68. Tens of thousands
"Your Majesty, my brother-in-law, you can do well, let go of your brother-in-law and me, you also know that your brother-in-law and I, how can I go into battle to kill the enemy. You are in your sister's face, you don't want your sister to be widowed at such a young age!" Huang Yi is about to cry, you let Huang Yi walk the dog and fight the, that is a good hand, you let him go into battle to kill the enemy, hehe, this is a pig-like teammate. Huang Yi was able to become a general, half of the reason was because he was the son-in-law of the Li family, and half of the reason was because he followed those veterans of the Li family to take credit behind him.
"Who wants you to go into battle and kill the enemy? Li Miao said angrily, how much strength Huang Yi has, can Li Miao not know? Let Huang Yi go into battle, that would be a disservice, at least Li Miao will send ten people to protect him.
"It's good not to go to the battlefield, it's good not to go to the battlefield!" Huang Yi smiled shyly.
"Bring fifty people from your command, I have something important for you to do!" Li Miao said to his brother-in-law, "Don't divulge any of this matter!" Li Miao looked at his brother-in-law seriously.
"Brother Miao, don't worry, your brother-in-law and I have a tight mouth, when do you think you went to the kiln and was found out by your father when you were molesting girls fighting!" Huang Yi patted his chest and said, but Li Miao was full of black lines. This product is not open which pot to mention.
"Take a few people to the granary, find a few carriages to carry the grain for me, and go straight to the north gate after the disaster, waiting for me!" Li Miao is afraid of death, he is not the kind of game that likes to play with the enemy to die together or die for the country.
He's preparing for his own future. There are more than 10,000 enemies outside the city, and there are ghosts who can hold this broken county town, the reason why Li Miao doesn't run now is because he has no food and grass, and if he runs out, he will starve to death, so Li Miao has to play a bitter show, swearing to live and die with Jiang Ting, which is to delay time, let Huang Yi take people to carry the grain and grass to the north gate and wait for him, when the city is broken, it will be broken, and they will retreat directly There is grain and grass and there will naturally be a way to live.
"Hehe!" Huang Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Miao's words, and squeezed his eyebrows at Li Miao, "This is the Brother Miao I know!"
"Get out!" Li Miao kicked at Huang Yi angrily.
"Soldiers, we swear to live and die with Jiang Ting!" Li Miao cheered up the soldiers under his hands, "Think about it, there are your wives, sons, and fathers and villagers in this city, if we leave, who will protect them! If we are gone, they fall into the hands of thieves, then it is really better to live than to die." ”
"Lao Li, right?" Li Miao walked to the soldier's side, "I heard that you have a little doll at home." ”
"Yes, yes, Your Majesty, he, his name is Sanwazi!" This Lao Li said a little nervously, Sanwazi, it means that the two children in front of him have died young.
Lao Li, if we withdraw today and we run away today, then your three babies will be stabbed in the chest by these thieves and dig out their hearts, these thieves can eat when they are hungry, Lao Li, do you think your three babies still have a way to live?" Li Miao asked this Lao Li.
"No!" The corners of Lao Li's mouth were bitter, what was worthless in the troubled times was human life, and it was not a joke to eat people when he was hungry.
"Then do you still want to run?" asked Li Miao.
"I said, our family will either be alive or buried in Jiangting!" Lao Li already showed his will to die.
"No, we have a way to live, as long as we win this battle, as long as we beat these thieves away, we can all live, brothers, think about your wives and daughters, think about your parents, you can't bear to have your parents die under the knife of the thieves, and you can't bear to let your wives and daughters be humiliated by the thieves!" Li Miao shouted loudly.
"No, no, no!" Those soldiers who have families in the city are all full of hideousness, once people get serious, it is terrible, you don't let Lao Tzu live, the shock is a death, Lao Tzu might as well kill you first.
Li Miao couldn't help but feel guilty when he looked at the morale of these soldiers, he was besieged by more than 10,000 thieves below, and it was impossible for the whole army to withdraw, at least he had to lose some abandoned sons after he broke off, and those soldiers who had families in the city were the abandoned sons that Li Miao wanted to abandon, he stimulated their anger, let them fight to the death, and finally retreated with those soldiers who had no family to let go.
"The soldiers will defend the city with me!" Zhang Xun took over these high-morale soldiers from Li Miao's hands.
"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, hurry up!" Li Miao looked at the direction of the granary in the city over there, Li Miao insisted on retreating until Huang Yi transported the grain and grass out over there.
