The King of Guilin, who did not want to be infected with the disease, and knew that if he did not dispose of the corpses quickly, a plague would be waiting for him, gritted his teeth and said to the counselor beside him: "Let people prepare firewood, and I told you that if anyone dares to carry those corpses down, Gu Gu will be rewarded heavily. For every corpse carried down, Gu Gu will be rewarded with a hundred coins, and each person will be promoted to three levels in a row."
He, the King of Han, has nothing but money. In order to recruit brave men who dared to take risks under the heavy reward, he did not hesitate to reward him. It's just that at this time, all fools know the danger of coming forward. If I step forward for this hundred-guan reward, then I will be like them. Even if I receive the money in my hands, how will I spend it? By then, won’t it be cheaper for those who are officials?
Therefore, even if his reward increased from one hundred guan to five hundred guan, there would still be very few warriors who had the courage to stand up and receive the money. Everyone is worried that they have the life to receive the money, but not the life to spend it. Really helpless, he could only send people to capture the people in the city and force them to go up to the top of the city to carry the bodies down. As for the lack of firewood for burning, he directly sent people to demolish the houses.
All of a sudden, the people in Nan'an City were crying. But at this time, the king of Guilin did not care whether these people cried or not. As long as Cheng Nai is not around during this period of time, the epidemic will affect him. Not to mention crying, even if all these people died, he would not blink an eye. As for the hypocrisy he originally pretended to be, he had long ago completely forgotten about it.
The houses were demolished and the bricks and stones could be transported to the top of the city to assist in the battle. In addition to burning the corpses of the war dead, the remaining wood can also be transported to the top of the city for defense. As for where the people whose houses had been demolished went, he couldn't care less now. Fortunately, the cries of the people in the city may have been heard. When the people were forced to go up the city wall to carry the bodies, the enemy troops below the city also briefly stopped shelling.
Not only did the shelling stop now, but there was no further shelling for the entire next day. Taking advantage of this brief lull, the King of Guilin tried to boost the morale of the defenders. However, he discovered that his colleague's death was too miserable after being hit by enemy artillery outside the city. No matter how much he encouraged and how much reward he gave, the morale of the defenders just couldn't rise.
In the end, one of his counselors gave him an idea. Capture all the women in the city and reward them to the garrison at the top of the city. After all, at this time, compared to liquor and women, which could boost the morale of the defenders, money had little effect. Everyone went into battle with their heads in hand, and even if they received rewards, they didn't know if they would get the Flower of Life. On the contrary, something that can be enjoyed for a while is more inspiring.
After hearing the advice of the counselor and knowing that if the morale of the defenders continued to decline, the city might not be able to support the arrival of reinforcements, the King of Guilin gritted his teeth. For a moment, I couldn't care less about the hypocritical face of loving the people that I had been pretending to do after raising the army. Anyway, the houses have been demolished, at least the so-called popularity in Nan'an Mansion has been lost. No matter what you do now, you can't change it.
The big deal is that the jar will break. The top priority now is to re-energize the morale of the soldiers defending the city, and to persist until reinforcements arrive is the key. He is the future monarch of the world and cannot die in this small Nan'an city. At worst, the entire city of Nan'an was massacred. Let those common people who know the truth shut up completely and then blame the matter on the court.
Thinking of this, he didn't say anything, but nodded slightly. The counselor also understood the situation and immediately led people down the city. Not long after, the city remembered a deafening cry. Groups of women were forcibly kidnapped from their homes and sent to the defenders on the four walls of Nan'an City. Anyone in the family who resisted was directly killed with a knife.
And the counselor had been with him for more than a day, so he naturally knew the Lord's preferences. He would first look at all the women who were captured. Pick out the one the Lord likes, and keep the ones you like first. Of course, his colleagues were not left behind either. Two outstanding-looking ones were sent to each person's residence first, and then the rest were sent to the defenders.
This move indeed greatly boosted the morale of the defenders. The defenders who had been suffering for several days on the top of the city had their eyes red when they saw the women who were sent to the top of the city. Suddenly, on the top of Nan'an Mansion's city walls, countless women wailed or begged, and the defenders screamed wildly. Although there was no strong alcohol, these women made the defenders extremely excited.
Almost every woman will be ravaged by several people. Especially the ladies and maids of wealthy families are the worst among this group of women. The Prince of Guilin, who was standing on the tower of the east gate of Nan'an City, completely ignored the wailing sounds that reached his ears and the evil deeds that happened right under his nose. He only saw the red eyes of the defenders and the howls of wolves.
After hearing the counselor who went to implement the plan whisper a few words in his ear, he gave a few more instructions expressionlessly before turning around and leaving. After he left, those women who had been badly raped and managed to survive were sent to several towers. He also informed the defenders that from now on, as long as the enemy troops under the city did not attack the city, they could take turns to come in and enjoy it.
The counselor also told the defenders that the prince saw their hard work these days and would never forget them. As long as they hold on to Nan'an City until reinforcements arrive, the prince will reward them heavily. As for today's scene, it's just a small beginning. In short, in one sentence, as long as they are loyal to the prince, from now on they will have money if they want, and women if they want women.
