Chapter 185

The team did not do any rest and went straight to Santai Pass without any rest. Yue Sheng sent Zhou Quan to escort him.

Not long after Liulang left, Cheng Shijie's army began to attack the city. Yue Sheng gave up the city wall and let Cheng Shijie's army rush into the city. The two sides launched a fierce street battle. The war did not end until dawn.

Cheng Shijie not only mobilized the troops from Taiyuan, but also brought 100,000 elite troops reserved in Luocheng. Although he completely occupied Ba County, according to the report of the Detective Horse, Liulang had already arrived at Santai Pass.

Cheng Shijie was so angry that he screamed like thunder. He didn't even have time to sleep. Tens of thousands of troops immediately chased Santai Pass. At this time, Yue Sheng's remaining troops had already entered Santai Pass. Cheng Shijie ordered the army to surround Santai Pass and immediately began to attack the city.

Fortunately, after Liulang arrived at Santai Pass, he prepared to fight early. Although the number of people brought back from Ba County and Santai Pass was less than 20,000, the city wall of Santai Pass was high and thick, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Cheng Shijie's army launched a total of six charges like crazy. This tragic battle lasted until the evening. Under the city wall, corpses were piled up, and blood stained the earth red.

Liulang's celebrities counted the number of people, and the loss of nearly 3,000 people. In the blocking battle in Ba County, in order to protect Yue Sheng's troops from retreating safely, Wanma Hall was almost wiped out, and the master Wan Hall also died under Cheng Shijie's men. Liulang set up a spirit shed in Taiwan again and again to personally pay homage to all the heroes who died for this war.

In the evening, everyone gathered together to discuss strategies to retreat to the enemy. Due to the heavy power of the enemy, they could not come up with good strategies, so they had to temporarily guard the city to see if they could wait for reinforcements from the court or make any news that reversed the situation. As a result, this wait took ten days. Not only did the enemy not retreat, but they gathered more and more, and the iron barrels in the Santai Pass were like water.

In addition, there was another bad news that made Liu Lang very worried. Santaiguan had no grain storage. It turned out that there was not much grain in the granary. Meng Liang and Jiaozan did not know how to store grain at all. After the military ration was gone, they went to the people to requisition public grain. As a result, the grain of the people in the city was almost allocated. Among them, there was a large household who was disrespectful to Meng Liang when he collected grain. As a result, the large household burned his granary in a fit of anger.

Meng Liang was so angry that he cut off the head of the big man with one knife.

Afterwards, although Liulang was so angry, he could not blame Meng Liang too much, and he could only leave the will and take one step at a time. Liulang opened the military treasury of Santai Pass, took out all the gold and silver inside, and bought grain from the people in the city at a high price. This lasted for another six or seven days. The grain was really not available, and the army had been out of food for three days.

Liulang was irritable and Concubine Bai Xue accompanied Liulang to walk around casually. The street in front was full of wounded soldiers and refugees, and was plucking the bark of elm trees.

Some snatched up, beat and scolded.

In the crowd, an eight or nine-year-old child was snatched away by someone and lay on the ground and cried: My grandma is about to starve to death, you still want to snatch me!

Concubine Bai Xue couldn't bear it and said: Liulang, we still have a few breads in the package, so let's forget about this child.

As he said that, he walked over and took out the dough cake for the child.

The child was overjoyed. Without putting on his top, he stuffed the bread into his crotch with his hands, kowtowed to the two of them crying, and ran away as if he was getting up.

Unexpectedly, a dough cake fell out of the torn trousers, and for the rest of them to see it, four or five older children came up, rushing to divide the dough cakes on the ground, and shouting: He has it!

Chasing the child with bare back.

The child did not look back, but ran desperately, but another dough fell out. He turned around and picked it up. Seeing that other children were chasing, he turned around and ran away again, but he tripped under his feet and fell to the ground.

The older children who were chasing cheered and pounced on him to take off his pants. When they got off the child, the bread was gone.

The child cried loudly, tied his torn pants randomly, picked up a stone, and snatched the dough cakes and put them up together and said: What do you want?

The child finally threw the stone and shouted: Grandma!grandmother!

Run to a straw shed on the hillside.

Liulang sighed: Concubine Xue, look, the child hasn't eaten the cake. Do we have any more cakes?

Concubine Bai Xue sighed: There is no more. My sister-in-law is reluctant to eat these two. She secretly saved them up and asked me to give them to you.

