In fact, Li Xiao's ideas were in the same vein as Cao Wenzhao's, both of them wanted to capture Yangzhou without paying too much of a price.

The difference was that Cao Wenzhao did not have enough troops, while Li Xiao had enough troops to surround Yangzhou.

The brutal siege of the city began, and the Yangzhou defenders in the city were unwilling to give in. They tried to leave the city several times to trouble the patrols, but were bombarded with shells. Although the defenders in the city also fought back with shells, they failed.

Their ammunition hoard was unable to engage in an artillery battle with the Liao army.

Everyone knows that Yangzhou City cannot be defended without artillery.

The Jianghuai area is already a densely populated area. It is easy to capture some civilians and dig a few trenches. In just three days, more than 10,000 young and strong civilians were successfully captured. When the explosive news spread that they could be paid by working for the Liao army.

After the opening, the number of civilians increased by 50,000 overnight.

There's no way around it, it's not easy to make ends meet these days. Working for bosses and landlords means you'll always be owed wages. The Liao Army is very generous. They pay by head every day, and they will never be owed until tomorrow.

What surprised Mrs. Min even more was that the Liao army actually provided food. Although it was just rice and salted radish, they also had egg soup. Although it was the kind where one egg can be beaten in a pot, it was still considered a meal.

Meaty.

In the eyes of poor farmers, eggs are regarded as meatless food.

The team that did the most work actually had broth every day. Some lucky ones were able to fish out a piece of meat bone from the big pot and gnaw on it. Oh dear, there were enough to chew off three ounces of meat from the bone and meat.

In just one day, faced with the huge temptation to drink broth, the people of Yangzhou fought energetically on the front line of the blockade of Yangzhou.

The trench was dug deep and wide. If Yuan Chonghuan hadn't stopped it, these civilians would have wanted to dig out the magma!

Five days, only five days. A wide and deep trench was built within ten miles of Yangzhou. When the trench was closed, the people were unhappy. They thought that this trench would be dug forever, not only for food but also for food.

There is a wage. Five cents a day, and no wages will be owed. Where the hell can I find this guy!

After these days of contact, the civilians discovered that there was a huge gap between the Liao soldiers described by the government and the Liao soldiers in reality.

The supervisors had ferocious faces. They dipped the whips in their hands into cold water and made a "snap" sound. They frequently greeted other people's mothers and families, but they never saw the whips fall on anyone. They saw someone pushing a cart up the hill.

, and also knows how to push.

The stubborn Zhang Laoshi just came here early, and now he has become a foreman. He can eat oily pork head meat every day, and his salary is twice as much as that of ordinary migrant workers.

Now that the project is over, we can still take a hundred or so people to stay and continue working.

This is not what the officials say about Liao soldiers!

According to them, when these soldiers arrived, they would kick open the door of their house as soon as possible, and then snatch away their wives and beautiful daughters. Everything from chickens, ducks, fish, meat to millet, wheat, and rice would be packed away. In the end, they also took away everything.

It will burn down your house.

As for your life and death, the Liao soldiers will not care. Even if they did, they would tie you mud-legged people to Liaodong for mining and dig them to death.

Thanks to the government's vigorous propaganda, local farmers were extremely wary of the Liao army. They were afraid that they would capture their wives and daughters, and they were also afraid that they would pack up and take away the rations that their families depended on for survival.

But that is not the case at all. Soldiers who occasionally stayed at farmers' homes would even fill the water tank with water when they left the next morning. Some would also pay for the meal! Although eating was just a matter of time.

The farmers only helped cook what they took, but the leading officer still insisted on paying.

The farmers' favor towards the Liao soldiers is growing day by day, and some people have secretly done business with the Liao soldiers. All of these guys from Liaodong are carnivores.

The village raises pigs, sheep, cows, dogs, chickens, ducks, and geese, and the more eggs, ducks, and silly eggs, the better.

A guy in the village made a fortune in just one month by supplying live poultry to the Liao army. Now, in order to find live poultry, he has gone to Zhuangzi thirty miles away to buy them like a weasel.

