On the seventh night, there was no grain in the barn city

When Li Erhu successfully landed in the city with his men, this battle could already be regarded as a victory. The "trapped" quickly captured the city, and a few minutes later stormed down the walls, opening the gates for the recruits who followed.

At this time, the defender of Fengfeng Cang finally understood why the Eastern Navy was able to easily eat the 4,000 troops in the northern plains, and that was because the difference in strength between the two sides was too great. To put it mildly, this is simply a group of regular troops armed to the teeth bullying villagers fighting with hoes and nail rakes. Of course, this is just an analogy, there may be some gaps in the weapons and equipment of the two sides, but they have not yet reached the point where they can produce overwhelming superiority, and the key is that the personal qualities of the soldiers are far apart.

When the Baofeng Cangshou was chopped away by Li Erhu with an axe, his first thought was that the northern plains were probably going to end, and no one could resist such an army at all. The few mob army generals guarding other city passes are not much stronger than him, everyone is at the level of half a catty, so the fundamental reason why the factional struggle within the mob army has been troubled for so long is the lack of a strong person who can control the situation. Just imagine, how can a group of guys who can only fight in the nest be able to resist a powerful foreign invasion, and the northern plains are finished.

Lying on the ground in despair, the general of the storm was not willing to rise up and resist again, so he quickly tied up several wolf-like soldiers of the Eastern Navy and were sent to several tall men with a temperament very different from others. One of them glared at him viciously, and there was an invisible evil aura exuding from his body, which was more terrifying than the two big axes he faced in front of Li Erhu.

"Why is the granary empty?" The storm was easily won, but Zhang Wei was not happy at all, he advocated attacking here first, because he took a fancy to this city.

Perhaps frightened by Zhang Wei's momentum, the general of the storm warehouse honestly explained the reason to everyone.

Due to factional strife, the Storm Harvest Warehouse existed as a stronghold on the Northern Plains, rather than as its intended warehouse function. The defenders of the Storm Harvest Warehouse were not responsible for delivering food to other city gates, and the mob army did not set up any material distribution centers, and the supplies needed by each faction were raised by themselves in their respective areas.

It was because of these shortcomings that the defenders of the Storm Pass crossed the border and entered the territory of Donghai County in the south of Wei County to plunder civilians, and finally attracted a counterattack against their already tempted Eastern Navy.

"What is this called an army? It's just a bunch of unorganized mobs," Zhang Wei sighed helplessly. Immediately, he thought that the official name of the other party was the "Mob" Army, which was also worthy of the name.

The original intention of the mob army was the people's army of the tyrant county, which was formed by the militia groups spontaneously organized by various villages in the tyrannical county in order to resist the oppression of unscrupulous officials and soldiers. However, it is undoubtedly a great irony that the small-scale peasant mentality led to their own work and their own interests, and in the end they did not twist into a rope, but formed irreconcilable factional strife, and finally became a "mob" army that would only blindly pursue profits.

The mob army is not even as good as the rebels in Weixian County, at least Du Ziteng still called himself a "righteous army" at the beginning, and he has a lofty concept, but he is not good at governance, and the gangsterism is too heavy, which led to the final decline.

It is no longer meaningful to compare the differences between these rebel armies on the Dongzhou continent, the rebel army in Weixian County has become a thing of the past, and the prospects of the mob army that have relied on the dangerous terrain to support it so far are also bleak, and once the northern plains fall, the decline of the mob army is almost a foregone conclusion.

Huang Zhi roughly listened to the introduction of the person concerned, and couldn't help but feel some sympathy for these low-level poor people who tried to change their fate through uprising. But because they lacked the necessary leadership to guide and choose a difficult but correct line, like most of the unsuccessful peasant rebels in history, defeat was their doom.

"Then you should have food in stock, right? Otherwise, what should so many troops eat? Huang Zhi was silent for a long time before asking.

The general of the storm phong showed a bitter expression, "It's summer, and there is still a period of time before the autumn harvest, and the staple foods of rice and noodles are gone. The defenders of each city pass relied on growing some sweet potatoes to survive, and it would take a month for a large harvest to enter the warehouse. ”

"White potato, isn't that the commonly known sweet potato......" Huang Zhi was completely speechless. He now understands why the mob army crossed the border to the south of Wei County to loot, simply because of the food shortage.

