Zhao Wei, the puppet Bajun Taishou, did not appear at all in the romance, but he still had some impact on the situation in Shu in the official history - this person was originally from Brazil, when Liu Yan was about to enter Shu, he was a Lang official in Luoyang, and he had no friendship with Liu Yan at the beginning.

But Zhao Wei is very good at clinging, he suspected that Liu Yan was ambitious, so he took advantage of Liu Yan's entry into Shu to spend money to transfer back to his hometown, and took the initiative to recommend himself like Liu Yan, saying that he could help Liu Yan gain a firm foothold in Ba County. The two used each other, and they hit it off, and were later appointed by Liu Yan as the puppet Bajun Taishou.

Liu Yan also knew that this person had ambitions, but he had to take advantage of it, so although he was given a high position, he let other subordinates set him up. Later in the official history, after Liu Yan's death, Zhao Wei really swelled and rebelled against Liu Zhang, who succeeded to the throne, but was finally pacified by the Dongzhou soldiers loyal to Liu Zhang.

In this life, because the prince Liu Mao was transferred to Ba County's side in advance, Zhao Wei was even more obvious, so that although he had the name of a Taishou, he had to personally supervise the war to transport grain to Liu Mao. Liu Mao just didn't worry about transferring all the henchmen and generals who were monitoring Zhao Wei out of the city, but left Zhao Wei to guard the city.

This time Gao Pei was killed and the grain fleet was captured, Zhao Wei did not resist, but he was more down-to-earth, and he was bored in the prisoner of war camp:

"Alas, why did you go blind and take refuge in Liu Yan, this is really a white-eyed wolf who turns his face and doesn't recognize people. Jia Long has the merit of quelling the rebellion of the Yellow Turban and Ma Xiang, and making a situation to meet Liu Yan. Just because he had military power in his hands, he was forced to kill by Liu Yan with an excuse.

Ren Qi originally thought that he was good friends with the Dong family, and Yingli Liu Yan would be able to get more promotions and make a fortune, but he was also killed under the pretext. People like me have fallen here, it's not wronged, I'm blind, at least I've lived longer than Jia Long Renqi, and it's good to be caught, so as not to look at Liu Mao's face again, the Han army will not directly kill the prisoner. ”

Zhao Wei knew very well how much Liu Yan's reign of terror was feared by the local wealthy families in Yizhou, and only a local from a poor soldier like Zhang Ren would work hard for Liu Yan, and Liu Yan's reliance was on the 40,000 Dongzhou soldiers and the poor at the bottom.

He was thinking about it for a few moments, when a Han army officer came over and called him: "Are you still stunned?" The captives all went to eat! It's time to eat! ”

Zhao Wei hurriedly got up and went out of the tent, only to find that more than a dozen captured subordinate officials and colonels were all gathered together and escorted to an open field for dinner, and there were hundreds of captured ordinary soldiers, who did not distinguish between officers and soldiers.

Zhao Wei secretly thought in his heart: It is estimated that the two thousand captives eat the same thing, but there are too many people to line up, so there are several fields, and the camp next to it should be the other captives.

He obediently lined up and received the meal in order, and there were rows of large wooden barrels in front of several Han army firehead troops, and each soldier scooped a bamboo tube of sorghum radish rice first, sorghum rice is not as much as radish, but the total portion is very sufficient, and there are some taro.

However, to Zhao Wei's surprise, in addition to staple food and vegetables, everyone can also receive a leaf of meat, which looks red and thin in color, but the aroma is attractive.

The leaves for the meat are made of hoop leaves, that is, the shells of the rice dumplings, so the meat of this leaf is at least equivalent to the weight of half a zongzi.

"The Han army can actually give meat to every ordinary soldier? Even the captives have to eat meat? Is the general of Zhengxi so rich in money and food? Zhao Wei was directly shocked.

He subconsciously looked at the henchman colonel next to him who was captured at the same time as him, named Pang Le, and he was just as surprised in Pang Le's eyes.

They took a cautious bite, not knowing what kind of meat it was, but it was indeed crispy and fragrant, and it was delicious—from the standpoint of a pseudo-official, and for ordinary soldiers, it was simply a heavenly delicacy.

How can the little soldiers usually have meat to eat.

For a while, the audience was filled with the sound of eating and crunching meat, and it could be heard that this meat was very chewy and firm.

"Dare to ask...... What kind of meat is this? Zhao Wei accompanied the officer who carefully asked the officer who put the meal.

