Qiming 1158

Chapter 576 What's the point of defending Chang'an at this point?

Wang Quanyou has a full understanding of the behavior of the imperial soldiers.

He has been doing business abroad all the year round, and is very familiar with this group of bandits wearing imperial uniforms. Since this group of people has been murdered and ripped off, the next step is to treat them even more cruelly.

It will never be so easy to stop and let go of the people in the city.

There are bound to be more terrifying things to happen next, so you must find ways to hide and not be discovered.

The soft and valuable things at home were thrown out, and the family members were also separated in the chaos. They had no protection and could only choose to hide at home.

"We can't go out, we can't go anywhere, and we can't live at home with integrity. We have to hide. Let me see... the cellar! Yes! It's the cellar where the wine is stored! Old Wang, come with me, give me a hand, let's get it Order food and drink to the cellar!"

"Oh!"

Lao Wangtou was Wang Quanyou's old servant for many years, and he accepted Wang Quanyou's order reflexively.

Wang Quanyou looked at Li again.

"Send the children to the cellar first, then get some bedding and throw them in together with the clothes, and throw in anything you need to live with, as well as candles, and put more candles in, then go in and wait for us. ,be quick!"

Having said that, Wang Quanyou took Lao Wangtou to carry food and water together.

Fortunately, I took it away softly at home, but the basic living materials are still there. Lao Wangtou just baked a lot of flatbreads and steamed a lot of steamed buns to be eaten as dry food. Wang Quanyou was overjoyed and joined hands with Lao Wangtou to move the food. to the cellar.

Afterwards, the food in the kitchen was also moved in, no matter the cooked or raw food was moved in, and the two of them joined hands to move two jars of drinking water to the cellar—can’t they just live by drinking?

Everything was ready, Wang Quanyou rearranged the firewood room where the wine cellar was hidden, and he also hid in the wine cellar.

The Wang family hid in the cellar and did not dare to come out. All food, drink and Lazarus were in the wine cellar. Fortunately, the wine cellar was large enough, spacious enough, and had hidden ventilation holes. It was not impossible to use it as a temporary shelter in times of danger. .

Wang Quanyou was also careful. When he was digging a cellar at home in his early years, he thought it could be used as a temporary shelter. As a businessman, his intuition for crisis led him to do something that seemed superfluous at the time.

But it was this [superfluous act] that gave the current Wang family a chance to survive.

However, not everyone has a sense of crisis like Wang Quanyou, and is good at crisis management. Most people either have no conditions or did not expect, and still live their lives step by step until they encounter this Chang'an crisis.

Under the order of Tudan Hexi at all costs, the Chang'an defenders carried out indiscriminate killings of the Jurchen and Han dignitaries who attacked the city gate.

They were either headed, split in two, or pierced through the body.

It was not until the last moment of their lives that they realized that the most fundamental source of human dominance was force.

The soldiers in the city can be regarded as "raising their eyebrows", and finally they don't have to continue to suffer from these bird anger.

Their resentment was vented.

The order in Chang'an City was quickly stabilized under the suppression of force. Everyone returned to their houses as requested by the army and did not dare to run around. Everyone was so frightened that their faces were pale and shivering. Soon, the entire Chang'an City was gone. Quiet like a ghost town.

But all this is not over, the powerful people in Chang'an City do not realize that their good days are gone forever.

The grassroots soldiers in the army are themselves being oppressed and exploited by the officers. The harsh living environment in the army makes their resentment extremely large. Once vented, they can't stop the car at all.

Tudan Hexi didn't even think about braking. He took advantage of the army's uncontrollable venting of grievances to issue further orders, requesting that all men in the city participate in the defense of the city and gather all the materials in the city to defend the city.

He wants to gather all the manpower and material resources of the whole city together, so no one is allowed to hide anything that is helpful for defending the city, including all food that can be eaten.

When the Restoration Army was still two hours away from Chang'an City, Tudan Hexi gave an order, and the female soldiers roared into every household in Chang'an City, thoroughly plundered them, and took all available equipment. All materials are "concentrated".

Especially food and money, all concentrated.

