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Liu Yaojun, who was trapped in the city, was looking forward to support day and night, could only wait for disappointment day after day. In just one month, the food in Dantu City was almost wiped out. In less than two months, no matter where in the city, there was nothing to eat.

Although Liu Yao, who was reminded by Sun Shao, found out that it was inappropriate, sent Yan Baihu and Zhang Ying, who had just recovered from injury, and led the army to rush more than ten times, trying to break out.

However, under the restrictions of Shentingling's dangerous small path, Liu Yao's army, who could only attack in small groups, was unable to succeed.

In addition, the hunger was even more serious than the other day, which made the soldiers' legs and feet weak. The idea of ​​charging was not enough, but they could not get the cooperation of their weak bodies.

The elite soldiers of the Thousand Stalkers who were taking turns guarding the Shenting Ridge Mountain Pass became an obstacle that they could not break through.

When Liu Yao's army did not take action, the Jiangdong Army except for a thousand soldiers on duty, the rest were practicing soldiers and practicing war formations every day outside the mountain.

As for the lord Sun Ce, he either played chess with his brother Zhou Yu, or accompanied Huang Die to hunt and barbecue. He was like a vacation with all the generals. Without using one soldier and one soldier, Liu Yao's 30,000 troops collapsed.

When Liu Yao finally couldn't hold on and was about to let the soldiers launch a desperate attack on Sun Ce's military camp before starving to death, Zhou Yu directed the soldiers and set up hundreds of big pots in front of the military formation.

The pot was filled with sweet pork porridge, and the rich fragrance drifted with the wind, making the soldiers of Jiangdong who had a full meal every day drool. What's more, the soldiers of Liu Yao who were hungry and had a stomach squeezing like a knife.

Seeing the gate of the Shentingling Dazhai Camp guarding by Liu Yao's army opened, countless soldiers rushed out with swords and guns. Zhou Yu even sent dozens of loud voice soldiers who had already arranged to shout.

"Surrender and don't kill you! Stop your arms and eat. Capture Liu Yao alive and give him a reward of 100,000 yuan!"

The words of the heart are combined with the aroma of porridge that is oozing out of the camp. No Liu Yao soldiers who rushed out of the camp still had the strength to pick up weapons and charge towards the Jiangbei Army. It turns out that good generals are not as good as hungry soldiers. At this time, Liu Yao deeply understood the true meaning of it.

A miraculous battle scene occurred at the bottom of Shenting Ridge. The soldiers who came out of the battle put down their weapons at the designated location of the Jiangdong Army, stared at the hungry blue eyes, and rushed towards the fragrant porridge pot.

It seemed that they were coming out to surrender. As soon as they arrived at the edge of the pot, the hungry soldiers snatched the bowl of porridge handed over by the original enemy. They didn't care that the porridge was still very hot, and they started drinking it in a big gulp.

Seeing the soldiers who were drinking bowls of bowls of drinks and still guarding the village, they all started to riot. Countless soldiers were crowded desperately, struggling to pass through the village gate so that they could drink the sweet and hot meat porridge that could help them earlier.

Every soldier felt that maybe the next moment, his empty stomach would take his own life. And the hungry and powerless generals just swallowed their saliva, and no one wanted to step forward to stop the soldiers from mutiny.

In front of a group of hungry people running towards food, if you want to stop them, you are simply seeking death.

A team that was very powerful in Liu Yao's eyes would be defeated by a few bowls of small meat porridge. This was something Liu Yao could not have expected when he tried his best to gather his soldiers!

In the camp behind a long row of porridge pots, Sun Ce and Li Ru took the generals to smile and look at the lively food-taking scene in front of them.

Li Ru spoke first: "Lord, this plan is just to surround and not attack. It's really wonderful! Today is destined to be the day of the destruction of Liu Yao's army. The weather is already very hot, so if we continue to defend, our own soldiers of Jiangdong Army will not be able to bear it!

Liu Yao's army was defeated in time at this time! At least our army did not need a large number of casualties, but could still capture a large number of strong people."

Sun Ce nodded and said, "The military advisor is right! Our population is still far from enough! Shanyue, which has more than 100,000 people, will all come out to the mountains and settle them properly, which will probably take two to three years.

Among these people, nearly half of the people who joined the army and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled must be eliminated. The remaining labor force is less than 100,000!

But Yangzhou is so big, with so much land and so much work. Even if there is a population of tens of millions, it is not enough to use it. This population is really a headache!"

Li Ru did not agree with the exaggeration of Sun Ce's little lord.

"Lord! This is a huge exaggeration! I think there are only more than 15 million people in the Han Dynasty. Are you trying to concentrate the population of the Han Dynasty in Yangzhou? Are you ready to give up the rest of the prefectures?"

Regarding Li Ru's question, Sun Ce asked strangely: "Military advisor, when did I say that I would give up other lands?

That would never be what I will do! Not only can we not give up the existing land, but we must also expand the territory and territorial waters of the Han Dynasty outwards!"

Sun Ce's words made the generals behind him look at each of them.

"It's good to expand! If you want to expand outward, you have to fight a war! If you want to fight, will you not have the opportunity to make achievements? However, this war can expand territory, which is understandable by all generals, but what's the use of territorial sea or something?

Can we still let the people of the Han Dynasty go to the sea to farm and raise pigs?”

Among the generals, Zhou Cang couldn't hide his mind, and with the hints and encouragement of several generals around him.

He asked the doubts in his heart: "Lord! When Lao Zhou was in Qingzhou, I also went to the beach. But there was nothing but water in the sea. What's the use of us taking it!

I, Old Zhou, don’t swim, do you have to live on the boat in the future? That’s really a life. Besides, the lord you said, how should we occupy the expanded territorial waters?

There is no place to erect monuments and paintings in the world. Even if we occupy it, we can't tell others that the sea water belongs to us! It's impossible to bring all the sea water home with a boat. But it seems that there is no such a big place to put it back when you bring it back!"

All the generals burst into laughter at Zhou Cang's questions. Sun Ce was even more amused and had not had time to say anything.

Li Ru, who was on the side, had you seen other things besides seeing water on the beach? For example, what are the things that each of us uses every day and eat?

Also, don’t you know that there are still many large and small islands in this sea?

Xu Fu, the alchemist at that time, brought thousands of pairs of boys and girls to search for the three overseas fairy mountains. They never came back after they went there. Thinking about it, they must have found the fairy mountains and become the free and illusory god on the mountain!"

Speaking of being a god who went to sea to become a god, Li Ru's eyes were full of endless yearning. It seemed that he also had the idea of ​​being a god. If Sun Ce had not caught him halfway, he would have taken a boat with Xu Yi to find Xu Fu's traces! (..)

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Chapter completed!