The smoke that Guo Rong saw in the Zhuzhai camp could only come from one place, and that was the villages scattered in the wilderness.

Guo Rong could know what was going on in those villages, and what would happen to the people in those villages, but at this moment he could not do anything.

The smoke rising from these villages represents a point, Tan Zhong has obviously raised the importance of himself to the highest, Guo Rong seems to have seen the battle that will happen tomorrow, driving the people to open the way, and attaching ants to attack the city!

In fact, in order to avoid this from happening, before arriving in Zhuzhai, Guo Rong had already sent scouts to identify all the villages and villages within a radius of 30 miles with Zhuzhai Village as the center, and tried to temporarily relocate all the people to Zhuzhai Village, or persuade the villagers to temporarily leave the area that would become a battlefield.

But there are some things that Guo Rong can't decide after all!

Especially after Wu Shaoxiong saw that Guo Rong was preparing to relocate the people, he was deeply inspired and gave Guo Rong persuasion instead of implementing coercive measures......

Sometimes, Guo Rong was very puzzled, obviously he had already told these villagers that there would be a war here in three days, and when they did, they would all be captured and sent to death, why they were still indifferent.

Even if they do not accept protection, they can at least escape from this dangerous area, even if the soldiers of the Changying Army persuaded them for three days, but only 30% of the population in the neighboring villages chose Zhuzhai Village to be protected by the Changying Army, and 1 to 20% chose to flee temporarily, while the remaining more than 50% of the population chose to stay in place.

As the sun gradually sank in the west, the Changying Army had three large camps in the east, south, and west, and two small camps in the southeast and southwest in addition to the Zhuzhai camp.

Three large and two small, five camps, at least it seems that the Changying army has been besieged in a narrow area north of Kaocheng and south of Baigou, a small area with a radius of less than ten miles.

At dusk, the Lu Long army, which had been sent south near noon, escorted a large number of ragged men, women, and children, loaded with a large amount of looting materials, and began to return one after another.

These villagers, who refused the persuasion of the soldiers and insisted on staying in their hometowns, are now connected by ropes, all of them in ragged clothes, gray heads, and in a trance, and many of them are still stained with blood on their bodies or clothes.

It was night, and everything looked like business as usual in the camp of the Long Silk Army, except, of course, the engineer battalion and the reconnaissance battalion.

While the rest of the Changying Army should rest, prepare for war, and cook, the sappers of the Changying Army, who had rested a whole set, were busy.

The sappers first set up a simple machine similar to a merry-go-round in the rear of the first line of defense, which consisted of pulleys, crossbars, and bamboo baskets, picked up the sapper shovels, picked up pickaxes, and began to carry out earthwork work.

A large amount of earth was excavated to form the rudiments of the trench, and with the help of simple machinery, the excavated soil was piled up directly in the rear, gradually forming mounds and low slopes.

Although the sappers were busy, the whole battalion was generally calm.

Compared with the silent camp of the Changying Army, the three large camps of the Hebei rebels on the periphery were brightly lit, and a large number of soldiers with torches were constantly going in and out, and a fire dragon composed of countless torches stretched for miles away.

One inside and one outside, I was busy all night until the sky was slightly white again.

Seeing the change in the sky, in the camp of the Changying Army, the sappers who had been busy all night put away their tools, and a trench with a width of more than one zhang and a depth of nearly six feet had quietly appeared, and behind the trench, a low wall waist-high and wide quietly appeared.

Although the entire fortification has not been completely completed, the familiar routine of the trench + low wall, the familiar formula has reappeared behind the first line of defense of the Changying Army.

In order to hide the progress and not affect today's offensive and defensive battles, the sappers took over the planks one by one from the hands of the logisticians and put the planks directly on the trench, forming a necessary passage road and forming a simple camouflage.

Outside the camp of the Changying Army, as the sky gradually brightened, the fire dragon that had been burning all night gradually increased

The silence also made the fire dragons that had been burning for most of the night show their true faces.

Driven by Hebei rebel soldiers armed with leather whips and wooden sticks, the ragged people kept cutting wood for materials......

However, as the sky changed, the rebel sergeants left the barracks, took over the work of the civilians, continued to cut wood, and then sent the timber back to the three large battalions of the Lulong army, where it was finished with various siege equipment.

At the same time, smoke rose again from the camp of the Lu Long Army and the Changying Army, but some people were destined not to eat this breakfast.

Driven by the whips and sticks of the Lu Long soldiers, the exhausted and hungry villagers were driven directly from behind the Lu Long army camp to the front without waiting for a short rest, and then under the threat of the butcher's knife, they walked straight towards the camp of the Changying army, which was comparable to a fortress.