The Liao army lived a very comfortable life outside the city, but the life in Yangzhou city became increasingly miserable.

There is no problem with food. Before the Liao army came, Huang Daozhou had stored a large amount of food. It will not be a problem to eat until next summer, but the problem is that this man probably won’t live a good life. He has stored a lot of food, but he has not kept up with it.

Matching diesel carbon.

Only half a month after the city was closed, there was a fuel panic in the city. Generally, people only prepare firewood and charcoal in winter, and it is almost summer. Who can still store so much firewood and charcoal?

Seeing that the amount of firewood is decreasing day by day, every household is panicking. If the lockdown continues for another half month, the family will have to eat uncooked rice unless the house is demolished.

If you are in a hurry, it doesn't matter if you eat one or two meals of uncooked rice, but the people of Yangzhou are, after all, human beings, not Pixiu animals. You have to poop after eating...! Farmers in the surrounding areas cannot enter the city, and the manure tanks in the city are full. Many homes

The big manure tank has begun to leak out, and the most troublesome thing for every household now is going to the latrine.

Young men have to wash their pants when they pee, and older girls have to wash their buttocks when they pee. Fortunately, there are wells in the city, and in a place with dense river networks in the south of the Yangtze River, there is still no shortage of water.

The men are in a hurry, so they solve it in the corners. But the women are in trouble. If a girl poops on the street, she will not want to get married in the future.

After half a month of siege, the city was full of complaints. Not only the ordinary people complained, but even the backyard of the prefecture's Yamen was filled with stench.

Huang Daozhou was so anxious that he couldn't find any good solution. He was not a god, so he couldn't turn the entire Yangzhou city into Pixiu.

At the critical moment, Sun Ke hoped to find a way. Carts of dung were hoisted up the city wall, and then... collapsed at the base of the city wall. In his opinion, it would be good for the Liao soldiers to smoke them when they attacked the city.

The Liao soldiers were not smoked, but the soldiers of the patrol camp on top of the city suffered. After a few days of falling down, the stench was so thick under the city wall that the stench could spread for ten miles against the wind!

The weather warms up early in the south of the Yangtze River, and flies come out early. It seems that flies from all over Jiangsu and Zhejiang have flown to Yangzhou. Whenever something is thrown on the city wall, black clouds will rise from the city.

The momentum reminded Li Xiao, who was ten miles away, of a bomber.

The maggots crawled up the city wall, and as a result, no one was taking a nap on the city wall. Those white and whistling things, although they don't bite, they are really annoying. The officers and soldiers of the patrol camp complained endlessly, every time

When it was my turn to go on guard duty at the top of the city, it was like the end of the world.

Zhang Rulin ran over and scolded Sun Kewang. Mr. Sun was not the one who suffered the loss, so he immediately scolded him. The bosses on both sides were shirtless, and the younger brothers were naturally unambiguous. They copied the guy one after another, preparing for an internal attack first.

piece.

If Huang Daozhou hadn't arrived in time, the civil war in Yangzhou might have started.

There was nothing the Zodiac Zhou could do about the problem of feces, and he finally made a rigid rule. From now on, feces could only be dumped to the north of the city. The guards in the north of the city would change every half a day, and everyone would take turns to go up to the city to guard.

Within half a month, everything went wrong. Huang Daozhou sat in the magistrate's office and worried. The Liao soldiers didn't seem to be in a hurry to attack Yangzhou. Seeing this, there was no problem in celebrating the New Year in Yangzhou City.

What made him most angry was that the mud-legged people around Yangzhou were now getting along extremely harmoniously with the Liao army. Unimagined, the people were living in dire straits and attacking the Liao soldiers in droves. The imaginary people were as big as the ocean.

War seems to be a non-event now.

This was only half a month. If the siege really lasted for a year and a half, without Liao soldiers attacking, the pile of dung in the north of the city would be as high as the city wall.

Not only is the zodiac week worried, but everyone in the city is worried. When will this damn stop be considered a stop? Everyone is about to eat raw rice. Many people are already secretly cutting down trees, although the south of the Yangtze River is not as thick as the north.
Chapter completed!