At that time, Zhang Cunmeng stopped the impulse of those young and vigorous little generals to go out of the city to fight, but before a result came out, everyone almost argued in the city, at that time, Zhang Shoubei's brother and Zhang Deputy Garrison's brother both drew their knives, if it weren't for Liu Guoxiao's county respect, the consequences were really unimaginable, even so, the two sides were still in a tense confrontation for a long time.

In the end, after a drum sounded in the camp outside the thief city, the thieves who were originally in full swing actually stopped together, and the original life-and-death, non-stop fighting was gone, and in a blink of an eye, they were like brothers again, and then sang songs, performing their duties in a neat and orderly manner.

At that time, seeing this result, the whole city was stunned one by one, and at the same time, there was a burst of fear, and at the same time, I really admired the foresight of the old guy who didn't get into the mud, luring the enemy, absolutely luring the enemy, thanks to not being fooled.

Today, everyone reviewed the thief's military appearance and morning run again, and then entered the show that everyone wanted to see the most, the thief fight.

Now, everyone has seen the way, at the end of each fight, there is a young scribe in a white robe, and a small flag is issued to the winner, of course, if this team loses tomorrow, sorry, the small flag will be taken back to the white-robed scribe.

"Ready to bet, ready to bet." One of the generals shouted loudly to a group of colleagues around him, so those generals took out more or less silver coins in their arms one by one, reported which team of thieves they were looking at here, and pressed their bets.

This is the ultimate purpose of all the generals early in the morning, giving up the warm quilt and coming to the city, gambling money.

"I'm betting on a third team win from the left. I pressed 700 wen. A hundred households who lost red eyes yesterday threw a bag of copper coins in front of the dealer, "***, my wife is already here, and if I win, I will have more than one book, and it is time for me to marry two at once." ”

Two thousand Wen, you can definitely buy two big girls in the homeless, if the siege is longer, those homeless people have exhausted all the food, three or five is also possible.

"If I bet that this team loses, I'll have 300 yuan." There are really people who are not afraid of losing, and that team has been losing for three days.

"Then you bet on the, get out of the way." The dealer scolded angrily along with the gambler.

"I don't have any money, but I still have a daughter, and I'll put her on the line." The kid shouted loudly with a stalk around his neck.

The crowd of onlookers fell silent and suddenly burst into laughter.

The dealer laughed with tears in his eyes, pointed to the guy who suppressed his daughter, and it took a long time to gasp and say, "Return your daughter?" Just your fat pig? Did you think of this crooked method because you couldn't get married? ”

Everyone knows that his daughter can be obese, and she has already scared away several matchmakers, this kid really can't afford to feed, and she is ready to use this method to export it.

"What's wrong with the fat guys? When the lights blow at night, isn't it the same? The kid blushed and defended: "It's good to be fat and raised, next year, I promise you to hold the big boy, and I promise to be a grandfather." ”

Kai bet waved his big hand: "Good birth? Forget it, maybe after a long siege, I'll just kill and eat meat, too, that guy will eat a few more days than others. "The thieves are really on the outside, such a strong army, everyone deepens their impression every day, and every day when they look at the side, their confidence in victory disappears a point, and now, they are almost desperate.

On the one hand, it is determined to win, on the other hand, it is never to give up, the siege of the city has become a foregone conclusion, the original materials in the city can supply the needs of the city for half a month, tight, you can hold on for a month, but, as soon as the thieves came, some homeless people poured into the city with their families, which accelerated the consumption of materials, and the powerful landlords who thought that they usually did too much evil came in with dozens of hundreds of people up and down, all they could bring was gold and silver, and there was no food at all. The grain and firewood shops in the city have all hung out sold-out signs.

Sellout? Still not looking to hoard Juqi? But wait, for the sake of everyone's life for the officials, there can be no shortage of food, but a family can not say anything, life and death can only have their own destiny, eat people? It's not that I haven't heard of it, it's not that I haven't seen it, everyone has become numb to it.

"Whatever you want, just bet or not?" The man's face turned pale, but only for a moment, and then he patted the brick wall and asked loudly.

When the bet was heard, he shouted: "Bet." ”

As soon as the bet was placed, suddenly in the school field in the city, there was a rumbling drum, everyone was stunned, it was all at this time, and there was no attack from outside the city, how could they still gather generals? Could it be that the garrison still wants to learn from other thieves and come to training?

This is not learned, the food of the thieves is that we can't compare with it anyway, the physical strength of the thieves, that is even more incomparable to our guards, now, the thieves come to commit, everyone practices every five days, and exercises every seven days, it is already the limit, and now, everyone can discard the fear of going to the city, it is already the usual wealth of this Pucheng, and there is still a little money and food to support, if it is left in northern Shaanxi, these guards would have been scattered in a hurry.

