"Launch an attack, launch an attack on the ancient Great Wall of the entire Qin Dynasty, the Hetao area outside the ancient Great Wall, the land of our Tang Dynasty since ancient times, recover the entire Hetao, recover my fiefdom Shangjun, also called Xihe, this is called recovering the land promised by God." Zhao Xing shouted and jumped to his feet.

An official of the Ministry of Rites stepped forward and admonished: "We have less than 120,000 soldiers, we have less than half a year's grain and grass reserves, we-"

"Hit, hit until he shuts up." Zhao Xing was furious, and a group of ministers were furious, so the mouth of this outspoken person was swollen like a catfish.

"A large number of customized banners, a large number of division of troops, a large number of hired people, even women, a lot of bluffs, we attack the Qin State, destroy Qin, destroy Qin." Zhao Xing was a little hysterical.

Everyone roared hysterically together: "Destroy Qin, destroy Qin." Then he said his purpose: "Occupy the Hetao and recover the old land in Hexi." ”

Everyone shouted together without confidence.

I really don't have the confidence anymore.

The current Tang Dynasty has no new soldiers to replenish the army at all, and there is not a single one that is lost. Now Datang, the finance has reached the extent of exhaustion, with the supply of the front-line army, the most important thing is to support the supply of 200,000 coalition troops in front of Hangu Pass, although everyone works hard to make money, although the mint continues to produce coins every day and night, but the material in this world is limited, not money can really buy, the entire Datang is actually close to collapse.

But whether it is up to Tang Hou Zhao Xing or the hundred officials below, they all know that this contest with Qin State is a real endurance contest, that is, to see who admits defeat first and falls.

So now everybody's holding on.

For example, the current powerful attack on the Qin State, in fact, everyone knows that the end of the real strong crossbow is not the Qin State, but the Tang Dynasty, which has begun to weaken. Strongly supporting the shelf, pretending to be a tiger and wolf on the surface, in fact, it has already been strong on the outside.

Although Datang maintained an offensive posture, in fact, as long as there was a Qin army and suddenly launched a decisive counterattack, the entire so-called Datang attack line would immediately collapse and collapse to the point of being out of control.

Everyone knows about it, but fortunately, everyone grits their teeth and insists on it. Qin Mo has already collected almost all the food of the civilian people for the front line, including the seeds for next spring to supply the army.

But all people must work hard for this external power to cover up the middle.

Now, the people of the Qin State are no better, and the two sides are fighting for this, who has stronger endurance, and who can grit their teeth and hold on to the last breath, it will be a complete victory. And whoever breathes a sigh of relief is a 1 defeat.

But fortunately, Zhao Xing is very capable of pretending, not only continuing to pretend that he is full of confidence, but also giving huge material support to the coalition army in front of Hangu Pass, a steady stream of cattle and sheep from the grassland, along the Yellow River, through the four passes to the front of the army to reward the coalition army, in order to win over the coalition army at the same time, but also to tell the Qin people, I, very rich, very material.

The people passed the belief of the Tang people back to King Qin, and King Qin really sat down on the ground weakly.

The 200,000 allied troops in the south are eyeing each other, and Zhao Xing in the north is attacking in an all-out way, and he really has no troops to mobilize, it seems that Daqin is really stormy and precarious. Even King Wu of Qin, who was known for his indomitable and tough, had to murmur in frustration: "Hetao was captured by several generations of kings of my Great Qin, and Hexi County, now Shangjun, was given to us by the Wei State, how did this become the hometown of Tang Hou?" ”

The only helper of Daqin, who was coughing, sighed: "The fist says everything, I remember Tang Hou said, when there is no strength, we develop together, and when we have strength, it is called since ancient times, king, let's negotiate with Tang." ”

"Report - the general is white, and I ask for a postponement of the decision." A cavalry report was reported.

