Heaven

The Chu army finally ran out of food.

Although the common people began to go on a hunger strike three days ago to save food for the soldiers guarding the gate, the surplus food in the granary finally reached the point where there were no grains left.

Wei Jun's offensive has never stopped.

Wei Wuji took turns to attack each pass, and after playing a few times to no avail, he finally concentrated his forces on the pass guarded by Li Di.Unable to attack for many days, his eyes were red from killing, and he almost used the strategy of replacing people, willing to sacrifice the lives of four, five, or even seven or eight soldiers of Wei State to drag a Chu army to death.

The crossbow arrows of the magic machine ballista have long been exhausted, and the number of damaged catapults is also increasing day by day.The number of times the enemy attacked the pass was increasing day by day. On several occasions, Li Di personally led the black armored soldiers to suppress the Wei army who had already occupied a corner of the pass.If Ji Kongqing hadn't risked his life several times and led his cavalry out to charge the battle, relieving some of the pressure on the pass, I'm afraid that the Wei army had already broken through the last line of defense of this new province.

Li Di had just repelled a wave of strong attacks from the enemy, and before he could wipe off the flesh and blood on the black heavy armor, he hurried towards the tent where the wounded soldiers were placed.

The wound medicines in the army were no longer enough, and several military doctors taught some local people how to distinguish and collect herbs, but there were not many medicinal materials in the mountains, so this could only be better than nothing.

Li Di saw an unexpected figure.

"Is the girl also helping to take care of the wounded?" Li Di waved his hands to the red lady.

"Ah, it's General Li!" The red lady smiled shyly when she saw the person coming, "The general won't let me go into battle to kill the enemy. I think if I can do what I can, I will feel more at ease."

The red lady has some martial arts skills, but the guards who closed the gate did not let her go up to defend against the enemy, and joked that it was the responsibility of their men, how could they let women protect them behind them.

"Girl Gao Yi, I really admire you." Li Diwen said.Although he didn't have any other thoughts about the red lady, and he had sensed the other's thoughts in the past few days, and deliberately avoided being alone with her, but he also really admired this heroine.

The red lady was a little embarrassed when she heard the words, she rubbed her hands and said, "How can I compare to the general who kills the enemy in a bloody battle? In fact, I don't know much about medicine, so I can only do some rough work of bandaging. Although I want to save people, I can't help much. "The tone of the red lady is not without regret.

Li Di looked at the military doctors who were busy like spinning tops, and nodded in agreement.He also couldn't help sighing: "Yes, if there is a Qihuang sage here, I don't know how many lives of soldiers can be saved!" He suddenly thought of a person who was rushing here, and his weird temperament. A rare grin.

Seeing Li Di's smile, the red lady was stunned for a moment before she asked, "I don't know why the general came here to..."

Li Di withdrew his thoughts, took out a few medicine bottles from his arms, and handed them to the nearest military doctor: "I still have some wound medicine here, let's use it for the soldiers first."

The military doctor uncorked the bottle, smelled it on the tip of his nose, and turned pale with shock: "Blood ginseng ice musk pill! This is the legendary blood ginseng ice musk pill, the holy medicine for wounds of the living dead!"

He immediately called all the military doctors to discuss how to distribute the bottle of wound medicine to the most seriously injured soldiers, and kept feeling in his mouth that he could see such a holy medicine with his own eyes in his lifetime.

Li Di was secretly amused when he saw the surprised look of the military doctors, and couldn't help feeling warm in his heart.Thinking about the person who fiercely threw the medicine bottle to him at the beginning, he only said it was a general wound medicine, and pointed at him and uttered a lot of bad words, but now it seems that he is really a duplicity guy, even if he cares about others, he must first Only when the other party's seven orifices are smoking will he be reconciled.

The red lady was surprised: "I didn't expect the general to give his life-saving medicine to ordinary soldiers for use?"

Li Di waved his hand: "Hehe, this was originally a gift from a friend of mine. If he knew about it, he would be willing to take it out to save the lives of all the soldiers." Having handled chores by that person's side for a long time, he was completely It can be seen that the other party is actually full of the compassion of a doctor when it comes to saving lives.

After Li Di delivered the medicine, he ignored the red lady's hesitant eyes, and left.

In fact, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with urgently.It is necessary to carefully allocate the manpower to defend against the enemy in shifts, and to readjust the positions of several trebuchets...

Since he had received Jing Mingrui's order, if he wanted to stick to it for fifteen days, he must do his best to complete the agreement.Even if Jing Mingrui's reinforcements still haven't arrived fifteen days later, he will continue to fight until the last soldier dies!

In the evening, Ji Kongqing saw the red lady for the second time.

The last time was when he scared Wei Wuji away with an arrow and saved the red lady at a critical moment.However, he never had the opportunity to talk to Hong Niangzi face to face.

Ji Kongqing was sitting cross-legged on the ground wiping his Fengyin knife with a cloth.

The last call with Jing Mingrui happened to coincide with the night attack of the Wei army. He led his troops to rush outside, but he heard that everything was going well, and Jing Mingrui took the initiative to cut off the induction.Ji Kongqing didn't say a word in his stomach, and he was so depressed that he could only turn into a murderous aura. He didn't know how many Wei people became his ghosts that night.

Hong Niangzi, together with several gang leaders, brought a large pot of porridge with wild vegetables to Ji Kongqing's camp.It is said that there is no rice in the porridge, but the collected wild vegetables are mixed with some edible roots of plants, which are boiled to satisfy the hunger.

"My lord, I have never had time to thank you face to face. It's really rude." The red lady smiled and bowed to Ji Kongqing.

