Watching King Xiang leave the commander's tent, Wuyou King Qi Si and Zhuge Qingyun looked at each other and laughed.
"Let's go to the barracks to see the wounded." King Wuyou asked the generals to return to the camp, and called Zilong and Zhuge Qingyun to go to the medical tent to have a look.
While walking away, King Wuyou asked Zhuge Qingyun how the dead and wounded soldiers were being arranged. Listening to Zhuge Qingyun's report, King Wuyou nodded from time to time.
When we arrived at the wounded barracks, we could smell medicinal wine and blood from afar, as well as the shouts of wounded soldiers during surgery.
Seeing Zilong accompanying the prince, the military doctor in charge hurriedly stepped forward to salute. King Wuyou waved and called a medical officer. He asked about the condition of the injured soldier. The medical officer quickly said to King Wuyou: "Don't worry, prince.
We are accompanied by the best doctors in the army this time, and we have treated the injured one by one according to General Zilong's instructions." King Wuyou walked towards a tent while listening, and the medical officer came forward to persuade him.
"My lord, the tent is filthy. It's better not to go in." King Wuyou didn't pause and walked directly over. The guards had already opened the tent for him.
There were five or six injured soldiers lying in the tent, and their wounds had all been bandaged. When they heard the words outside the tent, they knew it was the prince coming to visit, so several people struggled to get up and wanted to salute. King Wuyou saw this and repeatedly told them to lie down quickly.
There is no need to be polite. He walked to the bed of a young soldier, squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the soldier's forehead, and asked softly: "Does it still hurt a lot?" The young man smiled and said, "My lord, no.
pain!"
King Wuyou touched his face with his hand and said, "It's so thick and it's bleeding. How can it not hurt? Just hum a few times if it hurts. I won't laugh at you."
The young soldier smiled naively, lowered his head, and murmured: "My father said that a man can shed blood without shedding tears. No matter how painful it is, he has to grit his teeth and endure it."
King Wuyou breathed a sigh of relief and asked: "What is your name? Did your father also serve as a soldier?"
The young soldier suddenly raised his head and answered loudly: "My name is Zhang Yuanshan, and my father turned out to be a member of the Tiger Army under King Ping."
"Oh," King Wuyou was stunned, "The Tiger and Guard troops are all warriors of our Qi country!"
When Zhang Yuanshan heard this, a look of pride suddenly appeared on his face, "My father followed King Ping on his expeditions in the north and south, and he even made military exploits!"
"Father is a hero and son is a hero. Seeing how strong you are, I think you are also a hero." King Wuyou laughed.
Zhuge Qingyun stepped forward and said to Zhang Yuanshan: "Then do you know who this young prince is?"
Zhang Yuanshan asked in confusion: "Isn't this Prince Qi Si, our generalissimo?"
Zhuge Qingyun looked at King Wuyou, and then said to Zhang Yuanshan: "This is also the son of Prince Ping you mentioned!"
Zhang Yuanshan exclaimed, stared blankly for a while, and then was about to get up. King Wuyou pressed him down, smiled, and said to him: "Zhang Yuanshan, your father once followed my father in the north and south.
You have made great achievements in battle, are you willing to follow me and kill the enemy bravely and make great achievements!"
Zhang Yuanshan opened his mouth wide, propped up half of his body with his uninjured right hand, and said with some choking: "Don't worry, young prince, I will go into battle as soon as my injury is healed. I will definitely be the first to rush into this city!"
King Wuyou stood up with a smile and gave a military salute to Zhang Yuanshan, "I salute you, the Qi army warrior who will be the first to attack the city!"
Soon, the news spread that King Wuyou was visiting the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks. People were talking about the young prince saluting the wounded soldier who wanted to be the first to attack the city. Almost all the soldiers of the Qi army became excited.
:I must be the first one to attack the city, I am the warrior of Qi army!
At this time, in the commander-in-chief of Chen Jun in Xiangcheng, Chen Qi was listening to the reports of the generals. When he heard that Gongsun Xiao said that the army's rations were less than three days, he sighed.
During the march, food and grass were the top priority. Originally, after Chen Jun captured Xiangcheng, the food and grass he collected was transported back to Chen Jingdu, leaving enough food for tens of thousands of troops for three months. However, the remnants of Xiang Jun's army burned them down.
