Chapter 2758 Another way

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

Zhou Man was also left behind.

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

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

Zhao Guogong was very hopeless. "The city walls are strong, and these Goguryeo soldiers are all prisoners. They can't call the city gates, and even if they subdue them, I'm afraid it won't make much sense."

Niu Shishi said, "The rat has the way of the rat, and the snake has the way of the snake. Maybe there is such a place?"

The emperor also thought so, the cost here is not big, just some medicinal materials and food, and the most important thing is Zhou Man.

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

Man Bao bowed in response.

The emperor said: "This matter is to be done, but we also need to make another preparation. Goguryeo dared to use this poisonous scheme, and obviously still has great expectations. It is impossible to surrender in a short period of time."

He said: "Choose the death squads from the army, and write down their names, origins and family members. Afterwards, they will be rewarded regardless of life or death."

Zhao Guogong asked, "When will the raid be made?"

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

Feng Shangshu immediately asked, "Where does Your Majesty want to raid? The city tower?"

Goguryeo just poured water on the city wall yesterday, and it was slippery at the moment. Even if the opponent's defense was relaxed, it would be half the effort to make a surprise attack at this time, and it might not even be half the effort.

He did not recommend risking the lives of soldiers.

The emperor glanced at him and said, "Of course it's not a city gate."

He motioned 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 captured by us, but these two places in the northeast and southeast are still reserved."

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

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

It doesn't cost a lot of troops at all, okay?

The emperor said: "Anyway, the attack on the inner city is not good, and they are in a mood to besiege the city. Everyone is idle, so it's better to take all of this."

General Ashina asked, "Your Majesty wants to make the inner city a real lonely city?"

The emperor sneered and said, "After winning these important towns, we will collect food and grass on the spot, and find the big households in the town, as well as the chiefs. The soldiers are short of food and grass, and they are just replenished."

He wanted to see how long the inner city could last without external support and support.

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

Anyway, that is a small town, and there are some small county towns to the side. There are not many defenders in the city, and it is not difficult for the Jin army to win them.

The reason they don't hit these places is because it's not worth it.

If you win the inner city and step into the Goguryeo Palace, even if Goguryeo perishes, these small towns and small towns do not need to be fought, and they belong to the Great Jin directly;

If they can't take the inner city, they will send troops to attack these places. After they retreat, these places will return to the embrace of Goguryeo. Therefore, it is really unnecessary to send troops out, which not only wastes troops, but also wastes food and grass.

But if it is in the name of collecting food and grass, it will be different.

Now the Jin army still has to support the poor people in the small town who are being eaten by the Shangshu all the way, so there is some shortage of food and grass.

They now have only two sources of food and grass.

Although it looks a lot, but the domestic city does not know when it will be surrounded, it is always no problem to prepare more.

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

The emperor gave them two teams of soldiers and horses, and asked them to divide their troops to attack the northeastern and southeastern towns.

By the time Gao Zhi knew this, Xue Gui and Niu Shishi had already joined more than ten towns and three cities.

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

The troops around the domestic city were not transferred to Anshi City for support, but now they have become prisoners, that is, they were called into the domestic city to defend the domestic city and the palace together.

There were not many soldiers and horses in the city at all. Most of them were yamen guarding the city, not to mention the villages and towns outside. Except for the habitual defense of some big families led by their servants, the Jin army was like entering a realm of no one.

Mainly, Goguryeo did not expect that the Jin army would waste their troops so frantically to attack these towns.

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

Who knew they would take it?

After Xue Gui and Niu Shishi occupied these places, they began to collect food and grass.

It was only after the harvest that the problem was discovered. Many poor people fell to the ground crying, and some even preferred to escape in the cold weather rather than take out food and grass.

"General, in the past two months, Goguryeo has collected food and grass three times. Many people have no food at all. We went into the house to find it, and several of them were directly eating the bark."

Another soldier said: "It's not pure bark. There is still a little rice in it, but not much, maybe a few dozen grains."

Xue Gui:  …

He could only call back all the soldiers, and stop exercising, and the people of Koguryo, who were already quietly fleeing, stayed for a while.

Xue Gui also sat on the stone 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 and grass.

When sending troops, the soldiers have a lot of exercise, plus the cold, the consumption of food and grass is also more than usual, right?

Xue Gui scratched his head with a headache.

Niu Shishi on the other side, after occupying the small town and the big village below, directly asked the old people in the village and the town to ask questions.

Then I scratched a piece of it, and took the children of each family over to ask questions, what to eat in the morning, what to eat in the evening, what time to go to bed, what do you do every day, and whose family's dinner is the most delicious...

After the call, Niu Shishi didn't go to the homes of the ordinary people, and went directly to a few homes with his soldiers and horses to sit.

There is no need for him to open his mouth, the host will prepare several carts of food for him to take away.

Niu Shishi did the math, these grains were enough for their own consumption, and there was no support for the army at all.

But he thought about it and felt that it was not a loss. Anyway, the army spent less than 2,000 people's food and grass, so the remaining food and grass can be considered a profit.

So he said to the commanding soldier: "Go back and tell the logistics, saying that our food and grass will not be provided for the time being, and we can be self-sufficient."

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