Delong

Chapter 214 Walking in the Snow (13)

The officers and soldiers quickly besieged the city.

And Li Shu handled it well, and the appearance of Xiong Bonan should be regarded as making up for the most dangerous shortcoming in time... The masked master on the opposite side did appear on the top of the city, but he encountered a long-term fame. The famous Purple Faced Heavenly King and two Chengdan masters fought in the air for a whole morning, but both of them are proper people with martial arts virtues, which naturally attracted the whole city to watch.

Li Shu also let his followers watch.

After experiencing this great defeat, no one would make the mistake of underestimating the enemy. Compared with them, most of the defeated soldiers were depressed. It made them realize that it is a good thing that the Dragon Gang also has top experts.

It is worth mentioning that Shan Tonghai was not among those who were depressed. He struggled up to the top of the wall and lost interest after looking at it for a while. It's just a human being, and when one's cultivation level improves, he may not be able to lose, and he may even take revenge.

In contrast, the big leader is more worried that the military power will be wiped out.

It's just that the big leader Shan himself also understands that in such a situation, he must be united and united, and the unity of command is fundamentally necessary, so his actions are limited to dragging his lame legs and internal injuries to move around, appease the wounded and break the army, Inquire about intelligence.

After turning around, Shan Tonghai, who was not too depressed in the morning, became completely powerless at night, because of his [-] soldiers, only three or four thousand came back, and more than half of them were Jiyin Zhongjun.

In other words, the soldiers from Lu County and the military bandits from Juyeze almost ran away. They attacked in the past few months, and in exchange for nothing, even the headquarters suffered heavy losses.

Back at the residence, he had a boring meal, and at night, Shan Dalang tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, but he found Cheng Dalang from the same hospital again... Anyway, the two of them can now be regarded as out-and-out sympathy, plus brothers in trouble .

At this time, Cheng Dalang can tolerate it even if he is cheap, but even if other people are polite, it makes people feel unhappy.

Knocked on the door, Shan Tonghai heard a reply from inside, dragged his legs in, and saw Cheng Dalang talking to the young man surnamed Jia, the latter two shut up immediately when they saw him coming in, and the young man surnamed Jia immediately Make room and stand aside.

When Shan Dalang saw this, he didn't look outside at all, and sat down directly.

"Boss Shan, take care of yourself." Cheng Dalang replied coldly. "I'm still running around with a limp, and I'm not afraid of being laughed at."

"You have to walk around only when you are lame, otherwise people will just think you are dead." Shan Tonghai didn't hold back at all. "It's better than your Cheng Dalang side, even if you want to walk around, there is nowhere to go..."

Cheng Dalang smiled, as if he was laughing, but also seemed to be laughing at himself.

And Shan Dalang glanced at the young man surnamed Jia standing on the side, feeling more and more emotional: "You have to thank Xiao Jia, if it weren't for him, there are hundreds of Qingqi left without a shadow."

Cheng Dalang just didn't speak.

Seeing this, Shan Tonghai was not in a hurry, just sighed, and suddenly became serious: "Brother Cheng, you are older, I want to ask you a truth..."

Only then did Cheng Zhili look at the other party seriously: "What's the point?"

"That is, what is it that determines this country in this world? Or what is the most powerful and fundamental?" Shan Tonghai answered seriously. "Is it because of the strength of the number of people, or the power of money, food, and silk? Or is it because of the cultivation base that changes the world? Or is it about soldiers and iron horses?"

"I think it's a human being." Cheng Zhili replied sincerely. "Because food is grown by people, silk is woven by people, armor is made by people, and even copper, gold and silver are dug out by people! Without people, even a country is meaningless!"

"What about your cultivation level?" Jia Runshi couldn't help interjecting to ask.

"Cultivation is also made by people." Cheng Dalang glanced at Jia Runshi, and continued to talk to Shan Tonghai who was listening carefully. "When I was young, I also felt that my cultivation base was up, and I could do anything. After all, there are supreme beings and great masters there. Why is it that whoever has the highest cultivation base has the final say? But after thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong. ...Because the higher the level of cultivation, the more you have to explain a truth. The right pulse is dead kung fu, and the strange scriptures talk about a state of mind. When you reach the alchemy, if you visualize things in the wrong way, it doesn't fit The truth is that you can't go up an inch... But what is this truth? Isn't it God's will? And what is God's will, isn't it to take care of people's thoughts? Look at the two of the witch clan Sinlong and Heichi... ..."

Shan Tonghai was stunned, and shook his head: "This statement is new, but it does have some truth, but it is still somewhat wrong."

