“…… Our Changsha army, since the dispatch of troops, along the way to break through Jiangxia, Runan two counties, captured countless county seats, now Kunyang small county town, did not listen to good advice, actually tried to use the mantis arm as a car, repeatedly sneaked out of the city, killed the soldiers of our righteous army, and obstructed the great cause of our righteous division to 'overthrow the violent Jin', it is really unforgivable! …… If such evil counties and such evil people refuse to submit to goodness and insist on being martyred for the tyrannical Jin, then it will be as they wish! …… As the commander of the Changsha Army, I swear here, and after breaking through Kunyang, I will slaughter the city for two days, as a warning! ”

On the tenth day of September, the rebel Qu Shuai Guan Shuo swore in a camp in the southern suburbs of Kunyang.

Inspired by him, the morale of nearly 20,000 soldiers under his command was greatly boosted, and they raised their arms and shouted.

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

In the distance, Guan Shuo's subordinate general Cao Wu frowned slightly, and there was a bit of worry between his eyebrows.

"Qu Shuai didn't listen to our advice after all."

He sighed and said to a general named Zou Wei beside him.

"Shh

Zou Wei made a silent gesture and said lightly: "This is Kunyang's own fault. ”

What the two of them talked about was what Guan Shuo called the 'slaughter of the city'.

Since ancient times, the army has broken through the enemy's county seat, in fact, there is no lack of massacre, and the stronger the resistance of the city, the more serious the slaughter of the city, it can be understood that this is a kind of revenge, but also a kind of 'killing chickens and monkeys', warning the rest of the county.

The Changsha Army prides itself on being one of the righteous divisions, and since the army was dispatched, it has not done the evil thing of slaughtering the city, even if there are some dirty things, the crime has also been carried by the green forest thieves, like Guan Shuo shouted in front of nearly 20,000 soldiers 'Slaughtering the city for two days', it is really the first time.

Even in Zhaoling County, at best, Guan Shuo acquiesced to the green forest thieves to loot and kill people in the city.

But this time, Guan Shuo can be said to be completely angered by Kunyang County.

Not for anything else, just because the losses of his Changsha army in Kunyang have almost exceeded their losses in Zhaoling County - the first battle of Kunyang, Guan Shuo's general Huang Kang lost nearly 7,000 troops in the Kunyang area, and a few days ago in the siege, Guan Shuo's three armies had a total of six or seven thousand casualties, and what is even more odious is that Kunyang also attacked Guan Shuo's general Xu Bao that night, resulting in Xu Bao's death in battle, and more than 3,000 soldiers under his command died.

After coming and going, his Changsha army had already lost a small 20,000 troops in Kunyang, and also took the lives of the general Xu Bao, as well as Fan Wu, Ying Sheng and many other generals.

One Zhaoling County is enough for Guan Shuo, and now there is a Kunyang who is even more stubborn than Zhaoling, and the anger in Guan Shuo's heart is really uncontrollable.

In a fit of rage, Guan Shuo decided to 'severely punish Kunyang' as a warning to the rest of the county.

However, this decision made a few generals such as Cao Wu under Guan Shuo hesitate, and they believed that his Changsha army, as a righteous teacher who was determined to 'overthrow the violent Jin', should not do such an unrighteous thing.

At the same time, generals like Zou Wei believe that Kunyang is to blame for all this.

From the perspective of these people, their point of view is not without some truth, after all, Kunyang did kill many soldiers of their Changsha army.

Even after Kunyang sent troops to attack Xu Bao, in the recent days when the Changsha army stepped up the construction of the camp, although Kunyang County did not dare to take any action during the day, at night, there were still groups of guys wrapped in black scarves hunting their patrol guards everywhere.

That's right, when he realized that he could not force the rebels to retreat, Zhao Yu implemented the idea of 'destroying the rebels' living forces', and ordered the brigades to go out of the city to attack the rebel patrols at night, specifically picking out these lone patrol rebels, so that the rebel soldiers who were patrolling at night in these days were always worried when patrolling at night, which was quite a bit of a soldier.

After a few days, although the casualties of the rebels were not serious, at best more than a thousand people were killed, but the morale was dealt a heavy blow - who would have thought that they who had surrounded Kunyang on three sides would be killed by Kunyang's soldiers in horror?

And this is the fundamental reason why Guan Shuo swore in public today and boosted morale.

“…… Today, we must set foot in Kunyang! ”

As Guan Shuo finished shouting this slogan, nearly 20,000 soldiers under his command raised their arms and shouted.

"Set foot in Kunyang!"

"Set foot in Kunyang!"

Listening to the neat shouts of his subordinates, Guan Shuo nodded with satisfaction, stood on a high platform and waved his hand: "Okay! …… Let's go! ”

Under the order, nearly 20,000 Changsha soldiers neatly walked out of the camp, although the experience of the past few days made them look disgraced, but because of Guan Shuo's encouragement, the morale of these soldiers is still very optimistic, one by one with their heads held high, quite imposing.

In view of the fact that Guan Shuo's camp was only five miles away from the county seat of Kunyang, Guan Shuo's army only moved, and the Nanyang soldiers on the southern city wall of Kunyang immediately discovered the enemy's abnormal movement, and hurriedly rushed into the city gate tower to inform the partial general Sun Xiu and Liu Tu, the guard of the north city gate.

