"Master, there is a group of cavalry in front of us moving quickly toward us. Judging from the uniforms, they should be our soldiers. I guess it is the Crown Prince who is coming to pick you up!"
Ye Fei looked excitedly at the dozens of people approaching from far away, and a cloud of dust rose up wherever they passed.
"Mother!"
Li Chengmu stopped his horse in a hurry, jumped off and ran to Xia Jing. He raised his head and looked at her excitedly: "Mother, why are you here? You didn't tell me first. Do you want to give your son a surprise?
"
Xia Jing's eyes looked over Li Chengmu, and she became darker and stronger. Finally, her eyes stopped on his smiling face with big white teeth, and she said in a rather disgusted tone: "We haven't seen each other for so long, what are you doing?"
Are you still this stupid?"
"In front of the Queen Mother, my son wants to keep this pure smile forever and be a filial son. Queen Mother, do you like it?" Li Chengmu didn't care at all and asked for praise with a smile.
The smile on Xia Jing's face couldn't help but widen, and she nodded: "I like it, no matter how you change and grow, you will always be my Xiao Wu!"
Seeing this guy standing in front of her unharmed, Xia Jing felt relieved.
The generals following Li Chengmu saw that the mother and son were almost interacting, so they all came forward to pay tribute.
"I will finally meet the Queen!"
Xia Jing crossed the faces of several generals and said with a smile: "You have worked hard these days to accompany Xiaowu all over the place. You have worked hard to recover Yingchuan. Thank you for your hard work!"
On behalf of everyone, Long Yutian stepped forward and clasped his fists and replied: "Leading the troops in battle is the responsibility of the general, and he does not deserve the praise of the empress!"
Several captains of the personal guards who were following Xia Jing also came forward to greet Li Chengmu. After both parties exchanged greetings for a while, the team set off again.
When we arrived at the camp outside Yuzhou City, it was already dusk.
Li Chengmu arranged a simple dinner that night and wanted to marry Xia Jing, but she refused.
It must have been a hard journey all the way here. Xia Jing just wanted to lie in bed and didn't want to move. She was exhausted and had dinner. She washed up and went to bed early.
At dawn the next day, Xia Jing was woken up by the sound of horse hooves. She got up, washed up and walked out of the tent.
"Mother, you're awake. How did you sleep last night? Are you used to staying in the military camp?" After Li Chengmu got up, he came over to see if Xia Jing was awake. Unexpectedly, he saw Xia Jing as soon as he walked to the tent.
Walked out.
Xia Jing looked at him with a smile and said, "A dreamless night!"
"That's good." Li Chengmu glanced at Ye Fei who was following Xia Jing and found that the maid had not followed, so he asked: "There are many places in the military camp that are inconvenient. It must be a lot of inconvenience for the queen to come out without the maid.
Do you need your son to buy two maids to serve you?"
Xia Jing looked down at the military uniform she was wearing and refused: "No, do you think my mother needs a maid to serve her in this outfit?"
Li Chengmu circled around Xia Jing to save face, and said: "Tsk, tsk, my mother is wearing a military uniform, she is so heroic, a woman is not inferior to a man, and her beauty is even better than a man's! It's just that, you wear this military uniform
There is no conflict with having people wait on you!”
The military commander following behind turned his head. He really didn't want to see the usually majestic Crown Prince acting like a middle-aged boy in front of the Queen.
Xia Jing did not argue with him about the matter, but let him lead the way, and everyone went to the king's tent to have breakfast together.
After breakfast, Xia Jing had time to understand the current situation.
Long Yutian summarized the current situation with Xia Jing. After that, he asked: "What do you think of the current deadlock between the enemy and us?"
"The rebels are waiting for work and have city defense. Logically speaking, they should be able to fight us a few times. Now they are hiding in Yuzhou City and cannot come out. I guess they have some scruples."
Xia Jing looked at the generals present and continued her analysis: "The rebels like to bluff. If they have two to three hundred thousand soldiers, they will boast that they have millions of elite soldiers. However, they claim to have one hundred thousand soldiers stationed in Yuzhou City.
Horses, I guess they should be cut in half. There are no more than 50,000 people in the city, so it makes sense that they can’t avoid the battle!"
After hearing this, Long Yutian thought for a while and asked: "Your Majesty's analysis is correct, but judging from the current situation, it is not a long-term solution for us to besiege without attacking. If we continue to besiege, the consumption of food and grass will be astronomical. Our consumption will be astronomical."
I'm sorry."
Xia Jing looked at him and said: "We can't afford it, and the rebels can't afford it either. Their food and grass should be tighter than ours!"
Long Yutian: "That's what the empress wants."
