The stench of the burning corpses spread across the four gates of the royal city. The raging fire and black smoke rose up in the air, and then flew out of the city wall and then drifted with the wind. Although the Qin army, which was more cautious than the Wei army, did not rush into the city, the soldiers in the front shouted "There is a fu" when the soldiers behind them were still looking at the wall painting and rushed in. Outside the city, the gate cave, and the narrow corridor between the walls and trenches, the Qin army in these three places could not look at each other, not knowing the rear in front, not knowing the front in the back, not knowing the front, and only when the rolling wood flames fell from the wall painting, only then did they realize that they were in a hunch.

There was a fire behind and a wall trenches on both ends. Before the formation of spear formations at both ends began to advance, the sharp men rushed in desperate attempts. The long beryllium stabbed the sanitation in the front row, and the rows of spears behind were immediately stabbed, and the panic caused by the impact of the sharp men was resolved. After solving these spear formations, the forty-person spear formations were truly advanced inward.

The wind blows north, enduring the stench of the burning of the corpse, Xiong Jing on the north city tower was watching everything happening between the trenches. Cutting the wall into slopes, digging trenches inside the wall, and building walls behind the trenches. This is his defensive system designed according to Lian Po's idea of ​​defending the city. Unfortunately, the enemy attacked the city day and night, and after drawing the wall, there was no time to build long walls, otherwise the entire royal city would be built into a maze, with walls everywhere.

This is actually a summary of the soldiers' experience of fighting over the past few months. The Chu soldiers wearing huge armor and holding a spear and blade have completely defeated the same number of Qin soldiers. The trained and fearless powerful enemies have completely defeated the same number of sharp soldiers, but this requires a prerequisite: the terrain is narrow. Only in the narrow terrain can the Chu army exert its equipment and tactical advantages and obtain high exchange ratios.

"Report to the King, all the Wei soldiers who entered the city at the two gates in the southwest died, the gates have been recovered, and the city gates are also being repaired. This battle kills more than 7,000 enemies!" The four gates of the royal city used signal flags to convey information. The fire burned for more than an hour, and the flags came from the two gates in the west and south, which made the soldiers happy to report.

"Can the Wei army withdraw their troops?" Xiong Jing didn't care how many enemies he had killed and injured. What the Chu army wanted now was to rest.

‘Dangdangdang…’ The soldiers were about to send flags and ask, when the sound of the Wei army roaring gold came from the south gate.

"Report to the general, the Wei army has withdrawn." Five hundred steps outside the north city gate, the news of the Wei army's withdrawal was also reported to Meng Wu.

"The last general also asked the general to withdraw his troops." Li Xin hesitated for a moment, and greeted him. Bai Lin, who was attacking the east gate, had just told him that a close confidant of his soldiers also followed the vanguard into the city. After seeing the arrangement of the moats inside the city, he luckily ran out before the light oil splashed down the city gate.

"King Jing has many skills, and there is Lian Po. I also ask the general to withdraw his troops for a day. It is not too late to gather the generals to discuss the method of siege to attack the city." Wei Liao also said. The previous attack was aimed at the normal defense system of the royal city, but the defense in the city was not like this. For example, if the city wall is really cut into a steep slope as Bai Lin said, then no matter how many soldiers rushed up, it would be useless.

"General..." Wang Jian also looked at Meng Wu. In fact, he felt that there was something strange in the city for a long time, but his army had just captured the outer city and was in high morale. The king ordered it urgently, so it was really hard to say such words.

Meng Wu really didn't want to give Chu Junyu a breath, but all the soldiers who attacked the city died. There was a steep slope at the top of the city, and he couldn't stand even after going up. He had to re-arrange the siege tactics. "Ming Jin!" Meng Wu ordered. The bronze sieve on the chariot began to ring. Hearing the sieve sound, all the generals and lieutenants breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, they had time to sit down and calculate the loss of the battle - they had already surrendered three titles in a row, and they would not be promoted again...

The sound of drums on the city towers was day and night. When the Qin army outside the city sounded, the military officer ordered the stop to beat the drums. Although the drum soldiers stopped, the drums still echoed in everyone's minds. They just waited for the soldiers to shout along the city: "The enemy has retreated, and the soldiers are coming down the city." They came to their senses in a daze. No one cheered at all. They were so tired that they could not shout.

At the same time, smoke rose up outside the city. On the east side of the royal city were palaces and on the west side, soldiers camped in the gardens. All the precious bamboo and wood in the gardens were cut down, and all the pavilions and pavilions were demolished. Except for the hardwood columns and beams, the remaining wood was made of firewood.

In March in Huaibei, the grass in the gardens was sprouting, but they could not wait to grow up, and the soft soil was dug roughly. The flames in the military stove swallowed them and burned them. The flames also swallowed the bronze kettle, and the soup was stewed under the kettle and steamed rice on it. After the water boiled, hot white steam came out, and the soup rice was ripe soon. The tired soldiers sitting around the stove smelled the fragrance of the millet rice and fell asleep unknowingly.

"The king is here! The rituals——." The vegetable soup at the bottom of the cauldron was still boiling, and the military leader on the outside shouted a bow.

‘Wow!’ Jiezhe was undefeated, and the sound of iron armor and leather armor mixed together. More than 40,000 soldiers stood up and bowed to the direction where Xiong Jing was.

"The king has an order: Don't say that the king is here. You can eat." It is not easy to hear four or five people, so after Lian Po fell down, Xiong Jing specially found a dozen loud voices in the army to help him pass the message.

Every time he appears among the soldiers, the soldiers will feel uncomfortable. They either bow to him or bow their heads and hold them there, waiting for the king to order the king to say something. He had to order "Don't act on his own," so that his behavior would not disturb the soldiers.

