After agreeing to this matter, Liu Qi and Zhang Xingquan had nothing to do to report to Li Gong and bow to him.

"Xingquan, go and transport all the grain in the grain shop to the official warehouse. Shi Nai led a brigade to be stationed in the grain shop, and he took his soldiers to transport the grain over.

Ask the grain shop owner how much the grain costs. If we have enough money, we will give the money; if not enough, we will give some of it first, and the others will be owe it.

After the grain is transported to the official warehouse, the total amount of grain is calculated in detail, and then the total amount is returned to me." Liu Qi ordered his deputy.

"yes."

"Prisoner, do you think the prisoner will be killed today or keep it for the time being?" Liu Qi thought for a while and asked again.

Like the people, he did not want to kill all the prisoners. It would be fine to kill some of them, but it could be said that he died in battle during the siege; but no one could believe that no one surrendered, which would also affect the establishment of a local genus in the future.

But the captured soldiers are different from the people after all. It is uncommon to massacre prisoners in both the East and the West, and it is not necessarily considered a bad deed. Now that food is tight, he can accept slaughtering prisoners.

"Lieutenant, my subordinates think they'll kill them today. You can save more food." Zhang Xingquan replied.

"Okay." Liu Qi couldn't make a decision in his heart. He immediately accepted what his deputy said, and ordered: "Pull the prisoners into a camp, let them have a full meal tonight, and kill them tonight."

After talking about this, Liu Qi had another order to Zhang Xingquan. But before he said that, he suddenly heard an explosion coming from not far away.

Liu Qi suddenly felt nervous. Because he used a lot of gunpowder to break the city, the gunpowder that was not stored separately in the army was all in the grenades. Even though the number of grenades was not large, they were all carried by the soldiers, so Bingbo Silin was unable to seize the gunpowder or grenades.

But because the soldiers were fighting from the early morning until it was almost dark, they had just breathed and had not had time to withdraw the grenade. At this moment, there was a sudden explosion. Could it be that the grenade of a soldier had exploded?

‘If a grenade explodes when it hangs on the soldier, the soldier will probably suffer a lot of danger and I don’t know how many people will hurt.’ Liu Qi thought this way, and suddenly another explosion sounded. He became even more nervous and couldn’t help but walk in the direction where the sound came. Zhang Xingquan also quickly followed.

But when he turned a street and looked at the place where the explosion came, he laughed silently.

The explosion was not grenades, but bamboo. Several soldiers were holding torches in their hands, and several bamboos were placed on the ground. The soldiers occasionally brought the torches to the bamboo, making a "crackling" sound. Sometimes the sound was very loud and it was heard from a long distance.

"It turned out to be firecrackers." Zhang Xingquan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

"I forgot, today is New Year's Eve." Liu Qi also said with a smile: "In the early morning, he also said that after entering the city, he would let the soldiers have a good New Year, but now he has forgotten."

"After entering the city, the lieutenant was so busy, and it was very common for him to forget it for a while. His Highness didn't mention it in the government office just now, and probably forgot it."

"Since the Chinese New Year is over, I have to give the soldiers a good meal. Xingquan, you arrange for people to buy meat in the butcher shop in the city and wine shops, and you want as much as you want." Liu Qi ordered again. He wanted to reduce his food rations from today's supper, but now he has to change his mind.

"I'll do it now." Zhang Xingquan agreed again. Although they don't have much money now, they may not be enough to buy wine and meat after paying for the food, but this is not a problem.

After talking about this, Liu Qi said a few more words to Zhang Xingquan. The two separated. Zhang Xingquan went to transport food, and Liu Qi went to arrange for the killing of the prisoners in the middle of the night.

Liu Qi quickly found Cao Keshi. He was injured in a fierce battle with the Dashi soldiers at the top of the south city. There were countless wounds on his body. Although they were only minor injuries, they could not be careless. At this time, the wounds were being treated in the newly established wounded barracks.

"Cao Keshi." Liu Qi asked the gatekeeper, and learned that he was in the tent, and shouted before he could see someone.

"I've seen the lieutenant." Cao Keshi stood up quickly and wanted to salute again.

Liu Qi saw where Cao Keshi was at this time, and saw that he was naked and covered with wounds. Several wounds had been treated, and some were still bleeding.

"Don't salute." Liu Qi immediately walked over and reached out to support him and said, "Treatment is important."

"If the lieutenant said this, my subordinates won't refuse." Cao Keshi said with a smile and sat down again; the doctor saluted Liu Qi and continued to treat his wounds.

"The lieutenant is visiting the seriously injured and come to see his subordinates?" Cao Keshi said again.

"No, I'm here to find you and visit the seriously injured." Liu Qi said with a smile.

"Ah? Lieutenant, what's the matter coming to find subordinates?" Cao Keshi was very surprised. Could Liu Qi have something to come to him specifically? If you are joking, the Lieutenant has never made such a joke before.

"Doctor, after Cao Bie takes care of his injuries, can he join the war tonight?" Liu Qi ignored him and asked the doctor.

"Lieutenant, will there be another battle tonight?" Cao Keshi immediately became very excited.

Liu Qi still ignored him and just looked at the doctor. Cao Keshi also winked at the doctor when he saw this.

The doctor hesitated and said, "It's all minor injuries, and there's no big deal. But if you join the war again, you may have a broken wound and bleed too much, and you may have a life-threatening risk."

"Lieutenant, how much blood can this little wound make the subordinates shed? It's not hindered, it's not hindered." Cao Keshi said quickly.

Liu Qi hesitated for a moment and did not immediately make a decision. He just asked the doctor to continue to treat Cao Keshi's injuries. After all the wounds were treated, he took a few serious glances and said, "Cao Keshi, I have an errand to you."

"Subsidiary obeys the orders of the lieutenant."

"There is not much food in the army. In order to save as much food as possible, I decided to execute all the prisoners and secretly execute them tonight." After the doctor left the tent with tact, Liu Qi said to him.

"There is not much food?" Cao Keshi said in surprise.

"It can still last for more than ten days, but on the verge of caution, it is best to save food as much as possible." Liu Qi exaggerated the grain reserves to him and said hurriedly: "You must not tell others about this matter, if you leak it, you will definitely be killed!"

"The subordinates understand." Cao Keshi agreed immediately. He went over to hear stories and operas and understood that the amount of grain stored was one of the most important secrets in the army, and it would be unfair to reveal that he was beheaded.

"As for the errands of executing prisoners, I plan to hand them over to you. Choose the 104th and 204th regiments under your command that did not enter the city first today, as well as the 202nd regiment, which had less losses, and one brigade of the 203rd regiment."

"Lieutenant, this number of soldiers is probably not enough. There are more than three thousand prisoners."

"Don't worry." Liu Qi smiled and said, "It's New Year's Eve. Your Highness has ordered a great treat for the soldiers and will also give the prisoners wine and meat, so that they can eat drunkenly. It is easy to secretly slaughter them at night.

But if you perform this errand and have a banquet after a while, these soldiers will not be able to eat wine."
Chapter completed!