As for the rest, whether it is useful or not, it all depends on the "judgment" of the military.

This made the army especially excited.

Although they have already started looting and killing of different scales without Tudan Hexi's order, Tudan Hexi's order undoubtedly makes this behavior reasonable.

Dudan Hexi helped them carry the blame.

This kind of good thing can be met but not sought, and once encountered, it will not be desperate to vent and loot?

What excites them even more is that Tudan Hexi did not allow them to plunder those powerful and rich people in the past. Those people were so rich that in the past soldiers could only watch and drool, but now they don't. the same.

So this group of people became the focus of the soldiers to plunder.

The fortified troops from the captives are reinforcing the city defense, and the main soldiers are roaring and looting.

Residents in the city were looted, crying and screaming, calling Tian Tian not to do it, and the ground not working, and they could only watch their wealth be deprived in a short period of time.

This is not to mention, some soldiers took a fancy to some of the high-quality female relatives, and they literally said that they were also "defense materials", so they carried these female relatives and ran away with laughter, ignoring the obstacles of their family members and the crying of the female relatives.

Zhang Xiu, Tu Dan Hexi's subordinate, couldn't stand it any longer. He risked his life to ask Tu Dan Hexi to restrain the soldiers' behavior and not to indulge the soldiers too much, otherwise it would easily lead to civil unrest in the city.

Tu Dan Hexi took a deep breath and shook his head.

"The Restoration Army is about to arrive in Chang'an City. Everyone is afraid. The average person is afraid, so won't the soldiers be afraid? I have no other way to appease them. I can only let them indulge themselves to vent their fear."

Zhang Xiu was stunned.

"When they are almost done venting, they will have the motivation and morale to continue to resist. In this way, Chang'an can resist. If they don't do this, the city of Chang'an will fall within three days at most, and you and I will die without a place to be buried!"

Tu Dan Hexi waved his hand: "The reinforcements are in Fengxiang Mansion. If we want to reach Chang'an, it will take at least seven or eight days. During this time, we must hold on to wait for reinforcements, so we don't have to say anything and go to defend the city. Bar!"

Tudan Hexi drove Zhang Xiu away.

Zhang Xiu's heart was full of shock, and after the shock, she was full of doubts.

What's the point of defending Chang'an now that things have reached this point?

Tongguan Pass is gone, Daqing Pass is probably gone, and the fall of Guanzhong is just around the corner. At this moment, what's the point of defending Chang'an?
Even if the reinforcements can still come, but what kind of goods are the reinforcements, he is really not sure about Dan Hexi?

Those who can defeat the Restoration Army that the main Jin army can't defeat?
Zhang Xiu was lost in confusion.

Zhang Xiu was very confused, but the Restoration Army was not at all confused.

Yuan Xiantong led the vanguard to reach Chang'an City quickly, and took the lead in blocking the road leading to the Quartet from Chang'an City, trapping Chang'an City to death.

After Zhou Zhi led the rest of the army to arrive, he began to build camps for the army to live in and prepare to attack the city.

Then, Zhang Yuejing also came. He presided over the attack on Chang'an City in an all-round way, and ordered to surround Chang'an City on all sides, placing a large number of siege equipment on each side, preparing a large number of firearms, and launching an attack at any time.

At this time, it was the eighth day of the sixth lunar month. Jin Jun was still in the city under the banner of collecting strategic supplies, doing things like raiding their homes and destroying their families.

In the past, the unattainable nobles begged for mercy in humiliation under the threat of their steel knives. This kind of pleasure made the Jin Army in the city even forget the fear that the Restoration Army siege brought them.

On the tenth day of the sixth month, before the general offensive was launched, Zhang Yuejing wrote a letter of persuasion to Shan Hexi, a disciple in the city, to persuade him to surrender and keep him alive.

Tu Dan Hexi tore up Zhang Yuejing's letter with a sneer, and wrote back to Zhang Yuejing himself, telling Zhang Yuejing not to think about anything, he would rather die than surrender, and fight if he wants to!
Zhang Yuejing was furious and ordered the entire army to launch a general attack.

(End of this chapter)