There was still no rain, it had been dry for more than 20 days, and all the seedlings that had just been planted had been sunburned to death by the poisonous sun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no choice but to switch to drought-tolerant crops. However, looking at the weather, it is also very good, and there is no hope for this year's summer harvest. Autumn grain, I guess don't think about it.

An unprecedented famine was coming, and Du Shu and his officials said that people in various places had begun to flee in large numbers, crossing the river to live in Jiangling and Ezhou.

In some places, more than 100 households in the village escaped with only three or five elderly people who couldn't walk.

Without a population, the economy of the Sizhou Army faced collapse.

Du Shu sent people to ask if he wanted the navy to block the ferries in various places and prevent the people from leaving.

Wang Shen's heart moved, and he had the idea of implementing a strict household registration system to firmly fix the population on the land. But after thinking about it, with such a large population, it will be a catastrophe in the future, and if you don't let them leave, won't you starve them to death. In this way, I have really become the enemy and butcher of the people of Qihuang?

Since Jin Bing finished Yan Chang's entry into the Kou, the next thing was Kong Yanzhou, and then there was such an unprecedented battle. The entire Qi Huang is empty, and the war and economic potential can be said to have been exhausted. Even if this war is over, it will not be able to stay here.

Suddenly, Wang Shen had the idea of moving his troops across the river, and he had an incomparable desire for Ezhou, Jiangling, and the paradise of the waters of Dongting Lake.

However, before leaving, Kong Yanzhou must be eliminated first, and this guy can be regarded as having a big enmity with him. Even if you ignore him, I'm afraid that the person surnamed Kong will lead troops across the river, and everyone will fight hard in the future. Instead of letting him take a breath, it is better to take advantage of Kong Yanzhou's current trapping in the city to solve this big problem. If you don't die if you fight a tiger, you will suffer from it.

It was a hot day, and as soon as the sun dawned, it shone all around it white.

Wang Shen took Hu Yantong and rode out of the new city, the farmland outside was still barren, all long cracks, and the dried weeds rustled in the wind, like the last screams of a dying soldier.

"General, the corpses of the fallen soldiers, auxiliaries, and captives are buried here." An officer greeted him, and then handed a linen towel to Wang Shen: "The plague must be prevented on a hot day." ”

"Okay." Wang Shen tied the linen towel to his face and said, "You have to be careful, you can't have another accident." ”

"The general can rest assured, this cemetery was personally found by the deputy military envoy Lu, far away from the underground water veins. Each tomb was dug four feet down, and lime was sprinkled on the bottom. In addition, he also boiled a decoction of banlan root for me to eat. ”

"That's good, that's good, hard work." After the bloody battles of these days, a large number of corpses were rotting in the heat, and a foul smell was permeating a radius of ten miles. After smelling its smell for a long time, Wang Shen's nose was numb, but he didn't feel anything.

"If the old brute surnamed Lu falls into my hands, he will be cut by a thousand knives." Hu Yantong scolded angrily: "If it weren't for this old killer, we would have screwed off Kong Yanzhou's head a long time ago." ”

At the beginning of him, the other soldiers who were working also scolded in unison.

Yes, this Lu Benzhong suddenly stood on Kong Yanzhou's side, which was a serious blow to the morale of the Sizhou army. The most terrible thing is that this old man is so powerful, not only has he produced many unheard of and strange weapons to defend the city, giving the attackers huge damage. is also good at agitating people's hearts, and under his clever tongue, Wang Shen's rebellion against the army and robbing the people has been magnified tenfold. It is said that the Sizhou army has sacked the entire Qizhou because of the lack of food in the army.

There is a way to kill red-eyed soldiers of the Sizhou Army outside the city all day long for fun, and let out a word that once they take down the Qichun chicken dog, they will not be left.

In this way, everyone in Qichun is desperate.

The battle lasted for another twenty days, and Wang Shen pondered tactics while organizing his men and horses to attack the city, and used all the tricks he had seen in the military history forum in later generations.

Or attack with fire, or pile up mountains of earth, put archers on them, and snipe accurately at the city wall day and night, or concentrate catapults to slam the city wall in one place.

or heap timber under the city, and spread saltpeter and brimstone on top of it.

But they were all cracked by Lu Benzhong one by one.

This old thing of the dog day is really vicious, and he actually took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Sizhou army to chop up the corpses of soldiers who died of the plague, and sent the dead soldiers out of the city secretly, polluting the water source of the military camp.

The Sizhou army was unprepared for a while, and hundreds of people were recruited, so they had to be sent away for isolation.

Coming and not being rude, the commander of the Shengjie army made Wu Xianxian also a ruthless person, and also shot the corpse that had been slightly corrupted into the city with a catapult, and mocked in his mouth: The old brute surnamed Lu, you have caused many of your grandfather's subordinates to have more plagues, and Lao Tzu will give you a way to repay the other today. Grandpa is outside the city, the water is dirty, so he has to change places to get water. If the soldier is sick, send it away. Qichun City is only a little bigger, I want you to hide from it, and you can't hide it.

By the time Wang Shen heard this and called an emergency stop, Wu Xianxian had already shot more than a hundred corpses into the city.

This...... The straight lady thief is also too anti-human. It is conceivable that if all the people of a city die of the epidemic because of this, the name of the butcher on his head will really not be removed. If you lose the hearts of the people, how will you stay in Qi and Huang in the future?

