Zhou Yu's tentative strategy, although because he is young, some assumptions, many places can not withstand the scrutiny of these battle-hardened people, but one thing he said is right, if the rebels really have no food, then they will definitely have abnormal movements, and for the Han army defending the city in Shu County at this moment, the current Han army only needs to rest well and observe the movements of the rebels outside the city to know the answer.

The next day, after yesterday's defeat and the attack on the camp, the rebels had already withdrawn from their original camp and re-encamped in another place. The original camp has long been destroyed by the fire of the Han army, and it will take a lot of time to repair it, and the smell of black smoke in the camp at the moment is also unbearable.

Of course, this is only a day's work, and there are now so many old and weak women and children in the army, they can't participate in camping, and they have to occupy a lot of camps, and the rebels naturally can't be the same as the original, and form a tight camp, so they can only loosely set up the camp first, and wait for it to be built slowly, and the defense of the camp can be described as extremely weak.

In the tent in the camp, the leader of the rebel army, Huang Sui, was upset at the moment, because what he was most afraid of had happened, and the news of the army's lack of food had been completely exposed. After the Han army burned the camp, the soldiers who came to the rescue afterwards put out the fire in addition to looking for their own family, and at the same time, in line with the idea of saving some things if they could, they kept saving things.

It's just that, obviously, it's summer, the weather is dry, and the fire of the Han army is burning fiercely, and most of the things in the camp can't be saved. Originally, there was nothing to do, but unfortunately, there was a vacant space in the camp where food was originally hoarded, and there was no fire, and this strange scene naturally surprised many soldiers of the rebels, and they came to check what was going on.

It was also this scene that completely exposed the truth that Huang Sui had painstakingly concealed, and it turned out that the reason why the vacant land was not on fire was because Huang Sui had long wanted to create the illusion that there was enough food and grass in the army. At that time, he specially ordered his henchmen to fill sacks with sand, and then mixed some real food, piled them up, and continued to deceive his army, and at the same time, let the quartermaster secretly slowly reduce the soldiers' rations, such as small buckets to charge big buckets and other deceptive methods, so that he could still hold on to the present.

However, with the outbreak of the fire, when the soldiers who did not know the truth went to save the grain, they found that most of the sandbags mixed with the real grain were filled with dirt, and the food in them was pitiful, and they suddenly stabbed the hornet's nest.

If the rebels were attacked by the Han army by means such as sneak attacks, under the superior forces, repeated defeats would only discourage them for a while, and would not make them completely lose their fighting spirit and lose the strength to resist the Han Dynasty. With the lack of food in the army, the news that Huang Sui used clay to make food leaked, and faced with the future that even if they rebelled against the Han Dynasty, they would die, and most of the rebels directly lost their morale.

After all, in the current situation, there is a high probability that the attack will die in battle, and a small probability of retreating will starve to death, and which one to choose, you will know. As long as you don't firmly believe that you have an invincible golden body, you will choose the latter, and if you choose the latter after all, although you may starve to death because of lack of food, you may also meet local tyrants and wealthy families on the way, so that they can get food and live.

The morale of the rebels is low, and even many generals are dissatisfied with themselves because of the food, which is the reason why Huang Sui is sad, after all, he still expects to rely on the superior strength of his soldiers to break Nashu County, in his opinion, even if the defenders in Shu County have Fuquan, a reinforcement of thousands of people, but the gap in the strength of the two armies is not something that can be made up after the Han army has thousands more people.

It's just that now, all the things he thinks are about to come to naught, and unlike the soldiers under his command who will choose to retreat in order to survive, Huang Sui knows the current situation, and he can't retreat. He didn't want to be like those mud-legged soldiers who didn't have enough cultural knowledge, thinking that everything would be worry-free if they retreated and fled, he knew that his rebellious army, if it didn't have the blessing of strong armor and soldiers, as well as enough food, supplemented by the protection of the fortified city, they would only be surrounded and suppressed by the Han army in the end, and finally destroyed.

And it is precisely with this concept that Huang Sui will give up the line of resistance of many peasant armies that will be taken by the displaced people, and captured the four counties of Jiangxia County in the early stage of the uprising, and then after attacking Jiangxia in the west without success, he chose to enter Yangzhou in the east and continue to conquer the city.

However, with the exposure of the problem of no food, all Huang Sui's hard work will eventually be in vain, although he also rescued some food yesterday, but for the more than 80,000 mouths in his camp at this moment, it is obviously not enough at all. Even the rebels have secretly reduced their food since the morning, and it has become a blatant deduction, and the food of each soldier has been reduced by almost half, and their families have relied on rice soup to eat, and this is the case, and the food can only be eaten by the army for less than five days at most.

"Report!" A soldier's shout interrupted Huang Sui's thoughts, and just as he wanted to reprimand the soldier for breaking into the tent without permission, he heard the soldier say: "General, something is wrong, someone in the camp mutinied, and several commanders fought. ”

Huang Sui was suddenly shocked, he understood that he must quickly quell the civil strife, and he must not let the situation spread, otherwise he will have a big stop. hurriedly led people to stop it, but there were some things that he couldn't stop if he wanted to, after all, no one would leave their lives in the hands of a person who wouldn't even have enough to eat.

I saw that the soldiers in the camp lined up to use bowls to ride rice millet, and at this moment, many soldiers were pushing each other, asking each other to leave, and let them take rice millet first. After all, there is a shortage of food now, although Huang Sui set the amount of food rated by each soldier, but after all, there is a first come, first come, first come, whoever takes the food first, if he plays some tricks, he must eat a little more, and the later people can only eat less.

People are desperate for their lives and don't want to die, and some people in later generations can take risks to break the law in order to have enough to eat, but now, if these rebels want to eat an extra bite of food, they have to rely on their strength to fight, and even fight for their lives. Even though they used to be companions in life and death, carrying arrows together to attack the city, now they have to stick knives in each other for a bite of rice.

Of course, no matter how much these rebels fought, they did not crowd into the quartermaster's office, because they were afraid that they would fight there and end up wasting food, and then the gains would outweigh the losses, and in the end every grain of food at this moment would be precious to them.