In Linjin City, these days, the battle at the head of the city is naturally extremely cruel, and even the busyness and misery in the city are not much better than flesh and blood. Before the battle, the refugees who entered the city, and all those who had the strength to live in the city were recruited with hot porridge a day, and formed into a team to carry the city's defense equipment, bows, arrows and crossbows, and carried waves of supplies to the city, and the casualties of the soldiers were removed from the city wall one by one, and piled up in the sheds built at the base of the city.

Some of the mud houses near the city wall have been temporarily demolished, and the wooden planks, wooden beams, and masonry that have been removed have all become materials for the defense of the city, and only half of the yellow mud wall is left standing alone on the ground.

This is the practice of this era, for the owner of the house, there is no room for negotiation, the bright knife and gun in front, dare to say more than half a word, directly as a collaborator beheaded, even after the compensation is saved.

On both sides of the streets in the city, the shops are closed, even if they are ordered to open, the grain stores guarded by special soldiers are open for half an hour at noon during the day, and then they close as soon as the hour comes......

Other firewood, soy sauce, salt or something, can only be found by the people in the city themselves, anyway, the city gate is not opened, and even the firewood is used a little less, not to mention the vegetables that were originally outside the city.

In the main streets and unattended alleys, the refugees in Guanzhong outside the city who were hiding from the military disaster were either squatting or half-lying, curled up under the corners of the walls, and went to the city to help more or less and had a bite to eat, and if they were not recruited, they did not even have a mouthful of food, so they could only fill their stomachs with well water, and then tear the bark and grass roots to chew and eat indiscriminately, and some could not even find the bark and grass roots, so they could only find some white clay, and rub it into a ball-like shape with the water, and swallow it.

In the city of Anpingfang, it is much better, at least not by the conscription of the west soldiers to find the door, in the fangmen, there are also some families in the help to maintain order, to prevent idle people from entering.

These are some of Zuo Fengyi's big families who do not live in the dock fort in the countryside, and there are some reserves in the Gaomen compound, not to mention three or two days, even if it is twenty or thirty days, these people may not be hungry, but in order to prevent the displaced refugees in the city from coveting, there are spontaneously organized patrol queues day and night to constantly patrol the workshop.

On the street where the government office is located, there are always blood-stained herald soldiers, who run from the city wall from time to time, and then take the reply from the government office, and rush out in a hurry, with a murderous atmosphere, even looking at it from a distance, I feel cold.

Xu Shu was born as a military general, well, wrong, it is similar to a military general, burly figure, he also learned some martial arts when he was young, naturally he is not afraid of the battle formation, wearing a military uniform with a helmet and armor, and going to the city to supervise the battle, and other civil officials in the city have no ability to Xu Shu, and some even have leg and stomach cramps when they see blood, so they can only stay in the palace, and how much out of sight is clear.

At this time, in the palace, in addition to a few civil officials, there is another person, with a big waist and a round waist, sitting in front of the hall, standing in front of a cold and shining crescent halberd, with two short halberds crossed behind the back, strong and abnormal, but there are five wisps of beard, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a dignified appearance.

In the past two days, no matter how fierce the battle was in the city, Xu Shu did not order Tai Shici to support, but repeatedly emphasized that he must stay in the city.

Originally, Tai Shi Ci could sit in the hall, but Tai Shi Ci insisted on sitting in front of the hall and sat under everyone's eyes.

After all, Tai Shi Ci is Tai Shi Ming's cousin, and Tai Shi Ming has a deep friendship with Fei Qian, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others under Lushan, with such a relationship, it is naturally closer than ordinary people, Xu Shu personally came to the city wall to supervise the formation, and the heavy responsibility of guarding the city naturally fell on Tai Shi Ci, and the position of Zuo Feng Yijun Sima is enough to temporarily mobilize any soldier in the city.

At this time when the wind and rain outside the city were shaking and the people in the city were panicking, Tai Shi Ci was the Dinghai needle in Linjin City, and even the busy civil officials on the side of the Mansion Ya Ming Hall saw Tai Shi Ci in full uniform, and his heart was naturally a little calmer, and he was a little less flustered in handling affairs.

