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Chapter 636 Just knock it out

When Fang Xie heard Luo Qiu talk about Luo Yao's wife Chu's family, he suddenly understood a lot of things. Luo Yao's scam is not only for the solution, but also for his wife. He deceived Fang in order to better control his physical substitute. And he deceived her wife to give her a hope to live.

For a moment, Fang Xie felt that this woman was very pitiful. But before this thought came to mind, Fang Xie thought of the doll of the tree in the Chu family's yard.

He shuddered.

"What's wrong?"

Luo Qiu asked.

"It's okay"

Fang Xie smiled and said, "The last time I came to Yongzhou, it was summer, and the hot people were a little adapted. This time I came at the best time of the weather, and I felt a little cold when I got out of the car cold. ”

Luo Qiu naturally didn't suspect anything, he took Fang Jie's hand and entered the city gate with a greeting. The big and small officials in Yongzhou City were waiting outside, Luo Qiu pulled Fang Xie and didn't let go, and they didn't even have a chance to speak. Fang Xie also saved the gift of meeting these people next to each other, which saved a lot of trouble.

After entering the city gate, Fang Xie and Luo Qiu got into the carriage of the governor's palace, and Chen Dingnan and other generals entered the city with a mighty team. But they did not let the people who had returned with the army enter the city, because there was not much food in the city. If the granary of the palace was not opened, Fang Xie would have added huge pressure to Yongzhou City with more than 70,000 troops into the city. But fortunately, Fang Xie brought a large amount of grain and grass, which was enough for his own use.

"The last time I said goodbye in a hurry, a few years have passed since I carefully calculated the days."

In the carriage, Luo Qiu sighed and said, "General Fang has faded into his prime, and I am already old. Originally, I was still thinking of resigning and going home to retire, turning over the soil with all kinds of vegetables, raising a few rabbits and a few cages of birds, and being leisurely until I died. But I didn't expect those southern barbarians to make a fuss, and I don't want to think about escaping...... To tell the truth, if you don't come, Yongzhou City will have a hard time. ”

He pointed to the outside of the carriage: "To the south of the city is the camp of the Su people, stretching for more than ten miles, and it seems that there are no less than six or seven hundred thousand people. Besides, the people will drive wolves, tigers and leopards as soldiers, and my people will no longer be able to go out of the city to meet the enemy. I am looking forward to the stars and the moon, and I only hope that you will come as soon as possible to relieve my siege of Yongzhou and relieve the suffering of the people of Pingdao. ”

"So many ......"

Fang Xie was slightly surprised and said, "Haven't the Su people been killed hard enough over the years, how can there still be so many troops." ”

Luo Qiu sighed: "There are soldiers everywhere, then the puppet emperor of the Yan State Murong shame invited King Su to send troops together, those southern barbarians have been suppressed ruthlessly over the years, and they are resentful, and they will naturally not let go if they have the opportunity to take revenge." It is said that it is a million army, but in fact, even the teenage children and the elderly in their fifties in the village have come out. The numerous crimes committed by the Su people in Pingshang Road are too numerous to mention, and a rough estimate is that hundreds of thousands of people have died in the war...... Every time I think of this, my heart as a magistrate hurts like a knife. ”

Fang Xie comforted: "Shibo doesn't need to worry, he was able to beat the Southern Barbarians back into the jungle back then, and he can do the same today." If it weren't for the emptiness of the frontier, neither Murong Yan nor the Southern Barbarians would dare to fight the idea of equalizing the trade road. Now that I'm here, although I'm only a little learned, I still have a lot of enthusiasm, so I naturally do my best. ”

"Good!"

Luo Qiu clapped his hands and said, "If I know your words, my heart will be steady." In today's Yongzhou City, there are no generals, no soldiers, and no food...... To be honest, you are only willing to come if you are aware of it. A while ago, I sent more than a dozen groups of people out one after another to ask for help in various places, but those people didn't want to come, because they were not afraid of damaging the strength in their hands? ”

Fang Xie smiled in his heart, and said in his heart, are you saying that I am smart or that I am stupid?

He said a few words, nothing more than something like a general who naturally has the responsibility to defend the territory. Luo Qiu showed enthusiasm, but in fact, the two of them didn't have much friendship. After the scene was finished, it seemed a little cold, Luo Qiu kept changing the topic, and Fang Xie responded with a smile.

The two of them skillfully avoided Luo Yao, the emperor, and the troubled times of the Great Sui, and it was not easy to find something to talk about.

"Let's go to the city first"

Fang Xie lifted the curtains of the car and looked out, and found that the expressions on the faces of the people who welcomed them on both sides of the street were completely different from those refugees encountered outside the city. The joy of the refugees outside the city when they saw the arrival of the army was palpable, and the expressions on the faces of the people in the city, although waving their arms, were simply pretending to be joy.

Fang Xie understands why there is such a difference.

The people outside the city are suffering, they have lost everything. Loved ones, houses, fields, lost their entire homes, they were helpless and even hungry, and the arrival of the Black Flag Army at this time undoubtedly opened a door of hope for them. They could look inside the door with all their might, and everything they once had seemed within reach.

But the people of the city are different, they are still safe, living in their own homes, covered with warm quilts...... The first thing they have to worry about at this time may not be whether the people outside the city will break through the city. It's whether the reinforcements who can come in at will take away the rations that belong to them...... Sometimes, especially when disaster strikes, some people will become farther and farther away, and some people will become shallower and shallower.

"Huh?"

Luo Qiu was stunned for a moment: "The family has prepared a reception banquet......

