At the same time, Bailiyan intensified the siege of Kelownas, and the defenders made several attempts to break through the coalition encirclement, but were thwarted by the coalition fire belts and counterattacks.

"My lord, my subordinates have been watching the cooking smoke in the city decrease day by day recently, and most of them are because there is not much surplus food left in the city."

Jiang Jie said, Bai Liyan took out his binoculars and looked closely, and the cooking smoke was reduced by two-thirds compared with before the siege.

"They will be worse than my Central Plains, maybe in a few days, they should eat people."

"But the Jinxuedi who escaped from the city said that they could still get two meals a day, and that they had horses to slaughter, and that the city's rations would last at least half a month."

"No, they're running out of food."

Bai Liyan affirmed, Jiang Jie was puzzled:

"How can you see it?"

"Because they eat three meals a day, while our Central Plains people only eat two meals a day, and when we are famine, they are only rationed once a day, and they are famine, and they are still rationed two meals a day, so they can't stand hunger, and their tolerance for hunger is far worse than that of our Central Plains people."

The people of the Central Plains only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, and generally do not eat at noon, and only eat a light meal at noon when they are busy with agriculture and manual labor. After the construction of Yongxing City, craftsmen and manual labor also had three meals a day, otherwise their physical fitness would be even worse. [Note 1]

The Jin Xuedi people from the powerful to the common people, the local has never been hit, there has never been a large-scale war, the product is relatively considerable, the commodity economy is very developed, so the material conditions are better, and they are all three meals a day. The rich and powerful ruling class even had to eat dim sum, and their living conditions were two or three times better than those of the Central Plains.

Therefore, the blood sugar tolerance of the Central Plains people is much higher than that of the Jinxuedi people, because the physiological needs are less, and the normal energy requirements of the human body are also less.

During the famine in the Central Plains, only one meal a day or even two or three days before eating, Jin Xuedi people have enough food and clothing, how do you know the taste of hunger, two meals a day is already the minimum, and then reduce the amount, everyone will be weak because of lack of physical fitness, blood sugar plummets.

And these details are obviously not the truth that people can understand today.

Putting away the binoculars, Bailiyan continued:

"Our army has been besieging for almost a month, right?"

"Yes, my lord, it is said that the Jinxuedi people should have had reinforcements here, but why haven't they moved?"

"Hehe, one is that they are seriously underestimated at Kelownas, and the other is that they are afraid of our army, and the local defenders are seriously insufficient, most of them are worried that our army will attack the east and west, and once again go down the river to besiege other cities, and so on repeatedly, making them exhausted, and then the truth and falsehood will suddenly become true, and they can't stand it anyway.

However, it is certainly mobilizing troops and accumulating strength now, and I think the time is ripe for our army to sit idly by. ”

"Your Excellency is going to attack the city?"

"The defenders still have something to eat, and now they can't win the siege, and their naval army is downstream, so our army is not killing itself by attacking the city."

"What is your lordship?"

"Go, find some reliable third- and fourth-generation people of Sondia who were incorporated into the coalition army earlier, the locals of Kelownas are preferred, and some of them have wives and daughters trapped in Kelownas, let them remove their hair buns and go back to their villages with their hair disheveled, and say that the Jinxuedi people lured the wives and daughters of the villagers to Kelownas to commit adultery and violence, and let them give an explanation."

"My lord, the local villagers are not shallow in poisoning, can this work?" Jiang Jie was skeptical.

"Fool, some of these villagers are religious and some are not, and after the non-religious men, wives and daughters were taken hostage, they were forced to participate in it under the coercion of other religious villagers and maintenance teams. And Jin Xuedi people have done a lot of things about the wives and daughters of the people in the Central Plains, before they were more than a dozen or hundreds of women were ruined, and now there are tens of millions of people, and then the non-religious villagers will riot, do you think God can solve the shame of religious men? ”

"Oh...... The subordinates understood, did the lord want to lure all the local Central Plains people here to help our army fight? ”

"Yes, if you think about it, there are five or six Central Plains villages along the river and inland under the jurisdiction of Kelownas, and there are not 200,000 Central Plains people, but 1780,000, and there are more men and fewer women. These people are now being organized by the Jinxuedi people to oppose our coalition army, and they are all holding farm tools in their hands. If you gather a crowd on weekdays, you will definitely be broken by the suppression of the maintenance team.

But now they are all armed, and once instigated, it is a double-edged sword, whether it is against us. How can a maintenance team of a few hundred people be an opponent of tens of thousands of people? This is called lifting a stone to shoot oneself in the foot, making a cocoon for oneself.

Remember, bring more people, but if the lackeys dare to suppress, they must strike first! ”

"Yes, sir."

