Speaking of this newly promulgated regulation, Qiu Niang sighed with a smile on her face.

Even if she can't read and write, and she doesn't know much reason, how can she not know that Steward Liu is right, and those military masters stationed in the city are here to protect them......? These two meters are indeed impossible to live!

"Sister-in-law, I can't starve you after all. ”

Hearing this, Chen Yansheng's eyes flashed with a gleam, but he smiled at Qiu Niang.

"Alas, with your Brother Zheng here, that's right, it's ...... I won't tell you anything, your eldest brother Zheng came back to tell me last night that the city will be locked down in the next few days to prevent the barbarian spies from sneaking into the city to make trouble. ”

Qiu Niang sighed again.

"The south gate is also going to be sealed?"

Chen Yansheng, who was already thinking about it in his heart, couldn't help but be stunned at this time.

The reason why the government is restricting food is because the nearly 10,000 soldiers who have just arrived need food rations, but Li is not stupid when he asks, so how could he not know that this will arouse public resentment? And without Li asking's approval, how dare Steward Liu announce such a notice at this stall?

Therefore, Li Wenwen must have a certain degree of certainty to make such a decision, and it is impossible to alleviate the current crisis in Wanfuguan. Of course, that's not about him Chen Yansheng, it's just that, judging from the food limit, they are definitely going to use troops abroad.

Because, only the march out of the city will need to prepare a large amount of grain and grass, and according to the degree of food restriction known at the moment, it can be judged that the number of troops transferred away is by no means a small number, and by that time, the city will be empty, and now there is not one soldier in the streets who roams the streets, and naturally, it will become the best time for him, an exile who has no one to take care of him, to leave the city!

However, after Li asked about the transfer of troops, he actually wanted to close the south gate?!

After a few casual greetings with Qiu Niang, after returning to the thatched house where he lived, Chen Yansheng fell into deep thought.

What kind of strategy is it necessary to lock down the entire city?

Is it really to prevent spies, or is there another purpose?

This time, Chen Yansheng didn't guess Li Wendao's intention, and he didn't get out of Wanfu Pass.

A month later, the news of Li Wenwen's victory came, it turned out that he deliberately concealed the news that he had actually raised 20,000 strong men, bypassed Wanfu Ridge, divided the east and west, attacked the barbarians' grain and grass supply, dealt a blow to the barbarians, and successfully captured another city north of Wanfu Pass, Chi Raocheng.

After this victory, the north gate, which had been blocked for a long time by the barbarian army from time to time, was actually opened, but the strange thing is that the blockade of the south gate was not opened because of this.

At this time, Chen Yansheng finally understood the intention of Li Wenwen.

First of all, the soldiers did not tire of sneaking up on the city of Derao, and they depended on each other, and then, it was the evolved version of the empty city plan, or it was called: leading the king into the urn!

Move the people of Raocheng into Wanfu Pass, and then when the barbarians attack Raocheng, besiege and annihilate it!

When you open the north gate, you are allowed to enter, and when you seal the south gate, you are not allowed to go out. This move is not only to prevent the spies of the barbarians, but more importantly, I am afraid to prevent the people from escaping and the news is exposed.

Li Wendao's line of thought was correct, if the barbarians were really scheming, not to mention the sidelines, at least they could swallow up one of his main forces going south. And the season is about to enter the winter, the barbarians will not store grain, they feed on cattle and sheep, according to the customs of the barbarians, before the winter, it will be their last and most ferocious wave of attacks.

As long as the vitality of the barbarians is injured and they survive until winter, Wanfu Pass will be worry-free before the spring of next year, and even after the court in the south learns of his victory, they may wake up from the fear of the barbarians and begin to organize a counterattack, and Li Wendao and Zheng Yue at that time will no longer be alone.

However......

After understanding the layout of Li Wendao, Chen Yansheng fell into deeper worries, can the barbarians who can conquer the city all the way to Wanfu Pass really look like people with developed limbs and simple minds?

Li Wenwen, who seems to be a reckless man, has never been stupid, and he participated in the imperial examination anonymously and won the jinshi, while the imperial court, which seemed to bring together all the smart people in the world, chose to move the capital and retreat to the south when the barbarians invaded.

Nothing is absolute, will the barbarians really do what Li asked?

Even if the barbarians really hit the plan, Li Wendao's idea actually contains a great risk, with the current current strength, shrinking to the Wanfu Pass to resist the barbarians, theoretically the chances of victory are not low, but if they are dispersed to Raocheng, the existing forces will be stretched, and it is obviously not enough. If you are a little careless, you will be caught by the barbarians, but it will be a sinister situation where you lose both of them.

Chen Yansheng's worries were further amplified after the return of those soldiers who followed Li Wendao to capture Raocheng.

The reason is that Raocheng is a dead city!

The so-called dead city is that it has already experienced the slaughter of barbarians, and the corpses are all over the field, and there is no grass. Since ancient times, as a huge city that has provided hundreds of thousands of lives, there is not a single living creature left overnight.

Barbarians, if you enter the city, you will be slaughtered!

Listening to the scene described by the soldiers who came back, I thought that those barbarians did not let go of the old and weak women and children, and there were even cooks!

Chen Yansheng was emotionally shocked, and in his rational judgment, he further denied Li Wendao's military plan, if Raocheng became a dead city, guarding it would have no meaning, and it would not be able to make it have the effect of luring the barbarian army back to attack.

"Yan Sheng, you are very smart, but the big husband has done something and has not done, you want to stick to the Wanfu Pass at the same time, have you ever considered the remaining cities in the north? Now the soldiers who came here with me, they are all northerners, before that, Wanfu said that they were a very strange place, the people here, not their relatives and friends, this land, not their homeland, do you know, why they came here, even if they die without regrets?"

When Chen Yansheng entered the city lord's mansion overnight to ask Li to clarify his concerns, he got such an answer.

The meaning of Li Wendao's words is very clear, he is not guarding Wanfu Pass, but the people of several cities in the north, the land of the Sun Yao Country, and the civilization of the Sun Yao people.

"You know that the barbarians will not return to Raocheng, and they are still guarding Raocheng in order to create a false impression for the barbarians, thinking that now that their forces are concentrated in Raocheng, they will take the opportunity to step up their offensive against Wanfu Pass. Then, you and Brother Zheng will take the opportunity to attack at the south and the north. ”

"Yes, you're smart enough. ”

Li Wenwen bowed slightly, acknowledging Chen Yansheng's speculation.

"However, you are really not enough troops, although Raocheng and Wanfu Pass are close to each other, they are still nearly two hundred miles apart, even if they gallop, it still takes three days to arrive. You guys...... You can't be sure when the barbarians will attack the city, and if anything, the two cities will be destroyed!

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