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Chapter 509 Hometown
Lee state.

"Uncle Wu, why do you want to leave? We can clearly hold on..."

"Zhao Dingyuan's soldiers and horses were blocked by the Song army at Bailaoguan." Wang Hanchen looked down at the map, picked up his pen and circled the Bailaoguan at the exit from Jinniu Road to Hanzhong, his eyes filled with thought.

Song Jun can appear in Bailaoguan, why?Did he win Hanzhong, or did he think far and wide and beat the fourth brother one step ahead?
At this moment, Wang Weizheng's chattering sounded in Wang Hanchen's ears again.

"Even if the reinforcements from Hanzhong are sent back, Lizhou City is still strong enough to stop Li Xia. When the siege of Hanzhong is over, we..."

Wang Hanchen didn't answer. After thinking for a long time, he got up and wanted to go out.

Wang Weizheng stretched out his hand to hold him, saying: "Nephew doesn't understand why he has to leave."

He plucked up his courage, glared at Wang Hanchen, and added another sentence.

"My nephew is the commander-in-chief."

Wang Hanchen was very anxious, and said patiently: "If we don't go back to Hanzhong, we will die if we are blocked by the Song army."

"Nephew is not afraid of death, as long as he can kill Li Xia to avenge his father..."

"enough!"

Wang Hanchen was finally furious, and shouted: "If you have time to be whimsical, why don't you look at the map more!"

Wang Weizheng was taken aback.

He has never been yelled at like this since he was a child.

And the map on the case had been crumpled into a ball and smashed on his face.

"Kill Li Xia? He stood up and asked you to kill him? If he retreats to Jianmenguan, can you attack with [-] miscellaneous soldiers?! Look at the location of this Lizhou. It’s a Jedi who can’t respond to the sky and the earth can’t work. Who will be the commander-in-chief at that time?! Fight, fight, take your head to surrender Li Xia!”

Wang Hanchen also endured it for three or four days, shaking out all the things that should be said and should not be said, and felt that he was losing his composure.

He patted Wang Weizheng on the shoulder, hurriedly walked, and went to arrange soldiers and horses.

Wang Weizheng squatted down, picked up the map, and was in a daze.

The 19-year-old commander-in-chief is respected by everyone wherever he goes, looking at him with flattering eyes... He once felt that the exiled immortal in the sky is just like himself.

As a result, there was disharmony in the war, and everything was exposed.

After squatting for a long time, Wang Weizheng collected his mood and went to find Wang Hanchen at the school ground in the city.

After all, Wang Hanchen was mature, and he didn't take the quarrel just now to heart. He said, "Commander, according to my opinion, we will lead [-] soldiers from the city to the north, and the rest... the rest of the troops will continue to guard Lizhou."

Wang Weizheng seemed to have changed a bit, nodded, and asked, "Is the food burned?"

Wang Hanchen was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, and said, "No need. The reason we left was just fear of the worst. Generally speaking, Lizhou can hold on."

Wang Weizheng said: "The men who can fight have already been taken away by their fathers and uncles, and they followed the Great Khan to attack Shu. The remaining [-] elite soldiers are all here, and the [-] people who drove the mouth, can they really be defended?"

"You don't need soldiers to defend the city, you can just throw wood and stones down the city." Wang Hanchen said: "Lizhou is surrounded by mountains, and the city is high and strong. 2 people can completely defend the siege of less than 8000 people.

"What Uncle Wu said is true. In normal combat, the Song army really has no possibility of breaking through Lizhou."

But Wang Weizheng became more decisive than Wang Hanchen, and said: "Then it's better to keep a team of confidantes. If Li Xia can't break through Lizhou, it will be better. If Lizhou is about to be broken, how about setting fire to the food?"

"What the commander-in-chief said is true." Wang Hanchen sensed the change in Wang Weizheng, and said, "Just now..."

"Fifth uncle doesn't need to say too much, nephew understands." Wang Weizheng said: "Gong Chang is the root of the Wang family."

