Chapter 974 - Official Residence 36
The most difficult thing in the siege battle is to climb the tower, the city that Murong Shuangshuang attacked is the famous general Wei Yan of the imperial court, Wei Yan is seventy-two years old this year, he is a veritable veteran, loyal to the court all his life, and the best thing is to defend the city.
It's a pity that the current emperor is afraid that Wei Yan's influence in the army is too great, and he is afraid that Wei Yan will rebel, so a generation of famous generals was sent over to guard a small city.
Murong Shuangshuang didn't plan to face Wei Yan head-on, it was not that she couldn't attack the small city that Wei Yan defended, but she just wanted to face such a general who was famous for defending, even if she could win, she would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and Murong Shuangshuang was reluctant to fill it with human lives.
And Murong Shuangshuang also has an idea, Wei Yan is a model figure who is old and strong, although he is still seventy-two, he is still strong and strong, he can eat a few bowls of rice every day, and he can kill the enemy when he gets on the horse.
If such a powerful person can be subdued, he will definitely help defend the city in the future, and the army that goes out will definitely have no worries, so Murong Shuangshuang had the idea of plotting against Wei Yan from the beginning.
The emperor was deaf and brutal, which led to the corrupt officials and ministers in the court, and the loyal ministers were degraded to death, even if a veteran like Wei Yan was loyal, he would never look down on such an incompetent and brutal emperor, but his loyal thinking made him unable to turn his back on the emperor.
Murong Shuangshuang did not immediately find a way to persuade Wei Yan, but found a few people with loud voices, held loudspeakers, and climbed up the temporary wooden tower to face the city and shout.
"The people of the city, I know that you are living a very bad life under the oppression of the faint king, and you are tired of farming every year, and in the end your father, mother, wife and children are still hungry and screaming, and you will starve to death every year in winter.
Those who don't farm are even more miserable, double, five, ten, and twenty times the poll tax, turning and turning up, and they have to face compulsory military service and forced service in difficult days, and there is no respite.
We all understand such days, because we have all lived such days, but now it is different, our Hou Ye loves the people like children, the people in the territory have no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no compulsory military service and conscription, if there are natural and man-made disasters, Hou Ye will also send people to provide disaster relief, distribute grain seeds, and the people have a good life.
Our Hou Ye has the world in his heart, and he can't bear to let the people of the world live a hard life, so he will endure the pain of raising troops, hoping to give the people of the world a peaceful life to live, our General Murong is strict in governing the army, and never allows the soldiers to take any property from the people......"
Hou Ye is Wang Wei, he is the patriarch of the Wang family, naturally he can't be white, his title is the highest in the whole clan, but people close to Wang Wei like to call him the lord or the head of the family, and call Wang Jingqi the young master.
The people Murong Shuangshuang was looking for had a very loud voice, and their voices were also very penetrating, plus Murong Shuangshuang's small trumpet, shouting loudly, half of the city could hear it, and it didn't matter if they couldn't hear it, Murong Shuangshuang put a few Kong Ming lanterns and entered the top of the city.
There was a lot of paper tied to the bottom of Kong Ming's lantern, and when Kong Minglan entered the city, Murong Shuangshuang shot the rope that was helping the letterpaper with one arrow, and in an instant, countless letterheads full of encouraging words were raised one after another, and they fell into the city like snow.
Although Wei Yan immediately sent someone to collect these letters, it is possible for a piece of paper to fall anywhere, and it is not clean at all, there are always people who secretly hide it, those who know how to read and write peek at it, and those who do not know how to read find reliable literate people to help read it.
This trick is really useful, Wei Yan is a loyal minister, and the characteristic of a loyal minister is that he will not disobey the emperor's order, so the people in Wei Yan City are really hard.
The bitterness was too ruthless, and the people were hoping that someone could save them, and the words on the letter paper that Murong Shuangshuang had scattered were too tempting, and the people who had had too many hard days were easily moved by the agitation.
It's not that the people are credulous, but they want to be able to climb out of this hellish and painful life, so even if there is the slightest hope, they will believe it, they all want to believe it, but they don't dare to do anything for a while, but there are some careful thoughts in their hearts that make Murong Shuangshuang look forward to it.
The people's incitement was almost over, and Murong Shuangshuang sneaked into the city at night and went straight to the general's mansion guarding the city.
In order to defend the city well and prevent Murong Shuangshuang's people from breaking through the city, Wei Yan has hardly slept in front of the defense map in the past few days, carefully deducing all kinds of possible accidents and filling in the possible deficiencies in defense.
He had heard of Murong Shuangshuang's reputation, a genius female general who was born out of thin air, beat the famous Luo Yunchuan in the first battle and fled, capturing three cities in a row, if it wasn't for the lack of manpower under the other party, maybe how many cities would be taken away, Wei Yan didn't dare to despise Murong Shuangshuang, the female general.
Just when Wei Yan looked down at the layout map, he suddenly found that there was an extra person's shadow on the layout map, Wei Yan was shocked, when he looked at the layout map, he had always been not allowed to be in the room, and the people in the General's Mansion knew that no one would come to disturb without authorization, but now there was suddenly an extra person in this room, who was definitely not his subordinate.
Wei Yan was frightened at the same time, but his reaction was dissatisfied, but his movements were extremely neat, he lifted the table and thought about smashing the figure opposite, and at the same time turned around and pulled out the long knife on the side shelf.
It's just that as soon as the blade pulled out the scabbard two fingers away, Wei Yan's body froze, because on his neck, there was a sharp sword, and the cold blade was close to the skin of his neck, cold and full of coldness.
Wei Yan took a breath, "What is the purpose of that friend coming to my general's mansion?" A chuckle came from his back, and the woman's crisp voice sounded, "General Wei is worthy of a generation of famous generals, and his courage is extraordinary. ”
With the voice, the sword on Wei Yan's neck was removed, Wei Yan did not continue to draw the sword, although it was only a brief confrontation for a moment, Wei Yan already understood that he was not the opponent of the person who came, and since the other party dared to withdraw the weapon first, he was obviously sure that he was not his opponent even if he pulled out the knife.
Wei Yan didn't want to humiliate himself, so he generously put down the hilt of the knife, turned around, and looked at the visitor, a girl who looked heroic, with her short hair tied on the top of her head, wearing a black night suit, with a leisurely smile on her face, sitting casually on the chair at the table, and a long sword that had been sheathed was placed on the table beside her.
Wei Yan's pupils shrank, the sword was still on his neck before, but at this moment, it had been put into the sheath, but he didn't hear the slightest sound of the long sword in the sheath, obviously the other party's swordsmanship had reached its peak.