The stench of burning corpses permeated the four gates of the royal city, and the black smoke of the raging fire and slag rose into the air, and then drifted away with the wind after rushing out of the city walls. Although the Qin army, which was more cautious than the Wei army, did not rush into the city, when the sharp soldiers at the front shouted 'There is an ambush', the soldiers in the door hole behind them still looked at the wall painting and rushed in. Outside the city, the doorway, and the narrow aisle between the walls and moats, the Qin troops in these three places can't look at each other, the front does not know the rear, the rear does not know the front, only when the rolling wood flames fall on the painting wall, then they know that they are in ambush.

There was a raging fire behind it, there were walls and trenches on the side, and before the spear formations at both ends began to advance, the Rui Shi attacked with his life. The stabbing of the long beryllium made the sanitation hands in the front row scramble, and the back rows of spears immediately stabbed to resolve the panic caused by this round of impact of the sharp soldiers. After dealing with these sharp soldiers, the spear formation of forty people really advanced inside.

The wind was blowing north, enduring the stench of burning corpses, and Xiong Jing on the upper floor of the North City was watching everything that happened between the walls and moats. Cutting the wall for the slope, digging a trench inside the wall, and building a wall behind the trench are the defense system he designed according to the idea of Lian Po defending the city. It's a pity that the enemy army attacked the city day and night, and there was no time to build more long walls after painting the wall, otherwise the entire royal city would be built into a labyrinth, and there were sandwich walls everywhere.

In fact, this is also a summary of the experience of soldiers fighting for several months in fierce battles. The Chu soldiers dressed in great armor and armed with razor-spear blades defeated the same number of Qin soldiers, and the trained and fearless warriors of the enemy defeated the same number or slightly more sharp soldiers, but there was only one premise: the terrain was narrow. Only in the narrow terrain can the Chu army give full play to its equipment and tactical advantages and obtain a high exchange ratio.

"Report to the king, the Wei soldiers who entered the city through the southwest two gates are all dead, the doorway has been recovered, and the city gate is also being repaired. More than 7,000 enemies were killed in this battle! "The four gates of the royal city use signal flags to transmit messages to each other. The fire burned for more than an hour, and flags came from the west and south gates, which made the soldiers rejoice.

"Can the Wei army withdraw its troops?" Xiong Jing didn't care how many enemies he had killed or wounded, and what the Chu army wanted now was rest.

'Dangdangdang dang ......' was about to send a flag to ask each other, when the sound of Wei Jun's singing gold came from the south gate.

"Report to the general, the Wei army has collected its troops." Five hundred steps outside the North City Gate, the news of the Wei army's collection was also reported to Mengwu.

"The last general also asks the general to collect his troops." Li Xin hesitated, but still bowed to him. Bai Lin, who attacked the east gate, had just told him that one of his cronies had also entered the city with the vanguard, and after seeing the layout of the wall moat in the city, he luckily ran out before the light oil splashed down at the city gate.

"King Jing has many skills, and he is incorruptible. I also ask the general to temporarily collect his troops for one day, and it is not too late to gather the generals to discuss the siege method. Wei Yi also said. The previous attack was aimed at the normal defense system of the royal city, but the defense inside the city was not like this. For example, the city wall, if it is really like what Bai Lin said, the inner side has been cut into a steep slope, then it is useless to rush up with more soldiers.

"General......" Wang Jian also looked at Meng Wu. In fact, he had long felt that there was something strange in the city, but his army had just captured the outer city, and the morale was high, and the king's order was urgent, so it was really difficult to say this kind of thing.

Meng Wu really didn't want to give the Chu army a respite, but all the soldiers who attacked the city died, and the head of the city was a steep slope, so he couldn't stand up if he went up, so he had to rearrange the siege tactics. "Mingjin!" Meng Wu ordered. The bronze cymbals on the chariot began to ring, and when they heard the sound of the cymbals, the lieutenants of the first cadre were all relieved, and finally had time to sit down and calculate the battle damages-they had been demoted three times in a row, and they would not be promoted again......