At this time, Sun Xiu and Liu Tu were idle, and they were pulling the sky in the city gate tower - since they were both in charge of the south city wall, they became familiar with each other in a few days, so some topics involving women gradually emerged.

When the Nanyang soldier hurriedly ran in, Sun Xiu and Liu Tu were exchanging their familiarity with the women in the Baihualou in the city, with a smile on their faces that all men understand, but they didn't want the Nanyang soldier to break in at an inopportune time.

"General, there is an abnormal movement of the rebels in the south!" Jing Ai Books

"What?" Sun Xiu immediately restrained the smile on his face, and hurriedly walked out of the city gate tower with Liu Tu, standing next to the wall battlement in the open space in front of the city gate tower, looking at the rebel camp five miles away in the distance.

Sure enough, in the distance, there were faint signs of a large-scale attack by the rebels.

"Immediately send a warning message to the city!" Sun Xiu ordered with a calm face.

Hearing this, there were Nanyang soldiers who immediately sounded the alarm bells placed on both sides of the city gate tower.

"Bell, bell, bell—"

"Bell, bell, bell—"

After a few sounds, suddenly alarm bells rang from the east and west walls, which meant that the rebels had also been found on both sides.

"It seems that the other side can't hold it anymore." Liu Tu said with his hands rubbed his hands.

Sun Xiu sneered: "They insist on coming to die, who can stop them?" ”

Liu Tu echoed and snorted twice, and then said with a smile: "Old Sun, let's compare the number of enemies killed today?" ”

"Haha, why not?"

Sun Xiulang accepted Liu Tu's challenge with a smile, even if he knew that Liu Tu was the fierce among the black tiger thieves, he was confident that he would not be inferior to the other party.

At the same time, Zhao Yu was taking Jingnu and Niu Heng to follow the county Cheng Li Xu to inspect several 'grain points' in the city.

Just as Zhao Yu, Li Xu and others predicted before, with the continuous siege of Kunyang by the rebels, the people in Kunyang City have successively eaten up the food stored at home.

In fact, this was not necessarily the case, because these people also gave - at the behest of the government, the men in the city either joined the 'militia' of the Brotherhood as a reserve or helped build various equipment for defending the city in the Brotherhood's workshop, while the women and children were also responsible for the lighter tasks of sewing clothes, washing armor, and boiling water for cooking under the command of the Brotherhood steward.

Correspondingly, Chen Cai, the chief steward of the Brotherhood who was responsible for assisting Li Xu in the county, also sent people to set up 'grain drop-off points' in various parts of the city to distribute food according to shifts and points.

Under the consultation of Zhao Yu, Liu Bi, Li Xu and others, the county government promulgated the standards for the distribution of grain, which were divided into three grades.

Among them, the front-line combat teams, such as the Nanyang Army, the Black Tiger Thieves, the County Army, and the Brotherhood Militia, all distributed food according to the standard of 'three meals a day', regardless of disability, one meal per meal.

Although the salt-flavored rice balls are hard to eat, it's okay to eat full.

The second level is the workers and women of the brotherhood workshop, who distribute food according to 'two meals a day', only in the morning and afternoon, and one meal is also a rice ball.

The third tier is for children under the age of 10 in the city, although food is also distributed according to 'two meals a day', but the number is halved.

There is no way, after all, with the drag on of the war, the entire military and civilians in Kunyang County have to rely on the government to receive help, although the granary in the county is quite abundant for the time being, but Zhao Yu and others obviously have to be prepared for a rainy day, without starving to death, give priority to providing sufficient rations for the soldiers fighting on the front line, and the workers, women, and children in the rear will relatively reduce some food rations, so as not to consume food too quickly.

Today, Zhao Yu, Li Xu and others inspected the various grain distribution points in the city to see if the officials of the grain distribution offices were guarding and stealing, lacking catties and taels, or using the power to distribute grain to threaten women or something.

At the request of Zhao Yu, the county government had already announced this to the public, and if there were officials who committed adultery, they would be executed immediately once discovered.

In this regard, Li Xu, the county prince, had a lot of complaints, thinking that the punishment proposed by Zhao Yu was too heavy and did not conform to the laws of the Jin Kingdom, but considering that it was an extraordinary time, he finally acquiesced.

When Zhao Yu, Li Xu and others inspected, it was the time to release grain in the morning, and they saw that at the grain place near each street, many people in the city had already lined up with their families and mouths, waiting for the grain to be distributed according to the head.

I don't know if there is a relationship between the Brotherhood militia and the continued order, or if these people themselves are peaceful, and the process of releasing food is quite orderly and there is no chaos at all.

At this moment, the south, west, and east walls sounded one after another, representing the alarm bell of the 'threat coming', and continued to sound continuously.

Not only Zhao Yu and others heard it, but also those people who were queuing up to receive food, and looked around curiously, although some of them showed a look of panic, and their lips moved slightly in fright, and they had words, but in general, these people were not flustered.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu nodded slightly, turned his head to Li Xu and said, "...... As long as there is no chaos in the city. ”

Li Xu arched his hand, and said with a straight face: "Leader Zhou, please rest assured, I will definitely settle down in the city properly, so that Leader Zhou will not add trouble." ”

"Of course I believe in the county. …… That's hard work. ”

"Whatever Leader Zhou said, everything is for the military and civilians of the county......"

"Hmm."

Zhao Yu nodded, said goodbye to Li Xu, and immediately took Jingnu and Niu Heng to the south city wall.

He had a hunch that today would be a fierce battle as well.