The Jin Xuedi people have long practiced high-pressure rule, and have enforced the right of first night and the right to stay overnight on the women of the Central Plains.

The so-called right to stay overnight is essentially no different from sexual exploitation, and married women of the Central Plains are regularly required to accompany them. The women of the Central Plains who have a little grace are all used as prostitutes and slaves for the pleasure of the powerful, so the people of the Central Plains have long been more men than women. If the male resists slightly, he will be beaten with sticks, castrated or even executed with a moon hook, which is extremely cruel.

In order to weaken the rebellion of the people in the Central Plains, the Jinxuedi people strictly controlled the frequency of overnight rights, and at the same time used religion to carry out spiritual exploitation and enslavement, turning the pain and oppression in reality into spiritual slavery, and instilling absurd remarks such as the sins of the past life and the repayment of this generation to brainwash.

At that time, no matter how much brainwashing and more lies, even if you lose your mind, humanity cannot be taken away, and the women of the whole village are sent to the city, what will happen "everyone knows", at this time, as long as it is incited, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not be used.

Public opinion is a double-edged sword, the bigger the lie, the faster it will collapse after it is broken, and the more destructive power it will be.

Explained in detail to Jiang Jie that more than 30 locals were recruited from various battalions that day, and more than 400 people from the villages of Songdia Province, belonging to six villages in three small cities. Bailiyan divided them into two groups, giving priority to inciting the two largest villages, and then going elsewhere.

Bai He and Fang Liang plundered and returned to the fleet one after another, seizing countless pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.

"General, these Jin Xuedi people are really rich, five or six out of ten households have silver, they are really fucking rich." Bai He wiped his mouth with a bowl of mutton soup, and continued: "If we continue to search like this, it will not be easy for us to transport it back in the future." ”

"yes, how much gold, silver and jewelry did you rob this time?" Bai Liyan asked.

"I haven't calculated it carefully, there must be 2780,000 silver coins, more than 30,000 gold coins, and four of them are big households, and they have stolen 70,000 silver coins. The last general estimated that the city of Kelonas was still rich. If you go through the two provinces of Posong and Songdia, I don't know how much gold there is. ”

"It's easy for you to be beautiful. Spread the word to me, all armies and battalions must not slack off, but whoever neglects the army stick twenty! ”

"Yes!"

Bai Liyan believes that the number of Bai Hebao is definitely not accurate, and the new vassals who have just been annexed do not know the depths, and probably do not dare to hide their private wealth in a grand manner. But Fang Liang and Bai He's subordinates, all of them were live bandits, not to mention Bai He, he was born as a bandit at all, and he did a lot of robbery.

In the fierce battle in Delangi before, he asked Zhan to go out with the fleet several times, but he returned to Bailiyan, because he was worried that this guy was bent on robbing money, and he broke his plan and died.

The Jinxuedi people are rich in gold and silver, gold and silver coins are the main currency in circulation, and there are also square copper coins as auxiliary currency for transactions.

Unlike the Central Plains copper coin, which is minted in the ratio of lead to six copper and four copper, the Jinxuedi people use pure copper to cast coins.

However, the local circulation of pure copper coins is very poor, most of them only circulate among the common people, and the elite and ruling class tend to favor precious metals such as gold and silver.

Due to the considerable output of precious metals of the Jinxuedi people, the political stability and economic prosperity for thousands of years, the output of precious metals is zero, and even through wars, a small amount of gold and silver is plundered from the Central Plains, resulting in the spillage of precious metals from the elite class to the middle and lower classes.

Compared with the people of the Central Plains, who are poor and have not even a single copper, the living standard of the Jinxuedi people is too high. Even so, it was not satisfied with the huge land and wealth, and the Northern Expedition had not been interrupted for hundreds of years, which shows how greedy it was.

Bai He and Fang Liang organized manpower to transport the plundered baggage into various ships, and gold, silver, jewelry and other valuable materials were still the old rules, and all of them were moved into the Bailiyan flagship.

A few days later, Kelownas was less than one in ten years of smoke, covered in snow, and looked dead and lifeless from a distance. The defenders went out of the city again, launched a fierce breakthrough since the siege, and fought fiercely for a day and night, but were repulsed by the coalition forces and the newly organized new vassals.

At the same time, the instigated Central Plains people from all over Kelownas rushed to the city one after another. As Bailiyan expected, after listening to the rumors, the villagers angrily killed the maintenance team and the priest under the instigation of the coalition forces.

After the Central Plains people arrived in the city one after another, the situation was complicated and chaotic, and the first to arrive was two large villages, with a total of 23,400 young and strong old and weak men, including many Central Plains men from other villages. In addition, the number of people who came one after another quickly gathered to more than 50,000 people.

