Liu Ziyi lost the interest in telling the story, and the prisoners and the guards had to go back to their places to rest, this meal was already the highest standard of food in the prison, and Liu Ziyi was swept clean like a whirlwind in a few moments, still feeling a little unfinished, and went to the wooden barrel filled with water for the prisoners to scoop a scoop of cold water and poured it into his stomach before he walked to Wei Changpan and lay down, leaning his back against the wall and moaning comfortably.

"After staying in that place where birds don't for so long, even the prison food tastes delicious," he muttered quietly, and then comforted Wei Changpan, "Squatting for two days is not tight, anyway, General Song made it clear that we still have to let it out? ”

Wei Changpan shook his head, "That official in the city looks like a cautious person, don't be harsh on you in this prison at that time." ”

"He dare!" Liu Ziyi first glared, and then muttered to himself, "This is the truth, that guy is really unpleasant to look at..."

"No matter what kind of demons and monsters he is, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, the sky and the earth are big, after all, our Da Yao's king law is the biggest. ”

Now that he is locked up in this big prison that does not see the light of day, he can only comfort himself like this.

Wei Changpan and the two were looking forward to the Zhengsipin Jinzhou general Song Zhiwen General Song did not come in person, only a handwritten letter brought by the staff officer brought the two out of the prison on the second day, the nearby prisoners stared at the thin paper that could make people free with only a few words of envy, and even several petty officials who were on duty in the yamen that day went down to the prison.

"Don't be too happy, General Song will see you in half an hour for questioning. The familiar staff officer first grimaced, then calmed down and showed a smile, and saluted Wei Changpan and the others, "It's hard work." ”

Both of them took it in stride.

"The two county towns are broken, even if there is no siege equipment to help it is a matter of course, in Xia and Song General since this year's spring war has been Jinju 26 cities have been surveyed, some of the city walls are old and unrepaired, bare hands can pick off the masonry on the top of a large piece, the city gate is also rotten and can punch out a hole. Zhang Ziwen was talking to the two of them all the way about the direction of the war after the fifty of them left Jinzhou, and sighed when he talked about the news of the destruction of the two county seats:

"Even if the people in the two county yamen are a little more careful, not to mention that the entire city wall will be repaired like a round city, it is to replace a few city gates that have been eaten by ants and insects, not to mention whether they can withstand the attack of the barbarians, at least it will not be a problem to last for another ten days, but it is the little silver that changed the city gate, and the people in those two yamen have been prevaricating. He sneered, "In the end, it wasn't all given to the barbarians. ”

"There are six in Jinju and these two county towns, three are in the north of the city, which is the easiest place for barbarians to target, to put it mildly, according to the barbarians' way of not taking human life seriously, a thousand-person team is killed, and then fill in the city wall with a thousand-person team to enter, how can a hole be opened in the paper-paste city wall. ”

Zhang Ziwen, who was a civilian staff officer on horseback, was distressed, "It's just that the decisions made by these officials want the people to bear the cause and effect together, the people of the two cities are gone, and the remaining six are also in danger!"

Jinju has vast arable land and little fat, and if it is said that the output of a year may not be equivalent to the richest county in Jiangju, and in the event of a bad year, it can only be enough to provide for self-sufficient rations, and it is not easy to support the state army of Jinju that has not decreased but increased, not to mention building a defense line composed of fortresses and cities in the north of Jinju.

"As early as the first few months when General Song took over as General Jinzhou, the general took us as staff officers to walk on those city walls, and saw with my own eyes that where was the garrison of the city before the army pressed the border, the earthen battlements collapsed half of them without a single foot, and the soldiers were all veterans, and they didn't look like people who could fight. ”

Jinju General Song Zhiwen only knew what kind of situation he was facing after taking over the mess of Jinzhou military affairs from his predecessor, the Jinzhou state army suffered unprecedented losses in the war in the spring of the sixth year of Emperor Dayao Lie, and the only one in the Dayao border pass cavalry army that could be regarded as the one that could handle it also had three or four out of ten attrition, not to mention the foot soldiers. The Beida Battalion, which was crushed by the iron hooves of the barbarians, no longer existed, and only more than 300 remnants of the 5,000 soldiers and the general who sat in the town were freed, only a centurion led by a centurion, and the two captains of the generals were not spared.

The situation of the two battalions in the east and west is also roughly similar, the tactics of avoiding the battle and protecting the people when the barbarians first went south obviously can not be maintained after the emperor's personal expedition, the former Jinzhou general urgently needs a victory in front of the emperor to show his merits in governing the army, at least there is no merit and hard work, so the old general issued his own order on the sickbed, so that the two battalions in the east and west that had been holding on to the aid took the initiative to attack.

