Chapter 378 Cannibalism
At dusk, in Yanshi City.
Zhang Zhenzhou Zhou led a dozen personal soldiers to patrol the city while saying kindly comforting the hearts of the people in the city. Because in the afternoon, he transported the other fifteen warehouses of grain out of Muzhai camp outside the city to store, which caused greater anxiety among the people in the city. After being provoked by someone, the people went to Zhang Zhenzhou's Grand Marshal's Mansion to beg him to come out to stop the transportation of grain out of the city and stop this disguised act of abandoning everyone.
The people asked Zhang Zhenzhou to collect grain a few days ago. Every household had little surplus food, so when they heard the instigation of the intrigue, they were so anxious that they surrounded the Grand Marshal's Mansion. Later, more and more people gathered, even the guards could hardly defend it. As for the grain transport trucks on the street, they also blocked women and children and were not allowed to leave the city.
In order to comfort the people, Zhang Zhenzhou was forced to accept the people's requests and stopped transporting grain.
He personally led the soldiers to the streets to inspect and said that he had no plans to leave the city and lead the army back to Luoyang. He also posted a notice to explain that the future food will be uniformly allocated according to the population, so that everyone can go home and wait with peace of mind.
The people were panicked and all hoped that Zhang Zhenzhou could personally guarantee him that if it weren't for Yang Gongqing and Zhang Zhenzhou, they had great prestige in Yanshi City for a long time, or if ordinary generals and the people would have had a chance of mutiny. After Yang Gongqing was attacked, they disappeared. Zhang Zhenzhou alone supported the entire Yanshi City. Although the military affairs were busy, they could only patrol the streets many times to lenient the people's hearts.
When Zhang Zhenzhou led his men to a street intersection, a black-clothed attack suddenly came down in the sky. He held a long green sword in his hand and raised a qi like waves. He fell to the ground with a sword.
At this time, a few men in black who were holding dark green fishing nets were around him, and they surrounded Zhang Zhenzhou and kidnapped him.
A man in black who used a wooden stick and another man in black who used a golden gun was responsible for breaking the back. A tall man in black who used a giant axe to open the road was invincible and easily broke out from the defenders. Under the response of someone, he forced Zhang Zhenzhou to take away the entire Yanshi people with lightning speed.
After this, the entire Yanshi chaos was encountered.
Countless people with intentions ran around and told each other that they were special weapons and powerful enemies. Judging from the power of special weapons and powerful enemies, this was done by Li Mi’s master Nanhai Xianweng and his Nanhai delegation.
The general was captured and the dragon Wuyanshi was in chaos.
There were strong enemy Wagang Army outside, and soldiers came to attack the generals in the city at any time. They suspected each other, and the granary before that was burned, and the hearts of the people were even more shaky and almost collapsed. One of the four generals under Zhang Zhenzhou was inspecting the team and was also captured. The remaining three people each suspected that the other was the insider of the Wagang Army.
The Chengdong faction and the Chengxi faction, which were made by General Feiwu and Wu Guangde, had the most fierce quarrels, first confronted and questioned each other, then cursed each other, and finally fought and fought each other.
In the end, another general Zuo Xiangliu stayed in and occupied the city because he was sitting there and watching, causing strong dissatisfaction among the two major sects, and finally turned into a three-point fight. Until this time, the sky had not completely darkened, but nearly a thousand casualties were killed or injured. Under the attack of the two major sects, General Zuo Xiangliu took his men and some soldiers who could not bear to face his comrades with swords and swords. A total of more than 6,000 people defected to Ma Chang, the Yang Gongqing's troops of Muzhai outside the city.
In order to prevent the people in the city from secretly opening the city gate to Ma Changjun, the two major sects forced the demolition of the floating bridge outside the city, and even forced the demolition of houses with wood and stone to block the city gate and one water gate on three sides.
At night, the two major factions in the east and west of the city fought fiercely, and more than two were placed in the other party's jurisdiction to burn two granaries, kill and injured nearly a thousand soldiers. Even the people in the city were forced to join the two factions. Feiwu, who was in the east of the city, announced in the middle of the night that he surrendered to Li Mi's Wagang army, lowered the Dazheng flag in the city and burned it to replace it with the flag of the Wagang army.
Wu Deguang, who was in the west of the city, also withdrew his military flag. Although he did not surrender to Li Mi, he stood upright as the leader of Yanshi and claimed that General Wu refused Ma Chang's request to enter the city outside the city to fight Feiwu.
Feiwu is not far from Wu Guangde in terms of number of people. Feiwu has 5,000 soldiers, Wu Guangde, and more than 4,000 people, and most of them are trained young soldiers. Many of them are veterans of Yang Gongqing's old subordinates, who are very powerful in combat. If Feiwu had not had three or four hundred "representatives of the people" who were willing to surrender to the Wagang Army, the east faction of Feiwu's city east faction, which was likely to be no match for the Wu Guangde's city west faction.
In anger, Ma Chang ordered the siege of the city to siege although he had not prepared before, but the simple siege equipment also allowed the people in the city to spend the night in panic.
Sleepless overnight.
The gongs and drums outside the city kept throwing stones at the city gate and walls, although they could not have much effect, but the sound made the people in the city frightened.
The Ma Chang's army in the Muzhai outside the city, plus the Zuo Xiang Liu's army who had defected before, were even the most elite deployment of Yang Gongqing and Zhang Zhen Zhou's army. If it weren't for the two major factions guarding the city, they would not be the opponent of Ma Chang's army at all. The Ma Chang's army attacked every hour. With the large number of people and the well-trained soldiers in the city, they could not raise their heads. They had completely filled the first and second river rings of the moat in Yanshi City, and even nearly half of the moat used to open ships under the city.
