Under the city of Yiting, the general attack of the grass army fanatic, the loss is naturally not small, but the coalition army also has a lot of losses, the coalition army has not replenished, but the grass army has a steady stream of reinforcements, the situation is very grim.

In the face of such a grim situation, Wang Chongying, Zhu Li, Li Xiaochang, and Tuoba Sigong stood on the city wall, their eyes full of haze.

"If the grass army continues to increase its strength like this, it will be hard to consume and consume energy, after all, we have so many troops." Wang Chongying looked at the endless grass army camp in the distance outside the city, and said with some concern.

"What Brother Chongying said is, but Li has a way, if the implementation goes well, he may be able to add tens of thousands of troops out of thin air." Li Xiaochang glanced at the other three and said: "Fuping is a big county in Guanzhong, and there are many big families in this Yiting City, how can there be a big family that doesn't raise some private armies, if we can let these big families send private armies to help defend the city, it will definitely be no problem to hold on for at least another month." ”

When Wang Chongying and Tuoba Sigong heard this, their eyes lit up, and they nodded slowly, and they were greatly moved by Li Xiaochang's proposal.

When Zhu Li heard this, his face was filled with a look of hesitation, and after hesitating again and again, he still admonished: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate, for the locals of Fuping, we are also a guest army, and there is no trustworthy basis between us and them, rashly instigating them to come up with a private army that is like a life in troubled times, I am afraid that it will backfire and cause their dissatisfaction and suspicion. ”

"Hahaha, Brother Zhu Xian is too worried, if the grass army comes in, they won't be able to run away with the grass army's usual style, and now let them send a private army to defend the city, in fact, it is also to give them a chance to protect themselves." Li Xiaochang looked at Zhu Li with a little disdain and smiled.

"Okay, that's it." Wang Chongying made a decision and said, he is the most powerful warlord here, and his words are naturally the most weighty, compared to Zhu Li, a person with the title of the camp, his decision is naturally very meaningful.

Now that the plan has been decided, I am afraid that this measure will be implemented by the three of them tonight, Zhu Li thought helplessly, he was still a little worried, for the people of Fuping, they originally lived here safely, it was Zhu Li and his group who came here to bring the war here, and they must be dissatisfied with the coalition army in their hearts, and now these three people want to force them to come up with the only private army that has a little self-preservation capital, and the contradiction will not intensify before the ghost comes out.

Thinking of this, Zhu Li had no choice but to plan for the worst, not that he didn't argue with reason, but that the other three would definitely not listen to him, these martial artists were arrogant and arrogant, and they simply messed around with their temperament, and they didn't think about the consequences of doing so at all.

It is said that in the city of Fuping, there is a large family, surnamed Wang, which is one or two of the richest families in the city, and the Wang family started as a businessman, which can be regarded as a famous family in this place, and it is also the family with the most private troops in Fuping.

At the end of the day's battle, Li Xiaochang couldn't wait to drive his horse to the palace and personally visited the head of the Wang family, trying to persuade the other party to send a private army to help the coalition army defend the city.

For the arrival of Li Xiaochang, the head of the Wang family looked very impatient, but in order not to be rude, he still invited Li Xiaochang into the living room, and after the maid served tea and was polite to each other, Li Xiaochang went straight to the point and said: "The master of the Wang family, now the grass army is coming to the city, and the strength of our coalition army is not enough, I hope that the master of the Wang family can send out a private army at this critical moment to help us and others stick to the righteous pavilion, as long as we insist on the end of the month, the weather is cold, the grass army will naturally take the initiative to withdraw. Ask for credit for the Wang family. ”

The head of the Wang family, an old man in his forties and fifties, heard Li Xiaochang's words, his face was expressionless, and he said lightly: "Li Dudu doesn't know, when Huang Chao attacked Chang'an, he sent people to Fuping, I waited for the squire, the old man and Huang Chao to make three chapters, as long as we stick to the agreement, Huang Chao promised to do nothing with us in the autumn, and to help the governor, naturally violated our agreement with Huang Chao, if the coalition forces win, it's okay, if it doesn't win, please forgive Wang for not daring to take the risk of being retaliated by Huang Chao, a careless, Let Fuping's father and fellow villagers fall into dire straits. ”

hit a nail that was not big or small, Li Xiaochang was slightly angry in his heart, and his tone became sharp, and he said: "The head of the Wang family is afraid that Huang Chao will settle accounts after the autumn, so he is not afraid that we will be in trouble now, and besides, our coalition army will not necessarily lose." ”

The head of the Wang family was not frightened by his tone at all, and still said lightly: "Don't be impatient, the battle between the coalition army and the grass army, not only Wang will not participate, I believe that other squires and elders in Fuping will not participate in it, you have won, we congratulate, if the army is unfortunately defeated, we will not fall into the ground, we Fuping squires, what we can do for the people of the city is to strive to give them a peaceful environment, this point, I hope the governor can understand." ”

The words of the Wang family master completely broke Li Xiaochang's thoughts, and a burst of anger was about to erupt, and the expression that looked at the Wang family master was completely unkind.

