Chapter 1421: 1422 fatal signal
The Tang officer kept his promise. He walked to the car, handed the grenade to the soldiers distributing food, and walked back to the door of the boy's house with two bags of food supplies.
He handed the food bag to the boy. The boy's eyes were full of light at this moment: he had seen this kind of thing before. It contained some flour and packed cans. It was the food bag used by Tang Jun himself.
With this thing, they don't have to go hungry these days, and they can eat well, better than what his father ate when he was working at home.
At that time, in order to cultivate the land and grow food, his father was the only one in the family who could eat well, and he and his mother could only eat gruel and wild vegetables.
Due to long-term malnutrition, the Qin people here are generally thin, and the children are basically skin and bones. The children of the landlords and gentry had plenty to eat, so they were generally tall and tall, so they often bullied the skinny commoner children.
Boys at that time always hoped that they could eat more and grow taller so that they could avoid being bullied.
But it was not until now that he really saw what food was: the food packages in the Tang Dynasty included ham sausages and bread, flour and thick soup seasoning packages.
As long as you pour some hot water, the soup bag can turn the water into hot soup. The soup in the Tang Dynasty is so delicious that one sip will leave you with endless aftertaste.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who camped near his home gave the children some soup, and the boy can't forget the tempting taste to this day.
It is precisely because of that bowl of thick soup that the grenade he hid has not been used until just now...
Now, there are two food packages in front of him, containing a variety of food. He couldn't even believe that these belonged to him.
So, he timidly raised his head and looked at the man, not daring to reach out to pick up those things. The officer of the Tang State put the food into the child's hands and said with a smile: "It's all for you! Don't be afraid! You are now a Tang person, understand? Tang people! Tang people should not be hungry! Nor should they be bullied! We are Family! You will know many things later!”
As he spoke, he stuffed the candy he had just begged from the soldiers into the boy's pocket: "You will understand later! You will go to school and learn many principles, and you will have a decent job. Support your mother and find a wife...Haha! Beautiful wife! Do you understand?"
The boy originally hated having his hair rubbed, but surprisingly, he didn't hate this feeling very much this time.
I don’t know if it’s because my pockets are full of candies, or because both of my hands are holding food. In short, he didn't hate the officer rubbing his hair. On the contrary, he felt an indescribable sense of happiness.
Rifles one after another were handed over by the people of Qin, and grenades one after another were stored in ammunition boxes.
Tang soldiers counted ammunition and supplies in the open space at the entrance of the village, and then recorded the civilians who had surrendered their weapons one by one. This job is very important and complicated. In this way, Tang soldiers try to distinguish civilians who are relatively non-hostile as much as possible.
In addition to distributing food, resolving conflicts, and equally dividing land, the Tang State also tried its best to ask local garrison troops to help repair houses and roads, and effectively helped local people improve their lives.
Such work did have an effect. Although it did not make the people of Qin eat pots of rice and welcome the king, it at least reduced the intensity of local resistance and reduced their resistance. …
In Guangmian, Chen Li stood in front of the map with dark circles under his eyes, feeling that all his strength had been drained away. Several lines of defense he had carefully arranged were destroyed due to inexplicable things, which put him in a state on the verge of collapse.
Originally, Chen Li felt that he could hold on to an excellent defensive location like Daxiguan for at least three or even four months. As a result, it was surrendered to the Tang army without even holding on for a month.
What made him collapse was the Qin army’s own rebellion! Da Xiguan, which had a very favorable terrain, was lost like this. Chen Li even wanted to die.
Later, the Qin army retreated to Shahun and lost one-third of its baggage. It was a huge loss and it was difficult to gain a foothold. As a result, some troops rebelled and defected.
Then, the last line of defense outside the homeland, the Shahun defense line that had been prepared for a long time, collapsed and turned into a joke.
It's okay now, the Tang army has invaded the Qin mainland, and Guangmian has been reduced to the front line. As the frontline commander of the Qin State, Chen Li has really become the disgrace of the Qin State!
"General, the army lacks ammunition and food. I'm afraid Guangmian won't be able to hold on for long." The adjutant put a coat on Chen Li and said in a depressed voice.
"I left weapons for the common people, hoping that they could hinder the Tang army's advance. It seems... the effect is still there." Chen Li rubbed the bridge of his sore nose and said to his adjutant.
In the past two days, the Tang army did stop and did not continue to launch a rapid attack. The previous offensive speed of running for more than 100 kilometers disappeared, and was replaced by an unfamiliar steady and steady tactic.
Strauss on the front and Burton on the side did not rush to attack, but began to consolidate their results.
This made Chen Li even more nervous: if the Tang army continued to advance rashly, he would still have a slight chance to take advantage of the chaos... Now that the Tang army has stopped its steps, the Qin army has no chance at all.
In fact, what Chen Li didn't know was that the reason why the Tang army stopped was to relieve the Qin people who were short of food and to execute the landlords and gentry left by the Qin state, and not because of the weapons left behind by the Qin army before it retreated. ammunition.
In fact, most of the weapons and ammunition were confiscated by the Tang army, and only a small number were actually functioning.
However, these distributed ammunition and weapons did create some trouble for the Tang army: in the past, these weapons and ammunition were collected and seized, but now the Qin army distributed them to the people, and recycling them was a waste of Tang army's time.
"What I'm worried about is whether the Tang army will immediately surround Guangmian after finishing cleaning up their affairs... If they attack, we won't have enough troops to defend on both wings." Chen Li pressed his hand on the map, worried. said.
He currently has insufficient troops, and follow-up support is not certain when it will arrive, so the city of Guangmian is very likely to be lost...
And if Guangmian is lost, then Qin will lose its first big city... This signal is really fatal to the passive Qin.