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Chapter 52 The Wicked...
Chapter 52 The Wicked...
Gu Huaiyang was really in trouble.
On the sixth day of the sixth day, for the first time, the imperial court suppressed the bandit army from all directions, and the army was close to each other, fighting fiercely for three days.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Red Turbans retreated to the territory of East Vietnam.
On the fifteenth day, the bandit-suppressing army, which had suffered more than half of the damage, welcomed 100,000 reinforcements.
On the 21st day, all the food, grass and luggage were in a hurry, and Gu Huaiyang knew that this time it was the end of the battle.
The imperial court devoted all the strength of the whole country to separate Dongyue from Haining, and planned to encircle and suppress them one by one. Dongyue is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is a prison. Gu Huaiyang listens to Lu Yunzhou's report on the battle of defending the city, his face is full of stubble, but he is silent and does not speak.
At the end, Lu Yunzhou said succinctly: "Brother, there is no food for people and horses, how about you think of a way."
"How much is left?" Gu Huaiyang asked.
"Three days, three days at most."
Gu Huaiyang pondered silently, a palm covered with fissures tapped the table lightly, his brows furrowed tightly, and for a moment, he said, "I see."
Lu Yunzhou didn't talk much on weekdays, and he wasn't an easy person to get close to. Apart from his only daughter, he could talk a few more words with a few sworn brothers. At this moment, he was just standing on the side, a little hesitant to say anything. Gu Huaiyang looked up at him and asked, "What?"
Lu Yunzhou's brows loosened a bit, and he said sullenly, "It's nothing, I think of Lu'er, and I don't know what happened to Xiao Liu's injury."
Gu Huaiyang said, "I saw Siniang's letter a few days ago saying that Xiao Liu's injuries are getting better, and that Lu'er is also taking care of her. I think she will be fine."
Lu Yunzhou nodded.
Gu Huaiyang glanced at him again, and couldn't help sighing: "Did someone chew on your tongue? You and my brother, what can't you say?"
Lu Yunzhou hesitated for a while, and said, "Deputy General Guo Hui asked me to speak to my eldest brother, if three days later, reinforcements and provisions still cannot be brought in, are we asking... the local people for food?"
After listening to Gu Huaiyang, he didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he sneered: "Let's collect grain? I think Guo Hui is talking about grabbing grain, right?"
Lu Yunzhou lowered his eyes and stopped talking.
"Pfft—hahahahaha," Gu Huaiyang laughed out loud, he stretched out his hand to cover his face, only revealing a gān astringent pale lips, and after a while, he said in a low voice, "The boy surnamed Guo, back then He was so ill that he was dragged by a few brothers who were exiled together, begging for food rations, and everyone saved each other for him, which saved his life. His brother, he was only eight when he was gone. 10 years old, as thin as a little monkey, with a little hand as big as a little hand, he grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, 'Brother, I'm hungry, I want to eat bread cakes', but we didn't let our children eat a mouthful of bread dough. pancake."
Lu Yunzhou's eyes turned slightly red: "Big brother."
"Now that the bastards are promising, what did he say he wants me to take them with?" Gu Huaiyang said in a soft voice, as if he was pulling home in the afternoon, "Grab food? It's because he can figure it out, it's because he wants to. Get it out!"
The tone of his last sentence was suddenly raised, and when he raised his hand, he swept down the thick porcelain tea bowl on the table, and it shattered into several pieces with a crisp sound.
In chaotic times, in order to survive, they are brazen and do everything they can, robbing the rich and not helping the poor, taking advantage of the leaks of the imperial court to collect money desperately, and even robbing bandits and gangsters, recruiting soldiers and horses, and even in just a few years, they took the Haining Red Scarf. The army has grown to the point where the imperial court must be afraid.
However, how can you kick open the doors of common people's houses with swords and guns to grab food?
The souls of the dead are everywhere, and the mountain ghosts are wailing. Who can not be shocked, not bitter, and be afraid of being displaced?
After all, what's wrong with the people?
Even these rebels and thieves, at the beginning, which one was the most heinous?
If you think about it, it is probably because you didn't cultivate in your previous life, and you were born at an untimely time.