Just as he was about to break out, as soon as the curtain on the side of the living room was lifted, a female voice came: "Ah Lang, I heard that a distinguished guest is coming, Ah Niang asked me to bring you some pastries." ”

The sound is clear, like a mountain spring splashing, a hundred spirits singing, and then look at people, like a pearl in the sky, a hundred flowers blooming, with the opening of the door curtain, a young about two or eight, bright eyes like water, delicate and infinite girl walked in, her slender, white and tender jade hand, holding a plate of pastries, curling up, like a goddess running to the moon, people like floating clouds.

The woman was infinitely captivated, seeing that Li Xiaochang was stunned for an instant, the anger that he originally wanted to vent to the head of the Wang family was instantly suppressed, the description was like choking on eating eggs, stuck in his throat, his face was red, but he couldn't send it anymore, the two eyes that were not big, when he looked at the tray girl, his eyes were even rounder than Mingzhu.

Li Xiaochang's heart was whispering, this woman should only be in heaven, how could there be a fate in the world, beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful that any man will not move when he sees her.

The woman gently put down the fruit plate and naturally glanced at Li Xiaochang, and an unnoticed cold light flashed in her eyes.

Li Xiaochang's expression naturally fell into the eyes of the head of the Wang family, he glanced at his daughter angrily, showing blame, but did not accuse, but turned his head to look at Li Xiaochang and said: "Li Dudu, what you ask for, Wang can't accept it, please take care of yourself." ”

After Li Xiaochang heard this, he came back to his senses, glanced deeply at the head of the Wang family and the beautiful girl, and turned around and left without saying a word, but he looked at the eyes of the girl of the Wang family, and a ghostly light flashed, implying evil meaning.

The head of the Wang family glanced at his daughter and said unhappily: "Yueyao, didn't you tell you not to show your head easily, why are you so disobedient, these warlords are not good, your beauty is not something that ordinary people can resist, I hope they don't have any covetous hearts." ”

"Ah Lang, if Yao'er doesn't come out, will you mobilize the dead to fight with the other party?" Wang Yueyao looked directly into her father's eyes and asked earnestly, "Ah Lang ambushed a large number of dead soldiers around the living room, is it just to deal with this person?" ”

When the head of the Wang family heard this, his expression was a little relieved, and he said a little bitterly: "Since Huangchao captured Chang'an, Fuping has never been stable, and now the Qinwang army is not successful, retreating to Fuping, and was very embarrassed by the grass army, and wants our squires and elders in Yiting to take out private troops to help them resist the grass army, if it is usually our natural responsibility, but now the situation is different, if the Qinwang army wins, it is okay, once they fail, and the grass army knows that we have helped the Qinwang army, how should my Fuping's father deal with himself." , they are defeated, they can pat their butts and leave, what should we do who are natives of Fuping, in addition to being killed, what else can we do? ”

"I ambushed the dead soldiers around the living room in advance, just to prevent Li Xiaochang's strong army, these warlords, they only know how to use others, where can they understand the hardships of our troubled people?"

When Wang Yueyao heard this, she said with a worried face: "But Ah Lang directly rejected them, will they give up?" ”

"Hmph, what if you are not willing to give up, if they dare to force us to wait again, Hugh will blame us for cooperating with the grass army." The head of the Wang family's face sank and said fiercely.

As Zhu Li expected, Li Xiaochang didn't say anything, Wang Chongying and Tuoba Sigong also went badly, and the three of them had already aroused the vigilance of the local squires and gate lords, and the relationship between the coalition forces and the local gate lords instantly became tense.

Barracks, Shuozhou Army Tent.

Zhu Li, Zhou Dewei, Shi Yan, and Meng Juehai were all discussing things, Meng Juehai had completely surrendered to Zhu Li, and was appointed by Zhu Li as a general, and followed Zhu Li closely, while Shi Yan was appointed as a partial general, commanding all the foot soldiers.

"Governor, so far in the war, there are only 3,327 of our guards left, less than 1,000 seriously wounded, and the rest are all dead, we are responsible for guarding the entire northern city defense, and the troops have long been stretched, I am afraid that we will not be able to hold out for a few days." Shi Yangong said with a worried face.

He is now the general of the guards, and he is responsible for all the battles, so he knows a lot, and after reporting the battle losses of the guards, Shi Yan seems to be unfinished, and he wants to stop talking.

"If there is anything else, let's tell us about it." Zhu Li glanced at him and said directly.

When Shi Yan heard this, his expression seemed to be even more sad, and then his face turned solemn, and he made up his mind: "When I was inspecting the seriously wounded tonight, I found that several people had a high fever that did not go away, accompanied by vomiting and fainting. ”

"The plague?" When Zhu Li heard this, he was taken aback, "How can it be a plague?" ”

Looking at Zhu Li's frightened expression, Zhou Dewei said bitterly: "The grass army has been attacking the city for thirty-seven days, and the corpses of those soldiers who died in the siege battle, both sides did not pay attention to sending people to clean up and properly resettle, fortunately, this is early winter, if it is midsummer, I am afraid that there will be a problem a long time ago, and if the corpse is not properly disposed of, it is inevitable that there will be a plague." ”

"However, we found them in a timely manner, and immediately isolated them, but unlike the grass army, there are almost no doctors in their army, no one knows how to prevent it at all, and their subordinates think that they will only have more infected people than us." Zhou Dewei thought about it and added.

"That's not the point, the point is that once the plague breaks out on a large scale, Yiting City will become a dead city in a few days, let's go, let's go and see what the situation is." Zhu Li's expression was solemn and he said without hesitation.