The cold wind is howling, the dilapidated doors and windows are creaking by the strong wind, the paper that was originally pasted in the window has long lost its original new brightness, and there are too many holes to resist the invasion of the cold wind.

The people hiding in their homes gathered together, and all the quilts were still not warm on their bodies, and the shivering bodies were obviously shabby enough to keep out the cold.

The cold was not the most unbearable, the lack of food was even more maddening, the drinking water was still good, the fresh snow outside quenched your thirst with a bite, the small amount of food stored before the war had been exhausted, and everything that could be chewed in front of and behind the house was used to satisfy the stomach.

There was no money left to buy food, and besides, all the shops on the street had been closed, and the unsold things in the shops were forcibly confiscated by the defenders.

The war will always bring the people hunger and cold, displacement and life and death, cold and blue lips, swollen unconscious hands and feet, empty and dead eyes, when will they see their salvation.

The bitter cold of winter pierces the bone marrow and freezes into the lungs, no matter how much activity can not feel the slightest warmth, the word cold will continue with every winter night until a new death appears.

The first to be unable to stand were the frail and sickly elderly, the young children and then the weak women, one after another were frozen to death in the cold night, the tears in front of the eyes of the family had long since dried up, the grief had turned into numbness, and the stage of death was so commonplace.

There is resentment in their hearts, and they complain about the unkindness of the royal family. complained about the shamelessness of the Yan army, and even more hated God for not giving the poor people a way to live.

From the chaos and helplessness before the beginning of the war to the resignation to fate, it is the hope of the people that has been shattered and shattered. They eagerly hoped that the guards who stayed behind would win and that they would be able to return to the past, but the reality dealt a heavy blow to all the people who were looking forward to it, and seeing that the vigilant atmosphere in the city was rising and the tension was constantly spreading, the bad news reached the ears of the people, and the bad news of the fall of the nearby town made the already restless people worse, and they no longer believed that the guards could turn the tide and defend the city. Hope is dashed in a split second.

The people stopped praying to the heavens, and watched the panic of the defenders with godless and sad sorrow, and some began to think. Yan Jun is here quickly, no matter what the outcome is, please do your best to end such a difficult torture.

The Yan army did not burn and loot in the city, and the people did not feel at ease, because there was nothing to loot in the city. In their eyes, food is the most important thing. Those exquisite gold, silver and jade objects have no value in the case of not having enough to eat.

The people are still hostile to the Yan army, because it is the large-scale invasion of the Yan army that has caused the tragic situation of corpses everywhere today, that is, how benevolent the invaders are, they are all fake people made by coaxing others, which makes people disgusted.

"The situation is not optimistic." Yan Suyi frowned, his fingertips tapped on the edge of the table intentionally or unintentionally, and the expression on his face was very bad.

"How?" Yan Hongyi couldn't figure it out. There are only two cities left, what are you bothering about?

"The rejection of our army by the people of the country, as well as the status quo of the country." It is impossible to describe it all in one tragic word. Yan Suyi saw that she had heard too much, and her heart was a little confused.

"What's there to worry about, the war should be like this, you have seen who fights without shedding blood and tears." Yan Hongyi didn't care much, and looked disapproving.

"Yes." There is really a war that is different from the past, and Yan Suyi's eyes instantly jumped out of a person, and what he had done.

"Who?" Although Yan Hongyi has not reached the point of being a man of ancient times, he has read a lot of history books and has not seen any war that was relatively peaceful, "We have tried our best to reduce the intrusion of the people of the country and the destruction of the houses in the city." "You've done your best, and you're not satisfied?

"The Winged King can." On the other hand, the patriotic land belonging to the Mu Kingdom, the Wing King was preparing from the very beginning, until all of them were taken, and the loss was very small, and the damage to the people was minimal, so Yan Suyi had to make this comparison.

"That's just a special case." Although Yan Hongyi said this, he had to praise what the Wing King did in his heart, but the helpless thing was that they couldn't completely imitate it, because the will of the Yan army was invincible and invincible, and it did not belong to using brain power to achieve victory, it was an opportunistic act. It does not apply in a real big war.

"Do people really doubt that after the defeat, our people can really control and restrain these patriotic people who have hatred in their hearts?" The second warning of the Wing King surfaced, occupying the whole thought, and Yan Suyi had to face up to the trivial problems ahead.

"We can give us what the Wing King can give." I don't know if he is comforting himself or his brother, Yan Hongyi is not very comfortable in his heart, thanks to the Wing King.

