Bai He informed Taishou in detail about Sikong Nan's matter, and Taishou asked:

"Is General Bai He's true?"

"It's true, the last general dares to vouch for his head."

"Okay, wait until the official asks him, and then make a decision." The Taishou general was suspicious, and poked his head out again: "General Sikong, Shao Ping is short of grain and grass, I don't know how much grain King Longyuan wants to receive?" ”

"The king of heaven will go to Mogao here, and five thousand stones of grain and grass will be enough. Hurry up and open the door to transport grain, before noon tomorrow, if the army can't go on the road, you will be too guarded to do it! ”

"Okay, the general waits, and the officer will open the door immediately."

The voice fell, and Taishou retracted his head and Cheng Yedao:

"General Cheng Ye, quickly send scouts to go out of the city from the east, west, and north to investigate the situation, and if there is anything abnormal, come and report to me immediately."

"My lord, this king is coming, it's not appropriate for us not to open the door to greet you."

"In two hours it will be dawn, and what if there is any fraud. Besides, Xianguo is the territory of the Shengyan Heavenly King, and he Longyuan Heavenly King has never sent someone to deliver a letter to inform me from the Xu Kingdom, the official position of the city is here, the city is lost, and the Shengyan Heavenly King will settle accounts with my head, and I will do what he does to the Longyuan Heavenly King. Send men out of the city at once, beware of their deceit. ”

"No!"

Cheng Ye ordered people to go out of the city from the east, west, and north gates to find out the movements of the incoming army.

After about half a moment, the city gate was not opened, and Sikong Nan scolded angrily:

"Bai He, I haven't seen you for many years, right, I don't even think of my brother, how many years do you want me to wait!"

"I'm sorry Brother Sikong, I can't open the door if I keep the order, and I can't help it, brother. In two hours of dawn, Brother Sikong will be calm for a while, brother, I will send you some wine and meat. ”

After that, Bai He asked people to put down fifty large bamboo baskets with ropes, and the baskets contained light cakes and some boiled and cut meat. If so, should the enemy be retreated with random arrows, or is there poison in the bread and meat? It shouldn't be, if that's the case, wouldn't the Black Turban Army commander sitting in Shao Ping be a clever calculation.

Thinking of this, Sikong Nan motioned to fifty people to dismount, fetch bamboo baskets, and share food with everyone.

The taste of his hometown made Sikong Nan feel still alive, chewed twice, and he said in a big voice:

"Bai He, brother, I brought two thousand people, and you will give fifty frames, it's too petty."

Bai He laughed and said:

"Brother Sikong has to take care of it, Shao Ping is in short supply of grain and grass, fifty boxes of food is enough, no matter how much, brother, I will have to eat the board."

"You kid is not a good mix, and you are so careful about eating for this point."

"Don't hide it from my brother, there are many people in Shaoping, there was a bad disaster last year, the grain in the field has not grown this year, the days are tight, and even a lot of livestock have been killed.

Hearing the words "Shao Ping has many people", Sikong Nan was shocked.

He is a native of Shaoping, Shaoping has a total population of more than 100,000 people eight or nine years ago, after the First World War in Jiangdong, Shaoping only has less than 60,000 left, for Shaoping such a large land, 60,000 people is really not much.

Thinking of the accent of Sun Guo, who was the former guard general and Taishou, Sikong Nan concluded that Shao Pingding had moved in a large number of people from Sun State.

According to this calculation, there are more Shaoping people in Bai He's mouth, which should be more than the 100,000 people eight years ago, and with last year's situation, there should be at least 130,000 or more in the city, and the defenders will definitely not be only 3 or 4,000 people, if you count the conscripts and village warriors, there will definitely be 10,000 people, and if this is a strong attack, the 2,000 people under his command will definitely go and never return.

At the same time, not long after Bai Liyan led 3,000 people to Sikong Nan, he rode a horse and came to hide in a forest twelve miles east of Shaoping City.

"General, an unknown cavalry has been found outside the forest." Su Hong hurriedly came to report.

"Cavalry? It must not be Sikong Nanxia, he didn't know that we were here. It must be Shao Ping's scout horse. Tell the brethren to bite the horse tightly and not make a noise. ”

"No!"

Su Hong turned around and just left, Lu Gao asked:

"General Wei, Shao Ping is going to drag it out until daytime, what if the Black Turban Army wants to see the Heavenly King of Longyuan?"

"It's unlikely. General Lu, do you think that this city guard doesn't dare to let Sikong Nan enter the city after dark, and he still has the courage to meet the Heavenly King of Longyuan? At most, they will send someone to treat them, and if something goes wrong, their subordinates will be beheaded. ”

The Heavenly King of Longyuan did have his own people, and he learned from the captives that he was fighting in the northern counties of Xu and was attacking to the south. Judging from this, the Black Turban Army intended to seize the horse farm of Xu State and plunder hundreds of thousands of fine war horses and pack horses.

And these war horses are used by the Xu State to transport inland materials, lost to the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, once obtained by the Black Turban Army, Jin Xuedi to attack, only relying on the military horses and manpower of the Song State, can not guarantee the logistics support of the Central Plains one million coalition troops, the entire Qianyue Mountain defense line of thousands of miles will be directly penetrated by Jin Xuedi, the consequences are unimaginable.

Of course, Baili Yan can't control these, and the title of Longyuan Heavenly King is also because this person is fierce and ferocious, he used the flooding method last year to drown 50,000 people in the northern army of Xu Guozhen, and then dragged the body to the city of Xu Guo's defenders, and the name is moral, so that the deceased "return to his hometown". In fact, 50,000 corpses were piled up around the city, and the Xu army did not open the door to collect the corpses, which would cause an epidemic miasma. When the door was opened to collect the corpses, the Black Turban Army camped five miles outside the city, killing them anytime and anywhere.