After hearing the king's order "Don't be the king", more than 40,000 people sat down again with a "wow" sound. No one dared to doze off, no one dared to play, and they started eating seriously one by one. The yellow corn, the green vegetable soup, and a small dead fish. This kind of meal without any oil will eat more than one kilogram of corn in three meals a day.

Five soldiers surrounded a military stove, mixed with boiling hot vegetable soup, and the whole army was eating, and the sound was no less than standing up. Xiong Jing had a headache when he looked at the hill-like food. One kilogram of corn was about 550 grams, which was equivalent to three and a half cups of plastic cups of rice cookers in later generations. The rice cooked from these rice was enough for a family of three to eat for a day. This was the case with one meal, and a thousand six hundred and fifty grams of corn a day.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the supply suggestions given by the US nutrition experts on Chinese soldiers were 850 grams of rice per day, which was about half of the standard for the Chu army to eat. However, the Chu army had no fresh vegetables and no meat (only dried dry fish imported from Qi, Chu was short of food, and merchants selling grain and fodder in Qi made a fortune), and there was no oil.

The number of vegetables, meat, and oil in the military forces of various countries in World War II was posted several times, but Xiong Jingquan forgot. He only remembered that the rice was about 850 grams, and the Japanese army seemed to be less, only more than 600 grams, but the dog-good ones had canned meat.

Seeing the Chu soldiers having dinner, Xiong Jing remembered canned food. The production of tinplate was stuck on the pickling before tin plating. Can tin be plated without pickling? He didn't know; can tin be used instead of tinplate to be used as canned food? He didn't know. He only knew that the supply of meat, oil, and vegetables should be increased, and the supply of tea was also very important. After the Royal Navy distributed tea to soldiers, the disease rate dropped sharply.

Another benefit is that the logistics pressure is greatly reduced. Now the Chu army's artillery shells account for 30% of the tonnage of logistics supply, and about 50% of the grain, fodder and coal account for about 50%. The remaining ones are arrows, weapons, etc. But this is a city defense, and there is no need to use catapults in field battles, so there is no need to worry about shells. If the food supply can be improved, the tonnage of food and fodder can be reduced by one third; if it is all canned and cooked food, there is no need to cook at all, and the fuel tonnage can be saved, and the soldiers are full and eat well.

‘Bangbangbangbangbang…’ The neat footsteps came, and more than a thousand palace armors entered the venue with wine jars. The soldiers who were eating happily grinned at a glance: I could drink wine today, haha…. When the soldiers in public thought that the king was going to drink with the entire army, the king left the garden.

"Burning firewood and burning coal..." Xiong Jing thought of a question, "Which province? I'm asking about weight."

"Report to the king, let the coal burning." The fuel for cooking was also under Su Ke's jurisdiction. He squeezed forward and bowed and replied.

"How much can the entire army save? Can only supply coal in the future? Also, can the cauldron be changed to lighter and the lid on the cauldron is tighter, so that there is less air leakage and the rice is easy to cook." In the eyes of the ministers, when the king goes deep into the field, he always has various ideas. For example, banning drinking raw water, which alone will increase the fuel consumption of the entire army. If there is no coal and no house demolition, it will not be possible to defend the city.

"Report to the king, burning firewood requires ten kilograms per day, and burning coal only five kilograms, and burning coal is only half as much as burning firewood. However, firewood and grass are available everywhere, so it is not necessary to transport it from the rear. Coal can only be transported from the rear. Moreover, coal requires money but firewood does not waste one qian. Coal is easy to take time but firewood does not take time." Su Ke is responsible for the logistics of the entire army, so he is naturally a patient and meticulous person. He answered Xiong Jing's questions one by one.

"The entire army may be mixed with coal and firewood. There is firewood to burn firewood, but there is no firewood to burn coal. The copper cauldron is an old style in the army, so it can naturally be changed. However, I don't know whether it can be made lighter. However, if five people have one cauldron, there are tens of thousands of cauldrons, which is a huge cost. The same is true for the cauldron cover. I don't know how to cast the cauldron cover tightly, how much coal and firewood can be saved after it is tightly."

"Yeah." Xiong Jing didn't say anything. As long as it was not fighting in the Central Plains, firewood would be easily hit. At most, the house would be demolished. The walls were rammed earth, the beams were wood, and the roof was thatched. It was indeed inconvenient to transport coal from the rear, and it also increased logistical pressure, but the kettles were indeed needed to be improved. The dietary structure of soldiers was changed, and tea was unrealistic, and vegetables, meat and oil and water increased.

The king did not speak, and the Su Ke, who was standing beside him, walked slowly a few steps and was about to give the position to someone else. At this time, Xiong Jing said again: "You try to find someone to let the soldiers eat vegetables, meat, and oil, and see how much corn can they save?"

Meat-eating? Su Ke was stunned. He thought he had heard it wrong. The meat-eating person was not talking about it. Now soldiers can eat a halter fish with two fingers wide a day, which is already a great kindness. Mengchangjun’s disciple Feng Xiqi sang "Changzhu back! No fish to eat." It is because he is the lowest-level disciple and has no fish to eat. Meat is much more expensive than fish, so how can soldiers eat meat?

"Yes!" Xiong Jing knew his surprise, and this surprise appeared on the face of Chunshen Jun Huang Xie. "How many county soldiers do you choose? Let them eat only 850 grams of corn every day, and if they are not full, they will eat vegetables and eat meat. Add some oil to the soup to see how many grams of vegetables, how many grams of meat and how many grams of oil they need to eat every day..."
Chapter completed!