As Gao Lan expected, most of the prey in the mountains were eaten by the soldiers of Sanhan.
Yesterday I went into the mountains and only caught a few piglets in one day. All other living animals in the mountains were eaten up. Only a few small springs were found. They could not meet the needs of 5,000 people. Each person could only feed 5,000 people per day. Very little water is allocated.
Li Chengze knew that if this continued, the entire army would be destroyed.
After detailed research and planning, Li Chengze decided to lead the participating troops to break out. The location he chose was the eastern valley left by Jing's army.
As a veteran on the battlefield, Li Chengze certainly knows how to fight for three without one, and he also knows that there must be an ambush outside on the east side, but that is also their last way to survive. Even if they break through, they can't escape through the remaining routes. Just changing from one hilltop to another.
Only by breaking out from the east side can we return to Sanhan.
"How much food and grass is left in the army? How long can we hold on?" Li Chengze asked the quartermaster accompanying the army.
The quartermaster looked embarrassed: "General, our food and grass are almost empty. We only have a little bit left, which can only last half a day. There is also some animal meat, but there is not much left."
"enough!"
Li Chengze said, "Take out everything and let all the warriors have a full meal. We will break out tonight."
"All...all?" The quartermaster's voice stuttered.
Li Chengze's eyes narrowed: "Why, do you have any objection?"
"No...no, I'll go get ready right now."
That night, the three Korean soldiers finally had the most comfortable meal in the past eight days. Everyone's belly was full and they felt satisfied and comfortable.
After midnight, Li Chengze conveyed the military order and the entire army marched towards the east valley.
The soldiers of the Three Han Dynasty held their weapons in hand, walked lightly, and secretly walked out of the mountain under the moonlight, towards the valley outside. When they entered the valley, the surroundings were quiet, and there was nothing strange. They all breathed a sigh of relief. Keep moving forward.
On the hilltop ahead, Tadun had been waiting for a long time.
When Tan Ma came to the news of the enemy's actions, he said with a ferocious smile: "The general really guessed it right. These stupid pigs, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, still prefer to go to the tiger mountains. I want you to know what a tiger's butt is." I can’t touch it—” Then he looked at the person next to him, “—are everything ready?”
The man hurriedly said: "General, don't worry, we have been prepared according to your instructions."
Tadun nodded with satisfaction: "That's good. Wait for my order before taking action."
The man agreed to leave.
The soldiers of the three Han Dynasties were cautious, fearing that they would be discovered by Jing's army and shot into sieves. The terrifying lethality of Kecheng's heavy crossbows was clearly visible to them. Everyone was alert and carefully observed their surroundings.
But the surroundings were eerily quiet, not even a bird chirping.
"General, something is wrong!" A general felt that the surroundings were too quiet, so quiet that he felt panicked.
Li Chengze also frowned and looked around carefully: "Have the sent out detective horses returned? Is there any Jingjun hiding on the nearby hills?"
The general shook his head: "He hasn't come back yet."
Li Chengze's heart sank.
"Huh!"
The general suddenly stopped as he walked, sniffed and said, "General, do you smell a faint smell?"
Li Chengze's heart trembled, he took two breaths dreamily, his face changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "It's sulfur and saltpeter, Jingjun wants to use fire to attack!" When he said this, his whole body went numb. Everything around me has changed.
There are dense mountain forests nearby. If this is set on fire, the consequences will be disastrous.
The general was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "General, Jingguo is too powerful and invincible, so why not surrender?"
Li Chengze knew that if he did not surrender now, it would be too late to surrender when the fire broke out, so he hurriedly ordered the army to raise white flags to signal surrender.
Tadun, who was on the top of the mountain ahead, saw them raising the white flag and sneered: "Surrender? Haha! You have surrendered. Who am I going to ask for merit in battle? Ignore them, prepare to set fire to them, and kill these ungrateful things for me."
"Here!"
The subordinates gave the order to prepare to set fire.
Li Chengze originally thought that if he raised the white flag, Jing's army would not attack them again, so he ordered the soldiers to put down their weapons and not resist, waiting for Jing's army to appear. What he never expected was that it was not Jing's army that greeted them, but the ruthless ones. Fire.
The fire burned instantly with thick black smoke. With the help of the strong wind, the fire became more and more arrogant, roaring towards the soldiers of Sanhan. Faced with such a fire, the soldiers of Sanhan were so frightened that they cried for their fathers and mothers, and rushed towards them desperately. I ran ahead, trying to escape home.
But they didn't run far before they stopped because there was a fire in front of them.
The soldiers of Sanhan were completely surrounded by fire.
A fire broke out in the forest. The fire burned for three days and two nights. It was stopped by a rain in early spring. When Gao Lan led his troops into the mountain, all he saw was a burnt pit that had been washed away by heavy rain. , all humans and animals around were engulfed in fire.
The five thousand soldiers of Sanhan were buried in a sea of fire, and no one survived.
Gao Lan sighed: "I hope the three Koreas behind me can recognize ourselves and avoid such a disaster."
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Just when Tadun burned the soldiers of the Three Koreans and the army marched into the land of the Three Koreans, Sun Quan, who was far away in Lujiang, also informed the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of his decision.
Zhou Yu heard that Sun Quan wanted to give up the imperial title and borrow troops, and immediately stopped him: "Your Majesty, the situation back then was different from today. In those days, the world was in chaos and there were many opportunities to achieve such a great cause. Now that the Jingguo dominates the world, if we lose the emperor The number will make the people of Wu discouraged!"
Cheng Pu, Huang Gai and other veteran generals supported Sun Quan.
They believe that now that Da Wu has reached the point of breaking the bank, he should give it a try, otherwise he will have to wait for death.
But this is a quick fix.
As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Zhou Yu repeatedly tried to dissuade him: "Your Majesty, you must never give up the title of emperor. This is the result of the hard work of the late emperor. I hope the emperor will cherish it."
Lu Su also persuaded: "Your Majesty, it is difficult for Liu Bei to gain a foothold in Yangzhou. Internal conflicts will inevitably break out in less than a year. We only need to recharge our batteries and build warships to wait for the opportunity. After the internal turmoil breaks out in the Chu State, , we can take the opportunity to go south and take back our land east of the Yangtze River. We must not abandon the Emperor and borrow warships from Jingguo."
Huang Gai said: "This is wrong. Now Liu Bei wants to divert the conflict. If Empress Sun comes to Lujiang to block Liu Bei's advance, the Chu army may have already launched an attack. How can they wait for a year?"
"Old General Huang is right!"
There are also many people who support Huang Gai.
For a moment, Sun Quan didn't know what to choose, but vaguely, he didn't want to give up the title of emperor and become a minister like Jingguo.
