Gao Liang, who was below, was waving a piece of paper in his hand and shouting in a hoarse voice: "Look carefully! This is the letter of persuasion from the bandits yesterday! He is trying to persuade our General Fang Zhiyi to surrender! It says it above! They only want Fang Zhiyi to surrender with the Beijing guards, and when they enter the capital, from the emperor to the common people, no one will be spared!" Anyway, no one could see what he was holding, so he just improvised.
"You all have wives, children, and elders! I have them too! Don't look at me as a eunuch! It's because I have a younger sister!" Gao Liang's voice cracked. "Do you want to see the country destroyed, the family ruined, and your wives and daughters humiliated?! Ah!!"
These people were so excited that their blood boiled: "No!"
"Beat them bastards!"
"beat!"
Gao Liang shouted out his final words: "Today, I swear to defend the capital to the death! I guarantee that all those who have made contributions will be promoted to higher positions and honors in the future! Your names will be recorded in history!"
Fang Zhiyi, who was lying on the city wall, listened to the personal soldier repeating in his ear and couldn't help laughing: "This Gao Liang is a talent."
The reason why he chose Gao Liang was that after Emperor Shunying died, Gao Liang was one of the few eunuchs who escaped death but dared to think about revenge.
The fighting spirit of the temporarily recruited civilians was aroused, and they rushed to the city walls with knives in hand, which dealt a blow to the rebels who had seen a glimmer of hope.
In the main tent, the deputy general was reporting to their Heavenly King General: "The capital city actually drove the people onto the city walls to resist the enemy! We have suffered heavy losses, Heavenly King."
The Heavenly King pondered for a moment, then said with a dark face, "Withdraw! Wait until Lin Xiu's troops arrive before attacking."
Seeing the enemy army retreat, Fang Zhiyi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could defend himself once, he could fight a second and third time, especially since Xiao Hei gave him an important piece of information.
This man who called himself the Heavenly King proclaimed himself emperor after entering Beijing, but he died suddenly in his harem not long after. Then a man named Lin Xiu succeeded him and killed many people during this period.
"Since ancient times, the weakness of peasant armies has been that they cannot overthrow a dynasty by one person alone. Instead, multiple peasant armies gather together to form a force to fight against the court. This also creates a weakness, and they will not submit to each other." Fang Zhiyi touched his chin.
Just then a deputy general came over and said, "General, let's capture some wounded soldiers, okay?"
Generally, captured wounded soldiers were killed and thrown down to intimidate the enemy because they were unable to work. However, Fang Zhiyi had specifically ordered that the prisoners should be kept first, so he came to ask for instructions.
Fang Zhiyi said, "Take them to the Beijing camp and find a doctor to treat their injuries."
"Ah?" The deputy general thought he didn't hear clearly. Gao Liang, who was waiting not far away, also scratched his ears. What did this general want to do?
Fang Zhiyi put his hands behind his back and sighed heavily: "If they weren't hungry, who would want to rebel? After all, they are just ordinary people."
The deputy general's eyes were full of admiration.
News about the general spread again. Whether it was the soldiers or the common people, they all felt that he was a very good man. Although he liked to have fun on weekdays, he always cared about the people!
There was a new voice in the court.
"Fang Zhiyi is trying to win over the people with ulterior motives!"
But Emperor Shunying simply scratched his ears before slipping off to play hide-and-seek in the harem. Is he plotting something? Military power has been in Fang Zhiyi's hands for so many years, why would he wait until this moment to do something? Do you think I'm stupid?
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