For three days in a row, Dugu Ruizhi was checking the enemy's situation not far outside Luzhou City. Fortunately, although the defenders of Luzhou were not a lone army now, their situation was not much better. They were only trapped in Luzhou City.
, but they didn’t dare to wander around at will. The army of Shenfeng Battalion was stationed thirty miles away from Luzhou, because Dugu Ruizhi ordered not to bury pots for cooking, so the soldiers only ate some dry food to fill their stomachs, and there was no smoke.
The defenders in the city did not notice their presence.
The defenders of Luzhou are now considered abandoned children whose father does not love their mother. Most of the original army was transferred away when Cheng De's army went south. However, Zhao Tieguai died, and Cheng De's army was now defeated by Pei Zhan's Ding'an army.
He was blocked in Jizhou. Because he had supported Zhao Tieguai before, Pei Zhan didn't have a good impression of the Luzhou defenders. The Luzhou soldiers would not rashly swear allegiance to Pei Zhan. In such troubled times, their tens of thousands of people would be ready at any time.
It is possible that it was swallowed by someone, and not even the bones and dregs were left.
They could only spend their time in the city, not daring to go out, and not allowing others to come in. Luzhou was their foundation. Without Luzhou, they would be homeless. Fortunately, Luzhou was the most important military power in the Zhou Dynasty.
One of the most important towns, it has sufficient reserves of food and grass. Most of the 300,000 people in the city have fled. The war has left the great Zhou Dynasty riddled with holes, and the people are looking for a final place to stay in the holes. The Yellow River
The war in the north was too chaotic, but Qinzhou of the Han Dynasty, not far from Luzhou, was much more stable. The Han Dynasty was implementing the land equalization system, everyone had land to farm, and the Han Dynasty had been peaceful and without war in the past few years. Therefore,
, the people of Luzhou began to cross the border on a large scale, and more than 200,000 refugees chose to enter Dahan's country to seek asylum.
Qinzhou is the largest state under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty. Although there is a large population here, there is also a lot of land. Although the arrival of a large number of refugees has taken away a large amount of land, the court of the Han Dynasty does not think that those refugees are moths. This
With 200,000 laborers, how much wasteland can be reclaimed? Just give them two full meals a day, and you can add hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land to the Han people. Why not do it.
The defenders in Luzhou could not afford to feed so many people, so they turned a blind eye to the mass exodus of the people and did not bother to pay attention at all. The Han army in Qinzhou welcomed the large number of refugees.
As long as you obey the rules honestly, there will be food and fields. Qinzhou cannot accommodate so many refugees, so give them dry food and send them to Jinzhou and Luoyang. There are many wastelands there that need to be reclaimed.
What the Han Dynasty lacks most now is population. The more people there are, the greater its power will be. The Han Dynasty's attack on the Zhou Dynasty is actually a bet in which the snake swallows the elephant. Fortunately, this snake is strong enough and has grown as it continues to devour the elephant.
It sprouted four legs and one pair of feet, soared into the air and transformed into a dragon.
Today, the number of people in Luzhou City is less than 30,000, which is still less than one-tenth of the number in its heyday. Even so, Su Zhen, the general of the Luzhou garrison, is worried. The people dare not go out of the city to farm land and granary.
Sooner or later, the food in the city will be exhausted. They are all fellow villagers in Luzhou, and Su Zhen really can’t bear to abandon the people. He encourages the people to go out and make a living elsewhere, but those who choose to stay in the city are
They couldn't be driven away by force. Most of the people who stayed in the city were relatives of the soldiers. Su Zhen only hoped that they would die of illness and old age quickly.
Su Zhen is not a person who cannot do cruel things. When the day comes when food and grass are in short supply, he would not mind sending these people to reincarnation in advance. The reason why he did not do this is because he, the general of Luzhou, has not yet
It’s true. The original Luzhou General Gao Yuan was transferred by Zhao Tieguai and later died in battle on the banks of the Daqing River. He took this position not long ago. If he slaughtered the people in the city, it would be strange if his soldiers didn’t rebel. Even
, he was sure that as long as he gave this order, he would be the first to die.
He is waiting for the day when the chaos of the Great Zhou Dynasty ends. Whether it is Pei Zhan, the left Wuwei Han Yizhi, the right Wuwei Liu Ji, Yue Lemihuang who leads the left and right army guards, or the menacing King Liu of Han
Ling, as long as someone can end the chaos in Dazhou, the crisis in Luzhou will be resolved. Su Zhen is a very self-aware person. He knows that with the military strength in his hands, he will never be able to participate in the cruel game of Zhongyuan.
He only needs to firmly control Luzhou before the troubled times end, and that will be enough.
He only wants to be a general, not an emperor. He knows that he does not have that destiny. However, if someone wants to take advantage of him in Luzhou now, he will never agree! This is his nest and the place where he settles down and settles down.
.It’s not that he didn’t know the importance of Luzhou, so he was really nervous after learning that Liu Ling, the king of Han, led his army to the north. Fortunately, Liu Ling led his army to the east and didn’t seem to be interested in Luzhou. This made him
Su Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and could finally sleep peacefully.
He can sleep peacefully, but Dugu Ruizhi cannot.
After several days of observation, and after integrating the information provided by the Oversight Council, Dugu Ruizhi finally thought of a way, although this method was quite risky.
On the tenth day after the Shenfeng Battalion arrived in Luzhou, the general who was on duty at the north gate of Luzhou was called Huang Mengru. He took his own soldiers to patrol the city wall as a routine and found nothing unusual.
