Early the next morning, Li Yuguo went up to the city wall and found that the entire city was indeed besieged and the entire city was surrounded by an army of 100,000 people, which looked quite scary.
Because outside the city gate, the dense soldiers were like a layer of sesame seeds, everywhere, stretching to the horizon.
Nalan Meng, who is also on the city wall, tasted the Holy Fruit of the Garden of Eden for the first time yesterday, so she has changed her slender ponytail into a bun. This shows that she is now a woman, not the girl before. .
Nalanmeng said: "Mr. sir, the enemy's army of one hundred thousand has been besieging the city for half a month. They blocked our water flow and blocked all our roads. Now all the crops around Tianlang City have been destroyed. Burnt to the ground.”
Li Huguo nodded and said: "I have seen it before. During the autumn harvest time, they burned all the rice and the people suffered from hunger. It was simply too cruel. So what was your original plan?"
"Actually, there are two plans, one is to defend, and the other is to surrender..." Nalan Meng said, she gritted her teeth: "Actually, Chen Laogen contributed a strategy, but I didn't adopt it."
"Cannibalism..." Li Huguo said.
Chen Laogen's strategy is actually very simple, that is, to defend to the death. If there is not enough food, he will eat the people in the city. Although he is vicious, there is nothing he can do.
In fact, this strategy is very simple, and the reason is also very simple. If the enemy breaks the city, I am afraid that all the people will not be able to survive, and things will be very serious by then.
This reminded Li Yuguo of the Anshi Rebellion. During the Anshi Rebellion, there was a famous general named Zhang Xun. He used this strategy. Li Huguo looked at the crowds of soldiers outside, he frowned, and after sighing slowly, he said : "There was once a general who did such a thing."
"oh?"
"Zhang Xun." Li Yuguo clenched his fists. He said in detail that when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, An Lushan's son led 130,000 troops to attack Suiyang. Zhang Xun only had 3,000 troops and With limited food and grass, they still held on for several months.
But one hundred and thirty thousand versus three thousand, if you think about it with your toes, you will know how this war will end.
However, this battle was fought for several months under the leadership of Zhang Xun. In four hundred battles, large and small, the rebels never captured Suiyang. However, as time went by, the city of Suiyang The defenders fell into a more terrifying dilemma, with no food.
No matter how talented Zhang Xun was, he could not draw cakes for the soldiers to satisfy their hunger. At this time, a scene that has been debated by future generations for more than a thousand years occurred. Zhang Xun killed his concubine and distributed it to the soldiers to satisfy their hunger.
One man was not enough, so he killed the old, weak, women and children in Suiyang City and used them as food.
Although more than a thousand years have passed, later generations are still debating Zhang Xun's behavior. Some people emphasize Zhang Xun's helplessness and tragedy. In the face of the overriding national interests, there is no way to retreat. However, those who opposed Zhang Xun said that killing an innocent person to conquer the world was not a good idea, let alone killing 30,000 unarmed people. Wouldn't it be extremely cruel
Li Yuguo believes that what those who oppose the Zhang faction say makes sense to a certain extent. They think about issues from a Confucian perspective of humanity, which can indeed resonate with many people. However, the most untenable thing about those who oppose the Zhang faction is that they just Standing on a moral high ground and expressing emotion, he was unable to answer what Zhang Xun should do in that situation of internal and external difficulties.
I have to say that this is also a blind spot in the thinking of many people today. Everyone sees the appearance of things, and then they can’t wait to criticize from the moral high ground.
However, things may not be as simple as people think. Just imagine, what would they do if they were in a situation where they were trapped internally and externally, and they were running out of ammunition and food? It seems that this is a dilemma. Surrender, the consequence will be to become a traitor despised by the world. It seems wrong to stick to it, and the result is that it has been criticized by later generations for thousands of years.
