With a bang, Ji Ling directly overturned the big case in front of him, and the expensive jade objects placed on the big case fell to the ground and shattered.

"Why?" He looked at Tan Feng, whose face was also blue, "Doctor Tan, can you tell me, where did Gao Yuan's army come from?" What did your Yan Lingwei do? In this way, we are ignorant of the fundamental major events that can affect a country. ”

Tan Feng knelt down on his knees and slammed his head on the ground, "This is the minister's fault, did the minister find out that the Eastern Army still has such an army hidden." If the minister is guilty, please punish the king. ”

Ji Ling gasped and stared at Tan Feng deadly, thinking that the other party would be cut down seriously, but he also knew that it was just a thought.

Zhou Yu's face was heavy and he also knelt beside Tan Feng, "Your Majesty, the top priority is not to investigate Yan Lingwei's dereliction of duty, but to deal with the current crisis. The defeat of the Tianhe army is inevitable, I carefully asked the messenger sent by Ji Wugui, after the other party captured Yiyang and Baojing, let Ji Wugui mistakenly think that this was just a small group of people and horses, and induced Ji Wugui to send two armies to seize the city, 6,000 men and horses, all gone, more importantly, Ji Wugui did not gather the strength of the whole county at the first time, which gave the Eastern Army a chance to break through, in addition to the cavalry, their foot soldiers also have livestock, and they acted extremely quickly, Although there is no new news yet, the minister believes that Ji Wugui can only save more than 10,000 people in Tianhe County, and I am now afraid that Ji Wugui will order the garrison of the whole county to aid Tianhe County, if this is the case, Tianhe County is afraid that most of them will fall to the enemy. I hope that Ji Wugui did not give such an order, so that the garrisons in various places can still defend the city, so that the opponent's attack speed can be delayed. ”

"He's already given such an order." Tan Feng raised his head, his forehead was bruised, obviously he had just knocked heavily. He was indeed contrite to the extreme. "Before I came to see the king, I had already received a report from Yan Lingwei of Tianhe County."

Ji Ling took a deep breath and looked at the two people in front of him, "Get up, you are the right-hand man of this king, Doctor Tan, just now this king was serious." ”

"It is indeed a dereliction of duty on the part of his subordinates, and the king is right to scold!" Tan Feng shook his head and said.

"Get up and talk, now, what should we do?" Ji Ling tried to calm himself down.

Tan Feng and Zhou Yu stood up. Glancing at each other, Tan Feng said: "Captain Zhou, you are in charge of military affairs, what countermeasures do you have in mind for this disaster?" ”

Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and looked at Ji Ling, "Your Majesty, there are more than 50,000 newly formed troops stationed in Jicheng. There are also 5,000 Yulin troops guarding the royal city and the minister's mansion, guarding Jicheng, more than enough, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in Jicheng. With an order from the king, it is easy to summon the young and strong, even if Gao Yuan hits Jicheng before, with more than 20,000 people. If you want to break the Thistle City, it is simply impossible. ”

Ji Ling snorted, "Captain." We have 50,000 new troops, can we only retreat in the city to defend, and we can't take the initiative to attack and find the enemy for a decisive battle? ”

"Your Majesty, although there are more than 50,000 men and horses, but Jicheng is so big, if you want to protect everywhere, you need at least 20,000 to 30,000 well-trained troops, if you cut this piece, we can use only half of the mobile troops, and the field ability of the Eastern Army, whether it is me, or Dr. Tan, have been taught, we really have no certainty of victory, not to mention, Gao Yuan came this time there are 10,000 iron cavalry, in the new army, although there are also cavalry, but whether it is quantity, or quality, None of them can be compared to the lofty heights that control the prairie. If we don't go out of the city, we can stick to Jicheng, and once we get out of the city, we are afraid that we will encounter a greater defeat. Zhou Yu said straightforwardly, and cleanly punctured Ji Ling's last illusion.

"Doctor Tan, what do you say?" He turned his head to look at Tan Feng.

"Your Majesty, I'm not worried that Jicheng will be broken by force now, what I'm worried about now is food." Tan Feng's worry was even stronger, "Taiwei Zhou said that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Jicheng, which is true, and it is easy to recruit young and strong, but it is also because there are so many people, food will become the most deadly problem." ”

Speaking of food, Ji Ling's face also changed greatly, he was only thinking about military matters before, but he forgot about this part.

"Jicheng's grain depends on Tianhe, Langya, and Yuyang and other places to supply, now Yuyang's grain is all supplied to Kongde's army, Tianhe County Shahe City has been lost, the Eastern Army is raging everywhere, don't think about food, as for Langya, there is a Tianhe County in between, how can the grain be transported here? Hundreds of thousands of people, how much food do you have to consume in a day? ”

"King, King!"

