On this day, it was entering the light snow season, and in the wind blowing from the west, the coolness was thick and the chill gradually formed. The dry and cold wind blows people's faces, and there are fewer and fewer people walking on the street, and the left and right are just some big portals in the purchase, and then there are a few small doors in the daily supplement, so the big market extends to noon before it is warmer, more than half of the afternoon Shen time, people are scattered, and the shops are also on the door panel early, closed the door.

Years of war have cut off trade routes, and merchants are reluctant to travel far to do business. Jinyang can be regarded as a big city, in the past, merchants and tourists came and went, and the scene of caravans being sluggish under the city gate was also because of the turmoil of this world, and it was not seen for a long time. Fortunately, Jinyang has always been an important grain storage town, and the surrounding thieves and rogues have taught Tang Guogong to exterminate it two years ago, and then it is still peaceful, farming and animal husbandry have not been broken, and they can barely be self-sufficient.

The eldest grandson is worthy of her good reputation, seeing the winter, his hands and feet quickly prepared the daily needs such as charcoal, meat, rice, etc., and he was busy for a few days, but all the soldiers who went out with the Li family and the family members who stayed in Jinyang City, according to the rank of the army, all received a pension from her. Although it is nothing more than some daily chewing, it teaches those family members to feel nostalgic, and the news of the family letter is transmitted to the army, and the soldiers have all added a sense of loyalty.

Mu Qing's bereavement pension is much more generous than usual. The eldest grandson specially wrote a post, politely writing a bunch of miscellaneous things in the house, but he couldn't spare time, so he invited Ah Yuedai to run this trip, and I hope to forgive me. Mu Qing's heart is clear, the eldest grandson and lady are thinking of Ah Yue and she have not seen her for a long time, in addition to Li Gong's husbands in the house, now there are more Da Lang's relatives, it is really inconvenient to see each other, so he borrowed the errand of sending rice and grain, so that Ah Yue came back to get together, but it was difficult for her to be attentive.

Sure enough, Ah Yue came back to get together with her and Ah Liu for half a day, in addition to two carts full of rice, grain, charcoal strips and other things, there were also some news from before the battle, Mu Qing didn't allow her to rest and breathe, and pulled her straight, no matter how big or small, she asked her to say it carefully, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

It can be seen that based on Jinyang City, it is not set arbitrarily by patting the head, and there are only three or four places that can make the grain and grass continuous, and you can count them on your fingers. Jinyang can be counted as one, and Luokoucang is also one. The next day, Mu Qing was wrapped in a big coat to block the wind, holding a small warm hand stove in his hand, sitting under the sun in the courtyard, and chatting with Ada about the war.

"But Luokoucang is far better than Jinyang, isn't the world's grain and rice in Luokoucang in the end?" Ada squinted at the sun, and carefully wiped a set of fine scale armor in his hands, if it weren't for Du Ruxuan's thousands of instructions to him to take care of the family, I am afraid that he would have already put on the armor again at this time and charged forward.

Mu Qing stretched out his hands and feet in the bright sunshine and stretched his slightly heavy waist, "For this reason, Li Mi can't give up Luokoucang, and would rather spend time and energy with Wang Shichong in the Eastern Capital, he just taught the sticky rice grain to stick to his feet, and he can't walk, and sooner or later he will be tired of it." When Li Gong was strong, Li Mi and the Sui army had already exhausted each other, and they were unable to resist Li Gong's Tang army. ”

Ada pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, "Is this what Ah Lang said, the allusion of the sandpiper and the clam competing for the benefit of the fisherman?" ”

Mu Qing smiled and nodded, caught a glimpse of the fine scale armor in his hand, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly stopped laughing, "Yesterday, the person who came to deliver the news from Taishou Mansion said that Yinghua had reported from Louguan City outside Daxing City to Hedong first, and now he is returning to Louguan City along Weishui with Erlang, just waiting for the opportunity to attack the city. ”

Ada nodded with satisfaction, sighed in a rough voice for a moment, and looked up at Fu Yanyan, who was playing naughtily in the courtyard, "It's a pity that Ayan is too young, if he is now in the age of tying his hair, he must be allowed to go to the battlefield to experience and experience, and Erlang should be like this." ”

"If you want me to say, Cheng Rijie dances with knives and sticks, but if you learn more with Ah Lang and Qi Niang, those truths, the way to lead the army to fight, is stronger than just knowing how to use brute force." Ah Liu turned out of the backyard, and when he heard Ada's emotion, he couldn't help but interrupt him.

She and the cook carried a large vat together, dragging and moving, and was so tired that she was angry. Ada hurriedly got up and stepped forward, and with only one person, he easily moved the vat to the place that Aliu had pointed out to him.

"If there is no brute force, it is also hard work." When he put down the vat, he replied to her in a muffled voice, which made Mu Qing giggle, Ah Liu crossed his waist with one hand, and said to her with an angry look: "Qi Niang, you see, I used to only think that he was honest, but now he has also learned to have sharp teeth, and he actually knows how to choke people with words." ”

Mu Qing didn't argue with her, pointed to the vat and asked, "What is this going to do?" ”

"Those pork meat sent by the Taishou Mansion yesterday, and a few wild pheasant and hemp ducks, where can I eat these in a while, today is Xiaoxue, just to cure the preserved meat." Ah Liu's mouth responded, and his hands did not stop, and he talked for a while, Mu Qing only listened with a smile, and asked two irrelevant questions from time to time.