"Sima, more than 1,000 people have been levied recently, and the salary can be saved, but the consumption of grain and grass is amazing! The public stock of grain, every day only see its less, not see its much, and attached to the wheat field, even if it can be harvested after the autumn, but this city is besieged, I don't know when it can be solved, like this, I'm afraid it won't be able to support for long! Cangcao went out of the side room, and when he came to Tai Shici, he reported in a low voice.

"How long can it last?" Tai Shi Ci asked.

Cang Cao said: "If it is calculated according to the current consumption, it will take 20 days at most, and 10 days at least, and the public treasury will be exhausted." If you use a small bucket, you can support it for a few more days. ”

"Somebody." Tai Shici nodded and said, "The army has always used big fights, and you can't change it without authorization, otherwise it will be easy to change...... The matter of grain and grass will be discussed with the envoy. ”

Cangcao nodded, and then stepped back.

Cangcao left, but the master craftsman in the city came with a frown. "Sima, make the king point the equipment, and want to make up for the city...... There is one in the armor warehouse, and it is enough to retrieve it, but the number of arrows is ...... The blacksmith in the city has stayed up all night, repairing and beating, but it is still insufficient, and there is still a difference of 30,000 yuan......"

"As much as you have, you will send as much as you want!" Tai Shi Ci also understood that the arrow was not something that could be used by casually cutting a piece of wood, and the process was also complicated, so even if it was forced, it could not be forced, so he said, "Let the craftsmen hurry up the work, and once the war is over, there will be a big reward!" ”

The master craftsman in the city bowed his hand, took two steps, and then turned back and said, "...... There is another thing that is quite strange...... The envoy also explained before...... In this bloody battle at the head of the city, the blades were naturally damaged a lot, but in the past two days, Ding Zhuang has sent some less repairs than the previous two days......"

Originally, Tai Shi Ci was sitting steadily, but when he heard the words of the master craftsman, he thought about it for a while, and immediately whispered to the master with a solemn expression: "Don't be loud, and talk about it carefully!" ”

Although Tai Shi Ci is a military general, but his mind is not rough, otherwise he would not have fled to Liaodong because of the bus performance, Xu Shu's real intention in keeping him in the city was not to let him approve and review the affairs of each subordinate Cao, but to borrow Tai Shi Ci's hand to eliminate the hidden dangers in the city.

How many fortified cities are not damaged or fallen because of the shortage of soldiers, but because the city was broken by the combination of the inside and the outside. Linjin was originally Zuo Fengyi's governing place, and there are many people in this city, so it is possible to find out all of them in a while and a half?

In addition, when the Huchuquan soldiers came, there were many people who had taken refuge in the city, and it is difficult to say whether there were some people with ill intentions.

Therefore, no matter how fierce the battle on the head of the city was, Xu Shu did not use Tai Shi Ci, because whether it was Xu Shu or Tai Shi Ci, they all knew that only after the hidden dangers in the city were exposed and completely eliminated could people really feel at ease.

In the past few days, Tai Shi Ci has been sitting in the government office, and what is headache and irritability is not the continuous trivial affairs, but the hidden dangers in the city, without any signs, which makes Tai Shi Ci quite entangled for a while.

For several days in a row, although the city was somewhat dirty, it was still more or less within the normal range, and there were no signs of evil, and there were no attempts to disturb it, and even if there was an occasional fight, it was just a fight between individual refugees, and even the soldiers did not need to be dispatched, and a few inspectors stopped it.

Could it be that Xu Shu and himself are too worried?

Could it be that there are no problems in the city in the first place?

But Tai Shici, who has been on the battlefield of flesh and blood for several years, always feels a little unstable in his heart, to say that the Zheng clan in Guanzhong rebelled, they can unite Huchuquan to go south, but no longer make some arrangements in Linjin City, how can this be believed?

Therefore, when the master craftsman in the city reported that the blades had decreased, Tai Shici's heart immediately moved, realizing that this was the work of a spy who had infiltrated the city, and immediately paid attention to it. The reason is very simple, in the Han Dynasty, the residents of the city were all registered, and there may be some blades that are the focus of attention on weekdays, especially Anpingfang.

