Zhao Junsheng watched the homeless people with gruel in clay bowls turn around and leave, drinking with relish one by one, their faces were full of intoxication, and there was always something bad in their hearts.

But this is not the time to be sad, Zhao Junsheng whispered to Li Bao: "Send someone to tell Wei Chong, the guard of Jiameng Pass, and ask him to send a deputy to bring two hundred people over, and after we leave with the homeless, quickly take over Jianmen Pass, and let them remember to bring grain and grass!" Also, let Wei Chong quickly send someone to Nanzheng to find Lu Shuang, and the follow-up people must quickly follow, as well as grain and grass! At the same time, it is also necessary to let the Minister of Residence urge the troops mobilized in Guanzhong to speed up the march!

As for the 10,000 cavalry I brought, let Yang Lie come behind the garrison army that followed Lu Shuang from all over Liangzhou, these cavalry can't play a role in such terrain, and they have to rely on infantry to conquer cities, and the only place where they can play a role is in the middle of the Sichuan Basin! ”

"No!" Li Bao agreed, turned around and went to arrange.

In order to be in a hurry, and in order to prevent the displaced people from discovering that they were all soldiers of the Qianguo country, Zhao Junsheng decided to wait for the displaced people to eat this porridge and then start pulling, and then camp on the spot at dusk in the afternoon to live and cook again.

When the homeless people had almost eaten, Zhao Junsheng asked the soldiers of the Dragon Guard Army to drink a bowl of gruel each, Jiang Hui and the thousands of homeless young people who were organized by him to maintain order also began to eat at this time, these people received some preferential treatment, they helped Jiang Hui maintain order and control the homeless, each of them was given two bowls of gruel, although not to say full, but they ate much more than other homeless people, so these people were even more obedient.

Zhao Junsheng sent someone to find Jiang Hui and instructed: "It's almost noon now, it's not early, call the homeless people to continue on their way, we only have three days!" ”

"Yes!"

Jiang Hui agreed, climbed the south city wall and shouted to the displaced people below: "Folks, we only have three days of food, and we can't afford to delay, so we can only rush immediately, rush to Fushui Pass within three days to find food, and if we delay for one day, we will be hungry for a day!" Now everyone is moving towards Fushui Pass, the brothers of the grain protection team are listening, and they are all carrying the grain on the wheelbarrow and pushing it away, pay attention to safety, don't fall off the cliff! Go, go! ”

As Jiang Hui finished shouting loudly, Qianguo Xizuo, who cooperated with him among the displaced people, greeted loudly: "Let's go!" ”

Some people take the lead, others will follow, and the homeless people who just had a bowl of hot porridge have some strength, and they began to move towards Fushui Pass with their families, and seventy or eighty thousand people pulled out a team of nearly ten miles on the road.

Before finally leaving, Zhao Junsheng asked Li Bao to leave two hundred Dragon Guards to temporarily garrison Jianmen Pass, and wait for Wei Chong to send someone to take over and follow after completing the handover.

Food has saved many lives, but disease is not something that food can drive away, and in just one afternoon's journey, dozens of displaced people died on the way, and some people fell to the ground while walking and never got up.

Jiang Hui had no choice but to order the bodies of these sick and dead people to be dug and buried to avoid the plague.

Some of the roads are dangerous, and there are always people who accidentally fall down, and there are screams and then silence.

In the evening, Jiang Hui, under the instruction of Zhao Junsheng, found a large piece of flat land for the displaced people to rest, and organized people to set up pots and stoves to cook porridge for dinner, and also sent people to dig wild vegetables and fern roots, which can eat more people by mixing these in the gruel, and there is some starch in the fern roots, which can fill the stomach.

While eating, Lin Jinghui touched Zhao Junsheng's side and whispered: "According to the news I just received, there are only more than 200 defenders in Fushui Pass, and all the others have been transferred to quell the rebellion in Shuzhong!" ”

"What?" Zhao Junsheng was taken aback, "Is this person who ordered the transfer of troops to have a broken brain?" Fushui Pass is one of the most important passes in northern Shu, and it directly drew sixty percent of the troops? ”

Lin Jinghui said in a low voice: "The minister guesses that the reaction of the displaced people over there in Shuzhong should be very serious, otherwise the government will not transfer all the defenders of Fushui Pass!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "I originally wanted to take these homeless people to make money from Fushui Pass by the way, after all, it is a dangerous pass, and sending troops to attack will always cause a lot of losses, but I didn't expect that Fushui Pass, which originally had five hundred people, is now only two hundred people left!" Come on, go find Li Bao and Jiang Hui, hurry! ”

The two quickly rushed over, and after saluting Zhao Junsheng, Zhao Junsheng said directly: "I received the news just now that the strength of the defenders of Fushui Pass has been reduced, and there are only two hundred people left!" With such a small number of troops, it is no longer worth it for us to coerce 70,000 or 80,000 displaced people to fight it! So I decided not to go to Fushuiguan, with the amount of grain we have now, we can only go to Zitong! ”

Li Bao was a little worried: "Your Majesty, we only have a thousand people now, but if we fight Zitong, Fushui Pass can send troops to cut off our way back!" Moreover, Zitong is the seat of Guanghan County, so there should be some troops, once the attack is blocked······"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "Don't worry, there are only two hundred people in Fushui Pass, and they are not enough to guard Fushui Pass, how can they have the courage to cut off our way back?" When we take Zitong, we can send a few hundred more people over to force them down. You must know that we are now displaced people, not cadres, and these 70,000 or 80,000 displaced people do not know our identity, how can those people from the Bashu government know our identity? As for fighting Zitong, just a county, even if he is a county town, our Qianlong Guards are not vegetarians, everyone can use one as ten, and they can't beat a Zitong? ”

Everyone is right to think about it, and it seems that it is unnecessary to worry.