Zhang Xun's final ending is also very suitable. Soon after eating the people in the city, the rebels broke into the city. Zhang Xun and the soldiers who defended the city were all killed in the battle, and no one escaped. After Zhang Xun died in the battle, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty In gratitude for Zhang Xun's righteousness, Zhang Xun was posthumously granted the title of Grand Governor of Yangzhou and Duke of Deng. It was a fitting death for him.
The most pitiable people in the war were of course the people in Suiyang City. When Zhang Xun entered the city, there were more than 40,000 people in the city. When the city was broken and left, only more than 400 people survived. Li Hugo said: " At that time, there were hundreds of cauldrons in the city, filled with human hands and feet, including old people and babies waiting to be fed, all cooking in one pot. The scene was no different from the Asura Hell."
Nalan Meng's face turned ugly after hearing this: "Fortunately, I didn't agree to Chen Laogen's suggestion, otherwise this scene would really have appeared in Tianlang City."
"Young children were stripped of their menstruation and bones, and the bones were burned as firewood. When the water source was cut off, they drank human blood. This is indeed a terrible scene, but if we don't do something now, the terrible consequences of Zhang Xun will be staged here. "Li Yuguo clenched his fists and said slowly, "We can't guarantee victory in the light beast tide. We must have more useful trump cards."
"What?"
"This time, there are three military marshals, the chief marshal and the deputy marshal. The chief marshal is none other than the famous Hao Nanren. He has infinite manpower and is an important figure in the Haotian Divine Sect. He is brave enough to be worthy of all men, and he has great martial arts skills. Gao Qiang, his cultivation has reached the peak of the Martial Emperor, and I heard that he is only a short distance away from the Martial Emperor. If he wants to enter the city, we will be helpless." Li Huguo said.
"Then what do you mean..." Nalan Meng looked at Li Huguo.
"There is a weakness!" Li Yuguo saw the flaw in the enemy's formation at a glance.
Nalan Meng hurriedly said: "Then tell me, how should we retreat from the enemy?"
Li Yuguo understood that he had to go all out this time. If he relied closely on Lang Qingconcubine's will or the demon yuan puppet, it would definitely not work. What he had to do was to divide the enemy. Li Yuguo said slowly: " The relationship between the five major families and the second prince is very close. Yue Chen's original engagement partner was the second prince. It can be seen that the second prince is very close to the five major families. But don't forget, this time the deputy general, also the deputy marshal, has a total of Two, one is the eldest prince and the other is the second prince. Now the prince has not been determined yet. Some people support the eldest prince and some support the second prince. Therefore, the two princes are only seeing constant intrigues and disputes. We can take advantage of this. a little!"
"How to do it?" Nalan Meng looked at Li Huguo.
Li Yuguo slowly turned around and said, "I'll go talk to the eldest prince in person!"
When Nalan Meng heard this, his expression suddenly changed: "You are seeking death, no! I will never agree. If you die, how will I explain to my two sisters!"
"Listen to me!" Li Yuguo held Nalanmeng's shoulders and said seriously: "Sirius City is in danger now. Look at their formation, do you know why they didn't attack? A hundred thousand troops, plus such There are too many partridge sentries, and even ten times the troops and horses of Tianlang City are no match for them. The reason why they don't take action is because they are afraid."
"There are two kinds of fear. One may be that you don't want to damage the facilities in the city. You also know that soap, toilet water and other crops, if these things are popularized, I am afraid that some earth-shaking changes will occur in Haotian Kingdom! The other is They don’t want to lose their troops, they want to kill us by cutting off water and food! Either way, it’s beneficial to us, at least we don’t have to worry about defense for the time being!”
"Moreover, the dispute within this dynasty, especially the dispute over the heir, has been a very fierce matter in the past dynasties. Haotian Kingdom is a country and a sect. How can there be two monarchs in a country? Now the power of the eldest prince is at a disadvantage. , because the second prince has the support of five major families, so if this continues, he will inevitably lose power, and if we put forward conditions that make him interested, then our dispute can reduce some pressure!" Li Hugo analyzed thoroughly, He looked at Nalan Meng.