"King Yan has let go! Yan Wang Zhun people have left Jinan! ”

The cheers spread all over the streets and alleys, as if Jinan had become a ghost town, came to life, and the refugees who were silently waiting for death on the streets had a light of hope in their eyes, and Gu Huai, who did not venture out of the city because of his uneasiness, naturally heard the news, and he looked at the dozens of notches on the pillars in the Taoist temple, and spontaneously felt like a world away.

OK... Left?

But when he thought of the figure that had not been heard from so far, Gu Huai's heart ached, and he only felt a little out of breath, but the matter has come to this, it is useless for him to continue to stay in Jinan City, if he can get out of the city, maybe he can also make suggestions for Zhu Di to attack Jinan and end this kind of human purgatory as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, he took to the streets, and at this time the scrawny refugees were happily flocking to the only gate of Xicheng that could be opened, although they were faltering, but at least they now had hope of survival.

Gu Huai followed the crowd all the way to the Xicheng City Gate, the scene was the same as a few days ago, countless refugees just like when they poured into Jinan City, desperately trying to squeeze out of the city, but in order to prevent the Yan army from taking advantage of the chaos to attack the city, the tall city gate was only ajar, and there were a large number of soldiers armed with sharp knives to maintain order, and the refugees were forcibly arranged into two rows.

"You, get out! You too! ”

The soldiers nodded at the refugees who walked by one and covered their noses with a frown at the stench on their bodies: "You, pull aside, you, get out!" ”

Gu Huai, who was standing behind and stretched his neck, looked inexplicable, why did he pick and choose when he let the refugees out of the city?

As people continued to leave the city, he stood in the line and walked forward, and when he saw more and more people left behind, and they all had distinctive features, he couldn't help but jump in his heart and secretly screamed that it was not good.

Most of the refugees who were released were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they walked staggeringly, and the refugees who were left behind, more men and fewer women, all looked good and had some strength.

Let's talk about the previous incident of the officers and soldiers confiscating the food of the whole city... What the hell is this picking on strong men?

It turned out that the city defenders didn't plan to release all the refugees out of the city at all, and the city defenders were not strong enough, so they wanted to leave behind these people who could go up to the city wall by pouring two mouthfuls of gruel!

Compared with those refugees with thin yellow muscles and thin skin, thin and weak, although Gu Huai is thin, he can be regarded as having a good complexion, although he has eaten gruel and pickles for two months in a row, he is more or less full of stomachs, although the green shirt on his body is dirty and torn because of the defense of the city, but it has not fallen to the point of being unclothed, and his hair is also well tied, and he is a good candidate for a strong man at a glance.

Sure enough, when it was his turn, the soldier with the knife looked up and down twice, and then fiercely pushed Gu Huai out of the refugee team, Gu Huai stood helplessly, compared to those who had to escape from the city with a few families, but the men in the family were left alone, only those women were left crying and begging, and it was finally easier for a lonely person like him to do it.

However, just as he was about to turn around and walk to the side to observe the situation, an argument in another queue caught his attention, and one of the soldiers, probably impatient, pushed a figure to the ground:

"Damn it, it's a military order! If you want to go out of the city, it depends on my mood, uncle, and if I can't get the money, I'll honestly get out of the way! ”

Gu Huai's gaze fell on the figure, it was a somewhat thin, but very beautiful young man, with a slender skeleton and a thin body, but compared with those refugees with yellow and thin faces, even if there were some stains on his face, it could not cover his white and pure skin, as well as the smart and intelligent eyes, which could not be seen in those refugees who were hungry and tortured.

Gu Huai's body froze.

The young man didn't notice Gu Huai, he patted the dust on his body, got up from the ground, and didn't argue with the soldier anymore, just hid behind the two refugees, and quietly looked at the crowded city gate from behind them, not knowing what he was thinking.

The scorching sun was scorching, Gu Huai stood in the crowded crowd, looking at the small figure, a warm current emerged from the bottom of his heart and traveled all over his body, the sun seemed to be brighter, so bright that it made people feel that the sky was spinning, and the worry of the past two months turned into a burning heat, making his eyes slightly moist.

The young man was still probing his brain, his eyes were still a little unwilling to go back and forth between the soldiers and the city gate, probably finally admitting his fate, his footsteps moved slightly in the opposite direction to the city gate, with the movement, his gaze quickly swept over the stunned Gu Huai, and then his figure also froze in the sun.

The gaze quickly moved back, and landed firmly on Gu Huai's body, those beautiful big eyes were first surprised, then surprised, and then became a little aggrieved, and tears slowly emerged...

Gu Huai walked up quickly, and the small figure also walked out of the shadows, he stopped in front of Gu Huai, looked up at Gu Huai blankly, his small mouth opened slightly, as if he had a thousand words to say, but he couldn't say anything.

"Miaojin..."

Gu Huai's throat was choked, and his voice was a little hoarse.

At this moment, the tsundere Lori in front of her is not a noble county lord, but the cute Lori who walked into the pharmacy in Beiping to grab medicine, for more than a year, it was she who let Gu Huai enter the Yanwang Mansion and take this Jingnan train, it was she who accompanied Gu Huai to Jinling in the south, and returned to Beiping, it was she who said coquettishly in the small backyard of her ancestral house that she wanted to build a small pavilion and plant a lot of flowers, and it was she in the small courtyard in Beiping who said that she would wait for herself to go back and tell her a story...