Zhao Junsheng said to Jiang Hui: "I need to rely on you next, there is no barrier to going to Zitong, you have to say that the displaced people will go to Fuxian together!" ”

Jiang Hui nodded: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I'll go to those temporary subordinates to persuade them later, as long as you talk to them, they will spread the news, and the displaced people will follow!" ”

Zhao Junsheng patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, pay attention to the way and method when speaking, go ahead!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said to Li Bao: "The mobilization of 3,000 soldiers and horses from all over Liangzhou is only two days behind us, and their marching speed must be faster than that of the displaced people, so I conclude that within two days at most, the next 3,000 people will pass through Jianmen Pass, and you send someone to tell the guards who received Jianmen Pass, and when the follow-up 3,000 men and horses and Yang Lie's 10,000 cavalry arrive, send a few hundred people to force the defenders of the Southern Dynasty to surrender Fushui Pass!" ”

"Understood!"

In the middle of the night, Jiang Hui took advantage of the night to touch and report to Zhao Junsheng: "Your Majesty, everything has been arranged, I will go directly to Zitong after breakfast tomorrow morning, and I will not go to Fushuiguan!" ”

"Good, well done!"

From Jianmen Pass to Zitong, it was exactly three days' journey to walk faster, and the homeless people had exactly three days of food left.

Along the way, Jiang Hui kept cheering up and encouraging the homeless, asking the homeless people to speed up, they must arrive in Zitong before the food is eaten, only when they arrive in Zitong and capture this county can they get food and continue to live, otherwise they can only starve to death, driven by hunger, the homeless people are completely dominated by Jiang Hui.

Tens of thousands of displaced people finally arrived outside Zitong City on the third night, regardless of the instigation of Jiang Hui and others.

With the arrival of so many displaced people, this momentum is not small, and the lights on Zitong City were soon lit, and the entire city was transferred to the city wall to strengthen the garrison.

Guanghan County Taishou, County Lieutenant and other officials rushed over one after another, but when they saw the dense crowd of displaced people under the city, they all gasped.

"This ······ I'm afraid there are 100,000 displaced people, where did these people come from? Jun Cheng said in surprise.

Taishou frowned: "There are no 100,000, there are still 70,000 or 80,000, looking at their direction, it should be from the direction of Jianmen Pass, but aren't those homeless people pouring into the Northern Dynasty?" How will it come back? ”

The lieutenant said, "Do you need to talk about it?" It must be that the Northern Dynasty was unwilling to take this hot yam, so they drove these homeless people back! Taishou, what now? These homeless people should have been hungry for several days, and one bad one may rebel! ”

Jun Cheng said: "Or open the city gate early tomorrow morning to give them porridge?" You can't force these 70,000 or 80,000 homeless people to rebel, right? If these people rebel again, we won't have the troops to quell the chaos! ”

Taishou turned his head to look at Jun Cheng: "Is there still food in the official warehouse?" Can you come up with food? ”

Jun Cheng couldn't speak, his mouth moved, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Taishou, or tell those Shi clan landlords, let them donate some food to appease these homeless, if these homeless people are hungry and crazy to attack the city, once the city is broken, not only will their food not be saved, but they will also worry about their lives······"

Taishou sneered: "You take it for granted, which of those big landlords of the Shi clan is not a big backer in the court?" If you go and ask them to donate food, they will take care of you, and if you want to go, the official will not be angry with them! ”

Jun Cheng said: "What should I do then?" Do you want to turn against these displaced people? ”

Taishou said with a cold face: "Order everyone, be on strict guard, no one is allowed to be lazy!" ”

The county lieutenant and the county and the soldiers of the defenders did not take the words of the Taishou seriously, just a group of homeless people, who would come to attack the city at night after being full? I can't see it clearly, how can I attack the city?

Outside the city, among tens of thousands of displaced people, Zhao Junsheng summoned Li Bao, Lin Jinghui, Jiang Hui and other cadres to arrange the siege of the city.

"Although this Zitong is a county seat, it is also a county, we only have a thousand dragon guards, and there are no siege equipment, those homeless young people play a small role, at most they can only attract the defenders' arrow firepower, if you want to break the city, we have to make a strange move!"

Li Bao asked, "What are Your Majesty's plans?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said to Jiang Hui: "You go and organize thousands of young people, Li Bao asked the brothers to hand over the weapons captured from the Sword Gate Pass to these homeless young people, let them cut down some trees, let's make a batch of simple siege ladders overnight, and steal the city at dawn!" ”