"Dashuai, the damage to this Guangzhou city is really too great, the news from Xuan Yingwei that Liu Changlu has not finished cleaning up the ruins in the city so far, a large number of homeless people have gathered in the city, and many people have starved to death." After Xue Wanli's army arrived outside Guangzhou, he was taken aback by the news that Xuan Yingwei quickly sent, and returned to Shantou Port overnight to find Yang Tiancheng and them.

After reading the information, Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun sighed and said, "It's time to find a way to rescue these refugees, and I don't know if there is any way on Xiaosi's side?" "There is no good way for the military to do this kind of thing, but Hu Xiaosi has rushed into Guangzhou since he came to Shantou, and there is almost no news from him.

But it is obvious that Hu Xiaosi is a person who is talking casually, Yang Tiancheng has just opened his mouth here, and a familiar voice came from outside, "Tiancheng, why do you always mutter about me behind my back?" I sneezed four or five times along the way. As soon as the words fell, Hu Xiaosi came in and panted and said: "I said Lao Xue, your speed is too fast, I will set off a while later than you, and I didn't catch you along the way." ”

"Less nonsense, hurry up, I should have figured out a way to come to Guangzhou City for so many days, right?" Wang Houchun hammered him with a fist and said with a smile: "I know that you kid has a lot of ideas, hurry up, otherwise I will throw you back to Hangzhou." ”

Hu Xiaosi pursed his lips, decisively threw Wang Houchun's threat behind his head, and said with a smile: "You throw me back to Hangzhou, you can figure it out yourself, I'll see how you Wang Dashuai rescued the nearly 100,000 homeless people in the city?" But after finishing speaking, he said solemnly: "Although I don't want to say it, this Liu Changlu is much better than his old man, at least he knows that he has to help those victims at this time, but he can't care about such a huge number at all, and he hasn't come up with our way to work for relief, so he only rescued those people from the upper families, and the people at the bottom have received very little help, so people in the city are starving to death every day these days." ”

"No one is immune to the catastrophe. We are in a good era, so we can sit here calmly, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a few of our graves outside Lingzhou City. Wang Houchun also sighed and said: "Since we have encountered it and have the ability, we must do our best to save the people." ”

"I've devised a plan in the city, and I need your help." Hu Xiaosi nodded and said: "I secretly let the Flying Eagle Brigade open up more than ten tunnels in the city, directly to the outside of the city, you will concentrate on containing Liu Changlu's energy in the east city at that time, I will take a small part of the people to respond outside the northwest city, transport the refugees out in the way of ants moving, and at the same time arrange for some food to enter the city and secretly distribute it to those people." But speaking of this, Hu Xiaosi was a little distressed and said: "I'm afraid that the grain I brought in will make these people rob, which will cause trouble to our plan, and it will also attract Liu Changlu's attention." I'm bringing Biaozi here now, and Zhao Si has also been arranged to the southwest region, but I've done my best. ”

"And what if you don't bring food in? The food you bring in won't save a few people. Xue Wanli shook his head, disagreeing with Hu Xiaosi's method and said: "Xiaosi, don't lose a big one because of a small one, we are facing a refugee of 100,000 people." ”

"Little four, Wanli is right, although we can't bear it, but we must be responsible for the huge number of refugees." Yang Tiancheng waved his hand to interrupt Hu Xiaosi's words and continued: "From now on, immediately implement this plan. I will arrange someone to cooperate with you. Wanli will attack the city immediately tomorrow morning, I don't care how many soldiers and horses there are in the city, and no matter whether Qu Chengmei and Ye Guangluo will send troops to rescue, we must take Guangzhou as soon as possible. This is not a matter of strategy and tactics, but a major event to save the people from fire and water, and even if it cannot achieve the goal of attracting the rescue of other feudal towns, it must be attacked as soon as possible. ”

Yang's words set the tone for the meeting. After Xue Wanli took the order, he hurried back to the front line to arrange, while Hu Xiaosi stayed with Wang Houchun to discuss how to send troops to respond. The logistics department made a large amount of dry rations overnight, handed them over to the infantry of two battalions, and secretly made a detour to the northwest of Guangzhou to hide and stand by. And Hu Xiaosi immediately rushed back to start the plan after communicating this.

"Houchun, let's rush over too, you go to the front camp, and I will personally take charge of picking up Xiaosi." Yang Tiancheng looked at Wang Houchun's heavy face and shook his head, arranged for his subordinates to pack up overnight and began to go to the front line. Shantou handed over all the responsibilities to Yang Qiu.