"I haven't seen it, this is the new military food invented by the Captain of Tuntian, 'Green onion and pepper eat rabbit cold'. If you don't say that you locals are stupid, there are so many mountains and shrubs in Ba County, you can't farm land and can't herd sheep, so you are idle in vain, and you can't even raise rabbits. ”

Zhao Wei was surprised: "So this is a rabbit?" I haven't eaten much of this, but rabbits are easy to run, so it's not easy to raise. ”

Rabbit feed is really easy, like sheep to eat grass, and than sheep are not picky eaters, many sheep can not eat grass or shrub leaves, rabbits can also eat. Otherwise, how could rabbits become an ecological disaster that destroys cattle and sheep animal husbandry?

But the reason why rabbits are difficult to raise is mainly because they are too athletic, too easy to run away, and captivity cannot be managed. Therefore, the Chinese have never thought of raising rabbits in captivity since ancient times, at most hunting rabbits.

The Han army officer who was putting the meal was asked this question, but he was proud and proud: "Otherwise, you won't find a way." Rabbits are not good in captivity, so catch a batch alive and release them after a little breeding.

Rabbits are born so fast, they can reproduce three generations a year, and there are enough weeds and shrubs and leaves to be afraid that they will not grow crazy? During the winter, the heavy snow covers the mountain, and the basket trap is placed at the edge of the forest at the entrance of the village, and the radish bait is cut, and the morning dawns to collect a large number of goods. ”

I have to say that after Li Su and Tuntian Duwei Guoyuan repeatedly drummed up, they guided those settlements in Tuntian along the Jialing River last year to learn how to catch rabbits by free-range traps, and the effect was indeed very good, and it was also a stroke of genius.

If it is a rabbit on the grassland, it may not be completely out of food in winter and will hit the trap, and it may also move south in advance. However, this place in the Shudi Mountains was not originally a place where rabbits bred more, and rabbits belonged to half of the alien species. After the heavy snow closed the mountain, the rabbit is completely uneaten, at this time the efficiency of the radish trap is very high, just those tuntian points originally planted radishes and hoarded radish, naturally formed a "summer and autumn stocking, winter trap recycling, fried and dried long-term storage" industrial model.

Li Su's only risk of raising rabbits across regions is to overbreed alien species that may destroy the ecological balance, for example, if you get some rabbits in Australia, the ranch will be completely destroyed.

But in Sichuan, Li Su believes that it will not cause ecological disasters, as long as the local people are taught how to eat rabbits with peppercorns and cold dried meat, rabbits will never be flooded.

Of course, these secrets could not be known to Zhao Wei, but Li Su deliberately leaked them to him, just to let him know how rich Liu Beijun's military rations were! After letting these troops back up, it will greatly damage the confidence and morale of the defenders of Diaoyu City.

Zhao Wei only felt bitter in his mouth, and asked: "Is your army so rich that you eat meat every day?" ”

The officer who put the meal smiled proudly: "That's not true, but it's Mayday, these cold-eating rabbits are caught and slaughtered in winter, and they will be bad if they are put down, so they will be eaten quickly this time."

If you want to say that the national capital lieutenant is really a genius in the world, so a little mountainous land allows the people to Tuntian, and also transports military rations in transit, and can also make so many radishes, potatoes, taro, and rabbit subsidies, but unfortunately this rabbit meat can only be eaten in winter and spring. ”

As soon as he said this, Zhao Wei felt more and more credible, rather than Li Su deliberately bragging.

He knocked on the side and asked some more questions, including where did the warship that defeated them today come from, Liu Beijun transported grain from Hanzhong to Diaoyu City, and why the more than 800 miles of the Jialing River waterway did not suffer much loss...... These inside stories were gradually heard by him, and his confidence suddenly became more and more depressed.

How can this be consumed with Li Su? It's really unjust to lose at his hands.

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The Han army raised the captives for two or three days, and also opened it up for them to see, but the road to the south was guarded very strictly, and no one who knew the inside story was allowed to return to the direction of Jiangzhou.

On the third day after being captured, Zhao Wei was finally received by Li Su again, which also meant that Li Su was going to let them go.

Li Su shook the folding fan, as if he was very dissatisfied with the heat of May in Ba County:

"In the past few days, you have seen the military might of our army clearly, right? After returning to the city, tell Liu Mao well, don't be stubborn. As long as they surrender and sacrifice the city, I will spare their father and son from dying, and I can even still give Liu Yan an idle official position to cover up. Otherwise, if these two thousand mouths are sent into the city again, his food will not be enough for even a year, and when the city is really broken, it will be all burned! ”

"I ...... I try to persuade. Zhao Yunren didn't dare to resist under the low eaves.

