"Great Khan, Luo Cheng refuses to negotiate peace."

The night was dark, and he came to the golden wolf tent of Jieli, and he was powerless to return.

Jieli was very haggard, his eyes were red, and he hadn't slept well for many days.

"Didn't you tell Luo Cheng that this Great Khan is willing to pay tribute to Luo Cheng?"

"Having said that, Luo Cheng said that Great Qin does not need the Khan to be a vassal, because Great Qin does not accept our betrayal and invasion, and this time he will completely destroy the Turkic Khanate." I can't imagine that Jieli Khan is already willing to pay tribute, why Luo Cheng still refuses to let them go.

"Isn't Luo Chengcheng afraid that Ben Khan will fight to the death? This Great Khan still has an army of 100,000 people, and he really wants to fight hard, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer! ”

"Luo Cheng said that as long as he is sleepy, he can trap us, and he also said that it is expected that our army will have no food."

The group of sharp and vigorous turns.

"No food? That's right, Ben Khan does have no food, but Ben Khan still has horses, and there are more than 200,000 horses in our army, even if the horses are killed and eaten, they can hold on for a few more months. ”

Jieli glared at the pair of red-eyed balls and roared.

"I said, but Luo Cheng said that Li Yuan is now too busy to take care of himself, after Luo Siye captured Hetao, he has already joined forces with Li Liang in Huining, and the coalition army of 100,000 attacked Xiaoguan, and Shannan's Shan Xiongxin also united with Dugu Huai'en to attack Sanguan and Lantian Pass respectively. Li Yuan is now in a hurry, fires are on all sides, it is difficult to protect himself, and it is impossible to send troops to help. ”

"Then there is Dou Jiande!"

Stubbornly sighed, "Dou Jiande is short of food!" ”

When the Qin army and Jieli were fighting for grain in the Yunzhong Basin, Luo Cunxiao, the king of Wei, and Luo Shixin, the king of Zhao, also led the two major armies of the Central Plains and Guanwai to attack the northern and southern waterways of Dou Jiande in Hebei.

Especially for crops that are about to ripen, grab them if you can, and burn them if you can't grab them.

This move was almost fatal to Dou Jiande.

In the past two years, Dou Jiande has sent troops one after another, causing the young and strong people in the territory to either serve as soldiers to fight or transport grain, which seriously occupies labor, delays many peasants, and affects the output of farming.

Luo Cheng is here again now, although a city has not been taken, but the strategy of grabbing grain and burning land everywhere has made Dou Jiande's Xia army tired of coping, the other party is attacking in small groups, mobile and flexible, they can't catch up with more people, and they may be defeated or even annihilated if there are fewer people.

If you stick to the city, the countryside will not be protected.

Large swaths of crops that are about to ripen have been destroyed or robbed, which is simply Dou Jiande's life. Although the Qin army did not dare to go deep into the heartland, the land of several border counties was eroded, but the grain output of the Xia army this year was greatly reduced, and Liu Heimin's tens of thousands of troops were trapped in Daibei and could not return, which exacerbated their predicament.

Dou Jiande originally wanted to wait for summer grain to satisfy his hunger to tide over the difficulties, but now not only could not alleviate it, but also exacerbated the food shortage.

Not to mention sending troops thousands of miles to aid Baishan, even to maintain the current scale of the Hebei Xia Army, Dou Jiande can't do it. He had to cut off part of his army to relieve the food pressure.

Even I could only watch as countless people who ran out of food began to migrate and flee into the territory controlled by the Qin army.

Many generals asked Dou Jiande to send troops to intercept and prohibit these people from escaping into the territory of the Qin army, which would undoubtedly increase the strength of the Qin army and weaken their strength, but Dou Jiande could not give this order, because he could not take out food to relieve the people, and if he forced them to stay, he would only starve them to death.

He couldn't.

At this time, it reflected that the Qin army had a large territory and a stable advantage in the rear.

Although the Qin army also fought on several battlefields, with as many as four or five hundred thousand soldiers and horses, there was a stable granary outside the Guan, and there was a stable grain supply from Shandong and Huainan, plus Henan and Hedong and other places were gradually harvested, which made Luo Cheng feel very stressed, but he still held on.

Dou Jiande is only half of Hebei now, and he is still being engaged by Luo Cheng like this, and he can't hold it anymore.

So in the face of Jieli's request for help, Dou Jiande actually scolded his mother in his heart, and he still hoped that Jieli could pull him, not to mention helping him take Fanyang Beiping, so you can take Luo Chenggan down, even if you defeat him.

But now, he has taken in Liu Heimin, and tens of thousands of people can't go back, and now he still wants him to send troops to rescue.

"What's the sound outside?"

Jieli asked.

A Tong Jin came in and replied, "The sons heard that Li Yuan's Tang army and Dou Jiande's Xia army would not come to help, and it is rumored that Kang Sumi had already been annihilated by Zhao Gui in Saibei, and now the army was cut off, so the sons and daughters wept. ”

Jieli is irritable. "Although the cattle, sheep and grain we carried are gone, don't we still have horses, kill horses to satisfy hunger!"

"Great Khan, horses can't be killed, if you kill horses, how can I go back to the steppe with my Turkic son."

"Why can't you kill, now there are 100,000 people on the mountain, but there are still more than 200,000 horses, and one mount for each person is enough."

But the Turkic warriors still refused to kill the horses, and when they killed the horses, they really fell into a desperate situation, and the Turks came and went on their backs, attacking and escaping by horses, and generally three or two horses, if there was only one horse, it was greatly insufficient, and it was impossible to transfer.

"If you refuse to kill horses, then eat human flesh. Drag back all the corpses that died in the battle at the bottom of the mountain, fry them, steam them, and eat cooked food! ”

Jieli himself came outside and said to the weeping Turkic soldiers, "When you wait for the court to fight, you will be full of meat at dusk, so why worry about hunger, if you don't have a four-legged sheep, you will eat two-legged sheep!" ”

Either kill horses and eat meat, or eat corpses on the battlefield.

In the face of the choice given by Jieli, in the end, most of the Turks still refused to kill the horse, after all, if they killed the horse, they might not be able to go back, so they dragged back the corpses of the war dead at the foot of the mountain, regardless of whether he was from the Qin army or the Turkic army, all of them were dragged back, stripped and divided, and stewed in a pot, full of food and hunger.

The Turks ate the flesh of the corpses and wept incessantly, despairing of their future.

Yamashita.

When Luo Cheng heard the report, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"Before, these Hulu ate my Han people, named two-legged sheep. Unexpectedly, now, even the dead body will not be spared. The order went down, and after the trenches and earthen walls were arrayed, they shot the prisoners with bows and crossbows, and did not go out to fight them, and if any of the soldiers were killed or wounded, they were immediately snatched back, and they were not to be reduced to the food of the captives. ”

After the Qin soldiers received the order, they no longer attacked over the trench wall.

The soldiers guarded behind the earthen wall of the trench and carved the word 'Death Rest' on their spear armor, determined to kill Hu Lu Fang Xiu, and to avenge the death of those brothers who were eaten.

"I actually ate the corpses of my Great Qin soldiers, I will never forgive these beasts and beasts, and I will not let any of them go, and I will annihilate them here!" The emperor was furious and issued a total annihilation of the Turkic army, a lore order that would not be let go.