"Your Majesty, the people, have come spontaneously!" Yang Hong's task was completed, he successfully mobilized the people in the city, in fact, there is no need for Yang Hong to say, there are thieves to attack Jiangting, these people are the most afraid, they are afraid of thieves entering the city, afraid that Li Miao will give up on them, and now I hear that Li Miao wants them to go to the city wall and fight the enemy with him Li Miao, these people are a little more at ease, at least this majesty has not abandoned us.
"Okay! Put out all the battle flags in the army, let the people stand on the city wall with banners, and fill the city wall!" Li Miao said to Yang Hong, he wants to bluff and let these ordinary people go up the city wall, as for the city defense can't count on them, what role can a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people do?
Look at an old woman over there, she was still helped up by someone on the city wall, and once the fight started, she had to be taken care of, how to do it!
Therefore, Li Miao only needs them to fill the number, that is, to fill the number indiscriminately, and tell the enemy under the city that we are not without people, we also have so many soldiers and horses, and we still have the city wall, so that you don't move and scare you.
Sure enough, Li Miao's strategy was successful, and the dense crowd of human heads and banners on the city wall really made the thieves below commotion.
Soon the thieves in the city began to loosen their mouths, no longer asking the city to surrender, and not to open the city gates and drop their weapons, but as long as the last item is to teach food and grass, they will let you go.
"As long as you hand over the grain and grass?" Li Miao had a feeling of escaping and ascending to heaven, as long as he didn't attack the city, as long as he didn't fight, it would be fine. As for food and grass, just send some.
"The king of our family said that if you teach a thousand stones of grain and grass, I will let you go and no longer attack the city!" said a representative figure from among the thieves outside the city to Li Miaojun above the city.
"Fight, if you don't beat you, I raised you!" Li Miao shouted loudly, and the lion opened his mouth, as soon as he came, it was a thousand stones of grain and grass, and it was given to you, and I will drink the northwest wind.
"The king of our family said, eight hundred stones!"
Li Miao was stunned for a moment, "Eight hundred stones, if you teach it, then you can only eat four days' rations." "Although I am very aggrieved, but at least I have to live, Li Miao is a little moved, in the good death and survival, Li Miao chose to live.
Just as Li Miao was about to agree, a voice came from under the city, "Six hundred stones, six hundred stones, it's fine, it's really not good, five hundred stones is fine." ”
"Five hundred stones?" Li Miao's eyes flashed, it was okay to keep half for himself, Li Miao was about to agree, but was stopped by Li Yin, a cheap uncle on the side.
"Family master, don't you think there's something weird about it?" Li Yin said as he looked at Li Miao.
"Weird?" Li Miao didn't understand what Li Yin meant.
"Your Majesty, they are thieves, how can they ever talk about morality!" Li Yin explained to Li Miao.
"That's the reason!" Li Miao nodded, he has seen merchants bargain for business, old ladies bargaining for vegetables, and really haven't seen thieves and bargains, robbing you of one million, you say no, then rob you of 500,000.
Is there such a cowardly thief?
"Your Majesty, if you can solve it with money and food, you can solve it with money and food, you can't talk to these thieves, and it will change later!" Yang Hong said cautiously on the side, these thieves are all deadly, as long as money can solve the problem, it is not a thing.
Give them and give them to them, it wouldn't be good if you forced these thieves to jump over the wall.
Li Miao also nodded, he is also a cautious person, it is not good not to capsize in the gutter. After thinking about it, if you give 500 stones, you can still have 500 stones, and you can still be a gangster, and you don't kill them all, so just give it. Let a sleeping dog lie.
"Family master, you gave half of the grain and grass we only have a total of 1,000 stones, and there are only 500 stones left!" Li Yin explained to Li Miao, he knew that Li Miao would not be able to take out other food in a short period of time, even if Brother Li Shu left a back hand, he would not be able to take it out in a short time, because if he could get it back, of course, he would take it out as soon as possible, and the more grain and grass, the more grain and grass, the more people could be reassured and recruited.
And now there are 1,000 stones of grain and grass, at least it can last for more than ten days and half a month, and if half of it is given, then there will be 500 stones left, plus the order issued by Li Miao in order to appease the people's hearts before said that the warehouse should be opened and the grain will be released, so that the people can eat it with an open stomach, so that the grain will be less, and it will not last for a few days. In the end, there is only one way to die.
