Half a month, under the entanglement of hunger and the threat of death, I survived with difficulty.

Shortly after Xishan was injured last time, Chu Tianya was once again burdened with arrow sores. This time it may have really hurt his vitality, plus it was a cold winter and there was a lack of nourishing ingredients, so he recovered quite slowly.

That morning, after drinking a bowl of rice porridge cooked by Xiao Ai, he got out of bed and walked a little in the courtyard, and when he heard the terrible shouts and fights coming from the street outside the courtyard, he walked to the door to take a look.

Jiang Laosan and several other military patrol guards who were guarding the door came forward to stop him and said to him: "Commander Chu can't go out, it's very chaotic." ”

"What's going on?" Chu Tianya asked.

"A few people are snatching the relief food distributed by the army, and their heads are bleeding, and they can't see it well." Jiang Laosan replied.

Chu Tianya frowned, "Then you don't care, what does the military patrol do?" ”

"I can't do it." Jiang Laosan smiled bitterly and whispered, "There is a shortage of food in the city, and the army is still unable to take care of itself, so the food distributed to the people is becoming scarce. In the past, I could manage two meals a day, but now I can still eat one porridge a day at most. Those who have a big appetite naturally can't eat enough, so they come to compete for the old and weak, women and children. This kind of thing happens every hour of every day, how can you manage it? ”

"It has to be managed." Chu Tianya's face turned cold, and he said sharply, "I have only been lying down for a few days before it becomes like this, if the soldiers and civilians in Taiyuan City are in chaos and do not need the Jurchens to attack, the city will be broken from the inside-Arrest those few who grab food, immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

Now that Chu Tianya has directly given the order, where do these military patrols dare to talk nonsense, they have no choice but to step forward and arrest them. After a while, someone brought it, Chu Tianya glanced at it, his heart was half cold, and when he came to his mouth, he swallowed back the words that he wanted to scold.

The perpetrators were several elderly people in their fifties and sixties, and the victim was a woman in her twenties and thirties, holding a sick child of two or three years old.

The only thing these people have in common is that they are all hungry and their eyes are sunken.

The woman with the child in her arms knelt on the ground covered in mud and cried incessantly, saying that her man had enlisted in the army and died in the city, and her family had lost her livelihood, and she had to go to the barracks every day to receive some relief. Today, they were robbed by these people -- they didn't care about the food, for fear that they would catch and eat their sick children, and such a thing has not happened recently!

The old men and wives also knelt on the ground and cried, saying that they were really hungry and had no choice, and now they were going to the barracks to get food, and they didn't have the strength to squeeze in and line up at the back, so it would be difficult to get them. Several of them had been hungry for days.

When they heard this, they were all silent.

"Sister-in-law, come here, I have some medicine here, see if I can treat your child." At this time, Xiao Linglong stepped forward and directly brought the woman into the house.

Chu Tianya sighed and said, "You old people should also get up-Jiang Laosan, take a few of them to the military patrol camp to get a bowl of porridge to drink." Also, who is in charge of the military patrol now? ”

"The days when I was too injured were all ...... Liu Scar is in the tube. Jiang Laosan said in a low voice.

"Call that bastard to see me! …… Ahem, ahem! Just roared angrily, Chu Tianya touched the arrow sores again, and coughed in pain.

Jiang Laosan saw that Chu Tianya was angry, and he felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly took those old men who were grateful for their kindness and left.

Xiao Ai hurriedly came to help Chu Tianya to stroke his back, and said worriedly: "Brother Chu, don't be angry, your injuries are not good, so it will be more difficult to heal." ”

"Recently, they have stopped coming to report the war in my city, and the management of the military patrol is also a mess, and I can't stop." Chu Tianya said, "The more extraordinary times like this, the more chaos we must have inside the city. Like today, someone robbed in front of the military patrol, they were indifferent, and after a while, Liu Scar came, and I made him look good...... Ahem, ahem! ”

"Okay, okay, don't be angry. It's windy outside, go back to the house first. Xiao Ai worriedly pulled him into the room.

