Judgement

Chapter 250 Three Killing Horses

Chapter 250 Three Killing Horses

If it is said that Zhao Li's defenders recruited three thousand men from the people of Chuzhou Prefecture at once, this would make Zhao Li feel mixed.The joy is that there are three thousand new forces in the defenders who are full of resentment towards the Jin people, but the worry is that the food and grass in the city are only enough for five days.People without the river fish and shrimp in the city to eat, life became more and more difficult.I don't know what happened to the river water in the city. As long as the soldiers and civilians in the Chuzhou mansion drink it, some people will be poisoned and die, but the river water flowing out of the inner city will be safe for the golden people to drink.Some people in the city said that the head was lowered in the water, and people cannot live without water for a day, so they dug wells from the inner city to get water in desperation.

Zhao Li really looked like Wu Zixu this time, his graying hair turned white overnight.After racking his brains, he stipulated two military disciplines in the city: "First, distribute the military rations in the city to every household in Chuzhou Prefecture, and each household only has three taels of brown rice and miscellaneous grains. Second, the army rations are halved. If there is a case where soldiers rob the people of food rations, they will not be forgiven."

As soon as Zhao Li's military order came out, the people in the city were all grateful.Every family can barely survive a few days by cooking porridge with three taels of brown rice and miscellaneous grains. Once the regulation of reducing military rations to supply the common people comes out, the old cook, Ma, will die.It's only half of the usual salary, and it's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice.The defenders have no food to eat, so how can they have the strength to fight? After thinking for a long time, the old horse changed the original three meals into one dry meal and one gruel, but in this way, the army can only have a few grains. days available...

Wan Yanchang seemed to be well aware of the plight of the Song army, and every day after three shots, he ordered Qi Jiangjun to attack the city.The soldiers defending the city no longer had bows and arrows to fight back against the Jin soldiers. They picked up stones in the city and threw them at the Jin army.As long as Wan Yanchang shot more than a hundred people, he would sound his horn and retreat, so that the defenders would only be beaten and had no chance to fight back.Zhao Li's face was swollen because of hunger on the top of the wall.Watching Wan Yanchang order the soldiers to retreat a hundred steps away from the city gate and start to bury pots and cook food, the Song soldiers on the top of the city looked at the Jin army's white rice and their eyes turned green...

People are iron and rice is rigid, if you don't eat a meal, you will feel hungry.Zhao Li looked at the rampant appearance of the golden men in the city, and when he thought about the fact that his soldiers could only drink rice porridge as thin as soup, he felt sad.The Jin people's heart attack was more lethal than the storming of the city. The fighting spirit of the Song soldiers was disintegrated invisibly, and the soldiers complained all over the place.For three consecutive days, Jin Bingwei surrounded Wuli outside the city and told Wan Yanchang not to attack Chuzhou Prefecture, but to drink and eat meat in large bowls on the battlefield.Song Bing couldn't even count on the only brown rice and miscellaneous grains in his daily life. Many soldiers were hungry and passed out on the spot because they were not full after drinking rice soup.Zhao Li sighed, turned around and went down the wall...

The cook, Lao Ma, was taking half a scoop of water from the well to rinse the pot. Lao Ma poured the water from the pot into a porcelain bowl, but Zhao Li saw it when he wanted to drink it.Zhao Li was startled and said, "Old Ma, do you eat this every day?"

The old horse panicked and said: "General, why are you here? I...I...I think there are still some rice stars in this pot, which can be eaten with well water."

Zhao Li inquired in the kitchen and heard that the old horse was not willing to eat, so he has been drinking shabu-shabu water to satisfy his hunger for the past few days.Zhao Li waved his hand to signal the old horse to sit down, hesitated before saying: "Old horse, there is a serious shortage of food and grass in the army. I want... to kill the... war horses in the city, and divide the meat among the soldiers and common people to survive. After a while... the future can only be discussed later." Lao Ma looked at Zhao Li silently, unable to say a word for a long time...

There are a total of hundreds of war horses in the stables in the inner city of Chuzhou Prefecture. In the inner city, the water chestnuts are lush and the war horses have never been hungry. They are fat, strong and majestic standing in the stables.War horses are very spiritual animals. On the battlefield, a faithful war horse will guard its owner from beginning to end.In the eyes of the war horses, Zhao Li's arrival was to let them go galloping on the battlefield, and they kept screaming and screaming.

The horseman hurried over to salute Zhao Li, and Zhao Li told the horseman the truth.In the stable, the stablekeeper stroked the head of one horse and stroked the back of another as if saying goodbye to them.The horseman also knew that tens of thousands of people in Chuzhou were starved to death every day, and now only these war horses could save the people in the city...

The cook Lao Ma sighed sadly, and took three war horses from the stableman.Zhao Li took off the general's robe, tore it into strips and covered the horse's eyes, and patted the horse's back lightly and left the stable.Many soldiers in the city saw Zhao Ma and the steward leading three horses with general robes on their heads out of the barracks. The people in the inner city streets didn't know what Zhao Li was going to do, so they followed Zhao Li in a frivolous way. He stood up until he reached an open place in the middle of the city.

Zhao Li shouted to the people in the city: "Chuzhou Prefecture has run out of food and grass, and today we have to kill horses to get meat to overcome difficulties. May the heavens bless my Song Dynasty forever, and bless the people in Chuzhou Prefecture City. Kill horses!"

