Da Wei Chun

Chapter 631 Dilemma
Soon after winter, Daqi had already had three snowfalls.

Fortunately, there is not much snow, the temperature is not too low, and it is less cloudy and more sunny, so it goes with the weather.

But the fool also knows that the weather will only get colder and colder.Regardless of whether they were refugees or soldiers, just with the carts, tents, and thin clothes they brought when they were in a hurry, they couldn't survive the severe winter in these wild places.

If the grassland is not yet frozen solid, soldiers and refugees cannot have shelter, but after the winter solstice, dead bodies can cover the moraine.

In desperation, Luo Jian could only order the town army and civilian households to dig crypts on the grassland using local materials.

It was early winter, and there was not much snow falling, so the frozen layer was not very thick, only three to five inches.Take an iron gun and stab it hard, and you can pierce the frozen skin.Then use hoes and shovels to expand and dig deeper. In less than half a day, three or two strong men can dig a big hole six or seven feet deep and a radius of one foot.

Then the shaft was dismantled and the beams were built with wooden poles, the roof was covered with felt and hemp, and the walls were wrapped with grass leaves and mud paste, and then dried with smoke, and it was a mouthful of nests.

It is also enough for three or four people to live in. If there are more openings in the household, you can only open another opening, and it must be two feet away.

Just because the soil below the turf is sandy, although it is soft and easy to dig, if you dig a little bigger, or if the two nests are a little closer, there is a risk of collapse.

In such a place, there is naturally no comfort at all. The darkness is only one aspect, and the damp is the problem that kills people.A wind and cold may wipe out the house.

But it is better to be able to cover some cold air than to freeze to death in the wilderness.

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Luo Jian stood on the watchtower, his brows were tightly sewn together.

Looking from a distance, the big pits in the wilderness that have already been dug, or have been dug halfway, are like countless mouse holes, shining like stars.There are people's figures all over the mountains and plains, and puffs of mist are exhaled, condensed like white refining.It is like a cloud of smoke born out of thin air, from bottom to top, as wide as a sky veil.

It looks like a sea of ​​clouds and mist, but it is actually misty and sorrowful.

Luo Jian sighed sadly: "It's up to people to plan things, but it's up to God to make things happen, nothing better than this!"

He originally thought that since Xihai was not greedy enough and wanted to reap the benefits of being a fisherman and take in the rout soldiers and refugees from Beizhen, then I would follow the plan and simply let you eat to death: first use the refugees to clear the way, and then use the soldiers to mix in, then Can fish in troubled waters and flee to the West Sea.

Afterwards, no matter whether it is to turn against the guests, to bloom in the center of the West Sea, or to occupy the dove's nest, it will not be too late to care about it slowly.

But who would have thought that the general of Xihai, who was stationed in Daqi, was not usually cautious, he suddenly became alert after observing the traces of the horse.All the main roads leading to the West Sea were immediately blocked, and the defeated army and refugees were blocked in Daqi.

At this point, Luo Jianming's plan to build the plank road and sneak into the warehouse has been revealed. It is absolutely impossible to fish in troubled waters. He can only fight soldiers against soldiers, guns against guns, and those with open fire and sticks.

At this time, Luo Jian's confidence was still high, he thought that the town's army was more than [-], and if some young men were selected from the townspeople, it would be more than enough to gather a [-] army.But the enemy only has more than ten thousand troops, with one out of ten, there is absolutely no reason to be defeated.

But what he didn't expect was that the nearly [-] troops were helpless against more than [-] enemy troops?

The siege of Bigan City is like an iron bucket, and it has been a full month. Unfortunately, the town army not only did not make an inch, but suffered a lot of casualties.

And if the nail of Bigan City cannot be pulled out, these one hundred thousand soldiers will never dare to move.It's not impossible to divide the troops: one group continued to besiege Yu here, and the other went straight to the West Sea at full speed, catching Li Chengzhi by surprise.

But Luo Jian is not sure how much is appropriate?
Just because the fool also knows that if Xihai dared to give [-] soldiers here, the number of troops stationed in the lair should be at least two to three times that.

He has besieged Bigan City for more than a month, and he can't even deal with [-], let alone travel nearly two thousand miles in a boat and cart, and then deal with the [-] to [-] strong enemies who are waiting for work?
It doesn't help if there are fewer people going, and it is very likely that the meat buns will beat the dogs.There are too many people going, if the ten thousand people in Bigan City suddenly go out of the city to fight back, and if they lose, then they will be attacked...

In this way, Luo Jian did not dare to advance, nor did he dare to retreat.After racking his brains, he came up with a solution that was not an option: to be stationed in Daqi on the spot, and it would be best to exhaust the ten thousand sea soldiers under Bigan City first.

That's why he summoned Min Zhuang to dig a burrow on the spot...

Although this thing can keep out the wind and cold, it is extremely damp and damp. Although people can't be frozen to death, many people will definitely die of illness in the end.However, Luo Jian couldn't care less.

