I don’t know if Coss’ army can get to the road when I want to be trapped in the city. I can’t help but shake my head slightly and sigh.

I was thinking, but I listened to the footsteps. When I looked up, I was my own confidant. A captain Lu called to sit down when he saw his tired face and his forehead was wrapped.
"At the end of the general, he will just patrol Chengtou." This captain looked at the road and hesitated. "Morale is low."
Even if he doesn’t talk about the way, he knows that smell speech says with a wry smile, "It’s hard for our troops to be demoralized after repeated defeats, but it’s hard to hold on for another day, and General Coss will lead the army to hold the city."
That a captain should see the road recruit some absent-minded and then said, "Now Jingzhou army has not besieged Xuyi on all sides. If our army comes out from the north gate …"
Lu Zhao was stunned but not angry. He looked a little cold and said to the captain, "I’m afraid you should listen to these words?"
"yes! At the end of the general, he should not talk nonsense from hearsay. "A captain quickly bowed down and said," Please reserve a back road for the general because of the critical situation! " He admitted that it was not because he had just toured the city, and some generals in the garrison of Chengtou told him so. Although we heard from Lu Zhao that Coss’ army of generals came to encircle Jingzhou Army, Xuyi City was breached by Jingzhou Army.
If Coss’ army comes late, or Jingzhou army will block it, how many soldiers in Xuyi can escape? It may be much better for this captain to ask his cronies to speak for him than for them to plead directly. There is always room for change.
When this captain saw Lu Zhao’s look, he knew that it would definitely not be answered by Lu Zhao. When he was nervous, he really listened to Lu Zhao and said, "Posterior? If anyone is afraid of death and runs for his life, it is better to escape from the city and run into General Cao. Don’t you tell General Cao that we abandoned the city and fled when we saw that Jingzhou’s army was too strong to resist, and that General Cao led an army to attack Jingzhou’s army, and then we waved flags and shouted for strength? "
Lu Zhao’s remarks were so mean that a captain couldn’t help blushing and even said, "At the end of the day, you will be stupid!" I will be wrong at the end! "
"The enemy troops arrived in the city only a few days ago. Although our army’s water army was repelled, it was Niu Gai, Zhang Xi, Mao, etc. who really killed you. How much better than Niu Gai, who had already died in battle!" Road recruit more say more angry can’t help patting the table and complete said "if all like you who dare to jingzhou army enemy? Let’s go to the city gate and ask Zhou Yu to surrender! "
When the captain saw Lu Zhao angry, he hurriedly knelt down to confess his sins to Lu Zhao. After Lu Zhao reprimanded a few words, he lowered his voice and said to the captain, "I know that you are just blinded by them, but if you are so thoughtful, can this city still hold on?" Alas, is the morale already low, and even a day and a night can be held on? "
"At the end of the stupid but at the end of the general will now demoralized as something to boost morale, otherwise, the Jingzhou army will attack the city again, afraid that the men will disperse in a hubbub and take the north gate out of the city and escape." This captain raised his head guiltily and said to the right way.
Road recruit some accident saw his one eye slowly, "what to do? If you have any suggestions, don’t hesitate to come! "
"This ….." This captain hesitated and was severely exclaimed by the road before hurriedly saying, "The so-called four questions will be rewarded by the brave men who will naturally follow the general road, but if it is a thick reward from the general, the men will surely feel the general’s grace …"
At first, Lu Zhao looked puzzled at this captain. It seems that he can’t believe that he can come up with this idea, but his mind turned to thinking that no matter who comes up with an idea, it is good to be effective. He started from the military, and he knows all about ordinary foot soldiers and junior officers. Isn’t it a woman to fight as a soldier these days besides earning a living? When there is a shortage of food, it is natural to grab food. Now that there is plenty of food and grass in the city, they will have money, cloth and women to attract them.
If these men have private property, they will inevitably be unwilling to give up easily. At that time, they will block the North Gate. Even if they have these treasures, they will fight to the death in Jingzhou. However, this method is good, but there is another inconvenience for the road recruitment.
He frowned at the captain and said, "What if it can boost the morale of the soldiers and make some money difficult? But do you also know that you can get so much money and cloth from somewhere at one time? "
A captain saw that Lu Zhao agreed to his idea and hurriedly said, "At the end of this section, the officers will be honest, and naturally there won’t be much money to reward the army, but there are many rich families in Xuyi …"
"Ridiculous!" Before he finished, he was interrupted by Lu Zhao’s words. "How can a commander-in-chief named by destiny come here to station and rob the people of the city instead?" Isn’t this an inside job? Even if you can get past your eyes, can you leave me alone? "
A captain kowtowed repeatedly, his forehead banged on the ground and said to the right way, "The general will tell you later!"