I plan to go down and have a few glasses of wine, and then have a good sleep. Last night, the little prodigal in Huihonglou was so annoying that he didn't stop in the middle of the night. He was really sleepy. Drink some wine, have a good sleep, and I will start my own shift early tomorrow morning.
Even if you finish standing at the post, it's very simple and relaxing.
Just when Huang Mengru was still reminiscing about the ecstasy of last night, suddenly his soldiers ran over panting and reported that there were many people coming from the north and something was wrong!
Huang Mengru was so frightened that he grabbed the soldier and asked, "Come from the north?"
After receiving a positive answer, Huang Mengjin felt that his palms were sweating. To the north was the territory of the Han Dynasty. Could it be that the Han army finally couldn't help but want to take action against Luzhou? He shuddered suddenly, and then
Roared: "Everyone on the wall, archers ready!"
After saying that, he and his soldiers hurriedly ran to the city gate tower. After reaching a high place, Huang Meng set up a pergola and looked into the distance. Sure enough, a dark crowd appeared in the north. It looked like there was no one left.
Thousands of people. Huang Mengru was stunned for a moment, why was the Han army so scattered? Why were there so few people? Did the Han army think they could conquer Luzhou with just a thousand men?
He called a soldier and said: "Go to the general's residence quickly to report!"
The soldier responded and hurriedly got off the city wall. Huang Mengru ordered the soldiers to be on guard, and dozens of heavy crossbows were aimed at the group of people who were moving very slowly. Huang Mengru became more and more surprised and suspicious as he looked at it.
Why didn't that group of people look like an army? When the group of people slowly arrived a few hundred meters away from the city gate, Huang Mengru could see clearly who the group of people were. He couldn't help but frown.
He frowned, and his doubts deepened.
What turned out to be thousands of refugees came.
Ordering the soldiers not to relax their guard, he stared at the refugees to see if they were Han soldiers pretending to be Han soldiers. Of course he couldn't tell, because the refugees all looked the same. Dirty, messy, and lifeless.
The group of refugees stopped a few hundred meters outside the city gate. They seemed to be discussing something. After a while, a dozen refugees separated from the crowd and walked towards the city gate. The leader was a refugee.
He was the first to kneel down at the foot of the city, and the people following him also knelt down one after another.
"General! We are the original people in Luzhou City. We fled to Qinzhou. However, because there were too many refugees in Qinzhou, the Han court stopped distributing food. When the refugees started to make trouble, the Han army began to
Killing. General, we are back again and going home. Please forgive us, please open the city gate and let us go home!"
The leader kowtowed and shouted loudly.
Huang Mengru was stunned for a moment. The Northern Han Dynasty was also beginning to feel anxious. But think about it, if hundreds of thousands of refugees fled, even the mountains of gold, silver, and food would be exhausted. But he did not dare to open the city gate, because
He was not sure if this was a strategy of the Han army. He had to be careful and he had to be cautious.
"You said you are a citizen of Luzhou, how come I don't know you! What credentials do you have! Leave quickly, or don't blame me for ordering the arrow to be fired!"
When Huang Mengru was hesitating, he suddenly heard someone speaking loudly behind him. He quickly turned around to look, only to see that Su Zhen had already arrived. It turned out that Su Zhen was just about to pass by the north gate and happened to meet the soldier who reported the news.
Saying there was something unusual happening outside the north gate, Su Zhen immediately led people up the city wall.
Huang Mengru saluted quickly, and Su Zhen waved his hand and stood on the edge of the city wall.
The leading refugee raised his head and said: "Is that General Su on the city wall? I am Liu Sancai, the shopkeeper of Xiangyuan Tower. The General has also gone to the shop to have drinks several times, and the villain once toasted to the General.
Has the general forgotten the villain?"
Su Zhen was stunned. He lowered his head and looked carefully at the man kneeling under the city. After careful identification, he discovered that he was actually Liu Sancai, the shopkeeper of Xiangyuan Building, the largest restaurant in Luzhou City.
"Liu Sancai? Didn't you go to Qinzhou to live with your relatives?"
"Back to the general, the villain did go to Qinzhou, but the villain's relative became a general of the Han army but had a bad heart. He didn't recognize the villain. The villain was captured by the Han army and sent to farm, but that damn
The Han people didn't even give us food to eat, and often beat and scolded us. A few days ago, the Han army killed hundreds of villagers. The refugees were in chaos and fled one after another. The villains also escaped. We escaped all the way and then returned to Luzhou.
Please be kind to the general and let us in."
At this time, a Zhou army soldier guarding the city at the north gate suddenly exclaimed: "Second uncle, why are you back!"
A refugee raised his head, rubbed his eyes and looked at the soldier. He suddenly stood up and shouted: "Is it Erlang? I am your second uncle. It's hard to explain. If I can come back alive, God will open my eyes. Erlang, please hurry up, General."
Open the city gate, the villagers have not had food for several days, please be kind to the general!"
The soldier looked at Su Zhen, but did not dare to speak. Su Zhen frowned and asked, "Whose soldier are you? Who are you that man outside the city?"
The soldier plopped down and knelt down and kowtowed: "The little man is a new recruit from Fanzi Camp. He has only joined the army for a few days. The one outside the city is the second uncle of the little human tribe. He just fled to Qinzhou last month."
The soldier said with fear, he lowered his head, no one noticed, there was a glimmer of light in his eyes. (To be continued)