Man's calculation is not as good as heaven's calculation, and the matter has come to this, what can I do?

If we look at it from another angle, it is not all a bad thing: if more women, children, old and weak die, at least a lot of food can be saved, and the surviving adults can live a few more days...

After watching for a while, Luo Jian went down to the watchtower, and accompanied by a group of cronies, he went to Bigan City.

Bigan City is not far from here, only ten miles away, there is no need to urge the horse, just trust the horse and let it go, and it only takes two minutes to arrive.

When there are still four or five miles left, you can see the felt tents closed like clouds and the flags standing everywhere.Under the four cities are all town army camps, which can be said to be impenetrable by water and airtight.

But the strange thing is that neither the town army outside the city nor the Xihai soldiers above the city moved at all.

Luo Jian sighed again.

It's not that he doesn't want to attack, but that he can't attack at all.

In the first one or two days, most of the enemy troops were still stationed outside the city. Although the enemy commander had set up a long snake formation around the city, they straddled loosely and intermittently.There are even less than half of the soldiers herding sheep behind the mountain, as if they regard the nearly [-] town troops as nothing.

Luo Jian was overjoyed, thinking that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, he ordered the armored cavalry to charge into the battle, but he didn't want to get hit in the face.

It was also at that time that he saw the long-known "Li's Sky Thunder": the cavalry was still a hundred feet away from the enemy, and countless iron cans flew towards them.After seeing a burst of fire and thunder, thousands of cavalry collapsed like water.

Fortunately, there were few enemy cavalry, so they dared not pursue them.But the town army was also frightened and could only watch the enemy retreat to Guancheng.

But because Guancheng is too small, at most three battalions can be stationed, and there are countless cattle and sheep, Li Feng can only send most of the soldiers to camp in the valley behind the city.

Luo Jian thought that the opportunity had come again, and this time he replaced with infantry, intending to climb over the mountain and go around the valley to take the rear route.

But who would have thought that this time the lesson was deeper: Li Feng only used two battalions of archers to firmly guard the cliffs at both ends of the valley.If one dares to climb over the mountain, it is guaranteed that there will be no return.

Luo Jian finally understood why Xi Kangsheng, Xing Luan, Cui Yanbo, Li Yun and other nearly half of the famous generals in the Yuan and Wei Dynasties, with nearly 20 troops, could not attack a small Xiazhou?

Because Gao Zhao also used rockets, this thing is really evil and poisonous, even iron armor will burn when it touches it, like maggots attached to bones.

Even so, Luo Jian still did not give up, and ordered his subordinates to attack the city, even ignoring casualties.It was another full ten days, nearly ten thousand dead bodies were thrown under Yucheng, but not a single corner of the bricks on Bigancheng was broken.

No matter how many soldiers the town army dispatches and what kind of siege weapons they use, as long as they get as close as thirty feet below the city, the rockets will rain down like locusts.And in just a moment, whether it is a building car or a rushing car, they are all burnt to pieces.

Luo Jian couldn't figure out, where did Xihai get so much kerosene.

It was nothing more than thunder that day, and it should be that there were not many preparations, and only when it was critical, the city would only cast one or two.But the rockets seem to be endless. In the past few months, there may have been more than a million of them thrown away?

However, unable to attack for a long time, and the casualties were getting heavier, Luo Jian could only temporarily truce, and then surrounded Guancheng into iron barrels.

Now we can only hope that the enemy army does not have much food and grass, and it will not last for a month...

Reassuring himself like this, Luo Jian entered the North City, boarded the cloud car and looked around Bigan City.

But after only a few glances, Luo Jian's heart felt as if a boulder had been crushed, as heavy as a mountain.

Just after noon at this time, there were fireworks in Guancheng, not only in one place, but in all the four cities.

Looking into the valley behind the city, it is also like this, only to see the smoke curling up from the kitchen, entangled in thousands, so many that there are countless.

It can't be that the defenders have too much firewood to use up, can they be used to warm the fire?

One can also know that it must be cooking on fire.

Luo Jian still had a little bit of hope left, and asked in a deep voice: "I guess the enemy army is short of food and grass, and they didn't use the court food, so they just lighted the fire to make food at this time?"

The guard of the northern battalion was taken aback for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

What food and grass are not good, and you are reluctant to eat?
It was almost bright, and there was fire in the closed city. The enemy general in the city was also a traitor, and he deliberately let the gang leader put a pot on the head of the city, and the noise of killing cattle and sheep was so loud that I could see it from a mile away. Listen clearly.

The defenders closer to the city can even smell the aroma of meat...

The general was in a dilemma, not knowing how to let the governor know the truth without hurting his face, when he suddenly heard the sound of a cow mooing.

The defenders are going to slaughter cattle and sheep again?

Hearing the noise, Luo Jian's face froze suddenly: Why did he forget that when he first came here, he saw that this gang of thieves had a lot of cattle and sheep?
Even if there are only [-] soldiers, they are evenly distributed to more than [-] soldiers, each with as many as ten soldiers.Even if you let go of your belly to eat, it will be enough for March and April.