At this time, it is already the middle of October in the second year of the Apocalypse, more than a month has passed since the typhoon, Shantou Port has begun to take shape, after the completion of the construction of port facilities, the construction of residential areas began, a large number of houses rose from the ground, after experiencing the experience of this typhoon, Yang Qiu presided over the construction of houses all using masonry and reinforced concrete structures, in this era, cement is already an insoluble building material, so Yang Qiu is full of confidence even if it is another typhoon Shantou Port will be able to resist.

After a month, the Tiance army reached the extreme after receiving a large number of replenishments and resting after the strength and combat power reached the extreme, the explosive package was like rain, and the rumbling explosion sound continued to sound at the head of Guangzhou, and the soldiers of the Cantonese army who were blown up and fell outside the city after a month.

"What is this Liu Changlu's thoughts, I have already raised the banner and asked him to lead the army to surrender and promise that he will not be blamed for the past. Brainless. Xue Wanli was a little puzzled by Liu Changlu's stubborn resistance, shook his head and said to Li Lisan beside him: "How is the Demoman arranged?" Is there no way to cross the moat yet? ”

"There is no good way for the time being, the moat of Guangzhou is connected to the Pearl River outside, the water is turbulent, and the upstream river water has swelled after the typhoon, we have tried to build several boat bridges but cannot break through." Li Lisan smiled bitterly.

"It's strange, didn't Xuan Yingwei say that he dug the tunnel and came out? How did they do it? Xue Wanli asked a little strangely, "Do you want to ask them for help?" Let's dig tunnels too? But before he finished speaking, he shook his head and said: "Forget it, there are still hundreds of thousands of refugees over there, let's figure it out ourselves, right?" Let the artillery battalion find a way to continue to increase its efforts, and you can go and see for yourself on the side of the Zhouqiao troops, if it really doesn't work, you will fill this moat with soil for me. "To the southern war, the moat outside the city made Xue Wanli, a man from the northwest, very troubled, how could there be such a troublesome thing in the northwest, he rushed directly to the city wall, and directly exploded the city wall, and the city was broken, which is like this city in the south, so troublesome.

"What's so disturbing?" Xue Wanli was muttering in place, but Wang Houchun's voice came from behind him.

"Vice Marshal, why are you here?" Xue Wanli saw Wang Houchun coming over and hurriedly saluted: "This moat in Guangzhou is even more troublesome than that in Hangzhou. There is no way to build a boat bridge, I have already asked Li San to think of a way, and I believe that I will be able to come up with a way soon. ”

Wang Houchun shook his head and smiled: "I didn't let you break Guangzhou City today." You just need to continue to put pressure on Liu Changlu, so that you can cover the actions of Xiao Si's side. I'll tell you, Xiao Si had rescued more than 1,000 people in one night last night, and it was almost dawn when he rushed back, so he didn't dare to move much. ”

Hearing that Hu Xiaosi's side had already begun to act, Xue Wanli nodded and smiled: "In this way, I can be regarded as somewhat comforted." But Deputy Marshal, I do have an idea, if Xiao Si also acts during the day, wouldn't it be much faster, anyway, Liu Changlu must have a headache now How to resist the siege of my Tiance Army, and he will definitely not take care of those low-level people. ”

"No, it's blatant during the day, you think Liu Changlu is a vegetarian, he can't help it, if we are angry with the people, wouldn't it hurt them?" Wang Houchun's eyes widened.

Xue Wanli scratched his head and smiled: "I have a way, deputy marshal, you see that the current wind direction is just towards the northwest, but the wind is not strong, we can take out the first-generation explosives bag that we have hoarded before, that thing is very smoky, if dozens of them explode together, it will definitely be very smoky, and it will definitely be shrouded by the wind blowing to the northwest, so that the little four can take the opportunity to continue to send manpower out." And to make it work, I can have people light wet firewood and grass here to fuel the smoke. ”

Xue Wanli's method made Wang Houchun's eyes light up, and after thinking for a while, he nodded and said, "You ask people to prepare immediately, and I will let people inform Xiao Si, and you agree to start in half an hour." He'll be a quarter of an hour late. ”

"Don't worry, vice marshal, I let Chai Jia do it personally, and I am attracting opponents head-on. This time, we must send more people out as soon as possible. Xue Wanli asked the people around him to find Chai Jia and asked him to personally lead people to prepare, while the staff behind Wang Houchun recorded Wang Houchun's order and asked him to sign it and go to the northwest quickly.

