Gu Huaiyang was really in trouble.
On the sixth day of the lunar new year, for the first time, the imperial court's bandit suppression army pressed down on the border from all directions, fighting hand-to-hand for three days.
On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the Red Scarf Army withdrew back to East Vietnam.
On the fifteenth day, the more than half-damaged bandit suppression army ushered in 100,000 reinforcements, and the soldiers approached the city. Gu Huaiyang and others fought stubbornly.
By the day of the 21st, all the food, supplies, supplies, etc. were in urgent need, and Gu Huaiyang knew that this time it was at the end of his battle.
The imperial court devoted all its power to separate Dongyue from Haining, intending to encircle and suppress them one by one. Dongyue's easy-to-defend and hard-to-attack land turned into a prison. Gu Huaiyang listened to Lu Yunzhou's report on the battle situation of the city, his face was covered with stubble, but he was silent and did not speak.
At the end, Lu Yunzhou said succinctly: "Brother, there is no food left for people and horses, so why don't you think of a way."
"How much is left?" Gu Huaiyang asked.
"Three days, at most three days."
Gu Huaiyang was silent for a moment, tapping the table lightly with a dry, cracked palm, frowning tightly, and said for a moment, "I see."
Lu Yunzhou doesn't talk much on weekdays, and he isn't someone who is easy to get close to. Except for his only daughter, he can talk more with a few sworn brothers. At the moment, he was just standing on the side, hesitant to speak. Gu Huaiyang looked up at him and asked, "What?"
Lu Yunzhou frowned slightly, and said sullenly: "It's nothing, I remembered Lu'er, and I don't know how Xiao Liu's injury is."
Gu Huaiyang said: "A few days ago, I saw Si Niang's letter saying that Xiaoliu's injury was better, and Lu'er was also taken care of by her, so I think she must be fine."
Lu Yunzhou nodded.
Gu Huaiyang glanced at him again, and couldn't help sighing: "Is there someone chewing on the tongue with you? You and my brother, what can't you say?"
Lu Yunzhou hesitated for a while, then said: "Deputy General Guo Hui asked me to tell my elder brother, if after three days, the reinforcements and food are still unable to come in, should we ask for food from... the local people?"
After hearing this, Gu Huaiyang was speechless for a while, then sneered and said, "Requisition for grain? I think Guo Hui is talking about grabbing grain, right?"
Lu Yunzhou lowered his eyes and remained silent.
"Puff—hahahahaha," Gu Huaiyang laughed out loud. He covered his face with his hand, only showing a pair of dry and pale lips. With only one breath left, he was reluctantly dragged by a few brothers who were in exile together. They begged for the rations they needed, and everyone saved each other for him, which saved his life. His younger brother, who was only eight years old when he died, was thin. Like a little monkey, with a little bigger hand, he grabbed the corner of his clothes and said, 'Brother, I'm hungry, I want to eat bread pancakes', but until we died, we didn't let the child eat a mouthful of bread pancakes."
Lu Yunzhou's eye circles were slightly red: "Brother."
"Now that bastard is doing well, why did he ask me to take them with him?" Gu Huaiyang said in a voice that was as gentle as an afternoon routine, "Snatching food? Thankfully he can figure it out, thankfully he can think of it." come out!"
The tone of his last sentence suddenly rose, and when he raised his hand, he swept down the thick porcelain tea bowl on the table, and it shattered into several petals with a crisp sound.
In troubled times, in order to survive, they are brazen and do everything they can, robbing the rich instead of helping the poor, taking advantage of loopholes in the court to amass money desperately, even robbing bandits and hooligans, recruiting soldiers, and even killing the Haining Red Scarf Army in just a few years. It has grown to the point where the imperial court must be afraid.
However, how can we kick down the doors of the common people's houses and grab food with a knife and gun
Souls of the dead are everywhere, mountain ghosts howl, who can not be frightened, not bitter, not wandering
After all, what are the people guilty of
Even these rebellious ministers and traitors, which one of them was heinous at the beginning
Thinking about it, it probably means not cultivating in the previous life, and being born at the wrong time.
