Chapter 423: A dilemma
"Never!"
Before Mei Berry noticed, Gu Ping rushed in and said such a sentence that angered Mei You.
Seeing this, Mei Berry also had to follow in, and when she went in, she looked up and saw that sure enough, the faces of the few people present were not much better.
But Mei You is clearly the most unhappy.
"Why are you here?"
Mei You was very unhappy with Gu Pingyu's rebuttal just now, and the tone in which she said this now was not good.
Seeing this, Mei Berry hurriedly walked up to Mei You and grinned reluctantly: "Sister, didn't I come to help you?" Now I heard that we are in a dilemma, and everything still has to be replanned, isn't it, Gu Hou? โ
Mei Berry glanced at Gu Yan, although Gu Yan didn't speak, but he didn't open his mouth to refute it, which was regarded as acquiescing to Mei Yan's meaning.
Everything is still up for debate.
"Even if you kill those people, it's not the time."
"Junjun?!"
Gu Yan didn't expect that the other one who came actually said that he would be killed.
"It's not ......"
"Listen to me."
Seeing that Gu Yan was about to open his mouth to object, Mei Berry hurriedly interrupted him.
"I understand your consideration. Once the prisoners of war are killed, the news will not only be bad for our reputation, but I am afraid that the relevant wars will be quite difficult to fight in the future. โ
Once an exception is made and all the prisoners of war are killed, what else can the warring parties not make in the future?
Seeing that Mei Berry clearly knows these truths, Gu Yan doesn't understand that Mei Berry still has to support Mei You.
"But Yanzhou is a bitter cold land, and there is not as much grain cultivation as in the south.
Now we have to feed not only our own soldiers and horses, but also the captives who surrendered, and the people who were miserable by the King of Wei.
This amount, Gu Hou, have you counted it?
When the weather is warm next year, there will be at least nearly five months left when the seeds can be planted, and I don't care about raising the people, but I will raise the prisoners of war for five months...... In the past few years, no one has any surplus food due to natural and man-made disasters.
Finally, in the past two days, when the wind and rain have been a little smoother, the war has started again, and everyone is tight, and now the food we have worked hard to grow is just to feed a group of people who have hurt the people and will drag us down in the future? โ
Mei Berry obviously has no good impression of these soldiers who desperately oppressed the people in front of them and even ate them.
Because of this, she understands Mei You's approach.
"My sister is not only because of the poor character of these people, but also because of the food.
I have asked Mr. Hu just now, so far, we have received almost 200,000 generals.
And this does not include the converting people.
Going forward, those who accept surrender will not be able to directly surpass our own army.
It's okay to have food to eat now, but what if it's later?
Will they resist and backstab us when they can't eat enough? Or is it that we eat people? โ
Mei Berry's words are not unclear to Gu Yan, but the impact of the killing of prisoners of war is too great to be easily made an exception.
"The predicament we are facing now is planned by the King of Wei. They took all the elite soldiers with them, leaving behind these improvised militiamen.
They also left the generals of inferior character to lead, and after the departure of the King of Wei, they took measures to seal the city and prey on the people.
Cannibalism first began among the people. Because their food was the first to be taken away and provided for the soldiers.
When there is no longer enough food in the barracks, there are already a lot of cannibalism outside, and they are eating human flesh with peace of mind......"
Mei Berry couldn't help but hold her stomach as she spoke, she said that she was disgusted and disgusted.
"King Wei, they have made up their minds, and we will be in such a dilemma.
Killing the prisoners and discrediting us was instantly discredited.
If you don't kill it, at least Yanzhou can be dragged down directly.
By the next spring, if they have their hands free, they will be able to clean up all the people who have almost run out of ammunition and food without much effort. โ
This is not something that Mei Berry immediately figured out, but when she came here, after Hu Yanqing's on-demand broadcast, and when she just spoke and sorted it out, these things were naturally sorted out in Mei Berry's mind.
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"Look at the time, Meiberry should be in Yanzhou."
On this day, Dongfang Jing'an received a letter from Yanzhou, but because of the time difference, the news over there did not say that the plum berry had arrived, but today Dongfang Jing'an's own time calculation plum berry should have arrived.
Looking at the letter sent by Yanzhou, Dongfang Jing'an's face couldn't help but sink.
"Well calculated!"
Even if the news they received was a few days ago in Yanzhou, it was not yet the time when Mei You and Gu Yan officially broke out here, but Dongfang Jing'an and they still saw the sinister intentions in it.