"From now on, ask everyone to tighten my belt." Gu Huaiyang stood up. When he looked up again, his face was full of determination. He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lu Yunzhou.
Lu Yunzhou took it in a bit of surprise, opened it, and the familiar handwriting inside was clearly unprovoked, that is, Lu Yunzhou has never been overwhelmed by his anger and anger, and he couldn't help but show a little excitement on his face: "Brother, this is... …”
He wanted to say that the connection with Haining was not completely cut off, how did Shi Wuyuan send the letter?
Gu Huaiyang raised his hand to interrupt him and said, "I have my own way, you go and tell the soldiers that from today onwards, the food supply will be halved, so that everyone can last for another three or five days. After three or five days, the sixth master will definitely There is a way to get us out of trouble, don't worry, but... I'll put my words here today, my Red Turban Army is a diligent Wang Yijun, who has the will of God and the hearts of the people, not a clown who surrounds the mountains and dominates the people! Who dares to harass the people , running rampant on the streets, I will let others fall to the ground, I Gu Huaiyang will do what I say!"
"Yes!"
Seeing Lu Yunzhou turn around and go out, Gu Huaiyang gave a wry smile, put on his armor, and went to inspect the city wall in person.
Now that Dongyue is besieged, there are hundreds of thousands of troops inside, and the Pope's masters are sitting outside. I'm afraid not even a fly can get out. How to send the letter?
Xiaoliu, now our brothers' success or failure is with you.
Shi Wuyuan was indeed the first to get the news that Dongyue was besieged, which made the wound on his chest not healed, so he stood up from the room, urgently sent a letter to Meng Zhongyong, and set up an army tent, no one persuaded him. With - no one is in the mood to dissuade him.
Haining Jingrui was taken away by Gu Huaiyang. If the difficulties in Dongyue could not be solved, the future would be difficult and dangerous. More than ten years of painstaking efforts might be in vain.
Afterwards, Shi Wugui transferred his troops, but did not attack Dongyue hard. Li Siniang personally led a surprise attack on Wanjiang, Huining, and Zhaojiaqu in the south of Zhangzhou, and went straight to Huzhou, the big granary of Zhangzhou.
It was as if he was about to come out to surround Wei and save Zhao.
In Haining County, Shi Wuduan couldn't sleep for a few hours every night, and was still hurting his lungs. Every day when Lan Ruo delivered medicine, he could hear him coughing piercingly. Seeing her passing the medicine, he just nodded and said thanks , without frowning even a single brow, as if drinking water, he poured a bowl of black and extremely bitter medicine into his throat without raising his head.
The information, maps, letters, and battle reports from the secret channels of the caravans from all over the world were mixed up and spread out on his table. Lan Ruo knew that she was just a girl who took care of others. Go up and back to the side, waiting for him to hand back the empty medicine bowl.
Shi Wuyuan always had a calm expression under the lamp shadow. For some reason, he reminded Lan Ruo of a word like that—iron heart.
She couldn't help but think of what the most learned gentleman in the village said: A person who is cruel to others is nothing, and the hardest-hearted person is just as cruel to himself.
Lan Ruo became suspicious, she thought, Liu Ye is such a gentle and polite person, especially the way he smiles at others, it makes people feel as if their hearts have been swept lightly by a feather, how can he be cruel What about people?
Shi Wuyuan didn't stay in Haining for a long time, Li Siniang took a few days to start, and he took the rest of the soldiers and horses to set off regardless of the injury. Together with the military doctors, usually only need to help deliver medicine to take care of some military patients. Later, was worried that she would not be able to bear it, so prepared a car for her alone, with a thick cushion inside.
It provoked a few soldiers in the military medical team to laugh at her inexplicably "hehe": "Miss Lanruo, sixth master treats you so well."
The sixth master treats people very well. Lan Ruo secretly remembered that two days after her departure, when she delivered medicine to Shi Wuji as usual, the sixth master lowered her eyebrows and asked her in a soft voice if she could still keep up with the itinerary. She couldn't help it. Red face.
At the same time, Yan Zhen and others also received the battle report-Huzhou was in an emergency.
