More than 100,000 soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty surrounded more than 10,000 remnants of Sima Zhongping in Yuding Mountain west of Longhu. It can be said that the siege was impenetrable.
When Sima Zhongping and others were defeated, they abandoned all their carriages, horses and baggage, and could not carry much food. This was a barren mountain with no homes and no farmland. Even if there were some wild animals in the mountains, they were all wiped out. How many days can I eat?
People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you don't eat even one meal, you will be hungry. What's more, the harassing attacks of the Zhou soldiers have never stopped. Even if these guys are not exhausted to death, they should starve to death.
But he was neither exhausted nor starved to death, and he still maintained a strong fighting capacity. Isn't this a strange thing?
Sima Zhongping's defense was extremely tight. Li Feng and others sent hundreds of capable soldiers into the mountain for reconnaissance, but none of them came back. Several waves of envoys who tried to persuade them to surrender to check the situation were all killed by Sima Zhongping...
What the hell, could this kid also know magic and be able to conjure food?
The current battle situation is actually very embarrassing. On the surface, it seems that Sima Zhongping's more than 10,000 troops are trapped in a tight siege, unable to fly, but in fact, it is Dazhou's hundreds of thousands of troops who are trapped here and unable to move!
They would definitely not be able to retreat without annihilating them all, and Li Wanyun and the others had carefully estimated that if they wanted to launch a strong attack and annihilate them all under this situation, their side would have to suffer at least 50,000 casualties!
This price is too high, and none of them can afford it.
However, the court thousands of miles away were very optimistic that the war here would end at any time, and letters of celebration were flying in one after another.
Even the Ministry of Rites had planned a grand triumphal ceremony, and even sent people to send the program to several princes to see if they were dissatisfied... It made several people dumbfounded.
Only the Emperor Li Wanjiang knew the real situation and was worried about it. After all, it was not like that an army of hundreds of thousands would always be nesting here.
In addition, the pressure on logistical supplies is also very high. There are now more than 200,000 soldiers in Yizhou. Hundreds of large and small ships are needed to transport grain and grass supplies from across the ocean every day. Tens of thousands of carriages, horses and mules are needed to transport them to the port. To transport to Longhu and other stations, these tens of thousands of mule and carriage drivers also consume food and grass...
This does not include military expenditures. Whenever troops are sent to fight, the soldiers' pay will be increased several times or even more than ten times! Calculating one tael of silver per person per day, it would cost 200,000 taels. Now that the war has been going on for more than half a year, that is 40 million taels of silver!
So this is either fighting or making money. The Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue is about to be empty again. Can Li Wanjiang not be anxious?
Fortunately, the world has been ripe in the past two years, otherwise there would not even be an adequate supply of grain and grass. But now it is a bit unsustainable. The granaries in Jiangnan and Jiangdong are beginning to run out of money. I don’t know if they can last until the rice matures this summer. ?
That's why Xiao Chen and the others were sent to surrender, striving to solve the Yizhou problem as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost.
If the recruitment fails, they will be forced to attack by force or withdraw their troops directly, leaving only 20,000 to 30,000 troops to guard Longhu. Neither of these two consequences is what Li Wanjiang wants to see.
He was anxious, and naturally there were no good words in the decree given to the three princes. He was too embarrassed to blame his younger brother Li Wanyun directly, so he could only curse his two sons for being useless snacks and unworthy things!
An army of more than 100,000 people cannot destroy more than 10,000 remaining enemies in two months. What is it if it is not trash?
The two of them were scolded so much that they could not do anything. Yuding Mountain was full of mountains and ridges, and there was not even a decent mountain road. Every mountain pass was a natural danger, and one man could not pass it but ten thousand men could not open it. That kind of thing, we have a lot of soldiers, but we can't move them around at all.
In fact, none of the three of them expected this situation. They were all very optimistic that Sima Zhongping and the others would only be able to persist for a month at most.
Who would have thought that they still show no sign of collapse in two months? There are more than 10,000 people. Not to mention the wild animals, they should have eaten all the wild vegetables. Can they still eat people?
Some people think that there may be an underground river connected to the sea at the foot of Yuding Mountain, and perhaps Sima Zhongping and others fished fish and shrimps from it to use as military rations.
This is what laymen say, because although fish, meat and shrimp contain high-quality protein and can be used to satisfy hunger, the fat of this kind of fish and aquatic products is extremely low and cannot provide the calories needed by the human body at all, let alone fight. Soldier.
You see, the military rations in various countries around the world are all high-calorie and high-fat meats such as pork, mutton, and beef. Fish food is extremely rare because it has too low calories. It is okay as a non-staple food, but it is definitely a staple food. No way.
And do you think catching fish and shrimp is so easy? It also requires a lot of manpower and requires quite professional technology. Even if you have both manpower and technology, how many fish and shrimps can be fished out of an underground river?
Let alone 10,000 people, I'm afraid the amount salvaged every day is not enough to feed a hundred people!
"It seems that Sima Zhongping was well prepared. They were very organized when they retreated after defeat, and several groups of rebels all entered the mountain at the same time. I'm afraid there are granaries hidden in the mountain." Sun Zhidao.
"Even if there is a granary, there is not much food. I don't think he can hold on for another month." Li Feng said.
"Your Majesty is anxious, but he can't wait more than a month." Sun Zhi sighed.
"I'm just not willing to give in!" Li Feng said, "We have been fighting for so long, but in the end it ended like this..."
"If Xiao Chen can successfully recruit and surrender here, this is already the best outcome." Sun Zhidao, "My lord, your merits are all seen by the emperor, and he will not leave you alone."
"What the hell, this battle was a coward, how can I get any credit? It's not enough for the Japanese and that bastard Xiao Chen to share!" This is what Li Feng was angry about.
"Why do you expect Xiao Chen to succeed here, my lord?" Sun Zhi asked.
"This kid is just a man with sperm. If he doesn't have any confidence in this, is he willing to die in vain?" Li Feng said.
"Yeah, I'm also surprised, how could such a shrewd person like Xiao Chen come to die?" Sun Zhi narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean by Mr. Sun's words?" Li Shidao.
"It's not interesting, haha. I'm really ashamed. I really can't understand Xiao Chen." Sun Zhi smiled meaningfully.
"Mr. Sun, if he can persuade Sima Zhongping to surrender, how about we come behind him for a while?" Li Feng's eyes suddenly showed murderous intent.
"No, he is an imperial envoy. He came under the emperor's order. We can't touch him now." Sun Zhi frowned slightly.
"Hehe, but how do you know it's not what my father, the old man, meant?" Li Feng smiled strangely.
If Xiao Chen succeeded in persuading Sima Zhongping and others to surrender, they would be like ants in Li Feng's hands.
Wouldn't it be nice to just kill them all and then take the credit for the war on the three of us?