"you say……"

"I also think it's a human being." Shan Tonghai answered earnestly with arms crossed and legs crossed. "But it's not necessarily because of the large number of people... you ten good guys are the same as one hundred bad guys? The most obvious thing is that the three clans of Guanlong, Hebei, and Jiangdong fought for hegemony before. There are more Zhengmai, but whose family has more strange scriptures, whose family has more Condensed Pills, and more Grandmasters... If it weren't for this, could Guan Long gradually win back and win in the end?"

Cheng Dalang nodded: "There is a reason..."

"People are different from people." Shan Tonghai tried to conclude. "Gold and silver, iron horses, cultivation bases, and manpower are all right, and they are all effective, but you must know how to choose the big and lose the small, and choose the best... Gold and silver choose the big ones, iron horses choose the best, and those with high cultivation bases, manpower Choose the honest and healthy ones... I learned a lot from a fall, this was my idea in the previous battle."

Cheng Dalang thought for a while, and immediately realized what was wrong:
First of all, we are a rebel, so it’s good to have it, where is it your turn to pick and choose?This is like in a piece of land, with only half an acre of seedlings, you can get rid of weeds at most, but do you want to get rid of ordinary bad seedlings?It is right that you want to choose, but you have to choose.

Secondly, you are a big leader who has just fallen a lot, and you are not a leader. If you choose like this, are you afraid that people will choose you like this?

As soon as he thought of this, Cheng Zhili wanted to open his mouth to mock the other party, but he looked at the other party's appearance and thought about his confidant Jiaqi who only came back seven or eight times, but he lost his mind.

Instead, he tried his best to nod his head: "Shan Dalang has some reasons."

There is indeed some truth, who can say that there is no reason?

Shan Tonghai felt relieved, nodded along, and then asked: "What did you two just say?"

"It's Li Dalong's military order that came down, and he asked Xiao Jia to go to work. He came to me to ask the key points." Cheng Dalang finally cheered up.

"Sure enough... Li Gong will even move your hundreds of horses." Shan Tonghai sighed. "But you are indeed saving lives, and you have nothing to say. This is called being inferior to others. It deserves it. I have already admitted it... There are only [-] new recruits and [-] defeated soldiers in the city, and they are really trapped to death in this city by the other party. , we are really going to die."

Cheng Zhili was speechless, but Jia Runshi couldn't help but interjected, explaining a bit: "Big Chief Shan is thinking too much... Li Gong wants to take advantage of Qingqi's scouts and our local advantages to let me take advantage of it." Taking advantage of the opportunity that the enemy's siege could not completely lock the city, he secretly brought these hundreds of Qingqi back to Qi County to spread rumors..."

"Spread what?"

"That is to say, Zhang Taishou went out of the country to suppress... the battle outside the country cost a lot of money and food. He planned to collect corvee and transport food in Qi County, and he also planned to send more money and food to be used as military resources." Jia Runshi explained seriously. "Let me ask Boss Cheng where to go and how to say it."

Shan Tonghai was stunned, and was at a loss for a moment: "What's the use of this? Even if it is useful, the distant water can't quench the near thirst, right?"

"I asked. Although Xiao Jia was on the way, he was only a latecomer. Before that, some scattered local descendants also brought gold and silver, and went out before the siege. They also wanted to spread rumors. To spread the word in Lu County...it is said that the people of Qi County came to fight and wipe out the rebels, but the people of Lu County are required to pay for food, food, and so on..." Cheng Dalang explained briefly. "I guess it came in conjunction with the spring plowing. As long as the spring plowing is done immediately, Zhang Xuguo will not leave, and the defeated soldiers in the local area will not gather and stabilize, then there will be miraculous results."

Shan Tonghai is still a little unbelievable.

But it's hard for him... They are also tyrannical, Cheng Dalang is a tyrant who focuses on manor farming; Xu Dalang is a tyrant who focuses on business;

Everyone's perception is different.

This is a matter that the other three people can understand a little bit, but it is completely in the blind spot of Dantonghai.

But on the other hand, Shan Tonghai's ability to play chess unscrupulously and expand his army before, including the attitude of daring to fight, is also incomparable to the other three, especially Cheng Dalang, who is from his hometown with three acres of an acre.

The two continued to talk for a while, and it was inevitable to avoid the affairs of the gang and the immediate battle, and then they imagined the queen and the palace treasures from afar...but unexpectedly, they didn't talk about Zhang Xing and Li Shu, and didn't talk about things around them.

Because the two of them, who were the most beaten, have faintly realized at this time, just like the big expansion before, starting from the head-on blow of Qi County Lao Ge, I am afraid that the following days will be difficult, and they will talk about some things too deeply. On the contrary, it is useless.

The next few days will be the most difficult, with the defeated army and the ruined city, the people's hearts are unstable, and the officers and soldiers have repeatedly defeated the strong with the weak, and they have already taken on a new look.

