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"Report~~"
"Reporting to Commander Bai, General Geng sent a military report that the Turbine Fortress was captured by his troops without blood three days ago."
"Get the general report quickly!"
When Bai Qi heard this, he was very excited. He took the military report from the scout's hand and read every word carefully.
"Okay, Geng Gong, you have achieved great military exploits. Hahahahaha, please order the generals at all levels to come to the tent to discuss matters!"
Bai Qi was overjoyed and quickly ordered officers at all levels to enter the main tent.
After everyone arrived, Bai Qi picked up the military report in his hand and said with a smile: "This is the military report that Geng Gong ordered to send overnight.
Turbine City has fallen into the hands of our Han army, and there are still more than 680,000 kilograms of grain and grass in the city, 30,000 kilograms of salt, at least three million kilograms of smoked and dried beef and mutton, and countless ordnance grease.
In addition, there are 110,000 gold ingots, 850,000 silver coins, 20,000 furs, 300 boxes of pearls and jade, and 3,000 sets of gold and silver utensils.
These military rations are more than enough for our army for three years. Those belongings can just be returned to the army to reward the soldiers who went out to fight. The battle has been settled, hahaha! "
When the generals heard this, they quickly stood up and read the military report.
Xia Yu was the first to couldn't help shouting: "Okay! Now we have blocked the hundreds of thousands of noble widows in Liuli City to death!"
Tian Yan also said: "In this case, even if Nanzhen has another million troops, but there is no food and grass, how can he command such a large and hungry army to fight against me!"
Lu Yu stroked his long beard and said, "Commander Bai, it's time to settle things with your widow. Her military supply route has been cut off, and all the ministries around Liulicheng have been plundered by our army.
This difficulty will not last long. It is better to let the news out and disrupt their military morale, so that our Han army can annihilate them in one go. "
When Wei Ji heard this, his fat face couldn't help but smile and twist: "I am also very curious about what these barbarians will do if they know that the food road to the rear is cut off, hehehehe, unless they can conjure food out of thin air."
Bai Qi listened to the discussion of everyone in the tent, looked at the military report in his hand, and then called everyone to sit down.
"It's still too early to start a decisive battle with Nanzhuang. I want to wait until Liuli City is completely out of food before raising troops to attack it."
The generals thought about it and thought it made sense.
Now the initiative in the war is in their own hands, and whether to fight or not is at the discretion of the Han army.
"Pass my military order, and the soldiers of each battalion will guard the important roads in Liulic City. Don't let a fly fly out!"
"Here!"
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In Tuoluo City, inside the palace...
Qi Ruosi was playing around with a few palace maids and seemed to have forgotten that today was the day to pay the remaining ransom.
Just when he was having fun, a waiter came to report.
"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister would like to see you."
"No, didn't you see that the lonely king is busy?"
"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister has been waiting outside the palace for a long time..."
Qi Ruosi's good mood was suddenly interrupted. He dismissed the palace maids impatiently, and then said to the attendant: "Let him come in, it's really disappointing."
Not long after, Orton came to Qi Ruosi and said, "Your Majesty, today is the day to pay the ransom as agreed with the Han army."
Before he could finish speaking, Qi Ruosi said with disgust on his face: "There is no money in King Gu's treasury, forty thousand gold ingots, where do you want King Gu to find it?
Send someone to tell the Han army that they can give it a few more days. The lonely king really can't raise that much money. "
Orton: "Your Majesty, aren't you afraid of angering the Han army and putting the father-in-law in danger?"
Qi Ruosi snorted coldly: "I have already tried my best, what do you want from me? If the father-in-law is killed, I will personally bury him with royal courtesy."
Orton shook his head angrily: "Your Majesty, if the father-in-law is killed, how should you explain it to your ministers?"
Qi Ruosi was furious: "Excuse me, tell me, what did you ask Gu to explain? Those people, King Gu, even refused to borrow some money from them, do they really care about the life and death of the father-in-law?"
Orton said word by word: "Others can ignore the life and death of the king, but you, the king, cannot. If the king has some shortcomings, how should you explain it to the queen?"
Qi Ruosi snorted coldly: "It was the Han army who killed the father-in-law, not the lonely king. If the queen wants to blame, she can only blame the Han army. What does it have to do with the lonely king?"
