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That night, there were several good generals in the Shangshui Army, and they gathered in the corner of the west gate of Fenghao City and had a meal of boiled mutton in snow water.

During this period, 2,000 people laughed at Chen Xie and said that he was tired of eating mutton, which caused everyone to laugh.

I have to say that eating meat at once, and eating mutton, which is quite expensive in the local Wei State, is really a very rare thing.

Who would have thought that these soldiers of the merchant army who went out on the expedition would eat better than the nobles in Wei State at every meal.

But this is also a helpless thing, after all, some time ago, the Wei army captured nearly a million sheep flocks of the three major tribes of Wuxu, Qian, and Ling, except for the lambs among them were traded away by the soldiers of the Sichuan Alliance in the way of a few for one, the rest of the sheep basically served as the rations of the Wei army - after all, the Wei army was very short of food at that time, so that His Royal Highness the King of Su did not hesitate to order the slaughter of sheep to satisfy hunger.

At that time, His Royal Highness King Su said: People are going to starve to death, what are you doing with the sheep?

As a result, hundreds of thousands, nearly a million sheep were slaughtered, and even the Wei soldiers themselves felt distressed, after all, the price of sheep in Wei was still quite high.

Thanks to this, the Wei army was given plenty of mutton and sheepskins.

Especially mutton, mutton is warm, which can not only resist the wind and cold but also replenish the body, so that even if the Wei soldiers who eat mutton at once are in the cold weather near the wax moon, they still feel full of energy, and there is no feeling as if they feel a chill invading the human body in the past.

The only embarrassment is that the mutton eats too much and gets angry, and Wei Jun can't get any spices to dispel the sheep's gas, so that after eating too much, he will inevitably feel a little nauseous and nauseated.

Because of this, there were several jokes among the Wei army that were highly regarded by the soldiers, most of them mocking the nobility of the country - although the nobility of Wei was much better than that of Chu, there was always a class contradiction between the commoners and the nobility. And the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army have not encountered ostentatious nobles.

“…… Uh, I'm really going to throw up if I eat it again. ”

With a full burp, thousands of people swallowed the last bite of mutton with Xiang Li's neck thick, panting heavily.

His words resonated with the generals on the sidelines.

Due to the cold weather, and the grain and grass transportation line in the rear was cut off by itself due to the long-distance attack, so that at present, the rations of the Wei army are only mutton and millet.

At this time, they really miss the pickles that they criticized in the past, even if it was just a bite.

It's a pity that Wei Jun didn't.

"Hey, you're here......"

With a wave of greetings, a thousand people walked over from a distance and greeted several generals around the bonfire here.

Seeing this, two thousand generals Chen Xie, a thousand generals Xiang Li and others invited Ran Teng to the table, but Ran Teng hurriedly waved his hand after taking a look at the bubbling mutton soup in the pot, because he had recently switched to roast mutton, mainly because he couldn't stand the smell.

"I just came from General Nanmen (Chi)."

Under the surprised gaze of several generals, the thousand-person general Ran Teng sat down by the bonfire, and said in a low voice: "The crossbow arrows have been consumed quite a lot in the past two days, and there are not many left......

In fact, as the crossbow craftsmanship of the Wei State became more and more sophisticated, the range and power of the crossbows created by the Daliang Smelting Bureau have gradually surpassed the ordinary bows, which makes the archer gradually replaced by the crossbowmen, at least in the Shang Shui Army and the Yanling Army, there are almost no archers.

It's no wonder, after all, the skills of archers are more demanding, and recruits often have to train for a long time to become a qualified archer, while crossbowmen have relatively low requirements, as long as they learn how to load crossbow arrows and how to aim, they can be trained in a short time - the crossbowmen in the Su Wang's army are almost all honed in actual combat to sharpen their shooting skills.

Of course, there are pros and cons to this, for example, if the crossbow fails during the battle, the soldiers of the Su Wang army will not repair it themselves, after all, repairing the crossbow is completely different from repairing the longbow, which is why the crossbowmen of the Su Wang army will be equipped with war knives in addition to crossbows.

"Crossbow, the consumption of these two days is a bit ......"

Thousands of people nodded Xiang Li and agreed, after all, in the past two days, in the siege battle of Weiyang Jun Yinghua, the Wei army killed more than 40,000 Qin army, even if only two or three cities in this number were killed by the Wei army's crossbows, the number of crossbow arrows consumed is also an astonishing number.

But fortunately, the Wei army's crossbow is made of iron throughout, and it can be recycled.

Especially when facing lightly armored enemy troops, the recovery rate is at least as high as eighty or ninety. Note: If the bend is too strong, or the arrow cluster is severely deformed, then it cannot be used. In addition, it is inevitable that there will be some missing.

"Wait a minute, General Ran Teng, General Nanmen won't tell us to go out of the city to recover the crossbow arrows now, right?" A general of the Shangshui Army asked curtly, he heard clearly, Ran Tengna had just come from the side of Nanmenchi, the deputy general of their Shangshui Army.

