After the autumn harvest, grain, armaments, livestock, and baggage were continuously sent from Tianshui and Wuwei.

Including the auxiliary troops, Yang Zheng invested nearly 60,000 troops under Chang'an City.

Tianshui and Nan'an were originally important farming areas. This year, under Lu Zhi's management, they began to explode with great potential. The amount of grain they produced was actually as much as that of Hequ and Xiping.

There are also two counties in Shuofang and Beidi. Under the vigorous management of Yang Xiao and Yang Ji, they are also experiencing an explosion trend.

Not only was there a bumper harvest of food, but there was also an outbreak of livestock.

The soldiers wore newly issued sheep coats, ate mutton, and sat on the city walls to laugh at the defenders on the opposite wall of Chang'an.

In the cold wind, the defenders on the city wall clustered together, stretching their necks and staring at the defenders on the wall.

Wang Ji once wanted to break out from the north.

But that was a trap deliberately left by Yang Zheng.

There are not so many water nets on the north bank of the Wei River. The river is flat and the cavalry can arrive in the blink of an eye. Wang Ji has no organized cavalry at his disposal. No matter how many infantry he sends, he is seeking death.

As long as they leave the city, whether heading west or north, there will always be a cavalry chasing them within half an hour.

Despair, fear, hunger, and cold.

The morale of the defenders on the city wall became increasingly low.

Even Sima Fu and Wang Ji looked weak.

"The livestock in the city have been slaughtered long ago. Even the mice have been caught and eaten by the people. The food is only enough for ten days. What can be done?" Sima Wang's eyes were sunken and his face turned dark.

Sima Fu implemented the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, which resulted in no people living near Chang'an.

Without people, there is no food.

When the soldiers came out of the West City, all they saw was desolation and desolation.

There are also wolves hungrier than them, following them everywhere.

Further west, Wugong and Chencang had food, but it was already occupied by the Shu army.

Sima Fu said: "If you send soldiers to collect food from the people, you can always find some."

A month ago, Sima Fu implemented a centralized food supply strategy, taking food away from the people and supplying it only to the soldiers and young men who were guarding the city. As for the people in the city, they were left to fend for themselves.

Even so, the food was only enough for ten days.

"People are constantly starving to death in the city, how can the people still have food left in their hands?" Wang Ji sighed.

In his early years, he had become a disciple of Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian from Shandong. He was familiar with Confucian classics and advocated benevolence and righteousness, so he was a little intolerant.

Sima Fu was also a well-educated man, but he did not have Wang Ji's compassionate heart. He chuckled and said, "You will find it if you search."

"Even if you find some, how long can you last? The Taiwei has always been merciful, so it is better to let the people go out of the city to survive. This will not live up to the name of the general's benevolence!" Wang Ji looked into Sima Fu's eyes and said.

Sima Fu shook his head, "No, if we let the people out of the city, the soldiers will all have the desire to survive and be willing to defend. Does Bo Yu know what the Western thieves lack most?"

"Justice and fame!"

Sima Fu smiled again on his old face, "The honor of righteousness is just a thing to hide people's eyes and ears. What the Western thieves lack most is people! If there are hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an City now, if they are given to the Western thieves, wouldn't they be helping the tyrants to commit evil?

"

Wang Ji was dumbfounded, "The Lieutenant is going to..."

The smile on Sima Fu's face remained unchanged, but there was a coldness in his eyes, "If they stay in Chang'an, they are still the common people of the Wei Dynasty. If they leave the city, they will be thieves. If you only live for a short time, don't you just want a reputation? For the people of the Wei Dynasty.

But death is a beautiful story in the history of history! It is better to die for the people of the Wei Dynasty than to live by surrendering to the Western thieves. The people are not afraid of death, so why is Bo Yu afraid of death?"

In an instant, Wang Jiru fell into the ice cave, which was the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people.

In Sima Fu's sophistry, they all became victims of his Sima family.

