Winter in Liangzhou was cold. It hadn't snowed before, so the weather wasn't too cold.
It was snowing heavily, and the weather was turning cold. Han Sui's soldiers did not have enough winter clothing, so they were still stationed at Long County.
The tents were not thick enough, the clothes were not enough, and the food was not enough.
In two days, nearly a thousand people were frozen to death.
The soldiers did not have enough momentum, and Long County was indeed difficult to take down.
Han Sui had no choice but to withdraw his troops to Ji County. He could only wait for the weather to warm up before thinking of a way to attack Ji County.
Fifty thousand troops were stationed in Ji County, threatening Long County at any time.
At the same time, he was also constantly guarding against Ma Feng, afraid that he would come out and cause trouble.
10,000 troops were stationed in Jin City, 10,000 troops in Yu Zhong County, and 10,000 troops in Xiang Wu County, surrounding Di Dao.
Beidi County, Andong County, and Wuwei County all had a small number of troops.
Di Dao had enough food, but Han Sui's army was too large. There was not enough food to eat, and it was common for soldiers to fight for food.
Especially in Hanyang County and Jincheng County, the people were living a life worse than death.
Food was robbed. Even though the road was blocked by heavy snow, many refugees still entered Di Dao.
This was also one of Han Sui's strategies. Didn't Di Dao have a lot of food?
Are you going to stop me from driving the refugees to Di Dao?
If you don't, you won't have enough food.
Don't care? Then how are you going to win over the hearts of the people?
Han Sui had used an overt scheme to give Ma Feng a difficult problem.
From the middle of November, hundreds of thousands of refugees entered Di Dao every day.
This indeed made Ma Feng very angry.
Close the city gates? Out of sight?
Those were all fresh human lives. No matter how hard-hearted Ma Feng was, he could not ignore them.
After these refugees entered the city, how could they not care?
Ma Feng did manage everything for the past few days, but these refugees needed to eat food and consume the resources that originally belonged to the government office.
In winter, there was no place to get food. The more food they ate, the less food they would have.
Ma Feng's remaining rations were already very difficult to supply to the army.
The soldiers had to eat sparingly, and it was estimated that they could barely survive the winter.
What should he do with the refugees? He couldn't possibly let the soldiers starve, right?
Ma Feng could only extort Di Dao's big family again.
He wanted these big families to provide food to the refugees.
Although these big families were not very willing, they were grasshoppers tied to Ma Feng after all, so they could only bite the bullet and give it to him.
However, this method could only treat the symptoms and not the root cause. These large families would probably not be able to persist for long.
After thinking hard for another night, Ma Feng came up with a solution.
There was only one place in Liangzhou that had food, and that was Wudu County in the southeast.
The mayor of Wudu was quite lucky.
Two months ago, under Zuo Chang's orders, all the mayors led their troops to help. Sun Bo, the prefect of Wudu Prefecture, responded to the call and led his troops.
Zuo Chang was defeated and died, while the other Prefectures were all killed by Han Sui.
Only Sun Bo was extremely lucky. He brought a few cavalrymen back to Wudu and continued to be the prefect.
Wudu Prefecture could be said to be relatively safe because of the existence of Longshan, which separated Longxi from Wudu Prefecture.
There were only two ways to get to Wudu Prefecture. One was to take a big detour from Long County and go around Long Mountain to attack Wudu Prefecture.
The other path was to follow the Tao River and go to Lintao County to reach Wudu County.
Long County was now in Gai Xun's hands, so this road was impassable.
As for the other path, Xianling Qiang were stationed in Lintao County, so this path was also impassable.
Therefore, Han Sui did not have any intention of attacking Wudu County. Firstly, the journey was too far, and the troops would be too scattered.
Furthermore, Han Sui knew that the Xianling Qiang were stationed in Lintao County and did not want to provoke them.
Therefore, Ma Feng had his eyes on Wudu Prefecture, wanting Wudu to transport grain to Longxi.
Behind Wudu was Hanzhong, which was quite rich.
There was no Taiping Taoism in Hanzhong, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. They all had grain reserves. It was not impossible to buy grain from Hanzhong, but the journey was a little far.
However, Ma Feng couldn't care less.
He led a dozen people around Han Sui's scouts and headed southeast.
In three days, Ma Feng arrived at Lintao County and found his cheap uncle Lei Bo.
Good heavens, the Xianling Qiang was simply happy to be stationed in Lintao County.
There were mountains and rivers, and the territory was huge. They did not have to worry about food or water. It did not look like war at all.
"Haha, Bo Yun, how about staying here for a few days? It's been hard on you these past few months." Lei Bo said to the hornet with a smile.
"Uncle, do you still know that I'm suffering? If it weren't for me supporting Di Dao, would you be able to live such a peaceful life?”Ma Feng could not help but complain.
"Haha, you're right. How about this, I'll give you another thousand cavalry to beat that bastard Han Sui up.”
Ma Feng was speechless. This uncle of his was really stingy.
"This time, we didn't come for the cavalry. Uncle, how much stock do you have? Could he give some food to Di Dao?
There were too many Di Dao refugees and there was not enough food to eat. They might not be able to survive the winter.”
When Ma Feng said this, Lei Bo shook his head like a rattle-drum." No, we don't have any food in reserve. Our clansmen don't have enough to eat. We can't give it to you."”
Lei Bo refused firmly.
Ma Feng's face darkened. He was completely speechless at his stingy uncle.
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