On the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

A spring rain and a big victory, Ding'an City has become different from the past, and the streets and alleys are full of excitement. Although some people were worried about the crusade of the imperial army, most of the people remained optimistic.

With the help of the yamen officials, the victims outside the city successively received rations, farm tools, and seeds and returned to the villages, taking advantage of the spring plowing season.

Su Mansion was also busy, and his relatives named Su Ting took the younger generation of the same clan to the neighboring counties, and went farther away to gather grain, iron, and medicinal materials.

From time to time, Su Congfang wrote letters for people to send to familiar friends in various states to help mobilize supplies or tell what happened to the Su family.

Everything is in full swing to prepare.

Su Chen, who had just returned from a tour of the city, was about to rush back to the south chamber before he had time to eat a bite of lunch, and the tired Dian Wei's stomach sounded like thunder.

Thirteen was also hungry.

Halfway through, I unexpectedly saw my second sister-in-law Hua Hongzhen standing slim on the side of the stone bridge, holding a food box in her hand.

"Uncle, this is for you."

Su Chen was a little strange, but he still had something in his heart, so he asked Dian Wei to take it, and after thanking him, he dragged his cloak and strode back to the courtyard, his merit bar had reached 60,000, and he could unlock the next emperor.

As for which one to unlock, he hadn't figured it out yet.

At this time, he entered the ancestral hall, and the Taoist who was 'invited' back again, saw Su Chen coming back, bowed, rolled his eyes and left. In the ancestral hall, several figures have been seated, Wei Taizu Cao Cao, Han Xian Emperor Liu Xie, and Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Guo Jia, Xun Yu on the left and right.

However, Liu Xie carefully moved his steps and distanced himself from Cao Cao.

"Su Chen has seen you!" Here, Su Chen strode in and arched his hands to both sides, and Dian Wei, who was following behind, unloaded his halberd and walked to Guo Jia to stand still.

"Shall I stand over there too?" Thirteen cautiously leaned behind Su Chen and asked.

Su Chen glanced at him: "You stand outside." ”

"Oh." Thirteen lowered his head and stepped outside to stand still.

In the ancestral hall, Su Chen took off the iron helmet and put it on the ground, took a handful of long incense from Xun Yu's hand, took a deep breath, his face was solemn, and he slowly stepped forward and bowed three times.

After inserting the incense burner, he knelt on the futon, and his voice was clear.

"The descendants of future generations, meet the ancestors of China."

The curling green smoke swayed, and suddenly spread out obliquely, like a carpet spread to a statue displayed on the table, Cao Cao and Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty closed their eyes slightly, took a breath, and then exhaled comfortably.

At this time, the spiritual position on the offering table began to shake slightly, and Lu Bu, Guo Jia and others, who were sitting on the left and right, got up one after another, looking at this scene in surprise.

Su Chen was also quite surprised, he remembered that it was not like this before.

"I finally remember to come to Shangxiang, I was almost suffocated to death, but I can be regarded as able to speak." Suddenly, a voice came from the spiritual position above, and the wooden plaque of the spiritual position was engraved with Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

"The one surnamed Zhu, the warrior of the grassland has never been afraid of the enemy, and he has not distinguished life and death last time......"

"Can you sell me a face?"

"There are still warriors in the grassland? Back then, my generals ploughed the grassland several times, and so could I! ”

"Don't say if you can sell me a face."

Several spirit positions around him suddenly turned, and their voices rang out in unison: "Swine fever, I still want to fight!" ”

What's going on?

Su Chen blinked his eyes and looked at Cao Cao and Liu Xie, the latter also didn't know that this was not the case for them at that time.

"Maybe it was because the spiritual position was burned that day, and they were all annoyed." Cao Cao said what he guessed.

Since he can speak, he can speak, Su Chen recovered and arched his hand towards the spiritual position above: "Su Chen greets your majesty!" ”

The next moment.

Dozens of overlapping and turning into a single voice: "Get up"

Then, a venerable spiritual position looked at the other spiritual positions on the left and right, and suddenly there was a commotion, "He is calling me" and "Obviously calling me?" "What does it have to do with you?"

"Don't say it, let's talk about it." Cao Cao suddenly spoke, and the spirit seats on the table that were pushing each other stopped and returned to their original positions.

