Su Mian looked at the rice bowl in her granddaughter's hand, and felt sad in her heart.

The thieves attacked, Su Zizheng was originally going to take his wife and children to Guizhou to report on work, he should have been able to go to the relative safety of Guizhou, but since the thieves came, Su Zizheng left at this time, and in the eyes of others, it became a fledgling.

Therefore, Su Zizheng could only stay in the city and participate in this battle with everyone.

Even his wife, son, and daughter can't leave.

In order to boost morale, Su Zizheng's wife and children also went to the city wall every day to deliver food, showing the attitude of the government and the people of the city to defend the city.

I have to say that the effect is good, but every time she sees her granddaughter's innocent face, Su Mian feels a burst of indescribable heartache - once the city is broken, in order to avoid falling into the hands of thieves and being humiliated, all the female dependents of the Su family can only cut off on their own, and this little granddaughter who is less than ten years old will not be an exception.

But is this really a disaster that a child of this age should endure?

Su Mian shook his head, trying to drive out the guilt of his granddaughter in his heart - once the city is broken, there will be tens of millions of children who will go to the disaster together, and which child should bear this kind of disaster? Is he Su what is the exception?

Su Mian picked up the rice bowl, drank half of the sparse rice soup in one bite, and then returned the remaining half to the little girl: "Grandpa can't eat so much, Qi Niang, you can eat it." ”

The little girl seemed to be very hungry, her deer-like eyes went back and forth between half a bowl of porridge and her grandfather's tall figure several times, and it took a long time to make up her mind to raise the rice bowl in front of Su Mian again: "Qi Niang is not hungry, Grandpa eats!" ”

Su Mu looked up sharply to prevent others from seeing his face.

and tears.

……

"The fleet of the Northern Dynasty has arrived at the port of the Furajiang River?" Li Changjie asked in surprise: "Is the news accurate?" ”

"Reliable, and it is led by Xu Shiyang. But the news came, and it took some time on the road, it should have been twenty days ago. Zong Tan, another commander of the Vietnamese army, replied with a wry smile: "At this time, they should have gone ashore and headed in the direction of Thang Long Mansion." ”

The elite of the Great Yue Kingdom has all gathered here, and even the Son of Heaven's own army has come, at this time the country is empty, although the opponent is only a sailor (the Jiaozhi people do not know the strength of the imperial navy), but since it is the famous Xu Shiyang personally led, it is not difficult to understand that the soldiers and horses in the country cannot hold it.

Zong Tan waved his hand to rebuke the guards beside the two, and only after he and Li Changjie, the two commanders who advocated attacking Zhou, were left in the big tent, he whispered: "It's time to withdraw the army." ”

"No way!" Li Changjie still refused.

He is different from Zong Tan, Li Changjie is a powerful minister who serves the ancestor as a man, and his current authority mainly comes from several military victories in the attack on Zhancheng and this attack on the remnant of Zhou.

If the attack on the remnants of Zhou had stopped in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, then the troops would have been withdrawn, but since they had already arrived in Yongzhou, they had suffered heavy casualties but had not been defeated, which was a great damage to Li Changjie's political prestige.

Li Changjie will never approve of the withdrawal of troops, so he must take Yongzhou, and he will not hesitate to pay a big price.

"We are already running out of military rations." Zong Tan continued: "There are 200,000 troops to raise, and there is not enough food and grass, everything is empty talk. ”

Unlike what Su Mu imagined, the fertile land on both sides of the Fuliang River can indeed be harvested seven times in two years, but no matter how good the conditions are, the Jiaozhi people are too lazy.

So the Vietnamese army has indeed reached the verge of running out of food.

"Let the brutes fetch their own food! All the surrounding villages and towns are at their disposal, and they can rob Guizhou if they have the ability! It would be much better if you eat less than half of the food. Li Changjie ordered: "There is still grain in the country, and the transportation is enough to supply my Dayue soldiers for half a month!" ”

Zong Tan asked: "It's only half a month, Yongzhou has been fighting for two months, and now there is no improvement, how can we guarantee that it can be fought within half a month?" ”

"That's because I'm better at field warfare than at siege." Li Changjie said without changing his face: "Ben Shuai already has a good way to attack the city!" ”

"What is it?"

"Siege of the city! As long as 100,000 barbarians pile up earth under the city, in a few days, we will have a passage to the head of the city. Li Changjie said triumphantly: "As long as I can get to the city, my 100,000 heavenly soldiers will definitely wipe out the small Yongzhou in one fell swoop!" ”

"Siege of the city?"

Zong Tan thought for a moment, this is a stupid way, but a stupid way is a good way.

But why do you only think of such a simple and stupid way now? If this method had been used two months earlier, it is estimated that Yongzhou would have been cleaned by now.

"An idea that only came up with a northerner landing show." Li Changjie did not hide it from Zongtan, and directly singled out: "He wants to sell it to Dayue in exchange for glory and wealth, Ben Shuai will follow his wishes for the time being, and then the northerners will retaliate, and Ben Shuai will throw him out." ”

The Jiaozhi people called both the Great Zhou and Huaxia the northerners, and no matter who would retaliate in the future, he felt that by throwing this traitor out and giving both sides a step, the northerners who had just ended a big war should be able to accept this inheritance fact.

After all, Dayue is also a big country with millions of households and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and it also has geographical and climatic advantages, so the northerners are unwilling to make enemies with Dayue.

"It's a good idea, but it also has to be time-bound."

Zong Tan finally said:

"Ten days, limited to ten days, after conquering Yongzhou, we have to take everything in the city away, and there is a return trip, it will take some time, if we can't break the city after ten days, we must withdraw our troops."

"As you say! Just ten days! ”

Li Changjie is full of confidence:

"Inform the whole army that the sword will never be sealed after the city is broken! The first to enter the city will be rewarded with three women, one hundred taels of gold! ”

……

"Speed up! Faster! ”

Feng Sanhu commanded loudly:

"Throw away all unnecessary loads! Throw away everything except weapons! Throw it all away! Speed up! Faster! ”

It was true that the original 3,000 cavalry had three horses, but now all the horses had been abandoned on the side of the road, and the cavalry had become pure infantry, but after hearing the order, the soldiers still began to speed up, and even trotted, and both sides of the road were littered with discarded baggage - blankets, military uniforms, dry rations, and some money bags.

In order to reduce the burden and increase the speed of the march, the Chinese army could no longer care about anything.

Fortunately, all the towns and villages ahead have already been decided to surrender to the Empire, and there is plenty of hot water and food to eat, and the soldiers can eat while running, even if all the supplies are thrown away, it will not affect the vital speed of the march!

"Speed up a little!"

Feng Sanhu urged loudly while running:

"We're going to grab the tails of the Cochin monkeys tomorrow morning and crush them completely!"

Yongzhou, hold on for one more day!