The Xiliang army entered Heishui County. Li Xiang went straight to the city lord's palace. The outside of the city lord's palace was surrounded by armored men's troops. When the Xiliang cavalry arrived, all the soldiers outside were kneeling on the ground.
Li Xiang was a little surprised. The armored man led Wang Zixiu out of the gate of the city lord's palace and came to Li Xiang: "Xiang Lin has met the governor. This person is the lord of Heishui County, Wang Zixiu!"
Wang Zixiu knelt on the ground unwillingly. He was a scholar with a certain literary talent. Even though he was a prisoner of war, he did not want to kneel down. Then he was forced to kneel on the ground by Xiang Lin.
He looked at Xiang Lin with vicious eyes. He never thought that the person he had high hopes for, valued, and trusted was actually the Xiang family!
It's really tolerable. Over the years, Xiang Lin has made many Xiang family members unable to take care of themselves. This has made countless people think that the relationship between him and the Xiang family is very bad, which makes people unable to think that he is a member of the Xiang family.
Li Xiang got off his horse, looked at Wang Zixiu, and then looked at the city lord's mansion with only a few servants: "All the dignitaries in the city have left, why don't you leave?"
"I am still the lord of Heishui County. If others can leave, how can I leave?" Wang Zixiu lowered his head and did not look at Li Xiang.
"Hahaha!" Li Xiang laughed loudly: "A city lord like you is really rare!"
Hearing Li Xiang's words, Wang Zixiu felt a little excited. Even if he was caught by Xiang Lin and the city was destroyed, he would feel nothing. Because his purpose was not to defend the city, but to join Li Xiang's command.
There are not many people under Prime Minister Li, so he took refuge under Prime Minister Li and climbed to a high position step by step. This was a strategy he had discussed with his brother Juncheng before. After he climbed to a high position under Prime Minister Li, the Ma family
What can Bian do to him?
Therefore, if he wants to express himself better, it is best to show the character of a scholar. A weak scholar will not be reused by others anywhere!
"Drag him down and kill him!" Li Xiangyi waved his hand and said to the soldiers behind him: "Follow his desire to live and die with Heishui County, and at the same time let people publicize him!"
Li Xiangwen's favorability is very low. The color of this guy on the mini-map is red. Although he lacks management talents, it does not mean that he will use disloyal people.
This person is still an official of the Ma family. If he uses him, he will probably reveal some secrets of Xiliang. It will be a waste of food to raise him. It is better to make the other person's reputation better!
Hearing Li Xiang's words, Wang Zixiu was stunned. The guards behind Li Xiang immediately stepped forward, grabbed Wang Zixiu's arm with both hands, and tried to drag him back.
Don't kill in front of the lord!
Xiang Lin was secretly surprised when he heard what Li Xiang said. The governor was really as rough as the information said, but he liked it. An old yin like Wang Zixiu should be dealt with directly like this.
Wang Zixiu felt the strong murderous intention in the Xiliang soldiers. These people really wanted to kill him. Li Xiang kept his promise. He couldn't die yet. He still wanted to see his wife, son and daughter.
Wang Zixiu, who was being dragged back, immediately spoke out: "Master Governor, spare my life, Sir, spare my life, I know where the wealth in the city is hidden, there are probably millions of silver!"
Wang Zixiu just wants to survive now. As for his character, don’t give up!
Li Xiang raised his hand, and the Xiliang soldiers put Wang Zixiu on the ground. There was sweat on Wang Zixiu's face, and he looked a little frightened. At this time, did he still have the demeanor of a celebrity?
Li Xiang did not laugh, because everyone is afraid of death, and fear of death is nothing.
"Several million taels of silver, I hope you didn't lie to me, or else you!" Li Xiang put his hand on the sword at his waist. Wang Zixiu lay on the ground and said: "There must be several million taels. When the big families in the city leave,
, instead of taking away the family's money, they put the money in the slums in the west of the city. In addition to the money, there was also a large amount of food thrown there. It took 20,000 people to transport it for three hours to completely transport those things.
Move over there."
On the side, Xiang Lin saw the moment when Wang Zixiu transformed, and felt very dangerous in his heart. This old guy was really able to stretch and bend. It seemed that his elder brother would have to continue fighting with him.
"Ju Rong will take him there. If you can't find any money, bury him there!"
Cheng Jurong walked up from behind and looked at Wang Zixiu with a stern face: "Lord, City Lord, I hope you can lead the way!"
