"The Jian Nu will arrive soon. We are following the military order of Lord Yan, the governor of Xuanfu and the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to move you to Longmenwei for refuge."
"I'll give you one hour to pack up your things. Take away all the food, pots and pans, clothes, bedding, firewood and farm tools you can carry away. If you can't take away, burn it on the spot! In one hour, the caravan's carriages will come here to carry supplies for free!"
Inside the Yunzhou Fort in Xuanfu, more than a dozen cavalrymen on horseback were moving back and forth in the fort, shouting loudly.
"I won't leave, even if you kill me!" An old man stood outside the door, pointing at the cavalrymen passing by and shouting, "The wheat is ripe now, who will harvest it if you leave?"
"Yeah, what will we eat if we don't have food?"
"Please tell Lord Yan that we are not afraid of death. It is better to die at the hands of the Jiannu than to starve to death."
The cavalryman stopped at the spot, holding the reins. He pointed at the onlookers and said, "Lord Yan has issued an order that for those who voluntarily migrate, the court will give each household two taels of silver as moving money, and each person will be given three months of food. Those who refuse to migrate will have their homes confiscated and be punished."
The onlookers were stunned for a moment after hearing this, and asked hurriedly: "Is what the general said true?"
"Military orders are as heavy as a mountain. We dare not speak without thinking!"
After receiving this guarantee, the onlookers immediately changed their attitudes.
The Xuanfu area suffered greatly from the invasion of the Jiannu. Every time they entered the country, in addition to killing and burning, they also looted the people and robbed food.
Now the court not only helped them to seek refuge in the city, but also provided them with food and silver.
Don’t be so happy!
"You guys chat, I have something going on at home!"
"Please wait a moment, sir. We will go home and pack our bags!" The people went home and began to pack their bags.
The whole city quickly became busy.
Dushibao, which is closest to the Great Wall, is the complete opposite. It is eerily quiet at this moment.
The people in the city had been relocated by the Ming army to Longmenwei, where the city was strong and the artillery was powerful, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Boom!
A loud noise was heard from a small courtyard nearby.
After the loud noise, two Ming soldiers with their mouths and noses wrapped in white cloth came out carrying a huge package on their backs.
"Brother, can't you just pour the poison directly into the well? Why do you have to cover the well mouth with earth and rocks?" asked a Ming soldier.
"You know nothing! We brothers will do whatever Lord Yan tells us to do!"
"You don't know the reason either, do you?"
"Bullshit, of course I know. The Jiannu are different from you. They are not fools. They will use livestock to test the poison before drinking the well water."
Another Ming soldier scratched his head and said, "If we cover the well, they won't test for poison?"
"Nonsense! This move is to lower the other party's vigilance. Most people would think that since the well mouth has been buried, there is no need to poison it; or, since the well mouth has been poisoned, there is no need to bury it! As for how many Jiannu can be poisoned to death, it depends on fate!"
"Oh, I see!"
"Here is a well. There is not enough arsenic. Let's use croton powder!"
"Isn't that nonsense? Vote quickly, and go back to claim your reward sooner!"
While chatting, the two Ming soldiers threw poison into the well in the city.
There is a river to the west of Dushibao, named Dushishui, also known as Longmenchuan.
The upper reaches of Longmen River.
Thousands of Ming soldiers and civilians were blocking the river with earth and rocks.
Due to the dry weather and little rain, the river that used to flow continuously has now shrunk to the size of a long snake, meandering through the river.
Jiang Yingkui stood on a high place, using his clairvoyance to survey the nearby terrain while directing people to intercept the flow of water.
As the last few truckloads of earth and rocks were poured into the river, Longmenchuan was blocked.
The water in the upper reaches of the river slowly accumulated in place, while the water in the lower reaches began to dry up, revealing the sand and gravel on the riverbed.
"The Longmen River has been blocked. Please give us your instructions, Lord Jiang!" A Ming soldier came over, wiping the sweat from his forehead and bowed.
"Okay! Take your people back to the city immediately."
"What about you, my lord? Aren't you going back to the city with us?"
Jiang Yingkui smiled and said, "No, I have other things to do."
After the Ming soldiers and farmers who were working there walked away, Jiang Yingkui still showed no intention of leaving.
He waited quietly on his horse.
As the sky grew darker, a caravan slowly approached from a distance.
This caravan was very strange. Not only did the accompanying personnel cover their mouths and noses with white cloth, but even the oxen and horses pulling the caravan had their mouths and noses covered with white cloth.
The cattle, mules and horses had their breathing affected by the white cloth, and they gasped with their mouths wide open.
"Sorry for the long wait, Lord Jiang!" The leader of the caravan put down the whip in his hand and bowed to Jiang Yingkui.
"Yes!" Jiang Yingkui nodded and ordered: "Let your animals drink water on the spot first, and after they have finished drinking the water, throw all the sick and dead sheep on the car into the water."
"yes!"
After watching all the sick and dead sheep being thrown into the water, Jiang Yingkui finally felt relieved: "Let's go back to the city to claim our reward!"
Outside Xuanfu Town.
Yan Yingyuan walked along a small path beside the field with more than a hundred of his personal soldiers. He looked at the wheat ears that were beginning to turn yellow and sighed.
"Why is your Excellency sighing?" asked a personal soldier.
"Good food is wasted!"
"What do you mean, sir?"
"Burn them all!"
"Ah?" The soldier was stunned. In the Ming Dynasty, deliberately destroying food would result in beheading.
How dare you, Lord Yan?
Yan Yingyuan didn't say much. He picked up the flint in his hand and struck the weeds next to him a few times, and the weeds were instantly ignited.
However, because the wheat was not yet ripe, the weeds did not set the wheat field on fire after they burned out, but only left a pile of ashes nearby.
Yan Yingyuan frowned and thought for a while, then he smiled and said, "Let's go back to the city. I have a good idea."
The storm is coming!
The Ming Dynasty had three fronts, and each army was busy doing its own thing.
On the way to Xuanfu, he was busy fortifying the city, clearing the fields and winning over the hearts of the people.
The capital city in the middle is busy training troops and preparing for war, deploying troops and generals, making plans, and winning battles thousands of miles away!
The auxiliary Yuan Jixian in the bottom lane was busy discussing with the Jinyiwei how to get rid of Zuo Liangyu.
The main output of the bottom lane, Qin Liangyu, was sitting in the Palace of the King of Shu, waiting for the King of Shu.
However.
After waiting for a long time, the King of Shu did not come out to greet them.
Qin Liangyu was immediately furious. She stood up and shouted outside the palace gate: "King Zhu Zhishu of Shu receives the order!"
After waiting for a while, the King of Shu came out from the back with his sons and heirs: "Your servant Zhu Zhishu accepts the order."
"Today, bandits are everywhere, and the country is in misfortune! In order to ensure the stability of the Ming Dynasty, I have appointed Qin Liangyu as the governor-general of Sichuan, Huguang, Yunnan, and Guizhou provinces, and all troops from the four provinces are under his command."
"The food and fodder must be sent before the troops move, but the treasury in Shu is empty, with neither supplies nor money and food."
"I have thought about it for a long time and I need to borrow five million taels of silver from the King of Shu so that I can recruit soldiers and raise food to fight against the bandits."
"Although the money and grain we borrowed this time is huge, it is all needed for war preparation. I hope the King of Shu will be generous and I will repay you double."
"I hereby order."
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