The sound of the drums on the city tower did not stop day and night, and as soon as the sound of the Qin army outside the city sounded, the military officials ordered to stop beating the drums. Although the drums stopped, the drums still echoed in everyone's heads, and only when the soldiers shouted along the city: "The enemy has retreated, and the soldiers have gone down to the city", they came back to their senses in a daze, and no one cheered, they were already tired and shouted no more.

Invariably, curling smoke rose inside and outside the city. To the east of the royal city is the palace, and to the west is the garden, and the soldiers are all camped in the garden. The precious bamboo and wood in the confinement were cut down, and the pavilions and pavilions were all demolished, except for the hardwood pillars and beams, and the remaining wood was all made into firewood.

In March in Huaibei, the grass in the garden is budding, but before they can grow, the soft soil is rudely dug up, and the flames in the military stove swallow and scorch them. The flames also engulfed the bronze cauldron, which was simmering with soup and rice steaming on top. After the water boiled, hot white steam came out, and the rice was quickly cooked, and the tired soldiers sitting around the stove smelled the aroma of the corn rice, and before they knew it, they fell asleep.

"The king! Courtesy ——。 The vegetable soup at the bottom of the kettle was still boiling, and the outermost commander shouted and saluted.

'Wow! The intermediary was undefeated, and the sound of iron armor and leather armor was mixed together, and more than 40,000 soldiers all stood up and swung in the direction where Xiong Jing was.

"The king has an order: Don't think the king is here. Thou shalt wait for the meal. "It's not easy for four or five people to hear their voices, so after Lian Po fell, Xiong Jing deliberately found more than a dozen loud voices in the army to help him spread the word.

And every time he appeared among the soldiers, the soldiers would be uncomfortable, either saluting him or bowing their heads and staying there, waiting for the king's orders. He had to give the order, 'Do not let the king be there, but go your own way,' so that his actions would not disturb the soldiers.

Hearing the royal decree of 'Don't take the king's presence,' there was an 'uproar', and more than 40,000 people sat down again. No one dared to doze off, and no one dared to frolic in a serious manner, and one by one began to eat seriously. Yellow corn, green rapeseed soup, and a small withered fish. This kind of meal without oil and water has to eat more than a pound of corn in one meal three times a day.

The five pawns were surrounding a military stove, mixed with piping hot vegetable soup, and the whole army was eating in a hurry, and the sound was not much smaller than that of Li. Xiong Jing had a headache when he looked at the mountain-like meal, and a pound of corn was about five hundred and fifty grams, which was equivalent to three and a half cups of plastic cups in rice cookers in later generations, and the rice cooked from these rice was enough for a family of three to eat for a day. One meal is 1,650 grams of corn a day.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the supply advice given by U.S. nutrition experts for Chinese soldiers was 850 grams of rice per day, about half of the Chu army's food standard, but the Chu army had no fresh vegetables, no meat (only dried fish imported from Qi State, Chu State was short of grain, and Qi State's merchants who sold grain and straw made a lot of money), and there was no oil.

The amount of vegetables, meat, and oil in the armies of various countries in World War II was posted several times in the SB Military General District, but Xiong Jingquan forgot it, he only remembered that the rice was about 850 grams, and the Japanese army seemed to have less, only more than 600 grams, but there was canned meat on dog days.

Watching the soldiers of Chu eating, Xiong Jing remembered the canned food again. Tinplate production is stuck on pickling before tinning, can tinplate be plated without pickling? He didn't know; Can you use a clay urn instead of tinplate to make canned food? He didn't know either. All he knew was that the supply of meat, oil, and vegetables should be increased, and that the supply of tea was also important, and that the rate of illness dropped dramatically after the Royal Navy distributed tea to soldiers.

