Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 891
"Khan, Luo Cheng refuses to negotiate a peace."

The night was dark, and he lost his mind and tried to ride up the mountain. He came to Xieli's golden wolf tent, and he was powerless to return.

Xie Li was very haggard, his eyes were red, and he hadn't slept well for many days.

"You didn't tell Luo Cheng, is Ben the Great Khan willing to surrender to Luo Cheng?"

"That said, Luo Cheng said that Daqin does not need Khan to be a vassal, because Daqin does not accept our betrayal and aggression, and this time it will completely destroy the Turkic Khanate." Gong, why is Luo Cheng still unwilling to let them go.

"Isn't Luo Chenggong afraid that Ben Khan will fight to the death? Ben Khan still has an army of [-]. If he really wants to fight, it's still unknown who will die!"

"Luo Cheng said that as long as he is sleepy, he can trap us to death. He also said that our army has no food."

Jieli turned round and round.

"No food? That's right, Ben Khan is indeed without food, but Ben Khan still has horses. There are more than [-] horses in our army. Even if we kill horses to eat them, we can still last for a few more months. Ben Khan has already Send people to Mobei to look for Kang Sumi to come back for help, and also send people to call Yu Sheshe, Buli She, and Yugu She to recruit soldiers and horses to help, and send people to Li Yuan, Dou Jiande, and Liang Shidu to call in reinforcements. Isn't he afraid of Luo Chengcheng? ?”

Jie Li snarled as he stared at the pair of red eyes.

"I said it, but Luo Cheng said that Li Yuan can't take care of himself now. After Luo Siye captured Hetao, he joined forces with Li Gui in Huining. The coalition army of [-] troops attacked Xiaoguan, and Shan Xiongxin from Shannan also joined forces with Dugu Huai'en. Attack Sanguan and Lantianguan. Li Yuan is now in a state of desperation, surrounded by fire, and it is difficult to protect himself, so it is impossible to send troops to help."

"Then there is Dou Jiande!"

Zhi lost his mind and sighed, "Dou Jiande is short of food!"

When the Qin army and Jieli were fighting for food in the Yunzhong Basin, Wei Wang Luo Cunxiao and Zhao Wang Luo Shixin also led the two major armies of the Central Plains and Guanwai to attack the north-south waterway of Dou Jiande in Hebei. They did not use the main decisive battle method, but It is to adopt the cavalry and navy dispersed into small mobile groups to attack and harass the border of the Yellow River and the coastal area of ​​Xia.

Especially for crops that are about to mature, they should be robbed if they can be robbed, and burned and trampled if they cannot be robbed.

This move was almost fatal to Dou Jiande.

In the past two years, Dou Jiande sent troops repeatedly, causing the young and strong people in the territory to either serve as soldiers or transport grain, which seriously occupied labor, delayed many farmers, and affected the output of farming.

Luo Cheng came again now. Although a city was not taken, the strategy of looting food and burning land everywhere made Dou Jiande's Xia army exhausted. The opponent attacked in a small group and was flexible. If there are fewer people, they may be defeated or even wiped out.

If you stick to the city, you will lose the countryside.

Large tracts of crops that are about to mature are destroyed or robbed, which is simply Dou Jiande's life.Although it is said that the Qin army did not dare to go deep into the heartland, the erosion of several counties on the border has greatly reduced the grain production of the Xia army this year. dilemma.

Dou Jiande originally wanted to wait for the summer grain to satisfy his hunger to overcome the difficulties, but now not only cannot alleviate, but also exacerbated the food shortage.

Not to mention sending troops thousands of miles to help Bai climb the mountain, even if it is to maintain the current scale of Hebei Xia's army, Dou Jiande can't do it.He had to abolish part of the army to reduce the food pressure.

He could even just watch helplessly as countless people who had run out of food began to migrate and flee into the territory controlled by the Qin army.

Many generals asked Dou Jiande to send troops to intercept and forbid these people from fleeing into the territory of the Qin army. This would undoubtedly strengthen the strength of the Qin army and weaken their strength, but Dou Jiande could not issue this order because he could not provide food to relieve the people and forced them to stay. Just starve them to death.

He can't.

At this time, it showed that the Qin army had the advantage of a large territory and a stable rear.

Although the Qin army also fought on several battlefields, with as many as 50 million soldiers and horses, there are stable granaries outside the customs, and there are already stable food supplies in Shandong and Huainan. Although Luo Cheng was also under a lot of pressure, he could still hold on.

Dou Jiande now only has half of Hebei, and Luo Cheng is still doing this, and he can't hold it anymore.

So when Dou Jiande faced Jieli's request for help, he was actually scolding his mother in his heart. He still hoped that Jieli would give him a hand, not to mention helping him capture Fan Yang Beiping, at least you all put Luo Chenggan down, even if you beat him. .

But now, I have entered Liu Heita with tens of thousands of horses and horses, and now I still want him to send troops to rescue.

"What's the sound outside?"

Jie Li asked.

A Qijin came in to reply, "I heard that Li Yuan's Tang army and Dou Jiande's Xia army would not come to help, and it was said that Kang Sumi had already been wiped out by Zhao Gui in Saibei, and now the army is cut off again, so the sons cried."

Jieli is upset. "Although the cattle, sheep and food we carried are gone, don't we still have horses, killing horses to satisfy our hunger!"

"Khan, you can't kill a horse. If you kill a horse, how can I, a Turkic man, go back to the grassland?"

"There is nothing not to kill. There are now 10 people on the mountain, but there are still more than [-] horses. One horse for each person is enough."

However, Turkic warriors still refused to kill horses. If they killed horses, they would really be in a desperate situation. Turkic people came and went on horseback, and they relied on horses to attack and escape, and they usually had three or two horses. Insufficient, unable to transfer.

"Since you don't want to kill horses, then eat human flesh. Bring back all the corpses that died in the battle, fry them, steam them, and eat cooked food!"

Jieli came outside in person, and said to the crying Turkic soldiers, "When you go to war, you will have enough meat in the evening. Why worry about hunger? If you don't have four-legged sheep, you will eat two-legged sheep!"

Either kill horses and eat meat, or eat corpses on the battlefield.

Faced with the choice given by Xieli, most Turkic people still refused to kill the horse in the end. After all, if they killed the horse, they might not be able to go back, so they dragged the corpses of the dead at the foot of the mountain back, and ignored them. Whether it was the Qin army or the Turkic army, they all dragged back, stripped their clothes, divided them, and stewed them in a pot to satisfy their hunger.

While eating the corpses, the Turkic army wept unceasingly, desperate for their future.

Down the mountain.

When Luo Cheng heard the report, he couldn't help being shocked.

"In the past, these barbarians ate our Han people, and they were called two-legged sheep. Unexpectedly, even the dead bodies are not spared now. Pass down the order, and after the trenches and earth walls are lined up, shoot the invading captives with bows and crossbows, and don't go out with them. When they fight, if any soldiers are killed or injured, immediately snatch the corpses back, and never let them become the food of the Hulu."

After the soldiers of the Qin army received the order, they stopped attacking across the trench wall.

The soldiers guarded behind the earth wall of the trench, carved the word "death rest" on their spears and armor, determined to kill Hulu Fangxiu, and wanted to avenge those killed brothers who were eaten .

"Eating the corpses of my Great Qin soldiers, I will never forgive these beasts and barbarians, I will not let any of them go, and I will wipe them all out here!" Kill order.

(End of this chapter)