"From now on, tell everyone to tighten their belts." Gu Huaiyang stood up, and when he looked up again, his face was already full of determination. He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lu Yunzhou.
Lu Yunzhou took it in a little surprise, opened it, and found that it was filled with familiar handwriting that was clearly written by Shi Wuyuan, even though Lu Yunzhou has never shown any emotions, he couldn't help showing a little excitement immediately: "Brother, this is... "
He wanted to say that the contact with Haining had been completely cut off, how did Shi Wuduan 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, and ask everyone to last for another three to five days. There is a way to get us out of trouble, so don’t worry, but… I’m going to put my words here today. My Red Scarf Army is an army of loyal kings. If I run amok on the street, I will let his head fall, I, Gu Huaiyang, will do what I say!"
"yes!"
Seeing Lu Yunzhou turn around and go out, Gu Huaiyang smiled wryly, put on his armor, and went to inspect the city wall himself.
Now that Dongyue is under siege, there are hundreds of thousands of troops inside, and the opponent's pope masters are sitting outside, I am afraid that even a fly cannot fly out, how to send the letter out
Xiao Liu, now our brother's life or death depends on you.
Shi Wuduan was indeed the first to get the news that Dongyue was besieged, which caused his chest wound to heal, so he stood up from the bed, sent an urgent letter to Meng Zhongyong, and set up the army tent, no one tried to dissuade him —Nobody was in the mood to dissuade him.
All the elites of Haining were taken away by Gu Huaiyang. If they can't solve the difficulties of East and Vietnam, the future will be difficult and dangerous. Ten years of painstaking efforts may be in vain. Everyone is on the cusp of this crisis.
Later, Shi deployed troops for no reason, but did not forcefully attack Dongyue. Li Siniang personally led a surprise attack on Wanjiang, Huining, and Zhaojiaqu in the south of Zhangzhou, approaching Huzhou, the big granary of Zhangzhou.
It seems that they are going to besiege Wei and rescue Zhao.
In Haining County, Shi Wuduan couldn't sleep for a few hours every night, and his lungs were still injured. Every day when Lan Ruo delivered the medicine, he would hear him coughing so badly. When she saw her bring the medicine, he just nodded and said thank you Without even frowning, he poured a bowl of bitter black medicine down his throat as if drinking water, without lifting his head.
Information, maps, letters, and battle reports from the secret channels of caravans from all over the world were mixed together and spread out on his table. Lan Ruo knew that she was just a girl who took care of others. After going up, he stepped aside, waiting for him to hand back the empty medicine bowl.
Under the shadow of the lamp, Shi Wuduan always had a calm expression. For some reason, his appearance reminded Lan Ruo of a word - heart of stone.
She couldn't help but think of a sentence said by the most learned gentleman in the village: It's really nothing if a person is cruel to others, and the hardest-hearted person is just as cruel to himself.
Lan Ruo became puzzled, she thought, Mr. Liu is such a gentle and polite person, especially when he smiles at others, it makes people feel as if his heart has been swept lightly by a feather, how could he be so cruel? What about people
Shi Wuduan didn't stay in Haining for a long time, and within a few days of Li Siniang's action, he set off with the rest of the soldiers regardless of his injuries. Lan Ruo followed the army, Shi Wuduan pitied her for being a helpless girl, so he sent her away. Putting it together with the military doctors, I usually only need to help deliver medicines to take care of some military patients. Later, I was worried that she would not be able to bear it, so I prepared a car for her alone, with thick cushions inside.
It caused several soldiers in the military medical team to smile at her inexplicably: "Miss Lan Ruo, Liu Ye treats you very well."
Master Liu is always very kind to others. Lan Ruo secretly remembered that when she delivered medicine to Shi Wudu as usual two days before departure, Master Liu lowered his eyebrows and asked her softly if she could still keep up with the itinerary. She couldn't help it. Red in the face.
At the same time, Yan Zhen and others also received the battle report-Huzhou is in a hurry.
Bai Li and Zou Yan came to Dongyue with the army, saw Yan Zhen's letter, Zou Yan came to look at Bai Li, and asked: "Devil Lord, look at this..."
