During the more than a month when Zhenhuang raised his troops to regain the lost territory, Jiang Zhi's forces in the Kingdom of Snow were not idle either.
As early as more than a month ago, Jiang Zhi's forces surrounded Neil City and established a simple fortress around the city.
Although the strength of Jiang Zhi's forces is not large, the density of the troops deployed is also very low, with only a few soldiers almost every ten meters. But even so, Fulisha of Neil City still huddled in the city, only defending but not attacking. He still remembered Li Ziru's order, which was to delay as much time as possible instead of confronting him head-on. Besides, the quality of Jiang Zhi's soldiers is too high, so there is no chance of winning in a real fight.
The strange thing is that Jiang Zhi's forces are not attacking forcefully. They seem to be planning to adopt a policy of siege but not attack, waiting for Nier City's internal resources to be exhausted.
On the 203rd day of the end of the world, Fulisha was sitting on the head of the east gate of Neil City, with his legs crossed, gnawing on a large ham and looking at the fortress surrounding the city opposite.
"There was no movement at all. It seems that today can pass without any worries." Fulisha tore off pieces of meat with great satisfaction.
Vice General Chen next to Fulesa said: "Captain, there is not much food in Neil City."
Neil City's area is equivalent to the area of two Wangcheng cities, but its overall resources are less than one ten thousandth of Wangcheng's. Because Neil City was built directly in a metropolis, it was unable to be self-sufficient. All resources were collected and transported into the city through outside the city.
Originally, Neil City had accumulated countless resources of all kinds, but later due to the large-scale relocation operation, most of the resources and population were transferred away, leaving not much food and resources left in the city.
Neil City now has a population of about 1 million, 500,000 soldiers, and 500,000 workers and civilians. It can be said that if you eat food and animals in the city, you will lose one day.
"How long can it last?" Fulisha asked.
"It can last for about a week at most, and the soldiers will be hungry by then." Vice General Chen replied.
"Well, Su Kouye," Fulesha stared at the surrounding camp outside the city, "You are so good at your wishful thinking. You want to starve us to death without spending a single soldier."
"What should we do?" Vice General Chen asked.
"Don't panic, Li Ziru's order to me is to delay as much time as possible. Look, I have been delaying for a month now, and not a single soldier has died. Haha, I completed my task so easily." Husband. Lisha said proudly.
"Yes, the commander is wise." Vice General Chen said nice things, but in his heart he was actually cursing: Are you sick? I asked you what to do, but ended up praising myself.
"I was indeed right to gather the elites and troops of the Kingdom of Snow in Neil City. In the past month, they have only engaged in harassment battles and have not dared to attack at all." Fulisha was still boasting about himself.
"The captain is indeed wise, but... what are our plans next?" Vice General Chen could hardly bear it any longer. The food was almost running out, but Fulisha was still proud of how wise and powerful he was.
"Keep holding on and delay it for another week or so." Fulisha finally got to the point.
"But, what about a week later?"
"Uh, let me think about it." Fulisha fell into deep thought.
After a few minutes, Fulisha said to Vice General Chen: "Let's do this. If there is not enough food, kill those civilians and workers for food."
Vice General Chen was shocked when he heard this: "You must not do it. Our soldiers cannot tolerate this kind of thing. As a higher animal, humans will never fall into eating their fellow humans unless absolutely necessary."
Vice General Chen cursed in his heart: This husband Liesha is simply a beast. Even if they treat civilians as slaves, they also want to kill them to satisfy their hunger.
"You said it, a higher animal. No matter how advanced it is, it is still an animal. Since it is an animal, it can be eaten." Flisha replied.
"It's really impossible. The soldiers will definitely not accept it in their hearts." Vice General Chen continued to persuade.
Vice General Chen cursed crazily in his heart: You said it so lightly, why don't you kill and eat you, you dwarf hybrid.
In fact, there are many people who look down on Fu Liesha very much in their hearts. He is not a purebred Snow Country person, but a mixed race and a dwarf. He is only about 1.5 meters tall, which makes him a short winter melon. The most ordinary soldier is about 1.8 meters tall. He looks heroic and tall. Fulisha, as the commander-in-chief of the army, is ugly and short in stature.
What makes people even more uncomfortable is that Fulisa is very cowardly and cunning. Although he has made countless military exploits, he always relies on sneak attacks and ambushing the opponent, without any moral integrity.
For example, for more than a month, Fulesa was scolded bloody by the enemy's soldiers, even his ancestors were scolded, but he would not go out of the city to fight, and must stay in the city.
Many of the lieutenants couldn't stand it anymore, but Fulisha could keep his composure. Once a lieutenant was disobedient and wanted to go out to fight in the city, Fulisha would break the leg of the lieutenant and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.
When Fulesa saw Vice General Chen trying to persuade him, he cursed: "You asked the butchers to kill the workers secretly. Those soldiers didn't even know what kind of meat it was."
"But... but... Captain, for example, what if all the civilians and workers are killed? Even if we kill them all, we can only last a few days. After all, we have half a million soldiers." Chen The deputy general planned to use an alternative method to persuade him.
"Oh, that makes sense. These civilians can't help but eat it." Fulesa suddenly realized.
"Yes, so this is basically treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. I actually have an idea." Vice General Chen tried.
"Oh, tell me."
"Since you have held off Jiang Zhi's forces for more than a month, our transportation team must have been successfully transferred to the imperial capital. I don't think we need to keep wasting it. It is better to have a head-on fight with Jiang Zhi's forces. It would be best if we win. , if we can’t win, let’s retreat and abandon Neil City. Anyway, Neil City’s resources are running out and they don’t have much value.”
"Oh," Flisha made a long sound, "Okay, good idea. Then we will tentatively plan to attack in three days, and now let the soldiers prepare."
Vice General Chen was secretly happy: he no longer had to kill civilians, and he no longer had to be so cowardly. After this battle, if he was alive, even if he was beaten to death, he would no longer be Liesha's lieutenant.
On the other side, inside the city-ringing camp.
A scout hurriedly ran into Su Kouye's camp.
"Report, we have observed more frequent activities in Neil City, and we seem to be making preparations."
"I understand, you go down first."
After the scouts left, another person walked into the camp. He was Yuwen Mie, one of the Five Tigers.
Su Kouye was very happy after seeing Yuwen Mie: "How is it? Is everything going well?"
"Of course, the southern part of Snow Country has been completely occupied."
"Great, who else is coming back with you?"
"I am the only one at the moment, because we have gained a lot this time and have caught up with a lot of supplies and resources. The other four tigers are escorting supplies here."
"Oh, I hope they come back as soon as possible." Su Kouye frowned.
