I don't know it's autumn and winter.
After a winter rain, the temperature plummeted, and the south began to enter the wet and cold season.
Peng Ze besieged the city, and unconsciously twenty days had passed, and the grain and grass in the city had been cut off.
Yuzhang County is not a rich county, although Pengze is a strategic place, but the grain and grass needed are all from Danyang County, transported by water.
Now that the city of Pengze is besieged, the water grain route is cut off, and more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians in the city can only survive on a limited amount of grain stockpile, and the situation is gradually difficult The grain and grass were exhausted, and in order to support it, Ling Cao had to order that the few cattle, sheep, and war horses were all killed to satisfy hunger.
After the cattle, sheep and horses were eaten, the soldiers and civilians in the city began to gnaw the bark of trees and eat mice, but if they could satisfy their hunger, they could stuff them into their stomachs.
After eating everything that could be heard, hunger once again gripped the city.
And this winter, the rain suddenly came, and the smell dropped suddenly, which was tantamount to adding insult to injury, and the hungry soldiers and people of Wu Guo were suffering from both mental and physical torture under the invasion of the severe cold.
As for the situation in Pengze City, the potter could not be more clear, when even launched a spiritual offensive.
The potter first ordered the chickens to be slaughtered and the sheep slaughtered, and at the upwind outlet outside Pengze City, a fire was lit, an iron pot was set up, and the meat was cooked directly under the noses of the enemy.
The wisps of meat fragrance drifted into the city along the wind, and every wisp of fragrance was an unprecedented torture and temptation for the soldiers and civilians of Wu State.
At the same time, the pottery merchant ordered to write a thousand letters of persuasion to surrender, ordering the crossbowmen to shoot into the city, and persuade the soldiers and civilians of Wu in Pengze City to give up and resist again, otherwise the day the city is broken, they will be killed.
Under the blow of hunger and temptation, the hearts of the people of Peng Zecheng soon became agitated, and within a few days, there began to be Wu soldiers and nationals, and began to venture out of the city to surrender, and the number of surrenderers grew from dozens at the beginning to hundreds and hundreds, and the number was increasing day by day.
The pottery merchants naturally treated the soldiers and civilians of Wu who surrendered well, and the supply of wine and meat was sufficient, so that after he was full of food and drink, he went to the outside of Pengze City to persuade their companions to go out of the city and surrender.
In the face of the spiritual offensive of the Wei army, the Ling father and son could only adopt a high-pressure policy, and sent the elite soldiers of the descendants to strictly inspect the four gates.
Although the methods of the Ling father and son were ruthless, no matter how repressive the policy was, it could not stop the threat of starvation, and those civilians who were starving to death were still not afraid of death and continued to flee at risk.
After a month of siege, Peng Zecheng had reached a desperate situation where he had run out of food and grass.
And outside the city, whether it was Sun Ce in Wankou or Han Dang in Xiaoyang, they didn't dare to send a single soldier to save Peng Ze.
The reason is very simple, Liu Zhang on the Western Front was finally afraid to withdraw his troops.
On the seventh day after the defeat of Sun Ce's naval army, Liu Zhang, who had stormed Jiangling for several months, finally feared the might of the Wei army and led tens of thousands of Shu troops to withdraw to Yizhou.
The threat from the upper reaches of the Wei army was lifted.
So, Wu Zixu immediately led 20,000 sailors, and together with Xu Sheng, rushed to the front line of Pengze, and the navy of Great Wei instantly exploded to 30,000 people.
At the same time, nearly 80,000 Wei infantrymen who had the epidemic under control also entered Xiakou and began to transport them to the Pengze front line by water in batches.
In the face of the increasingly powerful army of the Wei army, even if Sun Ce came to rescue Peng Ze again, not only did he not come to the rescue, but also ordered Han Dang to abandon Xiaoyang, withdraw to the territory of Danyang County, and rush to Anhui by land to rendezvous.
Sun Ce's decision meant that he had decided to abandon Peng Ze and give Yuzhang County to the potters.
If it was possible, Sun Ce was of course unwilling to cede painfully, but at this point, he had no choice.
All Sun Ce can do now is to concentrate all his forces on the line of the Yangtze River and Anhui Estuary, and block the land and water army of Wei from continuing to move eastward and advance towards Jianye.
It's day, and evening is approaching.
The remnant sun sprinkled the last trace of afterglow, and Sun Shangxiang stood in front of the city, his eyebrows tightly locked, and he glared at the Wei army in front of the city with resentful eyes.
Just in front of her beautiful eyes, outside Peng Ze City, less than a hundred steps away, Wei Jun was working in groups of threes, threes, twos, and twos, setting up a fire on the ground and cooking fragrant meat.
The slightest wisp of fleshy fragrance drifted to her with the wind and poured into her beautiful nose pervasively.
Sun Shangxiang subconsciously licked her pale lips, and a strong feeling of hunger instantly swept through her whole body, and her stomach twitched.
The eldest lady of the Sun family is still hungry to this extent, not to mention the female soldiers who follow her, all of them are so hungry that they are haggard and weak.
"Hateful, pottery thief, do you think that you can make us succumb with such a small means, you dream" Sun Shangxiang bit her lip and scolded hatefully.
She tried her best to suppress the feeling of hunger, trying in vain to defeat hunger with the power of her mind, but he soon discovered that the torture of hunger could not be easily overcome by relying on spirit and thought.