"Sweet potatoes are okay," Zhang Wei didn't dare to ask for anything at this time, "If you can eat it, we can eat it too." ”

If they can't solve the problem of rations for the Eastern Navy, they may even be able to continue fighting on the northern plains. When they left the Storm Pass that day, considering that they could get enough supplies in the Storm Harvest Warehouse, the Dream Man left most of the rations to the second battalion stationed in the Storm Shock Pass, while the other 1,500 troops only brought enough dry food for five days, and hurriedly slaughtered the Storm Harvest Warehouse.

If there is no food at this time, the Eastern Navy will have to return to the Storm Pass hungry and gray, and then pack up the covers and return to the East End Pass, and the strategy of the northern plains of the Storm County is completely bankrupt. Even if it has annihilated more than 7,000 living forces of the mob army, it is just a wedding dress for the officials and soldiers of the Duzhou capital.

The general of the storm Feng Cangshou hesitated for a while with an embarrassed face, and as Zhang Wei used the "murderous qi release" on him again, he recalled his identity as a prisoner, "The white potatoes are still in the fields south of Cangcheng and have not been dug out, and the harvest in this period is about 1,500 people and ten days, I hope the adults will be kind and leave us a little, otherwise my brothers will starve to death."

Although the style of the mob army is not very good, because they are all from the militia group, the generals still cherish the soldiers under their command, after all, they are all from the village. Huang Zhi was still quite satisfied with this, so he opened his mouth to remind him, "The soldiers under your command have long been out of 1,500 now. ”

Liu Yuanzhi saw him turn his head to look at himself, and hurriedly reported the statistics he had just gotten, "The defenders of Fengcang totaled five hundred and thirty-nine, with two hundred and thirty-seven killed, one hundred and forty-eight wounded, and one hundred and fifty-four captured. ”

After listening to this set of figures, Huang Zhi turned to the guards, "After deducting the rations of the dead and seriously wounded, I will also leave you the rations, a total of three hundred and two people and ten days' rations." The rest of our Eastern Navy is going to be requisitioned, no problem, right? ”

Naturally, there can be no problem with the defenders of the storm, in fact, as the defeated side, the winner can still take care of their right to live, which is a very rare thing in a place like the Dongzhou Continent. If today's opponent is the official army of Duzhou Prefecture, then the fate that awaits these survivors is to be beheaded and displayed to the public.

Although there were still more than 300 brothers who saved their lives, when they thought of the 1,500 men and horses in the heyday of the Fengfeng Cang, the guards were still sad, and they burst into tears on the spot.

The dreamer of the East China Sea team looked at his sad appearance, and it was inconvenient to say anything to him, after all, everyone was still hostile to each other. And according to Sima Fuqiang's observations, this person is just a mediocre person, neither Liu Yuanzhi's erudition nor Du Ziteng's tricks, nor Li Erhu's bravery, he is really not a talent needed by the Eastern Navy, and there is no ** to recruit.

However, Huang Zhi still had some extravagant hopes for him, and after comforting him for a few words, he chatted with him for a while, and finally chose to give up in disappointment like the captain.

Huang Zhi originally planned to use the storm to defend the future to copy the tactics of Wanghui City's strategy, but the other party made it clear that it was impossible. It's not that he holds a grudge against the Eastern Navy and is unwilling to cooperate with the actions of the Dream Man, but it's just that the factional strife between several mob armies in the northern plains is too serious, and it is completely impossible to rely on him to deceive the city.

As for asking him to persuade the defenders of several other city passes, the defenders agreed to this, but they did not hold out any hope, for fear that the other party would think that he had surrendered to the enemy, and other than that, I am afraid that there would be no other effect.

Huang Zhi knew that what he said was the truth, and if the relationship between factions in an army was so bad, I am afraid it would be difficult to use these things to make a fuss. That is to say, the Storm Kun Pass, the Storm Gong City and the Storm Departure Pass to be conquered later still have to rely on the strong force of the Eastern Navy to conquer them.