The cook, the old horse, drew out his waist knife, and silently said a few words for the war horse.With a solemn expression, he raised his waist knife and walked in front of a war horse.Swallowing and shouting: "I would rather be a dog of peace than a person in a troubled world. I will let you die without pain. I just ask you to reincarnate in the next life and never go through this calamity again!" He cut his eye and severed the carotid artery of the horse.The war horse neighed a few times before crashing down, and the hot horse blood spurted out and sprayed, staining a large area of ​​loess red...

The other two war horses heard the wailing of their companions, and knelt down on their front legs one after another.The war robe wrapped around the horse's eyes was immediately wet, and the surrounding people and the defenders at the top of the city all saw this scene.Many people were secretly wiping away their tears. The cook, the old horse, clenched his waist knife that was still dripping and bleeding, and he couldn't take it anymore, and said slightly tremblingly: "Great... General, this... this ...These two horses are so pitiful, I don't think we should kill them anymore."

Zhao Li smiled wryly and said: "There are still tens of thousands of people without food in the city, and the soldiers in the army can no longer lift the stones on the top of the city. The war horses are indeed pitiful, but if they are not killed, what will the people in the city eat? Old horse, let's do it!" The cook held the knife in a daze for a long time and didn't dare to move, the blood of the dead horse had already accumulated several puddles of different sizes on the loess.

Zhao Li looked up to the sky and screamed desolately: "Wan Yanchang, I will ask you to pay for this debt sooner or later. Even if I die and turn into a ghost, I will not let you go, Wan Yanchang, just wait!" Zhao Li While standing up and roaring, he drew his sword and stabbed the two horses on the left and right. Blood gushed out of the horse's nostrils. He didn't even hum, his limbs twitched and fell to the ground, and his heartbeat slowly stopped.

The old man disemboweled the three dead horses lying on the ground, and cut the flesh into fist-sized pieces and distributed them to the hungry people in the city.It didn't take an hour and a half for the two horses to be separated, and even the bones were left.After the people in the city were divided, the remaining horse was dragged by the soldiers in the kitchen to wash and cook.Zhao Li stood there for a long time in the city full of horse blood, as if mourning for the three war horses...

That night, the defenders in the barracks all ate meat after a long absence.The cook Lao Ma gave the wounded horse meat stewed crispy meat. In order to survive, people in the whole Chuzhou Mansion ate the war horses that had made great achievements on the battlefield.The problem of food and grass has been temporarily alleviated, but step by step, they are stepping into the trap set by Wuli...

"What! You said you wanted them to eat the horse meat on purpose? Wouldn't you put something in the horse meat and make them go crazy after eating the horse meat?" Wan Yanchang was surprised Looking at Woli, hearing the information that Woli brought back from Song Yingli is puzzling.

Wuli looked at Yan Chang disdainfully and said, "Zhao Li and the others are like tigers without teeth. I don't want them to die right now. I want them to live. Right now they have horse meat to eat, but they can't last." The war horses of the Song army will be killed in one month. At that time, I will watch them eat people. When the time comes when I have accumulated enough resentment, I can use the Tower of the Undead to take away all their souls. Help you make things happen against the sky!" Wan Yanchang listened to Wu Li's words in fear, kept silent and secretly murdered him in his heart, and this person must not stay after the thing is done...

As Woli expected, all the war horses in the Chuzhou Mansion were killed after a month, and the common people and soldiers could not find anything to eat after eating the horse meat.Wan Yanchang's subduing army would come to the city to provoke every day like maggots attached to their bones. After shooting and killing a few Song soldiers, they retreated to the barracks, not in any hurry to attack the city.In order to protect the wild vegetables in the inner city of Chuzhou Prefecture, in the next month, the people and soldiers of Chuzhou Prefecture were dug up and stripped of all the bark.You can see hungry and fainted people everywhere in the city. Their lives are like candles in the wind, and they may never get up again at any time...

Zhao Li found the quartermaster on the top of the city and asked him if there were any edible things in the city.The quartermaster shook his head in embarrassment and said: "The military rations have long been exhausted, and there are only five hundred stones of white flour rewarded by the emperor in the grain depot. But after being damaged by the fire, there are not many left of those white flours that are just fancy but not useful." , if it is distributed to each family in the city, it will be able to share about one or two. A drop in the bucket will not help at all, and besides, how long will the Jin people have to besiege? Once the imperial rescue arrives, these white noodles may save the last in the Chuzhou government. Hope, "Zhao Li understood what the quartermaster meant. The white flour in the grain depot was not taken out until the decisive battle with the Jin people. Compared with the Chuzhou government, the life and death of the common people seemed a bit insignificant.

The cook Lao Ma limped in with an earthen pot and said, "General, today I caught a few sparrows and made a pot of soup for everyone to taste. If you want to be a goldsmith, you must not be hungry." When the defenders heard that there was food to eat, they all salivated at the crock in the old horse's hand.

Zhao Li frowned and said, "Old Ma, where did the sparrows come from in the Chuzhou government? Why can't I even see a crow? What's wrong with your leg? Could it be that you were beaten by a sparrow?" Ma bowed his head and remained silent when asked by Zhao Li, hiding his injured leg all the time.

Zhao Li walked over and rolled up the old horse's trouser legs, and saw that a large piece of flesh was missing from the old horse's bony thigh.Zhao Lida yelled: "Old Ma, is this a knife wound? What did you do?..."