The catapult cart beat the two suspension bridges at the east and west city gates to the shaking rebels in the city had to burn them with fire to prevent the suspension bridge from falling.
When Ma Chang's army saw that the city gate suspension bridge turned into ashes, there were only two iron chains left, and had to withdraw the troops temporarily.
The south of the city is the water gate of the three gates, but it has been occupied by Wu Guangde's troops in the west of the city. They demolished dozens of private houses and blocked the gate with wood and stones, and eliminated the possibility of attack. The only way to retreat was the small gate of the north of the city. However, General Feiwu was guarded by Muzhai and was extremely far away from Macheng. The third ring moat had not yet been filled, but it was the safest gate.
In the afternoon, when Shan Xiongxin's vanguard army marched to the city of Yanshi, they all couldn't help but become stupid.
No one can believe his eyes.
Before the enemy arrived, the Zheng army actually started fighting first, and it was not a feint to attack the enemy but a real bloody battle. Shan Xiongxin saw that all the catapults made by Ma Chang's army were launched into battle and turned to the city. He couldn't help but exclaim: "No way?"
General Feiwu, who surrendered to the Wagang Army in the city, was so happy that he immediately shot out a letter of surrender to show his surrender. When the people in the city saw that the Wagang Army was approaching, most of the people who originally supported Wu Guangde in the west of the city secretly ran to support Feiwu. If it were not for their homes in the west of the city, almost all the people who could not move around casually were inclined to Feiwu in the east of the city.
When Ma Chang saw that the front army of Wagang Army arrived, he first watched for a while and ordered the wrong order to slowly withdraw back to Muzhai. He also ordered the engineers to dig out nearly ten circular traps in front of Muzhai to resist the enemy.
Shan Xiongxin saw that the enemy had a way to advance and retreat, but he did not dare to act rashly, but he ignored Fei Wu, who surrendered in the city, was afraid of the enemy's plan.
There are two factions in the city, outside the city, and two armies in the city, forming a unique landscape in Yanshi City.
Linglongjiao saw Xu Ziling and the others laughed all day long and hid back to their tent without seeing each other.
Xu Ziling, Ba Fenghan, Song Shidao, Wang Xuanshu, Yang Gongqing, Zhang Zhenzhou, Xuanyong, Ma Chang, and the other general who wanted Liu and Zhang Zhenzhou were sitting around inexplicably, not discussing a war strategy, but was drinking and having fun around the barbecue. Someone was trying to guess and some laugh loudly, no wonder Linglongjiao couldn't stand it.
A red-footed carrier pigeon flew out of the tent and flew around everyone's heads. Suddenly, his wings were closed and his small round eyes fell on Xu Ziling's shoulders. His eyes were staring at Xu Ziling in a flash. His little head was tilted to the left and right, which was very cute.
Xu Ziling took a small piece of paper from the silver ring jade tube of the cute little pigeon's legs, looked at it, smiled, nodded, and then put it in the fire in front of him, and took out another handful of pigeon food to reward the little thing. The red-legged white pigeon also gurgled when he saw that there was something to eat and he kept croaking and pecking and eating.
"All things have been done over there?" Song Shidao looked at the expression on Xu Ziling's face and asked strangely: "So quickly? Will the other party be suspicious?"
:Don't worry." Xu Ziling waved his other hand and gently stroked the red-footed white pigeon and said with a smile: "She is very responsible and will not do anything randomly. And this matter has to be done almost before it officially starts. The only problem now is that if Chao Gongcuo and his group of people were asked to run back, Li Mi would be a little alert."
"Chao Gongcuo and the others left their friends and fled at the battle." Song Shidao went in turn to comfort Xu Ziling and said, "With their style, they would not go back before they wait and see clearly, but Du Ganmu and the person who returned from Yan Li were a little worried."
"On the contrary." Xu Ziling shook his head slightly and said, "I'm not worried that Du Ganmu and Yan Li would not be Li Mi's subordinates, and the crushing defeat inevitably made Li Mi angry. They would never be willing to be Wang Bo's scapegoats. Besides, if they wanted to go back and there was no need to worry about the person who was separated by the chief executive. By the way, what about the two old Zhen Peng? Why didn't you see anyone all day?"
"They pretended that Chao Gongcuo and Mei Tian were addicted." Ba Fenghan laughed and said, "Now I'm going to take your Bibo Knife Couplet again. I haven't seen anyone who practices diligently, but it's the first time I've seen an old man as diligent as they have seen it."
"They are in such a good spirit." Yang Gongqing also said with some envy.
"Is there enough food now?" Wang Xuanshu suddenly asked an unexpected question that made everyone look at him in surprise. Wang Xuanshu's face turned red and asked embarrassedly: "What's wrong? Can't you ask?"
"So this kid is really not a second-generation ancestor?" Ba Fenghan reached out and patted and laughed.
"Can a sword maniac also praise people?" Xu Ziling had already written a small piece of paper and put it on the silver ring of the red-legged pigeon. He stroked the sliding back of the little pigeon and gently threw it away so that it could penetrate the tent and soar into the sky. Xu Ziling turned around and smiled and said to Wang Xuanshu: "Eat enough and eat with confidence and let go of your belly and make sure you can make you broken every day!"
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.
Chapter completed!