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Zhao Junsheng nodded, "Okay!"

Wei Chong immediately waved, "Open the city gate!"

With the sound of the noose turning, the drawbridge was lowered and the city gate opened.

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand, "Let's go!" After speaking, he stepped out of the city gate, and Li Bao and the soldiers of the Dragon Guard immediately followed.

After leaving Jiameng Pass, the road was rather difficult. Although these Dragon Guard soldiers were all elites, they had never marched and fought on such a rough road, and their walking speed was a bit slow.

Zhao Junsheng was not in a hurry either. Jiameng Pass was not far from Jianmen Pass, only more than 60 miles away. Given the physical condition of these Dragon Guard soldiers, they could walk there in one night.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and looked. Even though he had changed into the old clothes of the refugees, the team was still very neat.

He thought for a while and told Li Bao, "Tell the soldiers, don't be so disciplined, we are refugees now, not the army, let everyone relax a bit, don't have to follow the rules in the army, the formation should be more scattered, and the pace should not be so neat! "

"Yes, I will pass the order!"

After the order was conveyed, the team loosened up a lot, and some people began to talk while walking. The soldiers found that talking while walking could actually relieve fatigue, and it seemed that they could walk faster and faster.

After walking all night, at dawn, Zhao Junsheng and Li Bao finally led the team to Jianmen Pass. [-] to [-] refugees gathered outside the pass, lying on the ground in patches, and some people even set up shacks nearby.

Zhao Junsheng stopped and told Li Bao, "Pass down the order and tell the brothers to disperse in units of Shi, and don't all gather together, and communicate according to the contact method we agreed in advance! Also, hide when eating. Point out the refugees around, don't be seen by them!"

"I understand!"

The order was passed on silently, and the soldiers of the Dragon Guards in units of Shi dispersed one after another. Before the sky brightened, all of them quietly merged into the 1000 to 8 refugees. It didn't attract the slightest attention at all.

Zhao Junsheng pulled Lin Jinghui over, "You go to contact our secret work and ask the leader to come over!"

It was bright day, and Lin Jinghui led a tall and thin middle-aged man through the refugees and walked over.

Zhao Junsheng looked at this person, shook his head, "Follow me!"

Several people came to the foot of a mountain away from the refugees. Lin Jinghui introduced Zhao Junsheng and the tall and thin middle-aged man, "This is Jiang Hui Jiang Zongqi, this is General Zhao!"

"The villain Jiang Hui pays his respects to General Zhao!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said, "What's the situation now? Is there any way to let the defenders of Jianmen Pass open the city gate to allow these refugees to pass through and return to Sichuan?"

Jiang Hui replied, "Two days ago the defenders were determined and refused to open the gate no matter what. In the past few days, due to lack of food and exposure to the sun, thousands of people have starved to death. The guards at Jianmen Pass were a little loose yesterday. After a while, the villain will organize people to count the number of people who died last night, and carry all the corpses to the front of the gate. What will the guard do? If he doesn't order to open the city gate, the villain will call on the refugees to fight with them. The refugees have been starving for several days and are desperate, they are not afraid of death, but there is no one to organize and encourage them!"

After listening, Zhao Junsheng asked, "How many refugees are listening to you now? I mean, how many people can risk their lives to follow you to find the guards at Jianmen Pass?"

Jiang Hui said, "At least 5000 people, all of them are young and strong. The villain thinks that as soon as the fight starts, other refugees will definitely follow. They can't live anymore. This is the only hope. No one will spare their lives. Seventy to eighty thousand refugees who want to survive Can do anything!"

Zhao Junsheng is very clear that people are not afraid of death when they are extremely hungry. Some of these refugees have been hungry for more than ten days, and they eat grass roots, wild vegetables, and bark every day. The wild vegetables, fern roots, and bark in the area were all eaten up, the ground was bare, and the bark of the trees on the mountain was all stripped off.

It was pitch black last night, and Zhao Junsheng hadn't noticed it yet. It was already bright at this time, and he realized that there was no life here. The wild beasts, as long as there is food to eat, they will definitely rush over without fear of death.

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered, "Jiang Zongqi, my people need a rest in the morning. You spend a morning counting the bodies of the refugees who died last night and carrying them to the gate for the defenders to see. Tell them, If you don’t open the city gate to let you pass, you will have to attack the city just to survive!”

"Yes!"

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Chapter 974

After dawn, the refugees woke up one after another, but they felt even hungrier. They began to look for food. Their food was grass roots, fern roots, and bark everywhere. They collected these things and cooked them in large pots. Each person eats a bowl with a pottery bowl.

But these are not enough to fill their stomachs at all, but they have no choice but to eat up the food they brought, and now they have nothing else to eat except this.

Under Jiang Hui's organization, the refugees who ate the boiled mixture of grass roots, fern roots, and bark began to count the bodies of the refugees who died of starvation and disease last night.

"Listen to me, everyone, it's been three full days, and thousands of people die of starvation and disease every day. According to this afternoon, all of us will starve to death here in a dozen days. The guards at the gate watched us starve to death outside the pass and did not open the city gate to let us return to central Shu to find a way out in southern Sichuan! Fathers and folks, we have no way out. If we want to survive, we must not be afraid of death. The sword There are only a few hundred guards at the gate, and we have 8 or [-] people. Even if we pile up corpses, we have to pile up a way to pass the border! Whether you are waiting here to starve to death, or desperately fighting for the hope of a way out, you folks choose for yourself! "

Jiang Hui's voice spread above the heads of the refugees.

