The so-called "a glimpse of the leopard in the pit can be seen." In ancient times, two armies were fighting, and in addition to negotiating each other, they also used the name of envoys to inquire. This time, Luo Xi's envoy achieved the role of a spy very well.

"Although the former general and the lower magistrate entered the Jin army camp with their eyes blindfolded, all they could hear the groans of wounded soldiers and the buzzing of locusts. The morale in the Jin army camp must be extremely sluggish."

Yes, the locust plague that shocked Guanzhong did not weaken at this time. Moreover, with the scattered food, the wild grass was gnawed. The locust swarms were increasingly concentrated in the areas with food. At this moment, the two armies fighting near Mei County naturally became areas where the locust swarms were focused on.

Guan Yi is relatively good. Although as a farmer student, Guan Yi only knew how to use pesticides before traveling through time but not how to make pesticides. But after all, he was a farmer student and knew to use the food chain to control locusts. I won’t say much about chickens and ducks eating locusts very well. In the spring of this year, Guan Yi consciously asked Hanzhong’s logistics troops not to destroy the spider eggs attached to the hay poles when transporting hay. So now in the two cities of Mei County and Anguo, in addition to the chickens and ducks eating happily, spiders have also achieved great prosperity.

In addition, Guan Yi's soldiers mainly came from Yizhou. Due to the cover of the Qinling Mountains, the locust swarms in Guanzhong never affected Yizhou. Therefore, the soldiers in Yizhou were not afraid of locusts. Moreover, the Han army was trapped in an isolated city and lost its source of food. The food here was less. In terms of whether to let the envoys of the Locust God survive or to survive by themselves, the choice of Han soldiers became very easy and firm.

Although locusts are lower-level creatures, as long as they are creatures, survival is instinct. Since the Han army suffered heavy losses, everyone naturally gathered towards the Jin army's camp.

The locust swarms gathered in the Jin army camp, which not only caused the morale of local soldiers in Guanzhong to be sluggish and the morale of the army. Even the Jin army from the Kanto region could not raise their spirits to slaughter the locusts.

The reason is that Guanzhong or the North China Plain are areas with high incidence of locust plagues since ancient times. The people here naturally have a fear of the locust swarm. They believe that these things are messengers of the Locust God and cannot be killed. Besides, the Jin army was backed by the wealthy Eight Prefectures of Guandong, and the food here is gone, and the rear will be sent continuously. Therefore, although the soldiers in the Jin army camp drove the locusts under Shi Bao's strict order, they were actually mainly driven, and there were very few cullings.

This caused the daily food loss in the Jin army camp at least twice as high as normal.

Not only that, in addition to excessive consumption of food and grass with the army, due to the raging locust plague, the loss of food in the Jin army during the transfer of food was unprecedentedly higher than that of Shu Han!

On Guanyi, the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains was paved with zip cables, and most of the Qinling Mountains had been completed. Therefore, the high-income ratio of Chengdu's grain transport to Longxi or Guanzhong had dropped to more than 20% or less than 30%. What about the Jin army? In the past, the grain transported from Luoyang to Chang'an would generally only lose 5% along the way, and the maximum of 1% from Chang'an to Mei County. But now, due to the continuous gathering of locusts, the loss has actually reached an astonishing 35% of the 35%!

Li Mu's troops, who was responsible for transporting grain and grass between Chang'an and Mei County, after transporting grain and grass, found that although they desperately slaughtered locusts with great fear of the locust god along the way, more than 17,000 stones of grain and grass were gnawed by locusts during the three-day transfer. According to the loss amount given to them by Shi Bao in advance, even if all of them handed over the heads, they could not afford to pay.

Finally, Shi Bao was not completely serious, just asked Li Mu to hand over ten heads and let it go. Even so, Li Mu said that he couldn't do this job!

"Grand Sima, our army sent a team to restrain the soldiers who died yesterday and returned. A total of 8,200 bodies and more than 2,700 wounded soldiers were brought back. Most of the wounded soldiers were short of hands and feet or were unconscious, so it was basically impossible to fight again."

"So, there are seven or eight thousand people who have become deserters?"

"Uh... I think this should be the case!"

"Hmph! Go to Weibei to draw some of the sergeant commanders, commanders, and waiters of the Guanzhong Army, and then let them identify the bodies. Then, count the deserters based on the general list of missing and missing. Check one, and let our cavalry go to raid their homes!"

"Here!"

Looking at the low-level officer who hurriedly left the tent, Shi Chong said to Shi Bao: "Father, will this make our army's morale more unstable?"

"Hey, Qi Nuer, doing this will certainly make the morale of the army even more unstable. But what if you don't do this?"

"…Uh, there will be more deserters. Even the soldiers in Kanto will be demoralized."

