People had to endure in silence.

After a while, a shopkeeper dressed in a kudzu cloth robe came out of the room, walked to the stone slab, and added a small "twenty" after the word "hundred" for "one hundred dollars per stone", which became "one hundred and twenty dollars per stone".

"Listen, listen, now it's a hundred and twenty dollars a stone."

"Crazy! It's really impossible to live!"

"What is the quarrel, this is the price of the whole Chao Gemi City Chamber of Commerce. And this is the price for you to go all over the city!" The crowd fell silent for a while, and the money bags in their hands became tighter and tighter, like a silent volcano about to erupt.

In less than half a burnt of incense, the Gebu caftan came out again, and the "one hundred and twenty coins" on the stone slab was changed to "one hundred and thirty coins", one hundred and thirty dollars per stone!

"The price has risen from 100 yuan to 130 yuan a stone in one morning, which is really forcing people to a dead end!" An angry female voice shouted.

Several middle-aged men threw the basket in their hands, raised their arms and shouted, "I can't live anyway, it's better to fight and be a full ghost!"

The volcano was ignited, the guys were pulled out and beaten, the slate was smashed, and people rushed into the counter and snatched the rice bales. The man picked up a bag and left, but the woman couldn't carry it, so she tore the sack with her hands, took off her coat and left with a big bag, and the situation was completely out of control.

Gongsun Yu had never seen such a scene, and he was at a loss for a while......

Wei Hou He went out of the palace to fight the fire last night, but whether it was in Chaoge City or outside the city, when he arrived, the time to put out the fire had passed. He could only watch as the mountains of grain depots turned into scorched earth and there was nothing he could do.

Early in the morning, he returned to the inner palace with fireworks all over his body, and waited from mid-day to sunset, only to see Gongsun Yu enter the palace with a frightened face. Although he knew that the aftermath was difficult, he couldn't help but sink his face and said, "It's really hard to wait for the prime minister!"

Gongsun Yu pounced and bowed down, and roughly recounted the incident of the common people grabbing rice on the way here, and concluded: "The two granaries are running water, and the people in the city are already panicking, but the unscrupulous female merchants take this opportunity to hoard and raise the price of grain. And if the people sit on a volcano, the slightest spark will ignite their anger, and the situation in Chaosong City is already dangerous!"

What a poisonous strategy! Wei He knew that there was little rain in the country last year, the grain harvest was poor, and the price of grain was already soaring. Now that there has been an accident in the storage of grain, once the people have no food to eat, they will starve all over the place, and even rebel and cause chaos, and the future of defending the country can be seen without asking. You must know that the common people of the country are all descendants of Yin Shang! Thinking of this, Wei He couldn't help but gradually ooze cold sweat from his vest.

"According to you, someone must have done this on purpose?" Wei He asked.

"The granary is a heavy land, and there must be a reason for the sudden fire, and the two granaries inside and outside the city are running water at the same time, which is really strange. In addition, when the black-hearted grain merchants learned the news, they spread rumors everywhere and lured the people to grab grain and hoard grain.

Wei He pondered for a while and asked, "Does the Minister of State know the reason for the water, and how much grain is still stored in Chaoge?" How long can it support the health of the people?"

Gongsun Yu's face was bitter, and he shook his head and said, "The cause of the water is still being investigated, some say that the grain officials accidentally walked the water, and some say that the Rong women deliberately sneaked into the arson." After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "The granaries inside and outside the city are running water at the same time, and the old man thinks that it is more likely that the female cadres will sneak into the granaries and set them on fire."

"Did the insider interrogate thoroughly?"

"The grain officials who accidentally caused the fire have all died in the fire, and the old man suspects that he is closely related to the Rong people lurking, and he was killed to cover up the traces of arson afterwards."

Wei He's face was extremely ugly, and he understood that the enemy's move was intended to plunge the country into turmoil, so that he was unable to go out to relieve the difficulties of the border army of Kui. The granary is naturally heavily guarded, and the people of the Rong world have the ability to set fire to the city at the same time, which can be described as extremely powerful, and it is impossible to achieve it without the help of the hidden insiders.

"The government's grain stock was originally enough to last for three months, but now the granary has burned down eight out of ten, it can be, it can be—" Gongsun Yu's cold face was dripping with cold sweat, and seeing Wei He's solemn expression, he was obviously extremely concerned, and said softly in his heart: "It can only support the military and civilians for ten days." qs

"Ten days?" Wei He became agitated

, slammed the case with a punch, and left the case and paced anxiously: "When the autumn harvest grain is put into storage, it will take at least more than a month, how can you survive these twenty or thirty days?" He stopped abruptly, turned around and asked, "Is it too late to get food from the rest of the city?"

"Your Majesty," Gongsun Yu arched his hand, "the harvest in the whole territory of the country was poor, and the rest of the cities and towns still transferred grain from the Chaoge General Treasury!" For now, I can only ask Song and Qi for food to survive the famine!"

"What about the expedition?" Wei Houhe thought of the biggest problem.

"Your Majesty," Gongsun Yu's voice was gloomy: "This is the time of life and death for the defense of the country, and I should do my best to deal with it. The matter of going out on the expedition is no longer possible, please decide!"

"Looks like that's the way it is!" Wei He let out a long breath.