The counselor's words instantly caused the defenders to howl like wolves everywhere. At least it seemed that the morale was temporarily inflated to the point of no return. When the counselor said these words, he did not take into account the Nan'an Prefecture and other Nan'an Prefecture officials standing behind him. Because his wife and daughter were robbed while he stayed in the city, they did not know where they were robbed at this time. An extremely downcast expression.
What's more, he knew it clearly, but he didn't even think about it. As for him, who is with the Guilin County Prince, and is the confidant of the Guilin County Prince, even if he knows about those officials, how can he care about this? At this time, like the ordinary people in the city, what should he think about the civil servants who are the prince's meat on the chopping block? . Those civil servants have no soldiers, so what can they do to themselves even if they are dissatisfied?
The wife and daughter of the Nan'an magistrate, as well as the daughter-in-law of the Nan'an magistrate, were all sent to the prince's room by himself. Do they have the ability and courage to go to the prince to ask for someone? As for Dayu County, where Nan'an Prefecture is located, the magistrate's wife and the magistrate, two extremely beautiful concubines, are in their room at this time, and they will be pampered in a while.
He turned around and looked at the magistrate of Nan'an, the magistrate of the prefecture, the magistrate of Dayu, and other officials with extremely ugly faces. I looked back again and saw a third-grade military attache who was appointed by the prince to guard the city. In his arms was Mrs. Tongpan, who was crying with tears on her face. After being frivolous and doing some evil to the woman, he turned around and went back to his temporary residence to enjoy himself.
The Prince of Guilin, who had returned to his residence at this time, was also fighting fiercely with the women who were sent to him. Those three women are all wives and young ladies of officials, and they are not frivolous women. How can they be willing to follow him? So after the counselor sent them here, he was worried about disturbing his interest. So he force-fed them all the medicine secretly hidden by the Guilin County Prince's Palace, which was specially used to enhance pleasure.
As for the identities of these women, let alone he didn't know them at this time. Even if he knew, he was a little tired of the original two women and was thinking of finding a few new ones there, so how could he care? Especially when he saw the three women who were stripped naked and sent to him, he didn't care what the officials thought. Just a bunch of powerless civil servants.
Although he was nearly sixty years old, with the support of medicine, this old-hearted master fought fiercely with the three women until midnight, and then fell asleep exhausted. After all, he is an old man, and he has been struggling like this for most of the night. The master is now firing artillery outside the city, and he probably won't wake up. In the other rooms of this government office, the scene is basically the same.
How many of the counselors following him truly serve the country and the people? Even most people are frustrated candidates who have failed the exams many times. Although these people are talented, their character is average, and quite a few of them are just for glory and wealth. Now facing those official wives, most of these people who are already extreme have a desire for revenge in their hearts. How can they let this opportunity pass?
Of course, there are some people who are really clean and have no interest in women. But these people are all smart people, but they don't have this interest. But in this case, they also know that once they become different, not only their master will not be relieved. Even in the future, he will be quite ostracized among his colleagues. Since you can't become a green lotus in the turbid current, you can only join the current.
In the Nan'an government office where he temporarily stayed, there was a scene of luxury. The people in Nan'an City were crying because their wives and daughters were forcibly taken away. From the top to the Nan'an prefect and officials at all levels in the past, down to the poor people, they all burst into tears. A young general who was surrounding Nan'an City outside the city lowered his head helplessly when he heard the deafening cries coming from the city.
He could still guess what was happening in the city. It's just that he wants to save the people in the city, but now he is powerless. At this time, the elite outside Nan'an City had long been taken away by Ouyang Shan and headed to the junction of Ji'an Prefecture, Linjiang Prefecture, and Fuzhou Prefecture. They set up an ambush on the road from Jiujiang to Nan'an Prefecture, preparing to cooperate with Cao Rui's army to ambush The rebel reinforcements came south from Jiujiang to rescue Nan'an Prefecture.
He only had five thousand troops and horses in his hands. Not to mention attacking the city, even continuing to encircle Nan'an Mansion, it was all done reluctantly. During these days, he had been bluffing in order not to expose the empty strength of his troops. In addition to constantly mobilizing troops and horses every day, it gave the illusion that the main force of the rebels in the city was still there. He kept using the ten cannons Ouyang Shan left to him to bombard the city wall every day.
What happened on the top of the city today, he could see clearly from the building truck he built. But the problem is that the troops he has now cannot attack the city at all. If he attacks the city, almost all of his previous bluff will be exposed. But seeing the people in the city suffering so much, he really couldn't remain indifferent. His subordinates were even more excited.
These people are all Cao Rui's old subordinates. It is true that almost everyone asks themselves that they are not good birds. When he was not fighting, he never missed visiting brothels and gambling. Cao Rui's style of leading troops is that as long as you complete the training, you basically don't care about visiting brothels and gambling on weekdays. But if someone robs people of their property and robs their women, there will be no other consequences except killing.
