But Yang Zhen did not continue to explain. He just smiled and revealed the matter.

While asking Jin Yukui to arrange for someone to clean Ban Zhifu's wounds, he asked Li Shouzhong to go down to Wengcheng and prepare horses for Ban Zhifu, and told Zhang Chen to send Ban Zhifu out of the city when everything was ready.

After arranging all these things and seeing everyone busy, Yang Zhen got up and went to see Fan Wencheng being tortured on the execution ground.

As a result, as soon as he arrived near the periphery of the execution ground, he saw Li Lu pushing away the cheering soldiers and coming out.

Li Lu raised his eyes and saw Yang Zhen and hurried to see him.

"Captain, this man surnamed Fan is too weak to bear the chop. It took only a hundred cuts and he died!"

"oh?"

When Yang Zhen heard this, he stopped in his tracks - since the person was dead, there was no need for him to look at it anymore.

Of course, Yang Zhen had heard of Lingchi's punishment, and knew that the executioners of the Ministry of Punishment could cut a person with more than 3,000 knives without killing him.

It is said that the best executioner can execute a late execution for several days.

Such a punishment is enough to ensure that those who commit heinous crimes will not be able to survive and die, and will eventually die of torture.

Of course Yang Zhen is not a sadist, and he does not want to use such punishment.

It's just that a traitorous scholar like Fan Wencheng seems to be powerless on the surface, as if humans and animals are harmless, but in fact the harm caused is very great.

For such traitorous literati, only by cutting them to pieces can they set an example and serve as a deterrent to others.

"It was Sun Deng who chose this guy because he was not good at his craftsmanship. He was just a butcher who killed pigs and sold meat, and he had never done such a delicate job!"

Li Lu continued to explain.

At this time, the sturdy man named Sun Dengxuan whom Li Lu mentioned also appeared from behind Li Lu with an awkward smile on his face, bowed and said to Yang Zhen:

"Yes, yes, yes, the young man was not good at his craftsmanship. He actually killed someone after just a few attempts. Please punish me for this!"

"What's the punishment? If you kill him, kill him. It's just right. Sun Dengxuan, go and chop off the head of the person named Fan, wrap it up and bring it over!"

"Okay!"

This Sun Dengxuan is also an old man under Yang Zhen. Of course, Yang Zhen will not punish him for this matter.

When Sun Dengxuan heard Yang Zhen's order, he immediately smiled, agreed, turned around and left, trotting all the way to get Fan Wencheng's head.

After a while, Sun Dengxuan came out of the execution ground. As he walked, he shouted and cursed at the onlookers and dismissed them. Then he came with Fan Wencheng's head wrapped in a piece of torn linen cloth and came with a smile on his face.

Yang Zhen came forward and presented it respectfully.

Yang Zhen reached out and took it, turned around and walked towards the bottom of the urn.

At this time, Li Shouzhong had already prepared horses in Wengcheng. It was the same war horse that Ban Zhifu rode into the city.

Jin Yukui also led Ban Zhifu to lift him down from the top of Wengcheng, briefly cleaned his wounds, bandaged him, and prepared to put him on the war horse.

After Yang Zhen came over, everyone stopped what they were doing and waited for Yang Zhen's latest instructions.

Perhaps it was the severe pain when cleaning the wound that woke up Ban Zhifu. In short, when Yang Zhen came over, he opened his eyes angrily and stared at Yang Zhen, but his consciousness was clear.

Yang Zhen came to him, raised Fan Wencheng's head in his hand, and said to him:

"Ban Zhifu, you have seen Shang Kexi's head with your own eyes. Shang Kexi is King Zhishun of the Qing Dynasty after all. I want to keep his head to repay his merits, so I won't give it to Huang Taiji.

"As for this, haha, this is Fan Wencheng's head. It's useless to leave it here with me. I'll take it back to you and leave a message for Huang Taiji!"

After saying this, Yang Zhen threw the bloody package in his hand at Ban Zhifu's feet, then stood up and ordered to the soldiers standing in the urn city:

"Open the city gate, help him mount his horse, and let him out of the city!"

When Ban Zhifu saw that Yang Zhenzhen was letting him out of the city, he said nothing, picked up Fan Wencheng's head, gritted his teeth and stood up unsteadily.

Then, with the help of Jin Yukui and others, he endured severe pain and climbed onto his horse, hit the horse hard towards the city gate that had opened a door, and rushed out.

"Captain, I'm afraid we will really have to stick to this path next!"

After following Yang Zhen to the top of the city again, Li Lu watched Ban Zhifu's single horse meet up with the Qing Dynasty horse team that was watching and wandering on the snowy fields outside the city, and then rode away, Li Lu said with some apprehension.

"Yes, Governor, now, the Qing army will probably have to fight with us at Zhenjiang Fort!"

"Captain, there are nearly 100,000 soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and we only have 10,000 troops. Do you really don't need to send people out of the city to mobilize reinforcements?"

After Li Lu spoke, several other generals who were ordered to guard Xicheng, Yang Shen, Zhang Guogan and others also became worried.

"Zhang Chen, what do you think?"

Faced with the concerns of Li Lu, Yang Shen, and Zhang Guogan, Yang Zhen smiled slightly and did not respond to them. Instead, he threw the question to Zhang Chen and asked Zhang Chen's opinion first.

