Pei Shiju sighed: "Hua Qiang, I can't tell you, this is the battlefield, you are the general, it's up to you to decide, now that the thief army has been wiped out, this matter of the governor after the war is my own business, now let's enter Donghengzhou City." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded, glanced at the dilapidated city wall of Donghengzhou, which was still emitting black smoke in the distance, and sighed: "Fortunately, we rushed to the army, otherwise I am afraid that Li Feng will not be able to survive today, but he can stay in this small city for nearly a month, and it is really difficult for him, Hongdae, I will go with you to meet this Li Tingshi." ”

Wang Huaqiang turned his head to the Mai Tiecane who had already run back with an excited face and said: "Mai Dudu, pass on my order, beheading only costs three thousand, salted and stored, and the rest let the recorder join the army to directly count the number of corpses."

In addition, everyone worked hard, dug a deep pit to bury all these corpses, sprinkled some lime powder to eliminate the corpse poison, the weather in Lingnan is hot, if these corpses are not buried overnight, they will rot, and when the epidemic is epidemic, we will not have to fight. ”

In today's battle, Mai Tiecane gave full play to his specialty of running fast, and killed more than 30 people alone, and he was happy at this time, and after hearing Wang Huaqiang's order, he immediately rushed to get the order.

After Wang Huaqiang arranged the post-war disposition, he walked side by side with Pei Shiju and rode to the city gate, Li Feng was commanding the soldiers and people guarding the city to move the sandbags at the city gate, Pei Shiju saw Li Feng in military uniform from a distance, and said with his hands clenched into his fists: "The head of the city is the history of Li Thorn in Donghengzhou?" ”

Li Feng straightened his armor and replied: "This official is Li Feng, the assassin of Dongheng Prefecture, dare to ask who your Excellency is?" ”

According to the Great Sui system. The history of the Xiazhou Thorn is an official position from the fourth grade. Therefore, the current Li Feng's official rank is higher than that of Pei Shiju, who is a five-grade servant. Not to mention Wang Huaqiang, the captain of the Liupin Fengche. But on the other hand, now one of the two is the ambassador of the Lingnan governor, and the other is also the military position of the head of the Panyu Road march, and they are much greater in power than this Xiazhou assassin, and all the officials in the Lingnan area are under Pei Shiju's control at this time, and from this point of view, Li Feng has now become Pei Shiju's subordinate.

So Pei Shiju immediately returned a salute: "This official is the ambassador of the governor of Lingnan." Give Shi Lang Pei Shiju, Li Tingshi, you have meritorious service in defending the city, and the official will definitely report to the court when you turn around. ”

Li Feng suddenly thought that his nephew also died at his own hands in this battle, and then looked at the thousands of people in Dongheng Prefecture, and now there are less than 2,000 people who have survived, not only burst into tears: "Governor Pei, you have to arrive in time today, otherwise the people of the whole city will become ghosts under the knife of barbarian rebels." ”

Wang Huaqiang was also quite moved at this time, and said: "Li Tingshi." We all see your cousins, and now the battle is over. Our army will soon turn to attack Shixing, and then go south to Panyu, and will not enter the city today, only camp outside the city, and some specific affairs will be handed over to you after entering the city. ”

While the three of them were talking, the people in the city moved away the sandbags blocked at the door, Li Feng hurriedly got down the city tower and greeted him at the door in person, and Wang Huaqiang and Pei Shiju also dismounted out of respect for Li Feng to stay alone in the lonely city, and followed Li Feng and Liu Zicai all the way to the state government hall.

The yamen was full, and even the lobby had become a temporary residence for refugees outside the city, and seven or eight old people who were too old to walk slept in the lobby, and the wounded soldiers in the battle to defend the city, especially some of the people who had been hit by poisoned arrows in the past few days, were also temporarily carried here, lying weakly, and when they saw Li Feng walking in with two heavily armed and general-looking people, their eyes lit up and they struggled to get up.

Pei Shiju comforted these people for a while, Wang Huaqiang saw that this was not a place to talk, frowned, and while Pei Shiju was busy, he said to Li Feng: "Li Tingshi, is there anything else to talk about?" ”

Li Feng wiped the sweat from his head and replied: "I'm afraid I'm going to the backyard, it's quite quiet there." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded, and after Pei Shiju finished pacifying the people, he followed Li Feng to the backyard, which is a small courtyard, surrounded by a few plane trees, and on the ground is a fine stone path, leading to the inner house where the ladies in the backyard live, there is a small stone square table in the middle of the stone road, surrounded by four stone piers.

