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Chapter 493 Food shortage, falling into a desperate situation

Hua Ju stood in front of the military camp and looked at it. She felt that the distance between the soldiers shouting was too far, so she could only hear the guards on the city wall. It would be difficult for other soldiers and ordinary people in the city to hear it again. This would be a good idea.

The effect will be greatly reduced, so you need to get closer.

"Shieldmen and crossbow soldiers are ordered to cover the shouting soldiers and go close to five meters away from the city wall to make all the soldiers and people in Qingxi County hear it." Hua Ju said.

The five zhang in the Song Dynasty was more than fifteen meters later, while Qingxi County was originally just a small county town and was not large in area. As long as there were enough people shouting, most places could hear it, and the people and soldiers could

Hearing that one passes to ten, ten passes to hundreds, will soon make everyone know that at that time, there will be a huge reaction among them.

After the order was issued, the shield and crossbow soldiers quickly covered the shouting soldiers and advanced to a distance of only fifteen meters from the city wall. In this way, not only the soldiers on the city wall could hear their words clearly, but they were close to the city wall.

You can hear it from several streets.

Hua Ju feels that just letting the soldiers shout, so she thought for a while and said to Gao Zhan: "General Gao, have you caught a lot of people from the Gangyuan Cave? Let them also shout, let the soldiers in Qingxi County know, Qing

The stream is now an isolated city, and there is only a dead end if you don’t surrender.”

"Affect the order."

Gao Zhan immediately sent someone to take the captured prisoners to the side of the shouting soldiers, and shouting in turn.

"Push the camp forward ten feet away from the city wall, and use the method of tightening and siege to trap the entire Qingxi County so that they can't sneak out alone." Hua Jue then asked Lu Junyi,

Guan Sheng, Sun An, Wang Jin and others said.

Generally, camping and camping will be set a distance from the city you want to conquer. This will not only prevent the other party from seeing the situation in the camp, but also free up extra space for the two armies to fight, and almost no one will camp close to the city.

Hua Ju is now sure that Fang La and the others dare not take the initiative, and he is not afraid that Fang La's army will come out to attack after seeing the situation in the camp from a high position.

Because Fang La's tens of thousands of troops were all concentrated in the city, there was only one little gate, even if they wanted to attack, they could not come out all at once.

The guards were in the direction of the four city gates, and each side had nearly 40,000 troops. Before all their people could rush out of the city, the nearly 40,000 troops would have surrounded them, and then they would not only rush out.

The soldiers cannot be saved, but instead will give them a chance to enter the city.

Therefore, Hua Jue was not only not worried that Fang La's army would come out to rob the camp, but on the contrary, she also wanted them to come out, so that she could give them the opportunity to conquer Qingxi County.

In addition, there is another advantage in ordering the camp to move the camp to Qingxi County. That is, at night, the camp fire can completely shine the outer wall of Qingxi, and you can see any movement on the wall floor clearly.

, so you don’t have to worry about Bao Daoyi sneaking out,

"Yes." Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng and others responded, then turned around and prepared to make arrangements.

Hua Ju said: "When moving the camp, let the soldiers prepare for defense first to prevent them from taking advantage of this opportunity."

"As for the orders of humble duties," Lu Junyi and others responded.

Under the command of Lu Junyi, Guan Sheng, Sun An, Gao Zhan, Wang Jin and others, the Song army camps surrounding the four cities of Qingxi County were all moved to a location only ten feet away from the Qingxi city wall.

Qingxi County Yamen.

Fang La was trapped in Qingxi County and was in a very bad mood and restless. No matter what the people around him did, he felt that he was deliberately provoking him. Some people were constantly being dragged out and beaten, which scared him so much that everyone around him was trembling and generous.

Don't dare to come out.

"Why haven't I given the tea I want yet? Are you all rebellious now when I see me being besieged?" Fang La asked glaring at the eunuch beside him.

The eunuchs beside him were so scared that they knelt on the ground and said in panic: "I am loyal to Your Majesty, and have no disagreement. Please observe clearly."

Fang La snorted heavily, just about to order people to drag these eunuchs down and take heavy responsibility. At this time, Lou Minzhong, Bao Daoyi, Fang Jie, and several other ministers walked in from outside.

When Fang La faced these officials, he put away the anger in his heart, asked all the eunuchs to stand aside, and then asked, "Is there anything wrong with the Qing family coming?"

Lou Minzhong said: "Your Majesty, the Song army has reinforcements arrived again, and the camp has been moved to a place ten feet from Qingxi County, firmly surrounding Qingxi County to death."

"What!"

Fang La's face suddenly turned pale and he asked in panic: "What should we do now?"

Lou Minzhong said: "We have no reinforcements now, so we can no longer find any other way except to defend ourselves."

"This is not a long-term solution. Our food and grass can only last for half a month at most. What should we do if we use up all of them? We can't sit and wait for death, so we still have to find a way to highlight it."

Fang La was not satisfied with Lou Minzhong's proposal, because Qingxi County was only so large and had only a little force, especially the food and grass were insufficient. Once the food and grass were gone, even if the Song army did not attack them, they would have to be finished.

