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Chapter 456
After the autumn harvest, food, armaments, livestock, and luggage were continuously sent from Tianshui and Wuwei.

Including the auxiliary army, Yang Zheng has nearly [-] troops under the city of Chang'an.

Tianshui and Nan'an were originally important areas for farming. This year, under Lu Zhi's management, they began to explode with great potential.

There are also the two counties of Shuofang and Beidi, under the vigorous management of Yang Xiao and Yang Ji, they are also showing an explosive trend.

Not only the grain harvest, but also the livestock outbreak.

The soldiers wore newly issued sheep jackets, ate mutton, sat on the Jiacheng and laughed at the defenders on the opposite Chang'an city wall.

In the cold wind, the defenders on the city wall clustered together, stretched their necks, and stared at the defenders on the city wall.

Wang Ji once wanted to break out from the north.

But that was a trap deliberately left by Yang Zheng.

There are not so many water networks on the north bank of the Weishui River, and the cavalry will arrive in the blink of an eye. Wang Ji has no organized cavalry in his hands, and no matter how many infantry he sends, he will be courting death.

As long as they go out of the city, no matter whether they are going west or north, within half an hour, there will always be a cavalry chasing and killing them.

Despair, fear, hunger, and cold.

The morale of the defenders on the city wall is getting lower and lower.

Even Sima Fu and Wang Ji looked weak.

"The livestock in the city have already been slaughtered, and even the rats have been caught and eaten by the people. There is only enough food for ten days. What can we do?" Sima Wang's eyes were sunken and his face turned black.

Sima Fu's policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness resulted in no people near Chang'an.

Without people there is no food.

The soldiers came out from the west city, and all they saw was a piece of desolation.

There are also wolves who are hungrier than them.

There is food in Wugong and Chencang in the west, but they have been occupied by the Shu army.

Sima Fu said: "Send soldiers to collect food from the people, and you can always find some."

A month ago, Sima Fu implemented the policy of centralized food supply, taking food away from the people, and only supplying the guards and the young and strong. As for the people in the city, they will fend for themselves.

Even so, there is only enough food for ten days.

"There are people starving to death all the time in the city, how can the people still have food in their hands?" Wang Ji sighed.

In his early years, he had worshiped Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian in Shandong, as his teacher. He was familiar with Confucian classics and advocated the way of benevolence and righteousness, so he couldn't bear it.

Sima Fu is also a well-educated person, but he doesn't have Wang Ji's compassionate heart, he chuckled softly: "If you search, you will find something."

"Even if we find some, how long can we last? The Taiwei is always lenient, so it's better to let the people out of the city to survive, so as to live up to the name of the general's benevolence and righteousness!" Wang Ji stared into Sima Fu's eyes.

Sima Fu shook his head, "No, if the people are let out of the city, the soldiers will all have the heart to survive, and they will stick to it? Bo Yu, do you know what the western thieves lack most?"

"Great reputation!"

Sima Fu smiled again on his old face, "Great righteousness and fame are just a cover for people's eyes and ears. What the West Thieves lack most is people! Now there are 10,000+ people in Chang'an City. If you give them to the West Thieves, wouldn't it be helping the evildoers?"

Wang Ji was dumbfounded, "The Taiwei wants to..."

The smile on Sima Fu's face remained the same, but there was a gloomy look in his eyes, "They stay in Chang'an, and they are still the people of our Great Wei. If they go out of the city, they will be thieves. Don't they just seek fame when they live for a while? The people of Great Wei And death, with a long history, is a beautiful story! It is better to die for the people of the Great Wei than to live for the Western thieves, the people are not afraid of death, why is Boyu afraid of death?"

In an instant, Wang Ji fell into an ice cave, which was the life and death of 10,000+ people.

In Sima Fu's sophistry, they all became victims of his Sima family.

He is so vicious, even worse than Sima Yi and Sima Shi.

Wang Ji lost his father when he was young and was adopted by his uncle Wang Weng. He has experienced suffering in the world, so he has a heart to understand the people.

And Sima Fu was born with bells and whistles, and he and Wang Ji are people from two worlds.

In the eyes of the gentry, aren't the people just sacrifices?

"Bo Yu, don't be confused between Xiaoren and Dayi." Sima Fu advised Wang Ji in turn.

The old voice has a special persuasive power, which makes people agree with his point of view unconsciously.

"Even so, Chang'an may not be able to survive ten days." Wang Ji was in cold sweat.

Sima Fu said in a tone full of vicissitudes: "In the past, Wei Wu and Lu Bu fought against Yanzhou, and the army ran out of rations. Cheng Yu, the magistrate of Shouzhang County, provided three days of rations to his county, mixed with dried human meat, to help Wei Wu defeat Lu Bu. There is today! Bo Yu is the pillar of our Sima family, he should do what he does, don't begrudge the false name!"

Not only Wang Ji, but even his own son Sima Wang was stunned.

"Taiwei can't do this! I still have [-] elites in Bashui and Lishan. If I send people to break through, I still have the power to fight." Wang Ji couldn't help it.

He would rather die in battle than see Chang'an reduced to a ghost.

Sima Fu's white eyebrows moved, "Oh? If so, Bo Yu must hurry up."

Wang Ji went out with a livid face.

Only their father and son were left in the hall.

"Father, father, son, son does not want to die!" People who are greedy for money must also be afraid of death.

Sima Wang has spared no effort in searching for so many years.

Sima Fu stretched out his freckled hand and stroked his son's head, his eyes full of kindness.

Although Sima Wang was born of Sima Fu, he was adopted by Sima Lang in his early years.

Tiger poison does not eat children.

The older you are, the more affectionate you will be.

"A man from the Sima family is still afraid of death?" Sima Fu laughed.

"The most difficult thing in the world is death, how can I not be afraid?" Sima Wang looked at his father full of hope.

Sima Fu's benevolent temperament came back again, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Ants still have the will to survive, let alone my son? If you don't want to die, don't die. You can gather more than a hundred people, pretend to be deserters, and surrender to Shu in the west. The country! In the future, the great general will rule the world, and you will still be able to enjoy the wealth if you return to court."

"Follow your orders!"

……

Yang Zheng was discussing the military situation with the generals on the east-encircled earth hill.

With the current situation, there is no doubt that Chang'an will be broken.

Every day, more than a hundred emaciated corpses were thrown from the walls of Chang'an City.

At night, many defenders surrendered from the city.

From the mouths of these defenders, I learned that Chang'an could not last for a few days.

This battle actually started last year.

First, the Shu army went northward, attacked the Great Wall in the Qinling Mountains, swept across Fufeng County, and harassed Guanzhong.

Then Yang Zheng killed Deng Ai, and the Guanzhong elite died in one battle.

The two armies followed the trend and encircled Chang'an.

If it hadn't been for the trick of alienation, Chang'an City should have been broken last year.

This year has been another many months of great looting.

Although Chang'an stands tall, but only one Chang'an is useless.

The only thing to worry about is the [-] Chinese troops in Bashui and Lishan.

As soon as this point was mentioned, the scouts came to report, "Report to the general, there are seven teams of one hundred people in Chang'an City crossing the Wei River and heading east."

"This must be the person Sima Fu asked for help!" Zhang Te explained his intentions in one sentence.

After thinking for a while, Yang Zheng said: "Intercept and kill them all, don't let the big fish slip through the net. After identifying their identities, let one or two people go to the Bashui camp. I want to see if Pang Hui and Xu Yi have the courage to come to the rescue!"

Besiege the city and fight for aid, waiting for the Chinese army to come to the rescue.

(End of this chapter)