Shangguan Yu carried 24 gold ingots alone, which is 1,200 taels, or 120 catties, Xia Mi also carried 20 catties, and Yan Chen carried 10 catties.

Carrying such a heavy thing, it is inconvenient to move, so leaving the silver vault, Shangguan Yu said: "Let's go back now, such heavy gold, we can't go anywhere." ”

The three of them lurked in the palace, and they advanced charmingly, came to a remote palace wall, climbed out one by one, and quietly came to the exit of the iron fence of the moat, and used the dive to sneak out.

When they came to the outside of the city, as soon as the three of them came out of the water, a group of patrols of the rebel army arrived here, and they were about to scold, but they found that it was Shangguan Yu and others, and they all hurriedly saluted.

Shangguan Yu said: "What you see tonight must be kept a secret, understand? Let's go, escort us back to the big tent. ”

Everyone quietly returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, and the four brothers of Yan Long were indeed still inside, two of them were asleep, and two were awake. He was surprised to see Shangguan Yu and the three of them coming in wet, and Shangguan Yu ordered the guards to immediately find two blankets to drape the two girls.

The three of them took out the gold and put it on the table, Yan Long and the others were all surprised, Yan Long asked, "Lord, Miss, where did you get the gold?" ”

Shangguan Yu instructed the soldiers to call the quartermaster to fetch the gold, and then asked with a mysterious smile, "Guess." ”

"Gambling house?"

Shangguan Yu shook his head, and several people guessed a few more places, but they didn't guess correctly, and Shangguan Yu said: "We went to the Lying Palace, and these gold ingots are all from the royal treasury." ”

Yan Long and the others admired it, and said again: "I didn't embezzle a penny of this money, all of it rushed into the military salary, we have a lot of people in the army now, and the expenses will be very large, and this money is still not enough, so ...... I'm going to go back tomorrow night to get some money. ”

Yan Long and the others said: "Lord, take us with you tomorrow night, you can bring more people out." ”

Shangguan Yu thought for a while and said, "This is a good idea, you four brothers will go with me tomorrow night, but you ......"

Yan Long and the others said: "Don't worry, my lord, the four of us have the strength and can carry it." ”

"Okay, you go back and find three more strong men, and we'll get together ten people," Shangguan Yu said, "and we'll go into the city tomorrow night to get money." ”

"Yes, my lord!"

The four men left the tent and returned to their tents. Shangguan Yu was worried that Yan Chen and Xia Mi would catch a cold, so he said, "You guys should also go back quickly and change your wet clothes." ”

Shangguan Yu sent the two away, changed his clothes himself, and then fell asleep.

Nothing was said all night.

Shangguan Yu ordered the whole army to continue to besiege the city without attacking, and practiced under the city, and some soldiers went around collecting food with property.

There was money and food, they were well fed, they were warmly dressed, and although the siege was not fought, the soldiers were very happy, and their morale was not depressed because of this.

But it was said that Shangguan Yu was stationed outside the capital, and the war reports from all sides flew like snowflakes, and there were uprisings and confrontations between the rebels and officers and soldiers everywhere, and among the officers and soldiers, there were those who surrendered and those who resisted, but the general trend was developing in a good direction for the rebels.

And these rebels who spontaneously revolted and surrendered to Cheng all sent letters, expressing their willingness to submit to Shangguanyu's Xia army.

Shangguan Yu slept during the day, and at night took Yan Chen, Xia Xiaomi, Yan Long, and the four brothers Yan Long and others to sneak into the city from under the moat, either to the palace or to the rich family's house, and always found some property.

In just ten days, Shangguan Yu collected more than 100,000 taels of silver in this way, and there was more and more food. Ten days later, Shangguan Yu no longer went into the city to look for money, after all, he felt that this method was not very honorable, although all he took was the money of corrupt officials.

Once the capital is besieged, the city is a different world, the people and defenders in the city have less and less food, the city gate is closed, many goods can not be circulated with the outside world, and the city is full of complaints.

Shangguan Yu asked the soldiers of the department to shout propaganda slogans to the city every day, what preferential treatment for prisoners, the reason why they did not attack the city was for fear of hurting the people, and those who went out of the city to surrender not only did not kill, but also had a reward.

Half a month later, people began to escape over the city wall, and Shangguan Yu rewarded those who escaped, whether it was a soldier or a civilian, and each person was rewarded with three taels of silver and five catties of rice.

After rewarding, these people are not rewarded in vain, and they must shout slogans inside the city to promote the policies of the rebels.

Since then, more people have begun to flee, both civilians and soldiers, some empty-handed and some with money and food.

The capital has become more and more depressed, and finally even the soldiers at the city gate have escaped.

However, it was said that this day was the thirtieth day of the siege, just over a month, and Shangguan Yu was riding a horse to inspect the military camp, when a spy came to report that the soldiers defending the city had abandoned the city gate.

When Shangguan Yu heard the news, his heart sank, and everyone at the city gate was in charge, and if he didn't lead the army into the city, it would be a bit unusual. He didn't want to enter the city too soon, after all, the portal hadn't appeared yet.

Sure enough, Tufeng Longsu and a large number of generals came to ask for battle. Tu Feng said: "Lord, the city gate has been opened, can we go in now?" ”

Shangguan Yu groaned, and Xia Xiaomi also said on the side: "Brother Shangguan, we can go in, swagger in through the city gate, there will be no casualties." ”

Yan Chen said: "Yes, Brother Yu, let's go in." ”

Shangguan Yu was helpless, so he had to frown and said: "Okay, prepare to enter the city, but you all have to say to your soldiers: don't violate the common people, don't let the common people's things, you must do it without committing any crimes!" ”

"Yes!" And they were all commanded to go down and set it up.

Shangguan Yu looked at the half-open city gate, sighed and said, "Alas, I really want to go in." ”

Xia Xiaomi asked, "How about Brother Shangguan, don't you want to go in?" ”

Shangguan Yu said: "Sister, don't you understand? ”

"Understand what?" Xia Xiaomi was a little confused and asked puzzled.

Shangguan Yu said: "When you enter the city, you will attack the palace, the palace must be very fragile at the moment, and it can be defeated at once, if you don't fight yet, the emperor will surrender." ”

"Wouldn't that be nice?"

"What's good? They will elect me to be the emperor, and if I don't do this emperor, anyone will not accept any of them. ”

"Just do it."

"If I become the emperor, they will force me to marry Yan Chen," Shangguan Yu saw that Yan Chen happened to be not around, so he dared to say, "If I marry her, I will be sorry Ran Ran, if I don't marry her, I will inevitably hurt her." ”

"Actually, it's very simple," Xia Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "I'll send you eight words: I can't help myself, and I follow the trend." ”

(End of chapter)