Wang Shichong's anger was half because he was contradicted by Xu Le several times today and his other half was also because of the situation in Luoyang.

Although the Battle of Mangshan was won, it was of little help to the general trend.

The 130,000 troops in Wagang are intact, but there are not many soldiers to fight in their hands.

In addition, the lack of materials is also a fatal flaw.

Even if the Wagang army did not come to attack, even if it was in a confrontation with itself, Luoyang would not last long.

There is no food in the city, and even if you cannibalize yourself, it will not last long.

Once the food and grass are exhausted, you will collapse without fighting, won’t you still have to be defeated?

If you want to talk about the culprit of this matter, it is actually Wang Shichong himself.

The eastern capital Luoyang is different from Chang'an. Although it is the capital of the Great Sui Dynasty, it is also an important transportation route, and it is also the confidant of the Central Plains for remote control of the overall situation, the city's grain reserves are not rich.

In Yang Guang's plan, in addition to ensuring the supply of the southeast, grain is mainly concentrated in Guanzhong and the north.

The grassland Turks and Liaodong Goryeo were all the targets that Yang Guang wanted to conquer.

Since ancient times, the troops and horses have moved forward before they move, and what he wants to fight is the war of destroying the country, and food consumption is not a decimal point.

Therefore, Yang Guangcai set up Chang'an as a transit, built granaries in the city to accumulate grain and grass, and then sent grain from Chang'an to the border area to prepare for the large-scale conquest in the future.

Yang Guang’s positioning for Luoyang is where he saves money.

Although you need food when you are in a military war, you must also have rewards.

The greater the battle, the harder it is, the more rewards you will receive, otherwise a mutiny may occur.

Yang Guang has always been generous to reward warriors, and for the sake of future major attacks, he will not let the warriors suffer even more.

In the Luoyang warehouse, in addition to weapons and equipment, the most stored are cloth, silk and even silk.

Of course, wealth is not useless. Since ancient times, wealth has moved people's hearts. Whether it is fighting on the battlefield or bribing soldiers and generals to launch rebellions, it is inseparable from the support of wealth.

The reason why Wang Shichong was able to win the battle with Qigui was because he mastered all the warehouses in the city and used the mountains of wealth in the warehouse to buy troops and horses for their own use.

Even the imperial guards around Emperor Tai became his minions. Although there are other factors in this, money is obviously the main cause.

However, compared with food, it is obvious that food is more important than money.

At the beginning, Yang Guang planned different cities from a national perspective.

When the world collapses, the disadvantages of this arrangement will appear.

Luoyang City has money but no grain, and there is not much grain in the treasury. This is the biggest problem that has troubled Luoyang's army.

If the world is stable, this problem can be solved by transferring grain from Luokou Cang.

However, Luokou is under the control of the Wagang Army, and Luoyang and the surrounding prefectures and counties radiate in the surrounding areas have no food, which is enough to be fatal.

Wang Shichong also had a solution. He first ordered the blockade of the news, and then asked his subordinates to purchase grain from the private sector at a price ten times or even twenty times higher than the market price.

The reason why most people in the city dress neatly or even wear silk is because of Wang Shichong's plan.

He used wealth to buy grain from the people and almost collected all the folk grains in Luoyang and surrounding prefectures and counties.

Then he used money to make up his joints and bought rice valley from Li Mi's favorite general Bing Yuanzhen.

In addition, he sent people to spread news everywhere to let merchants know that the grain prices in Luoyang were rising, and he used this method to attract merchants to transport grain to this point.

With these means, Wang Shichong collected a lot of food and grass before the war started, but as the war began, traffic was cut off, these means lost their meaning.

There is no way to raise the outside grain and grass, and Luoyang has entered a state of sacrificing the mountains.

Moreover, Wang Shichong defended Luoyang unlike Yin Shishishi guarding Chang'an. Instead of driving the people out of the city, he tried his best to absorb the people.

Before the official attack of the Wagang Army began, Wang Shichong arranged for his confidants to spread news everywhere, saying that Luoyang could provide shelter for the people and uphold justice for the refugees.

In the years of chaos, life is not as good as grass.

Whether it is the warring parties, the bandits from all walks of life, or even local tyrants, they regard the people who have no power to resist as fat to seize and squeeze.

There is no compassion at this time, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people are just a number for them, and they can kill them as soon as they say they are killed.

Even if you don’t kill, you will take away all the materials you rely on for survival and leave the people behind to survive.

At this time, someone is willing to provide help, so where would he refuse?