Su Chen thanked Cao Cao, in the face of so many emperors, it was the first time for him to calm down, and then he talked about the current situation in Ding'an City, hoping that they would do this.

"Of course it's a fight, and there's a question?" This is what Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin said.

"The three armies are coming from afar, so they should wait for work, kill them for a while, and then cut off the food route."

“…… This scene of yours is familiar to one of my sons, fourth! Fourth! Zhu Yuanzhang shouted twice, "I forgot, you haven't placed his spiritual position yet." ”

At this time, a voice sounded: "Stabilize the hearts of the people, collect prisoners, publicize documents, disrupt the foundation of the country, and dust and smoke will rise in all states." ”

Su Chen pursed his lips and wrote down these words, and then bowed to the spiritual seats, and in an instant, the noisy offering table became quiet.

"Stabilize the hearts of the people, take prisoners, and be lonely enough to have a choice."

Cao Cao whispered two words: "Liu Bei." ”

"Cao Gong is right, at this juncture, it is not enough to have a leading general, so you should recruit soldiers who dare to fight!" Guo Jia twisted the tip of his beard, and then raised his finger: "Liu Bei is known as a benevolent person, who can make the people and captives return to their hearts." Most of the civil and military under his command are unwilling to die in their hearts, and if they can reunite here, they will be ecstatic and fight with all their might! ”

Su Chen nodded, there is no shortage of generals at the moment, what is lacking is available soldiers, and if Liu Bei is unlocked, it can solve the urgent need.

No more hesitation.

He bowed respectfully, and the merit bar in his mind quickly dissipated to zero.

……

Because of a spring rain, the road in Ding'an City was muddy for several miles, a large number of victims dragged their families back to their hometowns, the official road was full of people, and there were also men pulling the car body, on which were his wife and daughter and a few hoes, a bag of seeds, the turning wheels ran over the potholes and slowly moved forward in the crowd, when he fell into a deep pit, the man was difficult to pull, and he was about to let his thin wife get out of the car to help.

Several figures on horseback approached, and the young man at the head jumped off his horse and came straight over, and the woman on the cart thought she had come to reprimand them and pull the cart away.

However, the figure who came over stepped into the muddy water, lifted the body forward, and the wooden wheel suddenly passed the pothole, and the man pulling the cart turned back to thank him, and was about to shout when he saw a familiar face he had the good fortune to see at the city gate.

The young man shushed at him, then turned and got on his horse.

"Little Hou Ye!"

The man hurriedly picked up his daughter in the car, pulled her to the side of the road and knelt down towards the figure who urged the horse to leave, "Little Marquis, my family thanks you for your great kindness in life!" ”

In the drought for a few months, Su Chen has been running, from sending the three sects and nine streams in the city to find water, to sending emergency rations to the branch altar of the Desolate God Sect, at first everyone thought that the government and Su Hou Ye were doing it, but later they gradually realized that this little Hou Ye also contributed a lot, and he never showed off.

Now helping to push the cart, the man finally couldn't hide his suppressed emotions for so long, knelt on the ground and let his ignorant daughter kowtow together, and the victims around him heard this shout, they turned their heads and looked at the figure of the horse rushing into the field, and they were a little moved, most of them also knew it.

"Little Marquis, thank you for your life!" Someone shouted out as well.

The crowd surged, put down what they were holding, and knelt down in place, and then, one after another, they knelt in black pressure.

Wow!

In the distance, Su Chenle stopped the war horse, the war horse raised its hooves, he was on the back of the shaking horse, looked sideways at the large kneeling figure, and the voice resounded: "Folks, get up quickly, go back!" When you return home, everything will be fine, Su Changsheng will never let you go hungry on the day you are born! ”

After speaking, he bowed his hand, pulled the reins, and galloped to the southeast barracks. Now the camp has expanded several times, and a special place has been built to keep the prisoners, and the former imperial armor prisoners in the city have been sent here together.

The sheds built were connected together, and more than 30,000 people gathered here, if it weren't for the fact that Yun Yaohou sent a batch of food a few days ago, he really didn't dare to leave these captives until now, at least half of them would have to be disposed of.

The sky is warm.

Large groups of captives walked around in the fence, some lazily lying on the ground basking in the sun, others sitting on the ground catching lice in their hair, and around them there was an arrow tower, and the soldiers guarding it watched them with bows and arrows.