Pei Shiju saw the stone table and laughed: "Isn't this just the place to talk?" Li Feng also smiled and welcomed the two of them into their seats, while Liu Zicai stood aside with his head bowed.

After Li Feng sat down, he sighed: "The military situation is urgent, and all the servants of the lower officials have also gone to the city to defend, and now there is not even a person to serve the upper officials, please forgive me for the crime of neglect." ”

Pei Shiju waved his hand: "Li Tingshi, your official rank is above me, and you are older than me, so you don't have to come to these officialdom courtesies, just be commensurate with your rank." This is the backyard of your private house, not a public place, we will call each other brothers, Shiju is much younger than you, and he dares to call you Brother Li. ”

Li Feng said politely, and did not shirk, and said: "Brother Pei, this time I am fortunate that you rescued you in time, otherwise we, the people of the whole city, would not have escaped the catastrophe, today brother, I have seen with my own eyes the power of my Great Sui Iron Army, and it can be regarded as an eye-opener." ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled and shook his head: "Brother Li is too polite, these sergeants are also Nanchen veterans recruited from Xiangzhou, and they have been intensively trained for a while according to the military system of my Great Sui, and they are not authentic Sui troops, I heard that Li Tingshi has also fought on the battlefield, and this time he can rely on thousands of people to fight against 20,000 barbarians and defend this East Hengzhou City, which is what opened Wang's eyes." ”

Li Feng's heart was filled with a burst of pride, and he smiled slightly: "I just learned some offensive and defensive methods when I fought with the Nanchen army before, and it is not worth mentioning. Today, the thieves thought of piling sandbags to attack the city, if they had thought of this method earlier, I am afraid that we would have fallen here a long time ago, and we would not have been able to wait for you to arrive. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded: "Yes, before the battle, I seemed to see someone in the enemy army leaving the battlefield and heading south, that Zhou Shiju seems to be a brave and unscrupulous barbarian, how could he think of this method, there should be a master in the enemy army to guide him, maybe the one who left early is the enemy's brainstorm." ”

Liu Zicai, who was on the side, also interjected: "General Wang is right, these barbarians can actually build siege equipment, someone must have pointed them out, and this person is a Han nine times out of ten." ”

Wang Huaqiang didn't see the scene of Zhou Shiju attacking the city with a rushing car today, and was slightly stunned: "They also built siege equipment?" That's basically a Han military division, that's for sure. It's a pity that he let him run away! ”

Pei Shiju laughed: "Hua Qiang, nine times out of ten people who are unsatisfactory in life, they have won a big victory today, and it is nothing to run a dog-headed military division, if he really runs south, he will also defect to Wang Zhongxuan, and when we destroy Wang Zhongxuan's department, we will naturally capture him together." ”

Wang Huaqiang thought of the dog-headed military advisor who mysteriously disappeared during the rebellion in Jiangnan, and was annoyed, but after thinking about it, the most important thing now is to grasp the future, so he nodded and said to Li Feng: "Brother Li, is there any surplus food in the city now?" I waited for this journey, and I only brought ten days of dry food, and now I have less than three days of food, so I am counting on supplies from the states and counties along the way. Little brother knows that you also have a lot of things to do now, but can you help solve the problem of military rations first? Later, the grain transport team in Lingbei should arrive in a few days. ”

Li Feng's face changed, and he said: "Oh, I'm really sorry, our Donghengzhou originally didn't have too much grain storage, and this time the thieves rushed us to harvest grain in the autumn, so the autumn grain was almost no harvest, plus the villagers in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages all fled into the city, and the food in our city couldn't support it for two or three days, and we still have to count on you to use military rations to relieve it." ”

Pei Shiju also became nervous all of a sudden, and looked at Wang Huaqiang: "Huaqiang, how can this be good?" ”

Wang Huaqiang's heart sank when he heard it just now, but suddenly a smile bloomed on his face, he stood up and said to Pei Shiju: "Hongdae, there are still defenders in the enemy's camp, and there must be surplus food, just now we were in a hurry to enter the city, forgetting to manage the enemy's camp, and now we must quickly send cavalry over, in addition, the thieves there must have food in Shixing, and when we occupy Shixing, not only will the army be safe, but we can also help the people of Donghengzhou." (To be continued......)

PS: Next chapter update, 17 o'clock. Tiandao has applied to withdraw from the attendance plan, probably because of the website's weekend holiday and system reasons, these two days may not be able to change the state, I apologize for the inconvenience caused to all book friends.