He was so vicious that Sima Shi was even worse than Sima Yi.

Wang Ji lost his father when he was young and was adopted by his uncle Wang Weng. He had experienced the suffering of the world, so he had a heart of caring for the people.

However, Sima Fu was obsessed with food since he was born, and he and Wang Ji were from two different worlds.

In the eyes of the nobles, aren't the common people just objects of sacrifice?

"Boyu, don't be ignorant of Xiaoren and Dayi." Sima Fu in turn advised Wang Ji.

The old voice has a special persuasiveness, making people agree with his point of view unconsciously.

"Even so, Chang'an may not be able to survive ten days." Fifty-nine-year-old Wang Ji said with a cold sweat on his face.

Sima Fu said in a tone full of vicissitudes of life: "In the past, Wei Wu and Lv Bu fought against Yanzhou, and the army ran out of food. Cheng Yu, the magistrate of Shouzhang County, raided his own county and provided three days of food, mixed with human breasts, to help Wei Wu defeat Lv Bu. The great Wei army

Today! Bo Yu is the pillar of our Sima family, we should do what we should do, don’t begrudge the false reputation!"

Not only Wang Ji, but also his biological son Sima Wang was stunned.

"Lieutenant, don't do this! I still have 20,000 elite troops in Bashui and Lishan. If we send people to break out, we will still be able to fight." Wang Ji couldn't bear it any longer.

He would rather die in battle than see Chang'an reduced to a ghost.

Sima Fu's white eyebrows moved, "Oh? If so, Bo Yu must seize the time."

Wang Ji went out with a livid face.

Only father and son were left in the hall.

"Father, father, son, son don't want to die!" People who are greedy for money must also be afraid of death.

Sima Wang has spared no effort to search for it for so many years.

Sima Fu stretched out his spotted hands and stroked his son's head, his eyes full of kindness.

Although Sima Wang was Sima Fu's biological son, he was adopted by Sima Lang in his early years.

Tiger poison does not eat its seeds.

The older you get, the more affectionate you become.

"A man from the Sima family is still afraid of death?" Sima Fu said with a smile.

"The most difficult thing in the world is death. How can I not be afraid of you?" Sima Wang looked at his old father with hope.

Sima Fu's benevolent temper returned, and after thinking for a while he said: "An ant still has the will to survive, let alone my son? If you don't want to die, don't die. You can gather more than a hundred people, pretend to be deserters, and surrender to Shu in the west.

Kingdom! One day the general will conquer the world, and you will still be able to enjoy wealth and honor when you return to the court."

"My son obeys!"

…

On top of the Dongwei Tushan Mountain, Yang Zheng was discussing the military situation with the generals.

With the current situation, Chang'an will undoubtedly be defeated.

Every day, more than a hundred emaciated corpses are thrown from the walls of Chang'an.

At night, many defenders lowered the city to surrender.

From the mouths of these defenders, we learned that Chang'an could not hold out for a few more days.

This war actually started last year.

First, the Shu army went north, attacked the Great Wall in the Qinling Mountains, swept through Fufeng County, and harassed Guanzhong.

Then Yang Zheng defeated Deng Ai, and the elite of Guanzhong died in one battle.

The two armies followed the trend and surrounded Chang'an.

If they hadn't fallen into the trap of alienation, Chang'an City should have been captured last year.

This year has been another month of great plunder.

Although Chang'an is still standing, having only one Chang'an will not help.

The only thing worth worrying about is Bashui and Lishan's 20,000-strong army.

As soon as we got to this point, the scout came to report, "Report to the general, there are seven groups of 100 people in Chang'an City crossing the Wei River and heading east."

"This must be the person Sima Fu asked for help!" Zhang Te revealed his intentions in one sentence.

Yang Zheng thought for a while and then said: "Kill them all. Don't let the big fish slip through the net. After identifying their identities, let one or two people go to the Bashui Camp. I want to see if Pang Hui and Xu Yi have the guts to come to the rescue!"

[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
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