This kind of contrast between internal and external spirituality, with Zhang Xuguo's bold division of troops to capture Xuchang and Sucheng (both belonging to Dongping County) behind Pinglu, and after forming a situation of only [-] people surrounded by [-] people, it reached a peak. An extreme.

Everyone knew that this was a strategy to lure the enemy, but there seemed to be some conspiracy in it, and they really didn't dare to attack.

But because of this, the middle and high-level people in the city also began to panic.

Under such circumstances, someone proposed to ask Wang Wulang to immediately return his troops to help, because the latter also occupies most of the counties in Jibei, with tens of thousands of people, and now the opponent divides his troops and fights hard.

However, this proposal was firmly rejected by Li Shu. Not only that, he continued to send messengers wantonly while the opponent was dividing his troops, asking Wang Wulang to leave this place alone and just go east to approach Qi County.

Shan and Cheng defeated the generals, Li Shu and Xiong Bonan were here, so naturally no one could shake the policy, so the strategy continued and persisted.

And this kind of persistence soon had a miraculous effect after the spring plowing began.

Zhang Xuguo sat in the main camp, surrounded by generals on both sides, all of them looked gloomy, and all their eyes were fixed on one of them who was wearing an official uniform.

After a while, Zhang Xuguo made up his mind: "Drag it out, and use military law."

"I don't accept it!" Hearing this sentence and seeing the soldiers dragging him, he knew that he was unlucky, so he yelled and asked. "Why does the Tong Shou of Qi County kill the food cao of Lu County? No one is willing to transport food for you, so why blame me?"

No one moved at all.

But when the person was dragged out of the tent, Fu changed his tone again, crying and begging directly: "Mr. Zhang, it's not that I didn't work hard on this matter, but the common people just don't trust us, even if they would rather be a thief than a conscript, I am What can I do without soldiers? What can I do? Let me die..."

After crying for a while, the sound stopped abruptly, and everything became quiet again.

Until this time, Zhang Xuguo held his gray beard and let out a heavy breath... He never expected that he would fight such a beautiful battle and recover almost the entire Lu County, but he could not get any Support and return.

Those Lu County soldiers who had been surrendered returned home, not only restless, but also helped the gangsters of the Dethrone Dragon Gang to spread rumors all over the sky, making the whole Lu County the way it is now, it is all his fault.

Why can't local officials fulfill their duties?

Why can't the people live and work in peace and contentment?
Why do you believe in those gangsters of the Dragon Gang, but not in yourself?
"The traitors of the Dragon Gang released food... Zhishi Army also released." Jia Wugen hesitated for a moment, and spoke carefully. "Your Majesty, ordinary people have shallow eyelids, shall we release food as well?"

"Before the food was released in Qi County, the food was released first." Zhang Xuguo sighed, but there was also a hint of anxiety. "Here in Kelu County, the bandits and rebels put half of the food in accordance with the autumn rations. Let's put more, how much? If we put too much, how will the army rations be maintained? If we put less, I'm afraid they won't appreciate it. And... and it's Lu County, not Qi County, it is my duty to put the food in this county, so what is Lu County?"

Everyone sighed, or were irritable, or were puzzled.

Then, Du Wei Fan Hu seriously reminded: "General, there is one more thing. Now that the spring plowing has started, the people are not willing to come out to serve as slaves. It was us who delayed the spring plowing and ruined a year's plan."

"If it doesn't work, let's just grab some strong men and bring them out." Yu Baimei was furious, and was the first to give up thinking. "Continue the rations first."

"It's not that we can't arrest strong men by force, but I'm afraid that if we arrest them today, they will become new thieves as soon as they leave tomorrow." Jia Wugen said the truth with a blank expression. "The people in the Eastern Territory, how afraid they are of the corvee service in the army, do they still want to speak out?"

And this sentence seemed to hit Zhang Xuguo's weakness, the general guard of Qi County became more and more depressed, so he simply stood up without saying a word, and walked out with his hands behind his back.

Leaving the big tent, waiting for the temporary rammed earth to build the general platform, ignoring the dead bodies that have not been cleaned up, and then looking around... In the past, he usually only looked at the military layout of the enemy and us in and around the city, plus the geographical situation , but it is rare to watch something else today.

There was still smoke from the cooking in the village in sight, but Zhang Xuguo knew that there were no people in the village long ago, and all of them had turned into camps where Qijun soldiers were stationed, and the soldiers were cooking.And the hard ground around it that has been trampled on is actually arable land, but the ridges and ridges have already been leveled.

