Chapter 57 The Nine Kuang Princes Unite the World 8
When everyone in the castle heard the old king's loud shout, their first reaction was not very anxious, they were afraid that the thieves who had invaded the castle over the years had not been twenty times but more than a dozen times, and that time was not the one who was beaten by Zhang Zai with the good son of the castle! I'm afraid that this time it's the thief who doesn't know whether to live or die to fight the autumn wind, and I'm not afraid of being insignificant. Some people even want to go out to see the excitement, just walked to the door and finally woke up, tonight the young man in the dock fort was taken away by Zhang Zai! Only these ineffective old, weak, sick and disabled people are left in the dock fort! The confident smiles that had just been on their faces turned into horror, and they quickly closed the door, returned to the house, and shivered with the awakened child in their arms. A few years later, bad luck came again! Which of these old men in the castle didn't have experienced the Yongjia Rebellion. 'Eight Kings Rebellion', several vassal kings of the Sima family beat Luoyang City to pieces, and finally survived until the end of the chaos in Beijing, but did not expect that the Huns, Qiang, Diqiang and other Hulu immediately invaded the Central Plains, and the Hulu mountain thieves in the north ran rampant, burning, killing and looting, slaughtering the city and robbing the grain, doing all kinds of evil, the blood flowed and the pestle flowed through the place, and the things they did were like beasts. This is how the city father and everyone are not afraid, they escaped the Yongjia Rebellion, but they didn't expect to die under the knife of a group of thieves.
Zu Ti, who led the army outside the house, did not feel the fear of the city father Wubao at all, and quickly divided the whole army into several teams, led by the team leader, and rushed to the Wubao families to carry out carpet searching. Each team leader is a battle-hardened veteran, and he has followed Zu Ti very early, and these team leaders will naturally strictly remember Zu Ti's military order that he must not kill anyone, and they have strictly restrained their teams, only grabbing food, but there was no massacre.
Yang Jia knew that the most important thing for Zu Ti to lead the army was strict military discipline, and Yang Jia also found that the leaders of each team were all generals who crossed the river with Zu Ti in the early years, and they had been following Zu Ti for many days, so Yang Jia naturally wouldn't worry about them taking Zu Ti's words as a deaf ear. Only then did he rest assured to discuss the next step with Zu Ti next to him.
An hour later, the grain of the Chengfu Fort was finally scavenged, Yang Jia looked at the cart full of grain, and roughly estimated that there were more than 2,000 grains in the Chengfu Fort, plus more than 7,000 Hu robbed by Chengfu County, a total of almost 10,000 households! This 10,000 households has enough grain for the whole army to eat for a year. However, this is also an optimistic estimate, in the future, Zu Ti will definitely recruit soldiers, and this Wan Hu grain will not be able to support a year after all, but this is also very good, at least let everyone avoid this dangerous period.
Zu Ti looked at several carts full of grain, and laughed loudly: "Caring for the people, giving food, and endless food!" Mingxin is really capable! ”
Yang Jia heard Zu Li's praise, smiled and said a few words of modesty, and urged Zu Ti to leave quickly. As soon as he finished saying this, Yang Jiazu and the two glanced at each other, and they all thought it was funny, and the two of them laughed and rode their horses to the outside of the dock fort.
Zu Ti and his party returned according to the original way, and after taking out all the food hidden in the woods in the west of Chengfu County, the group took Wan Hu's grain and walked around Longkang County, Yang Jia and Zu Ti are really afraid now, if they meet Zhang Zai on the way back, then they really want to jump into the river, they have worked hard all night, and finally scavenged some food, but they don't want to fall short at the last moment, and Zhang Zai who was returned happened to be robbed of the fruits of a night's labor, The thoughts of both of them drawing their swords and killing themselves will be born.
The stars of the tooth moon are scarce, and a dark cloud floats in the sky from time to time to block the crescent moon, which is originally the waning moon, and only a few stars can be vaguely seen in the sky. Heaven and earth are opposite, the mountains are empty, dead and silent, and you can only vaguely feel the outline of the surrounding hills. The post road in the south of Chengfu County is very lively, Zhang Zai with more than 2,000 people and horses hurriedly chased forward, the army was silent, Zhang Zai's soldiers were buried in the head and galloped, only the sporadic torches in the army flickered and dimmed, illuminating the direction of progress for this dark post road.
