The next day, a middle-aged official with a haggard face walked in under the leadership of Du Fu, and this person was Huo Guoting, the Taishou of Jiling. www.biquge.info Although his surname is Huo, he has nothing to do with Huo Kan, and he has been serving as a Taishou here for four or five years, and this year is the year of performance evaluation.

"Weichen Jiling is too guarded by Huo Guoting to meet the king! The king is coming to the city, and the ministers are not welcomed, please surrender to the king! ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "This king knows that you are organizing flood control matters on the embankment, you should get up first!" ”

"King Xie!"

Zhao Ziliang asked: "This king heard that the river has overflowed the embankment, how many people have been affected?" ”

Huo Guoting replied: "Back to the king, so far three villages have been flooded, but the villagers have been moved to safety, and more than 30 livestock and more than 500 acres of fertile land have been flooded!" ”

After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang thought about it and asked Du Fu: "Are there any other arrangements this afternoon?" ”

Du Fu said: "There are some pieces sent from Xinjing that need to be approved by the king."

"Let's do this at night!" After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he turned his head to Huo Guoting and said: "That's it, if you don't see the actual disaster, this king doesn't know how serious it is, after lunch, you accompany this king to the embankment to see the scene!" ”

Huo Guoting hurriedly said: "The presence of the king in person will inevitably boost the morale of the people, and the determination to fight the flood and provide disaster relief will be even stronger!" ”

In the afternoon, Zhao Ziliang went to the Fara River embankment accompanied by Huo Guoting and other relevant officials of Jiling City, there are a large number of tents in the embankment, and many people live here with their families.

When the people heard that Zhao Ziliang was coming, they all ran out of their tents, knelt on the ground, and excitedly shouted long live, Zhao Ziliang expressed his condolences along the embankment to the victims of the disaster and the people of flood control, and stood on a high place to give a speech to the officers and soldiers, the people, and the victims of flood control to boost their morale.

Subsequently, Huo Guoting and others took Zhao Ziliang to check the embankment that was overflowed by the river, about 100 meters, where the embankment level was slightly lower, so it was overflowed by the river, fortunately, there was no breach, despite this, a large amount of river water overflowed the embankment and caused three villages to be flooded, and the embankment had been raised by one meter at this time.

Huo Guoting introduced: "King, this is it, about thirty zhang wide, the water was too strong at that time, when the levee was raised, there were still five strong men who were swept away by the flood, after the levee was raised, these five people were found, but they were all dead!" ”

Zhao Ziliang instructed: "The families of these people should be comforted, and in terms of pensions and other benefits, the government should do its best to compensate them!" ”

"Yes!"

"Are there enough relief supplies?"

Huo Guoting said: "Since yesterday night, the river has begun to fall, judging from the current reserves of Jiling City, it should be enough, but if the flood season is extended, it still needs to be mobilized from other places!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "In this way, this king will allocate a batch of military funds to you, and if there is any surplus after the end of the flood season, it will be distributed to the people affected by the disaster, as for the people affected by the disaster, your government must do a good job of statistics and report to the capital protection office, and the imperial court reserves a special disaster relief compensation payment, and will make some compensation to the disaster victims when the time comes!" At the end of this year, after the dry season, your government will also organize the people to strengthen and heighten the embankment in a large area, and some of the river sections that are directly impacted by the water flow should be reinforced with cement ash mixed with sand and gravel, since it is to be done, it must be done at one time, and the reinforced and heightened embankment must ensure that there will be no problems within ten years, otherwise it will cost the people money to do a dialogue every year, and it will not make the people feel at ease to produce and live! Also, during this time, we must strengthen patrols on the embankment to prevent leakage of the embankment, breach of the embankment, and the fine destruction of the big cannibals, especially the small sabotage of the big cannibals,"

Huo Guoting arched his hand and said: "Yes!" ”

Zhao Ziliang inspected the embankment for an afternoon, during which he comforted many people who had been affected by the disaster and the officers and soldiers who participated in the flood control, and returned to the barracks outside the city in the evening.

At night, after Zhao Ziliang finished reading the last chapter, Wang Can, Zhang Ben, Zhao Hu, and Zheng San came to the Chinese army's tent one after another.

