Marley nearly cried.

"Let's go, the city is already broken, let's retreat quickly." After a while, Ma Lai finally regained his composure and said.

"what?"

Chapter 1018 Buying People's Hearts

Ma Lai fled in desperation, and the Qi army entered the city where the commander lived.

Zhao Yun took over the city slowly, sent soldiers to guard the Quartet, cleaned the battlefield, and cleaned the treasury.

Inside the prefect's mansion, there are many personal soldiers and strict guards.

In the hall, Zhao Yun sat in the first seat, listening to the successive reports from the generals in the army.

Ma Lai still escaped from the city first. Although it was a pity that he failed to kill Ma Chao's uncle, for Zhao Yun, it was the greatest pity that he could not conquer Guzang City.

"General, we found the granary, a huge granary."

At this moment, a military marquis walked in quickly, and said excitedly.

"Grannary?" Zhao Yun was slightly taken aback, and then asked, "How big is the granary?"

"The general made a preliminary estimate, at least there is no less than ten thousand stones of grain and grass." Junhou replied immediately.The generals in the army can't do anything else, but they are still very accurate in counting food.

"Wan Shi?" Zhao Yun also showed some smiles on his face.

The 5000 shi of food is obviously not prepared for [-] guards, because [-] people can't finish it even if they eat it in a short time.

Besides, Lingju is already at the forefront, even if he sticks to it, he won't be able to stay here for a long time.It seems that the tens of thousands of stones of food and grass should be prepared for the army behind.

Given the current situation of grain storage in the city, Zhao Yun already had a rough idea of ​​Ma Chao's overall plan.

Only [-] soldiers were placed in such an important place as Lingju, and so much food and grass were prepared, not because they were confident, but because Ma Chao planned to use this as a bait to lure the enemy deep.

As long as the Qi army attacked the city and received news, they could lead the army.

The cavalry is all about speed, and with this food, there is no need to spend time raising food.

However, at the moment they are all ruined.Five thousand defenders did not stop them for a few days, not even an hour.

In fact, Wanshi's food is just a drop in the bucket for the current state of Qi, and there is nothing to be happy about.

But for Xiliang, losing so much all at once is probably not enough.

The loss of an important city, thousands of troops, and the hoarded food is probably enough for Ma Chao to drink a pot.

"I see. You continue to search for Xiliang soldiers who may be hiding. If it is tempting, you can report it. Once verified, each person will be rewarded with a bucket of grain and rice."

"One fight? General, isn't that too much?" Junhou was a little worried.

Zhao Yundao: "The Ma family has a lot of people in Xiliang. If we conquer Liangzhou but can't occupy Liangzhou, what's the use of getting these places? Rather than this, we might as well cut off the connection between them completely with a big reward. Why not give up some food and rice?"

Zhao Yun's gaze was very sharp.

The Marquis didn't dare to say any more, and immediately agreed to leave.

In fact, Zhao Yun only mentioned one reason.Now, it won't be long before Lingju Tianzi Luanjia arrives, and if there is any problem in the city, he can't afford it.Before that, he must not leave a single residue behind.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Yun continued, "Bring the quartermaster."

The soldiers promised, and Yang Zaixing and the quartermaster came together in a short time.

"General." After entering the hall, the quartermaster first saluted Zhao Yun, and then bowed slightly to Yang Zaixing.

"Why are you here?" Zhao Yun was a little surprised.

Since entering the city, Yang Zaixing has been alone. Fortunately, there has been a division of labor between them, even if Yang Zaixing is not around, it will not affect the official duties.

"Why, I can't even come to see you, but I heard that you plan to use the grain as bait to force these Xiliang people to betray the Ma family."

"Don't you think it's not possible?" The corners of Zhao Yun's mouth rose slightly.

Yang Zaixing shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's not that I can't, I'll never second-guess you when you do things, but I feel that the chances of winning this matter may not be great."

"Military quartermaster, pass on this order to buy pigs from the people in the city, raise chickens, ducks, geese and other meat animals, and cull them. I want to reward the three armies. In addition, you should count the grain you found before. After three days , If no one reports the situation of the Xiliang soldiers, all the food will be allocated, not only will the army have food to eat, but even the people in the city will have food to eat." Zhao Yun said.

The quartermaster was surprised at first, what is this?

Reward the whole city?

Win over people with rewards?

Although this is the best way to buy people's hearts in the past, it has to be said that the final result of this approach is really minimal.

But the quartermaster will not violate Zhao Yun's order.

In addition, the Ma and his sons in the Xiliang land were not good at governing the country. Before that, they used war to support war. To put it bluntly, they were eating their laurels.

Now although there are many forces supporting it, it has improved, but because it has not lasted for too long, the effect is not yet obvious.The people are suffering.

Now that the Qi army has arrived, the first thing to do is to open a warehouse to meet the urgent needs.When the common people get benefits, they will naturally support the state of Qi.With the lessons learned from Lingju, all the cities behind will naturally support the Qi State. By then, wherever the army goes, the people will support it, and it will be much easier for the Qi army to attack the city.

Not long after, news was released throughout the city.

One is that those who hide Xiliang soldiers without authorization will be sentenced to death, but those who voluntarily surrender Xiliang soldiers will be rewarded with a bucket of rice each.

The news not only led to the arrest of many Xiliang soldiers who were hiding in the city because they did not escape from the city, or simply planned to be interim spies.

Each of the people who uncovered the Xiliang army was rewarded by the Qi army, and the food reward was even increased from a bucket of rice at the beginning to a stone of rice.

For the people of Liangzhou, a stone of rice is worth more than gold.

Now that the Qi army took the initiative to take out so much food, it is enough to show the sincerity of the Qi army.

The common people also lined the road to welcome the Qi army, and the hearts of the people were very happy.

Wanshi's grain was originally taken from Ma Chao's granary, but now it is taken from the people and used by the people, so as to gain the support of the people, this is the best kindness.

In the mountain road behind, flags and flags avoid the sky, and chariots and horses are like dragons.

"Your Majesty, General Zilong's good news." In the middle army, a fast horse came retrograde, rushed to the side of Luanjia, saluted Cao Anmin, leaped in a fish, turned over and knelt in front of Cao Anmin, Take out a folder and report it.

"Oh, have you taken it?" Cao Anmin was shocked, and immediately got off his horse, and took the folder from the soldier's hand. After reading it, the smile on his face grew stronger.

Surprisingly, it only took a few minutes to conquer the city, and it also helped the people and won the hearts of the people.

Sure enough, Zhao Yun didn't let himself down. With this move, the subsequent capture of the city will be much easier.

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