The grain is out of food, the millet porridge that is so clear that you can see the shadow of a person, the potatoes that have been boiled twice, the wheat rice that has been steamed three times, and the popcorn that has swelled several times, all kinds of means of saving food have been exhausted, and every means of saving money have been saved, but the number of victims in Yizhou is too much, so much that it is impossible to bear, and on the fourth day after Lu Su left, Dong Zhuojun still fell into the dilemma of lack of food.

"General Meng Qi is coming to report." Jia Xu whispered to Kang Peng: "They have encountered a large number of refugees on the road, and they have tried their best to help the people according to your instructions, but there are too many refugees, and the food is already insufficient, and I hope we can replenish some of the past." ”

Jia Xu picked up the second urgent letter, "General Xingba also sent a letter, saying that there are a large number of refugees in the Deyang area, and the army only consumes a lot of physical strength to rush to build ships, and urgently needs to replenish grain and grass, and he also hopes that we will ......."

"Don't read it." Kang Peng weakly interrupted Jia Xu and ordered: "Quickly inform Sun Ce and let him deliver the military rations within six days no matter what, otherwise even if he is the future son-in-law of the prime minister, he will be engaged in military law!" Jia Xu nodded, went out of the account to arrange, and only Kang Peng was left alone in the tent.

Ordinary people can only survive for ten days when they only have water and no food, and if they exceed seven days, they will have an electrolyte imbalance and cause water poisoning. Kang Peng is nothing, just the pile of fat on his body is enough to make him hungry for a month or two - he can't starve to death, and the soldiers in Dong Zhuo's army are better, but long before Dong Zhuojun arrived in Chengdu, the refugees in Yizhou have been out of food for a period of time, and later Dong Zhuojun Although he distributed relief food for more than ten days, almost all of them were unnutritious double steamed food and popcorn, which was just a few more days of struggle for refugees in hunger, even during that period, the hungry people were constantly dying, in the few days when the food was cut off, I wonder how many more refugees will suffer.

It has been two days and two nights since the meal of the food was cut off, and Kang Peng has never been out of the big tent again, but he just asked the generals to comfort the soldiers, and he hid in the big tent and wept, he couldn't bear to go out to see the miserable situation of the soldiers who were born and died for themselves, and he couldn't bear to hear the sorrows of the refugees who lost their relatives, although Kang Peng's belly was also hungry.

The curtain was suddenly lifted, and Kang Peng's personal soldier captain rushed in excitedly, holding a few thumb-sized bird eggs in his hands, "Taishi, the brothers have found a nest of bird eggs in the mountains, they have been cooked, you can eat them quickly." ”

Kang Peng's eyes didn't open for a moment, "I'm not hungry, you eat by yourself." Kang Peng's personal soldier captain patted his belly and said with a smile: "We have found some wild fruits, and we have eaten enough." Kang Peng said disdainfully: "In the first month of winter, the snow has not melted, even the bark and grass roots are difficult to find, where can you find wild fruits?" Kang Peng's pro-soldier captain was exposed to the lie, and muttered with a red face: "It's just ...... to eat" but his belly cooed angrily, he was in a hurry, and knelt down for Kang Peng and said: "Taishi, you haven't eaten for two days, please eat quickly." ”

At this time, the curtain was lifted again, and Lu Bu's tall figure rushed in, and when he saw Kang Peng, he begged: "Father-in-law, do you have anything else to eat?" The cicadas are already hungry and out of milk, and your granddaughter is crying with hunger. ”

Kang Peng was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered the captain of the pro-soldiers: "Quick, send this bird egg to my daughter-in-law." Although Kang Peng's personal captain was reluctant, he still handed over the few eggs to Lu Bu according to Kang Peng's instructions, and Lu Bu thanked him again and again with tears.

"Taishi, don't worry, I'll take someone to the river again to see if I can catch a few fish for you." The loyal soldier turned around to leave, but Kang Peng stopped him, "Don't go, take a few people with you, and accompany the prime minister to go outside, it's not a matter to be bored in the tent." ”

On the towering walled tower, the listless soldiers are on duty obliquely leaning on the guardrail, the weapons are crooked aside, the village is full of hungry and dying soldiers, and the large village that stretches for miles is lifeless, if the enemy comes to attack at this time, I don't know how many soldiers can resist the enemy. Only where Kang Peng passed by would soldiers stand up and salute.

The scene outside the village is even more miserable, there are countless refugees with vegetable faces around the porridge shack where grain and grass are distributed in the past, as if they can find food from the porridge shack, more victims are peeling tree bark, digging grass roots, catching rats, marrow cries everywhere, and the corpses of refugees who are starving into dried corpses everywhere. The soldiers whispered to Kang Peng that thousands of refugees had starved to death in the two days of complete food starvation.

Seeing this scene, Kang Peng's tears burst out of his eyes, although Kang Peng knew that even if he didn't attack Yizhou, the people of Yizhou would face this tragedy sooner or later, but Kang Peng was still uneasy in his heart, after all, it was because of his unprovoked aggression that he forced the people of Yizhou to this step. But the people of Yizhou don't think so, Dong Zhuojun dragged his logistics in order to relieve the refugees, the people of Yizhou saw it, the kind people forgot the crime of Dong Zhuojun's brutal invasion, and only remembered Dong Zhuojun's kindness to Yizhou, whenever Kang Peng passed by, there would be people who struggled to get up and kowtow to Kang Peng, thanking Dong Zhuojun for their help. All this was also seen by a person in the distance who was remembered by Kang Peng.