Noticing that several generals nearby were looking at him with shocked expressions, Ran Teng spread his hands helplessly and said, "That's what General Nanmen meant, I can't help it, who knows if Weiyang Jun will lead more people to attack the city tomorrow?" ”

Hearing Ran Teng's words of disguised admission, the generals couldn't help but wail, after all, in the middle of the night in the middle of winter, going out of the city to dig up corpses and recover crossbow arrows from the corpses of enemy soldiers is not a good errand.

But wailing is wailing, since the order has been issued, they must carry it out as generals.

"I'll leave it to you here, and I'll go to Beicheng to pass the order." After saying hello to the generals, Ran Teng left.

Moments later, the western gate of Feng Ho rumbled open, and a group of merchant and sail soldiers came out of the city with torches and began to retrieve crossbow arrows from the corpses of the black-faced soldiers scattered all over the city.

During this period, thousands of people rubbed Xiang Li's hands and muttered, "It's so cold......"

Actually, it's mainly the cold on the bare face and hands, but the rest is fine.

It is no wonder that when the Wei army slaughtered nearly a million sheep, they obtained the corresponding sheepskins, and at the behest of His Royal Highness King Su, the Wei army stuffed these sheepskins inside the cold armor and stuffed them in the boots, which played a good role in heat preservation.

Even some clever Wei soldiers would wrap sheepskins around their necks to prevent the cold wind from pouring into the neckline of their armor.

This is also the reason why the Wei army dared to go out of the city in the middle of the night in the cold winter, otherwise, how could they dare to come out, it was close to the cold winter of December, and the cold wind in the middle of the night would blow to death, especially in the army with almost no medical conditions, as long as they were infected with the wind cold, they were doomed to death.

This is true of any army.

"What do you think Weiyang-kun thinks?"

Two thousand people glanced at Chen Xie and said, "In the past two days of siege, he has at least lost more than 40,000 people, right?" But I wonder if he will come to attack the city tomorrow...... I really have some doubts that we are not fighting the Chu army. ”

"How can the Chu army be so fierce as the Qin people?" Xiang Li rolled his eyes and said, as if he was ignoring that they were all from Chu.

But what he said was right, the grain recruitment of the Chu State, that is, the civilian soldiers recruited with food, in fact, the morale and fighting spirit are very low, this point, Xiang Li and other generals who were born in grain recruitment, that is the clearest.

This is also the reason why the generals of Chu often connived at the looting of the enemy's cities: to stimulate the fighting spirit of grain recruitment.

It is undeniable that the wars of the Chu State are often to fight a numerical superiority, that is, the so-called crowd tactics. If you can win the war, then the food recruitment may be more ferocious than the regular army, but if you fall into a disadvantage, that is, the army is defeated, and there is almost no possibility of reversing the defeat.

In comparison, the Qin army, whether it is a regular army or a black-faced army, seems to be fierce and not afraid of death, so that even if it is a merchant army, when they see the Qin army that looks like a tiger and a wolf and a vicious beast, there is actually some weakness in the bottom of their hearts.

And while the soldiers of the Shangshui Army were chatting and retrieving arrows from the corpse of the Black Mask Army, Weiyang Junzheng led 3,000 cavalry and quietly touched Feng Hao.

When he saw that outside Feng Ho City under the night sky in the distance, there were little torches everywhere, and Weiyang Jun Yinghua had a few sneers in his heart.

"Up!"

With the order of Weiyang Jun Yinghua, three thousand Weiyang Qin horses ran up and rushed straight towards Feng Ho City.

The movement of the galloping war horse aroused the vigilance of the thousands of generals near the Fenghao City Gate.

"Huh?"

Xiang Li's face showed a little suspicious, although the cold wind was cold, he faintly felt that the wind was mixed with some strange sounds.

And just then, he heard a shrill horn whistle in the distance in the night, which was the voice used by the ravens to warn them.

"Enemy attack!" Xiang Li subconsciously shouted, which shocked the soldiers of Shangshui who were digging up corpses and recovering arrows outside the city.

Enemy attack?

The Qin people attacked Feng Ho at night?

Before they could react, they saw an unknown number of Qin cavalry rushing out of the night in the distance, brandishing their spears and killing them.

Seeing this, even the soldiers of the Shangshui Army, who had experienced a hundred battles, couldn't help but be a little panicked, because they never thought that the Qin army, which had received another crushing defeat during the daylight today, would actually attack them at night.

What's worse is that because the merchant soldiers outside the city went out of the city to recover the crossbows, they did not bring all the combat weapons, the sword and shield soldiers did not bring shields, and the crossbowmen did not even bring crossbows.

In this case, how did they fight against the invading Qin cavalry enemy army.

"Retreat! Retreat into the city! ”

Thousands of generals shouted loudly, beckoning the merchant army outside the city to quickly retreat into the city.

At this time, Chen Xie, the 2,000-strong general, had already crawled into the city with a rolling belt, and did his best to shout "enemy attack" loudly to remind Tongze in the city.

In an instant, the alarm bell in Feng Ho City rang loudly.

In the sound of the alarm bell, Weiyang Jun Yinghua brandished a war spear and led three thousand cavalry straight through the city gate that the Wei army had no time to close, and entered the city.