"What the Winged King does is not charity." It is difficult to achieve the same level, and it is too fake to compensate for the incomplete body of the injured person, Yan Suyi secretly thought to himself, there should not have been such a thing.

"What do you say?" It's a foregone conclusion, it's too difficult to change, Yan Hongyi evoked a few bad memories, and his face was long, "That person in the Wing King is very cunning." ”

"What we're doing is very different from the Winged King." It's not that it's not suitable, but it doesn't have the patience of the Wing King, and it's hard to turn back every step of the way.

"Don't think about what you don't have, just do what you have to do." Yan Hongyi didn't think about what hadn't happened yet, "It's not that I haven't seen wars, and the subsequent development history books have all noted it, so didn't anything unpredictable happen?" "Why do you have to think so long-term.

"Those in the history books are just the thoughts of the superiors, and they are not very real." Yan Suyi did not blindly believe in the content recorded in the history books.

"Now there is no need to worry about these, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge." Yan Hongyi thinks very openly and does not pay attention to the details.

"The Winged King's great reliance is nothing more than that bit of power." Yan Hongyi can't say that he is not red-eyed, who doesn't want to make his own decisions, and no one dares to stand up and question everything.

"The Wing King has a good background." Yan Suyi sighed, and the thoughts that jumped into her mind were only undiminished.

"Where's Zhan Junfei?" I haven't seen anyone in days. Yan Hongyi's method of changing the topic was a bit blunt, and Yan Suyi knew that his brother's kindness did not blindly grasp it.

"I have a headache with food and grass." Yan Suyi said lightly, "There is not much grain and grass left in the city. "Although most of the goods are valuable. It is not very useful for the current issue of rations in the army.

"There's not much left, not a grain of rice to be seen." Speaking of rations, Yan Hongyi was angry, "The guards are all big-bellied men, what is the matter with the top ones being able to eat, so that there is no food in the city, and the people are even more yellow-faced and thin-skinned." "It's disturbing to look at.

"It's not as good as I expected." When I first entered the Wei Realm, the full warehouse of grain was full of people's eyes, and the desolation to the present is simply a world of difference. Yan Hongyi still thought that he could make a lot of money, but he expected it to be such a miserable one.

"I really wonder if the Wing King has already done a good job for us to drill?" Yan Hongyi thought about it, but he gritted his teeth and hated it secretly, "The one who gave the food is called a happy one, and now I think about it, there is no shortage of cats." Why isn't there a shortage of food for the Winged King! ”

"There is a merchant as a supply, and you can get it if you take the silver." Yan Suyi sent someone to investigate, and there was not the slightest conspiracy and trickery, and he completely followed the normal route.

"Of course, the money looted from other people's land is used generously." Yan Hongyi didn't have a good airway. "The people of the country are still grateful, what is the matter!"

Yan Suyi was shocked a lot by the Wing King's methods again and again. I can't envy how long my brain is.

"There are still many people in the army staring at the Wing King's bow and crossbow, and their eyes are red and their hearts are hot and drooling." Yan Hongyi really felt depressed, so he couldn't save his worries, and he wanted people's lives like debt collectors.

"Beat it once." There is no other way, Yan Suyi has to compromise with the Wing King who does not enter the oil and salt, "After the war is over, we will discuss." "At that time, I will have the confidence to negotiate terms with the Wing King.

"I heard from the people below that the situation is not optimistic, and the people of the remaining two cities may have reached the end of their rope." Xu Mian has nothing to do in the end, and has seen a circle in the army, and heard a lot of rumors and truths.

"It won't take long, even if it's not a strong attack. Faced with being trapped in a city without food, just wait. Hunger will gradually wear down its spirits, and it won't be long before you have to surrender. Xi Chao tasted the light and tasteless warm tea, and said a terrible situation, and the dark light in his pupils flowed.

"The guards are really capable of holding up, if you want to say that for the sake of the country's righteousness, why haven't you embodied it for a long time, and you have come to the point of life and death to resist and not surrender, what is the picture?" Xu Mian couldn't figure out what those people were really thinking.

"Probably due to the fear of the slaves of the country, what cannot be changed by changing the dynasty and swallowing up the territory is the enslavement of the victors to the losers." Human nature is like this, and Xi Chao does not comment.

"I also have the hope of surviving, and I didn't say that I couldn't put forward conditions." Xu Mian felt that those people were pedantic and inflexible, and would rather lose their lives than compromise half a step, which was really stupid.