Bai Li was playing chess with himself, and without raising his head, he asked, "Why, is Huzhou easy to play?"
Huzhou is naturally not easy to fight. Since ancient times, the land of the big granary must have been heavily guarded. Gu Huaiyang, the city guard of Huzhou is not easy to win.
Zou Yanlai paused for a moment and said: "But at this time, Huzhou is in a state of dry weather, surrounded by mountains, slightly higher terrain, and it is also a place with important granaries. If I am Shi Wudu, I will definitely attack it with fire, and the city will never be able to support it..."
Zou Yanlai didn't finish speaking, but 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 won't be good for years to come. Zhangzhou, Luzhou, etc. Aren't people going to starve?"
Zou Yanlai didn't want the big devil to know these things about the national economy and the people's livelihood, so he immediately replied: "What the devil said is right, it is precisely because of this that Master Yan is worried that Shi Wuduan's trick to encircle Wei and save Zhao may really..."
Bai Li sneered, interrupted him and said: "You don't have to worry about that, I saw a lot of beggars on the side of the road along the way, they were starving and dying everywhere, he won't add fuel to the flames, don't worry, Shi Wuyuan doesn't care. It can be considered cruel, but not as bad as you."
Zou Yanlai was stunned, she didn't know what to say, so she could only shut up in embarrassment.
After a while, Bai Li was holding a pawn in his hand, and said, "Don't worry too much about the woman, she probably doesn't have many soldiers in her hand, Shi Wuduan always likes to set off smoke bombs, I'm afraid it's just a cover, he wants to save Gu Huaiyang, You also understand that I am here, and I will definitely bring someone here in person.”
He snapped his fingers lightly, and saw that the chessboard in his hand quickly turned into a huge sandboard, and all the chess pieces turned into mountains and valleys. Bai Li popped out the chess pieces in his hand, and the chess pieces turned into a cloud in the air. Hold a small black flag and insert it directly at the entrance of the Minjiang River.
Zou Yanlai's eyes lit up, and he heard Bai Li say: "You send people to surround the city on three sides like an iron barrel. If someone else thinks of a way to encircle Wei and save Zhao, but I have no reason, he is not someone else."
Bai Li seemed to have thought of something, narrowed his eyes and smiled, and continued: "He is bold, and has always dared to do things that others dare not do. The mouth of the Minjiang River is the place where your troops gather for the central army, but the place that besieged Dongyue, you It's just taking advantage of the fact that Gu Huaiyang will run out of ammunition and food, if someone brute force opens the opening from here, the court's bandit suppression army will stretch too long, and they will definitely not care about their heads."
Zou Yanlai was stunned for a moment, and said: "Here... here is guarded by the Pope's masters..."
Before he finished speaking, Bai Li burst into laughter: "The Pope's master? You mean the Pope's master?"
Zou Yanlai suddenly remembered the matter of Dazhou Mountain, she was a little embarrassed, and said nothing.
Bai Li said softly: "Last time I told him to run away, this time we will meet him again... We haven't seen him for a long time, in fact it's because I miss him."
Zou Yanlai's heart moved, he looked at his words and saw that Bai Li didn't look at him, and there was a gentle expression on his face, which didn't seem to be fake, so he was a little startled, and asked tentatively: "The last time the devil wounded that person with a magic arrow Chest, but regret it?"
Do you regret it? Bai Li couldn't help but shake his head in a good temper at the moment, and lowered his head to play with the sand table.
Of course I don't regret it... But it's not that I don't feel bad.
I don't know whether it was man's calculation or God's calculation, but when Baili and the others reached the mouth of the Minjiang River, it began to rain heavily, the river surged, and sometimes rocks rolled down, Zou Yanlai suddenly felt a little ominous in his heart.
Sure enough, that night, there was a sudden loud noise that shook the ground, and someone in the tent shouted, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Bai Li seemed not to be asleep at all, opened the tent with great vigilance, and strode out. Flames blazed everywhere, and loud noises came from the mountains, like thunder. When he looked up again, he saw huge boulders rolling down. Wherever he went, people were turned on their backs, but he actually laughed.
Exploding the mountain pass - it really is something that person can do.