Dayan Fifty Dao

Chapter 95 A Whole Bowl of Rice

Thirty days later, Li Ling arrived at the city of Luoyang with his army. The king of Luoyang closed the city gate tightly and stood at the top of the city and ordered people to shoot arrows.

But the King of Luoyang yelled at him: "little Li Ling, do you think you can really be the prince if you win against me? I advise you, we are originally a family, and now the emperor has no children, so you can have a chance.

But once the prince is born, you won't be able to escape death, you might as well follow me, and when the time comes for you to ascend the throne, wouldn't it be better than now? "

Li Ling shook his head: "Lord Luoyang, you are wrong. If I were really the emperor, I would not be able to fight you, but the world is rarely peaceful. It is your ambition that killed you. I am giving you one last chance. Now surrender, the emperor reads! You are the emperor's uncle, maybe you can spare your life."

The king of Luoyang spat very much, and immediately ordered the longbowman to shoot Li Ling with an arrow.But the current Li Ling is no longer what it used to be. After a month of training, he is already used to this kind of scene.

With the command flag in hand, the soldiers around began to attack the city. The huge siege vehicle was carried by nearly a hundred people, and they crossed the moat under the cover of countless soldiers with their bodies. Countless trebuchets kept throwing stones into the city. .

There were still countless soldiers holding ladders, and they had climbed to the top of the city, but the resistance inside the city was also particularly fierce. Soldiers fell from the top of the city one by one, and the scene was very miserable. Although Li Ling felt distressed, there was nothing he could do.

In addition, there was still hot oil pouring down from the top of the city, and more people were injured. The walls of Luoyang City were extremely thick, and the city gate was particularly strong. Seeing those soldiers, Li Ling couldn't break through the city gate for a long time, so he jumped into the city. Among the soldiers, a few steps forward to the gate of the city.

He yelled loudly, and pushed towards the city gate. At this moment, when the soldiers saw Li Ling coming in person, their morale was high, and they kept hitting the door with the huge log. Sure enough, there was a bang, and the city gate opened wide. Li Ling took a horse and killed it.

At this time, someone finally climbed to the top of the city. When this person went to the city, it was like a tide. Countless soldiers climbed up to the top of the city. The Luoyang King's rebel army was defeated in an instant.

Seeing that the general situation was over, the king of Luoyang went directly to the north gate without even taking his family members with him. When Li Ling arrived, the king of Luoyang had already left the north gate and took four to five hundred people to Nanzhao. He stayed to settle the hearts of the people and sent General Niu to chase after him, but there was no result for several days.

At this time, the little Ling'er on the small island in the middle of the lake sighed, and said to Chief Qin, "This Li Ling is too stubborn, showing his sharp edge, I'm afraid it's not a good thing."

Chief Qin Dazhu sighed: "If you want to do great things, but you don't want to get blood on your hands, it's difficult."

Sure enough, before the news came from General Niu, the imperial court issued an imperial decree. The Nanzhao Kingdom came and surrounded Chengdu. Li Ling was sent directly to Chengdu for rescue before he could withdraw his troops.

Li Ling was also puzzled, he had just finished the battle, so there were no other generals in the court?But the military order was like a mountain, and Li Ling had no choice but to evacuate Luoyang with his troops and head straight for Chengdu.It has been several days since I arrived in Chengdu.

The city of Chengdu had already run out of food, and there were countless fleeing people on the road. They all starved to death along the way. The so-called people's livelihood was nothing more than that. Li Ling couldn't bear to see this, so he distributed the army rations to these people, and continued his march with only three days of rations.

Chen Chongshan said: "Commander, we came urgently, the food and grass have not yet been settled, the army has no food, the soldiers can't fight."

Li Ling frowned and said, "I know, but we can't let the people starve to death. Since there is no food, let's kill the horses."

Zhang Baoju quickly objected: "Commander, war horses cannot be killed."

But Li Ling really had no choice, the further he went, the more exiled people he met on the road, and now he had no food, but seeing those people were about to starve to death, he really couldn't bear it.

Looking back, when I was in the Huainan Palace, I ate delicacies from mountains and seas and drank fine nectar and jade liquid. I never thought that I would be in trouble for a morsel of food. Three days later, they appeared outside Chengdu and saw the attack on the front. In the city, Li Ling said to the yellow-faced and emaciated soldiers: "Brothers, there is food in the city. As long as we repel the rebels, we will have food."

These words are undoubtedly a shot in the arm. Those soldiers were extraordinarily brave, and they launched a cover-up against the rebels. A big battle was fought from day to night, and finally the rebels dispersed. One sentence pulled their hearts to the bottom, and they asked, "Have you brought any food?"

Looking at the inside of the city, it was even more miserable. There was no food for more than ten days, and all the food that could be eaten was eaten, even the dead bark and straw on the roof were boiled and eaten. In the corner, some people died after Li Ling looked at them.

But those soldiers looked at the people who had fallen to the ground, but their eyes were glowing green. If there was no food, they would really eat people.But what about food?From collection to delivery of the military rations of the imperial court, it takes dozens of days if not a month, and it is not certain whether they will start from the capital now.

Li Ling swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his lips were chapped, and he finally couldn't take it anymore, and said to Zhang Baoju: "General Zhang, let's kill the horse."

Zhang Baoju was also very distressed, his brows were wrinkled, and in the end he failed to overcome the reality. He nodded silently. Li Ling sighed and had to order to kill the horse. To the soldiers, the horse was like his own brother. , went through life and death together, and galloped together on the battlefield, but now they watched the horses fall to the ground, and they cried with great grief.

But even if hundreds of horses were killed, each of them got less than half a mouthful of meat soup. Li Ling couldn't eat it, so he gave back the only half mouthful of meat soup to a child.The kid eating the meat soup looked at him with innocent eyes and asked, "Big brother, when will we have a whole bowl of rice?"

In a word, it is very simple, but it has completely touched his heartstrings. Yes, a whole bowl of rice, a whole bowl, is this too demanding?For Li Ling, who is a vegetarian in Jinyi, he never cared about a whole bowl of gold, let alone a whole bowl of rice.

But now he wished he could serve this child a whole bowl of rice with his own hands, even if it was just a whole bowl of dry white rice.The corners of his eyes got wet, and he comforted the child: "Yes, there will be, sooner or later."

But the moment of stability was short-lived. Those rebels came to attack the city again. They seemed to be tireless and blocked the entire Chengdu siege. Li Ling stood at the top of the city and looked at the sky. At that time, even if it was to give each of them a bowl of millet porridge, that would be a great gift.

Soldiers without food have no fighting power at all. Some soldiers fall to the ground while standing, and even fall down and never get up again, let alone go out to fight in the city.

(End of this chapter)