"Don't trust any verbal promises." Xi Chao supplemented his own understanding, "How do you think a commander in the army can be the master?" ”

"In order to manage the ease in the future, such a concession is indispensable." Xu Mian doesn't think that it is better to give a promise than to attract public resentment.

"No one dares to try." The tide was slightly lowered, and there was a deep place in the eyes.

"Alas, why bother dragging it, seeing that the general trend has gone to the death struggle is in vain." Xu Mianting sympathized with the plight of the people who defended the country.

"The lieutenant general is okay?" Xichao has been feeling a little weak in the past few days, and he can't go anywhere after being pulled by Hongrui.

"It's good, there is meat to eat and something to talk about, and I am sighing about life." Xu Mianting admired the soldiers' self-pleasing behavior.

"Yan Jun doesn't have this blessing." Xu Mian began to gloat again, "I heard that I am running for food and grass, and I have to burn high incense to eat meat." ”

"That's their own business." Xi Chao listened to a happy person and had no intention of interfering, and his kindness was not used in this place.

"It is said that there is no shortage of businessmen in Yan Kingdom, why are you so passive?" Xu Mian was puzzled, "Wei Guo is very close to Yan Guo." "There's no reason to be short of food.

"Feed the war with war and reduce the loss of the treasury." The Xi Dynasty was in charge of the household department, and silver was extremely important for a country.

"After conquering so many cities, you won't miss a single hit, right?" Xu Mian didn't believe it, "How did you decide to divide the dirty in the first place?" ”

"I'll count it when I'm done." Xi Chao didn't look down on his share, so he didn't pay attention to how much Yan Jun had looted where he had passed.

"If you have to have a number in your heart, how can you work in vain." Xu Mian didn't want to get a little gold and silver, or he didn't want to cheapen Yan Guo.

After the New Year, it was the fifteenth in a blink of an eye, and the Yan army took another city. The urgency of the pause was relieved, and it was not long before the remaining city was in the bag.

As the Xi Dynasty said, hungry people can't afford to consume. A person who goes crazy one after another does not follow the madness, trapped in the city is death, and there may be a glimmer of life when escaping from the city, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to be able to fill your stomach before you die, and you have to be a full ghost when you go to the Yama Temple when you die.

Driven by indignation, people who are hungry have no reason to speak of. Running out of a frenzy, many of the defenders in the city were infected by this crazy act, and they all said that the city could survive. Desperately, he opened the city gate without hesitation, so that the Yan army who was waiting outside was cheaper, and it was effortless to take the last place that could be regarded as an empty city.

The Yan army did not move the people who came out, and retreated to both sides to see what these crazy people were going to do. There was a faint sense of sadness in his eyes. This is the war, how much blood and tears are spilled, the general's life and death in a hundred battles, and the loyal bones of the horse leather shroud.

Yan Jun can finally rest and sleep well, leaving only fatigue behind a body of responsibility, but fortunately, it is worth it in this battle.

The two Yan Suyi brothers didn't have the good mood of the soldiers below, they wanted to count the harvest without touching the ground, and then take out some of it to the Wing King.

Two days after he came back, Zhan Junfei was arrested and Zhuangding. Plunged into the ocean of all kinds of inventory, it is dazzling to see Venus.

Shio Chao is counting losses here. Mainly the soldiers killed in the battle and the loss of weapons, 30,000 people lost 10,000, and all the soldiers left behind were elite soldiers, which made the Xi Dynasty very pleased, at least the original idea was achieved, and the loss was inevitable.

The days of rest and recuperation always pass so quickly, although they are still on the battlefield, the change in mood is obvious, and they can't help but bring out a little smile.

The part of the silver money distributed to the Wing King was delivered in advance, and the Xi Dynasty did not count and raised his hand to order someone to take it down, and Yan Jun smiled after hearing it.

After another half of the busy days, Yan Suyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the rest was to settle the people to stabilize the situation. The dispatch of officials must also be stepped up, and if spring planting is approaching, the harvest of the year will have to be reduced a lot.

Yan Jun, who was idle, began to fight Mu Jun's idea of entering the bow and crossbow again, and instigated Shangguan to hurry up, whether to give an exact statement first, looking at how uncomfortable it was.

The two brothers Yan Suyi were ordered by the four deputy generals to take the bow and crossbow, no matter how much it cost, this matter has been reported to the imperial court for careful handling.

The two of them couldn't, and they came into contact with the Wing King a few times, all of them touched the soft nails, and they returned to the Wing King in vain and refused with just two words, which made the Yan brothers so embarrassed.

