People and horses have two months of food, minus the need to go back and forth, and the time that can be supported is more than a few days a month. Militarily speaking, this is enough, and the time for the Qi troops from all over the country to arrive in Linzi is almost a month. However, because of the cavalry suppression, all localities could not immediately learn that Linzi was surrounded, and the time for reinforcements to arrive in Linzi would be greatly delayed.

Under normal circumstances, the grain of the ancient army could not be transported from the rear, and most of them were requisitioned on the spot. But in this way, the army must keep moving, because no matter how much grain is in a place, there will be times when it is exhausted, and only by maintaining the movement can it be requisitioned in various places. Siege warfare, a kind of warfare without movement, should be avoided as much as possible, and without movement means that it is impossible to requisition grain and straw, and can only rely on rear transportation.

This is technically difficult to do unless there is unobstructed water transportation. During the pre-Qin period, hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized, and the war was protracted, relying mostly on water transportation. Even if it is not water transportation, it is also supported by water transportation and land transportation. Only the Zhao State in the Battle of Changping had to cross the Taihang Mountains to transport grain by land to supply the army, which accounted for nearly one-tenth of the country's population, making the whole country tired.

There is no water transportation between Chu and Linzi, but there is sea transportation, but it is a pity that there are too few boats that can transport grain, and the Suzaku can only transport more than 200 tons at a time, which is just the consumption of the whole army for three days.

Grain is likely to be a problem, but the reinforcement of Linzi by Qi troops from all over the country is another big problem. In order to defend Mulingguan, of course, the Qi army could not all come, but at least 100,000 people would return to the division. There are more than 200,000 Qi troops in Linzi, plus 100,000 reinforcements, which is more than 300,000, which is more than ten times that of the current Chu army.

More than 300,000 is a suffocating number, and the generals are sweating in their hearts, and many people already have the idea of withdrawing the army in their hearts, but because Xiong Jing is calm, they have to endure the words in their stomachs.

"Report ——!" The military report came from outside the shogunate, and the people who came shouted: "The Qi people are sending people out of the city." ”

"Kill!" Xiong Jing glanced at Concubine Jing and ordered without hesitation.

It is the task of the cavalry to cut off the inside and outside, and last night the commander of the third cavalry division abandoned his heel and led his troops to Linzi and Anping City, and after dawn Xiang Chao's second cavalry division took over, and the first division of Yu Jing was on standby. Now that the Qi army has sent people out of the city to help, there is no need for Concubine Jing to pass on his orders, and the robbery has already begun.

Linzi east is the water, the north is the canal, the Chu army only needs to hold the ferry bridge to prevent the Qi people from going out of the city, only the south, the west is not this obstacle, out of the city gate can run wildly. But the cavalry of the Chu army was guarding the gate of the city, and as soon as the chariot of the Qi people drove out of the city, they were beaten back, and there were also cavalry and foot soldiers who rushed away from the cavalry and went straight south, but the speed of the chariot was not as fast as the cavalry, and in less than a while, the messengers sent out for help were all robbed and killed by the Chu cavalry, and their heads were shot back to Linzi with a crossbow, and the silk book on their bodies was sent to the shogunate.

"Sure enough." The five silk books, the content is exactly the same, all stamped with the seal of the king of Qi, and they are asking the general Tian Luo for help.

"The Qi people do not want to fight me." Xiong Jing, who put down the silk book, was a little distressed, Qi Wang Tianjian was really a gutsless person, he kept shrinking himself and really had no way to take him.

"Please send someone to fight." Yang Yu glanced at Yan Qiu, the situation became like this, and the only way he could think of it was to scold and fight.

"Scolding?" Xiong Jing couldn't help but laugh in his heart, "It's only the first day, why rush for a while." ”

"The minister has a plan." A strategist whispered a few words in the ear of Jun Sima Zhuang Wudi.

"What do you do?" Xiong Jing asked, glancing at the strategist as well.

"Please open the military market, and allow the merchants of the Qi country to enter the market to buy and sell." Zhuang is not authentic.

"Open the military city?" Zhuang Wudi's strategy is very special, the military market has always only targeted its own merchants, and Qi is an enemy country. "Do you think the merchants of Qi will enter the market to buy and sell? Those merchants told the Qi people that our army had come to Linzi......"

"Linzi is the capital of Qi State, and the whole country should know about it after being besieged for a long time." Zhuang is not authentic. "At this time, the Qi army was mostly on the front line of Muling Pass, and although there were Qi troops in the west, there were not many of them. The king can allow the merchants to enter the market to buy and sell in the west of the water, and the Qi people will make heavy profits, and our army's entry into Qi this time will not harm the Qi people, but only punish the victory, and the Qi people and merchants may enter the market. ”

"But our army is not short of food...... Xiong Jing remembered what Su Ke said before, "only lack of herbs." ”

"King, our army is indeed not short of food, but Linzi is unknown." Zhuang is not authentic. "Even if our army piles up grain and straw in front of the Qi people, they don't believe that our army is not short of grain, but if the Qi people come to the market, they know that our army's grain and straw are not short. If the reinforcements do not arrive for a long time and our army is not short of food, we must fight with us. ”

Although Zhuang Wudi didn't know how the Qi court discussed, he could probably guess the psychology of the Qi people. The Chu army has defeated the Qin people in a row, and its prestige has shocked the world, so it is natural that there will be some taboos in their hearts, but if the delay fails to achieve their goal, the situation will change.

"The king's envoys were all robbed and killed by the Chu people?" was retreating, at this time Tian Jian was already sleeping in the road gate, looking at the big Sima Tianzong who came in to report, his forehead was beating continuously. He finally felt the smell of war, and the Chu people robbed and killed all the envoys he sent, and threw their heads into Linzi.

