Song Dynasty

Chapter 142 To be finished (seeking a monthly pass)

It still hasn't rained, and it has been dry for more than [-] days, and all the seedlings that have just been planted have been sunburned to death by the poisonous sun.

There is no way but to replant drought-tolerant crops.However, judging by the weather, the weather is quite harsh, and there is no hope for this year's summer harvest.Autumn grain, probably don't even think about it.

An unprecedented famine is about to come. According to Du Shu and his officials, people in various places have already fled in large numbers, crossing the river to Jiangling and Ezhou to live.

In some places, villages with more than a hundred households escaped, leaving only three or five elderly people who could not walk.

Without a population, the Sizhou army's economy is facing collapse.

Du Shu sent someone to ask if the navy had been ordered to seal the ferry crossings to prevent the people from leaving.

Wang Shen's heart moved, and he had the idea of ​​implementing a strict household registration system to firmly fix the population on the land.But after thinking about it, with such a large population, there will be another catastrophe in the future. If they are not allowed to leave, wouldn't they all starve to death.In this way, I have really become the sworn enemy of Qihuang people, butcher?

After Jin Bing finished Yan Chang's invasion, Kong Yanzhou was next, and then there was such an unprecedented battle.The entire Qihuang has ten rooms and nine empty spaces, and its war and economic potential can be said to have been exhausted.Even if this war is over, we can't stay here any longer.

Immediately, Wang Shen had the idea of ​​moving troops across the river. He had an incomparable longing for Ezhou, Jiangling, and the paradise on earth in the waters of Dongting Lake.

However, before leaving, Kong Yanzhou must be eliminated, this fellow has formed a great enmity with him.Even if he ignored him, the man surnamed Kong would lead troops across the river, and everyone would fight hard in the future.Instead of letting him catch his breath, it is better to solve this serious problem while Kong Yanzhou is trapped in the city.If you don't kill a tiger, you will suffer from it.

It was a very hot day, the sun came out just after dawn, and the surrounding area was completely white.

Wang Shen led Hu Yantong out of the new city on horseback. The farmland outside was still deserted, full of long cracks, and the dry weeds rustled in the wind, like the last scream of a dying soldier.

"General, the dead soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and captives are all buried here." An officer greeted him, and then handed a hemp towel to Wang Shen: "It is necessary to prevent the plague from occurring during the severe heat."

"Okay." Wang Shen tied the towel on his face, and said, "You have to be careful, and nothing will happen again."

"Don't worry, the general. This cemetery was found by the deputy army envoy himself. It is far away from the underground water veins. Each tomb was dug four feet down, and lime was sprinkled on the bottom. In addition, he also made banlangen soup for us to eat. "

"That's good, that's good, it's hard work." After these days of bloody battles, a large number of corpses were rotting under the high temperature, and a stench was permeating within a radius of ten miles.After smelling the smell for a long time, Wang Shen's nose became numb, but he didn't feel anything.

"If the old bastard surnamed Lu falls into my hands, I will cut him into pieces." Hu Yantong cursed angrily: "If it wasn't for this old killer, we would have twisted Kong Yanzhou's head off and used it as a chamber pot long ago. .”

With him at the beginning, the other soldiers who were working also cursed at the same time.

Yes, this Lv Benzhong suddenly sided with Kong Yanzhou, which was a serious blow to the morale of the Sizhou Army.The most terrible thing is that this old man is really too powerful, not only made many unheard of strange and weird defensive weapons, but also caused huge damage to the attacker.He is also good at inspiring people's hearts. Under his cunning tongue, Wang Shen's rebellion and robbery of the people were magnified ten times.It is said that the Sizhou Army has looted the entire Qizhou because of the lack of food in the army.

Youdao killed the red-eyed Sizhou army soldiers all day long for fun outside the city, and said that once Qichun was captured, they would not leave behind.

In this way, everyone in Qichun was desperate.

The battle went on for another 20 days. While organizing troops to attack the city, Wang Shen was pondering tactics, and used all the tricks he had seen in the military history forums in his memory.

Or use fire to attack, or pile up a mountain of earth, put archers on top, and shoot precisely at the city wall day and night, or concentrate catapults to slam one part of the city wall.

Or pile wood under the city, spread saltpeter and sulfur fire on it.

But they were all cracked by Lu Benzhong one by one.

This old bastard is really vicious. Taking advantage of the Sizhou army's unpreparedness, he chopped up the corpses of the soldiers who died of the plague, and sent the dead soldiers to sneak out of the city, polluting the water source of the barracks.

The Sizhou army was unprepared for a while, and a hundred people were recruited, so they had to be sent away for isolation.

The commander of the Shengjie Army, Wu Xianxian, is also a ruthless man. He also shot the slightly corrupted corpses into the city with a catapult, mocking: "Old bastard surnamed Lu, you have caused many of Grandpa's subordinates." There are too many people and the plague, I will give you a way to repay him today.Grandpa is outside the city, the water has been polluted, so there is no need to find another place to get water.If a soldier is sick, he should be sent away.Qichun City is only a little big, and I want you to have nothing to hide, nothing to hide.

By the time Wang Shen heard about this and urgently called a stop, Wu Xianxian had already shot more than 100 corpses into the city.