Xu Miaojin said in a trembling voice: "You... Why are you here? ”

"I'm just going to ask you! It's been more than two months, my God! You... How did one of your daughters survive! ”

It seemed that there were a thousand words blocked in their chests, but Gu Huai and Xu Miaojin couldn't say anything, and they didn't know who opened their arms first, and the two hugged each other tightly, as if they were afraid that as soon as they let go, the person in front of them would disappear out of thin air.

For almost three months, they watched countless people die, the corpses of refugees who died of starvation and were abandoned, and the seemingly never-ending fighting in the city, turning the whole of Jinan into a purgatory on earth.

In three months, the number of refugees who starved to death was several times more than the total casualties of the soldiers on both sides of the siege and defense of the city, and Gu Huai had no hope in his heart, but now he suddenly saw that the person he was looking for was standing in front of him with dignity, isn't it a miracle? This feeling is weak in any language to describe, he no longer wants to ask Xu Miaojin how he has survived these few months, at this moment, he just wants to hug this little figure tightly, hug this person who has been with him since he came to this world.

And Xu Miaojin, who buried her face deep in his arms, has been crying silently, she has been extremely difficult in the past few months, fortunately she is not a big lady who doesn't know anything in the deep boudoir, with the pampering of General Xu Da and Xu Zengshou, so that she has developed an eccentric character since she was a child, plus she is very smart, so she got some silver in the early days of the lockdown, saved some food, plus she is like a thin boy, so she avoided the patrol team that collected refugees to go to the city wall to defend the city, but she couldn't think of it, These people who have been thinking about her for a long time really appeared in front of her eyes!

The reunion in the world is really the most beautiful thing.

……

Fang Kuan, who escorted the grain and grass all the way down from Dezhou, had just finished handing over the grain and grass, and when he heard the news that Zhu Di had summoned him, he could only put down what he was doing first and hurriedly walked into the big tent of the Chinese army.

During the first battle of Baigou River, he was the main general of the rear army, that is, the target of Ping'an and Qu Neng's charge, although he was caught off guard at that time, Fang Kuan did what he should do, resisted Ping'an's attack, and failed to let him break through the rear army, until Zhu Di's raid on the flank did not succeed and returned, he was targeted by Qu Neng again, and the battle was simply a heavy casualty, and the entire rear army was almost not established, thanks to the rout of the southern army, which did not miss Zhu Di's major event.

After the end of the war, his subordinates added a lot of soldiers, but the combat strength was worrying, and most of them were foot soldiers, so they did not go south with Zhu Di, but were stationed in Dezhou, and assumed the responsibility of transporting the millions of stones of grain and grass captured by Gu Huai, but this time the grain and grass were transported into Jinan, but the road was not as smooth as before, because after the last defeat, the generals of the Southern Army such as Ping An Guo Ying finally reorganized the army, and saw that Zhu Di could not catch up, so he simply attacked Zhu Di's supply line, although Fang Kuan did not lose grain and grass, But this journey was also extremely difficult, especially the bridge was almost destroyed by the safe rangers, and they could only meet the water and build the bridge with great difficulty, so they rushed to the city of Jinan, but compared to the scheduled time, it was four days late.

Zhu Di has always been very strict in governing the army, and this kind of thing is delayed by grain and grass, and it was also dealt with by military law in the past, Fang Kuan knew that most of this summons was about this, so he pondered and took the initiative to ask for guilt, but after he entered the big tent in the mud, he found that Zhu Di and the generals were frowning, irritable, and only symbolically asked a few words when he came, and asked him to get a few military sticks by himself.

To say that the Yan army is really not good at attacking cities, carefully calculate, from the Jingnan cavalry to the present, it has not taken any advantage in the siege war, Jinan, the capital of Shandong, is easier to defend and difficult to attack than ordinary cities, plus now most of the armies scattered in the imperial court have been rectified, if Jinan can not be defeated again, I am afraid that trouble will follow.

Thinking of the hardships he had endured all the way south, Fang Kuan had an idea, and suddenly said: "Your Highness, there will be a plan in the end, or you can break the city!" ”

"Oh? Say it! ”

"Yes!" Fang Kuan wiped the sweat from his face and walked to the sand table, "Your Highness, do you remember the old incident when Song Taizu flooded Jinyang City?" But where the big city, will be according to the big river, Jinan next to the Yellow River, if the Yellow River embankment is dug up, the Yellow River water into the city of Jinan, will not be self-defeating? ”

Zhu Di's expression moved, but after a while, he still shook his head and said: "It's not proper, let's not say that the Yellow River bursts its embankment, it is too harmful to the people downstream, and it is inevitable that there is a lack of morality, just say that Jinyang is flooded, and Jinyang is now safe?" I want to fight Jinan, is to fancy Jinan's north-south connection, if Jinan has become a country, what is the use of me fighting? ”

Zhang Yu on the side understood and was overjoyed: "Your Highness, the water attack is indeed inappropriate, but how can the guards in the city know His Highness's intentions?" Jinan is stubborn, but the city is not thick with walls, if they learn about this, can they still consume it like now? How about telling this news to the soldiers and civilians in the city and forcing them to open the city and surrender? ”

There was silence in the tent, and after a while, there was an uproar of approval, and Zhu Di exclaimed: "Wonderful! That's a great plan! ”

He straightened up, and the armor on his body shook: "Order, Feishu enters the city, and tells Tie Xuan that if he doesn't open the city and surrender again, don't blame me..."

"Flooded Jinan!"