Without food and grass, it will be more difficult to defend this city.
Several other generals began to discuss, some wanted to requisition grain from the people in the city, and some wanted to directly requisition the grain from all the grain shops in the city. Chen Qi thought to himself, now Chen Jun and the people in the city are no longer compatible.
If he continues to fight for food with the people, he is afraid that the people will rebel and levy food from the grain shops and large households in the city, which is the only way. Therefore, Chen Qi handed over the matter of collecting food and grass to Gongsun Xiao and led the middle camp.
The Imperial Guard quietly went to do it, and repeatedly warned everyone that the army's food shortage must not be announced to prevent the army's morale from being shaken. When requisitioning food, as long as they are not making trouble, try not to disturb the people.
Xiao Hong died in battle, and Chen Junzhong camp was placed under Gongsun Xiao's control. Now that he had received the military order, he immediately ordered his forbidden troops to go to various grain shops in the city to put up seals, and all the grain in the grain shops would be requisitioned. Anyone who disobeyed would be arrested.
, and used them as laborers. Anyone who dared to resist would be killed on the spot. Gongsun Xiao himself took several of his followers and went directly to the Li Mansion.
In the Li Mansion, Li Da and Li Gong were sitting idle in the front hall. Since Li Da and his father agreed to distribute food to the people, he gathered all the servants in the manor and settled them in the backyard. The front yard was as usual. In the past day
Seeing the fire in the grain depot, Li Da and his father guessed that Chen Jun would arrive at their residence within three days, and made preparations to deal with it.
When Gongsun Xiao arrived at the Li Mansion, the accompanying soldiers also knew that the Li Mansion had a relationship with the general. They got off their horses and knocked on the door. The servants of the Li Mansion opened the door and announced the news inside while letting everyone in. Li Da
Standing outside the hall waiting early, he saw Gongsun Xiao and called Shibo affectionately to let him into the room. Li Gong also came out to greet Gongsun Xiao, seated the guests and hosts, and ordered people to watch tea and wait. Gongsun Xiao asked the soldiers
After closing the door and standing guard outside the room, Li Gong also retreated. Only Li Gong, his son and Gongsun Xiao were left in the room. Gongsun Xiaocai whispered to Li Da: "You are so brave!" Li Da quickly stood up and handed over his hand.
Standing in front of Gongsun Xiao, he looked trembling, as if he was too frightened to say anything. Li Gong hurriedly leaned forward and asked, "Brother Gongsun Xian, what are you talking about?"
Gongsun Xiao snorted coldly and said: "Did you set the fire in the grain depot just like that? Although I know you were with several captains in Zuoying that night, what can you say about the arson?
Don't you know?" After hearing this, Li Da just kept complaining. Li Gong also kept excusing his son. Seeing that Gongsun Xiao had no real intention to pursue the case, he turned around and asked, "My dear brother came to my house, could it be that he was here?
Investigate the case?" Gongsun Xiao picked up the teacup, looked at the teacup and sighed first, then opened the lid and blew a little, took a sip, and put it back on the table. He said slowly: "It is not my responsibility to investigate the case.
, but this time I am requisitioning grain according to the order of the generalissimo. All grain shops in the city are sealed and used for military purposes." Li Gong said in understanding, then looked solemn and said loudly: "My Li family is in the city.
All thirty-six grain stores are under the command of the general. As long as the general says a word, our Li family will definitely spend everything we have." Gongsun Xiao also said in a tone of appreciation: "Shopkeeper Li is really a person who knows the general situation. If the people in the city are like Shopkeeper Li,
In this way, the tens of thousands of Qi troops outside the city will have been repulsed by us." Then Li Gong ordered Li Da to ask a few men to take Chen Jun outside to his grain shop to post seals, and he and Gongsun
Xiao drinks tea and talks.
When only Li Gong and Gongsun Xiao were left in the room, Li Gong looked at Gongsun Xiao, who looked a little lonely, and asked, "Brother, what are you worrying about?"
Gongsun Xiao replied in a low voice: "The army is running out of food and grass." "Oh. If there is no food, that's not good!"
