Early the next morning, Li Hugo went up to the city wall and found that the entire city was indeed surrounded by water, and the whole army of 100,000 looked quite scary.

Because outside the city gate, the dense soldiers were like a layer of sesame seeds, everywhere, stretching to the horizon.

Nalan Meng, who is also on the city wall, tasted the Eden Sacred Fruit for the first time yesterday, so she has replaced the slender ponytail with a bun, which shows that she is already a woman, not the girl she was before.

Nalan Meng said: "Xianggong, the enemy's 100,000 army has been besieging the city for half a month, they have staged our water flow, and they have blocked all our fellow roads, and now all the crops around the entire Heavenly Wolf City have been burned. ”

Li Hugo nodded and said: "I have seen it before, when the autumn harvest was supposed to be, they burned all the rice, and the people suffered from hunger, it was simply too cruel, so what was your original plan?"

"Actually, there are two plans, one is to defend to the death, and the other is ......to surrender," Nalan Meng said, she gritted her teeth: "Actually, Chen Laogen contributed a strategy, but I didn't adopt it." ”

"Cannibalism...... Li Hugo said.

Chen Laogen's strategy is actually very simple, that is, to defend to the death, if the food is not enough, he will eat the people in the city, although it is vicious, but he can't help it.

In fact, this strategy is very simple, and the reason is also very simple, if the enemy breaks the city, I am afraid that all the people will not be spared, and then the matter will be in a big way.

This reminded Li Hugo of the Anshi Rebellion, there was a famous general named Zhang Xun in the Anshi Rebellion, he used this strategy, Li Hugo looked at the crowds of soldiers outside, he frowned, and after sighing slowly, he said: "There was once a general who did such a thing. ”

"Oh?"

"Zhang Xun. Li Hugo clenched his fists, he said carefully, thinking that when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the son of An Lushan led 130,000 soldiers and horses to attack Suiyang, and Zhang Xun still swore to defend for several months with only 3,000 troops and limited grain and grass.

But 130,000 against 3,000, if you think about it on your toes, you will know how this war will end.

However, this battle was fought for several months under the leadership of Zhang Xun, and in 400 battles large and small, the rebels never captured Suiyang, but as time went by, the defenders in Suiyang City fell into an even more terrible predicament, and there was no food.

No matter how great Zhang Xun is, he can't paint cakes for the soldiers to satisfy their hunger, at this time, a scene that has been arguing for more than a thousand years for future generations appeared, Zhang Xun killed his beloved concubine and gave it to the soldiers.

One person was not enough, so he killed the old and weak women and children in Suiyang City and used them as food.

Later, although more than a thousand years have passed, later generations are still arguing about Zhang Xun's behavior, some people emphasize Zhang Xun's helplessness and tragedy, in the face of the national interests above all else, in the situation that there is no way back, can only make this decision, but the opponents of Zhang Xun said, killing an innocent and winning the world, not to mention killing 30,000 unarmed people, isn't it extremely cruel to do so?

Li Hugo believes that there is a certain amount of truth in what the people of the anti-Zhang faction say, and they can indeed resonate with many people by thinking about problems from the perspective of Confucianism, but the most untenable thing about the anti-Zhang faction is that they only stand on a moral high ground and sigh, but they cannot answer what Zhang Xun should do in that situation of internal and external difficulties.

I have to say that this is also a blind spot in the thinking of many people today, everyone sees the appearance of things, and then can't wait to stand on the moral high ground to criticize.

However, things may not be as simple as people think, just imagine, if they were generally in that kind of internal and external difficulties, ammunition and food are exhausted, what would they do? It seems that this is a dilemma, surrender, the consequence is to become a traitor spurned by the world. It doesn't seem right to stick to it, and the result is not the same as the thousand-year-old criticism of later generations.

