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Chapter 901 I Don’t Know Spring (31)

During dinner, I heard several thunderclaps again, but the rain only fell at night, and when Xue Ling rose again in the morning, it was already clear after the rain.I put my hand out from the window, but I didn't feel the cold outside, it seemed that the temperature didn't cool down.

It was just a good spring, and there were still some water droplets hanging on the window edge, and occasionally it fell into her hand.Xue Ling quickly retracted his hands and came back, feeling a little more joyful, and adjusted his clothes to start another day.

Yi Baiguo didn't come to ask, Hanyan came and went in a hurry, the two of them just said a few words.Counting on her fingers, Xue Ming had been gone for seven or eight days, and she swayed on the rocking chair in the yard with a piece of snack for a long time.

At the beginning of noon, someone probed his head and saw Xue Ling in the courtyard, so he stepped forward and asked, "Miss, are you interested in hearing about the affairs of the court in the past two days?"

Xue Ling opened his eyes wide, staring at the visitor and exaggerating: "Is there still a court event in these two days?"

The man couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "It's impossible to say that there is only one important task for the country. How dare you slack off for a day. There are some regulations here. Mr. Bai explained that if the girl is in the house, you don't bother me. Now that the girl is in the courtyard Here, the villain is taking the liberty to ask for instructions."

Xue Ling shook his head and said, "I didn't see you reporting anything a few days ago, I thought he was busy crying for his old mother."

The servant lowered his head and suppressed a smile, Xue Ling said again: "Say it, let's talk."

The servant then said that it was indeed several days in the original palace, after all the Empress Dowager's funeral is always observed, there is absolutely no son in the world who has to work after his mother's death, so the courtiers couldn't refute it.

But the state affairs should not be delayed. All the ministers of the various ministries will have a performance, and they will discuss it in detail in Wei Lang's study after entering the palace.Although Huo Yunwan has supernatural powers, she doesn't have the ability to keep a pair of eyeballs beside Wei Lang and stare at every detail, so she is not as transparent as usual.

However, the document came from Ancheng today, and it is reckoned that the content on it is not in line with Wei Lang's wishes. Many servants in the palace heard the emperor's fury, and they didn't know which courtier he was pointing at and scolded: "The war is urgent, the war is urgent, and he knows that Shen Yuanzhou is here. Guarding Ancheng, those who didn't know thought he was guarding my Golden Palace.

The place is as big as a palm, and it has been tight for a month or two, and it has not been eaten by others. Could it be that the barbarians have stuffed their teeth? "

Xue Ling laughed when he heard that, and after waiting for a while, the servant did not answer, and asked, "No more?"

The servant said: "There is nothing else. The words in the room are no easier to listen to than those in the court. Only this matter is related to Ancheng, and Mr. Bai has explained it a lot. By the way, the girl has a fuss about General Shen."

Xue Lingyang raised his hand and didn't answer, and the man retreated obediently.After the people left, Xue Ling got up and went back to the room, and looked at the Yuanding map again.

This city is really interesting, the whole terrain is like a big gourd.Surrounded by mountains on three sides from the bottom of the gourd, only one mouth of the gourd opened in the direction of Beijing.One person guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it. Everyone knows that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Otherwise, Huang Chengyu would not have followed Xue Ling's decision when he said it.

However, I don't know whether the soldiers and horses fighting against rebellion were guided by capable military advisers, or just because they were blessed.In short, the way to break this kind of city is death trap.

For a city that is difficult to attack, whether it is surrounded by mountains or by water, whether it is wide or deep, all of the above can be used to block outsiders according to the danger, but it also prevents the people in the city from getting out.If you stick to it and have no reinforcements, and the water and food are exhausted, you will be destroyed without attack.

Back then Huang Chengyu set up an ambush outside the city, he probably left thousands of soldiers outside, pretending to attack Wei Lang's side from time to time.But this kind of people is obviously just a drop in the bucket for the strong men who have been continuously transferred by the court. They can neither tear up the siege and let Huang Chengyu withdraw, nor can they repel them and win a big victory.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the city is broken.Even if Tuoba Mian hadn't occupied the northwest, it would have been impossible for the Huang family to win against Wei Lang.Now that the three parties are waiting, it seems that Xue Ling has lost his mind in a hurry.In this situation, it is really difficult to let the Huang family win a big game.

The servant who came to deliver the message just now was nothing more than Yibai reminding her that the war in Ancheng was still tight, if Huang Chengyu's side didn't hurry up, there would be no reason for Wei Lang to send troops back.If he didn't transfer the northwest troops away, Tuoba Mian would not really attack the city, and the Huang family must be the first to be unable to hold back.

Once the Huang family is finished, the strength of the big beams is in the northwest, and the emaciated camels are bigger than the horses, and they can last for a few years at the end of their strength.At that time, Wei Lang really answered his words. He won these two battles, even if he lost several cities in the northwest, he was still a real emperor.

Fortunately, there is a dark river in Yuanding.

Judging from the map, the river originates in the south of the city, which is the bottom of the gourd, runs through the whole process to the mouth of the gourd in the north of the city, and merges into the Haohaoyuan River outside the city.In other words, unless there is a severe drought for three years, there will be no shortage of water in Yuanding City.