At this time, the soldiers of the Ding'an Army came to drive them and drove them behind the fence near the high platform in front, and a group of people were not afraid of these soldiers, and even wanted to go over and fight.

After a while, someone walked over, his robe was not bright, and after walking on the high platform, many people found that he was covered with many mud spots.

"I was outside just now, and I accidentally fell."

This caused a group of captives to laugh.

"Actually, it's not wrestling, it's just that it rained on this day, and the victims outside returned home to farm, and they helped in the past." Su Chen smiled at them, took off his brocade robe full of mud spots, threw it on the ground, put on a single coat and walked to the high platform, and suddenly sat down, his feet hanging outside.

"What's so funny, you are all from poor families, and you probably know how difficult it is to walk after the rain, the pit is full of water, and if you accidentally step on it, your shoes will be soaked."

As he spoke, he lifted his steps for the captives to see.

"Those people, after a long time in Ding'an City, there is only one meal a day, and they can't eat enough, but do you know how much food they have to consume every day for just one meal, but no matter how much food they eat, Ding'an City must let them eat this meal, who told them to live here."

As the words spread, the captives, who were still a little laughing, gradually fell silent, they knew how the drought was going, and most of the farmers in their families were farming, and they were not bad in the barracks these months, but the people at home and in the village suffered and even starved to death.

Hearing Su Chen's words, someone buried his head and sobbed.

"My father died of hunger, and he left everything he could eat at home for his sister and mother......"

Some people choked up and said:

“…… The family is from Qizhou, and the government has only opened a granary for half a month...... My daughter-in-law sold her brother...... Changed a few full meals......"

On the high platform, Su Chen listened to the intermittent words, he pursed his lips and slowly stood up.

The wind blew, like a figure stuck behind him.

- Benevolence!

His voice continued.

"My Su family is a marquis, but never forget the people, when my eldest brother is still there, he runs around for the victims every day, gathers grain everywhere, and he records every grain of rice in the official warehouse, thinking about how to distribute it to the people, so that they can survive until the spring of this year, but such a person died in Yanjing last year, he is an upright and pure person, because of a crime of bullying the emperor was killed by the emperor, so my Su family reversed ......"

"Now that the army is pressing, I am not afraid of being defeated and killed, nor am I afraid of being destroyed, but I am afraid that the people of a city will be affected by the soldiers and be treated unfairly. I'm here...... I just want to ask you! ”

In the midst of countless intertwined sights, Su Chen bowed his hand and slowly bowed down to the captives below, "I beg you, help the people of Ding'an to avoid the suffering of the sword soldiers, they can't leave their homes anymore, please let them live." ”

The words drifted over the camp, and the captives who were standing or sitting looked at the bowed figures and were slightly moved.

Someone patted his ass and turned to leave, but squeezed through the crowd but walked in the direction of the exit, and said to the soldiers outside: "Open the door, I will join the Ding'an Army!" ”

In the voice, more people walked this way.

The iron chain at the exit was pulled away and thrown to the ground, the door of the fence opened, and one by one figures walked out, the people were in the crowd, a large number of captives left, and the rest of the people also walked out, even the original group of imperial city armor soldiers, perhaps fed up with the life of captives, or infected by Su Chen's words, also walked out.

More than 30,000 people, mostly local soldiers and horses, lack of training all year round, after the last battle, the courage is much greater than before.

Soon, Le Jin and Dong Zhuo came over, returned their weapons and armor, and carried out regular drills.

Su Chen would also come every day to practice with these soldiers, and after that, he would go to Taiping Road to discuss some matters with Zhang Jiao, and then send a large number of leather armor, steel knives, and spears.

On the seventh day of the second month, the 100,000-strong army from Yanjing reached the border of Rongzhou.

On the eighth day of the new year.

The more than 30,000 soldiers in the barracks had no drills, and gathered outside the east city gate, and more than 10,000 Ding'an troops and cavalry also came.

A group of contemporaneous generals such as Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Le Jin, and Zhang Liao were also among them, and even Zhang Jiao led 3,000 Yellow Turban soldiers to the vicinity.

Countless eyes looked at the castle tower.

Suddenly, a white banner appeared at the head of the city and stood tall.

Su Chen walked past the eyes of his relatives around him, wrapped a white cloth around his forehead, tied a hemp rope, and walked straight to the stone steps to climb the city.