Seeing that there were all wounded soldiers in the crowd, there were old men and women, all of whom were unkempt and didn't look like humans, he said: Liulang, let's take a look at the child's grandmother.

Suddenly, a woman came over and knelt down with a yellow-haired baby in her arms. Qiqiai Ai said: My child is almost starving to death, just give me a bread.

Concubine Bai Xue sighed, showed her the empty bag, and said: Sister-in-law, we are gone.

The woman picked up a little bit of cake that had fallen, and she stuffed it into the child's mouth without blowing it.Liulang Zhao's nose felt sore and he almost burst into tears. He said: It was all caused by Cheng Shijie.

The hungry people surrounded him and an old woman in her fifties and sixties said: Sir, my man has been taken to General Meng to join the army. When he was guarding the city, he died on the city wall. There was nothing left in our family, and only these two miserable babies were left. They were here two days ago, and they could still share some cakes with the wounded soldiers. Now there is nothing left, Sir!I heard that you are the imperial envoy, and you will make the decision for us.

Liulang said sadly: Old lady, don’t worry, the imperial army will come sooner or later, the rebels will be defeated. Don’t worry, bear it, I will go find something to eat in a while, and once I find it, I will give it to you immediately.

The old woman shed tears happily and led the child to kneel down and said: Lord, good man Ah.

Liulang shook his head with a wry smile.

A dirty child of twelve or three said: My father and brother have both gone to the army and have never been back yet.

An old man said: My four sons are all going to participate in the defense battle, fellow villagers!When the country is in crisis, we must persevere and not cause difficulties to the court. We must save food for those who serve in the army. In this way, Santaiguan has hope. If Cheng Shijie, the dog thief, comes in, we will not be able to save even the guys who are eating.

Liulang and Concubine Bai Xue smiled bitterly and said to the children: They are all miserable people. If you have something to share in the future, don’t snatch them again, okay?

The dirty child of twelve or 3 years old blew his nose and said disdainfully: Sister, you are beautiful, but you speak so ignorantly.If you eat separately, won’t you starve to death?

Bai Xuefei said angrily: You...how did you say such words?

Liulang sighed: That's the case, Concubine Xue should not be angry with these children.

Pull her up the hillside.The child who had been beaten in the straw hut shouted: Grandma, they are here!

A white-haired old woman emerged from the grass nest and said in a hoarse voice: Benefactor, the old woman is inconvenient and can't kowtow.

It was not good to see her eyes, so she turned her head and listened to the movements of the two.

Liulang rushed forward to support her and said: Old man, where are you talking?You didn't even eat a bite of cake, so what kind of benefactor is we called?

The old woman said: If a Bodhisattva has a spirit and a heart to show kindness, he is a benefactor.Xiaolu, pour a bowl of water for the two benefactors.

The child agreed, raised a broken clay pot from the grass nest, poured out half a bowl of water, it was as turbid as mud, and smiled embarrassedly: Just have some basic information.

Liulang sighed: Can you starve to death like this?

The child said: Sometimes Uncle Niu will send something to eat.

Liulang asked: Who is Uncle Niu?

The old woman sighed and said: Niu Zi was the best friend of the child’s father during his lifetime, and was a guardian of the Liang family compound behind the Tushan Mountain.

Liulang asked: How could he have food?

The old woman said: The Liang family is the largest grain merchant in the city, and of course there is food in his family.

Concubine Bai Xue said: Haven’t every household collected it?

The old woman didn't speak, just shook her head and sighed.

Liulang understood, and pulled Concubine Bai Xue and the old woman to say goodbye. He walked to a place where no one was going to be, and grabbed Snow and said, "Concubine Bai Xue, when is it that you still care about this?"

Liulang smiled and said: Food, sex and nature. I haven’t been here for a few days. When Xue Fei finds a place, let’s be intimate for a while.

Concubine Bai Xue smiled and said: Where did you get the most interest today?Now I can’t even eat enough, and I really convinced you if I have this kind of thought.

Liulang said: You haven’t heard the old lady say just now. The Liang family must have food. We must do some work in his home, otherwise everyone in the city will starve to death.

Concubine Bai Xue was half-believing and half-doubted: Can it be there?Even if there is, how do you want it?You can't just rob it blatantly, right?