Ah Liu suddenly stopped, put down the marinated pork meat in his hand, and asked tentatively: "I heard from the people of the Taishou Mansion that Ah Lang gave a Lao Shizi in the army, what kind of situation, but he stook his life, Ah Lang has always been steady, what happened this time, how did ......?"

Mu Qing smiled disapplausively, "Military order." He is willing to stand up, and if he stands, he dares to resist with his life, and he is fully sure that he can cope with it, and there is no need for us to work hard for him in vain. ”

Ah Liu thought about it suspiciously, but couldn't think of anything, seeing that Mu Qing was so sure, there would probably be no mistake, she picked up the piece of pork meat again, "That's it, I'll still work on these things." ”

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On the 10th day of the first month of October, the three-way army had besieged the entire Daxing city tightly, and sent more than a dozen scouts to spy under the city tower every day, and the rewards were well-guarded and invulnerable.

At this time, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, Du Ruhui took Yinghua, changed into regular clothes, and walked around the villages on the outskirts of the city for a day or two. It's just that this time of year is the time to store the autumn harvest, but there are no wheat straw piles or the like, and there is a depression and silence.

At noon, the two sat down in a tea shed at the entrance of the village, Yinghua took out a large dry cake sprinkled with flax seeds from the bag, tore half of it and handed it to Du Ruhui, chewed a few sips of the turbid and astringent tea, and then could deal with the lunch.

After only two bites, Yinghua only felt that someone was snooping behind the supporting pillar behind her head, she put down the cake vigilantly, and quietly held the long knife standing beside her, and the peeping gaze seemed to have one more, and slowly approached behind her. She jumped to her feet, and the long knife was immediately unsheathed, and she was about to slash it when she turned around.

The moment she turned around, she was really startled, and the two children who were six or seven years old were peeping behind the column. The long knife had been raised high, and it was about to fall in an instant, and Du Ruhan's short drink sounded in his ears, "Yinghua!" She struck hard at her wrist with great speed, and the blade slashed down on the rough bench beside her, causing the two children to stand still, and then to cry out screaming.

Yinghua hurriedly withdrew the long knife, put it in the sheath, and got up to coax the two children. "Don't cry, don't cry." She repeated it several times, but she couldn't persuade her, and in discouragement, she took out a small short knife from inside her boots, "Don't cry anymore, is it okay for my sister to give you a naughty knife?" ”

As soon as he heard the word "knife", the child was even more frightened, and his crying suddenly rose a few points. Yinghua reluctantly turned around and looked at Du Ruhui, "Brother-in-law, this is okay, how can this be good?" ”

Du Ruhui looked at her method of coaxing the child coldly, and couldn't help but cry and laugh in her heart, and couldn't help but wonder if she would also coax his child like this in the future. Seeing that she really couldn't control it, he smiled wryly and pointed to the flax cake on the table.

Yinghua suddenly realized, turned around and picked up the cake on the table, broke off a piece and handed it to one of the children, the child immediately turned to sobbing, wiped his tears and took the dry cake, and the other also stopped crying, staring at the cake in the child's hand. Yinghua hurriedly broke off another piece and sent it to him.

The two children suddenly forgot their fears, and began to nibble on the cake seriously, as if they had not seen the cake for a long time.

"The suburbs of Daxing are going to suffer from famine this year, and I don't know if we can survive the New Year." Du Ruhui looked at the gobbling child and said in a low voice.

Yinghua said "ah" in surprise, "No matter how bad Daxing is, it is also the old capital, and there are many royal families in the city, so why not to the point where the people are not happy." ”

"How much bread did you bring? Is there anything left? Du Ruhui asked.

Yinghua took out the other two loaves in the bag, he took the loaves, got up and walked to the two children, one by one and stuffed them into their hands, "Take it and take it home to eat with the family." ”

The younger child blinked, staring at him blankly, bewildered. The older one, holding the cake, still knew how to thank him, and said in a childish voice: "Xie Alang." With that, he grabbed the younger child, turned around and ran away.

"Yinghua, let's hurry back to the camp." Du Ruhui urged and left the village in a hurry.

Two days later, Tang Guogong and Li Jiancheng's two battalions sent people to pass the word, inspected the surrounding peasant households, and confirmed that this year's harvest was not in place and that the famine had arrived.

"Brother Du means ......" Li Shimin frowned as he stood on a high slope, overlooking the barren fields of villages below with no business.

"If there is a lack of harvest outside the city, the city must be tight, and now we have to defend the city, and the people in the city are about to have no surplus food in their hands, and their livelihood is imminent, so it is a good time to stir up the hearts of the people. When the people's hearts fluctuate, it is the day when the city is broken. Du Ruhui stretched out his hand and pointed to the city in the distance, "The soldiers who surrender without a fight are the best strategy." ”

Li Shimin raised his eyes and looked at the towers and towers of Daxing City from afar, "But how to stir up the hearts of the people?" ”

"Erlang studied history when he was a child, but did he learn "Shu Zhi"?" Du Ruhan asked with a smile.

"Naturally, I learned."

"Have you ever heard the master tell the allusion of Mr. Zhuge besieging Pingyang and releasing paper lanterns out of the city to rescue?"

"Brother Du is going to ......" Li Shimin's eyes were confused, and they instantly brightened.

Du Ruhui smiled and nodded vigorously a few times. A cold wind blew, and he stretched out his palm to meet the wind, and it was the middle of October, and it was a cross wind blowing from northwest to south. "Just hope that the wind direction will not change, and it will be sunny and rainless." R1152