Wang Shichong made a name for the people who are in chaos in the world and the people who live in poverty, and the people who are displaced may be killed at any time. As a court official, he should protect the people.

But when the people really entered Luoyang, they realized that they were just escaping into the gates of hell from the tiger's mouth.

When a person enters the city, he is like a fish entering the net. He has great skills and cannot fly out of his control.

Not only did the money and food on them be plundered, but these people themselves have become part of the wealth in the city.

Everyone distinguishes between men, women, old and young. The strong are forced to enlist in the army, and women become part of the reward and are forcibly distributed to soldiers. As for the elderly and children, they become the source of food.

Wang Shichong had already anticipated the situation of insufficient food, and of course, introduced the people not to give them enough food, but to treat them as food.

But even so, those who enlisted in the army to replenish their troops must eat and drink.

There are also those women who can’t starve to death no matter how they are distributed as materials. They still have to give them what they should give them.

In this way, although there are some human and military rations, the increase in food has also increased, and if we calculate the details, it will be more cost-effective.

But in order to strengthen his own strength, Wang Shichong had no other way.

Once a thing like cannibalism begins, it is difficult to stop.

At the beginning, you eat with limited amounts, and you will have a certain amount of people who kill a day.

However, as time goes by, the distribution of rations in the city has become less and less. Those who do not carry guns or armor can not get enough food and drink for a day.

In order not to get hungry, it is inevitable that people will commit suicide by eating meat.

It is no longer a rare thing to kill, kill alone or eat by changing children.

Local people and even the garrison soldiers are participants in these evil deeds.

It’s no longer unusual for a person to disappear suddenly.

Everyone knew what happened, but they were powerless to stop it. Apart from sighing a few times, they couldn't think of any useful solution. This is Luoyang now.

The pretty good ones in the ridge ditch were the officers and soldiers who killed people and took their flesh according to their orders, and placed the bodies there to wait for restraint.

What is really scary is those who steal and eat.

No one knows where there will be an extra body, and no one knows who will become someone else's meal on the plate.

It’s not that Wang Shichong had never thought about the constraints, but the problem is that his clone is incompetent and cannot spare any trouble to deal with these things.

Besides, if you want to control this wind, you have to have food to fill everyone's stomach.

There is a shortage of food from top to bottom. It is useless for anyone you send to rectify the order at this time. Maybe a prisoner will steal it and take advantage of the opportunity to eat a lot.

In the final analysis, we must first solve the Wagang Army in front of us, otherwise we will be able to talk about nothing.

To deal with Wagang, you have to rely on Xu Le.

Thinking of Xu Le's arrogant expression and the embarrassing appearance of the Wagang Army, Wang Shichong couldn't help but sigh again: Li Yuan's luck is so good. Why did God send such a tiger general to him?

Why are you so harsh on yourself?

As a leader, Wang Shichong knew that he was lucky to win this battle today.

The Wagang Army had obviously taken the lead, but hesitated at the last moment, giving itself a chance to breathe.

When he led his troops out of the camp, he was actually his last fight. Even he himself knew that he could not win this battle at all.

But I didn't expect that so many Wagang troops would retreat just after they said they could retreat, and they made themselves get a bargain out of thin air.

God will not give anyone a gift for no reason. After all, Xu Le performed too well.

Wagang was defeated in a row on the front battlefield, and a small group of cavalry were arranged to act as a large army, successfully scaring Li Mi away.

Xu Le was undoubtedly the one who made the greatest contribution and most popular in the entire Battle of Mangshan.

I was just lucky and was temporarily in an ally with Xu Le, otherwise I would be afraid that my life would be taken away by him with a spear.

However, this kind of good luck will not always follow you. A real man is born between heaven and earth, so why is he located under others?

I and Li Yuan were both ministers of the Sui Dynasty, but I was not just a noble family.

Why can't I do it if he can be the emperor?

So what about aristocratic families? This is no longer the time for aristocratic families to be in power! Born in a chaotic world is a chance to reward God. If you cannot achieve unparalleled achievements, wouldn’t God’s arrangement be wasted?

This world is determined by itself! But if you want to conquer the world, the first priority is talent.

The military generals under their command are all mediocre people, otherwise they would not have lost so badly.

What if Xu Le can be taken over?

Wang Shichong thought intently, considering conquering the powerful generals and allowing him to use the possibility for his own use.

This cannot be considered a whim. After all, people think of things in the world and do it. If everything is difficult, then don’t do anything.

I was not particularly outstanding among the seven nobles, so I still laughed to the end?

Instead of planning and then acting, Wang Shichong prefers to do it first.
To be continued...