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Clear sky, bright sun, white floating clouds, verdant mountains and forests, rushing rivers...... The first sunny day after the rain looks so picturesque.

The white finch stood on the tower of the city, looking at the river rushing outside the city, his face expressionless.

After the failure of the ambush of the Youzhou army, Chu Yan did not say a word and rushed to Pingyuan County with the main force. Now in the entire Ganling Kingdom, there are only 5,000 men and horses left in Ganling City and 2,000 men and horses in Beiqiu City.

Although the number of troops is small, defending a city is different from besieging a city, and these men and horses are enough. After all, there are less than 20,000 people in the Youzhou army, and most of them are cavalry.

The Youzhou army practiced military horses in the Qingyuan camp all day long, and there was no sign of preparing to send troops. According to the reports of the scouts, the enemy practiced the tactics of combined infantry and cavalry attacks every day, as if they had no intention of attacking the city. So far, they have not seen a single siege machine from the rear.

Could it be that the Youzhou army gave up attacking Ganling City?

The news from Plains County was very bad. Yang Feng, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, did not completely solve the supply problem, and his troops still stayed on the front line of Lecheng and Chengping along the Hutuo River in Hejian State, and they did not arrive at the battlefield for a long time.

Liu Ding, the Taishou of Pingyuan County, who was holding back the Yellow Turban Army in Handan, heard that the army of Huangfu Song and Liu Yu was defeated and retreated step by step, and hurriedly divided his troops to rescue again. After Huangfu Song and Liu Yu received reinforcements, they immediately launched a counteroffensive and beat the Yellow Turban Army back step by step. Zhang Jiao's army has now retreated to the county town of Ganling.

Due to Zhang Jiao's prestige and Chu Yan's strength, although the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army temporarily bowed their heads to Zhang Jiao, the contradictions between them were not resolved at all, and there was a lack of sincere trust and tacit cooperation between the various troops. Now the situation of the Yellow Turban Army is becoming more and more severe, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that something will happen.

Due to the re-opening of the war between the Yellow Turban Army and the official army, the displaced people near the county town had nowhere to stay, so they had to brave the heavy rain to rush north to the country of Ganling, which had no war for the time being. As a result, tens of thousands of displaced people have now reached tens of thousands inside and outside the city of Ganling, and the corpses of displaced people who died of starvation and disease can be seen everywhere.

The White Sparrow ordered his men to collect the corpses as quickly as possible to prevent the plague. It's the height of summer, and with a heavy rain just a few days ago, it's the most prone to plague.

At the same time, Baique also set up 10 stoves in the city and 10 stoves outside the city, and cooked gruel once in the morning and once in the afternoon to relieve the victims, so as to minimize the deaths of the people. This is also the only time that the Yellow Turbans can help them.

"General, the gruel in the morning is gone, but at least half of the people have not eaten it, and the refugees are noisy outside the city, what should I do?" The grain release officer in charge of disaster relief hurriedly ran up the city wall, knelt in front of the white sparrow and said.

Bai Que retracted his gaze from Qinghe, smiled bitterly and said, "What do you say?" What can I do? ”

"General, put a little more food out. In recent days, more and more homeless people have flocked to the city, and no matter how much food is mixed with water, it is not enough to eat. The grain keeper pleaded in a low voice.

Bai Que slowly squatted down, looked at the painful face of the grain release officer, and said helplessly: "Once the official army attacks the city, it is not a matter of one or two days, but a matter of dozens of days and months. What did the soldiers eat at that time? Do you drink water to get by? ”

"General, if this continues, tens of thousands of people will die inside and outside the city. General, can you bear it? They are all poor, just like us, and they are all the same. The grain keeper shouted.

"Nope." The white finch threw down a sentence and walked down the city wall without a head.

Under the city gate and on the streets, there were fleeing homeless people, all dressed in rags and hungry, and the screams of the old people and the cries of children were terrible. Bai Que's heart twitched for a while, and he could barely control his feelings, and wanted to open a warehouse to release grain. But he didn't have that right, and he didn't have that much food.

"Drive them all out of the city, and drive them all out." The white sparrow suddenly turned around and shouted to the guards behind him.

The guards were stunned.

"General, drive them out, I don't know how many will starve to death......" exclaimed a bold guard.

"Order the soldiers to disperse all over the city at once and drive all the displaced people away." Bai Que glanced at the guard coldly, and said again without any emotion.

"General, you want them to die." An older guard shouted.

"If the official army comes to attack the city now, so many people are crowded in the city, and they can't even find the way to carry weapons, how can they defend the city?" White Sparrow was silent for a moment, then continued, "Perhaps, we won't live for a few days. ”

The guards were silent. This is the death of these displaced people, and it is also the death of their Ganling defenders, and it may even be the death of the entire Taiping Road and the Yellow Turban Army.

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Ganling City suddenly fell into madness. The soldiers in the city reluctantly drove away the refugees, and the refugees in the city naturally did not want to leave the city. There is no food outside the city, and it is strange not to die.

The city was in an uproar. As soon as the refugees outside the city heard that the Yellow Turban soldiers were going to drive them away, they were worried that the Yellow Turban soldiers would close the city gate at any time, so everyone hurried to the city.

For a time, inside and outside the city, under the city gates, and on the streets, there were dense crowds of people everywhere, making noises, screams, and deafening. The soldiers guarding the city gates, fearing that they would be killed by the angry exiles, retreated to the corridors of the city walls.

It didn't take long for the gates to be completely blocked. Those who are outside the city will come in, and those who are in the city will be driven out. Several streets leading to the city gate were blocked by the crowd.

The refugees were squeezed and had nowhere to stay, and began to climb up the walls along the corridors. The Yellow Turban soldiers defending the city were still holding knives and guns at first, but they were pushed backwards by the surging crowd and could not gain a foothold.

The crowd suddenly found the mouth and immediately climbed quickly from both sides of the gate to the city wall. If you don't leave the city gate, you will probably be squeezed to death.

The towers of the city were gradually filled with refugees, and they continued to stretch to the walls on both sides. The Yellow Turban soldiers were helpless in the face of unarmed refugees. There is no way to live if you can't eat enough, and now you are not even allowed to stay in the city and sleep at night, how can you live.

Suddenly, the refugees outside the city seemed to have gone crazy, crying out for their lives, running and fleeing from the woods, hills, and flat ground hundreds of paces away. When they saw that the entrance to the gate was blocked, they turned around and ran along the moat. Some of the refugees near the city gate rushed away because of fear, although they were inexplicable; Some were dazed and staring blankly, not knowing what was going on.

The ground began to tremble, the weeds that had just grown in the rain began to tremble, the dead branches and leaves on the branches began to fall, and in the distance, there was a faint and loud roar.

A fiery red flag suddenly rushed into people's eyes.

Bai Que sat in the study of the mansion and looked at the documents sent by Du Chang.

Du Chang led 2,000 men and horses to guard the shell mound. Due to Du Chang's wrong method of luring the enemy, it directly caused the failure of the ambush operation of Dahe. Chu Yan didn't blame him, not even a word of scolding. Chu Yan looked up to the sky and sighed, led the army to leave Beiqiu, and left Ganling, but he didn't say a word.

Du Chang guards the shell mound, and the white bird guards the Ganling, all of which were arranged by Chu Yan in advance. He didn't say a word the whole time, and his expression was depressed. Du Chang was in pain and blamed himself all the time.

The white finch was awakened by the sound of footsteps rushing from far and near. He involuntarily tensed, and his heart suddenly skipped a few beats, then a few more beats.

The White Sparrow laughed self-deprecatingly. The more you fight, the less courage you have.