~~
Wang Weizheng has completely forgotten the sentence he once said——

"Survive and die with Lizhou City, which my father has run for ten years, and live and die with the soldiers and civilians in the city."

……

But just outside Lizhou City on the banks of the Jialing River, there are still people who remember Wang Dechen's kindness.

Xu Qiaotou was punched in the face, fell to the ground, got up again, and raised his finger to Xu Kui in front of him.

"Okay... good fight!" Xu Qiaotou cried loudly.

With snot and tears covering his face, he stared at Xu Kui and took a step back.

"Xu Guidou, you're fucking capable, you've become an official... Hit me... I deserve to be beaten by you... I deserve to give you the last bag of food to escape..."

"I remember!" Xu Kui roared angrily, "But you are not allowed to say hello to the Wang family in front of me!"

"I owe you what I deserve. You have the ability. Your mother lived a long time, so that you can find a wife and have a baby... What about me? If you are single, you will die when you die." Xu Qiaotou shouted: "I deserve it." owe you."

"Is this a matter of food?! You became a Tartar soldier!"

"I'm a farmer..."

Xu Kui rushed forward and shouted: "The Mongols just chewed the rations you planted and killed them. Do you know how many brothers Paozhe they killed me?!"

"It's just you, the grandson, who has brothers... Can I manage it? The bark is useless, if it wasn't for Marshal Wang who recruited you to return to his hometown to farm..."

"I'll fuck you!" Xu Kui raised his foot and kicked.

Xu Qiaotou hugged his head and shouted: "Kick your father to death...Kick to death...Who in the village doesn't say that Mr. Wang is good...Xu Gui fights you, you son of a bitch, never go back to the village..."

"You said it!"

"Who has swept your family's grave these years?!"

Xu Kui stopped suddenly, his eyes blushing.

Xu Qiaotou rolled on the ground and cursed.

"You beat them down... so what? Can you move all the villagers to a mountain... to be a wild ghost who died outside... next year the Mongols will fight back, and you will flee again... take the whole village Kill! Kill!"

"You want me to beat you!"

Suddenly, someone ran over quickly, pulled Xu Kui, and reminded: "The general is here."

……

Li Xia walked up to Xu Qiaotou and held out his hand.

"stand up."

Xu Qiaotou dared to play tricks in front of Xu Kui, because he knew that Xu Kui would not be serious.

He didn't know what was called "integrity", he was very afraid of death, and he didn't dare to be arrogant in front of Li Xia, he didn't even dare to look at Li Xia.

"Little...little man..."

Xu Qiaotou's tongue seemed to be tied, unable to speak.

Li Xia said: "I heard what you were arguing just now. In this way, I assure you that after the recovery of Lizhou this time, there will be no more Mongolian soldiers entering Shu to plunder, not even one."

Suddenly, Xu Qiaotou asked, "Really?"

"Really, the gateway to Sichuan and Shu is in Hanzhong, and we hit Hanzhong."

Xu Qiaotou didn't understand these things, so he boldly asked again: "Tian...are you really going to plant it for us?"

Li Xia said: "You farm for the Mongolian people. Each person planted more than ten acres of land, with an annual output of eighty stones of grain? Of course, the fields are fertile and barren. I asked a few captives, and this is an approximate number."

"A villain who grows twenty acres...can grow a hundred stones of grain."

Li Xia said: "Turning ridges, weeding, and planting, the average man can't bear to plant eight acres of land. You have trouble with your legs and feet, and you can plant twenty acres?"

"Yes."

"Do you feel like living like an animal?"

Xu Qiaotou forgot that Li Xia was a general, and blurted out: "How can a man live well with livestock? Those horses and cows are carefully raised."

"How much food has been confiscated from you?"

"All... take it all away, and pay rations every month..."