The second drum sounded again, everyone came back to their senses, this is a real game, so everyone shouted, there is no task to defend the city of brothers rushed down the city like a swarm, fifty-four chops can have one in, three drums do not gather, cut the decision, at this time, cut and kill a person, it is definitely a good way to Liwei, don't be the chicken that respects the monkey.

At the end of a period of step-by-step training, the brothers sang a song, and returned to the barracks in good spirits, each with their own duties, today, the fifth team, which lost for three days in a row, broke out of the upset, and actually won the mobile red flag, it seems that the fifth team is seriously summed up, carefully figured out the opponent, and at the same time, the brothers' cooperation is more perfect.

Lu Shi was very pleased, this kind of fighting training method really achieved his goal.

In fact, when they came to the battlefield, everyone set a siege strategy according to the situation, divided the army into four, and blocked one door each, so the long and boring siege began.

Reinforcements will not come to the door at this time, it must be exhausted in the city, no matter how difficult it is to insist, it can only appear when the veterans of the army division outside the city are tired, and when this result comes out, it is impossible to say that it is a matter of one or two months, and the boring siege war, the most consuming is the morale of the army.

Activating morale and keeping the morale of the brothers high is the first thing to solve. It is very necessary to find something to do for the brothers.

The training must continue, and it must not be delayed for a day, but before the war, the training intensity is halved, and it is not to improve morale, but to exhaust the brothers, in that way, after training, do not want the enemy to attack, and you will be defeated first.

There must also be a way to liven up the atmosphere, so Lu Shi thought of the fight show during the usual training.

According to the regulations, when the army goes to war, let alone fight in groups, even if you speak loudly in the barracks, you will be severely punished, for fear of causing the camp to roar, but if it is suppressed for too long, it can give birth to the camp roar, and the emotion is to rely on guidance rather than high pressure, so, after everyone's worries and limited opposition, Lu Shi explained that it was just an experiment, if it was not good, forget it, at the same time, Lu Shi also smiled and said: "Maybe, our fight will give the defenders an illusion, so that we have an unexpected gain." ”

As a result, this action really caused a commotion in the city, which made all the people rise hope, go out of the city to fight, and destroy the enemy with absolute confidence, which saved a lot of things.

However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and the officers and soldiers are just in a commotion, and they disappear after a while.

This made Lu Shi and his brothers very disappointed, and turned around to comfort the brothers who had passed from hope to disappointment: "It's just a rabbit on the grass, there is something to do with it or not, don't worry about it." Then he looked at the morale that did not drop but rose, and continued: "Tomorrow, we will still be the same. So, after the step-by-step training, they each withdrew their troops.

Back in the camp tent, with the information from the fine work in Pucheng risking death, Lu Shi's mood sank to the bottom.

Pucheng collected the autumn grain tax, and the most important thing is that in the clear field of the fortified wall, the grain and materials were robbed of forty miles outside the city, and with some, as long as the defenders did not take the initiative to attack, there was no problem in defending for three months.

Lu Shi didn't care about the siege of the city in March, mainly because he was pitiful for the people in the city, the materials in Pucheng were all in the hands of the gentry, and those people couldn't hold out for three months anyway, at that time, there were countless tragedies in the history of the siege, that is, later Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng, surrounded for several months, and in August, the situation was even more difficult, and even people ate people, in order to survive, the Kaifeng soldiers and civilians had to eat everything. Including the traditional Chinese medicine herbs that usually treat diseases, they are also used as stomach fillings, and after eating the herbs, the eyes are swollen, and they have to drink licorice cinnamon soup to treat it. Even the medicinal herbs that can't afford to buy are only the aquatic plants and small bloodworms in the water, and some have to eat dung maggots. There were horses walking down the street, and immediately there were people waiting to pick up horse manure to eat. Under such circumstances, the government could no longer take any measures, but to stabilize the soldiers first, and reward the whole army for "advocating all night" on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in addition, to open the city gate and release more than 30,000 women. By September, there had been a tragedy of cannibalism between father and son in Kaifeng. It is said that even the wife of the official Huang Peng ate human fingers when she ate steamed buns. At this time, Kaifeng has completely become a city of terror and a city of death.

Lu Shi definitely doesn't want to see such a tragedy happen, never.

Since he didn't want such a tragedy to happen, he had to change his strategy, and he would rather pay a certain amount of blood and effort in exchange for the safety of tens of thousands of people in Pucheng.

Thinking of this, Lu Shi gritted his teeth and ordered Wang Jian to prepare for a meeting.

Wang Jian was just about to get out of the account, but he collided with a man who was in a hurry, and if he looked closely, he was a steady Wu Tao military advisor.

Wu Tao didn't care about apologizing to the staggering Wang Jian he bumped into, and shouted loudly to Lu Shi: "King Chuang, the enemy army is attacking." ”