readx; Lu Xiangsheng hurried from Tianchang County after receiving Zhu Youzhen's strict order. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Please search (product # book...... Net)! The fastest updated novel was originally according to his initial deployment, the powerful Meng Gong Department rescued Chuzhou, Li Laiheng Department rushed to the aid of Yangzhou, plus Liu Quanzhong, who had just arrived, it was possible to temporarily protect the second city, after all, the lonely city of Pengcheng had held out for more than a month without any foreign aid, which shows that the thief's ability to attack the city is not strong.

The reason why he wanted to stay in Pengcheng was, of course, not to avoid the battle. In addition to rushing to the aid of the two cities left and right according to the changes in the battle situation, he was more worried about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. According to Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing and others, the thirteen families have their own division of labor, among which Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong both want to feint to attack Pengcheng and drag down the pace of the official army going south. However, it is clear that there are no thieves who have fled north to Pengcheng, and according to the urgent report that has just come back from the front, no trace of these two thieves has been found. So where did these two guys go?

When Lu Xiangsheng was in doubt, the flying pigeon of the Beijing division came. The carrier pigeons are extremely busy these days, and almost every two hours, Zhu Youzhen will be anxious to ask the red lady to send carrier pigeons to ask about the situation on the front line. Although he lives in the Forbidden City, his hard work is not much better than that of the front-line soldiers, and he has not slept for several days.

In the biography, Zhu Youzhen ordered Lu Xiangsheng in a rare stern tone that he must seize the favorable opportunity and concentrate his forces as soon as possible to annihilate the "thirteen families" under the cities of Chuzhou and Yangzhou in one fell swoop, so as to "relieve the worries of the south." A similar handbook was also sent to Sun Chuanting, who was rushing from Xiangyang to Hukou.

In fact, of course, Zhu Youzhen knows the truth that "when the general is outside, the monarch's order is not affected", and Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are all important ministers who are deeply trusted by him. The reason why it was so impatient was that the imperial court could no longer support the huge consumption brought about by the war, and it was almost on the verge of collapse.

If in terms of silver, Zhu Youzhen can still allocate internal funds for emergency relief, and in terms of materials, Zhu Youzhen can still suspend all other tasks and concentrate transportation capacity to transport weapons and ammunition to the front line, without food, he really has no choice. Due to the fact that grain from the south of the Yangtze River could not be transported, not only did the vast areas in the north, especially in the Gyeonggi area, not only ordinary people almost lose their homes, but even among the grain merchants who sold grain, there was not a single grain of grain left!

At present, the food supply of the Beijing division depends entirely on Zhu Youzhen's use of strategic reserves and the implementation of a strict rationing system, so that he can barely keep people from starving to death, and it will not be able to support him for half a month. As for other prefectures and counties, there were more or less cases of people dying of starvation, and Zhu You's heart was like a knife after hearing about it. But what's the solution? Now even in the Forbidden City, the rationing system is implemented, from the queen Rui'er to the ordinary palace maids, there are only two meals a day, and each meal is only a quota of two taels!

Of course, there are always some dignitaries, nobles, wealthy businessmen and wealthy businessmen who will secretly hide grain, wine and meat, and they don't need to worry about starvation. Even if all the restaurants in Jingshi are closed due to the lack of food supply, these people can still spend their time in their own mansions, but they need to be careful not to let the outside people know.

As for ordinary people, it is really difficult to fill their stomachs with quotas alone, so they have to come up with various methods. If it was better in summer, there would always be wild vegetables in the fields, but now is the time of the cold spring, and there are no wild vegetables. Some people eat wild vegetable roots, grass seeds, or dig vole holes, and eat all the food that the mice have hidden in the holes.

Eating these is not enough, and many people eat the bark. Zhu Youzhen once took the time to go out of the palace a while ago and witnessed how the common people ate tree bark. Inexperienced young people tend to strip the bark of the whole trunk, and then the old people who have experienced famine will stop them, because if they have stripped the bark, the tree will die the next year, and if there is a famine the next year, there will be no bark to eat.

The correct way to do this is to cut the roots, because there are many more roots than the trunk, and if you cut off some of the roots, the tree will still be able to grow in the next year. Dig a few feet down from the trunk of the tree, and when you reach the roots, you dig in the opposite direction until you dig out the very end of the roots. Peel off the bark of the roots, dry them and roll them into powder with a stone mill, and eat them in the face. After eating, it is indeed satisfying, but there is a disadvantage, that is, the stool is very dry, so dry that you have to pick it by hand.

Even so, because there were too many hungry people and it was too hard to cut the roots, there were still many people who went directly to peel the bark and eat it, and many of the trees were stripped to white flowers, and they must all die in the coming year. In this way, I couldn't fill my stomach, and some people began to eat Guanyin soil.

Guanyin soil, also known as kaolin white mud and white eel mud, is a kind of fine, colorless and tasteless soil, which is similar to flour at first glance. As for why it is called "Guanyin soil", the folk legend is that the ancient ancestors had no hunger in the year of disaster and famine, and mistakenly recognized the white mud as flour, boiled and eaten, and the stomach was not hungry. The ancestors believed that Guanyin did not bear the starvation of the people, and turned the soil into food, so it was called "Guanyin soil".

But Guanyin soil is not food after all, this thing does not have any nutrients and cannot be digested. Eating it together with other things just gives people the illusion of "being full", but after eating too much, it will cause bloating and constipation, and even swell people to death. Zhu Youzhen forced himself to take a bite, but he didn't pull out the stool for two days, and his face was red and cold sweat broke out, which made several concubines cry. And the pain in Zhu Youzhen's heart is not comparable to abdominal pain!

In the biography, Zhu Youzhen did not shy away from saying that he truthfully told Lu Xiangsheng about the extreme shortage of food in the rear. Lu Xiangsheng cried bitterly, and taught the congregation to circulate it, and everyone shed tears. In the end, Lu Xiangsheng choked up and said: "In any case, we must eliminate the thieves as soon as possible and open up the grain route, otherwise Xiangsheng's death is not enough to excuse his crimes!" ”

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng urgently adjusted his deployment, and ordered Hao Yongzhong's troops, who were rushing to Chuzhou, to Chuzhou directly, while he led the standard battalion Tianxiong Army to Yangzhou. As for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing guessed that they were just a false shot, and they would still go to Nanjing in the end. This is tantamount to letting Lao Huihui and Cao Xiang and others attack the city first, and when the fight is almost over, the two thieves will suddenly attack and snatch the fruits of victory. Lu Xiangsheng also agreed with this judgment, so it was even more necessary to step up the march.

Tianchang County is less than 100 miles away from Yangzhou, and for the Tianxiong Army, which is full of cavalry, it is no problem, and it only took two hours to arrive. After Lu Xiangsheng briefly understood the battle situation, he ignored the opposition of Li Laiheng and Yang Tinglin, and let Li Laiheng and Liu Quanzhong's troops continue to fight on the periphery, and rushed straight to the enemy camp with a big sword!