Zhao Liangdong sighed slowly, he knew that there was not much food in the army from the beginning, but he didn't expect the food to be consumed so quickly, thinking of this, he slowly opened his mouth: "How did the army consume so much food?" ”

"Originally, we had enough food to eat for two months, but each of those soldiers received double or even three portions of food, and told the quartermaster that if there was no food, their families would starve to death."

Speaking of this, the strategist sighed: "I originally thought that when we entered Shaanxi, we would definitely be able to grab food, even if they received more, it would be nothing, and the handsome man was riddled with miscellaneous things, so this little thing did not bother the handsome." ”

Zhao Liangdong's eyes widened angrily, and he just wanted to scold him, is this a trivial matter? In a blink of an eye, I understood what was going on: "The Ningxia army is arrogant, you bothered to appease them." ”

He also understood at this time, if he hadn't given these Ningxia soldiers several times the amount of military rations, he was afraid that they wouldn't even be able to come out of Ningxia, and if he understood this, he wouldn't be able to blame this staff.

"Marshal, what should we do now, if we can't find food as soon as possible, I'm afraid that there will be a mutiny in the army."

"Now we can only attack, even if two soldiers change one soldier, we have to grit our teeth to hold on, if we can't win this battle, my head will have to move." Zhao Liangdong said with a smile, but the staff in front of him clearly saw the helplessness and bitterness in his smile.

Cheng Xiaolian returned to the camp: "We are a small victory today, but we haven't hurt Zhao Liangdong's muscles and bones, but his morale can be regarded as a big loss, what to do next, let's discuss it." ”

Meng Ke preemptively said: "I think we should still attack, everyone has seen today's situation, Zhao Liangdong can't command the soldiers under him at all, as long as we rush over, they must save their lives first, and we can kill Zhao Liangdong." ”

"General Meng, don't forget, Zhao Liangdong still has more than 10,000 old soldiers under his command now, these are not new melon eggs, they know that if they run away in a fight, they will definitely kill and injure countless people, and if they pick up a knife to fight with us, we are very likely to be eaten by others."

"Lord Yang, you overestimate their ability a little, they can eat us, I'm afraid that they will come over to eat it a long time ago, and you still need to wait until now? The reason why they haven't attacked is because they know in their hearts that they can't eat us at all. ”

Huangfu Tong echoed: "That's right, when we first arrived here, they did show that they wanted to eat us in one bite, but soon they stopped fighting such a battle, because they understood that we are not soft persimmons, and if they want to eat us, they have to break their teeth." ”

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Jia Xu: "Scholar Jia, what do you think." ”

"I've studied our information, and it says that they don't seem to be running out of food and grass, because they seem to have requisitioned grain."

Cheng Xiaolian was not surprised at all by this situation: "Their grain and grass are definitely insufficient, Ningxia's grain and grass are not rich, and after two or three years of war, plus the imperial court is now unable to allocate grain and grass to them, Zhao Liangdong must be short of grain, if he has silver in his hand, I am afraid that it will not fall to this point." ”

Jia Xu continued: "Since they are short of food and grass, we don't need to worry, even if we follow them in circles, sooner or later we will kill them." ”

Cheng Xiaolian scolded with a smile: "What the hell are you thinking, let Wang Jiyong know, you can't laugh at us to death, besides, once we retreat, they will immediately be able to loot the village behind us, and then the grain and grass will be available again, Wang ~ The auxiliary ministers have no other skills, and the ability to set up silver still exists, when he defected to Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui gave him a lot of money and food to comfort, so compared to Gansu and Ningxia, the people of Shaanxi can be regarded as rich." ”

Chen Chengan suddenly opened his mouth at this time: "I think Zhao Liangdong may have to fight with us." ”

"Why?"

"Generals, think about it, if you lead your troops to battle and the army runs out of food, will you be ruined or will you have to go back?"

Huang Futong thought for a while: "Naturally, it depends on the situation." ”

"Once Zhao Liangdong returns to Ningxia, what do you think the Manchu court will do to him?"

"I must have felt that he was not effective in suppressing bandits, so he was dismissed on the spot."

"That's right, he is a general of the Han people, and the reason why he was appointed as the governor of a province is just because he is attentive and loyal to the monarch and the country, and now he has sent troops with 20,000 people, fought for more than ten days, and lost thousands of people before retreating, what do the people in the court think? Don't you Zhao Liangdong also want to learn from Wu Sangui and Wang ~ The auxiliary ministers want to support the army and respect themselves? So it's good that he doesn't go back, but once he does, it will be an end of dismissal and dismissal. ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded approvingly: "Go on." ”

"If Zhao Liangdong has money and food, he can naturally scatter a lot of money to buy people's hearts, and when the time comes, even if the army in Ningxia thinks of the benefits of the previous generals, but the family always wants to live, so he must only pinch his nose and admit it, but he has no money and food, and those people may not be willing to listen to him. So his words will become more and more useless. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Chengan coughed: "Without money and food, time is of little use to him, and it is impossible for him to win the hearts of the people if he is dry, so only a quick battle is the best way, now the soldiers in Ningxia are still obedient, once the food is cut off in two days, those people are afraid that they will rebel on the spot." Besides, these people are not Zhao Liangdong's cronies, even if they are all dead, in exchange for Zhao Liangdong's glory and wealth, he will not be sad, so he will definitely not care about the lives of these people, but will be anxious to fight with us. ”

Cheng Xiaolian nodded: "Reasonable, but don't forget, those soldiers under him may not be willing to listen to him and fight hard for him, or they would have worked hard before I arrived at the camp, why wait until now?" ”

Chen Chengan laughed: "What if he plunges the army to death? Speaking of this, he recited two ancient verses: "Faith is to make ten thousand people go first, go out, and carry the water behind." Zhao Jun saw it and laughed. So the Han soldiers attacked, broke the Zhao army, cut into An Jun on the water, and captured Zhao Wang Xie. ”

Cheng Xiaolian understood what he meant, he was carrying the battle of the back in the historical records of the Marquis of Huaiyin, if Zhao Liangdong put the soldiers to death, those soldiers really had no better way than to sacrifice their lives.

"Yang Youcai, immediately pay close attention to the movements of the enemy army, and if there are any strange moves, you must come back and report. Generals in the army, you must not go to war without my orders! Violators of the order will be dealt with by military law. ”

All the generals arched their hands in unison and said, "Obey." ”