When I came, because there was a firelight in the direction of the city wall, although I stumbled, I could still find a place, but now when I go back, the black light is blind and the environment is dark, although Chen Mo has a good memory, but it is difficult to find his own tent in the dark, Chen Mo groped all the way for a long time, simply gave up, found a place where more than a dozen people got together and squeezed in to keep warm, although it was early spring, but the night was still very cold, it was impossible to stay outside for a night.

There is one more person, and for these people, they are just dissatisfied with their bodies, and the night passes like this.

At dawn the next day, Chen Ming cleared the environment and quickly found it.

"Mother, you didn't sleep last night?" Chen Mo looked at his mother with a tired face, and said with some distress.

"My son didn't return overnight, how can my mother rest assured?" Mother Chen sighed and said.

The gong sounded outside, and Chen Mo took the wooden arrows handed by Da Lang and put them into the quiver one by one, and said guiltily: "After I came back last night, it was too dark, I couldn't find the way, and I squeezed with people for a night, and I was tired and worried about my mother's parents. ”

"Well, did you get a reply last night?" Chen's mother shook her head, for her, it was enough for her son to come back safely.

"Well, I've made a pact with them to take you into the city tonight?" Chen Mo nodded, although he was not out of danger for the time being, at least, his mother's safety did not have to be worried, and half of his heart was relieved.

"That's great!" Aunt Cai breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, these days she has been frightened, and the days of hunger and hunger are really not good, if you can enter the city and have a place to stay, even if it is worse than before, it is better than now.

Mother Chen looked at Chen Mo, frowned slightly, and said, "It's that simple?" ”

Even if the county magistrate didn't doubt whether they were meticulous, they shouldn't have agreed to such a thing so rashly at this time, right?

"Hmm." Chen Mo nodded, looked at the tent and said, "Mother, they are here again, let's go, everyone bring their things." ”

The sound of the gong outside the tent became louder and louder, if it was not dragged out, those Taiping people would not have any merciful thoughts, and the beating was light, and then everyone came out of the tent and began to assemble along the crowd.

A small boss died yesterday, and the new leader was obviously a little worried about being killed like last night, so he deliberately widened the distance between him and everyone, just constantly urging everyone to move forward, but he was just scolding.

In such a state, even if Chen Mo didn't know any art of war, he could see that it was difficult to make any achievements today, the battlefield was not fierce, and the people besieging the city were forced back by the defenders' arrow arrays several times before they touched the city wall.

Zhou Fang looked at the ridiculous battle formation gloomily, turned his head to look around and said, "Can anyone tell me what this is doing?" Do you want to exhaust the defenders to death? ”

A group of Taiping Sect generals looked at each other, and one of them frowned and said: "Someone was killed in the chaos yesterday, and the relationship between our army and these believers has gradually become a situation of fire and water, and the officers and men in the army are also afraid that they will be secretly attacked if they are pressed too hard. ”

Yesterday a leader died, in fact, it was just a small matter, the real fatality, I am afraid is the relationship between the two sides, from the beginning, they coerced the people to attack the city, there is a lack of trust between the Taiping army and these so-called believers, before someone gathered to make trouble, was suppressed by Zhou Fang with thunder, but it is only a symptom rather than a cure.

This time, tens of thousands of people came to attack the city, and the real core combat power of the Taiping Sect was actually less than a thousand, plus the army composed of those hunters who were recruited from all over the country, if this battle could successfully break through Quyang, at least Quyang's materials could be used to completely win over those hunters.

However, Quyang did not flee like other counties, but organized fierce resistance, so that the internal contradictions would intensify over time when the people were forced to join.

Of course, these deep-seated things, these people, including Zhou Fang, may not be able to understand, and now the Taiping Sect on Quyang's side is like sitting in a crater that will erupt at any time, really letting these tens of thousands of people completely erupt, and those teams organized by hunters and rangers from all over the country have not yet returned to their hearts, and they must be the ones who will be swallowed up in the end.

A Taiping Sect general looked at Zhou Fang and frowned, "Shuai Qu, if you don't think of some more strategies, I'm afraid these people will gradually be unable to suppress it." ”

This can be seen from today's battlefield, those people who were coerced are unwilling to contribute, and the Taiping Sect's people are also worried about being hacked on the battlefield, so they dare not force each other too much.

"Heh~" After being silent for a long time, Zhou Fang waved his hand and said: "Collect the troops, since they don't want to live a good life, then there is no need to pass it, pass on my military order, before the capture of Quyang, the food supply will be halved, and I will teach food, but I will not use it to support idlers!" ”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Fang said again: "Of course, don't say this when you tell them, just say that the food is exhausted, and if we don't break the city, we can only starve to death here together." ”

"Whoa!" Several Taiping Sect generals felt that this was also a method, and immediately nodded and set off to give the order, ordering the gong to be withdrawn, such a lifeless battlefield, there was no point in continuing to fight.

The people around heard the sound of the gong, and Wuyang and Wuyang rushed back, and they were lifeless when they were fighting, but now they are in good spirits when they withdraw their troops.

"Mother, we won't go back!" Chen Mo took the sunspot from Aunt Cai's arms, pulled his mother and said, "Get closer to the city wall, and you can get out tonight." ”

Previously, he had already prepared to arrange for his mother and them to enter the city, so he brought all the belongings he could bring with him, along with Kuroko, which was not like a war, but like a fleeing.

Everyone stopped according to the words, and found a big tree nearby to shelter from the wind, and there was a quarrel in the distance, Da Lang went to investigate, and came back in a hurry after a while, and said to everyone: "There is no food, those Taiping people said, before Quyang is captured, there will be less and less food, if you want to eat, you will enter Quyang City tomorrow, and we will take the things in the city." ”

Chen Mo frowned when he heard this, stood up and looked into the distance, the noise continued, and it was getting louder and louder, he turned his head to look at Da Lang and said, "They didn't do anything?" ”

According to past experience, with so many people making trouble, I am afraid that the people of the Taiping Sect would have been impatient to do it a long time ago.

"Never." Da Lang shook his head and said: "Somehow, today's group of Taiping Sect people have a very good temper, and they keep explaining to everyone that there is no surplus food in the army, and they originally wanted to use the food in the city to feed everyone after the city is broken, but now that the city has not been captured, most of the food has been consumed, and they can't do anything." ”

"I'm afraid that there are still people, they are forcing everyone to attack the city desperately by doing this!" Mother Chen sighed and said.

"I'm not stupid to wait, how can I let him send it?" Da Lang said disdainfully.

Chen Mo didn't speak, just sat under the tree alone, looking at the noisy crowd in the distance, thinking of countermeasures......