Since ancient times, we have only seen the victorious army persuade the defeated army to surrender, and the side with more soldiers persuaded the side with fewer troops to surrender, but there has never been a persuasion to surrender to an army with 500,000 troops, and it is no wonder that even Xiang Mo, a famous general of the Chu State, showed a shocked expression. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to being shocked, Xiang Mo took a deep look at the son of the Wei State in the gate tower of the city of Haoxian, and his eyes became particularly strange.

After all, Zhao Hongrun personally admitted that at this moment, a large part of the grain and grass in the city of his Ou County was transported from Su County, that is to say, it was the military grain that originally belonged to the Fuli Saichu army.

Zhao Hongrun captured Suxian and occupied the grain of the Fuli Saichu army, and now he is using these grains to lure the Fuli Saichu army in a grand manner.

If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Hongrun was born in the Wei court and was the son of the King of Wei, Xiang Mozhen was a little skeptical, whether the person opposite was a black-hearted businessman who specialized in making money.

That's too ruthless!

"......" Xiang Mo stiffened his face and did not speak.

And the tens of thousands of soldiers and generals behind him, their eyes at this moment are no longer in that Gongxian County, but on the hundreds of bamboo baskets hanging from the city wall.

In those bamboo baskets, there are fragrant steamed buns - even if they are in the upper wind at the moment, they can't actually smell the sweet smell of those steamed buns.

Tens of thousands of Chu soldiers, look at me, I look at you, secretly swallowing saliva.

You must know that within two days since Xiang Mo led the 500,000 troops into Fangzhong, Xiang Mo ordered the rations of his soldiers to be halved because of the shortage of food in Fangzhong County.

If you use steamed bread to calculate, it is probably that a soldier can receive four steamed buns a day, but after the ration is halved, there will only be two steamed buns. Note: In ancient times, commoners basically ate two meals a day, which actually depended on the wealth of the family. If it is a wealthy family, such as an aristocracy, it is still three meals a day.

What's worse is that a few days ago, there was a news in the army that I don't know if it was a rumor, saying that a few days later, the general would again order that the daily ration should be halved.

If it is halved again, there will be only one steamed bun, and now two steamed buns a day make the Chu soldiers in a state of semi-starvation, let alone one steamed bun a day?

What to do?

Tens of thousands of soldiers, every inch is in chaos at the moment.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly a Chu soldier threw down his weapon and rushed to the city of Haoxian.

Seeing that someone was taking the lead, hundreds of Chu soldiers rushed out, threw away their weapons one after another, rushed to the city of Xuanxian County, grabbed steamed buns from those bamboo baskets, as if they had never seen food in their previous lives, and devoured them.

"These bastards!"

Beside Xiang Mo, the attendant Yu Ji was furious when he saw this, drew the sword at his waist, and was about to rush over and kill those soldiers on the spot.

But as soon as he took a step forward, he was grabbed by the arm by an old soldier of Xiang Mo.

The old soldier said solemnly: "Don't be impulsive! …… If you hurt one of them, the general's prestige will be ruined! ”

Yu Ji was stunned when he heard this, and then immediately understood.

But isn't it, Xiang Mo Fang just kept saying that he would not decide the life and death of the 500,000 soldiers under his command, but if at this moment, Yu Ji, who was Xiang Mo's attendant, killed those deserters who intended to defect to the Wei army, wouldn't this mean that Xiang Mo Fangcai's words were all lies?

"General......" Yu Ji looked back at Xiang Mo without a master's mind.

At this time, Xiang Mozheng looked at Zhao Hongrun in the gatehouse of Gongxian County with a complicated expression, and he vaguely saw that the face of this Wei Gongzi was filled with a thick smile.

He immediately understood: no wonder this son praised him many times, praising him for loving soldiers like a son, it turned out to block his retreat.

Those hundreds of Chu soldiers had to defect to the Wei army because of hunger, if Xiang Mo still coldly ordered to be killed, what kind of love for soldiers is this?!

It turns out that the trap is here......

Xiang Mo's face flashed with a wry smile, shook his head quietly, and said, "If anyone wants to go, let them ...... Go ahead. ”

Speaking of this, he sighed secretly.

Because in the battle between him and that Wei Gongzi Ji Run, he lost, completely lost.

Although the reason for the defeat was because he had no food in his hands and the army's morale was unstable, which was a non-war crime, he still lost anyway.

If this was the case, we should have evacuated decisively.

Xiang Mo laughed to himself.

"General......

Seeing that Xiang Mo actually intended to let those Chu soldiers go, Yu Ji's face showed a look of horror.

He knew very well that it was not just the hundreds of people here who were tempted by the food, but more people were still watching and observing General Xiang Mo's attitude towards this matter, if Xiang Mo ignored it......

Just when Yu Ji was worried, tens of thousands of soldiers behind him saw that Xiang Mo was ignoring the scene in front of him, and they became bolder, many of them simply gritted their teeth, dropped the weapons in their hands and ran out of the array, ignoring the scolding and angry scolding of the officers and generals behind him, such as the thousand-man generals, the two thousand generals, and the three thousand generals.

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Chu soldiers gathered under the city of Haoxian.

Among these people, those who came early are now devouring several steamed buns, and those who are late can only look at the former.