King Wuyou and King Xiang received the arrow message from the city and knew that Chen Jun had run out of food and was now plundering food from rich households and grain shops in the city. The situation between Chen Jun and the people in the city was in dire straits, and people were resisting everywhere.
The Chen army had also lost control and was causing trouble everywhere. Some soldiers even went to people's homes to burn, kill and loot. While the people in the city were fighting against the Chen army, they were eagerly looking forward to King Xiang and the Qi army defeating the Chen army and entering the city as soon as possible.
King Ashoka knew the time had come.
In the commander's tent, King Wuyou and King Xiang sat on both sides, and Zilong sat on the commander's chair. Order arrows were distributed one by one.
This is the ninth day after the siege started. Zilong is going to take a big action tonight. He and Zhuge Qingyun predict that Chen Jun will break through tonight, and now they want to completely annihilate Chen Jun. Zilong assigns the East City, South City, and North City after dark
A quick attack will inevitably capture it in one fell swoop; Xicheng is only besieged but not besieged, leaving it as an exit for Chen's army.
At this time, in the city, Chen Qi was also ready. Now Prince Chen has led his army to Pingguan on the border of Chenxiang at night. Chen Qi calculated that by breaking out of the siege and retreating from Xiangcheng to Pingguan, he would be able to fight with the eldest prince within two days.
The reinforcements gathered. The Qi army attacked the city twice more in the past few days, but the offensive was not fierce. Chen Jun could barely hold on. Now there is not much food and grass left in the city. The dead soldiers are buried or even piled at will, and the injured soldiers cannot
After timely treatment, the city was filled with a rancid smell. Coupled with the continuous fighting, the soldiers were on the verge of collapse, and the generals gradually lost control. From time to time, Chen's army ganged up to rob civilians. People's resentment boiled and resistance occurred from time to time.
Xiang Jun, who was hiding, took the opportunity to cause trouble and attacked and killed Chen Jun's skirmishers and patrol posts.
Chen Qi's order to break out was only conveyed to the Forbidden Army. Gongsun Xiao and Li Wenming returned from patrolling the city as usual. More than 10,000 Chen Qi's Imperial Guards had gathered under the west city gate. Everyone looked at Chen Qi, waiting for his order to open the city gate.
Break out. Chen Qi looked back at the city, sighed, and waved his hand to break out. Chen Qi did not inform the defenders and border troops of the breakout. He knew that if the entire army broke out together, there would be chaos, and the Qi army took advantage of the situation to break through the city.
In pursuit, there was no chance of breaking out of the encirclement. He had to abandon these defenders and border troops and support the Qi army for a while, so that he could lead the imperial army to break out of the encirclement.
Li Da had already known about the gathering of Chen's army through several good personal friends of the Forbidden Army captains, and he had already taken advantage of the chaos to spread the news out of the city. Hundreds of servants in the Li Mansion gathered in the courtyard, holding preparations in their hands.
Equipped with torches and weapons, Li Da and his son quietly waited for the latest news from outside. They waited for Chen Jun to break out of the city and then waited for others to kill them.
As soon as the west city gate opened, and more than 10,000 Chen troops began to break out of the city, a loud arrow shot into the sky. Several loud arrows shot into the sky one after another.
In the Li Mansion, Li Gong gave an order, "Light the torch and kill them out! Drive Chen Bing away and return Xiangcheng to me."
Hundreds of servants, led by the Li family's father and son, rushed out, shouting: "Chen Bing's forbidden army has escaped from the west gate. All Xiang people, pick up their swords, kill Chen Bing in the city, and welcome King Xiang back to the city."
Come on!" For a moment, people dispersed in all directions, and responses came from all over the place. Young and strong men from almost every household rushed out.
Chen Jun, who was guarding the city wall, heard the shouts and realized that the Forbidden Army who had fought alongside him had indeed disappeared. They immediately started a commotion. The generals were able to hold back their shouts at first, but after a while more and more Chen Jun mutinied.
Most of Chen's army ran towards the west gate.
The Qi army's detective horse had already reported the situation in the city to Zilong and King Wuyou. Following Zilong's order, the Qi and Xiang coalition forces, which had already been prepared, rushed towards Xiangcheng with shouts.