Steel Dynasty - Chapter 342

[Chapter 342 Tight strings]

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a hint of twilight will gradually cover Yunzhou City tomorrow.

Under the city, the Qinglong King’s army gradually lit up torches, and the densely packed torches stretched far away, with no end in sight.

After Xiao Ming reported his identity, whispers gradually began to ring out among the people in the city.

The news that Xiao Ming expelled the barbarians last year had already spread throughout the Chongqing Kingdom through newspapers, and many people knew about it.

The young man put away his arrogant demeanor and ducked back into the crowd. After a while he turned back, followed by a scholar in black robes.

Xiao Ming looked at the scholar, and the scholar looked at Xiao Ming.

After a long time, the scholar said: “I have met His Highness King Qi.”

In the dim light, Xiao Ming could not see Qi Zhengyuan’s face clearly.

He said directly: “King Qinglong, I don’t know why you brought troops to Yunzhou? The natural disaster in Jizhou was not caused by human beings. King Yong was certainly at fault, but now that the barbarian enemy is facing us, you should be able to take into account the overall situation. How can you do something that hurts your relatives and makes your enemies happy?”

At this time, the deep voice of King Qinglong sounded, and he said: “I’m afraid your Highness has misunderstood. It is true that the reason for coming this time is because the army has no food, and the people are already worried. I’m very hungry. I just hope that your highness can borrow some food. How can someone who is a citizen of the Great Chongqing help the barbarians cut off the Qingzhou Army’s food route? “

“Nonsense, since it’s borrowing food, why don’t you go to other cities to borrow food. .” Qi Guangyi said.

“Your Highness has set up his troops and is ready, so how can the defenders of other cities borrow food? After all, in their eyes, we are rioters who want to be strangled immediately, but we are just a group of ordinary people who have no food to eat and have no choice but to pick up weapons. I just heard that His Highness was righteous and willing to take in us victims, so I had no choice but to bring them here.” The words of King Qinglong were clear and orderly.

Looking at the victims with no end in sight, Xiao Ming knew clearly that these people were honestly the victims, and those who were dishonest were the rebels.

It was impossible for him to take huge risks and put them into the city. Once the victims rebelled, not only would he lose a state, Niubeng and they might not be able to come back.

Now is not the time to care about the people. After all, the people are now under the command of the Qinglong King.

However, the Qinglong King bluntly said that he wanted to borrow food. He tested: “There are some in the food city. Since you want to borrow food, how much are you going to borrow?”

“Three hundred thousand stones of food.” The Qinglong King said calmly.

Xiao Ming’s expression changed, and he said: “One person and one stone of food are enough to feed each victim for several months. King Qinglong, it seems that you are deliberately making things difficult for me.”

King Qinglong’s voice was still calm, and he said: “Your Highness, how can the natural disaster in Jizhou be alleviated in a few months? This seems not too much.”

Speaking of this, he already understood the inner thoughts of the Qinglong King.

He is no longer fighting against King Yong, but against Dayu. What he wants is to overthrow the current imperial court.

Now that all the cities in southern Jizhou were occupied by King Qinglong, he now looked at Yunzhou City, which was closest to him.

And King Wei, who had quickly accumulated wealth by following King Qinglong, also made him willing to do anything when the victims were willing to follow him.

“Your Highness, King Qinglong is rebelling.” Zhan Xingchang defined King Qinglong.

Xiao Ming nodded. Now that things have happened, the Qinglong King has revealed his true face.

Maybe at the beginning he did lead the people to find a bite to eat out of dissatisfaction, but now the continuous victory seems to have gradually expanded his mentality. He may have thought that with these victims, he could have a glimpse of the supreme throne.

At this time, the Azure Dragon King must also understand that when he takes that step, he can’t look back.

This is a man who is all-or-nothing, and his vision is also very vicious. The main force of the Qingzhou Army is outside, but it is empty inside. This is when he gets the advantage.

Now that we have embarked on this path, benevolence, righteousness and morality are bullshit, and there is no such thing as national justice. Only the winner and the loser are the truth.

what to do?

This is what Xiao Ming and Zhan Xingchang are thinking about.

The two people’s eyes met for a long time, and the army surrounded the city. They had only one choice left, let’s fight!

“It’s just a pity for the innocent people.” Xiao Ming sighed in his heart. These people don’t understand. They only believe that the Qinglong King who can find food for them is right.

He originally didn’t want to use this method to gather the victims, but now it seems that he has to do it.

But he finally advised: “King Qinglong, what is in front of you is the Qingzhou Army, not King Yong’s local chickens and dogs. You have to understand.”

“Your Highness, I am just borrowing food. If Your Highness refuses to borrow it, what will happen?” Why bother to say more, the people behind me have no food to eat, and I can’t control it.”

Xiao Ming snorted coldly, and was not ready to pay any attention to the Qinglong King.

He was too naive. In the end, these 300,000 to 400,000 victims would be surrounded and exterminated by the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and he would eventually embark on the path of failure.

Although the Great Yu Kingdom declined, it was still more than enough to suppress a rebellion. If King Yong had not been restrained by the barbarians, they would not have survived until now.

The night was getting darker, and King Qinglong was marching all the way without seeming to want to attack the city at night, but 300,000 victims had completely surrounded the small city of Yunzhou.

It was night, and King Qinglong looked at the small Yunzhou City.

Just as Xiao Ming guessed, he came to take advantage of the situation just because he was sure that Qingzhou was now empty inside.

Jizhou’s food was almost eaten, and more food was hidden in Jizhou City by King Yong. Now Jizhou City is besieged by barbarians.

He did not dare to provoke the barbarians. A month ago, his army of 30,000 people was defeated by the barbarian cavalry of 10,000 people. Although he also organized training for the people after raising the army, compared with the barbarian cavalry, they were no match at all. .

If you provoke the barbarians now, you will only be defeated.

Therefore, he chose King Qi. In his eyes, King Yong was a member of the royal family, and King Qi was also a member of the royal family. What was the difference between the two.

Moreover, in his opinion, both King Wei and King Yan were too powerful, and he was far from a match now.

Therefore, he could only compete with these vassal kings after he captured the vast land from Jizhou to Qingzhou.

Looking at Yunzhou City, his ambitions continued to expand. He was no longer the poor scholar he was before, but a general who controlled hundreds of thousands of people.

While he was thinking about how to attack the city tomorrow, Xiao Ming was also thinking about how to capture this huge group of victims.

For him, he would never allow King Qinglong to ruin the lives of these people. He just wanted to capture these people. Some casualties were unavoidable.

“Your Highness, the people of King Qinglong are just a bunch of rabble without any discipline or training, and the people are not very determined to follow King Qinglong. I observed that many people looked hesitant, so I thought that there is no need to To defend the city, we should take the initiative to go out to fight, use musketeers to overwhelm the people, and cavalry to round up the people and make them surrender.”

(End of this chapter)