When a Yizhou citizen who was so hungry that he couldn't stand on his feet struggled to offer a roasted mouse to Kang Peng and begged Kang Peng to eat it, Kang Peng couldn't hold back anymore and cried and shouted: "Pass on the order of the prime minister, kill the war horses, and feed the people!" Kang Peng's soldiers were taken aback, the war horse is the lifeblood of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, if the war horse is killed, it is equivalent to cutting off the legs of the invincible Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the world! But Kang Peng didn't care about these at all, he just rushed back to the village crying, crying and shouting, "No matter, war horses can be raised, and when people die, there will be nothing." ”

After Kang Peng's order was conveyed, Dong Zhuojun was in an uproar, especially the cavalry wept bitterly, and some people hugged the war horses that got along with them day and night, crying and shouting not to let the butcher approach, the war horses are their second life, they are their siblings, and it is too late to hurt at ordinary times, so they are willing to slaughter? For a while, Dong Zhuojun's crying in the camp shook the sky.

"Taishi, the cavalry said that they would not let us kill the horses." Jia Xu was sweating profusely and told Kang Peng: "Many soldiers threatened each other with death, saying that if they wanted to kill the horses, they would be killed first. ”

Kang Peng didn't say a word, walked out of the tent quickly, and went straight to the horse pen to check, just before arriving at the stable, Kang Peng saw countless Xiliang iron horsemen with knives and guns stopped in front of the horse, shouting and not listening to the others approaching. Seeing Kang Peng arrive, many Xiliang iron horsemen rushed to Kang Peng and knelt down, crying: "Taishi, we are not hungry, please, don't kill our horses." "Master, we won't eat, don't kill our brothers." "Master, please spare our horses for the sake of our birth and death for the country." "Taishi, without horses, how can we fight?" There was a lot of shouting, and there was chaos.

Kang Peng looked at these brave and invincible soldiers on the battlefield, tears welled up, and suddenly knelt down for the army, the chaotic scene suddenly quieted down, all the sergeants opened their mouths in surprise, looked at Kang Peng blankly, Kang Peng kowtowed and cried: "Brothers, I can't afford you, Yizhou is basically defeated, but the original phase can not let you enjoy the glory and wealth immediately, and even can't let you eat and drink, today you were forced to kill the war horse, you feel uncomfortable, but the heart is not like a knife?" ”

The soldiers looked at Kang Peng blankly, and Kang Peng continued to cry: "Can you not kill the war horse?" The military rations will arrive in a few days, and our army can still hold on, but what about the refugees in Yizhou? In a few days, how many Yizhou fathers and villagers will starve to death? You are all people with parents and sisters, if your relatives fall into this situation, can you not save them? Brothers, compare your heart to heart, what you eat, wear, and use is not the fruit of the hard work of the people, and you can bear to see them starve to death when they fall into this situation? ”

"Brothers, the prime minister assures you that if you kill one of your horses today, you will return two of them in the future, Xiliang has dozens of our horse farms, and tens of thousands of good horses can be raised every year, and the prime minister will choose ...... you."

In Kang Peng's pig-like howl, the soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry wiped away their tears and made way for them, but when the butchers stabbed the bright butcher knife into the throat of their beloved war horse, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry warriors still couldn't help crying loudly, gritting their teeth and bleeding......

The hot horse meat was boiled out, but Kang Peng couldn't bear to eat it, almost all the Xiliang iron cavalry couldn't bear to eat it, and many infantry also refused to eat horse meat, hoping that they could eat less, so that they could let a few more horses accompany them to live and die together to save their lives, and the first batch of 3,000 war horses slaughtered were almost all sent to the refugees. When the refugees heard that this was the meat of Dong Zhuojun's war horse, they also cried and kowtowed to Dong Zhuojun's camp.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees, 3,000 horses were not enough to eat a meal, and the next day, Dong Zhuojun was forced to slaughter a batch, but this time the refugees came to collect less than half of the horse meat, and the people also understood Dong Zhuojun's difficulties......

Although Kang Peng's benevolent government moved the people of Yizhou and did not allow a riot and uprising among the victims of Yizhou, the strategy of the Yizhou army to completely drag through the logistics of Dong Zhuo's army was also achieved. In Nanzhong, under the temptation of Liu Yan, the new barbarian king Meng Shu led his fiancée Zhu Rong, King Mulu, Jinhuan Sanjie and Wutu Gu and other generals, gathered a total of 100,000 barbarian soldiers from each cave and each mountain, and took the Yizhou army as a guide to kill Lujin Pass. Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Shixie did not dare to fight the enemy, and sat back and watched the barbarian army pass, so that Meng Huo's army passed directly through Lujin Pass, and the troops pointed to Luzhou, because the beneficial state army responded, Meng Huo's army advanced quickly, and Dong Zhuo's army, whose logistics had collapsed, was facing another big battle.

On the other hand, Liu Yan sent an order to Zheng Du, who was far away in Jingzhou, as long as Jingzhou sent troops, Liu Biao would agree to any conditions, and Dong Zhuojun was about to face the danger of fighting on two fronts. But Liu Yan forgot one thing, 'The people's hearts cannot be bullied, love the people like sons, and the people can die for them.'" 'Losing the foundation of the people's hearts, can Liu Yan's Yizhou Army make a comeback?