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"My lord, the thieves have sent a messenger again, to see or not to see?" As someone at the door said loudly, Xu Wei raised his head from the carbon basin and said, "Come in." ”

As the quilt blocking the door was lifted, a soldier walked in wearing a large flower jacket that obviously did not fit the size, and after walking in, he hurriedly put down the quilt to block the door, and then saluted Xu Wei and Zheng Zhihu, "My lord, the thieves outside the city have sent messengers again, this time they brought a lot of silver taels, and they also threw them on the city wall, saying that they must ask us to pass it on their behalf." ”

"Oh?" Xu Wei smiled a little slowly, his face was now a little numb from the hot carbon basin, and he even felt a little drowsy. Xu Wei stood up, stretched, then thought for a moment, digested what the soldiers said when they came in, and then said, "It seems that you also took a lot of errand money." ”

The soldier's face turned pale suddenly, and when the messenger under the city and the rebels he brought with him threw silver taels to the city tower just now, he really took a lot of silver taels, including several pieces of ten taels of Kuping silver. Xu Wei waved his hand, "It's okay, they threw it up, I don't care." The soldier breathed a sigh of relief.

"Second Master Python!" Xu Wei whispered a few times to Zheng Zhihu, but Zheng Zhihu dozed off in front of the carbon basin and didn't hear it at all. Xu Wei had no choice but to step forward and gently pat Zheng Zhihu on the shoulder, "Second Master Python!" Don't sleep just yet. ”

Zheng Zhihu jumped up suddenly, and reached out to draw the knife, but was stopped by Xu Wei with one hand, "Don't! Zheng Zhihu was awakened from his dream, his face was also hot from charcoal fire at this moment, his face was red, and he took several big breaths before he gasped, "What's the matter with telling me to get up?" ”

"Outside the city, the king monk called someone to come again, do you see me?" Xu Wei said and pointed in the direction of the city gate outside the house. Zheng Zhihu snorted impatiently, sat back in front of the carbon basin, and picked it in the carbon basin with the iron fork next to him, "It's not my business, I just have to fight, and you have the final say in the matter of making plans." As he spoke, he threw the fork to his feet and put his hands up to test the temperature.

Xu Wei smiled slightly, "Second Master Python, don't be humble, you are the big leader in the more than 1,000 Zheng family army, and now in this Taiping City, it is even more time for you to have the final say, if you don't speak, Xu will not dare to provoke those thieves, lest you chew your tongue and say that I am a bandit." ”

"I'm not a bandit if I co-author?" Zheng Zhihu said impatiently, "If you want to see it, you can see it, if you don't want to see it, you can drive it out, I don't care anyway." ”

The enemy is not far away, and the complex technique is from the yang to the enemy

"Okay, it's good to meet each other, it's been a few times, and let's see what they're going to do." As he spoke, Xu Wei turned around and lifted the quilt that blocked the wind at the door. The quilt was lifted, and a gust of cold wind rushed directly into the room with some snow blown up from the ground, and suddenly the fire in the carbon basin brightened up a lot, and the sparks splashed everywhere, so frightened that Zheng Zhihu hurriedly stepped out of the sparks a few times, and shouted loudly, "Remember to close the door when you go out, don't leave the door open, it's about to freeze to death!" ”

Xu Wei pretended not to hear, and walked in the direction of the city gate, and the messenger hurriedly stepped forward and carefully lifted the quilt, got out by himself, and then carefully closed the door.

The avenues of Taiping City are covered with thick snow, and there are deep footprints under your feet, and now that there is a war, no one wants to go out when it is cold, and hiding next to the brazier can reduce the loss of heat and eat less. It has been three or four days since the last siege of the city, and the food in the city has been consumed a lot, and if there are no more supplies, it is estimated that these thousands of people in Taiping City will begin to starve before spring arrives. It's also thanks to the fact that the unfortunate ghosts who were driven to death in front of them did not enter the city, and if they did, the city would not be safe, and they would have to eat with a thousand mouths out of thin air, and the hunger would only come earlier.