Therefore, I still want a way to completely get rid of the current predicament.

Lou Minzhong also wanted to have a complete solution, but the Song army had surrounded Qingxi County in front of him. It was almost impossible to rush out with his strong strength. He could not think of any other way except to hold on to him.

Fang La looked at the middle-aged official Lou Min in front of him and said, "I treat you all well and have good family. Now we are facing difficulties. I also hope that you all can gather ideas and come up with ways to get out of trouble. I will definitely reward you in the future.

.”

"I will do my best to assist Your Majesty and solve your problems." Lou Minzhong and others said.

Fang La nodded slightly and waved his hand to ask them to retreat, but none of the officials present left, as if they had anything to say to him.

"Dear family, what else is there?" Fang La asked.

Lou Minzhong looked at the other officials, and saw that they didn't dare to say anything, then said in a low tone: "Your Majesty, the Gangyuan Cave has been broken by the Song army."

"What, the Gangyuan Cave has been broken by the Song army!"

Fang La hurriedly asked, "Where did you hear the news?"

"The Song army took all the prisoners captured from the Gangyuan Cave to the outside of the city and asked them to shout, they said," said Lou Minzhong.

"Where is the queen and the princess?"

For Fang La, those concubines were not important. The only people who were really important to him were his wife and daughter. So when he heard the news that Bangyuan Cave was broken, the first thing he thought of was them.

Lou Minzhong pondered for a moment and said, "In order not to fall into the hands of Song Jun, the queen and the princess both committed suicide."

Oh!

Fang La heard his wife and daughter committed suicide. When she cried out, she screamed sadly, and then her eyes turned dark.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Fang Jie, Lou Minzhong and others rushed over to support him, pinching Renzhong and shaking and shouting, finally awakening him.

Fang La glanced at Fang Jie, Lou Minzhong and others, then burst into tears. Lou Minzhong advised: "Your Majesty, the death of the queen and the princess is indeed sad, but the Song army is trapped in the city, which requires Your Majesty to stabilize the morale of the army.

At that time, if His Majesty was overly sad because of the deaths of the Queen and Princess, damage the dragon body and the morale of the army was disintegrated, we would really have to die.

Therefore, I hope Your Majesty can put the overall situation first and be mournful and follow the changes."

"Please beg your Majesty for your grief and follow the changes." The officials said in unison.

Although Fang La felt extremely sad, he knew that now was not the time to be sad. He then forced himself to wipe his tears dry and said, "Thank you for the care of Zhongqing's family. I am fine. You hurry up and go to the four cities to watch.

Never let the Song army attack in."

"yes."

After the officials retreated, Fang La called everyone around him out and cried alone in the house.

Seven days passed in a blink of an eye.

During these seven days, Hua Juan's injuries had been fully recovered on the guards, and the soldiers had enough time to regain their energy. The soldiers were even more excited, hoping to order an attack on Qingxi County as soon as possible.

But in Qingxi County, it is a completely different scene.

As the food is getting less and less, not only did the porridge given to the people have been reduced from one bowl a day to half a bowl, but the food gusts of soldiers were reduced by half every day, which made the people and soldiers complain.

In order to prevent the emergence of internal loyalty, Fang La adopted bloody suppression measures for all the people and soldiers who said they were behind their backs. Hundreds of people were killed in just seven days.

Fang La thought that using this method would make everyone listen to him obediently, but in fact, no matter the people or soldiers, they felt even more disgusted and hated him.

Noon on the eighth day.

A group of soldiers carried several large wooden barrels to the city wall and distributed half a steamed bun and half a bowl of porridge to each soldier. As for the guard, there were two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge.

"That little food is not enough to even stuff the teeth." Soldier Arthur said with dissatisfaction as he looked at the porridge and steamed buns in his hand.

Soldier Yi also said: "There was a bowl of porridge and a steamed bun two days ago. Now there is only half a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun. I think in the next two days, I will probably not even have half a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun.



Soldier C sighed softly and said, "Eat such a little food every day, let alone fight, you will be hungry to death."

"What did you three say?"

The three soldiers were talking, Fang Jie came over with twenty-four soldiers, staring at them fiercely and said, "I seemed to hear you talking bad things about His Majesty just now, right?"

"We did not say bad things about His Majesty, but we just said that we had too little food and we were not full and we had no strength to fight." Soldier Arc said with emotion.

Fang Jie looked at half a bowl of porridge and half a steamed bun in their hands, and sneered: "You are still satisfied with the porridge and steamed buns. Do you still want to eat delicacies?"

Seeing that Fang Jie was completely unconscientious about these soldiers, the soldiers were angry and said, "The general can eat enough for three meals a day, so naturally he can't feel the feeling of those who are in the army. If we also

Like you, you can fill your stomach, and we will say that."

Fang Jie saw that he dared to confront him in front of such a person, and then he got angry. He pulled out his sword with a "clang" and slashed the soldier's neck with a sword. The soldier's armor immediately fell in the blood.
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