Chapter 049: There Will Be Demons (9)

"The homeless people are here! The homeless people from Yiyang County are here!"

When Wu San said this sentence out of breath, Zhang Shuo hadn't reacted yet, he thought that there was another wave of fleeing victims, but from Wu San's frightened face, Zhang Shuo suddenly understood that this group of displaced people might not have come to flee......

At the head of the city, Wu Pei, the county commander, took the county lieutenant and the two squad leaders to look at the army of displaced people in the distance, and the atmosphere was a little solidified.

The news of the displaced people came from a fisherman, and this morning, this fisherman went to the upper reaches of Lushui to fish, and met these displaced people more than ten miles west of the city.

After the fisherman returned to the county seat by boat, he did not immediately spread the news to the county office, but first went home to call his family to pack up their things and run away.

When Wu Pei got the news, this matter was already known all over the city, and if he hadn't sent county soldiers to block the city gates in all directions in time, I am afraid that the people in the city would have run out.

If he had gotten the news a day earlier, Wu Pei would have been able to command the people in the city to evacuate towards the city together, but it was already too late, and I was afraid that the people in the city would not be able to escape far before they would be surrounded by groups of displaced people!

In the west of the city, Zhang Shuo came to the head of the city under the leadership of Situ Weiming, the three-zhang high city wall gave Zhang Shuo enough vision, and under the illumination of the morning light, on the wasteland in the distance, a black pressure of people surged over like ocean waves.

"Lord County!" Zhang Shuo saw Wu Pei at the head of the city, and his heart calmed down a little, "I don't know if the lord is in such a hurry to summon the late life, what do you command?"

"Doctor Zhang......" Wu Pei turned his head and said with a heavy face, "The deity came to you to arrange the defense of the city......

"Defend the city, I don't know if there is anything that can help the adults in the later life?" Zhang Shuo asked suspiciously.

Hearing Zhang Shuo's inquiry, Wu Pei and Situ Weiming glanced at each other and said slowly, "The deity wants you to recruit troops from the disaster victims......

The victims Wu Pei mentioned are not the victims in the camp camp, after all, the camp has long been revoked, and he is referring to the group of people who fled from Yiyang County.

The reason why Wu Pei asked Zhang Shuo to help him recruit young people among the victims was because those victims were not under his rule, so he himself had little prestige among the victims.

Zhang Shuo is different, as a "miracle doctor", it can be said that he cured the plague with his own strength, and his reputation among the victims is unmatched!

Zhang Shuo listened to the reason for the sentence of Wu County, and hesitated a little, although he knew that those victims respected him very much, but if he really asked him to recruit young and strong people from the disaster victims to defend the city, he didn't know how much he could recruit, after all, this was going to die!

However, seeing that the army of displaced people was about to surround him, Zhang Shuo also knew that now was not the time to hesitate, whether he could succeed or not, he had to do it, so he finally agreed.

Those victims from Yiyang County are now arranged in the south of the city, because most of them are warehouses, and now that Jingshi has been under martial law, coupled with the rebellion of the displaced people in Yiyang County, the trade route in Lushui has been blocked, and there are no merchants renting these warehouses anymore.

To Zhang Shuo's surprise, when he came to the south of the city with two officials and announced the recruitment of young and strong people to resist the homeless, there were nearly a thousand people who were willing to sign up!

Zhang Shuo still didn't realize the role of fame in this era, in this era, two strangers may live and die because they are from the same place, or they may have a good conversation because they know the same person!

At the beginning, it was because the plague came out of the victims in Yiyang County, so all of them were imprisoned in the disaster camp, and Zhang Shuo's performance in treating the plague made him accumulate a huge reputation unconsciously!

Because the matter was urgent, Zhang Shuo didn't have much time, and in half an hour, he recruited a total of more than 800 young people!

These people fled all the way from Yiyang County, the weak eat the strong, and most of the old and weak women and children died on the road, so now more than 2,000 victims, most of them are young and strong, which is why Zhang Shuo was able to recruit so many people.

When Zhang Shuo led 800 young men to the city wall, more than 2,000 people who had also been recruited from the city had gathered here.

Situ Weiming took the county soldiers to bring a cart of armor from the warehouse, and then distributed it to these recruited young men, some of whom took Changge, and some took wooden shields, as if they had become new soldiers.

While Situ Weiming was explaining to these recruits how to defend the city, Zhang Shuo came to the head of the city, and at the head of the city, Wu Pei was still standing in the corner where he was at the beginning, but the displaced people who were originally ten miles away had already come to the moat.

"My lord, do you think we can defend it?" Zhang Shuo slowly walked behind Wu Pei and asked softly.

"Haha, isn't Doctor Zhang frightened?" Wu Pei heard Zhang Shuo's question, laughed and said, "Do you see how many homeless people are in the city?"

Zhang Shuo looked carefully at the city...... I didn't see it, so I could only shake my head.

"There are no more than 20,000 displaced people in the city!" Wu Pei stroked his beard and said confidently.

"Really?" Zhang Shuo looked at the black pressure under the city, without a reference, he really couldn't count the number of displaced people at all.

However, even a high-achieving student who is proficient in binary equations and three-dimensional geometry can't count them, how do you count them? So hearing Wu Pei's words, Zhang Shuo showed a skeptical expression.

"Naturally it's true, the county is from the Western Army scout, he said that there are no more than 20,000 displaced people in the city, so the difference in number will definitely not exceed 100!" At this time, Situ Weiming walked up from the city.

"Adult has been the Western Army?" Zhang Shuo heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he knew that in Dazheng, the Western Army was the elite of the elite, and with such a person who was proficient in military affairs, maybe the county seat could really be defended!

"Haha......" Wu Pei was obviously very complacent about his Western Army background, he laughed a few times, and then said slowly, "You ask the deity if he can hold the county seat, the deity tells you that these homeless people seem to be numerous, but they are all rabble, not to mention 20,000, even if 100,000 come, the deity can protect the county seat for three days!"

"Your Excellency is talking big again!" Situ Weiming smiled helplessly, and then said with a worried face, "The county seat can be defended, but the government city may not!"

"Fucheng?" Zhang Shuo was surprised, "Is there also a homeless person in Fucheng?"

"Alas!" Speaking of this, Wu Pei also showed a sad expression, sighed and said, "If the deity is not bad, I am afraid that the current Fucheng has been surrounded by Ma Shun's 100,000 displaced people!"

"Why did the county lord say this?" Zhang Shuo humbly asked for advice at this time.

"If the city is not besieged, these displaced people in front of them will never dare to attack the county seat, the displaced people are all dependent on the strength of the people, if they disperse the manpower, they will inevitably be broken one by one, with Ma Shun's talent, he will definitely not do such an unwise thing. ”

Zhang Shuo nodded as if he didn't understand, he didn't know why the two of them were worried about the affairs of Fucheng, but he just needed to know that the county seat could be guarded!