A Qian Guoxie who was in charge of cooperating with him raised his hand and said loudly, "Brother Jiang, we listen to you, we will do whatever you say!"

Another spy raised his hand and shouted, "Brother Jiang, as the saying goes, a snake can't do without a head. You are brave, courageous, and daring. We all believe in you. Please lead us to find a way out!"

"Yes, yes, yes, Jiang Wazi, you take the lead, we all listen to you, if anyone doesn't listen to you, the old man will beat his brains out!" A nearly 50-year-old man echoed loudly.

Then, people kept echoing and raised their hands in solidarity.

In just a cup of tea, [-] to [-] refugees gathered here, and all of them raised their hands and shouted to support Jiang Hui as the leader, and let him lead them to find a way out.

Jiang Hui raised his hand and said loudly, "Okay, since the folks trust me, I will take on this important task. Now, all men over the age of 16 and under 40 are invited to check all the shacks, tents and all places in the camp. Once again, carry all the people who died of starvation and illness last night to the front of the pass. Today we will further force the guards and generals to let them open the city gate and let us pass. If they are still indifferent or don’t care about our lives, we will fight them. , I heard that there is food in Jianmen Pass, which can feed all of us here for a month. As long as Jianmen Pass is taken, we will have enough food to go to southern Sichuan! But some people may die, but now we still have What? Rather than starve to death, it’s better to fight! Hurry up, Hurry up, Xiao Wu, Datou, Lao Liu, Lao Gui, Tie Niu, you all take your people to collect the corpses and carry them to Jianmen Pass Come on, hurry up!"

The few people who were named agreed immediately, calling some young and strong to find the corpse.

Tens of thousands of people acted at the same time, and the corpses of starvation and sickness last night were all found in the camp, and then they were carried to the front of Jianmen Pass one by one, and laid out one by one.

Jianmen Pass, on the city tower.

The guard Pei Gui who got the news came to the wall on the top of the city tower, looked down, and saw rows of corpses of the refugees placed side by side on the bottom of the city. Less than 3000 people.

A lieutenant general said, "General, this is the third day since the corpses were laid out. Counting the two days before, nearly ten thousand people have died of starvation and disease outside. If we don't open the city gates and let them return to Sichuan, I'm afraid that all these people will starve to death here, they are all relatives and fellow villagers, how can we bear it?"

Joining the army also said, "Yes, General, we are all from Sichuan and Sichuan. It would be too heartless for us to do this!"

The surrounding soldiers and officers also said, "General, open the city gate and let them return to Sichuan. Even if they have to die, it is much better to die in their hometown than to die in a foreign land. Look, so many people died in one night. So many lonely ghosts can't go home, how miserable..."

"General, order to open the city gate!"

"Open it!"

Pei Gui turned his head to look at the lieutenant general, join the army and other generals with a stern face, and said coldly, "You think the general doesn't want to open the city gate? These refugees have been out of customs for several days, and the general is worried that some of them might get into the army. The Gan army is hidden in it, once we open the city gate, it is not certain whether the Jianmen pass can be kept, if the Jianmen pass is breached by the Qian army, we will all be able to die and apologize!"

The lieutenant general was originally sent to contain the defender, and he himself stood on the opposite side of the defender, "The general is too cowardly to say that, but there is no news from our secret work that there is a large-scale mobilization of the army to attack us! We We all know what the general is worried about, but have you ever thought about it, once the [-] to [-] refugees starve to death outside the pass, you will die as well! Do you think those hypocrites in the imperial court will let you go? It is you who insist on not opening the city gate. Let these people all starve to death, you are disregarding human life, so many people have starved to death, someone has to come out to take the blame, and you are the best candidate!"

Hearing this, Pei Gui fell into a dilemma. The deputy general was right. Once these refugees starved to death outside the pass, in order to give an explanation and explanation to the government and the public, the court would definitely introduce a hapless ghost to take the blame, and he Is the best candidate!

Joining the army watched anxiously from the sidelines. The sun was rising and the temperature was getting higher and higher. The poor and sick refugees couldn't bear it anymore. Some people kept falling down and couldn't get up again. They didn't know whether they were dead or alive. .

"General, open the gate of the city. We are all still human beings, not animals. Even animals would be sad to see their own kind die like this one by one. Arouse compassion. Are we even worse than animals?" Knelt down and begged.

Other soldiers also bowed down one after another, "General, order to open the city gate and let the elders go back!"

Pei Gui looked at the situation, and if he didn't agree, his prestige would be greatly weakened, and he might not be able to control them in the future, or even cause a mutiny.

Pei Gui was forced to have no choice but to grit his teeth and wave his hand, "Send people to take precautions first, guard important positions, and then open the city gate! Deputy General Liu, you take people to arrange it yourself. If there is a problem, you will be the only one to ask!"

"Understood, don't worry, general!" Deputy General Liu agreed with clasped fists, turned and left.

All the soldiers in the pass were organized by Deputy General Liu. They lined up a large number of rejecting horses in two rows. The middle passage led from the south gate to the north gate. Once the city gate was opened, the refugees could only pass through the passage laid out by the rejecting horses. Out of town!