Only the barley seedlings just drilled out of the camp are stubbornly proving something... These messy barley seedlings that grew by themselves due to the previous harvest and fall, should have been uprooted, and then re-plowed the land for sowing, but at this time because of the stubbornness of the weather Growing up there, it seems to be mocking the soldiers and farmers in this place at the same time.

"Divide two thousand soldiers and Fan Hu, and go to transport the food in person. By the way, recruit husbands from several cities, especially rogues and merchants. It's enough to recruit two or three thousand. It doesn't matter if there is more noise." After watching for a long time, Zhang Xuguo Suddenly he turned around and gave instructions to the people behind him. "Let Fan Bao and the others approach slowly from Dongping..."

"Still dividing troops to lure the enemy?" Fan Hu was stunned for a moment.

"I'm afraid Li Shu is a knowledgeable guy and won't fall for it." Zhang Xuguo answered seriously.

People no longer distinguish.

However, time passed quietly, and at the end of the first lunar month, when the spring plowing was in full swing, Li Shu did not move... and the logistics of Qi County's soldiers and horses became more and more difficult.

Zhang Xuguo divided his troops three times and asked Yu Baimei to lead 500 people to sweep the area.

But Li Shu still didn't move.

But at this time, the official documents that started to turmoil in Qi County arrived before the Zhang Xuguo case. The old leather who had won many battles on the battlefield finally gave up struggling and chose to retreat.

His military ability seems to have no room for Li Shu's rumors and some gold and silver.

"How to say?" Zhang Xuguo suddenly stopped in the north of Gongqiu City, beside Wenshui, and then waited for Zhang Changgong's return.

"Not moving." Zhang Changgong said something. "The soldiers and horses in the city haven't moved at all, and Xiong Bonan is still in the city."

Zhang Xuguo immediately shook his head...Obviously, he was ready to bite back and counterattack, but it was a pity that Li Shu got the right posture and still didn't move.

Seeing this, Zhang Changgong hesitated for a moment, and continued to report: "But that Cheng Dalang went out of the city alone, and he settled the case at our camp under the city."

Like everyone else, Zhang Xuguo was at a loss: "What case to settle?"

"Dividing the land." Zhang Changgong answered seriously, unable to see the expression under the mask at all. "As soon as we left, the farmers who didn't know where to go before flocked back. The Dragon Gang gave them military rations to make seeds, and they seemed to have saved some at home. They picked the seeds and started plowing the land... ...But before we set up camp to smooth out the ridges, there were often disputes about who occupied whose land. Cheng Zhili was shot by the county lord, and his legs were not healed, but he still came out to adjudicate the case and adjudicate the dispute ...It is said that the land is granted anyway, and the land is repainted."

Zhang Xuguo opened his mouth and didn't know what to say for a moment, but felt cold all over.

After a while, he still didn't know that the empress had been robbed by the Dragon Gang, and he made an attributive sentence: "The disaster of the world is only with the Dragon Gang!"

After shouting, there was nothing to do, so he could only order the whole army to go east along the Wenshui River and withdraw to Qi County.

"You say, is the calamity of the world in the Dragon Clan or in Guanlong?" At almost the same time, in the Eastern Capital city, thousands of miles away, in the black tower, Uncle Cao's eyes were tearing apart.

Amidst the chaotic and noisy sound of wind chimes, there were seven or eight red ribbons and a dozen or so black ribbons in front of the great master, and everyone was silent like cicadas.

Can let Uncle Cao be invited away by the Queen, chop off his second Taibao's hand, abolish the three most elite patrol teams, clear Liang County, and reverse half of Liang County by the way, To be able to ask this sentence... Of course, there is a good reason.

It sounds funny, but it is true, that is, the Guanlong clan chose to stop farming in order to fight against Uncle Cao's tyranny.

That's right, the leaders of the Guanlong army, who occupy more than [-]% to [-]% of the land in Guanlong, the largest and most orthodox ruling group in this world, have begun to protest, and they have a non-violent and non-cooperative attitude... Spring plowing is coming, but they refuse to plow The land, there are rumors that unless Cao Huangshu stops snatching private slaves from them to fill the army, or wait for everyone to eat a few large warehouses of old grain.

Luokou warehouse, Liyang warehouse, and Guangtong warehouse have plenty of grain. If you don’t believe me, Uncle Cao doesn’t distribute grain.

Uncle Cao is in power, can people starve to death?
Not only that, those people in the Nanya meeting hall were still urging Uncle Cao to send troops as soon as possible to take away the soldiers who fought against the rebellion in Nanyang and the Wu brothers, and went to fight Zhang Xing, the number one traitor in Jiyin.

Or Huangshu Cao would go there himself and crush the traitor who is said to have condensed alchemy to death.

Don't let him get away.

PS: good night

(End of this chapter)