"Governor Gu, the enemy has just retreated; How did this second attack come so quickly? ”

The deputy general pulled out the light pole arrow, repeatedly looked at the arc of the arrow shaft, and asked Gu Hui; And Gu Hui stood up with the help of the pillar, beat his sore thighs hard, pointed to the Mobei army camp and said:

"What's not to understand about this? At this point in the war, it's not just us gritting our teeth and resisting; They also need time for a truce to recuperate. For us, the longer the delay, the greater the chance of victory; In the same way, for the Mobei people, the longer they are stumped by us, the more slim their chances of winning become. ”

"With all due respect, isn't the Governor too optimistic? Now, after all, they are camped outside the city, and their consumption can also be replenished immediately; But we have been without food in the city for four days, and in the morning I watched those Mobei dog thieves eating and drinking under the city, and the brothers' mouths were full of sour water! There is no food in this stomach, and I don't even have the strength to open a bow......"

"Alright, okay, stop whining! Within seven days, the Governor will guarantee you a bite to eat. ”

"Hey, then I'll listen to you!"

Since ancient times, the interruption of food in the army will inevitably breed military disasters; In this regard, Chen Ziling, the commander of the Qin army, has made the most vivid demonstration. It is also a little strange to say that as early as three days before Qingshan City ran out of food, Huang Yumei, the governor's wife, had already sent someone to issue a notice to understand the military and civilians of the city; But now there is still no food for three days, and although the people and soldiers are complaining, none of them have tried to provoke a riot, let alone abandon the city and surrender, and worship to the north!

In fact, this miracle condensed by the human heart, in the final analysis, the secret is only two words: fairness.

Although Gu Hui is rigid and pedantic, he really has the noble character of a traditional literati. After the announcement of the food shortage, he announced in front of the generals and the common people in the army: From him down, all officials and generals with the word "long" in their titles must eat only after the ordinary soldiers and the people in the city have eaten.

Obviously, it is a common move used by traditional Qingliu civil officials to appease riots and buy people's hearts by the way; Chen Shijie's way of being an official who pulls the queen as a banner and enjoys his wife and concubine on the bright side is also more clever than Gu Hui's methods, not a little bit smarter!

So at the beginning, Ding Shuo, the general of Taining, did not understand Gu Hui's thoughts, and he also strongly opposed this matter. After all, the main force resisting Mobei Jun was the generals and soldiers of the Zhongshan Governor's Army; And not the ordinary people in the city.

In Ding Shuo's impression, although the people also have hands and feet, they are more willing to shed their blood and sacrifice their lives to defend their homeland; However, a civilian who has the courage to kill is still a civilian; There is still a long way to go from a soldier in the true sense of the word......

Although it is a bit cruel, even if there is only the last mouthful of food left, the soldiers who went into battle to kill the enemy must first fill their stomachs; As for Gu Hui's truth, although it is fanciful, it actually has the flavor of "scholars misleading the country".

It's a pity that the Gu family and his wife, after all, are still the nominal governors of Zhongshan Road, and they are one level higher than Ding Shuo, a general who rose up in the wind; As the saying goes, "the official level crushes people to death", although the personal relationship between the three of them is good, they can only distribute the remaining food according to the method proposed by Gu Hui.

The people do not suffer from few, but from inequality. Gu Hui used this set of bookish practices to firmly tie the military and civilians of the entire Qingshan City together, and became a community of destiny in the true sense. The sages have clouds, and the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. In this long and brutal siege, the Gu couple explained this truth to Ding Shuo.

If there is no Qingshan City, the people will unite and resist to the death; The iron hooves of the Shenshi army may have already stepped on Ding Shuo's corpse!

From this point of view, the so-called great truth is not just seemingly noble but useless nonsense!

Under the support of the deputy general, Gu Hui couldn't help but tremble his hands, supported the battlements of the city wall stained with the flesh and blood of the two armies, and looked at the battlefield under the city; I saw those Huashen cultists in khaki coats shouting unintelligible slogans again, rushing towards Qingshan City all over the mountains......

"Tell everyone, put twenty-five steps, and the arrows will be saved!"

Gu Hui gave an instruct to this "Mediterranean Adjutant General" who had his hair cut off by the enemy, and then pulled out the sword full of gaps in his waist, leaned his back against the city wall, and waited for the enemy to set up a long ladder and climb up to the top of the city, and then give him a heavy blow......

At the same time, Yan Qinghong, the Emperor of Xingping in Youbei, was pacing repeatedly in the East Warm Pavilion; And Wan Changning, the lame prime minister, also held up a letter that had just been written and was carefully drying the ink on the rice paper......

"Shi'an, we can't wait any longer! Ding Shuo and Gu Hui have been completely trapped to death! There are those eagle households in Mobei, and they can't even send news, let alone grain, grass and ordnance! Now that Chaolu has led his army south, we have also been forced into a corner! Regardless of Shen Gui, the edict ordered Yan Chongwu to return to help, and we closed the net. ”

As Yan Qinghong said, the Chaoluhan King of the Shenshi tribe had already sent the slave cavalry he had collected from various tribes to the front line in the clouds, and continued to stalemate with the Mugel division of the Western Alliance tribe; And he ordered 50,000 "Divine Stone Elites" and went south into the territory of Zhongshan Road.