"Haha, isn't it the governor's plan to use his plan to anger the Qing captives, and then prompt the Qing captives to attack with all their strength? Now that the governor is benevolent and benevolent, isn't it playing into the governor's favour?"

Zhang Chen saw Yang Zhen's original intentions very clearly. Seeing that others were worried, and Yang Zhen asked him for his opinion, he immediately smiled and expressed his thoughts.

"Although we don't have many men and horses, we have enough food and ammunition, and there is a strong city to stay in. If the Qing soldiers and horses come to attack, we can cause them a lot of casualties!"

"That's right!"

Yang Zhen was very happy to see that Zhang Chen had a clear mind and had not forgotten his original intention of taking advantage of the scheme. He immediately affirmed his statement and then said to everyone:

"Everyone, since the Qing Dynasty army besieged the city, we have captured a Qing Dynasty prince without spending a single soldier, and a great scholar who the Qing Dynasty puppet emperor Huang Taiji has always relied on. Haha, we have already achieved such results.

What else do you want?

"You remember, our only mission next is to stick here like nails and firmly guard this city. We don't seek to complete the victory in one battle, but we seek to kill as many enemies as possible.

"The enemy's offensive is likely to be very fierce, but it will never continue to be fierce. As long as we can withstand the next few days, the enemy will retreat in spite of the difficulties!"

Yang Zhen's words made everyone nod their heads. They all understood why Yang Zhen did what he did.

For the current defenders of Zhenjiang Castle, the most terrifying thing is not that the enemy sends troops to attack, but that they are forced to go out of the city to attack the enemy.

The enemy sent troops to attack, but we were protected by city walls, commanding a commanding position, and had sharp firearms at our disposal. It should be said that we took advantage of the geographical location.

Once the enemy does not come to attack, if you continue to be surrounded and defended, and the confrontation continues, then it will be really disadvantageous for you.

There is currently no shortage of food and grass in the city, but the more than 10,000 horses eat a lot of food every day. Once the stalemate lasts for several months, there is a shortage of food and grass in the city, and it will fall into a situation where the sky and the earth are not working.

.

When the time comes, if your own army cannot hold on any longer and breaks out of the city to fight in the field with the Qing soldiers and horses, you will be using your own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points, which will result in more disaster than good.

Everyone under Yang Zhen's command is used to fighting. At this time, they all know that Yang Zhen's fighting style is, for them, a way of fighting to survive.

As the saying goes, you don't need a heavy hammer to beat a drum. Since everyone knew that the Qing Dynasty was about to attack, there was no need for Yang Zhen to mobilize them.

At the end of the day, after watching the Qinglu cavalry on the snowy fields outside the city leave quickly, the generals on the top of the city quickly returned to their respective battle positions, leading their own men and horses to perform their duties and responsibilities.

.

As for Yang Zhen, who was exhausted physically and mentally after a hard day's work, he handed over the important task of commanding the defense of Xicheng to Zhang Chen. He returned to his camp, fell asleep, and fell asleep.

At the same time, the return of the seriously injured Ban Zhifu immediately set off an uproar in the Qinglu camp in the southeast corner of Wulong Mountain.

Ban Zhifu was hit by several lead bullets, some in the shoulders and some in the abdomen. Although he was not killed at the time, his blood flow continued and the pain was unbearable, and he was already dying.

He forced himself out of the city and met the Qinglu horse team waiting outside the city, and soon fell into coma again.

Ban Zhifu did not wake up again until he was sent to the Qinglu camp where the Jinding tent in Huangtai was located. However, the head of Fan Wencheng he carried with him had shocked many people.

No one, including Huang Taiji, thought that Yang Zhen would be so bold when Zhenjiang Fort was surrounded.

When he first heard the news that the envoy had returned, Huang Taiji was quite happy, but when he saw Ban Zhifu being carried into the tent, unconscious and covered in blood, he was completely dumbfounded.

This scene was something he didn't expect at all.

He had thought once or twice that when Shang Kexi and the others entered the city to meet with Yang Zhen, they might be detained in the city and used as hostages. When Yang Zhen was at the end of his rope, he would use these hostages to negotiate with him.

However, even if this possibility is possible, Huang Taiji feels that it is very slim.

Based on his own experience in dealing with the civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji always tended to believe that people like Yang Zhen were not so unfaithful and unworthy of "martial ethics."

After all, Zu Zerun, who he sent to Songshan City to persuade him to surrender, was released after Yang Zhen refused to surrender.

As for Shen Yongzhong, although he was not released, he was not killed either.

Therefore, he always believed that Yang Zhen abided by this rule when the two countries were at war.

Otherwise, Huang Taiji would never let Fan Wencheng participate in this matter, and would hide his identity and follow him to persuade Yang Zhen to surrender.

Seeing with his own eyes the head of Shang Kexi's general Wu Jinggong lifted up and placed in front of him, Huang Taiji's head was buzzing. For a short period of time, his mind was blank and he could not think about anything.

After a long time, Huang Taiji recovered from the blankness in his mind. He turned his eyes away from Fan Wencheng's head and stared at Shang Kexi's general Wu Jinggong who was kneeling in the tent. His eyes were red and he gritted his teeth.

He said:

"Where is your King Zhishun?! Where is Shang Kexi?!"

"Reporting to your Majesty, before Prince Shang led his people into the city, he ordered his servants to lead a large group of people to wait two miles west of the city. I really don't know what happened to the prince and his companions after they entered the city."
Chapter completed!