War can cause huge damage to a city! This not only affects the construction of the city, but also affects people's psychology.
Yangzhou City began to close its city gates long before Xiao Han went on the expedition, and after him, all personnel were strictly prohibited from entering and exiting at will.
During this period, even if there were refugees nearby who wanted to enter the city, the gate would never be opened! At most, the soldiers on the city wall would use hanging baskets to pull people up.
Moreover, people who enter the city are absolutely not allowed to be picked up by their relatives and friends who live in the city! Instead, they are gathered together, and even eating and sleeping are under special supervision to prevent people with ulterior motives from sneaking into the city.
Young men from every household in Yangzhou City are now mobilized. Each one holds a crude weapon, wears leather armor, or a raincoat, and patrols the city wall day and night!
Although everyone knows that these young men who have never experienced any training have almost zero effect in a cruel siege!
But now, there is really no one available in Yangzhou City, so we can only make do with it. It would be a good thing to have more eyes and ears.
The wood, which had not been used for a long time, was moved to the city wall.
Fire oil is ready in a large pot and can be boiled at any time.
Even the Rolling Stones had several bungalows demolished by the government officials, and the large stones used as foundations were pulled out to make up the quantity Cui Jingzhi mentioned.
In addition, gold juice, push rods, crash carts, as long as they were useful for defending the city, were all mined and used! All the people were also mobilized.
The legendary army has not yet arrived at the city, but the heavy feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city has already made every resident in the city panic-stricken and unable to sleep or eat well.
Fortunately, Yangzhou City is rich!
The food reserves in the city are extremely sufficient, and even if the city is locked up like this, it can survive for several months.
This is the only thing that makes Yang Wen Zhang and Cui Jingzhi feel at ease! As long as they can defend the city, sooner or later they will wait for reinforcements from the court!
"Master Yang, is there no news outside?"
In the evening, Cui Jingzhi, who was on duty at night, climbed the city wall with heavy steps and asked Yang Wenwen, who looked tired.
"Hey..." Yang Wenwen heard the voice and turned around to see it was Cui Jingzhi. He just sighed and shook his head slowly.
"There's no news yet..." Upon seeing this, Cui Jingzhi also sighed, stepped forward and held the wall for a while, hesitated, and suddenly whispered: "Lao Yang, I have always felt that we really should
Send scouts out to take a look! With no news like this, we don’t even know where the enemy is. This will not do any good to defend the city!"
Generally speaking, words like this should be suggestions from subordinates to superiors.
But now, it has become a discussion between superiors and subordinates, which is a bit surprising.
If everyone hadn't known their identities, they would probably have regarded Yang Wen Zhang as a senior official and Cui Jingzhi as a county magistrate.
However, what is even more surprising is that although his official position is several levels lower than that of Cui Jingzhi, Yang Wenwen is expressionless at this moment and just said lightly: "Before Xiaohou left, he told us to just defend the city with peace of mind.
He will take full responsibility for the matter and there is no need to find out the information. I think you and I can just do what we do!"
"At this time, can you still defend the city with peace of mind?" Cui Jingzhi became a little anxious when he heard this. He ignored the surprised looks around him, gritted his teeth and pointed outside and said: "But there are fifteen thousand troops outside the city, and Xiao Hou only has a mere one hundred.
Someone! This makes me feel at ease! Lao Yang, this is not my business alone, it is the business of tens of thousands of people in Yangzhou! I can’t help but be careless!"
"A hundred people, so what!"
Cui Jingzhi was filled with anger, but unexpectedly, Yang Wenwen was even angrier than him!
He saw Yang Wenwen, who was staring outside the city, suddenly turned his head, stared at him with a pair of eyes, and then said word by word: "Xiao Hou is here to defend the safety of the city! Resist foreign enemies.
, this should be a matter between you and me! Now, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands of people in the city, he has resolutely left the city to face a hundred times the enemy. If we here, if we don’t obey his command, are we any different from traitors?!"
Cui Jingzhi was suddenly shouted down by Yang Wenwen, and he felt a little aggrieved.
As the saying goes, the higher you climb, the more you look forward and backward. In terms of firm character, Cui Jingzhi is definitely not as good as Yang Wenwen!
Of course, this is also a matter of character.
In other aspects, Cui Jingzhi may not be inferior to Yang Wenzhi, otherwise, he would not be able to become a long history of a place just as a county magistrate several years younger than Yang Wenzhi.
"I'm not saying to disobey Lord Marquis's order, I'm just sending someone out to take a look, so that if anything happens, I can help Marquis Xiao." Cui Jingzhi knew that he was in a hurry and had some ambiguity in his words, so he hurriedly said
Correction, if nothing else, this willingness to admit mistakes to subordinates is something that most people never have.
"Master Hou, he will be fine!"
Before Yang Wen Zhang had time to speak this time, another person stood up slowly under the city wall and spoke firmly towards Cui Jingzhi.
"Are you... Xiao Hou's butler?"
Cui Jingzhi looked at the person who spoke strangely, and after repeated identification, he realized that this person was the housekeeper he met when he visited Xiaohou's house.
Butler Lu had just heard the entire conversation between the two of them. Although he was a little dissatisfied with the official at this time, he did not show it on his face.
After all, he also knew that Cui Jingzhi was right! He had to be responsible for the people of a city, so he could never place his hopes on one person.
Arching his hands towards the two of them, Butler Lu said politely but not condescendingly: "I have met these two adults."
"Are you here to wait for your Lord?" Cui Jingzhi was kind to Yang Wenzhi, but facing a domestic slave, he still didn't need to be so polite, so he just glanced at Butler Lu and asked casually
.
Butler Lu bowed again and replied: "This old slave is waiting for my Lord Marquis here. My mother-in-law has to take care of the little princess, and this place is too chaotic, so I have to send this old slave here to wait for my Lord Marquis to return."
We will serve you immediately."
Cui Jingzhi's eyes gradually narrowed: "Did you know that your Marquis is everywhere now? How is the situation?"
Butler Lu shook his head slightly: "I don't know! But this old slave knows that the Marquis will return safely!"
"How do you know?"
This sentence went around in Cui Jingzhi's throat, but he didn't say it out in the end.
Why doesn't he hope that Xiao Han can return safely? Besides, if Xiao Han has a problem with him, doesn't he also have to bear the responsibility?
However, there is one thing that Cui Jingzhi does not know: if Xiao Han really has a problem in Yangzhou City, the outcome will definitely be ten times or a hundred times more tragic than if Yangzhou City is breached!
"Hey? Look, what is that?"
Everyone on the city wall was still thinking about their own thoughts, but unexpectedly, a soldier on top of the city pointed to the distance and shouted as if he had discovered a new continent.
