Qin soldiers lined up in a long line to receive their food, but when they saw that the place where food was provided to them, there was nothing left to eat.
The cooking soldiers were also embarrassed. They were ordered to make porridge for the hungry soldiers, but even with a lot of water, the rice was still not enough.
A soldier can only eat a spoonful of so-called rice porridge that is almost the same as water, plus a piece of hard bullet-proof bread, and vegetable leaves with unknown names collected nearby, which is their lunch.
Even with such hardship, they still could only eat two meals a day because Qin's food supply was not enough.
Two consecutive years of war have affected Qin's grain cultivation. The grain harvested in Shu last year was all transferred to the front line and left in Xiajuan, Dongqing, Xishan and other places.
In a sense, those grains can be said to have aided the enemy: they became spoils of war for the Tang Empire, and were then distributed to the hungry people in Chu and Shu.
Now that it's cold spring, it's Qin's turn to be out of business and unable to provide enough food for the soldiers.
The remaining troops of the Qin army in Shu can still survive by robbing civilians, while the Qin army near Daxiguan in the north can only resign themselves to their fate.
There is no way, there is not much food left in the Qin State, how can there be any extra to continue to support the front line? The soldiers who were recruited in the past were scattered all over the place, but now they are gathered together, how can it be so easy to feed them?
"Where is there enough food here? I have to walk dozens of miles a day, how can I eat just this little food? Give me more, please? Please give me one more bite." Beside the big pot of porridge, a man looked at it.
A veteran of about 50 years old begged bitterly.
He was really hungry. There was nothing to eat here a few days ago. He only ate one meal a day, which was later divided into two meals of gruel. Everyone was complaining.
"Yes, we have been eating this little every day for several days. Are we here to work for the country and not even give us a full meal?" The young soldiers behind the veteran also complained dissatisfiedly.
Nowadays, many people have heard how quickly people die on the front line, and the wounded soldiers who returned from the front line unable to control their mouths.
It is no secret among the recruits how ferocious the Tang people are. Everyone was prepared to die and came here to fight for the country, but in the end, even before they went to the front line, they were not even allowed to stutter.
"Don't embarrass us, we have nothing to do... We only have so little rice from above, so we can only make do with this little porridge." The leader of the cooking team who was responsible for distributing food was also helpless, spreading his hands and saying in a confused voice.
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How dare he deduct food? The officers above only gave him so much? Looking at the porridge, which was almost as little as boiling water, he, the squad leader of the cooking squad, had no choice.
"Did you eat it secretly?" Another soldier in the distance who was hungry and irritable began to shout. He could only eat a little bit of bread and porridge in the past few days, and he was already starving. Now he saw the person receiving the meal.
The team stopped moving, and they immediately became annoyed.
Who knew that his unscrupulous words directly set off the queue of people. I don’t know who heard it wrong or something, but someone immediately started shouting loudly: "What? How dare they steal such a small amount of food?"
Beat them to death!"
"Kill them!" The angry team immediately became chaotic, and the guards on duty panicked. Where had they seen such a scene before?
They who are on guard duty now only have rifles in their hands, because the submachine guns have long been taken away and sent to the front line.
By the time a few nearby soldiers took off their rifles and pulled the bolts to suppress these chaotic lunatics, everyone was already fighting together.
"Stop! Stop!" Some panicked Qin soldiers yelled loudly, but they did not dare to do anything to the army that was already fighting each other - just kidding, if you get involved, you might really be beaten to death.
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Finally, the news reached the officers' camp. I don't know if they heard the shouts or if someone went to report the news. In short, several officers ran over in a hurry.
The officers who arrived pulled out the pistols from their waists and fired a shot into the sky. Then they realized that the situation seemed to be getting even more out of control.
"They're shooting! They're killing people without giving them food! Kill them!" Another hungry rebel soldier yelled with red eyes and rushed towards the direction where the gunshots came from.
"Kill them! Kill them!" The soldiers who didn't know what was going on were all hungry, and they couldn't care less at this moment, so they rushed forward. The crowd became even more chaotic, and the scene was completely out of control at this time.
The officer was startled, and then quickly ordered the guards standing around him to open fire. The guards raised their rifles and fired at the crowd, and there was a commotion in the crowd.
But then, the rebel soldiers became even more crazy after seeing the blood. For these soldiers who had been hungry for several days, death from starvation was still death, so it was better to grab some food.
The angry crowd instantly engulfed the officer and the guard who fired the shot. Over at the porridge stall and shed, several people from the cooking class had been beaten to death by the swarming crowd.
When the cooking squad leader was beaten, he spit out a mouthful of bloody rice porridge, which suddenly made the crowd around him even more angry.
These people in the cooking class did take a few extra bites secretly. They were also hungry, so naturally they had to take advantage of their position to feed themselves first...
Normally, they would do this without any concern, but now it turned into evidence that they should die. The leader of the cooking class, who was beaten until he vomited blood, begged for mercy to no avail. He was surrounded by people and kept beating him.
At first he begged for mercy, but then he was just wailing, and then he even stopped shouting. In fact, when this man's body was found later, he was no different than minced meat.
The officer who fired the gun was beaten to a pulp by the angry crowd after he ran out of bullets. All the Qin soldiers who were ordered to shoot also died in the commotion.
The soldiers of the Qin army, whose eyes were red with blood, rushed into the granary in their barracks in one breath. They hoped to have a full meal before thinking about other things.
But when they discovered that there was almost nothing to eat in the granary of the barracks, they quickly calmed down.
Despair spread among these soldiers, and then they discovered that their commanders and soldiers on duty had been beaten to death by them, and dozens of them were also killed in the fight.
The problem has not been solved, they still have no food. And another new question is, who should they go to get food now?
