On the city of Xuzhou, the new emperor looked at the Huai army who was withdrawing below, and cheered excitedly: "Master, it must be that the master is here." The Huai army withdrew. ”

Min Shaoqing reminded on the side: "Your Majesty, the Huai army has not withdrawn, but has just returned to its original state, continues to besiege the city, and may come to attack tomorrow." ”

The new emperor looked at Min Shaoqing, thought about it again, didn't seem to know the essentials, and said, "Then the master should be coming soon, tomorrow, it's almost." ”

Min Shaoqing, Ma Feng and other generals couldn't help sighing, they didn't expect that the emperor still had illusions about that Liu Wenyan, and he hadn't come yet, even if he didn't come, couldn't he find a way to spread the news? What's the matter with leaving the new emperor in Xuzhou City?

Although the Huai army stopped attacking the city every day from the next day, Xuzhou City was still struggling. There was less and less food to eat in the city, and there was a smell of death everywhere in the city.

Ma Feng and Min Shaoqing still inspect the city defenses everywhere every day, and although the two of them are civilian officials, they are more loyal to their duties than ordinary military generals. Yuan Bolang privately told the two of them that as long as they get through today's difficulties, they will be given a generous knighthood. As for whether this is the meaning of the new emperor, they don't know.

"I don't want to care if I can pay homage to the prime minister." Ma Feng sat on the city wall, basking in the winter sun and said lazily, lunch was being held in the Huai army camp in the distance, steaming stove, "Min Taishou, you said that they didn't seem to have anything to do to bury the stove so close to the city wall, aren't you afraid that we will go down and rob it?" ”

With a joking sentence, Min Shaoqing couldn't help but sit down tiredly, sighed and smiled: "They still want you to go down and grab it." We can't hold out for more than a few days. ”

Min Shaoqing doesn't have much food to eat every day these days, and drinking some water when he is hungry has basically become everyone's routine. Even Qu Zhu and Chai Jin did not have preferential treatment.

Ma Feng was silent for a long time and said, "Now that the Huai army has stopped attacking the city. Let the soldiers move less. Sitting or lying down. Reduce the exertion of physical strength, so that it is not easy to starve to death. You tell me? ”

Min Shaoqing nodded, he really didn't have the strength to go around. It has to be to the point of saving food without moving, and this day is simply a day that cannot be lived. Originally, Xuzhou City was a rich land, but today last year, if there would be such a thing in Zhilu Dao, Min Shaoqing must have accumulated a little more food, why is it difficult to eat food?

"In this life. It's too much of a. ”

Min Shaoqing sighed at the last moment, and then laughed self-deprecatingly. All the generals around, including himself, were lifeless, sitting on the city wall as if they were half dead, and perhaps only when the meal was served every day, would they have the strength to move.

Ma Feng looked up at the sun and said: "It's better to expect reinforcements to come earlier, it's soon, the new emperor said it was tomorrow." I'm tired of hearing this, that damn Liu Wenyan. When I saw him, I must have given him a knife to make Lao Tzu suffer so much. ”

Speaking of which. Ma Feng smiled, and Min Shaoqing also smiled.

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Tiannan and Haibei seem to be shrouded in war, from Luoyang City on the northern line to the Jianghuai region on the southern line, the imperial army is fighting fiercely with the Huai army. At this time, the armies of the vassal kings and vassal lords remained immovable, with one exception, King Jing.

King Jing and King Huai have the most iron relationship, King Jing is King Huai's uncle, but the age is similar to King Huai, King Huai wears open crotch pants when he is very good with this uncle, after arriving in the fiefdom, King Huai is even more to pull the relationship with this uncle, at the beginning King Huai is not powerful, if it is not for King Jing and other old royal family support, King Huai will not live to this day.

After King Huai gained power, he also rewarded this uncle a lot, first of all, in terms of money and food.

The Jiangjiang region is rich in grain, and in addition to paying taxes to the imperial court every year, there is also too much local grain to eat, which is of course based on the good weather. In the past year, it lasted until ten years ago, the Jiangjiang area was still a bumper harvest, and the granary in the Jiangjiang area was full in a few years, so the Huai King also hurriedly used his relationship with King Jing to buy a large amount of grain in Jiangjiang.

King Huai has been preparing for today's rebellion for many years, although the grain has been stored, but because the Huainan area has failed to harvest grain for many years, and the king of Huai wants to buy the people of Huaidi, so the price of grain in Huaidi is not high, so that the grain in the local granary of Huai Wang has not accumulated too much. Originally, King Huai also planned to buy a large number of grain and war materials from the Shandong generation through peace talks with the imperial court in this autumn grain, but who knew that Liu Wenyan had already taken precautions, not only bought most of the grain merchants in Shandong, but also asked the new emperor to issue an edict that anyone who transported grain without permission would be killed. As soon as this edict came out, King Huai fell into a state of lack of war materials, and he relied more on the grain purchased from King Jing and stored in King Jing's land.

But now, the Jiangjiang region has been flooded, and this treacherous and cunning King Jing doesn't seem to want to fulfill his promise, not only did he not send troops, but even the food was not continuously supplied for nearly a month, his reason is very simple, the bandits are serious!

He must have wanted to deduct military rations and divert them for personal use to help the victims of the disaster in the Jiangjiang region this year. This is the idea of all those who are related to King Huai, and this opinion has reached a consensus in King Huai's camp. Some people even believe that King Jing had a connection with the imperial court, or was bribed by the imperial court with heavy profits, and exchanged military rations for the reward of Huai after the defeat of King Huai.

This dazzling wind of rumors has intensified, and even many people who trust King Jing have become suspicious, such as the original King of Huai and the current emperor of Huaidi.

"No matter what he wants, at least the grain he bought last year will be transported to Jiangbei first, and as for this year, how about temporarily lending it to him for disaster relief?"

Before the Huaidi grain envoy set off, King Huai explained like this.

Then the envoy who urged the grain went for half a month, but there was no news, as if he had evaporated from the world. Huaidi still kept receiving accusations from King Jing, repeatedly emphasizing that they were a group of damned bandits, who seemed to be against the government without incident, and seemed to have insight into King Jing's route to transport grain, and could rob the road every time. It was in vain to send thousands of troops to escort them.

"Isn't that?" King Huai became angry when he saw such a report, which was simply a challenge to his common sense, who would dare to go against the government as an ordinary bandit? And robbing grain again and again? Every time it is very successful, what is even more infuriating is that King Jing does not know the identity of these bandits, today it is said that Shannan's mountain cannon is the leader of the bandits, and tomorrow it is said that Shanbei's Hu Mazi is the leader.

One day at a time, it's even more mysterious!

"Send someone again and tell the old horseman that if he doesn't transport grain to Jiangbei again, I will immediately send troops to pacify the land of Jiangjiang first, and then see whether this old horseman will give grain or not!"

At this time, King Jing received the edict of King Huai, and he had a bitter gourd face, and he couldn't say anything about his bitterness. (To be continued......)