"Hum! Go ahead! " Road recruit cold hum a glared at him and said
"Xuyi City is bound to be broken by Jingzhou Army if our army doesn’t stick to it. By then, whether the city is rich or poor, it will suffer from mutiny." A captain looked up and said to the right way, "Besides, at the end of the day, it was not the looting of soldiers, but the main book of the army and others went to persuade and raise money, so that money and cloth can be raised to reward the army without damaging the general’s name."
When he said this, he made a slight nod to get up and return to his seat. He said to him, "This method seems to be good. It is necessary to hurry up if you want to do this." He was worried about the morale of the soldiers when the Jingzhou army attacked the city again, so he decided to take this approach and then he had to act quickly.
This captain has been following Lu Zhao for a long time, and he knows what Lu Zhao is thinking. He quickly got up and said, "At last, go and invite the main book!"
Lu Zhao nodded and asked him to go. Soon the main book of the army came to the gate tower. Lu Zhao told the main book about the matter of persuading to raise money and frowned and said, "It’s not easy."
"Hum, if you refuse to give your money, you can talk about what it will be like after the city is broken. They will change their minds." Lu Zhao said that the matter will always be criticized anyway. He can’t consider many things now. It is a great achievement to be able to keep Xuyi. Even Tso should not blame himself too much if he knows it.
Nuo Nuo, the chief bookkeeper, responded and was about to leave, and asked the guards to take more than a hundred foot soldiers with him.
Accompanied by the guards, the main book sighed and said to the captain, "I hope the soldiers can stick to this city with one heart and one mind after rewarding, otherwise …"
He has never encountered such a critical situation since he came to the army. How much confidence does he have now? In front of everyone, you can also support yourself. At this time, your confidant finally no longer supports you, but feels inexplicably relaxed.
A captain said with a strong smile, "The men will defend the city even if they can’t, and they will never let Jingzhou Army easily break into the city."
"I hope so." Lu Zhao gave a dismissive hand at this time and sent a captain out to take a nap on the couch for a while, but it was difficult to sleep after tossing and turning. At this time, the moonlight was shining from the window lattice and scattered in the building. From time to time, he came to inspect the footsteps of Chengtou soldiers, or some people whispered something. He was upset and simply got up and went to the observatory to listen carefully
Although there was a torch burning at the head of the city, Lu Zhao didn’t lean out, but someone in a corner of the building said, "What if General Cao saw that Jingzhou soldiers and horses were numerous and led troops to retreat to Huaiyin?"
His words made Lu Zhao’s heart linger, though he refused to believe it, but he couldn’t help thinking to himself. If so, what should he do?
Lu Zhao was thinking to himself when he heard another man say, "How many soldiers can there be in Jingzhou?" Less than 30 thousand? Didn’t General Lu say that there were more than 30,000 troops in the ministries led by General Coss? "
"What about that? I think it’s just a patchwork. Can you compare it with Jingzhou Army? " The previous sound added
Later, the man retorted, "You don’t know anything about marching and fighting. You want us to hold the city. General Cao has led people from all walks of life to kill Zhou Yu even if he doesn’t attack Jingzhou Army!"
"oh? This is? " The former man was obviously very angry and his voice was slightly higher.
Lu Zhao is also interested in it. I can’t help but listen carefully to the sound behind me. "Jingzhou army has already gone deep into Guangling, how can we lay siege to this?" What’s so strange if General Cao’s army retreats when they can’t attack the city?
☆, Chapter sixty-one High morale and effective force.
Lu Zhao felt a little relieved when he listened to the low words of the tower. It seems that the soldiers are not ignorant of the morale, and they may not have to go upstairs to see who it is, but he saw that a captain led a scout in.
It was only when the guards lit the candle that they saw the scout’s face clearly. Seeing that he was covered in mud, his eyebrows and his hair were dusty, he said to the scout, "But did General Cao send you here?"
The scouts gave a military-like salute and answered, "Exactly! General Cao has a secret order to send it! " With that, he pulled out a roll of bamboo slips from the leather armor and sent them to the guards, who hurriedly handed them to Lu Zhao.
Road sign with candlelight bamboo slips quickly swept by beaming nodding way "good! Just in time! "
"But is General Cao coming?" The captain said hurriedly pleasure way
Road recruit took a deep breath in expression unconsciously restored somewhat confident nods "yes! General Cao has arranged well, and if nothing happens, he can get here at night. "
Since Coss can kill until the day, he will hold on to it and never lose Xu Yi, which makes Jingzhou army have a city to think of, so he sent the scouts back to inform Coss first, and then said to the captain, "I don’t know how much money the main book has raised. If it goes well, I can give the soldiers a generous reward."
