"That's right."

As he spoke, Li Zheng suddenly remembered something, and said: "There are more and more slaves under my rule, and with the million population this time, it almost exceeds the number of Han people. The recruitment of displaced people must be stepped up. In addition, Mr. Gongda must count all Han surnames, announce and let all non-Han surnames change their names and surnames! ”

Xi Zhicai bowed his head slightly and did not express his opinion.

This is not within his purview, no matter what Li Zheng says, he just needs to listen

In the face of a desperate situation, the desire to survive can make any life burst out with great power. The Huns were besieged by Shicheng, hundreds of thousands of people gathered together, there was no water source, it was difficult to supply food and livestock for too long, and they had to always be terrified to carry the golden winged tiger riding whistling in the sky, all kinds of conditions can make people desperate to death. But after a long time of dazing, after despair, they finally broke out.

They left a certain number of livestock, slaughtered the rest, and then sent a dozen or so thousand men to build slopes in different sections of the wall at the same time, hoping for a success.

He also tried to demolish the stone house, but because the stone house was too strong, he gained very little.

Faced with such a situation, the Golden Wing Tiger Rider in the sky is almost too busy!

It has been nearly a year since the Golden Winged Tiger was synthesized. During this year, the reproduction and intermittent synthesis of the Tongguò made the scale of the Golden Wing Tiger Cavalry, a sky war cavalry army, have developed considerably.

Up to now, Li Zheng has been able to use more than one hundred and fifty Golden Winged Tiger Riders.

Although the Golden Wing Tigers are fast enough to ride and have strong endurance, there are not many of them after all. And the Huns in the city built slopes and blossomed everywhere, so that they ran back and forth, busy non-stop.

After nightfall, the Huns went even more crazy. He even ignores the oil thrown from the sky, doesn't care about the burning fire, and just does things.

And the Golden Wing Tiger Rider, who had been tired for a day, was already very tired, and could only stay half, monitor it first, and rest the other half for the time being.

The pressure on the Huns suddenly decreased, and throughout the night, they actually built a slope several times and climbed the city wall!

Fortunately, Li Zheng had already prepared, and in each direction outside the city, he prepared two thousand light step archers. Whenever the Huns climbed the city wall, they would shoot them back with their well-made bows and crossbows. There was also a golden-winged tiger riding in the sky to cooperate, which finally made the Huns do useless work.

Li Zheng saw all kinds of situations. It seems that the situation is urgent, and the Huns seem to have the ability to climb over the wall, but Li Zheng knows that this is nothing more than wishful thinking.

What is the concept of a thirty-zhang high city wall? One hundred meters!

Converted to the building of Li Zheng's era, it was also thirty or forty floors. It was not easy for the Huns to build several slopes without sufficient materials, and they did not have so many cattle to consume.

In the sky, the golden-winged tiger rode on fire oil and destroyed and burned it, and the slope built by the cattle could not be preserved at all.

They're going to eat it!

Without livestock, you can't build slopes unless you slaughter horses. But what has happened before has shown that the construction of a slope with the carcasses of livestock is unsuccessful! The corpse is not dirt and can be burned. So there is absolutely no chance of escaping from Stone City, and there is nothing to eat. From this, Li Zheng and Xi Zhi concluded that sooner or later there would be civil strife in the city!

First, if there is no food, you have to rob other people's food, which is inevitable. Secondly, the fewer people, the less consumption, it is not Li Zheng who belittles the Xiongnu nobles, in the face of this situation, they will definitely not treat the Huns at the bottom as people, and will even secretly encourage cannibalism to meet their own needs.

Third, some people may think that without the carcasses of animals, the corpses of people can be used to build slopes!

And what Li Zheng wants to do is not to trap them to death all the time. Rather, it is necessary to wear down their will and resistance, and wait until a certain time, and wait until the Huns in the city are almost out of strength, and then deal with it.

And so the next day passed.

In the stone city, the water bladders carried by the Huns have long since dried up. The thirsty Huns had to slaughter livestock and horses to quench their thirst with their blood.

However, there are not many livestock, and after slaughtering, they will not be able to eat them for a while, and in this kind of weather, they will quickly deteriorate.

On this day, the Huns still did not give up the means of building ramps, and still continued to work hard to climb over the city wall.

At night, more than a dozen golden-winged tiger riders quietly landed in the area where the Bailuo tribe was located. Subsequently, Bai Luo and other important figures of the Bai Luo tribe were quietly taken out of the city by the Golden Winged Tiger Horse.

The disappearance of Bai Luo and the others did not attract anyone's attention. In this city, the number of tribes reached more than 5,000, and although the Bailuo tribe was a landlord, it was not powerful and inconspicuous. In this panicked situation, no one paid attention to them.

After Bai Luo and the others left, late at night, in addition to a few sections of the city wall with a slope, it was still in full swing. The rest of the place gradually quieted down.

Suddenly, in an unknown area, there was a shouting of killing.

It's like a beginning, and then this scattered chaos is getting denser and denser! It was not until the morning of the third day that it gradually subsided.

After the subsidence, the chaotic areas left behind pieces of corpses.

However, in the face of this situation, the high-level of the Xiongnu forces turned a blind eye.