Another benefit is that logistical pressure is greatly reduced. At present, the Chu army's artillery and ammunition account for 30% of the tonnage of logistics supply, grain and coal account for about 50%, and the rest is arrows, weapons, and so on. But this is a defense of the city, and trebuchets are not used in field battles, so it doesn't matter if there are artillery shells. If the food supply can be improved, then the tonnage of grain and straw in logistics can be reduced by one-third; If it was all canned and cooked food, there would be no need to cook at all, fuel tonnage would be saved, and the soldiers would be well fed and well-fed.

'Tom tom tom tom ......' neat footsteps came, and more than 1,000 palace armor entered with wine urns. The soldier who was eating happily grinned when he saw it: I can actually drink wine today, haha....... When the soldiers thought that the king was going to drink with the whole army, the king left the palace.

"Firewood and coal......" Xiong Jing thought of a question, "Which province?" I asked about the weight. ”

"Tell the king, coal burning province." The fuel for cooking was also under the jurisdiction of Su Ke, and he squeezed forward and bowed in reply.

"How much to save? Will the whole army be able to supply only coal in the future? Also, can the kettle be changed to a lighter shape, and the lid on the kettle should be made tighter, so that there is less air leakage and the rice is easy to cook. "In the eyes of his subordinates, as soon as the king goes deep into the field, he always has all kinds of ideas. For example, the ban on drinking raw water has led to a sharp increase in fuel consumption throughout the army. If there is no coal and the houses are not demolished, it will not be possible to defend the city.

"Tell the king that every day of firewood requires ten catties of firewood, but only five catties of coal, and only half of the firewood. However, firewood and grass are available everywhere, and there is no need to transport them from the rear, coal can only be transported from the rear, and coal needs money and firewood does not waste a penny, and coal is easy to take time and firewood does not take time. Su Ke is in charge of the logistics of the whole army, and he is naturally a patient and meticulous person, and he answers Xiong Jing's questions one by one.

"The whole army may be mixed with coal and firewood, with firewood to burn firewood and no firewood to burn coal. The copper kettle is the old style in the army, which can naturally be changed, but whether it can be made lighter, the minister does not know. However, there are tens of thousands of kettles for five people, and there are tens of thousands of kettles, which is a huge expense. The same is true of the lid of the kettle, the minister does not know how to cast the lid of the kettle tightly, and how much coal can be saved after it is tight. ”

"Yes." Xiong Jing didn't speak. As long as you are not fighting in the Central Plains, firewood is easy to find, and it is a big deal to demolish the house, the walls are rammed earth, the beams are wood, and the roof is thatched. It is indeed inconvenient to transport coal from the rear, and it also increases the logistical pressure, but the kettle does need to be improved, and the diet of the soldiers needs to be changed, tea is unrealistic, and vegetables, meat, oil and water are increased.

The king didn't speak, and the Su Ke standing beside him walked a few steps slowly, and was about to give up his position to others, when Xiong Jing said again: "You find someone to try, let the soldiers eat vegetables, meat, and oil, and see how much corn you can save?" ”

Zoophagous? Su Ke was stunned, he thought he had misheard. The meat eater is not talking about playing, and now it is a great grace for a soldier to be able to eat a dry fish two fingers wide a day. Meng Weijun's doorman Feng Tanqi sang 'Chang Gong is back!' Eat no fish. It's because he's the lowest class of doormen, and there's no fish to eat. Meat is much more valuable than fish, so how can a soldier eat meat?

"Yes!" Xiong Jing knew his surprise, and this surprise had appeared on Chun Shenjun Huang Xie's face. "You choose a few county soldiers, let them eat only 850 grams of corn a day, and if they are not full, they will eat vegetables and meat, and add some oil to the soup, and see how many grams of vegetables, meat, and oil they need to eat every day......

The matter is very trivial, but it does not mean that Bai Suke is not incomprehensible at all, Xiong Jing finally explained: "Good food is equal to half a set of armor, the food of the Chu army must be improved, and it is inevitable to eat vegetables, meat, oil, and less corn." ”