Early yesterday morning, Tan Zhong played a surprise attack, although in the end he did not cause any major losses, and Guo Rong did not blame or punish him, but it made the Changying Army really lose the initiative on the battlefield.

So in the early morning of the next day, in order to prevent the rebels from being demons again, the Changying army made enough preparations from the sentries to the soldiers and even the cooks.

In fact, on the positive side, Tan Zhong's old man did become a demon, but his idea of being a demon was inconsistent with what most of Changyingjun thought.

It was not the soldiers who came from the other side's large battalions, but thousands, a steady stream of ragged civilians.

The problem was that these civilians had neither armor, nor weapons, nor even advanced speeds, and were like a group of walking corpses, driven by the armored soldiers of Lu Long, towards the fortress-like military camp of the Long Silk Army.

suddenly appeared in front of him, saying that he would attack or not, and that he would surrender or not surrender, so that the officers of the Changying Army on duty and the defenders of the Changying Army on the front line were dumbfounded, and they didn't know how to deal with it correctly for a while.

The sudden accident was quickly passed to Guo Rong's side, and hearing that Tan Zhong was a demon again, Guo Rong led people to quickly rush to the highest watchtower in the camp.

Ragged clothes, haggard face, hollow eyes, slow movements...... This series of strange and familiar scenes made Guo Rong feel unreal, as if he was not on the battlefield of the Tang Dynasty's counterinsurgency, but on the set of Resident Evil.

Shaking his head hard, clearing the distracting thoughts that did not belong to this era out of his mind, Guo Rong raised the telescope in his hand and looked ahead.

Through the binoculars in his hand, Guo Rong saw the Lu Long Army soldiers behind these people, holding blades to drive civilians forward by killing;

Guo Rong saw a team of heavily armed Lu Longjun soldiers outside the opponent's camp;

Guo Rong saw a large group of cavalry in the opponent's camp, fully armed and ready to attack at any time.

Guo Rong also saw the soldiers who were constantly cutting down wood in the distance, and saw the siege equipment such as ladders, ladders, and rushing cars being built.

Combining these things that he observed, Tan Zhong had clearly shown what he wanted to do in front of Guo Rong's eyes.

Driving people to attack the city has been around since ancient times, and it has been seen in Qiuzi Guorong, and it has also been seen in Jingzhou Guorong.

When it was determined from the scouts that Tan Zhong had coerced a large number of young men and women, Guo Rong had considered that he would encounter such a situation, so Guo Rong had done enough homework, and he would definitely not be ambiguous when it was time to do it.

But Tan Zhong's method of not playing cards according to the routine in front of him once again taught Guo Rong a lesson, because these people in front of him not only had no weapons, no armor, but even their mental and physical strength had been overdrawn to the limit.

If he was really driven to attack the city, Guo Rong could order the attack without hesitation, and the soldiers of the Changying Army might have a little mercy, but there would be no discount in the execution of the order.

The problem is that these people in front of him, let alone attacking the city, are trembling even when they walk, and Guo Rong even suspects that many people will die directly on the road if they can't walk near the camp at all.

To say that these people are here to attack, no one will believe it at all!

Guo Rong can give the order to attack and release arrows

, Guo Rong also believes that the soldiers of the Changying Army will definitely obey the order, but once they do that, the morale of the army will be affected.

More importantly, Wu Shaoxiong is in the aspect of public opinion warfare, and he is ready to use the special system of the Changying Army to build the Changying Army and the forbidden army into a mighty army and a benevolent and righteous army.

The character of the teacher of benevolence and righteousness is easy to set up, and the benefits are obvious, but the teacher of benevolence and righteousness itself is also a double-edged sword, and while bearing the benefits, he also puts shackles on himself, and now is the time to make it difficult for him to ride the tiger.

As for the third point, it is easy to cut and kill by yourself, but it is equivalent to burying a huge hidden danger for the future.

Emperor Li Chen's five years of training were not in vain, and Guo Rong was no longer a fledgling rookie.

The court of the Tang Dynasty has never been monolithic, and there are many allies in the court, but there are more people who look at themselves unpleasantly or even blushing.

Now I can get the full support of the government and the opposition because the goal is the same now, but what about after the future assesses the rebellion of the feudal town and bears the world's attack on the Tang Dynasty?

The people of the island country who were killed in the pit can only impeach Guo Rong for brutality at most, but the pit that kills tens of thousands of people of the Tang Dynasty on the battlefield is enough to bring himself and the Changying Army to the land of no return, because although there is chaos now, it is not a troubled era after all, the Tang Dynasty is still a unified dynasty, and what Guo Rong needs is the stability and unification of this dynasty.

Therefore, in the face of these unarmed and ragged civilians, it is absolutely impossible to kill, but it is not okay to do anything, do nothing, and it is not okay, because Tan Zhong will not let them go.

