Endless homeless people flowed like flowing water, and due west, trees fell to the ground in an instant, and the surrounding debris was also cleared, and in a short time a flat land was formed.

On the land, the sergeant was setting up a temporary camp, there were tents and barracks, and the most conspicuous thing standing among the crowd was a super large tent like a yurt, Su Baiyi estimated that it should be Luo Rucai's handsome tent.

The army of 200,000 displaced people seems to be chaotic and surrounded from all directions, but in fact, it is not.

Although Luo Rucai's ability to govern the army is not very high, there are still people in the army who know the soldiers.

Su Baiyi watched little by little with the binoculars, and finally saw a clue.

Many homeless people, including the elderly, children, and women, rushed into the empty homes of the people in the outer city without saying a word, not to mention looting.

However, the troops surrounding Luo Rucai's tent remained motionless.

Although the formation of these people is not so regular, they are gathered there in clusters, as if they have an immobile temperament, it is not difficult to guess that this is the real core of Luo Rucai's army, it looks like there are about twenty or thirty thousand people, all of them are wearing leather armor and holding different weapons in their hands.

On both sides of the tent, there were even a thousand cavalry.

After that, there was no end in sight to the ox-cart procession, and it was not known whether it was carrying grain, grass or ordnance.

After watching it for a long time, Su Baiyi's heart gradually put into his stomach.

Luo Rucai's army has siege ladders, but fortunately there are no siege weapons such as catapults and siege towers. This is a blessing in misfortune for the defenders.

"Your Excellency!" Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Mao Chenglu, Fu Lin and others gathered towards Su Baiyi one after another, and even Qin Youde, the prefect of Guide Mansion, and a group of officials also ran over.

"Oh, hello everyone!" Su Baiyi put away the binoculars and looked at the group of people in front of him, most of their faces were full of worry, but the perseverance revealed between Gu Baiyi made Su Baiyi look at each other differently.

Yesterday, I heard that Qin Youde prepared a coffin for himself, threatening that the city is in the people, the city is ruined, and he wants to live with the Guide Mansion.

These literati, sometimes they don't know how to be flexible, sometimes they don't use knives to kill people, and when they are fighting, they pounce on you like dogs and bite you, but at the moment of death, there are always one or two who can stand up and do the righteousness of the master.

"Hello adults!" The crowd saluted.

Geng Zhongming's face was gloomy, and he bowed down again and said: "My lord, what the last general means is to let all your lords go to the city, in case this thief army attacks the city, they can't pick up their shoulders and can't carry them, and it will be inconvenient here." Defend the city and leave it to our generals. ”

"Too much deception!" Kou Yong, the dean of Wenzheng Academy and the teacher of the Guide Mansion, kept scolding: "Who said that I am useless as a literati? The capital of Yao, the soil of Shun, the seal of Yu, should be in the middle, a half shameful minister. Thousands of miles of fishy as promised, the eternal heroic spirit is here, and the majestic will ......"

"Alright, alright!" Su Baiyi couldn't cry or laugh, waved his hand and said: "Don't say it, Lord Kou, it's not yet time for Hu soldiers to be on the ground, you don't need to be a shameful minister, everyone be quiet, be quiet, listen to me." ”

Su Baiyi coughed twice and cleared his throat, looked at the civil and military officials in front of him, and said: "Luo Rucai's soldiers are coming to the city, I know that you all want to help defend the city, but this city also needs to have rules and regulations for defending the city, what is the matter with everyone running to the city in one go?" ”

With a glance, he saw Qin Youde next to him, and asked: "For example, when Luo Rucai was attacking the city, someone suggested opening the door to deal him with the enemy and giving him a blow to the head, some people said that he should preserve his strength to wait for work, and when everyone was gossiping, you were all officials and masters, so who did the soldiers listen to?" ”

"Of course it's a head-on attack!" Kou Yong blushed and said with a thick neck: "Luo Rucai is a rabble, we represent the Ming Dynasty, if we still shrink back when we encounter these homeless people, how can the momentum of our Ming army be beaten?" ”

"Alright, alright!" Su Baiyi waved his hand and said, "Master Kou quarreled without saying a word, look, what I just said is good." Hehe, I'm just making an analogy, ha, an analogy, don't take it to heart. In fact, there are many ways to defend the city, and you don't have to stand at the head of the city to participate in the white-knuckle battle, but you can also plan behind the scenes! ”

"That's fine!" Kou Yong said: "The old man also read the book of war in his early years, but he didn't expect that his birth year would be useful, Lord Governor, let Kou be in the middle of the council, how about it?" ”

Su Baiyi rolled his eyes, he found that this Kou Yong was a middle two, so he simply turned his head and didn't talk to him, but looked at Qin Youde and said, "Lord Qin, this governor has a word, please be careful." ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, please!" Qin Youde gave his hand.

