Chapter 589: The Situation in the City

After entering the compound, Lin Xuanzhong ordered the soldiers below to search the City Lord's Mansion carefully to ensure that no one was hiding, no matter what, it was better to treat the City Lord's Mansion as a temporary general's mansion.

At the moment, the situation in Qucheng is extremely bad, and the only advantage for the entire army may be that the bandits did not set fire to the city, otherwise they may not even have a place to stay now.

Not long after, in front of the main hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Xuanzhong asked the soldiers behind him to stop, and only entered with Xing Hu with a few guards, the hall was empty, only the walls were still shiny, and obviously many things inside had been removed. However, in terms of area, the whole hall is still very impressive.

Standing in the middle and looking around, Lin Xuanzhong felt that this hall was too big for the three generals to discuss, but it was always a good place.

When Lin Xuanzhong was thinking about what to discuss with Xing Hu and them next, Xing Hu on the side kept scolding the city lord who ran away, and said that he would send troops to chase him. It's just that the city lord has obviously been running for many days, and he has long been gone without a trace, and there is no way to trace it. Without the city lord here, they can only rely on themselves to collect grain in Qucheng next, and they may not need to collect grain at all.

After standing in the main hall for a while, Lin Xuanzhong thought that the most important thing now was to find some living people to ask what had happened in the city. When Lin Xuanzhong thought of this, Yu Tong and another lieutenant general came in with people, and all eight of them had already changed their military uniforms, and they were all wearing outfits that matched their identities.

After glancing at the eight people, Lin Xuanzhong felt that there was no problem with their outfits, but their temperament still needed to be adjusted. "You go to Qincheng this time to be careful, try to pretend to be a merchant who comes and goes, once you get useful news, you can send someone back to return first. ”

"The subordinates understand," Lin Xuanzhong reminded them, and the eight of them realized that they needed to put down their pretense as soldiers and behave like ordinary people, so as to match the clothes they were wearing.

"Then you go, be careful all the way," Lin Xuanzhong emphasized again before leaving.

"Yes," Yu Tong and several people took the order and exited the main hall together.

As soon as Yu Tong and the others left with their front feet, Wang Yiyi came in with a few people in civilian attire on their back feet.

"General, these people are a few knowledgeable people selected by the hundreds of people we found when we searched around just now, if you have any questions, you can ask them directly. ”

"How many of you have been in Qucheng lately?" After being reminded by Wang Yiyi, Lin Xuanzhong immediately asked those people about the matter.

"Lord Hui, the villains have been hiding in the city recently," replied a middle-aged man, his face a little nervous, but he still looked much calmer than the others.

"Which of you knows more about the situation in the city, and can you tell me what attacks have been carried out in the city?"

"Back to my lord, that's a gang of bandits in Xiaoyin Mountain. About seven days ago, after the lord of the city had fled with his family, a group of bandits had soon been killed in the city. Many civilians died in that catastrophe. ”

"Could it be that at that time, except for a city lord's mansion that had the ability to resist those robbers, there was no other family power?"

"Lord Hui, there were originally a few, but after the city lord left with a group of city guards, they were not the opponent of those bandits. Moreover, after the city lord fled, there were rumors in the city that the night army was going to come over to grab food, and those families were afraid of the bandits who might come at any time, and they were worried that the night army would rob them, so they ran away after the city lord, and in the end only we civilians with no strength were left in the city. ”

"I see," nodded, Lin Xuanzhong finally understood why there was not even a living person on the street, and it seemed that everyone who could run had already run.

"General Wang, how many people have you found?" Passing past a few men, Lin Xuanzhong's gaze stopped at Wang Yiyu.

"Just one city north, six or seven hundred people were found under the general search, and now they have all been driven to the city lord's mansion, what does the general plan to do with them?"

"Let them all go, and put up notices all over the city telling the people of the city that the Night Army will not harm them again. ”

"General, is the poster just to tell the Night Army that the night army is coming?"

"Does General Wang still want to lock them all up?"

"That's not it, it's just that the general thinks it's important to get down to business first. ”

"General Wang, I have already sent someone to Qincheng to check the situation, and before we receive the news, stationing troops in Qucheng is the right thing we have to do. ”

"The general really plans to garrison troops in the city?" Lin Xuanzhong's statement made Wang Yiyi more and more surprised, and he didn't know how Lin Xuanzhong wanted to deal with the various problems in front of him.

"That's true. ”

"Isn't the general in a hurry to go to Qincheng to collect grain?"

"It's not that it's not in a hurry, it's just that it's useless to be in a hurry. Lin Xuanzhong shook his head, guessing that Wang Yiyi must be worried that he would not be able to collect grain and grass. This matter is indeed a difficult problem, but Lin Xuanzhong does not have any good countermeasures, so he still has to wait until the situation is clarified.

"But we're afraid we don't have enough food, right?"