This plan, when Dongfang Jing'an convened the strategists to discuss, who listened to it, and who didn't think that the other party was vicious?
"No wonder, when King Wei moved to Yunzhou, we were still saying that he let go of Yanzhou so easily, it was not reasonable for him to leave like this, I didn't expect King Wei to be so vicious!"
Dongfang Ke was also present, and when he learned from Dongfang Jing'an about the problems encountered in the war in Yanzhou, his face was also ugly.
"How dare he ...... like this"
In this way, it is not simply a matter of tens of thousands of people who die.
"Even if we do our best to supply the ......grain from Yanzhou," Chu Ruxiao said and couldn't help but sigh, "But the northern road is difficult in winter, even if we want to supply it continuously, it is impossible, and once the movement is too big, it is impossible for Hanzhou and Yunzhou to sit idly by."
The other party may have to hesitate to face us head-on, but it is not impossible to rush with the team that escorts us with grain and grass.
Also, can we really take care of Yanzhou completely?
At present, Sangzi and Zhuzhou are also recovering from the war, and the King of Wei and the imperial court are also eyeing each other, even if we want to fully support the north to stand up, it is not easy. โ
Everyone actually had a terrible thought in their hearts, but no one dared to mention it to the simplest one of killing prisoners.
They also knew that once they really made a move, then they probably really fell for Dongfang Tai's move.
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"Once you kill a prisoner, it's a point of no return, and there's no going back."
Mei You and Gu Yan's subordinates are not without strategists who are good at Ming Jing arithmetic.
Whether it was Hu Yanqing, who was later called into the tent by Mei You, or the strategists on Gu Yan's side, everyone calculated that it would be a bottomless pit if they wanted to stand up until next spring.
"Those surrendered troops, even if we provide them with food and drink, it is really next spring, whether they will be able to be used by us by then, and whether they will be rebelled again in the war."
Didn't Mei You know that the road Gu Pingyu said was the point of no return?
She knew, that's why she was going to kill those people.
And Mei Berry also stopped talking after the analysis just now, and watched as the strategists from both sides joined the debate again, estimating the gains and losses.
For the first time, Plum Berry found that even if she saw through the enemy's plot, she still felt powerless.
Even if you can see it, what if you can see it?
Can you make a choice?
"I'll go out and take a breath."
Mei Berry listened to the two sides coming and going, and the air in the tent became more and more dirty.
Mei Berry felt that her brain was about to explode, so she whispered to Mei You and left the main tent.
As soon as he went out, the canopy outside had turned black, and the sparse starlight dotted it, and Plum Berry just stood there and looked up at the sky.
It wasn't until Yongyuan, who was rushed over to find him, shouted back to his senses that Mei Berry spoke: "What's wrong?" โ
"Fresh baked sweet potatoes, sister, can you eat them?"
"Eat."
Yongyuan and his group have already settled down, and Yongyuan didn't bother the people in the barracks for the first meal here.
She took a few of her subordinates and took their own rations, some of which were sweet potatoes and potatoes that Tian Qi had brought from Xianyao.
Yongyuan immediately decided to eat some roasted sweet potatoes in the evening.
Looking at Yongyuan's excited face and pulling herself back, with that excited appearance, Mei Berry also remembered that the people in the tent behind her didn't seem to be eating.
So halfway through, I found someone to go to the gang's camp, and asked them to make something to eat and send it in.
After that, Mei Berry followed Yongyuan back to their own small camp and ate roasted sweet potatoes together.
"By the way, Sister Mei You and Uncle are arguing or something?"
Yongyuan is still thinking about the fact that they went to the main account with Gu Pingyu as soon as they came to Meiberry.
Mei Berry had only eaten half of the roasted sweet potato, and when she heard Yongyuan's words, Mei Berry glanced at the sweet potato in her hand that had not yet been eaten, and asked, "Are you sure you said this when you didn't finish eating the sweet potato?" โ
"Ah, it's okay." Yongyuan specially picked a big sweet potato for herself just now, and it is estimated that she will not be able to eat it in a while.
Seeing Yongyuan like this, Meiberry smiled slightly, carefully put the remaining half of the sweet potato in his hand in the bowl on the side, and then told Yongyuan that he should have a nightmare tonight......
Plum Berry: Devil whispering.
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Yesterday my dad called me and said that my uncle had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
My grandfather also died for this reason, the same age as my uncle.
I was a little scared when I heard it, I urged my dad to go for a health check-up, but this year he always forgot it, and he always felt that this was a little scary.
The annual health check-up is a must-do, early detection and early attention.