Wang Zixiu got up stumblingly. At this time, he no longer had the character of a scholar. Li Xiang looked at Xiang Lin and the soldiers who were still kneeling: "Everyone, get up!"
"Take me to the city lord's mansion for a walk!"
On the other side of the camp, Qi Er and his army had already entered, and those people simply raised their hands.
The army of Xiliang had a clear division of labor and went towards their targets. When it was almost dawn, the bloody wolf-head flag of Xiliang was planted on the gate of Heishui County.
The Northwest Wolf officially entered the land of Liangzhou!
Soldiers from outside the city entered the city one after another. The courtyards of the major families in the city were vacated. The wounded soldiers from Xiliang were arranged to rest in the courtyard. The civilians in Heishui County did not dare to go out of their homes.
Now, it is not the Ma family's army that controls Heishui County, but the Xiliang army under the governor Li Xiang.
The Xiliang army is all evil spirits who kill without blinking an eye.
If some children in the city cry, just say that Xiliang Army soldiers are coming and they will stop crying.
Prime Minister Li did not have time to take care of the civilians in the city. He had to arrange for the wounded soldiers in Xiliang and plan the roads in the rear.
Heishui County has been captured, and the next target is Zhangye County and Lingfeng County. By capturing these two places, one-third of Zhangye County will fall into his hands.
Zhangye County City is the main city of Liangzhou and the place where the governor's office is. The place where he took office must be captured.
In the west of the city, under the slums, Xiliang soldiers dug up a large amount of silver, amounting to 5.33 million taels, and 43,000 taels of gold. In addition, there were a large amount of jewelry, the value of which has not yet been estimated.
On top of the jewelry was a layer of grain, about ten thousand stones, and there were many more in other places. Cheng Jurong led the prince to run around non-stop.
These captured grains were not used by Xiliang soldiers. As long as they were not under very difficult circumstances, Prime Minister Li still let Xiliang soldiers eat Xiliang army rations, which were ferocious beast meat and cold rice.
The military rations sent from the Zuqiang Fortress will arrive in two days. The food for the Xiliang soldiers is still enough. He has already thought about where the food will go. There are a large number of civilians in the city. Due to the heavy snow, it leads to other small towns.
The principles of the city are not very good.
Li Xiang wanted to use these grains to seduce civilians and build roads for himself, so that the Xiliang army would march faster.
Taking Heishui County, the Xiliang army also won the battle ahead. The wounded soldiers were sent back to Heishui County. Li Xiang asked his generals to send troops everywhere to capture all the small towns and mines in Heishui County.
Zhangye County is not in a hurry just yet, waiting until the reinforcements are felt first.
After doing this, Prime Minister Li organized the civilians in the slums to start building roads. Prisoners of war were allowed to build the roads in the more difficult places, and civilians were allowed to build the roads in the easier places.
Give prisoners of war and civilians enough food every day to keep them well fed, otherwise people are likely to die in the cold winter. Every time they work for a period of time, the civilians and prisoners of war who are building roads will stop and go to the newly built roads.
Take a break and drink some broth to regain some strength, and then let these people continue working.
We cannot treat these people like those outside the customs. Most of those outside the customs have committed crimes, and most of them have several lives on their bodies. If you are not cruel, you will not be able to control those people.
However, this group of people now, as long as they are given better food and better housing, everyone will be a little expert at work.
The roads in Liangzhou are really bad. Li Xiangshen knew the importance of roads. Why the army outside Xiliang Pass could come to support so quickly? It was because there was a very good road along the way and the army was dispatched very quickly.
Even large war machines can move forward quickly!
Soldiers are expensive and fast!
So when we got here, Li Xiang built the road first and found that there were many stone mountains around. In some places, stone roads could be paved directly, and in some places, gravel could be spread on them, and then the soil would be piled up to make them solid.
Half a month later, the entire area around Heishui County came under the rule of the Xiliang army.
Zhangye County received the intelligence from Heishui County, and the Ma family's senior officials seemed a little depressed. All the troops they could mobilize had been mobilized, but apart from killing more than 10,000 Xiliang headquarters soldiers, they did not achieve anything.
result.
Now Heishui County is in the hands of Prime Minister Li, Zhangye County is exposed to the hooves of Li Xiang, and Lingfeng County is the same, with no way to go to support.
Now that it is cold winter again, it is impossible to bring the army from Fufeng County. We can only mobilize the troops from the three counties behind Zhangye County. Each of them can mobilize 30,000 troops. The number of troops in Zhangye County has reached 120,000.
So huge.
