Tang Hai looked around at the soldiers who had fled back to Hongshan City, the situation had reached the most difficult time, the soldiers were pale and their eyes were dull.

The remaining 3,000 soldiers in the city, not to mention defending the city, even eating is a problem.

Tang Hai asked the soldiers to search the city for food, but unfortunately there was no food.

"Prince, we don't have any food now, but if we want to survive, it's not impossible."

"Tell me about it!"

The strategist did not speak, but looked at the pile of corpses piled up in the corners of the city walls.

Tang Hai also understood what this strategist meant, but he was still a little hesitant.

"I'm afraid there will be resistance among the soldiers."

"It's the only way! Or we can rush out of the city and look for opportunities in the forest! ”

Tang Hai was hesitating, when a soldier came to report.

"Prince, a large number of Tang troops have appeared around Hongshan City, and there are more than seven thousand people in each direction!"

"What? So much? ”

Tang Hai's mood sank into a trough, and now he didn't even have a chance to escape.

Li Chengzhou led the army to the front and stationed behind the fortifications that had been built earlier.

"Should we take Red Mountain City in one fell swoop now?"

Mamba thought for a moment: "Your Majesty, when we were hunting in the forest, after we wounded a large animal, we no longer chased it closely, but followed behind, opened up a distance, and when we were really weak, we killed it in one fell swoop after the ferocity was exhausted!" ”

"Yes, yes, General Meng also said before, if you are poor, you will not chase after you, and you will besiege the city. We can't push too hard. ”

"Then according to what you say, aren't we going to set aside a gate for them to escape?"

"This, it should be wanted, right?"

"Tang Hai ran out and it was another scourge, so let's go and let Tomahawk, General Wang, and Commander Jin settle the troops and make a big trip to the big tent."

Several people in the big tent were deliberating on the matter.

Tomahawk looked at Wang Ping: "What does General Wang think?" ”

"Poor Kou Mo chase, we really can't push too hard, rabbits are in a hurry to bite, not to mention Tang Hai, who has three thousand soldiers and horses left."

"The siege of the city must be stopped, it is not necessary to give way out, we have to give them hope, such as persuading them not to kill, or sending food over to consume their fighting spirit, and even they will tie up Tang Hai and pull them out in the end."

Li Chengzhou nodded: "Then listen to you, but how can the food be delivered?" ”

Wang Ping pointed to the forest outside the house: "There are so many forests outside, so much wood, build a few catapults and throw food into them." ”

"Can you still eat the food you threw in like this?"

"Whatever, it's already good to be able to throw it in, but it doesn't matter if you can eat it?"

"Then I'll listen to you."

"Throw food or come from your majesty, concentrate on throwing, so that it is convenient to control the amount."

The commanders returned to their positions.

Li Chengzhou began to have 3,000 people cut down trees and prepare to start building catapults.

Tang Hai gathered the soldiers together.

"We have reached the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the food is gone, and there are Tang troops besieging the city outside the city, and we can't rush out, so we can only defend here."

"After that, I had to live on corpses in the corners of the city walls."

The soldiers did not say a word, but they clenched their weapons one after another.

"Prince, someone outside the city wants to see you."

Tang Hai climbed the city wall, and standing under the city wall was Dinka.

"What's the matter with you?"

"I advise you to surrender as soon as possible."

"Impossible!"

"You are not our opponents, don't be obsessed anymore, it's good for you and me to surrender early."

"Even if we defend Red Mountain City, we will bite off a piece of your flesh!"

"As long as you surrender, we will definitely treat everyone preferentially, and you will become the people of the Tang Dynasty!"

"No way, just let the horses come!"

"Surrender or kill! Don't you want to? ”

Dinka turned to look at the defenders on the ramparts, who were talking to each other, rejecting human flesh and fearing death.

Tang Hai saw that the soldiers were talking to each other and began to make noise.

"Get out of Red Mountain City quickly, or we're welcome!"

Dinka smiled, raised his hand and waved it twice.

The Tang army behind him began to shout.

"Surrender or kill!"

Tang Jun in the other three directions also responded after hearing the sound here.

The sound of surrender without killing resounded throughout Hongshan City, and the soldiers in the city began to talk when they heard such a voice.

"Actually, it's good to surrender, after all, it's death to defend and die, it's better to go out and live."

"I don't want to stay in the city and eat human flesh, I can't talk about it!"

"It's better to go out and eat a full meal than to be hungry."

"Haven't you heard? There is still a lot of food hidden in Prince Tanghai's council room, and he is secretly enjoying it! ”

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Similar words can be found everywhere in Red Hill City.

Tang Hai had no choice but to knock down the council hall in front of the army and take out the contents one by one to prove that he had no private food.

"I will eat and live in the barracks with you, and I will guard Hongshan City with you!"

Tang Hai struggled to get through this crisis and suppressed the rumors in the city.

Li Chengzhou looked at Hongshan City from afar.

"What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, although there seems to be no movement on the surface, Hu Jun must have a lot of ideas."

"Then let the contradictions ferment for a while."

Li Xiaojiang pointed to the catapult that had just been built.

"Your Majesty, plus this thing, throw food into it in a while, how do you say they will distribute it?"

Li Xiaojiang smiled evilly.

"How much do you throw when you eat in a while?"

"Then let's cast a meal for seven or eight hundred people, let them make do with the points, and slowly reduce them."

When it was time for dinner, Hu Jun was gathered under the city wall, facing a pile of dead corpses, all of whom looked embarrassed.

Tang Hai looked at the faces of the soldiers, none of them were willing to step forward.

He stepped forward.

"Some of them are already very good, in order to fight against the Tang Army, let's eat some!"

He used a bone knife to split the corpse, cut off a piece of carrion, and stuffed it into his mouth, the foul smell of rot made him want to vomit, but the soldiers below were watching him, and if he spit it out like this, it would definitely have an effect.

"Eat, eat, eat, it's not that you can't swallow."

The soldiers looked at Tang Hai's expression and knew that he must be telling a lie.

But there was nothing they could do, after all, the pile of rotting corpses in front of them was their only food.

Soldiers constantly come forward to cut off a piece of carrion to fill their stomachs, and although they have done a good job of psychological construction for themselves before cutting the meat, when they put the carrion close to their mouths, they still can't eat it.

Just as they were struggling, the Tang army began to make some moves, and the Tang army prepared food for 800 people and threw it into Hongshan City through catapults.