The Jinju State Army is not a division of tigers and wolves, not to mention the general's orders on the sickbed, there is no strategy and detailed rules, and it is only extremely strict in the schedule. There were even small mutinies that were suppressed in the two battalions, which were already demoralized, and the orders from their superiors to send them to attack were tantamount to sending them to death, and these soldiers could not tolerate such a demand, but fortunately, the commander-in-chief suppressed it in time and did not make a big mistake.

However, in any case, they must fight a victory before the arrival of Emperor Dayao, even if they exchange their lives, they must exchange a bunch of grassland barbarian heads back and put them in front of the emperor, so that the Jinju state army will not be completely regarded as a useless army and be dismissed by the military department. If the father and son are in the same battalion, the father will attack, and if the brother is in the same battalion, the eldest brother will attack.

In this way, the two battalions made up 4,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 200 horsemen rode away with a heart of death to kill the barbarians, and the barbarians in the camp quickly calmed down after experiencing the panic at the beginning, and organized a cavalry team of 500 people to disperse the vanguard of the Yao people, and then it was a one-sided massacre, and the soldiers without command fled everywhere, and then they were caught up by fast horses and stabbed.

After all, the general of Jinju still took out the heads for the emperor to review, half of them were the heads of death row prisoners, and the small half were barbarian heads, and as for the rest, only God knows where they came from.

Then the old man, who had been sitting in the position of general of Jinju for decades, died suddenly before he could go to the field, and the tattered mess left by Song Zhiwen directly affected the current situation in Jinju.

The Jinzhou state army, which is only a second-rate combat force in Dayao, is not good at field warfare with foot control, and only defending the city is considered to be one of the few strengths, Song Zhiwen came to this conclusion after inspecting the remnants of the eastern and western battalions and the relatively complete southern battalion, but the dignified Jinzhou general can only command these thousands of soldiers and horses under his command now, and the first thing that is urgent is obviously to recruit troops.

"Not many people are willing to be soldiers, this spring was beaten so badly, the whole village and the whole village went to join the army, few people still have the courage to take their lives to exchange a few copper plates for silver, in the first place was the person in charge of recruitment, walked a few places and circled the villages outside the city, it took a long time to talk about a few people, and two people ran away halfway. Zhang Ziwen looked bitter, stretched out two fingers and swayed, "In the end, there were only twenty people who pulled it back." “

"The general had no choice but to ask the Ministry of War for a paper of forced conscription, which brought in 30,000 strong men, and screened out the weak or disabled, leaving less than 20,000, and the soldiers who had been trained for three months, at first wanted to break up and mix with the veterans, but never thought that there would be no days for a few days, and the ability to survive on the battlefield was not learned. ”

"Why doesn't the general want to fight with the barbarians, but why? Just rely on the more than 20,000 soldiers of the Jinju Prefecture Army who are not familiar with the army and can't even put out a guard of honor?

Zhang Ziwen, who had been talking for a long time, was finally silent for a long time, and the three rode slowly on the streets of Yuancheng, and the pedestrians retreated early, "When I go, half a hundred people, as far as the two of you can come back, there is no place to be sorry for anyone, if there is, I first proposed a strategy with the general to surprise the soldiers.... I'm sorry for you. ”

"Do you want to go and find a man to show you first? These days, the camp medical officer may not be free, he is busy pulling arrows and wrapping up the wounds of the sergeant who was shot by the arrow, so the medicine to stop the bleeding is a little tight at this time. Zhang Ziwen saw that the two of them were silently listening to his words, so he continued, "This may not be what the Dayao soldiers should say, but you all have to prepare for the destruction of the city." ”

A round city that can accommodate a population of more than 300,000 people, the defenders are no more than 10,000 state troops and 5,000 nearby villagers, but the latter is almost negligible, and it is excellent to act as a force.

There are too many explanations for the destruction of the first two county towns, and it is natural that the unrepaired city defenses and weak soldiers can't stop the barbarians, but this is the Jinju state city and round city, which is the largest city in Jinju, if you can't even defend this city, then it doesn't mean that the other more than 20 county towns and county towns are also....

"What can be kept, will be defended. Wei Changpan rushed to Zhang Ziwen's side with a horse's belly, and said to him very seriously, "There must be a way to defend it." ”

Zhang Ziwen shook his head disappreciably on horseback, "This is not to say that you can defend it, General Song and our staff officers have calculated a whole month, the time and place are favorable, and we occupy very few, and Yuancheng is now pulling a cart of grain out on the street, there is no sergeant with guns and spears on the side, and he has to be robbed after walking a hundred steps, and he can't find the offender afterwards." ”

The hearts of the people are not in harmony, what to do to defend this city.