Li Xia said: "After I take Fuli Prefecture, I will be exempted from taxation for three years, and three months of corvee every year during the slack season. After three years, the land tax will be [-] and one tax, and every two months of corvee, and the poll tax will not be charged. Do the math, how long can you save? Paying money to marry a wife? Do you live like a human being? After thinking about it, is it better for Wang Dechen or me?"

Xu Qiaotou is not stupid, don't count.

But he didn't believe it, so he just looked at Li Xia's boots in a daze.

Looking at it, he felt again... This general is serious, and there is not a single empty word in his mouth, he has actually calculated it.

Li Xia's hand was still outstretched, and he said, "Get up."

"Villain... dirty hands, villain get up on your own..."

Li Xia then patted Xu Kui on the shoulder and said, "Don't be impatient in everything, talk to fellow villagers when you meet them. Don't argue about whether you are a traitor or not, just talk about your livelihood in southern Sichuan."

"General, I finally understand."

"Healed?"

"Okay!" Xu Kui replied loudly.

Li Xia said: "Would you like to be the siege vanguard?"

"The last general takes orders! We will destroy Lizhou!"

~~
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lantern Festival.

Wang Hanchen and Wang Weizheng have led elite soldiers to support Hanzhong, and selected a few confidant generals to lead more than [-] troops to continue guarding Lizhou.

Just half a day later, the Song army began to attack the city.

This time, it was Zhaohua City and the Mongol-Han army captured by the Song army in the nearby hills that attacked the city first.

"Look, the Song people also started to drive the captives to die."

The generals of the Mongolian army guarding the city sneered and laughed, and then ordered: "Shoot the cannon stones! Destroy their pontoon bridge!"

The cannon stone was thrown, and the captives began to howl...

But gradually, things started to go wrong.

The Song army didn't drive the captives to take the ladder and attack the city with ants, but to come over on the pontoon bridge desperately, followed by shouts.

"Is Wuwa in the city? I'm your elder brother!"

"Kaicheng has surrendered! Hanzhong has been recovered! The Mongols have escaped..."

"The imperial court has exempted the land from taxation..."

All kinds of yells came, and the number of hurricanes thrown from the top of the city gradually decreased, and occasionally there were fights between the Mongol and Han troops on the city.

"Don't throw stones! My Uncle Shunzi is below..."

When they attacked the city that day, the Song army still didn't even touch the city wall.

With such an offensive, it is impossible for Lizhou to be captured until the Song army is dead...

While the generals of the Mongolian army breathed a sigh of relief, they also felt strongly disturbed.

They knew very well in their hearts that Li Xia had even used the "siege method" of sneak attacking Hanzhong, so how could he use the stupid "siege method" of storming Hanzhong again.

It is impossible for Lizhou to be attacked by force, but it is inevitable to lose it.

The commander-in-chief and the marshal have all escaped, no one is stupid...

They could only send people to appease the soldiers, talking about Wang Dechen's favor, and promising rewards after defending the city.

The soldiers were thankful, but then they muttered to themselves.

"Can you believe it?"

"The commander-in-chief said coexistence and death, what about people?"

"Flee, see that the situation is not good, run away quickly..."

~~
It was night, and there were neat shouts from nowhere.

"Submit to the imperial court and celebrate the Lantern Festival!"

"Submit to the imperial court and celebrate the Lantern Festival!"

"..."

As a result, Lizhou City was in chaos.

"Quick! Burn food and grass, withdraw from Lizhou!"

"Burn food and grass!"

"..."

"The generals are going to burn food!"

"Don't burn our food!"

"Open the city gate! Keep our food!"

"It's reversed! It's reversed! Open the city gate!"

"Kill Monta!"

"..."

Xu Qiaotou limped and rushed into Lizhou City after Xu Kui.

He kept shouting to everyone he met.

"You are being bullied by the Tartars, you are not living like human beings!"

He didn't know why he was so excited.

Maybe he was angry that the Mongols really wanted to burn the food he worked so hard to grow, although the food never belonged to him.

"Come on! Get the Tartars out of our house!"

(End of this chapter)