Chapter 636

Ask for a monthly ticket

Fang Xie suddenly understood a lot when he heard Luo Qiu talking about Mrs. Luo Yao's Chu family. Luo Yao's scam is not only for the solution, but also for his wife. He lied to Fang Xie in order to better control his physical substitutes. And he lied to her wife to give her a hope to live.

For a moment, Fang Xie felt sorry for this woman. But the idea came out, and Fang Xie thought of the doll in the tree in Chu's yard.

He shivered.

"What's the matter?"

Luo Qiu asked.

"It's okay"

Fang Xie smiled and said, "last time I came to Yongzhou, it was summer, and the hot people got used to it. This time I came here, it was the best climate. I felt a little cold when I got out of the car."

Luo Qiu naturally didn't doubt anything. He took Fang Xie's hand and entered the city gate with greetings. Officials in Yongzhou City were waiting outside. Luo Qiu held Fang Xie and didn't give up. They didn't even have a chance to speak. Fang Xie also saved meeting these people next to each other, saving a lot of trouble.

After entering the city gate, Fang Xie and Luo Qiu got on the carriage of the governor's house. Chen Dingnan and other generals took the team into the city. But they did not let the people who came back with the army into the city, because there was not much food in the city. If we don't open the granary of the palace, Fang Xie and more than 70000 teams will have added great pressure to Yongzhou City. Fortunately, however, Fang Xie brought a large number of grain, grass and baggage for his own use.

"Several years have passed since the last time I left in a hurry and calculated the days carefully."

In the carriage, Luo Qiu sighed: "General Fang has lost his childishness and is in full bloom, but I am already old. I wanted to leave home to provide for the elderly, dig up all kinds of vegetables, raise a few rabbits and cages of birds, and stay at ease until I die. But I didn't expect that when those nanmanzihe people become noisy, I don't want to escape... To tell you the truth, if you don't come, the life of Yongzhou City will be hard Better. "

He pointed to the outside of the carriage: "the south of the city is the camp of the he people, which stretches for more than ten miles. It looks like there are no less than 60000 or 700000 people. Moreover, the he people will drive the wolves, tigers and leopards as soldiers. My people can't go out of the city to meet the enemy again. I hope the stars and the moon, but I hope you will come soon to solve the siege of Yongzhou and the suffering of the people in the commercial road."

"So many..."

Fang Xie was slightly surprised and said, "haven't he people been killed hard enough these years? How can there be so many troops."

Luo Qiu sighed: "There are soldiers everywhere. Murongqian, the puppet emperor of the state of Yan, invited the king of he to send troops together. Those nanmanzi have been suppressed ruthlessly these years. They are full of resentment and will not let go if they have the opportunity to revenge. It is said that they are a million troops. In fact, even the teenagers and the old people in their fifties in the stockade have come out. The number of crimes committed by the people of he in Pingshang road is countless, and there are dozens of rough estimates Thousands of people died in the disaster of war... Whenever I think of this, my heart as a local official is as painful as a knife. "

Fang Xie comforted: "Shibo, you don't have to worry. You can beat nanmanzi back to the jungle in those years, and you can do the same today. If it wasn't for the emptiness of the frontier, neither Murong shame nor nanmanzi dared to level the business way. Now I'm here. Although I have little talent, shallow learning and average skills, at least I still have a cavity of blood, so I'll do my best."

"Good!"

Luo Qiu clapped his hands and said, "I'm relieved to have Jue Xiao's words. Now in Yongzhou City, if you want no generals, no soldiers and no food... To be honest, only Jue Xiao will come. I sent more than a dozen groups of people out to ask for help, but those people don't want to come. Aren't they afraid of damaging their strength?"

Fang Xie smiled in his heart and said, are you saying I'm smart or stupid?

He said a few words about the scene. It was nothing more than that as a general, he naturally had the responsibility of guarding the land. Luo Qiu showed enthusiasm. In fact, the two people had no friendship. After the scene was finished, it seemed a little cold. Luo Qiu kept changing topics, and Fang Xie responded with a smile.

Both of them skillfully avoided Luo Yao, the emperor and the troubled times of the great Sui Dynasty. It was not easy to find some words to talk about.

"Let's go to the city first."

Fang Xie pulled up the window curtain and looked outside. He found that the faces of the people welcoming in the streets on both sides were completely different from those of the refugees outside the city. The refugees outside the city were full of joy when they saw the arrival of the army. Although the people in the city waved their arms, the faces were all fake joy.

Fang Xie understands why there is such a difference.

The people outside the city are suffering, and they have lost everything. Their relatives, houses, fields and whole homes have been lost. They are helpless and even hungry. At this time, the arrival of the black flag army undoubtedly opens a door of hope for them. They can look hard inside the door, and everything they once had seems within reach.

But the people in the city are different. They are still safe, living in their own homes and covered with warm quilts... The first thing they have to worry about at this time may not be whether the he people outside the city will break into the city. It is whether the reinforcements who can come in casually will share their rations... Sometimes, especially when the disaster comes, some people's eyes will become more and more original Far away, some people will become shallower and shallower.

"Ah?"

Luo Qiu was stunned: "the reception banquet is ready at home..."

"Not hungry"

Fang Xie smiled: "go back and eat. You'd better go to the city first. Sometimes eating is the most urgent thing, and sometimes eating is the least urgent thing..."