After disarming the defenders of Storm City, the Dream Man sent some of his soldiers to the fields outside the city to plow sweet potatoes, while the other part took care of the wounded of the mob army, and did not exercise too strict control over these militias with low combat effectiveness.

After the discussion of several high-level people in the Eastern Navy, it was decided to release these prisoners of war on the spot after the matter was settled, because the Eastern Navy really does not need to accept the enemy's prisoners of war at present, especially these Xiangyong who were born in the riot county militia group, speaking of which, their combat power is equivalent to the original town guard, which is really not worth looking forward to, and will also affect the composition of the Eastern Navy.

Of course, if someone takes the initiative to sign up to join the Eastern Navy, they will still accept it according to the rules, after all, volunteers are more loyal and more disciplined than recruitment.

There were very few wounded in the Eastern Navy during this battle, and Li Sha quickly completed the treatment work, and devoted her extra energy to treating the seriously wounded of the mob army, which is also her ethics as a medical officer.

She is also quite experienced now, and she will not treat the Aboriginal wounded as hard as she did with her teammates. Usually in order to save energy, she will only be responsible for stopping the bleeding and closing the wounded wounds, and releasing a "recovery" for the wounded to slowly heal themselves. Because of this, with the same amount of physical strength, she was able to treat more wounded and greatly improved the efficiency of treatment.

If there is any undesirable sequelae of this simplified version of "treatment", it is that there will be scars on the body of the wounded. In contrast, Zhang Wei, who has enjoyed her meticulous "treatment" services, has not left any scars on his body so far, and has jokingly complained more than once that Li Sha has deprived him of the "medal" that he should have as a man.

After staying in the Fengcang for two days, because they had to leave enough food for the soldiers to support the next harvest, plus the consumption of these two days, the Eastern Navy obtained just enough sweet potatoes for a week to eat as rations. This is the first time that the Eastern Navy has been mixed up to this point since its formation, and it can be regarded as a miscalculation of the dreamer.

However, the soldiers of the Eastern Navy did not complain about this, after all, people always make mistakes, not to mention that they are not really hungry after all.

Now in front of the dreamers is a new question, that is, what will happen to them next. It is time to return to the Storm Pass with the sweet potatoes of the seven days, and then withdraw to the territory of Donghai County to raise supplies, and then come back to attack the northern plains of Storm County after some time. Or continue to gamble, and with this somewhat pitiful amount of rations, continue to march to the next city pass to see if you can get enough supplies there.

When the defender of the city of Storm Feng learned that the Eastern Navy was going to dismiss them on the spot, instead of being taken into custody as prisoners of war, he was once again moved by the righteous deeds of his opponent, which provided an important clue for the dreamman - the garrison of Storm Kun Pass had crossed the border into the territory of Lizhou in the north, that is, Ji County west of Wei County, last month, and robbed a lot of food and property, which is currently the most wealthy mob army force in the northern plains.

Hearing this news, Sima Fuqiang immediately summoned several generals of the Eastern Navy, and after some discussion, unanimously decided to attack the Fengkun Pass, which was located about 100 miles north of the Fengfeng Cang, as planned, and strive to get rid of the hard days of eating sweet potatoes every day as soon as possible.

Huang Zhi even gratefully made a promise to the defender of Storm City, "You should all be locals living nearby, and you won't go far after you want to be dismissed." If we can get enough food from the Storm Kun Pass, we will definitely give you a little. ”

Although the militia trained guard was not convinced of the reliability of this, he expressed his gratitude once again for the generosity of the dreamer.

On the morning of the third day of the storm, the Eastern Navy once again embarked on the journey, aiming at the storming pass a hundred miles to the north.

Due to the considerable proximity between the two city passes, it is certain that the storm kun pass must have learned the news of the Eastern Navy's capture of the storm Fengcang, and also knew the secret of the Eastern Navy's ability to attack at night. If they still go to the Storm Kun Pass at the normal marching speed, the other party will definitely be prepared to guard against their night attack. Therefore, Sima Fuqiang decided to speed up the pace of the march this time, and make a long-distance attack at night to beat the opponent with a time difference.