"Miss, you're being polite." Ji Kongqing said with a smile.The matter of saving the red lady was purely accidental, but he didn't take it to heart.

"Speaking of which, Young Master's arrow skills are really superb! I heard that Young Master almost shot Wuman's chieftain to death?" The red lady seemed to be recalling the situation that day, and looked at Ji Kongqing with admiration.

"Girl is overrated." Although Ji Kongqing is very confident in her archery skills, she has not reached the stage of complacency and superciliousness.

"Who?"

Ji Kongqing suddenly swung his saber towards the pile of rocks in front of him.The stone pile was agitated by his saber energy, and immediately splashed in all directions.The red lady suddenly turned pale with shock, and fell into Ji Kongqing's arms with a cry.

Ji Kongqing reached out to help the red lady's shoulder, frowning as she looked at the completely broken stone pile.He clearly felt that someone was lurking there just now, why did he disappear in the blink of an eye?Could it be that the masters of the Wei army sneaked in?

Ji Kongqing was startled, such an action could only be aimed at the head of the Chu army.He hastily bid farewell to the red lady, and ran to the coach's big tent.

After a whole day and night of tight defense, perhaps the opponent could not find a chance to attack, and none of the main generals of the Chu army were attacked.Ji Kongqing breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately faced another difficult matter.

"You want me to kill the horse?" Ji Kongqing actually knew in his heart that such a day would come sooner or later based on the food consumption rate of the Chu army, but he still couldn't help feeling sad.

"You don't need to slaughter them all, but half of them will be killed first, and the rest will depend on the situation." Li Di nodded.There are still six days to go, relying on military horses should be able to survive another two or three days, after that, it can only be supported by the willpower of the soldiers.

Ji Kongqing came out of Li Di's handsome tent, and walked towards his camp full of thoughts.

What horses are to cavalry is not just a mount, it is their partner who advances and retreats, lives and dies together!

When the soldiers under his command heard the news, several of them burst into tears immediately.

There was no more food for people, and the fodder for horses had also run out a few days ago, Ji Kongqing knew that some of them even saved their own rations to share with their beloved horses.

"General, can I still do it if I don't eat? Please don't kill it!" A seventeen or eighteen-year-old begged, wiping away his tears.

"Nonsense, this is a military order, you are kidding me!" Ji Kongqing sternly shouted angrily, "That's the decision, no objection. Everyone in the first battalion and second battalion line up and follow me!"

When the team arrived outside the kitchen, someone had already prepared the slaughtering tools, containers containing horse blood and internal organs, just waiting for the horses to bring them.

Ji Kongqing got off the horse first, and began to untie the harness of her mount.

The bridle, the bit, the rein, the bridle, the stirrup, the saddle... One by one, they were carefully removed and put aside.

"General Ji, what is this...?" The leader who came to meet him asked, licking his chapped lips.

Ji Kongqing said calmly: "Let's kill my horse first."

"General, think twice!" The soldiers behind him hurriedly dissuaded, Ji Kongqing's horse is a rare BMW.

Ji Kongqing was also extremely reluctant to part with this horse.

This is still a good horse that Jing Mingrui personally picked for him. It is fiery red without any variegation. Jing Mingrui also joked that this horse could be paired with his pure black oolong horse.

It was just a few days after Ji Kongqing had his veins shaped, Jing Mingrui not only gave him a horse, but also a full set of harness, and teased him with a smile. Not addictive, now give him the whole set and let him bring it by himself.

Ji Kongqing sighed, knowing that all the army horses might not survive the day after tomorrow, so he decided to take the lead in killing horses for meat.He stroked the horse's mane for the last time, silently apologized in his heart, turned around and walked aside with his hands behind his back.

"General Ji, General Ji! Let's kill the horse!" A soldier shouted loudly and ran, followed by a short barbarian.

"..."

"Is everything you said true?" Ji Kongqing put back her harness one by one, and couldn't help but feel delighted with this new information.

"It's absolutely true! Many barbarians have heard of this legend, and some have even seen those aliens with their own eyes. General Li thinks it should be credible, and hopes that General Ji will take someone there."

The barbarian's tribe has lived near Mount Usol for generations, and there is a long-standing legend in his tribe.

From here north through a hidden valley, you will see a vast grassland.Some weirdly dressed aliens live on the grassland. They are tall, their skin and hair are as white as snow, and they live by grazing.The number of those alien races was small, less than 5000, but their lives were very rich, with large herds of cattle and sheep.

The local Umans also had the idea of ​​these aliens, but they were not only extremely powerful, but also could make horses, cattle and sheep go crazy with the whistle in their mouths.The Wuman suffered a great loss, and no longer dared to think of the other party.

Later, they learned that these aliens had an unexpected enthusiasm for gold and jade, so they exchanged these things with each other for some cattle and sheep.However, the appearance of the aliens is too strange, and except in the year of catastrophe, the Wumans are unwilling to deal with each other.

The Wuman who came to report the news had a severe drought when he was young, and he followed the elders of the clan to conduct a transaction with a foreigner, so he knew the way. After the food ran out, he accidentally remembered his childhood experience and told the information. Li Di.

"You said it's only half a day's journey from here through the valley to the settlement of the aliens?" Ji Kongqing pondered that it would only take two days for cattle and sheep to go back and forth, which should be able to solve the urgent need of the Chu army.

The barbarian could understand some Chinese and nodded repeatedly upon hearing this.

"Well, after I go to collect the gold, I will set off early tomorrow morning, and you will lead me the way." Ji Kongqing waved back, "The brothers from the first battalion will go with me tomorrow."

"Follow the order!" The five hundred soldiers who were ordered shouted loudly as they caressed their beloved horse, which had escaped death.