I saw that half an hour later, Chai Jia led people to line up along the moat and lit countless fires, and the soldiers who came and went behind filled the fires with wet firewood and grass, and suddenly the smoke billowed towards the northwest, and at the same time, the artillery battalion also quietly replaced the explosives bag, and the power of the first-generation explosive bag was naturally several grades worse than the latest explosive bag used just now, but it couldn't stand the black smoke caused by the insufficient gunpowder purification technology to form a column of smoke rising into the sky. After the rumbling explosion, the thick smoke combined with the smoke arranged by Chai Jia almost made the Cantonese soldiers think that the Tiance Army had released toxic smoke, and after the aftermath of the explosion, they jumped and covered their mouths and fled.

"Haha, go and increase the efforts, anyway, these explosive packs will be invalid if they are not used again." Xue Wanli saw that the entire eastern city of Guangzhou was about to be shrouded in thick smoke, and immediately laughed, and then jumped to increase his strength.

Xue Wanli's words made the follow-up artillery battalion almost full of strength to increase the projection intensity, and even the mechanical crossbow that was holding the Yue soldiers on the head of the city to practice the accuracy of aiming stopped to assist the ballista soldiers. However, Chai Jia was not willing to be left behind, in addition to continuing to light the fire, he also sent many soldiers to fan fans and increase the wind to deliver smoke to the city.

Xue Wanli's actions on this side soon let Hu Xiaosi's side get the news, and when the cover covered the whole city, everyone was choked with tears and snot by this thick smoke, and the Flying Eagle Brigade quietly organized the people to go into the tunnel and go out of the city. And Yang Tiancheng also sent people to wait secretly at various exits to respond.

This kind of action lasted for three whole days, and the Flying Eagle Brigade and Xuan Yingwei under the command of Hu Xiaosi organized nearly 20,000 people day and night to successfully drill out of Guangzhou City. Seeing so many people going out of the city to be saved, and being quickly transferred to Shantou in the rear after hastily replenishing their strength, Yang Tiancheng smiled with relief.

However, on the fourth day, there was no suitable wind direction, and the Tiance army could only stop and seriously attack the city. Xue Wanli sighed unsatisfactorily, and after discussing with Chai Jia, it was decided that the latter would organize the boat bridge troops to find a way to lay the trestle. In the past three days, Chai Jia finally thought of a way to use the method of driving wooden stakes outside Hangzhou before. This method did work at first, but when the trestle was laid to the center of the moat, he found that the depth of the moat in Guangzhou seemed to be a bit beyond his expectations, and the wooden piles could not reach the bottom at all. In desperation, Chai Jia restarted to assemble the boat bridge in the center of the river, so that the bridge was generally fixed by wooden piles, and the boat bridge was built by connecting the boat bridge.

However, Xue Wanli was very relieved about Chai Jia's way, and because Hu Xiaosi continued to organize the people to escape from Guangzhou City, he did not rush to urge Chai Jia, giving him enough time to experiment. However, Chai Jia was full of confidence and threatened to let the Tiance army cross the moat and arrive in Guangzhou City within three days.

At this time, Li Xuanqing, who was in Guangzhou, also took Cen Tianshi to Shantou on the warship Fuxing, but Qiaoxi did not follow Li Xuanqing because he was afraid of any disease in the disaster area because he took care of Xiao Tianqi.

"The emperor really plans to go to see Shantou? I heard Yang Qiu say that it hasn't been built yet? Cen Tianshi shook his head, he was originally organizing part of the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Water Conservancy and Environmental Protection to see how to build the seawall, but when he was pulled over by Li Xuanqing, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Your Majesty, I'm so busy, if you pull me to see Shantou, I won't go." ”

"I'm just taking you to see Shantou, which is a migrant city, a city built out of thin air by hundreds of thousands of refugees, and Yang Qiu has moved all the people within a hundred miles of the surrounding area." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "And Shantou's achievements in the future will inevitably be no worse than Guangzhou, and maybe it will surpass Guangzhou and become the largest port in Lingnan." ”

"Moreover, because Shantou Port was built out of thin air, the standards and concepts adopted are all up-to-date, and it is a template for emerging cities, which is enough for your cabinet to study carefully. There are tens of thousands of miles of sea in the east of our Tang Empire, and there will be countless port cities in the future, and there will be no few cities built out of thin air, isn't this worth seeing? Li Xuanqing's words made Cen Tianshi silent for a while, and then Li Xuanqing said: "Now that there are more than 100,000 refugees in Guangzhou without food and clothing, and people are dying every day, I also want to go to the front line to have a look, and urge them to take Guangzhou as soon as possible, and how many fewer people will die a day earlier." After a hundred years of suffering, our population has decreased greatly, and now it is less than one-third of the population in the Kaiyuan period. How can no one build this vast empire in the future? ”