stubborn thief

Chapter 81
The sun was in the west, and Zhang Xiong sat outside the city with his hands folded, becoming more and more impatient.

Looking up at the light and shadow of the sun, Qianhu of Yan'an Guard moved his buttocks and took half a step into the shade.

Since the sun came out, he has been fighting the sun like this, the shade moves half a step, and he moves half a step.

"Why don't you believe me? Are those starving ghosts eating in the city? Feng Baihu, ask!"

Speaking of rice, Zhang Qianhu's stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

Fucheng has a set of strict alarm methods.

Cao Yaocai had just captured the defense of Shunyang Gate when the bronze bell cast in the Yongle Year in the city was rang.

The guards in the besieged city of Nanguan on the Jialing Mountain began to gather, and Zhang Xiong gathered [-] of his men to march towards Shunyangmen.

Yan'an Wei had a plan before sending troops last time. He was worried that Li Bei and others would not attack properly, which would lead to Wang Jiayin's revenge against Yan'an House.

The group of thieves raided Yan'an Mansion, and Zhang Xiong's men would definitely not be able to defend the siege of Nanguan City, so they hurriedly marched.

I want to enter the Fucheng before the thieves complete the encirclement.

Before walking far, he met the guards who escaped from the city.

It is said that the starving people from outside the city took the prison and entered the city, then it is all right.

Zhang Xiong didn't panic, and was even a little happy.

Send people back to besiege the city and call out 300 people.

Qingchao dispatched and walked along the river beach to the outside of Shunyang Gate.

Go to the city gate and send orders to sit on the ground, waiting for the hungry people to come out.

He knew that there was food in the city, and he knew that the hungry people came to the city for food.

But the food in the city will not be given to him, and there is no benefit in attacking thieves in the city.

But if the hungry people were sent out to transport food and were defeated by him, the result would be different.

His idea was the same as when Liu Chengzong saw Bai Yingzi grab the fort.

It's just that the hungry people are too slow to grab food.

Now that it was almost noon, the hungry people still didn't plan to come out of the city, so Zhang Xiong couldn't bear his temper, so he sent someone to the city wall again to inquire about the situation.

After all, Cao Yao had few manpower and was unable to eliminate the defenders on the entire city wall, so he could barely control the South Gate Tower.

The defenders also knew that they were not easy to deal with. Some went to the city to stop the hungry, while others stood far away on the city wall, forming a tacit understanding with Cao Yao and others.

In fact, at this moment, Cao Yaoruo called them to go to the city for dinner, and most of the defenders voted.

Not long after, Feng Baihu came back with his flag and helmet crooked, and reported: "General, the city said that the hungry people robbed the grain store and went to the reserve warehouse. They didn't mess with anything. They just knocked open the official warehouse."

The reserve warehouse is the name of the righteous warehouse in the Ming Dynasty, which is mainly used for emergency reserves in response to famines.

There was no grain in the preparatory warehouse. As Zhang Xiong expected, he asked anxiously, "Is there any grain in the official warehouse?"

Feng Baihu nodded and said, "There should be. The hungry people are looking for carts, donkeys and horses in the city, it should be to carry food."

Zhang Xiong's hanging heart was relieved.

It is his responsibility to guard the palace city, and if it is for food, he can throw away this responsibility.

But if the responsibility is lost, and the food has not been grabbed, it will be a big loss.

He repeated repeatedly: "It's good to have food, it's good to have food... According to legend, each person eats half a pancake."

The pancakes were thin, with very few halves.

But the flag army was happy, their general was extra generous today, and he had already let them eat half a pancake in the morning.

Now is not the time to eat, let them eat half a sheet.

Does that mean that I can eat half of it at night?
Then you can eat three days of food a day!
Officers, morale soared.

While the people were eating, Zhang Xiong paced among the soldiers and loudly preached a good vision: "Brothers, Zhang only allows you to eat three or two sides a day, it is not deliberate, it is really lack of food.

Zhang Mou’s monthly salary of fifteen stone is only one catty per day, your sister-in-law is half a catty a day, and my little baby doesn’t do anything, so I only let him eat three taels, and the rest of the salary can be filled into your rations . "

As Zhang Xiong said, he raised his arms and pointed to the northeast: "Heilongshan Liu Juren provokes me? Or is it the old-fashioned Chen Xiucai who provokes me? Why am I hurting others? There is no way for you to eat. They are easy to bully. We divide [-] stone grains, enough for you to eat for a month.

Now in this city, the starving people have become thieves. They have robbed the official warehouse. There are five hundred stone of rice in the official warehouse. Those hungry people are big fools.

The food was prepared by the government office for them. Zhang Mou went to ask for it every day, and he cooked porridge for them every day if he could not get it. Now they want to grab the food, and Zhang Mou will take you to grab them.

At least [-] stone should be robbed as the profit of the war. If you rob more, Zhang will deduct it for you. From now on, we will eat him a pound every two days. How about that? "

The flag soldiers cheered and applauded loudly.

Zhang Xiong was also very satisfied with the reaction of his flag troops: "You have the flag troops who have followed me in the past, and there are thieves who have lost their way and returned, I dare not say that you will be full.

But Zhang must let you have a bite to eat, I don't want it, and I want you to have a bite to eat.

Still the same sentence, don't be soft on murderers, they are pitiful hungry people, and you are pitiful like starving ghosts.

Now that the food is limited and there are hungry people, the magistrates of the prefect cannot see us, they only know how to relieve the hungry and want us to work hard.

After a while, they came out and saw one killing the other. If they were quick to kill, follow me to the east gate and continue to kill. "

Zhang Xiong wanted to kill the hungry people for a long time.

He even talked about it with officials in the prefect yamen.

This is not a good year, people everywhere are exhausted, and the imperial court cannot afford to allocate food for disaster relief.

The common people's fields are dry and barren, and the army's fields are also dry and barren, and the food in the prefectures and cities is limited, which is obvious.

What is the sky's normal?

The sky is always the case, that is, this piece of land can no longer support so many people, and if it cannot be supported, the population will decrease due to various strange reasons.

It has been reduced until the land can support, and there will be no disaster.

In Zhang Xiong's view, the prefect's yamen's disaster relief approach is against the sky.

You can live against the sky, but do you have such great ability?

No, without this ability, if you want to live a starving people, then there will be normal people starved to death.

Moreover, according to the status of the people, the two banner troops may have to starve to death before it is the turn of the people to starve to death.

What's more, Zhang Xiong believes that being killed is more compassionate than starving to death.

After eating and then exploring the situation in the city, the palace city changed again.

The defenders on the city said that the hungry people opened official warehouses and county treasuries, from which they brought weapons and chariots to transport food.

Led by a spear and pushed by a chariot, a stone of rice grain was transported from the official warehouse to the northwest, and he could not see it from here.

As soon as Zhang Xiong heard it, he knew it was broken, and he quickly called up his subordinates: "Quick, quick, they are going out from the north gate, let's hurry up and chase them, don't ask them to be caught by President Wu Qian first!"

The besieged city outside Beiguan is the residence of President Wu Qian.

Although that guy's subordinates fled, only a hundred people remained.

Zhang Xiong didn't think the hungry people could beat hundreds of banner troops.

The troops marched fast, and as soon as they crossed the river beach, they heard the screams of killing. The two troops were fighting outside the city gate, and the flag army with few people was still faintly showing no support.

They are trying to move this way.

Feng Baihu stepped forward and asked, "General, are we not going to save people?"

"If you don't save him, if you don't save him, what do you do to save him? If he dies, the food will be ours."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)