After more than ten consecutive days of high-intensity battles, more than 30,000 people have been killed or injured, basically all militiamen, which naturally caused dissatisfaction.

Those militia were forced to join the army and used as cannon fodder to block the Chinese team. How could they be willing to do so?

Knowing that they are consumables, they must be unbalanced. The forced soldiers are treated poorly and have to block the city walls with their lives and prevent the enemy from coming in, which will naturally cause complaints.

On the other hand, the Hua** team has played in the Internet for more than ten days and still maintained the single digits, which is simply unimaginable.

Ning Ze did not take action, nor did he use his "spell" to break the city. In this case, there is no chance of winning. How could he persist until the opponent retreats?

Even though they tried hard to prevent blocking, the content of China's persuasion to surrender was still spread.

Of course, the complaints from the lower class reached Ma Jian's ears as soon as possible.

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But he had no choice but to send elite troops to die. Those were the last line of defense that ensured that the city could not be guarded and resisted Ning Ze created a chance to escape for himself.

However, the complaints at the bottom cannot be ignored. If they accumulate to a certain level, it will not be a joke to explode at that time.

To solve this problem, Ma Jian asked Prime Minister Huang Zhi and Military Advisor Feng Qiao to summon all Chinese officials to discuss carefully.

Huang Zhi suggested improving the quality of militia's food and verbally improving military pay and benefits.

After eating enough, the militia complaints naturally decreased.

However, the military rations in the city were limited, so the militia's food rations were increased, and their food quality was improved, and the consumption doubled. Even if more than 30,000 militia were consumed, there were still 70,000 to 80,000 militias who opened their mouths to eat. I am afraid that Ma Jian would have to save money and survive a month.

Of course, it is not impossible to defend Qiangyang until Ningze retreats. The city was captured, and these military rations fell into Ningze's hands.

It is a bit overwhelming to increase military pay and benefits.

Wubao County was captured by Ningze, and the national treasury was too late to move away, and the funds fell into the enemy's palm.

This is indeed impossible based on the official database of Qiangyang County alone.

Faced with Ma Jian's order, Huang Zhi told him that the key to verbally increase military salary and benefits is the word "verb". He also knew that Qiangyang County was short of funds and could not do this, but those militia did not know that, so they verbally stabilized them first, so that they felt that they had a chance and could block the pressure and continue to fight.

In this way, Ma Jian could accept it, so he adopted Huang Zhi's suggestion.

Feng Qiao suggested strengthening inspections and trying to curb all kinds of rumors, especially the content of the Chinese letter of persuading surrender to avoid internal problems.

He also knew that guarding the people was more important than defending the river, but there was no time to worry about these things at the moment, and there was no other way to stop them. In view of the current situation in Qiangyang County, Chinese officials in the court made suggestions, with the purpose of maintaining the situation and striving to persevere until the food in China was exhausted and had to withdraw their troops.

Of course, this secret meeting also allowed Chinese officials in the North Korean state to understand their situation. They are like walking on a tightrope and may fall down at any time.

After the meeting, the Taifu Zhao Tong was absent-minded.

The current situation is so bad that it cannot be worse. To be honest, I have no confidence in voluntarily withdrawing the troops when the food is exhausted in China.

So far, Ning Ze has not taken the initiative to use spells to enhance the combat power of the Hua** team and cure injuries.

It can be seen that he is very confident in taking down Qiangyang and is not that urgent.

With Ning Ze's wisdom, he must be able to see his intentions. Since he is not in a hurry, it means that the military rations are sufficient and will not be consumed so quickly.

Not to mention that with his magic power, he arrived thousands of miles away in an instant. What is some military ration?

If this continues, I am afraid that all the troops in the city will be exhausted and I will not be able to wait for Ning Ze to withdraw.

Ma Jian knew, Feng Qiao also knew that the Chinese civil and military officials in the court knew this very well, and they were just deceiving themselves!

It would be a torment for Zhao Tong to pretend to have confidence to defend Qiangyang.

What's the point of deceiving yourself? The result will not change.

Secondly, complaints arise in the city, and prevention of blockage is effective for a while, but over time, major events will happen.

When he returned home, his wife saw him frowning and came over and asked, "Husband seems to be very worried, but she is worried about the Chinese soldiers outside the city? Although the enemy is strong, there are many soldiers and generals in Qiangyang City. It will not be a problem to hold on for more than a month. You will retreat at that time!"

"The war is not that simple," Zhao Tong sighed, "How can you, a woman, understand these?"

"It's a bad situation?" asked the wife.

"It's not just bad..." Zhao Tong sighed, "It's better to make plans for this situation!"

"What does husband mean..."

"Woman just keeps the house. These major things have nothing to do with you!" Zhao Tong waved his hand, "Do you have any food?"

"I'm ready."

The couple went to the hall to have dinner together.

Halfway through the meal, the servant came to report: "Young Master Chou is here."

The so-called young master is Zhao Jian, the son of Zhao Tong's mother's mother's son. He has a very good relationship with Zhao Tong and has played together since childhood.

The reason why Zhao Tong is a master at home is that Zhao Jian, as his cousin, is still called Young Master Cousin, because the latter has not yet gotten married, and his family will only change their words after he gets married.

When he heard that his cousin was coming, Zhao Tong asked his servant to invite him in.

Soon, Zhao Jianfeng entered the house in a hurry.

Zhao Tong's wife stood up and said, "I'll avoid it first."

Turning around and taking the dishes and chopsticks to the side hall.

"Cousin!" Zhao Jian was not polite. After coming in, he bowed his fists and sat down and poured wine for himself.