Wang Shen, who was furious, ordered Chen Da to draw Wu Xianxian's twenty military sticks.

For Wang Shen's annoyance, the people of the Military Justice Department disagreed for the first time. The twentieth army went down, and only one day later, Wu Xianxian appeared on the battlefield alive again, making Wang Shen speechless for a while.

In the past 20 days, the Qichun city wall was knocked down several times by Wang Shen with a catapult, and the city gate was also knocked open several times by a rushing car. But every time, only one day passed, and it was repaired by Lu Benzhong's organization. This old dog was shrewd, and sent people to demolish the houses in the city in advance and prepare materials for repairing the city.

Originally, like all houses in the south, the houses in Qichun City were first framed with wood, then made of bamboo and coated with highly viscous loess.

Now, those wooden frames can be used to make the equipment for defending the city, and the bamboo chips are used to make pig cages, in which water and wet loess are placed, and there is no waste at all.

Every time the city wall collapses, these long strips of bamboo cages can be directly filled, and then tamped, as strong as the previous city wall, and even without the danger of collapsing due to cannonballs.

This...... It's already quite the same as the prefabs of later generations. Wang Shen admired Lu Benzhong to the extreme, and hated it to the point that his teeth itched.

I thought that this old man was just a literati who could write good poetry, but I didn't want to, it was so powerful. knew that he shouldn't have let him go to Kong Yanzhou in the first place.

is also because of his decision-making mistakes, and this battle has become a sandwich meal now. The most terrible thing is the psychological impact of the huge casualties on the soldiers.

The fierce siege continued at the cost of 500 casualties per day, and by the end of the battle, more than 7,000 captives were almost completely consumed, and a large number of corpses and wounded were sent to the rear like water. After the fight, no matter how brutal the people of the Judge Advocate General's Department were, they refused to come forward.

At the same time, the regular army of Sizhou also suffered more than 300 casualties and more than 1,000 wounded.

The casualties are bearable, but looking at the Qichun City in front of him, if he wants to take it, he doesn't know how much price he has to pay, and can he Wang Shen still bear it?

Hearing Hu Yantong's scolding, Wang Shen sighed: "Perhaps, Lu Benzhong was coerced by Kong Yanzhou, and he had no choice but to do it." In the face of life and death, how many people can stand the test, especially in this troubled world...... I still underestimated Lu Benzhong and Kong Yanzhou, it's my fault, it's my fault. ”

The heart was on fire, and as soon as the nostrils were hot, two nosebleeds flowed down.

Everyone was shocked: "General, general! ”

"Don't worry, the fire is heavier. Ask someone to find some fresh fruits and vegetables, and I'll eat them for a few days. Wang Shen wiped his nose, and his hand touched a pimple that had been filled with thick pimples, and it hurt so much.

He looked up and saw that there were dense tombs in front of him, spread out, at least two miles away. It was originally a field of two fields, but now it has been turned into a mass grave.

Looking back in the direction of the old city, there is also thick smoke rising there, mixed with a strong smell of burning. It was Kong Yanzhou who was burning the bodies of the dead soldiers and civilians, and this situation had been going on for many days, day and night.

It is said that Kong Yanzhou's soldiers, who returned from captivity, said that tens of thousands of people had died in the city in the past 20 days, and the streets were so full of corpses that they could no longer walk.

War is not romantic, and sacrifices are sometimes worthless.

I can't go on like this, I'll come up with a way when I think of a way......

When the fire of good and evil arched, two horses in the distance dragged a long wave of smoke and dust arrows also galloped over, shouting loudly as they ran: "Where is the military envoy, where is the military envoy, urgent military situation, 100,000 urgent!" ”

"What's the matter?" Wang Shen greeted him.

He took the letter with three chicken feathers inserted, opened it, only glanced at it, and handed it to Hu Yantong with an iron face: "I said that Kong Yanzhou has been defeated like that, and he has to defend Qichun, so what he was waiting for was today." ”

Hu Yantong couldn't stop looking at it, as if he couldn't come back to his senses. After a long time, he said: "This is terrible, it must be over!" ”

"It's troublesome, Zhang Yong and Cao Cheng are here, claiming to have 100,000 troops, and they are rushing towards my Huangzhou." Wang Shen's nosebleed flowed down again, and in a blink of an eye, it was dripping all over the placket.

According to the Huangzhou Tanmalay newspaper, like the Qi and Huang regions, there was a great drought in Huaixi and cannibalism. The thieves who rebelled out of the Tokyo Left-behind Division were short of food, and they also had the same thoughts as Kong Yanzhou, and led the army to Jianghan.

They have swept the entire Jianghan, and after being replenished, the troops are strong.

Today, Zhang Yongbu occupies the entire De'an Mansion, that is, Anlu County in later generations, and amasses troops on the Sanlong River. And Cao Cheng hoarded troops to respond to the city. In addition, there are other Hebei tycoons such as Li Hong and Shang Yuan. The battalions are in an endless stream until the territory of Yingzhou.

The entire north of the Yangtze River in the Jianghan region has fallen into the hands of the rebels of the former Tokyo Left-behind Division.

The Han thieves do not stand on each other, on the side of the couch, how can they allow others to sleep soundly, and the Sizhou army in Huangzhou will inevitably become their next target, and it is bound to attack.

Kong Yanzhou can't take it alive or dead here, and there is an enemy of unprecedented scale, and the situation is extremely bad for Wang Shen.