In fact, Li Xiao's thinking is in the same vein as Cao Wenzhao, and he doesn't want to pay too much price to take Yangzhou.

The difference is that Cao Wenzhao's troops are not enough, while Li Xiao has enough troops to besiege Yangzhou to death.

The brutal siege began, and the Yangzhou defenders in the city were not reconciled. Several times I tried to go out of the city to find trouble with the patrol, but I was bombarded back by a shell. Although the defenders in the city also fought back with cannonballs, their ammunition hoarding could not have an artillery battle with the Liao army.

Everyone knows that there is no way to defend Yangzhou City without artillery.

The land of Jianghuai is a densely populated place, and it is very simple to grab some people and dig a few trenches. In just three days, more than 10,000 young and strong people were successfully captured. When the explosive news spread that the Liao army was paid for work, the number of people increased by 50,000 overnight.

No way, it's not easy to eat these days. Working for the boss and landlord, he will be in arrears at every turn. The Liao army is generous, and the bill is settled by head every day, and it will definitely not be in arrears until tomorrow.

What surprised Mrs. Min even more was that the Liao army actually provided food. Although it's just rice and salted radish, it's good that people still have egg soup. Although it is the kind that can be beaten in one pot with an egg, it is also considered meaty.

In the eyes of poor peasants, eggs are considered meaty.

The team that does the most work actually has broth every day. Some lucky ones can also take out a piece of meat and bone from the cauldron to gnaw. Obediently, there are enough flesh and bones to gnaw off three taels of meat.

In just one day, in the face of the huge temptation to drink broth, the people of Yangzhou were full of energy and fought on the front line of blockading Yangzhou.

The trench was dug deep and wide, if it weren't for Yuan Chonghuan to stop it. These folks all have the meaning of digging up magma!

Five days, only five days. Within ten miles of Yangzhou, a wide and deep trench was built. When the ditch was closed, the people were sullen. They wanted to dig this ditch forever, not only for food but also for wages. Five eldest sons a day, never in arrears of wages. Where the fuck is this guy!

After these days of contact, the people found that there was a huge gap between the Liao soldiers in the mouth of the government and the Liao soldiers in reality.

The overseers looked fierce, and the leather whips in their hands were dipped in cold water and shook "pop" and "pop". often greets other people's mothers and the whole family, but I have never seen a whip fall on people. I saw someone pushing a cart uphill, and I knew how to push it.

Zhang Honestly of the dog day just came early, and now he has become a foreman. I can eat oily pork head meat every day, and my salary is twice as much as that of ordinary migrant workers.

Now that the project is over, I can still take 100 people to stay and continue to work.

The Liao soldiers in the mouth of the government are not like this!

According to them, the first time these GIs arrived. will kick open the door of his house, and then snatch his wife and beautiful daughter. Chickens, ducks, fish, meat, corn, wheat, and rice are all packed and taken away. Eventually, it will burn down your house.

As for your life or death, Liao Bing will not care. Even if it's a tube, I'll tie you mud legs to Liaodong to mine and die.

Thanks to the vigorous propaganda of the government, the local peasants had the greatest vigilance against the Liao army. I am afraid that they will take away their wives and daughters, and they are also afraid that they will pack up and take away the rations that their families rely on for survival.

But this was not the case at all, and the soldiers who occasionally borrowed from the peasants' houses would even fill the water tank when they left the next morning. Some will settle the rice fire money! Although they took the food, and the peasants only helped to cook it, the officer who took the lead still insisted on paying.

The peasants' favorability towards the Liao army was increasing day by day, and some people secretly made deals with the Liao soldiers. These guys from Liaodong are all carnivores.

The pigs, sheep, cows, dogs, chickens, ducks, and geese raised in the village are all refused, and the more eggs and ducks are stupid, the better.

A guy in the village made a fortune in just one month by supplying live poultry to the Liao army. Now, in order to find live birds, he has gone to Zhuangzi, thirty miles away, like a weasel.

