Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2758 Another Path

  The emperor took the people back to the main account, leaving only a few important ministers and generals, and the rest let them go to the news.

   Zhouman was also retained.

  He looked at everyone, "What do Aiqing think of Bai Qing's proposal?"

  Feng Shangshu said: "You can give it a try. If it succeeds, the loss will be less than a strong attack."

  Zhao Guogong was very hopeless, "The city wall is strong, and these Goguryeo soldiers are also prisoners. They can't call the city gate open, but it doesn't make much sense to subdue them."

   Niu Cishi said: "The rat has the path of the rat, and the snake has the path of the snake. Maybe there is such a place?"

The emperor    also thought so. The expenditure here is not big, but some medicinal materials and food. The most important thing is Zhouman.

   So the emperor looked at Zhou Man with a smile on his face and said: "This matter is entrusted to Zhou Qing."

  Man Bao bowed down.

  The emperor said: "This is to be done, but we also have to make another preparation. Goguryeo dared to use this poisonous scheme, obviously still has big expectations, and it is impossible to surrender in a short time."

  He said: "Choose the death squad from the army, write down their names, hometowns, and family members. Afterwards, you will be rewarded whether you live or die."

  Zhao Guogong asked: "When will the raid?"

The emperor turned his head to look at the dim sky outside, and said coldly: "Tonight is a good time. I have seriously injured two of our princes. They must be very happy?"

  Feng Shangshu immediately asked: "Where does your Majesty want to raid? Tower?"

  Yesterday, Goguryeo just poured water on the city wall. It was slippery at the moment. Even if the opponent's defense is relaxed, the raid is half the effort, maybe not even half the effort.

  He does not recommend taking the lives of soldiers to risk.

  The emperor glanced at him and said, "Naturally it is not a city gate."

  He motioned to Gu Zhong to bring the map, and after unfolding it, he clicked on a few places and said: "We attacked from the east, and this area has been completely conquered by us, but these two places, the northeast and southeast, are still left."

  Even Zhao Guogong couldn't help being speechless, "Your Majesty, there are only three towns in these two places, not even a county seat."

  What's the point of hitting them in a place like this?

  It doesn’t cost much force at all, OK?

  The emperor said: "Anyway, the attack on the domestic city has no good results, and the siege of the city is also emotional. Everyone is idle and idle. It is better to collect all of this piece."

   General Ashina asked: "Your Majesty wants the inner city to become a truly isolated city?"

The emperor sneered and said: "After taking these important towns, he will expropriate grain and grass on the spot. Look for the big households in the town, and what kind of linters and the like. The soldiers are short of grain and grass, just to make up for it."

  He wants to see how long the domestic city can last without external support and support.

  Others felt that this method would not work, but they still obeyed.

  Anyway, that’s a small town, and further aside are some small counties. There are not many defenders in the city. It is not difficult for the Jin army to win them.

  The reason why they don’t hit these places is because they are not worth it.

   Take down the inner city and step into the Goguryeo Palace. Even if Goguryeo is destroyed, these small cities and small towns do not need to be beaten, and they belong directly to the Great Jin Dynasty;

  Can't take down the inner city, send troops to attack these places, after they retreat, these places will still return to Goguryeo's embrace, so there is no need to send troops out, not only a waste of troops, but also a waste of food and grass.

  But if it is in the name of collecting grain and grass, it is different.

  Now the Jin army still needs to raise the poor people in the small town who had been eaten by the Feng Shangshu army along the way, so there was a shortage of food and grass.

  They now only have two sources of food and grass. The Ministry of Households raises them in the country, and the army collects them from the cities that they have taken.

  Although I have watched a lot, I don’t know when the domestic city will be surrounded. It’s always okay to prepare more.

  So Xue Gui, Niu Cishi and others took the initiative to invite troops to fight.

  The emperor gave them two teams of soldiers and horses and told them to divide their troops to attack the northeast and southeast towns.

When Gao Zhi knew this, Xue Gui and Niu Cishi had already had ten towns and three cities in succession.

  It's not that Gaozhi's news is lagging behind, but that their speed is too fast.

  The forces around the inner city were not transferred to Anshi city to support, but now they have become prisoners, that is, they are called into the inner city to defend the inner city and the palace together.

  There are not many soldiers and horses in the city at all. Most of them are guarding the city, not to mention the villages and towns outside. Except for the habitual defense of some big families led by Jiading, the Jin army is almost like no one.

   Mainly Goguryeo did not expect that the Jin army would be so frantically wasting troops to attack these towns.

  These places are neither gateways nor on their offensive road, so they have no strategic significance, okay?

  Who knew they would take it?

After Xue Gui and Niu Cishi occupied these places, they began to collect grain and grass.

  The problem was discovered as soon as it was harvested. Many poor people fell directly to the ground in tears, and some even preferred to flee in the cold weather rather than take out food and grass.

  "General, in the past two months, Goguryeo has collected grain and grass three times. Many people now have no grain at all. We went into the house and looked for it, and several of them ate bark directly."

  Another soldier said: "It's not pure bark, it's still a bit of rice inside, but there are not many, dozens of grains."

  Xue Gui:...

  He can only summon all the soldiers back, and the people of Goguryeo who are already about to flee quietly stay for a while.

  Xue Gui also sat on the rock in a daze, "No wonder Feng Shangshu and Zhao Guogong did not agree to raid these places..."

  Because it is really not worth it, not to mention wasting troops, but also wasting food.

   Send troops, the soldiers exercise a lot, plus the cold, how good is the food consumed than usual?

  Xue Gui scratched his head with a headache.

  On the other side of the history of the cattle prince, after occupying the small town and the large village below, people directly called the old people in the village and the town for questioning. After asking some questions about the taxation of Goguryeo in the past six months, the number is roughly counted.

  I drew another slice randomly, and brought the children from each family over to ask questions about what to eat for breakfast every day, what to eat for dinner, what time do you sleep, what do you do every day, who has the most delicious dinner...

  After the call, Niu Cishi didn't even go to the homes of ordinary people, but directly took the soldiers and horses to the homes of several households and sat there.

  Without having to open his mouth, the host’s family will prepare a few carts of food for him to take away.

  The history of the cattle governor had the final say, these food and grass were enough for their own consumption, and there was no support for the army at all.

   But he thought about it and didn’t feel a loss. Anyway, if the army has spent 2,000 less food and grass, then this part of the food and grass can be left, and it can be considered a profit.

   So he said to Lingbing: "Go back and tell the logistics team that we don't need to provide food for the time being, and we can be self-sufficient."

  　See you at nine in the evening

  (End of this chapter)