"Ahem, sir, what are these two nobles from Chang'an doing?" Seeing the two men chasing and escaping on the city wall, the master asked the fat magistrate with a surprised look on his face.
When the fat county magistrate who was busy counting casualties heard this, he only looked up and muttered, continuing to work: "Hey, it's not easy to win a battle! Who can't be happy?"
Yes, Xiao Han was indeed ecstatic at this time!
So much so that he couldn't control his emotions, and actually started chasing and quarreling with Liu Hongji in front of so many people!
I guess no one would have thought of it! From the very beginning of the siege, Xiao Han, who had been extremely calm, what kind of battle between heaven and man was going on in his heart! How many times did he almost shout the order to abandon the new city?
And there is no doubt that once they abandon the new city and shrink their defenses, the Ningcheng side will definitely lose its momentum! The enemy is bound to attack like a rainbow. When the time comes, I'm afraid the defeat will come even faster!
That's why Xiao Han just sighed, "If you can hold on, it's better than anything else"!
The sun completely set. Without the sun's brilliance, the world suddenly became dark.
On top of Ningcheng City, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the city at night, the Fat County Magistrate specially ordered people to light countless torches and illuminate the entire city wall. From a distance, it looked like a long The fire dragons, one after another, hovering in the dark wilderness, are extremely spectacular!
At this time, almost half an hour had passed since the siege ended, but on the city wall, there were still countless soldiers of various surnames scattered about, sitting on the ground without any appearance.
Around them, scattered stones, soil, and even dung spoons for scooping out golden juice were thrown there, but no one wanted to get up and sort them out.
The intense battle before had exhausted their energy!
When you are excited, you may not be able to see it, but once you relax your mind, the endless fatigue will immediately come up! At this time, let alone getting up to tidy up, I didn't even have the strength to move my fingers.
"Are you hungry? The porridge is here! Drink some porridge quickly! Fill your stomach!"
At the top of the stairs leading to the city, there were women, children, old and young in the city carrying porridge buckets, and they appeared tremblingly. When they saw the appearance of everyone in the city, they immediately felt sour in their hearts, and they hurriedly took the porridge bowls. , filled with hot porridge, was delivered to the hands of the city defenders, urging them to drink it quickly.
Today’s dinner is hot porridge! Regardless of whether they are ordinary people, refugees, or officials and soldiers, they all eat the same food! No one is special, and no one bothers to be special.
To be honest, these porridges don't taste very good.
Because the time was too short, the porridge pot was too big, and many of the rice grains in it were raw. In addition, all kinds of strange smells in the city were mixed together, especially the stench of boiling golden juice, which made Xiao Han After seeing the brown rice porridge in my hand, I almost opened my mouth and vomited!
"Hey! Don't throw up!"
Liu Hongji, who also received a bowl of porridge, quickly noticed something strange about Xiao Han. He quickly reached out and patted his back, and warned in a low voice: "Stop it! Once you vomit, you won't be able to eat anymore! In the middle of the night , I have to faint here! Now close your eyes and just pour it into your mouth!"
Xiao Han's face turned pale. He nodded reluctantly when he heard the words, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and poured the porridge into his mouth regardless, not daring to chew, and just swallowed it down his throat!
Not to mention, although I was very resistant mentally, my body still responded honestly when the hot porridge was eaten! A warm current instantly rose from the belly and spread throughout the body, making the tired body immediately relax.
"How about it! It works!"
When Liu Hongji saw Xiao Han swallowing the hot porridge, he immediately grinned, and then happily poured his own porridge into his mouth, while not forgetting to spit out a few grains of sand mixed in the porridge.
The porridge rice they are eating now is no better than the polished rice Xiao Han usually eats. There is sand, grass roots, wood stems, and even stones in it!
It's not unusual to eat a bug occasionally. It's better to add meat and vegetables. No one would hold the bowl in anger and rush to the kitchen to ask the cook for an explanation.
Perhaps, when someone sees this, they will ask: What? Don't these ancient people know how to shop for rice? Why is there so much clutter!
This point was also raised by Xiao Han, who had just arrived in Datang.
However, what he responded to was Old Man Hua's merciless kick.
"What a bastard who doesn't eat minced meat! Washing rice? See how you wash the broken rice? After washing a pound of broken rice, it would be nice to have half a pound left for you! What kind of prodigal son dares to waste food like this!"
I still remember that the kick was very heavy. Even now, when Xiao Han thinks about it, he still feels a dull pain in his butt, as if the day of the kick was just yesterday.
"By the way, where is my master?" A sand spit out by Liu Hongji hit his face. Xiao Han woke up from his memory in an instant, wiped his face and asked, "Why didn't you see him?"
"Oh, I just saw Doctor Hua treating the wounded down there." On the side, hearing Xiao Han's question, Xiaodong hurriedly swallowed the hot porridge in his mouth and replied inarticulately.
"Injured? Are many people injured?" Xiao Han frowned when he heard this, then pushed the porridge bowl into Liu Hongji's hand, stood up and patted the dust on his buttocks and said: "You guys eat first, I'll go down and take a look! "
"Eat, eat your head!"
Behind him, Liu Hongji, who was drinking porridge, was disgraced by the dust kicked up by Xiao Han! In a rage, he was about to reach out to grab Xiao Han, but he missed it. Xiao Han's figure had long since disappeared at the top of the wall.
"This bastard! You're so damn petty!" Staring at the place where Xiao Han disappeared, Liu Hongji cursed angrily, blew the dust off the rice porridge, and started eating again.
He is not a pampered waste like Xiao Han, let alone cooked rice porridge. When he was on the battlefield, he was so hungry that he even ate the bugs on the ground, and they were still raw!
Compared with the messy city head, the interior of Ningzhou City is not much better at this time.
Because the previous defense of the city consumed a lot of materials, the remaining people in the city were busy transporting new stones and wood to the city wall.
If you don’t have enough supplies, then demolish the house!
So the house closest to the city wall suffered a disaster. It was tied with a rope and dragged down with a crash. Useful things were picked out from the ruins and transported to the top of the city to serve as tools for defending the city.
During this period, the owner of the house stood nearby, crying as he watched his house being ripped off.
He didn't stop or help, he just stared blankly. Occasionally, an ignorant child would cry a few words, but soon his mouth would be covered by an adult, and he could only let out a low moan.