After a while, Liu Daoscar came.

Chu Tianya saw him at a glance, and the anger in his stomach quietly disappeared, because Liu Dao Scar was carried here, and he was already missing a leg!

"Liu Scar, what's the matter with you?" Chu Tianya asked him to sit beside him and asked.

Liu Scar smiled and said: "On the third day of Taibao's injury, the villain took his brothers to support at the east gate, and he was accidentally hit by an arrow in the leg. The villain is not too lucky, the arrow is poisonous. In order to save his life, he chopped off this leg on the spot. ”

Chu Tianya is like a fish in his throat, and he can't come out if he has something to say.

"The villain knows why the Taibao called me. The villain is guilty and should have been punished. Liu Daoscar said, "During the days when Taibao was away, although the villain tried his best, he couldn't manage the military patrol. No way, the villain only has such a little ability. The Taibao is gone, and those people don't obey me, and they can't control it. The villain wanted to move to the Taibao several times, but when he thought that the Taibao was injured and couldn't be tired, he had to give up. Wang Dutong has also explained many times, don't come to disturb the Taibao recently, let you recuperate with peace of mind. ”

"You don't have to say it. I'll go back to the barracks today. Chu Tianya said, "If the chaos in the city is self-defeating, no matter how well I recover from this injury, I can only be a slave of the country, what's the point?" - Now tell me, how is the battle going in the city? ”

"There are heavy casualties, and the situation is worrying!" After Liu Daoscar said these words, his expression suddenly darkened.

Chu Tianya patted him on the shoulder, "Go on, be detailed." ”

"Chu Jiajun, there are less than half of the people left......" When Liu Daoscar said this, he didn't dare to look directly into Chu Tianya's eyes, and said with guilt, "At the beginning, there were more than 11,000 people, and now there are less than 5,000 left." Due to the tight defense of the city, most of the time we were rushing to the gates of the city, so we were rarely able to take time out to manage the security of the city. This leads to the fact that the order in the city is not as good as before-the villain is not making excuses for his ineffective work, and this is indeed the case! ”

"I don't blame you, you go on." Chu Tianya said, "How is the battle going recently?" What are the movements of Jin Bing and the imperial court? ”

"There is no news from the imperial court, and there is not a single soldier in sight." Liu Dao Scar shook his head and said, "The Jin soldiers come to attack every two or three days, and they don't give us a chance to breathe. That group of mongrels seems to be born not afraid of death, and they can't kill them endlessly, and they will fight fiercer and fiercer each time. Several times our city defenses were breached, and we had to resist with human walls and block the city gates with corpses to prevent them from attacking the city. Dangerous! ”

Just listening to Liu Daoscar say this, Chu Tianya felt a little frightened. After thinking about it for a while, and if he had gained something, he asked: "You mean, Jin Bing fights fiercely every time?" ”

"That's right. In the past half a month, they have attacked a total of six times, each time with all their might, each time fighting more fiercely than the previous one, and losing more troops. Liu Daoscar said, "It is estimated that no less than 40,000 people have been killed in our city now, and the losses of the Jin soldiers will not be less than ours!" ”

Chu Tianya twisted his eyebrows and pondered, and said in his heart, according to the situation in front of him, Wanyan Zonghan can not be in a hurry, sit back and wait for us to run out of food and grass and then catch turtles in the urn. Since he was in such a hurry, it was estimated that he didn't have much food and grass, or he was forced by the pressure of the Jin court, so he had to speed up his pace.