Yan Su was annoyed and threw something and said angrily: "The covenant ends here, there is no need to keep the agreement anymore, it's a big deal to tear your face, what can Mu Guo endure." ”

Yan Suyi persuaded his younger brother not to be impulsive, since the Wing King refused to be fully prepared, the situation was not yet stable, and tearing his face was definitely not good for Yan Guo.

Yan Hongyi didn't believe in this evil, so he asked his brother to visit the Wing King at night, and it was best to take advantage of the Wing King's shortcomings to attack.

Yan Suyi disagreed, and persuaded his younger brother to give up the idea, Yan Hongyi was suffocated for a long time, and said that he would take down the stinky and hard Wing King.

Taking advantage of the fact that his brother was not paying attention to the night visit with the shadow guard, Yan Hongyi was not stupid and would not be able to eat and walk around directly in the face of the Wing King, avoiding the difficult Wing King, and his eyes were on the people around the Wing King, the woman in red was deeply trusted by the Wing King, and she should know a lot of things.

Yan Suyi got out of official business and suddenly found that his younger brother was not in the army, and suddenly felt bad, and asked the shadow guard to be surprised, and rushed over with someone, secretly hoping that Yan Hongyi would not do anything excessive, hoping that he would come and stop it.

Hongrui never imagined that one day she would experience the novel experience of being kidnapped. She came out to get hot water for her master, and just went out to get wind behind her, and reacted quickly, but she miscalculated the opponent and was unfortunately held hostage after a few moves with her bare hands.

Hongrui, who calmed down, used his brain to analyze the situation in front of him, and came up with a result that he didn't dare to think, and said tentatively: "That's how the prince of Yan State treats his allies?" ”

Yan Hongyi was slightly surprised, and secretly said that this maid had a bit of a brain, and no longer hid from the shadows to appear in front of others.

"Sure enough, Yan Guo is so shameless!" Hongrui saw Yan Hongyi appear, and secretly cursed the eighteenth generation of the ancestors of the Yan Kingdom not to die well, and began to reveal his true colors after the war.

"No more nonsense, please." Yan Hongyi didn't want to talk to a maid, he wanted to see the weight of this maid in the eyes of the Wing King.

Hongrui saw that Yan Hongyi was holding herself hostage to blackmail her master, her face was immediately very ugly, and her eyes flew straight away, eager to poke Yan Hongyi into a sieve.

Xi Chao was playing with walnuts when he suddenly heard a movement on the roof, and the footsteps approaching outside the door were a few more unfamiliar in addition to the familiar one.

The place where Xi Chao lives is a small second floor of an inn, there are guards patrolling outside, and today it happened to be sent out to have fun with the soldiers in the army, and only the secret guards left around.

Stopping the footsteps of the secret guards, Xi Chao guessed some plans to divert the tiger from the mountain, so he waited for the people downstairs to come up.

The moment the door was pushed open, Xi Chao faced the uninvited guest at the door, and was not much surprised that Yan Hongyi had held Hongrui in for the first time, and Hongrui's skills were difficult to meet opponents except for the same people.

"This is for the bow and crossbow, and the Wing King will make it convenient to facilitate this business." Yan Hongyi didn't make a detour to express his intentions, "The Wing King agreed to release me." "Obvious threatening tactics.

"Are you possible?" Xi Chao chuckled, and there was no sarcasm in his smile.

"You deserve your right-hand maid, and the Winged King who has lost his arm can still be so arrogant." Yan Hongyi wanted to see how the Wing King would choose, whether he wanted people or things.

"You also said she was a maid." The tide is not on the set, the smile is light and light, and there is no worry for Hongrui.

"Why, you'd rather give up your henchmen and die to the end." Yan Hongyi raised his eyebrows, and the face of the Wing King peeked out of the strangeness, and the suspicion in his heart was reborn, could it be that the Wing King really didn't care about this maid who often followed him.

"There are as many maids as you want, and there is no shortage of henchmen." Xichao has a clear attitude and does not take threats seriously.

Really fake! Yan Hongyi didn't believe it, and he always had to look like it when he said it, lest the Wing King be so convinced that he was bluffing.

Hongrui only felt a chill in her neck, a trace of pain followed, only to feel the warm blood flowing out, her face was not shocked by the injury as usual, the wound was not deep, and she knew that Yan Hongyi's move was nothing more than to make a show to her master, so she was very calm and calm, not like she was being held hostage. (To be continued......)