Liulang smiled and said: You are right, I just want to rob him. The Liang family has food and will not contribute. I think the Liang family is not a good citizen. I want to disguise myself as a bandit and go in and rob him.

Concubine Bai Xue said: You can think about it. The imperial envoy is still going to do such a thing?

The two of them said and came to the west city.

Seeing that the city was quiet, Miao Xueyan, Zhu Yuluan, Zhang Luhua, and several other Tianshan swordsmen were responsible for guarding this section of the city wall. Although they were hungry for several days, Miao Xueyan was still full of heroic appearance.

Seeing Liulang and Concubine Bai Xue coming, she whispered: Liulang, the brothers have not eaten seriously for several days. If they can't get food tomorrow, they will probably not have the strength to defend the city.

Liulang said: Yàn, I feel wronged. Lead your brothers to persevere. I am trying to figure out a way.

Liulang looked down at the city again. There were more and more rebels under the city in the past few days, and he was busy building fortifications overnight and creating ladders.Liulang said: Grandma, I really got into the relationship with me.

Liulang suddenly saw a nearby camp where several rebels were setting up a pot to cook meat. The aroma of meat came from afar. Liulang swallowed and cursed: I actually amused Master Liu like this, let you cook it first, and I will snatch it to eat later.

Miao Xueyan's heart moved and said: Liulang, what you said is right, why can't we fight their raid and grab those delicious foods back and eat them?

Liulang suddenly felt illuminated and said: What's the best idea!

If it weren't for the fact that Concubine Bai Xue was like this again, Liulang would almost have brought her over and sipped her.

After seeking Liulang's consent, Miao Xueyan, Zhu Yuluan and Yu Longzi quietly slipped down the city wall and lurked over. Liulang could see clearly on the city wall. The three Tianshan swordsmans were indeed agile. After rushing up, they drove the group of rebels into a group of big rebels. Before the rebel reinforcements arrived, the three of them took out the prepared pockets, filled the large pieces of meat cooked in the pot, and then quickly retreated.

The three of them were all good at light skills. With the help of the ropes thrown by their own people on the city wall, they climbed up the city wall. The rebels chased after him, and a row of arrows shot over the city. The rebels had no choice but to throw more than a dozen bodies and retreat.

Miao Xueyan escaped the big piece of meat that had just been cooked and gave it to Liulang for food. Liulang hadn't eaten meat for about ten days. After seeing it, his eyes began to turn blue, but he knew that he was the commander of the three armies and he should set an example and not lose his identity too much.

So he swallowed and said: Yàn, cut the meat into small pieces with a knife, and count the amount of your hands you have, and cut it into pieces.

Miao Xueyan asked: What should people guarding the city in other places do?

Liulang said: Starting today, all battalions and divisions will be self-reliant. When you find food, you just need to eat enough.

Miao Xueyan agreed happily and ordered people to cut the large pieces of meat with a knife. Each soldier could only divide it into a small piece the size of an egg. Miao Xueyan inserted a piece with a knife and gave it to Liulang for food, but Liulang gave it to Bai Xuefei.

Concubine Bai Xue shook her head and said: I'm not hungry!

Liulang said: If you are not hungry, you will eat it.

Miao Xueyan said: Miss Bai, just eat it, there are many more here.

Concubine Bai Xue waved her hand and said: I really don’t want to eat it.

As he said that, he turned his back and vomited.

Liulang was shocked and hurried over to ask. Concubine Bai blushed and did not speak. Miao Xueyan came over and whispered to Wanderer: Seeing that Miss Bai's expression was abnormal, are you happy?

In a word, Concubine Bai's face turned red. In fact, she herself knew that the reaction was very strong in the past two days. She secretly calculated that it was almost forty or fifty days since the night of Fulaiju, and she was in pregnancy. However, in recent days, Liulang was busy every day, so he didn't tell him.

After hearing Miao Xueyan's words, Liulang saw the shy look of Concubine Bai Xuexin immediately understood. He excitedly stepped forward and hugged her, saying: That's great, I didn't expect it to be so soon!Concubine Xue, since this is the case, you should eat a little more.

Miao Xueyan handed over the piece of meat again. Concubine Bai blushed and took a light bite. The rest was eaten by Liulang. Miao Xueyan said to Liulang: Liulang, where is there!

Liulang said: You can keep it for yourself. If there is still surplus, let the injury eat a little more. I will find a way to get food now.