Xia Jing raised her eyebrows at everyone, "Let's just besiege and not attack for now. The crops in the crop fields outside the city are almost mature and will probably be harvested in a few days. We don't have to wait these days.
Starting in the afternoon, we will divide some of our soldiers out to harvest the rice in the fields and the wheat in the fields."
Long Yutian suppressed the excitement in his heart and looked at Xia Jing excitedly: "What the empress means is that there is not much food and grass in the city. The rebels must be more anxious than anyone else when they see the food that is about to mature being harvested by us. Then we will see what happens to them."
If they don't leave the city, we will have enough food for the next battle. If they leave the city, we will take the opportunity to beat up the drowned dogs and capture the city of Yuzhou."
"Wonderful, wonderful, this plan is very clever!"
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Next, the rebels in Yuzhou City discovered that the "persuasion to surrender" operation had not stopped in the past few days. At midnight, after more than a dozen riders returned, no one came to replace them.
"What's going on?"
"Haha. What else could be going on? They must have been trying to persuade us under the city for a few days, but when they saw that we were indifferent, they gave up!"
"Giving up so easily?"
"That is, after a few days, my voice will be hoarse, but we don't care about them, we just watch the show. If they can't persist, of course they give up!"
Some rebels did not believe it, thinking that the imperial soldiers and horses only went back to rest at noon, and would definitely come to the city on time in the afternoon to talk about interesting and new things in the imperial military camp!
Only this time they were disappointed!
The imperial soldiers did not come to the city again. Some sharp-eyed rebels discovered that there were many imperial soldiers busy in the farmland in the distance. What were they doing?
After a long time, they finally realized what they were doing when they saw the clearing left by harvesting.
"Zhuo! They gave up trying to persuade us to surrender. It turned out they were going to harvest food!"
"Hurry and report to the general. The soldiers and horses outside the city have gone to our rice fields to destroy the food! It's terrible. There is not much food and grass in the city. Now the food outside the city is about to mature, but the enemy has taken the lead.
What should I do?”
"Bang!"
In the Yuzhou government office, Lu Leshan punched the table. The table was shaken by the impact and moved a little, and all the tea in the teacup on the table spilled out.
"That's too much!"
The staff asked anxiously: "General, what should we do now?"
Withdrawing from Jiankang to Yuzhou, I thought I could enjoy a happy life for a year, but I didn't expect that before the autumn harvest was over, the imperial troops came after me again.
When Lu Leshan heard this, he turned his head sharply, stared at him with cold eyes, and asked: "Why didn't you remind me, the general, to erect the wall and clear the country a few days ago? As a staff member, couldn't you have thought of things that I couldn't think of?
Or are you just a fucking loser?"
After hearing what he said, the staff turned pale and pale. It was because he had not thought carefully about this matter, but was it necessary to be so disrespectful?
Lu Leshan looked at his staff's pale and white faces, snorted coldly, pursed his lips and said nothing!
It really pissed him off!
He was horrified when he thought about the large farmland outside the city and the large amount of food being stolen by the imperial soldiers in such an open and honest manner!
"Damn it, who is more of a thief!"
His lieutenant general now asked: "General, are we going to let them harvest the food that should belong to us?"
The staff stood nearby and nodded desperately, yes, what is the difference between this and robbery?
Lu Leshan calmed down his emotions: "How long can the food and grass in our city last?"
The deputy general and the staff looked at each other, and the deputy general replied: "About ten days, half a month at most!"
Originally, the grain and grass in the city could last until the autumn harvest, but due to the sudden arrival of imperial troops, they were caught off guard and the grain outside the city had no time to harvest.
Lu Leshan frowned: "We will observe it for two days before talking."
Even if the imperial troops and horses are divided, half will go to the autumn harvest, and the remaining troops and horses are not something they can fight against.
After much thought, this is a dead end!
I don't know how to deal with it. Otherwise, he also leads the team to escape to Runan?
Although he thought about it thousands of times, Lu Leshan showed no signs of panic, making the deputy general and his staff confused about what he was thinking.
In the next few days, Lu Leshan had one more thing to do every day, and this one thing was to persist from morning until the sun went down.
As for what I was doing, I naturally sat in the city gate tower every day and watched the autumn harvest outside the city.
Seeing the soldiers and horses of the imperial court harvesting one field after another, Lu Leshan's heart bleeds. Those are all grains, life-saving grains!
"When will the reinforcements from Wuping, Ningping, Nanton and Ruyang arrive?"
When the deputy general heard the question, he was slightly stunned. He glanced at the extremely arrogant imperial soldiers and horses outside the city and replied: "The following counties have heard about the situation in Yuzhou City. They are all rushing to harvest in the autumn, waiting for the food to be harvested.
, may come to rescue Yuzhou City. At present, we can only save ourselves temporarily and hold on for a while."