As a result, before King Qin received the letter, a sonorous voice sounded outside the tent: "King Qiqi, Captain Baiqi, please tell me about the military situation." ”

When King Qin saw that his beloved general asked for a speech about the military situation, he happily gave up his seat: "If the general has any ideas, please sit down and talk." ”

After Bai Qi gave a cautious salute, he sat down beside King Qin, and then leaned over and said, "Is the king worried about the strength of Tang and the fact that we are already struggling?" ”

King Qin sighed: "What Aiqing said is yes, in the last battle in the wasteland, we lost 90,000, and then until now, Zhao Xing has continuously launched attacks, so we have lost another 30,000." In the battle before the Hangu Pass, we lost 50,000 again, and in total, we lost 170,000. 170,000, these are all our elite soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the later conscription is far inferior. But this is not the key, the key is that we have eaten up our grain reserves, and the autumn grain has been seriously failed due to the recruitment of soldiers, if the war continues like this, our Great Qin will collapse. ”

The prime minister gasped and sighed: "But looking at our enemy Zhao Xing, their iron cavalry is indeed so strong that they are invincible in the world, and they are invincible as the soldiers point out, and whether it is the materials sent to Hangu Pass, or the equipment and food of the enemy in front of us now, there is no bad look at all." It seems that Zhao Xing has prepared too much in order to snatch our land, and I can't see any hope of winning this war. ”

Bai Qi smiled, then carefully took out a cake from his arms and held it to King Qin with both hands.

When King Qin saw this cake, he definitely didn't think that it was Bai Qi's filial piety to himself, although the current soldiers of the Qin army were almost half hungry and half full, but as a king, it was still Zhong Mingding's food.

Sure enough, Bai Qi held the cake in front of King Qin and asked respectfully: "King, do you see anything wrong with this cake?" ”

King Qin picked it up, looked at it carefully, then paused, broke it open again to look at it carefully, and finally broke off a piece, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully. Then he raised his head and asked Bai Qi: "Aiqing, this cake is not our Qin Jun's, we can't make such a cake anymore, where did this come from?" ”

Bai Qi took back the cake and said with a smile: "Yes, our Qin army can't even eat such cakes now, this is the cake of the Tang army, and it was captured by me sending a thousand people to storm an outpost of the Tang army." ”

The dignified general actually went to capture the enemy's cakes, and the king of Qin definitely didn't think that Bai Qi was hungry and crazy, so he carefully waited for Bai Qi's explanation.

Bai Qi looked at the cake over and over again and explained: "This cake is wheat cake, but it is no longer the wheat cake that people usually eat, there is only a few wheat flour here, but wheat kang, but even wheat bran is very little, most of it is bark." ”

King Qin frowned.

"That's enough to say—"

King Qin was puzzled: "It is enough to show that the Tang army has run out of food, isn't that so?" ”

Bai Qi nodded slowly and solemnly: "Zhao Xing, in fact, it can't be supported anymore." ”

Lao Cheng's prime minister said: "But I observe that the morale of the enemy army is still high. ”

To say that morale is high means that if the soldiers can only eat this kind of bread, there will be complaints. The morale is still high, which means that they still have good food.

For such doubts, Bai Qi smiled proudly: "If you want to find out whether the enemy army has reached the point where the military rations are unsustainable, in fact, you can find out if you probe." Then he bowed his hand to the king of Qin: "Please give the last general 5,000 fine horses, I will go deep behind the enemy to rob the enemy's grain channel, and I will know the truth." ”

Five thousand fine horses, in fact, in normal times, are not much at all. But now it can't be done, because the vitality of the Qin army has been greatly damaged, and the cavalry of the Tang army comes and goes like the wind, only the cavalry can give restraint, in the face of the grassland people as the source of soldiers, armed to the teeth of the Tang cavalry, the cavalry of the Qin army has suffered even more losses, and now the five thousand elite cavalry are already firefighting teams and the treasure of the Qin army.

It is very important to obtain whether the enemy is the same as himself, or not as good as himself, only in this way can he decide whether to continue to fight with the Tang Army, or to sit down and talk with Zhao Xing of the Tang Army.

"Five thousand, no, I'll give you two thousand." Seeing that Bai Qi was a little embarrassed, King Qin said decisively: "These two thousand are all equipped with captured Tang Army equipment. ”

Bai Qi suddenly got up and said loudly: "The last general will never fail in his mission." Then he flicked his cloak and strode away.