"Why don’t you go and see the situation at the end?" A captain listened to hurriedly said
Lu Zhao nodded and said, "That’s all right. It must be done days ago!" When the captain leaves, it will be even more difficult to sleep. If we can keep the defeat before Xuyi this time, it will be nothing. Now we need to keep the day and day, and we should be able to keep it if the soldiers are willing to work hard.
The tower waited for a long time to see that a captain hurried back and got up and asked, "such as? How much money has been raised? "
A captain is reluctant to answer "not too much, I’m afraid …"
Lu Zhao also thought of this section, so he didn’t feel surprised. He looked a little ugly. He snorted and said to the captain, "I want to come to the city with many excuses. Needless to say, it’s a big day. How can you wait until General Cao leads the troops?" You don’t have to be too polite to them, just say that our army ordered you to lead another team to do this! "
With this captain personally going to those reluctant families, they finally let go, but they were in a hurry to get money. This captain used both hard and soft skills to make a chicken fly and a dog jump in the city overnight, and even Weizi heard about it and quickly came to find a way.
"General Lu, it’s not appropriate to do this." Weizi came to sleep now and came to see Lu Zhao only to find that Lu Zhao was full of energy and tiredness, and he couldn’t help wondering.
Lu Zhao saw that it was Weizi, so he took out the secret order of Coss and showed it to Weizi.
"In this case, if our army wants to hold on for another day, will it still have to plunder the money of the city people?" Weizi is used to being a satrap and a scholar, so he is very resistant to this matter and will come to persuade him overnight.
Lu Zhao sighed and said to Weizi, "Do you know the morale of the soldiers in the city now?"
"This ….." Weizi took a suspicious look at the road and replied, "Our army was even defeated. This morale is naturally not very high."
Lu Zhao nodded very sincerely and said to Weizi, "That’s why I don’t avoid suspicion and reward the army. Why don’t the people think of something and taste it?" What if the city has to protect some money? But if Xuyi City is attacked by Jingzhou Army, what about the loss of the people? "
Weizi was startled. "It’s good to reward soldiers and people voluntarily …"
His pedantic theory makes Lu Zhao quite impatient, but it’s just that he’s too defensive to swear at him.
"You worry too much," Lu Zhao held out his hand and asked Weizi to sit down. After sitting down, he continued to say to Weizi, "The Jingzhou army is bound to attack on a large scale in Japan. How can it resist if the soldiers refuse to work hard?"
Weizi also knew that the Japanese war was very important and sighed, "It’s just that we can defend the city now. I hope the people don’t hate our army for it."
Lu Zhao saw that Weizi was no longer entangled in this matter, and the two men secretly relieved. They discussed things like defense again. Weizi left and went to recruit until midnight. It was too sleepy to stop the couch from falling asleep. It was about time that the captain excitedly rushed to the tower. Lu Zhao woke up and sat up. Knowing that he and the main book had raised a lot of money, he immediately called the city garrison.
Cao Jun’s soldiers saw money, cloth and silk as a reward, and their morale was really high. Even the young civilian workers who were recruited got some goods.
All ministries have received a reward, so they went back to the tower and looked at Jingzhou military camp. At this time, the sky was dim, and smoke rose in the enemy camp. I thought it was a bit heavy to bury the pot and cook rice. Although the morale of the soldiers rose, the strength was far less than that of the enemy. I don’t know if I can persist until General Cao’s army arrived.
He watched the enemy’s situation from the tower, but the defenders at the head of the city talked in twos and threes
An old soldier saw the young foot soldiers around him counting their hands and sneering at the copper coins. "How many what? Do you think this money is easy to take? "
"Why not take it?" Young foot soldiers carelessly put away the copper coins and looked up at the old soldiers and asked
The old soldier took a pity look at him and turned his head to look out of the city and said, "If we weren’t going to work hard, how could we suddenly make so much money?"
"Don’t we all have to work hard if we can’t make money?" Young foot soldiers say with a smile, "It’s naturally good if you have a life to live, but if you don’t live today, it’s just a hit."
His cheerful attitude has not affected the old soldier, who has been in the army for seven years and has been injured, hungry and surrendered, but he has never felt so strongly about death today.
On the contrary, a corporal next to him said with a calm face, "It seems that there is going to be a hard battle today. Everyone has to cheer up and have money but die."