Wang Can hugged his fists and said: "King, the Dongchang spies have been deployed in all aspects, and they can provide intelligence support for the army at any time, can guide the way as a guide for the army, and can contact and contact the military detective outposts!" According to the investigation of our secret agents, the garrison of Shulgaz is Zilz, and the garrison strength is 30,000 people! Only six thousand men were fully equipped, and all of them were cavalry, with regular military training, and the others were infantry, with only weapons, and they were of a variety and of poor quality. Zilz is Mansour's henchman, and although his ability is not as good as that of Bosilin, he is deeply trusted by Mansour! ”

Zhang Ben stood up and hugged his fists and said: "King, the first squad of the Huya Army has already explored in the direction of Shuergaz in the evening, and there are guides sent by Dongchang along the way to guide and answer, and the news of the exploration will be passed on one after another tomorrow morning!" ”

Zhao Hu stood up and said: "King, the Second Army is ready for mobilization, and the soldiers' bodies and minds have been adjusted to the best state, and they can pull out the camp and attack at any time!" ”

Zheng San stood up and arched his hand: "The army's month's grain, grass, and military materials have been loaded and can be shipped at any time!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded, "Okay, other ordnance materials must be shipped regularly and on time, and the army at the front of the grain and grass will find a way to solve part of it by itself, if it needs to be transported from the rear, then the king will send someone to come over and inform you in advance!" Now that the army has reached the territory of the enemy country, it is necessary to find a way to eat the enemy and reduce the logistical pressure on your own side as much as possible! ”

Zheng San promised: "Okay! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the crowd: "Since everything is ready, then pass the order, make a fire and cook tomorrow, and pull out the camp to go to the expedition!" ”

The people stood up and saluted, "Yes!" ”

On August 28, Zhao Ziliang led a total of 38,000 people from the Second Army, the Guards, the Huya Army, and the Dragon Guards Army from Jiling City to the direction of Shulgaz, the Great Food Country.

Among the 38,000 men, there were only 8,000 infantry, and the rest were cavalry, and even the 8,000 infantry had war horses, and the overall marching speed of the whole army could catch up with the all-light cavalry army. Under the exploration and response of the Huya Army and the Dongchang spies, the army marched very fast, and arrived at the border pass town of Zahedan in the southwest in just one day, and the army did not stop at Zahedan, but continued to march towards Shulgaz, which was only a day's journey.

Wherever the army passed, the Huya Army and the Dongchang spies had already found a good crossing point or a pontoon bridge on the river that must be passed, and arranged for the remaining personnel to meet them in the dangerous places, so as to nip in the bud the possible dangers encountered during the march.

After crossing the border line, Zhao Ziliang rode his horse to the side of the road and asked a guard to call Wei Gao, the deputy general of the Second Army. ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Wei Gao, give you a task!" ”

When Wei Gao heard that there was a task, he was overjoyed, and he hugged his fists and said, "Please command the king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Give you 3,000 people, you go to collect grain and grass from the big food towns and villages along the way, how much to collect, and the grain collected along the way from here to Shuergaz cannot be less than 20,000 stones." As for how to get to the garrison of the army, you need to figure it out yourself! By the way, the ordinary people of this big food country don't have enough food in their hands, and the food they get from them is almost negligible, and they can only get food from those nobles, clans, and chiefs! ”

When Wei Gao heard that Zhao Ziliang asked him to collect grain, he suddenly said with a bitter face: "King, can you let others go?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Can't! ”

Wei Gao had no choice but to agree: "Yes, Weichen must complete the task assigned by the king and collect the grain and grass in time!" ”

After Zhao Ziliang finished explaining, he ran forward, and the guards followed. Shortly after crossing the border, the corpses of the Great Food Eaters could be seen scattered along the way, all of whom had been killed by the Huya Army's outposts.

On August 30, Zhao Ziliang's army suddenly arrived at the area of Shulgaz City, the big cannibals around Shulgaz were terrified, and they rushed to flee in the direction of Shulgaz City, in order to survive, a large number of people around the big cannibals fled and did not have time to take anything from home, the Western Qin army that followed behind collected a large amount of grain, grass and other materials without much effort, which greatly reduced the pressure on logistics, and the big cannibals who did not have time to escape were captured by the Western Qin army, Zhao Ziliang ordered to select strong men from among these captured big cannibalsto prepare for the siege.

The Western Qin army came to the city to make the big food general Zilz who was guarding Shulgaz shocked, he was not ready to fight with the Western Qin army at all, the big food army and people in Shulgaz City were in chaos, 30,000 troops and nearly 50,000 people around were besieged in the field, this Shulgaz is not a big city and a fortified city, it can't hold 70,000 or 80,000 people at all, so many people in the city The daily food consumption of Zilz can't afford it.

The grim situation made Zilz feel unprecedented pressure, and he had to organize a military and civilian defense on the one hand, and send people to break through and ask for help in the direction of Kerman on the other.

That night, Zilz sat in the City Lord's Mansion with a frown and asked the generals who walked in, "How is it?" Did the people sent to break out for help succeed in breaking through? ”

The general shook his head and said, "General, we have sent out five groups of people in a row, but I don't know if any of these people have broken through!" The main reason is that the people of Western Qin came too quickly, and we coped with it too hastily and did not prepare in advance. I thought we couldn't put all our hopes on the Kerman side, I had already seen it in the afternoon, the Western Qin army was only thirty or forty thousand people, it would not be much more than us, I couldn't wait for death in the city for us, so many people in the city consumed too much food every day, and it wouldn't take long for our food to run out, the best way was to go out of the city tomorrow and engage the Western Qin army and defeat them! ”