Chapter 295: Killing people and stealing food

Three days later, the sky finally cleared, the sun rose high, and finally dispelled the dark clouds that had hung over Li Yuan's army for almost half a month.

As soon as he saw the sunny sky, Li Yuan was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered someone to dry his bow and arrows, and polish his knives and guns. Li Yuan's army resumed training again, and there were shouts of killing everywhere.

Compared to Li Yuan, Song Laosheng in Huoyi City had a gloomy face. He originally thought that it would be rainy and the rebels' grain and grass would not work well, and Li Yuan would soon retire due to lack of food and grass. But unexpectedly, the weather cleared, and Li Yuan's army actually got a glimmer of life at the last moment.

"General, although the Li thief escaped, but the soldiers have no heart to fight, how can he be the general's opponent, the last general is willing to lead a team of soldiers and horses, and he will be able to exterminate the Li thief's army!" The general who spoke was named Liu Xin.

"No!"

A general named Dou Rail spoke out to stop, "General, the Li thief's army has been advancing rapidly before, and the logistics grain and grass must not be able to keep up, plus these days are rainy and rainy, presumably there is not much grain and grass left in the Li thief's army, we only need to hold on to the city now, wait for the rebels to run out of food, and then the Li thief will definitely lead the army to retreat, and then we will follow the pursuit, and we will be able to destroy the Li thief rebels in one battle!" ”

"Running out of food?"

Liu Xin sneered and said disdainfully: "General Dou, don't forget, this is Huoyi, and it is not very far from Taiyuan." And at this time, the weather has cleared, although the official road is still a little muddy, but it is not impossible to go, Li Thief only needs to recruit some more people, enough to transport grain and grass! ”

"Although it is not far away, it is more than 400 miles. Even if the weather is fine, the logistics grain team from Taiyuan to Huoyi must march for more than ten days to arrive. The last general dared to say that the grain and grass in this Li thief's army must not last for ten days, and it is difficult to say whether the weather is sunny or not, if it rains again in two days, then we will win without a fight, why attack now, increase casualties? ”

Dou Liang defended, "General, the last general thinks that it is better to hold on, and we must also be careful of the spies in the city to prevent them from joining forces with Li Thief to steal the city!" ”

Liu Xin didn't pay any attention to him, and said to Song Laosheng: "General, when the last general was patrolling the streets in the morning, I heard people talking on the street that the Lu family and the Zhang family outside the city were suddenly wiped out the night before yesterday, and all the grain and property were robbed, and they suspected that Li Thief had done it."

When Song Laosheng heard this, his face suddenly changed, and the other generals did the same, if it was really Li Yuan's doing, it meant that Li Yuan's grain and grass were about to run out. It's a pity that this is no longer of any use, and since Li Yuan has raised the butcher's knife, then there will definitely be no shortage of food.

Although there are not many big families in Huoyi County, it is not a small number, and there are still many people in the surrounding villages, as long as Li Yuan is ruthless, he can grab a large amount of grain and grass, and it will not be a problem to support the army for a month or two.

"Impossible, right?"

Dou Liang was a little unconvinced, "Li Thief is very ambitious, how could he do such a self-defeating thing?" ”

"What's impossible!"

Liu Xin sneered, "It's because Li Thief's ambition is too big, so Li Thief will not be willing to retreat." For these careerists, killing people and stealing food is nothing. Think about Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the army ran out of food, his general Cheng Yu even plundered the people for him, using human flesh as military food, Cao Cao didn't take the world in the end! ”

None of the generals spoke, and they all agreed with Liu Xin's statement, there are not many historical records of the army plundering the food and property of civilians to supplement military rations and salaries, and even the generals who used human flesh as military rations have also been recorded repeatedly. In comparison, Li Yuan only robbed two big families, which is really nothing!

"Even if Thief Li really wants to kill people and steal food, such a thing must be extremely secret, how can it be known by outsiders?"

I don't know what kind of idea Dou Rail has, he is still defending Li Yuan, "I think this is a rumor deliberately spread by Li Thief!" It must be that their military rations are running out, and they are afraid that we will not be able to hold out and wait for their army to run out of food, so they arranged for Nei Ying to spread false news in the city, deliberately telling us that they will not lack military rations, and by the way forcing us to go out of the city to fight them in a decisive battle! ”

The generals looked at Liu Xin one after another, they were also very puzzled, and they also wanted to hear what Liu Xin had to say. After all, Dou Liang is right, even if Li Yuan wants to kill people and steal food, he will definitely send his henchmen to act secretly, and he will never allow the news to leak out. Now that such news has reached the city, there is a sense of conspiracy no matter how you look at it.

Song Laosheng was also puzzled and asked, "Who is talking about this matter, can General Liu have verification?"

"Not yet! However, I have already brought that person to the barracks, and his background has been checked, his name is Lu Dingjian, and he is a member of the Lu clan outside the city, and is in charge of the Lu clan's commercial transactions in the city. Would the general ask him? ”

"Bring him in!"

Liu Xin then left in a hurry, and soon walked in with a middle-aged man with a sad face, "General, this person is Lu Dingjian." ”

Lu Dingjian hurriedly knelt on the ground and saluted, "Grass man Lu Dingjian greets the general!" ”

Song Laosheng nodded, "Get up!" Tell me about your Lu family! ”

"General Xie!"

Lu Dingjian thanked him and said sadly: "The night before yesterday, about the third watch, Li Shimin, the son of the traitor Li Yuan, personally led hundreds of black-clothed people into the Lu Mansion, including the people of the side clansmen and the maids, a total of 325 people, no matter how big or small, no one survived!"

After speaking, Lu Dingjian bent his legs, knelt heavily on the ground, and cried: "Please also ask the general to uphold justice for our Lu family!"

Song Laosheng didn't answer his words, and asked again, "How do you know?"

"The head of the family sent me a message last night!"

After saying that, Lu Dingjian seemed to have some concerns, hesitated for a long time, and still spoke: "The head of the family has a concubine privately, but the wife of the head of the family has not agreed to her entering the door. The head of the family had no choice but to sell a small yard near our Lu Mansion and secretly house her. The night before yesterday, the head of the house happened to stay with the concubine, about three watches, the head of the house suddenly heard a scream from the Lu Mansion, so he wanted to go back to the house to check, who knew that he had just come out of the door of the small courtyard, and he saw a team of black-clothed people standing in front of the Lu Mansion from a distance. The head of the family didn't dare to be careless, cautiously sneaked closer to check, and recognized that the man in black who was the leader was Li Yuan's second son, Li Shimin. When Li Yuanqing suppressed the rebels, the head of the family had seen Li Shimin! ”

"Where is the head of the Lu family?"

"The grass people don't know! The city is under martial law, and the head of the family can't enter, so he can only let people send a message to me and let me spread this matter in the city! ”

Song Laosheng didn't ask again, and waved his hand to signal Liu Xin to arrange for the soldiers to take Lu Dingjian down.

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