"It's strange, why didn't you even see the hair of a northern captive on the way? Everywhere they went, they all opened the city and surrendered, did they plan to retreat to Mobei? "Another small city opened its gates in front of the Jiazhou army, and the county officials of this city and the gentry of the city knelt on both sides of the gate to welcome the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, and this was the fifth empty city they encountered along the way. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"At the beginning, we successively inflicted heavy losses on the northern captives in Henan Province and Gyeonggi Province, annihilating no less than 300,000 northern captives, and then Arubu invaded Mobei to quell the rebellion, and the Pusu Department and Xue Hao Department killed a happy one, the population of Mobei is far less than that of the Central Plains, after such a toss, how many soldiers and horses can Arubu make up to resist my Jiazhou army?" Li You explained, "Instead of placing a small number of troops along the way to be broken by us, it is better to get out of the way and lure our Jiazhou army to go deeper, and then rely on the walls of Longcheng to hold on to us, and then look for an opportunity to win, which may still have a few chances of victory." ”

"That's fine, but it also saves us the effort along the way." Zhou Bofu smiled unwillingly, to be honest, he really wanted to fight the enemy all the way.

But there was no smile on Qin Shixin's face, he sent someone to ask the gentry officials who had surrendered a few words, and then came back and said to Li You, "Your Majesty, just like the previous prefectures and counties, the northern captives looted all the food and property in the city when they left, and these people have been out of food for many days. ”

"Send people to verify the population of the area, and then distribute food according to the number of people." Now that they have surrendered, the people in this city are the people of the Jia Dynasty, but Li You, Qin Shixin and others can't ignore it, after all, these are all compatriots in the Central Plains, not foreign races in Mobei.

"Your Majesty, the rate of consumption of this grain is much faster than we expected, and the grain stocks brought by the army have been spent by forty percent more than originally planned, and if this continues, I am afraid that the food will be a little insufficient." Sun Chuyang, who was still in charge of logistics affairs, hurriedly reminded that although these people wanted to be saved, the safety of the Jiazhou Army itself could not be ignored.

"I didn't expect Arub to come up with such a sinister method, hasn't the staff worked out the corresponding countermeasures?" Arubu's hand did catch Li You off guard, although the grain and grass prepared for this expedition were abundant, but they were all prepared for the 150,000 Jiazhou army, and it was far from enough to feed the people all the way from Gyeonggi Province to Yongcheng.

"At present, we can only send the news back to the capital, so that the capital can quickly bring more grain, grass, seeds and farm tools." Lai Shouren, a staff officer who was waiting for inquiries at any time by Li You's side, hurriedly replied that he was not one of those wealthy families in the previous dynasty, and he couldn't say anything to let these people die, so he could only increase the burden on the imperial court.

"Well, taking care of the people and restoring the livelihood of the people in Guannai Dao is what the imperial court should do, you calculate the amount of materials needed and send them back to the capital." It seems that Yao Guangxiao and Fan Li are going to have a headache for a while.

Hearing this, Shi Huaiyi, who was a little behind, also felt a lot of pressure, since the march, the logistics supply line of the Jiazhou Army has become longer and longer, and his work has become more and more busy, and now His Majesty plans to increase the import of materials to Guannei Road, which has brought him a double workload, presumably those northern captives will not let go of this opportunity, right? I can't say that from now on, my baggage team will probably become the focus of their attack.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Just thinking about it, there were bursts of cheers when he went there, and when he raised his eyes, it turned out that Lai Shouren had already told Li You's decision loudly to the local officials and people, and they heard that the imperial court was so generous, and they couldn't help themselves for a while and hurriedly thanked Li You for the emperor's grace.

"Let's all get up, since you have now surrendered to my Jia Dynasty as a subject, Your Majesty will not ignore you." First Wen Yan comforted, and then Lai Shouren's tone suddenly became serious again, "But you should also know that the reason why the Beiyu snatched your food is to use His Majesty's generosity and mercy to delay the advance of our Jiazhou army. In this regard, you must not be sloppy, from now on everything needs to be done in accordance with the orders of the imperial court, if anyone dares to make trouble from it, be careful of military law! ”

There was also such a situation in the previous prefectures and counties, when the Jiazhou army just started to release grain, there were people in the crowd who picked up the local people to loot, or they wanted to burn the grain transported by the Jiazhou army to the city under the cover of night, which caused a lot of trouble to the Jiazhou army before they caught these people and beheaded them for public display.

"In order to prevent the rebellion of the northern captives, the people in the city are now organized into a group of ten households, and a chief is set up to manage the first, these ten families need to guarantee each other, one commits a crime, and the whole family will be punished......" Then Lai Shouren began to tell about the countermeasures of the Jiazhou army's defense and meticulous work, most of these meticulous works are outsiders, as long as the local population is cleaned up, they will be quickly exposed, and these households also need to maintain local security, with their help, it is more convenient for the Jiazhou army to clean up and work from afar.

Block the gates of the city on all sides, make armor according to the dwelling, and give three days' rations to each armor that is made, and postpone the distribution if anyone makes trouble, and expose a certain amount of reward food for careful work...... All kinds of methods were used, and most of the fine works left in the city were dug up by Lai Shouren, and they were immediately beheaded for public display after being tortured clearly.

Later, Lai Shouren selected a group of young men with clean fortunes and many relatives from the people in the city, and ordered them to join Shi Huaiyi's baggage team and be responsible for maintaining the smooth flow of local roads, so that Shi Huaiyi's pressure was reduced a lot.

In this way, they distributed food all the way to the north, and they finally arrived outside the Dragon City, Li You climbed to a high place and looked around, "This Arub's preparation is really abundant!" ”

But seeing that the villages around Longcheng have long been razed to the ground, the wells have also been filled, and there is not a single grain left for the Jiazhou army, and the forests around the city have also been cut down and burned by them, and they are resolutely not left to the Jiazhou army to build siege equipment, it seems that Arub has completed the work of clearing the walls.

The city wall is densely distributed with countless northern soldiers, bows, crossbows, arrows, rolling wood, trebuchets, wolf tooth rackets and other equipment to defend the city, it is not easy to capture this city.