Chapter 234 Under the siege of the Tianyuan army, the grain and grass in Zhongwen's camp gradually became empty, and as time passed, the rations of the soldiers began to be strictly controlled, from three meals per day to two meals per day, and then to one meal per day, even if they only ate one meal a day, the meals were very limited.
Many of the soldiers who did not have enough to eat were hungry, and when the evening came, they ran out of the barracks in groups to steal and kill the horses for food.
Zhong Wen was extremely angry when he learned about this, and immediately executed all the soldiers who were caught, but the hunger of the soldiers could not be controlled by manpower, although a few soldiers who stole military horses were executed, but there were more soldiers who ventured to try, and gradually, Zhong Wen couldn't control it.
At this time, Zhong Wen, who was so smart and proficient in military books and battle strategies, was also at a loss, trapped in the encirclement of the Tianyuan Army, he didn't know the situation outside, but according to the time, the army of Ning Guo should have arrived a long time ago, so many days, even if he climbed, he should have crawled, why didn't he see the trace of Ning Jun for a long time.
At this time, he had a premonition that the Ning army must have encountered obstacles on the way to the march, and now he only had two choices, either continue to wait and wait for the Ning army to break through the resistance and come to the aid, or lead the crowd to break through the siege and fight a bloody way with more than 100,000 troops of his own side, and go to join the Ning army.
But both options come with a lot of risk.
If you sit and wait, what if the Ning army doesn't come in the end, then the more than 100,000 soldiers on your side will really sit back and wait to be killed, and you have to let the Tianyuan army be wiped out without blood; If you choose to break through, the 400,000 Tianyuan army has already set up a solid camp and has a strong defense, with more than 100,000 against 400,000, and it is the side that is attacking the fortification, it is undoubtedly hitting the stone with an egg, even if it can break through the encirclement, I am afraid that a few soldiers will not survive in the end.
Now his decision is not only related to the life and death of more than 100,000 Central Army, but also related to his own survival and whether his father can sit firmly in the country.
He could continue to consume, but the starving soldiers in the army could no longer be consumed, and because the military horses had been strictly guarded by Zhong Wen's personal guards, many hungry and dazzled soldiers began to flee the camp at night, climbing over their own walls and fleeing to the side of the Tianyuan army.
The situation in the whole army has become more and more out of Zhong Wen's control.
Zhong Wen and his family were trapped for several days, and Zhong Tian, who was sitting in Yancheng, also got the news, and the old man was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
Knowing that Ning's army was short of food and grass and encountered obstacles on the way forward, he immediately urgently transferred 200,000 stone of grain from Yancheng.
One stone is forty catties, and 200,000 stones is eight million catties, but such a huge amount of grain and grass is actually only enough for 400,000 Ning troops for six days.
In addition, Zhong Tian ordered Geng Qiang, the head of Lehu County, to prepare another 200,000 stone grain and grass to send to the Ning army camp.
The grain and grass of Zhong Tian and Lehu County were delivered one after another, and at this time, the Ning army had withdrawn to the junction of Jinguang County and Lehu County.
Although the grain and grass were replenished, the commander of the Ning army, Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wuji, remained in place and did not move, and the entire camp calmly did not have any intention of marching forward.
His son and his main army were trapped in the enemy's encirclement, life and death were tied to the front line, how could Zhong Tian sit and wait, and sent people to urge the Ning army to march quickly several times, but they were all prevaricated back by the excuse that the enemy in Jinhua City had blocked his own forward route.
At this time, Zhong Tian finally understood that Ning Jun didn't care about the life or death of Zhong Wen's family at all, and he didn't care whether his country could be defended, all they cared about was themselves.
While Zhong Tian was scolding in his heart, he was also thinking hard about how to solve Zhong Wen's danger, after thinking about it, he didn't come up with a good way, and in the end, he could only send someone to Yu Tao, the county head of Jinguang County, to send him to insist on immediately gathering an army of 100,000 people, attacking the Tianyuan army from the periphery, and rescuing the trapped Zhong Wen family.
Receiving Zhong Tian's order, Yu Tao couldn't help grinning again and again, the county soldiers of Jinguang County had already been sent to Yancheng, and later they were sent back by Zhong Tian to fight Tianyuan County, and as a result, the whole army turned against the battle and surrendered to the Tianyuan Army.
Not to mention recruiting an army of 100,000 people, even if he recruits 50,000 people to fight the Tianyuan Army now, it will be difficult.
But Zhong Tian's will had arrived, and he couldn't help but obey, so he had to act according to Zhong Tian's instructions.
Yu Tao tried his best to gather an army of about 20,000 people, most of the members of this army are homeless and homeless, and some of them are made up of families and slaves from major families in the county.
This army, even if it has no elite soldiers and no good generals, let alone fighting with the 400,000 Tianyuan army, even if it encounters a regular army, it may not be able to fight.
Yu Tao is not a fool, he knows this himself.
He commanded his civilian officials, military generals, and an army of more than 20,000 people, and marched towards the junction of Jinguang County and Guannan County.
