Chapter 332 Her Guess
Wu Gui looked at the Emperor's Army resting outside the city gate and asked Zhou Yunshu, "Are they planning to fight a protracted war with us?"
As she spoke, she sighed and said, "That's right. Nanchuan City is arguably the largest city nearby. If they weren't determined to take Nanchuan City, they wouldn't have sent Cao Mengyun to lurk around Geng Jiang so early. I guess in their eyes, Nanchuan City is just a big piece of fat meat right at their fingertips."
"To fight a protracted war, they must have the capital."
Zhou Yunshu leaned against the stone pillar on the city wall in front of her, muttering to herself or to Wu Gui beside her: "So many people gathered in such a short time, if they were hungry..."
Maybe there will be problems within themselves.
When she looked over, she saw that the Emperor's army had a lot of people, but it seemed that they didn't have much food.
Chusan came to Zhou Yunshu and said, "Yan Shilei was recruited by the Emperor's Army when he encountered them halfway. He was promoted quickly and is now one of the generals of the Emperor's Army. He holds a high position."
"But Yan Shilei said that Ren Huang was keeping a close watch on him, so he couldn't escape with anyone. What should I do?"
Chusan glanced at the direction of the Emperor's Army and said to Zhou Yunshu, "If you have a plan, I will go back and tell him the news."
After all, he is the only one here who can come and go without a trace.
"Didn't you say that Yan Shilei was being closely watched by Ren Huang? Now two of their generals have died, and Yan Shilei has injured two more, so there's only one left."
Zhou Yunshu looked at the people in the distance and continued, "They are numerous and powerful, but they are just a mob."
If it were short and sharp soldiers, Zhou Yunshu might still be afraid of them, but the current situation is that although the Emperor's Army on Ren Huang's side has a large number of people, it is obvious that most of them joined temporarily and do not trust Ren Huang very much.
Otherwise, when they were retreating just now, it wouldn't be only the people at the front of the team who obeyed Huang's orders, while those at the rear of the Emperor's Army would have to shout and scold for a long time before they gradually took action.
Having a large number of people is their advantage, but it can also become their disadvantage.
"When it's late at night, Uncle San, you..." Zhou Yunshu leaned close to Chu San's ear and told her plan. Chu San raised his eyebrows, looked at her, and then nodded.
This is indeed a good way to solve the problem once and for all.
It was simple and direct and cut off their retreat.
The emperor's army outside is resting, so there is no reason for the people in Nanchuan City not to rest.
Zhou Yunshu sent her instructions to the other three city gates by express horse, and then found an inn near the East Gate to eat and rest.
She slept for a limited time. When it was getting dark, she got up from the bed, ate a bowl of noodles, and climbed up the city wall again.
The night wind was not very cool. Zhou Yunshu looked at the twinkling stars outside Nanchuan City and faintly smelled the fragrance of rice.
During the period of defending the city, Zhou Yunshu not only looted the Hong family's granary, but also asked Boss Liu and other wealthy people to donate a lot of food.
After all, defending a city is a strenuous job, and you can't do it without enough food.
But during the siege, all the food in the city was limited, and the more it was consumed, the less it would become.
If the rich have plundered all the food, they will definitely reach out to the people in a normal war.
Use the strength of one city to protect another. Even if the siege lasts too long and people go crazy with hunger, they will do anything that is inhumane.
Zhou Yunshu's grandfather had talked about the tragedy of cannibalism that occurred in the besieged city more than once. Sometimes Zhou Yunshu even doubted whether her grandfather had really experienced it, which was why he described the scene of cannibalism in the besieged city so vividly.
He said that when the city was without food and water for too long, if they wanted to win the war and not let down the emperor's grace, they could only turn their attention to their comrades who had recently died...
Zhou Yunshu won't survive until that time.
But fortunately, if tonight's plan succeeds, they won't have to suffer the pain of a real siege.
At the hour of Hai, everything became extremely quiet both inside and outside the city.
Zhou Yunshu stood quietly on the city wall, looking at the lights in the distance.
"I went."
After Chu San finished speaking, Zhou Yunshu nodded, and he disappeared on the spot.
It didn't take Chu San long to go back and forth from the city wall to the camp of the emperor's army opposite.
In just the time it took to stick up an incense stick, Chusan climbed up the city wall from the city gate. His speed was so fast that the night watchmen had no time to react at all.
Fortunately, Chusan revealed his identity in time, otherwise the night watchman would have blown the horn and shouted that the enemy was attacking.
"It's done."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, looked into the distance and asked, "Has Second Brother been captured by the Emperor's Army?"
Chusan looked at Zhou Yunshu, somewhat surprised that she knew that he had stayed in the Emperor's Army for a while longer just to look for Zhou Yunhai.
He thought about his master's evaluation of Zhou Yunshu and replied, "The Second Master is indeed in the Emperor's Army, but he is probably not detained."
"He lived with the people from Songshan Island, and was well-fed and well-served. I heard he was a relative of Ren Huang."
There was no one around, so Zhou Yunshu asked Chusan directly, "Did Second Brother really lose his memory?"
Zhou Yunhai said he had lost his memory, and it was confirmed by taking his pulse on the third day of junior high school.
But for some reason, Zhou Yunshu's intuition told her that Zhou Yunhai's amnesia was not that simple.
Chusan looked at Zhou Yunshu without saying anything.
Zhou Yunshu continued, "Some of Geng Jiang's men know the location of Songshan Island. It's between Qingzhou and Youzhou, and there are no reefs nearby. Going south to either Yangzhou or Haizhou is smooth sailing."
Of course, these were not told to her by Geng Jiang's subordinates, but by the letter she received from Du Mazi.
Before, Zhou Yunshu always thought that her second brother had lost his memory, and when he married into Songshan Island in gratitude for saving his life, she didn’t think anything was wrong. But when she saw that Zhou Yunhai always put Songshan Island first in everything, she felt an indescribable sense of incongruity.
The sense of incongruity here was even stronger when he was about to divorce Wu Gui.
If he were a normal person, a normal and responsible man, knowing that he had a wife and children before, he would not accept the divorce so quickly even if he had remarried, and he would not even give the children to his divorced wife.
But what if he didn't like Wu Gui in the first place, knew that their union was not his wish, and wanted to divorce her?
What's more, this time, what a coincidence, Zhou Yunhai's remarried wife was pregnant with Ren Huang's child.
Then they happened to run into Ren Huang's hands. Did he really not know that Ren Huang's large army was coming to Nanchuan? Did they really come to Nanchuan just for the food and weapons in the Summer Palace?
After all, these are all Zhou Yunshu's guesses, and whether her guesses are true depends entirely on what Zhou Yunhai will do tonight.
It depends on whether he will follow Yan Shilei and escape, or whether he will protect Ren Huang.
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