The city was busy all night, and Chen Yuan was busy almost all night. When the sky gradually became brighter, he finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally felt a little more at ease.
"Are these people trustworthy?"
Fellow acquaintance Han Li asked softly beside him, "There was no movement from the rebels all night long. This is too much of a coincidence!"
"Everyone who comes up has checked their waist tags to report themselves!" Chen Yuan glanced at Han Li: "If there is something fishy, we would have discovered it in the middle of the night. We don't have to wait until now. There is no movement from the thieves outside the city. That's because they
I never dreamed that the reinforcements we were waiting for would come into the city in this way!"
"Not counting the Jinyi Guards, there is a guard commander and hundreds of his servants. I think our Pingyang Mansion has probably survived this time!"
"I hope so!" Han Li nodded: "I'll go down and take a look and take care of their food and drink! Sir, you go back and have a rest, I can still support you!"
"No, let's go together!" Chen Yuan shook his head: "The identity of these reinforcements has been confirmed, but we don't know their combat strength. Besides, a dignified guard commander can't have such a small number of people. His brigade
The troops must still be behind, we still need to discuss how our Pingyang Mansion can cooperate with them to defeat the bandit army!"
The two nodded and walked towards the city together. In the misty wilderness behind them, a gust of wind blew past, making the fog in the wilderness even more misty.
Chen Yuan looked back at the distance, and everywhere he saw was a vast expanse of white. He wanted to say something, but hesitated for a moment, and finally said nothing and walked towards the city.
The private houses under the city that were more than a hundred steps away from the city wall had already been demolished during the siege. In addition to the roofs and walls, most of the houses had even their door panels removed. But now, in these empty houses, there was a
The piles were crowded with soldiers.
There are several large pots under the city where rice porridge is boiling hot, and several large baskets of flour cakes made overnight are now placed in this frame, allowing the leaders of the officers and soldiers to distribute these flour cakes one by one.
The soldiers were holding bowls of porridge and eating. They watched the two officials and a group of people come over, each of them still busy with their own affairs. There was no awe or embarrassment that ordinary soldiers felt when they saw the officials.
Chen Yuan frowned slightly, thinking that these soldiers were the servants of Commander Jiang, he felt faintly uncomfortable. The servants were so arrogant, and Commander Jiang was probably not an easy person to talk to.
"Qin Qianhu, Commander Jiang, thank you for your hard work!"
Seeing the two figures from a distance, a smile appeared on his face: "At present, we are facing a powerful enemy. I have to be cautious. I have wronged you two. Once you have wiped out these bandits, I will lead the whole city."
Gentlemen, please apologize to both of you!"
"It doesn't matter!" Jiang Wan turned around and looked at the two civil servants with bloodshot eyes: "Prefect Chen and I are all responsible for our responsibilities. They are just serving the court. There is no need to feel wronged!"
"That's right!" Chen Yuan smiled slightly: "Commander Jiang and your tigers have entered the city. I am relieved. When Commander Jiang's army arrives, the thieves outside the city will be frightened. I Pingyang
The government will now have no worries!"
"By the way, where are Commander Jiang's troops now? How long do we have to hold on?"
"Well!" Jiang Wan looked at Qin Xie and touched her nose: "I'm really not sure about this. It depends on Qin Qianhu when my troops will arrive. Maybe tomorrow, maybe ten days
Eight days…”
"This..." Chen Yuan was immediately dumbfounded. Just now he thought Commander Jiang knew the basics, but in the blink of an eye he said such unreliable words.
"How can a major military and state matter be such a child's play?" Chen Yuan looked a little sullen: "I have people all over the city placing their hope in Commander Jiang's troops. Does Commander Jiang think this is something that can be played around with?"
"Come and explain to Mr. Chen!" Jiang Wan didn't want to argue with the prefect, so she pointed at Qin Xie: "I didn't risk my life to come here just to listen to Mr. Chen's reprimand!"
Qin Xie pulled Chen Yuan aside and told Chen Yuan the situation in a few words. Chen Yuan listened with a look of surprise on his face.
After a while, he turned around and said, "That's it..."
"No need to say any more polite words!" Jiang Wan waved her hand. Just like Chen Yuan didn't care about the thoughts of the rogues on the city wall who had been scolding for a long time and then had a dinner, Jiang Wan actually didn't care about the thoughts of the prefect in front of him.
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"I'm here to help you defend the city and fend off enemies. You do your part and I'll do mine. We'll talk about the rest later!"
"Okay!" Seeing Jiang Wan's business-like attitude, Chen Yuan took a breath and said crisply.
"Defending the city is still your business. If thieves attack the city, it's you who have to wait for the defense!" Jiang Wan said, "I won't interfere with how you defend the city. I didn't come with hundreds of people, and you did a good job defending it.
However, don’t expect to mobilize my manpower. Whenever my people do something, I will assess the situation and mobilize it myself!”
"Then what kind of city are you helping us defend?" Han Li, who was beside Chen Yuan, couldn't help but ask.
"If we are not here, the city will be destroyed, and Pingyang Mansion will be destroyed. But if we are here, the city will not be destroyed!" Jiang Wan raised his head and glanced at the other party: "Even if you can't hold it and let the thieves enter the city, I can still defeat the thieves.
Get out!"
"I hope you have this ability!" Han Li said word by word.
"I also hope you can see what I'm capable of!" Jiang Wan sighed: "However, those thieves outside the city definitely don't want to see it, so I won't go out to fight until they come to the top of the city.
of!"
"You won't fight even if the city is destroyed?" Han Li said aggressively.
Jiang Wan raised her head and glanced at him, but said nothing.
"That's unreasonable!" Han Li's eyebrows almost stood up. If this were the case, it would be better not to have reinforcements. They were just a bunch of uncles.
"I'm afraid the two adults have misunderstood Mr. Jiang's meaning!" Qin Xie tried to smooth things over with a bitter smile: "We quietly entered the city last night for this reason. If nothing else, there are many people running around in Pingyang Mansion now.
These bandits all came from Shaanxi. Mr. Jiang was worried that once he and his men occupied the enemy at the top of the city, they would scare away the bandits. It was better to use Pingyang Mansion as a bait to make them think they could break through Pingyang.
Mansion, attract them firmly, wait until Master Jiang's large army of soldiers and horses comes over, cooperate inside and outside, and annihilate these thieves in one go, and avoid future troubles forever!"
"Scared them away?"
Chen Yuan and Han Li both had expressions of disbelief on their faces. How could Jinyiwei Qianhu say such ridiculous things? How much benefit did he receive from Commander Jiang!?
"That's probably what it means. Let's each perform our duties!" Jiang Wan waved her hand: "After dinner, my men and horses need to have enough mental rest. If there is nothing too critical, the two adults should not send anyone to disturb them.