Luo Qiu's heart tightened, and suddenly his face was hot.

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As the capital of the Shang state at the beginning, Yongzhou's walls are tall and solid, and it can also rank among the top three in the Central Plains, and here is the blending place of Han culture and he culture, so the architectural style is quite different from that of the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, the houses where people live are green bricks and red tiles, and the rich families are high walled courtyards. In the southwest, especially in Yongzhou, most of the houses people live in are wooden buildings, which have obvious regional characteristics.

The wall of Yongzhou is extremely wide. Although it is far lower than the wall of Chang'an City, it is not much different in thickness. When Fang Xie went up the wall, he found that the width above the wall was enough for three carriages to go side by side. This width can ensure that the reserve team is prepared at the nearest distance, and the disadvantage is that once the enemy attacks the wall, the enemy can find a foothold comfortably.

However, Luo Yao's operation in Yongzhou in recent decades has turned Yongzhou into a fortress. The walls are well defended and well maintained.

The bed crossbow was polished very brightly. The heavy crossbows in the wooden box next to it were shiny against each other. There was no rust. They were rubbed with butter, so they still looked brand-new.

The archery building is very solid and spacious. It can accommodate at least 20 archers. There is a wolf tooth pat hanging outside the city wall. At the height of Yongzhou city wall, the wolf tooth pat can directly smash people into meat and mud. In addition, there was a big iron pot every 30 meters on the wall. Fang Xie went to have a look and found that the pot was full of hot oil. In fact, this kind of thing is not fully used at present, and few people think of using it even in war.

Fang Xie didn't see rolling logs and stones on the wall. It can be seen that there is at least no lack of crossbows and feather arrows in the city. Although these two things are not impossible to coexist, the garrison generals rarely choose to transport a large number of wood and stones to the city wall when the feather arrows are well prepared.

Without looking carefully, Fang Xie determined that even if there were hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers outside the city, it would not be easy to break through Yongzhou city rebuilt by Luo Yao.

He went to the city wall, stretched out his hand, took it from Qilin's hand, and looked out of the city.

About five miles away is the camp of he people. As Luo Qiu said, it stretches for more than ten miles. From the size of the camp, we can roughly calculate the strength of the other party, and the figures made him dignified.

It is obvious that Yongzhou City is not easy to break, but Fang Xie is not relieved.

The reason is simple. He's not here to stick to the city.

"In recent days, the people of he have been fighting day by day, but the troops in the city are insufficient and there are no tactics to restrain the wild animals of he people, so they have not fought..."

Xu Qingzhi whispered behind Fang Xie.

In fact, he has been observing Fang Xie all the way. The last time Fang Xie came, he had no direct contact with Fang Xie. As a general of Si PIN Lang in Daozhi governor's house, he naturally wanted to follow Luo Qiu to receive Imperial Envoys, but he just looked at them from a distance. At that time, he didn't care much about each other.

But today, he couldn't help but want to take a closer look at the man who was about to take Yongzhou's military power from his own hands.

"What about the border troops?"

Fang Xie looked back at Xu Qingzhi and asked.

"When Luo Yao was there, the border troops were rotated once a year, but since Luo Yao left, the number of border troops left behind in the border city has become much less. Moreover, they are mainly arranged in Nanyan, so the he people hardly encounter any obstacles. After Murong yongduo of Nanyan sent troops to cheat Baishui city by pretending to be a merchant team, he directly entered Pingshang road... The border troops in other cities are all the same When the army was alone, there were only a thousand people in each city, and the grain roads were cut off. Most of them were bad. "

Xu Qingzhi's answer was very calm, but Fang Xie could find a trace of dissatisfaction from his tone.

There is no doubt that after Luo Yao left, no one in the border army paid attention to it and lost logistical supplies. It is conceivable how hard those border troops lived. But even so, no border soldiers withdrew from their posts until they were all killed.

"Maybe there are still alive..."

Fang Xie was a little distracted and said that Xu Qingzhi didn't understand what he meant.

Xu Qingzhi pointed to the highest tent in the ho people's camp outside the city: "it should be where the ho king is. Originally, the ho people have no ho king. Since the destruction of the Shang state, the ho people have been even more civil strife, and there are fights among the villages almost every day. The ho people have split into many tribes and run their own affairs. However, Nanyan Murong shame met with the ho chieftain a while ago and established him as the ho king."

"What's the king's name?"

Fang Xie asked.

"There are many different pictures"

Xu Qingzhi replied: "according to the people of he, Tu Hun Dobe is a very powerful practitioner and is called the God by the people of he. Of course, the people of he have a natural fear of the big chieftain, so it may also be a rumor."

"Then really listen."

Fang Xie said casually, and then pointed to the most chaotic place in the Heren camp: "is that where the Heren beast is located?"

"Yes!"

Xu Qingzhi nodded: "there are at least more than 10000 wild animals. 200 wizards command those wild animals, Riding Elephants and driving the wild animals with ox horns. If there is any way to destroy the wild animal army of the he people, even if there are millions of the he people outside, they are not afraid!"

"Then knock it off."

Fang Xie said in a flat tone, as if he was just crushing an ant to death. So Xu Qingzhi was stunned and didn't understand where Fang Xie's faint but strong self-confidence came from.