Xu Wei slid up the city wall step by step with the help of several soldiers, not that the soldiers at the head of the city did not clear the snow, but after cleaning, a lot of snow fell from the sky to cover the stairs. In addition, most of the thousands of people in Taiping City lit braziers, and the temperature inside the city was much higher than outside the city, and the snow that fell on the city wall after cleaning would directly melt into water when it touched the ground, and then formed ice, so it was very slippery. Now is the time when there is no war, so the soldiers who go up and down the city wall mainly have to be careful with their feet, and when the war comes, there will naturally be people or soldiers who will come forward to shovel the snow and ice on the stairs and ramps, so as to achieve the ability to pass quickly.

There are more than a dozen people standing trembling under the city, these people are not much different from the people in the city, the warm clothes on their bodies are basically taken from the dead people, these clothes are not their own, so they are of different sizes, different thicknesses, often several pieces on the body can not necessarily keep warm, but at this moment in addition to putting clothes on the body, there is really no way to keep warm. The temperature outside the city is much lower than that inside the city, although it is said that the wood can be cut for heating, but the wood cut is wet, it is not easy to ignite, not to mention, the smoke is high and the temperature is low, far less good than the charcoal stored in the city before. Their greatest crisis is not the cold, but the lack of food.

Although the previous siege said that there were many casualties, it also helped them solve a problem, that is, they helped them consume many mouths that could not eat alone. Although the siege war did not achieve the expected effect at all, without these thousands of mouths to eat, they could still survive until the arrival of spring. Although Wang Ziyong is in a hurry now, the situation is not as urgent as before the siege, and he just wants to spend the winter here now.

Since the failure of the siege, he has clearly known that the gap between the combat effectiveness of his army and the official army of the "Zheng" battalion on the city wall has reached a world of difference, so it is basically impossible to capture Taiping City with his own army. If you want to capture Taiping City, you can't just go from one direction, you must have more than 20,000 troops to besiege on three sides to be effective, so you must wait for Wang Jiayin's army to come to reinforcements. Although it is said that Wang Jiayin's army will share the spoils of the capture of Taiping City after it arrives, it is worth it to be able to eat this official army, at least to get a lot of bird guns, and to increase the combat effectiveness of his army by a level.

However, Wang Jiayin replied to him a few days ago that his army had occupied a county town at the moment, with food and shelter, and he didn't want to march in the field to fight here in such a ghost weather. Wang used his feet to think that if Wang Jiayin's army was to come, it would definitely not come until after the spring thawed, so his only choice now was to stay here and guard this official army until spring came.

With the loss of thousands of soldiers in the last siege, he only had about 6,000 people left at the moment, and all of them were "war camps" in the hands of his brothers, even after Zhang Cunmeng died, his war camp was divided among other battalions, and no one dared to easily put their own war camp into battle. Therefore, in addition to counting on Wang Jiayin's soldiers, he is also waiting for the cannon fodder brought by Wang Jiayin, which are all "good tools" that can reduce the casualties of his soldiers.

If he wants to spend the winter here, now, he must face another threat, that is, the officials and soldiers in Taiping City. Since He Yilong lost to the Zheng Jiajun in the last field battle, he opened his mouth and blew the Taiping General Zheng to the sky, claiming that they had 10,000 people. At that time, he was just trying to shirk his responsibility, but now it has become difficult to ride a tiger. It is impossible for He Yilong to tell Wang Ziyong that there are only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the city, otherwise he would lie about the military situation and might lose his head. And Wang Ziyong listened to the "intelligence" of more than 10,000 officials and soldiers in the city, and thought that this Taiping City could not be captured by himself, so the movement of the officials and troops in the city became Wang Ziyong's biggest headache.

There are 10,000 officers and troops in the city, which is a big stone in his heart for Wang Ziyong, and he only has 6,000 people on hand now, if the officials and soldiers in the city rush out, with the weapons and equipment of the officials and soldiers, he will not be able to resist it at all. But he didn't want to leave just like that - Wang Ziyong didn't control any county town before, and even if he did, he basically killed and robbed it all and burned it all, and even threw his body into the well, and there was no place for ghosts. Don't talk about food when you go back rashly, even if it is firewood, it may not be enough to burn, it is better to stay outside Taiping City, it has been in business for a while, at least there is a place to shelter from the wind and snow, and you can even dig out some black brittle stones on the ground to directly burn the fire for warmth.

Therefore, if he wants to understand the intentions and movements of the officials and soldiers in the city, it has become his biggest concern, before he sent more than ten envoys to contact the officials and soldiers, but the officials and soldiers at the head of the city either shot and ran away indiscriminately, or directly ignored them, so this time he decided to let the envoys sent carry gold and silver.

