On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 507 Frightened and insomnia

Seeing her eldest daughter Sun Wuji talk about Aiwujiwu, Gao was embarrassed, but she was also happy that her son supported her marriage.

"If you can remember the lesson, my mother will feel relieved. Go back and have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow we will attack the city. Although you don't have to rush to the front line, you still have to cheer up when you are with the king."

Changsun Wuji nodded after hearing this, and after bidding farewell to Mr. Gao, he walked to his sleeping tent.

Mrs. Gao was about to go to serve Cui Che when she saw Maid Guanyin following her. She frowned and said:

"If you don't go back and rest, what will you do to your mother?"

Avalokitesvara smiled and said:

"I just heard from my brother that I was offended by the guard, so I think he must be angry in his heart.

"My grandfather once said that as long as he sees his daughter, he will feel happy.

"At this time, my daughter may come to visit me, which may make my grandpa happy.

"Besides, when did grandpa go to bed so early?"

Seeing that Guanyin's maid kept saying the same thing, Mrs. Gao had no way to refute, so she had no choice but to let her go.

The mother and daughter walked into the handsome tent. Cui Che, who was sitting on the main seat, nodded and said:

"They're all here."

After Mrs. Gao saluted, she walked behind Cui Che, squeezed his shoulders and said gratefully:

"Wuji is young and eager to achieve great results. I would like to thank your Majesty for what happened today."

Cui Che understood that Mr. Gao was talking about preventing Changsun Wuji from becoming a lobbyist. He smiled and said:

"You are Wuji's mother, and Wuji is naturally my child. Why should a family be so open-minded?"

After saying that, he looked at Guanyin again and feigned anger:

"I had a meeting with everyone earlier, were you eavesdropping outside the tent?"

It turns out that someone had already reported the incident of Guanyin Maid’s eavesdropping to Cui Che.

Seeing Cui Che's anger, Guanyin's face turned pale and tears rolled in her eyes. She cried and apologized to Cui Che, fearing that Cui Che would dislike her.

However, Cui Che just wanted to scare her. He stretched out his hand and wiped away the tears of Guanyin Maid with his thumb. He said sternly:

"The military meeting is a major matter, and the news must not be leaked. I know you were playing outside the tent and accidentally overheard it, but you are not allowed to do it again in the future.

"Of course, you blame me for this because my father didn't make it clear to you in advance."

Guanyin maid choked and said:

"No, it's all my daughter's fault. My daughter will never dare to go near the tent when grandpa is meeting with others. I just ask grandpa not to anger me."

When Mrs. Gao saw her daughter crying pitifully, she quickly changed the topic and asked:

"Your Majesty, Gao Jiong and Yu Wenshu asked people to drive the villagers into the city. Wouldn't such behavior increase the consumption of food and grass in the city? Why do they still do this?"

Guanyin's tears were also wiped away by Cui Che at this time. She looked at Cui Che curiously, obviously also very confused about this question.

Cui Che smiled and said:

"Those countrymen bring their own food into the city and cannot consume the food in the city.

"Yu Wenshu forced the people to enter the city. Firstly, he wanted to increase the manpower to defend the city. Secondly, he was worried that I would force the people to attack the city.

"It's ridiculous. This is not outside the Great Wall. How could I, Cui Che, treat the people of the Central Plains like this?"

Maid Guanyin was still puzzled, so she asked:

"If I insist on besieging the city, the food brought by the people will be used up sooner or later. Why don't we still have to eat the food in the city?"

Cui Che shook his head and said:

"If it gets to that point, they won't be able to consume the food in the city either."

Avalokitesvara asked:

"Why do you say that?"

Cui Che didn't want to answer at first, but seeing the curiosity in Guanyin's eyes getting stronger, he still explained:

"The generals who defended the city would sit back and watch the people who were driven into the city starve to death, and then use their corpses to make military rations."

Guanyin's maidservant was shocked and pale, and Gao's bones were also cold and her hair stood on end.

They were of noble birth, and using dead people as military food was still far beyond their psychological endurance.

Avalokitesvara asked with some fear:

"Grandpa, you have done it before."

Cui Che knew what she was going to say and smiled:

"If you are forced to eat people, it's because you don't have enough food and grass. You have to do it. My father never fights an unprepared battle, so naturally he has never eaten human flesh."

Guanyin maid heard this and breathed a long sigh of relief.

But when she returned to her sleeping tent, she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. She finally stayed up until the second half of the night, fell asleep because of exhaustion, but was awakened by a nightmare.

In the dream, a group of hungry people wanted to eat her, but Guanyin was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat and her back was sticky.

She didn't dare to sleep anymore, so she hugged her calves on the couch and huddled in the corner until it got light.

The camp of the Eastern Sui Dynasty was making fire and cooking. Guanyin came out early in the morning and saw Cui Che walking out of the Chinese army tent adjacent to her sleeping tent.

"Did you have insomnia again last night?"

Cui Che saw that Guanyin's little face was pale and bloodless, and he couldn't help but asked with concern.

Only then did Guanyin Maid truthfully tell Cui Che that she had been frightened last night and had not slept all night.

Cui Che stroked her head and comforted her:

"Don't be afraid. I will ask the military doctor to prescribe some soothing medicine for you. In the past few days, let your mother sleep with you at night. This is a military camp and the Yang energy is strong. Even if there are ghosts in this world, you will not dare to come here."

Maid Guanyin nodded obediently. For some reason, as long as her stepfather said it, she believed it.

The war was about to begin, Cui Che just said this, ordered the military camp to open the potion, and stopped paying attention to the frightened Guanyin Maid.

After having breakfast with the soldiers, Cui Che left Gao's mother and daughter in the camp. At the same time, he sent Li Min to lead 20,000 single-horse cavalry to take care of the camp's supplies, leaving Dou Jiande as deputy general.

Li Min had a grudge against Yang Guang for genocide, and wished he could eat his flesh alive. Originally, Cui Che wanted him to become a civil servant.

But Li Min repeatedly begged, hoping to join the army in the expedition in order to avenge the bloody vengeance of the family being massacred.

He is only thirty-three years old now. Cui Che, his father-in-law, who is six years older than him, is still full of black hair, but Li Min has slightly frosty hair on the temples. It can be seen that more than thirty members of the clan were all unjustly killed by Yang Guang, and they have done nothing to him.

What a big blow.

In the end, Cui Che was moved by Li Min's persistence, kept him in the army, and brought him to Kansai.

Cui Che divided the 100,000 civilians who came with the army into two groups. One group assisted in building siege equipment under the guidance of craftsmen.

The other part is more threatening and requires carrying sandbags to fill the moat.

This has always been the case in marching and fighting since ancient times. As long as there are civilians involved, they will be left to fill in the moat. This can not only consume the defenders' arrows, but also save the army's physical strength.

Of course, the civilian laborers did not work in vain. If they were killed or injured during the landfill, Cui Che would also provide pensions to his family. If he survived until the war, the civilian laborers who participated in the river filling would also be able to receive the reward, but the amount would not be comparable.

Those soldiers who really fight to the death.

Qu Tutong on the tower saw the civilians carrying sandbags to fill the moat, but did not let the defenders release arrows.

Qu Tutong knew that Guandong had sufficient manpower and Cui Che had no shortage of civilian men. The moat would eventually be filled by him. Instead of wasting the limited arrows on the civilian men, it would be better to stay with Cui Che while he was attacking the city and attack more of his subordinates.

Soldiers cause casualties.

Chapter 4 About two o'clock in the morning

(End of chapter)