As a result, Xu Jun could not hold out, the corpse was exposed to the sun for half a month, the smell was stinking, mosquitoes and flies were everywhere, the plague was spreading, and the Xu army and the people who defended the city died violently in a month, and as many as 60,000 people died.

The scouts sent by Shao Ping swept all the way through the grove, but they did not dare to investigate deeply, as a human being, there is always an inexplicable fear of a quiet and dark place, let alone alone.

The scout ran a few more miles east through the grove to make sure there was nothing unusual, and turned back to Shaoping. At this time, the sky was already cloudy, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) and a group of 3,000 people were hiding in the woods, and Shao Ping was not seen for a long time, Bailiyan knew that it would be difficult to do anything after dawn, so he summoned Su Hong:

"Su Hong, you quickly go back to the camp and wait, if Sikong Nan sends someone to contact, he will speak to me immediately. At the same time, you tell Sikong Nan to let him act when he sees the opportunity, and if he can't take it by force, he will immediately withdraw from Shao Ping, and he will never be trapped in it. ”

"Got it."

Bai Liyan was worried about whether Shao Ping would change at this time, after all, when he passed by Xiaocheng, he had never fought with the defenders of Xiaocheng, and he didn't know the situation in Xiaocheng.

From the information obtained from the captured prisoners, after the Black Turban Army returned to Sun State from Zhiguo last year, it began to migrate the population to Beihai.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan and Lu Gao said:

"General Lu, find two veterans over forty after dawn, find a way to sneak into Shaoping City to find out the situation, and be sure to return after dark to report to me."

"No, I'll do it immediately."

Before dawn and dusk, the scouts sent by Shao Ping returned one after another, only the two scouts who detoured to the south to spy had not yet returned, and they were going to find out the exact situation of Ye Xin's department, so as to inform Shao Ping of the exact news.

At the same time, Sikong Nan concluded that the Shaoping defenders must have not seen through their intentions, and decisively dismounted to rest, one could paralyze the defenders, and the other was to seize the time to rest and be ready to fight at any time.

Waiting for the sky to dawn, it was already three hours after arriving in the city, a dull sound, in the fog looked particularly heavy, Bai He fell out of the city to greet, Sikong Nan stood up, dusted off the dust on his body, his face was slightly tired:

"Bai He, that's how you greet your brother?"

Bai He bowed and said:

"I'm sorry Brother Sikong, the king is too obedient, and brother, I am also acting on orders."

"Is that the Sun Guoren?"

"It's him, last night he had ordered someone to prepare grain and grass, and after an hour of food, he summoned all the people and sent them to the camp of the Longyuan Heavenly King immediately."

"An hour later!" Sikong Nan was dissatisfied: "Bai He, his surname Wang has eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, the army is thirty miles away from here, and it will be pulled out at noon, how can five thousand stone grain and grass be transported before noon." ”

Seeing that Sikong Nan was unhappy, Bai He could only smile at all:

"Brother Sikong, don't blame, it's really the king who is too cautious, not opening the city gate at night is a death order for all armies, and the army should be careful when sleeping in the open."

"According to you, brother, I'm here to earn the city?"

"Don't dare, don't dare. Brother Sikong, please enter the city first, Wang Taishou is in the governance office. ”

"Okay, I'll ask him personally."

With that, Sikong Nan's 2,000 men and horses began to enter the city. Bai He saw that the horses in the south of Sikong were strong and sturdy, and they were fat and fat, and he couldn't help but ask:

"Brother Sikong, aren't all of these horses yours?"

"How can you speak, if it weren't for my subordinates, could you come with my brother?"

"Then you, the commander of a thousand, are more talented than me, and you are all cavalry."

Bai He said, and the envy in his eyes was revealed. Sikong Nan saw the stitches and asked:

"Brother Bai He, I remember that you also rebelled at the beginning, why did you get mixed up with Shao Ping again."

"Alas...... It's hard to put into words. After the defeat of the uprising, I was captured by the Xian army to be a slave, and I worked for six years. Just because I am powerful with fists, feet, swords and guns, I am a thousand-commander, but in fact, I only have more than 500 soldiers of the Xianguo under my command, and the others are Zhiguo and Sun Guoren. ”

"Oh......" Sikong Nan sighed lightly and said: "The situation in Sun Guo is roughly the same, there are people from Zhiguo and Xu in many places. I don't know how many outsiders have moved in this Shao Ping, how do I think there are more people on the street than at the beginning? ”

Bai He nodded and said:

"After Shao Ping was recovered by the Xian army, there were less than 70,000 people, and last year, many people took refuge in the Black Turban Army and were dragged to the Yongxing River to confront the Xian army. Because we were slaves, we had enmity with officials and merchants, so we were left behind to purge the remnants of the local sins.

In November last year, 50,000 or 60,000 people moved from Sun Kingdom, and after the first month of this year, another 40,000 people moved in, and now there are more than 150,000 people. ”

"So much!" Sikong Nan was taken aback, and asked around the corner: "So, isn't Chengli our Xianguo people who say the count?" ”

"There are more outsiders than us, can you let us talk and count? Don't hide it from you, brother, more than half of Shaoping's garrison are from Sun Guo, the rest are from Zhiguo, and there are only more than 500 people from me. ”

"Hiss......" Sikong Nan's scalp was numb, and he thought to himself, according to such an algorithm, Shao Ping can mobilize at least 20,000 men to defend the city, how can this be fought. He asked, "Can there be conscription in the city?" ”

"What, you still have to conscript?"

Of course, Sikong Nan did not need to recruit troops, and his intention was to set up the number of Shaoping garrisons. If he asks directly, Bai He must be suspicious.