The more Zhang Zai walked away, the more he wondered in his heart, why hadn't he caught up with Zu Ti!? It's already time for this to be, and it's been an hour and a half since Kaecheng's father county, why haven't you even caught up with Zu Ti's hair, shouldn't it! According to his own marching speed, he should have chased after Zu Ti in front a long time ago. Could it be that he guessed wrong, it was not Zu Ti who attacked the city father at night? But it doesn't make sense, only Zu Li has a reason to do this, and the other dock lord hasn't been stupid enough to rob his allies of food and grass!? Zhang Zai felt that his head was dazed, no matter how he racked his brains, he couldn't figure out why he hadn't seen Zu Ti yet! Zhang Zai thought of being played with by his opponent like this, and smashed his horse's back in anger and said secretly: "That's not possible, your ancestor can still fly away with seven or eight thousand grains!" I don't believe I can't catch up with your ancestors! It may be that the shame and anger in his heart inspired Zhang Zai's stubbornness and ferocity, Zhang Zai slammed the war horse under him a few times, and accelerated his speed to chase forward.
Now Zhang Zai's chaotic mind only has the ancestor in front of him, and he has completely ignored other issues, and he doesn't know that his city father Wubao has long been in chaos and chaos.
Zhang Zai led the people to chase for about half an hour, and the time also secretly changed to the middle of the hour in the running of everyone, and the long-lost morning light finally appeared on the horizon of the sky, and the valley slowly became angry again, and the on the branches began to 'chirp' and shout. Zhang Zai also finally chased after Longkang City, Zhang Zai stopped the whole army at a safe distance from the range of the opponent's bow and crossbow, rubbed his eyes that had not been closed all night, and squinted towards Longkang City Tower.
I saw that the battle flag of Zu Ti was erected high above the city tower, the city gate was closed, the crossbowmen had already been lined up on the city wall, and the soldiers in military uniforms were constantly running back and forth on the outer city wall. Zhang Zai looked at the scene of Long Kang, and was even more sure in his heart that it was Zu Li who attacked him last night. Zhang Zai just couldn't figure out why Zu Ti would go to Long Kang before himself?
Xie Fu on the top of the city tower was also full of questions, he didn't wait for Zu Ti but waited for his old acquaintance Zhang Zai, it was really strange! It turned out that Xie Fu, who was strictly forbidden by nature, sent scouts to the front as soon as Zu Ti left the city to inquire about the situation, and Xie Fu was also worried that Zu Ti would encounter an emergency. In front of him, the scouts didn't bring back the news all night, and they didn't want to send the news at dawn, Zhang Zai led the army to attack Long Kang!
When Xie Fu heard the words of the scout, he didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately organized people to stick to Longkang City, until everything was arranged, Xie Fu had time to think about why the person who came was not Zu Li, but Zhang Zai? Where is Zu Ti and his party?
Zhang Zai, who was sitting on the horse, of course recognized Xie Fu, an old acquaintance on the tower, and did not shout to the city, his eyes stared at the city wall, and his brain quickly calculated the possibility of a successful siege, Zhang Zai was already old, and after a night of running, he was already tired and exhausted, and his brain was even more painful, and he couldn't concentrate on deducing the siege, Zhang Zai sat on the horse with his eyes closed and rubbed his temples with his hands, and thought about it for a long time like a sculpture without making a decision.
Seeing that Zhang Zai was silent at the critical moment, the master Bo behind Zhang Zai finally couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere, and cautiously shouted: "Zhang County Order, what should I do next?" ”
The anchor's voice woke up the stunned lady Zhang Zai, Zhang Zai glanced back at the main book, and then looked at the people behind him who were already sleepy, sighed, and beckoned weakly: "Go back to the city father!" ”
Siege is the next resort, and it must not be done! After a night of traveling, the whole army is already tired, which is a disadvantage. It is easy to defend the city and difficult to attack the city, not to mention the strength of Zu Ti, that is, the strength of Xie Fuwu Fort is equivalent to his own, and it is too difficult to attack the city with the same force, which is the second drawback. The third is that he has no food and grass support, if the first wave of siege fails, then he will definitely be stationed outside the city and the ancestors in the city will be consumed, and he does not bring a stone of food, how to fight a war of attrition! Solid wall clearing? It's a joke, it's the middle of summer, the grain is not yet ripe, how can there be food in the field for you to grab!? If there is no food, is it difficult to eat wild vegetables and eat rice and rice in the city?