The Fallen Medicine Woman: The Daily Life of Chun Nuan-Chapter 396 - 222:

"Just think of a way to convey this information to the people in the city as quickly as possible. I have other arrangements."

All the deputy generals and strategists understood one thing: The General truly has a way to procure grain.

This is really impressive!

You must know, this is Shu City, thousands of kilometers from the Capital.

The fact that the General has backup here shows how powerful he is!

To transmit to the people in the fastest way, everyone glanced at each other, and finally, Mr. Nan suggested: printing leaflets.

A few simple words printed on sheets of paper, then shot into the city with arrows in the night.

If just one person picks it up, it could be seen by ten; if ten people see it, it can be spread to hundreds, or even thousands and tens of thousands.

"Born from the same root, why rush to fry each other; as compatriots of Great Xia, the Emperor is deeply concerned for your safety, and has specially commanded General Xia to lead the army to Shu City to protect you. As long as the city gates are opened, each household will be supplied with five pounds of grain per day at a fair price based on household registration..."

Overnight, such leaflets were everywhere in the city.

"What’s going on? What are you people doing?"

Those who claimed to follow General Ma were furious, and the deputies and strategists below didn’t dare to utter a word.

The city has been besieged for seven days. Not only the people, but even the soldiers have no food to eat.

Previously, the people were tied and sent to the city gates, but those who are now too weak from hunger can’t even make it there.

Collapsing from hunger, this tactic is of no use.

The most crucial point is that after being stationed here, many soldiers were recruited, many strong men were captured, meaning after seeing such leaflets the military morale would inevitably be unstable.

"Watch carefully for me, if there’s any disturbance, kill without mercy."

"You are too naive. Xia Guangcheng came from the Capital. Who would support him by delivering grain?"

"We’ve received intelligence that their grain supplies wouldn’t last a few days. As long as we hold on, they will be defeated without a fight."

As they watched General Ma speak confidently, the deputy generals below felt uneasy.

Their grain supplies could not last a few days, how about the grain supplies in their own city? Difficult to last even three days.

Holding on, who can endure the siege any longer?

In truth, the ones who would be defeated without a fight might be themselves.

For the first time, there was doubt whether the original choice was wrong.

Rebelling with King Shu, achieving success is not as easy as it might seem.

In over a year, they’ve rapidly occupied major prefectures and counties of Shu City, yet they’ve been trapped in Shu City, unable to break through.

With the Emperor far away, King Shu is already the king of Shu City, but with the rebellion confined to Shu City, the rebellion ends up in loneliness.

They don’t know what King Shu thinks, but watching General Ma’s angry scolding now makes a few feel uncomfortable.

Victory defines the king, defeat condemns the bandit. Raging won’t change the outcome.

Sending a few simple leaflets can break your defenses like this; it seems breaking the city is also easy.

Once morale collapses, no one can stop the enemy’s attack.

"Go collect them for me, confiscate all these leaflets, don’t let a single one be kept, if caught, kill without mercy." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

What is this?

Everyone bowed their heads without a word.

Overnight, leaflets were shot into the city from all directions, plus a strong wind last night spread them all over the city.

Many were picked up by the people.

They might not even know what was written on them, simply wanting to take them back to start a fire or something.

If they can’t read the words above, they’ll definitely find someone to read it to them.

It’s already noon, and these leaflets have been in the city for a long time, the content on them remembered long ago.

How do you confiscate things stored in others’ minds?

Instead of doing these futile efforts, it would be better to think about how to prepare for battle.

What General Ma doesn’t know is how much power the leaflet brought.

The soldiers guarding the gate couldn’t sit still anymore.

"Stone brother, I’m hungry."

"Don’t say it, I’m starving too."

"What do we do? My parents can’t get out of bed."

...

It’s not just one family like this; if this continues, everyone will have no way out but death.

"Did you see that leaflet?"

"I did, it said they’d cut our heads off; I used it as toilet paper."

"Me too, but do you think we can really buy grain at a fair price?"

"I don’t know."

"I heard people say General Xia is a very considerate and good general to the soldiers, even if they were disabled, they wouldn’t be abandoned."

"Yes, and the pension for those killed in action is very high, 20 taels of silver more than other generals’ soldiers."