But this also means that, in fact, all the water in Yuanding comes from this dark river.

She knocked and knocked on the map, her heart fluttered, and it took a long time to call the servant girl, and let someone tell Yibai that she came to discuss business in the afternoon, and then she took a pen and wrote a few surnames.

After lunch, I thought that Yibai would come over earlier, but Xue Ling waited for a while, but he didn't see anyone in the middle of the day, and suddenly remembered that Yibai would only show up when the sun was setting on the west mountain, so he lifted his feet and lay on his back on the bed go.

Sure enough, at the end of Shishen Shimo, the servant girl reported that Mr. Bai had asked to see him and invited people in. Xue Ling didn't exchange many greetings, but Yi Bai respectfully said that he was afraid that Xue Ling's rest would be bad for the past two days, so he purposely came later so as not to disturb Xue Ling's lunch break.

Xue Ling pointed to the map and said, "Forget about the gossip, come and have a look." When Yi Bai got closer, she drew a dark river on the map: "You can see this river."

Yibai looked intently. He had read the map a hundred times and could almost memorize it. When he saw what Xue Ling was pointing at, he immediately said: "I have seen it, this river originates from a deep pit on the mountain behind the south of Yuanding City. It is said that there is a deep valley inside, and the [-]-meter rope cannot touch the bottom, and people and animals will fall into it, and there will be no survivors."

Xue Ling moved his finger to the gourd mouth in the north of the city, and said, "According to the picture, the river runs through the entire Yuanding."

Xue Ling pointed to a well on the map and said: "There is a written record next to this well, which says it is called Zhonghai Well. Opposite it, there are four wells in east, west, north, south.

It is said that since Yuanding built the city, the water in the well has always been neither profit nor loss, even if the ground is far away, the water inside is still like a mirror.It is said in the city that these wells lead to the sea thousands of miles away, so they will never dry up, so they are called sea wells.

In your opinion, this is why. "

Yi Bai smiled and said: "It must be connected to the dark river, no doubt."

"That's right." Xue Ling tapped on the map: "Let's not talk about the well. I think the water sources in the city all come from underground rivers. Even the water in the open place must be connected to the underground river. You say, if How long can a person last without drinking water."

"There are still seven or eight days to live without food. If I don't drink, I'm afraid it won't be more than three days." Yi Bai paused, and said meaningfully: "Why did the girl talk about this?"

Xue Ling said with a smile: "I was in the palace yesterday, and I roughly mentioned to the girl of the Huo family that it is possible to lure the enemy with a feigned surrender, and invite you into the urn. It was just that I was in a hurry at the time, and I didn't have a good record. Speaking of which, the person who led the army this time to seek rebellion was Who."

"Yang Su, the former Lieutenant of Beijing, and later the emperor sent the former imperial guard to Kaiqing to put on armor as a supervisor of the army. The two generals are these two."

Xue Ling said: "That's it. I don't know how capable this Yang Su is, but I said yesterday that in ancient times when he was surrendered, he had to count the surrendered soldiers and prisoners according to the book. If the safety of the city cannot be ensured, as long as one of these two is not a fool, They will never lead troops into the city hastily."

Yibai said softly: "The girl of the Huo family also has this concern. Fortunately, there is no shortage of people in Yuanding City. Maybe some people are selected to pretend to be soldiers on the list for a while. Yang Su and Yang Su should not be able to tell each other apart in a short time. .”

Xue Ling said with a smile: "There is no living person who is willing to pretend to be a prisoner. As long as one person opens his mouth, then Yang Su will never lead troops into the city again."

Yibai bowed his head and said nothing, since he was pretending, of course he wanted those who couldn't open their mouths to pretend.Just make up an excuse, Huang Chengyu doesn't know how to manage soldiers after a long time of poverty, and it's common sense for civil strife in the city to kill each other, and a lot of people died.

It's just that I can't tell Xue Ling to listen to this, but he doesn't need to say it, Yibai knows that Xue Ling knows it well, otherwise he wouldn't ask the question deliberately.

Xue Ling said again: "I won't play tricks with you anymore, not to mention that it's against the harmony of nature to pretend that the corpses of rebels are from the people in the city, even if you and I don't care about this, this method is not safe.

There are still more than [-] to [-] Huang family soldiers in Yuanding City. According to common sense, they can last at least a month.Suddenly you mentioned the civil strife, I am afraid that Yang Su and the two of you will not believe it, when the time comes, you only need to remove the weapon of the surrendered person and the surrendered soldiers, and send them to another place, you and I will cut off our arms , there are not many available people left. "

Yibai hurriedly said deliberately: "The girl still said that you don't want to make a detour, I think you have made a detour nine times and eighteen times, I can't even understand it."

"What I mean is that if the water source of Yuanding is cut off, Yuanding should not last for five days."

Yibai smiled and said: "How can this work be done? The dark river is hidden under the cliffs and rocks, and no one can build a dam for it. If it is blocked from the surface, it is in the city of Yuanding. No one can go in."

"Why stop it, since all the water sources in the city come from here, if a bag of poison goes down, there will be no drinking water in the city."

(End of this chapter)