Anpingfang not only has its family members patrolling inside, but even outside there are Xu Shu and Tai Shici's people staring at it day and night, and some of the more than ten big families in Anpingfang are also under Xu Shu's hands, and not all of them will be bought by the Zheng family, so they are even more aware of these key relationships, but whenever there is some wind and grass, and they see idle people, etc., they will contact the government as soon as possible and remove themselves.

Therefore, although there are soldiers in Anpingfang, they are the most closely monitored, and there is a slight movement, and a team of soldiers and horses left in the city immediately arrive, and they can't move at all.

On the contrary, before the arrival of Huchuquan, this wave of refugees poured into Linjin City, because first, there was no time to check their identities, and secondly, these people fled, and they may not be able to bring their own mistakes with them.

But there is one thing, Xu Shu and Tai Shici both know that although these refugees can sneak into the city, it is definitely impossible to carry the blades with them, so they either go to the place where the blades are hidden to get them, or they steal the weapons of the soldiers guarding the city......

Now, it seems, these people have chosen the way to steal.

Of course, it is also possible that the patrol around Anping Fang is too strict, so that it is impossible to obtain the previously hidden blades from Anping Fang......

Although the blades sent for repair are generally some damaged, but there are some gaps, or spears with broken wooden handles, as long as they are sorted out a little, they can be put back into use, who can say that a knife with a gap can't kill people?

After sending off the master craftsman, Tai Shi Ci immediately called the iron hook in charge of inspection in the city.

The iron hook is surnamed Tie, and even he forgot what it was originally called, as for the hook, because he has an iron hook on his right forearm, and his surname is Tie, so he is simply called an iron hook. He was originally a cavalry scout, and later in the battle against Xianbei in the west, he was cut off the small forearm of his right hand by the Xianbei people, relying on his strong body, and survived the infection period by luck, so he retired as a local inspector, and then with the pace of the expedition, he also went north to Guanzhong, from a patrol squad leader to a city security chief.

Most of the inspections in the city, including the iron hook, were all the way to follow Fei Qian from the north, naturally it was both a loss and a glory, at least the iron hook still remembered that Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, had personally bandaged the iron hook back then......

Maybe it's the Iron Hook boasting, but at least it shows that the loyalty of the Iron Hook and others is much better than that of ordinary soldiers.

Iron Hook has been a scout, and the requirements of the scout are that he is bold and careful, sharp-eyed, and must judge the direction and number of soldiers from the clues, etc., and the careless guy can't do the scout, so the transfer from the scout to the patrol inspector, except for some difficulty in the cultural class, the other problems are not big.

As soon as the iron hook came, when he heard this, he immediately frowned, pondered for a moment and said: "There are a lot of homeless people in the city, all over the alleys and streets, and there are a lot of Ding Zhuang recruited in the past few days, so this is investigated...... If you don't secretly arrange people at the city gate, these thieves must have the idea of using the city gate anyway......"

"That's true, but there are eight city gates, of different sizes, not to mention that we don't have many people in the city, so it's better to arrest them first......," Tai Shici thought for a moment and said, "What's more, I went to the internal troubles earlier, so I can fully support the city wall to defend against external enemies." ”

"In this way, we will have to patrol among these displaced people!" The iron hook waved the iron hook in his right hand and said, "I think we can start from the surrounding areas of Anpingfang first!" ”

"Yes. But don't be in a hurry now, first think about whether the soldiers who have been patrolling in the past two days have reported something strange? Tai Shi Ci asked.

"Something strange?" The iron hook slapped the iron hook in the palm of his left hand a few times, and suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he said, "There really is!" Sima, you know, General Zhengxi has some regulations in the north, such as the matter of drowning, there are also detailed rules......"

Tai Shici nodded, he did know about this matter, defecating and defecating at will, on the streets of Pingyang, if he couldn't say it, he would be fined immediately, and if he didn't have money, he would have to serve.

“…… Therefore, the city also follows the example of merging with the north,......" the iron hook said in a deep voice, "Yesterday at dusk, when a certain patrol was inspecting the village, he caught a few homeless people who were left behind in the street, and I originally thought that it was just to make up for some of the city's craftsmen's labor, but now I think about it, the city has been limited in food for many days, and the ordinary homeless people are even more food and clothing, and there are even more people who swallow the soil and have a bloated stomach, where else can they pull out!" He who pulls must have food, and where does this food come from? Someone in the city must have given it secretly! ”