Li Su continued to beat: "There is one more thing, if you are willing to do it, even if Liu Mao does not surrender in the future, I will ensure that your whole family is rich." If you don't, I don't care, there's another way. ”

Zhao Wei was quite frightened: "You don't want me to open the city gate when I return to the city, right?" The Diaoyu City is unusually strong, built on a mountain, and there are layers of defenses along the mountain, and it is useless to open a gate. ”

Li Su's eyes lit up: "So, you already know the defense pattern of Diaoyu City?" ”

Zhao Wei: "This ...... I don't know, but I know that it is indeed strong and has many defenses. ”

Li Su snorted coldly: "That is the case, anyway, the opportunity has been given to you, after entering the city, pay attention to observation, draw a picture book of various parts of the city defense, draw it on a wooden board, get a few more pieces, throw them into the river, and we will open a net to intercept it downstream." On the night after the throw, our military camp on the other side of the Chaojiang River pretended to shoot a burst of rockets. ”

If Zhao Wei didn't agree, Li Su would naturally send a fine work to go back among the captives and find out the location of the granary and other places in the city. Even if he can't completely burn the grain in the city, he will slaughter Liu Mao fiercely.

Li Suke is not so idle, and he really surrounds him for another year.

Zhao Wei was terrified in his heart, and always felt that Li Su must have a backhand, and he would not fully believe him, so he had to retreat under orders.

In the evening of the same day, 2,000 captives were stripped of their clothes and driven to the city of Diaoyu.

The Han army shouted from afar with a paper tube horn: "The defenders of the city listen!" This is the brother who brought you food two days ago, and we have taken it captive, and now I will release it for you! We don't care about the more than 2,000 defenders at all, we are afraid that Liu Mao will be unkind, and in order to save military rations, we don't even care about the lives of our own soldiers! Liu Mao, if you are still human, take them back, otherwise we will not raise idlers, and we will also kill prisoners! ”

The head of the city was shocked for a while, and the defenders of Diaoyu City obviously didn't expect Liu Beijun to despise them so much, and let more people defend the city in order to speed up food consumption (only the captives knew about Li Su's existence, and the defenders in the city didn't know it so far)

All attention was focused on Liu Mao's decision-making.

Liu Mao was also completely big-headed, but there was no step down, after thinking about it again, he gritted his teeth and decided: "Put them all back, but we must check whether there are any enemy troops mixed in it!" And from tonight onwards, every inner wall must be fortified and checked, so as not to prevent the enemy from stealing the city gates! ”

Liu Bi had no choice but to obey the military order and take back the two thousand prisoners.

It's a pity that Li Su seemed to be very calm, and after half a month of siege, he didn't make any small moves, and Liu Mao's soldiers became exhausted because of their day and night duty.

The prisoners who returned to the city also spread the news that the Han army had sufficient military rations, that the transportation was well arranged, that they were not afraid of protracted war, and that ordinary soldiers had rabbit meat to eat. As a result, the morale of the defenders became more and more demoralized.

And Li Su, unknowingly, got the defense map in the city through the wooden planks floating in the Jialing River, especially the locations of the main granaries.

On the one hand, he found a few jewelry craftsmen, polished a pair of oblate and round fire beads with natural crystal, and a concave lens opposite to the concave and convex of the fire beads, and then used Li Su's self-produced "calcium carbonate flocculent precipitation" abrasive to polish the clarity, and added a copper cylinder to get a telescope with a less reliable multiplier but good to use.

On the other hand, Li Su asked the besieging troops to erect a wooden building of more than ten zhang on the south bank of the Jialing River, on the top of a hill west of Diaoyu Mountain, which was more difficult than the well and the well, but because it did not need to be moved like the well and the well, it could be constructed. In this way, standing on the roof of this building, equipped with a telescope, and comparing it with a wooden map, you can roughly confirm the effect of the blow on the castle.

"Well, I didn't expect that in the shack area behind the first two city walls, there were also some scattered military rations. These points can be burned with catapults and canisters of sugar and oil. In the gentle tuntian areas in the west of the city, these are granaries, and it would be nice if you could put large Kong Ming lanterns, cans of sugar and oil, and set them on fire with kite strings...... It's a pity that it's not easy to control the direction. ”

No matter what, try it, burn as much as you can. The key is that Li Su feels that the morale in Diaoyu City is so low that there may not be no one to fight for, as long as it is set on fire and messed up, in case other people with different intentions, or those Han soldiers who have mixed in, can find an opportunity to attract the attention of the defenders, and use fake fire to cover the real fire and set fire, it is better than not trying.

A few days later, the relevant operations began gradually, about one day in late May, the Han army, which had not been attacking the city for a long time, launched another offensive and dispatched some "Hanzhong artillery".

What is different from the past is that this time the Hanzhong artillery actually added incendiary bombs, and the blow to the buildings inside the wall became extremely accurate, which really scared the defenders. At one time, it also destroyed and burned some buildings that were relatively close to the outer defense line, including two small granaries, about a few thousand stone of military rations allocated to the defenders of the outer wall for temporary support, and many firewood and forage for cooking were burned together.

And even more chaos awaits.