The demands are very different, some people take it for granted that they want to enter the city to reason, some want the coalition forces to make way and let the defenders send their wives and daughters out of the city, and some are determined to riot.

All in all, there are many opinions and voices, and there are many hidden thieves in the Central Plains.

"My lord, there are now more than 50,000 Central Plains citizens gathered in the city, and many of them are small priests of the Central Plains who are fanning the flames and spreading rumors and slander. Jiang Jie said worriedly.

"It seems that they are not allowed to taste blood, they don't know how to write dead words."

Baili Yan said ruthlessly, Jiang Jie was surprised, and hurriedly asked:

"Your Excellency doesn't mean to suppress it, do you?"

"It's to be suppressed, but not with our hands. The city has been without cooking for several days, and even the horses have been eaten, and it is estimated that the next thing is to eat people. ”

"Do you want to wait for the cannibalism in the city to start eating people, and then shout to the defenders to let them go?"

"Yes, in one sentence. At that time, our army will release another 10,000 new vassals from the ship, and gather 18,000 of our army on the shore, that is, 28,000 people, and then they will line up 300 paces away from the south gate to deter Kelownas and drive the villagers of the Central Plains to the west and north gates.

Then agree to the request of the Central Plains people, shout to the city, let the city release people, do you think the defenders have even eaten the human flesh of the women and children of the Central Plains people, can the city still release people?

At that time, no one will be released in the city, and our army has made sincerity, will the people of the Central Plains still believe in ghosts and gods, and when the time comes, it will be clear who is the human and who is the devil. ”

"Yes...... That's cruel! ”

"Cruel, huh!" Bai Liyan disdainfully: "This is also called cruelty, Jin Xuedi slaughtered the city in the south at most once, slaughtered more than one million people in the Central Plains, and raped hundreds of thousands of women, so it is also cruel to let their group of birds and beasts eat a few people, then God is not blind to the eyes of a dog."

You remember to me that your life-and-death war is not cruel, only more cruel. For the sake of the final victory of the overall situation and the interests of the nation, we have no choice but to sacrifice a small number of people in exchange for the chance of survival for more people. Just like a father and mother starve themselves to death and leave rations for their children, even if they are inhumane, they will not hesitate to do so, if no one sacrifices, more people will die.

Just now, the scouts came to report that the Jinxuedi people were showing signs of gathering, and their reinforcements were about to arrive, and if we couldn't break through Lokinas in a few days and gather troops and horses, we would have to kill more than 100,000 people, you see. ”

"My subordinates understood."

"Let's do it immediately, let Fang Liang go and tell these leaders, and then talk about this matter when everyone from the other villages has arrived, otherwise there will be no discussion."

"Subordinates obey!"

"Slow!" Baili Yan immediately shouted to Jiang Jie again: "Remember, there are some things that you can't say, just know it in your heart." Keep what you just said in your heart, and don't reveal it to anyone, so as not to disturb people's hearts! ”

"Subordinates understood!"

The number of women and children of the Central Plains people in the city is 780,000, and after the food is cut out, the Jinxuedi people are the first to open the knife, and the 70,000 or 80,000 people will definitely not be able to eat it. But as long as a bad example is set and more than 100,000 people gather outside the city, the Jinxuedi people will only think that it is a trick of the coalition army, and they will not dare to open the city easily, but will take advantage of the ignorance of the villagers and take the opportunity to launch a surprise attack to break through.

After Jiang Jie left, Bai Liyan called Bai He:

"Baihe, have the tunnels of the south, north, and west gates been dug through?"

"General Hui, it's already been dug through, the gunpowder has been filled, just wait for an order, and you can blow up the city wall."

"Very good, in two days, when the original people in other places arrive one after another, all armies and battalions will be ready to attack the city. Remember, insert some reliable oarsmen and second-generation people of Posong Province who can speak the Jinxuedi dialect into the villagers, and if the Jinxuedi people kill them from the city before the city is bombed, they should not make any resistance and make these Songdia Central Plains people suffer. When the walls of the city fall, let our eyeliner clamor incite the villagers to attack the city. ”

"The End Will Understand"

No god is born to die, and no god is a savior, nor can he save the world, only himself can save himself. Death and blood are far more convincing than a lie told a thousand times, a truth ten thousand times. If you don't die, you don't touch your head and break your blood, and there will always be a market for stubborn fallacies.

The coalition forces quickly released 10,000 new subjects from the ship who had just been training for more than a month, and all their female dependents remained on the ship, both for safety and as hostages, in order to hold the newly annexed new subjects hostage.