Before Ji Ling could answer, there was a sudden rush of shouts outside the main hall, and the three of them turned their heads and saw Chun Yuyan rushing in from outside in a hurry, Chun Yuyan has now been promoted to the first assistant of Yan State, although nominally, he is the first person after Yan Wang Ji Ling, but in fact, his status and power are ranked behind Zhou Yu and Tan Feng.

"Chun Yu Shousuke, what's going on?" Ji Ling asked angrily, "I have sent someone to look for you just now, but I didn't find your person, and now it is the opportunity of the national crisis, you are not in the duty hall to preside over government affairs, but where did you go?" ”

Chun Yuyan was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, almost trotting all the way over, his age was not young, he rushed to the road like a spark, but he was scolded by Ji Ling, and his face was immediately blackened, "Your Majesty, all the grain stores in Jicheng have closed their shops, claiming that the grain has been sold out, and now the Eastern Army has conquered Tianhe County, and the news of the attack on Jicheng is flying all over the sky, and the people are hurriedly going to the grain store to buy grain, but they haven't bought one, the people's voices are boiling, and there is trouble everywhere in the city, The minister had just gone to pacify a few places, and was summoned by the king. ”

"Chun Yu Shoufu, the king is also worried, Shoufu is hard, and the king also knows." Tan Feng hurriedly came over to play the round.

Chun Yuyan didn't care about anything with Ji Ling at this time, so he could only nod and said: "Your Majesty, there is chaos in the city right now, and many people have packed up their belongings and started to flee. ”

"This, what should I do?" Ji Ling still hadn't experienced this kind of chaos after all, and when the bad news, the deadly news came one after another, he couldn't think of anything to do except be angry.

"Your Majesty, please give an order immediately, ask Taiwei Zhou to send troops to suppress these riots first." Tan Feng said loudly: "At this moment, there is no chaos in the city. ”

"Can it be suppressed for a long time? The common people always have to eat, and if they are going to starve to death, will they not run out and make trouble? "Chun Yu Yan Dao.

"Not just repression, of course." Tan Feng laughed cruelly, "The national disaster is at the head, the husband is responsible, those grain merchants, one by one, are black-hearted, and want to take advantage of this opportunity to come to the country, then they will not be tolerated, and the minister will immediately arrange Yan Lingwei to copy these grain merchants one by one." ”

"Many of these grain merchants have a very deep background!" Chun Yuyan reminded.

"Background?" Ji Ling suddenly sneered, "Could it be that the backstage of these people is more powerful than the four people in this hall?" ”

"Your Majesty, I will pick a few to do it first, Chun Yu Shoufu will go to say hello to some other people in private, and tell them, if you don't know each other, don't blame me Tan Feng is not polite. I'm sure they'll still be interested. Tan Feng said.

"That's all there is to it, but it won't be long before that?" Chun Yuyan sighed.

"Your Majesty!" Tan Feng turned around and saluted Ji Ling, "Please order the king, from now on, Jicheng will enter the military management, all the people, officials, regardless of status, rich or poor, all the food in the family must be handed over, and all the collected grain will be enriched into the king's warehouse, and all the people of Jicheng will be supplied according to the head from now on, so that when it can be supported for a period of time, the ministers will be the first to take out all the food in the family." ”

Ji Ling's eyes lit up, "This is a good way!" He looked at Zhou Yu and Chun Yuyan, "What do the two adults say?" ”

"I agree!" Zhou Yu said simply.

"I agree!" Chun Yuyan could only nod her head.

"Okay, first of all, I will ask Mrs. Zhou to send troops to suppress the riots in the city, and Dr. Tan will go out again, catch a few profiteers and cut off their brains, and then Chun Yu Shoufu will come forward to appease, both soft and hard, I am not afraid that they will not comply, and after doing these few things, I will announce that Jicheng has entered wartime control, and everyone must hand over food, and those who do not pay a pound of surplus grain at home will be beheaded." Ji Ling said loudly.

"Obey orders!" All three bowed at the same time.

"But this is just an internal matter of Jicheng, how to retreat from the enemy, the three of them have a good strategy, even if Gao Yuan can't defeat Jicheng, but if he doesn't retreat, then how can it be good?"

"The first thing to do is to withdraw Kong De from Yuyang County and let him come back to King Qin." This time, it was Chun Yuyan who opened his mouth first, "Then ask the king to issue a royal order, ordering all county governors to send troops to Qin Wang, although the combat strength of the county soldiers in various places is limited, but there must be only 20,000 horses and horses killed in Tianhe County, and there are many ants to kill elephants, so it is impossible for him to stay here for a long time." In addition, I also ask Dr. Tan to inform Donghu immediately, and ask them to do it as soon as possible to reduce the pressure on us here, as long as the Hetao War resumes, Gao Yuan will not be able to take care of this place for the time being. ”

Ji Ling nodded slightly, "Chun Yu Shoufu This is Lao Cheng's serious words, so let's do it." (To be continued......)