Chapter 113 Capture of Shouchun
Although Yuan Shu was tired, he did not dare to go back to rest. He leaned on the dragon throne and fell asleep unknowingly.
He suddenly found that he was standing alone in the middle of the street, and all his ministers and generals were gone. He was frightened and called out loudly. However, a roar came from a distance: "Yuan Shu rebelled, come and die quickly!!" Yuan Shu was shocked, and saw a shadow on the other side of the voice coming, as if infinite people were rushing towards him. Yuan Shu was frightened and turned around and ran towards the other side of the street, but suddenly found himself running into a brilliant hall. Yuan Shu thought he had returned to his palace. However, when he raised his head, he suddenly saw Lu Bu in military uniform carrying a Fang Tian painting halberd walking towards him from the jade steps. Yuan Shu was so scared that he screamed.
He suddenly opened his eyes and found that he was sitting on the dragon throne. Only then did he realize that the things he had just happened were just dreams, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh.
At this moment, there were bursts of noise outside the hall, as if many people were calling and screaming. Yuan Shu was in a bad mood, but when he heard the noise, he was furious and shouted, "What happened outside?"
An officer guarding the door immediately ran in and knelt down and reported, "Noisy sounds sounded everywhere in the city, I don't know what it was!"
Yuan Shu frowned. Just as he was about to send the officer to investigate, Ji Ling had already stumbled in and shouted anxiously: "Not good! Something is wrong!"
Yuan Shu was startled and shouted, "What's going on?"
Ji Ling said anxiously: "Lei Bo, Chen Lan and others led their troops to mutiny. They opened the city gate. Lu Bu's army has entered the city!"
Yuan Shu only felt like a bolt from the blue suddenly hit, which made him scatter three souls and seven souls, and he completely lost his opinion for a moment.
Seeing Yuan Shu in a daze, Ji Ling shouted anxiously: "Your Majesty, go quickly! Otherwise it would be too late!" As if responding to his words, the shouting and rumbling footsteps had already arrived outside the gate of the palace. Someone was terrified, the sound of Yuan Shu officers and soldiers guarding the palace running around in scattered.
Ji Ling strode forward and carried Yuan Shu on his shoulder and ran straight backward.
Ailang led a large army into Shouchun, immediately sent people to control the four gates, and sent troops to search for Yuan Shu. However, he received a report shortly afterwards that Yuan Shu escaped from Shouchun under the protection of Ji Ling and went straight to the south. Ailang quickly threw Yuan Shu's affairs behind him, because the situation in Shouchun City at this moment was much more serious than he had expected before. The army in the city still had military rations to cover his belly, but most of the people had already reached the point of eating tree bark. Hunger could be seen everywhere in the city, and the stench made Ailang almost vomit.
Seeing this, Ailang had to quickly transport the military rations from the barracks outside the city into the city and distribute them to the people in the city. However, Shouchun City has a large population, with hundreds of thousands of men, women, young and old. It would be a long time to rely on military rations alone. It would take time for a large amount of food and grass to be transported from Xuzhou, and there were not many reserves in Xuzhou. Ailang only felt worried and didn't know what to do.
I sent someone to check the treasury. In addition to the treasury of Yuan Shu Palace, I found thousands of dans of high-quality rice and grain and a large amount of delicacies and treasures, the treasury of the treasury was almost empty.
Ailang couldn't help but curse, "It's really a ghost! Huainan is so rich, why did it look like this in just a drought?!"
Jia Xu smiled and said, "Lord, don't be in a hurry!"
Ailang was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. Hearing this, he couldn't help but shouted, "How can I not be anxious?"
Jia Xu smiled and said, "In fact, there is still a lot of food in the city, which is enough for the people in the city to eat, and it can also supply military supplies!"
Ailang was surprised and grabbed Jia Xu's shoulder and shouted: "Where are the food you mentioned?!"
Jia Xu smiled and said, "As the lord said, Huainan has always been rich, how could a drought turn out like this? A large amount of land in Huainan is in the hands of the families of various aristocratic families, just like other places. Therefore, although the people have no food in their hands, the food in the families of the families of the families in the city must be piled up like mountains!"
Ai Lang was stunned, then understood and said excitedly: "Not bad! Those guys must have a lot of food in their hands!" Then he shouted at Xu Huang: "Xu Huang, you can lead the army immediately and bring me all the food from those big families!" Xu Huang clasped his fists and agreed.
"General Xu Huang, wait!" Jia Xu shouted anxiously, and Xu Huang couldn't help but stop. Jia Xu clasped his fists at Ailang and said, "Lord, you must not do this. This will cause chaos and will not be beneficial to us."
Ailang said angrily: "If you don't do this, should you do this?"
Jia Xu smiled and said, "Why do you have to really take action with your lord's reputation? Just send a large family to a grand family and you must hand over half of the food and grass within three days, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences."
Ailang frowned and said, "That's it? I see those guys don't cry until they see the coffin, and they won't take the initiative to hand over the food and grass!"
Jia Xu said: "Lord, why not give it a try. If they really don't cry when they don't see the coffin, it's not too late to do it." Ailang nodded and immediately ordered Xu Huang to send someone to order the families of the aristocratic families in the city.
It is said that under Ji Ling's protection, Yuan Shu finally escaped from Shouchun and fled south, preparing to go to Hefei first before making plans. Hundreds of people were panicked like dogs and anxious like fish that missed the net. Along the way, they felt the sound of the wind and the cranes were thrilling and did not dare to stop for a moment.
A day later, hundreds of people were trapped and saw that there were no pursuers chasing him, so they stopped to rest. Yuan Shu was hungry and thirsty and shouted, "Mi Shui! Come find me honey water!" An eunuch couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, now there is only blood, where does honey water come from?" Yuan Shu thought that it was all Lu Bu's guilt to land in such a field, so he couldn't help but curse Lu Bu: "Lu Bu is a man, one day, I will peel you and cut you into pieces!"
At this time, the sound of horse hooves in the south came. Everyone was frightened. When they heard the sound, they were shocked and hurriedly looked south. There were 100 people running from the south. They didn't wait to see who came and they were about to run away. Ji Ling shouted in time: "Don't be afraid! It's not the enemy, it's His Highness Yuan Yao!" Everyone noticed that one of the people was the prince Yuan Yao, who was enthroned by Yuan Shu not long ago. Everyone thought that Yuan Yao was here to pick them up, and couldn't help but cheer.
Chapter completed!