If you don't attack, but continue to stick to the camp, the dense crowd of Bianzhou people in front of you will be driven by Lu Longjun to consume all the traps outside the camp!

If he still doesn't move at that time, Guo Rong thinks about himself, Tan Zhong definitely doesn't mind using a butcher's knife to drive these people on, even if it is not impossible to use the corpses of these Bianzhou people to fill in the trenches dug by the sappers.

And, if there are no defensive facilities on the outside line, even if there are eight-bull crossbows, catapults, and even black powder, this battle will definitely be a residual victory, and this kind of thing is meaningless for Guo Rong.

If you can't kill, you can't kill it, then there's only one way left for you.

Tan Zhong made it clear that he wanted to use these flat-headed people who had saved all the way to explore the way for him and force himself to fight!

In fact, even if he left the camp, Tan Zhong still had two choices.

First, they ignored their own sorties, and directly threw these tens of thousands of civilians who were completely drained of value to themselves, adding a huge burden to themselves, and surrendering them without a fight.

Second, after he led the army to attack, he also ordered an attack, and drove these civilians to disrupt his formation, take the opportunity to cover the killing, and win a complete victory!

Seeing Tan Zhong's sinister intentions, Guo Rong unconsciously clenched his fists, and at this time, Guo Rong finally had a deeper understanding of being old and not dying as a thief.

Guo Rong once thought that old guys such as Ju Wenzhen, Zheyungu, Duan You, Han Hong, and Wu Shaoxiong were already thieves, but now, Guo Rong has to admit that he is still too young, those people may be thieves, but Tan Zhong has taken the old and immortal to the extreme for thieves.

Strictly speaking, Emperor Li Yu and Wu Shaoxiong, who he just dug up, have reached the peak of their grasp of people, but Li Yu and Wu Shaoxiong are better at people and things.

They have seen people, have a high vision, and have a good understanding of the general situation, but these two do not know how to arrange troops, if these two are allowed to lead troops to fight, there is a high probability that they will become another soldier on paper.

In all fairness, Guo Rong thinks that up to now, the only one who can compare with Tan Zhong, the old guy, is his father-in-law who led 3,000 white-haired soldiers to guard Qiuzi - the king of Wuwei County and the capital of Anxi to protect Guo Xin.

Of course, Guo Rong thinks that his father-in-law Guo Xin is even better, after all, it is not something that people can imagine for 50 years of being alone in the Western Regions!

What's even more terrifying is that even when there is no hope at all, Guo Xin is still studying the life of the Tang Dynasty's sworn enemy Tubo, with the help of three thousand divine forces and a caravan, Guo Xin has begun to pry the lifeblood of the Tubo people.

It's terrifying.

The reason why Mo Lingjun was able to pit Tan Zhong once was because Tan Zhong was already underestimating the enemy at that time.

If it weren't for Tan Zhong's own underestimation of the enemy, and Mo Lingjun's methods were indeed ruthless enough, so ruthless that Tan Zhong would not have doubted at all, Mo Lingjun would not have had a chance to use a counter-plot at all.

But now, when Tan Zhong tried his best, Guo Rong found that it was almost impossible to make Tan Zhong make another mistake.

Looking at the people outside the camp, who were densely packed and walked like the walking dead to the camp (guyong), Guo Rong fell into a trilemma for a while.

If there is any good news, it is that there is a full five miles of distance between the camp of Lu Longjun and Changying Army, and with the state of these civilians, I am afraid that they will not be able to walk here without an hour, so Guo Rong still has a little time to think.

At the same time, Zai Tan Zhong changed into the uniform of an ordinary cavalryman, and quietly looked at the fortress that looked very strong in the distance at the camp gate.

The reason why Tan Zhong was determined not to kill people was very simple, he obtained information from the people who were looting around him, and the Changying army had persuaded him before the war.

For Tan Zhong, the so-called morality and humanity have no value at all, and the so-called benevolent and righteous teachers are even less worthy of mention in front of the butcher's knife.

However, since the other party is willing to be XX and set up an archway, he doesn't mind taking advantage of the other party's psychology.

Looking at the dense crowd of people, Tan Zhong wanted to know how the young commander on the other side was going to welcome his gift.

Guo Rong didn't know that Tan Zhong thought that what he gave him was a gift, but standing quietly on the watchtower, looking at these civilians who were moving forward step by step, Guo Rong remembered the words that Wu Shaoxiong said when his hands clenched his fists like chicken paws, and then the confusion on Guo Rong's face disappeared, replaced by firmness.

"Since you want to play, then yes will accompany you to play a big game," Guo Rong said, looking behind him, "Mu Yu, Han Xiang, notify all military academies above the battalion level to the center of the camp to give me an order, and notify the whole army to fight!"