"General Wang will send someone to Orchid Village to get some grain first, and by the way, inform Vice General Zhang to bring the villagers from Orchid Village and other villages, and then leave some people to hunt fierce beasts to deal with the urgent need for the time being," said Lin Xuanzhong, and told Wang Yiyi about the grain that Hong Lao told the villagers last night to hide grain and send grain.

When Wang Yiyao understood what Lin Xuanzhong said, Lin Xuanzhong suddenly thought that Wang Yiyao's main purpose was to search for grain, so he asked again, "When General Wang led people to search around, did he find anything like grain and grass?"

"There are some, but there are very few found every time, and I'm afraid that it is still not enough for us to last two days!" Wang Yiyi shook his head with an embarrassed face, full of helplessness about the results of the previous search.

"General Wang, let's send some people to those empty houses to look for food first, find as much as you can, and try to ensure that the people below will not go hungry. ”

"Since the general plans to do so, his subordinates will do it immediately," Wang Yiyi nodded, and no longer had any doubts about what Lin Xuanzhong had explained.

"Yes," he agreed, and the king immediately turned and left.

As soon as Wang roared away, Lin Xuanzhong's attention naturally fell on Xing Hu. Now that the general situation in the city has been preliminarily understood, but the specific situation is not yet clear, Lin Xuanzhong wants to find some people who are very familiar with the situation in and outside the city to ask. So, coming back to his senses, Lin Xuanzhong looked at General Xing again and said, "General Xing, you take these people out, and then find some people from the others who are more aware of the situation in the city." ”

At the moment, Yu Tong and Zhang Jiutian are not there, and to convey the instructions, Lin Xuanzhong can only count on Xing Hu, the only one who is still there.

"Yes," Xing Hu agreed, taking a few civilians out.

As soon as Xing Hu took a few people away, the hall immediately became empty. Looking away from Li Shuangxi, Lin Xuanzhong slowly remembered the corpses in the city and the refugees outside the city. The corpses outside had already been disposed of before, and now they can not be considered. As for the refugees, there is now a lot of space in the city, and there is no need for those refugees to stay outside the city, and the wall must not be allowed to become an obstacle to their entry into the city.

Slowly coming back to his senses, Lin Xuanzhong looked at Li Shuangxi again and said, "Brother Li, you take some people out to find all the refugees outside the city." ”

Today is different from the past, because of the relationship with Lin Xuanzhong, as a close guard, Li Shuangxi's status in the army has naturally risen, and now he is dressed as a thousand-commander, which is the same as Lin Xuanzhong's six guards.

Regarding the six guards, after a few days of getting along, Lin Xuanzhong already knew a little about them, but because of the relationship they didn't know before, they were still a little rusty, so Lin Xuanzhong didn't expect to send them to do anything.

After Li Shuangxi left with a smile on his face, only Lin Xuanzhong and six guards were left in the main hall. There was nothing else to explain to them, so Lin Xuanzhong walked to the front by himself, helped up a desk that had fallen to the ground, and then spread the border map of the Wing Country that he carried with him on it and studied it again.

Find the location of Xiaoyin Mountain on the map, and then compare the location of Qucheng and Qincheng, you can see that the distance from the bandit village to the two cities is similar.

Xiaoyin Mountain is full of dense forests, I haven't been to the specific investigation, just looking at the map can not know the route to the bandit village. Then move your eyes to the right side of Qincheng and Qucheng, is located in the process behind Shiyan City, from the map, the area of Liucheng is larger than Shiyan City, and it is also located on the traffic artery.

According to Lin Xuanzhong's guess, the situation in Liucheng should not be much different from the situation in Shiyan City. Thinking about it now, Lin Xuanzhong can understand why Yan Nantian only sent two thousand soldiers over. On the right rear side of the Flowing City are the Falling City and the Star City, which I had heard the other generals talk about before. There doesn't seem to be a problem with beasts and bandits, so the situation should be too bad. Now it seems that only the direction of Qucheng and Qincheng is the most difficult.

After careful consideration, Lin Xuanzhong could understand why Yan Nantian wanted to give himself an entire army. Obviously, it is not only because of his youth, but also because of the situation in Qu and Qin Ercheng. In fact, Lin Xuanzhong's guess was not wrong, the situation in Liucheng and Luocheng was indeed good, and the current actions on both sides were relatively smooth, only Lin Xuanzhong had to face all kinds of difficulties.

At present, banditry has become an unavoidable problem, due to the first time to take the position of commander, coupled with the lack of experience in all aspects, it can be said that the task is huge, and whether or not he can complete the mission handed over by Yan Nantian in the end seems to depend on Lin Xuanzhong's luck.

After thinking about more and more questions, Lin Xuanzhong was still concentrating on studying the border map. At the same time, in Laiguo, Zhao Wu, who was shouldering the mission of saving the country, finally marched to Laidu after making a comprehensive plan.

First, he sent some people to disguise themselves as civilians of Laiguo to enter the city smoothly, and then used those people to take the city gate. After receiving the corresponding signal from the city gate, Zhao Wu directly led the army into the city, and the soldiers were divided into three ways to take the Laidu Palace.