Pingdu City, Pingdu Ditch, a city and a ditch, people who don't know the road are only on the edge of the city, but in fact, this city and a ditch are separated by dozens of miles.

Peng Dazhui was ordered to investigate the enemy situation in Pingdu, and under the guidance of the "righteous people" who saw the money, he crossed the hills and mountains, but stopped at a place more than ten miles away from Pingdu City, and then quickly returned.

He didn't bring back the enemy's situation, and he didn't know how many rebels there were in Pingdu City; Whether Pingdu's city defense is strong or not, he doesn't know how to do it. But he said categorically to Shi Dayong and a group of generals: "Pingdu is like taking something from a bag, if the general takes it, he can take it." ”

The nephew Sihai on the side followed closely and chimed in: "The thieves only know how to plunder, occupy Pingdu City, and what they do every day is to send troops to the countryside to search for food, and other than that, they don't do anything." According to the fleeing people, the thieves have brought peace to the point where it is like a year of great calamity, and the land is thousands of miles away. However, the thieves did not get much food, and I heard that they drove all the people out of the city in order to gather all the food in the city, and it was obvious that the thieves did not have much food. ”

After the nephew said, Peng Dahai nodded, and said: "My subordinate once asked a victim who escaped from the city, and he said that the thief army was very chaotic, there were all kinds of people, and they were noisy, and the soldiers were not like soldiers, and the thieves were not like thieves, and they were full of miasma. If the officers and soldiers arrived, these thieves would definitely flee a lot. I didn't see a few Liao soldiers inside, if it weren't for the Pingdu defenders abandoning the city, these thieves wouldn't have been able to enter the city at all. Therefore, the subordinates thought that the level was desirable and easy to take, so they came back to report. ”

"In the year of the catastrophe, the red land is like a thousand miles?" Jiang Wanli was thoughtful, and looked at Shi Dayong with some concern, he didn't care about the combat strength of the Pingdu rebels, but said worriedly: "In this way, even if we occupy Pingdu, our army will have no food to replenish?" ”

"If there is no food, how can the morale of the army be stable?" Song Qing is very clear about the current predicament in the camp, the big guy is bent on following the general, looking forward to not being able to make a name for Pingdu, and can also get heavy supplies, if there is no food in Pingdu City, no matter how this name is down, this soldier is afraid that he will not be able to bring it. Is there a hungry army in this world?

To fight or not to fight? What should I do if I lay it? What if the soldiers are scattered? A series of doubts lingered in Song Qing's heart.

Seeing that Jiang Song and the others were worried about the lack of food, Li Dashan couldn't help grinning: "If there is no food, don't you want to fight this battle?" How can this living person suffocate his urine? The rebels in Pingdu didn't starve to death? ”

Jiang Wanli shook his head and said: "The rebels live by plundering, so naturally they can't starve them, and only the people are harmed." We are the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, how can we poison the people like the rebels. If so, how is we different from the rebels? ”

"Is it fate that matters, or is it that the people matter? If we starve to death, the people will always suffer from the thief army, but if we do not die, the people will suffer only for a while, but they will eventually have peace. How can a big husband have so many worries. At present, our army is in a difficult situation both internally and externally, and we can't watch the brothers drink the northwest wind to fill their stomachs, right? Jiang Wanli said, Li Dashan disagreed, in his opinion, the moment is the most important thing to protect himself. What's more, he was a bandit in his early years, and he didn't have any psychological burden on robbing the people.

Hearing his words, the generals fell silent, it is not a problem for them to go to a bloody battle with the Dongyu and fight to the death with the rebels, but no one wants to let them learn from the rebels and live by poisoning the people.

But in this situation, if there is really no surplus food in Pingdu City, it is to lay down Pingdu, and it is just an empty city, and there is not a single grain of food, what should I do if I call the stomachs of thousands of people?

No one is a god, they can't conjure food out of thin air, and no one is afraid of the enemy in battle, but everyone is panicked if there is no food in their stomachs.

After a long time, Cao Bianjiao suddenly opened his mouth and said lightly: "What the court wants is only the result of counterinsurgency, what it wants is our loyalty, as for the rest, who will think about the princes in the court." The implication is to support Li Dashan's method of eating the people.

"Xiao Cao is right, the urgency of the moment, winning Pingdu is our only way to survive! Others, don't care so much about what to do, when the rebels are suppressed, who will come and ask us what we have done! Seeing that Cao Bianjiao supported him, Li Dashan's confidence couldn't help but be more sufficient, and after speaking, he took his eyes to look at Shi Dayong, and found that there was no uncertainty on the general's face, and he couldn't help but be even more firm, and it seemed that the general also recognized his own method.

Everyone here, Peng Dazhui and Peng Sihai, the two uncles and nephews, were originally born as horse thieves, naturally like Li Dashan, they were full of gangsterism in their hearts, and they didn't know what the attitude of the Jinzhou military general was before, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense, but seeing that General Xiaocao, who was deeply trusted by the general, also said so, and was in favor of plundering the people to survive the crisis. But they just nodded in agreement, but they didn't dare to speak.

Guo Cheng and Wang Fei did not express their opinions, they had to be responsible for their brothers, and they would support whoever could fill their stomachs.

Li Gu supports that as a last resort, he can first follow the example of the rebels and get through the crisis. Lin Junyi opened his eyes wide, looked at Li Dashan and Cao Bianjiao in disbelief, his mouth opened and opened, and he sighed and looked at Shi Dayong at a loss.

Jiang Wanli and Song Qing hesitated and were noncommittal, and the two of them looked at Shi Dayong motionlessly, wondering how General Lu Dao decided. In other words, they are reluctant to take the initiative to mention this matter, after all, the imprint of the official army is too deeply engraved in their hearts.

Shi Dayong knew that his subordinates were looking at him, and he also knew that they were waiting for them to make up their minds, and if they didn't solve this fatal stomach problem, what could they do if they took a Pingdu empty city, and what if the rebels killed more, and the Jinzhou army was not facing a collapse situation. It was something he would never have to see.

After a while, he slowly stood up, his eyes met the gaze of his subordinates, and he said in a deep voice: "Since you are the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, you should not do things that poison the people of the Son of Heaven, we are the official army, the army of the Ming Dynasty, and we must not do evil deeds that harm the people!" ”

As soon as the "general" Li Dashan heard that Shi Dayong would not allow the people to be plundered, he couldn't help but say that there was no food in the camp, and if he didn't think about finding food, he was afraid that the men and horses would collapse overnight. But as soon as he screamed, he was stopped by Shi Dayong waving his hand, and said undoubtedly: "If you take everything down, you won't believe it, and the living will really be suffocated to death by urine!" ”

Li Dashan was a little unwilling, and stiffened his neck and shouted: "What if there is really no food in the city?" ”

Shi Dayong glanced at him and coldly threw out a sentence: "If there is really no food, then kill people for food!" ”

"Human flesh?!"

After hearing this, the generals all gasped and looked at Shi Dayong in a daze. Guo Cheng and Wang Fei even jumped up in fright.