Even though it has reached the beginning of spring, the mountains are still desolate, perhaps due to the temperature, the trees on the mountain are still bare, and it is difficult to see the green that represents vitality, and even the tender yellow can rarely enter the eyes. The crimson sunset illuminated the ground even more desolate and lifeless.

Just this morning, the puppet Qi rebels once again launched a large-scale attack, and the Li family's army, which was stationed on the mountainside of less than 4,000 men, was once again routed on all fronts, and had no choice but to retreat again and again, completely abandoning the penultimate line of defense that was the only one. After the battle, Li Xiaofeng and Li Jian led the remnants of the defeated army to join forces with Li Huangshu on the top of the mountain, and the total number was only more than 3,000 people.

The reason why the combat effectiveness of the puppet Qi rebels suddenly increased was that they completely relied on the two batches of supplies that robbed the logistics troops of the Li family's army, which contained a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance, especially arrows, which completely became the magic weapon of the puppet Qi rebels to encircle and suppress the Li army.

On the contrary, it was the Li Jiajun, who were extremely short of supplies, and had no choice but to be beaten in the face of the salvo of the bow and crossbow of the pseudo-Qi. It is not that Li Jiajun has not tried to charge and raid, but the number of Pseudo-Qi rebels is too large, even if they do not resist, it is extremely difficult for Li Jiajun to rush down the mountain, not to mention that Pseudo-Qi has also built increasingly perfect fortifications.

Although the Li Jiajun was defeated, the soldiers did not dare to slack off in the slightest, although they had gradually felt despair in their hearts, but with only that glimmer of hope, everyone still cheered up and stepped up the construction of fortifications on the last and only line of defense on this mountain, in order to delay as much time as possible.

By now, Uncle Li Huang has secretly regretted it in his heart, he regretted that he was too rigid and self-serving, and he didn't listen to Li Xiaofeng's opinion and asked Lin Feng of Chang'an City for help, which finally caused their lone army to be trapped in Xiaqing Mountain, and more importantly, the soldiers below have not eaten for two consecutive days, basically digging grass roots, scraping tree bark, and even the birds on this mountain are gone.

Standing outside his camp tent, looking at the surrounding groups of soldiers who dragged their tired bodies and had to continue to work, Uncle Li Huang felt that his heart was twitching, and even at this moment, he had deep doubts about his ability, why the pseudo-Qi rebels, who were supposed to be vulnerable, were able to survive under the pursuit of 20,000 elites led by themselves, and in the end, they were about to completely turn the tide of the battle and turn defeat into victory!

Uncle Li Huang has been thinking deeply about this mystery for a few days and nights, but he has not been able to find the most correct answer in the end, or maybe he has found it, but he doesn't want to admit it.

"Uncle Huang!" Li Jian, who had just been patrolling the area of the defense line, slowly walked to Uncle Li's side, shouted with a solemn face, and then hesitated for a moment before continuing in a low voice: "The shortage of supplies for the army is too serious, just now I asked the brothers to sort out the arrows and pick out three hundred brothers who are skilled in bows and arrows, but each of them was only allocated about thirty carved arrows. ”

"Thirty or so." Hearing this, Uncle Li's body shook fiercely, he knew that the supply of his army was seriously lacking, but he didn't expect it to be so serious, you must know that more than thirty arrows are just the normal equipment of soldiers, but now only three hundred people can have normal equipment, which shows the difficulty of their situation.

"But Uncle Huang can rest assured, these arrows alone should be able to withstand at least two attacks by Pseudo-Qi!" Looking at Uncle Li Huang, whose face was pale, Li Jian's heart was extremely uncomfortable, Li Jiajun fell to the point where he is today, it can be said that it was completely due to the mistake of Li Jian's lone army at the beginning, after a little hesitation, Li Jian added with some uncertainty: "Perhaps, maybe our baggage troops have already sent a messenger to Chang'an for help, as long as we continue and persist for a few days, we can still survive the current difficulties!" ”

"I hope so!" Uncle Li Huang sighed deeply, and several wrinkles had unconsciously added to his old face, but as soon as he remembered Li Xiaofeng's proposal at the beginning, all the wrinkles would quickly squeeze together, and then, Uncle Li Huang shook his head with an extremely ugly face, and said with a low sigh: "Alas! It's all my fault, I blame that I didn't listen to Xiaofeng's advice at the beginning, so I ended up in such a nowhere now! ”

"Daddy! It's not your fault! Seeing this, Li Xiaofeng, who had been silent beside him, hurriedly shook his head and persuaded him: "Coming to this point is definitely not what my father wants!" If you want to blame, you can only blame the group of beasts in the pseudo-Qi! ”

Suddenly, Uncle Li Huang, Li Jian and the surrounding soldiers were silent, what Li Xiaofeng said was indeed right, the reason why the puppet Qi rebels were able to turn defeat into victory was not how much their combat effectiveness had increased substantially, but some of the other party's practices, Li Jiajun could not do it at all, for example, cannibalism.

Both sides lacked supplies, especially military rations, but the rebels of the Pseudo-Qi began to eat people without humanity to replenish their physical strength to sustain the battle. And Li Jiajun, not to mention Uncle Li's repeated orders that the army under his command will never be allowed to eat people, even if there is no order, it is still difficult for normal people to accept cannibalism, so in the confrontation with the pseudo-Qi, Li Jiajun is completely hungry to fight, even hungry, how to exert all his combat effectiveness in the battle!

"Alas! It's dinner time again! Watching the sunset slowly fall in the sky, Uncle Li Huang couldn't help frowning, and let out a low and bitter sigh in his hair. Now for Li Jiajun, the most difficult thing is the night of the generals and the rise of the dawn, at this time, it is often the time to eat and replenish physical strength in normal marching battles, but the current Li Jiajun has no edible grain and grass at all, and even the bark of grass roots and trees on the mountain has quickly disappeared under thousands of big mouths, becoming a desolation with potholes.

"Tonight, I'm afraid it's another sleepless night!" Looking at the eyes, Li Jian also slowly lowered his gaze, I don't know when, he was already unconsciously full of fear of the darkness, especially when he was a night general, his whole heart was as if he was slowly shrouded by a black shadow, making him gradually fall into endless fear.

Indeed, as Uncle Li and the others feared, as the night wore on, the puppet Qi rebels on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain had already begun a sumptuous dinner. The entire Pseudo-Qi rebels looked highly motivated, and groups of rebels gathered together, banging on the pottery bowls and porcelain in their hands, with a happy smile on their faces, for only one reason, and it was extremely simple, so simple that it made people feel a little incredible, that is, tonight, all the meals were enough to manage and be full.