It's been ten days since we were under siege. In the past ten days, Kui Duoyou has experienced hellish torture.

On the first day, realizing that their side was encircled, the well-trained border troops instinctively organized an effective breakthrough. The cavalry fanned out in all directions, and for a time effectively threatened the stability of the encirclement. But the enemy quickly stabilized his position, counterattacking round after round, knocking the border knights back to their original form one after another.

That whole day, from morning to night, blood stained the desert grass red, and even the sunset had a trace of blood-stained fish. The border army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and finally had no strength to carry out a comprehensive attack, so they had to take advantage of the silence of the night to recuperate.

Kui Duoyou was anxious, he intuitively realized that this siege was not trivial, he climbed the Great Wall of Earth and looked into the distance, and deduced from the campfires and camp tents on all sides that the enemy army was at least 120,000, and he only had 30,000 living forces left.

Kui Duoyou, who is well versed in the habit of not fighting in the dark of the Rong people, decided to attack at night.

This is the final blow while your own combat strength is still alive, and you must do your best. At the same time, the wasteland suddenly collapsed and cracked, and rumbling thunder and hurricanes rolled in from the four fields, and exploded in the boundless grassland camps. The Rong army woke up suddenly, and the people and horses suddenly crowded and trampled on each other, and the casualties were not counted in a moment.

About half an hour later, the various tribes of the grassland finally gathered together in the sound of various shrill horns, and fought to the death. The border army advanced in three directions, and each road was wedged and divided by a thousand cavalry, dividing the 50,000 Donglu army in the innermost layer of the encirclement into dozens of pieces and strangling.

The border troops came prepared, did not hold torches, but wrapped a wide white cloth around the arms of each knight, and tied a large white cloth to the tail of the war horse as a sign of echo.

After the chaos of the Eastern Lynx army, they fought desperately to the death, but found that the fierceness of the border army was not inferior to the most elite Condor warriors in the grassland. These border troops fought in the dark night, like ghosts possessed by long eyes, but with the advantage of the steppe army, there was immediately a border army slammed behind them.

The prairie warriors, who are accustomed to slashing and killing on their own horses, have two weapons that they are best at, bows, arrows, and short spears, which are useless when they are entangled and fighting each other in this dark night, and there is only one way left to slash and kill with the swords and swords of the border army. The scimitar is a mixture of the old bronze knife and the new iron knife, which is far from being compared with the fine iron and steel scimitar of the border army, but in the midst of the jingling and shouting, the scimitar is cut and blunt from time to time, and the grassland warriors can only pick up the iron pieces and smash them indiscriminately.

Seeing that his encirclement was shaking, Jin Wudu shouted: "Blow the trumpet for help—"

The poignant trombone pierced the night sky three times in a row. The shouts of killing rose again from all sides, and the camps of Lin Hu, Donghu, Mizhi, and endless were like thunder, and the knights wielding scimitars poured out like an angry tide rushing out of the canyon and scattered around the Great Wall of Earth, rolling and rumbling!

The enemy was outnumbered, and Kui Duoyou had to urgently shout: "Withdraw to the camp and set up defenses-"

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and when the tide-like steppe cavalry advanced to the land of two arrows from the Great Wall, the tide slowed down. After all, there were nearly 20,000 casualties in the Donglu army in the First Battle last night, and today they are surrounded by them, and they are not in a hurry to fight hard.

In an instant, the Golden Vulture with 30,000 knights from his headquarters had rushed forward from the center, and with a wave of his scimitar, he roared: "Brothers, rush! The time to avenge the death of our brother is just around the corner—"

Suddenly, the tide of the Rong people roared and rolled again, and the horses' hooves were like thunder all over the field, and the sword was shining, and they were flying all over the field

Dancing with a white suede jacket and long yellow and black flowing hair, the sound of killing shook the field, and the ground cracked like a landslide.

At the same time, the drums of war behind the Great Wall of Earth were like thunder. The cavalry on both wings of the Zhou army shouted loudly, flying like two red clouds from both sides of the white torrent, not rushing at the Donglu group of horsemen, but outflanking them on both sides. The Eastern Lynx cavalry didn't care how you ran the horse, and the white torrent only whistled and rolled towards the border army camp.

In the land of two arrows, the lynx knights galloped forward, everyone hung their knives and bent bows and long arrows to wind, and immediately ten thousand arrows were fired together, and the arrow rain poured into the direction of the Great Wall of Earth like locusts flying in the sky. After the salvo was fired, the war horse had rushed forward to a distance of thirty paces from the enemy, and at this time, the second wave of flying soldiers of the Eastern Lynx Knights had made a move—thousands of short spears were thrown together, and when there was no room for fire, the flying horses slashed and drove straight in.

This is the most effective war horse of the steppe cavalry - a land of arrows, a hundred arrows, thirty paces away short spears thrown together, under the fierce killing of the two waves of flying soldiers like a torrential rain and dense locusts, the opponent panicked and scattered, and the shining scimitar of the lynx knight has slashed with the thunderous roar like lightning. The power of these tactics, looking at the armies of the world, there are very few people who can resist three or five shock waves.

At this time, the daytime battle, the steppe knights fought to the death for revenge, and the bow and arrow short spear showed their skills, which was naturally extremely fierce.