There were still twenty miles away from the Tianyuan Army camp, so he didn't dare to move forward any further, and ordered the whole army to be stationed.
Yu Tao acted according to Zhong Tian's will, but he didn't have the strength and didn't dare to fight with the Tianyuan army, and the formation of the army was just a helpless move to deal with things, which could be said to be of no help to the trapped Zhong Wen family.
The army of Ning Guo, which could save Zhong Wen, stopped moving, and Yu Tao and the others who went to rescue were powerless, and the danger of Zhong Wen and his family being trapped was still unresolved.
As the saying goes, blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.
After besieging Zhong Wen's family for ten days, another powerful army joined the Tianyuan Army, which was the 30,000 Besa heavy armored cavalry led by Shauna von Prologs.
Tang Yin sent envoys to Bessa City to borrow troops, and Sanchez von Prologis strongly objected, but the families of five young generals including Brian Lucas, who had been mercilessly let go by Tang Yin's subordinates, played a role again and unanimously supported the loan of troops to Tang Yin.
Of course, they agreed to borrow troops not only for favoritism, but also for the public they were willing to see the stability of Tianyuan County.
Tang Yin signed a trade agreement with the city-state of Besa, which was a mutually beneficial thing, and the city-state of Besa, especially the nobles of the city-state of Besa, quickly tasted the sweetness and earned huge benefits from the trade between the two sides, so with the development of trade, the interests of the two sides have been linked, and the stability of Tianyuan County also directly affects the income of the nobles of the city-state of Besa.
This was the main reason why the important ministers of the Besa royal court supported the borrowing of troops from Tang Yin.
And Sanchez von Pros is a royal family, he himself has a large fief and a large number of slaves, and he has the state to support him, so he does not care about the trade of Tianyuan County, nor does he participate, and the stability and prosperity of Tianyuan County naturally have nothing to do with him, but he feels that Tang Yin is a huge hidden danger to the city-state of Besa, and it would be best if it could be eliminated as soon as possible.
Sanchez's opposition did not gain much support, including for his brother, King Knisvon Poulos of Besa.
After several discussions, Knes finally decided to borrow troops from Tang Yin, and selected 30,000 elite soldiers from Besa's heavily armored cavalry to be sent to the territory of the Windy Country.
Hearing her father's approval of aiding Tang Yin, Xiao Na was very happy and took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that she was willing to be the commander of the 30,000 heavy cavalry and lead the army into the wind land.
Shauna is Knis's favorite princess, and she is also one of the first five heirs to the throne, and it is possible that she will inherit Knys's throne in the future, and she will lead the troops, which can just accumulate military merits for her, Knnis nodded and agreed after consideration.
Afraid of Shauna's lack of experience, Knes also specially assigned him a veteran of the city-state of Bessa, who is also one of the old nobles, Blanca Poteis.
In addition, five young generals including Brian Lucas also went with the army.
In the past, the armies of the city-states of Besa had entered Plains County to fight and plunder, but now, they had become reinforcements to assist Tang Yin in the battle, and the world was so capricious.
The combat effectiveness of the heavily armored cavalry of the city-state of Besa is not trivial, if it weren't for Tang Yin to find a way to crack it, the Wind Army would not be able to compete with it at all, and there were also cases on the battlefield where an entire corps of the Wind Army was only defeated by a thousand heavily armored cavalry.
This Besa army traveled thousands of miles, passing through Tianyuan County and Guannan County in the Wind Land, and came to the junction of Guannan County and Jinguang County to join the main force of the Tianyuan Army.
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After receiving the news that Besa's heavily armored cavalry had come to help, Qiu Zhenle, the temporary commander of the Tianyuan Army, couldn't close his mouth and personally led the civil and military generals of the whole army to come out to greet him.
Xiao Na didn't know Qiu Zhen, let alone other generals, and she was not interested in these people at all, she only wanted to see Tang Yin, but to her disappointment, Tang Yin was not here at the moment, but went deep into the hinterland of Jinguang County to fight the Quning army.
According to Xiao Na's original intention, since Tang Yin was in Jinhua City, she should also lead the troops there, but she was stopped by Qiu Zhen.
Due to the language barrier, a large group of interpreters gathered around the two sides during the conversation so that the generals on both sides could understand each other's meaning.
Qiu Zhen explained the current situation to Xiao Na in detail, and then he said: "The reason why the Lord went deep into Jinguang County and ventured to Jinhua City to resist the Ning Kingdom army is to eliminate the Zhong Wen family in front of him, so if you want to welcome back the Lord as soon as possible, Her Royal Highness the Princess must stay here and help our army to annihilate the rebels led by Zhong Wen as soon as possible." ” After a pause, he said again: "What's more, Her Royal Highness the princess commanded the army of your country, and the enemy still doesn't know about it, we should make good use of this and win by surprise. ” Shauna didn't want to listen to these big truths, and wanted to refuse, but Blancapotis, as the deputy commander, preemptively said: "What Lord Qiu said is very true, Your Royal Highness Princess, let's stay here and wait for a while":