Chapter 286: The Cellar
After thinking for a while, Li Quan said: After Li Quan gave Li Fu an order, he handed over the matter of the imperial guard to his subordinates, turned around and went down the city wall, and walked towards his mansion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info.
The city wall is now a bloody scene, under the fierce artillery blows of the Song army, don't look at the Song army to pay a lot of casualties, but Li Quan's men are not easy at all, they even pay a lot more casualties than the Song army, the difference in weapons determines that they can only suffer, and as soon as the Song army retreats, Li Quan's men are busy and begin to clean up the broken bricks and walls on the city wall, and carry the bodies of those dead generals off the city wall, and those injured soldiers also need to be sent into the city.
The dead are still a hundred, the pity is these injured and alive, speaking of which is carried into the city to treat them, but the righteous army is still the righteous army, it is incomparable with the regular army of the Song army, Li Quanjun has been short of medicine from the very beginning, and now the city of Chuzhou is besieged, embattled, the city lacks medicine and Langzhong, the injured can only get the simplest bandage, as for the extravagant hope of using medicine, many people were smashed by stones and broken bones, just find some wood chips to tie it even if it has been treated, and there is no one to give them bones, Even if they don't die, they are completely crippled, and these wounded and sick lie in the so-called medical camp compound wailing and wailing, but no one cares about their life and death, so they can only resign themselves to fate and leave them to fend for themselves.
Every day since the Song army began to attack the city, a lot of injuries and diseases will be sent to the medical camp, many corpses will be carried out every day, and the food of the people in the city has also been confiscated by Li Quan, seven or eight days later, there is a situation of starvation in the city, and the hungry people risk death to go out of their homes to look for something to eat, and even the rats in the city have become the objects of everyone's attention, and they have become the best delicacy.
Wang Sanquan hid in a cellar, gnawed on a piece of dry food, drank a sip of water, swallowed the dry food hard, and then handed the dry food to a person next to him, reached out on the ground and touched the waist knife he carried with him, these people have been hiding in the cellar of the drunken immortal building in Chuzhou City for more than ten days, when Li Quan decided to confiscate the grain of the people in the city, they learned the news in advance, most of the people hid in the cellar dug in advance, and hid some dry food, so that they have survived until now, otherwise, Even they were either captured to help Li Quan resist the Song army, or they were also half starved to death and lay on the ground unable to get up.
A young man in Xiao Er's costume gently rubbed beside Wang Sanquan and asked Wang Sanquan in a low voice.
Wang Sanquan couldn't help but scold.
Wang Sanquan is the steward of the drunken immortal building in Chuzhou City, to put it bluntly, it is Gao Huaiyuan's person in Crouching Tiger Village, he was arranged to Chuzhou City two years ago, when the Chuzhou mutiny, he failed to find out in advance, and was reprimanded by Jia Qi, for the past two years, he has been thinking about turning over and making a great contribution, after hearing that Gao Huaiyuan will raise an army to fight against Li Quan, Wang Sanquan tried his best to collect a lot of information and sent it out of Chuzhou City, providing a lot of help to Gao Huaiyuan, and when Gao Huaiyuan led the army to arrive outside Chuzhou City, Wang Sanquan originally wanted to gather some people to make trouble in the city, and take the opportunity to welcome Gao Huaiyuan into the city.
But I didn't think that Li Quan's actions were also very fast, not to mention martial law in the whole city, and he also arrested Ding everywhere, even the drunken immortal building couldn't hide, and he was captured a few Xiaoer and sent to carry materials for Li Quanjun, and they received Gao Huaiyuan's instructions, let them lurk first, and then start at a critical time, and find a way to disturb the interior of Chuzhou City, so Wang Sanquan did not take the risk, and hid in the cellar with more than a dozen cronies, which was more than ten days, and they were anxious enough.
A young man next to Wang Sanquan stood up and walked to the mouth of the cellar, stretched out his head to listen to the outside, but he didn't hear anything after waiting for a while, the sound insulation here is very good, and it is not easy to hear what is happening outside.
A few people just took advantage of the dim light, stretched their bodies in the cellar, moved their already stiff bodies, and waited for a long time before they heard the flip door of the cellar, and several people immediately grabbed the handle of the knife beside them and stood up, and gathered together to the door of the cellar, at this time there was a sound of footsteps on the steps of the cellar, accompanied by a slight cough.
After hearing the coughing sound, Wang Sanquan put away his waist knife and walked up the steps to pull down an old man.
By the light of the dim lamp, everyone saw that the old man's clothes were disheveled, his hair was disheveled, his clothes were torn in many places all over his body, and even his wrinkled old face had a few blood marks.
So everyone was shocked and hurriedly asked:
The old man coughed a few times and waved his hand: Fortunately, I am not old and confused, and I snatched the letter pipe from the pigeon's leg in advance, otherwise even this would have been snatched away by those hungry people! Saying that, the old man named Sanbo took out a small bamboo pipe from his arms and handed it to Wang Sanquan.
Wang Sanquan took the bamboo pipe and asked:
The old man hung his back, found a corner and sat down, and immediately someone stepped forward to massage him and beat him to loosen his muscles.
Wang Sanquan frowned, knowing that at this point, I am afraid that many people in the city have already starved to death, and the loss of pigeons is a problem, and it will be troublesome how to deliver the news outside the city, but he still found a place with a little light, opened the bamboo pipe by the light, and poured out a small note, on which a few Arabic numerals were simply written, and he quickly translated these numbers against a small book in his arms.
Wang Sanquan snorted softly in surprise.
It turned out that Judge, the spy leader, had been writing instructions and messages in plaintext before, but he soon found a problem, the pigeon did not necessarily fall into his own hands accurately every time, and once the things written in plaintext fell into the hands of outsiders, it was likely to cause a lot of trouble, so he combined what Gao Huaiyuan told him about the password, as well as some things he knew before, and he was stunned, and used Arabic numerals to make a simple password, and the codebook was handed over to the most reliable person for safekeeping. Written instructions and messages are written in numbers, so you don't have to worry about someone knowing what they're talking about, and even looking at the numbers will feel like a book from heaven.
And Wang Sanquan was the only person in Chuzhou City who had the codebook, and he was also a person who could translate ciphertext, and when he heard him say that he would act the night after tomorrow, the people in the cellar were excited.
Wang Sanquan put the note on the candle flame and lit it, burned it clean, and then asked solemnly to these people in the cellar.
The people in the cellar looked at each other, and only the youngest boy, Nono, said:
The people around looked at the young man with some contempt, but Wang Sanquan looked at the young man and said:
And the young man named Liuzi shook his head and said:
Wang Sanquan walked over and rubbed it on Liuzi's brain, nodded and said:
Liuzi nodded and agreed, and sat on the ground again with his legs in his arms.
Wang Sanquan asked the old man.
The third uncle sat by the wall and replied to Wang Sanquan.
Wang Sanquan nodded and said:
A person opened his mouth and asked Wang Sanquan.
After thinking about it for a while, Wang Sanquan replied to the brothers in the cellar.