"Why are you here today?" Zhao Tong asked, "But you are short of money and ask for money?"

"I have something big to tell you!" Zhao Jian looked around and confirmed that there were no outsiders. He lowered his voice and said to him, "I just saw several people conspiring and preparing to open the city to surrender to the enemy. I heard it outside the window, but fortunately I was not discovered, so I rushed to tell my cousin and give my cousin a chance to make meritorious contributions!"

"What happened?" Zhao Tong's eyes widened, "Who are the conspirators?"

"I can't see it clearly, but I can hear the sound. One of them should be Liu Qing!"

"Liu Taichang?" Zhao Tong was quite surprised, "Be serious?"

"Have you ever deceived my cousin?" Zhao Jian raised his head and drank all the glass of Chinese American wine in one gulp, and said excitedly, "Cousin quickly reported and led his troops to catch the rebellion! Your Majesty rewarded me, don't forget my contribution!"

Zhao Tong closed his eyes and pondered, struggling in his heart.

"Brother didn't hurry to report to His Majesty and capture the traitor? With Liu Qing, the big fish, you will make a great contribution!"

Zhao Jian urged Zhao Tong because he was just a commoner and it was very difficult to meet Ma Jian. However, Zhao Tong was in the position of Taifu, and the status of this contribution was higher, which was more beneficial to Zhao Jian.

If you want to change your daily life, Zhao Tong will definitely report it as soon as possible.

But if you think about the current situation carefully, what's the use of even capturing the rebellious thief, even if you make a contribution?

Qiangyang County may not be able to be defended. Southern Chengdu is gone, and such a thing is meaningless.

Then he thought, Liu Qing was not such an impulsive person, and he would definitely be sure of doing this.

Obviously everyone has the same idea. Nan Cheng really can't hold on to the current situation. Instead of burying him with him, it's better to make plans earlier.

Thinking of this, he turned around and asked Zhao Jian: "Have you ever told others about this before coming here?"

Zhao Jian smiled and said, "How dare you reveal such a big thing? If others find out, how can you have the chance to make meritorious service? Isn't your cousin going yet?"

Zhao Tong felt a little relieved and said to him seriously: "The Chinese army is outside the city, and Qiangyang cannot be defended for a long time. Your Majesty himself cannot protect himself. Even if you capture Liu Qing for your brother, everything will be nothing when the city is broken."

"Do you sit back and watch?" Zhao Jian asked.

"What we need to consider now is how my Zhao family survives!" Zhao Tong whispered, "Once the city is broken, everything will be over."

"Brother means..."

"Are you sure Liu Qing is also among them?" Zhao Tong asked seriously.

"My ears are not bad, and Liu Taichang's voice can still be heard."

"Liu Qing is extremely cautious. He will rely on his own if he dares to do this!" Zhao Tong said, "For the Zhao family, it is an important choice now."

"Brother, I think that Nan will definitely succeed or lose?" Zhao Jian asked in surprise after he understood.

"It seems that it may be a foregone conclusion now!" Zhao Tong replied, "Lead the way immediately, I must find out the truth for you."

"Do you want to summon private soldiers?" Zhao Jian asked in a low voice, "Just in case."

"Okay!"

After the two brothers discussed, they immediately summoned private soldiers and Zhao Jian led the way out of the mansion.

On the other hand, Taichang Liu Qing did conspire with someone. Everyone knows the situation in the city, and it may be difficult to hold on.

Ma Jian, Feng Qiao and some civil servants and generals are still trying to find ways, hoping to persist until the retreat of the Chinese army. Most of the others have seen through the ending, and on the surface they have sworn to follow Ma Jian to defend the city to the death and work hard for the final victory, but in fact they have made secret plans and made decisions one after another.

The talk was serious here, and there was a sudden riot outside.

Liu Qing was about to ask what happened, but there was clearly someone guarding her outside, so why was it so noisy. As a result, Zhao Tong and Zhao Jian and his brothers broke into the yard with private soldiers and pushed the door open and entered directly.

When Liu Qing saw Zhao Tong, his face changed drastically.

Other civil servants and generals present also showed nervousness, and many people subconsciously touched their swords around their waists.

Zhao Tong looked around and found that in addition to Taichang Liu Qing, there were many senior officials at the scene, with a good status. Seeing that they became alert and even had plans to take action on the spot, he was not in a hurry: "Taichang did a great thing!"

Liu Qing stood up and his eyes fixed on Zhao Tong: "What does Zhao Taipu mean? I don't understand. At the critical moment of Qiangyang County, the Taipu led his private soldiers into someone else's residence, what is the purpose?"

"I just finished discussing with Your Majesty. After the meeting ended, I would like to ask, what are you conspiring?"

The officials at the scene looked at each other and were so nervous that many people had pulled out their swords a little. Whenever they heard the order, they immediately stepped forward to chop the Zhao brothers into meat sauce.

Liu Qing was also extremely nervous, staring at Zhao Tong, ready to order at any time.

The atmosphere became extremely tense. Faced with the sparks that could ignite at any time, Zhao Tong finally spoke: "You plan to know everything! In fact, what Zhao thought was consistent with you. Liu Taichang, how could Zhao be missing such a big thing? Also, the number of people at the door is really not cautious enough!"

"Master Zhao, I don't understand!" Liu Qing looked at Zhao Tong with caution.

"Liu Taichang, if Zhao reports to His Majesty, he will not only lead the private soldiers into this place." Zhao Tong said, "When I come here sincerely, why should I be suspicious?"
Chapter completed!