The Liao army's life outside the city was very nourishing, but the life in Yangzhou was getting worse and worse.

There is no problem with food, before the Liao army came, Huang Daozhou stored a large amount of grain. It's not a problem to eat until next summer, but the problem is that this guy doesn't think he'll be able to live much. There is a lot of grain stored, but there is no matching charcoal.

After only half a month of lockdown, there was a fuel panic in the city. Generally, people will prepare firewood in winter, and this is about to be summer, who still stores so much firewood.

Seeing that the firewood and charcoal are decreasing day by day, every household is panicking. If this is sealed for another half a month, the family will have to eat raw rice if the house is not demolished.

It's nothing to force everyone to eat one or two meals of raw rice, but the people of Yangzhou are people after all, not Pixiu. When you're done eating, you have to pull it......! The peasants in the surrounding area could not enter the city, and the dung tanks in the city were full. Many large dung tanks have begun to bubble out, and the most troublesome thing for every family now is the thatched house.

The young man has to wash his pants when he pees, and the big girl has to wash her ass when she pees. Fortunately, there are still wells in the city, and there is still no shortage of water in the place where the Jiangnan River network is dense.

The men were in a hurry, so they solved it in the corners. But the women are in trouble, whoever is the eldest girl on the street, then do you want to marry in the future.

After besieging the city for half a month, the city was full of complaints. Not only did ordinary people complain, but even the backyard of the prefect's yamen was stinking.

Zodiac Zhou was so anxious that he jumped around, but there was no good way. He is not an immortal, and there is no way to turn the entire people of Yangzhou City into Pixiu.

At the critical moment, Sun Kewang still had a way, and a cart of dung was hoisted on the city wall, and then ...... and fell under the wall. In his opinion, it is also good to smoke the Liao soldiers when they attack the city.

The Liao soldiers were not smoked, but the patrol battalion soldiers at the head of the city suffered. After a few days of falling, there was a stench beneath the walls. Ten miles out of the wind can stink!

The weather in Jiangnan is warm early, and the flies come out early. It seems that the flies of the whole Jiangsu and Zhejiang have flown to Yangzhou, and whenever something is thrown on the city wall, there are black clouds steaming up under the city.

That momentum reminded Li Xiao, who was ten miles away, of a bomber.

Maggots climbed up the walls, and no one was napping on them. Those white-flowered things whirring, although they don't bite, they are really fucking people. The officers and men of the patrol battalion were complaining bitterly, and whenever it was their turn to go to the city to guard, it was like the end of the world.

Zhang Rulin ran over and scolded Sun Kewang, and Mr. Sun was not the one who suffered the loss, so he immediately scolded back. The bosses on both sides are bare-chested, and the younger brothers are naturally not ambiguous. One after another, they copied the guys and went on, ready to have an internal opening first.

If it weren't for Huang Daozhou's timely arrival, maybe the civil war in Yangzhou would have begun.

There is no way to solve the problem of feces, and in the end it can be hard and fast. In the future, the dung can only be poured to the north of the city, and the garrison in the north of the city is changed every half a day, and everyone takes turns to guard the city.

In half a month, everything was wrong. Huang Daozhou sat in the prefect's yamen and worried, and the Liao soldiers didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack Yangzhou. Look at this meaning, it's no problem to celebrate the New Year under the city of Yangzhou.

What made him most angry was that those mud legs around Yangzhou now get along very well with the Liao army. There was no imagination at all, the people were living in dire straits, and they attacked the Liao soldiers. The imaginary people's war seems to be a shadowless thing now.

It's only been half a month, and if it's really a year and a half. Without the Liao soldiers attacking, the dung in the north of the city can be stacked as high as the city wall.

Not only is the zodiac week worried, but everyone in the city is worried. When the hell is this a stop, seeing that the big guy is about to eat raw rice. Many people are already secretly cutting down trees, although Jiangnan does not have the thick trees in the north, but they can be dragged home to cook a few meals.