This group of envoys arrived at the city and threw a large amount of gold and silver at the head of the city, and finally bought a good one, but the officers and soldiers at the head of the city did not shoot and fire arrows at them, and even promised to spread the word, and it was not long before the military division of the official army came to the head of the city.

The snow under the city is thick, and many places are high and low, and they can't be seen now, but everyone knows that those are the cannon fodder during the siege of the city a few days ago, and then they were killed by Zheng Jiajun in large numbers under the city, except for a very small number of people who fled to the south while the chaos was basically killed under the city, it is now winter, and the corpses fell to the ground without decay, but they were frozen into wooden sticks like hard erections, and no one would collect the corpses, covered by the snow in the sky, Many Zheng Jiajun soldiers felt that although they couldn't find a better way to solve this matter, it was too disobedient, so they were a little perfunctory to Xu Wei, who had obeyed his words before, at the moment.

"Alas-" Xu Wei walked up to the city wall, and when he saw the "snowdrifts" piled up below, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "The world doesn't bury the heavens to bury it......" His heart couldn't help but twitch a few times, and then looked at the rebel envoy under the city, and couldn't help but have some changes in his attitude. "Who's under the city?"

"Your Excellency!" The person who looked to be a small military leader under the city had already been shivering from the cold, and now when he heard someone talking in the city, he hurriedly raised his head and bowed to the city, "Luo Rucai, the head of the 36th battalion Luo Zi battalion, didn't dare to ask the lord upstairs?" ”

"It's Fujian Xu," Xu Wei replied with some disdain, "I don't know what Luo Juntou means by this?" ”

"Fujian?" Luo Rucai couldn't help but be stunned, he had thought of many possibilities, but he definitely didn't think of the word Fujian, he had heard of Fujian before participating in the rebellion. Zheng Zhilong, a giant on the sea, returned to the imperial court and established the Fujian Naval Division, which is powerful and can be called a hegemon in the South China Sea, it seems that the "Zheng" flag at the head of the city must be from Zheng Zhilong, but he didn't dare to confirm it, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know if Lord Zheng is here?" ”

Xu Wei smiled a little boringly, "Lord Zheng's military aircraft is full of major events, how can I have time to talk to you, if you have something to say, let it go, and leave when you are done." ”

Luo Rucai nodded secretly, sure enough, he was a military advisor-level figure, and he didn't leak a drop of water when he spoke, the man surnamed Xu in front of him had already affirmed that Zheng Zhilong was in Ping'an City, and he was entangled in military affairs, so it must be because of the large number of people in the barracks, so the information he got before that there were 10,000 people must be true. Thinking of this, he arched his hand and said, "In the battle a few days ago, there were many misunderstandings between the two sides, and I also asked General Haihan, I originally came here with the intention of fighting with the official army, but I never expected to fight with your army, since the Zheng family army is here, can you take advantage of us and let me wait to go east?" ”

"What's the misunderstanding?" Xu Wei couldn't help but almost laugh out loud, "I'm an official, you're a thief, my official army should have fought with thieves, destroyed the world's thieves, and returned me to a peaceful world." ”

Luo Rucai's face turned white, he originally thought that the person in front of him was a Fujianese, a guest army, and a private army, and he had no sense of belonging to the Wu Dynasty, so he wanted to provoke a stir, who knew that the righteous and awe-inspiring refuting of the people made him unable to even insert his mouth in return. The soldiers of the Zheng family army at the head of the city shouted loudly one by one, cheering at Xu Wei again and again, completely devoid of the coldness they had shown to him in the past few days.

"It's because of you and other thieves who are doing chaos in the world, that this has made my Dawu Dynasty full of holes, and now it is even more coercive to coerce the people, and many thieves are mixed with refugees, intending to mix into the Taiping City and destroy it." Saying that, Xu Wei shouted towards the pile of corpses covered by snow, "These refugees were not even refugees originally, and they lived a decent life, but they were forced by you and others to come to attack the city, and they were sent to death in front. Saying that, Xu Wei wiped the non-existent tears from the corners of his eyes and continued to choke out, "Seeing that I didn't want them to enter the city, he made a noise and instigated the refugees to attack, and I had to open fire and shoot, causing a large number of refugees to be killed and injured. What else is there to say? Drop-off! ”

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