Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and everyone could see that this time it was much more dangerous than the Tartars army. Suzhou City was besieged for a whole year, and now it was out of ammunition and food. Xu Da, outside the city, had to guard the city gate, and it would not take long for Pingjiang City to be the end of Zhang Xun back then. Everyone was so hungry that they were powerless and allowed to be slaughtered by the enemy."

But everyone knows this, but no one left, especially those Suzhou people who rushed up. Zhang Shicheng has been in Suzhou for more than ten years, reduced the taxes of local farmers for one year, abolished all taxes owed by farmers by the Yuan government, and returned 40% of the taxes to farmers, and gave the landlords and wealthy families food and clothing to the poor and the elderly. He set up a urging farmer envoy and encouraged farmers to comfort the farmers in the county and county administrative districts, led the local people to develop water conservancy and develop farming and sericulture; recruited and comforted the people, and most of the refugees in Yancheng returned home. They saw all this, and the grace of a meal should be repaid with a spring. Now he is in a down-and-out manner, but can we abandon him? No, we cannot give up! "This is the deep thoughts of the tens of thousands of people in the city at present.

A confidant said, "Your Majesty, you are defeated today, and we will have nothing to say. Tomorrow, we will fight Xu Da, Chang Yuchun to the death and follow Your Majesty to the death. Whether you succeed or fail, you are all the good emperors of our Suzhou City. Everything you have done for me, Suzhou, our good men in Suzhou will never forget. Now, if you are defeated, as a good man in Suzhou, you should follow him to the death and how can you surrender!"

"Everyone--?" Zhang Shicheng's eyes were filled with tears.

"Your Majesty, don't say it?" Huang Tianye, deputy minister of the Ministry of Revenue, walked up and said, "We will follow Your Majesty to the death and will never surrender to you. Now that the food and supplies in Pingjiang City have been exhausted, guarding the city will be a dead end. Only by breaking out can you have a way out."

"Yes! Your Majesty?" Many people shouted in the crowd.

Huang Tianye continued: "Your Majesty has many soldiers. Bei Yi just received the tip that the eight gates of Pingjiang City have been blocked, but Wei Chen still has a gate in the northeast. The commander of the army is a guy who doesn't know how to fight. During these days, he only knows that he is playing chess and tea and 30,000 soldiers in the army will attack the city from time to time, but it's just that the thunder is loud and the raindrops are small. He has not launched much attack on Pingjiang City. In my opinion, His Majesty can break through this gate?"

Zhang Shicheng sighed slightly. He had been living for most of his life, how could he not even see this trick? There were eleven city gates in Pingjiang City, and ten city gates were guarded to death, but the northeast city gate was not moved. If it were not for the leader who knew the strategy of military strategy, he would not understand the strategy of military strategy through and through. However, with Zhu Yuanzhang's temperament, how could such an important city gate be guarded by a person who was not good enough? If this city gate was said to be strange, he would not believe it if he died? However, the city has already been exhausted, and there is no other way to break through, and breaking out is life, otherwise there would be only death. The northeast city gate is only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and it is not connected to other city gates. This alone is worth his risk? "

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Shicheng gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, since all brothers trust me so much, I will fight for it today. Is life and death a concern?"

"Kill out!" The crowd shouted, and the sound was like thunder.

Huang Tianye walked up and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, although the northeast gate is besieged today, there is no siege in the city. As far as the last general is concerned, it is extremely strange. This soldier is cunning and despicable. He is deliberately waiting for the rabbit. Your Majesty should not underestimate it?"

Zhang Shicheng was about to speak, but he heard Huang Tianye take the lead and said, "Your Majesty, today's battle is undoubtedly the enemy of Chu, who was surrounded by enemies. Your Majesty needs to break through, and the soldiers need to burn their boats, otherwise-?"

Zhang Shicheng trembled all over and looked at Huang Tianye in horror.

"Your Majesty - a man, a real man, how can he ruin his hegemony because of his long love for his children?" Huang Tianye knelt on the ground with his fists.

Thousands of Suzhou soldiers behind him fell to the ground one after another, and everyone looked at Zhang Shicheng and clasped their fists and said, "Your Majesty, please fight to the death?"

"Please fight to the death!"

The sound is like thunder.

Zhang Shicheng's body trembled, and he grew up and looked at the tens of thousands of people in front of him, looking incredible.

"Your Majesty, can't you learn from overlords? Children's love, hero's tomb?" Huang Tianye said earnestly.

"Your Majesty—?" Everyone shouted in unison, and the sound was like thunder.

Zhang Shicheng almost fell to the ground, looking at the tens of thousands of soldiers kneeling on the ground, many of them died of brothers, many of them died of fathers, and many of them died of children, but they did not surrender, just to follow him and fight for a bloody path. How could he not agree? No, he could not refuse, for the sake of these tens of thousands of soldiers, for the sake of tens of thousands of people in the city, he must agree—?”

Zhang Shicheng gritted his teeth and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Brothers, I know what to do?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Shicheng turned around and entered the palace. The palace had long lost the palace maids and servants, but the princess Liu and his family were waiting patiently. Seeing him coming back, Princess Liu hurriedly greeted him, whispered, and said, "Your Majesty--?" Then she retreated gently to the side.

Zhang Shicheng's eyes were already filled with tears. Looking at the family in the palace, his eyes finally fell on his wife Liu's face.

"Does Your Majesty have something to say?" Liu walked over gently and handed over a cup of tea.

She hadn't eaten for two days. Although her weak body shaking, she was not weak at all, but she had a little more firmness.

Zhang Shicheng had already burst into tears, took back the soldiers looking outside the city, gritted his teeth and asked, "I am defeated and dead, what should you do?"

Liu smiled miserably, stretched out his little hand to Zhang Shicheng's face, gently stroked it, and said softly: "Do your Majesty still remember it? I have said that no matter when it is, I will not let Your Majesty down?"

Zhang Shicheng cried out loudly, hugged Liu and started crying.

"My beloved concubine, I will be in a hurry this time and I cannot have any worries. Otherwise, otherwise, it will be easy for Zhu Yuanzhang to catch the handle-?"

Liu smiled indifferently, as if he had already expected the ending. After hearing the news that decided her life and death, he was not very sad. He just gently patted Zhang Shicheng's thick shoulders, and his expression was calm and could not be calm anymore: "Your Majesty, you don't have to cry. Your Majesty has always been a great hero in my mind, a man who stands tall and upright. No matter what Your Majesty wants me to do, I agree that the soldiers' requests are not excessive. They follow Your Majesty in hopes of fighting a bloody way. In the future, Your Majesty summoned his old subordinates and made a comeback, which is a desperate move. If Your Majesty brings me with me, you will inevitably be a little worried and distracted?"

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