Sitting on the top of the lobby, looking at the noisy civil and military officials below, Yan Shenghao's face was extremely gloomy, it has been three days since Gao Yuan arrived in Hejian County, but in the past three days, the Eastern Army has not launched an attack, but only saw the busy foot soldiers dragging a cart of wood into the camp, and at a glance, it was clear that this was building siege equipment, since Ye Zhenbing came to the city, this kind of work has not stopped, God knows how many siege equipment they have built now.

Killing people but sharpening them with a blunt knife, this is how Yan Shenghao feels now, a knife always hangs on his head, but it doesn't fall down for a long time, which is even more uncomfortable than cutting it down with a knife.

These waste officials are arguing and shouting, and none of them can come up with a real idea, which makes Yan Shenghao feel that he has really fed them in vain over the years, and he used to think that these people are all well-educated people and people of insight, and the real disaster is coming, but no one can stand up.

Standing up angrily, he wanted to brush his sleeves away, but he was startled by the sudden burst of exclamations and shouts outside, and the galloping sound of horses' hooves outside the city made the whole ground tremble slightly. Yan Shenghao immediately turned around and ran out of the hall as fast as he could.

After a burst of hustle and bustle, but there is no follow-up, the Eastern Army is coming and going fast, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, inexplicably, does the other party just want to scare and scare the defenders in the city?

Stunned, Yan Peng rushed from outside, holding a stack of papers in his hand.

"What's going on?" Yan Shenghao asked sharply.

"Dad, look, the Eastern Army just shot these things with arrows." Yan Peng handed the stack of papers in his hand to Yan Shenghao, unfolded it and traced it at a glance, Yan Shenghao's face had changed color, crumpled the papers into a ball, and held them tightly in his hand, "Take these things immediately." All of them were confiscated, and not a single one was allowed to leak out. ”

Yan Peng's face was bitter, "It's too late, I've collected as much as I can, but the other party has shot too much into the city, and many of them have already fallen into the hands of the soldiers." ”

"Strictly order the soldiers who find these papers to turn in immediately, otherwise they will be killed!" Yan Shenghao shouted.

"Yes, I'll do it right away!" Yan Peng turned around and left quickly, looking at Yan Peng's back, Yan Shenghao's face was bitter. He already knew what the other party wanted to do, but he couldn't do anything, and the only thing he could do now was to minimize the impact. Slamming the paper ball in his hand to the ground, Yan Shenghao turned around and walked towards the back hall.

The officials behind him looked at Yan Shenghao's back in surprise, and a bold civil official stepped forward, picked up the paper ball, unfolded the crumpled paper, and looked at it carefully. The face is also difficult to look at.

The paper was passed one by one in the hands of the officials, and everyone's faces became extremely bright, this is a letter to the soldiers, and the content is extremely simple. It was all in the vernacular, with only one purpose, that is, to incite the soldiers to give up resistance and surrender to the Eastern Army.

The movement of the soldiers in the city was under the pressure of the officers' strong bullets. Finally calmed down, Yan Shenghao, who had been paying attention to the movements in the city, felt exhausted, but he didn't feel sleepy. He knew that Gao Yuan's blow did hit his soft threat, most of the soldiers in the city were recruited temporarily, and most of them came from the surrounding counties and townships, and now these places have all fallen into the hands of the Eastern Army, if the soldiers have no other ideas, it is a fool's dream, but I didn't expect that Gao Yuan would do so much.

Land, he actually divided the land and issued the title deed to each family according to the population, which is definitely a thing that can make everyone crazy.

Although Yan Peng reacted in a timely manner, how could it be possible to collect all the things that were not missed, this is like a spark of fire, it can start a prairie fire, once the rumors start, it is impossible to stop, and it is very likely that this is not a rumor, but a real thing, because the same thing, in Baokang, Yingkou, which was controlled by the Eastern Army very early, has already begun to be implemented, these news have been spread in Hejian County very early, and many landless peasants in other parts of Hejian County have begun to quietly flee to Baokang and Yingkou a few months ago. Because it is rumored that if you go there, you will get a share of the land.

Baokang is adjacent to the prairie, and has always been the focus of the Huns' invasion before, and there are few people in the land, and the people who went first have indeed been allocated to the fields, and the news has spread ten, ten and hundred, if it is not for their own quick response, they immediately ordered the counties to strengthen their precautions and strictly control the outflow of population, but I am afraid that some counties will go to seven or eight out of ten.

"County guard, county guard!" An officer dressed in a patrol uniform hurried in, his face full of panic.

"What's going on again?" Yan Shenghao asked impatiently.

"The streets and alleys of the city were suddenly plastered with countless leaflets, the content of which was no different from the content shot from outside the day during the day." The official's face turned pale.