After Lu Leshan heard this, he couldn't do anything no matter how angry he was. Now he didn't even dare to open the gate of Yuzhou City. How could he reprimand the officials in the county below?
Inside Yuzhou City, they are thinking about how to save themselves, and outside the city, Xia Jing is also thinking about how to drain the city, speed up or force them to go out of the city to fight!
After pondering for a long time, Xia Jing decided to go to the city first to explore the reality before making any plans.
The autumn air is crisp and clear, and the moon is bright and the stars are few and far between at night.
Xia Jing climbed up the city wall quickly and climbed into Yuzhou City. After confirming the approximate location of the government office, she ran towards the government office.
Fengzhang was trapped in Yuzhou City and was bored. Late at night, he could not sleep alone. He was sitting on the roof admiring the moon, but he never thought that someone was floating by at high speed on the roof in the distance.
Seeing the opponent's agility, Feng Zhang's eyes lit up and he became interested. He threw the wine bottle in his hand to the ground, and the person was shot out like a sharp arrow.
It was only after chasing for a long time that Feng Zhang realized that he was not wearing night clothes. He was wearing a moon-white robe with wide sleeves and was speeding under the moon. If anyone looked up, they would think that it was a god from the sky coming down to earth.
Already.
Digging into the backyard of the government office again, Xia Jing found the study room with ease.
This time was different from the last time she came. Lu Leshan was the only one in the study drinking.
From Xia Jing's perspective, Lu Leshan was already drunk, but he was still eating and drinking, while cursing from time to time.
As for who to blame, it must be the imperial soldiers and horses that caused the current predicament, as well as the generals of the imperial soldiers and horses, especially the commander-in-chief Li Chengmu.
Xia Jing stood outside the house and picked her ears. She didn't expect a grown man to be so mouthy, and she felt ashamed.
"Do you like hearing men curse?"
Although the sudden male voice was very quiet, it still startled Xia Jing. She turned around suddenly and saw the male god standing under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree who had descended from the earth to save her from disaster.
Xia Jing swayed slightly and quickly moved in front of him. She looked at the man's appearance and could only describe it as a coquettish guy.
"Who are you?"
Feng Zhang raised his hand to smooth the hair on both sides, and slightly raised his lips: "Those who watch the theater under the moon!"
Xia Jing didn't expect him to answer like this. She glanced at him in surprise, crossed her arms, thought for a while, and asked seriously: "Are you Wu Gang who cut down trees in Guanghan Palace?"
"Wu Gang?"
Fengzhang never expected Xia Jing to ask him this. He glanced at Xia Jing's graceful figure, then looked at the bright moon in the sky, and a charming smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Why does the girl think that I am the queen of Guanghan Palace?"
people?"
Xia Jing's eyelids twitched and she replied without thinking: "Because Fairy Chang'e came to earth today, you must have followed Fairy Chang'e to the mortal world."
After hearing this, Feng Zhang's mouth twitched uncontrollably. This woman is so shameless. Isn't this a disguised way of praising herself as Fairy Chang'e?
"Why don't you say anything? Could it be that I got you right?"
Xia Jing did not let him go. As soon as this man opened his mouth, she could tell that he was the mysterious man she met during the night visit to the palace.
It's just that tonight he didn't wear night clothes and didn't cover his face, so she saw his face, which was so fascinating that it cost her life!
Feng Zhang followed her and nodded: "Miss, you are so smart. You have guessed this. It's just that I have been chasing Fairy Chang'e, but she has never accepted me. Does Miss have any good ideas to make the fairy accept me?"
Xia Jing sighed, flicked away the sweet-scented osmanthus that fell on his shoulder, and said with a bit of resentment: "Look at you, you have taken cutting down trees as your mission. It's a pity that you are so dedicated to your job, but the fairy doesn't like to smell it."
The scent of osmanthus, the scent of osmanthus lingering around you will make the fairy stay away from you."
Feng Zhang glanced at Xia Jing a little uncertainly. Looking at Xia Jing who had no energy, he suspected that there was something wrong with her brain.
But he still stayed away from the sweet-scented osmanthus tree and stood upwind of the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, "Is that okay?"
Xia Jing nodded: "Yes, yes, no matter how strong the wind is, I can fly you into the sky like a kite!"
Feng Zhang: "."
Xia Jing came closer and asked in a low voice: "Hey, how old are you?"
Feng Zhang: ".I don't know!"
"Oh, you have been cutting down trees for many years. You must be too old and your memory is not good!" Xia Jing shook her head and jumped up to the roof again.
Feng Zhang looked at the retreating figure and slapped his forehead suddenly. He still hadn't figured out who this woman was? What did she look like?
"She escaped again!"
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