This... straight girl thief is too anti-human.It is conceivable that if all the people in a city die because of this epidemic, the name of the butcher on his head will really never be taken off.If you lose popular support, how can you stay in Qi and Huang in the future?
Wang Shen, who was furious, ordered Chen Da to draw Wu Xianxian's twenty army sticks.

For Wang Shen's anger, for the first time, the people in the Military Judiciary Division didn't take it seriously.Twenty army sticks went down, and only one day later, Wu Xiansheng appeared on the battlefield alive and kicking, leaving Wang Shen speechless for a while.

After 20 days, the city wall of Qichun was knocked down several times by Wang Shen with a catapult, and the city gate was knocked open several times by a cart.But each time, after only one day, it was restored by Lu Benzhong's organization.This old dog is shrewd, he sent people to demolish the houses in the city in advance, and prepared materials for the city's construction.

It turned out that, like all houses in the south, when the houses in Qichun City were built, they first used wood to form the frame, then used bamboo as the wall, and covered it with extremely viscous loess.

Now, those wooden frames can be used to make defense equipment, and the bamboo slices are used to weave pig cages, and water and wet loess are placed in them, so there is no waste at all.

Every time the city wall collapsed, these strip-shaped bamboo cages could be directly filled in, and then tamped down, it was as strong as the previous city wall, and there was no danger of collapsing due to shells.

This... is already quite similar to the prefabricated parts of later generations.Wang Shen admired Lu Benzhong to the utmost, but also hated him so much that his teeth itch.

Originally, I thought that the old man was just a literati who could write good poems, but I didn't expect that he was so powerful.If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let him go to Kong Yanzhou.

Also because of his wrong decision-making, this battle has become a raw meal by now.The most frightening thing is the psychological impact of huge casualties on soldiers.

The brutal siege continued at the cost of 500 casualties per day. In the end, more than 7000 captured soldiers were almost exhausted, and a large number of corpses and wounded were sent to the rear like running water.After the fight, no matter how cruel the people in the Military Law Department were, they refused to step forward.

At the same time, about [-] people were killed and more than [-] were injured in Sizhou's regular army.

The casualties can be tolerated, but looking at the Qichun City in front of him, if he wants to take it down, he doesn't know how much he has to pay, but can Wang Shen bear it?

Hearing Hu Yantong's scolding, Wang Shen let out a long sigh: "Perhaps, Lu Benzhong was coerced by Kong Yanzhou, so he couldn't do it. In the face of life and death, how many people can stand the test, especially in this troubled world... I really underestimated Lu Benzhong and Kong Yanzhou, it's my fault, it's my fault."

My heart was burning, and when my nostrils became hot, two streams of nosebleeds flowed down.

Everyone was shocked: "General, General!"

"It doesn't matter, the fire is getting worse. Ask someone to find some fresh fruits and vegetables, and I'll be fine after a few days." Wang Shen wiped his nose, and his hand touched a thick acne pimple, which was painful.

He looked up, and saw that there were densely packed tombs in front of him, spreading out, at least two miles away.It was originally a piece of two fields, but now it has become a mass grave.

Looking back towards the direction of the old city, there is also thick smoke rising over there, with a strong smell of burnt.It was Kong Yanzhou who was burning the corpses of the soldiers and civilians who died in battle. This situation has been going on for many days, day and night.

It is said that the soldiers of Kong Yanzhou who returned from the captives said that tens of thousands of people had died in the city in the past [-] days, and the streets were filled with corpses, making it impossible for them to walk.

War is not romantic, sacrifice is sometimes so worthless.

I can't go on like this anymore, I'll wait until I figure out a way, and I will figure out a way...

When the fire of good and evil was arching, two riders in the distance came galloping like arrows with long smoke and dust.

"What's the matter?" Wang Shen went up to meet him.

He took the letter with three chicken feathers stuck in it, opened it, glanced at it, and handed it to Hu Yantong with a livid face: "I said that Kong Yanzhou was defeated like that, and he still wants to stick to Qichun, so today is what he was waiting for. "

Hu Yantong couldn't help but look at it, as if he couldn't recover.After a long time, he said: "This is terrible, it's over!"

"It's troublesome. Zhang Yong and Cao Cheng are here. They claim to have [-] troops, and they are rushing towards me in Huangzhou." Wang Shen's nosebleeds flowed down again, and it dripped all over his front in a blink of an eye.

According to reports from Huangzhou Tanmalai, like the Qi and Huang areas, Huaixi suffered from a severe drought, and people ate each other.At the beginning, the various bandits who had defected from the Left Behind Division in Tokyo were running out of food, so they had the same thoughts as Kong Yanzhou and fled to Jianghan with a large army.

They have swept the entire Jianghan, and after being supplemented, their troops are strong and their horses are strong.

Today, Zhang Yongbu occupies the entire De'an Mansion, which is later known as Anlu County, and hoards troops in Sanlonghe.And Cao Cheng hoarded troops to respond to the city.In addition, there are Li Hong, Shang Yuan and other Hebei big men who camped and lived scattered.From camp to village, there was an endless stream, until the territory of Yingzhou.

The entire Jianghan area to the north of the Yangtze River has fallen into the hands of the rebels from the former Tokyo Left Behind Division.

The Han thieves are not at odds, and how can they allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch. The Sizhou Army in Huangzhou will inevitably become their next target, and they are bound to attack.

On one side Kong Yanzhou could not be defeated, and on the other side was an enemy with an unprecedented scale. The situation was extremely bad for Wang Shen.

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