In the palace, staple foods such as rice and noodles may be stocked, but vegetables and meat are not available. Now the palace has not gone out to buy for seven or eight days, so it seems that there must be a shortage of food.

You must know that there are so many dignitaries in the palace, and the limited food needs to be the first to supply them. Although the soldiers in charge of guarding may not be without food, it is inevitable that they will not have enough to eat.

In fact, this was indeed the scene in the palace at this time. Nowadays, in the palace, many maids and eunuchs have been limited in food, and there are only two bowls of rice porridge a day. Even the soldiers in charge of guarding only one more steamed bun than them.

ran out of ammunition and food, this is Li You's situation now. If it is consumed, not to mention the long run, it only needs to live for three days. Not to mention soldiers, even the noble concubines in the palace have to run out of food.

"Even if a soldier is physically exhausted and wants to storm the imperial city, he must have at least 30,000 soldiers to be safe. You must know that Zhao Que and the people of Hei Bingtai are still there, if we want to storm the imperial city, we should beware of them making trips. Feng Zheng reminded.

"In this way, give me 15,000 soldiers and horses, and I will attack the imperial city, and I promise to be able to take the imperial city." Chen Sheng patted his chest and reassured.

When everyone heard this, their eyes couldn't help but light up.

"How are you going to attack the city?" Feng Zao asked with some suspicion.

Although Feng Zheng was quite optimistic about Chen Sheng, from the bottom of his heart, he did not think that Chen Sheng was better than himself in terms of marching and fighting. From the bottom of his heart, Feng Zheng was not sure that he could take the imperial city with 15,000 troops, and he didn't know where Chen Sheng got the courage.

"Let's take Shimen Mountain, let's take the palace, and repeat the trick." Chen Sheng replied without concealment.

As soon as Chen Sheng's words came out, everyone fell silent.

How bold it was to burn down the Imperial City, in fact, even a tyrannical person like Hu Hai had never thought of burning the Imperial City. You know, the Imperial City and Shimen Mountain are different. Although Shimen Mountain is important to Xianyang, in the final analysis, it is just a place where merchants gather for trading. But the Imperial City is different, this is the political center of Great Qin, and it is the accumulation of several generations of Great Qin. If it was true that the fire burned the imperial city, he Hu Hai would really become a sinner of Great Qin.

"No way?"

"If we burn down the Imperial City, I'm afraid it will cause a chain reaction, and we may not be able to suppress it at that time." Zhao Gao was the first to object.

Now, the reason why Hu Hai and them were able to occupy Xianyang City with an army of sixty or seventy thousand. One is that they didn't do anything in the city, except for besieging the palace and attacking Shimen Mountain, they didn't disturb the normal order of Xianyang. But the burning of the palace is different, once this happens, if it is a riot in Xianyang City, the riot of these millions of people, even if one person spits at the mouth, can drown them.

"Childe, Lord Zhao, Lord Feng, would you like to hear me tell a story." Chen Sheng raised his head and looked at the three of them.

"Say?" Hu Haiyan said.

"A few years ago, it was the year I surrendered to Lord Zhao. This was before he took refuge in Lord Zhao, when there was no harvest in the village, and the family's grain stock was all eaten. But I know that there is still food in the village, and it is in the ancestral hall of the village. Yes, not only grain, but also an old cow that cultivates the land in the village. ”

"The people in the village are stubborn, they are going to starve to death, but they still have to keep the cow and next year's grain. You say that they are not stupid, and if people are starving to death, what is the use of keeping grain and cattle? I can't live today, but I still have to think about how to live tomorrow. ”

"In the end, I took a few young people from the village, forcibly smashed open the gate of the ancestral hall, slaughtered the cattle, cooked the grain, and finally I survived, I was right." Chen Sheng whispered and told his story.

Hu Hai and the three of them are not fools, they naturally understand the meaning of Chen Sheng's story. Now that they are at their wit's end, their situation will become more and more embarrassing as they drag on. When the time comes, you will definitely lose, and instead of waiting to lose, it is better to give it a go.

"Father, we are already rebels and thieves, even if we jump into the Yellow River, we can't wash it away, in this case, why don't we just give it a hand?" Hu Hai gritted his teeth and history said.

"Bo, then Bo." Zhao Gao muttered to himself.

At this time, this group of people is like a group of gamblers who are eager to lose.

Feng Zheng still kept his sanity at this time, he thought for a moment and said: "If we want to do it, it can only be at night, once we do it, the officials in the center of the city to Daqin will inevitably incite the people to riot, and then we will not be able to suppress it with our troops." Only by doing it at night, and they can't stop the people at night, can we have a chance to succeed. ”

"Let's do it tomorrow night, get everything ready tomorrow during the day, and we'll do it as soon as it's dark." Hu Hai groaned.

"Otherwise, I'll do it." Chen Sheng consciously took this dirty work on himself.

However, Feng Zheng is also an unusually decisive person. Since he has decided to do such a heinous thing, then he can't wash his name, so he simply does it himself.

"I'll come, no one here knows Li You better than me, and I have a better chance of winning." Feng Zheng groaned.

"In that case, the city gate defense will be handed over to me." Chen Sheng said.

The next day, outside Xianyang City.

Three miles away from Xianyang City, under the black dragon banner of the Qin army, dense black-armored cavalry had already set up an array. In addition to this cavalry, under the city walls, Li Chen also left infantry to bluff.

At this time, Li Chen had already received a secret report from the Black Ice Terrace. As soon as it gets dark, the city will plot to take it. Once the gates were breached, the cavalry would rush into them. As for the infantry left behind in the city, it was just Li Chen who pretended to be a maze.

Li Chen rode a tall horse, and Wang Li followed him on a horse.

"Wang Li, wait until the sky is completely dark, and let the cavalry advance a mile forward. The city had already stepped down from the vat, and told all the tribes that they must wrap their horses' hooves with cloth and not make any noise. Li Chen said with a cold face.

"Order." Wang Li clasped his hands into fists and shouted.

The sky was completely dark, and the night today was as if it was about to drip ink.

Taking advantage of the night, the neatly arrayed Qin infantry advanced in the direction of Xianyang City like a tide at night, and they walked to it, exuding a terrifying aura.

The hooves of the Qin army were all wrapped in thick cloth, and in the middle of the night, like ghost cavalry, they quietly advanced a mile. Now it is impossible to move forward, and there is a danger of exposure in the future.

The cavalry of the Qin army outside the city waited quietly, waiting for the most beautiful fireworks to bloom in the sky, waiting for the city gates to open to them.

"When the first fireworks go off, the infantry feints to attack the city walls to attract troops for the people in the city to take the city, and when the second fireworks go off, the cavalry rushes the city with all their might." Li Chen's order spread throughout the three armies.