Lord Moyu was forced to open

Chapter 125
"Master Yu Hou, can we still guard this city?"

Jia Ping stood on the top of the city wall and was silent for a while after listening to the casualties reported by his subordinates. At this moment, a wounded soldier on the side suddenly asked in a low voice.

To be honest, since the establishment of the Guards, they have never fought a tough battle, and almost every battle relies on their equipment advantages to crush the enemy.

Although they have equipment advantages, they have never encountered a situation where the number of enemies is too large to consume them to death.

So inevitably, all the soldiers felt a little uneasy.

The morale of the entire team has dropped a lot.

Jia Ping knew it was not good the moment the soldier spoke. Sure enough, as soon as the soldier finished speaking, the surrounding soldiers who were still making noises because they were doing various things stopped their movements. The surroundings suddenly became incomparably quiet.

Everyone looked at him with expectant but somewhat...complicated eyes that they didn't quite believe.

Jia Ping took a deep breath. He knew that now was the critical time. If he didn't make a good decision, maybe they wouldn't have to wait for the next wave of the enemy's offensive, and their morale would collapse here.

After all, there is still too little experience!

Jia Ping sighed, he was an old guard, not referring to the first batch of recruits, but the batch of 2000 people that King Yun brought from the capital.

The 2000 of them have all been on the Northwest battlefield and fought with those barbaric Huns with real knives and guns. They have encountered many situations, and it is not uncommon for them to encounter more brutal battles than this one.

So after losing the battle, he didn't feel any disappointment or despair. Such a battle was no big deal to him.

But for the recruits of the Guards.

That's right, they are recruits. From Jia Ping's point of view, these people are still just recruits.

Although they have experienced the battle of Desheng Lake and the second battle of the initial invasion of Nanli County, they have always fought with the wind.

He has never encountered any difficulties, nor has he really climbed out of the sea of ​​blood and corpses once, so he is not considered a bloody veteran.

Facing their first defeat, they were very confused, some were confused about the outcome of the battle, and some were also confused about their own way forward.

At this moment, they urgently need someone to affirm them and point them to a clear way forward.

Facing the eyes of all the soldiers, Jia Ping didn't say anything righteous, but walked slowly to the wounded soldier who asked him a question just now.

The wounded soldier must have been hit by falling rocks thrown by the catapult during the battle just now, and his entire right hand was broken. He is sitting on the ground at the moment, while the military doctor is restoring his hand and putting a splint on it.

Jia Ping came to him, met his uneasy expression and squatted down, looked at him and suddenly showed a kind smile and asked: "When did you join the army?"

The wounded soldier was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately replied: "Master Yuhou, the younger one is Tiansheng who joined the army in the autumn of 22."

Jia Ping nodded, and said with some emotion: "In this way, you have been in the army for more than half a year."

The wounded soldier nodded: "From mid-October, 22nd year of Tiansheng to mid-July, 23rd year of Tiansheng, it has been nine months since I joined the army."

"Nine months...nine months..."

Jia Ping repeated the time in a murmur, and finally asked suddenly with the wounded soldier's puzzled expression: "How is the family? Compared with before enlisting in the army, is there any change?"

Mentioning this, the wounded soldier who was still depressed just now changed into a happy expression on his face, and replied with a smile on his face: "Very good! To tell you the truth, Mr. Yuhou, the younger one is the first one who came to Yunzhou County from Guannei. A group of refugees.

Last year, there was a severe drought in northern Liaoning, and the ten mu of land of the small family was directly cut off. In order to survive, the small family had no choice but to sell the land to the landlord Liu in the village at the price of two taels of silver per mu.

I thought I could get through the year with these 20 taels, and when the spring came, I would go to the city and find a buddy to do it first, so that no one could be suffocated to death by urine.

but……"

Speaking of this, the wounded soldier's expression suddenly became depressed, as if recalling something bad.

And most of the other soldiers around were joined at that time and had similar backgrounds, so they probably guessed what he was going to say, and their expressions dropped accordingly.

Jia Ping sensed that the atmosphere was not right, but he didn't say anything, but looked at the wounded soldier and motioned him to continue talking.

The wounded soldier took a deep breath, and slowly narrated in a trembling and hoarse voice: "First, the price of food increased. Originally, the price of ten yuan a catty of grain rose wildly. In just two days, it has increased from the original ten yuan to ten yuan. times, it costs one coin and one catty.

That's okay, the [-] generals who sell land in my family can still buy [-] buckets of grain, which is barely enough for our family to survive the winter.

But what people didn't expect was that the grain shops in the city suddenly stopped selling grain, and all the shops put up signs saying they were sold out, but someone saw a cart pulling more than a dozen carts of grain in this morning.

But they just don't sell it!
Even if we pay two cents a catty, they won't sell it!

In the end, under the intervention of the government, only one hundred catties were sold for sale.

Lord Yuhou, do you know how many people there are in a county?

A whole hundred thousand upwards!

What is enough for a hundred catties of grain?

I didn't grab a catty, so the grain shop was closed immediately.

But what is ridiculous is that their food price signs are still exposed outside.

Then something terrible happened! "

Speaking of this, the wounded soldier showed panic but gritted his teeth and wanted to swallow his life alive.

He said with hatred: "Those hateful profiteers, it's only been a day! Only a day!

They doubled the price of food tenfold!One tael of silver and one catty of grain!

They were not satisfied with this, and only took out a small part of the grain for sale. At this time, everyone was panicking. Even if the grain at this price was not available in the future, everyone was afraid that they would not be able to buy it in the future, so they quickly bought up all the grain that was put out for sale. .

I also grabbed ten catties.

But immediately after the second day and the third day...

Two taels a catty, three taels a catty, four taels a catty, five taels a catty!
In the end, my family sold the land they depended on for their livelihood, and the 20 taels of silver they got in exchange could only afford two catties of grain.

This is all about robbing.

At this time, everyone has understood that the appetite of these profiteers will not be satisfied. If you don't grab it now, it will be more expensive in the future.

Everyone took out their wealth and used their brains for the few catties of grain. If it is not a few catties of grain, it is life!

There are four people in my family, what can a mere twelve catties of food do?

Even if we live frugally, within half a month, the family has already fallen to the point where there is no rice to cook. At this time, all the things that can be sold at home have been sold out, and the price of food at this time... has risen It's ten taels a catty!
Where is this still food!This is gold!
We couldn't afford it anymore, so our parents secretly threw themselves into the well at night in order not to drag us down.

My daughter-in-law wanted to leave too, but I rescued her back.

In order to be able to survive, our husband and I became refugees, walking all the way, watching more and more people walking together around us, but also less and less.

There are many people who join, but there are also many people who "leave" every day. Everyone eats what they see along the way. In order to survive, they can eat everything from tree bark and grass roots. Humans are really inferior to animals!
Some people ate dirt and died, and some people became food for others..."

The wounded soldier's eyes began to shed tears, and the man who killed three poisoned soldiers in a row in a wounded state in the battle just now couldn't help crying.

In the end, we were driven away by government offices from various places. When we arrived at the Liaoyun pass, the closed gate was opened, and we were driven out. Before we left, someone told us that if we wanted to survive, we should go straight north. Where is the city of the imperial court? Where can I live.

Then we went all the way north to Yunzhou City. Fortunately, there was no shortage of grass outside the pass, and there was no shortage of earth dragons and other insects. Our husband and wife finally came to Yunzhou City..."

(End of this chapter)