In fact, if you look at it according to the original plan, there is no need for Chaolu to "drive in person"! After all, Mobeijun burned, killed and looted, and broke other people's bottles and cans; And the ASEAN grassland has nothing of value, even if it loses, it is not afraid of retaliatory actions by the Youbei Army.

As the so-called barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes; Just as Zhou Changfeng, the king of Qin, calculated that Zhou Yuanqing would throw a mouse taboo, released a Chen Ziling, and sat firmly on the Diaoyutai by himself, he was already invincible.

It's just that these two allies are now impatient and have made their last bet to end the battle as soon as possible.

The main reason for Chaolu to change his initial plan was that Li Zilin swore an oath with him to kill horses and defected; The main problem is that the biggest supporter behind them, Di Ting, has a fire in his backyard and has no time to take care of it.

Chaolu didn't care about what went wrong with Di Ting's nest in Nankang; It's just that those food, grass, and military salaries, siege equipment, and even consumables such as horse harness, blades, and armor were cut off at the same time. Therefore, Di Ting fell into chaos, which was tantamount to forcing the Shenshi Alliance and the Qin army to carry out the final decisive battle in advance.

According to his wife, Sardi, the land in Dongyou Road is fertile, and the climate is much milder than that of the ASEAN pastures. Therefore, in Chaolu's heart, he has moved to build a capital in Qingshan City, and look south to Beiyan; The idea of leaning back to the eastern granary and raising soldiers and enriching the people. For him now, as long as he can take Zhongshan Road as soon as possible, even without the assistance of Di Ting, as long as he recuperates for a few years, it will be easy to defeat Mugel's Western Alliance army; Not to mention Yan Qinghong, who was blocked in Fengjing City.

For Yan Qinghong and Wan Changning, the most difficult point to control in this link is how to protect Li Zilin, a "traitor".

In the eyes of the world, Li Zilin betrayed his master for glory and killed his adoptive father, and his reputation has fallen to the bottom. Today's Dongyou Road is also a mess, and those folk righteous people who were angered by Li Zilin's bestiality have also risen up one after another, and various actions of open and dark stabbing are repeated every day!

Of course, most of these thieves are dressed up by people from the rivers and lakes who have lived in Dongyou Road for a long time; And they made a drama of "crusading against injustice", just so that Li Zilin could make a difference. After all, after the two sides made an alliance to kill horses, due to the slow progress of Guo Xing's troops, Chaolu sent letters again and again, asking him to lead the Qi Yuan army to battle and help Guo Xing capture Qingshan City.

If Chaolu believed in Li Zilin's surrender in his heart, then he would inevitably lead the army south this time and go straight to Dongyou Road; And the 50,000 elites who forcibly sign signs will also be sent to Qingshan City to wait for Guo Xing's dispatch; If it is the other way around, he will lead the army to Dongyou Road, personally collect a batch of grain, grass and ordnance, and personally transport it to the camp of Qingshan City.

At that time, Li Zilin really surrendered or surrendered; For the Shenshi tribe, he, the "one-word king", is no longer of much use. Chao Lu found a reason to cut off his head, which can not only change a good name, but also change a more stable rear, why not?

Wan Changning also understands the problems that Yan Qinghong is worried about. It's just that the method he thought of was more radical.

The battle situation has developed to this point, and Wan Changning, as an old opponent, has been able to deconstruct Shen Gui's overall layout idea through clues and reverse.

Whether it is the battle of northern Qin, or the battle of the north; Shen Gui's layout seems to be imaginative, but in fact, he opened two games of chess at the same time, both in terms of technique and ultimate goal, it is eighty percent similar!

Moreover, this is still an "old trick" that has been played once a long time ago!

When the Guo family father and son went on an expedition to the north, the fire in the Eastern Customs greatly damaged the vitality of the Northern Yan Dynasty. Strictly speaking, Shen Gui's methods back then were not clever, and even a little rusty, but they had already teased Zhou Yuanqing and the Guo family's father and son, pressed all the chips, and lost a pot of dry bowls.

If it weren't for the great damage to the vitality of the East Customs, how could the Northern Yan Dynasty be forced to this point in just one corner of the Three Qins?

Shen Gui's method of "squeezing toothpaste" is actually not clever; is like the old treasure official in the treasure bureau, whenever he meets those richly dressed faces, he will always coax him to play for a while with less losses and more wins; After finding out the other party's gambling addiction in the future, kill the big bet for a few days in a row, and then leak back a few days of big bets, and provoke the ferocity in the other party's bones and the heart of fighting with the man......

As the saying goes, there is no winner in long-term gambling, once the other party fights out of interest, then even if there is gold and silver at home, you have to send it to others!

Not giving up an inch of land is an attitude of fighting to the death and not retreating, not a battle of will; Until the war is completely over, no matter how much benefit is earned, it will only be a flash in the pan.