Bai Li and Zou Yan came to Dongyue with the army. After seeing Yan Zhen's letter, Zou Yan came to see Bai Li and asked, "Monarch, look at this..."
Bai Li was playing chess with himself. He didn't lift his head when he heard the words, and asked, "Why, is Huzhou good to play?"
Huzhou is naturally not easy to fight. Since ancient times, the large granary must have been guarded by heavy troops. Encircling and suppressing Gu Huaiyang, Huzhou city guard is not easy to win.
Zou Yanlai paused for a moment and said, "But at this time, Huzhou is in a dry season. There are many mountains around, the terrain is slightly higher, and it is also a heavy granary. If I am Shi Wuyuan, I will definitely attack it with fire, and the city will not be able to support it..."
Zou Yan didn't finish his words, and saw that Bai Li looked up at him with a meaningful smile, and couldn't help but pause, Bai Li asked, "If the Huzhou granary is burned, it would not be good year after year, Zhangzhou, Luzhou and other places. Aren't people going to starve?"
Zou Yanlai didn't want the big devil to know these matters of national economy and people's livelihood, and immediately replied: "What the devil said is good, it is precisely because of this that Yan Dacai is worried that Shi Wuyuan's trick to surround Wei and save Zhao may be true..."
Bai Li sneered and interrupted him: "You don't have to worry about it, I came here and saw a lot of beggars on the side of the road. He was already starving and dying, he won't add fuel to the fire, rest assured, although Shi Wuyuan It's ruthless, but it's not as bad as you."
Zou Yan came to a stagnation, and immediately did not know what to say, so she could only shut up embarrassingly.
For a moment, I saw Bai Li holding a chess piece in his hand and said: "Don't worry too much about the woman, she probably doesn't have a lot of troops in her hand, Shi Wuyuan always likes to set off smoke bombs, I'm afraid it's just a cover, he wants to save Gu Huaiyang, I also understand that I am here, and I will definitely bring people here in person.”
He tapped his fingers lightly, and saw that the chessboard in his hand quickly turned into a huge sand table, and all the chess pieces became the bottom of mountains and valleys. Hold a small black flag and stick it straight to the entrance of the Minjiang River.
Zou Yanlai's eyes lit up, and she heard Bai Li say, "You send people to surround the city on three sides, like an iron barrel. If others think of something like besieging Wei and saving Zhao, but I am unreasonable, he is not someone else."
Bai Li seemed to have remembered something, narrowed his eyes and smiled, and continued: "He is daring and has always dared to do things that others dare not do. It's just taking advantage of the fact that Gu Huaiyang can run out of ammunition and food, if someone brute force opens the hole from here, the court's line of suppressing the bandit army is too long, and Gu's head will definitely not care."
Zou Yanlai was stunned for a while, and said, "Here... there are Pope masters guarding here..."
Before he finished speaking, Bai Li burst into laughter: "The Pope is a master? You mean the Pope's master?"
Zou Yanlai suddenly remembered the Da Zhoushan incident, and was rather embarrassed, so she stopped talking.
Bai Li said softly: "Last time I told him to run away, this time we will meet him again... I haven't seen him for a long time, and I actually miss him."
Zou Yanlai's heart was moved, he observed his words and expressions, only to see that Bai Li was not looking at him, his face showed a little soft look, not pretending to be fake, so he was a little scared and asked tentatively: "The last time the devil wounded that person with a divine arrow. Chest, but regret it?"
Do you regret it? Bai Li laughed, and at this moment shook his head with a good temper, and lowered his head to play with the sand table.
Naturally, don't regret it...but it's not that don't feel bad.
I don't know if it was human or natural, but when Bai Li and the others arrived at the mouth of the Minjiang River, it started to rain one after another.
Sure enough, that night, there was a sudden loud noise, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and someone in the camp shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Bai Li seemed to have not fallen asleep at all. He opened the tent with great alertness, and strode out. The fire was everywhere, and a loud noise came from the mountains, like a dull thunder. When he looked up again, he saw the boulders rolling down. Everywhere people turned their backs, but he actually laughed.
Blowing up Yamaguchi——It was something that person could do.