The dream man of the Donghai team took Du Ziteng's cavalry battalion as the lead, mainly to clear the scout team stationed on the road by the other side, and the "trapped camp" and the new battalion that had gradually separated from the recruits after two battles fell into their rear for a continuous ten-hour forced march, which could be regarded as testing their combat effectiveness from another angle.

When the pilot troops arrived near the Storm Kun Pass, it was only the afternoon of the day, and looking at this level with a somewhat similar shape to the Storm Earthquake Pass from a distance, the people in the dream couldn't help but be glad that they were attacking this Xiongguan from the direction of the pass, otherwise I really don't know if I could find another path leading to the mountain ridge for the herb pickers.

Let the cavalry team hide in the bushes on the south road of the mountain range, and the Donghai team temporarily performed the duties of scouts, and the group went to the nearest place to inquire about the situation.

The wall of the Storm Kun Pass is higher than the Storm Earthquake Pass, that is, the height of six meters according to the standard of the Dongzhou Continent, which is also because the terrain of this level is relatively low, and it is only less than twenty meters above the ground height of the Guannai Plain. Therefore, the southern road of the Storm Kun Pass is almost a flat road with only a few degrees of elevation, and it basically has no impact on the siege troops.

However, according to the conclusion of Sima Fuqiang's "terrain multiplication", it is a lowland to the north of the Storm Kun Pass, about 20 meters lower than this side. In other words, the north slope of the Storm Kun Pass is a steep slope of nearly 30 degrees, and considering its six-meter-high standard Xiongguan city wall, if attacked from the north, it is even more difficult to overcome than the Storm Earthquake Pass.

However, even so, the elites of the "trapped camp" do not have the ability to climb the six-meter-high wall of the Storm Kun Pass with their bare hands, and they still need to use some small means, which is also a problem that the dream people who arrived first need to consider, and they must have a clear plan before the arrival of the two battalions of foot soldiers in the evening.

Hiding outside the opponent's line of sight, only Sima Fuqiang can unilaterally monitor the opponent by virtue of the "ascending and overlooking" ability of increasing the line of sight by 60% in the B rank.

"If it's night, we still have a chance." After looking at it for a while, Sima Fuqiang finally brought good news to everyone.

"Hurry up," Zhang Wei urged.

"I'll talk about it later." It's not that Captain Tokai deliberately sells off, it's just that some things are really hard to explain without the help of props.

Returning to the bushes where the cavalry battalion was hiding, Sima Fuqiang unhurriedly made a sand table of the Storm Kun Pass in the clearing in the bushes, faithfully restoring the nearby terrain in front of his teammates.

Then he pointed to the mountain ridge on the east side of the Storm Kun Pass and said, "Look, what are the characteristics of the mountain beam here?" ”

I have to admit that even if it was reduced by a hundred times, the sand table made by Sima Fuqiang still faithfully restored the original appearance of the terrain, and Zhang Wei soon found a place on the mountain beam that could be used.

Zhang Wei lay on the ground and stared at the mountain beam carefully for a long time before he got up, "If that's the case, we have to go out in person, and the soldiers of the 'trapped camp' can't do this." ”

Sima Fuqiang smiled, "If we weren't in a hurry, I believe the elites of the 'trapped camp' could also do it." However, considering the shortage of food and grass, we hope to achieve victory with minimal losses, and we can only do it ourselves. After all, there is no such thing as a beautiful thing. ”

Huang Zhi also nodded, "It's okay, it's not the first time I've done this, anyway, it's impossible to sit back and enjoy it in the dream world." The mob army is not capable of threatening our opponents, is it? ”

Sima Fuqiang sighed, "Now it seems that the generals who lead the reinforcements of Tyrannomy City have some level, and they can quickly make the right decisions in the chaos, which is really a rare talent." It's a pity, Shixin, you shot too hard, and shot that person directly......"

Huang Zhi didn't feel pity at all, "What do you say, I don't think he is stronger than Lao Du at all, and it's a chicken rib to really surrender him." ”

Du Ziteng, who was listening, was unconsciously moved by him again, and repeated the declaration of allegiance that had been repeated many times in his heart.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, when the two tigers arrive, we will act according to the plan" Zhang Wei made a decision.

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