"It seems that now it is at the critical juncture, and Taiyuan and Jin Bing are approaching their limits. The more times like this, the more you have to get through. Whoever can't hold it up first loses. Chu Tianya said, "In this way, I will make a comeback." Later, I went to see Wang Dutong and told him that from now on, the military patrol will no longer participate in the battle of the Sifang City Gate, and will do his best to suppress the law and order in the city to ensure that the backyard is not lost. Otherwise, it will not be good to take care of one or the other. ”

"It's still too knowledgeable." Liu Daoscar smiled bitterly ashamedly, "The villain is a piece of rotten wood less than three inches, how can it be of great use?" It is still necessary for Taibao to come out and preside over the overall situation. ”

"It's really hard for you these days." Chu Tianya sighed and said, "I was only injured by an arrow, and you are still working with one leg missing." From today onwards, you can recover from your injuries! ”

"Thank you Taibo for your kindness. The villain has no mother-in-law, no children, and his father and mother have gone early, and the lonely family is not a mess, staying in the barracks with his brothers, and his life is a little better. Liu Daoscar smiled, "Although the villain is crippled and useless, he can recognize a few words, and it is okay to write and make some notes for the Taibao." ”

"Okay, then you stay and join the army as a bookkeeper and be my deputy." Chu Tianya smiled and said, "I don't know how long I can work as a commander of the military patrol capital. But as long as I'm still in the day, the army will certainly not leave you. ”

Chu Tianya's words entered Liu Scar's heart, this man with a scar on his face was quite hideous, and he burst into tears on the spot, choked up and couldn't speak.

At this time, Xiao Linglong arrived at the door and knocked on the door. Seeing this, Liu Daoscar hurriedly resigned and left first.

"Is there something wrong, county lord?" Chu Tianya asked her.

Xiao Linglong stepped forward to look at him and said, "If it goes on like this, Taiyuan won't be able to hold on for a few days." ”

"Are you saying that the city has lost order and the people are scattered, and the city is self-defeating?" Chu Tianya said.

Xiao Linglong nodded, her face worried, "Ada has been out of the city for so long, and there is no response, it is estimated that it is mostly more than lucky." Now that the grain and grass in the city have bottomed out, the people dare to openly rob and rob for a handful of porridge and rice, and there are even cases of eating human flesh. This is no longer a matter of order and order, but ...... Many people have broken their wills and become morally corrupt and ignore the law! ”

Chu Tianya nodded, thinking in his heart, the situation in front of him was much more difficult and dangerous than I had expected in advance.

"If you can return to the helm of the military patrol and restore order in the city, it may have some effect." Xiao Linglong said, "I chatted with that sister-in-law for a while, and she told me that it was good to have a military patrol in the city before. It's just that in the past ten days or so, the military patrols have gone to war, and they are no longer in charge of affairs in the city, which has gradually led to the chaos of public security. Now everyone is starving every day, it is better for others to die than to die for themselves, and they will not hesitate to eat for anything, where can they still take care of moral integrity and human dignity? Such times can only be governed by law and force. In addition, the sister-in-law told me that the distribution of relief food for military patrols was not a small problem. If you have acquaintances and connections in the army, you can divide more and divide early. Like those old people just now, they couldn't get a bowl of porridge and rice after waiting in line for a day, so they could only starve to death. In the final analysis, even the military patrol in charge of grain and grass is a bit chaotic and disciplined. ”

Chu Tianya smiled and said, "You said so much, you just want me to come out of the mountain again!" ”

Xiao Linglong smiled slightly, "But you are indeed injured and sores that are not suitable for work now, and I also know this." ”

"And you say?" Chu Tianya smiled, "You are contradicting yourself!" ”

Xiao Linglong smiled, "Privately, I have the same thoughts as Uncle He and Xiao Ai, of course I hope that you will continue to lie down and recuperate and don't care about anything; Yu Gong, I think it's time for you to step up and do something you have to do. It's a bit of a contradiction, so I'm just going to tell you what I think. How you decide is up to you. ”

Chu Tianya looked at her fixedly, couldn't help laughing, and said in his heart, this is the difference between Xiao Linglong and Xiao Ai and ordinary women.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Linglong frowned, with a look of disdain, "Whenever I see you and the old father and son laughing like this, I have a feeling of obscenity!" ”

"Men are not bad and women are not loved, which proves that I am very attractive when I laugh!" Chu Tianya laughed a few times, and slapped his two palms on the bed, "Ai Ji don't hurry up and help me get out of bed, I'm going to rush to save Li Min's life!" ”

"Phew! It's best if you're dead! ”