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April 22, Liuli City.

He crouched on the city wall, looked at the smoke rising from the Han army camp in the distance, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

The same is true of the surrounding noble widow defenders, who look very weak, and many of their arms and cheeks are already showing signs of irregular puffiness due to the lack of salt intake for a long time.

All of this has changed completely from the moment you entered Liuli City.

First of all, there is the problem of food, which soon became apparent after the army entered Liuli City.

In fact, Bai Qi is indeed conservative, due to the lack of oil and water, a noble widow soldier consumes two liters of rice and wheat a day, about three catties, and the daily food consumption of 650,000 people is 13,000 stones.

The 280,000 stone grain and grass that the army brought with it when it entered the city had already been exhausted a month ago, and it still survived by killing horses and eating until now.

But now, the horse meat has been eaten, and everything that can be eaten in the city has been scavenged, and even the nobles in the city are starving.

In fact, seeing that the Han army was so strong, Nan Jian entered Liuli City, intending to attack decisively when the white qi grain and grass were exhausted and the troops retreated.

It's just that I never thought that there was no shortage of food in the Baiqi army, and the main force of the noble widows fighting at home had fallen into a situation of running out of food.

The fall of the Turbine Fortress directly led to the complete cutting off of the rear supply line by the Han army.

In the final analysis, it is still too difficult to defeat the enemy, and if a part of the 600,000 army is divided to set up camps along the way, echoing the end of Turbo City, there will be no possibility of running out of food at all.

But it's too late to say anything now, the 600,000 soldiers under him are starving with him, if he doesn't want to find a way, even if Bai Qi doesn't attack, these hungry soldiers with green eyes will take the initiative to mutiny.

"Alas~ Bai Qi deceives people too much!"

With a scolding of rage, he turned and walked down the wall.

And all he saw along the way were hungry and no longer human-looking defenders.

"We can't go on like this with Bai Qi anymore, once hundreds of thousands of people mutiny...... I will never allow this to happen, I will take the initiative and take advantage of the opportunity now! ”

Nan Ji's eyes were firm, and he made up his mind at once.

"It's decided, in a few days, we will have a showdown with Bai Qi!"

……

The Han army camp is at lunchtime at this moment.

"Look at this sheep, it's so fat."

Tian Yan tore off a freshly roasted leg of mutton, greeted Lu Yu and Xia Yu with a smile, then took out the dagger, cut off the meat on the leg of mutton one by one, and then dipped it in a little salt and the soybean sauce brought by the army, which tasted extraordinarily delicious.

Xia Yu just ate half of the leg of mutton and only the skeleton remained, sucked off his greasy fingers, and smiled at Tian Yan with a satisfied face.

Lu Yu wiped out the minced mutton in front of the plate, grabbed a pot of water and poured it into his mouth, and then brushed his long hair to ensure that his image was not affected because it was too greasy.

In the position of the best policy, Huai Wang Weiji's eating appearance is simply insulting.

I saw him holding the roasted leg of lamb that was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and he just bit it directly, and the eating looked like a hungry ghost reincarnated.

However, Bai Qi Siwen was a lot, and the minced mutton sent basically didn't move, just drinking the freshly brewed hot tea.

After a long time, the chewing sound in the tent gradually subsided, and these Han generals gradually regained their bearing and dignity as bosses.

Bai Qi asked, "Is there any movement in the noble widow army in the city?" ”

Tian Yan: "Back to Bai Shuai, hundreds of thousands of troops are still cowering in the city, and his subordinates have sent several waves of scouts to investigate, but they can't know the specific situation in the city.

However, even if you can't find out the specific information in the city, you can also analyze it from the surface that the life of the noble widow army is very difficult.

At least, the last general hadn't seen smoke on the walls for a long time. ”

Bai Qi smiled: "Isn't this nonsense? Running out of ammunition and food and burning cooking smoke? Unless you're hungry and ready to eat people. ”

Xia Yu took over: "Bai Shuai, my subordinates have ordered someone to throw a letter of persuasion to the city to disturb the enemy's morale, I believe that it won't be long before someone will take the risk to come to surrender, and then ask them about the situation in the city, won't they know everything?" ”

Tian Yan looked suspicious and said, "Will you really come to Toucheng?" What if they decide to fight our army to the death? ”

Bai Qi shook his head: "If there are only thousands or tens of thousands of defenders in the city, this plan will have little effect, but if hundreds of thousands of people fall into a desperate situation at the same time,

This kind of stubborn situation is absolutely impossible to happen, after all, in that case, no matter how good a general is, there is no guarantee that he can continue to restrain his subordinates.

The noble widow army can't, even if our Han army encounters such a situation, it can't be guaranteed! ”

Lu Yu agreed: "I understand what Bai Shuai meant, and the army will stay here, waiting for the noble widow to come and surrender." ”

Everyone agreed, thinking that the most suitable strategy at the moment was indeed to wait for work, anyway, there was plenty of food and grass, and it would not be a problem to spend a few more months.

At this time, Wei Ji spoke: "Hehe, the generals are about to make meritorious contributions, and this king is very happy in his heart, but this king is going out with the army this time, which seems a little redundant." ”

When Bai Qi heard this, he hurriedly said: "Don't say that, after defeating the enemy, how to pacify the rest of the kingdom around your widow still needs the prince's help." ”

Wei Ji squinted his eyes and said: "This, this king has no power to restrain chickens, how dare he deal with a group of barbarians?" ”

Bai Qi: "Alas~ Lord Wang, don't be humble anymore, Your Majesty has already mentioned that the prince's negotiation methods are ranked second in the whole Han Dynasty, so no one dares to fight for the first,

After the noble widow is overcome, the countries of Da Shi and Anxi will definitely come to listen to the situation of our army, and it is not a problem for people in our army to go into battle to kill the enemy.

But I'm afraid that negotiating with people is far less than the prince, in case......"

"Hey, hey, it's easy to say...... Wei Jile's fart is upset, "This king is very useful, so the king will be reluctant to make it difficult, and then talk to those barbarians." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang......"

"It's easy to say...... it's easy to say"

And what Wei Ji was thinking about was how to make a fortune from the countries of Zhongzhou that were throwing rats.

This was acquiesced by Liu Ce, but Wei Ji could extort money from foreign countries or enemy troops...... Oh, no, it should be said that the money from filial piety can be at Wei Ji's disposal.

Over the years, Wei Ji has also followed Liu Ce, and under the power of the fox and the tiger, he has obtained a lot of money, but in the end, the money has been taken away by his princess Shen Bi, and even those real estate shares and shop shares have been firmly controlled by Shen Bi.

Then, the pocket money he received every month was only two silver dollars.

And if you want to get these two silver dollars, you have to look at Wei Ji's performance, and even if you get them, you will be asked where to use them......

In other words, Wei Ji is equivalent to being busy and lonely, although the family is rich, the family responds before going out.

But...... This doesn't seem to have anything to do with me.

Because he is still very poor, he eats and drinks when he goes out, as a prince, what is the reason why two silver dollars a month is enough? This made him very unhappy, very dissatisfied, very unbalanced.

So this time, he had already decided to make a good private money for himself, and he wouldn't let Shen Bi know about it.

At this time, someone outside the tent came to report: "Qi Qi Bai Shuai, two noble widows and soldiers have come to surrender!" ”