Su Baiyi said: "Okay, then I'll understand." The Governor knows your determination to live and die with Guide, and I also understand everyone's hard work, but have you ever thought about it, if you want to say that the first person in this city to lead troops to fight, who do you know?

It's Yuan Da Sima, but why didn't Lord Yuan go to the city today, but you came?

It's not that the governor looks down on you, this war is not just a war on paper, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything, since you want to do what you can for the defense of the city of Guide, the governor is naturally very happy, but you must not break it at the head of the city.

In fact, if you want to defend our Guide Mansion, you don't necessarily have to stand at the head of the city and fight with the thieves. Think about it, if someone in our Guide Mansion secretly opens the city gate to lure thieves into the city, what will it do? ”

"Lord Governor, do you suspect that we are secretly working with thieves?" Kou Yong's face flushed, as if he had been greatly insulted.

"Master Kou, don't be so excited, Bendu's words are not finished yet." Su Baiyi glanced at him dissatisfied, and continued: "Those who open the city gate are not necessarily because of secret thieves. When people are faced with war, they instinctively feel fear, especially when they hear that there are 200,000 troops outside the city, they are even more afraid, and once they are afraid in their hearts, they will look for a way to survive. They may make some inexplicable moves, or they may want to open the gates and escape.

I mean, in addition to defending the city, we have 50,000 people to be pacified.

Do the common people have any fear?

How do you dispel their fears?

How do you build confidence in them?

Is the water in the city clean?

Has anyone ever been sick?

Is medicine enough?

Is Tongjitang manpower enough?

The people are all bringing their property into the city, have there been any thefts?

Are there any crowds fighting?

Did any moles enter the city?

Are there any rumors about walking?

Shouldn't we care about these things, one by one? Do you have to run to the head of the city to bear the arrows? ”

Su Baiyi said something, and the officials in the yamen lowered their heads in shame.

"Li Suo!"

"The subordinates are here!" Li Suo came out with heavy armor and almost killed Su Baiyi.

"Go!" Su Baiyi waved his hand: "Send all the adults down to the city to appease the people." ”

Li Suo used the brocade guards to expel those civil officials to the city in an instant.

Su Baiyi glanced at the city coldly, and said to Fu Lin: "You can't help much here, go and organize the students of our Yuyuan to patrol the streets, always prevent those who fight for territory, steal, and spread rumors, and once the war starts, you must always be able to organize the people to save people and fight fires."

In addition, we must reassure the people in the city, let them know that we have enough food and weapons, build up confidence in defeating the enemy, and train them in how to organize rescue and fire fighting when necessary, and prepare them to fight in the city.

Also, if the rescue team of Tongjitang is not enough, send students to help! ”

It was very easy for those civil officials to come up and sacrifice their lives for the country with a hot brain, but let them do these trivial things, Su Baiyi thought that it was not as reliable as sending his own disciples.

"What do you think?"

After the civil officials were blown away, Su Baiyi looked at Mao Chenglu and the others, squinted and asked.

Geng Zhongming arched his hand and said: "The last general has just taken a closer look, although this Luo Rucai is known as an army of 200,000, but most of them are women and children who are unbearable to fight, these people not only cannot become his combat effectiveness, but will drag him back, if it is said that the soldiers who can fight a hundred battles, there are twenty or thirty thousand, but we are not worried about the city and the code, the last general is just worried about a little ......"

"You say!" Su Baiyi said plainly.

Geng Zhongming raised his head suddenly, and said sincerely: "The soldiers defending our city are all new recruits, and the training time is more than two months, and they are all dolls under the age of twenty. If the enemy is frightened, the city cannot be defended. ”

Su Baiyi frowned.

All the recruits have never been on the battlefield, and the killing intent on their bodies is weaker, but there is no way to do it, because there are no veterans in Guide Mansion who can carry the pressure formation.

"Your Excellency!" Mao Chenglu also bowed his hand and said, "My lord, please take a look." As he spoke, he pointed at the brightly armored soldiers standing on the tower of the city gate not far away with the sandalwood hard bow in his hand, all of them looked extremely majestic, and they all straightened their waists with weapons: "They look fine, but the adults look at their faces, all of them are sallow, and it is estimated that they are frightened by the first time they have seen so many people." ”

"What then?" Su Baiyi said: "What we can defend in the city, except for these 6,000 recruits who are ordinary people, I can't really let those civil officials come over to defend the city!" ”

"No!" Kong Youde took a step forward and said in a loud voice: "My lord, a few of us think that we have to give these eggless dolls a long gland...... Hey. ”

"Long guts?" Su Baiyi had never led soldiers, so he didn't dare to command indiscriminately, and his eyes were staring at Geng Zhongming.

Geng Zhongming said: "My lord, aren't these baby soldiers afraid? We have to think of a way to let them know that the thief on the other side also has a head on his shoulder, and he is also a human, not a ghost! ”

"How do you want to do it?" Su Baiyi asked.

Mao Chenglu next to him took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "We can take it by surprise and have a night attack!" ”