At this moment, she could only try to suppress the hunger in her body with her hatred for the potter.
Now, this eldest lady of the Sun family finally regrets it a little, she shouldn't have listened to Brother Wang's words, and willfully ran to the place of right and wrong.
She originally came to Peng Ze with the mentality of playing, wanting to see how her heroic brother Wang defeated the pottery merchants, entered Jingzhou, and pushed the Wu Kingdom to glory.
Who would have thought that the brother Wang she admired was defeated by the potter, and she, the daughter of the grandly Sun family, was now surrounded in this lonely city, suffering from hunger.
"Bring the bow" Sun Shangxiang couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly shouted.
The female soldier next to her hurriedly presented the bow, but reminded in a low voice: "County Lord, it's better to save some effort, don't" "Shut up for me" Sun Shangxiang snorted and drank the female soldiers.
So, she supported her hungry and weak arm, forcibly pulled her bow, and fired an arrow at the Wei army who was roasting meat outside the city.
In normal times, with her archery skills, the distance of 100 paces would never be a problem, but now, she was really hungry and had no strength, and the arrow only flew less than 70 steps before it landed.
Sun Shangxiang was furious, with an arrow on the left and an arrow on the right, and began to keep releasing arrows, but none of the arrows hit.
Finally, such a sparing effort to open the bow exhausted Sun Shangxiang's remaining physical strength, and she was panting, she suddenly felt dizzy, her delicate body shook, and she fell to the ground.
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When Sun Shangxiang woke up faintly and looked around, she saw that she was lying in the room with a roaring fire, and she smelled the slightest smell of meat in her nose, and she couldn't help but swallow her saliva.
Sun Shangxiang sat up, and saw Ling's father and son, Ling Cao and Ling Tong, standing beside him, and Ling Tong was still holding a small pot of broth in his hand.
The rich aroma of meat made Sun Shangxiang's stomach twitch more intensely, and the root of his tongue couldn't help but drool.
Ling Cao saw that Sun Shangxiang had woken up, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The county lord is awake, but the last general is worried to death, the last general has boiled a pot of horse broth, the county lord is drinking it while it's hot, make up for your body." ” As he spoke, Ling Cao glanced at his son.
Ling Tong hurriedly served the broth.
"Isn't the horse meat already eaten, how can there be" Sun Shangxiang looked at the pot of soup suspiciously.
Ling Cao smiled and said in a low voice: "To the soldiers outside, the last general naturally said that the horse meat had been eaten, but how could the last general make the county lord hungry, and he left some for the county lord in private, I originally wanted to send it over tonight, but I didn't expect the county lord to faint at the head of the city." ” Sun Shangxiang then understood what was going on, he was really hungry, and he couldn't care about any manners, so he swallowed it in a big gulp.
Wu Jun had already eaten all the grain and grass, and even the bark had been gnawed away, not to mention horse meat, even if Sun Shangxiang was the daughter of a county lord, he ate no better than ordinary soldiers.
Now that there is suddenly broth to drink, Sun Shangxiang is ecstatic, how can he care about his manners, he swept the clouds in one breath, and drank a small pot of soup.
Pampered like her, in the past, she would never even touch such rough things, but now she tastes better than any delicacies from the mountains and seas.
After a small pot of broth, after many days, Sun Shangxiang finally ate again, regained his strength, and recovered his spirit.
"Is there anything else" Sun Shangxiang asked again before he was enough.
Ling Cao sighed, his expression suddenly became solemn, "This is specially left for the county lord by the last general for a critical time, and there is no second piece." ” "At a critical time" Sun Shangxiang's eyes changed, and he seemed to hear something.
Ling Cao took a deep breath, and then arched his hand and said: "Now that the matter is over, the last general has to tell the county lord clearly, now that the grain and grass are exhausted, I am afraid that the king's reinforcements will not come again, and if we continue to hold on, it can only be a dead end, and the last general has decided to abandon Peng Ze to break through before tomorrow evening." ” Abandon Peng Ze to break through These solemn words, Sun Shangxiang was shocked when he heard it, and his eyebrows immediately condensed, and he blurted out and asked: "Brother Wang told you to stick to Peng Ze, you dare to disobey Brother Wang's orders."
Ling Cao couldn't say anything more, and glanced at his son.
Ling Tong took the pot in her hand, put it back on the table, and said with a bitter face: "Right now, even the bark in the city has been eaten, and it can't last for two or three days, and it will definitely break itself without a fight. ” Sun Shangxiang was silent and didn't say anything.
If she opposes it, it is tantamount to having a determination to die and want to live and die with Peng Ze.
It's a pity that the broth just now made her feel that it is good for people to be alive and well, and it is wonderful to eat and drink well, and she has not yet reached the consciousness of not being afraid of death.
So, she could only remain silent.
Seeing that Sun Shangxiang did not lose his temper and did not have fierce opposition, Ling Cao's father and son looked at each other, and each secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Ling Cao smiled and said with relief: "Don't worry, the county lord has already made a little trick, my father and son can escort the county lord to successfully break through tomorrow, the county lord will have a good rest, and prepare to kill tomorrow." ” After that, the Ling family and his son retreated, not daring to disturb her again.
"Tao thief, I didn't expect that my dignified sister of King Wu would be harmed by you and suffer so much" Sun Shangxiang's small fists were clenched tightly, and his teeth were deeply biting his lips that had just recovered his blood, and there was hatred in his beautiful eyes. isjgy: