On the sixth night, the Seventh Prince's camp suddenly burst into flames.
In the five days before this, the war never stopped. The second prince and the seventh prince were equally matched in strength, and the situation of one defending and one attacking was stalemate. During these five days, no one took advantage.
In this battle, the second prince was undoubtedly the one who suffered the most. Since he started his army, many things have gone beyond his previous understanding, and they have also broken their inherent plans.
He had never paid attention to the Seventh Prince before, but the fact slapped him in the face.
According to the previous discussion between him and his staff, after they go out of the city to meet with their troops, they can enter the capital and go straight to Huanglong. But when they left the city, they discovered that the entire capital had been controlled by the Seventh Prince's people overnight.
What frightened the second prince even more was the method of the seventh prince.
A total of 50,000 horses were unexpectedly hidden in the capital by the Seventh Prince without anyone noticing. This kind of thing cannot be completed overnight. From this, it can be seen that the Seventh Prince had premeditated this matter! But his people never found out!
The two men now have the same number of troops, but it is much more difficult to attack than to defend. What's more, the second prince is facing not only the seventh prince in the city, but he has received the news before that Qin Tong brought the eighth prince under his command. Wan Dajun has already begun to rush towards the capital. Judging from the footsteps, the reinforcements led by Qin Tong will arrive within six or seven days.
And the second prince's reinforcements are also on the way, but according to the tutorial, it will take at least ten days to reach the capital.
They have lost the opportunity, and the only thing they can do now is to capture the city as soon as possible.
As the saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before using food and grass.
The capital is divided into the outer city and the inner city. The inner city is where the common people live and multiply. The Seventh Prince’s men and horses are stationed in the outer city. But ironically, the outer city was originally used to resist foreign invasion, but now it is used The person who resisted the second prince.
Last night, the Second Prince's people had sneaked into the outer city of the capital and found the place where the Seventh Prince stored grain and grass. After a few fires, eight tenths of the grain and grass reserves in the city were burned out.
Hearing the words from the spies, the second prince smiled, dismissed the person who sent the message, then looked at the preparation map on the table and discussed with the staff around him: "According to the spies' inquiries, the current situation, as long as we persist for about three days If there is no food, the soldiers in the city will have no food and grass to use, and without food and grass, I don’t believe that the soldiers in this city can persist until the reinforcements arrive, and by then, even if they are sleepy, I will starve them to death!”
What the second prince said made sense, and the staff in the room immediately echoed, only Mr. Qi sat next to the second prince and did not speak.
The second prince noticed his silence, and asked, "Mr. Qi has a different opinion?" It can be seen that the second prince still respects this Mr. Qi.
"Have you ever thought about it, if the people in the city can survive these few days?" Mr. Qi stroked his beard and talked, "The city is different from the outside. Even if there is no food and grass, there are still big rice shops. There are still people's reserves in the poor city. From my point of view, the prince can't be too optimistic about this matter."
The second prince's eyes darkened: "Mr. Qi means..."
Mr. Qi ordered some tea with his fingers, wrote the word "aid" on the wooden table, and said: "The most urgent thing at the moment is to find a way to block the coming reinforcements of the Seventh Prince."
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The fire last night was very intense, and until now it was dawn, there were still green smoke rising from places, and almost the whole camp was lingering with a burning smell.
Chu Ruofei led people to inspect the entire camp and reported to the Seventh Prince: "I checked just now. We suffered heavy losses that night. Eighty percent of the food and grass were burned, but there is good news."
"What?" The Seventh Prince's face was not very good-looking, and he immediately looked up at Chu Ruofei when he heard Chu Ruofei's words.
"A lot of rice has been burned into rice flowers, but it can be eaten." Chu Ruofei spread his hands, revealing the burnt black so-called "rice flowers", but at this juncture, Chu Ruofei The jokes are not funny.
The Seventh Prince and the staff and military advisers in the room looked solemn, only Chu Yan took a "rice flower" from Chu Ruofei's hand, put it in his mouth and ate it, and then came to a conclusion: "It can be eaten."
Chu Ruofei was joking just now, but Chu Yan was not. When he was short of food and grass at the border, many soldiers had nothing to eat, and they all dug up wild vegetable roots to eat with the northwest wind. Now there are these "rice flowers", which in Chu Yan's opinion are already good.
The Seventh Prince obviously didn't understand what Chu Yan meant. He opened the layout map, pointed to a place name on it and said to everyone: "According to the footsteps, Qin Tong and his people should be in the same generation. Even if it is fast, it will take six days. If things go on like this, there will be troubles in Beijing before Qin Tong arrives, so we have to think of a way to deal with it quickly."
For the Seventh Prince, it is absolutely unacceptable to rob the people of food, such a move that loses popular support. But if the sergeants have nothing to eat by then, the Seventh Prince can't control what they can do when they are extremely hungry.
One of the aides said: "Everyone think of a way to see if we can borrow some good futures from the nearest general."
As soon as the words fell, another person said: "General Xia has 50,000 elite soldiers in his hands, and it is only two days away from the capital."
The Seventh Prince vetoed this suggestion without even thinking about it: "Old General Xia has always been neutral, even if you have a lot of tongues, he will never lend us troops."
The two staff members looked at each other in blank dismay, and knew that this matter was indeed difficult to handle. The other staff members would not be able to come up with any good ideas for a while, and the whole room fell into silence for a while.
At this moment, Chu Yan suddenly said: "It's not impossible to try at Old General Xia, isn't there Xia Mochu here?"
Chu Ruofei shook his head and said, "Him? Unless Old General Xia is getting confused, Xia Mochu's presence at Old General Xia's place won't be as effective as what I say."
Chu Yan said, "No matter what, you should try."
As he spoke, Chu Yan called Lian Xin in and whispered a few words into his ear.
An hour and a half later, Xia Mochu rode into the barracks on horseback. Under everyone's disbelieving eyes, Xia Mochu handed the old general Xia's tiger talisman to the Seventh Prince with both hands, then rubbed his hands and said to Chu Yan, "I lost my grandfather's charm." I was dizzy and stole it, you must succeed this time! Otherwise... my grandfather would have to chop me up and hang me on the city wall as a public display."
Hearing Xia Mochu's words, the Seventh Prince didn't know how to react, and even hesitated to pick up the Tiger Talisman.
stole? Xia Mochu actually stole this Tiger Talisman, which can mobilize 50,000 elite soldiers
The Seventh Prince looked at Chu Yan with some embarrassment. He felt that the tiger talisman in his hand was a bit hot. Even if the Tiger Talisman was in his hands, he didn't get it the right way, and he wouldn't know how to use it. After all, if this kind of thing gets out, it will be a stain on his life.
Seeing the seventh prince's hesitation, Chu Yan said: "Your Highness, feel free to use it. If General Xia hadn't released the water on purpose, Xia Mochu wouldn't have been able to get this tiger talisman just with the four shadow guards around him."
Xia Mochu was listening, and immediately retorted: "Brother-in-law, what you said is wrong."
The Seventh Prince looked at Xia Mochu, Chu Yan gave the Seventh Prince a reassuring look, then took the tiger amulet from the Seventh Prince's hand, turned around and handed it to Xia Mochu: "Send the Buddha to the west, this soldier, I will leave it to you to dispatch gone."