Even, some Chu soldiers actually raised their heads to ask the Wei soldiers on the city wall, so angry that the latter scolded in their hearts.

Why? Because the steamed buns in those bamboo baskets were originally given to them as rations for the soldiers guarding the city, it was only because of Zhao Hongrun's wit that they became a prop to lure the Chu soldiers to surrender.

In this way, it is no wonder that many Wei soldiers secretly scolded in their hearts: Do you want to? Damn, I'm still hungry!

At this time, Zhao Hongrunzi shouted on the city wall: "Those who are willing to defect to our army will have enough food every day!" …… Those who are willing to surrender to our army should sit down on the spot and wait for a while, and those who are not willing to surrender to our army should go on their own. ”

Hearing this, the Chu soldiers under the city sat down in unison.

Thinking about it, in front of tens of thousands of Tongze, they left the team without authorization, and ate the food of the Wei army, how can they have the face to go back?

Still, a group of people were still standing.

It's not because they don't want to surrender, but because Zhao Hongrun in the city spoke again: "Today, our army only recruits 5,000 people, and the team over there, let's go back for the time being." …… It doesn't matter, you can come back to join our army tomorrow. ”

Those "extraordinary" Chu soldiers looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and had no choice but to bite the bullet, droop their heads and return to Xiang Mo's army.

"These bastards still have the face to come back!"

Seeing this, Yu Ji, the attendant at the end of the item, was furious in his heart and couldn't help but curse angrily.

But this time, he was not impulsive, because he had already figured out the key: although these soldiers were deserters, they were forced to do so because of food, so General Xiang Mo could not harm these people because of his previous actions, otherwise, he would be a rebel.

However, although he understood this, Yu Ji was still a little puzzled in his heart, and couldn't help but ask Xiang Modao: "General, the last general will look at these soldiers, and they will inevitably come to Gongxian County tomorrow and defect to the Wei army, why does Ji Run want to do this?" ”

"Because he wants these soldiers to spread the news that the Wei army has enough food to the nearly 500,000 troops in Fangchong......" Xiang Mo sighed and said with a complicated expression.

Hearing this, Yu Ji gasped in surprise and exclaimed, "This son actually has such a big appetite!" …… General, since you have seen through that Ji Run's trick, you must stop it as soon as possible! ”

"Stop? How to stop it? Kill these people? Or the expulsion of the army? Xiang Mo asked with a wry smile.

Yu Ji was stunned, and then realized that the general in front of him couldn't do anything in this matter.

Probably guessing what Yu Ji was thinking, Xiang Mo sighed and said with some bitterness: "Forget it, those who want to defect to the Wei army, let them go, just to reduce the pressure on our army's grain and grass, and also get rid of some soldiers who are not strong-willed......"

Listening to this sentence, which was full of strong insincerity, Yu Ji did not speak again.

He just turned his head and firmly remembered the young and thin figure on the gate tower of the city of Xuanxian County.

This enemy, who conquered Hao County and forced Wu Yuan to death with Tian Tan of Qi State, is too powerful, so powerful that even if he is the general Xiang Mo, he can't take the slightest advantage in front of the other party, but suffers a big loss.

One day, I will kill you and Tian Tan to avenge Wu Yuan!

Clenched his fists, Yu Ji said secretly.

At this time, Xiang Mo also glanced deeply at Gongxian, turned around without any hesitation, and gave the order to retreat with some discouragement.

"The whole army...... Fall back! ”

Tens of thousands of Chu soldiers evacuated silently.

It wasn't because they came today with high morale that they suffered defeat, after all, during the siege, their casualties were not serious.

The problem is that after the war, the more than 5,000 Tongze actually surrendered to the enemy because of food, which was like a heavy blow to these tens of thousands of Chu soldiers.

They couldn't help but look at their neighbors on the left and right, and a trace of distrust flashed in their eyes: Will Tongze today become an enemy tomorrow?

On the same day, Xiang Mo led the tens of thousands of soldiers back to the room bell.

During this period, he deliberately bypassed the garrison position of the Fencheng army, made a big circle, and walked for an extra day or two before returning to Fang Zhong.

After he left the area of Gongxian, Zhao Hongrun kept his promise and put more than 5,000 Chu soldiers outside the city into the city, and scattered them and placed them in the defenders of the city.

He wasn't worried about what would happen to these soldiers, after all, these people openly defected to his Wei army in front of Xiang Mo, the general of Chu State, and tens of thousands of generals, and they couldn't go back.

The same is true of the more than 1,000 Chu soldiers who were sent back to Xiang Mo's army because they exceeded 5,000: although Xiang Mo did not harm the lives of these soldiers because of what he said, Xiang Mo would no longer trust them.

In the next few days, almost every day, Chu soldiers sneaked out of Fang Zhong and came to Gongxian to defect to the Wei army, and the Wei army accepted all of them.

In just a few days, Zhao Hongrun contained tens of thousands of Chu soldiers.

Considering security concerns, Zhao Hongrun appointed Nanmenyang to take charge of this army and cross the Hun River to support the Yanling army and the Shangshui army.

The battle was the first confrontation between Zhao Hongrun and Xiang Mo, the general of the Chu State, and finally ended in a complete victory for Zhao Hongrun.

During this period, he also took a Guling Jun Xiong Wu and his 80,000 troops. (To be continued.) )