"Yes, chasing deserters only completely lose the morale of the Guanzhong soldiers. The morale of the central army and the Kanto soldiers can still be saved. If you don't do this, sooner or later the entire army will collapse."

"But my father, in this way, the people in Guanzhong will no longer be in my Great Jin."

"How can you not know if you are a father?" Shi Bao's eyes kept wandering. After confirming that there were no other people around the tent, he lowered his voice and said to Shi Chong: "The country is unfortunate. He has become such an indecisive emperor who values ​​relatives. If he had sent me or Chen Xiuyuan here to preside over the Zen era three years ago when the Wei and Jin Dynasties had just passed, how could this war be so deteriorated? Not to mention three years, even last year, after receiving the news of the invasion of Western Shu, he would use me immediately. Jiang Wei could easily take Longxi? Alas... Now Longxi and Liangzhou are completely lost. I don't know what time it will take back. The only chance of our army is to capture and kill Guan Zifeng here. Although the country would be good when the powerful ministers in Western Shu were in power, their powerful ministers could never be hereditary. So once this son died, Western Shu would be in chaos! Then we will be the opportunity to counterattack."

"But my father, now..."

"Yes, the locust plague is getting worse. The summer locusts are about to calm down, but it won't take long to take longer to autumn locusts. Guandong may also be affected. The people in Guanzhong will gradually fade away. Not only that, even the aristocratic families here are beginning to become disinterested in us... So, if it is a bad thing, we will not only throw away Liangzhou and Longxi, but also Guanzhong! Once Guanzhong is lost, Luoyang will become a border, and the country will be in danger!"

"So no matter how hard or difficult it is, my father must stick here?"

"Yes. Yesterday's large-scale siege was considered to have some explanation for the emperor of Luoyang. Next, I can only learn from Sima Wang and encircle Guan Zifeng under the two cities of Ji County. The next situation will be evolved in four ways."

"The child is dull, please tell me clearly."

"Well, first of all, the Luoyang man gritted his teeth and persevered, and kept transfusions of blood to Guanzhong. With the country's much stronger national strength than Western Shu, he spent a year or two to waste Guanzifeng. In this way, Guanzhong has no worries and civil strife in Western Shu."

"Secondly, the country is in transfusion of blood to Guanzhong, and Guanzifeng's food is exhausted. Jiang Boyue came from Hanzhong to rescue Guanzifeng. Our army defeated him with a large army of nearly 200,000. In this way, not only Guanzhong has no worries, but Longxi and Liangzhou can also take advantage of the opportunity to get it back. If it is done well, Yizhou will also be pacified."

"Third, Jiang Boyou came to save Guan Zifeng. The two sides fought to the decisive battle and our army was defeated. Then Guanzhong was lost. But no matter what, Tongguan could still be preserved. If Tongguan was saved, we would keep the hope of fighting back."

"Fourth, the emperor in Luoyang was not determined. Before Guan Zifeng starved to death, he could not hold on. Or maybe the Eastern Wu achieved great results on the Eastern and Central Lines. The emperor was forced to issue an order to withdraw our troops. If this situation arises, Western Shu, whose combat power is not damaged, will have the strength to attack Tongguan with all his strength. Once Tongguan is lost, Luoyang will become a border and the country must move its capital. At that time, my Shi family should consider changing its master."

"So that's it, then my father thinks that the situation is the most likely to happen?"

"Well... I thought it was..."

"Report~~~~Urgent! Grand Sima, General Guanchao, who was stationed in the east of the headquarters, came to report that the cavalry team of the Sichuan thieves sneaked into the grain team that our army set out from Chang'an. All 100,000 stones of grain and grass were burned!"

"ah?!"

....

Speaking of which, Guan Yi had released Zhao Yi, Qian Hong, Huangfu Kai and others for a long time in advance.

Logically speaking, it is difficult for a cavalry team of tens of thousands to hide their traces on the vast Guanzhong Plain, right? Unfortunately, the Xianbei people and the Xiongnu people have been with Guan Yi for a long time. The second-class families in Guanzhong are also full of expectations for the improvement of their family status after Shu Han entered Yongzhou. In addition, Li Mu was already angry with Shi Bao. All of the above finally made Zhao Yi and others successfully attack the Di people's transportation troops.

The battle was very strange: the casualties of the Shu Han cavalry and the Di infantry were almost zero. However, all the 100,000 stones of food transported by the Di people were burned.

What a smart person Shi Bao is? He personally rushed to the scene to watch for a while and felt dizzy: the enemy had so many horse hoof prints, it must be a very large cavalry unit. So many cavalry units must successfully attack the grain transport team under the encirclement of more than 200,000 troops on their side. Is it feasible to release water without the external guards? What about the usual supplies of such a large army? Is it feasible to have no local family support? Such a large army fought with the nearly 10,000 grain transport team on their side, and they could not even see much blood on the ground. Who would believe it if it was not a fake?!
Chapter completed!