No matter at any time.

War, the destruction of a city is enormous! This is not only in the construction of the city, but also in people's psychology.

Yangzhou City began to close the city gates as early as before Xiao Han set out on the expedition, and after him, all personnel were strictly forbidden to enter and leave at will.

During this period, even if there are displaced people in the vicinity who want to enter the city, they will never open the gate! At most, through the soldiers on the city wall, they pulled people up with hanging baskets.

Moreover, those who enter the city are absolutely not allowed to be picked up by his relatives and friends who live in the city! Instead, they were gathered together, and even eating and sleeping were supervised by special personnel to prevent people with ulterior motives from sneaking into the city.

The young and strong people of every household in Yangzhou City are now mobilized, one by one, holding rudimentary weapons, wearing leather armor or robes, and patrolling the city wall day and night!

Although everyone knows that these young men who have not experienced any training at all are almost useless in the brutal siege warfare!

But now, Yangzhou City is really unavailable, so I can only settle for a while, even if there are more ears and eyes, it is a good thing.

The wood, which had not been used for a long time, was moved to the city wall.

The oil is prepared in a cauldron and can be boiled at any time.

Even the rolling stones were demolished by the officials, and the big stones used as the foundation were pulled out, which was enough for the amount Cui Jingzhi said.

In addition, gold juice, putts, crashes, as long as the equipment that is beneficial to defending the city, are all excavated and used! All the people were mobilized.

The legendary army has not yet arrived in the city, but the heaviness of the black clouds that want to destroy the city has already made every resident of the city panic and unable to sleep and eat.

Fortunately, Yangzhou City is rich!

The city's food reserves were so abundant that even if it were to be closed to the city, it would survive for months.

This is also the only point that reassures Yang Wenwen and Cui Jingzhi! As long as they can hold the city without breaking it, sooner or later they will wait for reinforcements from the imperial court!

"Lord Yang, isn't there any news outside?"

In the evening, Cui Jingzhi, who was in charge of guarding the night, climbed the city wall with heavy steps and asked Yang Wenwen, who looked tired.

"Hey......" Yang Wenwen heard the voice, looked back and saw that it was Cui Jingzhi, but just sighed and shook his head slowly.

"No news yet......" Seeing this, Cui Jingzhi also sighed, stepped forward to hold on to the wall and looked at it for a while, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly whispered: "Lao Yang, I always feel that we should really send scouts out to have a look!" Blocking the news like now, and we don't even know where the enemy is, so it won't do the slightest benefit to defend the city! ”

Generally speaking, words like this should be the advice of subordinates to superiors.

But now, it has become a discussion between superiors and subordinates, which is a bit surprising.

If they didn't know the identities of the two, it is estimated that they would treat Yang Wenwen as a chief official and Cui Jingzhi as a county magistrate.

However, what is even more surprising is that it is clear that the official position is several levels smaller than Cui Jingzhi, Yang Wenwen was expressionless at the moment, and just said lightly: "Before Xiao Hou left, he instructed us to defend the city with peace of mind, and he took on the affairs outside the city, and there was no need to investigate the news, I think you and I should do it!" ”

"At this time, you can still defend the city with peace of mind?" Cui Jingzhi was a little anxious when he heard this, he didn't care about the surprised eyes around him, gritted his teeth and pointed outside: "But there are fifteen thousand troops outside the city, and Xiao Hou only has about a hundred people!" How reassuring is this! Lao Yang, this is not my business alone, it is the business of the whole Yangzhou and tens of thousands of people! I can't help but be careless! ”

"A hundred, so what!"

Cui Jingzhi was furious, but he didn't expect that Yang Wenwen was even angrier than him!

He saw Yang Wenwen, who was originally staring at the outside of the city, turn his head abruptly, staring straight at himself with a pair of eyes, and then said word by word: "Xiao Hou is here, and he should live up to the safety of the city!" Resist foreign enemies, this should be your business and mine! Now for the sake of the 100,000 people in the city, he resolutely went out of the city to meet a hundred times the enemy, and we are here, if we don't obey his command, how different is it from a traitor?! ”

Cui Jingzhi was suddenly drunk by Yang Wenwen, and suddenly had some words.

As the saying goes, the higher you climb, the more you look forward and backward, in terms of firm character, Cui Jingzhi is definitely not as good as Yang Wenwen!

Of course, this is also a matter of character.

In other aspects, Cui Jingzhi may not be inferior to Yang Wenwen, otherwise, he would not be able to become a long history with a county order that is a few years younger than Yang Wenwen.

"I didn't mean to disobey Lord Hou's order, I just sent someone out to take a look, and if anything happened, I could take care of Xiao Hou." Cui Jingzhi knew that he was in a hurry just now, and his words were a little ambiguous, so he hurriedly corrected it, not to mention anything else, this mind that can admit mistakes to subordinates is something that most people do not have.

"Master Hou, he's fine!"

Before Yang Wenwen could speak this time, under the city wall, another person slowly stood up and said firmly towards Cui Jingzhi.

"Are you...... Xiao Hou's housekeeper? ”

Cui Jingzhi looked at the person who spoke strangely, and after identifying it again and again, he realized that this person was the housekeeper he met when he visited Xiao Hou's house.

Steward Lu had just heard all the conversations between the two in his ears, and although he was a little dissatisfied with this chief at this time, he didn't show it on his face.

After all, he also knew that Cui Jingzhi was right! If he is responsible for the people of a city, he will never be able to pin his hopes on one person.

Arching his hand towards the two, Steward Lu said politely but not humbly: "The old slave has seen two adults. ”

"You're here, but you're waiting for your lord?" Cui Jingzhi was kind to Yang Wenwen, but in the face of a house slave, he still didn't have to be so polite, so he just glanced at Steward Lu and asked casually.

Steward Lu owed his body again, and replied: "The old slave is waiting for my lord here, and the mother of the house wants to take care of the little princess, and it is too chaotic here, so I have to send the old slave over and wait for the lord to return, so as to serve as soon as possible." ”

Cui Jingzhi's eyes gradually narrowed: "Do you know that your marquis is everywhere now?" What about it? ”

Steward Lu shook his head slightly: "I don't know!" However, the old slave knew that the Hou Ye would definitely return safely! ”

"How do you know?"

This sentence circled in Cui Jingzhi's throat, but he didn't say it in the end.

Why didn't he want Xiao Han to return safely? Besides, if Xiao Han has a problem with him, then he also has to be responsible?

However, there is one thing that Cui Jingzhi doesn't know: If Xiao Han really has a problem in Yangzhou City, the ending will definitely be ten times more tragic than Yangzhou City being breached, a hundred times more miserable!

"Huh? You see, what is that? ”

The people on the city wall were still thinking about themselves, but unexpectedly, a small soldier on the city head pointed to the distance and shouted, as if he had discovered a new continent.