"Not hungry"

Fang Xie smiled: "Go back and eat again, let's go to the city to have a look first." Sometimes eating is the most anxious thing, and sometimes, eating is the least anxious thing......"

Luo Qiu's heart tightened, and suddenly his face was a little hot.

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As the capital of the Shang Kingdom, the Yongzhou city wall is tall and strong in the Central Plains, and it is a blend of Han culture and Su culture, so the style of the building is quite different from the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, the houses where the common people lived were blue bricks and red tiles, and the houses of the rich were high-walled compounds. In the southwest, especially in Yongzhou, most of the houses where the people live are wooden buildings, which have obvious regional characteristics.

The walls of Yongzhou were built exceptionally wide, although they were far less high than the walls of Chang'an City, but the thickness was not much different. When Fang Xie walked up the city wall, he found that the width of the city wall was enough for three carriages to travel side by side. This width allows the reserve to be prepared at the closest distance, but the disadvantage is that once the enemy is attacked by the wall, the enemy can comfortably find a foothold.

However, Luo Yao's business in Yongzhou in the past few decades has turned Yongzhou into a fortress. The walls are well defended and very well maintained.

The bed crossbow was polished very brightly, and the heavy crossbows in the wooden box next to it reflected the light, without a trace of rust, and they were wiped with butter, so they still looked brand new.

The turret was built sturdily and spacious, on which it could accommodate at least twenty archers. There is a wolf tooth slap hanging outside the city wall, and at the height of the Yongzhou city wall, the wolf tooth slap can directly smash people into meat paste. In addition, there was a large iron pot every thirty meters on the city wall, Fang Xie walked over to take a look, and found that the pot was full of fire oil. This kind of thing is not fully used at the moment, and few people even think of using it in war.

Fang Xie did not see rolling logs or stones on the city walls, which shows that there is at least no shortage of crossbow arrows and feather arrows in the city. While these two things are not incompatible, it is rare for a defending general to carry large quantities of wood and stone to the walls when they are well prepared with arrows.

There was no need to look carefully, Fang Xie was sure that even if there were not hundreds of thousands of people outside the city, but hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, it would not be easy to break through Yongzhou City, which had been rebuilt by Luo Yao.

He walked to the city wall, reached out and took the clairvoyance from the unicorn and looked out of the city.

About five miles away is the camp of the Su people, and sure enough, as Luo Qiu said, it stretches for more than ten miles. From the size of the battalion, the opponent's strength could be roughly calculated, and the figures that Fang solved made him dignified.

Yongzhou City is not easy to attack and it is obvious to all, but Fang Xie is not relieved by this.

The reason is simple, he is not here to hold on to a city.

"In recent days, the Suren have been calling for battle every day, but there are not enough troops in the city, and there are no tactics that can restrain the Suren beasts, so they have not fought ......"

Xu Qingzhi whispered behind Fang Jie.

In fact, he has been observing Fang Xie along the way, and the last time Fang Xie came, he had no direct contact with Fang Jie. As the fourth rank general in the Daozhi Governor's Mansion, he naturally wanted to follow Luo Qiu to receive the Qincha, but he only glanced at it from a distance, and he didn't care much about Fang Xie at that time.

But today, he couldn't help but want to take a closer look at this man who was about to take over the military power of Yongzhou from his hands.

"Where's the border army?"

Fang Xie looked back at Xu Qingyi and asked.

"Originally, when Luo Yao was here, the border army was rotated once a year, but since Luo Yao left, the number of border troops who stayed in the border city has become much smaller. And it is mainly arranged on the side of Nanyan, so the people of Su have almost no obstacles. After Murong Yongduo of Nanyan sent troops to pretend to be a caravan to deceive Baishui City, he directly entered the Pingshang Road...... The border armies of the other cities have become lone troops, with no more than 1,000 people in each city, and the grain routes have been cut off. ”

Xu Qingzhi's answer was very calm, but Fang Xie could find a trace of dissatisfaction in his tone.

There is no doubt that after Luo Yao left, no one paid attention to the border army anymore, and lost the logistics supply, so you can imagine how hard those border troops lived. But even so, not a single frontier soldier was removed from his post until they were all killed.

"Maybe there are still ...... alive"

Fang Xie said a little distractedly, Xu Qingzhi didn't understand what he meant.

Xu Qingzhi pointed to the tallest tent in the camp of the Suren people outside the city: "That should be where the king of Su is, originally the Su people did not have a Su king, since the Shang country was destroyed, the Su people are even more civil strife, there are almost daily battles between the villages, and the Su people are divided into many tribes, each of which is in its own way." However, Nanyan Murong shame met with the Great Tusi of the Su clan a while ago and supported him as the king of Su. ”

"What's the name of King Su?"

Fang asked.

"Picture Hun Duobei"

Xu Qingzhi replied: "According to the Su people, Tuhun Duobei is a very powerful cultivator, and he is called a god by the Su people. Of course, the people have a natural fear of big toast, so it may also be a rumor. ”

"Then listen to it seriously."

Fang Xie said casually, and then pointed to the most chaotic place in the camp of the Suren people: "That's where the Suren beasts are, right?" ”

"Yes!"

Xu Qingzhi nodded: "There are at least more than ten thousand beasts, and those beasts are commanded by two hundred wizards, riding elephants and driving beasts with horns. If there is any way to defeat the beast army of the Su, even if there are millions of Suren outside, there is nothing to fear! ”

"Then knock it out."

Fang Xie said in a flat tone, as if it was as easy as just pinching an ant to death. So Xu Qingzhi was stunned for a moment, not understanding where Fang Jie's faint but strong confidence came from.