On the third day, during the day, the Huns finally stopped their useless deeds - they didn't have enough livestock!

Gradually, the city fell silent, and a kind of dead air was permeating.

Li Zhengtong guò blue Xiang bird, clearly saw that in all corners of the city, a group here, a pile there, many Huns were lying down, like dead corpses.

They are waiting for death.

On the night of the third day, there was a mass riot.

I don't know which small tribe led the way, but they united a large number of troops and attacked the area where the four major forces were located. The shouting lasted for most of the night, and the soldiers of Li Zheng's troops outside the city could hear it clearly.

The kind of shouting and killing that seems to have forgotten a qiē just to vent exposes the desperation in it.

In the early hours of the morning, Stone City finally fell silent again. On the morning of the fourth day, the Huns launched another wave of rampage construction, which was a human corpse.

However, it is still useless work. The corpses were piled up together, not enough to build half the height, and the fire oil thrown from the sky quickly burned into a pile of ashes.

Dongying Pass.

Li Zheng and Xi Zhicai are still waiting.

The Huns had not completely given up, and were still thinking of climbing over the city walls, and their will, although they had been eliminated too much, still existed.

It's going to have to be sharpened a little more.

On the fourth night there was another night of rioting.

The riots that night were so large that they did not stop until the next morning. On the morning of the fifth day, another operation was made of human corpses to build a ramp.

This seems to have become the inertia of the Huns, and they have only this way to go. Although I know that I can't do it, I still stubbornly do it.

"Tomorrow"

At Dongying Pass, Li Zheng and Xi Zhicai stood side by side at the head of the city, looking in the direction of Shicheng, and sighed slightly. The whole stone city is like a huge jar, with a small fire burning underneath, slowly simmering. Cruelty, it may be said that it is cruel, it is cruel, but war is like that.

Li Zheng didn't care how many casualties the Huns had. Although the army under his command is elite enough, it would be great if he could not spend a single soldier.

It is impossible to insist on fighting with the Huns.

The Huns were people, but the Han were more noble. In Li Zheng's eyes, no matter how many Huns die, they can't match a Han Chinese.

However, the Huns besieged in Shicheng are also the laborers of Li Zheng's men sooner or later, and it is also good for Li Zheng to die less.

Originally, he was going to let them suffer for a while longer, but Li Zheng now felt that six days was about the same.

Tonight, there will be another riot. By tomorrow daytime, the Huns were already strong and weak because of the lack of drinking water and food, and they fought all night, and they could not resist if they wanted to.

Sure enough, on the night of the fifth day, there was an even larger riot in Stone City.

The Huns in the city, one or two of them were red-eyed, and they cut down when they caught them, and killed them when they met them. In the end, they came together and entered the area where the four major forces were located.

The earth-shattering shouts continued until dawn on the sixth day, and it didn't stop!

It wasn't until Li Zheng and Xi Zhi arrived outside the stone city that they could still hear the sound of sporadic fighting from the city.

Standing under the huge city wall like a moat, facing the huge gate that isolated hundreds of thousands of lives, Li Zheng seemed to smell the fishy smell wafting from the city! It smelled of blood and corpses.

Under the command of Li Zheng, 3,000 heavily armored spearmen formed a military formation and surrounded the city gate within a radius of ten zhang. The light archers were on the periphery of the heavily armored spearmen, holding their longbows, and looked at the city gates. The rest of the nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses were all in the vicinity, lined up.

Li Zheng rode on Qingyun's back and beckoned, and a captain next to him stepped forward to salute with his fists.

"See there?" Li Zheng pointed to the city wall next to the city gate, put his hand at a height of about two zhang from the ground, and said: "There is a moving stone there, move it away, there is a stone pillar inside, pull out the stone pillar, you can open the city gate!" ”

This is a mechanism carefully designed by Li Zheng, which seems to be subtle, but it is actually very simple.

The entire city gate is actually a superposition of more than a dozen movable giant stone slabs embedded in the city wall, and its opening principle is to push and pull left and right, rather than front and back. In the city wall, there are more than a dozen empty grooves, and this stone pillar, which traverses the empty grooves, plays the role of a door bolt.

By pulling out this stone pillar, the stone gate can be pushed into the inside of the city wall layer by layer, thus opening the exit.

It seems very simple, but in fact, it is still very difficult to operate on the map.

And because the stone of this castle is formed by compressing the soil more than 10,000 times. The uplift of the stone city has caused the elevation of a large area around this city to drop a lot. So the stone pillar was very heavy, and it was not easy to pull it out.

"The stone pillar is very heavy, you take someone to find some tools, build a platform, and then find a rope to lasso the stone pillar, and thirty or fifty people work together, you should be able to pull it out." At the front of the pillar, there was a deep groove that was used to lass the rope so that the gate could be opened.

The lieutenant received the instructions, and did not dare to slack off, and immediately went down to do the work.

Two moments later, a platform of more than a foot high and nearly two feet high was erected, and fifty strong soldiers climbed onto the platform, lassoed the stone pillar with thick ropes, and then worked together.

A trumpet sounded, and with the sound of clicking, a stone pillar with the thickness of a bowl mouth was slowly pulled out of the city wall.