Li Miao is also entangled, listen to Yang Hong's words, more things are better than less things, after teaching the five hundred stone of grain and grass, it will change from early death to late death, although the thieves may leave, but without food and grass, they will still starve to death in the end.
But if you listen to Li Yin, if these thieves are bluffing, then they still have a way to live, if it is not a bluff, but there are really tens of thousands of thieves who just don't want to attack the city and suffer casualties, then Li Miao and the others will be miserable, tens of thousands of thieves, no one in the entire city will be spared.
Just when Li Miao couldn't make up his mind, suddenly there was a news from there, which directly stunned Li Miao.
"Your Majesty, please surrender to the thieves outside the city!"
"Surrendered!?" Li Miao was also dumbfounded, originally he was still hesitating, what should he do, he didn't want to lose the five hundred stone of grain and grass and didn't want to be in danger, he wanted more than one thing, but he couldn't make up his mind, now it's okay, this gang of thieves surrendered?
Li Miao asked the people around him in disbelief, Li Yin and Yang Hong also shook their heads, they didn't know what was going on.
However, a military general walked in below, with a happy look on his face, and when he saw Li Miao, he immediately knelt down for Li Miao, "The last general, Qin Huai, has seen Your Majesty!"
"Qin Huai, the thief outside the city, has really surrendered?" Li Miao asked Qin Huai.
Qin Huai nodded and waved his hand back, "Come on, bring it up!" In the shouting and scolding of several soldiers behind Qin Huai, this legendary 10,000-person thief leader was brought up.
"Eh!" Li Miao saw the leader of the thieves who was tied up, he turned his head and looked at Qin Huai over there, "Are you sure you didn't catch the wrong person?"
In front of Li Miao is not the legendary fierce god and evil thief leader, but a delicate young man.
That's right, it's just a teenager, looking at that look, Li Miao compared, I'm afraid it's only up to his shoulder.
Qin Huai shook his head.
"If you want to kill, you can kill, if you want to scrape, you can scrape, bring so much nonsense!" the young man, or a child, said very unruly to Li Miao.
"Such a child, will those thieves believe him?" Li Miao asked Qin Huai on the side suspiciously? In the troubled times, strength is respected, and if you can fall into the grass and become the commander of the thieves, you must at least have full force, just such a small arm and leg, how can you convince those thieves?
"Your Majesty, those are not thieves at all!" Qin Huai shook his head and explained to Li Miao.
Over there, Qin Huai's explanation to Li Miao made everyone's faces strange, there are indeed tens of thousands of people outside the city, but they are not thieves, on the contrary, they are all ordinary people, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled people, and there is no difference between those in Li Miao's city, some of them may have fled from other places, and some are directly local people, because their families are ruined, the fields are deserted, and those who have no food can only flee if they want to live.
The sturdy ones have fallen into the grass or joined the army, but these old and sick people have stayed.
In order to survive, these old, weak, sick and disabled gathered together, from hundreds to thousands, and then to tens of thousands, and their leader was the young man in front of him.
"Tens of thousands of people?" Li Miao didn't understand, if it was just the people, why their scouts didn't understand it once or twice.
"Our scouts have all been caught by the traps he has sent!" Qin Huai said, pointing to the young man over there.
Tens of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled, although they are not looked at by others, but there are more ants that can bite the elephant to death, those scouts sent out by Li Miao were caught by this young man, with the old, weak, sick and disabled under his hands with traps, to catch one by one, so they were not able to send the news.
Although he is small, he is still quite capable, and he has robbed several cities with the old, weak, sick and disabled of these 10,000 people.
This robbery is all close to the black, with torches, and the formation is arranged, more than 10,000 people, and the sound of roaring two voices together is also very loud. It was already dark at night, and with more than 10,000 torches, no matter what kind of defending generals were there, they would be cautious.
I want to send out scouts.,Suddenly I was caught by this kid setting a trap.,It's even more blind.,I don't know the movements of people outside the city.。。
In addition, this kid sent someone to flicker, and the timid or weak garrison of the city directly scared the county order away, and the city gate was wide open, so this kid could naturally enter the city to loot, take the money and food and leave.
Those who were scared but were not scared away, this kid let people come forward and flicker, hand over the gun and not kill, no, no, it should be, hand over the grain and grass and not kill, like Li Miao, who is afraid of death, thinking that things that can be solved with money are not a thing, so he will naturally obediently hand over the grain and grass, and spend money to avoid disasters, so this kid will not starve to death in this Jianghuai generation with these tens of thousands of people.