More than 100,000 male soldiers in the Great Zhou Dynasty surrounded more than 10,000 remnants of Sima Zhongping in the Yuding Mountain west of Longhu, which can be said to be impassable.

And when Sima Zhongping and they were defeated, all the chariots, horses and baggage were left behind, and they couldn't carry much food, and they were all barren mountains and mountains, there were no people at all, and there was no farmland, even if there were some wild beasts in the mountains, they could be eaten for a few days after they were all gone?

People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panicked, not to mention that the harassment and attack of the Great Zhou soldiers have never stopped, even if these guys are not tired to death, they should starve to death.

But isn't it strange that he neither died of exhaustion nor starvation, and that he maintained a very strong fighting force?

Sima Zhongping's defense was extremely tight, Li Feng and the others sent hundreds of capable soldiers into the mountains to investigate, but none of them came back, and several waves of messengers who wanted to go to check the situation under the pretext of persuasion were all killed by Sima Zhongping......

What the hell is this, can this kid also spell and be able to conjure food?

The current battle situation is actually very embarrassing, on the surface, it seems that more than 10,000 people of Sima Zhongping are under siege, and it is difficult to fly, but in fact, it is the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Zhou who are pinned down here and cannot move!

If they are not completely annihilated, they will definitely not be able to retreat, and Li Wanyun and they have carefully estimated that if they want to launch a strong attack and annihilate them in this situation, they must have at least 50,000 casualties!

The price is too high for any of them to afford.

Thousands of miles away, the court was optimistic that the war here would end at any time, and letters of celebration flew like snowflakes.

Even the Ministry of Rites has already drawn up a grand triumphal ceremony, and has sent people to send the program list to invite a few princes to look at it and see if there is anything dissatisfied...... made several people cry and laugh.

Only the emperor Li Wanjiang knew the real situation, and he was anxious about it, after all, it was not the case that hundreds of thousands of troops were always hiding here.

In addition, the pressure on logistical supplies is also very great, and now there are more than 200,000 soldiers in Yizhou, and hundreds of large and small ships are needed every day to transport grain and grass supplies from the other side of the ocean, and tens of thousands of carts, horses, and mules have to be used to transport them to Longhu and other garrisons, and these tens of thousands of mules, horses, and coachmen also have to consume grain and grass......

This is not counting military spending, but whenever troops are sent to fight, the military salaries of the soldiers will be increased several times or even more than ten times! According to one tael of silver per person per day, it will cost 200,000 taels, and now that the war has been going on for more than half a year, that is 40 million taels of silver!

So this is not a war, it is a silver fight, the household treasury is about to be empty again, can Li Wanjiang not be in a hurry?

Fortunately, the world has been ripe in the past two years, otherwise even the grain and grass will not be able to be fully supplied, but now it is a little unsupportable, the granaries of Jiangnan and Jiangdong have begun to be in a hurry, and I don't know if I can hold on to this summer when the rice is ripe?

That's why Xiao Chen and the others were sent to surrender, striving to solve the Yizhou problem as soon as possible in the shortest possible time and at the lowest cost.

If the surrender fails, then it can only be forced to attack or withdraw directly, leaving only 20,000 or 30,000 troops to guard Longhu, and these two consequences are not what Li Wanjiang wants to see.

He was anxious, and naturally there were no good words in the will given to the three princes, and he was embarrassed to blame his younger brother Li Wanyun directly, so he could only scold the two sons for being waste dim sum!

An army of more than 100,000 people can't destroy more than 10,000 remnants of the enemy in two months, isn't it waste?

The two of them were scolded for their bloody heads, and there was smoke in the seven holes, but there was nothing to be done, this Yuding Mountain was full of mountains and mountains, and there was not even a decent mountain road, and every mountain pass was a natural danger.

In fact, none of the three of them thought that this was the case, and they were all very optimistic that Sima Zhongping and they would hold on for a month at most.

Who would have thought that they had not shown signs of collapse in two months, more than 10,000 people, not to mention wild beasts, wild vegetables should have been eaten, can they still eat people?

Some people think that there may be a dark river connecting to the sea at the foot of Yuding Mountain, and perhaps Sima Zhongping and they just fished fish and shrimp from it to use as military rations.

This is what the layman said, because although fish and shrimp meat contain high-quality protein and can also be used to satisfy the stomach, the fat of this fish and aquatic product is extremely low, and it cannot provide the calories required by the human body, let alone the soldiers who fight.

You see, all the military rations in the world are high-calorie and high-fat meats such as pork, mutton, and beef, and fish food is extremely rare, just because this thing is too low in calories, it is okay as a non-staple food, but it is definitely not good as a staple food.

And do you think it's so easy to catch fish and shrimp? It also requires a lot of manpower and quite professional technology, even if there is manpower and technology, how many fish and shrimp can be fished out of an underground river?

Not to mention 10,000 people, I'm afraid that the amount salvaged every day is not enough for 100 people to eat!

"It seems that this Sima Zhongping has been prepared for a long time, they were very orderly when they were defeated and retreated, and several groups of anti-thieves all entered the mountain together, but I am afraid that there is a granary hidden in the mountain in advance." Sun Zhidao.

"Even if there is a granary, there is not much food, and I think he will not be able to hold out for another month." Li Fengdao.

"The emperor is in a hurry, but he can't wait for a month." Sun Zhi sighed.

"I'm just unwilling!" Li Feng said, "After fighting for so long, it ended up like this......

"If Xiao Chen can succeed in surrendering here, this is already the best ending." Sun Zhidao, "My lord, the emperor sees your merits, and he will not empty you." ”

"What kind of credit is there for this special battle? It's not enough for Dongying and Xiao Chen's bastard! "Li Feng is angry about this.

"Why do you expect Xiao Chen to succeed when he goes?" Sun Zhi asked.

"This kid is a special sperm, if he is not sure that he will come here, he is willing to die in vain?" Li Fengdao.

"Yes, I also wonder, how could Xiao Chen, such a shrewd person, come to send him to death?" Sun Zhi narrowed his eyes.

"What does Mr. Sun mean by that?" Li Shidao.

"It's not interesting, hehe, I'm really ashamed, Xiao Chen, I really can't see through him." Sun Zhi smiled meaningfully.

"Mr. Sun, if he can really persuade Sima Zhongping to surrender, how about we give him a follow-up?" Li Feng's eyes flashed with murder.

"No, he is a minister sent by the emperor, and he came by the emperor's order, and we can't touch him now." Sun Zhi frowned slightly.

"Hehe, but this is not what my father and his old man meant?" Li Feng smiled weirdly.

If Xiao Chen succeeded in persuading him to surrender and let Sima Zhongping and others all lay down their weapons and come out to surrender, it would be equivalent to an ant in Li Feng's hands.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to kill them all and then take the glory of the battle on the three of them?