Oden finally understood that Qi Ruosi had completely given up on Saidan.
The emperor is ruthless, this is probably the most obvious sign.
Just when Orton was about to continue lobbying, a servant stumbled into the palace, shouting: "Your Majesty, something bad has happened, something big has happened~~"
Qi Ruosi was furious: "You untouchable, how can you behave in such a panic? What happened? Is the sky falling?"
The servant rolled and crawled to Qi Ruosi's feet: "Your Majesty, something really big has happened. The Turbine Fortress has been occupied by the Han army!"
Boom~~
This sentence immediately made Qi Ruosi and Orton's heads roar.
After being stunned for a long time, Orton took the lead to pull up the servant and angrily shouted: "What are you talking nonsense about? Turbine City's terrain is steep, and the city walls are even more impregnable.
Moreover, there is sufficient food and grass in the city. Even if there are only a few thousand defenders now, they can still hold on for several years without danger. How could it fall so easily? "
The servant cried: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, everything my servant said is true. A bright red Chinese flag has been planted on the wall of Turbine City. We have really fallen!"
After hearing these words, Qi Ruosi suddenly felt weak all over and collapsed on the ground.
Orton was also speechless. Such a turn of events caught him by surprise.
It's just that the emperor and his ministers couldn't figure out why the impregnable Turbo Fortress fell so easily.
What's even more frightening is that the loss of Turbine Fortress will directly expose Tuoluo City to the front of the Han army. With the massive military resources left in the city, how can Tuoluo City resist?
Orton was the first to react and hurriedly said to Qi Ruosi: "Your Majesty, please quickly convene the ministers to discuss the matter. Turbine City must be recaptured no matter what.
Otherwise, all the tribes east of Turbine City will completely lose contact with the capital. Not to mention other things, the food supply in Tuoluo City alone may be cut off, and the 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the city may starve. "
"Okay, okay, according to the prime minister's wishes, I will summon the ministers immediately..."
Qi Ruosi was so frightened that she was completely at the mercy of Orton.
Soon, the news of Turbine City's fall spread throughout Natuoluo City.
The people in the city suddenly became chaotic, and order suddenly broke down. Thugs and gangsters took to the streets to rob shops, while civilians hid in their homes and did not dare to come out.
In the palace, the officials were also noisy.
They all passed the responsibility on to others, and after the quarrel, they almost took action directly.
However, no matter how much they argued, they never came up with a usable solution to their current predicament.
Qi Ruosi also sat slumped on the king's chair, watching the people on the field making noisy noises, but had no intention of stopping them.
Now his mind was in a mess.
A minister suddenly suggested: "Your Majesty, for the current plan, the only way is to call on soldiers and horses from all towns and cities to assemble people under the city and jointly take back Turbine City."
When Orton heard this, he looked at the talking minister with eyes as if he were an idiot, and thought to himself: Where can the soldiers and horses come from? Almost all the young men in the country were summoned and taken away by Nanzhen. Even if there are still some troops, can they win the Turbo Fortress?
Qi Ruosi smiled bitterly and said, "Seventy percent of the men in our country who are over sixteen years old have been summoned by General Nanzhuang. The only ones left behind are the old and the weak. Can they fight?"
The minister immediately shut up.
Another minister said to Qi Ruosi: "Right now, we can only summon all the men in the city to go to war. Those slaves can also use their status as free men to force them to go into battle. Maybe we can take back Turbine City."
Qi Ruosi's eyes lit up, but soon they dimmed again.
He wanted to do this, but the treasury was running out of money, and the nobles and bureaucrats in front of him were all penniless. How could he summon the men in the city to serve him?
What's more, driving slaves to seize the city?
I'm afraid if I give you a sudden attack, the consequences will be disastrous.
In the end, Orton sighed and proposed a seemingly reliable plan: "Your Majesty, gather the people in the city who dare to die, and then ask Anxi and Dashi for reinforcements. I believe they will not just sit idly by."
Qi Ruosi said: "But inviting Dashi and An Xin to send troops requires money. Where does the money come from?"
Orton said: "You can allow their troops to plunder the city as a reward."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this and looked at Orton in surprise.
Until Orton added: "Only the wealth of civilians and businessmen is allowed to be plundered. For the sake of the noble widow, I can only wrong them and suffer hundreds of millions of people..."
This made everyone feel at ease.