Yan Sheng stood up proudly, "There are spies in the city, how did you become a patrol officer?" Immediately find these people, arrest them, and cut off their skulls for public display. ”

The official's face turned bitter, "The county guard, the subordinates have limited manpower, and now everyone is busy tearing up these leaflets, trying not to let them out, there is really no manpower to search for the spies, and the subordinates are worried that once a big search is launched in the city, it will cause panic." ”

Yan Shenghao stared at the other party fiercely, and sat down for a while, the other party was right, the city was already full of soldiers.

"You go down, strengthen the patrol, there are not enough people, go to Xiang Sima, seconded soldiers, strengthen patrols, and the most important thing now is to prevent these things from spreading."

This official has just left, but there are a lot of officers, the content of their reactions is the same, they all found similar leaflets in the barracks, the soldiers with leaflets in their hands have been arrested, but they dare not dispose of it at will, the entire barracks, has been like a powder keg, everyone's feelings are stretched to the extreme, a little careless, it will be blown up, the consequences of the camp roar, every officer is clear in his heart.

Yan Shenghao looked up to the sky and sighed, unable to do anything.

One night, he struggled to survive in his long sighs.

The Eastern Army still did not carry out siege operations, only their cavalry had harassed several times in recent times, and every time the feather arrows shot into the city were tied with similar leaflets, and the defenders in the city had no intention of collecting them, because from yesterday to now, I don't know how many such things have flowed out, and then forcibly confiscating them, it is just a cover-up and stealing the bell.

Everyone knows that the county town of Hejian is already in danger, maybe the Eastern Army will attack at one moment, and the next moment, they will have already attacked the city.

After noon, in the camp of the Eastern Army, there was a sudden crowd of people, groups of people came out of the camp, and on the city wall, the alarm bell immediately rang, and Yan Shenghao, who had been squinting for a while because of excessive fatigue, had to run to the city wall again, commanding the soldiers to prepare to resist the opponent's attack.

But immediately, where the soldiers with their bows wound and their swords unsheathed stayed there, and it was not the soldiers of the Eastern Army who came from a distance, but ordinary people of different colors, old and young, men and women, there were thousands of people.

These people walked to the city, just outside the range of the feather arrows, and then stopped under the command of the officers of the Eastern Army, and the next moment, the city immediately became lively.

"Big cow, go home, we have ten acres of land now."

"The child and his father, don't fight, the family has divided the fields, and the government still borrows livestock, but I won't let it!"

"Dad, go home, I miss you."

"Son, your wife is sick, I want to see you!"

The city fell into a deathly silence, Yan Shenghao's face turned blue, he never thought that Gao Yuan was behind the leaflet, and then there was such a move.

The city was quiet for a long time, and suddenly there was a loud bang, and a spear fell to the ground, and a soldier pounced on the city, clinging to the battlements, and cried out hoarsely, "Daddy, here I am, here I am!" ”

"Grab him, get him there." An officer pounced on him, picked up the soldier like a chicken, and slammed him to the ground.

Several soldiers stepped forward to hold down the young man and tied him up, but the next scene made everyone dumbfounded, more soldiers rushed to the city, looked at the city, and shouted loudly, the people under the city also seemed to see their relatives, regardless of the obstruction of the soldiers of the Eastern Army, they rushed to the city with all their might, raised their heads and shouted, the city and the city, at this moment, are all in chaos.

"Withdraw these soldiers to the barracks and transfer them to the guard battalion!" Yan Shenghao looked at the chaotic city wall, gave an order with trembling hands and feet, turned around and left.

There is no fighting spirit in the city, but there is no intention to attack in the city, and by now, Yan Shenghao has already known the other party's intentions, but he can't do anything.

Now the more than 10,000 recruits in the city have become the most dangerous group, and they may turn against each other at any time.

"Dad, what should I do?" Back in the mansion, Yan Peng looked at his father and asked in a muttered voice. "The situation in the barracks is turbulent, but I'm afraid I can't suppress it. Even if they suppress it, how dare they go into battle. ”

"Peng'er, you send someone out of the city to see Gao Yuan, and say I want to see him."

"Dad, you're going to surrender?"

"What if you don't surrender? After they broke the city, did they grab and cut off the skull? Yan Shenghao smiled bitterly: "Gao Yuan did this because he didn't want to attack hard, he was forcing me to surrender." If that's the case, he won't kill, and that's the only way out for us. Otherwise, after the common people withdrew just now, he immediately waved his troops to attack the city, but he was afraid that we would not be able to hold it. ”

"Surrender? Surrender! Yan Peng muttered and hung his head weakly.

"I will try my best to fight for better conditions, the worst is that our father and son can still be a rich man." Yan Shenghao patted his son comfortingly, "You can't do anything, you can support yourself, you just lost your life in vain, and the wise man doesn't do it." (To be continued......)