Zhang Xun's final ending, is also very suitable, shortly after eating the people in the city, the rebels broke into the city, Zhang Xun and the soldiers defending the city were all killed, no one fled, after Zhang Xun died, Tang Xuanzong thanked Zhang Xun for his righteousness, and posthumously named Zhang Xun as the governor of Yangzhou, Deng Guogong, he also died just right.

And the most pitiful in the war, of course, belongs to the people in Suiyang City, when Zhang Xun entered the city, there were more than 40,000 people in the city, and when the city broke away, only more than 400 people survived, Li Hugo said: "At that time, there were hundreds of cauldrons in the city, which were full of human hands and feet, there were old people, and there were babies waiting to be fed, all cooked in one pot, and the picture was tantamount to Shura Hell." ”

Nalan Meng's face was ugly when he heard this: "Fortunately, I didn't agree to Chen Laogen's suggestion, otherwise this picture would really appear in Sky Wolf City." ”

"The picture of young children being stripped of their bones, their bones being used as firewood, and drinking human blood when the water source is cut off is indeed very scary, but if we don't do something now, the terrible results of Zhang Xun will be staged here. Li Hugo clenched his fists, and he said slowly, "The matter of the light beast tide is not yet sure of victory, we must have more useful hole cards." ”

"What?"

"This time, the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses is a total of three marshals and deputy marshals, the marshal is the famous Hao Nanren, this man is infinite, he is an important person in the Haotian God Sect, there is the courage of ten thousand people, and this person is strong in martial arts, and his cultivation has reached the peak of the martial emperor, I heard that it is only a stone's throw away from the martial arts, if he wants to enter the city, we are helpless. Li Hugo said.

"Then what do you mean......" Nalan Meng looked at Li Hugo.

"There's a weakness!" Li Hugo saw the flaws in the enemy formation at a glance.

Nalan Meng hurriedly said: "Then you say, how should we retreat from the enemy?"

Li Hugo understands that this time he has to go all out, if he closely relies on Lang Qing's concubine's intentions, or if he is a demon puppet, it will definitely not work, what he wants to do is to divide the enemy, Li Hugo said slowly: " The relationship between the five major families and the two princes is very good, and Yuechen's original marriage contract was the second prince, which shows that the two princes are very close to the five major families, but don't forget, this time there are two deputy generals, that is, deputy marshals, one is the eldest prince, and the other is the second prince, if the crown prince has not been determined today, some people support the eldest prince, and some support the second prince, so the two princes only see each other and there are constant disputes, we can take advantage of this!"

"How?" Nalan Meng looked at Li Hugo.

Li Hugo slowly turned around and said, "I'll go and talk to the eldest prince in person!"

When Nalan Meng heard this, his face suddenly changed: "You are looking for death, no! I will never agree, if you die, how can I explain to my two younger sisters!"

"Listen to me!" Li Hugo grabbed Nalan Meng's shoulder, and he said sincerely: "Now Sky Wolf City is already in danger, you look at their formation, do you know why they didn't attack? 100,000 troops, plus so many partridge whistles, the soldiers and horses of Sky Wolf City are not their opponents even if they are ten times larger, and the reason why they don't do it is because they are afraid." ”

"There are two kinds of fears, one is that they don't want to destroy the facilities in the city, you know, soap, flower water, and other crops, if these things are popularized, I'm afraid that there will be an earth-shattering change in the Haotian Kingdom! The other is that they don't want to lose their own troops, and they want to kill us by cutting off water and food! Either way, it's all good for us, at least we don't have to worry about defense for the time being!"

"Moreover, within this dynasty, especially the dispute between the princes, this dynasty is a very fierce matter, Haotian Kingdom is a country, but also a sect, how can a country have two monarchs? Now the power of the eldest prince is inferior, because the second prince has the support of the five major families, so if it goes on like this, he will inevitably lose power, and if we put forward the conditions that make him interested, then our dispute can reduce some pressure even more!" Li Hugo analyzed very thoroughly, he looked at Nalan Meng.