"Yes." Tian Zong's reaction was not as fierce as Tian Jian's, since this was a war, how could there be immortals. "The iron cavalry of the Chu people is invincible, and the ministers will send scouts out of the city at night."

"Alas!" Tian Jian sighed, "If the scout is killed by the Chu people again, what if? ”

"Don't worry, the king, Linzi is the capital of Qi country, and the business and travel routes are important cities, as long as the Chu people are isolated for three days, the world will know it." Tian Zong said busily. "Just wait for twenty days, reinforcements will arrive, and the Chu army will retreat."

"The Chu army is only 30,000, and we have 100,000, how can we not fight with one of them?" Tian Jian once again remembered the problem of facing up, and he was unwilling. "The Chu army has huge armor, our army also has huge armor, the Chu army has huge soldiers, our army also has huge soldiers, my Qi people are really afraid of Chu like a tiger?"

"King," Tian Zong said only after Tian Jian finished speaking. "Our army has only 50,000 huge armor soldiers......

"However, the Chu army is only 30,000!" Tian Jian's breathing was heavy, and the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became.

"Great King, the Chu army has fought fierce battles year after year for several years, and has defeated the Qin army in a row. My Qi country has only fought one battle in forty-five years, and it was defeated by the hands of the Chu people, how to fight with it? "Tian Zong is an old minister, he can't help but feel a little sad when he thinks of the current situation of the Qi State, and some things that were difficult to say before can't help but say now." The queen mother fell, the king was victorious, his people were flattering, not sympathetic to the national government, several were bribed by Qin, the people were separated, the king of Chu only came to win, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, how to fight with it? ”

"Da Sima also thinks that Hou Sheng is guilty?" Tian Jian's unwillingness in his heart gradually dissipated, after the death of his mother, he entrusted the affairs of the country to Hou Sheng, many people said that Hou Sheng was a minister, but he felt that although Hou Sheng was greedy for money, he was very loyal to himself.

"If Hou Sheng is not guilty, how can the Chu people come to the city?" Tian Zong bowed and said, "The minister asks the king to be deposed after this battle......

The monarch and the minister are alone in the main bed, Tian Zong has counted the sins of victory, and outside the main bed, the entire Linzi has begun to be chaotic again. Compared with the chaos in the early morning, as soon as the common people who learned that the Chu people were besieging the city heard the word 'siege', they hurriedly rushed to the big city in the city with dustpans, clay pots, and ropes. The price of millet in the grain store may not rise immediately, but the sauce and firewood are not government-run, and the price increase is inevitable.

Especially firewood, nearly 60,000 households in Linzi City, plus 50,000 halberd-wielding people, as well as the palace, the magnates, the daily consumption of firewood is as much as 10,000 times, these firewood are transported from outside the city by boat, now besieged by the city, soon there will be no firewood to burn in the city. Without firewood, the common people could not cook, and the nobles could not bathe and change their clothes, which was a very difficult thing. As for demolishing the house, who is willing to demolish their own house unless it is absolutely necessary? It's only February, and the weather is still cold, not to mention how to keep out the cold at night after demolishing the house, even if the house is not demolished, some people also have to burn charcoal fires.

The common people grabbed firewood, and the nobles also grabbed firewood. As soon as the nobleman's house head and servants arrived, the firewood seller drove away all the common people who were grabbing firewood in front of him, and then sent the remaining firewood to the nobleman's house. At this time, the common people who grabbed the firewood were happy, and the common people who did not grab the firewood could only scold, and they could only eat raw rice for a period of time in the future.

"Da Sima Yan, Da Sima Yan......" In Housheng's mansion, a temple man was talking, his eyes wandered, with some flattery and some expectations. Hou Sheng understood what he meant, he glanced at the left and right, and a few golden cakes were served.

The temple people smiled brightly when they saw the golden cake, and he hurriedly said: "Thank you, thank you." ”

"What does the Great Sima Yu say to the Great King?" Hou Sheng couldn't laugh at all. The king of Chu came with an army, and wanted to ask him for his guilt, and asked him to bathe the head of the letter, how could he laugh. The king of Chu is like this, and there are many people in the court who see him laughing at him and take the opportunity to slander him.

"Da Sima, please ...... the king" The temple people hesitated, after all, the words that Da Sima said were not very good.

"With all due respect." Hou Sheng waved his sleeves, and he could probably guess what Da Sima said.

"After the Great Sima Yan was flattering, he did not care about the national government, and he was bribed by Qin, and the people's hearts were ......," the temple man said, and before he finished his words, he slapped his palm on several cases, which startled him a lot.

"Words!" Hou Sheng restrained his anger, he still wanted to hear what Tian Zong said.

"Da Sima asks the king to remove the prime minister after this battle." The temple man said again.

"He dares!" This time, Hou Sheng couldn't help but jump, "This husband is a big Sima, and the pawn he has practiced is really a local chicken and a dog." Now there are 30,000 Chu people and 100,000 people with halberds, but they dare not fight, and they also say that they are flattering and do not care about the country's politics......"

He hadn't eaten since the early dynasty to now, and now he was so excited that his eyes couldn't help but be black, and he was carried to the ground with a 'bang'. Left and right, the temple people immediately panicked, but fortunately, Hou Sheng stood up by himself, he waved away the temple people and urgently summoned his cronies, and said: "Da Sima said to the king that he wants me to resign, so I will let him go to work first!" You wait to tell the people of Linzi as soon as possible, Da Sima is afraid of the enemy like a tiger, there are only 30,000 Chu people outside the city, and 100,000 people with halberds in the city, but Da Sima persuades the king not to fight with him, please ask the king to dismiss Da Sima. ”