What's more, the enemy army was half riding and half carting, and they already carried countless grains and grass.

Looking at the general's face again, Luo Jian knew that he was in a hurry, and even ignored logic: the enemy army was not short of food and grass, but had meat for three meals a day.

On the other hand, in the town army, soldiers have been distributing rations since [-] years ago, and they only eat two meals a day, morning and evening, which are only [-]% of what they used to be.

As for private households, only the young and strong will be given rations, and only [-]% of the rations will be given.Fortunately, the moraine is rich in water and grass, at least there are grass roots to dig.Sometimes if you are lucky, you can get dozens of rat cubs out of one nest...

Thinking this way in his heart, Luo Jian's face became paler and paler.

If things go on like this, the morale of the subordinates will definitely drop day by day, and maybe one day, some soldiers will flee.At that time, even if he has all the skills, he will hardly be able to recover.

What made him even more disturbed was that a few months ago, he made an agreement with Yuan Zhi to join forces by the bank of Juyan Lake at the beginning of winter at the latest to discuss the West Sea.But seeing that the agreement was approaching, and it had been only a few days, he was still blocked at Bigan City, which was nearly two thousand miles away?
Even if Min Zhuang is included, Yuan Zhi only has [-] soldiers and horses. How can he be Li Chengzhi's opponent?
Is it possible to divide the troops and leave [-] to [-] for this, and the rest will rush westward?
But if he takes a step back: only [-] enemy troops make him helpless, God knows how many thousands there are in Xihai?Even if he is united with Yuan's prey soldiers, he will surely be able to seize the West Sea like a broken bamboo?
For a moment, Luo Jian's heart was burning with anxiety, anxious and angry, and veins bulged on his forehead...

Luo Jian was very anxious, but Li Feng was very proud.

He sees himself very clearly, knowing that his talents and wisdom are only mediocre.Regardless of government affairs or military affairs, they are far behind Li Song, Li Liang, Huangfu and others.Therefore, he has always been cautious, and he never seeks merit in everything he does, only seeks to be innocent.

Just like this time, it was originally only to receive refugees, and did not expect to fight the enemy, so Li Chengzhi originally only ordered him to lead [-] recruits to station in Bigan City.It was Li Feng who stalked and stalked tens of thousands of troops.

Moreover, there are five battalions of fully armored cavalry, and [-] of them are old soldiers. It is conceivable that the combat power is strong and the morale is high.

Although the remaining two battalions were reorganized as soldiers, they were also carefully selected cavalry who were skilled in bow and horse.

The remaining five battalions are all chariot soldiers, also reorganized by the surrendered troops from Qin and Liang states.Among them, the 20-year old bachelors were arranged by Li Chengzhi to marry wives and start a family, divide the fields and divide the cattle and sheep, and now they are even more armored, and the military discipline is strong. Same day.

In addition to the fire, Li Feng brought five thousand grenades and one million rockets in case of emergencies.

Later, he felt sorry for being too light-hearted, so he sent troops back to the West Sea to bring tens of thousands of cattle and sheep to Daqi as herdsmen.

It was such a blunder, that he had a few more months of rations out of thin air.Coupled with the original grain and grass, it is enough for half a year.

If it really doesn't work, there are still nearly fifteen thousand war horses and poor horses. If they are all killed, even if they eat half and throw away the half, it will be enough for half a year.

There is enough food, and because there is a river valley behind Guancheng, there is not only water but also trees to cut down, so there is no shortage of water and firewood.But to plan ahead, Li Feng ordered his soldiers to slaughter cattle and sheep after entering the Guancheng, so as to save some fodder for horses.

The only thing to worry about is the arrow.The million or so he prepared when he came here had already been used up. As a last resort, Li Feng could only order the soldiers to collect long spears, chop them into arrow shafts, and then hang the soldiers down from the city at night to collect arrowheads and rags. Then let the soldiers make arrows.

If there is no glue available, cowhide can only be boiled instead.If there is not enough kerosene, you can only smelt sheep oil and butter, soak the hemp silk and wool, and then wrap it around the arrow branch to replace it.

Fortunately, there were a lot of mines prepared when they came, and Li Feng ordered the soldiers to pry open nearly half of the mines, and poured out gunpowder to make some, just in case.

Just like that, Li Feng was so bold, he changed his cautious disposition, he could take advantage of Luo Jian's attack and retreat to the West Sea, but he did the opposite, stuck in Bigan City like a nail.

As long as he doesn't retreat, Luo Jian will not dare to go straight to the West Sea with all his troops.Even if it is not good, half of the troops should be allocated to besiege here, otherwise they will be attacked by the enemy.

In this way, Luo Jianke's army to invade the West Sea is only [-] to [-], and whether it is [-] or [-], it is easy for the gentleman to capture.

But as far as Luo Jian is concerned, it is difficult to ride a tiger, a dilemma...

(End of this chapter)