The food consumed by the 120,000 troops every day is an astronomical figure. In the cold winter, the soldiers must be well fed and drunk, otherwise it is easy to get into trouble.
In addition, there are enough things to keep out the cold!
The food and grass are constantly decreasing as if they are being burned.
Liangzhou is not a grain producing area. Every year, Liangzhou needs to purchase a large amount of grain from other places. Some counties sometimes grow grain, but the output can only be enough for the county.
"Twenty-two thousand people consume more than 400,000 kilograms of grain every day. At this rate, the city's granary can last for at most half a month!"
The elder in charge of grain and grass in the Ma family frowned and said: "Don't think about going to other counties to collect grain and grass. They have already taken out all the grain they can get. The only people who still have a lot of grain are the civilians in the city!
Each of their families still has enough food for at least one and a half months. When the grain merchants arrive in the spring, if they want to get food, they can only buy it from the common people!"
The civilians of this generation in Liangzhou are very tough. To be precise, the civilians at the border are very tough.
There is currently a food crisis in Zhangye County. There is no war yet. If the war with Xiliang starts, the amount of food consumed every day will be doubled by then.
The Xiliang side's food consumption is a little less than that of the Ma family, but in terms of value, the Xiliang soldiers eat the meat of ferocious beasts, so the food value of the two sides is not on the same level.
Among the ferocious beasts killed in Xiliang on a daily basis, the weakest ferocious beasts can take out thousands of kilograms of ferocious beast meat, the high-level ferocious beasts can easily weigh ten thousand kilograms, and the more powerful ferocious beasts can weigh hundreds of thousands of kilograms.
Moreover, the higher the level of ferocious beasts, the more energy the meat contains. Eating half a kilogram of the meat of high-level ferocious beasts can provide Xiliang soldiers with energy for a day.
There were a lot of ferocious beasts outside the pass, and Li Mu led his army to fight every day to keep the ferocious beasts within a certain number.
However, in the cold winter this year, another large number of ferocious beasts rushed into the pass from outside the pass, causing the number of ferocious beasts in the pass to increase sharply. Li Mu's army was hunting and killing every day and was very busy. Otherwise, Li Mu's army could send an army south to support Prime Minister Li.
"No!" Ma Teng decisively refused. Once the civilians' food was touched, they would start civil strife themselves without waiting for the Xiliang army to come.
"Where does that food come from?" the elder said angrily: "The Xiliang army has gathered outside the mountain pass. It will not take long to reach Zhangye County. If there is not enough food, will those soldiers help us defend the city?"
"Buy it with the Han family!" Ma Teng said.
The other elders frowned when they heard this, and the eldest elder directly objected: "I object, buying food and grass from the Han family, I might as well retreat to the next few counties with my army!"
The reason why Zhangye County City can become a county town is because of its unique geographical location. The river leading to Sanshui City comes from the northwest, forms a big bend protruding northward before Zhangye County City, and then flows downward to reach
The boundary of Heishui County encounters high mountains, and it flows northwards and then flows all the way to Sanshui City.
To the north is Hentian County, and to the east is Shanshui City, the junction of the Qiang people, where a large number of Qiang tribes live.
Under normal circumstances, these Qiang people will go south to attack the Qiang fortress, or leave a group of troops to block the fortress, and the army will go directly south to the richer Fufeng County.
As for Zhangye County, these Qiang people will not go there, because there will be a big river blocking the road, and Heishui County is a mountainous area. They can do well on the grassland, but when they reach the mountainous area, won't they give heads to the Ma Jiajun?
To the southeast is Heishui County, to the south is Lingfeng County, and to the west is a vast plain bordering Fufeng County.
To the northwest is Yuanye County.
The big river separates Zhangye County City from Yuanye County, Hentian County Qiang and other places, leaving a large piece of cultivated land next to Zhangye County City.
Originally they could buy food from Sanshui City, but now the river has frozen, but even if the river has not frozen, Xiliang Navy is waiting for them.
The second elder said: "How about we withdraw from Zhangye County?"
Everyone else looked at the second elder, who said: "The south side of Zhangye County has been breached, and the Fufeng County army cannot send troops to support it due to the snow.
Now we only have these 120,000 troops, and there is no natural danger in front of Zhangye County to defend. It is better to retreat to Yuanye County or Hentian County.
While waiting for the beginning of spring, send troops from Fufeng County to cut off the connection between the Xiliang army and Sanshui City, and surround the Xiliang army in Heishui County, Lingfeng County, and other places!"
